A brief history of Israel's wars on Gaza, 2008-2023, a 🧵.
2008-9: Israel killed 1,400 Gazans (who killed 3 Israeli civilians). The Goldstone Report found no justifiable military objective was identified in 90% of Israel's deadly attacks on Palestinian civilians & that Israel's goal was “punish, humiliate & terrorize civilians.”
2012: Israel killed 171 Gazans (who killed 4 Israeli civilians); 60% of Gazan victims were civilians; the war started when Israel assassinated Ahmed Jabari, who was about to sign a permanent ceasefire with Israel. Israel preferred war to strengthen it’s “deterrence capacity.”
2014: Israel killed >1,500 Gazan civilians (who killed 6 Israeli civilians). Israel launched 6,000 airstrikes on Gaza, mostly on residential buildings. In 40% of investigated cases, the @UN found no explanation for bombing civilians, concluding Israel likely committed war crimes
2018-9: Israel killed 223 Palestinians & Israeli snipers left 6,106 Palestinians with life-changing wounds (0 Israeli casualties) after 10s of thousands of unarmed overwhelmingly peaceful Gazans marched to the fence, demanding the right of return and protesting against the siege.
2021: Israel killed 261 Gazans (who killed 14 Israelis); 113,000 Palestinians were internally displaced; Airwars report concluded: in 70% of the deadly airstrikes on civilians, no militants or military targets were found & Israel indiscriminately targeted dense civilian areas.
Overwhelming evidence suggests Israel has indiscriminately targeted civilians in every war it has waged on Gaza; that it uses disproportionate force & that it imposes collective punishment on the people of Gaza. Yet not a single Israeli leader has ever been held to account.
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How Zionists prolonged the suffering of Jewish Holocaust survivors, 1945-1948. A 🧵
After WWII, 250K liberated Jews found themselves in Displaced Person (DP) camps in Europe. The Zionists prevented their rescue to destinations other than Palestine, despite abysmal living conditions in the camps, despite offers of resettlement & despite the desire of many to go.
The British gov. accepted 1,000 Jewish children survivors in the late summer 1945, but only about 300 of them made it.
The British army flew the children to England & “did everything they could to ease up matters...It is possible that no other group of immigrants ever entered this country with a more favorable welcome.”
They settled into dormitories in the UK w/beds of “crisp white sheets” & “little bowls of sweets…placed on the nightstands.”
Israel’s exploitation of Jews as demographic hostages, a brief history 🧵
Zionist & Israeli leaders have a long history of going against the interests of Jews themselves, of weaponizing Jews & exploiting their J-positive blood to engineer a Jewish demographic majority in Palestine.
This began after WWII when 35,000 Jews in Palestine applied for repatriation home, to Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Germany & Poland. Zionist leaders instigated foreign consular officials to block their exit visas. palestinenexus.com/articles/zioni…
The last major case of intentional starvation in Palestine was during World War I. lessons from history. ⤵️
~11-16% of the population of what is today Palestine, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon died during the war, mostly from famine or famine related diseases. About 500,000 people.
During the war, the British, Russian & French navies blockaded the Eastern Mediterranean coast for a prolonged period of time, from December 1914 until 1918.
The blockade led to economic collapse in Palestine and elsewhere in the region. Tens of thousands of people lost their means of livelihood as a result.
The blockade led a shortage of critical goods, such as petroleum, essential to cook food and heat homes. In Palestine, the price of petroleum skyrocketed to five or six times its prewar price by April 1915, just six months into the war.
But Palestine is fertile and can produce its own food. Here, the problem was:
1) A massive locust attack in 1915 destroyed a lot of food.
2) the Ottoman government requisitioned the animals & took over the railways for military use.
Thus, it became prohibitively expensive to ship food via donkeys, camels or railways. The Ottoman State sabotaged the food delivery system.
Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians was not a historical event or two or three that happened in 1948, 1967 or 2023. It's an ongoing process, a structure, that began in the late 19th century and has been ongoing to the present day. ⤵️
A brief history of Israeli leaders saying Iran = Nazis 🧵.
June 16, 2025: “We’ve targeted their top nuclear scientists ... it’s basically Hitler’s nuclear team.” -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/internati…
June 12, 2025: “Eighty years ago, the Jewish people were the victims of a Holocaust perpetrated by the Nazi regime...today, the Jewish state refuses to be a victim of a nuclear Holocaust perpetrated by the Iranian regime.” -Netanyahu msn.com/en-ca/news/wor…