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Demilitarization is not only a Palestinian imperative; it is also an Israeli one. Palestinians must have their own Altalena moment—the moment when one legitimate national authority alone holds the monopoly over the use of force, and all armed factions surrender their weapons to the state. But Israel must also...

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Israel possesses one of the most powerful militaries in the world, backed by billions of dollars in U.S. weapons. Yet Palestinians are told that the price of statehood must be permanent demilitarization. Demanding that the occupied disarm while the occupying power remains armed to the teeth is not a path to peace. It is a demand for surrender. If the world wants to have a serious conversation about demilitarization, then the conversation must include everyone: Israel’s military, its nuclear arsenal, and the constant flow of U.S. weapons that fuels this violence.
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Israel possesses one of the most powerful militaries in the world, backed by billions of dollars in U.S. weapons. Yet Palestinians are told that the price of statehood must be permanent demilitarization. Demanding that the occupied disarm while the occupying power remains armed to the teeth is not a path to peace. It is a demand for surrender. If the world wants to have a serious conversation about demilitarization, then the conversation must include everyone: Israel’s military, its nuclear arsenal, and the constant flow of U.S. weapons that fuels this violence.

Medea Benjamin

10,549 views • 1 month ago

A group of Israeli settlers attacked the village of Mu’khamas today, armed with sticks and Molotov cocktails to burn houses. Palestinian residents noticed the settlers coming and went out to confront them, standing in defense of their homes. Our defenseless people are forced to protect their homes from settler terrorism with their own bodies, while no one is there to protect them, and the useless Palestinian Authority is unable to do anything.
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A group of Israeli settlers attacked the village of Mu’khamas today, armed with sticks and Molotov cocktails to burn houses. Palestinian residents noticed the settlers coming and went out to confront them, standing in defense of their homes. Our defenseless people are forced to protect their homes from settler terrorism with their own bodies, while no one is there to protect them, and the useless Palestinian Authority is unable to do anything.

Ihab Hassan

24,533 views • 6 months ago

🇵🇸 🇺🇳 “What is the alternative? A one State reality where Palestinians are denied equal rights and forced to live under perpetual occupation and inequality or a one State reality where Palestinians are expelled from their land. That is not peace. That is not justice. That is not in accordance with international law. That will only increase the global isolation of Israel in the international stage. Statehood for the Palestinian people is a right. Not a reward.”
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🇵🇸 🇺🇳 “What is the alternative? A one State reality where Palestinians are denied equal rights and forced to live under perpetual occupation and inequality or a one State reality where Palestinians are expelled from their land. That is not peace. That is not justice. That is not in accordance with international law. That will only increase the global isolation of Israel in the international stage. Statehood for the Palestinian people is a right. Not a reward.”

State of Palestine

81,339 views • 1 year ago

🇺🇸🎙🇵🇸 Jackson Hinkle asks Hamas political bureau member Basem Naim if "October 7th" was a victory for the Palestinian people: "October 7th had made it clear that Palestinians can achieve their goals. Israel is defeatable. Palestinians can do it even alone. Maybe for some reasons, we can say that these very high prices are partially also not only because of the brutality of the Israelis, which is the case, and they have talked about this in many occasions. But it is also because of the complexity of a lot of countries, in particular in the West. And the top of this is the United States. And Palestinians, at the end, they are not asking more than their genuine rights, their rights according to international law, to have their own state, independent, self, sovereign state, to live in dignity and freedom. Therefore, again, it is when we understand this context, it is a victorious step."
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🇺🇸🎙🇵🇸 Jackson Hinkle asks Hamas political bureau member Basem Naim if "October 7th" was a victory for the Palestinian people: "October 7th had made it clear that Palestinians can achieve their goals. Israel is defeatable. Palestinians can do it even alone. Maybe for some reasons, we can say that these very high prices are partially also not only because of the brutality of the Israelis, which is the case, and they have talked about this in many occasions. But it is also because of the complexity of a lot of countries, in particular in the West. And the top of this is the United States. And Palestinians, at the end, they are not asking more than their genuine rights, their rights according to international law, to have their own state, independent, self, sovereign state, to live in dignity and freedom. Therefore, again, it is when we understand this context, it is a victorious step."

Tabz

28,046 views • 1 year ago

Israeli settler militias, operating under army cover, harass and intimidate Palestinian farmers harvesting olives on their own land in the village of Beita, north of the occupied West Bank, forcing them to abandon their fields. The olive harvest season is vital for the livelihoods of the majority of Palestinians living in the countryside, which is why settlers escalate their attacks during this period.
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Israeli settler militias, operating under army cover, harass and intimidate Palestinian farmers harvesting olives on their own land in the village of Beita, north of the occupied West Bank, forcing them to abandon their fields. The olive harvest season is vital for the livelihoods of the majority of Palestinians living in the countryside, which is why settlers escalate their attacks during this period.

Quds News Network

303,010 views • 11 months ago

Israelis are marching in Jerusalem tonight. Not Palestinians. Israelis. One protester: "Settlers attacked children and women in a Palestinian village. The IDF came and arrested the Palestinians that were attacked." "This is not democracy. This is not justice. This government is the root source of so many wrongs. We must make it stop." The opposition to Netanyahu isn't coming from outside Israel. It's coming from inside it. Never stop connecting the dots.
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Israelis are marching in Jerusalem tonight. Not Palestinians. Israelis. One protester: "Settlers attacked children and women in a Palestinian village. The IDF came and arrested the Palestinians that were attacked." "This is not democracy. This is not justice. This government is the root source of so many wrongs. We must make it stop." The opposition to Netanyahu isn't coming from outside Israel. It's coming from inside it. Never stop connecting the dots.

Brian Allen

189,323 views • 5 months ago

🇵🇸 🇲🇻 “We may be small but we have never ever failed to stand for what it is right. This is why we recognized the State of Palestine in 1988. The State of Palestine exists. The Palestinian flags flies outside this hall. Its sovereignty and its people must be not erased. Palestinians have the inalienable right to remain to return and to govern State of their own, freely and fully.”
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🇵🇸 🇲🇻 “We may be small but we have never ever failed to stand for what it is right. This is why we recognized the State of Palestine in 1988. The State of Palestine exists. The Palestinian flags flies outside this hall. Its sovereignty and its people must be not erased. Palestinians have the inalienable right to remain to return and to govern State of their own, freely and fully.”

State of Palestine

58,469 views • 1 year ago

Israel is not the state of the Jews. Jews stand with the Palestinian people. We pray for the Palestinian state to be freed from occupation. Now everyone needs to know that Zionists are not Jews and Israel does not speak on behalf of the Jews. Israel and the Zionists have adopted their own perverted ideology, Zionism, as their religion. Zionism struggles to destroy Palestinian and Jewish history.
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Israel is not the state of the Jews. Jews stand with the Palestinian people. We pray for the Palestinian state to be freed from occupation. Now everyone needs to know that Zionists are not Jews and Israel does not speak on behalf of the Jews. Israel and the Zionists have adopted their own perverted ideology, Zionism, as their religion. Zionism struggles to destroy Palestinian and Jewish history.

Voice of Rabbis

198,667 views • 2 years ago

🇵🇸🇲🇻 “Israel’s genocide and war crimes against Palestinians continue, and their actions are not confined to Gaza. Its military attacks across the region have violated the sovereignty of other states. No state should be shielded from accountability by its power or political alliances. But condemnation alone is not enough. Every member state must ask: what have we done to end this violence? The United Nations must ask itself the same question. The problem is not a lack of law. The rules are clear. What is absent is equal application. Humanitarian international law cannot bind the weak and bend for the powerful. The same rules, the same standards, no exceptions. Israel’s genocide in Gaza must end. Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine and other Arab lands must end. Illegal settlements must end. Humanitarian assistance must reach Palestinians safely, rapidly, and at scale. International courts and the resolution of this organization must be respected and implemented. For the Palestinian people, a sovereign future means freedom, dignity, self-determination, and the right to live securely in their own state. The Maldives will always stand with the Palestinian people and their undeniable right for their future. This is why I reiterate our call for the recognition of the independent and sovereign State of Palestine, based on the pre-1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital. And if this organization is to restore trust and delivery for all, Palestine must become a full member of the United Nations.”
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🇵🇸🇲🇻 “Israel’s genocide and war crimes against Palestinians continue, and their actions are not confined to Gaza. Its military attacks across the region have violated the sovereignty of other states. No state should be shielded from accountability by its power or political alliances. But condemnation alone is not enough. Every member state must ask: what have we done to end this violence? The United Nations must ask itself the same question. The problem is not a lack of law. The rules are clear. What is absent is equal application. Humanitarian international law cannot bind the weak and bend for the powerful. The same rules, the same standards, no exceptions. Israel’s genocide in Gaza must end. Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine and other Arab lands must end. Illegal settlements must end. Humanitarian assistance must reach Palestinians safely, rapidly, and at scale. International courts and the resolution of this organization must be respected and implemented. For the Palestinian people, a sovereign future means freedom, dignity, self-determination, and the right to live securely in their own state. The Maldives will always stand with the Palestinian people and their undeniable right for their future. This is why I reiterate our call for the recognition of the independent and sovereign State of Palestine, based on the pre-1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital. And if this organization is to restore trust and delivery for all, Palestine must become a full member of the United Nations.”

State of Palestine

67,602 views • 2 days ago

An Israeli settler armed with a club raided a Palestinian home in Al-Fakhit, draining their water tanks in the remote village of Masafer Yatta, in the southern occupied West Bank. The settler is backed by Israeli occupation forces. If called upon, the Palestinians are the ones likely to be blamed and arrested instead. Settlers enjoy complete immunity to harass and vandalize Palestinian property in the area, aiming to force them out and build settlements on their land.
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An Israeli settler armed with a club raided a Palestinian home in Al-Fakhit, draining their water tanks in the remote village of Masafer Yatta, in the southern occupied West Bank. The settler is backed by Israeli occupation forces. If called upon, the Palestinians are the ones likely to be blamed and arrested instead. Settlers enjoy complete immunity to harass and vandalize Palestinian property in the area, aiming to force them out and build settlements on their land.

Quds News Network

14,030 views • 6 months ago

🇮🇱 Israeli settlers armed with M16's and Glocks attack the IDF. The settlers stole Palestinian land and 500,000 shekels worth of livestock. The farmers notified the police and they agreed to send a group of Israeli soldiers, along with the Palestinians, to help them reclaim their farm. "Son of a bitch! No Arab enters here, ever! Over my dead body!" The soldiers ended up retreating and not doing anything. This is how Israeli settlers constantly steal more Palestinian land, and the IDF do nothing about it.
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🇮🇱 Israeli settlers armed with M16's and Glocks attack the IDF. The settlers stole Palestinian land and 500,000 shekels worth of livestock. The farmers notified the police and they agreed to send a group of Israeli soldiers, along with the Palestinians, to help them reclaim their farm. "Son of a bitch! No Arab enters here, ever! Over my dead body!" The soldiers ended up retreating and not doing anything. This is how Israeli settlers constantly steal more Palestinian land, and the IDF do nothing about it.

Censored Men

1,485,558 views • 2 years ago

"They think they're above the law. And nobody is going to stop them." Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have surged past 1,200 so far this year, at an average of six a day. Arson has become one of the most common tactics, with mosques, homes, and cars set on fire nearly daily. Drop Site's Maysa Mustafa spoke with Maisoon Ali in the village of Deir Dibwan, who has survived repeated settler attacks, including one where settlers tried to burn her home down while she and her husband were inside. Ali says she has no one to turn to. Not the Palestinian Authority, which has no jurisdiction in Area C, and not the Israeli military, which she says protects the settlers instead. Her only recourse is the country on her second passport, the U.S. — the same one whose weapons are being used against her. This week alone, at least 6 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank amid settler violence, 4 of them on Friday in a settler raid on the town of Tell near Nablus. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, that brings the toll since the start of the year to 86 Palestinians killed by Israelis across the West Bank, more than 20 of whom were shot by settlers.
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"They think they're above the law. And nobody is going to stop them." Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have surged past 1,200 so far this year, at an average of six a day. Arson has become one of the most common tactics, with mosques, homes, and cars set on fire nearly daily. Drop Site's Maysa Mustafa spoke with Maisoon Ali in the village of Deir Dibwan, who has survived repeated settler attacks, including one where settlers tried to burn her home down while she and her husband were inside. Ali says she has no one to turn to. Not the Palestinian Authority, which has no jurisdiction in Area C, and not the Israeli military, which she says protects the settlers instead. Her only recourse is the country on her second passport, the U.S. — the same one whose weapons are being used against her. This week alone, at least 6 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank amid settler violence, 4 of them on Friday in a settler raid on the town of Tell near Nablus. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, that brings the toll since the start of the year to 86 Palestinians killed by Israelis across the West Bank, more than 20 of whom were shot by settlers.

Drop Site

58,768 views • 2 months ago

Host: There are Palestinians, including from the Authority and Fatah, who say: what is the value of the resistance’s weapons, since they do not visibly protect the Palestinian people in Gaza? The killing continues, displacement continues. So what is the value of this weapon? Dr. Mohammad al-Hindi: Did the Authority’s weapon in the West Bank protect anyone? It does not protect you if you surrender. If you surrender, you are violated. That is the banner of surrender. All factions, including the Authority, are ready to look for solutions to this issue. We presented proposals to the mediators, and all mediators understood them and said these are good and excellent proposals. But handing over weapons does not solve the problem; it opens the door to complete violation in Gaza, even more than in the West Bank. The West Bank today is more exposed. Do you not see what is happening there? There is a Palestinian Authority, no resistance, security coordination with Israel. What does it do? Nothing. So the symbol of surrender is handing over weapons. If the collaborator militias that Israel arms are activated, would Gaza not be violated? It is already killing. You saw the images five days ago of what collaborators did to fighters who returned.
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Host: There are Palestinians, including from the Authority and Fatah, who say: what is the value of the resistance’s weapons, since they do not visibly protect the Palestinian people in Gaza? The killing continues, displacement continues. So what is the value of this weapon? Dr. Mohammad al-Hindi: Did the Authority’s weapon in the West Bank protect anyone? It does not protect you if you surrender. If you surrender, you are violated. That is the banner of surrender. All factions, including the Authority, are ready to look for solutions to this issue. We presented proposals to the mediators, and all mediators understood them and said these are good and excellent proposals. But handing over weapons does not solve the problem; it opens the door to complete violation in Gaza, even more than in the West Bank. The West Bank today is more exposed. Do you not see what is happening there? There is a Palestinian Authority, no resistance, security coordination with Israel. What does it do? Nothing. So the symbol of surrender is handing over weapons. If the collaborator militias that Israel arms are activated, would Gaza not be violated? It is already killing. You saw the images five days ago of what collaborators did to fighters who returned.

Drop Site

15,596 views • 7 months ago

Israel likes to claim that it has equal rights for its Palestinian citizens. But it does not. The neighborhood of Akbara, in Safed has suffered from extreme neglect from the municipality. Their children do not have a local school and are not provided transportation, as required by law to get to school. They are also not hooked up to the sewage system leading to contamination of its water sources, and they are repeatedly denied building permits on their own land and do not have sufficient health services. That is why, as they say in this video, the residents feel like "fifth class citizens."
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Israel likes to claim that it has equal rights for its Palestinian citizens. But it does not. The neighborhood of Akbara, in Safed has suffered from extreme neglect from the municipality. Their children do not have a local school and are not provided transportation, as required by law to get to school. They are also not hooked up to the sewage system leading to contamination of its water sources, and they are repeatedly denied building permits on their own land and do not have sufficient health services. That is why, as they say in this video, the residents feel like "fifth class citizens."

Shaiel Ben-Ephraim

15,510 views • 4 days ago

"Ongoing" - One of the phrases increasingly used next to the term "Nakba" is "Ongoing" as in the recent proposal by Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib. Now westerners assume that the "ongoing" seeks to highlight continued suffering of Palestinian Arabs, but as with so many other phrases that serve as "dual use language" (as Eran Shayshon coined) is that the deep meaning is very different. Once it is known and understood that the real time meaning of the Nakba, as described by Constantin Zureiq as "Seven Arab states declare war in an attempt to subdue Zionism, stop impotent before it, and return on their heels" was the shameful failure to defeat the lowly Jews in war - it becomes crystal clear why it remains "ongoing": As long as Israel exists, the Arab, and especially Palestinian Arab shameful failure to dismantle Jewish sovereignty and "subdue Zionism" remains "ongoing". As long as, per Bevin's quote, the top goal of the Palestine Arabs "to resist to the last the establishment of Jewish sovereignty in any part of the land" remains unfulfilled, their definition of disaster remains "ongoing". In the updated book of The War of Return, "October Return", Dr. Adi Schwartz and I included a dictionary of sort to explore this dual use language. I share it here with you: "This becomes especially clear when analyzing the language of Palestinian identity and that of its supporters around the world. Terms such as “two states,” “justice,” “return,” and “rights” carry one meaning in dialogue between Palestinians and Westerners or Israelis—but an entirely different meaning within internal Palestinian discourse. "Take “two states,” for example. During the years of negotiations, Palestinian leaders—and many surveys—expressed support for the “two-state solution.” Israelis and Westerners reasonably assumed that this meant one state for Palestinian Arabs and one for Jews. In retrospect, we should have checked. For when Palestinians speak of “two states,” they also maintain that millions of Palestinian “refugees” have a right to settle inside Israel. The implication is that the phrase “two states” actually means a Palestinian Arab state in the West Bank and Gaza, alongside a second Arab-majority state that replaces Israel via the mass return of refugees. In effect: “this one is ours, and that one is also ours.” "To this day, no official Palestinian peace plan includes the recognition of a Jewish state on any part of the land between the river and the sea. "It is also worth examining the meaning of a word like “justice”—so frequently invoked in phrases like “a just peace,” “a just solution,” or in the names of organizations such as “Students for Justice in Palestine.” To many in the world, “justice” may simply mean that Palestinians should have a state of their own, or that Israel should not control their daily lives. That is a reasonable interpretation. But it is not the Palestinian one. "For Palestinians, there is only one concept of justice: the reversal of the injustice they associate with the creation of the State of Israel. And central to that “corrective justice” is return—which, by definition, entails the end of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people. "The same applies to words like “rights,” “liberation,” and, of course, “return.” As will become clear in the pages ahead, there is no ambiguity: “return” is the concept that embodies victory over the Jewish state and its elimination. "That is why the butcherty of October 7 was greeted with euphoria."
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"Ongoing" - One of the phrases increasingly used next to the term "Nakba" is "Ongoing" as in the recent proposal by Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib. Now westerners assume that the "ongoing" seeks to highlight continued suffering of Palestinian Arabs, but as with so many other phrases that serve as "dual use language" (as Eran Shayshon coined) is that the deep meaning is very different. Once it is known and understood that the real time meaning of the Nakba, as described by Constantin Zureiq as "Seven Arab states declare war in an attempt to subdue Zionism, stop impotent before it, and return on their heels" was the shameful failure to defeat the lowly Jews in war - it becomes crystal clear why it remains "ongoing": As long as Israel exists, the Arab, and especially Palestinian Arab shameful failure to dismantle Jewish sovereignty and "subdue Zionism" remains "ongoing". As long as, per Bevin's quote, the top goal of the Palestine Arabs "to resist to the last the establishment of Jewish sovereignty in any part of the land" remains unfulfilled, their definition of disaster remains "ongoing". In the updated book of The War of Return, "October Return", Dr. Adi Schwartz and I included a dictionary of sort to explore this dual use language. I share it here with you: "This becomes especially clear when analyzing the language of Palestinian identity and that of its supporters around the world. Terms such as “two states,” “justice,” “return,” and “rights” carry one meaning in dialogue between Palestinians and Westerners or Israelis—but an entirely different meaning within internal Palestinian discourse. "Take “two states,” for example. During the years of negotiations, Palestinian leaders—and many surveys—expressed support for the “two-state solution.” Israelis and Westerners reasonably assumed that this meant one state for Palestinian Arabs and one for Jews. In retrospect, we should have checked. For when Palestinians speak of “two states,” they also maintain that millions of Palestinian “refugees” have a right to settle inside Israel. The implication is that the phrase “two states” actually means a Palestinian Arab state in the West Bank and Gaza, alongside a second Arab-majority state that replaces Israel via the mass return of refugees. In effect: “this one is ours, and that one is also ours.” "To this day, no official Palestinian peace plan includes the recognition of a Jewish state on any part of the land between the river and the sea. "It is also worth examining the meaning of a word like “justice”—so frequently invoked in phrases like “a just peace,” “a just solution,” or in the names of organizations such as “Students for Justice in Palestine.” To many in the world, “justice” may simply mean that Palestinians should have a state of their own, or that Israel should not control their daily lives. That is a reasonable interpretation. But it is not the Palestinian one. "For Palestinians, there is only one concept of justice: the reversal of the injustice they associate with the creation of the State of Israel. And central to that “corrective justice” is return—which, by definition, entails the end of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people. "The same applies to words like “rights,” “liberation,” and, of course, “return.” As will become clear in the pages ahead, there is no ambiguity: “return” is the concept that embodies victory over the Jewish state and its elimination. "That is why the butcherty of October 7 was greeted with euphoria."

ד״ר עינת וילף Dr. Einat Wilf

83,590 views • 4 months ago

Oh, so now the country that helped to create you is now treated as your enemy? How poetic. The UK government officially concluded that Israel’s continued occupation of Palestinian territory is unlawful. It also announced plans to ban imports from illegal Israeli settlements, prohibit the promotion of property in those settlements, expand sanctions against individuals and companies that facilitate or profit from settlement activity, and sanction additional extremist settlers accused of supporting or inciting violence against Palestinians. Britain also said it will refuse licences for exports that materially contribute to the occupation. This is not merely a statement of concern. It is a recognition that occupation, settlement expansion and violence against Palestinians must have consequences. For decades, Palestinians have been asking the international community for something very simple: apply international law equally. Today’s decision does not undo the suffering, restore stolen land, or bring back the lives that have been lost. But accountability has to begin somewhere. And when governments finally move from words to action, it matters. Palestinians do not need exceptions to international law. We need international law to apply to us too. May this be one step toward justice, accountability, and a free Palestine. 🇵🇸
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Oh, so now the country that helped to create you is now treated as your enemy? How poetic. The UK government officially concluded that Israel’s continued occupation of Palestinian territory is unlawful. It also announced plans to ban imports from illegal Israeli settlements, prohibit the promotion of property in those settlements, expand sanctions against individuals and companies that facilitate or profit from settlement activity, and sanction additional extremist settlers accused of supporting or inciting violence against Palestinians. Britain also said it will refuse licences for exports that materially contribute to the occupation. This is not merely a statement of concern. It is a recognition that occupation, settlement expansion and violence against Palestinians must have consequences. For decades, Palestinians have been asking the international community for something very simple: apply international law equally. Today’s decision does not undo the suffering, restore stolen land, or bring back the lives that have been lost. But accountability has to begin somewhere. And when governments finally move from words to action, it matters. Palestinians do not need exceptions to international law. We need international law to apply to us too. May this be one step toward justice, accountability, and a free Palestine. 🇵🇸

MoTaz

30,169 views • 19 days ago