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Jun 20 16 tweets 3 min read Read on X
When the story of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians is told, it will tell the story of how it cut electricity, food and water from the “human animals” and how Israelis mocked the starving thirsty children with videos of running water taps and lit lightbulbs 🧵
It will tell the story of how Israel used unreliable technology and massive collateral damage - bombs “focused on destruction, not accuracy” - to bomb sleeping children next to their sleeping parents, accused by some algorithm of being Hamas
It will tell how families were forced to flee their refuges once, twice, three even four times, fleeing due to evacuation orders that made no arrangements for them and pushed them into areas that were then bombed by the IDF in a perverse theatricality of insincere “humanity”
It will show how doctors, ambulances, humanitarians, journalists, civil defence, were killed, sometimes executed, kidnapped or disappeared with impunity. It will talk of Hind Rajab. It will tell all the stories.
It will show the stories of soldiers justifying the murder of children, claiming today’s enemies are the children they did not kill a decade prior. It will show them looting and mockingly wearing the underwear of the women they killed or displaced
It will show how vast areas of Gaza, universities, hospitals, mosques, houses - the lifelines of civilian life - were systematically destroyed in controlled explosions to create a “buffer zone” and push people inward, closer and closer together, so they could be controlled
It will show the videos of Palestinians fleeing through invisible death zones where anyone is marked as a target. Palestinians with white flags, elderly women, even Israeli hostages, all killed because they crossed an invisible line in the sand
It will tell how once enough people where crammed in a tiny portion of the Strip, and against the express order of the ICJ, Israel launched a brutal assault in these overcrowded streets, inevitably leading to mass casualties
It will tell how people where then told to return north, and how Palestinians marched proudly back to their destroyed homes, seeking to rebuild, only to then be trapped there by yet another blockade of food and water
It will then tell the story of how Israel sabotage aid delivery and replaced it with a system of mass displacement and extermination masked as aid delivery. How Palestinians were told if they wanted food they’d need to walk the death zones once more and go south or starve
It will tell how starving Palestinians were not given baby formula or blankets. How they were given uncooked food and no means to cook it. And how the efforts to break the blockade to deliver this formula were met with force and mockery
It will tell the story of how Israel concentrated a starving population among 4 distribution sites and then when starving people rushed the sites, they were shot for acting “aggressively”
It will tell the story of how Israel propped up gangs to repress this starving population and then used their actions as justification for opening fire. It will show how the people who got food were then displaced again, forced into ever-shrinking concentration areas
It will tell all these stories and many more that are still yet to pass. It will talk of the apartheid and occupation. It will tell the story of how it got to this. And those who enabled or supported it will never be forgiven
The story *will* be told. The depravity is simply too great. It will be told in the blood and the charred skin and muscles of dead Palestinians. It will be told in the unforgiving fury of those who survive this. The story *will* be told. And no lie will ever be good enough
And once the story is told, then you will have to run. Because you will be hunted. Because the crime is too great and accountability will chase you.

The story will be told and you will not be forgiven.

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Jun 23
Lol not me learning through Canary Mission that Zohran Mamdani is the son of Mahmood freaking Mamdani

Mamdani’s work is just excellent. Highly recommend. Here’s some recommendations 🧵
See for instance his postcolonial analysis of the Rwandan Genocide, where he dissassembles the argument that Hutus simply hated Tutsis and reframes it as a result of Belgium’s colonial policies Image
Then of course is his excellent Neither Settler nor Native, an exploration of how the nation state is inherently a colonial entity that creates “permanent minorities” Image
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Jun 19
I really like it when Zionists try to turn the tables of coloniality on me so to speak because I’m a white Peruvian, because it gives me the opportunity to explain how coloniality works in Latin America - you know, the thing I used to tweet most about before the genocide started
I’ve said this many times before: this isn’t about Israel per se. Israel is not important or relevant as a place or location. The reason why it matters is Zionism is a 19th C remnant of extreme coloniality in the 21st C and I oppose coloniality on principle -and genocide ofc
If Israel were not a colonial apartheid state subjugating and colonising Palestinians and bombing Lebanon, Iran, etc and it were a democracy instead I would frankly not care about its politics
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Jun 19
Shooting a missile…

- at a hospital...

- that you can’t aim properly, at a military target, but hitting a hospital instead...

- at a military target and causing disproportionate harm on a hospital…

…is a war crime

It doesn’t matter who does it
The problem is this has been normalised for 20 months by Israel and now the cat is out of the box. International Hasbara Law has severely harmed International Humanitarian Law
(I don’t think we have enough information to make a complete determination of the legality of the Iranian strike that damaged/hit the Soroka hospital yet, so read this tweet as me setting out the applicable legal standard for when we do, not as me making a determination already)
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Jun 18
Israel’s Letter to the UNSC is interesting in that it accuses Iran of being “substantially involved” in the funding, arming, training and guidance of a “network of terrorist proxies”. To the trained eye, use of this terminology is interesting because of what it *doesn’t say* 🧵 Image
Under int’l law, there are essentially two standards to determine when the actions of an armed group are “attributable” to a state - meaning that the group acts on behalf of the state or as part of its forces: the ICJ’s Effective Control and the ICTY’s Overall Control Test
The Effective Control Test arises from what is perhaps the ICJ’s most famous case: Military & Paramilitary Activities in & against Nicaragua, more commonly known as the “Nicaragua Case”. In this case, Nicaragua accused the US of intervening in its territory through paramilitaries
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Jun 16
Israel’s objective is to turn its regional rivals into what I call in my research a “bombable geography” - spaces where cross-border military action requires no justification and is subject to no limitation. They see the writing in the wall:
Whatever strategic objective Israel can’t achieve in the next 4 years will never be achieved. It knows they will become un-supportable pariahs as soon as Gen Z is done turning 18.
This is accentuated by Netanyahu knowing wars are the only things keeping him from jail. It’s the perfect marriage of corrupt authoritarianism and religious fundamentalism
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Jun 15
“Conventional wisdom” wants us to see Iran as the irrational authoritarian regime that can’t be trusted with nukes, and Israel as the moral Western liberal democracy that can.

But Israel has unlawfully attacked Iranian territory / diplomatic premises 4 times in 5 years.
Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza and supporting murderous terrorists in the West Bank leading an ethnic cleansing campaign while it imposes an apartheid regime on the Palestinian population. It is also collaborating with ISIS gangs in Gaza
Israel is currently occupying territory belonging to Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine, not to mention its recent unlawful territorial expansion into Syria. It also systematically destroyed tens of towns in southern Lebanon through controlled explosions
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