Policy: Genocide apologists / deniers / supporters get blocked.
Awaiting them is Hell, and they will be left to drink oozing pus, which they will sip with difficulty, and can hardly swallow. Death will overwhelm them from every side, yet they will not die. Awaiting them still is harsher torment.
-- Surah Ibrahim 14:16-17
Die Hasbara-Accounts drehen völlig durch:
"Queers for Israel" be like "Chicken for KFC" https://x.com/jasonhickel/status/1829540845072318873
That's what the Germans said when they supported the Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe in colonizing Palestine and genocided the semitic Jews from the Middle East.
That's why it is called Antisemitism and not Antijudaism.
Birds of a feather flock together.
How to justify a genocide, German edition:
Because Palestinians are mostly Muslims, they are responsible for every wrongdoing of every Muslim in Germany.
This collectivization of individual guilt is precisely the mechanism the Nazis used 80 years ago.
Even the sun is antisemitic and wants to kill them 🤡
#SkinCancer #Israel #GodsChosenVictims
https://www.haaretz.com/2003-05-13/ty-article/israels-skin-cancer-rate-second-highest-in-the-world/0000017f-f11e-d8a1-a5ff-f19e2e900000 https://t.co/0iYVv4aGmL
Josep Borell Fontanell is now asking to sanction Israel.
Sometimes someone is listening to me...
https://x.com/R34lB0rg/status/1713594323973869636
McDonalds hat schon sehr spezielle Kunden...
A story that ran in recent days about a Nova survivor who saw horrors and committed suicide, did not leave a single dry eye. After trying to reach the family, to tell their story - the search turned into an investigation. We will reveal tonight in the tube that it is a complete fake. It is not clear what brings people to invent like this - but to cheapen the real plight of survivors, and to play with the souls of others - is simply disgusting
The world thinks that Gaza is occupied by Israel.
The truth is, that the whole world is occupied by Israel except Gaza.
The savage Occupiers targeted a vehicle clearly identified as "UN World Food Programme".
Their objective: Making sure that the Palestinians do not get food.
The leaders of the free world: *silence* https://x.com/WFP_Media/status/1828863597746721088
If the Israelis were indeed Jews, they would have read the Torah.
If they had read the Torah, they would not have provoked the prophecy of Isaiah 14. https://x.com/R34lB0rg/status/1824263844740411762
"There were arrests and attacks; if I responded with a word they didn't like, they hit me. They hit me with an M16 on my head and started throwing water at us." - Mohammed Musa, a young man released from the field investigation center in Nour Shams camp east of Tulkarm, speaking about the harshness and atmosphere of the investigation.
The name Jacarutu is a synonym for evil. The Iduali tribe came from there. They were water stealers. The most heinous criminals under Fremen law. The first and greatest sin. But the Fremen tribes banded together to declare war on the Jacarutu. The Iduali were slaughtered. Their water spread upon the sands. Jacarutu Sietch was declared taboo. No Fremen was allowed to look for it.
-- Gurney Halleck, Children of Dune
How much does a Genocide cost?
How much does it cost to silence the US while killing 200,000 people and starving 2,000,000? https://x.com/Sludge/status/1828568383299715187
It didn't start on Oct 7, 2023, episode #62543:
The Nazis also burned their victims but at least the did not burn them alive. https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/1827509589476000133
The name Jacarutu is a synonym for evil. The Iduali tribe came from there. They were water stealers. The most heinous criminals under Fremen law. The first and greatest sin. But the Fremen tribes banded together to declare war on the Jacarutu. The Edwali were slaughtered. Their water spread upon the sands. Jacarutu Sietch was declared taboo. No Fremen was allowed to look for it.
-- Gurney Halleck, Children of Dune
Foreign Affairs and Expatriates // Urgent moves with various international parties to pressure towards stopping the occupation's aggression and crimes The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has been in contact since the early morning hours with various international institutions to stand by their commitments towards the ongoing occupation aggression in Gaza and in the governorates and camps of the northern West Bank. The Ministry instructed all ambassadors, embassies and missions of the State of Palestine to intensify efforts to expose the occupation’s violations to foreign ministries, decision-making centres and public opinion in host countries and various international organisations, with the aim of mobilising the broadest international pressure to stop aggression, genocide and displacement. The Ministry calls on the international community to intervene immediately and effectively to force the Israeli government to stop its aggression. It also calls on the International Red Cross and the relevant UN institutions and councils to assume their responsibility and play their role in protecting our people and their civilian life. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemns in the strongest terms the violations and crimes committed by the occupation against our people, especially the ongoing war of genocide in the Gaza Strip and the targeting of the northern West Bank, which results in more martyrs and wounded, in addition to the widespread destruction and sabotage of infrastructure and property. The Ministry views this escalation with great concern and considers it an extension of the war of extermination and displacement and a blow to the foundations of the steadfastness of the Palestinian citizen in his homeland, especially with regard to targeting the infrastructure and foundations of Palestinian life. The Ministry affirms that the siege of hospitals, the imposition of forced displacement and the evacuation of citizens from their homes are a flagrant violation of international law and international humanitarian law and a war crime.
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#TwitterIsBroken
"Wir dachten das wäre nur ein Film"
ist das neue
"Wir haben von nichts gewusst".
#Deutschland #Braunland
Fake News about 40 decapitated babies were all over the front pages.
Real decapitated children by the abomination known as Israel don't make it into the mainstream media. https://x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1828443070460801489
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"The most moral army in the world"
"God's chosen people"
"Western values" https://x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1828409130727448814
It didn't start on Oct 7, 2023, episode #83523: https://x.com/abierkhatib/status/1828377463644201247
"The most moral army in the world"
"God's chosen people" https://x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1828434519373791643
For those who don't want to believe that Nazis and Zionists were "friends":
Why do you think Adolf Eichmann tried to hide in Israel after the war?
Of course that friendship was not mutual and they hanged him as he was no longer useful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann
How to survive a nuclear blast:
If you see a bright flash in the sky, do not stare at it, seek shelter in a trench or behind a wall. If that is not available, get on the ground and cover yourself with a coat or a thick blanket you can throw off when it catches fire. Keep your mouth open and do not halt your breath.
This will protect you from going blind and suffering severe burns from the thermal radiation and lung rupture from the blast wave.
Do not attempt approach the area below the epicenter. Cover your skin, your mouth and your nose to protect from the fallout and try to get away. Preferably in the direction the wind is coming from but do not approach the epicenter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60
How about a new edition of the Jewish bible highlighting racist and misogynic passages? https://x.com/jorymicah/status/1828113692447097319
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
Article 7 - Crimes against humanity
(b) “Extermination” includes the intentional infliction of conditions of life, inter alia the deprivation of access to food and medicine, calculated to bring about the destruction of part of a population;
Israel has murdered 32 - 155 civilians for every Israeli killed on Oct 7th.
The Nazis used to murder 10 - 100 civilians for every soldier killed by the resistance.
#DisproportionateReprisal https://x.com/R34lB0rg/status/1823917408303899056
Good news for our friends in Palestine:
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Channel 12:
Egypt informed Israel that it will only coordinate with the Palestinian side regarding the Rafah crossing.
It demands Israel's withdrawal from the crossing in the first stage. https://x.com/Afcq1954/status/1827952065852616773
If the creator of Telegram, Pavel Durov, is being held responsible for what people have been using his platform for, then I want to know... https://x.com/R34lB0rg/status/1827893214340153827
If someone has this data or can tell me where to find it, I would be more than happy to forward the evidence to the International Criminal Court. https://x.com/R34lB0rg/status/1827929248855634087
Now we know why Pavel Durov has been arrested in France...
They say that #Harris would be worse for #Gaza than #Trump.
May be so, but one thing I have learned in the last years: Who is doing it is more important than what he is doing.
#Trump may end up wanting to send more money and weapons to Israel than his predecessor but being unable to do so due to a strong national and international opposition.
#Gaza in Numbers:
2 Mio. People
365 km2
80,000,000 kg Explosives
219,178 kg Explosives per km2
40kg Explosives per Person https://x.com/R34lB0rg/status/1717272882424799541
Humanity has forfeit any right to call itself a civilization.
@WHO @DrTedros @CIJ_ICJ @IntlCrimCourt @UN @antonioguterres @FranceskAlbs https://x.com/alitawil92/status/1827747724621410362
Do you remember Dr. Youssef?
That Moroccan pediatric surgeon professor that I mentioned before, the consultant professor, who cheated a lot in order to enter Gaza, and did not miss a previous aggression without entering it with the medical delegations, until he finally succeeded this time in entering Gaza in the eighth month of the aggression.
He did not stop at that, but cheated to reach the north in light of the targeting of everyone who crossed, until he arrived, and he did not stop at that, but worked day and night with the medical delegation, performing more than a hundred difficult surgeries in one month, and then he did not stop at that, so the time came for the delegation to leave and he completed his coordinated mission, so he did not leave with them, and remained carrying his soul in his palms.
Then he did not stop at that, so he stayed since that day in Kamal Adwan Hospital to be almost the only pediatric surgeon in the besieged northern Gaza, leaving his home, wife and children, who are in great distress from worrying about him, and he is in great virtue of steadfastness in what he is, and he did what he had to do, but "he did not stop at that."
His cheerful spirit, his great humility, his tender fatherhood and his high angelic nature made him adopt charity as a way of life. He was first a pediatric surgeon, then a balm on the surgical thread and the place of pain, but he was not satisfied with that!
This picture is of Dr. Youssef. What does he do? Signs of gray hair appeared more on him, and the features of Gaza invaded him, as if they had increased his age in the eternal days of the Strip, as if every hour in it was the whole of eternity. Dr. Youssef gathers a group of children from the hospital, displaced and wounded, and teaches them the Holy Quran, in his rare hours of rest. Imagine the working hours of the only surgeon in the northern Gaza Strip, which has about fifty thousand martyrs and one hundred thousand wounded in one year!
But he was not satisfied with that! May Allah raise him in Paradise degrees until he says, "My Lord, I am satisfied," but Allah.. Glory be to Him.. is not satisfied with that!
Life is energy. There is an electric potential in every nerve and every muscle cell. Remove it and you have a dead body.
Life is resistance not obedience.
Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream -- W.C.Fields
From today, I stop using the term "Israel" and will instead refer to that country as the "Occupied State of Palestine".
He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named
I will never forget that.
I will never forgive that.
Fuck Israel for all eternity. https://x.com/Afcq1954/status/1827584390408319028
Unfortunately I am somehow stuck in a AshkeNAZI universe where gang-r@pe, torture, bombing schools, universities and hospitals, killing civilians, medical staff and aid workers is being whitewashed as self-defense.
Can you please stop the planet for a moment, I want to get off. The cold vacuum of space is a less hostile environment than this society.
It didn't start on Oct 7, 2023, episode #83564: https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/1827514362745036816
It didn't start on Oct 7, 2023, episode #84478: https://x.com/stairwayto3dom/status/1827206702053404997
Inshallah https://x.com/Ns7Nspr27/status/1827244307205570629
Dear @DrJillStein,
you may want to ask the Pentagon three questions:
Has Israel received tactical nuclear weapons?
What yield do they have?
Which safeguards against unauthorized use and tampering? https://x.com/R34lB0rg/status/1827206234660815133
I am very worried for the people in Gaza.
The "safe zone" has become so small that they may want to "finish the job" by intense bombing or even by using a small tactical nuke.
I don't know what to do but I want to leave this warning before it is too late.
So far they did not have the conventional fire power and nuking all of Gaza would also expose them to dangerous levels of radiation but with the latest delivery of bombs from the US and all the people concentrated in a small area away from the border, both options have become feasible.
As for the prime minister and the minister of defense, they both already face the death penalty if tried in their home country or lifelong imprisonment if tried at the Hague. They have nothing to loose.
Genocide has Consequences https://x.com/SprayPropaganda/status/1826669688249622674
IDF Terrorists enjoying themselves by killing chickens.
Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.
-- Samuel 15:3 https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1826674692956299303
Can someone (in Gaza) please confirm or refute this?
Hostage Situation - World Records:
Longest Duration: 444 days
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Nov 4, 1979 - Jan 20, 1981
Largest Number: ~2 Mio. people
Israel, May 7, 2024 - ongoing
Deadliest: ~ 40,000 people killed
Israel, May 7 2024 - ongoing https://x.com/R34lB0rg/status/1826429862963302828
Maybe she meant to say "Palestinians have the right to self termination". If she could convince them to kill themselves, that would save the US taxpayers a lot of money for supplying the bombs to kill them. https://t.co/XTR7WlsJn4
The Zio-Terrorist have a long history of murdering innocent children. It didn't start on Oct 7.
"2022, was the deadliest year for Palestinian children in the West Bank in 15 years, and 2023 is on track to meet or exceed 2022 levels. Israeli forces had killed at least 34 Palestinian children in the West Bank as of August 22."
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/28/west-bank-spike-israeli-killings-palestinian-children
Warning: Graphic content! https://x.com/MannieMighty1/status/1826679535859105811
Good riddance! https://x.com/haaretzcom/status/1826631663117631927
If Israel insists on committing genocide and killing children, we have to expose the entire criminal history of these savages: https://x.com/stairwayto3dom/status/1826737512142045533
It didn't start on Oct 7, 2023, episode #72534:
There have been many ceasefires in Palestine but the Zionist cheats never kept their end of the bargain.
"Last year, 2022, was the deadliest year for Palestinian children in the West Bank in 15 years, and 2023 is on track to meet or exceed 2022 levels."
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/28/west-bank-spike-israeli-killings-palestinian-children
Hallo @listegaza,
ich habe hier auch eine "Liste Gaza":
https://x.com/i/lists/1824165745116451204
Whatever problems you have, just be glad you have not been born in Palestine. Because if you were, you would have
❌No home - all buildings have been bombed to rubble
❌No food, no water, no medicine
❌No way out
❌Bombs being dropped on you every day
Western media only cares about the ~120 Israeli hostages.
They don't care that after Israel has taken control of the only way out of Gaza, the Rafah crossing into Egypt, they have effectively taken all 2 Mio. people in Gaza hostage and they are executing them by the dozens.
Sad to say but International Law is void where "god's chosen people" slaughter. Impunity sponsored by US, UK and Germany. https://x.com/UNGeneva/status/1826091901717528676
Any other country would have been bombed back to the dinner age for attacking a US ship. But not "god's chosen people". https://x.com/Al_Aqsa_1948/status/1825936346969460800
For comparison:
The (infection) fatality rate of COVID19 was about 0.2%.
The fatality rate of Israel is about 2% by direct hit and estimated at about 10% including people buried under the rubble, malnutrition (starvation, dehydration), and inadequate medical care.
Evidence of genocidal intent, exhibit #73546:
@IntlCrimCourt @KarimKhanQC @CIJ_ICJ @archivegenocide
Der längste und am besten dokumentierte Völkermord der Geschichte ist zugleich auch der am meisten verleugnete. https://x.com/TameeOliveFern/status/1825418325335130415
Nothing to see here. Just an average Zionist using lies and deception to vilify Muslims.
Please help @Iran_GOV @khamenei_ir @KremlinRussia_E https://x.com/Abdullah_Om3r03/status/1825232669652946983
Was ich für die Palästinenser gerne tun würde / könnte?
Das hier:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03QACGzOOUk
Erst hat es geheissen, Russland hätte deutsche Infrastruktur angegriffen. Nachdem die Lüge aufgeflogen ist, heisst es nun, die #NordStream hätte dem russischen Staat gehört.
Fakt: Nordstream gehört zu 50,02% der russischen Gazprom, die restlichen 49,8% gehören Wintershall, E.ON, Gasunie und ENGIE.
Im Vergleich zur Lügenpropaganda der deutschen Regierungsmedien war ja sogar die Prawda seriöser Qualitätsjournalismus.
Fakt: Nordstream gehört zu 50,02% der russischen Gazprom, die restlichen 49,8% gehören Wintershall, E.ON, Gasunie und ENGIE. https://x.com/henselmann_/status/1824453201497620637
Please donate to @UNRWA and support the people in #Gaza !
Gilt das auch für die Menschen in Palästina?
Oder zählen die nicht als Menschen? https://x.com/UNGeneva/status/1824680065323425938
Short summary of the decision made by the International Court of Justice on June 19, 2024:
1.) Israel's presence in the occupied territories of Palestine is illegal
2.) Israel is obliged to leave the occupied territories immediately
3.) Israel is obliged to evacuate its settlements in the occupied territories
4.) Israel is obliged to pay compensation
5.) All states are obliged to refrain from supporting Israel in maintaining its occupation
6.) International organizations are obliged not to recognize Israel's occupation of these territories
7.) The UN General Assembly is called upon to adopt measures to end the occupation of these territories immediately
https://icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/186/186-20240719-pre-01-00-en.pdf
Dear Palestinians and Supporters,
@DrJillStein becoming POTUS is probably our best hope for ending the ongoing genocide and avoiding a larger war in the middle east which could easily escalate into World War 3.
May all beings be happy, healthy and whole. May they have love, warmth and affection. May they be protected from harm, and free from fear. May they be alive, engaged and joyful.
Dear Palestinians and Supporters,
@DrJillStein becoming POTUS is probably our best hope for ending the ongoing genocide and avoiding a larger war in the middle east which could easily escalate into World War 3.
May all beings be happy, healthy and whole. May they have love, warmth and affection. May they be protected from harm, and free from fear. May they be alive, engaged and joyful.
It didn't start on Oct 7, 2023
#NeverForget #NeverForgive
Kennt ihr das Spiel "Reise nach Jerusalem"?
Man fängt mit sovielen Sesseln an wie es Mitspieler gibt und nimmt in jeder Runde einen Weg. Wer keinen Platz findet wenn die Musik ausgeht, scheidet aus.
Israel macht mit den Menschen in Gaza gerade etwas ähnliches: Jeden Tag wird die "humanitäre Zone" verkleinert und wer keinen Platz findet wird totgebombt.
#GenocideIsNotAGame #BoycottIsrael #DefundIsrael #DisarmIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine
#ReleaseTheHostages
#BringThemHome https://x.com/Kahlissee/status/1824407506317164698
November 24, 1998, Yasser Arafat International Airport was opened in Gaza.
December 4, 2021, Israel bombed the control tower and radar station.
December 10, 2021, Israel destroyed the runway with bulldozers. https://x.com/vampl0vrrr/status/1824223715829088741
If the Zionists had read their bible they would not have started this genocide because they would know how it is going to end. https://x.com/R34lB0rg/status/1816281911867891800
Enough already for the laundry of words! These are pogroms perpetrated by damned Judeo-Nazis who are no different from their spiritual parents somewhere in 1930s Germany. With the encouragement of the Kahanaite government of atrocities, they murdered 23-year-old Rashid Abdel-Kader Sadi this evening, injured more Palestinians, burned houses and cars in the village of Jit near Nablus. This is just one crime in the long chain of scum crimes from the hills, with the occupying forces standing by, if not aiding them. About a year and a half have passed since I first contacted the Minister of Defense and the Minister of Defense to the government regarding the daily terror of the settlers, and to this day I have not received a substantive answer. It will not end until the nests of terror are dismantled and the occupation ends!
The scene is tragic in Jabalia camp after the Israeli occupation committed a massacre against innocent citizens. Under this roof, a number of citizens are still trapped, and despite the limited resources, ambulance and emergency crews continue to work with limited capabilities and primitive equipment, which hinders the recovery of the bodies of the martyrs and the rescue of the injured.
Der Skandal ist eigentlich, das uns die Regierenden für Vollidioten halten. https://x.com/R34lB0rg/status/1607653745487134720
Die Wahrheit ist ein Kind der Zeit.
#NordStream #NorthStream https://x.com/R34lB0rg/status/1607653745487134720
Please help Fadi if you can... https://x.com/Fadi1495761/status/1822603440008163619
What connects me with the Palestinians?
This:
Gaza: Im größten und beschämendsten Konzentrationslager des 21. Jahrhunderts verübt Israel einen Völkermord an den Palästinensern, ein Viertel nach dem anderen, ein Krankenhaus nach dem anderen, eine Schule nach dem anderen, ein Flüchtlingslager nach dem anderen, eine „Sicherheitszone“ nach dem anderen. Mit amerikanischen und europäischen Waffen. Und inmitten der Gleichgültigkeit aller „zivilisierten Nationen“.
Mögen die Palästinenser uns unsere kollektive Unfähigkeit, sie zu schützen, verzeihen und die grundlegendste Bedeutung des Völkerrechts respektieren.
Hallo @Liste_Petrovic,
nach Corona wollte ich eigentlich euch wählen, aber im Vergleich zu dem, was die Menschen in Gaza seit zehn Monaten durchmachen, waren die Corona-Maßnahmen ein Spaziergang im Park.
Könnt ihr versprechen, dass ihr euch mit allen zur Verfügung stehenden Mitteln (Wirtschafts-Sanktionen, diplomatische Beziehungen,...) dafür einsetzt, dass
1.) der Völkermord ein Ende hat?
2.) die Menschen in Palästina in Freiheit und Sicherheit leben können?
3.) Israel seine illegalen Siedlungsaktivitäten einstellt, die illegalen Siedlungen räumt und Reparationszahlungen leistet?
4.) die Menschen in Gaza nicht auf dem Altar einer etwaigen Koalition / Regierungsbeteiligung opfert?
Ich weiss, in Deutschland und Österreich spricht man nicht gerne über die Nazi-Vergangenheit.
Ist aber leider notwendig.
Es wird Zeit sich der Verantwortung gegenüber den Menschen in Palästina zu stellen.
https://x.com/R34lB0rg/status/1823745309962366997
Etnische Säuberung: 1969 hat Israel den Palästinensern angeboten, ihnen 100 USD zu bezahlen, wenn sie nach Paraguay auswandern. Die dortige Regierung sollte pro aufgenommenem Palästinenser jährlich 33 USD erhalten. https://x.com/R34lB0rg/status/1823742855124275231
"Lernen S‘ Geschichte, Herr Reporter!"
-- Bruno Kreisky https://x.com/R34lB0rg/status/1823745309962366997
Es ist anzumerken, dass die Nazis die Schaffung eines ethnisch-suprematistischen jüdischen Staates auf dem Gebiet des britischen Mandatsgebiets Palästina unterstützten. Obwohl Juden als Semiten betrachtet wurden und am unteren Ende der Rassenideologie der Nazis standen, wurden sie dennoch als den Arabern vorzuziehend angesehen.
It should be noted that the Nazis supported the creation of an ethno-supremacist Jewish state on the territory of British mandated Palestine. Although Jews have been considered as Semites and were at the bottom of Nazi racial ideology, they were still seen as favorable over Arabs.
Was mich mit den Palästinensern verbindet?
Das hier:
You can be either pro-Life or you can be pro-Israel. Both positions are mutually exclusive.
You can either be a climate activist or support Israel. These options are mutually exclusive.
What is the ICD code for this?
The question of by which right Israel claims Palestine or parts thereof involves multiple layers of historical, legal, and political arguments:
Historical and Religious Claims:
Biblical Promise: A significant part of the Israeli claim rests on the belief in a divine promise to the Jewish people, as outlined in the Hebrew Bible, where God promised the land of Canaan (including what is now Israel and Palestine) to Abraham and his descendants.
Historical Settlement: There's an argument based on Jewish presence in the region since ancient times, with periods of sovereignty, particularly during the First and Second Temple periods.
Legal and International Frameworks:
Balfour Declaration (1917): The British government, during its control of Palestine under the Mandate, issued this declaration favoring the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, which set a precedent recognized by international powers at the time.
League of Nations Mandate: After World War I, the League of Nations granted Britain the mandate to facilitate the creation of a Jewish national home in Palestine, which further solidified legal claims in international law.
UN Partition Plan (1947): UN Resolution 181 proposed partitioning Palestine into an Arab state and a Jewish state, with Jerusalem as a separate entity under international control. While not legally binding, it provided a framework for statehood recognized by some international entities.
Post-1948 Developments: After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, armistice agreements left Israel in control of areas beyond what was proposed in the partition plan, which it considers part of its territory by right of conquest and subsequent armistice agreements.
Security and Strategic Claims:
Wars and Territorial Gains: Israel's claims also stem from territories gained in defensive wars, notably the Six-Day War in 1967, where it captured the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai Peninsula, and Golan Heights. While the international community largely considers the West Bank and Gaza as occupied territories, Israel argues for security needs and historical rights.
Settlement Activities:
Israel has established settlements in the West Bank, which it justifies partly by historical claims to the land and security needs, although these are widely considered illegal by international law outside of Israel's pre-1967 borders.
Public Sentiment and Political Narratives:
There's a narrative among many Israelis that sees the land as an integral part of their national identity, not just legally but culturally and historically, which influences public and political support for various territorial claims.
The Palestinian perspective, conversely, sees these actions as colonial and illegal,
Determining the exact percentage of the Israeli population with ancestral roots in Europe involves looking at historical immigration patterns, demographic studies, and considering the Jewish diaspora's complex history. Here's an overview:
Historical Context:
The Yishuv and Early Aliyot: Before the establishment of Israel in 1948, many Jews from Europe immigrated during various "aliyot" (immigration waves), especially from Eastern Europe (Ashkenazi Jews) but also from Western Europe.
Post-WWII and the Holocaust: The aftermath of World War II saw a significant influx of Holocaust survivors from Europe.
The Soviet Aliyah: In the 1970s through the 1990s, a large number of Jews from the former Soviet Union, many of whom were Ashkenazi with roots in Eastern Europe, immigrated to Israel.
Demographic Breakdown:
Ashkenazi Jews: Ashkenazi Jews, predominantly from Europe, form a significant portion of Israel's Jewish population. Traditionally, Ashkenazim have been a major demographic group in Israel.
Estimates: According to various demographic studies:
Rough Estimates: It's estimated that around 30% to 40% of Israel's Jewish population might have direct or recent ancestral roots in Europe, considering both Ashkenazi Jews and those from Western Europe. However, this figure might include descendants from multiple generations back, not just direct immigration.
Post-Soviet Immigrants: The immigration from the former Soviet Union adds complexity because many of these Jews were from regions that were part of the Russian Empire or Soviet Union, which included Eastern European territories. Some studies suggest that this group might constitute around 15-20% of the Jewish population in Israel.
Current Demographics:
With a Jewish population in Israel of approximately 6.8 million, if we consider that a significant but not majority portion of these have European roots:
Combining all European ancestries, including Eastern European Ashkenazim, Western European Jews, and those from the Soviet Union, a rough estimate might suggest that up to 40-50% of Israeli Jews could claim some form of European ancestry. However, this is a broad estimate considering the historical migrations and mixed heritage.
Caveats:
Mixed Heritage: Many Israelis have mixed ancestry, which complicates tracing to a single geographical origin.
Generational Distance: The further back you go, the more mixed the heritage becomes, making precise percentages difficult to calculate.
In summary, while exact figures are elusive due to the complexity of Jewish diaspora history and the nature of demographic studies, it's plausible that a significant portion, potentially up to 40-50% of Israel's Jewish population, could trace some of their ancestry back to Europe, especially when considering both Ashkenazi Jews and those from the post-Soviet states. However, these numbers are speculative and subject to various interpretations and definitions of what constitutes "ancestral roots."