Because …you know

To some.

Putrid anti-Palestinian racism is what it is.

And umm.... do you know who controls the Rafah border and who has closed the crossing? Or turned the city of Rafah into rubble and a buffer zone? Hint: It is not Egypt.

What on earth kind of blame-shifting gaslighting technique is this? Israel is again fucking starving desparate people it is also terrorizing - ON PURPOSE and even proudly declaring it - and you blame Egypt? EGYPT???

Israel has controlled the crossing since last May. It opened the crossing in late January of this year - as a part of the ceasefire. You linked to an article from January that described the opening of the crossing during the ceasefire.

However, Israel closed the crossing again when it scuttled the ceasefire in March, as part of its campaign to cut off all aid to Gaza - enforcing a siege - in an effort to achieve its war "goals".

The attached article describes the Rafah border crossing closure in March and its impact.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-gaza-humanitarian-aid-1.7472522

Please refrain from posting old news that has been superceded - it causes confusion and doubt.

As I have no clue who this Adias person is.

Egypt controls its border on its side. Israel controls the border inside Gaza, including the Rafah crossing.

The food is needed inside Gaza. Israel has closed the border and all crossings into Gaza. The fact that people may or may not be leaving Gaza is irrelevant to the issue and a distraction.

People are going to starve. That should be of concern.

Not just food and aid from entering, but the transfer of people for life-saving or urgent care. Some will die, or have, it is a certainty.

While Egypt has kept its side of the border open. To receive patients. Who have stopped arriving since March 17th.

That pretty much wraps up this sub-thread.

There has never been shortage of food for Palestinians in Israel or the West Bank.

Link to tweet

Columbia should take note.

But this is truly disgusting. "Waste of Semen"? 'Death to Arabs"?

Imagine if this were a lone Jewish woman and a throng of dozens of Arab men shoving and kicking her. It would be the front page of the NYT. The outrage would be off the charts.

This is what Palestinians and supporters have to deal with and that never makes the news.

which enraged the local population. (see Post 15)

That would have made the news, no?

First, the woman is escorted by a NYC cop.

Second, I checked the telephone number on an awning in one of the video frames, and it placed the location two blocks away from the Habad Lubavitch headquarters, where, you guessed it, an anti-Israel protest took place yesterday (https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/anti-israel-protest-against-ben-gvir-outside-ny-synagogue-provokes-outrage/), sparking outrage of the local Hassidic community.

Third, the mobs look like the members of the said Hassidic community, more likely to be anti-Zionist than pro-Zionist (or, perhaps, this distinction doesn't matter since "Zionist" in your post refers to something other than Zionist?), expressing their outrage for ignorantly and gratuitously being targeted by the protesters.

Fourth, the woman in the video looks more like an ignorant keffiyeh-wearing Upper West Side hipster than a local resident of the Crown Heights community, which is predominantly black or Hassidic (or, in some instances, both).

How much more wrong could your header be?

Whichever side you're on, I mean come ON.

But in case it was not clear to you the extent of the assault and violence:

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

I am pointing our blatant disregard for the facts and a rather pronounced slant in favor of a certain bias. It was first and foremost an attack on the, to quote Nerdeen Kiswani, " the racist Zionist Lubavitch sect". That was certainly gratuitous and understandably offensive to the community. It was also an affront to a revered center of worship, regardless of anyone's presence there, or what takes place inside it.

I don't know much about Chabad, but I know that for Israeli members of the movement, who are at best a transient minority of the Crown Heights community, IDF service is compulsory.

But I know more about Zionism, and your views of it are very skewed and blatantly stereotyped. So, I suspret, are the views of the sole Jewish participant of the protest you quoted, not to mention the leader of the protest.

To each his/her own views. Undoudtedly you know more about these subjects than I do.

"Death to the Arabs". If it walks and talks like a duck.... it is not gratuitous.

But what stood out for me was your comment about a "revered centre of worship".

Do you know how many revered centres of worship have been destroyed in Gaza?? Safe to say all mosques. Some churches, or at least damaged. Imagine the "affront" suffered by Gazans. Please spare me the "command and control" centres mantra. It was systematic destruction, like the hospitals etc.

Unless you opposed that, your concern for the sanctity of religious sites does not carry much weight.

Your knowledge of Zionism does not seem to extend beyond using it as a derogatory term. And that requires quite a bit of ignorance and obfuscation on the subject.

And don't deflect. If you have nothing to say about the grossly inadequate description of the posted tweet, just say it.

Or say nothing. Don't make it any more obvious than you have to.

Bye.

Suit yourself!