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I have this fear that Palestine is going to become another "lost" civilization.
Israel is erasing them. Wiping them off the face of the earth. Not only are they killing thousands of them, they are destroying their towns, landmarks, buildings, fucking olive trees.
Israel is erasing Palestine. And in the future, people are going to forget they existed.
No.
I want to remember.
I want all of us to remember. Please. Don't lose hope. Don't forget about them.
Gerald Kaufman (1930-2017🙏🏼🌹🕊️), British MP, speaking from the rostrum of Parliament in 2009.
Gerald Kaufman was the son of Polish Jewish immigrants. Born in the UK, Kaufman was one of the country's most famous Jewish politicians. He was also a fervent critic of Israel, calling for sanctions against the Jewish state for its policies towards the Palestinians, and comparing Israeli soldiers to Nazis.
For years, Kaufman has been one of Britain's most outspoken critics of Israel.
In April 2002, at the start of Israel's Operation Rampart to halt the wave of suicide bombings in the country's cities, Kaufman declared Israel an "international pariah" and accused then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of ordering "his troops to use barbaric methods against the Palestinians", according to the BBC.
Kaufman, who was Foreign Secretary between 1987 and 1992, told the House of Commons in 2002 that it was "time to remind Sharon that the Star of David belongs to all Jews and not to his repulsive government. His actions sully the Star of David with blood."
In 2004, in an editorial published in the Guardian, he called for economic sanctions against Israel similar to those used against South Africa.
In 2009, during the war between Israel and Hamas, Operation Cast Lead, he accused Israel of exploiting Holocaust guilt to justify its actions in the Gaza Strip.
"The current Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploits the guilt of gentiles [non-Jews] after the murder of Jews during the Holocaust as justification for its murders of Palestinians," Kaufman had declared before Parliament.
Speaking of his personal history as the son of Jewish refugees from Poland, he had said that "my grandmother was in bed, sick, when the Nazis came to her town. A German soldier shot her in her bed. My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza."
Kaufman had compared Hamas fighters to Jewish resistance fighters in the Second World War, claiming that "Israeli army spokesman Major Leibovich was asked about Israeli murders of, at the time, 800 Palestinians. The total is now 1,000. She replied instantly that '500 of them were militants'. That's the response of a Nazi. I suppose the Jews fighting for their lives in the Warsaw ghetto could have been considered militants."
His opposition to Israel has persisted with age. In 2012, he had written an editorial published by the Huffington Post claiming that Israel was a "rogue state", and that the fact that Israel is a democracy "means that the Israeli electorate is complicit in its government's war crimes."
In 2015, he had told the Palestine Return Centre, a Hamas-affiliated association, that "Jewish money" was the reason why British Conservatives were pro-Israel.
An innocent Palestinian was shot to death by a settler while others were filming & mocking him. How could a "human" do such atrocity? Such a horrible, inhumane, injust act wouldn't lead to a reaction similar to Al-Aqsa Flood?
Political anger is knowing that Isr*el signed this ceasefire agreement that was initially established and negotiated upon in DECEMBER 2023.
13 additional months of killing innocent families and STILL the freedom fighters are present and well.
western imperialists are going directly to hell and they know it.
BREAKING:
"Israeli" occupation forces are storming the suburbs of Jenin, Qalqilya, Hebron, and the villages of Beita, south of Nablus, and Bidya, west of Salfit.
(via. savesheikhjarrah92)
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