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86 years ago, sirens sounded in Guernica as the Nazis carpet-bombed civilians. Today, they sound again for the Palestinian people in Gaza being slaughtered by Israel.

Amazing how there’s no media coverage of this to speak of in the West although even Times of Israel covered Guernica’s 80th anniversary.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/12/09/qyit-d09.html

https://theconversation.com/80-years-on-from-the-guernica-bombing-and-spain-is-still-struggling-to-honour-historical-memory-76238

https://www.timesofisrael.com/spains-guernica-marks-80th-anniversary-of-bombing/

Via @LALegault

#guernica #gaza #israel #palestine #genocide #ethnicCleansing

Thousands in Guernica, Spain draw link between 1937 fascist bombings and Gaza genocide

Several thousand people in Guernica formed an enormous mosaic with their bodies to protest the genocide in Gaza.
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#israel #Palestine #Gaza #genocide #Guernica #EthnicCleansing @LA Legault 🍉
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dick_turpin
dick_turpin
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Didn't you know? Israel is the untouchables!

You may not accuse them, or you will be called Antisemitic.

You can't use military force against them for fear of being called a Nazi.

You cannot sanction them as they control many financial institutions.

This is what happens when society crushes freedom of speech and opinions. Allows the rule of labelling-fear to prevail.

I could have created a mirror picture to the one attached of civilians lined up naked but I'll be labeled.

@LALegault

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Alexander Schmitt
Alexander Schmitt
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Seriously, a nazi/holocaust comparison/relativization? Israel military = Israel? That's all you can contribute to the discussion? Why not an attempt on a critique of every act of violence with an affirmation of the legitimacy of self-defense (and Hamas slaughter is definitely not self-defence) and an option for peace and justice for everyone? But of course, simplification and generalisation is so much simpler...
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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@atrusriven People who were bombed by the Nazis are expressing their solidarity with people who are being bombed by Israel so I’m not contributing anything to the conversation, they are by means of their lived experience.

PS. Shooting fish in a barrel isn’t self-defense, it is blood sport.

@Alexander Schmitt
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Lawrence B. Almeida
Lawrence B. Almeida
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Worth reading if you haven’t already https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-information

Inside the Pro-Israel Information War

Israeli gov-led Zoom calls, WhatsApp chat logs, and other docs provide a window into the massive effort to shape online discourse and silence pro-Palestinian voices.
Jack Poulson (All-Source Intelligence Fusion)
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Bruno T.
Bruno T.
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je pense qu’il faut ajouter que la Légion Condor est venue bombarder Guernica à la demande de Franco, qui avait besoin d’un renfort extérieur pour exterminer les poches de résistance républicaines…
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Cogito ergo mecagoendios
Cogito ergo mecagoendios
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there is quite a bit of coverage in main Spanish news. I think a problem here is that the anglosphere always act as if *their* public opinion is the same as the *global* public opinion. https://www.eldiario.es/euskadi/mundo-historia-no-deben-aceptar-nuevo-gernika-mural-humano-apoya-palestina-localidad-vizcaina_1_10752555.html

"El mundo y la historia no deben aceptar un nuevo Gernika": un mural humano apoya a Palestina en la localidad vizcaína

Cientos de ciudadanos se han reunido este sábado por la mañana en la localidad vizcaína de Gernika y han formado un mural humano gigante con la bandera de Palestina para mostrar su rechazo a los bombardeos de Israel.
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Zilla
Zilla
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When it happens to brown people...it is acceptable to the west. Remember how the west allowed and sat back while Rwanda went into full on genocide...
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Martin Jost
Martin Jost
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No media coverage? I seem to live in some parallel universe...
And - BTW - what was it, that happened Oct, 7 ??
Did there happen anything at all ???
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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@godot@muenchen.social @LALegault Yes, a bunch of Islamist barbarians murdered roughly 1,200 Israelis including ~859 civilians and took hostages.

In the time since, Israel has gone on a genocidal rampage in Gaza, murdering more than ten times the number of Palestinians (~17,000 currently), the vast majority of which are women and children.

Happy?

Now fuck off.

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Sylvain
Sylvain
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It's so fucking disturbing that people pretend Oct. 7th is the beginning of this conflict...

Are they all that ignorant!?

@godot @LALegault

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Ω 🌍 Gus Posey
Ω 🌍 Gus Posey
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You might have seen some coverage about a gang of killer chimpanzees.

It was presented without irony.

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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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I think most right-minded folks’ alarms have been going off for so long that they’re running out of juice.
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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Well thank goodness there’s a whole damn ocean between being exhausted and giving up :)
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Bruce Mirken
Bruce Mirken
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On #MSNBC, Ayman Mohyeldin devoted a good 15 minutes to it on Saturday.
#MSNBC
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Arnau Fuentes ∴
Arnau Fuentes ∴
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just to clear my point of view: it's you who are so wrong, on so many accounts. First of all: linking the modern state of Israel to the nazis fits the worldwide accepted definition of antisemitism.
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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@arfues If the modern state of Israel doesn’t want to be compared to the Nazis, it should stop acting like the Nazis.

Now go away.

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