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shotofstress · 6 months

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U know what enrage me? That in Chile, being the country with the largest diaspora of Palestinians and their descendants in the world, say Palestinians are, a lot of them, christian conservatives, right wing, fascists. We haven't still kickout and close the israeli embassy and no one relevant have call for it yet. The world famous Palestinian FC? Is in the upper class neighbourhood in which the poor can't go bc is far af, u feel poorer and more brown when u go to the upper class area of the capital where the rich live behind walls bc they hate the poor. I can't buy the shirt of the football club coz is expensive af and was in fact easier and less expensive to bring a kufiya of Hebron 15 years ago. The Palestinian politicians are 99% of them seudo christian but full fascists and have supported the right wing governments since ever. Including the ones that supported the crimes of Piñera's dictatorship (torture, mutilation, rape, detentions, burning buildings like supermarkets, closing them in working class areas to control food and water, etc). Some palestinians here have huge companies and fabrics, being one of the migrant groups with more money in hands of some families which are the wealthiest of the country. And the representatives of Palestinians here, like club Palestine, have never say a thing. Never speak against the fascism, the crimes against queer people or the native nations of Chile which have been under colonisation and ethnic cleaning for centuries, the destruction of the land at hands of the upper class stealing water, food, killing ppl for lack of basic human resources, the killing of the land and our ppl at hands of the extraction of minerals, the constant political killings, the amount of nazis we had/have here and their descendants that are known for supporting every crime here. I can't stand that the faces of Palestine here are the upper class while the other Palestinians working class lives, works or study in middle class areas or the marginalised areas with other migrants.

Why Palestine here is represented by the blond pale upper class that speaks with the accent of the upper class and only interact with the upper class that hate the poor, the black, the brown, the natives, the left, the queers? Even a open supporter and known spy of pinochets dictatorship created the hymn of the Club and they honored him and shit at the club when the fascist piece of shit died some years ago? The ones that speak up in their ig account had our comments deleted. And that shit is every day when u point out how they betrayed the values that one is supposed to have if u call for Palestine liberation. Is not our obligation to be anti fascist, anti capitalist, anti imperialists if we belive in Palestine liberation?

In every single one of the protests and riots that occurred in Chile, the Palestinian flag is high in the sky like the chilean one, the Wallmapu, the Wiphala. Palestine flag is part of our daily life as well the histories of families and friends living, working, being friends with the working class palestinians back in the day. Even now Palestinians lifes are waved in our personal histories in one way or another. There is no place in which there is not palestinian food stores or restaurants, is impossible to not see al least 1 person with a kufiya or the flag in ur daily life, I growth up with a portrait of Yasir Arafat in my house, multiple Qurans in the house, multiple kufiyas and garments, books, art, even the food become part of my household. I ĥad school mates, neighbours of the area, one of the ppl I live with went to the beautiful mosque of the neighbourhood. In one of my school trips to other region of the country they took us to the mosque there in which ppl of all religions and faiths can pray together and was built with the idea of peace and living together, all the material are native to our land, and is one of the most beautiful buildings I have ever seen.

The little I know of my family history is that always, always, had relationship in some one or another with palestinians and other ppl from Middle East and the Arab world (heck anyone that was a migrante also). There is even a tradition to pass the same name from one generation to another, which i can only guess was bc a palestinian or other person of the region, but don't know if was bc a friend or even maybe someone in the past married or was in love with a palestinian. I don't know how many ppl back in the blood line carried the name, I know of at least 4 in different generations, but I carry it.

I remember being a kid and placing candles and drawings with the Palestinian flag in my balcony bc we always saw the news about Palestina. I wanted peace for them, and also wandered why no one send guerrillas to help them, like the armed resistance in Pinochets dictatorship, all the South American resistances fighting dictatorships, or all the people that went from all over the world to fight against the dictatorships of Hitler, Franco, Tito, etc. Why? Why no one went to help them? Years later, I thought the same but without the innocence of then, I asked out loud and also in my mind, why no one calls for an armed resistance from all over the globe. My couple said to me that make no sense the hippie upper class family friendly park activity in the rich neighbourhood made by the Club to raise money (which j don't know why considering that, as I said, that some of the upper classes families could take money of their own wallets comfortable without worrying of not been able to pay the bills the next months, they will not loss the money) when what Palestine needs is to fight, not thoughts and prayers. Certainly Palestina don't need the conservative right wing disguised as left descendents that feel more part of the chilean upper class that is terrible european-ish and gringo-ish as all upper classes of South America that want to distance themselves of the natives and the brown and black working class.

I saw an anarchist saying that they felt alone asking for the world to help with soldiers and guerrilleros. I said tons of times why when was the fascist Ukraine (that said brown and black ppl deserved war and blue eyes blonde ppl like them don't ) everyone was making graffiti of "freedom to the donbas" and literally bought military gear to use and tried to fly to Ukrain to fight the fascist Russia for days and weeks, calling to arms, even when tons of European countries decided to care bc geopolitics, but when was and is still Palestine??? Where are the people that are ready to fight? Where are they? The anarchist asked why ppl is being so indifferent. What I can tell them when not even the descendants are answering nor making that question here in the piece of crap country in which they live? I saw yesterday a video of Palestinians in other country singing for Palestine and calling for the arrive of freedom, independence, and socialism. Yes, socialism.

I just appreciate and feel empathy for Palestine. Is a problem that i feel this way? Idk I guess I am wrong af if I am more radical than the community here.

But can I say that it makes me cry and feel deep pain and wrath that my fellow humans are exterminate in a Final solution crime at hands of a european and USA check point disguised as a country? Yes, I can say that. I know that never ever an ethno state or any colonialist has stopped because u ask please. I also know, from the history of the world, that only fighting helps (and economical sanctions from everyone against the opressor which the world will not make bc they will call them anti semitic and all that zionist rhetoric and questions colonialism). Yes, fighting fake news helps, but helps more, u know, physically fight the oppressors, saying the truth. I'm tired of hearing diplomatic "middle ground" and "both sides" bullshit. I'm tired of the world behaving like they didn't allowed the comeback in full force of the extremist far right in every corner and Palestine in used as experiment to what can be done without consequences. I can expect this from the Canadian, French, German or Statetian that want to deport everyone bc what can u expect of imperialists countries? But that the descendants of the oppressed support Conservative shit behaviour even when the land of their families is under ethnic cleaning???

How can capitalism, imperialism, right wing politics and life style transform you in a disgrace? Why then the working class chileans and mostly all south Americans rise the Palestine flag? Shpuld we not? We have no right, is not our place to fight for palestinians, we can only fight with them when they call for us. I repeat; fight with them but not for them. I wonder how many south americans from different cultures and nations would take arms if palestinians from the diaspora call us. But then I remember that we don't even help the neighbours and only help white ppl. Is this what displacement do? We all were displaced of territories. So is this why no one cares beyond the pantomime of seudo leftists speech, thoughts and prayers, and sharing info in social media?

Why I am angry when it feels like I should forget how every territory that has been colonised get rid of the imperialists? Should I stick to just share news with mouth shut in social media that censors and shadowban the truth and deletes the accounts of palestinians? Is this how we see the world sinking in full nazi shit and a entire country disappear? Extermination, deporting ppl, europeans creating ethno states, zionism, christo fascism, Islamic ppl that don't help their own ppl in other country, south america living a second Operation Condor and under full invasion of USA with tons of military bases and supporting dictatorships and corrupting elections. All happening at the same time and I just can't stop to remember that while genocide was declared internationally and here was the anniversary of the dictatorship of Piñera (with zero justice for the crimes and the declaration of war he made to his own country helped with israeli weapons and torture techniques) and the year of the 50th anniversary of the Coup against Allende the palestinians organisations here didn't say a thing about this things (as always) and didn't had an bank account for help to Palestine until 4 days later, but first they announced that they would had to cancel the lunch they made every week for the memebers of the club (for wich u have to pay of course).

How can be posible that my source of true and reliable information and hope is people from all over the world, but not the literal fucking palestinian club in the country with the most number of palestinians??? They share some fake news and the comments is full of anti semitic conspiranoic rich ppl for fuck sake. All bs Christians of course, forget u will see more muslims there or palestinian theology of liberation. They even make a Christian mass but nothing in the mosques, announced nothing.

Why I can trust palestinians and all the people that is fighting out there but not the ones here?

Should I just give up? Lost hope? Think that is preferable no """violence""" (aka no resistance) and only care if was a direct family member like I just read a person say? I just read a human saying their grandmother was palestinian and had to fly to Chile bc the colonialist settlement, and that her grandmother died some years ago, and that they, the human writing, don't belive in violence, but they would probably feel angry if were their kids corpse in a plastic bag and then they would feel that violence is necessary.

I feel this country stain everything and everyone that lives here for too long. The fascism and the lack of empathy and understanding corrupts all.

There are better countries to live, it must be one, this one is terrible and the next constitution being written and will be voted stripes working class of all our human rights, and the next presidential candidate is a far right pinochetist son of a nazi that had slaves here, stole land from indigenous ppl and country folk in the south which is full of nazis.

This is why u probably haven't seen news about huge manifestations here in Chile beyond the one of the other day (that wasn't really big) and see mostly from any other part of the globe. Here have been no really hard protests nor anything. There was a call for a international strike the other day and here nothing happened really. Palestinians of the world need to call out the ones here for forgetting the anti colonialist and anti capitalist fight, the fight for life and freedom.

All the ppl living in Palestine deserves better than this behaviour, my pathetic angry post, 20 miserable trucks that can't pass, and this soulless heartless world.

In my disable body for moments lives the hope that someday they will have socialism and every imperialist in the world would die at hands of the ppl they oppressed. Survive Palestine, Free Palestine, Independent 1 state Palestine, Socialist Palestine from the river to the sea.

#colonialism #colonization #genocide #ethnic cleansing #palestine #chile #diaspora #human rights #resistance #liberation #fascisim #guerrilla #armed resistance #support #class war #democracy #internalized colonialism #internalized fascism

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fiapple · 6 months

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“This premise raises doubts not only about the integrity of the media but also about the entire Western political apparatus, as it relies on one-sided dismissal of resistance factions as pure terrorism in the name of Islam, while insisting on a rival narrative of politically justified “self-defense.” If these doubts are to be considered — which they should — political stances, histories, and contexts significantly matter. If you dismiss Hamas (and other resistance factions) as terrorism, don’t you risk dismissing an entire history of armed Palestinian struggle against a fully armed occupation? “

#articles #palestine #armed resistance #decolonization

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 4 years

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July 11, 1990.

#oka crisis #kanesatake resistance #kanesatake #kanehsatà:ke #mohawks of kanesatake #canadian army #settler colonialism in canada #settler colonialism #violence of settler colonialism #armed resistance #indigenous resistance #indigenous people #indigenous history #first nations #canadian history

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plitnick · 2 years

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The question of violence

After years of the United States, Israel and the Palestinian Authority making it clear to the Palestinian people that diplomacy will not secure the realization of Palestinian rights–especially given the massive power imbalance–the use of armed resistance to Israeli apartheid is growing among Palestinians. People have asked, “where is the Palestinian Mandela?” Well, when South African Apartheid…

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donotlookaway · 2 months

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#free palestine #palestine #free gaza #armed resistance #Instagram

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immaculatasknight · 2 months

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Wow. Just wow.

#China #ICJ #testimony #Gaza #genocide #Israel #settler colonialism #Zionism #armed resistance #Palestine #human rights #oppression #displacement

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alanshemper · 3 months

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In the early 1990s I worked at Physicians for Human Rights – Israel. Not long after the Oslo Accords were signed we moved from offices on Gordon Street in Tel Aviv to larger premises on Allenby Street, not far from the Great Synagogue. Walking home from work one day, I noticed a small plaque near the synagogue’s entrance. Written in Hebrew and English, it says: ‘The Lehi used the basement and attic of this synagogue as a secret arms cache. It was discovered by the British during the “great curfew” imposed in July 1946, and the weapons were confiscated.’

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Synagogues and schools were not the only places Zionist paramilitary groups used to hide fighters and equipment. The Magen David Adom (Red Star of David) station in Netanya has a plaque which says that ‘the medical centre was used to cover and camouflage the operations of Haganah’s command centre in Netanya – the military arm of the state to come.’ This plaque also suggests that the pre-state use of civilian sites as a cover for military purposes is something that Israelis today should be proud of.

The use of civilian sites by paramilitary groups was in no way unique to Mandatory Palestine. When the Prussians occupied France in 1870, the French francs-tireurs or free shooters were ‘farmers by day and fighters by night’. From the American Revolution and the Italian Risorgimento to anti-colonial struggles in Malaya, India, Sri Lanka and Vietnam as well as Algeria, Angola and Palestine, militants have hidden among civilians in what we now call people’s wars. Given the asymmetry of power between non-state paramilitary groups and national armies, the ability to blend into the civilian population was necessary for military survival. Today, hi-tech state militaries deploy new surveillance technologies and enhanced weapon systems to find and kill militants much more easily, driving paramilitary groups across the globe to move into densely populated urban settings where they can conceal themselves more easily. Hamas, in this sense, is no outlier.

It has consequently been accused by Daniel Hagari, an Israeli military spokesperson, of using human shields. ‘Our war,’ Hagari said, ‘is against Hamas, not against the people in Gaza. Especially not the sick, the women, or the children. Our war is against Hamas who uses them as human shields.’

Hagari was referring not to the remaining Israeli hostages held by Hamas in secret locations across the Gaza Strip, but to the hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians who were unwilling or unable to flee when Israel instructed them to. Many of them have been taking refuge in hospitals, schools and mosques. They are cast as shields because Hamas has built what are believed to be hundreds of kilometres of underground tunnels beneath Gaza and the people above are in the way of Israel’s ability to destroy the tunnels. An IDF spokesperson said last week that ‘Hamas has been systematically using hospitals in Gaza to run its terror machine. Hamas built tunnels underneath hospitals ... using the protected status of hospitals as a shield.’

Hagari’s claim that Hamas uses human shields should be understood as a pre-emptive legal defence against accusations that Israel is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. The Geneva Conventions prohibit the use of human shields: ‘The presence or movements of the civilian population or individual civilians shall not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations, in particular in attempts to shield military objectives from attacks or to shield, favour or impede military operations.’ In other words, it’s legal to bomb a site protected by human shields (provided legal principles, such as proportionality, are followed). The subtext of Hagari’s accusation, then, is that Hamas is to blame when Israel kills civilians or destroys hospitals because Hamas has used them to ‘shield’ its tunnels.

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#human shields #terrorism #armed resistance #gaza #palestine

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because--palestine · 3 months

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Jewish Historian Explodes Israel's Myths

Zach Foster's historical knowledge about Palestine, and his accurately relevant way of exposing simple actual historical facts especially about Hamas as a political party and also as a resistance movement, is always enlightening. The fact that he is a former zionist jew makes his erudition about Palestine even more outstanding. Here is how Owen Jones presents him:

Zach Foster is a fascinating guest: he hails from a strongly Zionist background, but it was through his scholarly research of Palestine that his perspective changed. We discuss the long history of Palestinians being dehumanised, why he thinks Israel makes Jewish people less safe, the history of Gaza and Hamas that's airbrushed, Israel's history of using hunger as a weapon of war, genocidal sentiments in Israel - and so much more.

#palestine #free palestine #history #gaza #truth #knowledge #endisraelsgenocide #ethnostate #apartheid #colonialism #resistance #armed resistance #freedom #Youtube

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augustina88 · 5 months

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i thought we all supported armed resistance?

#apparently comprehending fiction world politics is easier for yall #it’s embarrassing #get a grip and your facts straight people #hummus #armed resistance

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chaiaurchaandni · 5 months

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let the checkpoints fall - palestinian resistance poster via rebelmusakhan

#free palestine #palestine #gaza #glory to the martyrs #long live palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #long live the resistance #armed resistance #palestinian resistance

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philippinerevolution · 10 months

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125 years of persevering struggle for national freedom

In commemorating the recent 125th year of the declaration of false Philippine independence, let us look back to the Filipino people’s more than a century history of resistance to colonialism and semicolonialism and reaffirm our commitment to struggle for genuine freedom and democracy.

The declaration of freedom “under the protection of Powerful and Humanitarian Nation, the United States of America” was made by representatives of the landlord-illustrado class who rode on the victories of the Katipunan armed revolution against the 300-year Spanish colonial rule. In truth, Spain had already secretly agreed with the US before staging the mock Battle of Manila Bay of October 1898 and the signing of the Treaty of Paris on December 10, 1898 under which the Philippines was sold for $20 million.

Hundreds of thousands of American troops were deployed to suppress and colonize the Philippines. More than a decade of brutal war against revolutionary forces—denigrated as “bandits” and “insurrectionists”—was carried out. Not less than 200,000 Filipino civilians were killed by American soldiers, and more than a million (of a population of less than seven million) died as a result of the US war of aggression.

The US employed overwhelming force to rampage through the Philippines, suppress the people and plunder the country’s wealth. Millions of trees were felled, hundreds of thousands of land taken from peasants and indigenous people to dig for gold and other minerals, and turn into plantations of sugarcane, pineapples and other crops for export to the US. The US colonized and controlled the minds of Filipinos by imposing an educational system that favor the US to erase the people’s memories of their just fight for freedom and imprint the thought of “benevolent assimilation” under US colonialism. The US produced a new generation of bureaucrat capitalists trained in “US democracy” to represent US power and the combined interests of the ruling classes of bourgeois compradors and the old landlord class.

Instead of being suppressed, the spirit of patriotism of Filipino workers and toiling people were further inflamed. At the outset and following decades, they organized and waged mass struggles for freedom. They clamored “death to US imperialism!” Since being established in 1930, the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP-Philippine Islands) played a crucial role in leading the struggle for national freedom from US colonial rule.

Amid inter-imperialist conflict, the US abandoned the Philippines to colonial Japan. Led by the CPP, an anti-Japanese guerrilla war was waged by the Filipino people to establish revolutionary power in Central Luzon and other parts of the country. Like in China and other countries, the guerrilla forces crushed the Japanese invaders. Before the complete surrender of the beaten Japanese forces (as were the Spanish in 1898), the US forces returned and relentlessly bombed and devastated Manila (like the mock Battle of Manila Bay) to force the country to its knees. Together with its puppet armed forces (predecessor of the Armed Forces of the Philippines), the US carried out a campaign of armed suppression of guerrilla forces marked by massacres and brutal murders.

To placate the Filipino people, the US granted nominal independence on July 4, 1946 to turn over the reins of administration of the client-state to the ruling class parties and politicos. For close to 80 years now, the country has been under neocolonial or semicolonial rule. Philippine politics, economy, military and culture remains dominated by the US. Through semicolonial rule, the US plundered trillions of dollars through unequal trade and investment relations reinforced by treaties favoring the US. The policy of cheap labor was imposed to allow maximum profits for US and foreign capitalists. Economic policies of puppet Philippine governments are dictated by the US through the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and other US-controlled banks and agencies, to the detriment of the Philippine economy and livelihood. The US reinforces cultural domination through a pro-US educational system, control of mass media and other agencies that promote a pro-US mentality and viewpoint.

The US perpetuates armed domination of the Philippines through military agreements as the Mutual Defense Treaty, the 1946-1991 Military Bases Agreement, the 1998 Visiting Forces Agreement and the 2014 Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement. The US established the AFP as the main pillar of its rule in the country. It has since been used for the armed suppression of the Filipino people and their struggle for national and social liberation.

Amid the economic crisis of the US and other capitalist countries, there is push to further tighten US grip of the Philippines. Together with strengthening armed presence in the Philippines, the US is aggressively claiming control of natural resources and business operations in the country to expand plantations and mines resulting in economic dislocation of millions of Filipinos. The people today suffer from the deleterious effects of decades of neoliberal policy dictates of the US: widespread unemployment, low wages, lack of income, rising prices, decrepit social services, land grabbing, and environmental destruction. The country is at the precipice of a financial crisis marked by rising public debt and falling revenue due to corporate tax incentives, and rising costs of maintaining a bloated military and police. The US rush to construct more military bases and facilities across the Philippines, especially in the northern parts, as part of its strategy to encircle China, further underscores the country’s lack of sovereignty and puts it in danger of being pulled into a war between imperialist giants.

Since it was established in 1969, the Communist Party of the Philippines has been at the forefront of the struggle for national freedom and democracy. It has waged people’s war since 1969, and will persevere however long it takes to free the country from the clutches of US imperialism.

The Party, all revolutionary forces and the entire Filipino people are ready to shoulder the difficult tasks to advance the nation’s struggle to drive away the imperialist monster and attain the Motherland’s desire for freedom. With firm resolve, let us tread the path of resistance, however arduous and difficult, because it is the only path towards a bright and prosperous future.

#philippines #revolution #imperialism #us imperialism #armed resistance #colonialism #independence #liberation #freedom

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