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"OUR LIFE, OUR SOCIETY WAS SHATTERED IN ORDER THAT ISRAEL BE ESTABLISHED"
Edward Said, in an archival interview. He died in 2003.
"1948, we lost everything. Every single member of my family was made a refugee in 1948. Not a single member of my family remained in Palestine. My birthplace is now inaccessible to me."
"For many hundreds of thousands of my fellow Palestinians, their native towns, villages, farms are inaccessible to them."
Then the line that explains why he spent his life writing:
"The one thing that is still missing, in my opinion, is that there's a Palestinian story. We're not just the people who happen now to be in exile. Our life, our society was shattered in order that Israel be established."
And his own accounting:
"As a Palestinian born in Jerusalem, my national history and the society of my forebears were shattered in 1948 when Israel was established. Since that time, the better part of my own life, I have participated in the struggle not just to bring justice and restitution to my people, but also to keep the hope for self-determination alive."
He kept that hope alive until 2003. The Nakba he described in 1948 is still being carried out.
Twenty-three years after his death, the camps are still there. The villages are still gone. And the story he said was missing is finally being told. 🧭
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"EVERYTHING IS DONE WITH BOTS."
Netanyahu's explanation for the global backlash against Israel.
Asked directly if the documented settler violence is also a lie, his answer: "Yes, yes, everything is done with bots... trying to poison young minds."
He calls it the "eighth front" and says he needs to deploy AI to fight it.
But a French mayor beaten into the dirt isn't a bot.
A Washington Post photographer kicked 50 times isn't an algorithm.
Burned Palestinian olive groves aren't an information war.
He's trying to automate a defense for the reality on the ground. 🧭
"ISRAEL IS IN MORE DANGER OF DISAPPEARING NOW THAN IT EVER WAS."
Prof. Richard Wolff on the failure of Israel's strategy.
For the first time, Israel has been massively bombed by Iran and Hezbollah. Global public opinion has flipped against it, despite all the AIPAC money. And the UN and international courts are calling its actions war crimes.
Wolff's question is simple: "Was it really smart to be out there doing something the world considers war crimes? Has that enhanced your security?" 🧭
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"Everything is done with bots." Projection is a hell of a drug.
While Netanyahu complains about automated narratives poisoning young minds, his own allies were caught paying $46.5 million to Brad Parscale to flood the open web with pro-Israel content just so AI models would scrape it and repeat it back.
Meanwhile, the ADL is working directly with OpenAI, Google, and Meta to bake their definitions into the models "right in the source code."
They aren't losing the information war because of bots. They're losing it because anyone with a phone can film a 64-year-old journalist getting kicked in the dirt.
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"ISRAEL IS IN MORE DANGER OF DISAPPEARING NOW THAN IT EVER WAS."
Prof. Richard Wolff on the failure of Israel's strategy.
For the first time, Israel has been massively bombed by Iran and Hezbollah. Global public opinion has flipped against it, despite all the AIPAC money. And the UN and international courts are calling its actions war crimes.
Wolff's question is simple: "Was it really smart to be out there doing something the world considers war crimes? Has that enhanced your security?" 🧭
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Wolff goes deeper on the root cause: "If you look at their maps, Greater Israel is the old Israel plus what they got in '67, plus Gaza, plus the West Bank, plus southern Lebanon. This is settler colonialism."
"This is what the United States was. It worked in the 16th and 17th century. It doesn't work now, because the mass of people are now in a consciousness against colonialism."
And why won't the Palestinians leave? "They think they have history on their side. And they do. They're not gonna go. They're gonna look at their oppressors and say: when this is over, we'll be in charge."
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"I DON'T REALLY WANT MY HOUSE BACK. WHAT I WANT IS A SIGN THAT YOU DID WRONG TO ME."
Edward Said, dismantling the "tragedy of right versus right" narrative.
"I'm convinced that there is justice and there is injustice, and they're really quite different."
He strips away the diplomatic excuses and asks the simplest question: "Would you like it done to you?"
He points out the absolute essence of the issue, the willful transport of one people's history to another people's land, resulting in dispossession.
"It wasn't that we were exploited, it was that we were excluded."
They call it a complex, tragic conflict where both sides share the blame. He calls it a profound, irreducible injustice that demands institutional acknowledgment.
When you refuse to admit a wrong was done, you aren't looking for peace. You're just managing the crime scene. 🧭
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Source and context for the clip above:
This is from a 1986 public conversation between Edward Said and Salman Rushdie at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. The event was the launch of Said's book After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives.
Rushdie was the moderator. Said was responding to an audience question framing the conflict as "two conflicting histories" — what he calls the "tragedy of right versus right."
He rejected that moral equivalence entirely.
The full recording (about 1 hour 17 minutes) is available on the ICA's YouTube channel under the title "Edward Said & Salman Rushdie [1986]."
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NETANYAHU IS NOW CAMPAIGNING FOR TRUMP ON AMERICAN GAS PRICES
Speaking directly to the American people:
"If you're worried about today's gas prices, think of what will happen if Iran gets nuclear weapons... when that regime disappears, gas prices will go down. And how? But only under Trump."
A foreign leader is telling American voters that their economic pain is tied to his war, and the only way to fix it is to elect his preferred candidate.
Meanwhile, Trump just published an open letter threatening Israelis that if they pick the "wrong Leader," America might stop doing the "work" for them.
Two leaders, openly holding each other's elections hostage. Pitching endless war as the cure for an economy it already broke. 🧭
"A GOVERNMENT THAT WILL CANCEL ALL OUR GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS."
Netanyahu on i24NEWS, warning that if he loses, the opposition will establish a Palestinian state, withdraw from the security zones, and fail to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
"Either the government of Eisenkot, Mansour Abbas, and Yair Golan... or us."
Notice what he's actually asking voters to do.
He's been in power for most of the last two decades. The "great achievements" he's protecting are the current reality: active fronts in Gaza and Lebanon, an ICC arrest warrant, a fractured international standing, and the hostages still home as bodies.
After twenty years of this exact pitch, vote for me or the state is lost, the bill for his security is already on the table. 🧭 x.com/clashreport/status/211…
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"IF ISRAEL HAS THE WRONG LEADER... AMERICA WILL HAVE TO DO THIS WORK OURSELVES."
A US president just published an open letter to the Israeli public, explicitly telling them who to vote for.
Trump's message is blunt: anyone other than Netanyahu is the "wrong Leader." And if Israelis make the wrong choice, America might stop doing the "work" for them.
What work? The bombs, the vetoes, the military cover.
They spend years talking about Israel’s sovereignty and democracy. But the moment an election comes up, the patron reminds the client exactly who pays the bills. The letter is an endorsement for Bibi. The threat is for the voters. 🧭
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"Not a failure of the government, it is the government's policy."
Yair Lapid just said the quiet part out loud.
The opposition leader isn't blaming a "few extremists" or "fringe youth." He's saying the violence is the strategy. Ben-Gvir funds and encourages it. Netanyahu stays silent.
He calls it a disgrace to the Jewish people.
For Palestinians, it's just another Friday. The only reason it's an international crisis today is because the victim was an American journalist with a press pass. 🧭
64 YEARS OLD. WEARING A VEST MARKED PRESS. KICKED ABOUT 50 TIMES.
Heidi Levine, Washington Post photojournalist, covering the olive harvest near Abu Falah.
"They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times." Broken rib. Lacerations. A hand injury needing surgery. Her cameras and phone taken.
The Washington Post says it's "outraged by this unwarranted attack on a journalist doing her job."
Nothing here needs explaining away. She was marked as press, on the ground, and they kept going. 🧭 x.com/Mistaclim/status/21110…
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Watch how quickly the Israeli government tries to spin it.
The Prime Minister's Office already issued a statement calling it a "disputed incident." They claimed footage showed her being "immediately helped to her feet."
Heidi Levine says she was kicked about 50 times, suffered a broken rib, and needed surgery on her hand.
They don't deny that settlers attacked a journalist. They just want to debate the exact number of kicks.
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"A GOVERNMENT THAT WILL CANCEL ALL OUR GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS."
Netanyahu on i24NEWS, warning that if he loses, the opposition will establish a Palestinian state, withdraw from the security zones, and fail to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
"Either the government of Eisenkot, Mansour Abbas, and Yair Golan... or us."
Notice what he's actually asking voters to do.
He's been in power for most of the last two decades. The "great achievements" he's protecting are the current reality: active fronts in Gaza and Lebanon, an ICC arrest warrant, a fractured international standing, and the hostages still home as bodies.
After twenty years of this exact pitch, vote for me or the state is lost, the bill for his security is already on the table. 🧭 x.com/clashreport/status/211…
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Let's look at the scoreboard of those "great achievements."
Netanyahu has been Prime Minister for over 17 years.
During that time: the worst intelligence failure in Israel’s history on October 7th. Repeated wars in Gaza. An ICC arrest warrant. Unprecedented settler violence in the West Bank. A nation so deeply divided over judicial overhaul that its military reservists were refusing to show up.
He isn't warning voters about what the opposition will destroy. He's describing the reality he already built.
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ISRAELI SETTLERS PUT A FRENCH MAYOR ON THE GROUND
Bernard Baudoux, mayor of Aulnoye-Aymeries, was visiting Taybeh, a Christian Palestinian village, for the olive harvest.
Seven masked settlers on ATVs surrounded the European delegation from France, Belgium, and Poland. They demanded the diplomats' IDs, threw stones, and smashed the window of a Belgian consular vehicle.
If they treat European officials this way in broad daylight, imagine what the Palestinian farmers face every single day. 🧭
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Context worth adding:
Taybeh is the last predominantly Christian village in the West Bank. The olive harvest is the economic lifeline for families there.
Settler violence spikes every year during the harvest. UN OCHA has documented hundreds of attacks on Palestinian farmers and their groves, with indictments in only a tiny fraction of cases.
Hitting a European delegation and smashing a Belgian consular vehicle turns this into a diplomatic incident. Belgium summoned the Israeli ambassador. The EU issued a condemnation.
But for the Palestinian farmers in those groves, this isn't a diplomatic incident. It's just another day of the harvest.
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"SAUDI ARABIA IS VERY HAPPY TO HAVE ISRAEL'S SUPPORT."
Trump, asked if the Abraham Accords are back on the table with Riyadh.
The deal on offer: normalization with Israel. What it costs the Palestinians, a state, a capital, a right of return, isn't in the sentence. Just Saudi happiness, Israeli support, American blessing.
MBS has publicly demanded an "irreversible pathway" to a Palestinian state. Israel's government has ruled that out. So the two positions haven't moved, only the sales pitch has.
Normalization is being sold as peace. The party whose land is being traded isn't in the room. 🧭
"DO YOU TRUST NETANYAHU?"
"I don't trust anybody."
Trump, on Newsmax, declining to say he trusts the Israeli prime minister, the same man he's handed billions in weapons, backed through two wars, and defended against ICC arrest warrants.
He could have said yes. He chose not to.
Whatever the relationship looks like in public, the president just told you what it looks like in private. 🧭
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Context worth remembering.
In 2002, the Arab Peace Initiative offered Israel full normalization with the entire Arab world in exchange for a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders.
The Abraham Accords did the opposite. Normalization first. No state, no withdrawal, no capital, no right of return.
UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan — all signed while settlement expansion continued unchecked.
Now the prize is Saudi Arabia. If Riyadh signs without a real path to statehood, it formalizes the end of land-for-peace as a concept.
The Palestinians aren't in the room because the deal was never about them.
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64 YEARS OLD. WEARING A VEST MARKED PRESS. KICKED ABOUT 50 TIMES.
Heidi Levine, Washington Post photojournalist, covering the olive harvest near Abu Falah.
"They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times." Broken rib. Lacerations. A hand injury needing surgery. Her cameras and phone taken.
The Washington Post says it's "outraged by this unwarranted attack on a journalist doing her job."
Nothing here needs explaining away. She was marked as press, on the ground, and they kept going. 🧭 x.com/Mistaclim/status/21110…
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"DO YOU TRUST NETANYAHU?"
"I don't trust anybody."
Trump, on Newsmax, declining to say he trusts the Israeli prime minister, the same man he's handed billions in weapons, backed through two wars, and defended against ICC arrest warrants.
He could have said yes. He chose not to.
Whatever the relationship looks like in public, the president just told you what it looks like in private. 🧭
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What Trump has done for Netanyahu.
Moved the US embassy to Jerusalem — May 2018.
Recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights — March 2019.
Brokered the Abraham Accords, normalization with the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan, with no Palestinian state.
Withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal.
Launched the 2026 Iran campaign.
Approved a $2.8 billion sale of 2,000-pound bombs.
Sanctioned the ICC judges who indicted Netanyahu.
And after all of that, when asked if he trusts Netanyahu: "I don't trust anybody."
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