this is delicious.
The hostages' families have united around the demand from Israel's government to take the ceasefire deal. More than half a million marched for that this evening. Many "pro Israel" accounts have for months purported to talk about the hostages, but are ignoring the protests or depoliticising them. 1/
It's the word "Zionists" that is so useful here; it's that ambiguous designation (I do not know a single non/anti-Zionist Jew who wasn't called a "Zionist" when it suited their detractors) which pulls these diaspora Jews out from their respective societies and make them into global Israelis. 5/
Arab-Palestinian and Jewish Solidarity: The National Committee of Arab Local Authorities in Israel Joined today’s General Strike in Support of Hostage Families.
It was Hamas terrorists who pulled the trigger on the hostages, but Netanyahu sealed their fate. The PM thinks of himself as Mr Security, but he'll go down in history as Mr Death and Mr Abandonment, written in the hostages' blood | Haaretz editorial www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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More fury, grief about Hersh's death, that of the other hostages, of everyone slaughtered these last 11 months. About the false binary of "hostages v Palestinians" when the real binary was always "soaking the earth with more & more blood" or "diplomacy." All for all was on the table in OCTOBER.