Today to be an anti-Zionist is construed as being anti-Semitic. ibid.
In 2002 the Israel-Palestinian conflict was further inflamed as a contentious border was cast in concrete … The wall is just over 700 kilometres long, so far … It goes deep into Palestinian territory. Walls of Shame: West Bank Separation Wall, Al Jazeera 2016
The Gaza Bombshell: After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs. With confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former and current US officials, the author reveals how President Bush, Condoleeza Rice, and Deputy National-Security Adviser Elliott Abrams backed an armed force under Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan, touching off a bloody civil war in Gaza and leaving Hamas stronger than ever. Vanity Fair article 2008
After President Trump’s controversial decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the Middle East braced itself for violence. But in the Palestinian Gaza Strip, a grassroots movement planned a different response – mass peaceful demonstrations. One Day in Gaza, BBC 2019
That day would end with at least 60 Palestinians dead or dying and almost 3,000 injured. ibid.
More than half of Gaza’s two million inhabitants live in poverty and rely on aid, and they are prevented from leaving what is one of the most densely population regions on Earth. ibid.
‘It’s an honour to resist the occupation.’ ibid. Palestinian woman
‘In total 40 beds with 1,000 injuries.’ ibid. MSF doctor
A UN investigation into the protests in Gaza in 2018 accused Israeli soldiers of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Israel’s government said the report was ‘hostile, false and biased’. ibid. caption
The standoff around the Church of the Nativity has been continuing all day. Palestinian gunmen are among some two-hundred people believed to be taking refuge inside the world-famous church. Captive VI: Bethlehem Siege, Palestine, UK news report
It’s not a house in the centre of Tel Aviv that you can destroy or break into. ibid. Israeli soldier
Jihad Ja’Ara and Ramim Kamel were deported to Ireland in May 2002. They have remained there ever since. ibid. caption
In the summer of 2000 the leaders of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation came to America at the invitation of US president Bill Clinton. There were hopes of a resolution to a conflict which had lasted decades and had killed thousands. Secret Wars Uncovered s1e10: Gaza
The British had been in Palestine for almost three decades … Their administration had been a tumultuous one. ibid.
‘Most [Palestinians] were driven out of their territory.’ ibid. Michael Clarke, military specialist
The six-day war of 1967 saw Israel seize territory from Jordan and Syria and sweep across the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula. ibid.
‘When they [Israel] do intervene in Gaza, it creates terrible headlines around the world because their action always seems disproportionate.’ ibid. Michael Clarke
Palestine: In 2005 … he [Banksy] travelled to the Middle East to paint the West Bank barrier, a controversial wall erected by the Israeli government … The collection of paintings that resulted met with international acclaim. Banksy & the Rise of Outlaw Art, Sky Arts 2021
He [Kissinger] set out to do the very opposite: to fracture the power of the Arab countries by dividing them and breaking their alliances so they would keep each other in check … In reality, the Palestinians were ignored. Adam Curtis, Hypernormalisation, BBC 2016
Israel was now determined to finally destroy the power of the Palestinians. And in 1982 they sent a massive army to encircle the Palestinian camps in the Lebanon. Two months later thousands of Palestinians were massacred in the camps. It horrified the world … Israel had allowed it to happen. ibid.
Today, 97% of Gaza’s wells are unfit for human consumption. H20: The Molecule that Made US III, PBS 2020
November 2nd 1917: This is the Balfour Declaration, the first moment that the British government acknowledged there should be a home for the Jewish people. The Holy Land & Us: Our Untold Stories, BBC 2023
For the Palestinians there was nothing to celebrate. ibid.
More than 700,000 Palestinians refugees were created by the events between 1947 and 1949. ibid.
For centuries there had been a minority Jewish population in the region. But by the late nineteenth century onwards Jewish immigrants began arriving from around the world to escape rising Anti-Semitism. ibid.
By the mid-1930s Arab fears of losing their land to the new Jewish immigrants led to an uprising against the British who controlled Palestine at the time. In response, in 1939, the British severely limited the number of Jewish immigrants they allowed into Palestine. ibid.
For the Arabs too this was their land and the UN plan divided it against their will. ibid.
The British mandate for Palestine came to an end, and the Jewish leadership declared the establishment of the state of Israel. ibid.
By 1949 the scale of the Palestinian refugee crisis was clear. Hundreds of Arab towns and villages had been depopulated and many destroyed, making around 100,000 families homeless. ibid.
If I came with a bible in one hand and a rifle in the other, knocked on your door and said: ‘According to me bible, my family lived in your house two thousand years ago’, would you pack up your bags and leave? Dr Norman Finkelstein
Every year on May 15, Palestinians around the world, numbering about 12.4 million, mark the Nakba, or ‘catastrophe’, referring to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine and the near-total destruction of Palestinian society in 1948.
The Palestinian experience of dispossession and loss of a homeland is 69 years old this year.
On that day, the State of Israel came into being. The creation of Israel was a violent process that entailed the forced expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homeland to establish a Jewish-majority state, as per the aspirations of the Zionist movement. Al Jazeera online article, ‘The Nakba did not start or end in 1948’, May 2017
Nobody with any sanity, including myself, would have anything but sympathy for the Palestinian plight. There’s not a sane person on Earth who in any way sanctions what the fuck the Israeli authorities are doing. Sinead O’Connor
I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we will act accordingly. Yoav Gallant, Israeli Defence Minister, 2023
I would encourage police to consider whether chants such as ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ should be understood as an expression of violent desire to see Israel erased from the world, and may amount to a racially aggravated section 5 public order offence. Suella Braverman, Home Secretary, letter to Chief Constables 10 October 2023
The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestine alone, but a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era. Ghassan Kanafani
The brutal response to Hamas and its murderous attack … In Gaza a growing humanitarian crisis. The loss of life is fuelling anger on both sides. With Israel on the verge of a ground invasion of Gaza, could this crisis engulf the whole of the Middle East? Panorama: At War: Crisis in the Middle East, BBC 2023
The children in Gaza brought it upon themselves. Merab Ben-Ari
400,000 Palestinians under the watch of Britain had been expelled from their homeland by mid-May 1948. 220+ villages had been ethnically cleansed. The British Army played an active role alongside Zionists. Britain was the author, architect and butcher in Palestine. Crimes of Britain tweet 15th May 2019
Nobody ever asks how should Palestinians respond to Israel’s daily brutal treatment for 75 years. Gabor Maté