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@raph
Jewish leaders are not the Jewish people. It's hard sometimes to make this distinction, but it needs making. Leaders do not listen to the public that they are supposed to serve; they have their own agenda.

@Melinda @raph They are *not* Jewish leaders. They are barely Israeli leaders, seeing as Bibi has been losing election after election. They are trying to capture what it means to be Jewish but have zero right to it, don't play into it.

@raph @glynmoody The magic of Israel government was to make sure and brand all kind of critic and protest against their genocidal policy as antisemitic...

@fabiocosta0305 and the west stupidly allowed that dilution... @raph

@glynmoody @fabiocosta0305 @raph

In fact, the #Fascist playbook is the same everywhere. Co-opting the dominant religion in a country & redefining its central tenets to support demonizing all others is one of the very first steps

I said this abt the US #KKKRISTIANS in the mid '90s but folks told me I was overreacting

Blocking & reporting the person who sd 3d Reich's portrayal of Jews was becoming accurate

@raph

It's extremism and greed versus decency.

@raph Look at all these antisemitic Jews! (sarcasm warning)

@raph

In fact it feels hella personal that militaristic ethnocrats are trying to capture what it means to be Jewish when in fact what they do is completely antithetical to what I consider to be Jewish values. And they exploit my grandparents' suffering to inflict more suffering. They need to fuck right off.

@raph I believe (Israeli citizen) it should also not be between Israelis and Palestinians. The struggle should be between fascists/religious fanatic extremists on both “sides” and peace/solidarity advocates on both “sides”.

@raph but… where are the „fight hamas“ people except jews and their allies?

@unir why would anyone protest to say "fight Hamas" when 22,000 bombs have been dropped to "fight Hamas" in the past 2 months? 🤔

@raph because they made a big massaker at 7th okt, hide themselves behind civiliance and don’t let people get enough food to survive? this cruelty of war would stop if hamas would finally capitulate. they broke the ceasefire and are still bombing israel. its very urgent to keep hamas also responsable!

@unir Israel is already fighting Hamas with overwhelming force and violence, with thousands of civilians paying the price for it. 7,000 children in Gaza have died since October 7th. Protesting to say "fight Hamas" would only give Israel more legitimacy in continuing it's murderous war.

The urgency right now is ending Israel's assault in Gaza. When that happens, we can start talking about what's next and how we can prevent new massacres like October 7th.

@raph Israel needs to be stopped. Like Russia. It’s only still going on because the USA is allowing it, by providing bombs and financing it. The question is why. All pundits in Israel are talking about everyday is how much more time the USA will give Israel to finish the job. Well, it can be stopped now.

@raph Arabs & the Islamic world in general had chances to genuinely help Palestinians, but all they ever offered was arms. I lost any illusion that Palestinians were cared about as people when I saw how Palestinian refugees lived in Kuwait. Education could have made the Palestinian areas within Israel a financial Lichtenstein, a tech Silicon Valley, able to command respect- but that wouldn't have served the 'strong man' political agendas of Gulf states, Syria, Egypt, etc.

@Nazani @raph

>> Arabs & the Islamic world in general had chances to genuinely help Palestinians, but all they ever offered was arms. I lost any illusion that Palestinians were cared about

I always ask the #Arab world, the #ArabLeague and the rich #GCC: "Where's the Arab equivalent to the #MarshallPlan that #US launched for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of #Europe after #WWII?"

They never had any, and still don't.

Yet #Palestinians let them fight #inTheirName in #permanentStateOfWar