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26 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
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Anyone who has read the Trump Plan w/o Illusions knows that every fiber of every clause is based on the diminished humanity of Palestinians.

Israelis having inalienable rights, Palestinians having needs. Rights are inalienable. Needs fulfilled by magnanimity.
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Proposing that Palestinians negotiate on the basis of the Trump Plan is tantamount to requesting they turn their rights, their dignity and their very humanity into a negotiable commodity.

They said no and they we damned right to do so.
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Anything less than recognition of the parity of Palestinian equities in Jerusalem w/ those of Israel - in principle and w/ real indications of being serious -is delusional.

It there is any lesson of these last weeks: don't mess with Jerusalem.

She always has the last word.
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28 May
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There are a number of highly controversial issues that simultaneously converged on 2 the ultimate radioactive issues of the Israel Palestinian conflict: Jerusalem and displacement.

These issues intersect, interact and resonate.

It's worth taking a hard look how.
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This week the Irish parliament incurred the wrath of official Israel by declaring Israeli rule over the West Bank tantamount to de facto annexation.

Israel often deflects accusations of apartheid by asserting that the status of "Judea/Samaria" is temporary, to be determined.
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This dispute over "de facto" annexation and "temporary" is entirely irrelevant to Israel's position on Jerusalem.

It is Israel that asserts that the annexation of East Jerusalem is not temporary but permanent, even eternal.

It is de jure annexation dating from 1967 &1980,
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18 May
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The only Ottoman mosque story I can tell.

Years ago, I attended an absolutely intolerably boring conference in Istanbul on Israel-Palestine.

At one point, a Palestinian friend, a world class expert on Jerusalem and Islamic heritage said: let's get out of here.
@Istanbultelaviv 2/

We ended up in the historic core of Istanbul. I am so ignorant - don't ask me to be more precise.

My friend pointed out a mosque to me, which was not, at least to my untrained eye, particularly impressive.

"Does that mosque look familiar to you" he asked.

Nope, I answered.
@Istanbultelaviv 3/

"Ignore the minaret. Pretend it's not there" he said. "Now does it look familiar"?

Nope I said.

"The Hurva Synagogue in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City" my Palestinian friend told me. "It's a precise copy, once you lop off the minaret".
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16 May
@kampeas @ruvirivlin 1/

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It's even worse. The problem of the muezzin loudspeakers on the Mount interfering with the President's solemn speeches at the Western Wall was not new. There has been a longstanding arrangement between the President's office/police.
@kampeas @ruvirivlin 2/

...betw.t he Pres./police and the waqf officials.

It was agreed that the volume on the two problematic loudspeakers on the Mount closest to the W. Wall Plaza would be turned down during the President's speech. It was an arrangement that worked to everyone's satisfaction.

I
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This year, the Police showed up on the Mount and without warning, and demanded that the waqf turn down the volume on two additional loudspeakers to the east, that were nowhere near the plaza. The waqf officials refused, saying it was contrary to the existing understanding.
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4 Mar
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 1. On Monday evening, a Palestinian van driver in Jerusalem, was attacked by a lynch mob yelling “He’s an Arab, he’s an Arab”, just a few yards away from where Netanyahu was having a press conference.

2. Bruised and bleeding, the driver barely escaped with his life.
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3. In his attempt to escape the lynch mob, the Palestinian driver ran over an innocent Israeli, killing him.

4. The family of the man killed declared that the Palestinian driver was blameless, and to blame him would desecrate his memory. The ultra-orthodox mob was to blame.
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3. The Palestinian driver who they tried to lynch was detained and interrogated by the police, and released after 24 hours.

4. In spite of a wealth of video footage, no one in the lynch mob was detained.
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3 Jan
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More than example of apartheid, Israel’s failure to provide vaccinations to the W. Bank and Gaza is the embodiment of toxic occupation, where the Oslo Accords have become the foundations of occupation, rather than an engine to ending it.
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Even as late as last year this could have been different - even without an end to occupation.

Palestinian and Israeli medical care providers know how to work together, and are the most egalitarian in each respective society.

There is no excuse for not providing vaccinations
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Why didn’t it happen?

2 reasons.

Because 53 years of occupation have instilled in many Israelis that we’ve nothing to do w/ Palestinians, & they’re imbued w/ a diminished humanity anyway. Occupation denial.

2nd reason?

Because Netanyahu.

It could have been different.
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18 Aug 20
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1. I know that I am the occupier and not the occupied. But occupation is the greatest existential threat to the long term viability of Israel.

Israel will end occupation, or occupation will be the end of us.
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2. Anything that perpetuates occupation is bad. It is devastating to the Palestinian people, their dignity &their rights to self determination, and very harmful to Israel.

3. The goal of the Trump Plan is to denationalize the Palestinians, creating occupation with deodorant.
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4. Palestinians across town despair of ever ending occupation; my Israeli compatriots are in deep denial, sipping cappuccino on the edge of volcano.

5. The Trump Plan tells Palestinians to abandon hope, and Israelis not to worry about an occupation that does not exist.
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