EVERYTHING #Israel accuses Palestinians of doing (often falsely), it had openly done way worse to establish & maintain the Israeli state:
e.g. blowing up cafes & buses; human shields; celebrating civilians' death; glorifying terrorists; hiding weapons in civilian areas...Quick🧵
2\ Terrorism was a tactic Zionist militias openly used to establish #Israel
Blowing up cafes, buses & crowded markets was 1 of their favorite strategies. This list only shows Irgun terrorist bombings in 1937-39👇
Irgun became part of the IDF & their leader Shamir became PM!
3\ Even 3 decades after #Israel was founded, the Israeli Defense Ministry continued to use terrorism for combat
Defense Minister Ariel Sharon (later Prime Minister) used to blow up cars, bikes & booby-trapped donkeys in crowded civilian areas in Lebanon ONLY to sow chaos & fear!
4\ Human Shields:
#Israelis forces systematically use Palestinian civilians, including children, as human shields. They call it the "neighbor protocol" or "bringing a friend".
Meanwhile, Amnesty NEVER found any evidence of Palestinian militants taking human shields at gunpoint!
5\ Celebrating civilians' death: #Israel's Security Minister was at this party where settlers literally celebrated the burning of a Palestinian baby (18-months) by a fellow settler
Israelis were handing out wine 2 days ago to celebrate the bombing of Gaza
6\ Recruiting child soldiers: #Israel's Security Minister brags that his mother was a member of the militant terrorist organization "Irgun" when she was ONLY 14!
Irgun was considered a terrorist org by the US, UN, UK...
Hamas' official recruitment age is 18.
7\ Executing collaborators:
All Israeli militias that formed the IDF regularly executed collaborators with the British, or leaders who were too moderate & wanted reconciliation with the Palestinians;
E.g. Jacob Israël de Haan was executed by the Haganah for turning anti-Zionist!
8\ Glorifying terrorists: #Israel's gov named 10s of streets after Irgun & Lehi terrorists who killed innocent people (see thread👇)
E.g. Olei Hagardom statu in Ramat Gan commemorates 12 Irgun & Lehi militants convicted by the British of terrorist attacks
All the Zionist militias that formed #Israel's IDF used to hide weapons in cities, towns, farms, homes... There are more than 1,500 known hiding places for their weapons & Israelis continue to discover them until today.
Human shields?
10\ Some #Israeli leaders used to openly advocate for literal terrorism:
Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir:
"Neither Jewish ethics nor Jewish tradition can disqualify terrorism as a means of combat"
He was wanted for the British for terror attacks!
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What's next for Gaza? 🧵
After the hostage release, Israel will hold onto a fully depopulated 58% of Gaza.
After an international force enters, Israel will hold onto 40% of Gaza where the IDF's proxy gangs will thrive!
Genocide or reconstruction? The devil is in the details!
2\ Right now, the 58% beyond the yellow line is not only under IDF control, it's fully depopulated. Any Gaza civilian that tries to enter is shot on sight. Israel killed 35 Gazans in the first 24 hours of the ceasefire.
Israel is planning to hold onto those areas for a long time
3\ Israel's proxy gangs (e.g. Abu Shabab, Husam al-Astal, Ashraf Mansi) are all currently hiding in the 58% of Gaza the IDF is stationed in
Israel cultivated those gangs to create "gated communities" (concentration camps) to push Gazans into.
Now with the ceasefire, Israel is using those gangs to launch attacks on Hamas deep inside Gaza without the IDF having to invade.
This is Israel's way of saying "we're not violating the ceasefire, it's Palestinians killing Palestinians."
Israel will also try to get Gazans to move into those areas with promises of a better life while the other half of Gaza remains reduced to rubble. kan.org.il/content/kan-ne…
This plan is significantly better than previous Trump proposals (e.g. no ethnic cleansing, abolishing GHF, no occupation or annexation, decommissioning not disarmament...)
Yet it's filled with negatives, explosive mines & loopholes that'd allow Netanyahu to occupy Gaza forever🧵
2\ Positives:
The infamous GHF would be abolished since the plan says aid will only be distributed by groups "not associated in any manner with either party" (GHF is an IDF front).
Full suspension of "all military operations" (e.g. bombing) & immediate end to the war
3\ Trump's plan now talks about decommissioning instead of disarmament. There's a major difference; the latter connotes surrender, whereas decommissioning is gradual, tied to a political process & includes reintegration of militants into security sector ecfr.eu/article/decomm…
The US & Israel are the ones who asked Qatar to host Hamas' political (NOT military) leadership to maintain indirect dialogue with them
When Qatar asked Hamas' leadership to leave in Nov 2024 & suspended their office in Doha, Trump asked them to reopen it again & re-host Hamas🧵
2\ Netanyahu just broke this arrangement & bombed Doha to target Hamas negotiators in the midst of their discussion of Trump's latest ceasefire proposal
In March 2025, Netanyahu killed Hamas entire negotiating team in Gaza (e.g. Salah Bardawil, Essam Da'alees, Ismael Barhoum, Abu Obaida al-Jimassi)
3\ Netanyahu killed Hamas' negotiating team inside Gaza in March 2025 while they were discussing Witkoff's proposal to extend the ceasefire
Similarly, Israel killed Hamas' top negotiator Ismael Haniya in July 2024 right after he accepted Biden's ceasefire/prisoner swap proposal