Zenab Khan’s Post

Israel's future may mirror its past, regardless of who leads the country. The policy of 'conflict management' and 'mowing the grass' will persist, resulting in more occupation, settlements, and displacement. While this approach may seem safe to the Israeli public, it will only bring more disaster. To achieve stability, Israelis must acknowledge and respect the Palestinians, their aspirations, and their presence. We should learn from history and strive for a harmonious coexistence by reaching out to Palestinians and fostering unity within our own community. The Israeli government, driven by extremists, poses a significant threat to the global Jewish community and risks repeating detrimental mistakes. #Israel #Palestine #Coexistence #PeacefulFuture @alufbenn Israel’s Self-Destruction https://lnkd.in/dhmTcn9K via @ForeignAffairs https://lnkd.in/dVk27Am7

This post is on refugee crisis, an excerpt from my upcoming book on "Migration". There will few more posts like these until the book is released. This post focused on Israel's own reverse migration problem of Jews, that just began with the 7 October 2023 war. I compared what is transpiring ever since the war between the Israelis and the Palestinians briefly to the genocide in Ruanda. I questioned if anyone knows who started that "chaos" in East Africa that led to a genocide. More importantly, what was the purpose of starting that chaos, then, in Ruanda? Based on such questions, what about the answers regarding how, who, what in the 7 October atrocities that started the mayhem. Finally, I bring similarities and differences between the two "genocides" although Ruanda was in the million while this one is about ten percent of that so far. However one other striking similarity is the fact that there is already, reportedly, two million Jews leaving Israel, much like two million Hutu left Ruanda after the mayhem there. Finally, since these posts are part of my next book which will be in Turkish and "Migration" there is a large section how it relates to Europe, Türkiye, and the current US Administration. Finally, this post makes one of the conclusions in my upcoming book. That is, how the tied for the first time began to turn against the West on the "Refugee Crisis" card. I conclude, from now on Europeans in particular will not be able to politicize the "Refugee Crisis" scenarios against Türkiye anymore.

The Times They Are a-Changin'. Humanity needs fresh ideas and a new type of politics, representing mankind as a whole instead of fragmented political interests! We have to grow together in order to urgently address the issues that impact all of us like conflict, climate change, inequality and forced migration together. This we can only do without any dominance, as equals. Collectively in Solidarity. www.convergence.ngo & www.pax.ngo

Two years ago, I got the chance to visit Mount Tabor which is located in historic Palestine (now called northern Israel). This is and will always be my favorite mountain in the entire world and I will hope that everyone will get the chance to visit this mount in their lifetime. Northern Israel (cities like Nazareth and Galilee) consist of a variety of Jewish, Arab, and African communities. In order to live here, you must have an Israeli citizenship. Despite having an Israeli citizenship, Arab and African residents still face discrimination and are still subjected to Israel's military and marshall law practices. Today, nearly 90,000 residents of northern Israel have evacuated from their homes since Israel began their war on southern Lebanon. Nearly 90% of Lebanon and Jordan population comprise of Palestinian refugees following the 1948 expulsion. Still today, Palestinians from Jordan and Lebanon are not allow to return to Palestine and purchase land or a home. Palestinians in Lebanon are not allow to enter Israel-Palestine at all. I am grateful I have the opportunity to enter and visit Palestine but there is no hope for me to ever moving there because this right has been taken away unjustly since the creation of Israel, which this coo continues to be backed by US and British governments. I am sharing this because, obviously, Gaza has the world's attention. Rightfully so. But, it is important to uncover what else has been going on and what has always been taking place in Israel. While mainstream media and our failing political leaders continue to distract and confused the American people, we will shed light and truth of what continues to take place. For those of you that may know, Mount Tabor is a historic biblical landmark that Jesus visited which that day became known as the Feast of Transfiguration, which means "to change from within." In order to change our world, we must first change from within...and that will make all the difference. #CeasefireNow #NoDisabilityPrideInGenocide #FreePalestine #StopGazaGenocide #EndTheOccupation #IsraelandPalestine #WeAreOne

The conflict between the Palestinians and Israel, which has reached a terrifying crescendo with the savage obliteration of Gaza, is the outcome of a 100-year-old colonial occupation by Jewish Zionists in Israel backed by major imperial powers, starting with the British and a century later with the United States. This century-long assault by Israel has one objective – to force an indigenous people from their land. The historian Rashid Khalid breaks what he calls “the hundred years of war on Palestine” into six periods. The first is the British support for Jewish Zionists during the British occupation of Palestine from 1917 and 1939. The second declaration of war is the 1947-1948 Nakbeh, or catastrophe, that saw Zionist militias ethnically cleanse 750,000 Palestinians from historic Palestine and carry out a series of massacres. The third is 1967 war when Israel seized the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza and expelled another 250,000 Palestinians. The fourth declaration of war on Palestine was Ariel Sharon’s invasion of Lebanon and the siege of Beirut, followed by the departure of Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) fighters to Tunisia and the 1982 massacre at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. The fourth war against the Palestinians began with the first intifada, or uprising in 1987, continued with the second intifada and is taking place with the Israeli brutal assault on Gaza. The backdrop to this century of war by Israel on the Palestinians is the failure by Arab leaders to offer meaningful support to the Palestinians, in fact these leaders often colluded with Israel to weaken the Palestinian resistance movement. Joining me in the studio to discuss Israel’s settler colonial project, how it is being played out in Gaza and its consequences, is Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and the author of "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonization and Resistance, 1917-2017 https://lnkd.in/efFF5zv7

Again, knowledge is power and knowing history is a powerful must.

Which country are you going to steal now?

The scale of destruction of Palestinian landscape and urban fabric, including schools and universities, hospitals, the violations of housing, land and property, the pollution and degradation of the environment, and exploitation of natural resources, is extreme in Gaza and spreading across the rest of the occupied territory, prompting allegations of domicide, urbicide, scholasticide, medicide, cultural genocide and, more recently, ecocide. Extreme violence and intimidation against Palestinians in the West Bank, and military assaults against the cities of Jenin, Nablus, Tulkarem Tubas, and in rural areas, where Palestinians practise pastoralism, are all escalating. (see https://lnkd.in/e5XKwUiy).

People say that the Palestine/Israel situation is complicated – It’s not. The moment that the British mandate came to an end the Palestinian people were left with just three options. 1. Abandon their ancestral homeland and evacuate to neighboring countries to live as refugees and second-class citizens. 2. Peaceful protest, which Palestinians have a long history of but which has always been responded to violently with mass-killings. 4. To fight an insurgent campaign for their basic human rights against one the largest armies in the world, equipped by the world’s dominant superpower nation. For the Palestinians capitulation was never even an option. It is no secret that Zionist political ideology and Ben-Gurion’s plan had two key goals: A. The creation of a homogenous Ethno-Religious-State with a minimum Jewish majority of 80%. Ethnic cleansing was always a necessity to achieve this intended majority – inclusivity of the Palestinian Arab population was never an option. B. The total conquest of the lands of Judea and Samaria which included all of Palestine and more. By May of 1948, Israeli Haganah forces had already ethnically cleansed over 180 Palestinian villages and perpetrated numerous massacres, even before Israel declared itself a state or before the Arab-Israeli War began. Israel is a nation built on the ruins and bones of the Palestinian people. View the following article and pictures to see what’s left of the Palestinian homeland after Israel destroyed over 500 Palestinian villages: