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Personally, I'm just shocked to hear allegations that the royal family might be racist.
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Not in the transcript, which only transcribes the Israeli part, but 5:30 in they reveal that Israel has abducted over 3,000 Palestinians in order to have more people to trade with Hamas. This is the first time I've seen this covered in western media.
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The US did not ratify the 1948 genocide convention until 1988. Reading through some of the debates on ratification, one notes that one reason many in the US didn't want to ratify the convention was a fear that Israel could be prosecuted for genocide.
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Barghouti just wrecks this smug self-righteous German interviewer, exposing him for the clownish hypocrite that he is:
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The Zionist line is that Jewish "return" after 2,000+ years based on sincerely felt early antiquity spiritual tradition is reasonable, even for converts. But Hajjeh Zuhur's return to the home she was ethnically cleansed from as a teen is "obviously" unreasonable irredentism.
This is a very sincerely felt aspect of Palestinian nationalism with a lot of support in the broader Arab world but also in a practical sense obviously a huge barrier to peaceful diplomatic settlement.
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I love the idea that Germany, rather than having its own long tradition of authoritarianism to draw on, would have to import the idea of clamping down on free speech from Arabs.
Germany is copying from the Middle Eastern authoritarian playbook of clamping down on freedom of speech under the pretext of fighting 'Islamism'
The 'Palestine Congress' in Berlin among others was organized by the Jewish Voice for Peace
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The father of the Bedouin girl injured in the Iranian strike complains that Israel doesn't allow his community to build bomb shelters and shows the Israeli state's demolition order for his home:
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Imagine being a professor of literature and deciding to write up an essay whose sole purpose is to justify the murder of a fellow professor of literature. What kind of a sociopath does this?
"Alareer’s work, tenderly keening at its best and banal and formulaic at its average, relies on strained cultural and historical transpositions."
On the intifada generation that sacrificed its poets, from
@MaximDShrayer
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In his recent podcast,
@ezraklein
calls the right of return "a lie that has been told to people." He continues, "I think the idea that international law tells you it will work that way is a lie international law is telling you."
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Zionists crack me up. They're like it's been like 75 years why can't you get over it? But also, my family was expelled from the village of .. well that's not important ... in the kingdom of Judea 2000 years ago probably, so your village is actually my birthright!
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Coming up, Yglesias took a lot of leftist positions like Israel should just expel Palestinians under occupation.
Coming up in the George W Bush era it seemed like the left was right about everything … and then events kept happening and I developed a more nuanced view of the world.
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According to the deputy major of Jerusalem, it's ok to shoot a kid if Palestinians were celebrating the release of another kid from their dungeons.
"We understand a teenager has been shot. Is this the right way to handle the situation?" asks
@SkyYaldaHakim
Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem
@FleurHassanN
says "part of the deal is that there would be no celebrations for the release of attempted murderers."
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Every time the Israelis want to point to Bedouins to make a hasbara point about something, it turns out that the Bedouin in question has been ordered to demolish their home by the Israeli state. Like every single time.
The father of the Bedouin girl injured in the Iranian strike complains that Israel doesn't allow his community to build bomb shelters and shows the Israeli state's demolition order for his home:
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The head of this organization went on national television to say that the Palestinian headscarf is the same as a swastika.
We're horrified by reports that a Texas woman attempted to drown a Palestinian American 3-year-old after questioning the family where they were from. We are glad this incident is being investigated as a hate crime.
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The Biden administration would rather build a space station that beams aid down to Gaza than actually pressure the Israelis to stop the genocide.
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They have "lost control" in the same way governments "lost control" when they allowed and abetted pogroms in eastern Europe.
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The IDF's General Staff lost control over the units, especially reserve units, months ago. In Gaza, in the West Bank and in bases in Israel, soldiers record themselves destroying Palestinian property and civilian infrastructure / Amos Harel
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@ezraklein
@LiorSternfeld
It's telling that
@ezraklein
leaves out all the instances where Jews are allowed a right of return: much of Europe from WWII; Spain and Portugal from the 15th century; and, of course, Israel's own law of return. Why are those examples all feasible, but not Palestinian return?
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Note the graffiti, including "Mohammed is a whore [sharmouta]" written in Latin characters for international consumption. What would be the international reaction if a synagogue were desecrated like this?
Israeli occupation soldiers convert the mosque of the Rafah border crossing, on Gaza's border with Egypt, into a restaurant.
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Of his three examples, Iranian Jews, Germans, and Indians/Pakistanis, two are factually incorrect. Jews were never expelled from Iran.
@ezraklein
is either mixing things up or falling into the trap that
@LiorSternfeld
explains in his book:
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@ezraklein
@LiorSternfeld
The real problem, which Klein leaves unsaid, is the assumption that Israel *must* be as ethnoreligiously homogenous as possible -- at the very least, that it must have a demographic majority of Jews, apparently at all cost.
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Israeli tech bro and computer science prof at Columbia & researcher at MIT approvingly describes İsrail as "Rhodesia with an atomic bomb." This should honestly be the national motto.
Deleted. Maybe he forgot he was tweeting in English. Columbia professor btw
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I think you mean, "Baltimore police shoot child with toy gun."
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A good example of the enormous power imbalance and why "both sides" framing is wrong.
Gazans: We sleep in the same room so that when our building gets bombed, we'll all die together.
Israelis:
When we went to brunch the first thing I asked was “do you have a bomb shelter?”
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@ezraklein
@LiorSternfeld
Such ethnonationalism is, of course, anathema to Klein in the state where he is a citizen (the US), presumably because of what it means for minorities, but for some reason, he thinks such ethnonationalism is right and correct when it comes to Israel/Palestine.
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It is 2005, and the US war in Iraq is going very badly, so Bush and Cheney suggest they might be willing to use tactical nuclear weapons in Fallujah. Anti-imperialist voices suggest that US should just annex Mosul & Kirkuk as an off ramp, right?
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@ezraklein
@LiorSternfeld
But
@ezraklein
is wrong that there is no right of return for ethnic Germans. They were purged from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, etc. and thanks to the EU, any of them has the right to go live in any of those places.
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He goes on to say, "Most states would not be open to immigration policies that made their current majorities minorities overnight." Yet that's exactly what he and others who ask why Palestinians rejected the 1947 partition of Palestine are saying they should have accepted.
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Can't wait to read all the stories about how the IDF headquarters in the middle of residential Tel Aviv is using Israeli civilians as human shields and how Iran can't be blamed for any Israeli civilian casualties.
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@ezraklein
@LiorSternfeld
Klein would right to say that the Jews who were expelled from Arab countries (often with Israeli complicity) generally cannot go back today, but there's no reason why reparations and return couldn't be part of a larger peace deal.
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@aj_iraqi
For Klein and most people in the West, security is something that Israelis are owed but Palestinians must earn. This is a point that scholars like
@samer_abboud
,
@HermezSami
,
@omardahi
,
@JamilMouawad
,
@Waleed_Hazbun
et al. have been making:
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Klein goes on to say that Israel is just a normal state and that normalcy is its goal. Leaving aside the fact that normal states aren't in the habit of bombing tens of thousands of people to death in the space of two months, this is also an odd assertion.
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In what universe is military rule over millions of stateless and rightless people for half a century normal? In the universe of 19th century imperial rule that saw Germans wiping out Herero and the British putting Kikuyu into concentration camps.
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Property claims based on the right of return enshrined in the UN universal declaration of human rights in 1948 are just not reasonable. Property claims based on bronze age religious traditions on the other hand...
The insistence to "return" has been the single most detrimental dream of the Palestinians. Nobody can wind back the clock and return refugees to the homes they had decades ago. And that is true of all refugees everywhere.
Israel cannot and will not allow millions of decedents
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They are open & casual about murderous war crimes because they know there are never any consequences for Israel.
Israeli soldier openly admits to war crimes:
"We blew up the houses of terrorists, mosques, UN offices... I remember we got into some UN office in charge of helping families in Gaza affected by the war. And we destroyed it."
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The only way that it makes sense to me is in the sense that Tony Judt spoke of Israel: as an anachronism. So yes, it's a normal 19th century state, one based on blood and soil ethnonationalism, exactly the sort of violent nationalism that led to WWII:
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This claim is just insane: "I think all that [religion, etc.] actually sometimes makes us hard to see how normal what is happening there [in Israel] is." In what universe is the bombing of over 10,000 children normal?
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"Can you even imagine if a fraction of what we routinely do to Palestinians were to be done to us? It's unthinkable!"
Israeli Ambassador to the UK: "Just imagine how things would have looked... this huge missile, think about it falling in the middle of a city like Jerusalem.. look how populated it is. Just think about it hitting neighbourhoods & people & children"
Just imagine.
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More details here:
More than 3,000 Palestinians, including dozens of children, have been arrested in the occupied West Bank since October 7.
🔴 LIVE updates:
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Partition of Palestine -- against the wishes of the overwhelming majority of Palestine -- gave a majority of the land to a majority of recent immigrants, turning close to half of the residents of the Jewish state into minorities over night.
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The Lebanese state has decided to close down Palestinian and Syrian businesses and make sure no Lebanese firms hire Palestinian or Syrian workers.
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This is really odd, because Klein's father immigrated to the US from Brazil and became a citizen. If the US operated in the same way that Israel does and only allowed, say, WASPs, that would be impossible.
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He says there's not a lot of deep thinking happening and then parrots idiotic Zionist talking points. What a fool.
VIDEO 🔴:
Acclaimed novelist
@SalmanRushdie
to the German tabloid
@BILD
:
“If there was a Palestinian state, it would be run by Hamas, and that would make it a Taliban like state. …and it would be a client state of Iran. Is that what the progressive movement of the western left
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But leaving all of that aside, I'd be curious what Klein thinks will be the consequence in, say, Nagorno-Karabagh, Myanmar and Sudan, not to mention Gaza, if ethnic cleansing is legitimized as statecraft.
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Anyone who cares about Palestinian rights knows that international law since its conception has basically been a way of legitimizing imperial control of subject peoples.
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Anyone talking about how the population of Israeli Jews should be thinned out by about 2 million people would be universally denounced as a dangerous genocidal maniac. Yet this is "normal" when talking about Palestinians.
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Kind of nuts that the US president is harder on students protesting genocidal mass violence than the psychopaths committing that genocidal mass violence.
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The "obviously" in Yglesias's tweet is where you see someone trying to convince you that ideological nonsense is just common sense. His position is only obvious if you begin from the assumption that an exclusionary settler ethnostate must exist in Palestine.
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But folks like Klein believe in a liberal world order, even if they seem to exempt Israeli (and sometimes the US) actions from such rules.
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He then goes on to say, "There’s no right of return for the Jews who were expelled from Iran. There’s no right of return for the people expelled during partition in India and Pakistan. No right of return for the Germans expelled after World War II out of Eastern Europe."
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While liberals are wringing their hands about academic boycotts, Israelis are maliciously burning Palestinian libraries.
Exclusive:
Israeli soldiers set fire Aqsa University [
@AqsaUniversity
]’s library in Gaza City and took pictures of themselves in front of the flames.
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Going back to international law, what he's talking about is Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
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Can you imagine how the western media would react if Hezbollah or Hamas killed Netanyahu's kids?
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@DanielSeidemann
I can't imagine why that kid would hate Israel. It must be something in his textbooks at school!
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Hannah Arendt understood this and argued that the rise of the nation-state necessarily brought along with it the end of the rights of man:
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Neo-confederate settler from the US threatens the people of Jenin.
Islamists marching brazenly in Jenin (Samaria - West Bank) tonight. This is what we have to live with daily. It used to be standard fare in Gaza, too. … But not any more …
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Given Israel's history with murdering people on flotillas to Gaza and their current genocidal behavior, I think anyone in the aid flotilla heading to Gaza is extremely brave.
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@mpgpresident
At this rate, Germany will soon have driven out all international researchers who don't vocally support Israeli mass violence & subscribe to the German catechism. And no one will take these provincial, racist institutions seriously. Schämen Sie sich!
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@ezraklein
@LiorSternfeld
Regarding the Germans, it's true that one of the biggest instances of ethnic cleansing in history was expelling ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe, 12-14 million people, mostly women and children, with around 500,000 dying:
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Very much taking a page from the Azerbaijan playbook when Nagorno Karabagh was under siege.
This is the 5th day Israelis have stopped aid trucks into Gaza, as the World Food Program reports that Palestinians in Gaza have starved to death and are on the brink of mass starvation
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Note: his initial response has nothing to do with the cost to the lives of Palestinians, the first problem for Klein with Israel's mass violence is that those who survive will want revenge. This tracks with his interviews with
@aj_iraqi
& Tareq Baconi.
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A very clever anti-party sign from Lebanon. Hard to translate as it plays on party names in Arabic. E.g. I want God (Allah) without his party (hezb), etc.
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@samhaselby
The point has never been free speech, but rather allowing speech they like & punishing speech they don't like. That's always been the case as the career of Bari Weiss illustrates.
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When I asked
@nprinskeep
why he kept doing long pieces on Israeli objections to Iran's nuclear program w/o mentioning Israeli nukes he blocked me:
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He also makes this bizarre (not to say dishonest) claim: "I think saying it’s a Jewish state, and that’s so weird – I mean, America is a state for Americans. ... Mexicans cannot just come to America and say, well, I live here now. I’m a citizen."
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Gessen on Gaza: "Of course it's a huge thing to make that comparison. Of course it makes people upset. It should make people upset. We should be losing sleep every day because of what's happening in Gaza. Because that comparison is valid."
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Where does all this leave us? Well a listener asks if Klein will call for a ceasefire, and he can't bring himself to do it. This is his response, which even now centers Israelis over Palestinians, despite the lopsided power dynamics and death count:
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Israel apologists abroad: "Israeli Arabs love Israel and have equal rights as Jewish Israelis."
Israel:
Now: Israeli forces demolish the entire Bedouin village of Wadi Khalil in the Negev/ Naqab leaving over 300 residents without any housing solution
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This is, of course, a very common argument used by Holocaust derniers as well.
Naturally, this question came from a German journalist working for a major Berlin newspaper. Watch
@FranceskAlb
's response.
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Judt explains that solving the problem of exclusionary ethnonationalism by creating another exclusionary nation-state is short sighted and goes against what progress there has been since World War II.
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I think what folks saying protestors don't care "deeply" about Palestine are really arguing is that many don't have ethnic or religious ties to Palestine, because the idea one can have deep feelings for anyone outside one's ethnoreligious community is foreign to them.
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Also imagine doing so in such clunky, boring prose. If you're going to spit on the warm rubble under which a murdered poet is buried, at least have the decency to write well.
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I can't believe I have to say this, but I keep seeing people citing these plans and emphasizing that Israelis are talking about "voluntary immigration." If you think about this for even two seconds, it's absurd, not to say obscene.
Recently there is a growing international discourse on the post-war scenario, with various suggestions being made, many of which are dangerous to the state of Israel. To address this, I have published a 5-point plan in Newsweek magazine for the day after our definitive triumph
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Tapper would have you believe that the military court system that found Daqqa guilty was fair. It has an over 99% conviction rate for Palestinians, but in his rush to moralize, it doesn't even occur to Tapper to mention that these are kangaroo courts.
On some of the response to the death of convicted terrorist Walid Daqqa
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@buffsoldier_96
Have you ever even met an Arab? The vast majority of Arabs would have no idea who this was a picture of. The only cult of personality around him is that of Zionists obsessed with him and w/ painting Palestinians as Nazis to justify their perpetual subjugation.
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And by this measure the US is also responsible for the Israeli mass killings in Gaza.
President Biden on Iran: "I do hold them responsible in a sense that they're supplying the weapons to the people who did it...I don't think we need a wider war in the Middle East. That's not what I'm looking for."
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Just so we're clear: criticizing Egypt is good, but criticizing Qatar is orientalist. Do I have that right?
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At this point, she's become a caricature of the worst people in her book.
Heart wrenching to see reports of Palestinian civilian casualties in another IDF strike on a school & shelter in Gaza. Even while Hamas cowardly hides behind schools, civilians must be protected. We continue to raise w/the Israeli Govt to do far more to prevent civilian deaths.
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When working from the assumption in the 1950s that Mississippi must be a white state, it was "obvious" that Black people couldn't have voting rights.
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This is really grotesque. This guy spent months saying these camps didn't exist, and now he's saying that while they exist, we shouldn't call them concentration camps & maybe Chinese Muslims deserve it.
The Grayzone's Aaron Maté says "I don't actually adopt the term concentration camps," and adds "this notion that it's committing genocide is hyperbolic. I think we have to be careful about our language."
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Friedman is the purest embodiment of Upton Sinclair's quip that it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
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UT Austin Law Professor Grover Rees III speaks at some length about the McBride Report about Israel's invasion and occupation of Lebanon:
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The last paragraph, I think, encapsulates pretty clearly Israel's authoritarianism. It begins with Palestinians (today in the West Bank and Gaza; yesterday Palestinian citizens under military rule) and finishes with Israeli Jews as well.
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Ok, so it seems the Israelis, by having tanks and artillery in the Philadelphi corridor, which is part of the larger Zone D, are in breach of the Camp David Accords. But the larger breach is the 2005 Philadelphi Corridor Agreement.
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Former Harvard president thinks an academic center specializing in the study of the Middle East ought not invite one of the most prominent historians of Palestine, Rashid Khalidi, but should invite a racist columnist with no expertise, Brett Stephens, because he's pro-Israel.
My confidence in Harvard leadership’s ability and will to confront anti-semitism and the demonization of Israel continues to decline. Unfortunately, it is becoming ever clearer why Harvard ranks first on anti- semitism, even as it ranks last on upholding free speech.
Confronting
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Solid advice. We should settle for a realistic 48-hour partial ceasefire so that no more than 500 polio vaccines can be administered to a list of children amputees vetted by Israel before they continue the genocide. That's just smart politics!
The Uncommitted pro-Palestinian movement has a strategic choice to make right now: It can make its voice heard inside the Democratic camp, get some limited yet reasonable (within political reality) concessions -- and then commit to work hard to defeat the far-right Republicans
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I see. Violence against Israelis is done by Palestinians and specific organizations. But violence against Palestinians, orders of magnitude greater mind you, is some amorphous force of nature with no author.
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Here you see that ontologically, Israelis are permanent victims and Palestinians perpetrators, never mind that the number of children killed by Israelis is over ten times the number of all people killed on October 7.
The recognition of civilian victims in Gaza without a discussion of the terrorist massacre of Hamas on 7 October 2023 and the victims of the war on the Israeli side was biased and I would like to apologize sincerely for the impression that victims and perpetrators are inversed.
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Worth remembering as we keep hearing about "the Kurds," "the Turks," and "the Arabs."
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So there's been some controversy about the Lebanese consul in New York. If you go to the consul's website, you can see a statement complaining about protests and angry emails and demands to resign, which seems to have begun since last week's explosion:
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