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May 15, 2023 8 tweets 4 min read Read on X
The Arabs NEVER rejected peace in 1948
They repeatedly offered a 1 State solution with equal citizenship to all

Zionist leaders opted to create #Israel, inc. by ethnic cleansing

Palestinians only rejected the partition of their homeland & losing 51% of it to a Jewish minority🧵 Image
2\ Jordan's king met twice with Golda Meir in 1947/48.

Each time, he offered to give Jews in Palestine full autonomy under his rule with full equal rights, but Meir rejected.

Even then, he instructed his troops not to attack the parts of mandate Palestine designated for Jews. Image
3\ The head of the Arab Liberation Army met with Zionist leaders & offered them full equality & citizenship under his rule.

Josh Palmon from the Jewish Agency attested that "I'm sure Jews would've done good business under him." Zionist leaders rejected! Image
4\ A week after the war started, the Arab League's Secretary-General told Israel's newspaper the Jerusalem Post (then Palestine post):

"Whatever the outcome, the Arabs will stick to their offer of equal citizenship for Jews in Arab Palestine & let them be as Jewish as they like" Image
5\ The official Palestinian position in 1946/7 was the repatriation of recent migrants (about 1/3 of the Jewish population) & rejection of the UN partitioning their homeland & losing 51% of it.

Could Arabs have softened the Palestinian position? Possibly. But we'll never know! Image
6\ 11 years before the Nakba, David Ben-Gurion explained to his son that partition was just a way to capture all of Palestine:
"The establishment of a state, even if only on a portion of the land is...a powerful boost to our historical endeavours to liberate the entire country" Image
7\ In 1937, Ben-Gurion ordered Haganah officers to prepare the "Avnir Plan" for the military conquest of ALL of Palestine!

The plan was modified 3 times until "Plan Dalet" in 1948 aimed at maximum conquest & expulsion of the Palestinians according to Israeli historian Ilan Pappe Image
8\ Some Arab leaders in 1948 made populist inflammatory propaganda, which may have spread fear among the public

But #Israeli historian Prof. Yoav Gelber says their "goal was not & couldn't be pushing Jews into the [sea]," rather "mobilizing domestic support for lame politicians" Image

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Aug 25
Israeli propagandists got their marching orders: blame Egypt for Israel's famine in Gaza. So here are the facts🧵

1- Egypt doesn't control its borders with Gaza, Israel does b/c it occupies Rafah (as Ravid points out)

Israel is NOT allowing ANY food to come from Egypt into Gaza Image
2- Israel fully depopulated all of Rafah & most of Khan Younis.

If Egypt sends any trucks into Gaza, there are NO Palestinians on the other side to receive it, there's only IDF troops in those dark purple coloured areas (& Israel's proxy Abu Shabab gang that loots aid)! Image
3- From the start of the genocide, Israel explicitly told Egypt it would bomb any aid convoys that cross from the Rafah crossing into Gaza

Israel then bombed the Rafah crossing multiple times to emphasize that threat & shut the crossing down
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Aug 22
🚨Debunking Israel's talking points about over 83% of causalities in Gaza being civilians🧵

Claim 1: "The 8,900 figure only includes Hamas militants targeted in intelligence-led precision strikes, not those killed in combat"

False! IDF standard procedure is to photograph bodies of Gazans killed in the field, e.g. in designated "extermination zones" or in combat, & collecting details such as ID cards or phones from the bodies.

Soldiers then send those pictures & confiscated belongings to the Israeli intelligence "to verify militant status." Less than 5% of those causalities are identified as Hamas after intel analysis.Image
Claim 2: "Hamas admitted in Feb 2024 losing 6,000 fighters, so 8900 by May 2025 is an undercount"

Hamas never made that statement! They immediately & officially denied its veracity & called out the outlet that attributed it to an unnamed anonymous Hamas source! Image
Claim 3: "8,900 killed militants is an underestimate"

No! It's an overestimate; this is the same database that listed Anas Al-Sharif, Ismael al-Ghoul, Hassan Islaih & others are "Hamas militants"

Israel's database also includes people who have long ceased to have any combatant role (e.g. veteran wounded in previous wars, people who quit Hamas or the Qassam, people who deserted their positions & fled... none of those would be regarded as militants under the laws of war).

Additionally, Israel's database designates someone as a militant in Gaza based on intel, probability, social media, intercepted calls, whatsapp groups, old & new Hamas documents... It's not a conclusive database of who is a militant, but an estimation of who Israel considers to be "highly likely" a militant.
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Aug 11
🚨This message is completely FAKE!

Just went through all of Anas al-Sharif's messages on Oct 7, 2023, no such messages exists.

Telegram doesn't even put the date on messages.

Israel is so desperate to justify murdering Gaza's top journalist, but all they have are doctored docs, fake screenshots & a picture he took *as a journalist* with Gaza's rulers.Image
Even if Anas wrote this fake message, even if he took selfies with every single Hamas leader on the face of earth, even if he was once a militant in 2017...

NONE of this would justify murdering him! Israel didn't provide any evidence Anas was actively taking part in hostilities or combat!
This was Anas’s message history on that day. Notice there’s nothing at 15:49, there’s no date on the message Image
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Aug 8
Folks are asking what does Netanyahu’s occupation plan mean, since Israel already occupies Gaza?

It means implementing the notorious “Generals Plan” to Gaza city, Deir al-Bala & Nusairat; the only last 3 areas Israel hasn’t fully wiped out & where most Gazans are sheltering🧵 Image
2\ The “Generals Plan” is ethnic cleansing (per Israel itself) done in 5 steps:
Fully encircle & besiege a city
Cut food & water & take hospitals & other vital services out
Bomb incessantly by air, land & sea
Invade gradually & force people out at gunpoint
Flatten everything Image
3\ Israel tested the "Generals Plan" in Northern Gaza in late 2024

There were around 150,000 Gazans there at the start

IDF surrounded them, cut off all food & water for over 100 days, gradually advanced from all directions, forced people out until only about 12,000 were left. Image
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Jul 31
The ultimate gift to Hamas is NOT a few countries' symbolic recognition of Palestine

The ultimate gift to Hamas is Netanyahu & Trump humiliating, weakening, sanctioning & bankrupting the Palestinian Authority no matter how far Abbas goes to appease Israel & the US🧵
2\ Hamas' key argument for armed resistance is that nonviolence, advocacy, civil disobedience, international courts, diplomacy, peace processes are all futile & if you try them you'd only get smacked & demonized by Israel & the US without achieving any tangible results
3\ Hamas' main case study to legitimize their path is to point out how Mahmoud Abbas recognized Israel, renounced violence, suppressed intifadas, & actively collaborates with the US & Israel against fellow Palestinians

Then they'd ask "what did Abbas get out of this? Nothing"
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Jul 16
We warned about this 8 months ago; Israel's 5 finger policy of dissecting Gaza into smaller concentration camps using "security corridors" (i.e. extermination zones):

Everything on both sides of each corridor is then gradually wiped out

Latest corridor👇 ecfr.eu/publication/de…Image
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2\ You can already see how Israel systematically demolished every single building on both sides of its latest "corridor" in Khan Younis

Those "corridors" are deadlier than the Berlin Wall; anyone trying to cross from one side to another is instantly executed
3\ Each time Israel creates a "security corridor" (i.e. extermination zone), they gradually expand its width until it becomes a giant strip of wasteland

Netzarim started as a narrow route, quickly expanded to 4 miles (6.5 km) in width
Every single building in there was wiped out Image
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