At the European Parliament Roundtable, in Brussels, earlier this year, Miko Peled opened his speech with these questions:
How are we going to face our children and our grandchildren when they ask us how did we allow this to happen on our watch? Where were you? Where were we? Where did we stand?
Peled, an American-Israeli author and Palestinian human rights activist, was referring to the genocide taking place in Gaza. He called out the narrative about the actions of the Israelis and the resistance by the Palestinians. He went on to describe the huge hypocrisy about the discussions that take place around the assaults committed by Israel and that there is an ignorance about the crimes committed against the Palestinian people.
1. Roundtable Speech on Palestine: Brussels (January 2024)
He repeats his question:
Where do we stand?
This is not a difficult question. Where do we stand? It is not a question of politics. It is not a question of religion. Where do our values lead us? You ask the question of yourself. Do you support racism, apartheid and genocide? Then, yes, support Israel….
Or do you believe in justice, in humanity, in democracy, in human rights?
In which case we need to do everything we can to dismantle the apartheid state and allow for a free democratic Palestine to take its place and the sooner the better…
2. Speech on Palestine: Seattle (October 2012)
This is a speech given by Miko Peled, at Seattle, on 1 October 2012
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▹ Miko Peled: From Israeli Zionist to Palestinian defender
What ‘genocide’?
What ‘crimes against Palestinian people’?
What ‘apartheid’?
Bloody hell…I’m lost for words.
Some 13% (last time I looked) of Israeli citizens are Arabs. They even have their own political party, with representation in the Knesset (Parliament of Israel).
Where’s the ‘apartheid’?
The so-called ‘Palestinians’ are Arabs. Same ones as those in neighboring Jordan and Egypt. Why don’t those two countries take them in, if they are so hard done by?
Those same ‘Palestinians’ keep voting for Hamas, a movement whose stated goal is to wipe Israel out. Regardless of the recent war, just why would Israel not have a right to exist?
Israel handed Gaza back to the Arabs more than 20 years ago. All it got in return was more terrorist attacks.
You know what: Islam is NOT compatible with democracy. They even say so themselves.
There are NO democratic islamic states. The only democratic state in the Middle East happens to be Israel.
Your falling for the ‘Jew bad, Arab good’ narrative, is regrettable. Certainly not something that should be posted on a site that pretends to be the successor of the old Catallaxy Files.
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Hahahaha
No thank you.
LOCK ME DOWN HARDER, DADDY!
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I don’t like listening to or posting videos where swear words are used repeatedly. But people who understand exactly what is taking place are livid about the ongoing crisis and the role of the media in it.
Families leave Jenin camp
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Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was an American-Turkish activist killed at a protest in the West Bank.
The story as reported by witnesses:
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Jonathan Pollak, Israeli activist
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Mariam
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The headlines reported by some media outlets.
Media in Israel: They say they did it.
Jerusalem Post
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Media in the West
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NYT
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CBS News
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The Times
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This is an investigative report by the New York Times.
6 September 2024
How a Single Family Was Shot Dead on a Street in Gaza
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Yuli Novak is an Israeli human rights activist. But if she is fighting for human rights of the people in the Occupied Territories it means she is not a Zionist.
Does that make her anti-Jew, anti-Semite, anti-Israel?
4 September 2024
B’Tselem Executive Director Yuli Novak’s address to the UNSC,
For that speech where she told the truth:
Israeli lawmaker calls for B’Tselem chief to be arrested
for ‘assisting the enemy’
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Our ABC posted an article on the weekend. It is being called out on social media for being 10 months too late.
Max Blumenthal posted:
27 October 2023
Max Blumenthal posted in Grayzone
October 7 testimonies reveal Israel’s military ‘shelling’ Israeli citizens
with tanks, missiles
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7 September 2024
ABC article
Israeli forces accused of killing their own citizens under the ‘Hannibal Directive’
during October 7 chaos
Remember how we keep being reminded about October 7 and evil Hamas, Israeli deaths, hostages? It is as reported by the controlled MSM.
I am going to add links from social media mostly connected to 7 October 2023. It is too much for me to provide details on each or put them in any logical order.
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More examples of Jews who are critical of Israel.
Do they also get labelled as anti-Jews, anti-semites, anti-Israel?
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Rabbi Roly Matalon
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Esme has posted in the Open Thread about Jewish filmmaker Sarah Friedland.
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A history lesson – this article was written in 2021.
Douglas J. Feith, a senior fellow at Hudson Institute, served as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from July 2001 to August 2005. He is writing a history of the Arab-Israeli conflict – this article is adapted from it.
Dec 13, 2021
The Forgotten History of the Term “Palestine”
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A map of Palestine from 1754
by Henry Schenck Tanner
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