Thread by @shadihamid

Israel's "generous offer" to Palestinians is the myth that will never die. I've never met a single Palestinian who thinks the offer was "generous." Presumably what they think matters. Unless one thinks that there's something fundamentally irrational about Palestinians as a people

https://twitter.com/TalHeinrich/status/1392889937536692227

Israel's "generous offer" was not generous. But once the propaganda started (spread by Bill Clinton to deflect responsibility), it never stopped. I discuss the myth of the generous offer in this essay: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

I'm glad folks are starting to say the quiet part out loud. It basically comes down to this: Palestinians don't know what's good for them. They're irrational and self-destructive. It's just a couple short steps from that to say that they deserve it. The dehumanization of a people

It's amazing to me. A large group that consists of millions of individual human beings—and we're talking about them like they're a monolithic mass of crazy people who should be grateful that Israel is giving them nice leaflets before it blows their homes into smithereens.

Another myth: that "Palestinians" (again, a mass of undifferentiated, genocidal people) all want to erase Israel. Some Palestinians want that. Many more Palestinians have wanted an equitable and just two-state solution. Most of the polling we have makes this abundantly clear.

If only the Palestinians had an actual partner for peace—but no one can argue, in good faith, that Netanyahu supports an independent, contiguous Palestinian state. Because he doesn't, and has said so. His far-right allies, meanwhile, have been quite open about ethnic "transfer"

Netanyahu's partners and allies—for years now—have been advocating annexation (without granting Palestinians citizenship), sending Palestinians to live in other Arab countries (as if we're all the same), and even expelling Arab *citizens* of Israel

I've never seen more dehumanization of Palestinians as a people as I've seen in the last two days. I'm sure it was similar during the last war in 2014. But this discourse of Palestinians being an undifferentiated mass of hateful, genocidal people with a death wish has to stop

Talking about Palestinians as if they're less than human—without rights and dignity—is still normal in in Washington and in American public debate. It's remarkable. But this is where we're at.

Are we honestly meant to pretend that an occupied people isn't occupied and that they should be grateful to their occupiers?

There are honestly people on this website, while entire apartment blocks are decimated, who insist that the Israeli army is the most just, humanitarian army in the history of warfare and that no one cares for Palestinians lives more than they do. I'm not joking. Come on.