0 Persons are tagged with #arabs

#arabs

steelnomad@diasp.org
steelnomad

“By the summer of #1949, the #Palestinian polity had been devastated and most of its society uprooted,” Khalidi writes.

“Some 80 percent of the #Arab population of the #territory that at #war’s end became the new state of #Israel had been forced from their homes and lost their lands and property.

At least 720,000 of the 1.3 million #Palestinians were made #refugees.

Thanks to this #violent transformation, Israel controlled 78 percent of the territory of former Mandatory #Palestine, and now ruled over the 160,000 #Palestinian #Arabs who had been able to remain, barely one-fifth of the prewar Arab population.”

#violence #evil #colonization #colonialism #apartnehid #genocide

Source

The Zionist Colonization of Palestine

For more than a century Zionists and, later, Israelis have pursued a project to seize and ethnically cleanse Palestinian land.

steelnomad@diasp.org
steelnomad

The early #Zionists bought up huge tracts of fertile #Palestinian land and drove out the #indigenous inhabitants. They subsidized #European Jewish #settlers sent to #Palestine, where 94% of the inhabitants were #Arabs. They created organizations such as the Jewish #Colonization Association, later called the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association, to administer the #Zionist project.

But, as Khalidi writes, “once #colonialism took on a bad odor in the post-World War II era of decolonization, the #colonial origins and practice of Zionism and #Israel were whitewashed and conveniently forgotten in Israel and the West. In fact, #Zionism — for two decades the coddled step-child of #British colonialism — rebranded itself as an anticolonial movement.”

#history #apartheid #violence #HumanRights

Source

The Zionist Colonization of Palestine

For more than a century Zionists and, later, Israelis have pursued a project to seize and ethnically cleanse Palestinian land.

One person like that
steelnomad@diasp.org
steelnomad
Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the godfather of the #right-wing ideology that has dominated #Israel since 1977, an #ideology openly embraced by Prime Ministers Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir, Ariel Sharon, Ehud Olmert and Benjamin #Netanyahu, wrote bluntly in 1923:

“Every native population in the world resists #colonists as long as it has the slightest hope of being able to rid itself of the #danger of being #colonized. That is what the #Arabs in #Palestine are doing, and what they will persist in doing as long as there remains a solitary spark of hope that they will be able to prevent the transformation of ‘Palestine’ into the ‘Land of Israel.’ ”

#apartheid #abuse #violation #HumanRights #Palestinian #freedom

Source

The Zionist Colonization of Palestine

For more than a century Zionists and, later, Israelis have pursued a project to seize and ethnically cleanse Palestinian land.

steelnomad@diasp.org
steelnomad
The #European powers dealt with the Jewish #refugee #crisis by shipping #victims of the #Holocaust to the #MiddleEast.
So, while leading #Zionists understood that they had to uproot and displace #Arabs to establish a #homeland, they were also acutely aware that they were not wanted in the countries from which they had fled or been expelled.
The Zionists and their supporters may have mouthed slogans such as “a land without a people for a people without a land” in speaking of #Palestine, but, as the political philosopher Hannah Arendt observed, European powers were attempting to deal with the crime carried out against Jews in #Europe by committing another crime, one against #Palestinians.
It was a recipe for endless #conflict, especially since giving the Palestinians under #occupation full democratic rights would risk loss of control of #Israel by the Jews.

#Palestinian #freedom #HumanRights

Source

The Zionist Colonization of Palestine

For more than a century Zionists and, later, Israelis have pursued a project to seize and ethnically cleanse Palestinian land.

2 Likes
theaitetos@sysad.org
Theaitetos (テアイテトス)

China Contemplates Confrontation

This sort of blustery rhetoric tends to be dismissed by #Americans in the aftermath of the #wars against #Arabs in the #MiddleEast, but it shouldn’t be when it comes from #China in response to various diplomatic #provocations by the #US State Department using #European #proxies.

Diplomatic measures alone are obviously not enough. If the US and the #Taiwan island change the names, they are suspected of touching the red line of China’s Anti-Secession Law, and the Chinese mainland will have to take severe #economic and #military #measures to combat the #arrogance of the US and the island of Taiwan. At that time, the mainland should impose severe economic sanctions on the island and even carry out an economic #blockade on the island, depending on the circumstances.

Militarily, Chinese mainland’s fighter #jets should fly over the island of Taiwan and place the island’s #airspace into the patrol area of the #PLA. This is a step that the #mainland must take sooner or later. The name change provides the Chinese mainland with sufficient reason to strengthen our #sovereign #claim over the island of Taiwan. It is anticipated that the Taiwan army will not dare to stop the PLA fighter jets from flying over the island. If the Taiwan side dares open fire, the Chinese mainland will not hesitate to give “Taiwan independence” forces a #decisive and #destructive blow….

Will #peace come if the Chinese mainland puts up with all this and swallows its anger for the sake of peace? If the mainland doesn’t strike back decisively, US #warships will dock at the island of Taiwan, its fighter #aircraft will land on the island and its #troops may be stationed in the island again. At that time, where will be China’s #prestige as a #great #power? How can the country maintain its system of defending its #interests on the international stage?

The fact is that a #contest of #will has been formed regarding the Taiwan question. Since China has declared that the Taiwan question is a matter of our #core interests, we must take resolute actions to protect the bottom line of this exact national interest at any cost. If the #DemocraticProgressParty authority really dares to take the risk of triggering a war to push for a name change, and the US, which just suffered a #debacle in #Afghanistan, is not afraid of being involved in a new war, then what is there for the mainland to be scared of?

It seems that sooner or later, the #TaiwanStraits will be plunged into a #storm that will change the situation there drastically. And judging from the current actions of the US and the island of Taiwan, we can be sure that even if they will have to take this step back, they will step forth again soon. Thus, right now we need to be fully prepared to blow them out of the water in the Taiwan Straits.

Global Times, 12 September 2021

There is a rational argument for the US #military provoking a #confrontation with China sooner rather than later, as the technological and production trends are clearly working in China’s favor. The Chinese are fully aware of these trends, which is why they have resolutely avoided military confrontation with the USA for decades. And that’s why it is so significant that at least some parties in China believe, and are willing to publicly declare, that the right time for resolving “the Taiwan question” is right now.

#UPDATE: The provocations aren’t only diplomatic.

US Guided-missile destroyer #USS #Benfold trespassed in waters near the #Meiji-Reef in the #SouthChinaSea Wednesday without permission from China. The Chinese side mobilized aircraft and ships to warn off and expel the ship from the waters. In a 7th Fleet news release, the US side acknowledged that USS Benfold sailed within 12 nautical miles of Meiji Reef. But it said the warship was asserting navigational rights and freedoms. It claimed the Meiji reef “is not entitled to a territorial sea under international law,” and “the land reclamation efforts, installations, and structures” built on the reef “do not change this characterization under international law.”

China and the US don’t agree on the nature of the 12 nautical miles of Meiji Reef. Other different views exist worldwide. But international law doesn’t empower any country to challenge others’ sovereign claim with an intrusion by a warship. The US in particular has no right to do so given the fact that it has not ratified the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Global Times, 13 September 2021