Aral Balkan

86 years ago, sirens sounded in Guernica as the Nazis carpet-bombed civilians. Today, they sound again for the Palestinian people in Gaza being slaughtered by Israel.

Amazing how there’s no media coverage of this to speak of in the West although even Times of Israel covered Guernica’s 80th anniversary.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/12/09/qyit-d09.html

https://theconversation.com/80-years-on-from-the-guernica-bombing-and-spain-is-still-struggling-to-honour-historical-memory-76238

https://www.timesofisrael.com/spains-guernica-marks-80th-anniversary-of-bombing/

Via @LALegault

#guernica #gaza #israel #palestine #genocide #ethnicCleansing

Thousands in Guernica, Spain draw link between 1937 fascist bombings and Gaza genocide

Several thousand people in Guernica formed an enormous mosaic with their bodies to protest the genocide in Gaza.

World Socialist Web Site
Dec 9, 2023 at 7:49amWeb
Show threaddick_turpin  Dec 9, 2023

@aral

Didn't you know? Israel is the untouchables!

You may not accuse them, or you will be called Antisemitic.

You can't use military force against them for fear of being called a Nazi.

You cannot sanction them as they control many financial institutions.

This is what happens when society crushes freedom of speech and opinions. Allows the rule of labelling-fear to prevail.

I could have created a mirror picture to the one attached of civilians lined up naked but I'll be labeled.

@LALegault

Show threadHåkon 🍉Dec 9, 2023
@aral @LALegault Guess you gave seen this?
https://mastodon.social/@ubique/111518859711810588
Show threadPopolon 🇵🇸🇳🇨☮️🌳🎋 ᠫᠣᠫᠣᠯᠣᠨ🐎抱抱龙🐉 ⏚φDec 9, 2023
@aral @LALegault Some political leaders in France, that compared what come in Gaza with Guernica few days ago, was accused of antisemitism (as usual), in mainstream medias. Mainstream medias still defend people that sell tons of bombs and various weapons to Israel
Show threadCogito ergo mecagoendiosDec 9, 2023
@aral there is quite a bit of coverage in main Spanish news. I think a problem here is that the anglosphere always act as if *their* public opinion is the same as the *global* public opinion. https://www.eldiario.es/euskadi/mundo-historia-no-deben-aceptar-nuevo-gernika-mural-humano-apoya-palestina-localidad-vizcaina_1_10752555.html
"El mundo y la historia no deben aceptar un nuevo Gernika": un mural humano apoya a Palestina en la localidad vizcaína

Cientos de ciudadanos se han reunido este sábado por la mañana en la localidad vizcaína de Gernika y han formado un mural humano gigante con la bandera de Palestina para mostrar su rechazo a los bombardeos de Israel. "El mundo y la historia no deben aceptar un nuevo Gernika", han asegurado. El acto ha sido organizado por la Iniciativa Ciudadana Gernika-Palestina la misma semana que Israel ha recrudecido los bombardeos sobre la Franja de Gaza, que ya dejan más de 16.000 muertos. El mosaico humano se ha conformado a partir de las 12:00 del medio día, en Pasealekua, el lugar donde se ubicaba el mercado bombardeado en 1937 en Gernika, un "lugar lleno de simbolismo", según los organizadores. Los presentes han formado la bandera palestina con imágenes del cuadro de Gernika de Pablo Picasso. También se ha desarrollado un acto en el que han participado, entre otros, artistas y creadores vascos y palestinos como Eñaut Elorrieta, las cantantes palestinas Ihsan O.S e Ikrame Benzyane, Saba Alhussain y las bertsolaris Onintza Enbeita y Nerea Ibarzabal, Mohamed Farahallah y Oreka Tx. Se han leído poemas en árabe y euskera y se ha estrenado una adaptación de la canción 'Gernikan'. Durante el acto también ha tenido lugar la lectura del manifiesto en el que se ha señalado que no se puede "tolerar una sola destrucción más de un pueblo" y no se puede "aceptar lo que está pasando en Palestina". "El mundo y la historia no pueden aceptar un nuevo Gernika. Desde Gernika, un lugar especialmente desafortunado entre todas las atrocidades de la historia de la humanidad, pedimos que se acabe con una matanza constante de la población palestina", han añadido.

elDiario.es
Show threadzillaDec 9, 2023
@aral @LALegault When it happens to brown people...it is acceptable to the west. Remember how the west allowed and sat back while Rwanda went into full on genocide...
Show threadMartin JostDec 9, 2023
@aral @LALegault No media coverage? I seem to live in some parallel universe...
And - BTW - what was it, that happened Oct, 7 ??
Did there happen anything at all ???
Show threadAral BalkanDec 9, 2023

@[email protected] @LALegault Yes, a bunch of Islamist barbarians murdered roughly 1,200 Israelis including ~859 civilians and took hostages.

In the time since, Israel has gone on a genocidal rampage in Gaza, murdering more than ten times the number of Palestinians (~17,000 currently), the vast majority of which are women and children.

Happy?

Now fuck off.

Show threadSylvainDec 9, 2023

@aral

It's so fucking disturbing that people pretend Oct. 7th is the beginning of this conflict...

Are they all that ignorant!?

@godot @LALegault

Show threadMartin JostDec 9, 2023
@axnxcamr @aral @LALegault
It's so fucking [your words] that people here in the thread seemingly aren't even able to think back to Oct. 7.
The current escalation IS the direct result of what happened that day.
That the conflict goes back further is clear - but a little bit too complex for a Mastodon thread, (Go ahead if you feel able to squeeze it in)
Show threadCatherine is not complacentDec 9, 2023
@godot @axnxcamr @aral @LALegault so tell me, what will balance the scale for you?
How many innocents for each one of yours?
Regardless of how they die or who kills them they are no less dead.
Show threadSylvainDec 9, 2023

@CatDragon

They want to exterminate Hamas, and if I'm correct, Hamas is 30k members. Given that they killed 17k people and 3k Hamas members, I believe they will need to kill 170k people in Gaza to reach their goal.

That anyone could claim this is "self defense" is astounding...

@godot @aral @LALegault

Show threadCatherine is not complacentDec 9, 2023
@axnxcamr @godot @aral @LALegault I’m certain it has nothing to do with the marine gas fields off southern Gaza, Bibi being such an honest man.
Show threadkeithzgDec 9, 2023
@godot @aral @LALegault We now know among other things that Israeli helicopters killed some number of Israeli civilians that day. And every day afterwards, in a myopia of bloodlust and with the ever-thinner rationalization of responding to that initial attack, Israeli forces have caused what any sane person must at least admit has been unnecessary death and human suffering. And that stands *even if* you're a monster yourself and don't consider any Palestinians to be human.
Show threadΩ 🌍 Gus PoseyDec 9, 2023

@aral You might have seen some coverage about a gang of killer chimpanzees.

It was presented without irony.

Show threadAntonioDec 9, 2023
@aral @LALegault Remembering... and acting?
Show threadBruce MirkenDec 10, 2023
@aral @LALegault On #MSNBC, Ayman Mohyeldin devoted a good 15 minutes to it on Saturday.
Show threadArnau Fuentes ∴Dec 10, 2023
@aral @LALegault so wrong. Sooooo wrong.
Show threadArnau Fuentes ∴Dec 14, 2023
@aral @LALegault just to clear my point of view: it's you who are so wrong, on so many accounts. First of all: linking the modern state of Israel to the nazis fits the worldwide accepted definition of antisemitism.
Show threadAral BalkanDec 14, 2023

@arfues @LALegault If the modern state of Israel doesn’t want to be compared to the Nazis, it should stop acting like the Nazis.

Now go away.