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Remi Brulin Profile picture
@RBrulin
Aug 23, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
De facto #annexation keeps on keeping on

Question to all right-wing conservatives in the US:
You insist that you have the right to defend YOUR home with force, to bear arms and STAND YOUR GROUND, etc...
Do Palestinians have that right too?
If not, why not?
What is so striking is constant erasure of Palestinians as VICTIMS of violence at hands of Israel/Israelis. Because of this erasure, there can be NO discussion about the right of Palestinians to use force. In fact, ANY and ALL of their uses of force are condemned as "terrorism"
To me the CLEAREST example of this erasure is how the US media has remained SILENT about revelations that senior Israeli officers created & ran a terrorist group that killed hundreds of civilians in Lebanon in 1980s
Because this Israeli #terrorism never existed, question of Palestinians defending themselves vs "the terrorists" cannot possibly be raised. & yet, this Q would reveal a lot about how we REALLY think about legitimacy of the use of force vs "the terrorists":
The "war on terrorism" (a discourse pushed by Israel since late 1970s) has been abject failure. It is high time we develop RADICAL critique of discourse that has enabled & justified so many criminal & counter-productive policies. So that one day the cycle of violence may stop
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Jan 18
Note: Israel sold weapons to the Serbian army DURING the Bosnian genocide & its Supreme Court rejected a petition that would have shed light on these weapons sales.

972mag.com/israels-involv…

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ICJ has dealt w/ 3 Genocide cases before Sth Af v ISR: Bosnia, Myanmar, Russia v Ukraine. In Myanmar, Israel sold weapons to perpetrators too!
See this piece by Eitay Mack, Israeli activist who's been fighting for transparency on ISR arms sales for years:

972mag.com/myanmar-israel…
Israel has always had very close ties with Guatemala. Here is a GREAT primer on these relationships & esp on Israel's role in coup that put Rios Montt in power & its role (via weapons sales, training, surveillance technology etc...) in Montt's genocide

merip.org/1986/05/israel…
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Jan 2
In 2018 book revealed senior Israeli officers conducted secret car bombing TERRORIST campaign in LEBANON in 80s
HUNDREDS of civs were killed
US media remained SILENT about revelations & great opportunity for a serious discussion about use of force v "the terrorists" was missed
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The book, by @ronenbergman, is "Rise & Kill First," a history of Israel's uses of "targeted killings" in its fight v "the terrorists." It is a bestseller, got rave reviews everywhere in US press. Bergman gave dozens of public talks & interviews about it. He writes for @nytimes
@ronenbergman @nytimes The book contains STUNNING revelations: in early 1980s very senior Israeli officials (Dagan, Eitan, Ben-Gal & Sharon) conducted huge car bombing #terrorist campaign that killed hundreds of civilians in Lebanon. Since 2018 these revelations have NOT been mentioned ONCE in US media
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Nov 30, 2023
These videos are SO problematic:
Short snippets out of context & neatly packaged to generate buzz make it EVER HARDER to have the serious, reasoned discussions about terrorism that we NEED:
About terrorism/resistance
Terrorists/freedom fighters
Non-state & state terrorism
Etc
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Yashar Ali’s video is 1 min 12 secs long & includes 9 clips. This video has been retweeted 1000s of times, the people on this video vilified as Hamas supporters, as representing the “pro-Hamas, pro-murder wing of the left,” as morally depraved etc. But this goes beyond Twitter Image
Several newspapers published articles with headlines like “Speakers at US city council meeting say condemning Hamas is ‘racist’” or “Outrage as Speakers Defend Hamas During Oakland City Council Meeting.” The ONLY quotes used in these articles are taken from the Yashar Ali video
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Nov 15, 2023
I am so old I remember this, from Nov 14, 2023:

(the goal posts, they are a-moving)
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After "the goal posts keep a-moving" I give you : "the more things change...."
The Israeli discourse on terrorism is PURE PROPAGANDA:
Here is Lebanon
No Hamas, no terror tunnels, no human shields etc... but the same indiscriminate bombing, same massive killing of civilians, ALL in the name of fighting the evil barbaric terrorists
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Jan 21, 2022
1: This counts because Israeli perpetrators are admitting they did it. Until now only Palestinian victims & witnesses made such claims & of course that doesn’t count
2: Sometimes EVEN when Israeli perps admit guilt that’s NOT enough & Israeli crimes remain buried & covered up
In early 1980s Palestinians & Lebanese people repeatedly insisted that deadly car bombing claimed by mysterious terrorist group called the FLLF were in fact perpetrated by Israel. These claims were treated as conspiracy theory. Israel insisted this was “Arab on Arab violence”
This deadly terrorist campaign (several hundred civilians were killed, countless more maimed) was forgotten (in the West at least) until @ronenbergman published his book Rise & Kill First in 2018. That book got rave reviews everywhere. And it contained STUNNING revelations:
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Jan 20, 2022
Your reminder that THIS is why the US so strongly opposes the ICC
And that the so-called "war on terrorism" is an absolute sham: "we" are clearly more than ready to bomb civilian targets, including when doing so could kill TENS OF THOUSANDS, & we will LIE about it after the fact
The idea of targeting dams is not new. Here are particularly insane & psychopathic exchanges between Kissinger & Nixon (from April & May 1972) about using precisely such tactics in Vietnam. But remember, "we" are never terrorists. Only "they" can be.
As in many other cases investigated by that team of NYT journos, Task Force 9 simply claimed this strike was "in self defense" to circumvent rules of engagement. It's perfect illustration of everything's that's so wrong w/ GWOT: EVERYTHING we do is justified as "in self defense"
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