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14 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Dear fellow Arabs, the best thing you can do to support us is to rise against your own corrupt dictators, they are the reason why 450 million people have to stand by and watch their holy cities get desecrated and their brethren get slaughtered during Eid.
For a decade people have asked me, "hey you're Palestinian, why are you an Arab Spring activist? Why not focus just on Palestine?" It's because I'm Palestinian and realize that there will never be a just peace in Palestine unless the regional balance of power shifts in our favor.
One of the most tragic problems with Palestinian leadership is limited ambition. Palestine is much bigger than Palestine. A true Palestinian leader has to also be a regional leader, a global figure, an inspiring humanitarian, a stubborn decolonialist, and a long-term strategist.
The "civilized" (read: white) world order does not have a Palestine problem, Palestine has a world order problem. The reason why this "conflict" is intractable is that there can be no compromise between this world order and Palestinian rights. Cont here:

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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي Profile picture
14 May
This is funny but this is kinda how the world decided that Palestine is to be "partitioned" between 1.2 million Palestinians and 600k Jews. The vast majority of these Jews were recent refugees from Europe (there were only 56k Jews in Palestine in 1918 vs 700k Palestinians)...
The world decided that recently arrived European Jewish refugees can get 58% of Palestine including the cities that were centers of Palestinian cultural life and nationalism such as Jaffa, Haifa, etc. No Palestinian was consulted. This is how the "two state solution" was born.
When Israelis tell Palestinians "you had a chance to build your own state but you blew it", this is what they mean - they mean that they could have let us have 43% of our own land and they keep most of it, but we refused, so we deserve to have none of our land.
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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي Profile picture
14 May
Very short thread about race, because some people are trying to say I'm being "racist" for identifying white supremacism as a major system of oppression that has directly impacted my life (and continues to):
Races (in the biological sense) do not exist. Races are not real, they are manufactured. They're a technology of power used to include certain people under the "liberal promise" and exclude others from it. Whiteness is not about skin color but about status in this system.
The reason why "you can't be racist to white people" is because those who are perennially underprivileged and excluded do not have the power and aren't running anything that allows them to exclude white people from anything. Racism is not bigotry, it's exclusion.
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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي Profile picture
14 May
So I don't know if this is about Palestine, but let's assume that it is. The problem with the question is assuming that a problem that began nearly a century ago, and got worse at each juncture (thanks to the "world order"), can be "solved" in a few weeks of diplomacy
In the short to medium term there is no solution possible. We can have a sustainable solution in 20-25 years, if we start today. If you do not adopt this framing you will *not* be helping, you will get nowhere, and you will just be digging a deeper hole
If no solution is possible now, what should we be doing? We should be centering the oppressed, talking about their civil and human rights, elevating their voices, defending their bodies and their homes, while also organizing the movement and planning for the long term
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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي Profile picture
14 May
As a Palestinian I find this statement hostile. There will never be a two-state solution and white liberals need to accept that and stop deceiving themselves and gaslighting us Palestinians. There is a one-state reality and it's called apartheid. Wake up and smell the apartheid.
Speaking as a Palestinian who was a child when the Oslo Accords were signed: Those who supported a two-state solution owe us an apology. Meanwhile those who *still* think a two-state solution is possible are out of touch with reality and no longer deserve to be taken seriously.
The 2SS framework has for decades allowed Israel to extend the status quo and escape accountability, thereby extending Palestinian suffering, all towards an unworkable goal. It was smoke & mirrors pulled upon us while they annex more of our land and establish apartheid
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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي Profile picture
14 May
"Israel has the right to defend itself" @JoeBiden
Not only are they genocidal, they're also tragically blind. There are 6.5 million Jewish Israelis. There are 450 million Arabs. If I was a rational Jewish Israeli I'd be spending all my time trying to make peace, the long future of this conflict is not at all to their advantage.
For the record Abby Martin is *hugely* problematic and I feel dirty retweeting her but I urge you to ignore her and focus on the video. This is a war of narratives, and the racism in the Israeli psyche needs to be platformed and exposed.
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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي Profile picture
12 May
Thank you, @Trevornoah. Zionism did not begin with the Holocaust, but Israel was founded a mere three years after the end of the Holocaust, a crime committed by white Europe. Since then, Israel has had nothing but unconditional support from mostly white Western nations.
The white world did the crime and convicted us Palestinians to do the time. The white world decided that we the Palestinians were going to be eternally crucified for their own sins. They decided we are to be the quarry from which restitution is eternally mined.
Today the same white countries express their "concern" and pose as "mediators" and "observers" even as they enabled Israeli policies for decades. Their mostly white media outlets routinely "both side" apartheid and present us as the problem, as if our existence is inconvenient
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