Mehdi Hassan nails it

[AntivaxHunters]

At least for me he does.

Link to tweet

[GPV]

1. Yep

[SalamanderSleeps]

2. Sorted.

[KPN]

3. Yup. And, as the wise old saying goes, two wrongs don't make a right .

[Autumn]

4. Israel has the right to exist.

Palestine has the right to exist.

A fair and just solution must be found

[getagrip_already]

5. Hamas is not palestine...

They do not have a right to exist if they are a terrorist org.

Unfortunately it is hard to separate them.

A just solution should include the dissolution of Hamas, or at least their renouncement of terrorism.

[Autumn]

16. Palestine is not a terrorist organization. nt

[Celerity]

20. There are attempts by some to start to conflate support for Palestinians with support for Hamas

via sophistry, the injection of accelerationist twitter accounts, and the positing of wilfully ambiguous framings.

[garybeck]

6. John Lennon nails it.

Imagine there's no countries
it isn't hard to do
nothing to kill or die for
an no religion too

[BigmanPigman]

24. I've been singing that all weekend while watching the war...really.

Today's his birthday.

[calimary]

7. A keeper!

Quote of the Week!

[Deuxcents]

8. Centuries of killing each other

And still can’t find a way to coexist.

[lastlib]

23. "It would be unbelievable, if history did not record the tragic fact.....

...that men will slit each other's throats over what would become of them after their throats are cut." --Walter Parker Stacy.

Religion is a shitty thing.

[erronis]

9. Again, for those not addicted to xitter:

This conflict for me has always been about morality.

Morally, you cannot justify the killing of Palestinian civilians, even if you say it’s fighting terrorism.

But morally, you also cannot justify the killing of Israeli civilians, even if you say you’re fighting occupation.

[AntivaxHunters]

10. Because everyone who uses Twitter is an addict?

JFC......

[erronis]

12. Sorry - that was a poor term to use. How about posting the text from the xit next time?

[True Blue American]

25. Just

Like most of us on DU, probably!

[Xavier Breath]

14. Thanks for doing that.

It should be done for each OP containing a tweet or whatever the hell you call those things now. Doesn't seem like that big of an ask.

Having said that, agree wholeheartedly with the OP and Rec.

[MOMFUDSKI]

11. Good stuff.

Now sit down 🪑 to a table and talk it out.

[3Hotdogs]

13. Fucking Balfour Act.

Balfour Declaration is not followed.

What is the answer?

[Cheezoholic]

15. A lot of this is as much about fresh water access

as it is borders or land rights or power and control or religion or everything else completely fucked up in the region IMO.

And this was all brought on by the most vicious sick fascists to date. We need to remember that because they are still lurking in our back yard like a small festering wound that won't heal.

[Mblaze]

17. So many in the world fail the moral conflict.

Nobody seems willing to change, adapt, accommodate or integrate.

[PatSeg]

18. Spot on

[totodeinhere]

19. Just you wait. The right wing will quote the first part of his message while leaving out the second

part.

[AntivaxHunters]

21. Ya they will

[Skittles]

22. I am so sick of all of them

all my life I've been hearing about their beefs and I am SICK OF THEM

[Martin68]

26. That's the crux of the situation.

[Happy Hoosier]

27. Yup. He's great. NT

[judy]

28. Ever since WWII,

War has become a contest of who can kill more civilians.
It is truly awful. Palestinians are not Hamas, and Israelis are not the right-wing Netanyahu government. What does "Standing with Palestine" or "Standing with Israel" mean? Capturing or killing populations who are just trying to live their daily lives?
Many Palestinians hate Hamas, and many Israelis hate Netanyahu. Yet they are being killed on their behalf. This is why we need to speak up and fight against the rise of fascism and the worship of vengeance. Besides, the worst enemy is still doing fine, which is the acceleration of extreme weather phenomena, and that always takes a backseat...