More than example of apartheid, Israel’s failure to provide vaccinations to the W. Bank and Gaza is the embodiment of toxic occupation, where the Oslo Accords have become the foundations of occupation, rather than an engine to ending it.
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Even as late as last year this could have been different - even without an end to occupation.
Palestinian and Israeli medical care providers know how to work together, and are the most egalitarian in each respective society.
There is no excuse for not providing vaccinations
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Why didn’t it happen?
2 reasons.
Because 53 years of occupation have instilled in many Israelis that we’ve nothing to do w/ Palestinians, & they’re imbued w/ a diminished humanity anyway. Occupation denial.
2nd reason?
Because Netanyahu.
It could have been different.
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...and a shoutout to the “normalizers” who in word and deed shout in their own way: “Palestinian lives matter less, and at times not at all”.
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1. I know that I am the occupier and not the occupied. But occupation is the greatest existential threat to the long term viability of Israel.
Israel will end occupation, or occupation will be the end of us.
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2. Anything that perpetuates occupation is bad. It is devastating to the Palestinian people, their dignity &their rights to self determination, and very harmful to Israel.
3. The goal of the Trump Plan is to denationalize the Palestinians, creating occupation with deodorant.
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4. Palestinians across town despair of ever ending occupation; my Israeli compatriots are in deep denial, sipping cappuccino on the edge of volcano.
5. The Trump Plan tells Palestinians to abandon hope, and Israelis not to worry about an occupation that does not exist.
"There are moments and situations in the life of a nation, as in the life of a person, when you find yourself standing in awe.
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And you don't understand how this happened, and who could have thought, and how is it and you try to enlist explanations from various fields, economic, social, anthropological, philosophical and psychological explanations, and you once again don't believe how is this possible
3. The plan keeps being ressurrected because it is the darling of the ultra-Orthodox. The land reserves in Jerusalem have been pretty mmuch exhausted, and the haredim are leaving for Beit Shemesh and the settlements of Beitar and Modi'in Illit.
They are pushing.
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44. There is even talk of a surrealistic plan to build a tunnel under the Qalandia Refugee Camp, linking the planned Atarot settlement with the exisiting West Bank settlement of Kochav Yaacov.
The announcement of the ICC prosecutor is Netanyahu's true legacy. He brought us here, and deserves full credit.
True. He did not invent occupation, or settlements, or the settler regime that enforces occupation. That began the day after the war in 1967.
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However, with one exception, every Israeli Prime Minister since Rabin has recognized the exstence of occupation and its perils to Israel
They did so halfheartedly while perpetuating that occupation. But some acted in good faith to end it, however inadequately. Not Netanyahu
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For the past decade, Netanyahu has willfully, systematically placed all of the powers of government in service of making the end of occupation impossible. He denied and denies its very existence. He double down on its most toxic manifestations.
This incisive and courageous thread in Hebrew tweeted this past Thursday by @nirhasson, Haaretz’s Pulitzer-class Jerusalem correspondent needs to be read by a broad audience.
“On Monday, I wrote that using force to enable entry of Jews to the Temple Mt on Eid al Adha would encourage extremists. Today, 2 kids ran towards a policeman w/a knife. If I now write that the two are related, I’ll be accused of supporting terror"
“Just one question: how many times need this happen before it's determined that there is a correlation between brutal conduct on the Mount and attacks.”
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The claim that Congresswomen @IlhanMN and @RashidaTlaib had an itinerary dedicated to harm and incite against Israel is directed not only against them, but against myself.
I was part of the itinerary purported to aspire to harm Israel and incite against us.
That is a lie.
I am an Israeli and was honored to be asked to give the Congresswomen an onsite tour and overview of the geopolitics of East Jerusalem. I of course agreed.
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Had the Congresswomen be granted access, this coming Monday I would have shown the the eactly same geopolitical realities of East Jerusalem as I have done with many other decision makers and opinion shapers in Israel, Palestine and beyond.
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