#British security forces

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1974 – Three car bombs in Dublin and a fourth in Monaghan exploded without warning, injuring almost 300 people and killing 34, the greatest loss of life on a single day during the Troubles.

#OTD in 1974 – Three car bombs in Dublin and a fourth in Monaghan exploded without warning, injuring almost 300 people and killing 34, the greatest loss of life on a single day during the Troubles.

On the morning of 17 May 1974, four cars are stolen in Belfast. That evening, they would explode without warning in Dublin and Monaghan resulting in the deaths of 34 civilians and injuries to more than 300. The bombings were the worst single atrocity in Ireland during the “Troubles.” The bombings were a Loyalist reaction to the Sunningdale Agreement and attempts to introduce power sharing between…

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#Barron Report #Belfast #British security forces #Dublin #Dublin and Monaghan Bombings #Garda Síochana #Ireland #Irish Press #Lower Gardiner Street #Northern Ireland #Parnell Street #Sunningdale Agreement #Talbot St Memorial #UVF

[alternativeulster]

i don't say much about it because i have little to add to the conversation but seeing my dad act so wildly pro-israel is going to send me over the edge. we're northern irish. how does he not realise that this is like. if when the ira bombed thatcher britain had responded by literally nuking ireland off the face of the earth

#not even vaguely suggesting the british reaction was anything close to acceptable #however #this is insane #how do you live through an entire ethnoreligious civil war in which thousands of civilians died #where you lost your own family members to security forces #and then say with your whole chest that israel is justified #tw war

[awkward-teabag]

I can't believe I just saw someone defending brachycephalic dogs. They're not ethical and you can't just "ethically breed" brachy dogs that don't have problems. It might be able to be done, assuming all brachy dog breeders agree on it, but these are dog breeders we're talking about.

Breeders who line-breed to rapidly exaggerate traits.

Breeders who don't care if a breed can only give birth via surgical intervention.

Breeders who can't bother socializing their pups.

Breeders who are adamantly against out-crossing because they're into "blood purity".

Far, far, far too many debilitating illnesses are treated as "features" of breeds because dog breeders (at least show breeders, who are the main drivers of what the public sees and the public thinks is normal) can be a terrible group of people who care about status, money, and were one of the places where eugenicists went post-WWII.

A group of people who don't consider the suffering of animals they breed can't be trusted one iota to do a bunch of extra tests to eventually, maybe, have an "ethical brachy" dog breed.

#and i'm not kidding about eugenicists flocking to dog breeding #farmwives were the driving force and biggest supporters for eugenics in canada #well into the 70s and 80s #because 'if we can breed animals for traits why not do so with humans?' #dogs were accessible and had a degree of legitimacy because of the british nobility #and dog generations are a lot faster than cow or horse ones #so people could see their goal in their lifetime and firmly secure it #not to mention the litter sizes increasing the odds of at least one of them fitting one's standards #there are of course some great breeders out there #but usually they breed for the breed itself and any show-quality ones are a bonus #or they're working lines so health and functionality takes priority over form #also i'm not even sure you could breed an 'ethical brachy' dog #you would need to get lucky on so many mutations and those sorts of mutations #tend to impact other parts of the animal #e.g. scottish fold cats don't have only folded ears #their ears are folded because of a mutation that affects cartilage thus causes joint issues and pain #but the main thing people see are folded ears and a lower energy breed #(lower energy because they're in pain and/or too much movement causes pain) #some extremes just aren't possible #or if they are are definitely not ethical #and an animal's well-being >>> your sense of aesthetic

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“RESULT OF RIOT: Soldiers Bar Japanese From Immigration Building Area,” Vancouver Province. May 14, 1942. Page 25. ----- Soldiers surrounding the immigration building, where 130 Japanese rioted on Wednesday, had orders today to bar Japanese visitors from the ramps at the foot of Granville and Burrard, to prevent recurrence of yesterday's outburst, when the inmates of the building broke windows, hurled rubbish to the grounds and played a fire hose on soldiers. 

The Japanese, who are held in the building because they refused to entrain for work camps without their families, began "yammering" early Wednesday afternoon in protest of a new rule barring visitors.

FRAME BROKEN A steel-grated window frame was broken loose and dropped to the ground three storeys below and a fire hose was turned out of the open window. Toilet paper and newspapers were thrown out as the Japanese waved and shouted to friends gathered on the waterfront ramp. 

Austin C. Taylor, chairman of the B. C. Security Commission, which ordered the men held when they refused to report for work camps, termed the outburst "more playful than anything else." 

"There was nothing malicious about the trouble," said Mr. Taylor. "Some of the Japanese just got a little fed up about being kept in the building and jot a little exuberant. There was more yelling than anything else." 

PLASTER NOT BROKEN. He denied that plaster had been pried loose from the walls and thrown out. He said he had visited the building and found no evidence of it. 

Mr. Taylor said that until Wednesday Japanese girls and wives of the men housed in the building had been allowed to talk with them at a distance through iron-grated windows. Stopping of this practice, he said, was probably the cause of the outburst.

Army guard reinforcements were posted on the ramp and crowds of Japanese visitors compelled to withdraw beyond shouting distance of the building. To day guards said they had orders to keep Japanese south of the Marine Building, and to keep them away from the ramp extension of Burrard and Granville.

“Statement in House: Japs in City Rioting Will Be Interned,” Vancouver Province. May 14, 1942. Page 1. ---- By TOUCHY ANDERSON. Daily Province staff Correspondent === OTTAWA. May 14 - One hundred and thirty Japanese who rioted in Vancouver immigration hall will be interned. Labor Minister Humphrey Mitchell announced this determination in the House today. He said that the men had previously refused to proceed to an Ontario road camp. 

Troops today stood guard over the immigration Building at the foot of Burrard to bar Japanese visitors and prevent a repetition of the outburst in which windows were smashed, rubbish hurled out and a fire hose played at on soldiers. 

Guards at the building where the Japanese are held will be increased, Mr. Mitchell said. 

MOVE FAST AS POSSIBLE. Coast Japanese were being moved east of the Cascade Mountains as last as possible, he told George Cruickshank (Lib., Fraser Valley) who asked questions about the disorders at Vancouver. 

Mr. Mitchell said the Hastings Park camp, where Japanese are held prior to being moved east of the mountains, is not a permanent establishment. 

Mr. Mitchell gave figures to show that, out of a total of 22,084 Japanese to be dealt with in the movement away from the Pacific Coast, 4300 had been removed from the so-called "vulnerable" points and a total of 9313 had been handled in the whole movement to date. 

On May 11 last there were 2555 individuals at Hastings Park clearing station.

Road camp developments had taken 2285 males, distributed as follows: Blue River Yellowhead, 1290; Revelstoke-Sicamous, 417; Hope-Princeton, 237, and Schreiber, Ont., 341. 

TO INTERIOR. Movement to abandoned British Columbia towns had absorbed 1021 Japanese, distributed as follows: Greenwood, 812; Kaslo, 185; Slocan, 22, and Sandon, 2.

Movement to sugar beet fields was progressing. Alberta had absorbed 1635 and Manitoba 720. 

Japanese who have undertaken to support themselves if assisted in finding a location have been moved to the total of 316 families distributed as follows:

Christina Lake, 80; Bridge River and Minto City, 150; Lil-looet, 51, and Westwold, 35.

Picture caption: MORNING AFTER Peace was restored on the waterfront today as armed guards stood between the immigration building and Japanese who sought to visit friends and relatives there. Wednesday a riot broke out in the building among 130 Japanese detained for refusing to go to work camps without their families. 

Result was slight damage and a great litter on the ground outside the building. A clutter of paper, a bed-spring, chairs and iron bars broken out of a window-frame on the fourth floor where inmates "yammered" Wednesday and turned a fire hose on soldier guards. Japanese are seen leaning out of the windows through which they tossed the rubbish and shouted to crowds of Japanese visitors nearby. Lower right picture shows a Japanese woman waving to a relative in the building. Lower left picture shows rioters, told they would be interned, who had to clean up the mess.

[AL: More about this riot, the context, and resistance to internment here.]

#vancouver #riot #prison riot #prisoner resistance #japanese canadian internment #japanese canadians #immigration detention #prisoner revolt #forced relocation #internment camps #japanese immigration to canada #nikkei kanadajin #british columbia security commission #interior british columbia #british columbia history #history of crime and punishment in canada #crime and punishment in canada #canada during world war 2

[wauln]

[ DoJ, Pentagon, & Oregon Hit By Cyberattack ]

#department of justice #pentagon #oregon #russia #Russian hacker #no russian #Clinton emails #MOVEit #progress software #cyber attack #data breach #FBI #cyber security #emails #Army #Air Force #shell #BBC #British Airways #John Hopkins #university of georgia #Energy Department #Gen Digital #ransomware

[qqueenofhades]

I really really REALLY need to see more people makimg the connection between trump and his russian handlers tbh.......like i know we've somehow gone through the looking glass of putin apologia but that piece abt the NYT you just posted, the bots, the interference: in the bag for trump? Yes. But i dont believe its due to his or even republican power or popularity or forcefulness.......this is a man with so much debt and kompromat thats only getting worse!! Not to sound kwazy BUT WE ARE BEING FULLY INFLITRATED and at the risk of conspiracizing i think the russians are ALSO behind the Times's demise along with so many other information centers etc. Like i KNOW these leftists love him but like. Wouldnt they care a LITTLE abt being manipulated like this???

Trump is 100% an active, willing, and eager Russian agent. That's not even paranoid conspiracy theory, that's just the only reasonable interpretation of the facts:

NOT TO MENTION that in the next two years after the Helsinki conference where Trump kowtowed to Putin in every way, the CIA admitted to losing huge and unusually high numbers of classified informants around the world (not CIA agents, but people secretly working for the American government in often-hostile countries):

Once again, this all happened when Trump was in office, when he was actively handing over CIA intel to the Kremlin against the wishes of the entire national security establishment, and which other experts have suggested was directly as a result of Trump handing over the identities of American informants to Russia, including those stationed in Russia itself:

Now, I could go on, but you get the point. Not to mention that Trump just lost a major UK-based lawsuit against Christopher Steele, the former MI6 agent who was the first to provide documents linking Trump to Russia in the controversial "Steele dossier":

And now: Trump is deeply in hock for hundreds of millions in legal fees and punitive judgments that are only increasing by the day, he somehow just came up with $90 million to appeal the judgment against E. Jean Carroll (nobody knows where he got this money either), and Russian state TV spends all their time openly salivating for Trump's return to the presidency (so he can hand over Ukraine and the rest of NATO and, as he literally said, "let Russia do whatever the hell they want.") I know we're largely numb to all the awful treasonous shit that Trump does, but like. This isn't a conspiracy theory, this is just what's going on in plain sight, and while the Online Leftists have recently become so stupid that I honestly can't tell if it's just terminal brainworms or active Russian psyops, it's strongly indicated that it is in fact a mix of both:

So, like. Just some food for thought.

#anonymous #ask #politics for ts #the giant orange monster

[heritageposts]

In his seminal The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon could be writing about Gaza when he said: “In all armed struggles, there exists what we might call the point of no return. Almost always it is marked off by a huge and all-inclusive repression which engulfs all sectors of the colonial people.” In Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, that point has arrived. From Gaza to the Red Sea, on all fronts the West is now unmasked as a lawless killing machine in terror of losing control. Genocide, starvation and war, defended with Olympic-level diplomatic double-speak, are its only answers to the fact that the Global South, and the nations of the Middle East (if not their leaders) no longer wish to live under US hegemony. Jean-Paul Sartre, in his preface to Fanon's work, wrote of western colonialism: “Our Machiavellianism has little purchase on this wide-awake world that has run our falsehoods to earth one after the other. The settler has only recourse to one thing: brute force… the native has only one choice, between servitude and supremacy.” Fanon was a revolutionary thinker and a practising psychiatrist of colonial racism and its psychic impact on the colonised, and the coloniser. He and Sartre were writing about France’s imminent defeat in Algeria after seven years of brutal war. [...] Western powers are involved in conflicts thousands of miles from home, as they were in Fanon's time in Algeria, Congo and Indochina. Today the western political class has united behind Ukraine and Israel, but for millions of people it is no longer clear that the wars are worth fighting.  As Yemen’s spokesman, Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, put it: “The war today is between Yemen which is struggling to stop the crimes of genocide, and the American and British coalition [who] support its perpetrators. Every party or individual in this world has two choices that have no thirds… who do you stand with as you watch these crimes?” Fanon, writing 63 years ago, agrees: “The colonial world is a Manichaean world… at times this Manichaeism goes to its logical conclusion and dehumanises the native, or to speak plainly, it turns him into an animal. The native is declared insensible to ethics; he represents not only the absence of values, but the negation of values… he is the enemy of values, and in this sense he is the absolute evil. “The native knows all this, and laughs to himself every time he spots an allusion to the animal world in the other’s words. For he knows he is not an animal, and it is precisely at the moment he realises his humanity that he begins to sharpen the weapons with which he will secure victory.”

. . . full article on MEE (1 Feb 2024)

You can also find a free copy of Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth on the Internet Archive (available as a PDF, EPUB etc.)

#palestine #israel #gaza #frantz fanon

[zvaigzdelasas]

An Irish nationalist made history Saturday by becoming Northern Ireland’s first minister as the government returned to work after a two-year boycott by unionists.

Sinn Fein Vice President Michelle O’Neill was named first minister in the government that under the terms of the 1998 Good Friday peace accord shares power equally between Northern Ireland’s two main communities — British unionists who want to stay in the U.K., and Irish nationalists who seek to unite with Ireland.[...]

O’Neill, 47, who was born in the Republic of Ireland but raised in the north, comes from a family with links to the militant Irish Republican Army. Her father was imprisoned as an IRA member, an uncle raised money for the group and two of her cousins were shot — one fatally — by security forces.

O’Neill has been criticized for attending events commemorating the IRA and told an interviewer there was “no alternative” to the group’s armed campaign during the Troubles, a period of about 30 years of violent conflict over the future of Northern Ireland, which ended with the Good Friday accords.

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[inky-duchess]

Fantasy Guide to Royal Guards

Royals have multiple layers of servants but there is no set of servants most important that their protection. Royalty are never without some kind of protection and palaces are usually guarded to the teeth. So how do we write royal security. This is for @jamie-ties-writing

Recruitment

Royal guards aren't just any person plucked from the street and put into a uniform. They are usually recruited from within the royal army, from within particular regiments across the army (a mixture of calvary, naval, artillery, infantry). The Royal Guard is usually made of of multiple regiments, not just a single one. These regiments would share and rotate duties. The British Royal family are currently guarded by the Coldstream Regiment, Welsh Guards, Grenadier Guards among others. Royal guards will be selected for their skill, sometimes their birth (they may be chosen if they rank higher socially) and of course, loyalty to the Crown. Royal guards were intended to be a show of force, strength, Majesty so they were usually impressive specimens meant to instill some power to their monarch.

Duties

A royal guard's first order of business is the protection of the family. They may have sentry duty around the palace, guarding doors or patrolling palace grounds or corridors. A Royal Guard may be assigned to one member only but most likely they will rotate through the family as needed. Of course, a royal can request a guard to always be assigned to them if they want. They may escort their charge of the day to their engagements. If assigned a certain royal to protect, they would tail them throughout the day. A royal guard may even perform ceremonial duties such as the changing of the guard or riding in coronations or state funerals. A royal guard is expected to remain vigilant but never speak of what they see, they are meant to keep an ear out for threats but never repeat whatever is said, they are expected at all times to uphold a professional countenance and respect protocol. They will be expected to give their lives if needed, and be loyal to the last.

Rank

Royal guards are a military division and rank is a part of their lives. Their supreme commander would he the monarch first but there would be an appointed commander. Depending on how you want to write Royal Guards, each regiment would have it's own captain and leaders. Of course, not all regiments may adhere to the same ranks but this would be a basic outline for you to follow.

Colonel: Colonels actually have no duties, they are more an honourary figurehead. Many members of the royal family would have a regiment to be colonel of. This usually requires nothing more than a ceremonial role, the wearing of the uniform while inspecting the troops for example.

Captain: The Commander of the regiment. They would undertake managerial duties, issuing commands from the monarch, assigning duties, approving the induction of new guards into the Household Division. The Captain would decide who would guard which member of the royal family.

Lieutenant: The Second in command. They will assume command if the Captain is not available. They would take on a large portion of duties and aid the Captain.

Sergeant: The sergeant would be next in command.

Guardsman: The lowest rank. They will have the least experience but usually the most duties. They would be the ones patrolling and standing sentry.

Uniform

Of course, no royal guard is complete without their uniform. Royal guards would have to stand out, especially in ceremonial duties. This uniform would be distinctive, not only because it is a great honour for anybody to be named to the guard but also as mentioned above, to add a layer of might to those they protect.

Notable Royal Guard Units

Dahomey Mino (the inspiration of Black Panther's Dora Milaje)

The Praetorian Guard

The Imperial Guard of Napoleon

The Imperial German Bodyguard

Varangian Guard

Swiss Guards

The Kheshig

The Janissary

The Imperial Guards of Tsarist Russia

The Cossack Guard

Guardia Real

Coldstream Guards

Irish Guards

Welsh Guards

Grenadier Guards

Medjay of Ancient Egypt

Al-Ḥars al-Malakī as-Suʿūdī

Compagnie des Carabiniers du Prince

Thahan Raksa Phra Ong

#Fantasy Guide to Royal guards #Royal guards #Royals #Royalty guide #Fantasy Guide #Writing reference #Writing resources #Writing advice #Writing resources writing reference #writing #writeblr #writing resources #writing reference #writing advice #writer #ask answered questions #spilled words #ask answered #writers

[seachranaidhe]

Vilifying the victims: two of the most vile British Intelligence smear campaigns of the Troubles blamed innocent murder victims for their own demise. By David Burke. - Village Magazine

Vilifying the victims: two of the most vile British Intelligence smear campaigns of the Troubles blamed innocent murder victims for their own demise. By David Burke. – Village Magazine

https://villagemagazine.ie/the-vilest-smear-of-the-troubles/

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#British Army #British intelligence smear campaign #Collusion #cover-up #David Burke #Mcgurk&039;s Bar Massacre #MI5 #RUC #security forces #Special Branch #Troubles #Village Magazine

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1999 – A report of the Victim's Commission, established by the Irish government, into the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings recommended the appointment of a former Supreme Court judge to inquire privately into events surrounding the bombings.

Thirty-four people were killed and over 400 were injured in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. Although it was intended that the findings would eventually be made public, the families of the victims wanted the immediate establishment of a public tribunal of Inquiry. Other recommendations of the report were that a similar Inquiry be established into the killing of Seamus Ludlow on 2 May 1976, and…

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#British Security Force Personnel #Dublin #England #Great Britain #History #History of Ireland #Ireland #Irish History #Monaghan #Northern Ireland #Today in Irish History

[opencommunion]

imagine if all the money that the US, British Empire/UK, and other imperialist powers have funneled into the Zionist genocidal project over the last century was instead used to combat antisemitism within their own borders. there are countless Jewish cultural preservation and revitalization efforts that could use that money. there are antisemitic domestic terrorist networks in the US and Europe that those govts are either ignoring or actively cultivating. impoverished Jewish communities in the imperial core are left to fend for themselves while the “leaders of the free world” fund a genocide on another continent. imagine if all that money, all that material support, went towards creating a world where Jews everywhere can live safely in their own places of birth or safely return to the places their ancestors were forced to flee. but that wouldn’t happen because imperialist support for Israel has never been about combatting antisemitism; it’s about securing what is essentially a massive military base in a region that western imperialists have always desperately coveted

[girlactionfigure]

Why are there Palestinian refugees?

In the months before the British abandoned its mandate & Israel declared independence, civil war raged as Arab factions tried to prevent the Jewish state from being born.

Of course, had the Arabs agreed to the UN's partition plan, they would have had yet another state & there would have been no war in 1948. 

But their goal was not another Arab state; it was to ensure there would be no Jewish state. 

Meanwhile, 5 #Arab armies amassed on the borders & waited for the British to leave so they could push the Jews into the #Mediterranean Sea.

As Secretary-General of the Arab League Azzam Pasha put it on the day of the Arab #invasion: 

"This will be a war of extermination & momentous massacre, which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades."

Or as the then war #criminal & fugitive #Nazi Grand Mufti Amin al-Husseini put it during the invasion:

"Murder the #Jews. Murder them all!"

But before the invasion began, & starting as early as Dec 1947, Arab officers began ordering Arab residents of specific villages to flee. 

Their reasoning? Arab citizens not involved in active fighting could only: (1) "treacherously" abide the creation of a the Jewish state &/or even become citizens of same; or (2) be in the way of Arab #military deployments & potentially get caught in the crossfire.

And so, for example, on this day (March 8) in 1948, the Arab Higher Committee ordered all Arab women, children & elderly to leave Jerusalem. The order continued, "Any opposition to this order ... is an obstacle to the holy war ... & will hamper the operations of the fighters in these districts.” 

In fact, the Arab Higher Committee ordered the evacuation of dozens of Arab villages between April & July of 1948 (see photo of Arab citizens fleeing below).

Meanwhile, on April 19, 1948, Jewish forces secured Tiberias, which had a population of ~6,000 #Arabs - all of whom chose to leave. In fact, they left under British military supervision.

The Jewish Community Council immediately issued a statement regarding Tiberias' Arabs: 

"We did not dispossess them; they themselves chose this course ... Let no citizen touch their property."

At around this same time, in early & mid-April of 1948, an Arab faction led by Fawzi al-Qawukji was attacking Haifa & attempting to take the city. Then, rumors spread among Haifa's Arab community that Arab air forces were about to bomb the city & ~25,000 of Haifa's Arabs fled.

As U.S. Consul-General in Haifa Aubrey Lippincott noted on April 22, 1948: "local mufti-dominated Arab leaders ... [urged] all Arabs to leave the city, & large numbers did so."

On April 23, 1948, however, #Jewish forces fought back the Arab attack & retook Haifa.

Three days later, on April 26, 1948, a British police report from Haifa noted: 

"[E]very effort is being made by the Jews to persuade the Arab populace to stay and carry on with their normal lives, to get their shops and businesses open and to be assured that their lives and interests will be safe."

What were some of those "efforts?"

Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, sent future Prime Minister Golda Meir to Haifa with the direct instructions to "persuade the Arabs to stay." 

Ms. Meir was unsuccessful, however, as Haifa's Arabs told her they feared that if they stayed, they would be branded "#traitors." 

And so, another ~25,000 of Haifa's Arabs fled. 

Stop me if you've heard this one before, but despite facts on the ground, Arab leaders at the #UN began demanding the end to a fake "#massacre." 

Specifically, #Syria's UN Ambassador Faris al-Kouri, said the Jewish victory at Haifa was a "massacre" that provided "evidence that the '#Zionist program' is to annihilate Arabs within the Jewish state if partition is effected."

The #British were still on the ground, however, & the British Ambassador to the UN, Sir Alexander Cadogan, told the UN the very next day both that the fighting in Haifa had only begun as a result of "continuous attacks by Arabs against Jews" & that the "reports of massacres & deportations [were] erroneous." 

Meanwhile, after Israel declared its independence & was invaded by five Arab armies, the newly established #IDF issued an Order on July 6, 1948, making it clear that non-combatant Arab civilians were not to be harassed or expelled, nor their villages touched. 

But the Arabs were being given a very different message.

#Iraqi #PrimeMinister Nuri Said announced:

"We will smash the country with our guns & obliterate every place the Jews seek shelter in. The Arabs should conduct their wives & children to safe areas until the fighting has died down."

This used to be known. In fact, Arab leaders for years after the war had no qualms about repeating it.

For example, Syrian Prime Minister Haled al Azm later wrote:

"Since 1948, we have been demanding the return of the #refugees to their homes. But we ourselves are the ones who encouraged them to leave. Only a few months separated our call to them to leave & our appeal to the UN to resolve on their return."

Similarly, #Jordan's King Abdullah wrote: 

"The tragedy of the #Palestinians was that most of their leaders had paralyzed them with false & unsubstantiated promises that they were not alone; that 80 million Arabs & 400 million #Muslims would instantly & miraculously come to their rescue."

Similarly, Edward Atiyah, Secretary of the Arab League Office in #London wrote: 

"This wholesale #exodus was due partly to the belief of the Arabs, encouraged by the boastings of an unrealistic #Arabic press & the irresponsible utterances of some of the Arab leaders that it could be only a matter of weeks before the Jews were defeated by the armies of the Arab States & the #Palestinian Arabs enabled to re­enter & retake possession of their country.”

Even as the war still raged on Aug 16, 1948, the Arab #Greek Orthodox Catholic Bishop of the Galilee told #Beirut newspaper Sada al-Janub: 

“The refugees were confident their absence would not last long, & that they would return within a week or two ... Their leaders had promised them that the Arab Armies would crush the ’Zionist gangs’ very quickly & that there was no need for panic or fear of a long exile.”

A few months later, on Feb 19, 1949, the Jordanian newspaper Filastin confirmed: 

"The Arab States encouraged the Palestine Arabs to leave their homes temporarily in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies."

Even many of the Palestinian Arab refugees themselves admitted their reasons for leaving.

For example, on June 8, 1951, Habib Issa admitted to #NewYork Lebanese newspaper Al Hoda:

"Azzam Pasha assured the Arab peoples that the #occupation of Palestine & #TelAviv would be ... simple ... He pointed out that they were already on the frontiers & that all the millions the Jews had spent on land & economic development would be easy booty, for it would be a simple matter to throw Jews into the Mediterranean ... Arabs of Palestine [were told] to leave their land, homes & property & to stay temporarily in neighboring fraternal states, lest the guns of the invading Arab armies mow them down.”

Similarly, Asmaa Jabir Balasimah recalled being told by Arab leaders to "evacuate the village & return after the battle is over," & that she & others in her village left all their possessions behind "based on the assumption that we would return after a few hours." 

Again, however (& most importantly), had the Arabs agreed to Partition or even agreed to negotiate different borders with Zionist leaders who begged Azzam Pasha to make any counteroffer instead of invading with #genocidal intent, there would never have been a single Palestinian #refugee.

#Education #Israel #Palestine

[cvpitvno]

perhaps it was because you knew you were being monitored — as a new addition to task force 141, you, the rookie, we’re still in your early development stages with the group.

you were skilled — you wouldn’t be there if you weren’t — but they needed to know how you operated, how you communicated, and how well you kept your head on your shoulders during missions.

the group had run through countless simulations, running through different positions and advance tactics — forced you upfront, and kept you behind, any position you could be in and they had stuck you in to see where exactly you die amongst them.

however, when the tides had turned and it was time for you to focus on your strengths — large rifle resting on the small lip of cement on the roof and sights lined up to your point of objective — you were left on your own, captain, lieutenant, and sergeants watching from a small room with cameras watching your every move.

it had been some time since you had met the guys — long enough to have at least grown comfortable in teasing them back, so you realized you had the perfect chance to make someone, maybe even more then that, flushed.

you shuffled out of your laying form — the form you had been taught was the most secure and standard way (they preached it like it was the bible) and settled onto your knees, hips folding over to press against the plush tops of them while your chest slowly settled into the rough cement on the roof.

you back arching more so than naturally, accentuating you ass as you lined up on moving targets that creeped just in your sights.

with no word from your earpiece, you set your sights up with one in the top corner of the house, target peaking out merely an inch before disappearing behind the wall again — acting as if someone was pacing inside, only allowing a sliver of their center to be seen before quickly returning to cover.

“easy,” you scoffed, finger coming up to rest on the trigger as you slowed your breathing, scope coming to a steady rise and fall.

just as your muscles went to squeeze the trigger down, your captains voice rung through the ear peace.

“get in proper position soldier,” price sighed over the coms, the sound of soaps deep laugh ringing afterwards.

“the lass is captain,” you heard him poke. “at least in my books.”

you couldn’t help but let your head sag forward and the swarm or giggle light up your side of the line. “cute soap, real cute,” you sighed. “too bad you’ll never get me in this position.”

you waited for the man to challenge you, knowing the scot early could take defeat and would never back down from a challenge, especially from the rookie.

however the quietness made your smile dampen, thinking that maybe your sensual tongue got you into trouble with your superiors.

“soaps out the the picture, but what about the rest of us darling?” he spoke. “gonna let the rest of us see your pretty little body propped up so perfectly for us when you get back?”

never in your life did you expect the british-brooding-hunk of a man you called lieutenant to speak up.

let alone with the words he had spoken.

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[tamamita]

hey sal feel free to ignore this but i got into an argument with a zionist who claimed that arabs sold their lands to them, is this true

This is interesting, because it ignores a lot of context. Keywords to remember is the Ottoman capitulation, the Felaheen, the Sursock purchase and the eviction of Palestinians that inhabited the area at that time.

The Sursock family was a family of Aristocratic landlords with strong ties to the Turkish and European nobility dating back to the 19th century. The Sursocks were known to have mass purchased land in Palestine from the Ottoman Turks. While they were absentee landlords, they hired Arab labours who inhabited the purchased land at that time. When the Turks capitulated following WW1, the Turks were pressured into allowing the land to be sold to the PLDC, the Palestinan (later Israeli) Land Development Company. The PLDC sought to purchase the Jezreel valley, which consisted of 20-25 Arab villages, from the Sursock. . Keep in mind that the Jezreel valley was the most fertile land of Palestine and close to the economic city of Haifa. Following the mass purchase of land by the PLDC, the Jewish landbuyers expelled Arab tenants and depopulated the Arab villages despite their usufruct, and right to toll on the land. This all came as a surprise to the Arab inhabitants. This was all part of the idea that cheap Arab labour should be replaced with Jewish labour, this despite the fact that Arab labourers had greater expertise on the agricultural field; the settlers were unfamiliar with the land. Keep in mind that according to JNF, the Jewish national fund, only 3% of the Palestinian land were uncultivated, destroying the myth that the land bloomed as a result of its settler colonizers. The Hashomer Hatzaeer would come to be the center of these kibbutzim and would establish over 30 kibbutzim built ontop of the Arab villages before 1948. As a result, the Arabs, or Felaheen (The Arab peasant class) put up a resistance against the JNF out of concrete material reasons and attempted to fight back against the expansion of these kibbutzim. This was the first instance of Arab resistance against Zionism.

All of these lands were purchased before 1948 and the Arabs were expelled and depopulated only for the kibbutzim to be established with the help of the money provided by the Jewish Colonization association and its organs. However, the British mandate did not require the landowners to compensate for the expelled Arab tenants. The Arabs were forced to migrate to slums and towns. In one of these towns, a notable Syrian resistance fighter would rise up, namely, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, and declare jihad on the British. When the Arabs resisted their dispossession by every means necessary, even violence, the Zionists used this as an excuse to fortify their colonizers and expand them due to "escalating security needs". Since the colonizers were too weak to face the resistance, they turned themselves to the British to gain their support in an attempt to expand their lands as means of security for the Kibbutzim. In a memondarium written by the Kibbutz Hazora (a settlement in Jezreel) to the Jewish Agency in 1936: "Our basic demand is for our own instutions to help us ugently in getting the British authorities to expand our territory--this is a vital issue for us.". A similar pretext is used whenever the colonized put up resistance against their colonizers, in which the same excuse is used to further expand and colonize the lands. This is the logic of the oppressor in any context, whether it is colonial or in the class struggle.