Derek L. Elliott’s Post

DAY 392. 101 hostages remain in Gaza.💔 Israel’s strength and resilience depend on maintaining our deterrence and our solidarity, the two pillars of our national ethos. During the first months of the war, Israelis pretended that we could do both: defeat Hamas, restoring our deterrence, and free the hostages, restoring our faith in our ability to protect each other. Now though, we know that we must choose between those two essential goals. Prioritizing the hostages will have consequences for restoring our deterrence; prioritizing “victory” will have consequences for restoring our solidarity. If the hostages are left to die by this government, something essential will die within many Israelis and Jews. The resulting heartbreak would be compounded by cynicism and despair—which will impact on the ability of a critical part of the Israeli public to continue sacrificing for this country. And that could have strategic implications. I choose the hostages. Share this far and wide if you do too. We must bring all of them home—the living for rehabilitation and the murdered for proper burial.🎗️ #BringThemHomeNow #TurnTheHorrorIntoHope #SealTheDealNow

We must reject both the lies and propaganda associated with Memorial Day. They have given rise to an acceptance of the atrocities we are witnessing in Gaza, in Sudan, and in Congo. READ "What's Memorial Day to an Abolitionist," the latest from Connease A. Warren at www.towardliberation.com

It is important to read and bear witness to the real human stories here of Palestinians who are trying to survive the unimaginable and the unthinkable. No human being should experience the horror of being repeatedly displaced, constantly fearing the sound of bombs overhead, while nearly 80% of your territory has been destroyed, and 1.9 million people out of around 2.3 million are made homeless, while fighting to find clean water since those plants have been destroyed too. Wars and military actions have limits--if we can condemn human rights abuses in Ukraine, we should condemn similar actions in Gaza and elsewhere. We are here to hold all governments and militant groups accountable. For human rights and humanitarian organizations, these war crimes are not acceptable.

Clear intentions, but as long as no-one wants to accept Palestinian refugees there is nowhere to go for them but Palestine..... In the end it is the international community who decides this, not Netanyahu. Even the scenario to bribe Egypt to accept the Gazans, is no reality yet, and can still be changed based on evaluating this clearly inacceptable and illegal plan. Do not try to push people out of Palestine and grab their land for settler expansion! The opposite must be done, provide temporary refuge for the currently displaced Gazans in UN controlled safe zones in Israel and let people return! My, out of the box, personal, vision is to open the Israeli border and to let the forcibly displaced Gazan civilians evacuate to Israel, preventing their further suffering. It means to set up temporary Blue Helmets/UN peace-force controlled and UNHCR managed facilities in Israel. Also for the West Bank there needs to be UN involvement. My idea of a Union of Canaan (www.canaan.community) would mean to dismantle all radicals at both sides, and to start peacebuilding between the moderate parts of the civilian populations. This requires nonviolent interaction as equals, which leads to mutual understanding and empathy. It is the only way to replace fear and hatred by trust and solidarity; realizing sustainability of peace. There is no future for Israel based on the narrative of its radicals..... anyone who wants to claim the territory exclusively for themselves will only find war, violence and destruction, whereas the moderates at both sides hold the key to peace by non-violent interaction and dialog as equals. Practically it means to establish autonomous communities and spread them over the entire territory. The forcibly displaced Gazans can thus live anywhere they want in such communities and return to Gaza after it is rebuilt. These autonomous communities can coexist and come together in a confederation of communities sharing the country. There is space for all cultural identities this way. Currently, such scenario seems very far fetched, but, since the Palestinians belong to where they are and nobody outside is waiting for a Palestinian exodus, the alternative scenario is that Israel will lose worldwide support and may no longer exist in 10 years from now. Indirectly by destroying Gaza, Netanyahu bombed the Jewish state and a two-state solution. www.canaan.community & www.pax.ngo & www.convergence.ngo

Since Oct 7, the Israel-Palestine war has claimed over 30,000 lives in Gaza. This conflict is over 100 years old and perhaps the most controversial one today. How and why did this war start? Read here: https://lnkd.in/g6EkDUir #FaujiDays #isrealpalestineconflict #FDBlogs #blogpost #blogpostalert

 It's now been a year since the latest wave of aggression against Palestine began, marking a period of immense hardship for our people and communities. This ongoing struggle is a painful reminder of the 76 years of Israeli occupation, with decades of oppression leading to countless lives lost and the devastation of our cities and infrastructure. In response, APLA is proud to release the 1st edition of our online magazine, showcasing the resilience and strength of Palestinian Local Government Units (LGUs) as they continue to serve their communities despite overwhelming challenges. 🔗 Check out the magazine here: https://lnkd.in/dYhQBffN This issue features: 📊 Numbers & Statistics: An in-depth look at the toll on Gaza and the West Bank. 🏙️ Municipal Services Under Siege: How municipalities continue to provide essential services amidst attacks. 🛠️ War Consequences on Gaza Strip Municipalities: The lasting impact on local governance. 🤝 The Role of West Bank Municipalities: How municipalities are mitigating the effects of aggression and fostering resilience. As we reflect on the past year's challenges, we hope this magazine serves as a record of the unwavering determination of our LGUs and a call to action for our partners to continue supporting the Palestinian cause and LGUs' vital role in resilience-building. https://lnkd.in/dYhQBffN

THIS MEANS HE IS FOLLOWING A WELL CALCULATED PLAN TO SHAPE A WIDER REGION OTHER THAN PALESTINE. IF NOT INTERVENED ON TIME, WE MIGHT SEE A REAL "NEW WORLD ORDER", A CONCEPT WHICH WAS SO MUCH REFERRED IN LATE 1990s AND EARLY 2000s AFTER THE COLD WAR: "If the war's only objective was destroying Hamas, a worthy and justified objective, than Israel should have articulated a clear postwar vision. It didn't. Netanyahu has rejected and derided any idea pertaining to postwar Gaza, he has refused to engage with the U.S. in a dialogue over the governance in Gaza and the power vacuum and chaos that are inevitably forming. When you choose neither approach, propose no silver lining and think bombing is strategy you end up with international isolation and fervent anti-Israeli sentiment. You face multiple reports from credible and serious agencies and organizations of a famine in Gaza, the EU accusing Israel of deliberately causing starvation, the U.S. Secretary of State saying "100% of the population in Gaza is at severe levels of acute food insecurity…first time that an entire population has been so classified" and Catherine Russell, the Executive Director of UNICEF, the UN Children's Fund saying the number of children killed in Gaza, 13,000, is an "astronomical horrifying number…a rate of death among children not seen in any other conflict in the world…". —Haaretz " #stopgenocide

🇯🇴 🇸🇾🇮🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱 A potential military escalation between #Iran and #Israel places #Jordan in a challenging position, as it must balance its vocal pro-#Palestinian stance with its obligations under a nearly four-decade-old peace treaty with Israel. King Abdullah II aims to maintain this balance to preserve more than five decades of internal stability, which was last seriously challenged in 1970 during a civil war that resulted in the expulsion of the Palestine Liberation Organization to Lebanon.#PLO A significant portion of Jordan's population of 10 million people is of #Palestinian origin, while the rest are primarily descendants of tribes present when the kingdom was established as a British protectorate in 1921. Members of these tribes form the backbone of the security forces and government, but widespread anger over Israeli operations in Gaza resonates across the population. The 1994 peace treaty obliges #Jordan and #Israel to prevent cross-border infiltration and other perceived threats to each other's security, a crucial element given the current regional tensions. There is concern that #Iran might target #Jordan and the #Hashemite #Monarchy for destabilization by using #radical #Palestinian #proxies to fuel tensions in the region.