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14 Oct, 6 tweets, 1 min read
THREAD: Israel is moving to further expropriate vast swaths of Jerusalem, all while the U.S. provides diplomatic cover.
Yesterday, while Israeli Foreign Minister Lapid was meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Blinken, Israel approved plans to move forward with thousands of housing units in occupied East Jerusalem.
One of the approved plans would entirely cut off the large Palestinian village of Beit Safafa from the rest of occupied East Jerusalem, completely surrounding it with illegal Israeli settlements.
The area for this planned settlement has always been a red line for the U.S. & international community. Even under Trump, Israel didn't move forward with plans to build in the area. But now, under Biden, Israel is speeding up construction.
By approving the settlement expansion while Lapid was in DC, Israel gave the U.S. the perfect opportunity to vigorously denounce the move and take a stand against the plans. Instead, Blinken said nothing but gave lip service to “peace.”
Israel’s illegal settlement construction and expansion plans in the occupied West Bank further solidify the one-state apartheid reality, and the Biden administration is complicit.

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28 Sep
Today marks the 21st anniversary of the start of the Second Intifada, the Palestinian uprising against Israel's illegal occupation & apartheid.

Here is what happened 21 years ago:
Former Israeli "Defense" Minister & war criminal Ariel Sharon (who, according to an Israeli commission, bears "personal responsibility" for the 1982 massacres of Sabra & Shatila), intruded on Al-Aqsa, Palestinians' holiest Muslim site in Jerusalem, w/1,000 heavily armed soldiers.
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THREAD: Last week, after voting to send another $1 billion to the Israeli military, Congress also passed the “National Defense Authorization Act,” a bill that contains alarming provisions for supporters of human rights for Palestinians.
But before all the bad, @RepRashida, @repmarkpocan, and @RepAOC introduced an amendment to block the $735 million weapons deal between Boeing and the Israeli military. Unfortunately, the amendment was ruled out of the final bill.
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23 Sep
THREAD: After progressives in Congress knocked down an additional $1 billion in military funding to Israel from a larger spending bill, conservative Democrats are introducing a new stand-alone bill to send an additional $1 billion to Israel to further fund its “Iron Dome.”
The #IronDome is a missile interceptor system developed by Israel and funded by U.S. taxpayers. It works to enforce Israel’s siege and blockade of Gaza.
In addition to the $3.8 billion in military funding that the U.S. provides Israel each year, the U.S. has already given approximately $1.7 billion to Israel for its Iron Dome.
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22 Sep
THREAD: 6 Things to Know About the Iron Dome Funding Controversy

The efforts of progressives in Congress to stop Democratic and Republican leaders from giving another $1 billion in military funding to Israel have triggered an avalanche of misinformation and misdirection.
1) No Blank Check: Israel already receives $3.8 billion in U.S. military funding every year (more than any other country on the planet), and Israel’s “Iron Dome” is already funded to the tune of $1.7 billion.
Progressives are saying NO to a major increase of $1 billion in the already unjustifiable military funding to Israel.
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13 Sep
THREAD: Today marks 28 years since the #OsloAccords, and Palestinians have gotten nothing but fewer rights, more settler land theft, and more Israeli violence. The "peace process" was a sham. Here’s how:
In an effort to quell the first intifada, the 1988 Palestinian uprising demanding freedom, the Israeli government entered into a series of agreements with the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) known as the Oslo Accords, thereby launching the so-called “peace process.”
The Oslo Accords established the Palestinian Authority (PA) as a constrained Palestinian “government” under ultimate Israeli rule, divided the West Bank into areas A, B, & C, all under varying levels of Israeli control, and fragmented Palestinians throughout historic Palestine.
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