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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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More from @Alonso_GD

Aug 4
It is anguishing to think, after so many boycotted negotiations, that the remaining hostages’ plight will end with Hamas executing them so Netanyahu can claim their lives as the excuse for taking over Gaza. The worst most cruel most bloody outcome possible
I am in despair for the hostages and their families and for the thousands of Palestinians that will be killed as a result of this new demential course of action. No one -NO ONE- should be used as bargaining chip for geopolitical goals. I know the despair of hoping against hope
I can only hope a fools hope that Hamas will call his bluff and release the hostages to force Israel to make its true goal so so transparent that it is shamed into changing course - and then eventually a negotiated outcome can arise from that… but of course this wont happen
Read 4 tweets
Aug 4
Ok, let’s read it, cuz I’ve really had it with the distortion being made by some here

🧵
The article starts:

“Each High Contracting Party shall allow the free passage of all consignments of medical and hospital stores and objects necessary for religious worship intended only for civilians of another High Contracting Party, even if the latter is its adversary”
Just from the beginning, reference to “free passage”, implies that the party allowing passage *does not have control over the area to which the medical consignments are being sent.

In other words, this article refers to blockades/sieges, not military occupation
Read 22 tweets
Aug 4
I’d argue the main reason why it would be incomplete to assess Israel’s operations as “indiscriminate” is because there is increasing evidence that Israel is not simply failing to direct attacks at military targets, but that it’s directly targeting civilians
So really the attacks are not indiscriminate in the sense that they do not distinguish between military targets and civilian populations. On the contrary, they do distinguish between them and then shoot at the civilians.
Civilians seeking aid, humanitarian workers, civilians who happen to cross into a kill zone, kids with bullets to the head… these are not deaths resulting from indiscriminate attacks. They are the result of purposefully attacking civilians
Read 4 tweets
Aug 4
This is the problem with racist colonial mindsets. They define “advanced” as “those things about me that I like, minus what I don’t, w/o minding local context”
Ffs the Spanish also burned people alive to appease their god, what the hell do you think was the Spanish Inquisition?🧵
The Inca also did have a way to record valuable information- it was just not written through an alphabet. The quipu was a complex system that records information based on texture, colour and the shape of knots. It’s so complex that we have not been able to decipher it to this day Image
“Oh but the Spanish could write poetry and epic tales”. No not the Spanish. The elite that could read or write. Spain’s literacy rate in 1550 was less than 20%. Their elites liked poems and epic tales. Inca elites liked keeping tabs on grain and corn so people did not starve
Read 10 tweets
Aug 2
Bartov, Grossman & a growing number of Israeli public intellectuals are saying things like “I refused to believe it but now I can’t deny it further: Israel is committing genocide”. As they open the Overton Window in ways genocided Palestinians never could, one thing is important
This “I can’t deny it any longer” angle was part of the global structure that enabled a genocide. What for you was a process of personal self discovery, for Palestinians it was months of atrocity denial where tens of thousands of people died, were tortured, starved, etc.
You held the keys to the Overton Window and took 10, 15, even 20 months to say so. This is not guiltless, bloodless or costless. It’s 22 months. People see an IDF shirt and react with fury. It may have taken you 20 months, but it took its victims days to see where this headed
Read 6 tweets
Jul 31
I just made an hour-long video on how frustrating it's been to see academics excluded from Israel-Palestine discourse and here we are, a few days later, with ALL my academic mutuals saying this letter on recognition and Montevideo is an embarrasing joke and no media asking them🧵
Marco Milanovic, University of Reading Image
Vidya Kumar, SOAS University of London Image
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