Prior to 1948 the term ‘Palestinian' wasn’t used to refer to the Arabs living in Palestine.They called themselves ‘Arabs’ as they hadn’t developed any particular sense of nationalism separate from the larger Arab Nation as no Country of Palestine existed. ‘Palestinians’ were jews
@sarabahaa94
I don’t see this as a reason for bragging…leaders of those countries actually cared for their populations and would not have engaged in prolonged wars against a far superior force. But Hamas is hiding in tunnels, letting its people die every day that they don’t surrender, Every
@DovWaxman
So what percentage of the students you think reject Hamas? I have yet to hear one such rejection. The protests call for intifada and revolution never for peace and conciliation. If the don’t all support Hamas they should show it, otherwise they are supporting it de facto
@asadabukhalil
You REALLY don’t know the history. There have always been terrorist groups attacking Israel. In the 50s it was the fedayeen. In the 60s it was the PLO and PFLP. In the 70s it was Black September and German and Japanese terrorists. Israel has never initiated hostilities, it was
@AjAqrabawi
The celebrations are for the demise of Hassan Nasrallah who has vowed to destroy Israel, was responsible for 100s of 1000s of Syrian civilian deaths, and has attacked western interests in Argentina and in Europe. Worth celebrating, don’t you think?
@MelissaSChapman
How much money does the US save by not having to station troops in Israel as they do with other allies, Japan and Germany? According to US generals, around $70 billion/year!
@KevorkAlmassian
If Ukraine had shot 8500 rockets unprovoked into Russia, the international community would be saying WHAT TOOK SO LONG FOR RUSSIA TO RESPOND. Don’t you think so?
The apartheid accusation against Israel is vile. As it announced it,
@amnesty
took care to clarify that ‘this apartheid is a legal definition that doesn’t even have to resemble the S.African model. Yet, if you accept that position you’d very soon discover that>>
@RepRashida
@StateDept
@POTUS
RASHIDA: LAND WAS NOT STOLEN. It either was bought or belonged to Jews for centuries or was acquired in two defensive wars, ‘67 and ‘73, when the Arabs states tried to eliminate Israel
@afalkhatib
I remember well that before the intifadas one could drive around FREELY around the West Bank or Gaza. It was not unusual for tel avivian Israelis to go for the day to have an amazing Arab meal or shop for bargains in the Arab markets. And, of course, west bankers could go
@Mr_Andrew_Fox
I get a sense that Hamas sends a bat signal to its network of supporters worldwide as soon as Israel makes some important advance. Their hope is to pressure Israel to back off and stop.
@HilzFuld
You must be kidding. She DID NOT equate Israel with Hamas at all. She talked explicitly of Hamas’ barbarism and she talked about PEOPLE IN SUFFERING IN GAZA. This was a perfect formulation. I don’t think you are being fair, you are pushing allies away because they’re democrats.
@afalkhatib
Ahmed I commend your efforts, truly magnificent. But we knew this crowd wasn’t a thoughtful deliberative crowd but, instead, one highly choreographed crowd with the single purpose of saving Hamas from the IDF.
@mehdirhasan
Mehdi I’ve told you many times, there is no genocide. You repeating the BIG LIE diminishes any credibility you might still have, which is not much at all
@AvivaKlompas
@BBCWorld
@yaakovkatz
Amazing how these anchors who are normally quite normal, bend their minds to justify anti-israel aggression. I know that the antisemitism explanation is tired but I can’t, for my life, find another way to understand such irrational, unreasonable stands
Wars that involve Israel are microscopically examined and commented on which creates the false impression that it must be worse thing happening in the world. Only explanation that occurs to me is that the interest/criticism stems from antisemitic animus..
@SweeneySteve
The US and it allies fought al Qaeda and the Taliban for TWENTY YEARS. Then they fought ISIS for years, devastating Mosul. In all these thousands of civilians were killed. War is hell but only if Israel is involved they tell ‘ceasefire’ and ‘genocide’.
@elderofziyon
Yes but it’s been asked: Hamas knew this attack would bring a ferocious response. So what were they thinking? I’m worried that, indeed, they were thinking. The massacre is smelling more and more as the opening act in a well planned multi front attack. I really hope I’m wrong.
Pro Palestinian propaganda is trying to smear the Abraham accords as involving authoritarian nations. They are tragically comedic being that they never, ever mention the tyrannical character of Hamas and of the Palestinian Authority
@mhdksafa
There has NEVER been a war in history where the offending army hides in 400 miles of tunnels under the population they are suppose to protect! Abhorrent.
@BriannaWu
But you don’t get it:unless you are for the elimination of Israel ‘by any means necessary‘, you are not being supportive of the Palestinian cause; that’s what they want,that’s what they’ve always wanted. And THAT explains all the wars and why there is no Palestinian state to date
No other conflict in the world (Syria, Ethiopia, Yemen, Congo, etc.)comes close in level of scrutiny to the Israel-Palestine conflict. It appears that the west’s endless fascination with the Jews drives this interest. The EXCESSIVE scrutiny amplifies&distorts its severity
@ColumbiaSJP
Nice!! No more calls for global intifada, only one solution, revolution and we don’t want 2 states we want 1948. Genocidal incitement should not be given an open mic. Hate speech IS NOT free speech
@SaraReyi
Lol.. This is a Zionist Jewish team. Before 1949 the only ones going by ‘Palestinians’ were the Zionists. The Arabs hated being called that, they insisted they were simply Arabs
@FDD
@adesnik
@JoeTruzman
And even their revised figures are great exaggerations as they are STILL based on Hamas-provided figures! Hamas is the party with the most incentive to lie about these figures…
@RealSaavedra
Had the world reacted with disgust at these revelations by Clinton in 2016 (or before), and made clear that this mad strategy of fighting from civilian infrastructure is unacceptable, we might have not seen the tragedy of the current war. But people didn’t care and now they
@JonathanACBrown
You are so wrong. Israel has actually minimized the civilian deaths relative to ANY OTHER ARMY FIGHTING AN URBAN WAR. Minimized means they’ve done better than anyone else. Where do these outrageous lies come from? From Hamas’ propaganda and the torrent of brutally gory pictures
Impressive the lengths that the IDF goes to in making sure that EACH INCIDENT complies with the Laws of War. I can’t imagine other armies being this concientous
Hi, I’m a lawyer. Do want to know what is really meant by a “
#proportionate
response” under international law? Then read on - and feel free to ask questions!
Under International Humanitarian Law,
#proportionality
requires that any degree of damage (up to and including death) to
Remember, Iran the biggest oppressor of women is the biggest benefactor and supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah. You can’t be a progressive and support these misogynist, racist, tyrannical movements. Waiting for you comments
@rashida
@ArtCrunchy
Falsely accusing Zionists of genocide is extremely antisemitic. This charge is not coincidental, it’s designed to shut the Jews up about the holocaust. Could not be more antisemitic
@mehdirhasan
You try sooooo hard to spin anything-Israel as cruel and pathological. Focus on 120 hostages which have been viciously held against their will for over 200 days.
@visegrad24
Palestinian cries over a fake genocide obscures real genocides like the one in Congo. Palestinian activists are self righteous and self centered and distort reality to the detriment of humanity. Yes there is a horrifying war in Gaza but it is owned by Hamas who started it and
so many (most? all?) countries qualify as apartheid. Yet not
@amnesty
nor anyone else has called out anybody else for being an apartheid regime. So, either way
@amnesty
’s actions have singled out israel, and only Israel, as a uniquely evil society. And that defines antisemitism
@lavinia_colzani
@hahussain
It’s the rule. At about the same time that Israel’s was created, India’s and Pakistan split in a civil war that created some 12 million (!) refugees. Unlike the Palestinians, they moved on, resettled and no refugee problem exists today.
@HaydnCascadian
@RichardHanania
Not about having a government, they didn’t have a national identity. There were Jews and there were Arabs and you know who called themselves Palestinian? The Jews, as the Arabs saw themselves as part of the Arab nation which today has TWENTY ONE countries to express their self
@Save_Al_Naqab
It shows the tribes and it says Judea and Samaria. No West Bank or Jordan anywhere. Hmm.. Basically the map screams: PALESTINE, THE LAND OF THE JEWS!
@NadavPollak
Israel has lived under the threat of a Hezbollah attack for decades which had amassed an arsenal of some 100,000 rockets, a formidable arsenal. This is the opportunity Israel has been seeking to dismantle this threat; given the hit Israel’s image has taken from the Gaza war it
@mhdksafa
No, it’s a Big Lie. There are nowhere close to that number and any honest person knows it. It’s all a huge Hamas fabrication which, they now admit, they can’t account for….but the figure, even is disproved, the number has been repeated so many times, it will stick. It’s the old
@BTnewsroom
@SusanSarandon
Did you hear Susan Sarandon demand that Hamas releases the hostages and surrender?? No? Me neither…But she surely called for peace and coexistence, right? No, she didn’t…hmm..I wonder what she’s up to…
#susanSarandon
If Israel was targeting civilians rather than Hamas militants one would expect the proportions of male/female deaths to be about those in the general population. If, on the other hand, most of those killed are militants, then the proportion of males would be higher. The results:
@AbbyMartin
To have this account posted on 10/8, tells you everything you need to know about this ‘journalist’. October 8th was a day of shame, one of those days that darken human history…not a day to justify the lowest human impulses
@songsofyoni
75 years since the Arab world, in one form or another, allied with the Soviet Union and then with Iran and Russia, have tried to exterminate Israel. Seventy five years of a struggle for survival…
@adequatehousing
UNRWA = HAMAS. I think if you’re going to sanction someone it should be unrwa as they’ve collaborated with Hamas in committing war crimes for years!
@amnesty
Using ‘apartheid’-whose only meaning is associated with South Africa- had a purpose, and it wasn’t to be technically accurate about Israel’s circumstances as
@amnesty
claims. The purpose was to engender the visceral reaction of revulsion which everyone associates with the term.
@RitchieTorres
@PeterBeinart
After making the obvious point that AIPAC supports those who support Israel, Beinart proceeds to tell us that AIPAC is hostile to the black community because most identify with the Palestinians?? What a forced, nonsensical argument
@BriannaWu
This is the pattern going back to the 1920s. Look at this table of violence BEFORE even Israel existed and, of course, before the occupation, the settlements, and all the other reasons Palestinians give to justify their violence
@Khaledhzakariah
Vile. This anger that is reserved for the Jews has a different, deeper origin. I don’t know what that is; could it be the resentment in being trapped in a culture that keeps them so backwards when compared to the West? Israel’s existence exposes it.
@mehdirhasan
It’s not that Mehdi. It’s the terrible, maximalist ultimate purpose of the Palestinian national movement -eradicating Israel— and the means -terror- they employ
@ninaturner
We all agree. Hamas is the only party that can stop it immediately. Strangely I have never seen any of the ceasefire warriors demand that they do. Which means that children dying IS NOT their first priority. Hypocrisy
@GadSaad
To accuse the Jews of playing the victim card is, itself, a victimization of the Jews. It relies on the antisemitic notion that Jews manipulate non-Jews with guilt….
@BriannaWu
@antifasheddie
They go to ridiculous extremes in delegitimizing not just Israel but Jewish history and identity. And it’s all an inversion for their lack of cultural specificity as Palestinians.