One more piece of context on Palestine's fate: the currently hawkish Israeli government was facing a leftist surge in favor of political cooperation with Arab nations these past elections. The violent right in Israel could really use strong anti-Arab sentiment to bolster support.
The week of escalating Israeli aggression, from supporting the violence against innocent Palestinians to the police brutality against the peaceful Sheikh Jarrah protests to refusing a cease-fire - it all benefits the Israeli hawks eager to sustain their violence and oppression.
This started with the Israel trying to steal Palestinian houses from Palestinian people on Palestinian lands. It continued with Israel's extreme & disproportionate brutality against the peaceful protests opposing it.
Then, it continued with Israel's military supporting random act of violence against the Palestinians, including the murder of a 16 year old kid walking home, the burning of land, the trashing of cars and vehicles, and settlers openly firing weapons at Palestinian civilians.
It continued with Israel's attacks on Al Aqsa mosque, and Israel's refusal to make Islam's third holiest mosque available to Palestinians on Laylat al-Qadr - the holiest night of Ramadan, the holiest month of Islam. Knowing said injustice would further stoke anger & resentment.
It now continues with Israel's refusal to a cease-fire, instead continuing relentless targeted bombardment of residential zones, children, and critical infrastructure including hospitals and schools - during Eid, the Palestinian cultural equivalent of a Christmas celebration.
The weakening Israeli government benefits from the escalation and continuation of this violence. It has no reason to stop, because nobody will hold it accountable - and it has all the reason to continue violence if it wants to keep power.

Some context: cnbc.com/2021/04/28/isr…
There's a long history of brutal Israeli settler-colonialism & oppression here, but if we focus in on the right now & you wonder how Israel could react with such escalating disproportionate brutality against Palestinians saying "please, don't steal our houses", this is an answer.

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16 May
Hey, it sucks @IGN & @gameinformer's posts & tweets with humanitarian resources supporting Palestine are gone - but it is clear their teams had no choice. They had a choice in posting, & unlike many others, they did.

Can we send a quick supportive tweet for chosing to speak up?
Nobody accidentally posts and tweets a list of resources to support the Palestinians. These are brave, potentially career-ending choices - and instead of blaming them for trying, let's support them for being brave, and blame the corporate owners that censored them.
The impact seeing the Palestinian flag next to the IGN logo had on me is impossible to overstate, or the article on Game Informer. Even if it was only up for a day before their teams were silenced, that day matters. How many people saw that flag, that post, & educated themselves?
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16 May
Understand how important this is: clearly @IGN and @gameinformer editorial posted this under their editorial freedom. If these posts are gone, it very likely means their corporate owners stepped across the editorial barrier & forced the censorship of those humanitarian resources. ImageImage
Here are details for IGN and Game Informer's corporate. Do send your objections.
My thanks to @IGN & @gameinformer Editorial for running these posts, very likely aware of the risks of spreading these humanitarian resources to support the oppressed Palestinian people against the current Israeli-instigated aggression.
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16 May
I clicked on this list of names (right column) and ages (column to the left of that) of Palestinian children murdered by Israel and immediately recoiled at the "Page 1 of 2".
To see how uneven the violence is, & emphasizing that any death anywhere as a result of the current Israeli-instigated violence is awful: 9 Israeli civilians have died. Using this list of only Palestinian child victims, up to what age do you need to include to exceed that number?
For those of you who don't have the time to read through - it's the age of 6.

So statistically, for every Israeli civilian death, in Palestine 1 child under 6 years is blown up, along with 19 civilians of any age, 4-6 residential units, and 150+ wounded.
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16 May
Tonight Israel further intensified the violence it started, escalated, and refuses to negotiate an end to, and Palestinian casualties and damaged are expected to rise further. Israel also bombed the main road to the primary hospital serving the Gaza territory. Image
Daily, I try to sift through the infinite horrors from Palestine to share with you a few stories emblematic of Israel's intentional & ongoing human rights violations against Palestine.

I've grown somewhat desensitized, but this story still broke me.
middleeasteye.net/news/palestine…
As for Israel's suppression of the press, the @AP has strict procedures & protocols to ensure safety for its crew, and to remain impartial & separate of whatever dangers it reports on. It has confirmed there was no indication of military in the building. apnews.com/article/israel…
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15 May
I will personally throw my shoe at any person with reach whose only response to Israel's continued intentionally extreme violence against Palestinian civilians is posting "so true ❤️❤️❤️ really important so brave" under @tamoorh's brave & important video calling out the industry
Like come on - the people speaking up are mostly brown people that are already at risk of never getting a Western visa and are adding the risk of losing their social media accounts - we don't need your shoulder pat for speaking up, we need you to speak up yourself
Also, for those who chose silence, how embarrassing does it feel to know that IGN, a massive US corporate subsidiary of a multinational holding with public stakeholders, has a better moral compass when it comes to opposing ethnic cleansing & the bombing of civilians than you do?
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15 May
A reminder that Israel has been repeatedly offered the opportunity to end the violence that it started with police brutality a week ago, violence that it escalated, and that it chooses to continue. Behind these doors is what was Palestinian children living in a refugee camp.
Arabic reports I found on this Israeli bombing of a refugee camp say the medics tried to save as many limbs as possible for these children - not as in "make sure they can keep the limbs" but as in "making sure the children are buried as complete as possible".
If Israel hadn't tried to steal Palestinian houses on Palestinian land, these kids would be alive.

If Israel hadn't violently brutalized Palestinian protestors, these kids would be alive.

If Israel hadn't attacked innocent worshippers at a holy mosque, these kids would be alive
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