In early December, images circulated worldwide showing dozens of Palestinian men in the city of Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, who were stripped to their underwear, kneeling or sitting hunched over, then blindfolded and put into the back of Israeli military trucks like cattle. The vast majority of these detainees were civilians with no affiliation to Hamas, Israeli security officials later confirmed, and the men were taken away by the army without notifying their families of the detainees’ whereabouts. Some of them never returned.
+972 Magazine and Local Call spoke with four Palestinian civilians who appeared in these photos, or were arrested near the scene and taken to Israeli military detention centers, where they were held for several days or even weeks before being released back to Gaza. Their testimonies — along with 49 video testimonies published by various Arabic media outlets of Palestinians arrested in similar circumstances in recent weeks in the northern districts of Zeitoun, Jabalia, and Shuja’iya — indicate systematic abuse and torture by Israeli soldiers against all of the detainees, civilians and combatants alike.
According to these testimonies, Israeli soldiers subjected Palestinian detainees to electric shocks, burned their skin with lighters, spat in their mouths, and deprived them of sleep, food, and access to bathrooms until they defecated on themselves. Many were tied to a fence for hours, handcuffed, and blindfolded for most of the day. Some testified to having been beaten all over their bodies and having cigarettes extinguished on their necks or backs. Several people are known to have died as a result of being held in these conditions.
Why were the early Zionists dead set on partition (and repeatedly stated that partition would only be a step to a full state of Israel) as soon as Palestinian leaders advocated for a unitary state? Why does Palestine get the blame for not wanting their land taken during WWII while European countries and the US didn’t increase or in some cases even restricted Jewish immigration even once the Nazi atrocious were known? What’s the Palestinian equivalent of Plan Dalet? How about the Israeli martial law? The occupation and blockade? There absolutely has been a cycle of violence, but this has been a cycle of violence between the Colonizer/Occupier and Colonized/Occupied
https://imeu.org/article/plan-dalet
https://mondoweiss.net/2018/01/examining-myths-israel/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law#Israel
https://forward.com/news/470923/israel-land-conquest-1967-occupation-six-day-war-plans/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_Gaza
https://www.btselem.org/duty_to_end_occupation
The issue with this narrative is that there was a state of Palestine. It wasn’t like Palestine existed and UN suddenly came and decided that a part of it would belong to Jewish people. There was the intention to create 3 new states (Jordan, Israel and Palestine) which never existed before.
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That’s addressed in the 2nd link
“Zionism was a settler colonial movement, similar to the movements of Europeans who had colonized the two Americas, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand… Settler colonialism is motivated by a desire to take over land in a foreign country, while classical colonialism covets the natural resources in its new geographic possession… The problem was that the new ‘homelands’ were already inhabited by other people. In response, the settler communities argued that the new land was theirs by divine or moral right, even if, in cases other than Zionism, they did not claim to have lived there thousands of years ago. In many cases, the accepted method for overcoming such obstacles was the genocide of the indigenous locals.”