Omar H. Rahman
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Zero self reflection from Israelis on how headstones with Stars of David could stay in tact in the supposed Jew-hating-genocidal Hamas controlled Gaza Strip for all these years, while Israelis go dig up and vandalize Palestinian cemeteries from Gaza to Jerusalem.
Gazans kept the graves of Jews killed during the First World War in pristine condition for decades, while the Israeli military desecrated, dug up, and bulldozed entire Palestinian cemeteries.
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This is one of the craziest statistics I’ve seen so far. Gaza’s doctors have operated in a superhuman capacity throughout this catastrophe, only to be murdered in the hundreds.
🚨Israel killed 374 Gazan doctors, dentists & nurses (as if destroying hospitals wasn't enough).
Becoming a doctor in Gaza is usually the most costly, difficult & time-consuming pursuit.
Only the smartest & top scoring students are accepted into Gaza's medical facilities.
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Sorry, defamation isn’t going to work this time. Your entire leadership is on the record calling for genocide against Palestinians in one form or another. And your military’s actions speak louder than your hasbarists. There’s rarely been a clearer case of genocidal intent
Israel rejects with disgust the blood libel spread by South Africa in its application to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
South Africa's claim lacks both a factual and a legal basis, and constitutes a despicable and contemptuous exploitation of the Court.
South Africa
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Words like famine are being used to describe the situation in Gaza, as if there is drought or their crops are failing. These innocent men, women and children are being deliberately starved to death.
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Deputy mayor of Jerusalem, everyone.
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It’s insane that Biden is holding up a UNSC ceasefire res, insisting that Israel is more appropriate than UN to facilitate humanitarian aid into Gaza—Israel, who cut off basic necessities and weaponized starvation/disease to a civilian population of 2.2mn, half of them children.
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It should be the biggest scandal in the world that Israel has thrown UN employees into Gaza detention camps and tortured “confessions” out of a handful, to delegitimize/defund a humanitarian org of 30,000 employees providing vital aid to millions suffering displacement & famine
Independent report on Israel and UNRWA:
"This is a pretty damning report. But damning not for UNRWA, but for Israel"
Well, its not only damning for Israel. It is also damning for all the Western countries that cut funding for UNRWA on mere (now debunked) accusations by Israel!
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As someone who has written for
@972mag
for a longtime, this may be the most significant piece it has ever published. It is a must read.
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Is there any precedent for an elected US official wearing the military uniform of a foreign country?
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Every Arab-American I know has said there is no chance they are voting for Biden next year (myself included).
Although the voting clout of Arab-Americans is much different than Palestinian citizens of Israel, it’s worth noting the parallels to 2001, when Ehud Barak lost the
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One thing overlooked in this Haim Saban message to Biden is how easily, casually, cavalierly a man like him sends missives to the US President, using sloppy textspeak to criticize policy on a highly-consequential issue with millions of lives at stake. Says a lot about the
Democratic mega-donor Haim Saban wrote an email to Biden's aides Steve Ricchetti & Anita Dunn about Biden's decision to put on hold a weapons shipment to Israel: "Let's not forget there are more Jewish voters who care about Israel than Muslim voters who care about Hamas"
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How many times have we heard Israeli leaders talk about bombing Gaza back to the Stone Age? And yet, here we are after Hamas carried out the most extensive single attack on Israel by any actor in 50 years. This is the epitome of a failed strategy. Try addressing the politics.
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For days, Israel’s version of events aired all over international broadcasts, blaming an errant PIJ rocket for killing five children. Now, after things of cooled, Israeli officials admit it was them, repeating a familiar pattern of denial and obfuscation.
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What total BS. Israeli officials explicitly said they will not abide by international law. They have explicitly said the rules of war don’t apply to them. So how can this US official stand there and say we fully expect Israel to abide by international law. They are cutting off
MUST SEE: Journalists
@SMArikat
,
@MaxBlumenthal
, and
@samhusseini
grill State Department over Israeli “war crimes” and “genocidal rhetoric”
“Will you urge Israel not to starve and slaughter people, please??”
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This is really, really important. The scope of Gaza’s political impact internationally and inside the United States is incredible.
Despite Biden being "probably the most pro-labor president that we've had in decades," his support for Israel's brutal war on Gaza is "unacceptable" and could cost him his reelection, says longtime trade union activist
@BillFletcherJr
. "He really should step aside."
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Thread🧵
Hamas' dramatic attack on Israel will leave nothing and no one untouched, including the illusion that Israel can keep Palestinians penned up indefinitely in what amounts to open-air prisons, while it conducts itself like a normal state. /1
#Gaza
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Excellent reporting by
@LinahAlsaafin
.
"Eventually, the interrogators informed him that the prosecution was charging him with 'stirring up strife', 'incitement' and 'insulting symbolic leaders'."
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On what basis does the US justify its use of a veto, when every other member of the Security Council votes in favor (and UK abstention) and 153 members of the General Assembly? For a state claiming to lead the democratic world, is there any greater anti-democratic action, any
The US just issued its 3rd veto in 137 days of genocide to continue it.
Against the will of 153 states which invoked Uniting for Peace twice.
Against the extraordinary invocation of Art 99 by the UNSG.
Against the ICJ ruling finding plausible genocide & a duty to prevent it
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@DavidM_Friedman
@mehdirhasan
This is actually an Israeli sign placed by an occupying army on the outskirts of Palestinian population centers that it does not want its citizens going into. However, it routinely sends its soldiers into those population centers. How? Because it is an occupying army!
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Israel has spent four months terrorizing Palestinian civilians and driving them from their homes into a small corner of Gaza. Now that it has them cornered--desperate, battered and starving--it's launching an assault on them w/ bombs & guns. Is there any limit to this depravity?
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When Israeli leaders right after October 7 spoke of "flattening Gaza," "eliminating everything," "destruction like in Dresden and Hiroshima," many people took it as hyperbole. Many others pleaded to take them seriously.
It looks like they were serious.
I rarely praise the Guardian but this is a extraordinary visual investigation of the sheer level of destruction in Gaza:
Absolutely crystal clear when you look through it that the objective is to render the place utterly inhabitable, and destroy
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@MichaelShurkin
Palestinian citizens of Israel don’t vote in elections for the PLO chairman. Thought that much would be clear to someone like you.
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@OmarBaddar
I had the exact same reaction when I heard Regev say that. Not only who killed them, but how many Israelis did the Israeli military kill in the process of shelling Hamas fighters.
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So we have the Al Aqua Mosque and the United Arab Mattress. Any others?
He said "I want to thank United Arab Air Mattress" 😂😂😂😂
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Imagine, more civilians have been killed in Gaza in 140+ days than Ukrainian soldiers in two years of war.
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Yes, starve the Palestinians until the survivors are forced to flee their homes and go to other countries. But this is not genocide.
“If we don’t give them food, they will leave.” Genocide is agnostic on the end goal. Destroying part of a national group to make them leave is genocide
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@saschasegan
It wouldn't improve it.
Listen, I didn't like Biden last election, but I not only voted for him, I worked for his campaign because I viewed the alternative--Trump--as much worse.
But sometimes people cross the threshold of acceptability and you can no longer in good
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Instead of acting like statesmen,
@JoeBiden
and
@SecBlinken
have acted like cheerleaders to genocide. They are not only losing the international community—beyond a pocket of Europe—and risking the collapse of international law, but are losing their own State Department.
EXCLU: State Dept officials are preparing a dissent cable over Biden's Israel-Palestine policy
"A mutiny [is] brewing within State at all levels,” one official said, as staff describe anger, depression, tears in meetings + rumors more colleagues will quit
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@clearing_fog
Short sighted? Maybe you lack perspective. I’m sorry, you can’t count on my vote when the man requesting it is facilitating the massacre of the people of Gaza. When he is requesting $15bn to send to the country that is carrying out war crimes. When he has shown nothing but
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After Israel has basically leveled the Gaza Strip and murdered tens of thousands of civilians, your admission of something everyone with a brain has been telling you since day 1 is so helpful, thanks Kirby!
WH spokesman walks back the original US-backed goal of "destroying" Hamas. While saying that Hamas capabilities can be degraded, he acknowledged that Hamas ideology will not be eliminated, that it still has "significant force posture" and it will not be "erased from existence"
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Rather than be alarmed at the content & implications of blatantly genocidal statements from Israeli politicians, Israel’s western backers see them as merely “unhelpful remarks” bc they make it more difficult to continue supporting Israel’s actions without appearing complicit.
Spokesperson
@GermanyDiplo
: We reject in all clarity unhelpful remarks by Israeli government ministers proposing Palestinians should leave Gaza in large numbers. Our position is clear: there must neither be any expulsions nor any territorial reduction of the Gaza Strip.
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It seems whenever Israel’s military makes a statement, it’s reported by the press with news bulletins and headlines before checking if it actually aligns with reality. Adding “its military said” or “according to the Israeli military” is not a substitute for basic factchecking.
In the past 24 hours, Israel committed 17 massacres and killed 250 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured hundreds more.
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If it is unfounded then why not let the court decide on the merits of the hearing they just conducted. Is Israel not capable of defending itself?
🚨Germany becomes the 1st country in the world to announce it'll legally intervene to defend Israel at the ICJ as a third party against the charges of genocide in Gaza.
The German government maintains it has a "Feminist & Human Rights Based Foreign Policy"!
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The ICJ has ruled that Israel is plausibly carrying out genocide and the arms/support still flow from the same countries now cutting aid to a UN agency for refugees after mere allegations against a few employees (out of a staff of 30,00). Just incredible.
UNRWA lifesaving assistance is about to end following countries decisions to cut their funding to the Agency.
Our humanitarian operation, on which 2 million people depend as a lifeline in Gaza, is collapsing. I am shocked such decisions are taken based on alleged behavior of a
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Anyone who thinks there will be normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel in the near, or not too distant, future is totally delusional.
In the eyes of virtually every Saudi citizen, Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Do you think the Saudi leadership can embrace them
For those thinking the Sullivan visit to Saudi might have signaled a forthcoming announcement of a US-Saudi deal re: normalization, even before the visit was postponed sources downplayed expectations & referred to the trip as more of a check-in. 🧵
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One of the things not being talked about enough are the Israeli military detention camps in Gaza where thousands of Palestinians are being tortured, sometimes to death.
Thousands of Palestinians being held in a legal black hole, "subjected to daily torture" at Israel's Sde Teiman detention center, including electrocution, burns, humiliation and more. Journalist
@muhammadshehad2
describes what we know about the horrific conditions.
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This could be the most IMPORTANT editorial I've read on "the battle over truth"
@SykesCharlie
succinct & insightful
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@dianabuttu
This is really outlandish
@zarausa
. These remarks are not just misplaced or ignorant but are extremely racist and hateful, and they demonstrate the core prejudice of the individual.
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@ggreenwald
I will one-up you
@ggreenwald
. There are AP reporters/editors who fought in the IDF, worked in the IDF press office and, as Israeli citizens, are still reservists. And yet still cover this conflict. Their work is syndicated and AP is far from the only one.
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Send this video to the International Criminal Court. The Israeli ambassador to the UK casually and clumsily justifies the use of collective punishment against Palestinians.
#WarCrimes
#ICC
Why are Palestinian homes being demolished?
The Israeli Ambassador to the UK
@TzipiHotovely
says there needs to be some deterrent for people engaging in terrorism.
#KayBulrey
FC
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The first-hand testimony relayed to us from experts who say Gaza is unlike anything they have ever seen goes on and on. And yet there are still people, including the President of the United States, shamefully defending and supporting what Israel is doing.
“I have never… seen a place… so bombarded for such a long time with such a trapped population without any escape. People are traumatized beyond belief.” Jan
@NRC_Egeland
of
@NRC_Norway
is in Gaza for the first time since Oct 7. “I’m pretty shaken, actually, from what I saw.”
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Hey
@GStephanopoulos
, you don't think it is worthwhile in your role as journalist to push back on any single claim of your guest, who is an Israeli official? Such as that Israel is doing more than any country ever to avoid civilian harm, when it's killed 15,000 people, including
Everybody is racing forward to try to establish a Palestinian state. The people of Israel don't understand that. We just suffered the equivalent of 20 9/11s. The last thing you'd want to do is send a message that the way to achieve a political goal is to perpetrate a massive
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This exchange really speaks volumes. What I take from it is a subtle acknowledgment from the US that the ceasefire agreement is really about the first stage, releasing of hostages and that Israel has no intention of negotiating to the second stage of a permanent ceasefire.
Journalist
@NiallStanage
: "So the government of the state of Israel is signed up to a proposal that there could be a permanent end to hostilities and Hamas still in existence in a meaningful way?"
Matt Miller: "No, they are signed up to an agreement that leads to a permanent
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@tribelaw
@RepStefanik
What preceded this
@tribelaw
was Stefanik equating the word intifada with a call for genocide against Jews, which is utterly wrong and outlandish.
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Three high-profile cases of criticizing Israeli
#apartheid
damaging someone’s career in past month or so:
@KenRoth
denied a fellowship at
@Kennedy_School
;
@IlhanMN
removed from
@HouseForeign
; and now
@jimcavallaro
’s candidacy withdrawn from
@IACHumanRights
. Don't be intimidated!
The Biden administration this week withdrew the nomination of
@JimCavallaro
for a human rights post over his criticism of Israel and the role of AIPAC in U.S. politics.
Cavallaro says his criticism is in line with leading human rights groups. "Nobody gets a free pass," he says.
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We are in fact witnessing a genocide. And there are not only world leaders turning a blind eye, but actively enabling it. They will live in infamy and be remembered by history for this moment because the rest of us will not let them forget it.
#Gaza
#Gaza_Genocide
From al-Jazeera reporter Wael Dahdouh: ‘A genocide and holocaust is unfolding in Gaza before the eyes of the world’.
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Israeli Defense Minister:
“I am saying here to the citizens of Lebanon, I already see the citizens in Gaza walking with white flags along the coast... If Hizbollah makes mistakes of this kind, the ones who will pay the price are first of all the citizens of Lebanon. What we are
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I remember a few years ago having lunch in Ramallah with
@fadiquran
. After lunch, Fadi and I were walking on the street outside the restaurant and he turned to me and asked if I thought the Israelis could pull off another Nakba. I told him it was the question that had haunted me
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The NYT has always been heavily biased against Palestinians but these leaked details put an alarming stamp on its editorial policy.
Internal NYT memo tells journalists to restrict use of the terms “genocide” & “ethnic cleansing” and to “avoid” using the phrase “occupied territory.”
It says not to use the word Palestine “except in very rare cases” and to avoid the term “refugee camps.”
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The attacks on Qatar for supporting Hamas are utterly ridiculous. Israel and the US have relied on Qatar to play a stabilizing, humanitarian role in Gaza for years, and its hosting of Hamas officials is part of a broader policy of diplomacy and mediation that has also served US
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Actions speak louder than words. Biden admin sends Israel massive bombs to use in Gaza while asking its leaders to use them carefully, despite all evidence that they will not.
This perfectly captures the reality of the Biden administration’s policy on Gaza.
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If you pay attention to the Israeli New Right, you understand that any expression of Palestinian nationalism is an affront to their own vision of Jewish sovereignty over the “Land of Israel.” Even the Palestinian Authority, which many Israelis regard as essential to maintaining…
IDF filmed securing the area so settlers can take down a Palestinian flag hung in the Palestinian town of Hawara, whose main highway is also used by Israelis traveling to and from northern West Bank settlements
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Let's unpack this recent statement from Israel's new Foreign Minister Eli Cohen:
🧵
"Those who view themselves as Palestinian, by the way, will receive all the assistance they need from us to move to Gaza on a one-way ticket."
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My thoughts on this controversy. As part of my article published today in
#Afkar
.
Pro-Palestine protesters just disrupted Kamala's speech in Michigan.
Her response: "If you want Donald Trump to win say that. Otherwise, I’m speaking.”
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It's becoming very difficult to reach a different conclusion. If Israel is obliterating all things sustaining life in Gaza, what do we make of these 7 states ending funding to the most important humanitarian org operating there at this desperate hour, all while continuing to
Israel destroyed all civilian infrastructure in Gaza, including hospitals. Now it’s time to destroy UNRWA, the most important humanitarian agency providing aid, food & shelter. The intention to collapse of UNRWA is a well calculated genocidal move, backed by the West.
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@briebriejoy
Good for you
@briebriejoy
. So refreshing to see a journalist call Dershowitz on his BS and put him in his place.
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I’ve been asked a lot recently if Israel is trying to draw the US into war with Iran. Maybe here’s your answer.
Iran is a terror octopus. Its arms—Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houtis—are sowing chaos and terror across the world.
It’s time for the US and its allies to target its head, Tehran, and bring down its regime.
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The videos coming out of Jerusalem have been maddening to watch. Seeing naked injustice invokes as strong a feeling as anything else. Soldiers attacking a man w/ his young son for no reason. This is what oppression looks like, to break the bones and the spirit of the oppressed.
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Even in a vacuum w/out the 75 years of Israeli subjugation of Palestinians, 56 years of occupation, or 15 years of siege against Gaza, what Israel is doing now in obliterating a densely populated civilian population from the air would not be called “defense” by a rational human.
Today, Hamas terrorists have struck at the heart of Israel capturing and killing innocent women and children.
Israel has the right to defend itself - today and in the days to come.
The European Union stands with Israel.
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“It must be a wake-up call.” Daniel Levy warns about Israeli apartheid at the UN Security Council
It’s rare that you hear this kind of unvarnished truth telling at the UN Security Council
#EndIsraeliAparthied
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Israel doesn’t get to change the rules. It can violate them, which is what it has done for a very long time and continues to do today.
IDF invasion of Gaza has not started yet. But if you think Israeli forces will not be going into Gaza, you don't understand Israel. The rules have changed.
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While Gaza needs to be the center of everyone’s focus, it’s vital that people pay attention to what’s happening in the rest of Israel-Palestine, including Palestinian citizens of Israel who are being terrorized and their livelihoods being threatened.
Incitement against Palestinian citizens of Israel is all over, promoted from government official until mass media. Their targets go from students and professors to doctors, teachers and workers. Yesterday I was verbally attacked by a Zionist extremist who tried to gather people
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A 13-yr old witnesses his friend shot and killed by Israeli soldiers. 2 weeks later he later tries to stab an Israeli policeman on a bus. Israel blows up his family's home as retribution for terrorism. Tell me how this makes sense or makes things better?
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Behold: the failed logic of decades of Israeli leaders in a few sentences, with all the typical bravado and cliches and stupidity. Naftali Bennett is basically a caricature.
Israel needs now to live as a Silicon Valley in Sparta.
Part of Israel’s colossal failure of October 7th was a result of complacency.
Your typical Israeli was enjoying life, thinking about work, the next startup and the upcoming vacation.
Wars? Nah..that’s passé.
We got
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Abuse, day in and day out for 56 years. What do you think that produces? But they say it’s Palestinian textbooks responsible for teaching hate.
Israeli soldiers harassment of a Palestinian worker at Al Huda Gaz station in Al fawar camp in Hebron area.
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Totally agree. The admin is now trying to spin a narrative to Arab Americans that Biden has surreptitiously been fighting for Palestinians since day 1, but has admittedly done a poor job conveying so. What a joke. Biden has consistently dehumanized Palestinians and aided Israel
Desperate to not lose Michigan, the Biden admin sent top aides to meet with Arab Americans there. Deputy NSA Jon Finer told them:
"We have left a very damaging impression based on what has been a wholly inadequate public accounting for how much the president, the administration
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"Thinning out the population"
Another wonderful euphemism for ethnic cleansing/genocide courtesy of the Israelis.
How long will Israel's Western backers continue to ignore these statements of intent?
Israel Hayom: One option considered by the war cabinet is the "thinning out the Gazan population to the minimum possible level." While most of the security establishment oppose this, "Netanyahu sees this as a strategic goal," and asked Ron Dermer to formulate a working plan
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The word hero gets used a lot this day and age. But these doctors in Gaza working under unimaginable conditions to save lives when any normal human would have collapsed and given up are beyond remarkable and are true heroes in my book.
I left Gaza yesturday.
My heart and my soul are still there with my patients. I remember their names and their wounds. I will fight until they receive the treatment they need and the justice they deserve.
My heart is broken in ways I never knew was possible.
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I think there's a misconception that Netanyahu isnt ideological, that he just espouses whatever's necessary to stay in power. No doubt he's pragmatic, able to navigate politics like no other. But he's also deeply ideological and has steered his country toward the north star of
Netanyahu has embraced the extreme policies of his far-right ministers because he depends on them to stay in power and out of prison, and Netanyahu always prioritizes self-interest, regardless of how many dead Palestinian civilians it causes.
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My colleague
@marcowenjones
expertly breaking it down on
@AJEnglish
on how Israel’s govt uses well-coordinated disinformation campaigns to get out in front of stories like today’s outrageous killing of
#ShireenAbuAkleh
, obscure facts, and skirt accountability.
My interview with
@AJEnglish
about Israeli government disinformation and propaganda pertaining to the killing of
#ShireenAbuAkleh
. May she rest in peace
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Generally, I don’t have difficulty voting for the lesser of two evils
@shadihamid
. But it became clear early in this crisis that I couldnt vote for Biden in 2024, despite major concerns over the alternative. Here was the response I gave then to countless hate messages I received:
Since I've been back home for Thanksgiving break, I've had in depth conversations with four Arab relatives and family friends. All four have said they won't vote for Biden in 2024. They insist they will abstain, even if it ends up benefitting Trump.
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Big news, and a growing sign of the divergence between important civil society groups in the West and the political establishments on the issue of Israel-Palestine.
Breaking:
@hrw
calls for arms embargo on Israel, cutting arms to Palestinian armed groups. States risk complicity in grave abuses if they continue to provide arms amid atrocities. How many more civilians must be killed before the US & others pull the plug?
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To all the people hailing
@JoeBiden
’s ‘heroic efforts’ getting 20 trucks of aid into Gaza, open your eyes and use your brains! It’s PR!
20 trucks = drop in the bucket. Biden hasn’t asked Israel to end its total siege. And since he left 3 days ago hundreds more civilians killed.
Among the 20 trucks entering
#Gaza
today via Rafah, 2 contained water.
Assuming they are large 30,000 litre capacity trucks that's 30ml of water for each of 2 million people there.
A shotglass of water each. WHO recommends 10 litres per person per day. This isn't a solution.
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The solution is to replace Biden as the nominee, full stop. I don't think there is any fix for why his poll numbers are rapidly eroding among young voters and others. He is also 81 years old and in clear cognitive decline. It should be fairly easy to step aside.
If Biden can’t adequately and immediately address the mass drop he has had in the polls with young people there is no path to victory. Simply wanting it to be different or acting like there is no problem doesn’t change the fact we have a major problem.
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My sentiments exactly.
Just bc Biden decided to sprinkle a couple lines about respecting intl law and getting Palestinians humanitarian aid into his speeches the past two days, doesn’t cover up for ten days of giving Israel a greenlight to carpet bomb Gaza, manufacturing
When one has mounds of evidence over the past 2wks of an army not caring at all about “international law” and trafficking in genocidal rhetoric, then one proceeds to write said army a blank check one cannot turn around and feign like one is somehow pushing for “international law”
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It’s just the same s**t over and over again. And it never works.
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As a parent of a 3 year old, it’s also like he’s speaking to a child. WE do this. YOU do this. Bad, Bad, Bad. Tsk tsk tsk.
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...There's a prevailing belief in Israel and elsewhere that Palestinians can be sidelined (re: Bibi at UN- Palestinians cannot have a veto) and their rights/freedom denied forever w/out serious consequence. This is meant to shatter that belief, come what may. /8
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A plurality of US voters, and a majority of Democrats, believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. And thus, that their own government is aiding and abetting genocide... let that sink in.
@zeteo_news
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This ahistorical call to wipe out the people of Gaza—men, women and children—by Israel’s PM is genocidal and by implication doesn’t just apply to Gaza. It applies to all Palestinians. Look what’s already starting in the rest of the country.
And what does he mean by a long war?
Netanyahu declaring invasion: "You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible"
1 Samuel 15:3
"Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass"
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Good journalism, and evidence that the Israeli courts are not a check on the political system’s settler-colonial impulses, but part and parcel of it, offering a legal imprimatur that gives the state cover for its actions.
@972mag
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@briebriejoy
I was wondering the same thing. I can’t imagine the average American believes this or is happy about seeing their elected officials say another country is more important than their own—let alone one running for president.
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My thoughts on yesterday's ICJ ruling.
For awhile now, it's been impossible to foresee a path forward w/out challenging Israeli impunity & altering the cost-benefit calculus of the status quo. The ICJ ruling is a powerful new tool in that effort.
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Lacking any legitimacy, the PA holds on to power through repressing all forms of activism, even when directed at Israel. They fear that alt political organizing will generate momentum and legitimacy rivaling Fatah's, which has no compelling vision or strategy for liberation
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No one should lose sight of this because what happened yesterday in
#Hawara
will only become more frequent. It was state-sanctioned violence. And the state is now ever more firmly in the hands have far-right settlers. This sweeping violence has strategic purpose.
Soldiers and settlers always work in tandem under a settler colonial regime. There is no soldier without the settler. There is no settler without the soldier. From 1948 until today. Remember that as you watch the rampage unfolding in Huwara tonight.
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Any news coverage of
#Gaza
is incomplete w/out the context that it’s been under suffocating siege for 15 yrs, not to mention a 54yr military occupation. It’s routinely bombed and its people terrorized w/ the most lethal military machinery. The word Trauma cant began to capture it
Breaking:
#Gaza
's sole power plant will be completely shut down today due to the lack of fuel, bringing electricity supplies down to only 4 hours a day.
This is the result of Israel's continued closure of Gaza's border crossings for 5th day in a row.
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If you can stomach descriptions of torture, give this article a read. Truly horrifying.
@972mag
Inside Israel's torture camp for Gaza detainees
Palestinians arrested in northern Gaza describe how Israeli soldiers systematically abused civilians and combatants alike, from severe deprivation to brutal physical violence. By
@yuval_abraham
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"The bottom line is that, in Gaza, pretty much everybody is hungry at the moment."
The head of the World Food Program says that 4 out of 5 people starving in THE WHOLE WORLD right now are in Gaza. Think about that.
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Is this the straw that breaks the camel's back? This PA leadership cannot justify its hold on power any longer. All they can do is crush dissent and sow fear. And people are tired of it.
A tragedy for Palestine. Nizar Banat, a leading critic of the Palestinian Authority, a candidate for the legislative council, and a loving father was arrested by the PA security forces this AM, and was later announced dead at the Hebron Hospital. 1/4
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Shame on the world.
Young Palestinian children who have had limbs amputated without pain killers are now likely starving to death as part of an orchestrated famine.
Dr Nick Maynard, Consultant Surgeon spent 2 weeks in Gaza
“What I saw in Al Aqsa hospital was the single worst series of cases I've ever seen in my career as a doctor, predominantly among women and children”
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A stark juxtaposition. At the same time South Africa submits a petition to the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, the Biden administration skirts Congress to deliver more weapons to Israel to carry out its mass killing of Palestinians.
Secretary Blinken bypassed Congress again to give immediate approval of artillery ammunition, fixes, primers and other items as urgently requested by the Israeli military. State Dept official shares the below:
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Explain how this is not ethnic cleansing? It may be implemented gradually but it is occurring in broad daylight to cumulative effect with decades of research, reporting and scholarship documenting its intended purpose.
#Palestine
BREAKING: Just now in Shi'b al Butum, South Hebron Hills, the IDF destroyed 3 homes and 3 water tanks. More demolitions continue. Making life for Palestinians more impossible than it already is.
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Only problem with that map, which is a good one, is you really have to see the space in between not as territorial waters but as the sovereign territory of a hostile and far more powerful state intent on controlling most facets of your life.
@RobertMackey
To see how impossible a Palestinian state would be following Israeli annexation of Jewish-only settlements in the West Bank, consider Julien Bousac's 2009 map of the resulting imaginary archipelago, showing the isolation of areas under Palestinian control
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The carnival atmosphere at the entrance to Gaza is nauseating. These people are taking joy in blocking food, water and medicine to millions of starving and sick people--a million children.
Today at the Nitzana border crossing Israeli citizens are bringing their machine guns and small children to block all humanitarian aid from entering Gaza. The military is having fun. The kids are cooking cotton candy.
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A settler armed with a machine gun walks up to a Palestinian man in his village in the West Bank, shoots him in the stomach, and in full view of an Israeli soldier who does nothing.
Settlers are trying their best to set the West Bank ablaze A settler shooting a Palestinian in Tawani (Msafer Yata) at zero range with no provocation.
Number of WB casualties rising fast.
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@CarolineGlick
@PeterBeinart
What does this even mean? In what sense does he justify the murder of Jews? What are Jewish human rights? And what makes a good Jew? I hear the spirit of religion in his words and the spirit of tribalism in yours.
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