Doing Zionism Quietly. A 🧵
In 1891, Theodor Herzl wrote in his diary: “we must expropriate gently the private property on the estates assigned to us” ... "the process of expropriation & the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly.” source: palestinenexus.com/articles/unspo…
The Zionist leader Jacob Thon who bought up land from Arabs in the 1910s, believed that “of course” transferring Palestinian Arabs to Transjordan was desirable... but any steps to “transfer” Arabs would have to be taken “privately.” source: us.macmillan.com/books/97808050…
Gola Meir said at the outset of a 1971 cabinet meeting, “there's something I'd like to ask. It was our habit that for anything that has to do with settlements, outposts, land expropriations and so on, we simply do and do not talk [about it]." source: archive.ph/gNkXq#selectio…
Israeli archivists have been scouring the Israeli archives on a hunt for documents related to the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes. Hundreds of documents have been concealed in “a systematic effort to hide evidence of the Nakba,” or Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in 1948. haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Once every 4 years, on US Presidential election day, w/all eyes fixated on the US, Israel does something heinous: ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their homes, breaks a ceasefire agreement w/ Palestinians or targets Palestinians for execution:
Israel does not allow foreign reporters in Gaza and is systematically murdering every last Palestinian journalist in Gaza, a practice so systematic and widespread it has its own wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_o…
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