Dan Poraz Profile picture
May 21, 2021 17 tweets 10 min read Read on X
Now with the ceasefire, its important to remember that the fighting began 11 days ago, with Hamas taking a decision to fire rockets at Israel's capital.
Also important to refute claims that Hamas fired because of "the occupation".
There is no occupation in #Gaza.
THREAD >>
On September 2005, the Israeli government carried out a FULL withdrawal, both military and civil, from the #Gaza Strip.
The Israeli disengagement from Gaza ended a 38 year long Israeli presence in the strip >>
Jews have been living in #Gaza for centuries. Some of the Jews expelled from Spain in 1492 joined the already established Jewish community in Gaza >>
A 6th century AD synagogue was discovered in #Gaza in 1965. In ‘67 Gaza fell under Israeli control and the ancient synagogue was used as a visitor center. In ‘94, as part of Oslo Accords, governance over Gaza went to the PLO and Jews were forbidden from visiting the synagogue >>
Jewish presence in #Gaza brutally ended in 1929 after violent riots forced all Jews to flee the city >>
The 1929 anti-Jewish riots weren't limited to #Gaza. Jews were murdered in Jerusalem, Tz’fat, Tel Aviv and Haifa. In Hebron it was the worst with 67 Jews murdered by an incited Arab mob. Here’s a testimony from a 92 year old Palestinian woman who remembers >>
In 1967, Israel gained control over the Egyptian territory of the #Gaza Strip. The first Israeli settlement in the strip was founded in 1973. Over the years, 21 different villages, agricultural communities and Kibbutzim were established, most in the southern part of the strip >>
For 38 years, these communities, known as the ‘Gush Katif’ block, had a flourishing economy, especially in the agricultural industry.
Gush Katif farmers had thousands of greenhouses, producing around 140 million dollars worth of agricultural produce annually >>
The Gush Katif agricultural industry also provided livelihood to thousands of Palestinians from #Gaza and their families. The greenhouses were working places where Jews and Arabs coexisted in real life >>
On the eve of the disengagement from #Gaza, there were 8,600 Jews living in the 21 different communities in the Strip.
During August 2005, they were all evacuated from their homes in what turned to be one of the biggest traumas in modern Jewish History >>
This time, the ethnic cleansing of thousands of Jews from the area, was not a result of pogroms or violence but rather done by the Israeli government out of the belief that the move was a right step towards a peaceful future.
It wasn’t.
📷 Oded Balilty >>
As a gesture of good will and out of hope for prosperity for the people of #Gaza, the Israeli decision was to leave the thousands of greenhouses intact.
Hours after the withdrawal, Palestinian mobs stormed all that remained, including all greenhouses.
Everything was ravaged >>
After the IDF withdrew all forces out of the strip (11/9/05), the Palestinian Authority started having trouble controlling armed militias in #Gaza, namely #Hamas and #PIJ.
Violent clashes between Palestinian policemen and Hamas militants began to be more frequent >>
On January 2006 the Palestinian Authority had, for the first time since 1996, parliamentary elections.
#Hamas, a genocidal terror organization who’s stated goal is to destroy Israel, won an overwhelming majority of seats.
There haven’t been elections since >>
The tensions between Abbas’s Fatah, and #Hamas, increased further after the elections.
In June 2007, Hamas seized control over #Gaza after a violent military coup during which hundreds of Palestinians, from both sides, were killed.
Hamas has ruled Gaza ever since >>
Since then, many thousands of rockets have been fired from #Gaza at Israeli communities, towns and cities.
Hamas has forced Israel into 4 military operations: in 2008, 2012, 2014 and recently now. The operations had weakened Hamas, but failed in crippling its rocket apparatus >>
#Hamas has been ruling #Gaza, with its population of two million, for 14 years now.
Apart from enhancing poverty, misery and despair among the people of Gaza, it has achieved absolutely NOTHING.
END THREAD.

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with Dan Poraz

Dan Poraz Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @PorazDan

Aug 9, 2021
Just before 14:00, exactly 20 years ago today, a suicide bomber stepped into a Pizza place in #Jerusalem.
He ordered pasta.
Then he detonated a bomb hidden inside a guitar case and all hell broke loose.

Thread.
The results were catastrophic.
15 were killed, 7 of them children.
One family in particular, was destroyed in a split second.
43 year old Mordechai Schijveschuurder, his wife Tzira, 14 year old daughter Raya, 4 year old son Avraham and 2 year old daughter Hemda. Killed.
2 other children from the Schijveschuurder family were critically injured.
The Palestinian Authority refrained from arresting the ones responsible. Eventually, all behind the attack were arrested by Israel.
Read 6 tweets
Jan 17, 2021
Exactly 5 years ago today, Dafna Meir, a 38 year old nurse, wife, and mother of 4, was brutally murdered at her home in front of 2 of her children, by a 15 year old Palestinian.

Two days later, the murderer was arrested by Israeli security forces.

Here is his testimony >>
“She struggled”, the 15 year old murderer told the investigators.
“I stabbed her until I couldn’t pull the knife out of her body” >>
“Why did you kill her?”
he was asked by the investigators.

“Israel is killing our youths. That’s why. I decided to do the same as other young Palestinians do...I realized I might get hurt but I had faith in god” >>
Read 12 tweets
Sep 13, 2020
On Tuesday #Israel will sign on normalization agreements with two Arab states.

So why did normalization and peace with the #Palestinians never come about?

The Oslo Accords between Israel & the Palestinians were signed #OnThisDay in 1993.

THREAD about what went wrong >>
Basically, after decades of violent conflict, the Israeli government agreed to exclude the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from its terror list and to recognize it as the legitimate and sole representative of the Palestinian people >>
In return, and after decades of denial, the PLO recognized Israel’s right to exist. Yasser Arafat, PLO’s chairman, agreed to amend the organization’s charter that explicitly called for Israel’s destruction.
The problem with Arafat was that he was literally using doublespeak >>
Read 34 tweets
Sep 6, 2020
ISIS could have had nuclear weapons.

Let

that

sink

in.

A five tweet thread.

1/5
On this day ,September 6 2007, the Israeli Air Force striked and destroyed a secret nuclear reactor located at Deir ez-Zor, Syria >> Image
2/5
Turned out that the #Assad regime had been building this Plutonium reactor for years, with the good help of some friends from #NorthKorea and with some generous funding from #Iran.
The strike left the facility irrecoverable >> Image
3/5
Less than 4 years later, on March 2011, a civil war broke in Syria. Deir ez-Zor fell under the control of an unknown rebel militia.
The name of that militia was Daesh, AKA the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant >> Image
Read 5 tweets
Aug 24, 2020
"Allah willing, we will massacre the Jews like we massacred them in Hebron".

Testimony from elderly Palestinian woman who remembers.
#OnThisDay in 1929, massacres resulted in murdering of 133 Jews and destruction of entire Jewish communities in British ruled #Palestine.

THREAD
Violence erupted after vile anti-Jewish incitement was coming from the #Arab leadership, and in particular, from the grand Mufti Amin al-Hussaini.
False claims that the #Jews plan to take over the Al-Aqsa Mosque instigated the masses “to take action”.
2/7
In few of his sermons, al-Hussaini was quoted saying:
“a place in heaven is promised for those who kill the Jew”.
Attempts by the British authorities to reach calm failed. Violence began in #Jerusalem on 23/8/1929.
19 Jews were murdered. Homes and synagogues were burnt down.
3/7
Read 7 tweets
Aug 9, 2020
1/6
Just before 14:00 (local time), #OnThisDay in 2001, a suicide bomber stepped into a restaurant in #Jerusalem.

He ordered pasta.

Then he detonated a bomb hidden inside a guitar case.

Thread. Image
2/6
The results were catastrophic.
15 killed, 7 of them children.
One family in particular, in a split second, was destroyed.
43 year old Mordechai Schijveschuurder, his wife Tzira, 14 year old daughter Raya, 4 year old son Avraham and 2 year old daughter Hemda, were killed. Image
3/6
2 other children from the Schijveschuurder family were critically injured.

Arafat refused to arrest the ones responsible and spontaneous celebrations were spotted in the West Bank and Gaza. Eventually, the ones behind the attack were all arrested by #Israel. Image
Read 6 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us!

:(