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So @AOC is doing a memorial event for Yitzhak Rabin. In the US Rabin is viewed as a liberal peacemaker but Palestinians remember him for his brutal rule suppressing Palestinian protest during the First Intifada, as someone who reportedly ordered the breaking of Palestinian bones
As for his peacemaking—Oslo was an achievement for the Palestinian and Israeli authorities who negotiated it, but in practice gave Israel cover to build more settlements
Info on AOC’s participation is here https://twitter.com/peacenowus/status/1309180744745529344
What @YousefMunayyer wrote: “In 1948, the Israeli brigade commander Yitzhak Rabin helped expel Lydda’s Palestinian population. Some 19,000 of the town’s 20,000 native Palestinian inhabitants were forced out. My grandparents were among the 1,000 to remain.” https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/opinion/not-all-israeli-citizens-are-equal.html
Here’s what AOC says now: https://twitter.com/aoc/status/1309510065163038720
Here’s some more reactions from Palestinian-Americans. https://twitter.com/nooranhamdan/status/1309304034290008064
Noura sums up Oslo succinctly https://twitter.com/4noura/status/1309513771702984704
More from the great @MariamBarghouti https://twitter.com/mariambarghouti/status/1309491156351410177
