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1/ More than 4,000 words on Israeli checkpoints. Hundreds of movement restrictions mapped. Countless paragraphs on their impact. And virtually nothing explaining why many of these security measures exist in the first place. Palestinian terrorism barely enters the story. The human cost deserves scrutiny. So does the context @WIRED left out. 🧵 x.com/WIRED/status/2…

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Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it. wired.com/story/how-isra…

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1/ More than 4,000 words on Israeli checkpoints. Hundreds of movement restrictions mapped. Countless paragraphs on their impact. And virtually nothing explaining why many of these security measures exist in the first place. Palestinian terrorism barely enters the story. The human cost deserves scrutiny. So does the context @WIRED left out. 🧵 x.com/WIRED/status/2…
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@WIRED
Sep 30
Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it. wired.com/story/how-isra…
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2/ Start with 1948. @WIRED tells readers: “Zionist forces expelled more than 750,000 Palestinians from their homes.” That reduces a complex wartime refugee crisis to a single cause. Historical research describes a mixture of expulsions, flight from fighting and fear, and the
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"The Nakba" means “catastrophe” in Arabic, but it didn't originally refer to the narrative of Palestinian displacement as it is commonly understood today. It referred to the Arab world’s failed attempt to destroy the newly re-established Jewish state.🧵
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3/ Then 1967: “Israel seized the remaining Palestinian territories.” Missing from that neat formulation? The West Bank was controlled by Jordan. Gaza was controlled by Egypt. The buildup to the Six-Day War and the reasons it broke out? Simply not there. Apparently, “Israel
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4/ Then comes Oslo. @WIRED claims the process “was meant to lead to the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state.” Except the actual agreements created interim Palestinian self-government and explicitly left borders, Jerusalem, settlements, security and other
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5/ Then 2002. @WIRED tells readers Israel began building the security barrier. Why would Israel possibly do that? No mention in the timeline of the Second Intifada’s wave of suicide bombings, shootings and other attacks. Erase the attacks and the security response suddenly
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6/ Then 2007: “Israel has imposed a blockade on Gaza.” Again: cause deleted. Restrictions intensified following Hamas’ takeover of Gaza and amid continuing rocket fire into Israel. Egypt also controlled the Rafah crossing. Hamas disappears. Israel’s response remains. Notice
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7/ @WIRED repeatedly analyzes checkpoint data “since October 2023” and finds delays increased sharply after that date. Yet its historical framing gives readers remarkably little explanation of why Israeli security concerns changed so dramatically then. October 2023 apparently
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8/ That’s the fundamental problem with @WIRED’s “investigation.” Documenting the hardship caused by checkpoints is legitimate journalism. But if you repeatedly remove the wars, terror attacks, suicide bombings, Hamas takeover and other security events that preceded Israeli
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The corruption of #Wired magazine has been so rampant that I had to cancel my subscription after years of enjoying their non-political coverage of the tech industry. They have replaced a pro-science, live and let live ethos with woke gibberish that demonizes the Israeli