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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#Israel (NOT Egypt) militarily closes our air, water & land spaces; FULLY controls our financial system with extreme restrictions, the entry/exit of goods & foreigners, & access to the West Bank; regularly bombs us; & is the occupying power! 🧵
2\ The Egyptian borders are actually open to passenger movement, but subject to restrictions imposed by ISRAEL in the 2005 Agreement on Movement and Access.
The agreement gives Israel oversight & ability to blacklist people from leaving/entering!
3\ Foreigners (e.g. tourists, investors...) can only cross into Gaza through Israel, & the IDF does NOT allow any of those in except some few Int. NGO workers & diplomats; hence the siege!
Egypt is allowed, per the 2005 AMA agreement, to let in extremely limited exceptions.
Quick🧵Debunking #Israel's "Human Shields" lie used as a blanket excuse to justify killing ANY Palestinian civilians:
e.g. IDF officials admit they 100% knew children & women would die in their strikes. They went for it anyways & called them "collateral damage" & "human shields"
2\ Amnesty found ZERO evidence of Palestinian combatants forcefully taking civilians as human shields or preventing them from evacuating targeted areas
The #Israeli org Breaking the Silence interviewed 100s of IDF soldiers, but never encountered evidence of those "human shields"
3\ #Israel's own courts, however, found evidence of Israeli soldiers taking Palestinians as human shields at gun point
IDF calls it the "neighbor procedure"
Amnesty, HRW, BTselem... all found evidence of Israel taking Palestinian human shields since the occupation began in 1967
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
Quick🧵debunking the #Israeli myth of the 5 Arab armies' unprovoked aggression to annihilate Israel:
Arab regimes were forced in ONLY after Israel committed the Deir Yassin Massacre. The Arab armies goals were to stop the flood of refugees to their states, secure their borders..
2\ Jordan's king, who had the strongest of the 5 armies, met with Zionist leaders regularly & had promised to endorse Jewish statehood & partition
After Deir Yassin, he proposed a Jewish canton in an expanded Jordan. His troops refrained from attacking Israel's own territories👇
3\ Egypt's king went to war to prevent a flood of refugees; protect his borders; gain territory in South Palestine & prevent Jordan's king from claiming leadership of the Arabs.
His army were told they were "merely a punitive expedition against the Zionist gangs" NOT liberation
Khader Adnan was NOT a militant & wasn't involved in any attacks
#Israel detained him 10 times without trial or charges for ~9 years
His only way to out was hunger strikes
Israeli gov was alerted he was about to die after 86 days of hunger but refused to send him to a hospital
2\ #Israel accuses Adnan of being a PIJ spokesman but has never put him on trial or charged him!
Ironically, Israel's Security Minister Ben-Gvir, who's in charge of the prison where Adnan died, was the spokesman of the terrorist Kach movement & was convicted of terror support!
3\ Khader Adnan's "imminent death" was made clear to the Israeli gov. They refused to transfer him to a hospital.
Ever if he was a PIJ combatant, this cruel & deliberate medical neglect is unjustifiable as well as his detention without trial or charges for ~9 years in total.
Left: Al-Majdal, a thriving agricultural & industrial Palestinian village
Right: Al-Majdal today as a Jewish-only #Israeli city
After Israel's founding, the military spent 2 years depopulating the village. They locked up the residents in a Ghetto, then shuttled them on trucks..
2\ Al-Majdal's Palestinian population refused to leave their coastal village after #Israel's founding on May 14, 1948.
174 days later, the Israeli military invaded them, expelled 1,000 residents. General Yigal Allon ordered the expulsion of the rest, but they refused to leave...
3\ The #Israeli military locked up al-Majdal's 2,500 remaining residents in a confined Ghetto surrounded by barbed wire, raided them repeatedly at night to "cause panic" & offered them bribes to leave, but they didn't...
Israel's gov eventually forced residents on trucks to Gaza