Ali O'Neill 🇺🇦🇺🇸

Vegan, Moderate, Democrat, Feminist. Portland, Oregon.#standwithukraine

[Malcontent News @MalcontentmentT]

Ukraine can stand against Russia if we arm Ukraine

[Ali O'Neill 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @AlidaSuzannePDX]

@VladDavidzon Don’t be fooled. I thought I was too and moved there for two years. A mistake.

[Defense of Ukraine @DefenceU]

Keep going, no matter what.

📷: 93rd Mechanized Brigade

[Ali O'Neill 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @AlidaSuzannePDX]

@Nombe @FPRI_Orbis I was just thinking last night about what a bad pick Tim Kaine was. Nothing against him, but he did absolutely nothing to help Hillary.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Keep Gaza starving as a strategy? A few hours ago, Hamas, working with more minor armed factions, launched a few rockets toward the “Gaza Envelope” from Gaza City in the north, triggering a rocket alert in Mefalsim, Israel, with no reported injuries. Hamas also alleges to have fired a volley of short-range artillery rockets at Israeli troops in the Zaytoun area in southeastern Gaza City. Right now, the Israeli military is conducting ferocious saturation bombardment in the vicinity of the Al-Shifa hospital complex. There are reports of IDF armor advancing along with special forces to isolate, cut off, and surround the hospital area (for the third time now), where it is alleged that Hamas is operating and may have carried out the rocket attacks. The area continues to be home to thousands of people who have fled from other parts of northern Gaza and are sheltering near the largely out-of-service hospital that was the scene of intense bombardment and Israeli ground operations in recent months, after which the IDF withdrew its troops from the area.

What is noteworthy about the timing of this terrible development is that today saw the first successful and violence-free land-based entry of aid on a few trucks through an Israeli crossing in the north; the food/aid cargo was distributed to civilians who are desperately in need at a UN facility in Gaza City. Local assistance, including from some prominent families and clans, made today's distribution successful. In recent days, however, Hamas has made it clear that it will not tolerate clans or locals supplanting its role and engaging the IDF or UN to provide safety and support for food and aid distribution. What just took place with the rocket attacks that solicited massive and heart-stopping Israeli bombardment and a new incursion is very likely an attempt by Hamas to foment instability that prevents further distribution of aid via truck deliveries. It’s very clear that Hamas is interested in perpetuating the hunger crisis in the north to prevent alternative parties from taking its place and, more importantly, for the group to have the hunger crisis actually devolve into a famine that puts pressure on Israel to stop the war.

This is why Hamas has not been happy about food airdrops to deliver aid to starving Gazans. These humanitarian air operations bypass traditional delivery and distribution methods and get food into the hands of people who need it immediately, with lower probabilities of theft and interception. Food airdrops, as inefficient and inadequate as they are, have undermined Hamas’s nefarious and Machiavellian calculus to use hunger and maximum misery of civilians in Gaza as a way of stopping a war that it has largely lost without achieving any of its objectives. This is not to say that land or seaborne deliveries should not take place, far from it — all aid delivery methods must be maximally pursued. However, there must be a realistic and pragmatic understanding of why the security situation will continue to be challenging for a while and that aid and food distribution by land/trucks will face some setbacks. That’s why airdrops can complement other delivery methods and should be doubled and continued indefinitely. What is critical now is to explore the diversification of airdropped food to include more substantial food items beyond MREs (Meals Ready to Eat), such as small flour and rice bags, dried beans/legumes, canned meats/foods, powdered milk, and nutrient-dense bars — as well as hygiene kits and bottled water.

Some believe that Israel may be using limits to aid delivery via land as a bargaining tool to pressure Hamas during the ceasefire negotiations. But let there be no doubt: Hamas is counting on hunger as part of its strategy to bring about an end to the war by having images of mass starvation and hunger cause maximum political pressure on Israel. Tragically, the outcome is that hundreds of thousands of civilians in Northern Gaza are pawns in a dirty chessboard and circumstances over which they have no control.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Antisemitism is evil & is out of control. There are those who justify their hate and bigotry by claiming to do so as part of "advocacy" or "activism" for Gaza or Muslim causes. These sick individuals & groups perpetuate age-old tropes & harm the very causes they allege to support

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

NEW AD: Many MAGA Republicans are saying Trump’s “bloodbath” comment should be put in context.

So we put it in context.

[The Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat @LorenzoTheCat]

Let's turn Trump Tower into an animal shelter and charm school for wayward kitties.

[Ali O'Neill 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @AlidaSuzannePDX]

@Celestemarcus3 Got it!

[Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺🇹🇼 @BLSchmitt]

NOT ENOUGH!

[Congressman Chris Deluzio @RepDeluzio]

I joined my fellow veterans in Congress and @VoteVets to push Speaker Johnson to let us do our job and support our friends in Ukraine.

It's the right thing to do for democracy and for our country.

[Celeste Marcus @Celestemarcus3]

Tel Aviv

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

If anyone really is thinking of voting for Trump or abstaining because of Gaza, you should know that this is just what Netanyahu wants you to do.

[Jonathan Swan @jonathanvswan]

Trump effectively confirms our reporting that he's been discussing with advisers a 16 week national abortion ban with the three exceptions. The Trump campaign originally put out a statement calling our story "fake news." @maggieNYT https://t.co/PmMfaio67S

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

You can’t be pro Trump and a supporter of Ukraine, lesson #2000!

[Business Ukraine mag @Biz_Ukraine_Mag]

“Putin is the Hitler of our era. The current situation is strikingly similar to the 1930s, when military men warned of the mounting danger but were overruled by politicians who preferred to appease Hitler.”

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[Marquis de SAHD @MarquisDeSAHD]

“I’M NOT VOTING FOR BIDEN NO MATTER WHAT YOU S… HEY WHERE ARE YOU GOING??”

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

An extraordinary moment. Fatah's devastating attack on the disaster that Hamas has brought on the Palestinian people. It does not spare Israel blame either but this is damning:
"Those who caused the reoccupation of Gaza by Israel, and caused the catastrophe that the Palestinian people are living, especially in the Gaza Strip, do not have the right to dictate national priorities, confirming that the real detachment from reality and from the Palestinian people is the leadership of the Hamas movement, which has not yet felt the magnitude of the disaster that our people live in the Gaza Strip and the rest of the Palestinian territories."

[Alex Vindman 🇺🇸 @AVindman]

Trump’s either lying or has dementia. You choose. There’s no tape of the infamous July 25th call. There is however a damning transcript and my testimony, where it is indisputable @realDonaldTrump tried to extort President Zelensky. I reported and ended this corrupt scheme.

[Room Rater @ratemyskyperoom]

The greatest threat to the existence of the State of Israel is its prime minister. A two state solution is the only way. L’chaim Israel. @netanyahu must go. 0/10