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"OUR LIFE, OUR SOCIETY WAS SHATTERED IN ORDER THAT ISRAEL BE ESTABLISHED"
Edward Said, in an archival interview. He died in 2003.
"1948, we lost everything. Every single member of my family was made a refugee in 1948. Not a single member of my family remained in Palestine. My birthplace is now inaccessible to me."
"For many hundreds of thousands of my fellow Palestinians, their native towns, villages, farms are inaccessible to them."
Then the line that explains why he spent his life writing:
"The one thing that is still missing, in my opinion, is that there's a Palestinian story. We're not just the people who happen now to be in exile. Our life, our society was shattered in order that Israel be established."
And his own accounting:
"As a Palestinian born in Jerusalem, my national history and the society of my forebears were shattered in 1948 when Israel was established. Since that time, the better part of my own life, I have participated in the struggle not just to bring justice and restitution to my people, but also to keep the hope for self-determination alive."
He kept that hope alive until 2003. The Nakba he described in 1948 is still being carried out.
Twenty-three years after his death, the camps are still there. The villages are still gone. And the story he said was missing is finally being told. 🧭
"I WOULD SEND THEM TO FRANCE—WHY WOULDN'T I SEND THEM TO FRANCE?"
Itamar Ben-Gvir, explaining his plan for Gaza on camera.
He says the goal is to "conquer all the territory" and "encourage emigration."
When asked where the Palestinians should go, his answer: Europe. France, Britain, London. He argues these countries "are looking for workers" and it would give Palestinians "good conditions."
So let's get the logic straight:
Conquer the entire territory. Take the land. And deport the survivors to Europe to work.
He even credits it as "a very good plan by Donald Trump."
This is ethnic cleansing, packaged and sold as a European jobs program. 🧭
What Ben-Gvir just described is a war crime under international law.
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention explicitly prohibits "individual or mass forcible transfers" of protected persons from occupied territory. Deporting a population to make room for settlers is the textbook definition of ethnic cleansing.
And notice who he credits: "It's a very good plan by Donald Trump."
The Israeli far-right isn't hiding its agenda. They are openly proposing the permanent displacement of Gaza's population, and expecting Washington to help them sell it to Europe.
DUTCH SPIES HACKED JARED KUSHNER’S PHONE. WHAT THEY SAW WAS BILLIONS MOVING.
According to a new Vanity Fair report detailed by CBS:
Dutch intelligence started spying on Kushner because the Russians had already hacked him. When they got inside, they watched him log into a UAE account that had received hundreds of millions from a bank in Azerbaijan.
The report alleges the leaders of Saudi Arabia and the UAE funneled at least $2 billion into accounts linked to Kushner, including one at Israel’s central bank. Another $1 billion was reportedly meant for Kushner’s "personal benefit."
The money was disguised as government funding or charities.
He had no official government title. No Senate confirmation. No disclosure rules. 🧭
Here is the detail that makes no sense.
The report claims Kushner had an account at the Bank of Israel. The Bank of Israel is the central bank, not a commercial bank. Private individuals cannot just open accounts there.
If he truly had an account at the central bank, that means the state itself was holding his money.
AVIGDOR LIBERMAN JUST ACCUSED NETANYAHU OF TREASON.
The former Defense Minister and current MK formally asked the Attorney General to open a criminal investigation.
His allegation: Netanyahu is pressuring security chiefs to create a miscalculation with Iran to drag Israel into a war on the eve of elections, and is willing to sacrifice IDF soldiers to save his own political career.
This drops right after reports that IDF Chief of Staff Zamir refused Netanyahu's demand for a strike, demanding evidence and justification first.
The man who built his career on the "Iranian threat" is now being accused by his own defense establishment of using that threat as a domestic political lifeline. 🧭
פניתי הבוקר ליועצת המשפטית לממשלה בדרישה לפתוח בחקירה פלילית נגד בנימין נתניהו באשמת בגידה.
בחודש האחרון ראש ממשלת ישראל, בנימין נתניהו, לוחץ על ראשי מערכת הביטחון לנקוט צעדים שעלולים לייצר מיסקלקולציה מול איראן.
הניסיון לגרור את מדינת ישראל ערב הבחירות למלחמה, יחד עם הנכונות להקריב את חיילי צה״ל רק בשל חשש מהפסד בבחירות, הם בגידה במדינה, בביטחונה ובחיילי צה״ל.
Liberman's exact words in the letter:
"The attempt to drag the State of Israel into war on the eve of elections, together with the willingness to sacrifice IDF soldiers solely due to fear of losing the elections, constitutes treason against the state, its security, and the IDF soldiers."
You don't hear the word "treason" thrown at a sitting Prime Minister very often.
"WHERE DO PALESTINIANS GO?"
"I DON'T REALLY CARE... OR WE KILL THEM."
An Israeli citizen, interviewed on camera.
When asked where Palestinians should go, he suggests Arab countries, but notes that Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria belong to Israel too. If they don't leave, the alternative is murder.
His justification for taking the land in the first place? "God commanded us."
There is no diplomatic filter here. This is the raw ideology stated out loud, on a street, by an ordinary citizen. 🧭
She isn't speaking in a vacuum. She's echoing the official platform of her government.
Look at the Likud party's original 1977 platform: "between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty."
Look at current ministers like Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, who openly push for the annexation of the West Bank, the "voluntary emigration" of Gaza, and expansion into southern Lebanon and Syria.
When the people in power normalize the ideology of "Greater Israel," the younger generation just drops the diplomatic filter.
Netanyahu Said the Real Threat Was Online. The Streets of Tel Aviv Just Proved Him Wrong.
"EVERYTHING IS DONE WITH BOTS."
Netanyahu's explanation for the global backlash against Israel.
Asked directly if the documented settler violence is also a lie, his answer: "Yes, yes, everything is done with bots... trying to poison young minds."
He calls it the "eighth front" and says he needs to deploy AI to fight it.
But a French mayor beaten into the dirt isn't a bot.
A Washington Post photographer kicked 50 times isn't an algorithm.
Burned Palestinian olive groves aren't an information war.
He's trying to automate a defense for the reality on the ground. 🧭
NETANYAHU JUST ANNOUNCED HE'S BRINGING THE "REFUGEE CAMP MODEL" TO THE WEST BANK.
"We will evacuate the residents."
That is a direct quote from the Israeli Prime Minister.
His justification? A shooting that left four people dead. His plan? Apply the "successful, aggressive model" from the refugee camps. Evacuate Palestinian neighborhoods, go house-to-house, destroy infrastructure, and impose a closure on entire cities.
Thousands of uninvolved civilians are about to be forcibly displaced. He announced the blueprint for collective punishment on live television. 🧭
"DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN. IT'S NOT AN ISSUE."
In 1973, Richard Nixon told congressional leaders the quiet part out loud: "No American President will let Israel go down that tube."
Fifty years later, the names change, the wars change, and the Oval Office changes hands. But the blank check never bounces.
Here is how they pulled it off in 3 steps. They did it all on camera.
STEP 1: PROMISE SOMEONE ELSE'S LAND.
1917. Britain never owned Palestine. But Balfour gave it away anyway. At the time, Jews were 3% of the population. 13,942 vs 386,320 Muslims. In their own home, they were referred to as the "non-Jewish communities."
STEP 2: SEND THE SALESMAN.
1978. Enter 28-year-old Netanyahu on American TV. Articulate. MIT graduate. Selling the exact same script you hear today: "The core is Arab refusal, not occupation."
Then Nixon admits the economic reality in 1992: "Israel is not a strategic interest of the US." It's a moral commitment. Translation: American taxpayers fund it.
STEP 3: TAKE 78% BY FORCE.
1947. The UN proposes giving 56% of the land to people who own 7% and are 33% of the population. Palestinians say no. Who would say yes?
1948. Deir Yassin. Tantura. Lydda. Over 500 villages wiped off the map. The official British report on Deir Yassin: "Women and children were stripped, lined up, photographed, and slaughtered."
750,000 expelled. Never allowed back. Their houses taken. The orders are in the documents: "expelled outside the borders of the state."
They call it independence. Palestinians call it what it is: AL-NAKBA. The Catastrophe.
And they tell you this started on October 7th?
This documentary shows every receipt from 1878 to 1949. Watch it before they claim this one is "complicated" too. 🧭
Context from the reporting (Reuters/AP, Oct 23):
A shooting near Hebron killed two Israeli soldiers and two Palestinian gunmen.
Within hours, Netanyahu announced the forced evacuation of Palestinian neighborhoods, house-to-house raids, and demolitions, extending the closure to Hebron and Halhul.
Using a single attack to justify the mass displacement of a city is collective punishment. It's a war crime under the Geneva Conventions.
DECEMBER 4, 1947: THEY CELEBRATED. THE NAKBA WAS ALREADY STARTING.
Jewish residents celebrate the UN partition vote.
What the newsreels leave out: The proposed state included 500,000 Palestinians who never consented to it. The vote was just a recommendation. By the time Israel declared independence in May 1948, the catastrophe was already underway. 🧭
A VOTE GAVE 56% OF THE LAND TO 32% OF THE PEOPLE
November 29, 1947, the UN partitioned Palestine, the Arab majority got 43%.
The Arabs rejected it. Fighting broke out. In April 1948, the Deir Yassin massacre sent refugees fleeing. On May 14, the Jewish state declared itself. By December, half of Palestine's population was gone.
The population was mostly unarmed, facing a well-organized, well-armed force. The narrator's words: "The principal and main impulse of people was to run, to get as far away from the fighting, from the terror, as possible."
The same UN that voted to partition resolved that refugees wishing to return home should be permitted to, "at the earliest practicable date."
That resolution has been reaffirmed every year since. It has never been implemented. 🧭
"THEY KNEW HE WAS THE DIRECTOR OF A HOSPITAL... BUT HE WAS SHOT BY A HIGH VELOCITY BULLET."
April 2002. Israeli forces enter Bethlehem. A local resident describes the military occupation of his city.
During the assault, Palestinian fighters and civilians took refuge in the Church of the Nativity. The siege lasted 39 days.
Eight Palestinians were killed inside the church, including a Christian church worker shot by Israeli soldiers. By the end of the year, 46 Palestinians were killed in the Bethlehem district.
A city sacred to Christians around the world, turned into a military zone. 🧭
Context and sources for the 2002 siege:
• April 2, 2002: Israeli forces entered Bethlehem under Ariel Sharon.
• The siege of the Church of the Nativity lasted 39 days.
• 8 killed inside the church, including Samir Ibrahim Salman (a Christian church worker).
• 46 killed in the Bethlehem district in 2002.
Sources: UN Report of the Secretary General on Jenin and other Palestinian Cities (2002), Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Annual Report (2002); The Washington Post (April/May 2002).
Europe is deliberately destroying its own economy to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian. Why? Because they lost their colonies and this is their last desperate grab at carving up the world's largest country. Richard Wolff doesn't hold back.
Wolff points out the media's denial.
"The Russians did nothing about NATO moving close to their border in all those countries. And yet you portray them as putting all of Europe at risk... They're the ones who have been suffering your invasion since 1990."
When you push a military alliance right up to a country's border, break your promises, and then act shocked when they finally push back, that's not diplomacy. Only gaslighting.
"DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN. IT'S NOT AN ISSUE."
In 1973, Richard Nixon told congressional leaders the quiet part out loud: "No American President will let Israel go down that tube."
Fifty years later, the names change, the wars change, and the Oval Office changes hands. But the blank check never bounces.
Here is how they pulled it off in 3 steps. They did it all on camera.
STEP 1: PROMISE SOMEONE ELSE'S LAND.
1917. Britain never owned Palestine. But Balfour gave it away anyway. At the time, Jews were 3% of the population. 13,942 vs 386,320 Muslims. In their own home, they were referred to as the "non-Jewish communities."
STEP 2: SEND THE SALESMAN.
1978. Enter 28-year-old Netanyahu on American TV. Articulate. MIT graduate. Selling the exact same script you hear today: "The core is Arab refusal, not occupation."
Then Nixon admits the economic reality in 1992: "Israel is not a strategic interest of the US." It's a moral commitment. Translation: American taxpayers fund it.
STEP 3: TAKE 78% BY FORCE.
1947. The UN proposes giving 56% of the land to people who own 7% and are 33% of the population. Palestinians say no. Who would say yes?
1948. Deir Yassin. Tantura. Lydda. Over 500 villages wiped off the map. The official British report on Deir Yassin: "Women and children were stripped, lined up, photographed, and slaughtered."
750,000 expelled. Never allowed back. Their houses taken. The orders are in the documents: "expelled outside the borders of the state."
They call it independence. Palestinians call it what it is: AL-NAKBA. The Catastrophe.
And they tell you this started on October 7th?
This documentary shows every receipt from 1878 to 1949. Watch it before they claim this one is "complicated" too. 🧭
"EVERYTHING IS DONE WITH BOTS."
Netanyahu's explanation for the global backlash against Israel.
Asked directly if the documented settler violence is also a lie, his answer: "Yes, yes, everything is done with bots... trying to poison young minds."
He calls it the "eighth front" and says he needs to deploy AI to fight it.
But a French mayor beaten into the dirt isn't a bot.
A Washington Post photographer kicked 50 times isn't an algorithm.
Burned Palestinian olive groves aren't an information war.
He's trying to automate a defense for the reality on the ground. 🧭
"ISRAEL IS IN MORE DANGER OF DISAPPEARING NOW THAN IT EVER WAS."
Prof. Richard Wolff on the failure of Israel's strategy.
For the first time, Israel has been massively bombed by Iran and Hezbollah. Global public opinion has flipped against it, despite all the AIPAC money. And the UN and international courts are calling its actions war crimes.
Wolff's question is simple: "Was it really smart to be out there doing something the world considers war crimes? Has that enhanced your security?" 🧭
"Everything is done with bots." Projection is a hell of a drug.
While Netanyahu complains about automated narratives poisoning young minds, his own allies were caught paying $46.5 million to Brad Parscale to flood the open web with pro-Israel content just so AI models would scrape it and repeat it back.
Meanwhile, the ADL is working directly with OpenAI, Google, and Meta to bake their definitions into the models "right in the source code."
They aren't losing the information war because of bots. They're losing it because anyone with a phone can film a 64-year-old journalist getting kicked in the dirt.
"ISRAEL IS IN MORE DANGER OF DISAPPEARING NOW THAN IT EVER WAS."
Prof. Richard Wolff on the failure of Israel's strategy.
For the first time, Israel has been massively bombed by Iran and Hezbollah. Global public opinion has flipped against it, despite all the AIPAC money. And the UN and international courts are calling its actions war crimes.
Wolff's question is simple: "Was it really smart to be out there doing something the world considers war crimes? Has that enhanced your security?" 🧭
Wolff goes deeper on the root cause: "If you look at their maps, Greater Israel is the old Israel plus what they got in '67, plus Gaza, plus the West Bank, plus southern Lebanon. This is settler colonialism."
"This is what the United States was. It worked in the 16th and 17th century. It doesn't work now, because the mass of people are now in a consciousness against colonialism."
And why won't the Palestinians leave? "They think they have history on their side. And they do. They're not gonna go. They're gonna look at their oppressors and say: when this is over, we'll be in charge."