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Being hosted in a Muslim country, Morocco become the first Muslim/African/Arab nation to make it into the Semi-Finals for the first time ever in the World Cup.
Morocco vs Portugal
December 10, 2022
#HISTORY FOR ARABS HISTORY FOR AFRICANS HISTORY FOR MUSLIMS#WORDS cannot begin to describe the joy that I am feeling right now#shaking with pride as if it’s my own country#EVERYONE SAY MASHAALLAH#Morocco#Morocco nt#Portugal#Portugal nt#World Cup#wc2022#my post
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The Arabic Slave Trade is something that is rarely spoken about and often goes unheard of. When we speak of the enslavement of Africans, many of us like to connect it with Europeans, which is fine, but we should never forget they were not the only ones. For over 900 years, Africans were enslaved by Arabic slave traders. They would take Africans from all over the continent including West, East, and North Africa forcing them to march thousands of miles to Slave Markets. The Men, Women, and Children were bound together by the waist and neck so that if one died the rest could drag him or her along. These walks became known as the “Death Marches” and an estimated 20 million Africans died on these walks alone. The Arabs believed it was God’s wish to see Africans enslaved and believed they were uncivilized animals. Sound Familiar? Slaves were beaten and abused regularly although claims have been made that they were not supposed to. Many African Women, young Girls, and Boys would be used as Sex slaves for their owners. Islamic Slave holders would stick their swords and other weapons into the Vagina’s of Black Women and cut off the penis of African Men. This was done because they believed Africans had an uncontrollable sex drive.
Many Africans would be forced to convert to Islam believing if they shared the same religion, it would stop the abuse. Muslim slave traders would also promise them Freedom after conversion. This did not stop the abuse nor did it gain them their freedom. In Fact, one can argue it made them even more enslaved. When Europeans entered the slave industry, Muslim Slave traders would use the religion to exploit Islamic Africans to bring them other Africans. These Africans would then be sold to Europeans. Slavery in the holy city of Mecca would remain until 1966 and in all other Arabic countries until 1990. The Islamic Slave Trade began almost 500 years before the Europeans would come to Africa. It would be a catalyst for the dismantling of the continent and the massive expansion of the Religion. Had it not been for Islam, European Chattel Slavery may never have occurred. History is quite a teacher and once again as the late Dr. John Henrik Clarke once said, “Africa has no friends. If you want a friend, look in the mirror.”
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In 1807, Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar, was stolen from Senegal & sold into slavery in America. He left behind an autobiography written in Arabic. To mark the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade & its Abolition, here is the remarkable story of Omar…
#Omar ibn Said#article#american slavery#chattel slavery#history#american history#african history#muslim scholar#autobiography#Arabic
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South Africa’s genocide case has put the spotlight on a deeper fault line in global geopolitics. Beyond the courtroom drama, experts say divisions over the war in Gaza symbolize a widening gap between Israel and its traditional Western allies, notably the United States and Europe, and a group of nations known as the Global South — countries located primarily in the southern hemisphere, often characterized by lower income levels and developing economies.
Reactions from the Global North to the ICJ case have been mixed. While some nations have maintained a cautious diplomatic stance, others, particularly Israel’s staunchest allies in the West, have criticized South Africa’s move.
The US has stood by Israel through the war by continuing to ship arms to it, opposing a ceasefire, and vetoing many UN Security Council resolutions that aimed to bring a halt to the fighting. The Biden administration has rubbished the claim that Israel is committing genocide as “meritless,” while the UK has refused to back South Africa.[...]
As a nation whose history is rooted in overcoming apartheid, South Africa’s move carries symbolic weight that has resonated with other nations in the developing world, many of whom have faced the burden of oppression and colonialism from Western powers.
Nelson Mandela, the face of the anti-apartheid movement, was a staunch supporter of the Palestine Liberation Organization and its leader Yasser Arafat, saying in 1990: “We align ourselves with the PLO because, akin to our struggle, they advocate for the right of self-determination.”
Hugh Lovatt, a senior policy fellow with the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations, said that while South Africa’s case is a continuation of its long-standing pro-Palestinian sympathies, the countries that have rallied behind it show deeper frustrations by the Global South.
There is “a clear geopolitical context in which many countries from the Global South have been increasingly critical over what they see as a lack of Western pressure on Israel to prevent such a large-scale loss of life in Gaza and its double standards when it comes to international law,” Lovatt told CNN.
Much of the non-Western world opposes the war in Gaza; China has joined the 22-member Arab League in calling for a ceasefire, while several Latin American nations have expelled Israeli diplomats in protest, and several Asian and African countries have joined Muslim and Arab nations in backing South Africa’s case against Israel at the ICJ.
For many in the developing world, the ICJ case has become a focal point for questioning the moral authority of the West and what is seen as the hypocrisy of the world’s most powerful nations and their unwillingness to hold Israel to account. [...]
Israel sided with the West against Soviet-backed Arab regimes during the Cold War, and Western countries largely view it “as a fellow member of the liberal democratic club,” he added.[...]
“But the strong support of Western governments is increasingly at odds with the attitudes of Western publics which continue to shift away from Israel,” Lovatt said.
Israel has framed the war in Gaza as a clash of civilizations where it is acting as the guardian of Western values that it says are facing an existential threat.
“This war is a war that is not only between Israel and Hamas,” Israeli President Isaac Herzog told MSNBC in December. “It’s a war that is intended – really, truly – to save Western civilization, to save the values of Western civilization.”
So far, no Western countries have supported South Africa’s case against Israel.
Among Western states, Germany has been one of the most vocal supporters of Israel’s campaign in Gaza. The German government has said it “expressly rejects” allegations that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and that it plans to intervene as a third party on its behalf at the ICJ.
An opinion poll by German broadcaster ZDF this week however found that 61% of Germans do not consider Israel’s military operation in the Gaza Strip as justified in light of the civilian casualties. Only 25% voiced support for Israel’s offensive.
But it is in Germany’s former colonial territory, Namibia, that it has attracted the fiercest criticism.
The Namibian President Hage Geingob in a statement on Saturday chided Berlin’s decision to reject the ICJ case, accusing it of committing “the first genocide of the 20th century in 1904-1908, in which tens of thousands of innocent Namibians died in the most inhumane and brutal conditions.” The statement added that the German government had not yet fully atoned for the killings.
Bangladesh, where up to three million people were killed during the country’s war of independence from Pakistan in the 1970s, has gone a step further to file a declaration of intervention in the ICJ case to back South Africa’s claims, according to the Dhaka Tribune.
A declaration of intervention allows a state that is not party to the proceedings to present its observations to the court.
“With Germany siding with Israel, and Bangladesh and Namibia backing South Africa at the ICJ, the geopolitical divide between the Global South and the West appears to be deepening,” Lovatt said.
Traditionally, the West has wielded significant influence in international affairs, but South Africa’s move signals a growing assertiveness among Global South nations that threatens the status quo, says Adekoya.
“One clear pattern emerging is that the old Western-dominated order is increasingly being challenged, a situation likely to only further intensify as the West loses its once unassailably dominant economic position,” Adekoya said.
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How can you claim that Zionism was morally right, when what it was was European Jews coming to Palestine by the thousands and buying land, and when the Arabs realised what they were trying to do, i.e. steal land by making it sound reasonable to the British they should have the right to self determination, they rightfully tried to put a stop to it? If a lot of people come into a populated area and then ask for it to be given to them, since they’re so many, does it make it right for the people who were already there? And yeah, it’s true there was some Jewish presence there already but it wasn’t that much and it wasn’t them who started the Zionist movement. So how can you claim this was right?
You just said they were buying the land, and they were, so anyone thinking they were stealing it is already revealing major problems with racism, xenophobia, and conspiratorial thinking.
And by all means, let's talk about "immigrants" versus "people who were already there." From the 1850s to 1920s, the Ottoman Empire faced waves of refugee crises (the Crimean War, the Balkan Wars, the Russo-Turkish War, the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the beginning of World War 1) and decided to resettle OVER FIVE MILLION Muslim refugees all throughout its Mediterranean and Levant provinces. They sent hundreds of thousands of ex-Balkan and ex-Russian Muslims into southern Syria and what is now Jordan. These refugees founded the four largest cities in Jordan, including its capital Amman; of course, Jordan had been part of historic Palestine and the Palestine Mandate, and from the very first day they were able to govern themselves they passed laws banning any Jewish citizenship or inhabitation.
Am I supposed to see that as anything other than the most base, ladder-pulling racism? Do you really expect me to care that ex-Russian Muslims arriving in Jaffa in 1890 wanted to keep the ex-Polish Jews out in 1920? Between the Ottoman refugee resettlement and the large numbers of Arabs immigrating to benefit from new economic opportunities in a rapidly developing Palestine, the United Nations would later come to classify people as "refugees of the 1948 war" if they had been permanent inhabitants of Palestine any time before 1946. So many newcomers that just living there for two years made you a wizened, old-timer local, with a perfectly natural right to say nobody else can come in.
Where exactly are you starting history and whose immigration are you seeing as rightful, as just? In 1832, Egypt invaded Ottoman Palestine and established from nothing the new settler town of Abu Kabir; in 1948, Zionist militias depopulated it. Were the Arab settlers of Abu Kabir "indigenous" for the 116 years they were there? Because the major waves of Jewish immigration to Palestine started about 140 years ago....
There is no such thing as a legitimate history of the Levant that sees it as normal and morally / politically neutral for millions of Muslims to be resettled by various Muslim empires, but abnormal and dangerous for Jews to move in under their own initiative - usually out of desperation to save their lives - with no sponsoring empire at all.
Beyond that, if you took a few minutes to think of what your argument implies about the "Great Migration" of African-Americans to northern states in the early 20th century, or refugees crossing the Mexican border, and how white people responded to both, I think you would be less willing to make it, even anonymously.
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Now I've received a few comments about the mass migration of Mizrahi Jews to Israel during the mid 20th century, specifically about Israel's lack of culpability towards it. And there's a few things I've said in response to this that I'd like to reiterate
For one, a number of commenters have attributed the time period of these migrations to the "30s and 40s" which I don't understand. Even Zionists usually consider the "Mizrahi Exodus" to date from the 50s onwards; a big part of how the process is portrayed by pro-Zionist sources is the framing as Israel as this land of opportunity and safety for Jews fleeing the violence and intolerance of the Arab world, something that couldn't exactly happen until Israel was actually established as a state in 1948.
Secondly as I've already stated multiple times the displacement, marginalisation and violent attack on Palestinians by Zionist European Settlers was already underway in Mandatory Palestine by the 1920s, as embodied by the existence of groups like Haganah and Irgun. So like even if we for whatever reason backdate the supposed mass exile of the Mizrahi to the "30s and 40s" it's still very easy to see the correlation between violence perpetrated by European settlers in the name of "Jewishness" and the development of conflict between previously peacefully co-existing communities of Jews and Gentiles in North Africa and West Asia.
And finally, the idea that the mass migration of Mizrahi Jews to Palestine was the result of intolerance from Muslim neighbors is essentially a Zionist distortion of a much more complicated situation. Soon after the establishment of Israel, the new government actively encouraged Jews from the surrounding region to migrate and worked with many of the surrounding governments (usually the European colonial governments that still controlled extensive tracts of the region) to facilitate this. Some Jews (such as those of Yemen or Morocco) were even essentially deported against their will by the wishes of the Israeli government. While there was an increase in inter-communal conflict between Jewish and Gentile populations in the region, this was both due to the general aftermath of Israeli's brutal establishment and in response to specific actions such as the Mossad terrorist attacks in Egypt in 1954 with some actions even being specifically undertaken in order to cause conflict (or even just the appearance of conflict) and induce migration such as Mossad's activities in Iraq through the 1950s. And while there was certainly a significant level of violence and maltreatment (both legal and extra-legal) directed towards Jewish people in various West Asian and North African countries in response to Israeli's invasion, the sheer degree that direct violence and persecution played in such migrations has also been greatly exaggerated by Zionists in order to justify their continued aggression against the people of Palestine and their Allies. The idea that you can draw any real equivalence between the population movements of the Mizrahi Aliyah and that of the Palestinian Nakba is a ghoulish distortion of history that only serves to justify Zionist atrocities both past and present. One was a more or less voluntary* migration that was only partially induced by fears (both hypothetical and actually realised) of conflict while the other was an incidence of direct and unambiguous ethnic cleansing. The factors that led to the Mizrahi migration has plenty of "pull" in addition to "push" and a great deal of said "push" was deliberately engineered by the Israeli government rather than being purely the result of some natural Islamic cruelty or antagonism
*while not an entirely fair thing to say, and its accuracy will vary a lot on a case by case basis, the Mizrahi migrants on the whole had a lot more freedom than the Palestinians in both the decision to leave and their choice of destination (as several of those linked articles mentioned, some Mizrahi migrated to Europe or the Americas rather than Israel)
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Thinking about the Holocaust in Africa.
Here, European notions of anti-Blackness and antisemitism became intertwined.
There was a fusion between the dispossession and racism of European imperialism and colonization projects of the late nineteenth century, and the prison regimes imposed by European fascism in the early twentieth century.
Scholars Sarah Abrevaya Stein and Aomar Boum have recently written much about the importance of recognizing the trauma of labor and internment camps in North Africa during the second world war.
And I want to express my gratitude for their work. I want to share some of what they’ve written in a couple of recent articles.
In their words: “Nazism in Europe was underlaid by an intricate matrix of racist, eugenicist and nationalist ideas. But the war – and the Holocaust – appears even more complex if historians take into account the racist and violent color wheel that spun in North Africa.” [1]
France's prison camps in North Africa were filled with Algerians, local Jews, deported European Jews, Eastern European refugees, domestic political dissidents from France, people fleeing fascist Spain, Moroccan residents, Senegalese subjects of French rule, other West Africans displaced by French occupation, and more.
The anti-Blackness and antisemitism that had fueled Europe's colonial expansion was finding new expression in fascist Europe.
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Seems France is a central antagonist in the story of evolving approaches to empire, racism, and resource extraction.
After their 1940 alliance with the Nazis, the Vichy French government maintained technical control of French colonies across Africa. Beginning in 1940, the French government “alone built nearly 70 such camps in the Sahara.” [1] This was in addition to another six labor camps which the French government built in West Africa (in Senegal, Guinea, and Mali).
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By the beginning of the twentieth century, French-influenced or -controlled territory in North Africa was home to around 500,000 Jews, many of whom had been living in the region for centuries or millennia, speaking many languages, “reflecting their many different cultures and ethnicities: Arabic, French, Tamazight – a Berber language – and Haketia, a form of Judeo-Spanish spoken in northern Morocco.” [1] The Vichy French government officially stripped North African Jews of formal citizenship and seized their assets.
Then, deporting residents of Europe and political dissidents in “early 1941, the Vichy authorities transferred hundreds of Jewish and non-Jewish refugees, including women and children, to the Saharan labor camps.” [2] Under French rule “in Algeria [...], it was estimated that 2,000-3,000 Jews were interned in camps [...] resulting in a total prisoner population of 15,000-20,000.” [2] France pursued an “unrealized dream of the nineteenth century” [2]: the completion of the Mediterranean-Niger railroad line in the Sahara, a transportation route across the vast desert to connect the prosperous West African port of Dakar with the Mediterranean coast of Algeria.
Meanwhile the “Vichy regime [...] continued racist policies begun by France’s Third Republic, which pushed young Black men from the empire into forced military service,” including forced recruitment from “Senegal, French Guinea, Ivory Coast, Niger and Mauritania; [...] Benin, Gambia and Burkina Faso; and Muslim men from Morocco and Algeria. In these ways, the French carried on a wartime campaign of anti-Blackness and Islamophobia, pairing these forms of racialized hatred from the colonial era with antisemitism. Antisemitism had deep roots in French and colonial history, but it found new force in the era of fascism.” [1]
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In late 1942, during the Nazi occupation of Tunisia, the SS “imprisoned some 5,000 Jewish men in roughly 40 forced labor and detention camps on the front lines and in cities like Tunis.” [2] The fascist Italian government had been experimenting with racist and anti-Black policy in their colonization of East Africa; these policies were expanded in Libya. Here, “Mussolini ordered the Jews of Cyrenaica moved” as “most of the 2,600 Jews deported [...] were sent to the camp of Giado” while “other Libyan Jews were deported to the camps of Buqbuq and Sidi Azaz.” [2]
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Stein and Boum describe the diversity of prisoner experience: “In these camps, [...] the complex racist logic of Nazism and fascism took vivid form. Muslims arrested for anti-colonial activities were pressed into back-breaking labor” and “broke bread with other forced workers” including ‘Ukrainians, Americans, Germans, Russian Jews and others [...] arrested, deported and imprisoned by the Vichy regime after fleeing Franco’s Spain. There were political enemies of the Vichy and Nazi regime too, including socialists, communists, union members [...] overseen by [...] forcibly recruited [...] Moroccan and Black Senegalese men, who were often little more than prisoners themselves.” [1]
As Stein and Boum describe it: “Vichy North Africa became a unique site [...] where colonialism and fascism co-existed and overlapped.” [2]
They write: “Together, we have spent a decade gathering the voices of the diverse peoples who endured World War II in North Africa, across lines of race, class, language and region. Their letters, diaries, memoirs, poetry and oral histories are both defiant and broken. They express both faith and despair. All in all, they understood themselves to be trapped in a monstrous machine of fascism, occupation, violence and racism.” [1]
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[1]: Sarah Abrevaya Stein and Aomar Boum. “80 years ago, Nazi Germany occupied Tunisia - but North Africans’ experiences of World War II often go unheard.” The Conversation. 15 November 2022.
[2]: Sarah Arbevaya Stein and Aomar Boum. “Labor and Internment Camps in North Africa.” Holocaust Encyclopedia online. Last edited 13 May 2019.
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Religion and the conflict- an excuse for antisemitism
Many users seem to use everyone's interest in the conflict to spread misinformation and antisemitic beliefs.
Antisemitism today is being rebranded as antizionism.
Zionism is simply the notion that the Jewish people should have a state of their own, in Zion (AKA the historical and religious name for Israel).
Debunking some common musconcepti0ons about Zionism
-It's not a new movement- This concept has been around ever since the Jewish people were first expelled from Israel.
Jews have tried to immigrate to Israel ever since and were often met with refusal.
They were then sent back against their will to nearby territories such as Cyprus.
But I’m not antisemitic, I’m just anti Israeli
-Antisemitic hate crimes rates have gone up globally:
from slurs, genocidal chants and violence in American college campuses, to hate crimes and violence spiking across Europe…
Take London for an example - there’s currently a 1,350% spike in antisemitism.
People are killed for being Jewish. Swastikas are drawn, and the hashtag “Hitler was right” is trending all over social media.
You can’t deny that chanting “gas the Jews” in protests in antisemitic…
It's not like what happened in Canada & the USA
-Treatment of Palestinians after the founding of the state of Israel:
To better understand the situation, you'll need to understand the difference between Palestinian territories outside of Israel, Palestinian territories inside Israel, and Israeli territories.
-Palestinians living in Palestinian territories Outside of Israel (The Gaza Strip) are governed by Hamas.
-Palestinians living in Palestinian territories within Israel are governed by the Palestinian Authority and not Israel.
*For further reading, you can read about the differences between A, B, and C zones.
-Arabic Muslims and Arabic Christians living within Israeli territories have the exact same rights as Jewish Israelis.
There are many "mixed" cities in which Arabic people and Jewish people live peacefully, it's a nonissue.
Israeli people are European settlers \ white colonizers
Are they all white?
I can't believe I have to write this, but contrary to popular belief, not all Jews are white, just like not all Christians are white ...
Stop being ignorant: there are Jewish People from Asian, Arab, and African countries.
Please stop telling Arabic\African Jews to go back to Europe, You are embarrassing yourself.
The reason why there aren't a lot of them in those countries right now is that they were either killed or forced to leave them (often without any of their possessions) after years of discrimination and violence.
*Are they collonsiers?
The Jewish people are indigenous to the land of Israel. There is much historical, and archeological evidence for that.
There is evidence that supports that the Jewish people have been here for thousands of years.
The Jewish people all originated from Israel, and are an Ethnic group that originated from Israel.
How can we be colonizers on our own land?
Most of the land of Israel was either given by the British mandate or purchased legally.
Obviously, some land was occupied- but that was during wars that were forced on Israel, after many terror attacks.
-Many of the people claiming Israeli people are colonizers, are
European, American, or Canadian....
AKA the biggest colonizers in history, who have 0 connection to the land they occupied.
While Israel was a British colony until 1948-and Unlike popular belief, the conflict doesn't start there. That's what Hamas wants you to think.
Your favorite Maps are a lie
They won't tell you about the Balfour declaration in 1917, the 1936 Peel Commission, or the 1947 UN partition plan which the Palestinian people rejected.
Do you know what followed that rejection?
Foreign armies from Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia attacked.
Many peace accords including the 1993 Oslo Accords (which since then were violated by the Palestinians)- were all initiated by Israel.
Not one of the wars in Israeli history was initiated by Israel.
* Besides the occupation of the Golan Heights and the Sinai Peninsula**
Most of the lands that make up Israel were either given by the British after their mandate over the country had ended or purchased legally*.
*Besides the Golan Heights and the Sinai Peninsula**.
**The Sinai peninsula was returned completely to Egypt in 1982. as part of the 1977 peace accords between Egypt and Israel.
Further context and more information:
I suggest you read about the Suez Crisis \ The Sinai War of 1956, The Egypt- Israel Peace Accords, the Oslo Accords, the British mandate over Israel (especially the end of it), and different UN decisions made in the years before the founding of Israel.
#israel#israeli#jewish#jewblr#טאמבלר ישראלי#politics#human rights#Gaza#Gaza strip#Hamas is Isis#bring them back#bring them home
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What is the essence of the whole existence of Israel settlement colonial project?
What is the essence of decades of American unconditional support to this colonial project?
What does Judaism have to do with this colonial project?
Why do Israelis need to be taught certain version of 'history', hatred to Arabs, and apartheid from childhood?
Why do Europeans, Americans, Africans, etc are welcome in Israel to displace, kill, and take over homes of Palestinians?
You need to cut the crap calling people idiots or anti-semitic because people around the World acknowledge practices of Judaism, people of the World acknowledge equality of races including Arabs and Muslims.
Yet some Israelis are nurtured to hate certain religions and races. Something must be not right here.
Do you want to assimilate to an equal global society or live under fear and hatred your parents, government, and religious leaders have taught you?
Zionism is not Judaism.
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Via NasAlSudan
Swipe through to learn about the ethnic cleansing, historical context, current events, and key factors contributing to the Genocide in Darfur. For actionable ways to make a difference, please it is @darfurwomenaction.
December 18 2023
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Darfur
A region in western Sudan, consisting of 5 states and home to around 80 tribes of diverse ethnic makeup, consisting of African and Arab descent.
Has a history of enduring social, political, and economic marginalization under past governments.
Has been enduring a 20-year conflict known as the Darfur War (2003 - Present).
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What is happening today?
Using the cover of the war in Sudan and the SAF's preoccupation in the capital of 7 Khartoum, RSF forces almost immediately launched a genocidal assault in El-Geniena, the capital of West Darfur, against members of the Masalit tribe.
The brutal massacres and horrific reports of sexual assault and enslavement have prompted more than 500,000 to flee via the Western border to Chad since the conflict's start eight months ago.
Since June, RSF assaults in the Darfur region have led them to capture 4/5 states, with the group now controlling West, Central, South, and East Darfur. North Darfur and its capital of El-Fashir remain under the relative protection of the SAF and its allied groups.
In July, following international condemnation, the International Criminal Court (ICC) reported that it is opening investigations into the RSF on the allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Key Alliances
Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF)
Justice and Equality Movement (Gibril Ibrahim)
Sudan Liberation Army (Minni Minawi)
GSLF (Salah Al-Wali)
Sudan Liberation Army (Mustafa Tambour)
Rapid Support Forces (RSF)
Bani Halba
Tarjam
Habaniya
Fallata
Taaysha
Misseriya
Rizeigat
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Darfur: The war in numbers
Humanitarian crisis:
*56 cases of reported rape including minors, male children, and one resulting in death.
Sexual violence cases are significantly underreported due to limited capacity, infrastructure, support measures, and willingness to come forward.
At least 29 cities, towns and villages fully or partially destroyed across Darfur.
At least 5 million children are facing extreme deprivation of their rights and protection risks.
Mass abductions and enslavement have been reported, with women forced into sexual acts for basic needs and both genders traded by captors.
1.2 million children under five in the Darfur states are suffering from acute malnutrition.
218,000 of them facing severe acute malnutrition
Over 3,130 allegations of severe child rights violations Since mid-April
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Building historical context
The colonial era (1899 - 1956)
During the period of Anglo-Egyptian colonization, a policy of identity fragmentation was pursued that played on the division of Arab and Muslim versus African and Christian
The hierarchical identity separation was a form of erasure and marginalization of many, including ethnically African Muslims, as most of the population of Darfur is
Furthermore, building on the identity fragmentation policy, land allocation under the British was to ethnic groups rather than on an individual basis
The African tribes of the Fur and Masalit were allocated the largest swaths of land, especially in comparison to Arab tribes like the Rizeigat
This led to a domination of African tribes in Darfur post-independence and continued land and resource-based conflict between the Arab and African tribes in the region
The second Sudanese civil war (1983-2005)
Due to systemic marginalization and the violation of the Addis Ababa Peace Agreement that had ended the first Sudanese Civil War, rebel groups in the South led primarily by the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) rose against the central government in Khartoum in 1983
An estimated 2 million people were killed and 4 million displaced.
Unable to fend off SPLA alone, the central government armed members of the Arab tribes of Darfur (collectively known as the Baggara tribes) to help fight the war, particularly against displaced southerners who had fled towards Darfur and the Nuba Mountains regions of Sudan
The Baggara tribes now held a weapons advantage over African tribes
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Bashir era escalation (1994-1999)
Under the government of deposed dictator Omar al-Bashir, a rigorous strategy of Arabization was pursued across Sudan
In 1994, Bashir divided the region of Darfur into 3 states: North, West and South Darfur
Altered the boundaries to make the ethnically African Fur tribe a minority in each
state
In 1995, Bashir appointed 8 Arab emirs in West Darfur, which was dominated by the African Masalit, which led to the the outbreak of the Arab-Masalit War (1995-1999)
This was Darfur's second war, with the first being the Arab-Fur War (1987-1989) following the migration of Arab tribes to the southern Fur dominated region due to drought and famine
The rise of militias (1995 - 2003)
Stemming from the Baggara tribes armed by the government in the 80s, the Arab tribes banded together during the Arab-Masalit war to form a new militia, the Janjaweed
In response, the early 2000s witnessed the formation of many
ethnically African militias (Fur, Masalit, Zaghawa) to challenge the
central government, including:
Darfur Liberation Front (DLF) - 2001
Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) - 2003
Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) - 2003
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Declaration of the Darfur war(2003)
In March of 2003, a government helicopter was shot down by SLM/A, marking the start of the Darfur War
Rebel attacks were highly coordinated and army resources were depleted from the fight in the South against SPLA
By May of 2003, the central government realized that it had lost the first 32 of 34 battles
Prompted the Bashir government in June of 2003 to escalate the war through the arming of the Janjaweed to fight as a proxy for the central government
Genocide in Darfur (2003 - 2005)
The Darfur genocide marks the systematic killing of ethnically African Darfuri people at the hands of the Bashir government and Janjaweed, constituting the first genocide of the 21st century.
Typified by systematic targeted assaults, mass displacement, sexual violence, and intentional obstruction of aid, all contributing factors leading to its classification as genocide.
Targeted the Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa ethnic groups, of which, over 300,000 people were killed and millions displaced, with 400,000 refugees forced to seek shelter in
camps in neighboring Chad.
Ethnic divisions served as fuel for the conflict, exemplified by the derogatory term "abd" (slave) used against the ethnically African Darfuri population.
In 2009, al-Bashir became the first sitting head of state indicted by the ICC for war crimes and crimes against humanity, and was later on charged with genocide
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FAQ - From the Janjaweed to the RSF
Question 01 What happened to the Janjaweed?
The paramilitary group was formalized by al-Bashir in 2013 as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and legally incorporated into the security sector in 2017
Question 02: Who makes up the RSF today?
Today, the RSF is primarily comprised of members of western Arab tribes from across the Sahel including the: Rizeigat, Taaysha, Beni Halba, Habbaniya, Salamat, Messeria, Tarjam, and Beni Hussein
Due to the lucrative pay and benefits offered by the RSF, members of these tribes from Chad, Niger, Mali have all joined the ranks of the RSF in this war
Question 03 What about the rebels?
Though groups like JEM and SLA fought in the Darfur War against the central government and the Janjaweed, today they have allied with the SAF to fight the RSF in its campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Masalit
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How the system works
Systems of oppression
Resource Competition
Climate change coupled with competition for scarce resources exacerbated intercommunal conflict. Darfur's arid environment heightened competition for scarce resources, such as water and arable land, exacerbating tensions between herding Arab groups and farming African tribes.
Historical Grievances
Historical disparities in land distribution, dating back to colonial times, created resentment between Arab and African communities. The distribution favored African tribes, fostering a sense of marginalization among the Arab tribes.
Government Policies
The Sudanese government, historically dominated by Arab elites,
pursued exclusionary policies that favored Arabization and Islamization. This contributed to the marginalization of non-Arab ethnic groups, particularly in Darfur.
Armed Conflict
The Second Sudanese Civil War (1983- 2005) set the stage for Darfur's conflict. As the government armed Arab militias, known as the Janjaweed, during the civil war, these militias continued their
operations in Darfur post-war, targeting non-Arab communities.
Ethnic and Racial Divisions
The conflict took on ethnic and racial dimensions, with the government's targeting of African tribes and creating the Janjaweed against the ethnically African Darfuri population. This fueled animosity and contributed to the genocide.
Resource Competition
The Janjaweed and Sudanese government engaged in systematic violence, including targeted assaults, mass displacement, sexual violence, and obstructing aid. These tactics aimed to weaken and destabilize the targeted communities, constituting genocidal acts.
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As an arab who has lived in Israel, everyone's accusations that they are some kind of apartheid state? I don't understand where you get these ideas from? I think you conflate that idea with the things you Americans learned from your racist history of white and black people and your past of segregation and with the history of South Africa's past as well. I have never been othered or harassed as a Lebanese woman by my coworkers, bosses, or friends. I can read everything here becuase we have access to everything here, I cant read hebrew well, but I can read the arabic around the country. I'm not forbidden from places for being arab. I have had uncomfortable experiences in some areas, but never at the hands of a Israeli, but by men who assumed i was Israeli/ a jew and thought I couldn't understand what they would say about me/ my female family or friends with me.
I was gonna write out a different full response but frankly I don't believe you. You are asking as an anonymous person so you could very well be one of the Zionists who keeps complaining I don't have sympathy for the PTSD coming from MURDERING PEOPLE AND LAUGHING ABOUT IT! Or you may be telling the truth but the slew of go fund me scams claiming to be people that are really sets the bar high for someone being anonymous.
I have seen orthodox Jews on the streets of Israel beaten to an inch of their life for trying to stop a Palestinian from being harassed by police.
I have seen the videos about the Israeli government beat back protestors for wanting aid through.
I have seen rallies where people in Israel screamed "Death to all Muslim"
I have see a fucking girl torn to shreds and shoved on rebar like meat by the IOF so politely don't fucking tell me how YOUR experience defines the entire group currently being genocided and tortured.
Do you really expect me to think that just cause things were okay for YOU that the murders I saw with my own eyes aren't real?
Side note: Everyone in the Middle East is Arab, that's a regional cultural identity, not a religion or even a descriptor of which country they were born in. Jews in Palestine are Arab and Muslims in Israel are Arab.
"Arab identity (Arabic: الهوية العربية) is the objective or subjective state of perceiving oneself as an Arab and as relating to being Arab. Like other cultural identities, it relies on a common culture, a traditional lineage, the common land in history, shared experiences including underlying conflicts and confrontations. These commonalities are regional and in historical contexts, tribal. Arab identity is defined independently of religious identity, and pre-dates the spread of Islam and before spread of Judaism and Christianity, with historically attested Arab Muslim tribes and Arab Christian tribes and Arab Jewish tribes. Arabs are a diverse group in terms of religious affiliations and practices. Most Arabs are Muslim, with a minority adhering to other faiths, largely Christianity,[1] but also Druze and Baháʼí.[2][3]"
Edit: to add an item on this, I’ll trust South Africa on if Israel is an segregation/apartheid state over you
#you may be telling the truth#but your statement reads as a lie#and frankly the idea that only your experience defines others is horseshit#palestine#israel#israel is a terrorist state#genocide#free gaza#gaza strip#gaza#fuck the israeli government#free palestine#idf is a terrorist group
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It's sad that you've chosen to bring politics into your blog. Innocent people in Israel and Palestine are both being affected by the actions of terror groups, so why are saying "Free Palestine" and ignoring the suffering of millions of Israeli Jews, Muslims, Christians, Druze, etc?
I didn't bring it into my blog though. Somebody sent unsolicited fake propaganda to me. I simply responded to that. Your ask once again brings the politics into my space and expressly seeks commentary, under the protective veil of anonymity.
As a half-Palestinian (based overseas) with branches of family on both sides of the border, I don't owe you or anyone else any explanation for not wanting my family to be ethnically cleansed by genocidaires, their culture and history erased, and having what precious little remains of their land stolen from under them to hand over to extremist settlers who literally want them dead (irrespective of whether they are Muslim, Christian or Druze) because of a destructive ideology.
And so you ask me 'why are you saying "Free Palestine" [...]?'
Asking for Palestinian civilians not to be murdered in cold blood or forcibly displaced does not equate advocating violence against other people or ignoring their suffering. Expressing objections to the actions of a government or apartheid ideology does not equate hostility or indifference towards ordinary civilians living under that government or support for terror groups.
So you are extrapolating and drawing a false equivalence because I didn't include an exhaustive list of every group you wanted in a freaking hashtag; classic 'I like pancakes' 'So you hate waffles?' fallacy. Your ask is akin to replying 'All lives matter' to a BLM post.
But it remains an incontrovertible fact that at the present time, Palestinians of all religions are being massacred and having buildings flattened at a wholly disproportionate rate to other civilians in the immediate region, in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law. The military machine is being funded by some of the world's biggest superpowers and civilians have nowhere to flee or access to resources. It's like medieval siege warfare but on a national scale. There is also a massive disparity in the quality of life for civilians in Palestine compared to those in Israel due to long-standing obstructive practices concerning access to basic amenities, border control and import control. For many years it has been for all intents and purposes an open prison. "Free Palestine" encompasses allowing them to have basic living standards and human rights on a par with their neighbours at a very minimum.
I say a very minimum because I am well aware of how many ethnicities and religions are treated as second class citizens in Israel by its apartheid regime, including some of its own Jews (eg. branches of Judaism that don't support or recognise the current State as politically or theologically valid). If you want to see Israel's track record for treating its own Jews of Arab or African ethnicity, look up how naturalised Israeli-Ethiopian Jews regularly suffer racial discrimination and the frankly stomach-churning Yemenite Children Affair.
The apartheid has been going on for generations and needs to stop. And I am so very tired of having to justify asking for my family to be recognised as human beings without having some sort of accusation thrown at me.
This is the last post on this matter.
Anon asks will be closed for the foreseeable.
#anon ask#whataboutism#tone policing#Also where on earth have you been? My Pantalone fics are inherently political#try reading less smut fics and more history books#empty vessels make the loudest sound
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When most Westerners, especially the secular ones, think of religion they think of something they have seen in their own cultures and societies, i.e., Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism.
And quite naturally, since most of them lack the insight and knowledge to understand Islam properly, they tend to lump it in with the other religions. That is a big mistake.
Islam can be properly described as a totalitarian way of life and a highly effective system of conquest, disguised as a religion.
Islam is totalitarian, not just in the sense of theocratic and dictatorial regimes, but also in the sense that there is virtually no part of a believer’s life that is not touched or influenced in some manner by it.
Virtually everything a Muslim does is influenced or guided by his faith, by Sharia law, or both.
In this sense, free will as Westerners and other non-Muslims understand it, is anathema to those inhabiting Dar al-Islam, the “House of Islam.”
Likewise, there is no real analog to the Western notion of liberty or freedom. The Arabic word most closely corresponding to “freedom” is typically said to be “hurriya,” but this is false for the term does not correspond to “liberty” or “freedom” in the sense that an American, for example, would understand it.
It instead means “freedom” to do as “Allah wills” for that individual.
Many traditional religious faiths and systems have laws or codes of law which attach to them.
What makes Sharia (Islamic) law unique, however, is that in theory, it applies not only to Muslims but to non-Muslims as well. At least that is what the Koran, the Hadith, and the Sira command.
Non-Muslims or kafirs, also known as infidels, ~ are denied the most basic of human rights under Islamic suzerainty.
They are most often akin to slaves, serfs, or supplicants, and even those non-Muslim dhimmis who serve a useful purpose to the sultan or caliph and survive on that basis, are still treated with inhuman brutality and can be beaten or slain at the whim of any Muslim male.
Most Westerners are familiar with the history of slavery, but how many know that Muslims have been the greatest slavers in history?
Which is to say, the most prolific takers, buyers, and sellers of slaves in history.
Even today, in many parts of the Islamic world, the Arabic word for slave, “Abd,” is synonymous with the slang or informal word for a black man.
Although the Muslims took many millions of black Africans as slaves, they likewise took many millions of Europeans and other peoples as slaves from temperate climates further north, venturing as far north as Ireland and Iceland on slave-taking raids.
As some of you may know, the very first war fought by the United States as an independent nation was the Barbary War of 1801-1805 (with a brief flare-up in 1815), fought against Islamic raiders and pirates off the coast of North Africa.
These nautical jihadists had been seizing American shipping and holding the passengers and cargo for ransom. President Thomas Jefferson grew tired of their demands and sent the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps to Tripoli to teach them a lesson.
Various Islamic potentates, rulers, and warlords have infamously slain infidels by the multitudes down through the centuries.
According to the work of historians and political scientists who have studied such phenomena, the greatest or largest single genocide in human history was committed by the Islamic Mughal Empire in what is now the Indian sub-continent over years in the 15th century.
During that time, an estimated 270 million Hindus and other non-Muslims were put to the sword.
So many were slain that the streets ran with blood and giant pyramids of human skulls were erected by the soldiers of Allah.
Of course, many other empires and nations have committed acts of genocide, but such wanton bloodletting is impressive even by the standards of the worst tyrants of the 20th century, who had modern industrial warfare and weapons at their disposal but did not manage to even approach the totals of the Mughal Empire.
Historians consider the Armenian genocide (1915-1921) to be the first “modern” genocide since it was the first such atrocity that was recorded by still and motion-picture photography.
The Sunni Muslim Ottoman Empire in what is now modern-day Turkey was responsible for it and even today, under the government of Recep Erdogan, the president of Turkey, it is still a crime to speak or write of the extermination of the Armenians and Greeks, most of whom were Christians.
Anyone who has seen the haunting photos of young girls, Christian virgins, crucified by their captors and slowly dying in the hot sun in the desert, will never forget them.
These basic historical facts about Islam used to be widely known and taught across the West, but they have been politely airbrushed out of our history in recent decades, and now few people know of them …. or the danger presented by the soldiers of Allah.
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Useful Readings - Palestine, DRC, Disability Justice, Queer Liberation, and More
A list of some useful readings not just on Palestine but also the DRC, Public Health, disability, and queer perspectives on the various genocides that are all interconnected.
Book List in Text Form:
Arab Women's Lives Retold - Exploring Identity Through Writing
Broken - The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion - Evelyn Alsultany
Covering Islam - Edward Said
Culture and Imperialism - Edward Said
Orientalism - Edward Said
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic - Jack Lowery
Killing the Black Body - Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty - Dorothy Roberts
Medical Apartheid - the Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to Present - Harriet Washington
The Congo from Leopold to Kabila - Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
The Hundred Years War on Palestine - Rashid Khalidi
The Right to Maim - Jasbir Puar
The Viral Underclass - Steven Thrasher
Women in African Colonial Histories
Terrorist assemblages - Homonationalism in Queer Times - Jasbir Puar
Palestinian Cinema - Landscape, Trauma and Memory - Nurith Gertz and George Khleifi
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters - The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa - Jason Stearns
Cobalt Red - How the blood of Congo powers our lives - Siddharth Kara
Modern Slavery - a Global Perspective - Siddharth Kara
Sex trafficking : inside the business of modern slavery -Siddharth Kara
Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia
#free palestine 🇵🇸#free congo#democratic republic of the congo#free gaza#free sudan#disability justice#queer rights#ceasefire
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I was relating it to something so know. YOU do not want to risk living in a majority Arab or Muslim country because of past actions, you point to these actions as proof that you need to have a form of control over them. So you are okay with their murder. You are okay with the fact that you moved yourselves onto their land and kicked them out. You are okay with the fact that you basically have them behind a militarized wall. Going through all that does not mean you are incapable of doing the same. Or that just because you have not done the exact same or the same amount of time that your actions are not bad. I am ethnically Jewish (not practicing) tho it’s not significant enough in my life for me to claim it as a cultural identity on my father’s side and my step father is Jewish but he’s now anti-religion (He’s on Israel’s side). My cultural upbringing… well I’m a poc and I spent years going to Holocaust memorials, I learned Jewish customs, our family friends were Jewish, and I read Jewish stories/watched the films. Media consumption? All the media I’ve consumed said that Palestinians where the problem because they refused to accept Israel and that Muslims where all terrorists (I grew up post 911). At no point did I ever say I was okay with the massacre of Jewish people or that it was understandable. I feel fine being critical of what you tell me because I know you aren’t saying the whole truth. You are still playing the role of the perfect victim. Everything has been done to you and you have done nothing back.
just because you have not done the exact same or the same amount of time that your actions are not bad
The amount of history that this sentence attempts to wave away.... No. No, that simply won't do.
I showed you dozens of examples of centuries of torture, oppression, and massacres of Jews in Arab / Muslim societies, culminating in the complete and recent destruction of 3,000-year-old Jewish civilization in all MENA countries, and you just breeze by them with no real consideration at all. You have repeatedly mentioned slave revolts because the slaves had good reason to defend themselves. Does the need for self-defense vanish when it's Jewish self-defense? Why can you tolerate violence in slave uprisings, but not in Jews trying to prevent their extermination? Cut us, maybe we don't bleed.
Your final comment of "Everything was done to you, you have done nothing back" likewise disregards the lopsided history and unequal stakes of oppression and loss. There are exactly zero countries where Arabs or Muslims have been reduced to nothing and their histories ended by Jews. Israel has a 20% Arab minority, in most MENA countries you can't even find 20 Jews. Israel is the only regional country that has any diversity, pluralism, and tolerance, instead of an unnatural Nebraska-cornfield ethnic monoculture. How much structural racism, how much systematic violence and hate, does a country need to have for it to EVEN BE POSSIBLE to physically wipe out a minority? With all of America's fucked-up racial problems, do you think they could physically push out the African-Americans or Latinos today if they wanted to? Yet you look at the Middle East and, one after another, the Jews are gone, the Jews are gone, the Jews are gone. You say you are not okay with Jewish massacres, well, I'm glad to hear that, but you don't seem to appreciate that those were the actual stakes. If your enemy says their goal is your extinction, and you survive, then yeah, maybe you do put up a wall and they have to stay on their side of it. Boo and furthermore hoo.
As for "being okay with murder" - forget slave revolts, I'm certainly fine with abolishing slavery altogether and I suspect you are too. That required killing over 600,000 people in 4 years. The combined all-sides grand total death count of the Zionist / Arab conflict is about 120,000 in 140 years. Are you "okay" with the American Civil War taking place, even though Lincoln suspended habeas corpus and all the other imperfect, morally compromised things Confederate LARPers complain about?
Overall I detect a strongly binary way of thinking, that Jewish people / institutions can only be seen as worth physical protection if they are perfect, if they have never harmed anyone, even if the options the world presents to us are Jewish people / institutions as they are or their continued, repeated disappearance. You were never promised better Jews or a better Israel, and you may not shift the goalposts on how we resist those who would repeat our genocide. I am fully comfortable in saying we are morally superior to our enemies. The fact that we still have living enemies proves that.
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They both have sexy circumcised cocks and a language that sounds like Klingon. Israel is the only reason why hatred grew between them despite this relationship.
Is religion enough to justify a state?
Another problem I have with Zionism is the claim that Jews are a self-contained ethnic group justifying its own nation state. In fact, Judaism is just a closed religion whose followers come from many countries, especially Central and Eastern Europe, therefore cannot possibly be viewed as ethnically uniform. Moreover, none of them spoke Hebrew, but either the local language or Yiddish, a Middle High German dialect. In addition, as I have already explained, these Jews, referred to as "Ashkenazis", are not original Jews in the Bible's sense, but merely converts from the Central Asian people of the Khazars. The real Jews are black Africans or have long since mixed with the Arabs and adopted Islam.
There are countless different religions on earth and absolutely none of them is the only religion of a country or unique to a particular country. The most I can think of is Japan's Shintoism, but even this religion is strongly interwoven with Buddhism, a belief that is also shared by many nations and different people. For example, Buddhist groups have demonstrably existed in Germany for over a hundred years; and at least since the Christian schism caused by Martin Luther, there has been no uniformly Christian faith either. In addition, there have always been atheist people too, although not as much in the past as there are today.
Furthermore, different religious groups can be found even in countries like Iran. Ultimately, the Iranians define themselves through their common language, common history, common traditions, which, although influenced by Islam, still contain a large, originally purely Iranian core. Likewise, neither Afghans nor Pakistanis define themselves exclusively by their religion. So why should Jews have the right to their own state if they do not form a unified ethnic group; and especially build their own state at the expense of others? There are thousands of religious communities on this planet that do not enjoy the same privilege as the Jews. So why this exception for “Khazar converts”?
In addition, Jews with Western citizenship can now move absolutely freely throughout the world (apart from Muslim countries because of their hatred of Israel). Especially in the USA, Jews enjoy all freedoms; and even in the country of the former Nazis, Jewish citizens are given special protection. So, apart from purely ideological reasons, there is no justification for the state of Israel.
Zionism is the greatest threat to Jews
Ironically, Israel itself is the reason why anti-Semitism is growing; In fact, anti-Semitism is the ultimate tool that Zionism has always used to separate Jews from society so that they do not assimilate in the long term. It is therefore not surprising that Zionism itself fomented hatred of Jews. I even believe that such nonsense like the Nuremberg racial laws reflected the wishes of the Zionists rather than that of the vast majority of Germans, since there were only 500,000 Jews in Germany at the time anyway; only half a million, facing 80 million non-Jews. Therefore, it seems absurd to speak of a "genetic threat" to the German "Volkskörper"; especially since the many Jewish academics were not among the population with the largest number of children. So was Hitler secretly just serving the Zionist cause?!
Israel is an exception, and a pretty stupid one at that
Israel is the only modern state on earth that explicitly uses religion and an artificial language called "New Hebrew" as justification for its existence, because they simply cannot claim a common ethnic origin. In the early years of Israel, newspapers regularly printed lists of new Hebrew words so that the former liturgical language, which was as dead as Latin, would become useful for today. And they are so bold that they seriously claim: "If Moses were to return, Israelis would be able to communicate with him without any problems." Zionists really believe that they have "reconstructed" a language that was supposedly spoken by "their ancestors" thousands of years ago. You definitely can't talk rationally with people like that…
Instead of such a questionable Semitic Klingon, Theodor Herzl, the protagonist of political Zionism, suggested in his book "Der Judenstaat" [translated "The Jewish State"] that German should become the official language, since most Ashkenazis had access to the German language through Yiddish. Herzl even considered purchasing land in South America as an alternative, but this sensible idea never continued in the ideological blindness that only saw occupation of the "holy land" as an option. The Zionists could have created their own paradise in peace in the sparsely populated areas of South America instead of fighting with Palestinians over a dusty desert. Since reading “Der Judenstaat,” Israel appears to me not just as a crime, but as something fundamentally stupid.
For the sake of their own state, they make others stateless.
In order to support their claim and maintain the absolute Jewish majority, Israel refuses to naturalize the Palestinians, who represent the original population of the land occupied by the Ashkenazis. Imagine if the USA or Brazil treated their indigenous population as non-citizens and refused any naturalization. It would be a scandal sparking protests and civil movements! But as far as the Palestinians are concerned, this stateless condition is still tolerated by the UN today, even though belonging to a state, or rather citizenship, is considered an important human right to gain legal status and things like the right to vote.
You can't really call Palestine a state, since it is just a patchwork of small areas around Israel where the remaining Palestinians are kept like in Indian reservations. Accordingly, the Gaza Strip is nothing more than an open-air prison into which Israel pushed most of the remaining Palestinians. The current escalation is the result of these years of politics. One cannot expect that young Palestinians in this huge refugee camp will not become radicalized, but will watch with love in their hearts as Israel advances further and further with its settlement policy. And in contrast to the Jews, the Palestinians, as an Arab nation, represent a closed ethnic unit who, even in worldwide exile, feel Palestinian and will never accept the state of Israel in its current form. For them there is only one option: Israel must burn and the Ashkenazis be driven out. And I don't blame them, because as a Palestinian I would feel the same way in the face of Israel's aggression. Therefore, Hamas's atrocities are a merely logical consequence of the pent-up loathing generated by Israel itself.
Go under the madness or change!
I see only two ways in which the conflict can be resolved: Either the Ashkenazi leave the Middle East, or they completely change their policy towards the Palestinians, gradually naturalize them and establish places of residence for them where they can be considered normal Citizens can live and work. Then there will no longer be any reasons for Palestinians to develop hatred of Israel. But I doubt that Israel will ever take this path in order not to lose its own Jewish majority or to shed its own delusion of being chosen. Just as Israel incapacitated its own citizens during the Corona years and punished them draconianly, one can assume that the Zionist leadership will act even more mercilessly against others. So there is no hope for a future for them! And just like in other conflicts, it would be best for us to stay out of it as a neutral party and instead of pumping Israel full of weapons, provide humanitarian aid FOR EVERYONE!
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