Yehuda Shaul
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Co-director at Ofek https://t.co/LuHadeX9wC. Co-founder @BTSIsrael End occupation, two-state situation, democracy & equality river to the sea
Joined July 2016
BREAKING: Yet another Palestinian community, A’nizan (South Hebron Hills), is being forcibly transferred from their lands as a result of settler violence. The 4 families/35 residents of A’nizan are packing up their belongings and leaving their lands as we speak.
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BREAKING: As we speak, the community of Khirbet Zanuta (South Hebron Hills) is packing up their village and leaving their lands as a result of settler terrorism. Forcible transfer is taking place in front of our eyes and yet we remain silent. THREAD.1/7
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A small group of Holocaust survivors and some second-generation demonstrated outside Yad Vashem this morning. "If we loose our compassion for the Other, we have lost our Humanity" - let this be a lesson we learn from the Holocaust and its survivors.
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[1] BREAKING: 2.5 hours ago a bulldozer demolished 3 water cisterns and 2 water tanks in the Palestinian village of Susya in the South Hebron Hills. In addition to uprooting many trees and sealing up one of the caves of the community. THREAD
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BREAKING: Just now in Shi'b al Butum, South Hebron Hills, the IDF destroyed 3 homes and 3 water tanks. More demolitions continue. Making life for Palestinians more impossible than it already is. 1/4.THREAD
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[1] BREAKING: Now in Tuba (Masafer Yatta, Firing Zone 918) Settlers accompanied by soldiers arrived at the village, opened water tanks of the Awad Family and emptied them to the ground.
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[1] These days in Israel, in response to Hamas’ brutal massacre, calls to ethnically cleanse Gaza, deliberately targeting civilians on a mass scale, and other dehumanizing language, have become common. Here are a few examples of this discourse over the last few days. THREAD.
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[1] Hey @DemMaj4Israel here’s a crash course on Israeli segregationist policies in Hebron. @btselem.
.@jstreetdotorg sponsored @RepBowman’s trip. So J Street, please confirm, is he telling the truth or telling a lie?.
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As the world's eyes are on Gaza, settlers in the West Bank continue to use the opportunity by escalating their terror attacks against Palestinians & their property. Here are just 3 settler attacks from yesterday in the South Hebron Hills. As usual, no arrests were made.
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BREAKING Leaked IDF-Shin Bet memo: Israeli police are not enforcing the law on settlers in the West Bank under the instruction of National Security Minister Ben-Gvir.
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[1] Incitement, Racism, & Extremist Politics have spread amongst the rank and file of IDF units. Artists were invited to perform for the troops and are emboldening these trends and especially the call to reestablish settlements in Gaza. THREAD.
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[14] "God Willing, it will hit innocent people" This is the text written on the artillery shell in the image below.
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After expelling residents from Khirbet Zanuta, settlers came and fenced the area of the village in order to take over the land and prevent residents from returning. Some of the settlers were from the Meitarim Farm of Yinon Levy (1 of the 4 settlers sanctioned by the USA). 1/9
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BREAKING: Another morning of house demolitions in the South Hebron Hills. The Israeli Civil Administration has demolished a Palestinian house in Laseifer.
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This morning the IDF demolished a Palestinian school in the village of Al-Sfai, Masafer Yatta (Firing Zone 918). Look at the children retrieving their textbooks which were scattered on the ground. 1/4.THREAD
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Israel’s Transportation Minister Miri Regev standing next to a map of Greater Israel (excluding Gaza). No Green Line. No Palestine. But let’s focus on the fact that Palestinian textbooks don’t include Israel on the map. 1/3
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BREAKING: The Palestinian village of Umm al-Khair in the South Hebron Hills is currently under heavy attack by settlers and the army. Below are a few recent examples of how settlers and the State are working hand in hand to displace the residents of the village. THREAD.1/13
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BREAKING: Israeli authorities have just demolished a school in the village of Umm Lasafa, South Hebron Hills (SHH). This round of demolition was preceded by 2 other rounds in the SHH just today. 1/7. THREAD
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BREAKING: This morning settlers came to Khirbet Wadi Ejheish (southern part of Susiya) and pierced some of the village's water tanks.
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Israeli Jewish terrorists, mainly from the nearby unauthorized outpost of Meitarim Farm, strengthened by their complete impunity from the Israeli authorities, have brought us to where we are now - 250 residents of Khirbet Zanuta are forced to leave their lands. 2/7
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[1] Hamas’ war crimes are an opportunity for the Israeli Right to advance their messianic agenda beyond the IDF response in Gaza. From rebuilding settlements in Gaza, to intensifying the takeover of Haram al Sharif/Temple Mount, & pogroms in the WB. We must prevent this. THREAD.
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Earlier today, the IDF demolished a memorial of Yasser Arafat in Tulkarem. Israel’s war is against Palestinian independence, not only against Hamas.
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[1] Last night, settlers entered the Wadi Jheish (Southern Susya, South Hebron Hills), took down the wind turbine used for electricity and broke their satellite dish which was used by several villages in the area to connect to the internet. 🧵. Photos by: Wadi Jheish residents
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The school in Khirbet Zanuta was built by international humanitarian funds. Will donor countries take action? @EUpalestinians, @EUinIsrael, @JosepBorrellF, @IrlRepRamallah, @UKinJerusalem, @FranceJerusalem, @SwedeninJERU,, @ConsuladoEspJer, @ItalyinJlem, @MFA_Lu, @BelgiumJRS.3/7
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While all eyes are on Gaza, settlers escalate their terror attacks on Palestinian communities in order to forcibly transfer them. See this B'Tselem report from 10 days ago (bear in mind, since its publication, more communities have been expelled). 5/7.
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92 Israeli public figures published a statement this morning in Haaretz thanking @benandjerrys for their decision to stop selling ice cream in illegal Israeli settlements.
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[1] Just learned that the Holocaust survivor in this photo, together with a few other survivors, sent a powerful letter of concern in January on the situation in Gaza to members of the Israeli war cabinet. This thread contains the translated text of the letter:.
A small group of Holocaust survivors and some second-generation demonstrated outside Yad Vashem this morning. "If we loose our compassion for the Other, we have lost our Humanity" - let this be a lesson we learn from the Holocaust and its survivors.
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[1] Yesterday, soldiers raided the village of Tuba in Masafer Yatta (Firing zone 918), took residents' phones to prevent filming, & searched all of the village houses. THREAD
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Hundreds of Israeli teenagers gathered in an illegal outpost yesterday, singing “avenge but one of my two eyes of Palestine.” And yet, the world is obsessed only with alleged incitement in Palestinian textbooks.
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In this video you can see the trucks leaving the land with the village’s belongings. 4/7
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Today’s hasbara talking point:. In response to increased intl attention on settler violence, Israel Hayom, a national tabloid, has claimed that the violence significantly dropped in 2023 compared to the same period in 2022. Speaking from the ground, this is categorically false.
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After having called for an end to settler violence in the West Bank, what more needs to happen before President @JoeBiden puts his money where his mouth is? @USPalAffairs.7/7.
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The residents of Khirbet Zanuta have suffered from ongoing violence from Mikneh Yehuda Farm - Asael and Meitarim Farm, which together also recently expelled Widada and Radeem. See below. 6/7.
[1] 2 days ago settlers entered the Abu Safi family compound in the Pal community of Radeem in the South Hebron Hills. They damaged their solar panels and punctured their water tank. Settlers are trying to expel the family, as they did to the Amer family from Radeem 5 days ago.🧵
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As the world’s eyes are on Gaza, settlers are left more unbridled to cleanse Area C of Palestinians. Forcible transfer is accelerating on steroids - today, yesterday, last week, last fortnight, and at this rate, there are many more ahead of us. The intl community must intervene.
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[1] More incitement by Israeli political leaders, media, & public figures. Calls to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip, to resettle it, for collective punishment, and other vile descriptions of violence, are rife. 🧵#4 on this issue.
[1] More incitement by Israeli political leaders, media, & public figures in response to Hamas’ brutal massacre. Calls to target Gazan civilians, to resettle Gaza, and to ethnically cleanse it, are rife. #3 thread on this issue.
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[1] Watch @bezalelsm stating that the Trump administration opens up the opportunity to advance the depopulation of Gaza as a model to adapt the same policy in the WB. From his speech at a Yesha Council conference last month preparing for the day Trump takes office. 🧵
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You can see the residents dismantling their village and packing away their property, to be carried on trucks away from their lands.
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On May 4, the Israeli supreme court greenlighted what could be the greatest displacement of Palestinians in the OPT since the early 70s. THREAD.#SaveMasaferYatta./1
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[1] Yesterday from Netanyahu: “I’m proud I blocked a Palestinian state.” Already from day 1 of Netanyahu’s government in 1996 it was obvious that he was working against the possibility of a Palestinian state beside the state of Israel. THREAD
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The Dome of the Rock was erased from a photo of Jerusalem in the office of the Appeals Committee of the Jerusalem planning authorities. A picture - or what’s left out of it - is worth a thousand words. THREAD.1/4.
ילדים יקרים, התוכלו לזהות מה חסר בתמונה שתלויה במשרדי ועדת הערר המחוזית ירושלים?
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[1] On 29.05.24 the IDF central command general signed an order to transfer powers over much of civilian affairs in the West Bank to a deputy head of the civilian administration for civilian affairs. This is a step of de jure annexation of the WB, yet the world is silent. 🧵
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A’nizan is just across the road from Khirbet Zanuta, a village which started to pack up its belongings yesterday, also as a result of repeated settler violence. See my previous thread below.
BREAKING: As we speak, the community of Khirbet Zanuta (South Hebron Hills) is packing up their village and leaving their lands as a result of settler terrorism. Forcible transfer is taking place in front of our eyes and yet we remain silent. THREAD.1/7
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[3] Last night, settlers damaged the water pipe of At-Tuwani (also in the South Hebron Hills). Until now, there is no running water in the village.
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[5] All this is happening despite a promise from the State to the Supreme Court to not carry out any demolitions in the village of Susya until further notice. This is the maddening reality in the West Bank these days.
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During my service in Hebron, we would burst into Palestinian homes to demonstrate our presence in order to create a sense of being chased amongst the Palestinian population. The settlers who now burst into Palestinian homes in Tuba have learned from us.
אתמול דרס אדם קבוצה של מפגינים בכ"ס. בתל אביב שוטרים תקפו מפגינים. האלימות הזו לא החלה אתמול, והחסינות של פעילי ימין מפני החוק שורשיה בגדה המערבית. ברגע זה מתנחלים חמושים פולשים לכפרים טובא ומעייר אל עביד ונכנסים לתוך בתי התושבים בגיבוי חיילים. סרטונים בשרשור. צילום: תושבי טובא.
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Reports are coming in that settlers shot and murdered Bilal Muhammad Saleh (40), while he was harvesting his olives in al-Sawiya. You can see him wearing a blue shirt in this photo just taken today. I’ll spare you from the horrible video footage from the scene.
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Here is an Unofficial Translation of the Settler Leadership Letter asking the government to apply the northern Gaza model to the West Bank. The UK and the EU should sanction all the settler leaders who signed this letter.
Settlers in West Bank want the government to apply the northern Gaza model to West Bank - to depopulate areas and conduct military raids. Effectively to accelerate what is already taking place.
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[2] Lior Narkis, a popular israeli singer, in a performance for soldiers:.“Gaza, you black, you trash can. “Gaza you b**ch*.Gaza you daughter of a huge wh*re like your mother Gaza.Gaza you wh*re”.
Lior Narkis, popular Israeli singer, touring IDF bases and singing to Israeli soldiers:. “Gaza you black woman, you trash”.“Gaza you b**ch*”.“Gaza you daughter of a huge wh*ore like your mother Gaza”.“Gaza you whore”. Hate crime? No, this is normal in Israel, nothing to see here.
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[3] “Gaza has to be wiped off from the face of the earth”. Shimon Riklin - Journalist
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This morning, Isaschar Manne, arrived with his herd of sheep to the compound of the Abu Jundia family in Tuba (Masafer Yatta). He brought his herd to drink from the family’s water cistern. Later he moved his herd to drink from the cistern by the Awad family’s compound.
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[2] Hebron is home to 200k+ Palestinians and ~850 settlers. The segregation of the city has become the main IDF strategy to protect settlers after the settler Baruch Goldstein committed a massacre in Feb 1994 where he murdered 29 Palestinian worshipers, & wounded over 120 more.
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I always knew this was coming. MK Ariel Kellner from the Likud claims that @BtSIsrael is an antisemitic organization according to the IHRA definition. This is the nonsense that comes out when antisemitism becomes a political tool.
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Intl sanctions against violent settlers have become a top issue for settler leadership, after sanctions moved beyond street-level individuals carrying out the violence to the entities driving the violence. The sanctions are having an impact. See examples from the last 48 hrs.
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[10] The Border Police Guarding the Tomb/Mosque have extended this religious segregation to the surrounding area. This is why @RepBowman & @MarkPocan were asked to identify their religion, in order to determine if they were Jewish or Muslim. I was with them in Hebron that day.
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BREAKING Yet again, we see how the IDF and Shin Bet are detached from reality - Israeli police haven’t enforced the law on settlers since 1967.
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[1] Daniela Weiss from the Nahala Settler Movement lays out their plan to resettle Gaza on IL TV Channel 11 (Zman Emet Program). According to Weiss “A miracle is occurring here, we are fighting a holy war.”. Here’s a detailed breakdown of their plan according to Zman Emet. 🧵
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[2] In this video you can see the presence of the soldiers.
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[2] The bulldozer is also blocking almost all access roads to the community.
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[3] The madness of this story is that the driver of this bulldozer is Ynon Levy, a settler from the nearby unauthorised outpost - Meitarim Farm. See my post here about him.
[11] I wonder whether it was Ynon Levy, from the Meitarim Farm, that demolished the village. Ynon has a bulldozer, and in November 2022 he was hired by the ICA to demolish the School of Khirbet A-Safai in Masafer Yatta.
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[4] It's time for Nakba 2. Yinon Magal - Journalist and Politician.
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Listening to Minister @oritstrock, it’s clear that Canada really struck a nerve by sanctioning Amana (the development company of the settler movement). Settler leadership is feeling the pressure. The sanctions are having an impact.
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[2] “If all the captives are not returned immediately, then turn the Strip into a slaughterhouse. If a hair falls from their head - execute security prisoners. Violate all norms on the way to victory…”. David Mizrahy Verthaim -Editor & Journalist
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[5] Bring down buildings!! Bomb without distinction!! Stop with this impotence. You have ability. There is worldwide legitimacy! Flatten Gaza. Without mercy! This time, there is no room for mercy!. Revital Gottlieb - Likud MK
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Check out the vest patch on violent militants on the streets of Yaffo. The Punisher symbol has been adopted by Proud Boys and those who stormed the Capital. The Bibi-Trump alliance is alive and well.
אתמול, ביפו. מישהו יודע מי אלה? אבטחה פרטית? מיליציה מקומית? שואל ברצינות, בלי לחוות ��עה.
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BREAKING: Settlers, accompanied by an armed man in uniform (looks like a soldier), entered the village of Tuba and broke into the residents homes to intimidate them. The settlers continued to torment them by playing and swinging in the village playground.
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[3] Today, many important streets in downtown Hebron are segregated on different levels. On some streets Pal car traffic is restricted, on some streets commercial life is forbidden and shops are welded shut. In fact, ~1.5k Pal shops are closed in the center of the city.
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Lately, @itamarbengvir has been bragging about the worsening conditions of Pal detainees in IL prisons. Here are a few examples with EN subtitles to show the extent of dehumanization we have reached as a society. See Ben-Gvir’s glee in response to complaints by Human Rights Orgs
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[3] Kobi Peretz, a popular IL singer, was invited to sing for Golani soldiers. You can see him leading the famous anti-Palestinian chant: "may your village burn, may the Gazans burn".
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BREAKING: This morning the IL Civil Administration gave out 9 demolition orders to Palestinians residing east of Teqoa in the “Agreed-Upon Reserve” in Area B. The undoing of Oslo by @bezalelsm is advancing. Absent International action, this will only accelerate.
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[1] BREAKING: The village of Wadi Tiran (near Zanuta North, Dhahiriya, South Hebron Hills), is made up of 4 families amounting to 42 people (of which 22 are children) is under threat to leave within 24 hours by settlers. Here are the details. THREAD. Photo by: Oneg Ben Dror
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This speech by Colonel Yishai Rosilio, outgoing Brigade Commander of Hebron, sheds light on important trends w/in the IDF:. 1 The growing dominance of the religious right among the rank & file, and the low & mid-level officers. 2 The symbiotic relationship between settlers & IDF
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[1] In the dark days after Hamas' brutal massacre, statements by leading voices among Pal citizens of IL have been a beacon of light. Here are just a few. Jewish-Palestinian partnership is essential and possible in order to achieve a future of peace and to end the occupation. 🧵
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Hey @POTUS, see @bezalelsm celebrating the approval of thousands of housing units in settlements in the West Bank today. And the development of settlement infrastructure. He seems like a good candidate for US sanctions.
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BREAKING: Settlers again cut the water pipe in Saddet Tha'la (South Hebron Hills). Photos by: Residents of Tha’la
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Shabak head admits that “IL has difficulty fending off allegations against it, at least some of which are founded, such that its conduct may be considered an international crime (‘inhumane treatment’) and a violation of international conventions (The Convention against Torture).”
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[5] For the majority of Pal families (apart from 3) who live on these “sterilized roads” have their front doors welded shut and are forced to leave only by making their way through back entrances.
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[4] This is what Netanyahu’s condemnation from 2 days ago is worth. Will the international community seriously way-in to stop settler terrorism?
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Jewish sovereignty river to the sea. Arabs [there are no Palestinian people] will remain as subjects, or leave, or die if they resist. This is the vision of @bezalelsm for IL-Pal. Here is a short guide/long thread to Smotrich’s Decisive Plan, 2017. 1/25.
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[4] Some streets closer to the settlements were called by the IDF during my service “sterile roads”. On these roads, Palestinians are forbidden from driving, opening shops, and even walking.
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[6] These segregation policies, together with settler violence, & day-to-day IDF activities have turned downtown Hebron into a ghost town. Look at these before & after photos of life in downtown Hebron.
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Printed t-shirts from today's “flag-march” in Jerusalem depicted building the temple and smashing the mosque on Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif. But tell me again about Palestinian Incitement…. Photo from Shir Aharon
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[6] “Nakba to the enemy now! This day is our Pearl Harbor. We will still learn the lessons. Right now, one goal: Nakba! A Nakba that will overshadow the Nakba of 48. A Nakba in Gaza and a Nakba for anyone who dares to join!. ”. Ariel Kallner - Likud MK
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[4] Ynon arrived in Susya accompanied by men in IDF uniform. When the lawyer representing the Susya residents spoke to the ICA, he was told that they are unaware of any enforcement activity in Susya.
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[7] Say, why exactly do we have an atomic bomb?. Shimon Riklin - Journalist
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[1] Yesterday, Saturday Aug 24, Yinon Levi and Ely Federman, from the Meitarim Farm, both under sanctions, came together with other settlers to harass residents of Zanuta who returned to their village last Wednesday. The police did not protect the villagers. 🧵
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Settlers near Pnei Hever, armed with US made M4s, stopped a Palestinian car to search and harass the Palestinians in the car. They can do this because they know that the entire might of the IDF is backing them, and that if the Palestinians respond, it won’t end well for them.
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[4] Ariel Zilber, pop singer, visited reservists in the north and praised Meir Kahana - founder of the terrorist org. Kach. "Kahane was right.Isn’t it right that Kahane was right.Kahane is right.He is also right today and he will be right tomorrow".
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12 Israel-based peace and human rights orgs sent a letter to EU foreign policy chief @JosepBorrellF and EU Foreign Ministers urging them to fully acknowledge the Israeli government’s acts of annexation and take concrete measures against them. Read the full text below.
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[5] Kobi Peretz apparently loves the chant “may their village burn.” Here he is with the 13th Battalion of the Golani Brigade. Soldier’s are dancing with a torah scroll, chanting: “May their village burn, May Gaza be erased Gaza erased".
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[1] This is how houses in Jinba, Masafer Yatta, looked after they were “searched” by a group of settler-soldiers on Monday last week (12.02).
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Now in the occupied West Bank: @israelpolice has decided to confiscate a Palestinian car that is lacking proper paperwork. They have called an ambulance to extract the car’s passenger, a person who is paralyzed with ALS. The most moral police force in the world.
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In Hebrew the sign says: The holiness of every life of every human being is the lesson from the Holocaust.
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Was pleased to speak with @IChotiner about the ideological shift within the IDF. The IDF of today is not the IDF I served in 20 years ago.
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Next time they tell you that it is Palestinian textbooks and incitement that brings Palestinian children to hate Israel, please show them these photos (cred. Guy Butavia). 4/4.END.
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[1] 2 days ago settlers entered the Abu Safi family compound in the Pal community of Radeem in the South Hebron Hills. They damaged their solar panels and punctured their water tank. Settlers are trying to expel the family, as they did to the Amer family from Radeem 5 days ago.🧵
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[6] An IDF Officer inside a Gazan School delivers a “Zionist humanitarian teaching mission in Gaza” that includes the call to return of settlements to Gaza (Gush Katif). “Today, we will learn a new lesson,.Gush Katif… we are here”.
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[12] "I want a big revenge" "I really hope that our revenge, that of the State of Israel, on the cruel enemy - will be a very big revenge. I don't call them human animals because that would be insulting to animals…". Sara Netanyahu - PM’s Wife
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[1] The incitement from Israeli political leaders and public figures in response to Hamas’ brutal massacre, continues. Here are a few more examples of this discourse in recent days. 🧵 #2 on this issue.
[1] These days in Israel, in response to Hamas’ brutal massacre, calls to ethnically cleanse Gaza, deliberately targeting civilians on a mass scale, and other dehumanizing language, have become common. Here are a few examples of this discourse over the last few days. THREAD.
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