Diana Buttu : Israel does not have a right to defend its occupation

"It's the height of dehumisation to say everything changed on October 7."

International law scholar and former PLO negotiator Diana Buttu says Israel isn't simply retaliating in Gaza, but continuing a 75 year policy of occupation and ethnic cleansing aimed at forcing Palestinians to abandon their land.

Source : Middle East Eye
#Palestine #Gaza #Genocide
#PLO #DianaButtu

Gaza is Alone

In supporting #Israel, countries are now becoming complicit in their war crimes, says lawyer, former PLO negociator and analyst Diana Buttu who believes the world has turned its back on Palestinians

Source : Aljazeera
#Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #DianaButtu #PLO

The Oslo Accords: Failure or Betrayal ? | Mondoweiss - October 2023

Palestinians reflect on the past 30 years since the first Oslo Accords were signed and all the ways in which the agreement impacted their lives, pushing them even further away from achieving liberation and statehood.Insightfull on the inner political situation, the lack of democracy ( no elections for over a decade).Many Palestinians don't feel represented by the PA authorities, which they arguably see as a colaborator of the occupying force in the West Bank.The young generation has turned away from the old guard
and joined armed resistance groups.


#Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #PA #PLO #Hamas #Israel #OsloAccords #Documentary

🇵🇸 The Oslo Accords: Failure or Betrayal ? | Mondoweiss - October 2023

Palestinians reflect on the past 30 years since the first Oslo Accords were signed and all the ways in which the agreement impacted their lives, pushing them even further away from achieving liberation and statehood.Insightfull on the inner political situation, the lack of democracy ( no elections for over a decade).Many Palestinians don't feel represented by the PA authorities, which they arguably see as a colaborator of the occupying force in the West Bank.The young generation has turned away from the old guard
and joined armed resistance groups.


#Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #PA #PLO #Hamas #Israel #OsloAccords #Documentary

🇵🇸 The Battle of Al Karameh 1968 -
Amateur Documentary Faris Abdo 2015

Details : 1 | 2

#AlKarameh #Fedayeen #PLO #Jordan #JAF #Israel #History #Documentary

🇵🇸 The Battle of Al Karameh  معركة الكرامة | 1968 | Palquest

The battle of Al Karameh took place on 21 March 1968, in and around the small Jordanian town of al-Karama , in the Jordan Valley north of the Dead Sea . The battle involved invading Israeli forces and a combination of Palestinian guerrilla fighters (fedayeen) and forces from the Jordanian army. It was the first major Israeli invasion into Arab territory since the end of the 1967 War .

Although the Israeli army succeeding in destroying the fedayeen base at al-Karama, it suffered relatively heavy losses in the process, and the news of vastly outnumbered and outgunned fedayeen standing and fighting instead of retreating led to a massive upsurge in publicity and support for the Palestinian resistance movement, and Fatah in particular, launching it into the leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) the following year.

The battle thus became a key moment in the development of the Palestinian resistance movement. At the same time, it set the stage for a confrontation between Palestinian guerrilla organizations and the Jordanian state, which would come to a head in the events of September 1970.

#Palestine #Resistance #PLO #Fatah #Jordan #JAF #History #Fedayeen #AlKarameh #AlKarama

🇵🇸 Black September

Refers to the conflict that was fought between the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), under the leadership of Yasser Arafat, and the Jordanian Armed Forces, under the leadership of King Hussein primarily between 16 and 27 September 1970, with certain actions continuing until July 1971.

On 1 September 1970, there were several failed attempts to assassinate the king. On 7 September, in the series of Dawson's Field hijackings, three planes were hijacked by the PFLP: SwissAir and TWA jets that were landed in Jordan's Azraq area, and a Pan Am jet that was flown to Cairo. On 9 September, a BOAC flight from Bahrain was hijacked to Zarqa. The PFLP announced that the hijackings were intended "to bring special attention to the Palestinian problem". After all hostages were removed, the planes were dramatically blown up in front of TV cameras. Directly confronting and angering the King, the rebels declared the Irbid area a "liberated region.

The civil war determined if Jordan would be ruled by the Palestine Liberation Organisation or the Hashemite monarchy. The war resulted in the deaths of thousands of people, the vast majority Palestinian. Armed conflict ended with the expulsion of the PLO leadership and thousands of Palestinian fighters to Lebanon.

#Palestine #PalestinianResistance #PalestinianFactions #FPLP #PLO #YasserArafat #Jordan #KingHussein #Amman #BlackSeptember #BlackSeptemberWar #PlaneHijacking #Hijacking #Resistance #DawsonField

🇵🇸 PLO: History of a Revolution - Black September | AJ Documentary 2009

In the second episode of this six-part series, Al Jazeera looks at the events that led to the PLO's expulsion from Jordan and the birth of the Black September Organisation.

#Palestine #Jordan #PLO #Fatah #BlackSeptember #Syria #BlackSeptemberOrganisation #BlackSeptemberWar #History
#Documentary

🇵🇸 Hamas, Fatah and the history of Palestine liberation | Azzam Tamimi | The Big Picture S3E02

The history of Palestinian liberation movements is paved with setbacks, betrayals and bitter rivalries.

What began as an attempt to unify the resistance against Israeli occupation has over time been undermined by regional and global political interests, ideological differences and disagreements over the justification, and use, of guerilla tactics.

Today the question of who represents Palestinian interests is hotly contested, with Hamas and Fatah vying for control, and a wave of dissatisfied young factions on the rise in Gaza and the West Bank.

British-Palestinian academic and political activist Dr Azzam Tamimi.

In the light of the ongoing violence in Gaza and Israel, and the devastating toll on civilian life, Dr Tamimi explains how these movements began, and why another Palestinian uprising is inevitable

#Palestine #OPT #Gaza #History #Resistance #PLO #Fatah #PFLP #Hamas #AzzamTamimi
10/10/2023

🇵🇸 Black September Organisation - 1/2

In addition to sowing civil war and the disintegration of Lebanon, the 1970 Jordanian-Palestinian war led to the creation of the Palestinian #BlackSeptember movement. The BSO was created in 1971, as a small cell or #commando faction that split from the PLO, specifically the Fatah #faction. Recruits from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (#PFLP), as-Sa’iqa and other groups also joined.

Initially, most BSO  members were #Fatah dissidents who had been close to Abu Ali Iyad, the commander of Fatah forces in northern #Jordan. He continued to fight the Jordanian army after the withdrawal of the #PLO leadership. He was killed, allegedly by execution, by Jordanian forces on 23 July 1971. According to them, the Jordanian Prime Minister at the time, #WasfiTal, was personally responsible for his torture and death.

#BlackSeptemberOrganisation #BSO #AbuAliIyad #Palestine #Resistance #History #Documentary

🇵🇸 PFLP Ghassan Kanafani, Richard Carleton interview | 1970

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine spokesman Ghassan Kanafani interviewed by Richard Carleton, #Beirut 1970. The conflict was fought between the Palestine Liberation Organisation (#PLO )under the leadership of #YasserArafat, and the Jordanian Armed Forces under the leadership of #KingHussein. At its core the civil war sought to determine if Jordan would be ruled by the Palestine Liberation Organisation or the Hashemite Monarchy. The war resulted in the deaths of thousands of people, the vast majority Palestinian. Armed conflict ended with the expulsion of the PLO leadership and thousands of Palestinian fighters to Lebanon. In 1972, #GhassanKanafani and his niece were killed in a car bomb set by the #Mossad outside his home, he was 36.

#Palestine #PFLP #Fedayeen #Jordan #Lebanon #BlackSeptember #History #Documentary

🇵🇸 PLO: History of a Revolution - Episode 1 | Al Jazeera Documentary Jul 2009

Masters of their own Destiny is the first episode in Al Jazeera's six-part series on the history of the Palestine Liberation Organisation.  It looks at the challenges encountered as Palestinians sought to wrest control of their own destiny from Arab regimes and create an independent Palestinian organisation that would lead the struggle for a national home.

Episode 2 : Black September
#BlackSeptember

#Palestine #Resistance #History #PLO #Documentary
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🇵🇸 The Cairo Agreement, Explained

In the late ’60s, especially after Israel won the Arab-Israeli (6-Day) War [#TheWarInJune] in 1967, a strong presence of Palestinian guerillas began to grow in #Lebanon, and the frequency of their operations against Israel from within Lebanese territories increased as well.

On the evening of December 28th, 1968, the Israeli military commenced “#OperationGift,” a #commando operation on #Beirut Airport that resulted in the destruction of 13 passenger planes and a total loss of $43.8 million.

The Israeli repeated retaliations partly aimed to provoke a response in the Lebanese against the militant Palestinian presence in their country.

However, at the time, a significant portion of the Lebanese population was in support of that presence, for reasons that include the prevailing sentiment in the region against the Israeli occupation of #Palestine and the sectarian rift that had begun to manifest between #Muslims and #Christians.

#Fedayeen #Fatah #PLO #History #CairoAgreement