oatmealVisual history, Israel/Palestine 1920-1940s and other periods [pinned].
Ruins of #Lydda after the #Israel Defense Forces conquered it in July 1948.
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Some context of this photo showing Yosef Weitz (center) Transfer Committees (1937-48), also known as “Architect of Transfer, surveying land scheduled for purchase by the #JNF.
Note the traces of a Palestinian standing behind one of the aids, hidden/erased?
Odeh Bisharat:
"I look at the photograph of Weitz, and Khazna’s image captures my imagination. He didn’t know Khazna. He wasn’t aware of the measure of love that her uncle, my grandfather, Khalil, bestowed on her. Standing up there, it’s doubtful whether Weitz felt the human warmth that welled up in the simple houses that stood across from him. It’s very doubtful that he ever listened to the stories of love, heroism, courage and generosity, whether he heard the songs that murmured and surged on this soil. Who knows. If he had listened, maybe he wouldn’t have decreed expulsion for Khazna and wouldn’t have demolished the village and prevented the return of its inhabitants and their descendants."
Yosef Weitz:
“The only solution is a Land of Israel devoid of Arabs. There is no room here for compromise. They all must be moved. Not one village can remain, and not one tribe. Only through this transfer of the Arabs living in the Land of Israel will redemption come.”
A soldier overlooking women, children and elders in #Tantura, who are being transferred to another part of the village, May 1948.
#reposted Israeli officials and local residents attend a "sulha" (reconciliation) event in Kafr Qasem in 1957, a year after the massacre.
#OralHisotry Testimony by #Nakba survivor Nazmiyya al-Kilani [نظمية الكيلاني] (of Safed)
2016 interview with Nazmiyya al-Kilani (1926– 2018) of Acre.
Arabic with English subtitles
شهادة نظمية الكيلاني - صفد
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=8EbH8dTuzt0&t=0
Hebrew only: interview with Afnnan al-Kilani following the screening
"The Zionist establishment is planting in us, Jews and Arabs, a Falsified historical consciousness
... false history."
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=_7LYl4zo7RA
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Israel's pre-state militia occupying the village of Deir Yassin, April 1948.
'They ran like cats,' related the commander of the operation, Yehoshua Zettler, the Jerusalem commander of Lehi, as he described the Arabs fleeing from their homes during the Deir Yassin massacre.
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#history / Open Letter to The NYT on December 2, 1948:
“New Palestine Party: Menachem Begin and Aims of Political Movement Discussed.”
[…] Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the “Freedom Party” (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine….
[…] A shocking example was their behavior in the Arab village of Deir Yassin. This village, off the main roads and surrounded by Jewish lands, had taken no part in the war, and had even fought off Arab bands who wanted to use the village as their base. On April 9 […], terrorist bands attacked this peaceful village, which was not a military objective in the fighting, killed most of its inhabitants — 240 men, women, and children — and kept a few of them alive to parade as captives through the streets of #Jerusalem.
[…]
HANNAH ARENDT,
ALBERT EINSTEIN,
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/New_Palestine_Party%3B_Visit_of_Menachen_Begin_and_Aims_of_Political_Movement_Discussed
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Orphaned children whose parents had been killed at Deir Yassin.
Credit: IDF archive / Still from the film 'Born in Deir Yassin'
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Great Mosque of Gaza / المسجد العمري الكبير
Sources:
Francis Frith / The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection / The New York Public Library
https://www.facebook.com/munigaza/posts/694974936071126?ref=embed_post
See also: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67664853
Palestinians onlooking construction work at the site of Kibbutz Dan, 1939.
Settlers weapon drill, Kibbutz Dan, 1939.
Note how well-equipped they are, considering it's 1939 and compare with the Zionist narrative of huge disadvantage of the Jewish settler population vis-à-vis the Palestinian population (or, as is commonly phrased by Israeli historians: "Arab gangs") on their lands on which they settled.
The land was often bought legally from landlords who didn't legally own the land they were selling - a land which was assigned to them by the farmers they employed.
Hillel Giladi, Betmuna.
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Lennie@oatmeal Dressed like British soldiers, carrying British rifles.
Estarriol, Terrorist Dragon@oatmeal @palestine @israel @histodons Zionist terrorists were killing British soldiers even while Britain fought to keep Germany out of the region....
John Wilson WSWS@Thebratdragon @oatmeal @palestine @israel @histodons
RECOMMENDED (2003)
Terrorism and the origins of Israel
Part 1 https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2003/06/irae-j21.html
Part 2 https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2003/06/isr2-j23.html
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… It is the political heirs of terrorists like Stern, Begin and Shamir that now form Israel’s political establishment and the Bush administration’s chief ally in the region.
@johnwilsonwsws @oatmeal @palestine @israel @histodons Netanyahu was the Israel foreign minister (He might have been home minister, I know he was on western TV everynight arguing for it) that desperately wanted to invade Jordan and Iraq in the first Gulf War.....
Despite the fact the coalition forces readying to retake Kuwait would have been expelled by their hosts had they done so.
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Netanyahu was the deputy foreign minister. The foreign minister was David Levy. He and the Prime Minister, Shamir, did not get along well, so Shamir put Netanyahu there as a backup.
And no, there was certainly no invading to Jordan considered. Israel once considered that in 1970 to deter the threat of a Syrian invasion (and it worked).
@tzafrir @johnwilsonwsws @oatmeal @palestine @israel @histodons he said it in news conferences frequently, because the Jordainian people were supporting Iraq. Which was firing scuds at Israel in attempt to unite the arab world behind it.
Wanna try your lies again?
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Besides a tiny minority, Jews were well committed to the British side in the war (and many enlisted as well). Resistance to the British was in the fringe in the initial years. In fact, the first leader of the Irgun died in Iraq fighting for the British.
#Documentary / Neta Shoshani 's 1948 – Remember, Remember not (Israel, 2023)
Original title: 1948: לזכור ולשכוח
What did "we" do in 1948 !?!?!?!
... The response of many Israelis to allegations of systematic sexual violence against Palestinian women during the 1948 war is often characterized by a dismissive and dehumanizing rejection. This reaction reflects a deeply entrenched Orientalist mindset, exacerbated by Trump-esque misogynistic attitudes (the infamous "she's not my type"), resulting in a profoundly pathological worldview.
The controversy surrounding the planned broadcast of Neta Shoshani's documentary "1948 - Remember, Remember not" on Kan11 in June 2023, and the subsequent objections raised by right-wing activists, epitomize the challenges faced by scholars and artists seeking to confront the nation's formative traumas. Such incidents raise fundamental questions about the boundaries of acceptable discourse and the role of state-funded media in either preserving or subverting dominant narratives.
Efforts to educate the Israeli public about the foundational sin - the creation of the State of Israel through the ethnic cleansing of historical Palestine during the Nakba - encounter significant resistance. This resistance stems, in part, from the concerted endeavors across various societal systems to criminalize discourse surrounding the #Nakba, perpetuating a culture of denial and obfuscation that hinders progress towards accountability and reconciliation.
Shoshani's award-winning documentary delves into allegations of the complicity of Israel Defense Forces soldiers and the Palmach militia in numerous instances of massacre, war crimes, sexual violence against Palestinian women, and extrajudicial executions of prisoners – atrocities purportedly committed under orders from the military command during the Nakba. The film further asserts that the State of Israel has engaged in a systematic effort to suppress and conceal these historical truths.
See interview with Shoshani on #Kan11 (right before the premier at the film festival). The movie uses alot of of previously unseen footage from the period. The first segment is the story told from a Jewish family perspective, while the second from the journal of Wasif Jawhariyyeh (واصف جوهرية), and renouned Palestinian educator Khalil al-Sakakini (خليل السكاكيني).
https://kolektiva.media/w/iXTc7vsxGVxoeBwkLz1gfh
Panel discussions [in Hebrew] following the film's premier:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=aqt6EhPq_p8
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=7lxmFHxk6AA
From #DocAviv festival program:
Two films that form one work about the "War of Independence", operating on two axes. The axis of the past unfolds the course of the war through diaries and letters written in real-time - an ensemble of voices, Jews and Arabs, building a human story about the dramatic war and allowing a glimpse into the construction of the war consciousness and its memory on all sides. The voices are accompanied by rare archival films shot during the war, many of which are exposed for the first time.
On the axis of the present, figures struggling over the memory of the war are documented - researchers, archivists, and members of the military unit searching for missing combatants. Some are entrusted with preserving the ethos, others with breaking it. Each of them believes that the way in which the memory of the formative war is engraved has a critical significance for the present and even for the future of our lives here.
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What did we don in 1948? : Interview with Neta Shosani about her movie "1948 – Remember, Remember not"
[cont'd] The interview references a special committee established by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion to investigate allegations of war crimes committed during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. The committee's findings were documented in a report authored by Israel's first Attorney General, Ya'akov Shimshon Shapira, which has never been published and remains classified, with access restricted by the state archives.
In an interview, a spokesperson for the state archives cautioned that the publication of Shapira's report would pose grave dangers to Israel's international standing, if not more severe consequences.
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[cont'd] The individual's outburst criticized the filmmaker for failing to reference "even a single instance of massacres perpetrated against Jewish individuals" within the context of the film's narrative.
This intervention from the audience highlights the deeply polarized perspectives and sensitivities surrounding the historical events depicted in Shoshani's work.
1948 – Remember, Remember not (Van Leer Panel protest)
Mother and Child.
Photo by Khalil Raad (خليل رعد), Palestine's first Arab photographer (d. 1957)
The Arab Higher Committee, comprising representatives of all Palestinian parties, was formed on 25 April 1936.
One of its first acts was to call for a general strike and civil disobedience “to continue... until the formation of a national government responsible to a representative assembly, the prevention of the transfer of Arab lands to the Jews, and the
stoppage of Jewish immigration."
Font row, left to right: Raghib al-Nashashibi, former mayor of Jerusalem and leader of the Defense Party, Haj Amin al-Husseini, mufti of Jerusalem and president of the Arab Higher Committee; Ahmad Hilmi, chairman of the Ummah (People’s) Bank and affiliated with the Istiqlal (Independence) Party; Abd al-Latif Salah, chairman of the National Bloc Party; and Alfred Roch, Catholic notable from Jaffa affiliated with the Palestine Arab Party. Second row, left to right: Jamal al-Husseini, chairman of the Palestine Arab Party; Dr. Hussein al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem and secretary of the Reform Party, Ya‘qub al-Ghusayn, president of the Arab Youth Congress, and Fuad Saba, Protestant notable and secretary of the Arab Higher Committee.
Source: Walid Khalidi
The Irgun and Transjordan
A poster of the Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization), “Irgun” for short, which began its terrorist campaign against the Palestinians in September 1937, and was the parent body of the "Stern Gang".
The Hebrew letters inside the square stand for “only thus" This way, as indicated by the map and the superimposed rifle, was the establishment of Israel by force on both banks of the Jordan River, ie., in Palestine and Transjordan. The date of the poster is ca. 1946.
The translated transcript says "only solution".
Irgun emblem: The map shows both Mandatory Palestine and the Emirate of Transjordan, which the Irgun claimed in its entirety for a future Jewish state. The acronym "Etzel" is written above the map, and "raq kach" ("only thus") is written below.
Adapted from Walid Khalidi
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Patrick Sudlow@oatmeal @israel @palestine They also attacked British targets including the attack on the King David Hotel, killing British women and children. Despite this the UK Government supports the Zionists!
In 1947, the "Yishuv" awaited the UN's decision on partitioning #Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab-Palestinian state, understanding their legitimacy depended on UN approval. However, in 1948, the Yishuv unilaterally declared Israeli independence in defiance of the UN position, one day before the end of the British Mandate.
The caricature portrays stunned #UN representatives listening to the Hebrew radio station announcing Israel's independence - an act depicted as illegal as it contradicted the UN's stance. The artist emphasizes Israel's illegitimate declaration by disregarding the authority of the United Nations.
Published in the "Davar" daily news paper on May 14, 1948. Artist: Arye Navon.
#interview Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir on "Face the Nation," October 1973
Israel's leaders' megalomania and hubris were always so evident, it's embarrassing to think Netanyahu and his Ultranationalist coalition are perceived an anomaly.
[~18:15] There's no problem of a solution. If you're talking about refugees, they should have been out of the camps 20 years ago. We almost took out of the camps many refugees in the Gaza Strip since the 6-day war, but there is room for the refugees in Jordan and there is no doubt that if they want a peaceful solution, Jordan is the natural place for Palestinians if they want to live there.
[~18:50] There are 20 independent Arab countries, but if the Palestinians want to come to more of self-expression, there's no doubt that between Israel and Jordan there would be one Arab state - Jordan. And that part across the border of Israel, that's an Arab state, that's Jordan. They call it Palestine, Jordan, Palestine, doesn't make a bit of difference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2cKWYw2lDU&t=1197 or https://yewtu.be/watch?v=C2cKWYw2lDU
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From the Archives: Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meri on "Face the Nation," October 1973
#Documentary / Black Flag (Israel 2024, 72 minutes, Hebrew and Arabic, with Hebrew and English subtitles)
English title: "The 1957 Transcripts"
"If we begin to recognize these divides, is there hope for reconciliation?"
"Black Flag" delves into the story of the Kafr Qasim (كفر قاسم) events in October 1956, when 47 innocent civilians were shot dead by Israeli border police officers.
Through three intertwining narrative threads, like a gripping legal drama, the complex historical, political and psychological realities that shaped and drove the event unfold.
The cinematic mosaic created by the potlines highlights the vast differences, contradictory narratives and deep rifts between Jews and Arabs - who were destined to live together in one place.
[Hebrew] https://www.docaviv.co.il/films/the-1957-transcripts
Israeli Palestinians attending the premier. The screening went ahead as scheduled.
Scenes from the movie:
[…] Magav forces did update the mukhtars of the villages, but did not bother to update all residents of Kafr Qasem who left for work outside of it that same day. From the protocols, it emerges that this was not a matter of forgetfulness or mistake, but rather a decision made with a clear mind. The fact that many of the residents left the village that day for work was brought before the commanders. But they decided that it would actually be not a bad idea for some of the residents who return to the village after the curfew to be killed that same day. "It's better if a few go like that, and then they'll learn," testified one of the Magav soldiers in court.
[…] Excerpts from these protocols have already been published, and yet, setting them on the screen alongside the testimonies of the village residents and the explanations of the historians paints a picture of a premeditated and directed massacre carried out by Israeli security forces against innocent civilians – a picture that becomes even more chilling in the current timing, when the word "massacre" is so loaded and alive in the Israeli reality.
[…] Residents of the village who witnessed the killings describe how Magav soldiers ordered their comrades in the field "to mow them down", while the protocols make clear that the commanders dispatched their orders to kill innocent civilians. The soldiers had no problem shooting at women, children and infants, and were willing to obey any order without exercising judgment.
[Hebrew] http://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/cinema/docaviv/2024-05-25/ty-article-magazine/.premium/0000018f-b05f-dfc6-a3ef-b55f161b0000 or https://archive.is/Iwkea
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#Documentary / Death In Umm Al-Hiran (Israel 2024, 90 minutes, Hebrew and Arabic, English subtitles)
The story of the evacuation of the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in 2017, which ended with the deaths of two people: a village resident, Yacoub Abu Al-Qian, a teacher at a local school, and Erez Amedi Levi, a police officer who took part in the evacuation.
"Death in Umm al-Hiran" lays out the entire course of events, beginning with the story of the village and the struggle against evacuation, through the night of the incident and up to the Department of Internal Police Investigation's inquiry and conclusions, and seeks to understand how the case became a political event and a tool for conflict between the strongest and most influential figures in the country.
[Hebrew] https://www.docaviv.co.il/films/death-in-umm-al-hiran/
#TV / Kill Zone: Inside Gaza
The toll of #Israel’s relentless war on #Gaza from the point of view of individuals caught in this barbaric violence, which we used to think no one should be subjected to in our generation.
[…] Later on, the Badwan kids are asked what the worst thing about the bombing is. “Our friends died, our neighbours died. Many people we love died,” says one, with the eerie equanimity of a child describing events they are unable to process. “I miss my school friends, the principal and the teacher,” says another Badwan sibling. “I don’t know anything about them now.”
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/kill-zone-inside-gaza-dispatches
#Palestine / “Jannin, Jenin” (2023)
Bakri’s documentary “Jenin, Jenin” was one of the only ways to hear the stories of Palestinian people after the violence in Jenin. Though he only entered the refugee camp after the fighting had ceased, the descriptions are vivid.
[…] “They shot at everything that moved, even a cat,” says one man. “Why does a sniper shoot a 12-year-old unarmed child who can barely walk? Why shoot an old woman? Why crush a young man under a tank when he is holding his arms up in the air?”
https://forward.com/culture/533833/jenin-documentary-controversial-israel-palestine/
[…] "This is a continuation [of the Jenin, Jenin,] but with different timing and circumstances," says Bakri in an interview with "Local Call", and adds: "The first 'Jenin, Jenin' showed testimonies and scenes from the invasion of the #Jenin camp during the Second #Intifada and the fierce battles that took place there. The current film presents testimonies from the harsh invasion that took place in July 2023, which was preceded by the bombing of the camp that resulted in the killing of 12 Palestinians."
[…] "There were crimes on October 7th, including crimes against humanity, there is no denying that, but the Israeli response was disproportionate. What the Israeli army wrought in Gaza, the dead, the missing and wounded, the massive, complete and ongoing destruction of an area inhabited by two million people, the daily bombings that are still occurring - all of these are not a 'response' or pursuit of Hamas, but rather revenge, hatred and a crime against humanity, and Israel and its leaders must be put on trial for this, and I hope they will be put on trial."
[…] "Without recognizing this right, wars will continue and there will be more October 7ths, not necessarily in Gaza, and not necessarily by Hamas. Every people under an occupation that has lasted for years has the right to fight against the occupation, that's what human logic says, and no matter how long the occupation and enslavement lasts, you cannot hide the sun. You were slaves in Egypt, you fled slavery and lived with the Arab peoples in peace, until you did what you did in 1948 and robbed another people of their freedom and their land, that is the truth. There is no solution without solving the original issue, without recognizing the historical injustice."
H/t Local Call
See:
Jenin Jenin (Full Movie) - فيلم جنين, جنين - Muhammad Bakri (English Subtitles)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=V3KaDgFfRNw or https://yewtu.be/watch?v=V3KaDgFfRNw
Conquest of Ramle, July 1948.
Israeli forces hard at work cleansing Palestine of its inhabitants, presumably.
Credit: Beno Rothenberg Photo Collection/Israel State Archives
Testimony by Palmach soldier Uri Pinkerfeld, born in Jerusalem in 1928 and served in the Palmach's Third Battalion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo_99T-vHFM
On the strategic value of the massacre in Deir Yassin. The speaker is not apologetic. Admitting there was a massacre (something Zionist state historians still reject) and explaining it was not intentional. All the other firsthand descriptions seem to constitute evidence for on going #domicide.
The Palmach (1941-1498) was the "elite" fighting force of the #Yishuv, the Jewish community in Palestine during the British Mandate period and the precursor to the #IDF. The British trained the Palmach and during the 1936-1939 Palestinian revolt against British occupation and their policies to allow increased Jewish immigration to Palestine, the British security forces, including the Palmach, employed tactics such as detentions, house demolitions, and deportations to quell the uprising.
See:
One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate by Tom Segev
Ploughing Sand: British Rule in Palestine 1917-48 by Naomi Shepherd.
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אורי פינקרפלד, חייל בפלמ"ח // Testimony by Uri Pinkerfeld, Palmach soldier
The Human Factor (Dror Moreh, 2021)
[…] "All the American mediators are Jews. What does that mean?" The perplexed Martin Indyk and Dennis Ross explained that their Jewishness and concern for #Israel drove them to invest years in the negotiations, in a futile attempt to influence the positions of the Israeli leadership. Ostensibly, this was a deception: the American envoys knew in real-time that the "peace process" was yielding nothing and that the situation on the ground was escalating.
[…] After dozens of murderous operations in Gaza and the West Bank, as settler violence rages and Palestinians are killed again and again, is the peace process more than an illusion? Is it possible that the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians were intended to create a false sense of progress towards peace, or perhaps, to assuage the Israeli and American conscience? Indyk and Ross have no answers to these questions.
Photo: Clinton, Arafat and Netanyahu
Hebrew https://zoha.org.il/105246/
סדרה תיעודית חדשה בערוץ 8: הכיבוש הנמשך והגורם האנושי - זו הדרך
אסף טלגום 04.08.2021 שתפו הסדרה התיעודית החדשה "הגורם האנושי", המשודרת בערוץ 8 של הוט, עוסקת בעשורים של משא ומתן כושל בין ישראל לפלסטינים מנקודת מבטם של המתווכים האמריקאים: דניס רוס ומרטין אינדיק. שניהם תיווכו במשך שנים בין ראשי הממשלה יצחק רבין, שמעון פרס, אהוד ברק, אהוד אולמרט ובנימין נתניהו לבין המנהיגים הפלסטיניים יאסר ערפאת, סאיב עריקאת וחנאן עשראווי. רוס ואינדיק מבקשים להכות על חטא
"When you see the kaffiyeh and flag in the world, you understand that despite all the destruction and killing, the Palestinian is still alive, and not leaving."
Khairi Hanoun, facing bulldozers in Tulkarm on September 5, 2024.
Photo: Oren Ziv
#Palestine / “The story of Lyd is the story of Palestine”
#Haaretz is reporting that following an appeal by Minister of Culture and Sport Miki Zohar, the Israel Police today notified the Alsaraya Theater in #Jaffa that it is prohibiting the screening event of the documentary film "Lod" (اللِّد, Lyd, heb Lod/לוד), which was supposed to take place this evening in the presence of one of its creators, Rami Younis. The police informed the theater's manager Mahmoud Abu Arisha by phone that the screening is canceled due to the fact that no permission was requested for the film's screening - despite the film not being banned from distribution and therefore not requiring permission for its screening. Abu Arisha says he was asked by the police to pre-approve from now on every film that will be screened in the theater. At the end of the conversation, Abu Arisha was summoned to the police station, allegedly without specifying the reason for this.
[…] Using never-before-seen archival footage of the Israeli soldiers who carried out the massacre and expulsion, the city explains that these events were so devastating that they fractured her reality, and now there are two Lyds –– one occupied and one free. As the film unfolds, documentary portions follow a chorus of characters through their daily lives, creating a tapestry of the Palestinian experience of this city, and vivid animations use the language of speculative fiction to envision an alternate reality where the same documentary characters live free from the trauma of the past and the violence of the present. As the film cuts between fantastical and documentary realities, it ultimately leaves the viewer questioning which future should prevail.
LYD Trailer
Quoting Rami Younis: "Zionism is Racism"
#Zionism is racism because it systematically displaced Palestinians from urban centers and erased their existence through historical distortions, as exemplified in his movie Lod.
Younis states: "What the Zionist movement did was simply to empty out the Palestinian cities, because urbanization and colonization don't go well together."
Younis challenges the Zionist narrative that "Jews came to this land to make the wilderness bloom," asking rhetorically "What wilderness? My grandmother was a wilderness? What is that nonsense?" He argues this deliberate erasure continues today, pointing to how "apart from the Arab world and a few bleeding-heart left-wingers – no one actually acknowledges what happened to us."
Younis connects this historical denial to ongoing discrimination, noting that as Palestinians who are Israeli citizens, "because of the occupation, because we're Arabs in Israel, we don't have the possibilities the Jewish public has. That's a type of built-in violence."
[...] "At the beginning of the war, it was literally like taking your life in your hands to screen a film like that in Israel, so we censored ourselves simply out of fear of our personal safety," Younis says in a video interview conducted earlier this month from a hotel room in Massachusetts. "After all, we're living in a country where Ben-Gvir is the minister of internal security, so we just waited and waited until it was impossible to wait any longer.
Younis' vision of an alternative, as presented in his film, imagines "a situation in which #Palestine exists as a state, but has Jews among its population as well, and everyone lives happily as equals between the river and the sea."
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-11-23/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/i-would-like-for-israelis-to-understand-that-zionism-is-racism/00000193-5209-d26b-a1ff-572dd7e10000 or https://archive.ph/TrLCZ
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Street vendors in occupied #Gaza, 1956. "The markets are bustling with trade," wrote 'Davar' newspaper
Photo: Moshe Levin / Moshe Marlin Levin Archive / Meitar Collection / The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection / The National Library
Context: Israel occupied it in 1956 and left after 4 months (November 1956 to early 1957) and then again in 1967. The Egyptians never intended to keep Gaza or annex parts of Palestine the way Israel did eventually. Some Israeli historians describe their approach as legalistic and respecting of international laws of war, unlike Israel.
Undeserved trust and hospitality.
Israeli surveyor in the Gaza Strip in 1967.
[…] "If we can relocate 300,000 refugees from the Gaza Strip to other places… we can annex Gaza without a problem." —Moshe Dayan, 1967.
See Israel's enduring pursuit of Palestinian displacement https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/113591580825383648
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Attached: 2 images #Palestine / Israel's enduring pursuit of Palestinian displacement The image (previous post) of Eastern European Orthodox Jews at the Gaza border casually discussing ethnic cleansing is repulsive, but the historical pursuit of Palestinian displacement from Gaza is not new. It's not solely the obsession of the current far-right coalition. Israel presented a facade of peacemaking to the world while quietly plotting to finish the job they started in 1948. Minutes from secret meetings of Israeli governments in the 1960s and 70s, involving prime ministers and ministers from left-leaning governments, unveil discussions using euphemisms like "population thinning" and "transfer," alongside more direct terms such as "expulsion" and "deportation." […] "If we can relocate 300,000 refugees from the Gaza Strip to other places… we can annex Gaza without a problem." —Moshe Dayan, 1967. Key figures like Moshe Dayan, Golda Meir, and Yigal Allon are quoted expressing support for plans to remove Palestinians from Gaza, often to facilitate annexation and Jewish settlement. The author, Ofer Aderet, highlights the striking similarity between these past proposals and the current far-right's aims, suggesting a continuity in the underlying goal of displacing Palestinians, differing primarily in the level of openness and public justification. In late December 1967, Dayan discussed a peace agreement that included "resettling refugees, removing them from Gaza, and settling them in the East Bank." He claimed that in such a scenario, "there would not be 400,000 Arabs in Gaza, but 70,000 or 100,000." The following day, Eshkol stated, "We want to empty Gaza first. Therefore, we will initially allow the Arabs of Gaza to leave." Minister Yigal Allon went further, suggesting, "It wouldn't be bad at all to thin out the Galilee Arabs as well." Minister Sasson explained how encouraging Palestinians to leave for work would help achieve this goal: "Let them go to find work... and then they will move their entire families there. We might benefit from this by reducing the number of Arabs in these areas." Dayan agreed, adding, "By giving these Arabs the opportunity to find work abroad, the chances of them emigrating to those countries increase." Allon then proposed extending the plan to include Arab Israelis, questioning, "Why can't this be extended to the veteran Arab Israelis?" Transcription of the text in the document shown in the second image. […] [Defense Minister Moshe Dayan:] The technique I propose is clear to me. Then you will explain your modifications. The technique is: We mark [houses] here and there and proceed to break through [into the homes]. We give them 48 hours to move. We tell them, for example: You are moving to Al-Arish or another place, we will take you, drive you, and initially we will do renovations. Initially, we give them the option to move willingly. We remove the furniture from the house. Those who want to leave - will leave. If a person does not come to arrange his affairs, we bring a bulldozer to destroy the house. If there are people in the house, we remove them from the house. Until now there has been no case where people did not leave the house. Or - we give a warning - if he does not want to remove his furniture, he will not remove it. In summary: We say where he can move to and offer help with transportation. But if the person does not want to use any help offered to him, the army comes and removes the residents from the house, with the furniture or without the furniture, the bulldozer begins to demolish house after house. Since we give him 48 hours or more, there is no critical moment where we come and say, we will load you and your furniture onto a truck, but rather we give him the opportunity to do it willingly. We don't speak with every individual, but with the mukhtar (village leader) of the neighborhood. Let's assume for a moment that they left the house and are not there when the army arrives. Should we start looking for the people inside the camp? Let's assume that the 48 hours have passed and the person is not in that apartment, we demolish the house with the furniture. The person did not show up - did not show up. Hebrew https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/magazine/2024-12-03/ty-article-magazine/.premium/00000193-874b-d95a-afdf-ffef32070000 or https://archive.is/HoTwN @[email protected] @[email protected] #IsraelOccupation #israelWarCrims @[email protected] @[email protected]
Palestine Poster Project Archives
[…] The majority of posters in this archives are printed on paper. However, an increasing number of new Palestine posters are "born digitally" and then printed and distributed locally, oftentimes in very small quantities. This localization represents a sea change in the way political poster art is produced and disseminated. Traditionally, political posters were printed in a single location and then distributed worldwide. The global reach of the internet combined with the rising costs of mass production is shifting production away from large centralized printing operations to a system controlled more by small end-users in myriad locations.
https://www.palestineposterproject.org
A land without people, for a people without a land...
Bazaar held at Notre Dame de France in aid of the Red Crescent Society,
Jerusalem, 1917.
Source: American Colony Photo Department, Library of Congress, Washington DC, LC-DIG-matpc-
08170.