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I& #39;m struggling to find reporting that accurately models the power disparity between Palestinian citizens, who are living in an apartheid state, and Israeli soldiers, who are actively oppressing Palestinians, but: here are some horrors happening right now. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/7/al-aqsa-worshippers-protest-palestinian-evictions-in-jerusalem">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021...
I specify "right now" because Israeli soldiers abusing Palestinian citizens is an ongoing reality; this is an acute, very visible instance, but the situation in Palestine is one of intentional, systematized abuse whose goal is self-evidently the erasure of Palestine.
I say all of this as a Jewish American who feels his Judaism strongly; who has visited Israel and wishes, so powerfully, that he could live there, feel a citizen, ethically; who was near Be& #39;er Sheva in Jan 2009 less than a mile from Hamas missile strikes...
...and for whom that background and those experiences form an immutable certainty that Palestine must - for every reason, ethical to political to practical - must be free, fully free, and fully recognized by the world and guaranteed in its independence as a sovereign state.
I don& #39;t talk about this a lot, here or elsewhere, but I think about, read about, feel about this every day, and have for a decade.
Palestine must be free. Palestinians must be safe. It is the state of Israel& #39;s fault that they aren& #39;t.
Palestine must be free. Palestinians must be safe. It is the state of Israel& #39;s fault that they aren& #39;t.
Addendum: clarifying again that it is the STATE OF ISRAEL& #39;S FAULT. The fault is Israel& #39;s. All Israelis are to some extent culpable, in the same way all Americans are to some extent culpable for our disastrous wars. Some Israelis oppose the occupation; others support it.
If you made it to the end of this thread: thank you! Please get educated and make noise - today, next week, next year - about Israel& #39;s occupation of Palestine.
None of us are free until all of us are free.
None of us are free until all of us are free.
