#palestinian territory

[bostonwalks]

State of Palestine only can exist in Jordan, Saudi Arabia or Egypt A Palestinian State, now in 2024 - well after the Palestinians repeatedly turned down such a possibility - can only be located in empty lands of Eastern Jordan, Northeastern Saudi Arabia, or Southern Sinai/Egypt! There no longer is any possibility within Judea and Samaria because of the Israeli population explosion (almost 3/4s million Jews), nor Gaza because of its Hamas' terrorist indoctrinated population! The territorial history of "Palestine" would support such locations for a new State of Palestine! https://www.hudson.org/node/44363

[wherepond]

Saudi FM Palestinian rights

Saudi FM hits back at reporter's Gaza refugee question

"The Palestinians have a right to their land and they have the right to live in safety and dignity and security on their land"

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud’s response — to a question posed on 29 November 2024 about Arab countries’ readiness to accept Palestinians as refugees amid Israel’s war on the besieged Gaza enclave — has garnered attention on social media.

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[good-old-gossip]

Social media users from around the globe are paying tribute this week to journalist and activist Mousa Qous, a long-time prominent figure in Jerusalem’s Afro-Palestinian community.

Mousa was the executive director of the African Community Society in the Old City of Jerusalem. Much of his life was dedicated to the Palestinian cause and highlighting the often-overlooked experience of Afro-Palestinians.

He passed due to a fire in his home on 9 February and is survived by his wife Joharah and his children, Mohammad and Shaden. An article he wrote for Skin Deep Magazine has been heavily circulated since the news of his passing, in which he wrote about the history and nuanced experience of Afro-Palestinians.

“It is a very specific experience, existing both as an overlooked part of a city’s history and as a persecuted community within a persecuted community,” he wrote. In it, he also interviewed his daughter, 22-year-old Birzeit law student Shaden, who is also very active in the community.

“Israeli forces do not treat the Afro-Palestinian community with humanity,” she said.

“[They] refer to us with the term Koshi [Hebrew for ‘Negro’], while the local Palestinian community calls me Samra [Arabic for ‘Dark woman’]. I am always reminded of my colour and that I am different.”

Shaden, who is also an American citizen, has been very vocal about the Palestinian cause despite Israel’s continuous crackdown on pro-Palestine content online. Israel arrested her on 6 January on charges of “incitement” for social media posts, delaying her release until 10 February – just mere hours after her father’s burial was completed.

There were also reports that Israeli forces stormed the Qous household while many were gathered in mourning, and detained Mousa’s brother, Nasser, the head of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Club.

✍️ Maysa Mustafa / MEE

[workersolidarity]

🇵🇸 MOTHER PALESTINE

✍️ "Mother Palestine"

A Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.

Via@QudsNewsAgency

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[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

Ramallah, April 10 - A central sticking point of the Arab-Israeli conflict may well disappear, observers say, because one side had realized the insurmountable financial hurdle its fulfillment would present: property values in Israel's commercial and financial capital have reached such heights that any aspiration of "reclaiming" it for the descendants of 1948 Arab refugees will prove beyond the means of even the wealthiest ones.

Reviews of Tel Aviv real estate prices have sent Palestinians reeling, witnesses report, as the data hit them with the sobering realization that they will never, even in another four generations, be able to afford to live there.

"The Right of Return is the Holy of Holies," declared Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. "It's just that... well, it seems impractical, given the information now available to us. Tel Aviv is the most desirable land to seize from the Zionist usurper, of course. What we must also take into account, however, is the day after that seizure, what that means for a sustainable way to live..."

"What I'm saying is, never mind about that Right of Return," he continued. "Let's talk about our other demands."

Hundreds of thousands of Arabs fled British Mandate Palestine in late 1947 and early 1948 as Jews and Arabs fought for control of population centers and farmland. Governments of the surrounding Arab countries urged their brethren to move out of the way to enable a swift Arab victory over the poorly-equipped, outnumbered, besieged Jews of the territory, after which the Arab residents could loot their fill, and many complied. Several cases of Jewish fighters chasing out Arabs occurred in strategic areas where those villages controlled access to Jewish communities, but the vast majority of the 1947-48 Arab refugees never saw a Jewish fighter. Israel declared statehood in May 1948 and mounted a successful war of survival, holding on to significant territorial gains and preventing the Arab refugees from returning.

The international community has kept those refugees and their descendants in perpetuity in a state of stateless limbo, unlike all other refugee populations that are resettled in new countries within years of displacement - thus nurturing the hope of reversing the shameful defeat in 1948 at the hands of the lowly Jews. The promise of that return has long sat at the very core of Palestinian demands for any final-status agreement with Israel.

But one gander at real estate prices in Tel Aviv put the kibosh on that.

[luthienne]

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese

Injustice: Palestinian children’s experience of the Israeli military detention system

[gregor-samsung]

עץ לימון- شجرة ليمون [Lemon tree] (Eran Riklis, 2008)

[huariqueje]

“I am calling for justice, not for peace … maybe peace will be the bonus that we’ll get out of it. But I am not sure that two people are ready for peace, but there is one people who deserve justice. And this must be pushed by the world.” - Gideon Levy ,  israeli journalist 

[karinyosa]

reminder that you can email congress for a ceasefire here and the white house here. don't forget to mention/also email about us government ending funding to israel and sanctioning them, and holding them accountable for war crimes, but the immediate need right now is a ceasefire. there are other online writing actions on the first link including calling the white house

[verycleverboy]

Trump's Gaza gambit: You might as well move. It's not we're going to give you a choice.

The latest on the Trump-Netanyahu Gaza ethnic cleansing plan towards a single-state solution, per the Washington Post:

President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed moving Gazans to a “good, fresh, beautiful piece of land” in another country, offering a vision of mass displacement that would likely inflame sentiments in the Arab world as he prepared to welcome Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House. Trump framed the vision as a practical response to the physical destruction of Gaza after 16 months of intense bombardment from Israel. But given the decades-long history of the displacement of Palestinians in the region, as well as vows by the Israeli far-right to claim the Gaza Strip for themselves, Trump’s proposal was likely to provoke a furious reaction from many Palestinians as well as their Arab allies in the region, since it suggested permanently removing Gaza’s 2.2 million residents from Palestinian territory and settling them somewhere else. Trump did not specify where the new land might be found, although he made his comments after repeating his desire for Egypt and Jordan to take in Gaza’s residents. Nor did he appear to grapple with the many Gaza residents who would not want to depart their land nor the practicalities of potentially forcing them to leave it, suggesting that “they'd love to leave Gaza if they had an option. Right now, they don't have an option.” The proposal was a sharp prelude to Trump’s first meeting with a foreign guest since he reclaimed the White House. It drew a sharp contrast with the Biden administration, which spent more than a year taking painstaking, repeated visits to the region to try to devise a reconstruction plan that would satisfy the kaleidoscope of competing interests over the war-battered territory.

(non-paywall mirror on MSN)

A few notes:

This was a fence-mending trip, as Netanyahu's relationship with King Baby was put under extreme pressure after he committed the unforgivable sin of (gasp!) congratulating Joe Biden for winning the 2020 election.

The meeting was delayed a little bit, possibly because of "a sizeable, but not too large, [pro-Palestinian] demonstration that is going on," according to Al Jazeera's Kimberly Halkett. But since there's another billion dollars worth of arms as a welcome wagon present (pending clearance), I'm sure Bibi didn't mind the wait.

When asked if Saudi Arabia was demanding the establishment of a Palestinian state as a pre-requisite to formalizing ties with Israel, Trump answered with a curt "No, they're not." That's got to be news to the Saudi leaders, who have not only been hammering at the point repeatedly, but have been facing domestic pressure demanding that since the latest strikes against Gaza began. Still, it wouldn't be the first time Trump lied about something to try and magic it into existence. Hell, it wouldn't even the first time since lunch.

Netanyahu also met with presumed future US ambassador to Israel Mike "No Such Thing As A Palestinian" Huckabee yesterday. Multiple sources have noted that he didn't have any American Jewish leaders on his schedule, mainly because Christian conservative evangelicals kiss his butt better.

[good-old-gossip]

“I feel it a duty to come as a witness and make my points about the similarity between the Holocaust experience and the poor people of Palestine and Gaza.”

UK police have ordered Stephen Kapos, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, in for questioning for protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The 87-year-old is among several other activists who have been also summoned by the police for a protest on Jan. 18.

[workersolidarity]

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ROCKETS FLY FROM SOUTHERN LEBANON INTO ISRAELI-OCCUPIED PALESTINE

📹 Scenes from a missile battle after several barrages of rockets are fired towards the city of Hebron from the direction of southern Lebanon, while Israeli Iron Dome air defenses work to intercept some, though not all of the rockets, some of which can be seen exploding upon landing in the Israeli occupied city as civilians chear from below.

Soon after the air battle, an Al-Jazeera report stated that rockets were also fired from southern Lebanon into the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights, while another report declared a heavy Israeli air force presence over Jersusalem.

Reports also say that Israeli air defense were active in the area of the Arqoub border area meeting with southern Lebanon, while Israeli jets were scrambled over Eilat.

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[agentfascinateur]

How countries voted on Palestine:

At least Canada abstained... 🙄

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

Source

[luthienne]

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese