Qasim Rashid, Esq.Nov 22, 2023

BREAKING: Israel & Hamas agree to temporary ceasefire:
•4 day ceasefire
•Hamas to release 42 hostages — 30 children & 12 women
•Israel to release 150 Palestinian prisoners (Human rights orgs estimate ~1000 Palestinian children in Israeli prisons)

A good step. We need a permanent ceasefire, release of all hostages, an end to military occupation of Palestine, an end to all illegal settlements, & an end to illegal blockade of Gaza.

That ensures sustainable peace for Jewish & Palestinian civilians

Show threadEscarpmentNov 22, 2023

@QasimRashid Permanent ceasefire from Hamas, Hezbollah, Syrian militias, and Yemen. Complete disarmament of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza and West Bank and for Gaza to be completely demilitarized.

End to illegal settlements. End of blockade conditional on the above point about Gaza proving not to be a military threat. Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah ought not fire a single rocket into Israel.

Show threadMeatwharf15
@escarpment @QasimRashid Why should Gaza be demilitarized? They already aren’t allowed to have a military of their own. If anything, Israel should be stripped of their military might. And you’re ignoring all of the rockets that Israel launched into Gaza.
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Show threadEscarpmentNov 22, 2023

@zgilmore @QasimRashid Israel doesn't "launch rockets" into Gaza. The rockets are a Hamas thing. Hamas uses rudimentary technology to build and launch thousands of rockets indiscriminately at Israel. This has been the status quo for several years. Israel patiently withstands the rocket barrages with help from the Iron Dome.

An Israel without a military would quickly be exterminated by the hostile and oppressive majority in the region.

Show threadMeatwharf15Nov 22, 2023
@escarpment @QasimRashid Israel is the hostile oppressor here. They have forced Gaza under apartheid, which is inherently oppressive. And if Israel doesn’t have rockets, then what about all the carpet bombing they have done into Gaza, even before the events of 10/7?
Show threadEscarpmentNov 22, 2023
@zgilmore @QasimRashid Do you have an example of this "carpet" bombing prior to 10/7? Israel periodically retaliates to Hamas hostilities with tactical bombing to try to reduce their capabilities. They were not in the business of indiscriminately "carpet" bombing the region, as evidenced by all the places that were not rubble prior to 10/7.
Show threadMeatwharf15Nov 22, 2023
@escarpment @QasimRashid “Tactical bombing”, as in, bombing places that have been specifically highlighted as being locations for providing humanitarian aid. Claiming that Hamas are there despite providing no evidence to such a claim. https://x.com/politico/status/1727072321255424288?s=61
POLITICO (@politico) on X

U.S. has sent Israel data on aid group locations to try to prevent strikes https://t.co/ZfNthLgI9H

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Show threadEscarpmentNov 22, 2023
@zgilmore @QasimRashid I don't dispute that Israel is attacking traditionally humanitarian and civilian targets. I just believe their evidence that Hamas is in those locations. And I believe further evidence when Israel, given the opportunity to kill as many civilians as they can, has not done so. They did not go into Al-Shifa and shoot everybody there, for example. That indicates to me that their aim is really to neutralize Hamas, not kill civilians.
Show threadMeatwharf15Nov 23, 2023
@escarpment @QasimRashid What evidence have they provided, besides “because we say so”?
Show threadEscarpmentNov 23, 2023
@zgilmore @QasimRashid Video evidence of the tunnel. Photographs of the various munitions. Security cam footage of hostages being dragged unceremoniously through the hospital. The remains of some hostages in the vicinity of the hospital. A Toyota pickup truck identified as one used during the massacre on the premises of the hospital.