Israel/Palestine post 10/7 - follow-on events/thoughts as relate to other countries

"Even still, the account is nakedly biased toward Israel and not remotely trustworthy as a source of on-the-ground opinion in Palestine"

In all my time looking at this through twitter I haven't really come across anything that could be considered general opinions on Hamas by Palestinians in Gaza. I don't see how a poll could even be taken under current circumstances, or what would that mean. It's not like civilian life will ever be reconstructed anytime soon so that a thing like an election could take place to er, remove Hamas.

Palestinian/Gaza twitter has been a mix of personal remarks of loss, appeals for help - - which range from an encouragement for Westerners to keep marching, to fundraisers for families and to any help for anyone to move out of Gaza - - to simple accounts of survival. Like a bit of bread is being baked for the day.

"You'll simply have to take my word that I almost always ignore those posts as generally I read about these events in more mainstream sources like the Guardian, NYT, and Al Jazeera"

Well, you shouldn't. I understand it's a fucked up platform but no account of this genocide will be complete without a thorough dissection of those tweets.

At least the tweets I bring here :-)

I was also wondering how a poll could be taken. I'll share the purported source.

Re: elections - One of the articles covering a controversy about whether Harvard school of public health should go foward with a proposed summer collaboration with Birzeit University from West Bank this summer (location would be in Jordan) mentioned that student government elections is watched as an indicator of public sentiment given there have been no election in Gaza since 2006. The Hamas party won the most recent Birzeit election which is why the program is controversial, also a Haaretz reporter was some years ago told she wsd banned from the campus.

https://fxb.harvard.edu/racial-justice/palestine-program/palestine-social-medicine-course/

Agreed it's better to put things forward for baselines and discussions. Iran, North Korea, and China, for instance, are or are going the way of hermetically sealing off information while genocide, famine or other crimes are happening there. Sometimes Twitter, reddit, Telegram are what people have.

Apparently it was during the previous ceasefire:

Despite the devastation, 57% of respondents in Gaza and 82% in the West Bank believe Hamas was correct in launching the October attack, the poll indicated. A large majority believed Hamas’ claims that it acted to defend a major Islamic shrine in Jerusalem against Jewish extremists and win the release of Palestinian prisoners. Only 10% said they believed Hamas has committed war crimes, with a large majority saying they did not see videos showing the militants committing atrocities.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-palestinians-opinion-poll-wartime-views-a0baade915619cd070b5393844bc4514

https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:90115ec4-d6cc-4ca0-a310-370d4bcbd20d

I think Netanayhu has done a pretty good job of ensuring Hamas' popularity is at an all time high.

"You'll simply have to take my word that I almost always ignore those posts as generally I read about these events in more mainstream sources like the Guardian, NYT, and Al Jazeera"

Well, you shouldn't. I understand it's a fucked up platform but no account of this genocide will be complete without a thorough dissection of those tweets.

― xyzzzz__, Friday, February 23, 2024 6:05 PM (one hour ago)

tbrr I don't think I could handle a complete account of this genocide, mental health-wise, which is another reason I tend not to click through to video clips and the like. I doubt people itt really care about my media diet, but fwiw I also read/consult lots of other sources just not as regularly

Netanyahu is pro-Hamas too: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-qatar-money-prop-up-hamas.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Understood, Rob. I have avoided video clips where I can but sometimes they have seeped through.

Also glad I have avoided some of the ghouls that have written on this conflict.

pic.twitter.com/ZlH0LC323g

— Berlinale (@berlinale) February 25, 2024

https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-york-times-reviewing-reporter-anat-schwartz-for-liking-gaza-slaughterhouse-tweet

This sounds too crazy to believe but it appears Anat Schwartz had never been a reporter before (was a filmmaker) and saw the 40 babies hoax, believed it, shared it, and then was subsequently tasked by the NEW YORK TIMES to adjudicate the final record on 10/7 atrocities. Her… https://t.co/XXCuadNsuJ

— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) February 24, 2024

Aaron Bushnell has died from his injuries.

Why did he do it?

Four major news outlets have almost the exact same headline for the self-immolation of 25-year old Aaron Bushnell. Not one of them mentions the words “Gaza” or “genocide,” the reason for Aaron’s protest, or the word “Palestine,” his last words spoken. pic.twitter.com/MdRCFsptzD

— Assal Rad (@AssalRad) February 26, 2024

Pelosi also called pro-Palestine activists pawns of Russia

I mainly recall her insinuating that some activists were being bankrolled by China; she was speaking specifically, I think, about Code Pink activists, and Code Pink is, in fact, supported by China.

“I think … some of these protesters are spontaneous and organic and sincere,” Pelosi said. “Some, I think, are connected to Russia. And I say that having looked at this for a long time now, as you know.”

When pressed on whether she believed some of the demonstrators were “Russian plants,” Ms. Pelosi said: “Seeds or plants. I think some financing should be investigated. And I want to ask the F.B.I. to investigate that.”

She also said the people protesting outside of her house were "praising Hamas."

She's a real nice lady.

But I guess "Everyone who disagrees with me is a foreign op" is standard politics now

God just die already lady

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/25/1233810136/fire-man-israeli-embassy-washington

“As of Monday morning, NPR was not able to independently verify the man's motives.”

Jeesus effing christ NPR

Our film “No Other Land” on occupied Masafer Yatta’s brutal expulsion won best documentary in Berlinale. Israel’s channel 11 aired this 30 second segment from my speech, insanely called it “anti semitic” - and I’ve been receiving death threats since. I stand behind every word. pic.twitter.com/2burPfZeKO

— Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם (@yuval_abraham) February 25, 2024

Yeah, Pelosi’s thing was “go back to China, where your headquarters is” to a protestors outside her house on Oct 29th.

https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/30/nancy-pelosi-go-back-to-china-protest-code-pink/

Longtime viewers will remember that she also made her own flight to Taiwan in mid-2022 to aggravate Chinese relations and because liberal anti-communism will never die.

I think it's everyone's dream to start a war before they die

That Yuval Abraham speech is right on. Honestly can't understand what grounds there would be to call anything in it anti-semitic.

A friend posted this on IG. I agree with him 100%.

"Most people are getting their news about Gaza from mainstream media. Among many other problems, this means near-total ignorance of a crucial aspect of this conflict. Israel is not merely murdering thousands upon thousands of Palestinians, and starving them, and destroying their homes and hospitals and schools and archives, and poisoning the wells and the land itself. Israel is doing all this and very very publicly rejoicing in it, reveling, celebrating, taking a grotesque collective joy in this horror.

Imagine if the Abu Ghraib photographs, rather than being leaked, had been shared by US soldiers on social media with millions of people. And that they'd shared thousands more pictures just like them. And that an enormous percentage of the American public had eaten them up and shared them and begged for more. And that US politicians and celebrities had then gone on TV and social media and hailed the soldiers for their work, and declared their satisfaction and personal glee in seeing such images. That is what's happening with Israel now."

Summary on where we're at, one month on.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/02/26/israel-not-complying-world-court-order-genocide-case

Seems pretty thorough on settlements and connections to the US

"The Hebrew term “yishuv” (residential community) is often used by settlement supporters to erase the distinction between “hitnakhlut” (settlements) and towns in Israel proper. “The most sought-after, vital and literally life-saving item for defending the Yishuvim is a drone equipped with a thermal camera that detects approaching terrorists at night,” Gordon wrote. Supporters could donate online or write a check to Israel Empowered, a New York-based charity."

What a way to live.

https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/a-fanatical-israeli-settlement-is-funded-by-new-york-suburbanites/

since this went viral people have raised $93k for him to build a life on his release. solidarity is so beautiful 😭 https://t.co/QqLdHKnQnz

— she/hererzade (@tubbsOreally) February 28, 2024

Ooop! A Zio-fascist reporter with no experience made it all up!

https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/new-york-times-anat-schwartz-october-7/

I've been reading that slowly all day. This is deeply irreparably shameful and credibility-shredding for the NYT, an absolutely deranged way to handle such a sensitive topic

amazing. their response to this is to launch an investigation...into who leaked to the Intercept:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/new-york-times-israel-gaza-leak

Sandberg was also quoted attacking women’s rights organizations in a December 4 New York Times article, headlined “What We Know About Sexual Violence During the Oct. 7 Attacks on Israel” and whose publication coincided with the launch of the PR campaign at the U.N. The article, also reported by Gettleman, Schwartz, and Sella, relied on claims made by Israeli officials and acknowledged the Times had not yet been able to corroborate the allegations. A revealing correction was subsequently appended to the story: “An earlier version of this article misstated the kind of evidence Israeli police have gathered in investigating accusations of sexual violence committed on Oct. 7 in the attack by Hamas against Israel. The police are relying mainly on witness testimony, not on autopsies or forensic evidence.”

ffs

every few months there's some new scandal about appallingly bad editorial or administrative decisions made by management at the new york times and they somehow still stay afloat thanks to the largely anonymous work of a world class puzzle team

— lauren (@Very__Regular) February 29, 2024

Just depraved contortions.

The NYT's problem connecting certain verbs to particular nouns in Palestine is reaching brutally absurd heights. pic.twitter.com/eR55CIeRCH

— Daniel Denvir (@DanielDenvir) March 1, 2024

The phrase “a chaotic incident” compresses into three words the liberal method: allude to the complexity of the world not in order to confront reality, but to evade it

— Benjamin Kunkel (@kunktation) February 29, 2024

that nyt headline is absolutely ghoulish

The EU has announced it will reinstate funding to UNRWA after having suspended it due to Israels allegations (for which they provided zero evidence) pic.twitter.com/P5Dya8awVj

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) March 1, 2024

The Washington Post headline this morning calls it "Chaotic Aid Delivery in Gaza Turns Deadly", which is infuriating since the Post news (as opposed to editorial) section has been consistently better than the Times on Gaza.

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yhwb4flopeavzkwbybtojo2s/bafkreicxw3oen2savtlewx4b3okm5kf5nhkrucn5z2yg3mryi7gewbb6iu@jpeg

when the WSJ can say what you will not

This game is so absurd because it's evident to anyone with a brain that Israel is completely responsible for the entire situation no matter how much one-sided wait-and-see you want to do on who shot whom: the lack of food and water, the destruction of infrastructure, the slowing of aid deliveries, the false accusations against UNRWA and subsequent defunding, the base hunger and desperation of the Palestinians who are being mundanely bombed in Rafah when they're not being gunned down in headline-grabbing fashion. Even if you want to call it "chaos" or "disaster" it's chaos and disaster *deliberately* caused by Israel as part of a campaign of unambiguous genocide. What kind of false alibi is even being put forward here?

It's the Who Concert alibi as far as I've seen

the headlines may be different, but the opening sentences largely the same

agreed Rob, even if it was a "chaotic aid delivery", it's like, well, who's responsible for them starving in the first place?

Will dive into this at some point.

"Never before have so many witnessed an industrial-scale slaughter in real time. Yet the prevailing callousness, timidity and censorship disallows, even mocks, our shock and grief." https://t.co/7ugFOyuYC1

— michael (@Sisyphusa) March 1, 2024

apparently the Times newsroom also discriminated against Middle Eastern and North African employees in the wake of October 7, according to the Times union

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/03/01/nytimes-leak-investigation-guild-intercept-hamas/

President Biden announces U.S. will airdrop aid into Gaza

On Saturday, the U.S. began airdropping aid, according to a United States Central Command statement.

Jordan, France, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have already begun airdrops, which Canada said it is also considering.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/02/biden-ceasefire-hostages-negotiations-ramadan/#link-WJODKCSRVRG67CI6PN27OPLKPM

much easier and more effective than uh not stopping funding the UNRWA based on some sketchy allegations

Completely unsubstantiated and seemingly totally made up allegations.

There is no reason to believe anything that any Israeli official says, ever.