New Podcast! "18 June 2022: Turks and Caicos airport strike" on @Spreaker #airports #caicos #turks
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/18-june-2022-turks-and-caicos-airport-strike--66596775
New Podcast! "18 June 2022: Turks and Caicos airport strike" on @Spreaker #airports #caicos #turks
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/18-june-2022-turks-and-caicos-airport-strike--66596775
>> The main culprits were #Turkey and #Russia. There was much duplicity, especially between #Britain and #France… How is it, then, that the blame ALWAYS goes to the #UnitedStates, #Jews, #Zionists, and #Israel?
#US didn't do it. #Arabs & #Turks did it to themselves, & did it without #Palestinian agency https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111480417535849548
When #Ottomans entered #WWI & when Arabs wrote the #DamascusProtocol, neither consulted #Palestinians. Turkey wanted war spoils then. And after #Assad, still wants it
>> So it was Turkey that antagonized BOTH Arabs and British.
Under threat from #CUP, and still under the #TurkishYoke, #Arabs approached #Britain and offered to revolt against #Turks in exchange for British recognition of #Arab independence from #OttomanEmpire.
British had rebuffed Arabs too, just as they had rebuffed #Zionists, but Turkish entry in #WWI changed everything and Britain agreed to work with Arabs.
THAT led to the #ArabRevolt, NOT #McMahonHusseinCorrespondence
@MAKS23 says the #iranian regime that supports most terrorist organisations in the world and as they have their nose in the nonsense book so much (while committing child abuse and adultery), they don't see the difference between #Ukrainians and #Turks
PRC censorship of Tūjué, an important historical name of the #Turks - https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=66701 more cultural oppression and suppression by #china
It took a plane to spot it.
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A #hurricane so small that it could not be observed by #satellite formed this weekend, surprising #meteorologists and even forecasters at the #NationalHurricaneCenter.
#HurricaneOscar developed on Saturday near #Turks and #Caicos, and to the northeast of #Cuba, in the extreme southwestern #AtlanticOcean. As of Saturday evening, hurricane-force winds extended just 5 miles (8 km) from the center of the storm.
The party navigates their way through the Mythril Mines, the linearity of which begins to expose some of Rebirth's shortcomings (in my opinion) At least the mythril is pretty, and my boys got some time to shine!
@Dinger @billiglarper @marius_gs
#Egypt freelancing in the #Israel-#Hamas #ceaseFire agreements is somewhat like the #British Foreign Office freelancing in the #KitchenerTelegram during #WWI. British FO went beyond instructions, and ended up extending British offer not merely to #Arabia, but to #Palestine as well, when the latter was not at all intended https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111488270634426907
#Britain did not owe Palestinians anything because the latter never fought the #Turks to help the British in WWI
I’m not making this remark callously.
#GrandSharif #Hussein of #Mecca actually fought the #Ottoman #Turks for #Arab independence.
He knowingly put his personal life and the lives of his 3 sons in mortal danger. So the freedom would have been totally earned.
What was the role of #Palestinians in this struggle during #WWI? Did they fight for their freedom or did they just wanted it handed to them on a platter?
Oh wait. In 1947, it was handed to them on a platter, but they kicked it
This thread got forked https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111886884696268223
>> why should we accept anything Lord #Balfour did to support an imperialist power's attempt to win #WWI?
— #Britain and allies won #WWI. They offered #Arabs & #Turks terms that they rejected
— Britain and allies won #WWII as well. They and #UN offered a #TwoStateSolution but Arabs & #Palestinians rejected that
— Arabs & Palestinians lost 1948 war & 1967 war & …
Losers don't get to dictate terms
@TruthSandwich @notwithstanding @8124 @martin
I'm not sure if you and I are referring to the same group as "losers".
Whom are you referring to when you say "Turns out that losing once doesn't mean giving up?"
I'm referring to #Arabs and #Palestinians as losers, and they have lost repeatedly in all conflicts. The only one they succeeded in was in driving out #Turks, and that too with #British help
@TruthSandwich @notwithstanding @8124 @martin
>> #Palestine already had Palestinians for whom this was home.
It also already had #Jews for whom this was their home.
They were repeatedly driven out. Never forget.
>> Of course, their land was conquered by various empires
"Their" land also means land of Judah.Never forget.
>> and then handed over to the "Israelis" instead of returned to them.
#Turks lost that land to #AlliedPowers in WWI
Losers don't dictate terms of peace after war
>> #Israel shouldn't have happened.
What should have happened?
In #WWI #Turkey was given multiple offers to reject #Zionism by both #Britain & #US. They rejected it, even though plenty of #Turks favored a separate peace with #EntentePowers.
After #Holocaust and #WWII, #Jews had to be rehabilitated. The West, including #US took in many of them.
Why couldn't others go back to their ancestral land? See #Hamas Charter for comparable #Muslim claims
@Darryl
Or you could read what they say from their own mouth https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-2017-document-full
>> #Palestine was seized by #Zionist project founded on #BalfourDeclaration
#Turks lost Palestine to #British in #WWI after breaking neutrality & joining #CentralPowers against #Allies
Even after Balfour Declaration, #Britain offered #Turkey to let its flag fly over Palestine, but Turkey refused https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111588189068640979
Meanwhile, #Jews were being exiled and killed everywhere.
Add to this that #Palestinians were under #Ottoman #occupation for 400 years under onerous #TurkishYoke, but they had no problems with that https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111493882749029059
When #Turks were driven out of #Arabia and #Palestine after #WWI, the #British took over. Yet, occupation was not a problem
The moment #Jews arrived, driven by persecution worldwide, they woke up and started complaining about occupation https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111494053066953051
It's the hatred for Jews, and that hatred predates #Zionism
There's plenty of #Israeli propaganda for sure, but just set that aside for a moment and consider the historical facts
#Palestinians under #TurkishYoke for centuries https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111493882749029059
#Arabs & #Turks did it to themselves https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111478160237116451
They did it without any #Palestinian agency https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111486178954945118
#cruxOfTheProblem is #Arabism, NOT religion https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111468754968378541
#AxisOfResistance plunged #MiddleEast into #permanentStateOfWar https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111379041814593155
>> unequivocal message 15,000 deaths ago
You know what should have been the unequivocal message?
We will not let you turn a REAL-ESTATE dispute into a bloody RELIGIOUS dispute.
#cruxOfTheProblem is #Arabism, NOT religion https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111468754968378541
#AxisOfResistance plunged the entire #MiddleEast into a #permanentStateOfWar https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111379041814593155
#US didn't do it. #Arabs & #Turks did it to themselves, & did it without #Palestinian agency https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111481992937686353
Untangling #DamascusProtocol dreamed up by #Arab secret societies on their own from the actual #British offer to Grand Sharif #Hussein of #Mecca — recognizing Arab independence from #TurkishYoke — in exchange for Arabs revolting against #Turks in #WWI
#McMahonHusseinCorrespondence https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111469381209136152
Meme inspired by @8124 -- Thanks!
#OttomanEmpire - 2
Besides #Jews, there were 3 other broad categories of people in the region.
— #Imperial Masters, the #Turks
— #Palestinian #Peasants, #Fellahin
— #Bedouin #Nomads, the "Pure #Arabs"
The boundaries & borders of #Palestine & #Arabian lands were VAGUE TO ALL.
This is why #Kitchener's offer for Arab independence from #TurkishYoke in exchange for Arab uprising in WWI was based on vague borders.
Arabs dreamed up #DamascusProtocol on their own with no regard to Palestinians
#OttomanEmpire - 1
When the #Turks conquered #Arabia, #Arabs lost their religious #Caliphate to #Turkish Sultans, who merged powers of #Sultan and #Caliph
For 400 years before the #GreatWar #WWI, #Palestinians were under despotic Ottoman #occupation, subject to onerous #TurkishYoke
For 4 centuries, occupation was NOT an issue
End of WWI finally brought independence to Arabs (WWII for Palestinians), but they turned that #independence into #grievance against #Jewish presence in #MiddleEast