elkerlitoMay 15, 2024
Aral Balkan

- #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.

May 15, 2024 at 10:02amWeb
Show threadWalrus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿May 15, 2024

@aral

Slap bang in the middle of the Balfour declaration is a condition that Israel has never ever complied with.

Show threadJobu TupakiMay 15, 2024
Show threadAthanasius HAS MOVEDMay 15, 2024

@aral I found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGH94HoSJ2s&pp=ygUaaW1wZXJpYWwgd2FyIG11c2V1bSBpc3JhZWw%3D (and part 2) a seemingly good primer on how we got here.

I have no subject matter experience or expertise so can't *vouch* for its accuracy, but I certainly felt better informed after watching.

Show threadGipson (he/him/it)May 15, 2024
@aral
I was going to comment about this post but there is too much that I want to say. I learned a lot from the Wikipedia article. Thanks for posting.
Show threadJenniferMay 15, 2024
@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..?

Show threadMike WaghorneMay 15, 2024
@aral Hell. Why not go right back to the slaughter of the Canaanites - men, women, children and their cattle - ordered by some mythical 'God'?
Show threadAral BalkanMay 15, 2024

@mikewaghorne One happened within living memory. The other is a fairy tale in a fairy tale book.

(“Archaeological data suggests that Canaanite cities were never destroyed or abandoned.” – https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-dna-reveals-fate-mysterious-canaanites)

Show threadMike WaghorneMay 15, 2024
@aral That is probably true but it is the kind of fairy tale that Netanyahu is using to slaughter Gazans. He refers to Gazans as Amelakites who must be destroyed. Fairy tale tellers can kill with calm consciences.
Show threadAral BalkanMay 15, 2024
@mikewaghorne Indeed.