Mohammed El-Kurd
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first heard Jul 2023
last heard 24 May
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And to make this even more absurd, the guy the councilman who is responsible for rejecting and accepting building permit applications, his name is Yonatan Youssef, and he's an activist in the settler movements, and he's a Jerusalem council member.
And he, last week, following the expulsion of a subloban family in the Old City of Jerusalem, he posted to his official Facebook account, Nakba Now, demanding a second Nakba, promising another Nakba. He has done so on many occasions. He has chanted with a megaphone just a few months ago, walking down the street in my neighborhood. chanting, we want Nakba now.
This is a man who has vandalized our murals, who has screamed Islamophobic slurs. This is literally a man in the government making these decisions. And this is similar to Masaf Riata in the South Hebron Hills. For those who don't know, it's a place in the occupied West Bank where Bedouin and cave dweller Palestinians have lived for generations. They have cultivated the land.
And recently they were expelled from their homes. Over a thousand people were expelled from their remote small villages. Again, if you're reading American media, it would say Palestinians living in firing zones. were removed because they were living in a military zone.
What these media reports will not tell you that in the 80s, the Israeli government purposefully classified many lands in the occupied West Bank as firing zones, as off-limit military zones for the sole purpose of expelling the residents. And this is not some kind of conspiracy theory.
This is declassified information that was released from the Israeli State Archive that was later reported on by Ha'aretz. Also, these reports will not tell you that the judge who rules on whether these people continue to live under homes or not is himself a settler in the West Bank. And I'm not even talking about
you know, a loose definition of a settler, but according to international law, this is a settler living illegally in an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank. This is the judiciary that we deal with, which is hilarious considering how it's being reported on in American media recently as some kind of beacon of progress and democracy that the new government is trying to undermine.
I mean, we have lawyers, but no, there's no, in fact, there is for Palestinians with Israeli citizenships, for example, there's over 60 laws that specifically and explicitly discriminates against them.
Yeah. So was Jim Crow was legal also, you know.
Absolutely. History has shown us time and time again. That legality does not necessarily mean morality, and the law is a bloodbath in many ways. It has been used and abused to facilitate the most horrendous atrocities. And in the case of the Palestinians, the law has served to facilitate and bureaucratize our ethnic cleansing.
I mean, I'm not really, the easy, simplistic answer is yes, but I don't really care about the contents of their hearts, what I care about the policy they enact, right? The laws they write and enact are hateful. Demolishing a person's home, So you can have somebody from Long Island, New York, who's fleeing fraud charges. This is the case in my house. Live in their front yard. That's hateful.
So I don't need confirmation. This is something we see a lot, actually. Palestinians and people who are pro-Palestine and just people who want to make a difference in how this cause is represented. we often run for the first opportunity to cite an Israeli being hateful. The last Israeli prime minister said that he has killed many Arabs and that he has no qualms with it.
Netanyahu has said a slew of racist, hateful things. Jabotinsky, the pioneer of Zionism, Herzl, one of the pioneers of Zionism, all have said horrible, hateful things. We also cannot wait to cite a confession from a former Israeli soldier whose guilty conscience is keeping them up at night.
And we use all of these confessions or slip-ups as evidence to prove that this is a racist country that is enacting racist acts. But we don't need this because the material proof is on the ground. You see it in the policies that are enacted. You see it. in how the country, how this regime has behaved for the past 75 years.
I don't need, you know, confessions from the likes of Netanyahu to understand that his heart is full of hate.
Well, you know, like May 15th, 1948 is commemorated every year as, you know, the anniversary of the Nakba. But I would even argue, and I think this is like a very popular idea, is that the Nakba did not begin or end in 1948. The 48th was rather, you know, a crystallization of the Zionist enterprise in Palestine. And what happened was that many Zionists
paramilitaries that, again, today merged and made the Israeli army, which calls itself the Israeli Defense Forces, even though they're literally always the aggressor, committed atrocities and massacres and You know, they destroyed over 500 villages. They killed over 15,000 people. They forced a very large portion, a majority of the Palestinian population to flee their homes.
And this was, you know, the near total destruction of Palestinian society that continues on to this day. We refer to it as the ongoing Nakba and you see it in Sheikh Jarrah, you see it in Silouan, you see it in Hebron, and all of these people losing their homes. And in many cases, time and time again, you know, I grew up and my grandmother told me the stories about the Nakba.
She told me stories about her neighbors who were running away in a panic and they had mistaken a pillow for their offspring and they just took it with them and they realized later that they forgot their child and they came back for it. Many, many people who were separated from their... My grandmother herself, she lost her husband for a few months, for nine months.
He was imprisoned by the Israelis. You know, she told me all of these stories and she wasn't just reminiscing about them. She was... letting me know that this is still happening and I didn't need to grow up that old to see it happening in my own front yard to see that expulsion happen in the same fashion she's talked about it but
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