"They deal with the Arabs with hostility and cruelty, trespass unjustly, beat them shamefully for no sufficient reason, and even boast about their actions."
This isn't a quote from a current report on WB settler violence, but from a report by Ahad Ha'am published in June 1891.➡️
Ahad Ha'am (the pen name of Asher Ginsberg) was the founder of "Cultural Zionism". This excerpt is a part of a report he wrote called "Truth from the Land of Israel (Eretz Yisrael)" that was published on the pages of HaMelitz, a Hebrew newspaper printed in the Russian Empire.
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1891 was six years before the official birth of the modern Zionist movement, or "Political Zionism", sixteen years before the establishment of the first Zionist militia in Palestine (Bar Giora) and 26 years before the Balfour Declaration. But at this point in time already at least five Palestinian villages were uprooted to make room for pre-Zionist Jewish settlements.
Zionism was always a colonialist, violent, racist movement. Zionists never saw Palestinians as humans, equal to them. The supremacist tendencies were always there, built-in within the colonial settlers' minds, who raised the next generation on the same values. The next generation, in turn, kept the indoctrination going, and so forth.
And now, 133 years later, we are seeing the inevitable culmination of this supremacist way of thought. The Zionists are committing an unimaginably horrific genocide against the native people of Palestine. And somehow, the world still turns a blind eye, just like it ignored the warnings all the way back in the 19th century.
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Here is the full relevant excerpt from Ginsberg's report:
"We must surely learn, from both our past and present history, how careful we must be not to provoke the anger of the native people by doing them wrong, how we should be cautious in our dealings with a foreign people among whom we returned to live, to handle these people with love and respect and, needless to say, with justice and good judgment. And what do our brothers do? Exactly the opposite! They were slaves in their Diasporas, and suddenly they find themselves with unlimited freedom, wild freedom that only a country like Turkey [the Ottoman Empire] can offer. This sudden change has planted despotic tendencies in their hearts, as always happens to former slaves ["eved ki yimlokh" – when a slave becomes king – Proverbs 30:22]. They deal with the Arabs with hostility and cruelty, trespass unjustly, beat them shamefully for no sufficient reason, and even boast about their actions. There is no one to stop the flood and put an end to this despicable and dangerous tendency. Our brothers indeed were right when they said that the Arab only respects he who exhibits bravery and courage. But when these people feel that the law is on their rival's side and, even more so, if they are right to think their rival's actions are unjust and oppressive, then, even if they are silent and endlessly reserved, they keep their anger in their hearts. And these people will be revengeful like no other."
In the attached image: The excerpt in HaMelitz newspaper from June 26, 1891
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🧵"Notify the roughly 300,000 residents who stayed in northern Gaza Strip... We order you to leave... In a week the entire area will become a military zone... No supply will enter"
A new campaign called "The Generals' Plan" was launched, created by Maj. Gen. (Res.) Giora Eiland.
The plan, calling to forcibly "empty" northern Gaza Strip and starve to death whoever is left behind, is being promoted aggressively since its launch, including by prominent media figures.
Here, for example, is a tweet by Channel 13's leading genocide propagandist Almog Boker.
A huge billboard in a central location in Tel Aviv calls Netanyahu to adopt the plan in order "to return the abductees and vanquish Hamas", alongside an explanatory map, captioned "control over humanitarian supply=vanquishment of Hamas!"
🧵Naor Meningher, half of the psychopathic duo that makes the podcast I like to refer to as "Two Genocidal Judeo-Nazis" used to be on PM Benjamin Netanyahu's New Media team for 5 election campaigns.
On his website he actually takes pride in the chatbot project referred to here:
Meningher's work with Netanyahu is featured prominently on his website, including different photos of him with Netanyahu. naormenin.com/netanyahu/
Since his work with Netanyahu, Naor Meningher served as a social media manager for different Likud people, including Danny Danon, Israel's old-new Representative to the UN and an avid ethnic cleansing enthusiast.
"Yes, it is possible to achieve total victory... There's a finite amount of people in Gaza"
Aired two weeks ago on Channel 13 news. The speaker is panelist Abir Kara - a politician, businessman and a thug, who previously served as a Member of Knesset as part of Bennett's party.
Following are just a few of the genocidal tweets he posted in the last year:
Following are some revealing quotes from a column by Netanyahu's mouthpiece Amit Segal:
"The Prime Minister is not telling the truth... The truth is this: as far as Netanyahu is concerned, Israel plans to stay in Gaza for the next generation."
2/7 "...We are now returning to another old experiment, conducted between 1967 and 2005: military bases between Gaza and Rafah... This is exactly the presence Netanyahu means when he talks about Israeli military control and civilian control "of other parties"..."
3/7 "...That's why a two-lane freeway is currently being paved on the Philadelphi Axis, that's why entire divisions are located where Rafiah Yam, Netzarim, Elei Sinai, Nisanit and Dugit (Israeli dismanted Gaza settlements) once were."
🧵As part of the outrage following (false) reports that Eyal Golan will be prosecuted for stating "Gaza should be erased" in October, 10,000s of Israelis used social media to express solidarity with Golan and join his call.
Here are a few.
All of us who have been paying attention know by now that the IDF uses random Palestinians, including children, as human shields, sending them defenseless, with cameras, into tunnels and buildings to "map" them.
Ha'aretz now reveals that it's a standard practice of the IDF in Gaza, carried out with the approval of the most higher ranks, including the Chief of General Staff. haaretz.co.il/news/magazine/…
Some of the abducted Palestinians used for that purpose are held by the army for that purpose, bound and blindfolded, for up to a week.
In the earlier months of the genocide, @Hakeam_ps posted his own story after being used as such human shield by the inhumane terrorist organization known as the "IDF". Zion*zi propagandists claimed back then, of course, that he's a liar.