Aral BalkanMay 15, 2024

- #Israel is carrying out #genocide in #Gaza.

- Context! You must go back… all the way to October 7.

- Sure, let’s go back: let’s go back 76 years to May 15, 1948, to the #Nakba; the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people where 750,000 people were “expelled from their homes or made to flee, at first by Zionist paramilitaries through various violent means, and after the establishment of the State of Israel, by the Israel Defense Forces.” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba)

- No, no, not like that.

Show threadJennifer
@aral I don't really know much about the history of the region so got the book the Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi on the recommendation of this video https://youtu.be/1ZPR-M5QFPA?si=ZFzZxNMroiEI9iVv
I Was Wrong: Israel, Palestine, the US, and The Hundred Years War on Palestine

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Show threadwb x64May 15, 2024

@Jennifer @aral "no, no," they say, "you have to go super far back, to the ancient Israelites who occupied the land for a relatively brief period in its overall history!"

Okay

"Yeah so we want to bulldoze over everything and everyone who doesn't fit that rose-tinted version of history that we are going to adopt for the convenient reason that it means we get to own and control it all!"

Hmmm where have I heard that before..?