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War kills in so many ways. These days, Americans are bombarded with images from Gaza and elsewhere of people or broken bodies being ferried on stretchers from the rubble of homes and hospitals, by rescue workers whose thin bodies and stricken faces s…Andrea Mazzarino (CounterPunch.org)
![Sony Thang
@nxt888
A century back?
Glad you brought it up.
Because a hundred years ago, there was no "Israel."
There was only Palestine.
And Palestinians — Muslims, Christians, and Jews — living side by side under colonial rule.
Then came the Balfour Declaration: a promise made by an empire that didn’t own the land, to a movement that didn’t live on it, while the people who did were treated as if they didn’t exist.
Then came British rifles. Zionist militias. Imported settlers.
A project that saw the native not as a neighbor, but as a problem to be solved.
Massacres didn’t begin on October 7th.
They began in Deir Yassin. Tantura. Lydda. Safsaf. Al-Dawayima. Kafr Qasim.
Places you erase because you know memory is your greatest threat.
The Nakba wasn’t a war.
It was ethnic cleansing wrapped in a flag no one recognized.
You say "go back a century" like it’s a warning.
But history is not on your side.
Because the more we rewind, the clearer it gets:
Palestinians didn’t invade anything. They were invaded.
They didn’t erase anyone. They were erased.
So yes, let’s go back.
All the way back.
Because the further we go, the louder the truth becomes.
And the quieter your myth gets.
2:52 AM · Jul 9, 2025 · 76.6K Views
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William Ernstoff
@ernstoff
And if you go back a century? I dont think you want to play this game, buddy
2:17 AM · Jul 9, 2025 · 3 Views](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/7950246 "Sony Thang
@nxt888
A century back?
Glad you brought it up.
Because a hundred years ago, there was no \"Israel.\"
There was only Palestine.
And Palestinians — Muslims, Christians, and Jews — living side by side under colonial rule.
Then came the Balfour Declaration: a promise made by an empire that didn’t own the land, to a movement that didn’t live on it, while the people who did were treated as if they didn’t exist.
Then came British rifles. Zionist militias. Imported settlers.
A project that saw the native not as a neighbor, but as a problem to be solved.
Massacres didn’t begin on October 7th.
They began in Deir Yassin. Tantura. Lydda. Safsaf. Al-Dawayima. Kafr Qasim.
Places you erase because you know memory is your greatest threat.
The Nakba wasn’t a war.
It was ethnic cleansing wrapped in a flag no one recognized.
You say \"go back a century\" like it’s a warning.
But history is not on your side.
Because the more we rewind, the clearer it gets:
Palestinians didn’t invade anything. They were invaded.
They didn’t erase anyone. They were erased.
So yes, let’s go back.
All the way back.
Because the further we go, the louder the truth becomes.
And the quieter your myth gets.
2:52 AM · Jul 9, 2025 · 76.6K Views
[quote]
William Ernstoff
@ernstoff
And if you go back a century? I dont think you want to play this game, buddy
2:17 AM · Jul 9, 2025 · 3 Views")
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