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RT @elivalley:

A ceasefire is just the beginning. We will not rest until Palestine is free.

Germany's active support for Israel's genocide against Palestinians is all the more sickening when you understand the striking parallels with Germany's first genocide, against the Herero and Nama people in Namibia. Germany colonized Namibia in the late 19th century and began seizing land from the Herero and Nama, forcing them into reservations, abusing and murdering them, and establishing settlements on their territory - exactly as Israel has been doing to the Palestinians for generations. In 1904, the Herero and Nama took up arms and rebelled against their colonizers. In the process they killed over 100 German settlers. Germany, enraged at this show of resistance by a subjugated people they considered racially inferior, retaliated with overwhelming genocidal violence. They massacred the rebels and cut the people off from food, water and basic supplies, causing mass death from starvation, dehydration and exposure. In a second stage of the genocide, they forced people into concentration camps where the majority died of diseases and abuse. German soldiers routinely and systematically raped women and children in the camps. The Germans used the rebellion, and the death of settlers, to whip up popular outrage about "violent savages" to dehumanize the people, to justify mass extermination, and accelerate their plans to ethnically cleanse the region. All told, the Germans killed between 34,000 and 110,000 people during the genocide. These events bear striking similarities to the Israeli case. A long history of colonization and ethnic cleansing triggers a revolt from the colonized, and the colonizers respond with overwhelming disproportionate violence to destroy the society and accelerate ethnic cleansing. The same pattern occurred repeatedly during the genocide of Indigenous peoples in North America. Colonizers stole Indigenous land and cut people off from the means of survival; Indigenous people would resist and sometimes in the process kill settlers; and the colonial state would whip up a storm of outrage sufficient to provide popular support for genocidal violence and more ethnic cleansing. Israel's genocide is a contemporary expression of the same colonial violence, with the same ideological underpinnings. Germany has formally apologised for the Herero and Nama genocide. If they had any shred of moral integrity they would now remove support from Israel and do everything possible to stop its assault on the Palestinian people.

Never before in human history has a society worshipped the death and destruction and mutilation and starvation of children like the Israelis. Israelis react to the news of an Arab child dying like a dog reacts to the sound of its leash

I have received word that Dennis Prager is reciting the shehada and accepting that there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger!

Starving hundreds of thousands to death has been described as a "controversial plan" by @abcnews. Some agree with it while others disagree. It's a contested subject. Who's to say whether it's right or wrong? Views and opinions differ and ABC journalists must not take sides.

Geoguessr pro goes Sri Lanka on Israel 🇱🇰

shame on all those people who said the doctors who visited Gaza were fabricators and liars and Hamas sympathizers. These people did incredibly difficult work in traumatizing conditions, only to be viciously smeared by people who don't know what they're talking about.

After a bunch of online "experts" popped up to accuse the NYT of faking CT scans showing Gazan children shot in the head, the Times confirms that it has photo evidence corroborating the scans that is too horrific to make public. Hope all the people who boosted this lie are proud.

The inhumanity of the Western press, pundits, and most political leaders is astounding. We have returned to the worst periods of colonialism, when any resistance by "natives" was described as horrific, while systematic killing of tens/hundreds of thousands was largely ignored.

Any deliberate attack on peacekeepers is a grave violation of international humanitarian law and of Security Council resolution 1701. We are following up with the IDF on these matters.

I am becoming more and more reminded of the USSR: both the way in which official language is being emptied of even tangential relationship to truth, and the official smirk that says "We both know that I am lying, and there is nothing you can do about it".

“Humans can create infinite needs. The market dominates us, and it robs us of our lives.” 💯

Israeli politicians talk about “annihilating” whole populations. Really these gangsters must be stopped.

Statement on the two-way arms trade with the State of Israel As the Albanese Government last week tried to make the genocide in Gaza about themselves, there were staggering revelations in Senate Estimates about the scale of the two-way arms trade with Israel. Full statement👇

Yemen has a population 15 times bigger than Gaza. Violent deaths in Yemen - some caused by the Saudi-led coalition, others by the other parties in the conflict - are 150,000. Direct deaths from Saudi-led airstrikes, for example, are estimated to be 15,000. It's also estimated that 227,000 have been killed due to hunger and the collapse of the healthcare system. This is an atrocious death toll which happened over the space of 10 years. The first time you ever tweeted about Yemen's war was 22 days ago. You did so believing that I had never taken an interest in Yemen, when a few seconds of googling would have revealed that I've written about Yemen for 8 years, and I've travelled to a Yemeni refugee camp to film a documentary about this horror. You did not raise Yemen because you cared about slaughtered Yemenis. You did so in an attempt to deflect from the mass murder of Palestinians. The lives of Yemenis, to you, matter only to strip away the value of Palestinian lives. But in doing so, you inadvertently underscored the scale of the horror in Gaza. You see, adjusting for population size, the equivalent of 525,000 Gazans have been killed. Not over 10 years, but in four months. It gets worse. As the death toll of Yemen which you quote - which you only googled in an attempt to belittle the atrocity of Gaza - acknowledges, most people in such wars do not die because of the violence. They die because of, say, the destruction of the healthcare system and hunger. And so it will be with Gaza, too. The proportion of Gazans who have suffered violent deaths in 4 months has exceeded that of Yemen's deaths *from violence, hunger, lack of healthcare, and all other causes* in 10 years. When all this is finished, there will not only be far more violent deaths in Gaza. There will be many more who have died because its people have been deprived of food, clean water, shelter and medical care. In other words, the proportion of Gazans killed will be many orders greater than the number killed in Yemen. So leaving aside that Palestine attracts interest because it is a generations-old injustice, with ethnic cleansing, mass slaughter, occupation, colonisation, land theft, mass incarceration, torture and apartheid going back decades. What you have achieved here, through your inhumanity, your tragic lack of respect for the value of Palestinian or indeed Yemeni life, is to underline the fact that Gaza is one of the great atrocities of our time.

no youre right its good to send money to the worst army of all time so they can friendly fire each other while trying to carpet bomb orphans

#melbourne #palestine