A thread on nuance...
Many things can be true...
1. Israel’s attacks on Palestinians are racist.
2. Israel’s occupation of the West Bank is colonialist.
3. Israel’s treatment of its Arab citizens and of Palestinians in the occupied territories is unequal to its treatment of Jews
Many things can be true...
1. Israel’s attacks on Palestinians are racist.
2. Israel’s occupation of the West Bank is colonialist.
3. Israel’s treatment of its Arab citizens and of Palestinians in the occupied territories is unequal to its treatment of Jews
and is akin to Apartheid.
4. Hamas is not a bastion of democracy and human rights.
5. Hamas often exacerbates tensions among Palestinian leadership.
6. Hamas’ rocket attacks displaced attention away from the ethnic cleansing taking place in East Jerusalem.
7. The US’s
4. Hamas is not a bastion of democracy and human rights.
5. Hamas often exacerbates tensions among Palestinian leadership.
6. Hamas’ rocket attacks displaced attention away from the ethnic cleansing taking place in East Jerusalem.
7. The US’s
unconditional military support for Israel despite clear human rights abuses is hypocritical and unacceptable.
8. Solidarity with Palestinians is not an invitation to vicious anti-Semitism.
9. The wave of attacks on Jews in Canada, London, France, Berlin that took place on the
8. Solidarity with Palestinians is not an invitation to vicious anti-Semitism.
9. The wave of attacks on Jews in Canada, London, France, Berlin that took place on the
weekend should be condemned by all who care about human rights and human dignity.
10. The perpetrators should be arrested.
11. The world has to take action against the illegal occupation and the wholesale disenfranchisement of the Palestinians. Now.
12. A two-state solution is
10. The perpetrators should be arrested.
11. The world has to take action against the illegal occupation and the wholesale disenfranchisement of the Palestinians. Now.
12. A two-state solution is
probably practically impossible because of the radical settlerization of the West Bank.
13. Israel faces a stark choice: to pull its citizens out of the West Bank to enable a two-state solution
OR
14. Face that it will be a unitary state and if it is a unitary state it faces
13. Israel faces a stark choice: to pull its citizens out of the West Bank to enable a two-state solution
OR
14. Face that it will be a unitary state and if it is a unitary state it faces
another stark choice: to be a Jewish state or to be a democracy because it cannot be both.
15. The world must force an end to the destruction of the Palestinians and must ensure the realization of their statehood.
16. If it doesn’t, it lays the seeds for Israel’s eventual
15. The world must force an end to the destruction of the Palestinians and must ensure the realization of their statehood.
16. If it doesn’t, it lays the seeds for Israel’s eventual
destruction as a people yearning for freedom will win. Always, forever.
17. Crimes Against Humanity charges must be criminally investigated by the #ICC.
18. The status quo cannot go on. It must stop.
19. There will be no peace without justice.
20 It’s time to focus on justice.
17. Crimes Against Humanity charges must be criminally investigated by the #ICC.
18. The status quo cannot go on. It must stop.
19. There will be no peace without justice.
20 It’s time to focus on justice.
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