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OPAug 26, 2021

Apartheid still exists

Israeli Apartheid A Beginner's Guide byBen White

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6589638-israeli-apartheid

"This new updated and expanded edition includes information on the Israeli blockade and attacks on the Gaza Strip since 2008, new policies targeting Palestinian citizens of Israel and the growth of the global Boycott Divestment Sanctions campaign."

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OPAug 26, 2021

Apartheid still exists

China’s ties with Israel are tested by Gaza, but not sorely

Despite Beijing styling itself as a supporter of Palestine, China and Israel have built a close economic relationship.

Experts say China is cautious to go beyond rhetoric when addressing Israel’s disproportionate use of force against Palestinians – including the recent 11-day bombardment of Gaza that killed at least 254 people including 66 children."

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/6/7/chinas-ties-with-israel-are-tested-by-gaza-but-not-sorely

#FreeGaza

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OPAug 26, 2021

Apartheid still exists

Most mainstream media outlets are parroting apartheid Israel’s propaganda morally equating the violence of the nuclear-powered oppressor with the resistance of the oppressed. In a typically colonial inversion of the truth, they whitewash the violence of apartheid Israel as “violent clashes” between the “two sides.”

Here are 3 key points to remember in your reporting or when refuting this myth:

As Brazilian educator and philosopher Paulo Freire says,

1. “With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? … There would be no oppressed had there been no prior situation of violence to establish their subjugation. Violence is initiated by those who oppress, who exploit, who fail to recognize others as persons—not by those who are oppressed, exploited, and unrecognized.”

2. Since oppression is the root cause of violence, to end all violence -- that of the oppressor and that of the oppressed -- we must act to end oppression. Exposing and ending complicity in Israel’s regime of apartheid, settler-colonialism and military occupation are the most ethical and strategic forms of intervention to end oppression and violence.

3. Those, like the U.S. administration and the EU, who are not just silent in the face of Israeli apartheid oppression, but are deeply implicated in enabling it through trade, military-security cooperation, and shielding it from accountability, have no moral standing to lecture the oppressed Palestinians on our resistance to oppression. They are partners in crime, pure and simple.

#BDS

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OPAug 26, 2021

20 years of failure

I guess it looks better with a rounded off number though..

Pilger always has something decent to say..

John Pilger: The Great Game of Smashing Nations

"More than a generation ago, Afghanistan won its freedom, which the U.S., Britain and their “allies” destroyed."

https://consortiumnews.com/2021/08/24/john-pilger-the-great-game-of-smashing-nations/?fbclid=IwAR2IRA9henl3VM0jMbOLt88rfEXRz-_iSsdi1tfGb5wJ7jGB36zIjGTNIoY

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Aug 25, 2021

RE: Are taliban really anti-women..?

Thanks for that

I want what these boys are smoking..

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Aug 25, 2021

RE: Why are you on the forums ?

He has some fine quotes on the subject, I think it's a day drinkin kinda day here at the minute, the last rays of summer are upon us.. And we got the highest rates of Covid in Europe at the minute