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  1. @IanStuart @Nonilex

    I mean, I can answer that for you. Disclaimer, my family is Lebanese and Palestinian. That part of the family have lived there since before the Romans were mucking up our streets.

    What #Israel wants is Land; Territory and Dominion, and for #American taxpayers to pay for it.

    Before #Balfour, Jews, Christians, Muslims, Zoroastrians, and others all lived together pretty harmoniously...for a give value of tribe.

    Post Balfour, when the Zionist faction won and decided Israel for Jews Only, things got ugly. Then they decided they needed our houses, our groves, our 1000 year old olive trees turned under by bulldozer, so they could take the "unoccupied land".

    This is just a continuation of what Israel has always done, and will always do until they are stopped.

    Also, Bibi and Jared have cooked up an overland pipeline to terminate at the coast, and they need this land, just like they need the gas fields in #Palestine.

  2. @IanStuart @Nonilex

    I mean, I can answer that for you. Disclaimer, my family is Lebanese and Palestinian. That part of the family have lived there since before the Romans were mucking up our streets.

    What #Israel wants is Land; Territory and Dominion, and for #American taxpayers to pay for it.

    Before #Balfour, Jews, Christians, Muslims, Zoroastrians, and others all lived together pretty harmoniously...for a give value of tribe.

    Post Balfour, when the Zionist faction won and decided Israel for Jews Only, things got ugly. Then they decided they needed our houses, our groves, our 1000 year old olive trees turned under by bulldozer, so they could take the "unoccupied land".

    This is just a continuation of what Israel has always done, and will always do until they are stopped.

    Also, Bibi and Jared have cooked up an overland pipeline to terminate at the coast, and they need this land, just like they need the gas fields in #Palestine.

  3. @A_Mimi Avant Balfour (1917), les colons juifs achetaient déjà terres en Palestine (1er & 2e Aliyah 1882-1914) : 60 000 sionistes installés. La déclaration britannique légitime un processus déjà lancé. #Sionisme #Balfour #Palestine

  4. Look:

    The #zionistProject has been on borrowed time since #Balfour

    It has been a hundred year crusade spearheaded by USA, Germany and Britain

    And any chance they had of staying was probably over in the 60s....and once the overt brutality started, one level or another of intolerance for the leftovers of the terrorist regime was dependable on many variables.

    Their #Putsch to #Iran has made the level of intolerance unavoidably extreme

    And if they continue to drag the tethered goat* (by the cheetolini bell(end)) into the fight, it will end badly for the whole world.

    The two ppl pushing the world to the brink are bb and the guy that loves to hang out with losers....

    Alas at this point if he doesn't stop, he really is the world's biggest loser... arguably in history

    *The USA is the tethered goat...a casualty of no consequence that makes the future strife inevitable

  5. Look:

    The #zionistProject has been on borrowed time since #Balfour

    It has been a hundred year crusade spearheaded by USA, Germany and Britain

    And any chance they had of staying was probably over in the 60s....and once the overt brutality started, one level or another of intolerance for the leftovers of the terrorist regime was dependable on many variables.

    Their #Putsch to #Iran has made the level of intolerance unavoidably extreme

    And if they continue to drag the tethered goat* (by the cheetolini bell(end)) into the fight, it will end badly for the whole world.

    The two ppl pushing the world to the brink are bb and the guy that loves to hang out with losers....

    Alas at this point if he doesn't stop, he really is the world's biggest loser... arguably in history

    *The USA is the tethered goat...a casualty of no consequence that makes the future strife inevitable

  6. still waiting for the british government to formally apologise for the balfour declaration.
    #gaza #palestine #imperialism #balfour

  7. still waiting for the british government to formally apologise for the balfour declaration.
    #gaza #palestine #imperialism #balfour

  8. Today marks 108 years since the #Balfour Declaration, which in 1917 saw the British Empire promise historic Palestine to the #Zionist movement laying the foundation for waves of ethnic cleansing and the ongoing colonisation of Palestine by #apartheid Israel.
    #TIH
    #Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #BDS
    #palestine #Israel #Politics #Genocide #CeasefireSvam

    @palestine

  9. @GeriatricGardener Still amazed how little coverage this gets now:

    When that maybe killer was caught, it got mentioned basically everywhere, the arrest had happended around the ZION National Park.

    What a "coincidence" 🫣

    Originally the "Mukuntuweap National Monument", later renamed by a famous Christian Zionist, US President Wilson.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion_Nat

    Wilson endorsed the #Balfour Declaration, called it "a privilege to restore the Holy Land to its rightful owners".
    jewishvirtuallibrary.org/woodr

  10. @GeriatricGardener Still amazed how little coverage this gets now:

    When that maybe killer was caught, it got mentioned basically everywhere, the arrest had happended around the ZION National Park.

    What a "coincidence" 🫣

    Originally the "Mukuntuweap National Monument", later renamed by a famous Christian Zionist, US President Wilson.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion_Nat

    Wilson endorsed the #Balfour Declaration, called it "a privilege to restore the Holy Land to its rightful owners".
    jewishvirtuallibrary.org/woodr

  11. When the Balfour Declaration was signed, the population that was Jewish in Palestine was estimated at well below 10 percent.

    #Palestine
    #Jews
    #Balfour

  12. When the Balfour Declaration was signed, the population that was Jewish in Palestine was estimated at well below 10 percent.

    #Palestine
    #Jews
    #Balfour

  13. #SpeakOut at dinner tables, on streets, online

    Relinquish an inch of your #privilege so that an entire people doesn't have to lose everything

    Governments will eventually follow. There is no other way

    And each act of courage, each act of #solidarity helps preserve our shared humanity and leads us toward collective #justice

    #Palestine #Gaza #genocide #Israel #Apartheid #settlercolonialism #Balfour
    #FrancescaAlbanese #Zivilcourage

    @EUCommission @Bundesregierung

    youtube.com/shorts/OkQuLTVTuO4

  14. #SpeakOut at dinner tables, on streets, online

    Relinquish an inch of your #privilege so that an entire people doesn't have to lose everything

    Governments will eventually follow. There is no other way

    And each act of courage, each act of #solidarity helps preserve our shared humanity and leads us toward collective #justice

    #Palestine #Gaza #genocide #Israel #Apartheid #settlercolonialism #Balfour
    #FrancescaAlbanese #Zivilcourage

    @EUCommission @Bundesregierung

    youtube.com/shorts/OkQuLTVTuO4

  15. ⬆️ @stuffifound

    >> "That was not a problem for them…"???

    "…UNTIL #Israel came into existence in 1947".

    If it were a problem before, you'd have heard it.

    There was no independent #Palestine before #BalfourDeclaration.

    There wasn’t going to be one even if no #Balfour Declaration.

    #TurkishYoke Palestinians would still be under a yoke, but of a different #MENA country. They're "marginalized" because they let others fight #inTheirName. #PanArabism

    Open a history book amazon.com/Balfour-Declaration

  16. Why Britain is responsible for the #Genocide in #Gaza and the subjugation of the Palestinian people.

    #DeclassifiedUK | How Britain supported Zionism and prevented Palestinian freedom

    "Lloyd George convinced the Zionist leader that for this reason Britain would never allow representative government in Palestine."

    declassifieduk.org/how-britain

    #Palestine #Balfour

  17. Why Britain is responsible for the #Genocide in #Gaza and the subjugation of the Palestinian people.

    #DeclassifiedUK | How Britain supported Zionism and prevented Palestinian freedom

    "Lloyd George convinced the Zionist leader that for this reason Britain would never allow representative government in Palestine."

    declassifieduk.org/how-britain

    #Palestine #Balfour

  18. "We have been in #Palestine for twelve years [i.e., since the #Balfour Declaration] without having even once made a serious attempt at seeking through negotiations the consent of the #indigenous people,” he wrote... We have set ourselves goals which by their very nature had to lead to conflict with the #Arabs. We ought to have recognized that these goals would be the cause, the just cause, of a national uprising against us."

    Interesting piece about Hans Kohn by @raph

    onesmalldetail.blog/lessons-fr

  19. "We have been in #Palestine for twelve years [i.e., since the #Balfour Declaration] without having even once made a serious attempt at seeking through negotiations the consent of the #indigenous people,” he wrote... We have set ourselves goals which by their very nature had to lead to conflict with the #Arabs. We ought to have recognized that these goals would be the cause, the just cause, of a national uprising against us."

    Interesting piece about Hans Kohn by @raph

    onesmalldetail.blog/lessons-fr

  20. #OnThisDay #Balfour #Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in #Palestine (1917).

    Birth Anniversary of George Boole (1815) - best known as the author of The Laws of Thought (1854) which contains #Boolean #Algebra.

    Today is International Day to End Impunity for #CrimesAgainstJournalists.

    knowledgezone.co.in/news

  21. #OnThisDay #Balfour #Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in #Palestine (1917).

    Birth Anniversary of George Boole (1815) - best known as the author of The Laws of Thought (1854) which contains #Boolean #Algebra.

    Today is International Day to End Impunity for #CrimesAgainstJournalists.

    knowledgezone.co.in/news

  22. ok, so I fell into a rabbit hole research Philip de László, the artist who painted the portrait of Lord Balfour which was ruined today at Cambridge.

    this is a self-portrait from 1925, which looks like it came straight out of Disco Elysium

    #Balfour #painting

  23. ok, so I fell into a rabbit hole research Philip de László, the artist who painted the portrait of Lord Balfour which was ruined today at Cambridge.

    this is a self-portrait from 1925, which looks like it came straight out of Disco Elysium

    #Balfour #painting

  24. ⬆️ @8124

    Yes, there was no independent #Palestine before the #BalfourDeclaration, and there wasn’t going to be one even if there weren’t a #Balfour Declaration.

    It would have been a triumph of #PanArabism, with Palestinians still under a yoke, albeit a different one of #MENA countries

  25. ⬆️ @Nochem

    This thread got forked ➡️ mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/1

    >> why should we accept anything Lord #Balfour did to support an imperialist power's attempt to win #WWI?

    #Britain and allies won #WWI. They offered #Arabs & #Turks terms that they rejected

    — Britain and allies won #WWII as well. They and #UN offered a #TwoStateSolution but Arabs & #Palestinians rejected that

    — Arabs & Palestinians lost 1948 war & 1967 war & …

    Losers don't get to dictate terms 🙂

    @lukevanin @TruthSandwich @serge

  26. ⬆️ @Nochem

    >> Antisemites have always claimed that we are not "true" Russians, Germans, French or Americans & that we should leave our homes & move to Palestine

    #BalfourDeclaration specifically protects against this interpretation with safeguard clause that nothing should be done which might prejudice rights of Jewish communities in other countries outside of Palestine.

    The original drafts of #Rothschild, #Balfour, and #Milner did not include this safeguard

    @lukevanin @TruthSandwich @serge

  27. ⬆️ @lukevanin

    First, I wasn't taking sides on #Zionism or #AntiZionism. I just wanted to understand if conflating #AntiZionism and #AntiSemitism was proper.

    >> Is it simply political ideology for native Americans to want to live in America, or aboriginals to live in Australia?

    False equivalence, as none of Theodor #Herzl, Chaim #Weizmann, Arthur #Balfour, Lord #Rothschild, or Henry #Morgenthau fit the #NativeAmerican or #AboriginalAustralian analogy

    @TruthSandwich @serge

  28. 1/2
    #israel #palestine #histoire #colonialismebritannique #balfour

    Cher Lord Rothschild

    J'ai le grand plaisir de vous envoyer, au nom du gouvernement de Sa Majesté, la déclaration suivante de soutien aux aspirations des Juifs sionistes, qui a été mentionnée et approuvée par le Cabinet.

    Le gouvernement de Sa Majesté considère favorablement l'établissement en Palestine d'un foyer national pour le peuple juif et fera tout son possible pour faciliter la réalisation de cet objectif,[..]

  29. ⬆️ November 1914: Anwar #Pasha of #Turkey aligns with #CentralPowers (#Germany and #Austria-#Hungary) and enters the #GreatWar.

    Early 1915: #Russia tells #EntentePartners it wants #Constantinople (now #Istanbul) & #Dardanelles; #Britain & #France reluctantly agree.

    #Balfour, #Churchill, & #Kitchener favor annexation of #Arabia, #Palestine, #Mesopotamia (#Iraq) from #Ottomans; #EdwardGrey opposes.

    A separate #intrigue was playing out between Turkey, #Arab leaders, & #Hussein (Sharif of Mecca)
    ⬇️

  30. @nexta

    It has to be noted that #Christian #Zionism, and in particular #Evangelic church #millennialism, was a much more powerful influencer leading to the #Balfour declaration than the activism of the then marginal #Jewish Zionism.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christia

  31. #OnThisDay #Balfour #Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in #Palestine (1917).

    Birth Anniversary of George Boole (1815) - best known as the author of The Laws of Thought (1854) which contains #Boolean #Algebra.

    Today is International Day to End Impunity for #CrimesAgainstJournalists.

    knowledgezone.co.in/news

  32. #OnThisDay #Balfour #Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in #Palestine (1917).

    Birth Anniversary of George Boole (1815) - best known as the author of The Laws of Thought (1854) which contains #Boolean #Algebra.

    Today is International Day to End Impunity for #CrimesAgainstJournalists.

    knowledgezone.co.in/news