Thread.

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Twitter is awash with statements like “annexation has already been here for years”.

I agree. I guess I’ve spent as much time as anyone exposing and challenging de facto annexation.

I get it.

But I’m also troubled by the statement.

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Occupation, annexation & apartheid are intimately related, existing on a continuum. Each has 50 shades.

But they aren’t the same.

I truly know what de facto annexation looks like, but de jure annexation will make it worse. Energy spent on stopping annexation is well spent

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I’m not theorizing.

When folks say, not with out merit, annexation has already happened, there’s a subtext, often unintentional.

“Nothing matters. All is lost anyway. We’re fucked. Get used to it”.

I understand the despair.

I am not immune to it.

4/

I too am at a loss about how to stop this plunge into madness, much less reverse it.

But regardless: annexation matters. Stopping annexation matters, and is possible.

Ending occupation &exposing, combatting apartheid matter, even if success is not in sight.

Shit matters.