It's a fact that Israel has listed armed Israelis, some in official capacities, fighting Hamas as simply 'civilians.' That's an example of the dirty tactic Israel uses all the time. Israeli citizen Victor Rakhmilov said that "everyone comes and fights with his private gun." For a population where military service is mandatory and nearly everyone has served for 2-3 years, it's a bit much to clutch your pearls. If you comes and fight Hamas with a gun, do you really think you should be considered a civilian? Victor Rakhmilov isn't describing staying in your house and in a defensive position firing your gun; his expression is of offensive action. And, look at the context for goodness sake, it's too much to ignore how Israel has blurred the line of those towns along the Gaza boarder. “The towns and kibbutzim outside Gaza, particularly those near the border in Israel's Gaza Envelope (e.g., Sderot, Nahal Oz, Kfar Aza), have historically served a dual civilian-military function, blurring the line between civilian communities and security outposts.“ x.com/i/grok/share/3s5nRIwED… the arrogance of these people who stole land and ethnically cleansed hundreds of thousands of civilians and actively bar them from returning to their homes while actively stealing more land and oppressing, brutalizing and killing Palestinians. It's just too much. x.com/RepPress/status/196675…

It's U.S. imperialists who started this conflict. Sen. Murphy ADMITTING the U.S. role in forcing Yanukovych out: x.com/RepPress/status/168532… and

"Response?" In 2023, up until the day before Oct. 7th, Israel had murdered 240+ Palestinians, including 45 children! Israel bombed Gaza in May 2023, and Operation Al-Aqsa Flood was in October 2023, so Israel started it. Palestinian Resistance Factions said, after Israel's May 2023 attack on Gaza, that the "Room mourns the martyrs and holds the enemy fully responsible for the repercussions of this cowardly crime. The occupation and its leaders who initiated this aggression must prepare to pay the price." x.com/RepPress/status/171222… Why don't you consider Israel bombing civilians in May of 2023 to be "starting a war? x.com/RepPress/status/191760…

What's funny about a verbal agreement? Verbal Agreements Are Legally Binding, and there is no legitimacy or honor in saying, 'Well, why did you trust what I said? You know my word means nothing.' There is nothing acceptable about being an uncivilized barbarian who doesn't uphold verbal agreements.

You are wrong. youtube.com/watch?v=MoS9ceca…

Wouldn't matter? Don't you know how NATO has repeatedly attacked countries that had not attacked NATO? You seriously don't know about NATO aggression?

Wrong. It isn't a majority Yes, India is a stark outlier in global public opinion regarding Israel, but it isn't a 'majority' opinion; it is only a plurality that has a favorable view of Israel. When looking at the broader international landscape, the plurality of Indian citizens who view Israel favorably contrasts sharply with the prevailing sentiment in the vast majority of surveyed nations. Recent international polling, including a major 2025 survey by the Pew Research Center, reveals that international views of Israel have grown increasingly negative over time: ▪️Widespread Unfavorable Views: Across 24 surveyed countries, majorities in most nations expressed unfavorable views of Israel. ▪️High Negativity in Specific Nations: Around 75% or more of respondents hold unfavorable views in countries including Australia, Greece, Indonesia, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey. ▪️Divided or Favorable Views: In contrast, views are more evenly divided in nations like India (34% favorable vs. 29% unfavorable). In Nigeria and Kenya, around half or more of the public holds a favorable view of Israel. Your argument relies on a mathematical miscalculation regarding global population distribution, an oversimplification of Indian public opinion, and a broad generalization about international political demographics. 1. The Demographic Math: India vs. The World The argument suggests that because India has the highest population, its domestic public opinion dictates the global majority. This is a mathematical fallacy. The Numbers: India is the world's most populous country, with approximately 1.4 billion people. The total global population is over 8 billion. India accounts for roughly 17.5% of the global population. Even if 100% of the Indian population viewed Israel strictly as a victim and not an aggressor, it would not mathematically constitute "most of the people in the world." You cannot extrapolate a global majority from one nation, even the largest one. Plurality vs. Majority: In widespread international polling (such as the 2024/2025 Pew Research surveys), India is one of the few nations where favorable views of Israel outnumber unfavorable ones (e.g., 34% favorable vs. 29% unfavorable). However, 34% is a plurality, not a majority. In massive populations, a large percentage of citizens either hold no strong opinion, remain neutral, or are unconcerned with foreign conflicts.

Dismissing established data doesn't change it Gregory. The global polling numbers are publicly available, and ignoring them only weakens your position. The public data on this is highly accessible and clearly contradicts your premise. It is difficult to take your argument seriously when it requires ignoring the statistical evidence. We all have access to the same international data. If you have reputable, large-scale surveys that contradict the Pew Research numbers, present them. Otherwise, denying the facts doesn't validate your argument. Gregory, the assumption that only a "noisy" fringe views Israel negatively relies on the "vocal minority" fallacy. While activists and protesters are indeed the loudest voices, scientific global polling specifically bypasses that noise to measure the quiet, everyday public—and the data overwhelmingly contradicts your claim. Gregory, this is how representative statistics actually work: ▪️Polls Measure the Silent Majority, Not Protesters: Organizations like the Pew Research Center do not poll university encampments or street protests; they use randomized, representative samples of the entire population. When 21 out of 24 surveyed countries show net-negative views of Israel, those numbers capture everyday citizens going about their lives. ▪️The Math Defeats the "Fringe" Argument: In major global democracies like Australia, Japan, South Korea, and the Netherlands, unfavorable views of Israel reach 60% to 75% or higher. You cannot mathematically reach three-quarters of a national population by counting a radical or noisy fringe. At those numbers, the critical view is the mainstream, centrist consensus. ▪️Cross-Cultural Consensus: The interlocutor's implication that this global majority is "stupid" dismisses the sheer demographic breadth of the data. The negative majorities span highly educated, wealthy, secular democracies in Western Europe and the Asia-Pacific, as well as diverse populations in Latin America. It is not an isolated ideological echo chamber. That "noise" might dominate social media algorithms, but the quiet, statistical majority of the public in most surveyed nations shares the same critical view, Gregory. Your belief that a silent global majority is secretly supportive of Israel is a common defense mechanism against loud protests, but it is statistically false. The expanded 2026 Pew Research Center survey of 36 countries confirms that the global trend of unfavorability toward Israel has not only persisted but intensified. Released in June 2026, the survey data shows a stark international consensus, with a global median of 67% of adults across the 36 nations holding an unfavorable view of Israel, compared to just 25% holding a favorable view. Here is what the expanded 2026 data revealed: ▪️Broadening Negativity: Adding 12 more countries to the survey pool did not change the overall picture; it merely confirmed that negative views of Israel are the prevailing majority opinion across almost all regions. ▪️Worsening Trends in Key Nations: Between 2025 and 2026, unfavorable views climbed even higher in several countries. Pew recorded a 9-point increase in unfavorable views in nations spanning Europe (Italy and Germany), Latin America (Argentina), and Africa (Nigeria). ▪️Outliers Shrinking: In the 2025 data, Nigeria was one of the few countries where a majority held a favorable view of Israel. However, the 2026 data shows unfavorability rising significantly even there, indicating that the few remaining pockets of net-positive sentiment are beginning to erode. ▪️Declining Confidence in Leadership: Alongside views of the country itself, the survey highlighted that a vast global majority lacks confidence in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's leadership on the world stage. The 2026 survey effectively closes the door on the argument that international criticism of Israel is limited to a noisy fringe. By expanding the dataset to 36 countries, Pew demonstrated that critical views of Israel represent a solid, growing global supermajority.

Ask @nasdaily the following: Nuseir Yassin, can you explain why Israel even stole Palestinian homes FROM PALESTINIANS WHO REMAINED WITHIN WHAT BECAME ISRAEL? To this day, Israel still refuses to return the homes of thousands of non-Jewish Palestinians. Definition: Arab internally displaced persons (IDPs) who fled or were expelled during 1947-1949 war but remained within Israel's borders •1950 Estimates: 46,000 out of 156,000 Israeli Arabs classified as "present absentees" •Current Estimates: 274,000-384,000 IDPs in Israel (about 1 in 4 Arab citizens) •Legal Status: Classified as "absent" despite physical presence in Israel •Property Rights: Barred from living in their former homes even when property still exists and ownership can be proven. "The 1950 Absentees' Property Law was not solely applied to refugees who fled beyond the new borders. It was actively used to expropriate massive amounts of land and property from tens of thousands of Palestinians who remained inside Israel and became citizens. Because these individuals were not physically present in their specific homes on certain dates during the 1948 war—even if they had only fled to a neighboring village a few miles away to escape the fighting—the state legally classified them as "absent." As Rubenberg's research notes, this legal maneuver allowed the nascent state to seize their property and land without offering compensation, permanently barring them from returning to their original homes." Did you know that @nasdaily? Did you know the whole 'if they only accepted partition' mantra is clearly a lie since thousands of Palestinians who remained inside Israel still had their homes stolen? You didn't know that, did you @nasdaily or do you simply not care because you don't get paid to care?

It's real. On September 2, 2014, Connect the World, which is a flagship international news program broadcast exclusively on CNN International, they promied to "humanize " on this rare occasion; they showed this, NOT to domestic American audiences, mind you; this was for international viewers. Americans were still supposed to be kept in the dark about this: "we promised to humanize these conflicts for you tonight. As civilian casualties mount in the battle for control in eastern Ukraine," ’ cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1409/02/….

I want to hear your explanation for why Jewish Israeli Holocaust experts say that what Israel is doing is genocide. If your claim denying the truth were remotely true, then explain why there are Jewish and Jewish Israeli Holocaust experts saying it is genocide. The image below gives only a partial list of genocide findings made by genocide/Holocaust scholars, Israeli human-rights organizations, Amnesty International, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and a UN-mandated Commission of Inquiry. Israel is the aggressor and is actively preventing Palestinians from returning to their rightful homes. Why is Israel expanding in the West Bank and stealing even more? And explain why Israel even stole Palestinian homes FROM PALESTINIANS WHO REMAINED WITHIN WHAT BECAME ISRAEL! Definition: Arab internally displaced persons (IDPs) who fled or were expelled during 1947-1949 war but remained within Israel's borders •1950 Estimates: 46,000 out of 156,000 Israeli Arabs classified as "present absentees" •Current Estimates: 274,000-384,000 IDPs in Israel (about 1 in 4 Arab citizens) •Legal Status: Classified as "absent" despite physical presence in Israel •Property Rights: Barred from living in their former homes even when property still exists and ownership can be proven Did you know that Rashashawna? Did you know th whole 'if they only accepted partition' mantra is clearly a lie since thousands of Palestinians who remained inside Israel still had their homes stolen? You didn't know that, did you?

#PedoPrez #PatheticPrez x.com/RepPress/status/203234…

Explain May 2023! Are you reading? And hundreds of legitimate military targets were attacked; Hamas killed hundreds of IDF soldiers (which, by definition, is NOT 'terrorism') Hamas went out of its way to attack. Do you even know that fact? I showed you specific murders that Israel perpetrated in 2023 before Oct 7th, and you ignore them. What was the three-year-old boy guilty of that Israel had to kill him? What was baby Ali guilty of that the Israeli terrorists had to burn him to death and celebrate burning a baby on a grill? x.com/RepPress/status/210154…

Israeli settlers burned & taunted family members with: “Where is Ali? Ali’s dead, Ali’s on the grill!” “Where is Ali? He’s burned!” laughing at Ali's relatives. Ali was a baby burned to death by Jewish settlers‼️ You burn Palestinian babies and taunt their family about it, and expect us to believe you are the victims?

No, the woman was trying to use her husband and son as a justification for a GENOCIDE, and she deviously portrays it as if Palestinians are the aggressors. What about the countless Palestinian wives and mothers who lost their husbands and children because Israel murdered them? Do their deaths matter? US media didn't even report on Israel's bombing of Gaza in May of 2023. Israel is getting away with murder, and US media is helping Israel get away with it. x.com/RepPress/status/210577…

What is the relevance of her husband's and son's deaths to Israel perpetrating a genocide? Their deaths don't justify a genocide, so her statement is inappropriate because it disingenuously portrays Palestinians as the aggressors. Do you want to give all the Palestinian mothers and wives who lost their children and husbands a platform before the film? x.com/RepPress/status/210596…

NOTHING justifies genocide, so her declaration of “my husband and my son were murdered on October 7th" is 100% irrelevant to the genocide being perpetrated by Israel. Are you and she trying to justify the genocide? Her son and husband's alleged murders don't justify anything Israel is doing. If you think every other death should be mentioned at a screening of NAZA, then how about all the murders Israel perpetrated before Oct 7th alone? Even the murders Israel perpetrated in 2023 alone before Oct. 7th. Do you think we should insist on having every family member of the Palestinians killed before Oct. 7th have a say before the film? What she was trying to do was justify a genocide with her story. Well, what about the countless stories of Palestinians killed at the hands of Israelis? x.com/RepPress/status/210577…

Why do you write as if no military targets were targeted? And the music festival wasn't even supposed to be held the day of the Hamas operation, and experts admit Hamas had no knowledge it would be held when they entered Israel. As far as what happened, Israel will not allow for an independent investigation. Do you at least understand that much? As far as legitimacy, why was Israel bombing Gaza and killing Palestinians in 2023 before Oct 7th if, before that date, there was supposedly peace? Israel is the aggressor, dummy. It takes balls to continue expanding into the West Bank and killing and stealing, and then portray yourself as innocent. Israel is the aggressor and has always been teh aggressor: x.com/_ZachFoster/status/210… Do you realize that there are Israelis who have testified that the IDF killed Israelis? Do you realize there are Israelis who said Hamas was polite to them? As far as 'terrorists,' the civilian-to-combatant ratio of killings is higher for the IDF against Gaza than Hamas against Israel on Oct 7th. If you are going to characterize Oct. 7th as terrorism, then what the fuck is the IDF doing when it kills more civilians than combatants than Hamas did on Oct. 7th? (And that ratio is assuming all civilians who were killed were killed by Hamas, when that clearly wasn't the case.)

None of that supports your claim "attack any student they think is Jewish?" and there must be a dearth of cases since you include the jabbed-in-the-eye claim for which the evidence is inconclusive and her account has been disputed. Tartak's claim that a pro-Palestinian protester jabbed a flag in her eye at Yale doesn't hold up well against available evidence. Its main points: ▪️The video doesn't show the alleged assault. Footage posted on X by Matt Orfalea, shot from Tartak's perspective, shows protesters linking arms and passing peacefully while chanting about divestment. Some wave or flash peace signs at the camera, but nothing violent is visible and no antisemitic remarks are audible. The clip cuts off right as she cries out, so the moment of the alleged stabbing isn't captured. ▪️It conflicts with her account of the protesters. The Free Press piece described protesters pointing middle fingers at her, which the article says doesn't match the footage. ▪️No visible injury. She gave several media interviews the next day (New York Post, Fox News, CBS New York), and the article says no signs of an eye injury were noticed. ▪️Alleged pattern of unreliable claims. The article cites her December 2023 tweet that Yale had removed "Israeli" from a couscous dish. A user replied with a photo, taken minutes earlier, showing the name unchanged. It also disputes her description of the watermelon as an anti-Jewish symbol, saying protesters use it for its Palestinian-flag colors. ▪️A contrasting Jewish voice. Jared Kannel, a Jewish Columbia student in the encampment, told TRT World he felt "100% safe" and that focusing on antisemitism distracts from Gaza.

This is insane. Zionist extremists stormed inside a bookstore in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan on September 29, 2026. "Minutes before activist Mahmoud Khalil was scheduled to speak Tuesday night about his new memoir at a bookstore near the Columbia University campus where he led pro-Palestinian demonstrations, a small group of protesters stormed inside with a megaphone, a sign and a large American–Israeli flag." forward.com/news/852818/mahm…

Kamatimu @szaimo what didn't you understand about this?: There isn't an obvious historical basis for treating receiving on the tongue as a privilege reserved for favored people while receiving in the hand is some inferior treatment. If anything, historically the relationship was almost the reverse: allowing laypeople to receive the Host in their hands was presented in the twentieth century as an additional permitted manner of reception. The 1969 instruction even spoke of the layperson now being able to touch the Eucharistic bread with his or her hands and stressed the dignity and responsibility associated with doing so.

you understand time? What happens first, and then after? She held her mouth open only after she had already approached with cupped hands. Even in that still frame, she has her hands cupped. Mixed signals, get it?

Many Ukrainians asked Russia for help. Do you deny that? You repeat the mantra "Russia invaded Ukraine" while ignoring hte fact that many Russians requested Russia's intervention. Did you even know that? If you do, why do you dishonestly omit that fact? What 'Ukraine' are you talking about? The "Ukraine " that disenfranchised MILLIONS of Ukrainians who you act like don't exist? Are you trying to start WWIII out of ignorance? You seem hell-bent on a third world war because you keep dishonestly framing what happened! Why are you manipulating the world into a third world war? Why are you acting like no Ukrainians were begging Russia to save them from the illegitimate government that they didn't vote for? An illegitimate government that was still bombing them. Ukraine was actively bombing Donbas when Russia intervened. Did you know that or not? Do you deny that nationalists overthrew the democratically elected president of Ukraine then started an 8 year-long war against Russian-speaking Ukrainians in the east? Then Ukraine refused its obligation to implement the Minsk Agreements! Are you allowing MSM to brainwash you, to erase from memory facts that mainstream media at one time reported? The suffering of the Russian-speaking people in Donbas was once shown on American TV, today, MSM doesn't show these people. We aren't supposed to know or care about them. x.com/RepPress/status/161120…

You are ignorant. There isn't an obvious historical basis for treating receiving on the tongue as a privilege reserved for favored people while receiving in the hand is some inferior treatment. If anything, historically the relationship was almost the reverse: allowing laypeople to receive the Host in their hands was presented in the twentieth century as an additional permitted manner of reception. The 1969 instruction even spoke of the layperson now being able to touch the Eucharistic bread with his or her hands and stressed the dignity and responsibility associated with doing so. x.com/RepPress/status/210555…

"he was forced to leave." Yes, that's called a coup. I have repeatedly told you: If you look at the terms the EU and IMF demanded, you can see why they rejected it (Foreign Policy magazine sums it up succinctly why “unsurprisingly” Yanukovych rejected the deal)! The fact is, more Ukrainians didn’t support the Euromaidan protests than supported them, much less a coup!: x.com/RepPress/status/209348…

She gave mixed signals; with her hands open, the priest thought she wanted it handed to her. Look at the other two people; clearly they don't have their hands cupped and held open. And your premise is ignorant. The Western Church had the priest placing the Host directly on the communicant’s tongue, the established Latin practice for many centuries. When the Vatican addressed the issue in Memoriale Domini in 1969, it explicitly described reception on the tongue as the long-established “traditional” practice, while acknowledging that reception in the hand had existed in antiquity. It said that the older hand practice had largely given way to reception on the tongue out of increasing concern for reverence toward the Eucharist. There isn't an obvious historical basis for treating receiving on the tongue as a privilege reserved for favored people while receiving in the hand is some inferior treatment. If anything, historically the relationship was almost the reverse: allowing laypeople to receive the Host in their hands was presented in the twentieth century as an additional permitted manner of reception. The 1969 instruction even spoke of the layperson now being able to touch the Eucharistic bread with his or her hands and stressed the dignity and responsibility associated with doing so.

Did you not understand this?: The video has been edited. Just before that, the pope shakes hands with priests and nuns of color.

The video has been edited. Just before that, the pope shakes hands with priests and nuns of color. In other shots, you can see the Master of Ceremonies speaking to him, probably to tell him that he needs to greet the politicians. Full video and images

@Grok, no one is going to confuse you with "Super Intelligence," are they?

#MedicalGaslighting #LongCovid #LongCOVIDResearch #GaslightingPatients #GaslitMice

US MSM has made a fool out of you by withholding critical facts. Israel bombed and murdered Palestinians in Gaza in May 2023, why don't you consider that starting the war? Did Palestinians have a right to respond militarily to the evil terrorist attack Israel perpetrated in May 2023. x.com/RepPress/status/194778…

Taking the High Road: Unseen Extra Footage He wildin', WTF! #Bushwick #Brooklyn

AI parody — but the contrast behind it is real: #Xi’s public message was about peaceful coexistence, crisis communication and avoiding the "#ThucydidesTrap." Trump’s presentation included helipads, his Presidential Walk of Fame and a discussion of granite. At a moment when Washington and Beijing are locked in trade, technology and military competition, the substantive question is whether U.S. policy is reducing the danger of great-power conflict — or helping perpetuate the rivalry it says it wants to manage. #Trump #XiJinping

New York City, featuring a prominent banner stretched across a street. The banner is white with bold black text stating, 'Zionism is Anti-Judaism' and 'Anti-Zionism is Part of Judaism.'

You are annoying the shit out of me, and so is that dope with his stupid expression. Health Minister Yael German was an idiot to push for national fluoridation cessation. There was a recent study of the damage her ignorance has done in Israel, the bottom line of a study published September 7, 2026 is that stopping community water fluoridation in Israel was associated with worse dental health in children. After Israel stopped mandatory water fluoridation in 2014, 12-year-olds experienced more decay-related dental treatment, with the clearest deterioration among lower-income children, suggesting that cessation had a negative oral-health effect and widened existing inequalities. "Conclusion CWF remains a foundational public health measure, one that is unequaled in its ability to deliver effective, safe, equitable, and cost-saving caries prevention to entire populations. Practical implications Reinstating mandatory community water fluoridation is essential to reverse the widening oral health disparities that disproportionately affect low-SES children and females. Policymakers must prioritize this measure to restore health equity and protect vulnerable populations who rely on this passive preventive intervention." link.springer.com/article/10… There is strong international medical and dental consensus that adequate fluoride exposure at recommended levels helps prevent tooth decay. There is less universal agreement about which population-level delivery method—water fluoridation, salt fluoridation, toothpaste, varnishes, etc.—a particular country should use.

Maybe only “the second most moral army in the world?” #JustFollowingOrders x.com/RepPress/status/210097… #JustFollowingOrders

How or why would that be "no problems"? The names listed are Catholics murdered by Israel. Catholics from the Holy Family Catholic Church: Israel bombed them and murdered them. The Pope condemned this. You don't understand how stupid you sound in light of the facts?

Stop it. The “journalist” badly misrepresented what happened and, remarkably, withheld the speaker’s name: “The guest speaker at the Toronto synagogue tonight was an Australian-born university teacher who lives in Israel and once served as Israeli ambassador to the UK.” Are you kidding me? His name is Mark Regev. Why describe him in that absurdly vague way instead of simply telling readers who the protesters had actually come to protest? And the building itself is not a dedicated synagogue. The Song Shul rents and uses the space, including for religious services. So, yes, while it is being used for synagogue activities it can reasonably be described as functioning as a synagogue. But that does not establish that protesters were there because Jews were worshipping there. That is the crucial distinction your framing erases: the protesters were there because a highly controversial Israeli political figure was speaking there. Regev is not some anonymous “Australian-born university teacher.” He is a former Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom and a longtime Israeli government spokesperson and advocate. ▪️ Regev has spent decades publicly defending Israeli government policy rather than operating as a politically neutral commentator. ▪️ His defenses of Israeli military operations in Gaza and Lebanon have repeatedly drawn fierce criticism from Palestinian advocates, human-rights organizations, and other critics of Israeli policy. ▪️ His public appearances regularly attract protests precisely because of his political record and the policies he represents. ▪️ Canadian activists have previously campaigned against his appearances and sought to have him barred from entering the country. That context is not incidental. It is the story. Yet instead of saying, “Protesters demonstrated against former Israeli ambassador and government spokesman Mark Regev during his appearance at a venue being used by a Jewish congregation,” readers are given a formulation that makes the defining fact seem to be that protesters appeared outside “a synagogue.” Then the protest can be presented primarily as evidence of antisemitism while the political reason for the demonstration—and even the identity of the political speaker being protested—is pushed into the shadows. Stephen B., this is exactly why accusations of antisemitism lose persuasive force when they are stretched to cover political protests against Israeli officials and advocates. Antisemitism is real and should be taken seriously. That makes it all the more irresponsible to blur the distinction between hostility toward Jews because they are Jews and protest against a specific Israeli political figure because of his record and views. People can decide for themselves whether they agree with the protesters. But they should at least be told honestly who was being protested and why. Leaving out Mark Regev’s name while foregrounding the word “synagogue” does the opposite.

Emily, “they just want publicity” isn’t a rebuttal to anything Damon Albarn said. It’s speculation about his motive so you don’t have to address the subject he raised.Pope Leo XIV isn’t trying to revive a recording career. After an Israeli army attack on Gaza’s Holy Family Catholic Church killed three Christians, he named the victims, lamented continuing attacks on civilians and places of worship, and demanded an “immediate halt to the barbarism of the war.”You can disagree with Albarn’s politics. But reducing public opposition to the destruction and civilian suffering in Gaza to a washed-up-band publicity stunt avoids the actual issue entirely. #StopTheGenocide #StopTheGenocideNow

You are showing American newspaper headlines from May 1948, but my point was that Jewish forces had already been on the offensive, had already displaced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, and had already seized territory outside the area proposed for the Arab state before May 1948. As I pointed out in the post you are replying to: “Jewish militias launched attacks against Palestinian villages, forcing thousands to flee following the November 1947 partition resolution, and the newly established Israeli forces launched a major offensive that resulted in the permanent displacement of more than half the Palestinian population.” Did you actually read the post you are replying to? I specifically pointed out that before May 1948, Jewish forces had already seized territory outside the area the UN partition proposal had assigned to the proposed Jewish state. The standard line—“the Jews declared Israel and then the Arabs attacked”—leaves out roughly six months of war that had already taken place before May 15, 1948. Start with November 1947. The UN General Assembly did not create Israel by binding decree. Resolution 181 was a General Assembly recommendation for partition into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and an internationally administered Jerusalem. Jews were about 33% of Palestine’s population; Arabs were about 67%. The proposed Jewish state itself would have contained roughly 498,000 Jews and about 497,000 Arabs and Bedouins. Palestinian Arabs rejected the partition proposal. The Jewish Agency formally accepted it, but Zionist acceptance was not uniform, and some important Zionist leaders regarded partition as a potentially temporary step rather than the final territorial settlement. Fighting then erupted between Palestinian Arab and Jewish forces. So, no, the war did not suddenly begin when neighboring Arab armies entered Palestine after Israel’s declaration. And here is the part that so often disappears from the story: Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians had already become refugees before the armies of the neighboring Arab states entered the war. Estimates commonly put the number at roughly 300,000 Palestinians already expelled or having fled the fighting before May 15, 1948. In other words, the Palestinian refugee crisis was already well underway before the interstate Arab-Israeli war began. By spring 1948, Jewish forces were also conducting major offensive operations. A May 3 U.S. diplomatic report said Haganah operations had shifted from initially defensive operations to what it called a “defensive offensive,” while describing Irgun and Lehi operations such as Deir Yassin and the attack on Jaffa as aggressive. Jewish forces had also moved outside the territory assigned to the proposed Jewish state in specific places before Israel’s declaration. Jaffa, which the UN plan designated as an Arab enclave, surrendered to Haganah on May 13—one day before Israel declared independence. U.S. reporting from that same day also noted Jewish occupation of areas along the Jerusalem–Tel Aviv road outside the partition boundaries. Only after all of this, when the British Mandate ended and Israel declared independence on May 14, did the regular armies of Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, Iraq, and other Arab states enter Palestine. Contemporary British and U.S. reporting expected those forces to enter on May 15 and described Transjordan’s initial objective as occupying Arab areas of Palestine. By May 1948, there had already been months of Arab-Jewish warfare, major Zionist military offensives, massacres and counterattacks, the capture of Palestinian towns, and roughly 300,000 displaced Palestinians. Even the territorial ambitions were more complicated than the simple story that “the Zionists accepted partition and the Arabs rejected peace.” Menachem Begin’s Revisionist movement openly rejected partition, and Ben-Gurion had earlier described a partial Jewish state as a possible beginning rather than necessarily the final territorial settlement. That does not prove that every Zionist faction secretly followed one identical plan, but it does show why the claim that “the Zionists simply accepted the borders and wanted nothing more” erases important divisions and documented expansionist thinking within Zionism. So if you are going to discuss who “attacked first,” you cannot simply start the clock on May 15, 1948. You have to discuss what had already happened between November 1947 and May 1948.

Turning Amin al-Husayni into “Palestinian leaders allied with the Axis” as though it describes the Palestinian population or national movement as a whole is misleading. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum describes Amin al-Husayni as an exiled Palestinian Arab nationalist. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum specifically notes that while in exile he had “no institutional basis for authority over Arabs anywhere in the Middle East.” Meanwhile, thousands of Palestinian Arabs volunteered for the British forces and fought the Axis. And if Nazi contacts are supposed to establish collective guilt, the same history contains facts that usually disappear from this argument: Zionist organizations negotiated the 1933 Haavara Agreement with Nazi Germany, an arrangement that simultaneously facilitated Jewish immigration to Palestine and German exports, while the Zionist Lehi/Stern organization actually approached Nazi Germany in 1940–41 offering to participate in the war on Germany's side against Britain in exchange for German support for a Jewish state. Germany did not accept the offer. None of that means “the Zionists were Nazis,” any more than al-Husayni's collaboration means “the Palestinians were Nazis.” The honest history is that different Palestinian and Zionist factions pursued radically different wartime policies. Thousands of Jews and thousands of Palestinian Arabs from Mandatory Palestine served with Britain against Nazi Germany. Using one notorious Palestinian leader to assign Nazi affiliation to an entire people is history by cherry-picking. A considerable number of Palestinian Arabs actually fought against the Axis. British government figures recorded roughly 9,000 Arab men and women from Palestine enlisting in British forces, while historian Mustafa Abbasi estimates about 12,000 Palestinian volunteers, some of whom fought in North Africa and Europe. The Haavara/Transfer Agreement of 1933 was negotiated between Nazi Germany and Zionist/Jewish institutions, including the Zionist Federation of Germany and Jewish authorities in Palestine. It enabled German Jews emigrating to Palestine to recover some of their assets through German exports. More than 60,000 German Jews ultimately emigrated to Palestine during the 1930s, many through this system. The agreement simultaneously advanced the Nazi objective of Jewish emigration and German exports and the Zionist objective of Jewish immigration to Palestine. It was controversial partly because it undermined the international anti-Nazi boycott. Lehi—the Stern group—went considerably further. In 1940–41 it attempted to establish an actual political/military arrangement with Nazi Germany against Britain. The documented proposal offered to participate in the war on Germany's side in return for German assistance establishing a Jewish state and facilitating Jewish emigration from Europe.

Sunny, Google AI is misleading you by turning an arbitrary historical starting point into a claim about who “attacked first.” Yes, many histories date the formal post-partition civil-war phase from the Arab attacks on Jewish buses on Nov. 30, 1947. But those attacks did not occur in a vacuum. Ten days earlier, on Nov. 19, Lehi entered Arab al-Shubaki and executed five unarmed Palestinian Arab men. Israeli historian Benny Morris reports that the majority view of Haganah intelligence was that the Nov. 30 bus attackers were primarily seeking revenge for that Lehi killing; an Arab leaflet issued at the time supported that interpretation. Your screenshot simply starts the clock after that happened. Nor was Nov. 19 the beginning of Jewish-Arab violence in 1947. In August, the Haganah carried out a bomb-and-gun attack on an Arab house/orange-grove compound near Petah Tikva that killed civilians, including children; contemporary reporting described the Haganah as acknowledging the operation. So the historically defensible statement is: Nov. 30 is commonly used as the starting date of the post-UN-partition civil-war phase. It does not establish that Palestinians committed the first act of violence or launched an unprovoked war. Violence and reprisals were already underway before the UN vote. Even a UN historical overview describes the Nov. 29 resolution as bringing to a head a Jewish-Arab conflict that had been developing for years.

Why don't you consider Israel bombing civilians in May of 2023 to be "starting a war?" This is the pre-Oct. 7th "normal" many Israelis and Israel supporters want to return to: x.com/RepPress/status/171222… So far this year (2023), up until the day before Oct. 7th, Israel had murdered 240+ Palestinians including 45 children! Israel bombed Gaza in May 2023 and Operation Al-Aqsa Flood was Oct. 7th, so Israel started it. Palestinian Resistance Factions said, after Israel's May 2023 attack on Gaza, that the "Room mourns the martyrs and holds the enemy fully responsible for the repercussions of this cowardly crime. The occupation and its leaders who initiated this aggression must prepare to pay the price." x.com/RepPress/status/191760…

What do you consider Israel bombing civilians in May of 2023? No one in the mainstream media in America talks about what was happening before Oct 7th. These are screenshots of foreign news outlets, not American news outlets. Americans are ignorant because US MSM makes them ignorant. This is the pre-Oct. 7th "normal" many Israelis and Israel supporters want to return to: x.com/RepPress/status/171222… So far this year (2023), up until the day before Oct. 7th, Israel had murdered 240+ Palestinians including 45 children! Israel bombed Gaza in May 2023 and Operation Al-Aqsa Flood was Oct. 7th, so Israel started it. Palestinian Resistance Factions said, after Israel's May 2023 attack on Gaza, that the "Room mourns the martyrs and holds the enemy fully responsible for the repercussions of this cowardly crime. The occupation and its leaders who initiated this aggression must prepare to pay the price." x.com/RepPress/status/191760…