Palestinians misdiagnose Israel by @havivrettiggur.

Israel is not settler colonialism, but rescue - 90% of Jews went there as refugees.

But the Muslim world cannot admit/accept losing to Jewish refugees running away and so Israel MUST be a product of powerful Western empires.🧵 You really MUST watch the full lectures to “get it” and I’ve linked them in the following two comments.

But first, we all need more Haviv, and the best place to get more Haviv is through his Patreon - link below.

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The Hebron Emirate plan is a starting point to Dr. Mordechai Kedar’s “Eight Emirates Plan” to SUCCESSFULLY resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It’s worth reading now that there’s actual potential movement behind this plan. Find it (with a link) in the following thread. 🧵 Borders

I believe in the creation of eight emirates for the Palestinians. The Arab world today is divided sharply and roughly between two kinds of states: those states that are failing and those states that are successful.

Failing states include: Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Algeria, Sudan and Libya. Successful states are the Emirates in the gulf, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and Oman. The failing states are all conglomerates of tribes, ethnic groups (Arabs, Kurds and Turkmans), religious groups (Christians, Muslims, Alawis, Druze and Yazidis), and sectarian groups (Sunna, Shia and Christian denominations).

People are much more loyal to the tribe, ethnic, religious or sectarian group than to the state in which they are citizens. This is why those states (Iraq, Syria…) are viewed by most of their citizens as an enemy.

Those states try to impose state law and the state mindset on a people who are loyal to a different framework and a different set of rules, laws, traditions, and habits.

This is the problem of all these countries—the state is the enemy of the majority of the citizens because they don’t belong to the same group which took the country by force.

On the other side, you have successful states (Kuwait, Qatar and the seven Emirates of the gulf). These countries are stable, rich, and life there is heavenly. Not because of oil. Dubai has relatively no oil, while Iraq and Libya—which are hell—have much oil.

The basic difference between the successful countries and the failures is that the successful countries are based on one single tribe (and I ignore in this description the foreign citizens who come to make money, or Bengalis who come for construction and leave after a year).

Kuwait is based on one tribe, al-Sabbah. Qatar is based one tribe, al-Thani. Abu Dhabi is based on one tribe, al-Nihyan, and so forth. Each tribe is one “al,” which means one tribe.

The citizens see the state as legitimate because it belongs to them, and the leadership is legitimate because it is the leadership of the tribe. No one fights anyone else. So even with minimal oil, Dubai makes money because they are a stable society.

In Iraq, Libya, and in other failed states, society is heterogeneous and people are fighting each other with or without reason.

The question for Israel is: which paradigm should Israel follow when it comes to the Palestinians knowing that the Palestinians are also a tribal society, more or less like the emirates in the gulf. There is much evidence of it, i.e. patterns of match-making, blood revenge, honor-killing and conflict-resolution.

If you establish one state with all of them together, this state will end up like Syria, Iraq or Libya. If you follow the Emirates paradigm, they will end up like Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, etc.—internally successful and externally peaceful.

The modern Middle Eastern states did not create peoples. There is no Syrian people, because if there was one, they wouldn’t fight each other as viciously as they do now. Most of the people in Syria remained loyal to traditional frameworks (the tribe, ethnic, religious, or sectarian group)—not the state. Same with Iraq, Yemen, Sudan and Algeria.

This is the sad reality of the Middle East and I am not sure that Israel should contribute another failing state destined to these atrocities.

Israel should rather follow the successful paradigm—the emirate paradigm—which would be based on the clans of their cities.

Every city has different clans and these different clans don’t meet each other, and they don’t marry each other.

Everyone in that city feels at home, while if they move, even to a neighboring village or city, they would feel like a stranger.

The emirates would include: Hebron, Jericho, Ramallah, Tulkarem, Qalqila, Nablus, Jenin, Gaza (an emirate which has existed for 10 years already). The rural area surrounding the emirates would become part of Israel and the villagers there would be offered full citizenship.

Jews cannot rely on others to survive. George McGovern (Senator, Presidential Nominee & Historian) flew bomber missions over Auschwitz, targeting nearby oil factories & admitted it was moral failure not to bomb the gas chambers, the crematoria, or the railways/bridges to Auschwitz.

By December 1942, the US government had irrefutable proof of the mass slaughter of Jews in the death camps, including Auschwitz.

Jewish organizations pleaded with the Allies to bomb the extermination camps & railways/bridges leading to them to at least minimize the slaughter. The Jews begged the Allies to do something, anything, to show the Nazis that the world knew what was happening & refused to permit it.

But the Jews’ requests were always dismissed out of hand.

Starting in Feb 1944, Allied photo-reconnaissance planes based in southern Italy carried out surveillance missions over Auschwitz. Those photos unequivocally showed the barracks and the plumes of smoke billowing over the constantly running crematoria, which were incinerating up to 12,000 Jews every single day.

The British too carried out bombing raids on synthetic oil factories adjacent to Auschwitz as early as May 12, 1944. But neither the Americans nor the British ever took any action intended to stop, or even somewhat slowdown, the extermination of the Jews.

Elie Wiesel later recounted in his best-selling book Night that he remembered seeing the Allies bomb of the oil factories when he was a 16-year-old slave laborer in Auschwitz.

He wrote: “[I]f a bomb had fallen on the blocks [the prisoners’ barracks], it alone would have claimed hundreds of victims on the spot. But we were no longer afraid of death; at any rate, not of that death ... Every bomb that exploded filled us with joy and gave us new confidence in life. The raid lasted over an hour. If it could only have lasted ten times ten hours!”

Meanwhile, at the exact same time that the Allies were running these bombing missions taking them directly over Auschwitz, the Allies also knew that up to 800,000 Hungarian Jews were being rounded up for deportation along those same railways & bridges to Auschwitz for extermination.

But while actions were repeatedly taken against the oil factories next door, not a single bomb was dropped targeting those railways and bridges. Not a single bomb was dropped targeting the gas chambers or the crematoria.

How many could have been saved if the Allies took any action whatsoever against Auschwitz?

It’s not as if bombing railways and bridges was out of the ordinary. On the contrary, the Allies regularly bombed railways and bridges during the entirety of the war.

The sad truth is that during the war, those in charge of Allied military action, including political leaders, repeatedly showed near total disinterest in the Nazi industrialized slaughter of millions of Europe’s Jews.

And so, we love our friends today. We appreciate every one of them. We know the stories of the righteous among the nations who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.

But we also know - and continue to reminded by the words and actions of world leaders today - that Jews have not the luxury of relying on the nations of the world to save us, to protect us, or even to care whether we live or die.

Only Israel ensures Jews will never again be left hoping the world will come to our rescue. Only Israel ensures the Jews will ultimately be responsible for our own destiny. Documentary video showing how & why gigantic plumes of smoke were visible in many Allied reconnaissance photos over Auschwitz in mid-1944, including eye-witness testimony.

Hint: it’s close to, but not exactly what you’re likely thinking.

What could have been.

This day (March 3) in 1919, Emir Feisal (Left) (Son of Hussen Ibn Ali, Sharif of #MECCA, Arab & Sunni #Muslim king) wrote US Zionist leader (later US Sup Ct Justice) Felix Frankfurter (Right) after Paris Peace Conference re formation of a Jewish State:

"I want to take this opportunity of my first contact with American Zionists to tell you what I have often been able to say to [President of the World Zionist Organization] Dr. [Chaim] Weizmann in #Arabia & #Europe.

We feel that the Arabs & Jews are cousins in having suffered similar oppressions at the hands of powers stronger than themselves, & by a happy coincidence have been able to take the first step towards the attainment of their national ideals together.

The Arabs, especially the educated among us, look with the deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement. Our deputation here in #Paris is fully acquainted with the proposals submitted yesterday by the Zionist Organisation to the #Peace Conference, & we regard them as moderate & proper. We will do our best, in so far as we are concerned, to help them through: we will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home.

With the chiefs of your movement, especially with Dr. Weizmann, we have had & continue to have the closest relations. He has been a great helper of our cause, & I hope the Arabs may soon be in a position to make the Jews some return for their kindness.

We are working together for a reformed and revived Near East, and our two movements complete one another. The Jewish movement is national and not imperialist. Our movement is national and not imperialist, and there is room in Syria for us both. Indeed I think that neither can be a real success without the other.

People less informed and less responsible than our leaders and yours, ignoring the need for cooperation of the Arabs & #Zionists, have been trying to exploit the local difficulties that must necessarily arise in Palestine in the early stages of our movements.

Some of them have, I am afraid, misrepresented your aims to the Arab peasantry, & our aims to the Jewish peasantry, with the result that interested parties have been able to make capital out of what they call our differences.

I wish to give you my firm conviction that these differences are not on questions of principle, but on matters of detail such as must inevitably occur in every contact of neighbouring peoples, & as are easily adjusted by mutual good will. Indeed nearly all of them will disappear with fuller knowledge.

I look forward, & my people with me look forward, to a future in which we will help you & you will help us, so that the countries in which we are mutually interested may once again take their places in the community of civilised peoples of the world.

Believe me, Yours sincerely, (Sgd.) Feisal"

Two days later (March 5, 1919), Frankfurter responded as follows:

"Royal Highness,

Allow me, on behalf of the Zionist Organization, to acknowledge your recent letter with deep appreciation.

Those of us who come from the #UnitedStates have already been gratified by the friendly relations & the active cooperation maintained between you & the Zionist leaders, particularly Dr. Weizmann. We knew it could not be otherwise; we knew that the aspirations of the Arab and the Jewish peoples were parallel, that each aspired to re-establish its nationality in its own #homeland, each making its own distinctive contribution to civilization, each seeking its own #peaceful mode of life.

The Zionist leaders & the Jewish people for whom they speak have watched with satisfaction the spiritual vigor of the Arab movement. Themselves seekingjustice, they are anxious that the just national aims of the Arab people be confirmed & safeguarded by the Peace Conference.

We knew from your acts & your past utterances that the Zionist movement -- in other words the national aim of the Jewish people -- had your support and the support of the Arab people for whom you speak.

These aims are now before the Peace Conference as definite proposals by the #Zionist Organization. We are happy indeed that you consider these proposals “moderate and proper,” and that we have in you a staunch supporter for their realization.

For both the #Arab & the #Jewish peoples there are difficulties ahead -- difficulties that challenge the united statesmanship of Arab & Jewish leaders. For it is no easy task to rebuild two great civilizations that have been suffering oppression & misrule for centuries.

We each have our difficulties we shall work out as friends, friends who are animated by similar purposes, seeking a free & full development for the two neighboring peoples. The #Arabs & #Jews are neighbors in territory; we cannot but live side by side as friends.

Very respectfully, (Sgd.) Felix Frankfurter"

#Education #Israel #Palestine
So what happened?

Few months later, British created & empowered the 1st Palestinian Arab #terrorist - an evil man who later worked with #Hitler during #WWII named Amin al-Husseini (see photo)

With British supporting/funding al-Husseini, Arab opinion turned violently against Jews (typical British Empire strategy of “divide & conquer” so native population would “ask” #Brits to "stay & keep the #peace”).

In 1920, al-Husseini, a pan-Arab nationalist who had served in the Ottoman #ARMY, began organizing small groups of Arabs called fedayeen (an Armenian word meaning “those who sacrifice themselves” or “redeemers”).

The fedayeen attacked Jewish farms in the #Jordan Valley & Galilee to terrorize Jews into leaving & prevent more Jewish #immigration.

But on Passover in 1920, things took a much darker & much more violent turn.

From April 4-7, 1920, during Passover & the annual Nebi Musa procession in Jerusalem (a Muslim festival & march to what Muslims consider the “tomb of Moses” in the Judean desert, ~7 miles south of Jericho), a 23-year-old al-Husseini (whose family had been made custodians of the tomb by the Ottomans) incited the first major #RIOT against Jews in Eretz Israel in the 20th century.

British occupying forces (weeks shy of Mandate implementation) withdrew & forced Jewish police officers to also withdraw from the Old City.

The result?

No one to stop the al-Husseini-incited Arab mob of tens of thousands from attacking Jews & looting their shops.

It was later learned British Colonel Waters Talor (financial advisor to Military Administration in Palestine) met with al-Husseini in the days leading up to the riot & told him to use the festival to show the world that #Zionism was unpopular not only with the British Palestinian Administration, but with the Arabs as well.

Colonel Talor told Al-Husseini that if there was sufficient violence (especially on #Easter), then British Generals, Gols & Allenby would advocate abandoning a Jewish state.

He further told al-Husseini that “#freedom” could only be “obtained through violence.”

Meanwhile, on their way back from the pilgrimage, al-Husseini whipped up the crowd into an anti-Jewish frenzy, & they marched through Jerusalem’s Jewish Quarter chanting, “slaughter the Jews” & “the [British] government is with us.”

By 10:30 am on April 4, 1920, 60,000-70,000 Arabs were congregated in the Old City, & al-Husseini’s followers had already been attacking Jews for more than an hour.

This was not enough for al-Husseini. So, he gave a speech to the gathered ~65,000 Arab #Muslims & said, “if we don’t use force against the Zionists & against the Jews, we will never be rid of them.”

The crowd shouted back at him, “#independence!” & “the Jews are our dogs.”

Arab #police officers (who were not forced to withdraw by the British) joined in applause; & the #mob knew it had free rein to terrorize Jerusalem’s Jews.

The ancient Jewish Quarter of #Jerusalem was ransacked.

Torath Chaim Yeshiva was raided. Torah scrolls were torn & thrown on the floor; the building was set on fire.

Over the next 3 hours alone, at least 160 Jews suffered minor to severe injuries.

The longer the riot went on without anyone there to stop it, the more bloodthirsty the crowd became.

The Arab festival-goers began chanting, “we will drink Jewish #blood.”

Suddenly, not only were Arab Muslims rioting, but Arab #Christians joined in as well & carried signs that said, “Will we betray our land for the murderers of #Jesus?”

There were decent Arabs in Jerusalem that day also.

Khalil al-Sakakini – a Palestinian Orthodox #Christian teacher, scholar, poet, & Arab #nationalist – wrote about seeing Jews covered in dust & blood when he noticed an Arab with a sack filled with loot approach a young Jewish shoe shiner.

He took the boy’s shoeshine box & started beating him in the head with it.

The Jewish child, covered in blood, began screaming & ran away.

The Arab attacker then simply rejoined the procession as they chanted, “Muhammad’s religion was born with the sword.”

Al-Sakakini wrote that this episode made him “nauseated & #depressed by the madness of #Humankind.”

Eventually, British troops imposed a #curfew & arrested several dozen rioters.

But the following morning, they permitted those same rioters – including the ones arrested – to attend morning #prayers; & attacks against Jews continued.

Jewish homes were broken into, especially in buildings that were Jewish-Arab mixed.

Then, the attacks got more brazen.

Arab rioters set Jewish homes on fire & smashed Jewish tombstones.

The violence increased.

The emboldened, crazed rioters began raping & murdering Jews.

So, what did the British do?

They evacuated the Old City.

And what do you think happened the next day?

More riots.

On the morning of April 6, Arab rioters attacked Jews near Hannah Yaffa & the Temple Mount.

There, three Jewish families had been holed up in their homes since the riots began.

The rioters broke down the doors & beat the families – including children – with iron bars. Two young women (aged 25 and 15) were raped.

The Nebi Musa Riots led to Jews arming themselves & learning to defend themselves in their Land. But, up to this point, the Jews had no training & no weapons.

Ze’ev Jabotinsky had a small group of Jews trained in #SelfDefense ready to go in & try to defend their Jewish brothers & sisters. But British troops refused them entry.

7 Jews were murdered, at least 216 Jews were injured (18 of which were left in critical condition), & due to underreporting, it is unknown how many rapes were committed.

Eventually, after strong outcry from Jewish leaders, British authorities named al-Husseini the principal instigator of the riots.

But naming him the instigator of the riots against Jerusalem’s Jews only caused al-Husseini to rise in popularity among the Arab population.

Suddenly, he was seen as leader of Mandate Palestine’s Arabs, & the British crowned him “Grand Mufti” only months later.

The British Palin Commission of Inquiry into the riots also wrote: “all evidence shows that these attacks were of a cowardly & treacherous nature. Most were against the elderly, women and children – the majority were wounded in the back of the neck.”

Even more damning, the Inquiry heard eyewitness testimony that #British administration officials had sided with the Arabs & helped incite the anti-Jewish riots.

Now, this next part is (like the Feisal/Frankfurter letter) VERY important because MANY OPPORTUNITIES for peaceful coexistence were missed/lost along the way.

Many Arabs were disgusted by the riots.

Sheikhs from 82 villages around Jaffa & Jerusalem (who claimed to represent 70% of the population) drafted a document expressly condemning the anti-Jewish riots & proclaiming #Zionists were “not a danger” to Arab communities.

In fact, similar express declarations were sent to #London in 1922 where hundreds of Palestinian Arab sheikhs & muhktars put their names to letters supporting #Jewish immigration to improve industrial development of the land, & therefore the lives of their fellow Arabs.

Meanwhile, the British were not done empowering Arabs to murder Jews.

In addition to naming al-Husseini “Grand Mufti,” the British colonial gov't also appointed al-Husseini head of the Supreme Muslim Council (an organization that previously did not exist) & provided him extensive resources.

Unfortunately, al-Husseini kick-started the kleptocratic & autocratic traditions of #Palestinian Arab rulers.

Just as Mahmoud Abbas is currently in the 19th year of his 4-year term, al-Husseini’s term as head of the Supreme Muslim Council was supposed to last only 5 years – but, of course, he never gave up the title or permitted elections.

Al-Husseini also maintained total control over the sizable stipend provided to the Council by the British colonial gov't, & he seized all Muslim #charity money & started new charities of his own – all donations went to the “Grand Mufti.”

Sound familiar? It’s exactly what Arafat & Abbas did & continue to do – get hundreds of millions in aide donations from well-meaning states & organizations, & then steal that money.

In addition to controlling all Muslim money, al-Husseini seized control over all mosques, #Muslim schools, & Muslim courts.

He ran the Palestinian Arab institutions like a gangster such that no one could reach a position of power in the Arab community without first “kissing the ring.”

He even had his own “button men,” which he used to systematically murder Palestinian #Arabs from rival clans/tribes.

Specifically, any clan/tribe that dared discuss cooperating with #Jews was violently targeted by the Grand Mufti’s thugs.

To be fair, some of the money al-Husseini controlled was put to constructive use. The now-iconic golden dome over the Dome of the Rock was funded by al-Husseini. He also initiated renovations at the #AlAqsa Mosque & #Temple Mount, both of which had fallen into complete squalor & disrepair under the neglectful Ottomans.

Al-Husseini’s goal in ordering the renovations was to increase the prominence of Jerusalem in the #Arab & Muslim world. It worked.

Muslim #Palestinians are traditionally Sunni & see Jerusalem as the third holiest place in #Islam after #MECCA & #Medina.

Jerusalem rose in prominence among Sunnis in part because of political turmoil in the 7th century when the House of Umayyah, which ruled in Damascus, adopted Jerusalem as a religious & political center to compete with Mecca.

On the other hand, Shi’ites traditionally did not see Jerusalem as a holy place. Instead, the Shi’ites reviled Jerusalem for having been “sanctified” by the House of Umayyah whom Shi’ites despised for murdering Hussein bin Ali.

Today, however, you will note that both Sunnis &Shi’ites (like the #Iranian regime) essentially compete for the title of “protector” of Jerusalem because of its anti-Israel &/or anti-Jewish jihadi connotations & the desire to be seen as the “protector” of all Muslims.

#Education #Israel #Palestine

Legal analysis of #Hamas’ hostage-taking: it has been more than 40 days since Hamas stole 240+ #Israelis & took them hostage in #Gaza (240+ #warcrimes), & Hamas has refused every demand to permit the International Red Cross (ICRC) access to the hostages (240+ more war crimes).

Among the hostages savagely stolen by Hamas was a woman who was 9 months pregnant on 10/7; and, assuming she’s alive, she should have given birth by now.

Add one newborn baby to the list of civilians held hostage by #HamasTerrorists.

Common Article 3 of the Fourth Geneva Conventions specifies that anyone in custody of a party to a conflict (#terrorist organizations like Hamas are included under Article 3(1)(b) as acknowledged in Nicaragua v. USA (1986) at Paras. 218-19) shall:

(1) “be treated humanely”;

(2) be protected from “violence to life and person”; and

(3) “[t]he wounded and sick shall be … cared for.”

In addition, customary humanitarian law requires any persons detained, and thus deprived of their liberty, be permitted to correspond with their families.

The very essence of the mission of the ICRC is to gain access to hostages & ensure they are being held in compliance with Article 3.

But, so far, after more than 40 days, Hamas has committed 240+ ongoing war crimes by repeatedly refusing the ICRC access to the hostages

Importantly, since the vast majority of the hostages are civilians, it is a universally accepted international norm (that is also stated in Article 34 of the Fourth Geneva Convention) that they must all be released immediately.

However, at a bare minimum - even if the hostages were treated as Prisoners of War (POWs) - international law requires they must be afforded the protections provided to POWs under the Third Geneva Convention (such as being provided sufficient food and water & receiving any needed medical attention).

The Third Geneva Convention confers a special mandate to the ICRC to protect the dignity & well-being of POWs by ensuring the hostage-takers comply with the law. Thus, Hamas is required under international law to provide the ICRC with regular access to visit POWs.

Again, Hamas has refused the ICRC any access to the hostages. So, as just a few examples:

(1) the condition of the new mother & her newborn baby are unknown;

(2) the condition of Kfir Bibas, a nine-month-old infant stolen from his home, is unknown

(3) the condition of 27-year-old Tamar Gutman, who suffers from debilitating Crohn’s disease & is without her medication, is unknown; and

(4) the condition of 85-year-old grandmother Yaffa Adar, who requires a walking aide to ambulate, requires a hearing aid to hear, & who is without her litany of required medications for ailments such as her heart condition, kidney disease, and chronic pain, is unknown.

The unknown - that is psychological torture for the families. Each instance of psychological torture adds even more to the list of war crimes committed by Hamas.

By now, you must have seen & heard the extreme inhumanity & shocking barbarism of Hamas’ Oct 7 attack.

You’ve seen & heard Hamas terrorists laughing as they raped women & even children.

You’ve heard their laughter as they burned babies alive in their cribs.

You’ve heard them brag about their mutilations, their beheadings, their torture, and their murders of men, women, children, the elderly, the infirm, and babies.

Every single individual act of torture & cruelty carried out by Hamas - for which there are presently too many to count - is yet another war crime, as the Third Geneva Convention precludes any party to a conflict from engaging in torture or cruelty.

And has the torture & cruelty under which the hostages suffered been treated in captivity?

Has the torture and cruelty of the hostages been ongoing - or made even worse - while they have been unlawfully held in captivity?

No one knows the answers to these questions because Hamas has refused to permit the ICRC access to the hostages in violation of international law and basic human decency.

#Education #Israel #Palestine
FYI, the purpose of this post was to specifically point out how #Hamas has refused the Red Cross access to the hostages and what that means. I did some additional legal analysis on Hamas’ taking of hostages in the post below if you’re interested.

#Education #Israel #Palestine

https://twitter.com/cptallenhistory/status/1718672678859546973

Think forcing #Jews to wear a yellow badge so they could be "marked" for "special treatment" originated in #Nazi #Germany?

Nope - you're only be off by about 2,700 miles & more than 1,100 years.

And that's just the first time Jews were forced to wear distinctive clothing.
Forcing Jews to wear distinctive clothing began in #Baghdad in 807 CE when Caliph Harun al-Rashid made all Jews of Baghdad wear a distinctive yellow belt (below).

This practice occurred in variations across the #MiddleEast, #Europe, #Russia, & North #Africa for centuries.

PART 1

Abbas Uses KBG-Style Disinformation to Deny & Erase Jewish History While Inventing “Ancient” Palestinian History 🧵 The 25,000 “Mitrokhin documents” from KGB archivist & defector Vasili Mitrokhin (below) prove Abbas (like Arafat) was a KGB agent (with the code name “Krotov”) & was trained in Moscow in the late ‘70s/early ‘80s.