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"Ongoing" - One of the phrases increasingly used next to the term "Nakba" is "Ongoing" as in the recent proposal by Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib. Now westerners assume that the "ongoing" seeks to highlight continued suffering of Palestinian Arabs, but as with so many other phrases that serve as "dual use language" (as Eran Shayshon coined) is that the deep meaning is very different. Once it is known and understood that the real time meaning of the Nakba, as described by Constantin Zureiq as "Seven Arab states declare war in an attempt to subdue Zionism, stop impotent before it, and return on their heels" was the shameful failure to defeat the lowly Jews in war - it becomes crystal clear why it remains "ongoing": As long as Israel exists, the Arab, and especially Palestinian Arab shameful failure to dismantle Jewish sovereignty and "subdue Zionism" remains "ongoing". As long as, per Bevin's quote, the top goal of the Palestine Arabs "to resist to the last the establishment of Jewish sovereignty in any part of the land" remains unfulfilled, their definition of disaster remains "ongoing". In the updated book of The War of Return, "October Return", @Adi_Schwartz and I included a dictionary of sort to explore this dual use language. I share it here with you: "This becomes especially clear when analyzing the language of Palestinian identity and that of its supporters around the world. Terms such as “two states,” “justice,” “return,” and “rights” carry one meaning in dialogue between Palestinians and Westerners or Israelis—but an entirely different meaning within internal Palestinian discourse. "Take “two states,” for example. During the years of negotiations, Palestinian leaders—and many surveys—expressed support for the “two-state solution.” Israelis and Westerners reasonably assumed that this meant one state for Palestinian Arabs and one for Jews. In retrospect, we should have checked. For when Palestinians speak of “two states,” they also maintain that millions of Palestinian “refugees” have a right to settle inside Israel. The implication is that the phrase “two states” actually means a Palestinian Arab state in the West Bank and Gaza, alongside a second Arab-majority state that replaces Israel via the mass return of refugees. In effect: “this one is ours, and that one is also ours.” "To this day, no official Palestinian peace plan includes the recognition of a Jewish state on any part of the land between the river and the sea. "It is also worth examining the meaning of a word like “justice”—so frequently invoked in phrases like “a just peace,” “a just solution,” or in the names of organizations such as “Students for Justice in Palestine.” To many in the world, “justice” may simply mean that Palestinians should have a state of their own, or that Israel should not control their daily lives. That is a reasonable interpretation. But it is not the Palestinian one. "For Palestinians, there is only one concept of justice: the reversal of the injustice they associate with the creation of the State of Israel. And central to that “corrective justice” is return—which, by definition, entails the end of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people. "The same applies to words like “rights,” “liberation,” and, of course, “return.” As will become clear in the pages ahead, there is no ambiguity: “return” is the concept that embodies victory over the Jewish state and its elimination. "That is why the butcherty of October 7 was greeted with euphoria."

Keir Starmer and James O’Brien’s Therapy Hour after Wes Streeting’s resignation @Keir_Starmer @wesstreeting

“I will behead you one by one,” says a young islamist outside East London Mosque! @visegrad24 founder Stefan Tompson is surrounded in Whitechapel, England, after being recognized by members of the Muslim community.

Leaked Footage from Israeli Airforce Shows IDF Apache Helicopter Firing on its OWN Citizens at Supernova Music Festival on October 7 “The pilots realised that there was tremendous difficulty in distinguishing within the occupied outposts and settlements who was a terrorist and who was a soldier or civilian.” […] “The rate of fire against the thousands of terrorists was tremendous at first, and only at a certain point did the pilots begin to slow down the attacks and carefully select the targets.” Middle East Eye @VanessaBeeley

“7 years later, history repeats itself” #NAKBA78 testimony of the family of Aws Al-Na’san: “The settlers stormed the village and the house. My father was killed by shots fired by settlers. He was killed in 2019. 7 years later, history repeats itself, my brother Aws who was my backbone and I thought he would never leave me, he went to school, like any child, he had mid-terms, settlers attacked the school…Aws went to help some children…a settler shot him.” My brother joined God and my dad. He left us with immense pain that will never end. To have your father a martyr, and 7 years later have your brother a martyr, when we should have spent our childhood as a family together. Instead, we spent our childhood experiencing loss and agony. Aws like any other child, he was 14 years old, he went to school to learn, only to return on his classmates’ shoulders as a martyr. This is unfair. Aws was everything in my life.”

Today is the UN’s International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. For the hostages enduring sexual assault, violence, and endless uncertainty in Hamas terror tunnels, the world’s silence is deafening. #LetThemGoNow

“WE WILL BEHEAD JEWS ONE BY ONE” I just watched Muslims surround @visegrad24 founder Stefan Tompson be surrounded in London while we were filming a documentary. They threw up Nazi salutes and screamed obscenities