The reason "Israel is surrounded by enemies" as Zionists like to say, implying it's the victim, is because in addition to the Palestinians themselves, the populations of *every* single country it borders, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt & Jordan, have all suffered repeatedly at its hands.
Countless thousands have been massacred, displaced & wounded by Israel in all of those countries (and beyond) in manifold forms of violence including aerial bombardments, invasions, occupations and assassinations. The damage that Israel has inflicted on West Asia is incalculable.
Of course, those countries all host millions of Palestinian refugees and their descendants, so many of whom Israel has destroyed the lives and homes of again and again and again.
This is the kind of destruction Israel has wrought on its neighbours on a regular basis for decades on end.
"Israel... an imperialist base & tool used for aggressive purposes against Arab states in order to delay their progress towards unity & socialism, & a bridgehead which neo-colonialism relies on in order to maintain its influence over African & Asian states"
The very forces being denigrated in that tweet have provided the Palestinian resistance with arms,intel.,training & other *material* support for years on end. It’s one of the reasons for its increased military deterrence/capability in recent years.
I’m out of words for how vile the BBC is. This is sickening.
I’ve noticed a couple of BBC journalists have followed me in the last few days. I hope you see this and feel ashamed.
Israel is (again) bombarding a mass concentration camp full of refugees living in literally “unliveable conditions” with no way out and the BBC portrays Palestinian resistance as the aggressor. It’s evident there’s nothing Israel can do that the BBC won’t justify or support.
If you've recently found out about Palestine & are outraged by injustice Palestinians suffer. Don't let anyone chip away at that with ideas of 'complexity' or 'intractable, age-old conflicts'. It is a simple case of oppressor/oppressed, & there's only one just side to be on.
Education often instils within us an aversion to taking resolute & definitive positions - as though the truth *always* lies somewhere between 2 ostensibly extreme points. This prism pushes us away from our humanity & ability to see clear injustice & oppose it without reservation.
The Palestinian cause reveals the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of that prism:
The framing of US “complicity” in Israel’s violence against the Palestinians actually obscures the extent of its responsibility. Israel is enabled & maintained in every conceivable way by the US - militarily, economically, diplomatically & politically. It’s just as responsible.
Kwame Ture:
Nasrallah: “Who bears the primary responsibility for all of Israel’s crimes, it’s massacres, the occupation & what it is doing in Jerusalem, the al-Aqsa mosque, the West Bank, Gaza Strip & inside Palestine before Netanyahu & the terrorist army of Netanyahu? It is America...”
In May 2003, Dr David Kelly told a BBC journalist that Alastair Campbell had personally added the invented ‘45 minute’ WMD claim to the infamous 'dodgy dossier' on Iraq. Two months later, after being exposed under pressure from Campbell and subsequently harassed, Kelly was dead.
It should never be forgotten that people like John McDonnell and Owen Jones have been central to Campbell’s rehabilitation/transformation into a respectable elder statesman type figure.