same person new account same trolling for anti-Palestinian Israeli governing coalitions

 

 

 

 In this post

https://eyeonthecamera.blogspot.com/2017/11/context-and-nuance-twitter-strips-out.html

 rustedaspie your friend in frustrated LtE (letter to editor) writing, outraged by what letters to the editor get picked and how the writers' possible conflicts of interest are (or aren't) identified, identified a twitter account that trolls for anti-Palestinian Likud-led Israeli governing coalitions.

 

Well @themiddle123 was suspended and killed the links in the post I mentioned above.  Now the same person is posting similar material for a similar cause under the account @themiddle321.  "The Middle" is an ironic name for center-right 'new normal' after chaos and drama (conflict). 

 

 New information was released that confirms a similarity between how Israel imbalances its 'security needs' with Palestinian civil rights (freedom of movement of people and goods) and how the Republic of South Africa prevented a large black majority from rule by the creation of separate 'homelands' under the military and law enforcement control of a white minority government (apartheid).  

 

The same person under a new twitter account @themiddle321 was quick to deny the analogy between Israel and the Republic of South Africa (before 1994).  @themiddle321 repeated the tired, tendentious talking point about a disorganized and poorly-represented community, "Palestinians," rejecting a state after Israeli or UN offers.  The talking point ignores too much nuance for the micro-blogging platform of twitter and its 280 character cap.  Complex subjects are oversimplified because of the post size limit.  Much divisiveness and polarization ensues that spreads into real-life discussions of 'politics.'  Civil discourse and democracy die slowly.  

           

Israeli rejection of a two state solution, shown by the murder of the Prime Minister who signed the agreement that started the negotiation process in September 1993 in a USA white house outdoor signing ceremony, was dismissed by @themiddle321.  The film "Rabin the Last Day" viewable here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTp9UPR78sI shows the strong backlash to the Oslo Accords by Israeli Jewish citizens (zionists) that has 'won out' over the long term.  The film can also be seen with a library card in a public library system that offers the Kanopy film screening app. Twitter accounts @themiddle321 and @themiddle123 were part of a frantic, decentralized, Israeli internet hasbara mission that has killed the Oslo Accord process in practical terms.   Another account quoting the recently deceased Archbishop Desmond Tutu stating the analogy between Israeli treatment of Palestinians and South African apartheid treatment of black citizens and residents moved @themiddle321 to make the sarcastic reply "If you're going to troll, at least learn the basics."

                         

  Readers of this blog who also have and use twitter accounts should continue to block, ignore or mute the account @themiddle321 to avoid being drawn into verbal fights that diminish individual capacity for activism.  Consider reporting @themiddle321 for various twitter rule violations that got a previous account @themiddle123 suspended.  That individual capacity for activism can be better used than arguing in reply threads on twitter.