A 6-year #FirstIntifada began on #ThisDayInHistory in 1987. Most reporting ignores that it was mainly #nonviolent on the #Palestinian side. The response included torture, snipers, home demolition, black-outs, & hunger, with ~2000 killed (vs ~170 Israelis, mostly security forces).

In 1987 on #ThisDayInHistory, at the #ErezCrossing between #Israel and the #GazaStrip, an #IDF truck caused a traffic accident that killed four #Palestinians and wounded seven others. Israel's violent response to protests over this made it one of the sparks of the #FirstIntifada.

“A story of a 1930s uprising against British colonialism is key to understanding Gaza today”

by Jonathan Cook on Substack

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“‘Palestine 36’ is a potent reminder that the blueprint for #Israel's depraved #WarCrimes in #Gaza were laid down by a #British #empire whose #tyranny the Palestinians tried - and failed - to end”

https://open.substack.com/pub/jonathancook/p/a-story-of-a-1930s-uprising-against

#Press #Palestine36 #Film #Britain #Colonialism #Brutality #FirstIntifada

“‘Palestine 36’ is a masterpiece on the 1936 Arab revolt”

by Imran Mulla in Middle East Eye

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“Palestine 36 is stirring, thought-provoking and devastating. It examines the roots of the bloody conflict still playing out today. This is a rare film that has been made with profound moral courage”

https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/palestine-36-masterpiece-1936-arab-revolt

#Press #Palestine36 #Film #Britain #Mandate #Palestine #Colonialism #FirstIntifada #Wingate #Repression #WarCrimes

(1/2) There is no perfect way to date the start of the #FirstIntifada in #Palestine but #ThisDayInHistory in 1987 is a good contender. The mass popular uprising began with the youth who grew up under #occupation, was largely #nonviolent at first, and casualties stayed one-sided..

The Chris Hedges Report: Catastrophe in the Middle East
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/10/01/the-chris-hedges-report-catastrophe-in-the-middle-east/
“Israel is going all the way and doing anything possible to push Hezbollah to go for an all out war,“ Israeli journalist Gideon Levy says in this interview. By Chris Hedges Scheerpost It has become quite rare to hear any…
#Politics #Commentary #HumanRights #Israel #Lebanon #Militarism #Palestine #Terrorism #AmiraHass #ChrisHedges #EthnicCleansing #FirstIntifada #GideonLevy #IsraelGaza2023War #IsraeliApartheid #IsraeliPrimeMinisterBenjaminNetanyahu #Oct.7 #PalestinianAuthority #TwoStateSolution #YitzhakRabin #Zionism

⬆️ #EcstasyAndAmnesia #GazaStrip

The common and deeper meaning to all was that #Israel’s enemies needed to be protected from the consequences of THEIR defeat in the wars THEY initiated and LOST.

It’s notable that this doesn’t seem to have happened in #Arab-#Israeli wars where #eliminationism didn’t feature in the rhetoric or the stated motivations—#Suez in 1956, #YomKippur in 1973, the #FirstIntifada wars in #Lebanon.

But it certainly happened in the wars that began in 1947, 1967, & 2000

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@Alexandrad1
⬆️ Not #whataboutism but correct response to your #grievance:
>> If #media cared…about "both sides" & objectivity… we would be better informed about what is going on in #Gaza & #WestBank

You WANT #bothsidesism, not true reporting. Media IS biased, but in the OPPOSITE direction to what you claim.

Since #FirstIntifada, I've never seen coverage of #causeAndEffect, only the effect, which is plight of #Palestinians

For true "both sides" see ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111518104428222810

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>> A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid

Have you been living under a rock through the #FirstIntifada and #SecondIntifada, particularly the latter?

>> we are somehow supposed to support Jewish claims to the land based on the Torah and therefore we should be okay with the massive displacement, murder, and pillage that characterized the formation of the state of Israel?

Even ignoring #Bible and #Torah ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111494007586354401