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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. 🧭
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."
"I DON'T REALLY WANT MY HOUSE BACK. WHAT I WANT IS A SIGN THAT YOU DID WRONG TO ME."
Edward Said, dismantling the "tragedy of right versus right" narrative.
"I'm convinced that there is justice and there is injustice, and they're really quite different."
He strips away the diplomatic excuses and asks the simplest question: "Would you like it done to you?"
He points out the absolute essence of the issue, the willful transport of one people's history to another people's land, resulting in dispossession.
"It wasn't that we were exploited, it was that we were excluded."
They call it a complex, tragic conflict where both sides share the blame. He calls it a profound, irreducible injustice that demands institutional acknowledgment.
When you refuse to admit a wrong was done, you aren't looking for peace. You're just managing the crime scene. 🧭
Source and context for the clip above:
This is from a 1986 public conversation between Edward Said and Salman Rushdie at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. The event was the launch of Said's book After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives.
Rushdie was the moderator. Said was responding to an audience question framing the conflict as "two conflicting histories" — what he calls the "tragedy of right versus right."
He rejected that moral equivalence entirely.
The full recording (about 1 hour 17 minutes) is available on the ICA's YouTube channel under the title "Edward Said & Salman Rushdie [1986]."
NETANYAHU IS NOW CAMPAIGNING FOR TRUMP ON AMERICAN GAS PRICES
Speaking directly to the American people:
"If you're worried about today's gas prices, think of what will happen if Iran gets nuclear weapons... when that regime disappears, gas prices will go down. And how? But only under Trump."
A foreign leader is telling American voters that their economic pain is tied to his war, and the only way to fix it is to elect his preferred candidate.
Meanwhile, Trump just published an open letter threatening Israelis that if they pick the "wrong Leader," America might stop doing the "work" for them.
Two leaders, openly holding each other's elections hostage. Pitching endless war as the cure for an economy it already broke. 🧭
"A GOVERNMENT THAT WILL CANCEL ALL OUR GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS."
Netanyahu on i24NEWS, warning that if he loses, the opposition will establish a Palestinian state, withdraw from the security zones, and fail to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
"Either the government of Eisenkot, Mansour Abbas, and Yair Golan... or us."
Notice what he's actually asking voters to do.
He's been in power for most of the last two decades. The "great achievements" he's protecting are the current reality: active fronts in Gaza and Lebanon, an ICC arrest warrant, a fractured international standing, and the hostages still home as bodies.
After twenty years of this exact pitch, vote for me or the state is lost, the bill for his security is already on the table. 🧭
"IF ISRAEL HAS THE WRONG LEADER... AMERICA WILL HAVE TO DO THIS WORK OURSELVES."
A US president just published an open letter to the Israeli public, explicitly telling them who to vote for.
Trump's message is blunt: anyone other than Netanyahu is the "wrong Leader." And if Israelis make the wrong choice, America might stop doing the "work" for them.
What work? The bombs, the vetoes, the military cover.
They spend years talking about Israel’s sovereignty and democracy. But the moment an election comes up, the patron reminds the client exactly who pays the bills. The letter is an endorsement for Bibi. The threat is for the voters. 🧭
