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Bombing the center of a capital should be unthinkable. Apparently it depends on the city — and who’s dropping the bombs.
In London, Paris or Washington this would be a global crisis. Here it barely registers.
The United States has spent EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS fighting and policing in the Middle East. Thousands of our Great Soldiers have died or been badly wounded. Millions of people have died on the other side. GOING INTO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE WORST DECISION EVER MADE.....
Keir Starmer calls on *checks notes* Iran “to get back around the negotiating table.”
That’s where they were, then the US and Israel started bombing.
The words of a pathetic vassal.
I am an infrequent tweeter, but this is important. @AfricanEnergy has gone through official data put out by the Libyan Audit Bureau, Central Bank of Libya (its Economic Bulletins, Foreign Trade Report, and Revenue and Expenditure Reports), and from National Oil Corporation.
I'm finding it very hard to comment on events in the Middle East. The indifference and even enthusiasm towards the indiscriminate bombing of Arabs and Muslims speaks to something deeper and dark. It never went away. But I never thought I'd see it presented so unapologetically.
The US will lecture the world about international law and order then greet a genocidal war criminal with ovation and applause. This is US hypocrisy on full display.
Extremely concerning - I pray for the safe return of my good friend and prominent Libyan journalist Ahmed al-Senussi. Ahmed's brother confirmed he was taken from his home in #Tripoli this afternoon. #Libya
This is without a doubt one of the most important pieces of reporting on Gaza, and by far one of the most disturbing: https://t.co/C8ahv3cpbx
All by Israeli journalist @yuval_abraham based on whistleblower accounts from within the IDF and intelligence agencies.
Israel has developed an AI called "Lavender" to generate kill lists, with almost no human verification to double check the targets selected by the machine: only a a “rubber stamp” check of about “20 seconds” just to make sure the AI target is male.
Moreover, the Israeli army "systematically attacked the targeted individuals while they were in their homes — usually at night while their whole families were present — rather than during the course of military activity". In fact Israel developed another automated system called “Where’s Daddy?” used "specifically to track the targeted individuals and carry out bombings when they had entered their family’s residences" 🤮
One of the intelligence officers who spoke to Abraham is quoted in the article: “We were not interested in killing [Hamas] operatives only when they were in a military building or engaged in a military activity. On the contrary, the IDF bombed them in homes without hesitation, as a first option. It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home. The system is built to look for them in these situations.”
In fact the article reveals a ratio, I think for the first time: "according to two of the sources, the army also decided during the first weeks of the war that, for every junior Hamas operative that Lavender marked, it was permissible to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians... The sources added that, in the event that the target was a senior Hamas official with the rank of battalion or brigade commander, the army on several occasions authorized the killing of more than 100 civilians in the assassination of a single commander."
A ratio of 20 civilians killed for one target works out to about 95% civilian deaths.
Please do read the whole article as it describes in details how the whole process works with the Lavender AI. It's industrialized extermination the likes of which we haven't seen since... you know when.