Jack HardcastleNov 22, 2023
Qasim Rashid, Esq.

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

Nov 22, 2023 at 2:11amMastodon for iOS
Show threadInfiniteOneNov 22, 2023
@QasimRashid Palestinian’s need their land, homes, livelihoods, and sovereignty returned.
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 threadMeatwharf15Nov 22, 2023
@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.
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

X (formerly Twitter)
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.
Show threadJJand5gypsydogsNov 22, 2023
@QasimRashid ALL of that!! amen!!
Show threadGrassroots JoeNov 22, 2023

@QasimRashid

It is a good step, however, you seem to have left out a line item regarding the future of Hamas, the party that broke the previous cease fire by slaughtering 1200 innocent people including many committed peace activists and vigorous opponets to the radical right-wing Netanyahu government.

Show threadMeatwharf15Nov 22, 2023
@joeinwynnewood @QasimRashid You’re forgetting about all the ceasefires that Israel broke prior to that. Over twice as often and brutal as Palestine broke ceasefires, in fact. https://visualizingpalestine.org/visuals/gaza-ceasefire-violations
Ceasefire Violations

[July 2014] Visualizing Palestine’s first ‘data sketch’ graphic charts the routine violations of the last Egyptian-brokered ceasefire from 22 November 2012 til 7 July 2014. While both the Israeli military and Palestinian factions violated the terms of the ceasefire, a close examination shows that Israeli violations were more frequent and far more deadly. Out of Israel’s 191 violations, 10% resulted in death and 42% in injuries or detentions; while out of the 75 Palestinian violations, just 4% resulted in injuries and none in death.

Show threadGrassroots JoeNov 22, 2023

@zgilmore @QasimRashid

You cannot diminish the fact of Hamas' genocidal brutality intentionally and directly targeting civilians, killing parents in front of children, children in front of parents, gang rapping women before kidnapping, burning victims and gleefully recording and broadcasting all of it with things unrelated to be current fighting.
We could go backwards in time tit for tat for millenia and it would still do nothing to reduce the intentional horror of 10/7.
And we will not do it.

Show threadr3djok3r1Nov 22, 2023
@joeinwynnewood @zgilmore @QasimRashid all that has been refuted by iserali journalists themselves that almost most of the people who died were by IDF helicopters targeting random targets thus resulting in civilians dying so this hamas brutally point is invalid as it doing much less than what the IDF is doing to other palastian civilians they killed over 13k people and active targeting of hospitals and schools
Show threadMeatwharf15Nov 22, 2023
@r3djok3r1 @joeinwynnewood @QasimRashid Plus, over a third of the people killed during 10/7 were Israeli military personnel, according to the IDF. So by their logic, Israel was the one using human shields behind their military.
Show threadGrassroots JoeNov 22, 2023

@zgilmore @r3djok3r1 @QasimRashid

What part of we're not going to do it did you miss?

Blocking.

Show threadTanya Kasim VOTEDNov 22, 2023
@QasimRashid It is a good step.
Show threadThe Wrath of TeslaNov 22, 2023
@QasimRashid and how about end to terrorist organization like Hamas? You missed that in your list. You’re welcome!
Show threadسیبزمینیNov 22, 2023
@wrathoftesla @QasimRashid
All terrorist organizations should be fought with. Including Hamas, and including Israel military.
Funny how people regard hamas as "terrorists" but not Israel.
Show threadcode_monkNov 22, 2023
@QasimRashid This is such wonderful news!
Show threadBsan3Nov 22, 2023
@QasimRashid ha
Show threadBarbara E BjNov 22, 2023
@QasimRashid It doesn't ensure peace, I guarantee, but what happened to the 50 people released for 4 days and an extra 1 day for each additional 10 hostages? Also, I've wondered from the start of this what the "goal" was . So, you are saying Hamas was willing to start this mess with the horrendous face-to-face mutilation and slaughter of peaceful people to get terrorists released from prison? And, you are expecting peace from people who could do such a blood thirsty thing?
Show threadBarbara E BjNov 22, 2023
@QasimRashid, my head hurts just thinking about that.
Show threadDavid GersteinNov 22, 2023
@QasimRashid Something missing there. And who is the “we” you are?
Show threadJens ElbækNov 22, 2023
@QasimRashid WHAT? Human rights orgs estimate ~1000 Palestinian children in Israeli prisons
Show threadTimothy SwanNov 22, 2023
@QasimRashid Interesting that there’s never a demand for Hamas to revoke their charter, which is pretty explicit in what they really want, which is to kill all Jews.
Show threadQasim Rashid, Esq.Nov 22, 2023
@timswan if you’re going to make a bad faith argument about a violent militant organization at least be accurate. Their charger no longer says that. Horrific that it ever did but if you’re going to be disingenuous, at least be accurate.
Show threadTimothy SwanNov 22, 2023
@QasimRashid First, my argument is not in bad faith. Second, while the 2017 covenant, written by Khaled Meshaal, tones down the explicit language about killing Jews, it also doesn’t deviate from its claim that only intifada can free Palestine, never negotiation. Hamas is the problem, not the Palestinian people, and as long as Hamas is in power the Palestinian people will be caught in the middle.
Show threadGeoff WinklessNov 24, 2023
@QasimRashid how about an end to Iranian funding of Palestinian terror organisations?