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Koko's avatar

I’m Pakistani, thank you for writing this piece. Brilliantly put together! Solidarity and love for Palestine always❤️

MattAboutTown's avatar

thank you for the compliment Koko, it means a lot, I'm glad you liked it ✊

Gladwyn d'Souza's avatar

The Hurs, Sindh, and firebombed Makhi forest colonial playbook of dispossession, warehousing, torture, politicide, mass starvation, and displacement is repeated in the Kenyan forests on Mount Kenya and the Aberdare Mountains a decade later, as you say the same story, which is built into the UN in 1948 by the settler colonial security council, when the legacy is passed to the ES-10/24 war criminals in Palestine.

Leah Abram's avatar

Thank you for this article. I decided to donate £10 to Amir. It's not much, but I want him to live!

MattAboutTown's avatar

thank you for reading and engaging Leah, and also for donating, it really will mean the world to Amir ✊

DEREK HANDS's avatar

UN General Assembly Resolution 181 was a non binding recommendation which USA itself rejected (Austin statement) favouring a trusteeship. UN cannot take land from one and give to another nor can it create states out of (illegal) immigrant rule. What happened here was whilst the UN was deliberating what to do the illegal euro migrants unilaterally declared themselves into existence. Has zero legitimacy whatsoever.

MattAboutTown's avatar

Agreed, the UN has no legitimacy in anything it does, it is a corrupt tool of oppression, imperialism and colonialism, we should burn it all down to the ground

Leah Abram's avatar

Just one thing: You called the Jewish settlers in Palestine "immigrants". You are wrong. They were (are) settlers. Immigrants join a community. Settlers uproot it. Were indigenous Arab Palestinians not forced to leave their homes in Palestine, the Jewish settlers (now Israelis but would have been Jewish Palestinians) would have been Jewish immigrants to Palestine. But since they kicked out the Palestinians who were already on the land, they were settlers.

(Or rather, *are* settlers because that's what's happening to the West Bank with US Tax Dollars!)

DEREK HANDS's avatar

ALIYAH BET. Illegal euro migrants committing genocide. Joined what community? The native Arabic speaking Jews wanted repressive measures taken against your illegal migration to their land. Your first illegal squat in Palestine was on 31 July 1882. Jericho is 11,000 years old. No negating over 10,000 years of history or more.

Leah Abram's avatar

I think we're in agreement; no need to get nasty.

DEREK HANDS's avatar

I apologise I just saw you say I called them immigrants. I merely said UN cannot create states out of (illegal) immigrant rule - as per UN Charter. I am so used to trolls. I reread what you said and I hold my hands up but I was speaking generally as per their charter.

Leah Abram's avatar

No worries! And I understand the defensiveness given the preponderance of trolls and assholes on the internet! As I said, don't worry about it! 🙂

MattAboutTown's avatar

thanks comrades, respect and solidarity ✊