#Egypt and Jordan

[wherepond]

Gaza

22 Arab nations revolt against Trump's Gaza 'cleansing' call, not even in your dreams.

After the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, Egypt warned the US against Trump's proposal to forcibly displace Palestinians from Gaza, calling it "ethnic cleansing." Egypt and Jordan both rejected the plan, with Egypt's Foreign Ministry condemning efforts to depopulate Palestinian land.

Violation of Palestinian human rights

Ethnic cleansing - crime against humanity

[sayruq]

This is from a few days ago ⤵️

[notyourtoday]

Caption on post -

Interview with released prisoner and cancer patient Mohammad Aklouk, who had been detained since the start of the war. Mohammad describes the horrific conditions of his detainment, including the small, oppressive cell windows and the inability to see sunlight. The repression units frequently ordered prisoners to drop to the ground and brutally beat them. Mohammad emotionally recalls a fellow prisoner, Mohammad Al-Kahlout from Jabalia, who was struck in the head and died in his arms. Aklouk is one of 70 prisoners who were released on June 11th 2024 through the Zikim crossing west of Beit Lahia currently staying in Kamal Adwan Hospital.

By @translating_falasteen on Instagram.

Source: @mahmoud_awadia

Translation: @translating_falasteen

Link to post.

[i-am-aprl]

🇮🇷 In less than 24 hours since the Iranian retaliation against Israel, Western leaders and much of mainstream media has already twisted the narrative to frame this as an unprecedented attack.

We now have two jobs:

☝️ To push back and make sure people know this was a retaliation — otherwise Israel can portray itself as a victim to garner sympathy

✌️ Not get distracted away from Gaza. Gaza is the priority

[deadpresidents]

Remember when people were arguing that there was no real difference between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump on Palestine?

This is when I remind those people that ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES and they were fucking stupid.

[mysharona1987]

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Al Jazeera:

United States President Donald Trump says he would like to “just clean out” Gaza, urging Egypt and Jordan to take in more Palestinians from the coastal enclave. Speaking with reporters on board Air Force One on Saturday, Trump said he had a call earlier in the day with King Abdullah II of Jordan and would speak with Egypt President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi later on Sunday. “I would like Egypt to take people,” Trump said. “You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing and say: ‘You know, it’s over.'” Trump said he complimented Jordan for having successfully accepted Palestinian refugees and that he told the king, “I would love for you to take on more, ‘cause I am looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now, and it’s a mess. It’s a real mess.” Israel’s genocide in Gaza displaced almost the entire 2.3 million people in Gaza, some of them multiple times. Trump said Gaza’s inhabitants could be moved “temporarily or could be long term”.

[...] Israel’s genocide in Gaza displaced almost the entire 2.3 million people in Gaza, some of them multiple times. Trump said Gaza’s inhabitants could be moved “temporarily or could be long term”.

Human disgrace Donald Trump endorses ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza by relocating them to Egypt and Jordan, as he would love to “clean out that whole thing.”

See Also:

AP, via HuffPost: Trump Wants Jordan And Egypt To Accept More Refugees And Floats Plan To 'Just Clean Out' Gaza

CNN: Trump suggests his plan for Gaza Strip is to ‘clean out the whole thing’

Rolling Stone: Trump Floats Forced Relocation of Gazans: ‘Clean Out That Whole Thing’

[academicdisasterfic]

Eudaimonia

drarry | e | 13k

Harry Potter shows up in Draco's philosophy lecture, and doesn't leave. A study of five years in love. Thank you to my forever bros @nv-md and @lou-isfake for the beta.

Eudaimonia: in Aristotelian ethics, the condition of human flourishing or of living well. For Aristotle, eudaimonia is the highest human good, the only human good that is desirable for its own sake (as an end in itself) rather than for the sake of something else (as a means toward some other end).

...

Eleven years after the War, Harry Potter showed up at one of Draco’s lectures.

It’s not the fact of his appearance that surprised Draco—although, perhaps, he would have expected it sooner, and thought Potter would be more sneaky about it; pretending he was on Auror business, or Glamouring himself, or something equally transparent.

But no. Potter was sitting there, third row, in old jeans and Nikes, taking notes.

Afterwards, Potter loitered by the door, and when all the students had left, he just tipped his head towards the exit. 

‘Coffee?’

They each paid separately. Harry got an Americano, extra shot, and Draco a chai latte; he couldn’t do caffeine this late in the day. They sat at a table by the window, the long summer sun pouring over them.

‘What is a conspiracy theory?’ was Potter’s first question, almost as soon as Draco pulled in his chair.

Keep reading on Ao3.

[chanaleah]

So this is a great example of a fundamental misunderstanding of history!

In 1948, the land that is now Israel/Palestine was controlled by the British Empire. It wasn't owned by either Jews or Arabs in its entirety, and additionally there had not been an independent state in the land since the Jewish Kingdom of Judah was conquered by the Roman Empire in 63 CE.

Secondly, the pre-State of Israel agreed to a UN partition partition plan in 1947 that guaranteed an Arab state and Jewish state in the borders shown on the map below:

On May 14, the State Of Israel declared independence within the borders shown in blue on the map. Rather than accepting an Arab state and a Jewish state, the armies of surrounding Arab states, including Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, attacked the nascent State Of Israel with the intention to destroy it in favor of an Arab state in the entirety of the former British Mandate of Palestine.

Before it was attacked, the State Of Israel had no intention to fight the Arab states or hurt the Arabs living in the borders of Israel. This is shown clearly in Israel's Declaration of Independence.

WE APPEAL — in the very midst of the onslaught launched against us now for months — to the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to preserve peace and participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its provisional and permanent institutions. WE EXTEND our hand to all neighboring states and their peoples in an offer of peace and good neighborliness, and appeal to them to establish bonds of cooperation and mutual help with the sovereign Jewish people settled in its own land. The State of Israel is prepared to do its share in a common effort for the advancement of the entire Middle East.

Direct quotes from Israel's Declaration Of Independence.

However, during the 1948 War* the majority Palestinians living in Israel fled out of fear or were kicked out. Similarly, all of the Jews living in Judea & Samaria/the West Bank were kicked out by the Jordanian army.

Massacres were committed by both sides during the war, including the Deir Yassin massacre, in which many Palestinians were killed by right-wing Zionist militias and the Gush Etzion massacre in which many Jews were killed by the Jordanian army.

Both Palestinians and Jews had to flee/were kicked out of places in which they had resided for centuries - some examples being Lydda/Lod (for Palestinians) the Old City of Jerusalem, specifically the Jewish quarter which was later looted by the Jordanian army (for Jews).

Israel ended up winning the war -- and winning more territory than had originally been given to them. This was what the map looked like after the Armistice Agreement at the end of the 1948 war:

At the end of the war, Egypt occupied Gaza and Jordan occupied Judea & Samaria/the West Bank. There was no Palestinian state.

During and in the aftermath of the 1948 War, 700,000 Palestinians became refugees from Israel, and between 17,000 and 40,000 Jews became refugees from Judea & Samaria/the West Bank and Gaza, and about 1 million Jews became refugees from the rest of the SWANA region.

This post is in no way an exhaustive or authoritative history, but it shows clearly the history of the 1948 War is much more complicated than "forcefully took that land from them".

If you would like me to make a post about history pre-1948 I can do that as well.

*I chose to call this war the 1948 war so as to be impartial as possible. Other names used include the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Israel's War Of Independence, and the 1948 Palestine War.

Keep reading below the cut for sources.

SOURCES:

[eretzyisrael]

[girlactionfigure]

[sayruq]

These protests are threatening the stability of the pro American governments of Jordan, Egypt, and Morocco. Not to be optimistic but this is a huge deal for the SWANA region.

[notyourtoday]

Palestine Updates May 28, 29 & 29, 2024.

Post by @letstalkpalestine2 on Instagram.

Link / Link / Link to post.

[nando161mando]

Trump says he wants to 'clean out' Gaza and move Palestinians to Jordan and Egypt

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-says-wants-clean-gaza-move-palestinians-jordan-egypt-rcna189317

[deadpresidents]

I cannot adequately express how batshit insane these past 15 days have been, and now this new idea for America's new imperialism. President Trump wants to displace the already-displaced Palestinian people and force them to move to Egypt and Jordan. I'm guessing he hasn't run this by King Abdullah or Sisi because, historically, this type of idea has been pretty unpopular with even the most Western-friendly Arab countries. Oh, and let's not forget that Gaza is HOME for these Palestinians. It's devastated because Israel tried to wipe it off the map, not because the Palestinians were looking for a way out so Donald Trump could build hotels and casinos.

And you want to put American troops on the ground in Gaza to just "take over"? Has nothing been learned since 1948? Or 1918? You don't think these folks are going to fight for their homeland? Against US? WHERE IS CONGRESS? They are still a branch of the government, right?

[mysharona1987]