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Some excerpts from an article in Ha'aretz from two months ago (yeah, I have a huge backlog) about "shooting & crying"-type religious "leftist" soldiers and their experiences in Gaza.

In the photo:
"A religious reserve soldier carrying a weapon, marked with 'X' symbols representing the number of enemy combatants killed, in Tel Aviv"

The full article:
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"It felt difficult using other people's things... It was also complicated by people taking things home. They often took prayer beads... It disgusted me that others took other people's property, knowing that they would burn the house... It's Gaza, everyone does whatever they want"Image
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"Once, a rabbi (who came to lecture) from Kiryat Arba in the West Bank said we need to destroy and shoot everyone, and that the IDF's (rules of engagement) ethics are a "Distorted Western Morality"" Image
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"There are instructions not to leave the house as we found it. So we burned houses." Image
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"Sometimes we drove over graveyards" Image
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Soldiers stand where the settlement of Nisanit used to be, dismantled in 2005. The flag says "Nisanit, we're back 2005-2023" Image
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"The army said that the people we saw were Hamas spotters"

I've said it before: to make it supposedly "kosher" to shoot any person in the partly-evacuated areas, where battles are taking place, the IDF just calls any unarmed person in the "Extermination Zones" a "spotter". Image
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"And then we occupied a house again. But this time, there were people physically there and we had to kick them out." Image
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This is the end of the paragraph from the previous tweet: after he said that "people started to break down" because they felt bad taking people's homes, he added that "they were now in the homes of more affluent Gazans (so) there was even more looting" Image
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"He could bear listening to military rabbis preaching that "we need to kill everyone"" Image

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Jun 11
So now the State of Israel is officially pushing the narrative that "there are no uninvolved" in Gaza.
How is this not considered a confession of genocidal intent?! Image
Official Israel also uses the Abdallah al-Jamal screenshot from al-Jazeera's website, even though they know that he wasn't an AJ reporter but merely had an opinion piece published 5 years ago.
They also haven't given any proof that al-Jamal was even involved in keeping hostages. Image
This is all part of an official system-wide policy of lies and deception, meant to demonize, dehumanize and give legitimacy to the extermination of Palestinians and the persecution and murder of journalists.
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Jun 10
🧵(long thread)

"I think the most important thing is to change the Zionist narrative a bit, which says that this place was a wasteland. There was never a wasteland here. People lived all over (what is now) the State of Israel, starting from Tel Aviv University which sits on Sheikh Muwannis, and all the way to this entire area ("Gaza Envelope". You have to understand it was all mud huts, it was very easy for them to drive a bulldozer, raze the huts, and then there's nothing left."

I’d been meaning to post this thread for several months now but never got around to it. I think that now, after Haim Perry, the person quoted above, died in al-Qassam's captivity in Gaza, most likely in an Israeli air raid, it is about time I do it.
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Last January a photo circulated on social media showing an Israeli soldier in Gaza mockingly pretend to be reading “Atlas of Palestine,” a comprehensive book on historical Palestine and the Nakba written by Palestinian researcher Salman Abu-Sitta.
I wanted to write a tweet about the photo and was curious to see where Abu-Sitta was born.

I found out that he, like most of the Gaza Strip population, is a refugee, from a family uprooted by Zionist forces in 1948. Abu-Sitta was born in the village of Khirbet al-Ma'in/Ma'in Abu Sitta, between modern day kibbutzim Nirim and Nir Oz, in the so-called “Gaza Envelope.” He and his family were forced to flee across the new border, into what is now called “The Gaza Strip”. The only building that survived the destruction of the village was the local school, built by Salman's father in 1920.

I was then surprised to learn that one of the Israeli hostages, Haim Perry, was actually running a gallery in the old village school, now called “The White House” by Jewish residents of the area. Abandoned and neglected for many years, the building was cleaned and renovated in 1999 by Perry and some of his fellow “kibbutzniks.”

To my even greater surprise, I learned that 5 years ago Perry hosted an exhibition by Eitan Bronstein Aparicio, the founder of Zochrot organization - an institution dedicated to educating and raising awareness about the Nakba and the Palestinian Right of Return. The exhibition commemorated the uprooted village of al-Mai'n, and sparked heated debates among locals. Perry had agreed to host the exhibition despite objections from some kibbutz members and from the head of the regional council.

The leftist-oriented, now defunct media outlet Social TV published a video report about the exhibition back in 2019. I found this piece fascinating to watch especially now, after the shit majorly hit the fan.

A couple of weeks later, I went to see “The White House,” al-Ma'in Abu Sitta's old school. The whole area was still almost desolate, except for A LOT of Israeli army forces. The gallery was closed and seemed deserted. I took some pictures of the house and the statues outside, and tried to picture a different future, while the ground below me kept shaking from Israeli artillery shells being fired into Gaza to murder those who were driven out from where I stood. And their children, and grandchildren, and great grandchildren.

One of the people who can be seen in the Social TV video is Oded Lifshitz, who is still in captivity in Gaza, presumably, and hopefully still alive. His wife Yocheved Lifshitz was a hostage as well and was freed by al-Qassam Brigades in October. Oded is a political activist, who, already in the early 70's, protested against the expulsion of Palestinians & Sinai Bedouins, and the plans to build Israeli settlements in the Sinai & Gaza Strip.

I hope that one day, soon, we'll see the Abu-Sitta family able to return to its lands in al-Ma'in Abu Sitta, and Oded return to his family's embrace alive. It is possible; I truly believe it is.

Check out the thread below for more info and photos.
"What I’ve seen here today was very moving and even painful. In spite of living here more then 35 years I feel the need and the hope to return to the land and revive it with the past emotions, to revive it with the culture and customs of yours, the residents.

A land is not a brick. A land is value, is roots, is a love to a place. There’s no room for deportation. My heart is with you.

Efrat Katz, Nir Oz."
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As part of the exhibition, visitors were invited to write a letter to the Palestinian refugees of Abu Sitta. Efrat Katz, a (then) 65 year old woman from nearby kibbutz Nir Oz, wrote this moving letter.
Dr. Salman Abu Sitta, who later wrote about the exhibition () called Efrat's letter "a tiny ray of hope".

On the morning of October 7th, Efrat, her partner Gadi Mozes, her daughter and her two granddaughters were all abducted to Gaza from their home in Nir Oz. As they were on a tractor on their way to captivity, an Israeli helicopter opened fire on them and murdered Efrat. Her daughter and granddaughters were thankfully returned as part of the large hostage deal. Gadi Mozes is still held hostage. Three months ago he turned 80 while in captivity.

In the photos: Efrat's letter to the uprooted residents of al-Ma'in and a photo of her and her partner, Gadi Mozes.mondoweiss.net/2019/09/denial…Image
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Photos of al-Ma'in Abu Sitta's school / The White House galleryImage
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Jun 2
🧵After their recent letter proposing a fascist law, to be implemented in Israeli higher education institutions, crush free speech on campuses and intimidate Palestinian and leftist students from criticizing Israel, the National Union of Israeli Students took a step further, and paid for two massive banners to be displayed over Israel's busiest highway, public-shaming two lecturers, one Palestinian and one leftist Jew, who have already been suffering in recent months from severe persecution by Israeli society, education institutes and state authorities.

Turns out that 500K Shekels were invested by the union in order to promote their McCarthyist law.Image
One sign features a quote by Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian who was already arrested and interrogated several times by the police, and her own university (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) condemned her. The quote reads "It is time to abolish Zionism" Image
2nd banner concerns Dr. Anat Matar, from Tel Aviv Uni, who's been facing a wide-scale witch hunt launched against her.
The banner quotes her words about Palestinian novelist and political prisoner Walid Daqqa (who Israelis call "terrorist"): "beloved and a source of inspiration" Image
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May 26
🧵Israeli figures and popular news channels celebrating the burning of people alive in Rafah.

Context: Today is Lag BaOmer, a Jewish holiday whose main tradition is the lighting of bonfires.

Photo:
Screenshot from Baz News Telegram channel (67.8k sbscrbrs): "Lag BaOmer Rafah" Image
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May 18
"Gaza should be annihilated, including all its inhabitants. Men, women and children"
This genocidal nutjob is Dan Ezra, a so-called right-wing "activist" who spent a lot of 2023 organizing demonstrations in support of Netanyahu's government, and also "counter-protests" against the anti-Netanyahu crowd. That included blocking roads near Kibbutzim, who Netanyahu supporters see as sort of "places where leftists live", allowing only people who "look right-wing" to pass through and attacking people they thought looked like "leftists" (including many elderly people).
These staged protests, mostly organized by hardcore "Bibists" and Likud members, were obviously meant to intimidate people from protesting against the government.
This guy has dozens of thousands of followers on Instagram and Telegram.Image
After people warned him that posts like his could be used against Israel in The Hague, he posted this: Image
During 2023 he was interviewed regarding his "protest" by national media channels.
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May 16
Palestine Arab Revolt, 1938Image
Alhambra Cinema, Jaffa, 1938 Image
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