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Learning more every day!

By: LaillaB, from LinkedIn, Founder of ‘Reclaim the Narrative’ …

🍉 … “Recent reports have once again confirmed what we already know - Israel's colonial army remains uninterested in pursuing a ceasefire.

The United Nations’ warnings against escalating violence are falling on deaf ears, as Israel continues its unchecked colonial expansion despite clear violations of international law.

This ongoing settler colonial project, supported by successive Israeli governments, has led activists to dub the United Nations as the “United Nothing”

In the year that the declaration of human rights was introduced, the devastating nakba occurred. Each year that Israel commemorates its establishment, Palestinians reflect on the brutal ethnic cleansing that killed 13,000 and displaced 750,000, to make way for a European colony in MiddleEast!

The very origins of the Balfour Declaration have also exposed Israel as a state founded on illegitimacy…

The British mandate instrument provided no legal justification for the establishment of a solely Jewish state in Palestine or for the United Kingdom's neglect in fulfilling its solemn duty to uphold Palestinian self-determination.

The key clauses of the Balfour Declaration were thus legally null and void.

Furthermore the power dynamics in the occupied Palestinian territories are stark: coloniser versus colonised, oppressor versus oppressed, perpetrator versus victims;

🔻 COLONISED: “The violence of colonialism can only, and will naturally, be met by the violence of the colonised” Frantz Fanon

🔻 COLONISER: “Colonisation kills the soul of the coloniser” Aimé Césaire.

It will take a united front of global solidarity to hold Israel accountable for its long list of crimes;

🇮🇱LIST OF INTRNATIONAL LAW VIOLATIONS BY THE STATE OF ISREAL

🇮🇱ISRAEL OCCUPATION IS ILLEGAL

🇮🇱ILLEGAL ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS ON OCCUPIED LAND

🇮🇱ILLEGAL TO TAKE LAND BY FORCE & CLAIM SOVEREIGNTY

🇮🇱ILLEGAL ISRAELI PRACTICE OF ETHNIC CLEANSING

🇮🇱ISRAELI APARTHEID SYSTEM IS ILLEGAL:

🇮🇱MASSIVE VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS (HR)

🇮🇱COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT IS ILLEGAL:

Laws Violated

🇮🇱ILLEGAL MASSIVE TRANSFORMATION OF LOCAL LAWS

🇮🇱SEPARATION BARRIER ILLEGAL

🇮🇱VIOLATIONS OF U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS

Drawing inspiration from the successful strategies used against South Africa’s regime, we must go beyond mere diplomatic condemnations that have proven ineffective in curbing Israel’s actions.

World leaders must stop their complicity in the erasure of Palestine.

It falls on us to demand justice and accountability for Israel for its long history of human rights abuses and the growth of its apartheid state.

Only through sustained aggressive pressure from the international community can we hope to see an end to the Israel’s colonial occupation of Palestine.” … 🍉

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“Powerful people oppress through the silence of ordinary people”

#reclaimthenarrative 🍉🕊

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🗞️ … da heck? Here he goes … AGAIN!!

By: LaillaB, Flunder ‘Reclaim the Narrative’ — from LinkedIn …

“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the Knesset to pass the so-called Al Jazeera law, which would allow the government to shut down foreign news networks operating in Israel — 🤭 — can’t handle the truth!!

The law would allow the prime minister and the minister of communications to order the closure of foreign networks in Israel and confiscate their equipment if they believe they pose "an actual harm to the state's security".

Netanyahu promised to "immediately act to close Al Jazeera" after the law passes.

The prime minister's Likud party said that he spoke with coalition whip Ofir Katz to ask him to ensure the bill's passing through second and third readings.” … 🗞️

“We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them”

#Fascism … Benito Mussolini

#reclaimthenarrative … 🍉🕊

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“Delving into the origins of the terms 'Semite' and 'Anti-Semitism’ is essential to unravel the truth behind this semantic conundrum,

“Semitic” people or “Semites” is today, an obsolete term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group associated with people of the Middle East, including Arabs, Jews, Akkadians, and Phoenicians.

Historically, Semitic-speaking peoples were dispersed throughout western Asia by 2500 BCE, with influences ranging from Phoenicia to Mesopotamia and Palestine.

On the other hand, the term "antisemitism" was introduced in 1879 by Wilhelm Marr, pro-Nazi, racial nationalist and social agitator.

Marr rejected the idea of assimilation as a way for Jews to integrate into German society, which contrasts with the historical experiences of Jewish communities in other parts of the world, Moroccan Jews, Iraqi Jews, Palestinian Jews.

In his pamphlet “The Way to Victory of Germanism over Judaism”, 1879, he introduced the idea that “Germans and Jews were locked in a longstanding conflict, the origins of which he attributed to race” #AntiSemitic …

This blatant form of anti-Jewish racism emerged alongside the advent of "scientific racism" in the 19th century, distinguishing it from earlier prejudices and meaning of the term semites.

Critics argue that even the removal of the hyphen in "anti-Semitism" is to dispel pseudoscientific notions of a "semetic race." Instead, they advocate using "antisemitism" to describe hostility or discrimination against Jews only.

The Nazis' Final Solution initially meant the expulsion of Germany's Jews to Madagascar. It was this shared goal of expelling Jews from Europe as a separate unassimilable race that created the affinity between Nazis and Zionists all along.

This was not a tactical support but one based on ideological similitude.

For example, it was the Zionist Federation of Germany that was the only “Jewish group that supported the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, as they agreed with the Nazis that Jews and Aryans were separate and separable races.

While the majority of Jews continued to resist the anti-Semitic basis of Zionism and its alliances with antisemites, the Nazi genocide not only killed millions of European Jews, but in the process also killed the majority of Jews who opposed the Zionist ideology, and who died precisely because they refused to heed the call to abandon their countries and homes by expelling Palestinian Semites.

The crux of the argument is the assertion that Palestinians, being Semitic peoples, qualifies Israel's genocide against them as deeply rooted in antisemitism,

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🤔 … Francesca Albanaese has conducted a study: ‘Anatomy of a Genocide’, very telling. Here are some facts. — and still the world leaders/powers look on. Not the ‘younger generations’ though!!!

By: LaillaB, founder of ‘Reclaim the Narrative’, from LinkedIn …

“Israel has destroyed Gaza’

By analysing the patterns of violence and Israel’s policies in its onslaught on Gaza, the “Anatomy of a Genocide” report concludes reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating Israel’s commission of genocide is met.

One of the key findings is that Israel's executive and military leadership and soldiers have intentionally distorted ‘jus in bello’ principles, subverting their protective functions, in an attempt to legitimise genocidal violence against Palestinians.

In this report, Francesca Albanese, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 (“oPt”), addresses the crime of genocide as perpetrated by the State of Israel (“Israel”) in the oPt, specifically in the Gaza Strip, since 7 October 2023.

As Israel prohibits her visits, this report is based on data and analyses from organisations on the ground, international jurisprudence, investigative reports and consultations with affected individuals, authorities, civil society and experts.

Since it imposed the siege on Gaza in 2007, which tightened the closure imposed since 1993, Israel, the occupying power, has carried out five major assaults before the present one.

By Day 9, this assault had already caused more deaths (2,670) than Israel’s previous deadliest war against Gaza, in 2014 (2,251) . Only a fraction of the mass killing, severe harm and ruthless, life-threatening conditions inflicted on Palestinians over the following months of assault can be captured in this report.

UN experts, 5 scholars, 6 and states, 7 including South Africa before the International Court of Justice (“ICJ”), 8 have warned that acts committed in this latest onslaught may amount to genocide.

The ICJ found a plausible risk of “irreparable prejudice” to the rights of Palestinians in Gaza, a protected group under the Genocide Convention, 9 and ordered Israel, inter alia, to “take all measures within its power” to prevent genocidal acts, prevent and punish incitement to genocide, and ensure urgent humanitarian aid.

In its defense, Israel has argued that its conduct complies with international humanitarian law (“IHL”).

A key finding of this report is that Israel has strategically invoked the IHL framework as “humanitarian camouflage” to legitimise its genocidal violence in Gaza.

The context, facts and analysis presented in this report lead to the conclusion that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating Israel’s commission of genocide is met.

More broadly, they also indicate that Israel’s actions have been driven by a genocidal logic integral to its SETTLER-COLONIAL project in PALESTINE, signalling a tragedy foretold.

“It’s my solemn duty to report” -

GENOCIDE: ISRAEL: COLONISATION!!

“I say to all those leaders, do not look the other way. Do not hesitate … It is within your power to avoid a genocide of humanity.” — Mandela! … 🤔

A tragedy foretold —.🕊

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💥 … good news!!! — July 20, 2024!!

By: LaillaB, founder of ‘Reclaim the Narrative’, from LinkedIn …

“As Israel's genocidal war against Gaza continues unabated, the Israeli economy is facing a catastrophe.

The economic indicators speak of nothing less than an economic catastrophe.

Over 46,000 businesses have gone bankrupt, tourism has stopped, Israel's credit rating was lowered, Israeli bonds are sold at the prices of almost "junk bonds" levels, and the foreign investments that have already dropped by 60% in the first quarter of 2023 (as a result of the policies of Israel's far-right government before October 7) show no prospects of recovery.

The majority of the money invested in Israeli investment funds was diverted to investments abroad because Israelis do not want their own pension funds and insurance funds or their own savings to be tied to the fate of the State of Israel.

This has caused a surprising stability in the Israeli stock market because funds invested in foreign stocks and bonds generated profit in foreign currency, which was multiplied by the rise in the exchange rate between foreign currencies and the Israeli Shekel.

But then Intel scuttled a $25 billion investment plan in Israel, the biggest BDS victory ever.

Three Israeli historians, two Zionists and one anti-Zionist, have declared that the Zionist project has come to an end.

Israel's power grid, which has largely switched to natural gas, still depends on coal to supply demand.

The biggest supplier of coal to Israel is Colombia, which announced that it would suspend coal shipments to Israel as long as the genocide was ongoing.

After Colombia, the next two biggest suppliers are South Africa and Russia.

Without reliable and continuous electricity, Israel will no longer be able to pretend to be a developed economy.

The physical destruction in Israel has been minimal, but one thing has been destroyed: its future.

When a critical mass of Israelis, regardless of their political opinions, become convinced that Israeli apartheid has become unsustainable, they will no longer agree to invest energy and money and risk their lives and their families for the sake of the Zionist project.

They will seek out a better future for themselves, as every sane person would, either by leaving Israel, or better yet, by working towards a new and democratic political system in Palestine 🇵🇸 إن شاء الله

Mondoweiss.

🃏 An economy built on the exploitation and suffering of others is a house of cards destined to collapse.

إن شاء الله

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🇵🇸 … How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?” Bertrand Russell!

By: LaillaB, Founder of ‘Reclaim the Narrative’, from LinkedIn …

“As the siege and bombardment of Gaza continues at full force, killing hundreds each day, maiming many more and wiping entire families out of the civil registry, the international community is still watching idly.

Today, the fear of what comes next is looming larger for Palestinians than the cruelty of the world's apparent indifference to their suffering.

This time, the Nakba is being televised, and it has a stench of finality to it. What is happening in Palestine can no longer be described as genocide or even ethnic cleansing. It is beyond mass extermination - it is total erasure.

Alongside the deranged and morally rotten military campaign to extinguish the lives of innocent Palestinian civilians - most of whom are women and children - is the equally if not more sinister campaign to entirely erase their identity.

Open Apple, Google or any other digital map. Type "Palestine". You won't find it.

You will only find Israel.

If you're lucky, you may be directed to a small patchwork of what is called "Palestinian Territories" firmly embedded inside Israel lest anyone mistakenly think it is an independent nation-state. And of course, you will find nowhere on any map the keyword that precedes Palestinian Territories to lay bare the ugly, but necessary and harrowing truth: “Occupied."

It's not just the Palestinian people or the name of the country that's disappearing, but the word Palestine itself. Palestine is being deliberately erased from our consciousness and discourse.

The current genocidal campaign being waged by the occupying state of Israel against Palestinians is being universally - and erroneously - described as "a war between Israel and Hamas".

Somehow the Palestinian

people, who have been subjected to Israeli occupation and oppression for 75 years before October 7, no longer matter.

This sinister public relations move is deeply problematic,

It allows for a simplistic story of “good vs evil”, where Israel takes on the role of the peace-loving, civilised democracy minding its own business and Hamas the inexplicably evil and barbaric militia group - decorated with all the anti-Muslim trimmings and tropes imaginable - that attacks it out of the blue.

The simple truth is that the word

"Palestine" is deeply damaging to Israel's image on the international stage.

Which is why the only way to get rid of the heavy moral burden of Palestine, Israel seems to think, is to literally get rid of "Palestine" altogether, and that includes totally erasing it from the map.

And yet, it is Israel that stands in front of the United Nations, year after year, pleading to be protected from the “barbarian" nations that supposedly wish to erase it from the map.

The irony may be hysterical, but the hypocrisy is real!! … 🇵🇸

أشد الفاقة عدم العقل

“Lack of intelligence is the greatest poverty” #FreePalestine … 🍉

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🐺 … maybe I’m not a good person but this gives me a sense of scha·den·freu·de!! Look it up!! … yet think again!! … 🇵🇸

By: LaillaB, founder of ‘Reclaim the Narrative’, from Kinkedin …

“The highest-ranked Israeli sniper known as Ador Cohen, also referred to as “Bloody Wolf,” was killed in Jabalia Refugee Camp, located in the northern part of Gaza.

The news of his death has sent shockwaves throughout the region, as Cohen was notorious for his brutal tactics and high kill count.

Ador Cohen, also known by his nickname “Yashaav,” gained a reputation as one of the most ruthless snipers in the Israeli military.

His kill count, particularly involving innocent children, has been a topic of controversy and condemnation by human rights organisations worldwide.

The moniker “Bloody Wolf” was given to him due to the sheer number of lives he took during his time as a sniper.

Cohen’s death has sparked mixed reactions among the people of Gaza. While some see it as a form of justice for the countless lives he has taken, others fear that his martyrdom may lead to further violence and retaliation from Israeli occupation forces.

The question of how many children Cohen killed remains unanswered, but his legacy of bloodshed and brutality will not be forgotten.

Human rights organisations have long been calling for accountability for the actions of Israeli snipers like Ador Cohen.

The killing of innocent civilians, particularly children, has been a major point of contention in the ongoing genocide. While Cohen’s death may bring a sense of closure to some, the larger issue of accountability and justice remains unresolved.

“Thou shalt not kill” … Deuteronomy 5:17 … 🐺

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🇵🇸 … the world is watching the effects of the impunity given to IsraHell, I hope in HORROR!!

By: LaillaB, founder of ‘Reclaim the Narrative’, from LinkedIn …

“The West's historical amnesia and condoning of Israel's colonial settler project have only served to perpetuate the cycle of violence and injustice in the Middle East.

The world is now witnessing the bitter fruit of the impunity that has been afforded to Israel, leading to continued suffering and instability.

The colonisation of Palestine by Israel and the displacement of its indigenous population has been a long-standing issue that has been largely ignored or downplayed by the international community.

This has led to a situation where the people of Palestine are denied their basic rights and live under constant threat of violence and oppression.

The root cause can be traced back to the colonial policies of the early 20th century, when European powers sought to carve up the Middle East for their own interests. The establishment of Israel in 1948 was a direct result of this colonial legacy, leading to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their ancestral homes. Skyes-Picot Agreement.

At the heart of the question of Palestine, is ownership of the land that both Palestinians and Zionists claim as their own.

While Israel asserts its right to the land as a “Jewish” state for “the chosen people”, there’s a stark contradiction however between Israel's claims and the destruction it causes to the holy land.

Israel's claim to religious authority is often used to justify its impunity and whitewash its crimes in the region.

The destruction and devastation caused by illegal settlers and Israeli military on occupied Palestinian territories and beyond, paint a crystal clear discrepancy to the reverence and respect typically shown towards sacred land.

Palestinians have proved, since 1948, that they won’t easily give up their indigenous claim to and sovereignty over the land stolen from them.

The use of the term “sovereignty” here, is not to mean “the authority to govern a land” in the narrow Euro-centric sense.

Rather, of an authority to govern that stems from the deep, non-utilitarian connection between a people and their ancestral land – a connection that renders meaningless all other political impositions.

That deep connection between Palestinians and Palestine is exactly what the Israeli state has long been seeking to erase.

Indigenous peoples have a deep spiritual and cultural connection to their land, viewing it as more than just a commodity but as an integral part of their identity and heritage.

Settlers, on the other hand, often view the land as a resource to be exploited for their own benefit, leading to its degradation and destruction.

The willingness of Palestinians to endure hardship and sacrifice in defence of their land demonstrates a level of attachment and commitment that is rarely seen in settler communities hailing from Europe Poland.

“Land you have to kill for is not yours. Land you have to die for is.” — 🍉

#reclaimthenarrative —🕊— #FreePalestine …

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🇨🇩 … there is so much to learn!! So much is happening in this world!!

By: LaillaB, founder of ‘Reclaim the Narrative’, from LinkedIn …

“Western imperialism continues to leave a dark and enduring legacy across the globe, from The Congo to Palestine.

The devastating effects of exploitative inequality persist in these regions, corrupting communities and wreaking havoc on generations of natives.

Through the theft of land, exploitation of resources, and imposition of foreign rule, Western powers have left a trail of devastation in their wake.

The state of Israel was created on land that was illigitamelty taken from the Palestinian people, leading to decades of human rights violations and displacement against the natives.

The ongoing colonisation of Palestine continues to fuel violence and instability in the region, with devastating consequences for the Palestinian people … Genocide.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has long been a victim of Western exploitation, with its vast mineral wealth being plundered by foreign powers for centuries.

During “The Butcher of Congo”, Belgium’s King Leopold II's brutal colonisation of the Congo Free State, estimates suggest that up to 10 million Congolese lost their lives and their rights are still being sacrificed as the wealth around them is stripped away.

Growing demand for so-called clean energy technologies has created a corresponding demand for certain metals, including copper, and cobalt, which is essential for making most lithium-ion batteries. The DRC has the world’s largest reserves of cobalt, and the seventh largest reserves of copper.

… Israel’s the worlds leader in exporting diamonds.

The intrusion by israel in 1997 marked a turning point as the DRC spiralled into chaos, highlighting the perilous consequences of external economic interests in politically fragile regions.

“Israel turns over about $28 billion in diamonds a year,” the Jerusalem Post pointed out, solidifying the industry's position as a cornerstone of the nation's economic power.

Israeli companies import rough diamonds for cutting and polishing, adding significantly to their value, and export them globally via distribution hubs in Antwerp, London, Hong Kong, New York and Mumbai.

Despite the introduction of the Kimberley Process in 2003 to regulate the trade of conflict diamonds, the narrow definition excludes cut and polished diamonds, allowing the flow of revenue to fund contentious activities.

This loophole enables the trade of de facto blood diamonds from Israel to persist in the global market, perpetuating a cycle of deceit and destruction.

Candy Ofime and Jean-Mobert Senga, Amnesty International researchers said: “We found repeated breaches of legal safeguards prescribed in international human rights law and standards, and national legislation, as well as blatant disregard for the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.”

From The Congo 🇨🇩 to Palestine 🇵🇸 …

“The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism”

Mahatma Gandhi.

#reclaimthenarrative — 🍉🕊 — #FreePalestine … #FreeCongo … @hrexach

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🤔 … something to think about, right? The irony of life!! — all I’m gonna say about the ‘attempt’!!

By: LaillaB, founder ‘Reclaim the Narrative’, from LinkedIn…

“The stark contrast between the near-miss experienced by convicted former US President Trump in Pennsylvania and the tragic fate of Hind Rajab in Gaza serves as an abhorrent illustration of the deep-rooted inequalities and injustices that plague our society.

On one hand, we see a powerful and privileged individual who narrowly escapes harm, highlighting the value and protection afforded to those in positions of authority.

The mere graze of a bullet on the ear of a world leader sparks international attention and concern, demonstrating the significance placed on the lives of the elite and influential.

On the other hand, we witness the brutal and senseless killing of 6 year old Hind Rajab, a victim of systemic violence perpetuated by the Israeli occupation.

The investigation found that the car in which Rajab was killed had been hit with 355 bullets, conducted by Forensic Architecture, Al Jazeera's Fault Lines and the NGO Earshot.

Forensic Architecture said that the gun used for this attack was "firing at a range of 750–900 rounds p/min", and that this range exceeds that of the AK-type assault rifle that is commonly attributed to Hamas.

"This range of rounds per minute is consistent with Israeli army-issued weaponry such as the M4 assault rifle or the FN MAG machine gun on a Merkava tank," the investigation said.

Her life, like so many Palestinians in the Gaza concentration camp, was tragically cut short, with little to no outcry or accountability for her untimely death.

The swift identification of the suspect in the shooting incident within hours, as Thomas Matthew Crooks also demonstrates the disparities in how justice is served and accountability is upheld, compared to that of a child, Rajab.

The juxtaposition of these two events serves as a cruel reminder of the disparities in power, privilege, and the value placed on human life.

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un 🕊

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🇬🇧 … the British empire created Israel!! — “One nation solemnly promised a second nation the country of a third!” … Arthur Khoska, Journalist!! — the BALFOUR Declaration!!

By: LaillaB, founder ‘Reclaim the Narrative’, from LinkedIn …

“Accusation: Britain created Israel out of Palestinian land that they had no right to give away...

"The Balfour Declaration was made by,

(a) a European power,

(b) about a non-European territory,

(c) in a flat disregard of both the presence and the wishes of the native majority resident in that territory,

(d) it took the form of a promise about this same territory to another foreign group so that this foreign group might quite literally make this territory a national home for the Jewish people.

Balfour's statements in the declaration take for granted the higher right of a colonial power to dispose of a territory as it saw fit.”

-Edward Said, Palestinian American professor, academic, literary critic and political activist.

"As a historian whose field is the

Holocaust, it's hard for me to say this ... the ministers in government today in Israel, ideologically, are pure racists"

Daniel Blatman, Hebrew University, Haaretz

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says “Rafah is Hamas’ last remaining stronghold” after more than six months of aggression and a plausible genocide, and that sending in ground troops is essential to defeat the group.

Rafah’s population has swelled from 280,000 people to an estimated 1.4 million as Palestinians flee fighting elsewhere in Gaza. Hundreds of thousands of those evacuees are living in sprawling tent camps.

Israel has created a human bottleneck, having forced Palestinians to flee south to Rafah, where over half of Gaza's population of 2.3 million people have sought refuge from the Gaza Holocaust — 🕊

Balfour’s promise created a western colony in the Middle East, born out of a tragedy (holocaust) that then inflicts the same tragedy on the natives in Palestine.

Irony at its peak. — “Britain, whose land will you give to the Palestinians after their holocaust?"

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I🇮🇱 …. Has the tide changed? Has the world and their allies realized that it’s a losing proposition?

The really sad thing is that it took the lives of 40,000+ innocent civilians, fathers, mothers, children, infrastructure and more! — more importantl, this showed the hypocrisy of western ‘democracy’!!

By: LaillaB, Founder of ‘Reclaim the Narrative’, from LinkedIn …

“In the immediate aftermath of 7 Oct, Israel enjoyed widespread sympathy, especially from western governments.

Joe Biden rushed to Tel Aviv, to sit with the bereaved and to stand with their leaders.

Europe’s Von De Liar echoed the sentiment of “Israel's right to self-defence”, whilst UK’s Sunak even donned a Jewish kippah to demonstrate his commitment to Israel.

But look at the picture now. It has never been more isolated.

For six months, Israel has asked for the world’s understanding, trying to explain that it faces an exceptional enemy – one that hides underground, among and underneath a civilian population, and thinks nothing of firing rockets and missiles from hospitals, schools and mosques.

For that reason, foreign governments have danced to the propaganda and granted Israel patience.

But that has now run out.

And it’s not Israel’s perennial critics who are denouncing the country; it’s Israel’s friends.

In Britain, the WCK killings saw Lord Ricketts, a former UK national security adviser who earlier served Tony Blair, demand a suspension of arms sales.

Various Western allies have already cut off weapons supplies or are considering it.

Those governments are responding to a global mood they can no longer ignore.

Amid the slaughter and with famine looming, Israel’s allies must say enough is enough but their complicity and aiding and abetting will loom over them for years to come.

**Many Israelis are barely aware of the change: their media don’t show the war the rest of the world sees and deplores.

They are focused instead on the frozen failure to bring the hostages home – the focus of growing anti-Netanyahu protests.

**Israel is losing support globally, leading to the use force or threats to maintain the status quo.

Indeed there are no winners in war. But Hamas can argue leverage: it laid a deadly resistance trap – and the far right fascist government fell right into it.

“The conduct of Israel’s operations from north to south has been revenge-driven, not intelligence-driven," Abbas Dahouk, a former senior military advisor at the State Department and military attache in the Middle East, April 2024.

"Under my leadership, Israel will never accept any attempt by the International Criminal Court in the Hague to undermine its basic right to defend itself," Netanyahu, Telegram, April 2024. #Rogue …

Israel is now officially a pariah state on trial for Genocide!! … 🇮🇱

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🤔 … that’s what we were told!! — LIARS!! — We knew …

By: LaillaB, founder of Reclaim the Narrative’ from LinkedIn…

“No Boots On The Ground” 🍦

Israeli ground forces hid inside a truck used for the delivery of humanitarian aid to infiltrate the Nuseirat refugee camp on 8 June and perpetrate a new massacre of more than 200 Palestinians.

Footage aired by Al Jazeera TV shows the truck inside Nuseirat accompanied by armored tanks.

A truck arrived carrying humanitarian aid and clothes, and suddenly 10 soldiers got out and shot me, once in the chest and twice in the feet. The artillery shelling started, and I saw dozens of citizens on the ground” a Palestinian man who survived the massacre told reporters.

The truck came from the American port that the occupation established in the Gaza Sea.

Israeli media confirmed the troops hid inside a truck described as being used for “furniture delivery.”

“Israeli forces, including Shin Bet and the Israel Police special counterterrorism unit, Yamam, utilized a furniture delivery truck as cover to infiltrate the area near Al-Awda Hospital,” Israel Hayom reported in the hours following the bloody operation that saw the recovery of four Israeli captives.

The captives were withdrawn to the US-built floating pier using the same truck.

“We confirm that what was revealed by American and Hebrew media about US participation in the criminal operation that was carried out today,” f

Hamas said in a statement, adding that Washington's involvement “proves once again the complicit role of the American administration and its full participation in the war crimes committed in the Gaza Strip.”

“What the Zionist enemy carried out in the Nuseirat area in the heart of the Strip is a complex war crime, and the first who suffered from it are hostages," Hamas military spokesman Abu Obeida said in a Telegram post.

It is not yet known how many Israeli captives were killed. Obeida did not provide a specific number but implied more than one.

For their part, Israeli officials hailed their first successful captive rescue operation after 8 months of a genocidal war.

“They said that this operation will be [under] very complicated and dangerous circumstances. I knew that, but without hesitation, I decided to do this operation because they were Israeli captives, and I trusted the heroes in Yamam & Shabak [special police commandos and internal security] who attacked and freed the captives,” Netanyahu said.

“The captives were Israeli” …

🔻4 Israeli’s Rescued : 200+ Palestinians Murdered = “Heroes”

Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan, a pediatric intensive care doctor with Doctors Without Borders (MSF), told Al Jazeera that Al-Aqsa Hospital “is a complete bloodbath … it looks like a slaughterhouse.

“Auschwitz begins whenever someone looks at a slaughter house and thinks: They are only animals” T. Adorno.

“We will not stop working until all hostages come home and a ceasefire is reached. It is essential that it happens,” Biden said from France.

🩸 Biden’s “Humanitarian” Pier - Kills. #Trojan

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🍉 … “A thief never an owner becomes!!”

Palestinians stay in spite of the genocide because it’s their land, their nation! — Israelis leave because their roots there are flimsy!!

By: LaillaB, founder of ‘Reclaim the Narrative’, from LinkedIn …

“Nearly half a million Israelis have left the country since 7 October, according to data from the Israeli Population and Immigration Authority.

Israel’s Zman magazine reported that 470,000 Israelis have emigrated from Israel and it is not known if they will return.

Data also shows a significant decline in the number of immigrants to Israel since the start of October, by about 50% compared to the start of the year.

According to the data, migration to Israel declined by 70% in November compared to previous months of 2023, with 2,000 immigrants arriving in November compared to 4,500 who arrived every month since the start of the year.

Israelis believe the world has turned its back on them as global attention has turned to Israel's genocide campaign in Gaza, many Israelis are on a parallel warpath: to convince the world they are victims, not aggressors.

Young Israeli influencers are on the offensive on the social media battlefield.

Shiraz Shurkun, 25, an Instagram promoter of shampoo, Vaseline and beer to more than half a million followers on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, volunteers with the Israeli Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, posting videos about Oct. 7:

"I find that I'm way angrier than before. I feel like so many people are against us," she says, “referring to … #FreePalestine … hashtags and social media posts justifying the Hamas attack. Only Israelis know how other Israelis feel. No one will never know how we feel."

The slogan “Yachad Nenatzeach!”, Together We Will Win!, is everywhere in Israel: draped on tech company buildings, featured on highway signs along with the traffic updates and displayed on buses.

Support for the war is widespread in Israel despite the cost for Palestinians; “There's a consensus in Israel that the war should continue until Hamas is not a military threat on Israel," says Nadav Eyal, Israeli author & journalist.d

"When people fight a war that begins with a murderous genocidal attack by one side on the other, the side that was attacked is less inclined to be empathetic towards its enemies," Eyal says. Assuming this all started on Oct 7!

Palestinian children are suffering extreme from starvation, but a poll conducted in February finds 68% of Israeli settler immigrants oppose humanitarian aid.

"The beliefs we had before Oct. 7, we were just wrong. We were just naive," says Adi Peshko Katz, 34, a lawyer and mother of three.

“We thought that there is a hand from the other side that we can reach. We couldn't believe the plan B they had. Now we understand there was no plan A. This was the original plan to try and kill us all." Disregarding Israel’s ethnic cleansing of native semites since 1948, of course!

Oct 7th has led to a profound shift in Israel's concept of “security”: many believe they must now protect themselves and leave … ✈️

Like you entered Palestine with Balfour's promise, you will leave with Allah's promiseإ!!” … 🍉

#reclaimthenarrative — 🕊🍉 — #FreePalestine … @hrexach …

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🍉 … Zionist movement — colonial project!!

ISRAEL …

By: LaillaB, founder of ‘Reclaim the Narrative’, from LinkedIn …

“Througout the past century, the Zionist movement constructed the most sophisticated settler-colonial project of our age: Israel.

The violent birth of Israel in 1948 and the subsequent occupation of the entirety of the land of Palestine in 1967 are indeed reflections of Zionism's successes in fulfilling its settler-colonial ambitions in Palestine.

Yet, while this settler-colonial project continues unabated, it is an entangled one, unable to reach the ultimate point of Jewish exclusivity in the land.

Zionist settler colonialism, as its historical precedents suggest, is fundamentally based on the operative logic of "eliminating the native".

The steadfast Palestinian presence in the land, the everyday resistance to the colonial order, and the robust Palestinian adherence to their rights all stand as structural obstacles to the ultimate realisation of the "Zionist dream."

Despite Israel's relentless colonial power and domination, Palestinian steadfastness means that this project will remain impeded and incomplete, a matter that may lead to its future demise 🕊 إن شاء الله

A Thief. Never became an owner.

📣 — It is FREE PALESTINE, until Palestine is free from the Zionist occupation.” … 🍉#

#DecolonizePalestine … #FreePalestine …

#reclaimthenarrative 🍉

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🗺️ — Update on “PEACE” … LAND GRAB!!

By: LaillaB, founder of ‘Reclaim the Narrative’, from LinkedIn …

“Stealing is a shortcut to Power.

Palestine today only encompasses 22% of the land that was under British mandate from 1922 to 1948. This is less than half of what the inhabitants of Palestine were offered (but rejected) by the United Nations partition plan of 1947.

Behind the horror of sniper shootings, fighter jets, tank incursions, starvation, collective punishment and razing of houses - that have attracted the world's attention, in there lies something undramatic - LAND!

From the beginning, the two objectives of the Zionist movement have been the acquisition of land in Palestine and the attraction of Jews from all over the world to settle-that land.

Even before the official founding of the World Zionist Organization, in the last half of the 19th century, the Zionist dream had been to own land in “Eretz Israel”.

The idea of publicly owned land was at the heart of a proposal made at the first Zionist congress at Basel in 1896, to found a company for the specific purpose of purchasing land.

The land bought by this company, later called Ha-Keren Ha-Keymeth Leisrael (Eternal Fund for Israel) and also known as the Jewish National Fund, would be for the settlement of Jews in Palestine; it would become Jewish property permanently, never to be sold or disposed.

In 1905 the Zionists made their first land purchase in Palestine. 2 years later, the Keren Keymeth was formally registered as a company in Great Britain.

First in the list of the company's objectives was the acquisition of land or rights to land in the region including "Palestine, Syria or any other parts of Turkey in Asia and the Peninsula of Sinai or any part thereof, for the purpose of settling Jews on those lands."

It eventually became the largest company of its kind and enjoyed the support of a wide range of Zionist factions.

The first basic principle that governed the company’s activities was;

🔻— Conquest of the Land!

First, land was to be acquired by every means possible; company officials were to have no compunction about using persuasion, bribery or deception as long as the end was achieved

A sampling of company bulletins and progress reports or the statements of its executives will impress the reader with their indignation at the very presence of Arabs in Palestine, owning the land and living off it, and with the sense that the company's aim was to uproot and wipe out all trace of the natives to make room for Zionist settlers.

Very rarely did company officials speak of “stealing” land; instead, they use expressions like "liberating”, “emancipating" and “redeeming" land.

The slogan "redemption of the land," which the company coined, seems to have served as a war cry for Zionist colonists in Palestine,

But it’s a dead end road.

Israel’s ‘land for lives’ is Theft.

Pure and simple!! — 🗺️

#reclaimthenarrative — 🍉🕊 — #FreePalestine … @hrexach