3 days before the UK 2019 elex, Israeli mainstream media published a "major bombshell" that Hamas ran a propaganda op to support the Labour leader Corbyn
The 100% made up story was deleted from its original source shortly after the elex..
2\ ~A week before the UK 2019 elex, a young Gazan, Walid, got a call from an #Israeli Lt. Colonel who "used to hold a senior position in the IDF"
He asked Walid in Arabic why he was an admin on the "We Support Jeremy Corbyn" FB page with 72K followers & used a threatening tone..
3\ Walid explained that he was invited to simply write about his daily life in Gaza & that he had no relations to the Labour party or Hamas.
Days & Israeli media & propagandists widely circulated the lie that "Hamas officials" were running an "influential" page to support Labour
4\ A British journalist from a top publication called Walid, who proved to him that he had no relations to Hamas or the Labour party & that he'd been unjustly detained by Hamas in the past
The journalist published nothing to expose this as Walid's reputation was being destroyed!
5\ The night before the UK 2019 elex, the source of the smear claimed that his outlet was being attacked by hackers to burry this "bombshell" (likely to draw more attention to the smear).
PS. the author of the other piece in JPost is a Breitbart contributor & UKIP member.
6\ Only 5 days AFTER the 2019 UK elex were over, Israeli media published Walid's refutation of the smear against him.
The Israeli source of the libel quietly deleted the false story & so did many Israeli propagandists. Walid was left with a shattered life of fear for months...
7\ What prompted me to write this is that I continue to see that Israeli Lt. Colonel who fabricated the story being cited as a "top expert" on Palestinian & Arab affairs. He was never called out for this.
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🚨Israel's demand of disarming Hamas is a red herring designed to sabotage any ceasefire talks🧵
Hamas has virtually no offensive weaponry left (e.g. rockets, tunnels crossing into Israel)
They have light weaponry (e.g. rifles & anti-tank missiles)
Another Oct 7 is impossible!
2\ Hamas currently does NOT have the capacity to threaten Israel itself (e.g. rockets)
But they DO have the capacity to maintain a long insurgency *inside* Gaza against the IDF (not Israel itself)
Any serious Israeli analyst would tell you the chances of another Oct 7 are zero!
3\ Israel & Hamas share an interest in exaggerating Hamas' remaining capabilities. Israel wants to falsely portray Hamas as a major "existential threat" to justify continued genocide
Hamas wants to present a victory image that it's still in good shape after everything Israel did alwatanvoice.com/arabic/news/20…
Getting many questions about the demonstrations in Gaza
So here's my full assessment of the protests; their potential & limitations; genuineness & spontaneity vs outside influence; motives & goals; & their ability to actually challenge Hamas or bring the war close to an end🧵
1\ The protests seem to have started spontaneously in small numbers & limited areas. Their grievances are genuine; people are tired, desperate for the genocide to end at any cost, many want Hamas to step down from gov to take away Israel's pretext for the siege & killing
But...
2\ The protests quickly drew the interest & influence of external actors, keen to exploit Gazans' despair & pain, & this may end up undermining the movement instead of helping
e.g. Israel demanding Gazans take to the street or face death, land theft & forever war will backfire
"Pay for slay" is a deeply racist Israeli trope that Palestinians are so deplorable, they'd want to get killed or imprisoned for life only for a few pennies!
The collaborationist Palestinian Authority NEVER paid anyone to attack Israel!
Israel has an identical prisoner fund🧵
2\ The PA paid financial support to Palestinians maimed or detained by Israel & families of those killed
Israel has an identical fund: "Prisoners of Zion & Families of Martyrs". It gives benefits to those imprisoned or killed for "Zionist activity" abroad or in mandate Palestine
3\ Why did the PA need this fund?
Because Israel has detained over 1 million Palestinians since 1967. All either tried in kangaroo military courts with a conviction rate of 99,7% (conviction rate of settler attacks on Palestinians is 1.8%) or never even put on trial or charged!
🚨🚨Netanyahu violates the ceasefire deal & declares Israel won’t allow displaced Gazans to return to the North today
The agreement👇 clearly says Israe should allow this unrestricted return of 1 million Gazans on day 7 (today) after the release of 7 female hostages (4 today, 3 last Sunday)
2\ Netanyahu is asking now for an additional female hostage, Arbel Yehoud, to be released today before allowing people back to the north
It’s unknown if Arbel is even alive. If she’s dead, it means her body would only be released at the end of phase 1 (as Israel itself demanded)
3\ Netanyahu claims Hamas was supposed to release female civilian hostages (I.e Arbel) today first before the 4 female soldiers
But if that’s the case, then why did Israel say nothing yesterday? Why only object now after the 4 soldiers returned to Israel?
2\ It became a Tiktok challenge during the genocide for Israeli soldiers to kidnap Palestinians, torture & humiliate them & force them on camera to wave the Israeli flag &/or sing Israel's national anthem
3\ More of the Israel Tiktok challenge of kidnapping, torturing & humiliating Palestinians:
Just read the "research" cited here by an org whose own co-founder called it "a far-right, deeply anti-Muslim racist organisation, run in the most dictatorial, corrupt & undemocratic fashion & utilized as a propaganda outfit".
As expected their report is a fraud🧵
1\ Author's main assumption is Gaza's causality figure is impossible b/c that'd mean Israel is targeting civilians & there's "no evidence" of this.
The ICC prosecutor literally charged Netanyahu with the Crime against Humanity of extermination for deliberately killing civilians!
2\ The author claims he found an error whereby 103 entries of killed men were mistakenly registered as women in a database of 44,000 causalities
That's his main "evidence" that the number of Gazan women killed by Israel has been widely inflated by a whopping 1%