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Alonso Gurmendi Profile picture
@Alonso_GD
Oct 6 • 5 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Israel’s post Oct 7 policy has led to:
- 80k displaced Israelis
- Tel Aviv bombarded
- Hezbollah hitting Haifa
- Diplomatic isolation
- Pariah status among Gen-Z
- ICJ/ICC cases
- Downgraded credit ratings
- GDP growth stalled
Unrestrained war has shown it’s obvious uselessness
Anyone who tells you all of this was “part of the plan” or “to be expected” is lying to you. Israel expected to recover what its strategic security doctrine calls “strategic deterrence” - the belief that “teaching the enemy a lesson” is a security imperative.
It’s long been time for Israel to recognise that its strategic security doctrines belong in a different century. Unrestrained force to protect a colonial project in the Middle East does not make Israelis safe.
Israel entered the 21st century with potential partners for peace in Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, the Gulf states… it squandered this opportunity by holding fast to a colonial desire for annexation and “strategic depth”, alienating them
It’s time for a new status quo. Agree to a security deal with the Arab League, recognise the State of Palestine in pre-67 borders and engage in good-faith negotiations to end the occupation. It’s time

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Oct 2
I’m rly tired of the “what else where they supposed to do” brigade. The main reason why they are comfortable with Israel’s response is because it is happening “over there” where it is acceptable to bomb human beings into oblivion. Nobody would suggest doing this in London or NY🧵
It was patently obvious from the beginning that a broad and intense military response was, even under the most expansive definitions of self-defence, difficult to justify; not just because Israel is unlawfully occupying Gaza but bc of the urban nature of the conflict
Oct 7 was not just a horrific amalgamation of war crimes, it was also a catastrophic policy failure. A failure of Israel’s foundational policy of pursuing the occupation, colonisation and apartheid of Arab land and people as its most important security objective
Read 20 tweets
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Sep 18
Tracking State reactions to recent attacks on Lebanese pagers 🧵
Lebanon 🇱🇧
“serious violation of Lebanese sovereignty and a crime by all standards”
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Jordan 🇯🇴
"affirmed Jordan's condemnation and rejection of any action that threatens Lebanon's security, stability and the safety of its citizens."
Read 10 tweets
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Sep 17
Re Israel's pager attack (I'm assuming it was Israel?), there’s two separate sets of applicable rules: the Jus in Bello (JIB) asks “was this a war crime?” and the Jus ad Bellum (JAB) asks “was this a violation of Lebanese sovereignty?”

Some initial thoughts 🧵:
In theory, and provided certain conditions are met, it’s possible that an attack like this one could be legal under JIB.

Now, these are strict conditions. We don't know if Israel followed them and given past practice, we shouldn't assume it did
To be legal under JIB, we'd need:
1) an armed conflict
2) the targets were members of Hezbollah's armed force subject you to status targeting
3) precautions were taken to ensure that the targets would be in possession of the pagers and no civilian casualties were anticipated
Read 6 tweets
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Sep 2
So, when you read the actual decision, it is clear that what is at stake here is a concerted campaign to doxx a police officer and his family members to a group of people who recently tried to violently take over government institutions and where the risk of harm is significant
Thanks to Musk sharing this decision online unaltered, for instance, I know now this police officer’s wife profession, I know the maiden name she uses to protect herself from attacks and I know which account I need to go visit to find her picture
Musk, of course, needed to share it uncensored, because he wants you to think this is about a rogue justice trying to keep Brazilians from criticising the police. In reality, this is about what in Brazil is called a “digital militia”
Read 4 tweets
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Sep 1
Adam Kirsch expands the logic of his argument re settler clolonialism in this interview for @TimesofIsrael.
It reveals many more fundamental misunderstandings about the concept, so I thought I’d offer some clarity 🧵

timesofisrael.com/a-literary-cri…
Let’s start with his definition of colonialism, which once again unjustifiably constrains it to “societies founded by European colonization”. Describing the origin of anticolonial theory as a type of self-reflexivity by the colonial societies themselves is itself colonial Image
Colonialism is a type of relation between coloniser and colonised, where the latter needs to be “civilised” (ie dominated) by the former. A European origin is not necessary. The Sahrawi people are in a colonial relation with Morocco. Same as indigenous people in Latin America
Read 15 tweets
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Aug 23
I agree, we do not do enough to end gender apartheid in Afghanistan. So, let's see what is it we do thus far, so that we can understand what "too little" means, shall we? 🧵
The Taliban have been subjected to sanctions for their treatment of Afghan women since 1999, through UNSC Resolution 1267. Image
In 2011, this sanctions regime was divided in two by UNSC Resolutions 1988 and 1989, so that it could cover both the Taliban and al-Qaida. The first of these created a Sanctions Committee so that sanctions could be properly updated Image
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