#1982 hama massacre

[tomorrowusa]

There is no love for the al-Assad family which had brutally ruled Syria since 1971. Like North Korea, Syria turned into a hereditary autocracy.

Since the civil war began in 2011, a minimum of 580,000 Syrians have been killed. About 6,600,000 have fled the country and a similar number have been displaced internally. Putin's Russia has been propping up the régime for the past decade.

Hafez the father was not much better than Bashar the son. In 1982, Hafez massacred as many as 40,000 people in the city of Hama and largely destroyed it according to The Syrian Network for Human Rights.

Although Hafez has been dead since 2000, crowds struck back at him by torching his tomb.

[moon1ight-me1odies]

"what about october 7th"

"what about hamas"

what about:

1937 Jerusalem Massacre

1937 Haifa Massacre

1938 Haifa Massacre

1939 Haifa Massacre

1939 Balad Al Sheikh Massacre

1947 Al-Khisas Massacre

1947 Al-Abbasiya Massacre

1947 Balad Al Sheikh massacre

1947 Al-Sheikh Break Massacre

1947 Bab Al-Amud Massacre

1948 Al-Saraya Massacre

1948 Yazur Massacre

1948 Haifa Massacre

1948 Tabra Tulkarem Massacre

1948 Sa'sa' Massacre

1948 Jerusalem Massacre

1948 Al Hussayniyya Safad Massacre

1948 Abu Kabir Massacre

1948 Saliha Massacre

1948 Ramla Massacre

1948 Deir Yassin Massacre

1948 Qalunya Massacre

1948 Nasir Al-Din Massacre

1948 Tiberias Massacre

1948 Haifa Massacre (Hadar Alkarmel and Marina)

1948 Ein El Zaitun Massacre

1948 Safed Massacre

1948 Abu Shusha Massacre

1948 Beit Daras Massacre

1948 Lydda Massacre

1948 Tantura Massacre

1948 Al Dawayima Massacre

1948 Safsaf Massacre

1948 Saliha Massacre

1948 Eilabun Massacre

1948 Hula Massacre

1948 Arab Al-Mawasi Massacre

1953 Qibya Massacre

1956 Kafr Qasim Massacre

1956 Khan Yunis Massacre

1982 Sabra and Shatilla

Massacre (Lebanon)

1990 Al Aqsa Massacre

1994 Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre

2002 Jenin Refugee Camp Massacre

2008-09 Gaza Massacre

2009 Ibrahim Al Maqadma

mosque Massacre

2012 Gaza Massacre

2014 Gaza Massacre

2018-19 Gaza Massacre

2021 Gaza Massacre

2023-now Gaza Genocide

2024-Flour Massacre

FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸

[unsolicited-opinions]

3/27/25

Ihab Hassan

Hamas has issued a statement accusing the protesters of being responsible for the collapse of negotiations with Israel, claiming that Israel withdrew from the talks because of them. The statement goes further, vowing to treat the protesters as “collaborators with Israel.” In other words, Hamas is openly threatening to kill protesters—a grave and dangerous escalation.

Google translation:

Statement issued by the Palestinian resistance factions:

...

After the abject failure of all the plans and projects of the Zionist enemy against our Palestinian cause, whether by eliminating the Palestinian presence, displacement or starvation, and after 17 months of the war of genocide waged by the fascist occupation against our people in the Gaza Strip, a group of the occupation's lackeys insists on revealing their shame, their failure, their complicity and their collaboration with the occupation against our people and their cause.

They insist on blaming the resistance and exonerating the occupation, ignoring the fact that the Zionist extermination machine operates non-stop even in the areas of security coordination, and forgetting that the occupation considers the Palestinian existence itself the problem and not the resistance. These suspicious people who are calling for the demise of the resistance and surrender have ignored important historical facts from our Palestinian history:

1. After the 1936 revolution was aborted by armed military wings affiliated with families, the result was the 1948 Palestinian Nakba.

2. After the local resistance was halted in 1949 and the matter was left to the Arab states fighting the Jewish gangs, the result was

3. After the PLO withdrew from Lebanon in 1982, the result was the Sabra and Shatila massacre.

4. After the PA arrested comrade Ahmed Saad and his heroic comrades who killed the criminal Rehava Am Ze'i in exchange for promises to lift the siege on leader Yasser Arafat, the result was the assassination of Arafat.

5. After the Authority withdrew the weapons of the military wings in the West Bank and dissolved them, the result was the brutality of settlement activity.

We, the Palestinian resistance factions, at this sensitive stage in the history of our cause and our people, emphasize the following:

1. Resistance is a legitimate right of our people by all means and methods, foremost among which is armed struggle, a right guaranteed by all

2. The Zionist occupation is the basis and cause of all evil, harm and injury that has befallen our Palestinian people, and it alone bears responsibility.

3. Our Palestinian families were, are and will remain a safety valve against all the occupation's projects and attempts to establish local entities that cooperate with it.

4. Those in charge of the suspicious movement caused the occupation to retreat from its negotiating position in the last hours because of its reliance on the success of these agents in stabbing the resistance in the back.

Therefore, these suspects are responsible, as is the occupation, for the bloodshed of our people, and they will be treated on this basis. Glory and immortality to our two righteous martyrs, a speedy recovery to our pure wounded, freedom to our brave families, and shame and disgrace to the slack and discouraged lackeys of the occupation and its agents.

Palestinian resistance factions

Thursday, March 23, 2025 AD

(Yes, they got the date wrong. It's the 27th.)

Ihab's source:

[battleangel]

ITS NOT ABOUT OCT 7TH OR HOSTAGES!

100 Years of Israeli Zionist Terror

•1937: Haifa massacre.

•1937: Jerusalem massacre.

•1938: Haifa massacre.

•1939: Balad al-Sheikh massacre.

•1947: Haifa massacre.

•1947: Abbasiya massacre.

•1947: Al-Khisas massacre.

•1947: Bab Al-Amud massacre.

•1947: Jerusalem massacre.

•1947: Sheikh Bureik massacre.

•1948: Jaffa massacre.

•1948: Nakba massacre & displacement.

•1948: Israel formed.

•1956: Khan Younis massacre.

•1964: PLO formed.

•1967: Israel occupied & annexed Gaza & West Bank.

•1967: Jerusalem massacre.

•1978: Israel invaded Lebanon.

•1982: Hezbollah was formed.

•1982: Sabra & Shatilla massacres.

•1987: Hamas formed.

•1990: Al-Aqsa massacre.

•1994: Ebrahimi mosque massacre.

•2002: Jenin refugee massacre.

•2008 - 2009: Gaza massacres.

•2012: Gaza massacre.

•2014: Gaza massacre.

•2018 - 2019: Gaza massacres.

•2021: Gaza massacre.

•2023 - Ongoing: Gaza massacre.

Israel has been massacring Palestinians for 100+ years!

Israel is now digging humongous holes in the ground, separating men from women — including male teenagers & children with the “men” as well as elderly disabled men in wheelchairs — blindfolding the men INCLUDING MALE CHILDREN and BURYING THEM ALIVE.

Israel is BURNING ALIVE Palestinian men, women & CHILDREN by dropping 500 lbs Boeing bombs designed for fortified military bunkers onto DEFENSELESS PALESTINIANS INSIDE TENTS IN REFUGEE CAMPS.

Israel is BURNING & BURYING ALIVE Palestinian MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN!

These are CONCENTRATION CAMPS!

These are MASS GRAVES!

This is ETHNIC CLEANSING!

This is a GENOCIDE!

NOTHING STARTED OCTOBER 7TH!

ITS NOT ABOUT HOSTAGES!

[low-cole-timothy]

Hey, remember that things that zionists accused Hamas of, about slaughtering Israeli women and cutting open their stomachs to remove fetuses? Apparently, it was called the Sabra and Shatila massacre of 1982.

A. The Sabra and Shatila massacre was not carried out by the IDF. It was a revenge massacre done by Christian forces in the Lebanon civil war. I do know that IDF was indirectly responsible for the events.

B. You are justifying a horrible act because it was done before to someone else. That is insane, wrong and mean.

C. Your grammar is still shit

D. Why are you such a coward to hide behind anonymity? You obviously have something to hide. If you had any integrity you wouldn’t hide.

[canmom]

Anarchists also used to have strategies like "assassination" and "terrorism." These seem to work pretty well, no? They worked well for Hamas, at least in the public relations department.

This is obviously bait, but I figure I'll address it anyway. So below some brief comments on the history of political terror.

Anarchists certainly employed assassinations and terror, particularly around the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the decades after the suppression of the Paris Commune, a minority current followed a strategy called propaganda of the deed, generally carrying out bombings and assassinations of public officials. The belief was that these breaks with the established order would inspire the broader population to rise up and throw off the state oppressing them. These anarchists were generally prepared to die for the cause, again perhaps hoping their conviction would inspire others.

As programs go, it's hard to name a more miserable failure. The masses did not, in fact, rise up. The main legacy of 'propaganda of the deed' is the enduring image of the hairy bomb throwing anarchist in his top hat holding a round iron bomb with a fuse, which comes from newspaper cartoons of this period. The broader movement increasingly disavowed the individualist bombers in favour of trade unionism, the state made examples of the anarchists in question, and propaganda of the deed became a historical footnote. Anarchists would in general become politically sidelined in the wake of the Spanish civil war, and propaganda of the deed has long ago ceased to be a tactic pursued by the milieu.

Terror and assassinations, however, have been deployed by numerous organisations and states since then to, in general, mixed results in terms of satisfying political objectives. Nevertheless, it seems to be a recurring feature of social breakdown and desperation. The Russian Civil War for example saw widespread terror, both 'Red' and 'White', on behalf of the bolsheviks and monarchists respectively. Perhaps more relevant to you, anon, the Zionist movement establishing itself in British-controlled Mandatory Palestine would frequently employ terror through its paramilitary wings. This violence largely targeted Palestinians, though not always - for example in 1940, the Zionist paramilitary organisation Haganah bombed and unintentionally sank the French ocean liner Patria containing a group of Jewish refugees who the British planned to deny entry.

Terror was of course widely deployed during the 1957 Nakba and subsequently, it seems hard to find another way to describe the violence continually inflicted on Palestinians as anything other than a terror policy. Terror has also been a feature of Israel's other wars, as for example in the Sabra and Shatila massacre of 1982. All this terror can also be described as a failure - far from scaring the Palestinians into complacency, it has convinced many of them that the expected outcome of peaceful protest and violent resistance is much the same, that they have no future, and there's no reason not to take up arms. Hence the October 7 attack, a predictably sad result of treating a population as living dead.

As for Hamas, if the political objectives of the October 7 attack were to disrupt Israeli diplomatic normalisation and capture prisoners for a hostage exchange, the outcome of that attack has been at "best" an incredibly ghoulish trade, but realistically a complete failure. For the sake of preventing that normalisation, 30,000+ Palestinians in Gaza have already been sacrificed to Israel's berserk response, and Gaza has been completely liquidated as a polity - whenever Israel finally decide they're satisfied, it will take decades to rebuild even if the millions starving at Rafah survive the next few months. Hamas's survival as an organisation so far is kind of surprising, though no doubt Palestinian resistance will continue no matter what.

The ultimate outcome of all this remains an open question. Through their genocidal actions and rhetoric in the last few months, Israel have certainly made enemies of most of the world and helped radicalise a generation in the rich countries, but they still enjoy the patronage of the USA so... maybe they'll still get away with it. The Palestinians remain trapped in a geopolitical vice, tossed around by decades of stopgap measures, with no good option available to them. Most countries continue to call for a Palestinian state to be established alongside Israel, a plan with a lot of obvious issues given the balance of power, but maybe that's the 'solution' the world will settle on - Palestinian Authority 2.0, kick problems like right of return down the road.

Anyway if you're wondering why people sympathise with the Palestinians, it's because they're being killed en masse, and over the last decades the Palestinian movement has managed to successfuly spread a narrative context which lets people see the events playing out now as a continuation of 1957 rather than 2023. It's also because many of us feel implicated since we belong to countries which arm Israel and provide it diplomatic support. If anything, the October 7 attack at least briefly compromised a lot of that international sympathy for Palestinians. If Israel's military response had been less of an extreme massacre, we wouldn't see nearly so many people mobilising to protest it.

The genocide in Gaza is not the only one playing out right now. The genocide in Sudan is less of a celebrated cause, perhaps because it doesn't share the same sense of being perpetrated by a rich country in our 'bloc' that is dragging us into complicity, or perhaps from a general disregard for violence in Africa, which is often callously dismissed as expected. I haven't said much about it either, in part because I don't know what you would even want to call for - aid, sure, but who is correctly poised to stop the genocidaires? surely nobody would want the US to get involved. shit's fucked, I don't know enough about the history to say more than that.

(In general it is rare to nonexistent for a genocide to end except by force. The Rwandan genocide of 1994 ended when a Tutsi rebel group called the Rwandan Patriotic Front overthrew the government, although it would be wrong to say the violence ended there, it just mostly moved into the Congo. The Cambodian genocide of 1975-9 ended when the army of Vietnam invaded and overthrew the Khmer Rouge. And so on. Who will eventually play this role in Sudan, I can't say.)

I am, ultimately, just some girl with an internet connection, commenting on things far away that I'm nevertheless implicated in because the UK is a blight on history. I certainly can't control what Hamas does, hell I can't even seem to do much to influence what my own government does. The suicide in the news recently was disturbing to me because 'add my body to the geopolitical hecatomb' is a motive I find very comprehensible. If the affect of the last few months has been anything it has been a strange vice of complicity in horror and impotence - everything I do to try to express my convictions feeling like an empty gesture. I can only imagine how much more intense that would feel to someone in the intensely contradictory position of an anarchist in the US military.

Since Bushnell's suicide, there have of course been several hundred more Palestinians killed by the Israeli military, every one of these deaths equally as tragic and wasteful as that of Aaron Bushnell. There is roughly an October 7 body count every few days, less than a week. I don't get to know much about any of these people beyond names and perhaps on occasion a little of how they died. None of this shit needed to happen, and it certainly doesn't need to keep happening. But as long as the state-egregore 'Israel' continues to act out of wounded pride and delusion, enabled by the US and UK, it will.

I don't know you anon, I doubt you will even read this response, or that anything would connect to you or seem persuasive if you do. You seem inclined to adopt the perspective of the Israeli state. I can't stop you doing that. But it may serve you to consider that the motives of people who sympathise with the Palestinians are not driven by 'yay! terrorism!', if you want to get a more rounded picture of the world, yeah?

[alamwamal]

I was refraining from talking about what's happening in Syria because it'd require a lot of explanation to people who are not well versed in Arab world politics and cannot see the bigger picture, but...

I cannot not share the news of the liberation of more than 3000 prisoners, after revolutionists in Syria freed parts of Hama!

A lot of these prisoners were thought dead and some were in prison for 40 years, since 1982, when Hafez Assad committed the Hama massacre and he killed more than 40 thousand people in a month (nearly the number Israel killed in a year for reference).

It's estimated that more than 100,000 people are imprisoned in Syria by Ass/ad regime including women and children!

After all these years and people thought the Syrian resolution is dead. The happiness cannot be put into words. May Allah Swt guide them and support them. The videos of women escaping from prisons cannot be put into words.

People were sharing a recorded dua of an Imam who died at that massacre and sharing it today after 42 years feels surreal. My tears drop just as I'm typing this.

So happy to see things start to clear up.

[demolitonlover]

‘I’m Crying for All the Victims That Are Going to Suffer’

By Nicholas Kristof

Opinion Columnist, reporting from Tel Aviv

Oct. 25, 2023

No one understands terrorism more viscerally than Maoz Inon: His 78-year-old father and 75-year-old mother were among those massacred by Hamas this month in southern Israel.

He mourns his parents, and he despairs for old friends who have been kidnapped by Hamas. Yet he also fears that the unbearable losses his family endured are now being used to justify an impending ground invasion in Gaza.

“I don’t stop crying,” he told me in the hostel he runs here in Tel Aviv. “I’m crying for my parents. I’m crying for my friends. I’m crying for those who are kidnapped. I’m crying for the victims on the Palestinian side. And I’m crying for all the victims that are going to suffer.”

“We don’t sleep at night, we don’t eat, we are under emotional trauma,” he said. “We are just broken. But from these traumatized days, we must learn the lessons from history.” And foremost among them, he said, is the need to break the pattern of escalating violence that feeds hatred, creates orphans and self-replicates indefinitely.

Inon is an outlier, but he’s not alone, and I’ve been speaking with several of those here in Israel who lost loved ones to the terror attacks yet argue that the next step should not be further destruction heaped on Gaza, even in the name of destroying Hamas.

These are Israelis in anguish at their own losses and also fearful that their suffering is being used to justify bombardments and a ground invasion of Gaza, killing innocents there and perpetuating bloodshed. I can’t emphasize enough that this attitude is the exception, but perhaps that’s why I find it so majestic.

I’ve been following the Middle East conflict for most of my life, and I can’t remember a time of such despair, trauma and mutual mistrust. It’s heartbreaking to see the collapse of all hope, and this month may be the nadir: the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust and a devastating air assault and siege of Gaza that has claimed even more lives there.

In this grim context, people like Inon remind me of the human capacity for empathy and wisdom — two qualities desperately needed across the region. I told him he was out of step with the public mood, for most people have drawn a different lesson from history: that it is important to wipe out enemies who want to kill you.

“We have been doing exactly that,” he said, referring to reliance on military solutions, yet noted that that approach failed to keep his parents alive. “What I’m saying is we have to stop doing what we were doing before. We need a new policy.”

“Someone needs to be brave enough to stop the cycle of blood, dislike and violence that has been going on for a century,” he said.

This may require Gandhian levels of inner fortitude.

“I’m full of rage,” said David Zonsheine, whose uncle was murdered in the Hamas attacks. “But rage is one thing, and policy and plan are another.”

Zonsheine’s fear is that blind fury will propel Israel into a ground invasion of Gaza without any plan for what comes next. Even if it were possible to remove Hamas, he said, something worse may follow — just as Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982 helped spawn its great enemy to the north, Hezbollah.

A cousin of Zonsheine, a nurse, went missing in the attacks and presumably was kidnapped and taken into Gaza. Zonsheine worries that an invasion would lead to the deaths of hostages like her, and also of countless innocent Palestinians.

“Civilians there are being killed in massive numbers,” he said. “And they are not being killed by Hamas. They are being killed by us.”

That’s a triumph of compassion, at a time of personal and national trauma, that Zonsheine knows will leave him accused of naïveté or worse. But those favoring a more surgical response insist that they are the ones who are being tough-minded, for decades of occupation and military strikes have culminated not in peace but in the worst massacre of Jews in Israeli history.

Yonatan Zeigen, whose mother, Vivian Silver, is believed to be a hostage in Gaza, makes the same point. “Mother always said we have to shift the paradigm,” he said. “We won’t have safety in a state of war. It can’t be done.”

Silver, 74, is a peace activist who spent decades volunteering to help people from Gaza. Zeigen and his brother, Chen Zeigen, told me they talk constantly about what their mother must be thinking now. Chen is not entirely sure, for their mother’s beloved kibbutz was destroyed, her family home burned to the ground and her friends murdered. But Yonatan believes she would be appalled by the relentless bombing of Gaza and preparations for a prolonged ground invasion: “She would have been, I think, mortified by the destruction in Gaza, and collective punishment and vengeance.”

That’s where Yonatan comes down as well. He is shaken by the savagery of the Hamas attacks, and understands why so many are determined to invade and bomb Gaza to try to destroy the terrorists forever, even at the price of many civilian casualties.

Vivian Silver lived at Kibbutz Be’eri, which was attacked by Hamas.

“I just don’t think it will bring us any closer to a better position,” he said. “Vengeance is not something to build foundations on. It is not a strategy. How many dead Palestinians will be enough for us to feel safe? I don’t think there’s any number. And it’s just the wrong thing to do.”

If even people like him, personally shattered by a barbaric terror attack, can muster the clarity to understand that relentless bombardment and a ground invasion may not help, perhaps there’s hope for the rest of us. May we learn from their wisdom and humanity.

Nicholas Kristof joined The New York Times in 1984 and has been a columnist since 2001. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes, for his coverage of China and of the genocide in Darfur. You can follow him on Instagram, Facebook and Threads. His forthcoming memoir is “Chasing Hope: A Reporter’s Life.”

[rouphicc]

1948 deir yassin massacre, 1948 tantura massacre, 1953 qibya massacre, 1956 rafah massacre, 1970 bahr el bakar massacre, 1982 sabra and sharila massacre, 1994 khalil massacre, 2002 jenin massacre, 2008 gaza war, 2012 gaza war, 2014 gaza war, 2021 gaza war and then hamas, a group of ORPHANS whose lives were DESTROYED by israels and their families were killed BEFORE THEIR EYES, decided to strike back in defence and not let other fellow civilians fall victim to the same injustices they faced. then you know what happened? 2023 gaza genocide. and hostages of hamas were released without scratches and they ate and wore the same as hamas did unlike israeli hostages who when released were missing body parts.

[thatdebaterguy]

Hey, remember that things that zionists accused Hamas of, about slaughtering Israeli women and cutting open their stomachs to remove fetuses? Apparently, it was called the Sabra and Shatila massacre of 1982.

No? Hamas was never accused of that? Neither the IDF or Hamas did that, that was done by Lebanese people against Lebanese people in a Lebanese civil war, in which the IDF just so happened to be backing the ones who did it, and they backed them before this even happened, and they only sided with them because they had a common enemy, not because they shared some view of morality. If you're gonna use an example, use one where Hamas was actually falsely blamed. Not to mention the fact Hamas is still guilty of god knows how many war crimes over the years. Hamas wasn't even around back then anyway, so I have no clue who said that, even they even said that, but they're illiterate.

[alain-keler]

Un pays entouré de murs.

J’ai cherché une définition de Mur. Comme dans tous les dictionnaires, les définitions sont multiples. Pour le Robert un mur est un ouvrage de maçonnerie qui s’élève sur une certaine longueur et qui sert à enclore, à séparer ou à supporter une poussée. Construire, bâtir, élever, abattre un mur, fermer un lieu de murs, murer, emmurer.

Les synonymes sont nombreux : Mur d’enceinte, raser les murs, mettre quelqu’un au pied du mur. Au figuré, ce qui sépare, forme obstacle. Un mur de manifestants, un mur d’incompréhension. On trouve aussi le mur du son, franchir le mur du son, au football faire un mur décrit une ligne de joueurs placés entre le tireur et le but lors d’un coup franc, ce qui est assez éloigné du travail que je vais développer, quoique !

En recherchant bien, on arrive à la définition d’une frontière. En géopolitique, on parle de murs, de murs-barrières ou de barrières frontalières pour qualifier les ouvrages visant à contrôler de façon drastique, voire à rendre impossible les flux illégaux de personnes, mais aussi de certains biens aux frontières.

Et puis il y a les drapeaux, symboles d’une identité, d’un groupe ou d’une communauté, brandis dans des manifestations, qu’elles soient sportives ou politiques.

 Les religions sont aussi des murs, souvent infranchissables, tant le travail fait sur des cerveaux dociles les rend inaptes au développement intellectuel. On le voit quotidiennement et mondialement !

Dans l’éditorial du journal Le Monde du mercredi 4 septembre 2024 on peut lire : �� Le premier ministre israélien a décidé. Près de onze mois après le massacre de civils israéliens par le Hamas, l’éradication du mouvement terroriste demeure sa priorité. Pas la libération des dizaines d’otages capturés le 7 octobre 2023 et encore retenus dans la bande de Gaza. Au lendemain de la découverte des corps de six otages Netannyahou est resté ferme, insensible aux protestations que son intransigeance suscite dans l’opinion israélienne. Il exige ainsi le maintien du contrôle par Israël des quelques kilomètres de frontière qui séparent Gaza de l’Égypte, en désaccord avec son ministre de la défense ». 

 Le couloir de Philadelphie a été établi comme zone tampon entre l’Égypte et la bande de Gaza en 1979, puis reconduit en 1995 après les accords d’Oslo.

Le mercredi 13 septembre 2005 je me trouvais à Gaza après le départ des israéliens. Le Hamas avait fait exploser une partie du gigantesque mur d’acier qui séparait Gaza du couloir laissant la voie libre vers l’Égypte.

Voici un extrait de mon journal de l’époque et qui sera accompagné de deux photos du passage ouvert, pile et face !

« La frontière avec l’Égypte a été ouverte. Les égyptiens veulent faire un cadeau aux palestiniens après l’incident d’hier qui aurait vu la mort d’un jeune palestinien essayant de passer cette frontière. En fait, cette mort n’a jamais été confirmée, et l’explication de cette ouverture non plus. Il semble qu’il y ait eu une pression telle qu’il fallait faire quelque chose avant que tout cela ne tourne à l’émeute. De toutes manières, je ne vois pas trop les égyptiens faire des faveurs aux palestiniens, il se dit qu’ils sont très racistes à leur égard.

« It’s Christmas », me dit un homme traversant la frontière. Ils sont des milliers à escalader le mur qui sépare Philadelphia road de l’Égypte, en fait ce petit mur est la vraie frontière.

Hommes, femmes voilées, enfants, vieillards, moutons, j’ai même vu une grosse moto portée par-dessus ce mur. Ils sont simplement heureux. C’est une ouverture de la cage. C’est la première fois depuis 1982 et la construction de cette frontière que les palestiniens peuvent quitter librement Gaza. L’événement est de très grande importance.

Le pays entouré de murs, c’est Israël, ou-et la Palestine. C’est comme on veut, en fonction de ses idées politiques ou géopolitiques sur la question, un pays, deux pays, une confédération ou une union économique à l’instar de l’Union Européenne. 

[maaarine]

Coloniser le sud du Liban ? Un fantasme d'Israéliens messianiques à prendre au sérieux (Ha'Aretz via Courrier International, 3 juillet 2024)

"Que disent ces supposés “illuminés” ?

“Le caractère prétendument colonial d’Israël n’est rien à côté de celui du Liban… Depuis sa création par les Français, en application des accords Sykes-Picot [1916], ce pays était et reste un État artificiel.”

Et puisque cette entité “artificielle”, qui plus est “faillie”, est dotée d’une frontière méridionale tout aussi “artificielle” avec Israël, frontière qui n’est jamais qu’un “reliquat des accords coloniaux franco-britanniques”, Israël devrait imposer au Sud-Liban “une frontière naturelle : le fleuve Litani. Au minimum.”

Un des intervenants de la conférence du 17 juin était le bibliste Yoël Elitzour, qui n’a pas craint de louer le “miracle éclatant” et le “message divin” censément annoncés par les massacres commis par le Hamas le 7 octobre 2023.

Elitzour a noyé son public sous une avalanche d’extraits du Tanakh [Bible] pour démontrer que le Liban fait partie de la Terre promise.

Un autre intervenant n’était autre que Hagi Ben-Artzi, le frère aîné de Sara Nétanyahou, l’épouse du Premier ministre.

“Nous ne sommes pas des extrémistes : nous ne revendiquons aucun mètre carré au-delà de l’Euphrate”, déclare-t-il pour “rassurer” ses adversaires.

Amiad Cohen, secrétaire général de la branche israélienne du Keren Hatikva [“Fonds de l’espérance”], un mouvement ultranationaliste religieux, s’est dit “horrifié” par le fait que, dans leur lexique actuel, les généraux de Tsahal ne parlent plus de “capture de territoires” comme objectif de guerre.

Tout ce qu’il espère, c’est le déclenchement d’une “troisième guerre du Liban”, dont l’issue sera la conquête et l’écrasement du territoire s’étendant de la frontière israélienne au fleuve Litani.

Et au-delà si possible.

On pourrait couvrir de ridicule les déclarations outrancières de l’organisation Uri Tzafon.

Sauf que ce n’est pas la première fois que la droite messianique parle de construire des colonies au Sud-Liban.

Lors de la première guerre du Liban [1982-1984], le Goush Emounim revendiquait déjà le “retour” sous souveraineté israélienne des “terres de la tribu d’Asher”, [une des douze tribus d’Israël], un territoire qui, selon la Bible, englobe les villes côtières de Tyr, en deçà du fleuve Litani, et de Saïda, quelques kilomètres au nord de ce fleuve, soit [une partie de] l’antique Phénicie.

Mais il nous faut aussi regarder la réalité actuelle, dans laquelle ce secteur idéologique et au départ marginal est parvenu, en presque soixante ans, à imposer à l’État d’Israël une vaste entreprise de colonisation de peuplement en Cisjordanie, ce qui semblait dément il y a cinq décennies.

C’est cette nouvelle réalité que rêve de reproduire, par exemple, le ministre des Finances et vice-ministre de la Défense, Bezalel Smotrich [extrême droite suprémaciste], lorsqu’il exige que l’armée israélienne “récupère” le Sud-Liban et “y restaure la présence juive” si le Hezbollah continue de tirer des missiles sur la Galilée [nord d’Israël].

Qui peut nous jurer qu’une revendication aussi insensée ne deviendra pas un élément discret mais central dans le débat public israélien si une guerre terrestre se déclenchait entre Israël et le Hezbollah ?

Nous devons prendre ce fantasme au sérieux.

Après tout, en cinquante-sept ans, ces gens et leurs groupuscules ont prouvé qu’en Israël, les délires du jour forgeaient la politique du lendemain et la réalité du surlendemain.

Le pire est toujours possible."

[mightyflamethrower]

What are the mobs in Washington defiling iconic federal statues with impunity and pelting police men really protesting?

What are the students at Stanford University vandalizing the president’s office really demonstrating against?

What are the throngs in London brazenly swarming parks and rampaging in the streets really angry about?

Occupations?

They could care less that the Islamist Turkish government still stations 40,000 troops in occupied Cyprus. No one is protesting against the Chinese takeover of a once-independent Tibet or the threatened absorption of an autonomous Taiwan.

Refugees?

None of these mobs are agitating on behalf of the nearly 1 million Jews ethnically cleansed since 1947 from the major capitals of the Middle East. Some 200,000 Cypriots displaced by Turks earn not a murmur. Nor does the ethnic cleansing of 99% of Nagorno-Karabakh’s ancient Armenian population just last year.

Civilian casualties?

The global protestors are not furious over the 1 million Uighurs brutalized by the communist Chinese government. Neither are they concerned about the Turkish government’s indiscriminate war against the Kurds or its serial threats to attack Armenians and Greeks.

The new woke jihadi movement is instead focused only on Israel and “Palestine.” It is oblivious to the modern gruesome Muslim-on-Muslim exterminations of Bashar el-Assad and Saddam Hussein, the Black September massacres of Palestinians by Jordanian forces, and the 1982 erasure of thousands in Hama, Syria.

So woke jihadism is not an ecumenical concern for the oppressed, the occupied, the collateral damage of war, or the fate of refugees. Instead, it is a romanticized and repackaged anti-Western, anti-Israel, and anti-Semitic jihadism that supports the murder of civilians, mass rape, torture, and hostage-taking.

But what makes it now so insidious is its new tripartite constituency?

First, the old romantic pro-Palestine cause was rebooted in the West by millions of Arab and Muslim immigrants who have flocked to Europe and the U.S. in the last half-century.

Billions of dollars in oil sheikdom “grant” monies swarmed Western universities to found “Middle Eastern Studies” departments. These are not so much centers for historical or linguistic scholarship as political megaphones focused on “Zionism” and “the Jews.”

Moreover, there may be well over a half-million affluent Middle Eastern students in Western universities. Given that they pay full tuition, imbibe ideology from endowed Middle Eastern studies faculty, and are growing in number, they logically feel that they can do anything with impunity on Western streets and campuses.

Second, the Diversity/Equity/Inclusion movement empowers the new woke jihadis. Claiming to be non-white victims of white Jewish colonialism, they pose as natural kindred victims to blacks, Latinos, and any Westerner now claiming oppressed status.

Black radicalism, from Al Sharpton to Louis Farrakhan to Black Lives Matter, has had a long, documented history of anti-Semitism. It is no wonder that its elite eagerly embraced the anti-Israeli Palestine movement as fellow travelers.

The third leg of woke jihadism is mostly affluent white leftist students at Western universities.

Sensing that their faculties are anti-Israel, their administrations are anti-Israel (although more covertly) and the most politically active among the student body are anti-Israel, European and American students find authenticity in virtue-signaling their solidarity with Hamas, Hezbollah, and radical Islamists in general.

Given the recent abandonment of standardized tests for admission to universities, the watering-down of curricula, and rampant grade inflation, thousands of students at elite campuses feel that they have successfully redefined their universities to suit their own politics, constituencies and demographics.

Insecure about their preparation for college and mostly ignorant of the politics of the Middle East, usefully idiotic students find resonance by screaming anti-Semitic chants and wearing keffiyehs.

Nurtured in grade school on the Marxist binary of bad, oppressive whites versus good, oppressed nonwhites, they can cheaply shed their boutique guilt by joining the mobs.

The result is a bizarre new anti-Semitism and overt support for the gruesome terrorists of Hamas by those who usually preach to the middle class about their own exalted morality.

Still, woke jihadism would never have found resonance had Western leaders—vote-conscious heads of state, timid university presidents, and radicalized big-city mayors and police chiefs—not ignored blatant violations of laws against illegal immigration, vandalism, assault, illegal occupation, and rioting.

Finally, woke jihadism is fueling a radical Western turn to the right, partly due to open borders and the huge influx into the West from non-Western illiberal regimes.

Partly the reaction is due to the ingratitude shown their hosts by indulged Middle-Eastern guest students and green card holders.

Partly, the public is sick of the sense of entitlement shown by pampered, sanctimonious protestors.

And partly the revulsion arises against left-wing governments and universities that will not enforce basic criminal and immigration statutes in fear of offending this strange new blend of wokism and jihadism.

Yet the more violent campuses and streets become, the more clueless the mobs seem about the cascading public antipathy to what they do and what they represent.

[loki-god-of-mischief-13]

Hey, remember that things that zionists accused Hamas of, about slaughtering Israeli women and cutting open their stomachs to remove fetuses? Apparently, it was called the Sabra and Shatila massacre of 1982.

I tried googling it but articles were saying different things. I don’t know how answer this ask. There are more blogs who can tell you actual information if that’s what you want. I have stuff I need to do then I’ll do more research.

[thistle-nightshade]

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

This is a well written book, but it is a dense history text. I encourage those who can read it, but for those short on time or unable to parse the text, here are the main points I was able to draw out, with links to articles concerning the major topics.

1917 Balfour Declaration: a British document committing Britain to the creation of a national Jewish homeland. Makes no mention of the Palestinians.

1922 Mandate for Palestine: formalized British governance over Palestine, expanded upon the Balfour Declaration, paved the way for national rights of the Jewish people, attempted to erase Palestinian historical ties to the land while highlighting a Jewish historical connection.

Jews begin to flee Nazi Germany. With many antisemitic immigration laws in place, Palestine was the only option for many.

1936-1939 Great Revolt: grassroots uprising in Palestine that lead to a 6 month general strike against the British.

Nakba (The Catastrophe)

1947 UN General Assembly Resolution 181: UN General Assembly decides in favor or a partition of Palestine into Arab and Jewish States. This would pave the way for 80% of the area’s Arab population to be forced from their homes, losing their land and property.

1948 Israel Established

Security Council Resolution 242 : called for withdrawal of Israel, but ambiguous language was exploited to delay this process.

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO): formed to centralize leadership of Palestinian resistance movement

Israel Invades Lebanon against the PLO

Bombing of Beirut 1982

Israel backed by US with US weapons. US fails to protect noncombatants in the region.

Sabra and Shatila massacres of refugee camps.

Intifada: wide spread grassroots uprising born of decades of Palestinian frustrations. This included demonstrations, strikes, boycotts, withholding taxes, and other civil disobedience.

Israel had a brutal “break bones” policy in response in order to try and break the uprising.

1897 Hamas forms. There was initial support from Israel because it was believed this would weaken the PLO.

Oslo Accords

Palestine Authority granted highly restrictive self rule that did not include control of land, water, or borders.

Policy of Seperation

Gaza severed from the West Bank, West Bank severed from Jerusalem. Permits required to pass through Israeli checkpoints.

2006 elections give Hamas control of the Gaza strip. The siege imposed by Israel after the fact lead to what has been titled the ‘open air prison’ of Gaza.

After this point, there was a large escalation in violence including Hamas suicide bombers attacking Israel, Israeli military incursions into Palestine, and War on Gaza.

“While the fundamentally colonial nature of the Palestine-Israel encounter must be acknowledged, there are now two peoples in Palestine, irrespective of how they came into being, and the conflict between them cannot be resolved as long as the national existence of each is denied by the other. Their mutual acceptance can only be based on complete equality of rights, including national rights, not withstanding the crucial historical differences between the two.”

[almanach-international]

4 juin : la Journée internationale des enfants innocents victimes d'agression

Cette journée a été instaurée en 1982 par les Nations Unies en mémoire des 14 enfants tués lors d’un raid de l’armée israélienne sur Beyrouth le 4 juin 1982. L’État hébreu réagissait en représailles à une tentative d'assassinat contre l'ambassadeur israélien au Royaume-Uni, lequel avait été grièvement blessé.

L’actualité nous offre aujourd’hui des chiffres bien plus effroyables : plus de 50 000 enfants tués ou blessés à Gaza depuis le début de l’intervention israélienne (dont 16 000 tués) selon le site de l’UNICEF. Les 37 enfants israéliens victimes du Hamas ne sont pa non plus oubliés en cette journée du 4-Juin.

« Depuis la fin du cessez-le-feu le 18 mars, 1 309 enfants auraient été tués et 3 738 blessés. Au total, plus de 50 000 enfants ont été tués ou blessés depuis octobre 2023. Combien d’autres petites filles et petits garçons devront encore mourir ? Quelle atrocité devra encore être diffusée en direct pour que la communauté internationale se mobilise pleinement, use de son influence et prenne des mesures fortes et décisives pour mettre fin à ce massacre impitoyable d’enfants ? » (extrait du site de l’UNICEF)

Une seule frappe bien ciblée peut faire des dégâts considérables dans la population. La Défense civile de la bande de Gaza annonçait samedi 24 mai la mort de neuf enfants d'un couple de médecins palestiniens (Dr Hamdi Al-Najjar et de son épouse, Dr Alaa Al-Najjar) tués dans un raid aérien israélien dans le sud du territoire assiégé et dévasté par la guerre.

La journée mondiale du 4 juin, si elle a pour origine des victimes palestiniennes et libanaises, se penche sur tous les conflits dans le monde. Le plus meurtrier est celui du Soudan dont le bilan sur les enfants est encore difficile à chiffrer car peu d’entre eux meurent sous les bombes mais plutôt de malnutrition, sont victimes de violences sexuelles ou enrôlés dans le conflit par les parties belligérantes.

L’Ukraine compte 7,5 millions d'enfants, eux aussi victimes de la guerre qui dévaste le pays. Nombre d'entre eux sont traumatisés, bouleversés par le décès d'un proche, tandis que d'autres ont été enlevés et déportés en Russie. Selon les données vérifiées par l’ONU, plus de 2 500 enfants ont été tués ou blessés depuis février 2022.

La Journée internationale des enfants innocents victimes d'agression (International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, اليوم الدولية لضحايا العدوان من الأطفال الأبرياء, Día internacional de los Niños Víctimas Inocentes de Aggresión, 受侵略戕害的無辜儿童国际日, est célébrée chaque année depuis le 4 juin 1983.

Un article de l'Almanach international des éditions BiblioMonde, 3 juin 2025