#intifada is not peaceful

[jewelleria]

you don’t want a global intifada.

this is intifada:

but wait, isn’t it “polite resistance to occupation”?

what the fuck is an “aggressive nonviolent resistance”? it’s an oxymoron is what it is.

stop calling for violence. it will end in violence against everyone, not just the people you want it to be directed at. including you.

[amaditalks]

There are four possibilities for the people chanting “globalize the intifada” and “intifada everywhere” and none of them are any good.

They don’t care that they’re calling for mass terrorist violence and deaths because they don’t care who lives or dies. (The nihilist option.)

They assume that anyone who’d be killed in such violence deserves it and haven’t considered that it could easily be someone they claim to care about. (The true terrorist option.)

They’re willing to sacrifice the people they care about for “the movement.” (The true terrorist plus volunteering others for martyrdom option.)

They’re happy to chant whatever the loudest person tells them to, and they have no idea what the intifada even is. (The ignorant lemming option.)

People have to do better.

[jewish-microwave-laser]

A majority of Israelis supported the Oslo Accords. Partly the changing mood was a result of the intifada: a growing number of Israelis had concluded that the price for absorbing the territories was too high, that occupation undermined Israel's Jewish and democratic values, that the Jewish people hadn't returned home to deprive another people of its sense of home. And so if the right's policies had led to the intifada, then the left's policies ought to be given a try. The 1970s and '80s had been the decades of Greater Israel, and the '90s seemed about to become the decade of Peace Now.

There was also, as Rabin noted, the changing international atmosphere. During the Sebastia showdown of 1975, much of the public had supported Gush Emunim as an expression of its contempt for the UN's Zionism-racism solution. But Israel was no longer being instantly demonized, and Israelis responded with a readiness to take risks for peace.

from "Part Five: End of the Six-Day War (1992–2004)" in Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation by Yossi Klein Halevi, p. 481

[eretzyisrael]

[anchorsnreignbows]

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[imaginesyphilishappy]

"She raised her daughter alone due to her husband's circumstances. He had to stay in Turkey, and they dreamed of the day when the family would be reunited. But fate had them separated forever. Literally, Malak was everything to Baraa in life. Every time I visited the country, I would see them and witness Baraa's boundless love for her daughter." Baraa, my friend from university days, was always a delicate and cherished girl. She loved life, and she loved her daughter Malak more than anything in the world. That's why she couldn't bear to be separated from her, and Allah wanted to reunite them together. She studied Information Technology at the Islamic University, a humble, kind, and simple girl. Her family was very respectable, residing in Al-Nuseirat. She had a talent for crochet work, and she excelled at it. She even had an Instagram page dedicated to her creations. After their family home was targeted for the first time, her brother Youssef was martyred immediately, and Malak was critically injured and spent a night in intensive care. On that night, I received a call in the middle of the night from a Palestinian number, and I was filled with fear. I quickly answered, and it was my devastated friend Baraa on the other end, begging me to pray for her daughter, saying, 'Pray for my daughter, Narmeen. I just want her to live.' On February 21st, Malak was martyred. Like every Palestinian mother grieving the loss of her beloved child, Baraa was shattered mentally. She told me, 'Life has ended. Oh Lord, take me to her.'

I'd like to think I'd be out protesting just for her but I'll never have to wonder because there are 40,000 other murdered civilians and another 2 million at risk

as the death toll mounts and more and more mass graves are discovered, you'll see politicians and talking heads slowly changing their tune, they did this in Iraq, Vietnam, and more. I'll fight to live in a world where we can have solidarity with the living oppressed, and not just corpses

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Did you see the other day? A couple of days ago, a man got arrested for carrying a sign that said 'Hamas Are Terrorists'? Did you see that?

Wait now, he got arrested for that, because that is just blatant disinformation, isn't it? I know Hamas are not terrorists. I checked it on the BBC Fact Check website, so I know that they're definitely not.

But of course, you know, it's very difficult at the moment because we saw the protests, we're having them every weekend. It's really fucking up my shopping, you know, and there was that moment where Hizb ut-Tahrir which is a group that is outlawed in most Arab countries, Hizb ut-Tahrir was standing there calling for jihad.

Now to be fair on the Met Police, they acted very swiftly, didn't they? They put a Tweet out, didn't they? Put a Tweet out and it said, 'the word jihad has a number of meanings...' And it does, you know.

We assume that jihad means 'holy war,' but it's actually, it's more of a kind of yoga retreat. You know, it's more... it's just, it's very peaceful. I went for a jihad at my local spa, and it was, I had a lovely, I had this thing called an intifada. It's, you know, it's like a, it's a face wash. It's a kind of, a tea tree, lavender, all that kind of stuff. It's at the River to the Sea Beauty Experience. You should try that.

Allah forbid the pro-Hamas supporters hear that the terrorist organization Hamas are terrorists.

Hamas are terrorists. It's stunning that telling the truth is now an arrestable offence. And it's telling that the truth needs to go unstated to "prevent breach of the peace" by those who don't want to hear it.

Apparently, it's fine for Jews to be constantly told that Israel is conducting a fictional "genocide," but supporters of Hamas and the "religion of peace" will lose their minds if they hear that Hamas are factually terrorists.

[lets-listen]

The words of Elica Le Bon, Iranian attorney, activist and musical artist.

From her Instagram: @elicalebon

[bloodycoolfrye]

Massive crowds of Iranian mourners accompany the bodies of assassinated Hamas's Political Bureau Chief Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard, identified as Wasim Abu Shaaban, to Azadi Square in Tehran on August 1, 2024.

[bisexualfaggotry]

and are the “peaceful protesters” in the room with us right now

[jewish-microwave-laser]

hey so the language in this post is really concerning. we can and should talk about horrible things being done to palestinians by the israeli state and its operatives without dehumanizing israelis like this. additionally, saying peace is not possible is a VERY scary talking point for what i hope are obvious reasons, especially when you take into account the plethora of joint israeli-palestinian organizations that work towards the exact things this post is saying are impossible

dehumanization is bad in all cases. end of

People fail to understand the degree of insane bloodthirst and dehumanization taught to 'israelis' like the one in front of this image. She genuinely sees the woman in the back as vermin and finds fun in tormenting her. This is a core tenet of their culture. They will humiliate Palestinians in whichever way they can on any given day ranging from petty to lethal. Their textbooks have caricatures. They draw unibrows on themselves and dream about Disneyland in Gaza on TikTok. They make fun of dead babies by comparing them to food.

This photo is 'israel'. There is no peaceful conversation with people whose heart's desire is to do this. There is no peace or dignity while the occupation lasts.

[eretzyisrael]

[lemedstudent2021]

they israeled the food

[lestbian]

this day (march 16th) 21 years ago (2003), american activist rachel corrie was crushed to death by an israeli bulldozer while she protested the demolition of palestinian homes in rafah. she was 24. this april, she would have turned 45.

Sandra Jordan wrote in The Observer that because Corrie was American her death attracted more attention than the deaths of Palestinians under similar circumstances: "On the night of Corrie's death, nine Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip, among them a four-year-old girl and a man aged 90. A total of 220 people have died in Rafah since the beginning of the intifada. Palestinians know the death of one American receives more attention than the killing of hundreds of Muslims." (Wikipedia)

while we honor corrie's sacrifice, we must remember what she fought for. you can read her emails from rafah about her experiences in palestine at the rachel corrie foundation for peace and justice, organized by her parents cindy and craig who continue her work.

donate to UNRWA donate to Help Gaza Children donate to PCRF buy e-sims for Gazans

ramadan kareem and may we see a free palestine in our lifetimes.

[zvaigzdelasas]

Do you have an analysis on Sinwar being the new politburo chief? Very unexpected choice.

Have a couple thoughts:

Dissolving more of the barrier between Hamas as a political organization & as an insurgent organization

Spitting in Israel's face who was hoping that a decapitation strike would leave hamas with a leader lacking broader political legitimacy in the organization or create divisions/deepen divisions between civilian governance & militant organization

Lessens the leverage Qatar has over Hamas as they were providing Haniyeh with refuge

Since Sinwar is (presumably) in Gaza, his presence will likely be used to justify decreasingly discriminate attacks even moreso than it was before

Likely much more uncompromising (not to imply Haniyeh was) in negotiations

Israel and the US will have to directly negotiate with someone they despise

Dropsite News describes sinwar as such:

Despite the sinister portrayals, Sinwar’s writings and media interviews indicate he is a complex thinker with clearly defined political objectives who believes in armed struggle as a means to an end. He gives the impression of a well-educated political militant, not a cult leader on a mass suicide crusade. “It's not this black image of Sinwar as a man with two horns living in the tunnels,” said Hamad, the Hamas official who worked directly with Sinwar for three years. “But in the time of war, he's very strong. This man is very strong. If he wants to fight, he fights seriously.”

In 1988, just months after Hamas was founded, Sinwar was arrested by Israeli forces and sentenced to four life sentences on charges he had personally murdered alleged Palestinian collaborators. During his 22 years in an Israeli prison, he became fluent in Hebrew and studied the history of the Israeli state, its political culture, and its intelligence and military apparatus. He translated by hand the memoirs of several former heads of the Israeli intelligence agency Shin Bet. “When I entered [prison], it was 1988, the Cold War was still going on. And here [in Palestine], the Intifada. To spread the latest news, we printed fliers. I came out, and I found the internet,” Sinwar told an Italian journalist in 2018. “But to be honest, I never came out—I have only changed prisons. And despite it all, the old one was much better than this one. I had water, electricity. I had so many books. Gaza is much tougher.”[...]

Sinwar, unlike leaders of Al Qaeda or ISIS, has regularly invoked international law and UN resolutions, exhibiting a nuanced understanding of the history of negotiations with Israel mediated by the U.S. and other nations. “Let's be clear: having an armed resistance is our right, under international law. But we don't only have rockets. We have been using a variety of means of resistance,” he said in the 2018 interview. “We make the headlines only with blood. And not only here. No blood, no news. But the problem is not our resistance, it is their occupation. With no occupation, we wouldn't have rockets. We wouldn't have stones, Molotov cocktails, nothing. We would all have a normal life."

Throughout 2018 and 2019, Sinwar endorsed the large-scale nonviolent protests along the walls and fences of Gaza known as the Great March of Return. “We believe that if we have a way to potentially resolve the conflict without destruction, we’re O.K. with that,” Sinwar said at a rare news conference in 2018. “We would prefer to earn our rights by soft and peaceful means. But we understand that if we are not given those rights, we are entitled to earn them by resistance.”[...]

After the end of Israel’s 11-day bombing campaign against Gaza, Sinwar spoke to VICE News and sought to frame the Palestinian struggle in a U.S. context, using recent cases of lethal police violence against African Americans. “The same type of racism that killed George Floyd is being used by [Israel] against the Palestinians in Jerusalem, the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, and in the West Bank. And by the burning of our children. And against the Gaza Strip through siege, murder, and starvation.”

And additionally (echoing the words of Hagari)

Support among Palestinians for Hamas and its Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar, according to the recent poll, “remains very high” and has increased during the past three months. At the same time, while two-thirds of Palestinians polled in the occupied territories believe that Hamas will “win the war,” only 48 percent of those in Gaza agreed.

Hamas has insisted the war cannot destroy its movement and will remain part of the tapestry of Palestinian factions governing its besieged and occupied territories. “What matters is that you finally realize that Hamas is here. That it exists. That there is no future without Hamas, there is no possible deal whatsoever, because we are part and parcel of this society, even if we lose the next elections,” Sinwar warned in 2018. “But we are a piece of Palestine. More than that, we are a piece of the history of the entire Arab world, which includes Islamists as well as seculars, nationalists, leftists.”

Daniel Hagari has also echoed this last bit [TimesOfIsrael is Israeli Private Media]

“Hamas is an idea, Hamas is a party. It’s rooted in the hearts of the people — anyone who thinks we can eliminate Hamas is wrong,” he continued.

Rumors are that Netanyahu is trying to figure out necromancy in order to bring Haniyeh back

Also check out this interview conducted by Vice

[bioethicists]

i'm sure it will hit the news soon but today brandeis university had several students arrested at a peaceful protest based solely on the insistence that shouting "from the river to the sea, palestine will be free" + mentioning the word intifada is hate speech. our president is prioritizing short-term funding from wealthy israelis + wealthy supporters of israel by condoning a genocide + suppressing free speech on campus, even as IDF soldiers give talks to our student body. our chapter of sjp was suspended due to unsubstantiated accusations that it "supports hamas" after a palestinian student who has lost her entire family in this atrocity tried to organize a vigil for the lost. there is a huge contingent of the student body, including the entire anthropology grad department, who supports a liberated palestine + we have been threatened, condescended to, + censored in order to give off the impression that the university "stands with israel".

tikkun olam means palestinian liberation. never again means never again.