RockINGSOCemRobot

Historian, Punk

[RockINGSOCemRobot @BoiPolloi95]

@MichaelLaRosaDC The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Global War on Terror are "unrelated" to 9/11?

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

This afternoon the young man seen running from the vehicle received a call from the Israeli army telling him he could die alone or die with his family in the car.

He ran from the vehicle into a field and was struck and killed by an Israeli drone.

This is not the first time that the Israeli army has used this tactic. It is pure barbarism. Abject terrorism.

[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

The word of the day is HABIBI! Happy #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth from Ramy Youssef, Elmo, and all of your friends on Sesame Street!

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction during a Pentagon sermon.

[RockINGSOCemRobot @BoiPolloi95]

@Abdullah_Om3r03 .

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

This is one of the most heartbreaking videos I have ever seen. Even the civilian, the human being, who was wounded but survived the first strike, who tried to crawl, was eventually killed in a second strike.
This was two years from today, just five months into Israel’s ongoing genocidal campaign against the Palestinians in Gaza.
If you support this, you are as cruel as the perpetrators of these crimes.

Enemy of civilization

[RockINGSOCemRobot @BoiPolloi95]

@yousefQasem1998 .

[RockINGSOCemRobot @BoiPolloi95]

@ashrafsafy80 .

[Michael L. Russell (Combat Neuropsychologist) @Neuroshrink4U]

@ryangrim Is it War, though?

[gato fumante @KweenInYellow]

An Israeli "comedian" inadvertently reveals that children's schools in Israel are being used as military bases! 😳

Every accusation, a confession.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

It’s beyond me how people in Gaza find the will to carry on amid all this devastation and pain.

Hard to tell who’s more shattered, us or them.

Look at this…

[Haitham in Gaza 🇵🇸🍉 @HaithamElmasri1]

I will never forget that day a year and a half ago, when we ran through areas under the army’s watch just to grab scraps of food from the air-dropped aid.
It was the worst, filthiest, and most horrific famine, hunger and humiliation imposed by Israel on every family in Gaza,
Pain consuming our bodies while the world remained silent, letting us suffer without mercy.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

The illegal forced displacement of 700,000+ people by Israel, as they INVADE LEBANON barely even features in Western news reports.

Imagine the headlines if Iran had forcibly displaced 700,000 Israelis, forcing children to sleep rough by the sea.

[Out Of Context Communism @OOCcommunism]

Finkelstein never misses.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

Russia has the ability to carpet-bomb Kiev in the exact same way the genocidal Israeli-US-Epstein regime is doing in Tehran and across Iran right now. They can destroy every hospital, school, government building, residential building. All the NYT/BBC/AP/Reuters/Guardian Zionist scum now salivating over the murderous bombing of Iran would cry endless crocodile tears. Why? Because they consider Iranians, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Libyans, Syrians to be sub-human, while they, the Zionist Jewish supremacists are human. They admit this openly and with glee.

[John Wight @JohnWight1]

An image that should be engraved on every human heart and mind.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

A perfect example of the double standards in media. 🇮🇱🇵🇸

[insomniacplat🎙 @charliebownirl]

when was your favorite time when the original actor of something voiced a parody of their source

ill start

[barry with the NED @bonzerbarry]

A timelapse of marine traffic shows that the amount of vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz has completely stalled.

[Amal Saad @amalsaad_lb]

The logic behind Hizbullah's decision to join the war:
1) First, the context: From November 2024 to March 1, 2026, Lebanon lived through what I would call “cease-fire warfare” — a new US-backed model of managed war or as Israel called it, a “dynamic truce”, which it used as cover for continued aerial strikes, assassinations, occupation of five strategic points, over 15,000 violations, 400+ killed, kidnappings, and blocked reconstruction. In short, Israel used the cease-fire to achieve what it failed to do during the actual 2 month war. The goal was not just to weaken Hizbullah militarily, but to erase the conditions that produce resistance, while a weak and servile Lebanese government that neither recognised nor defended South Lebanon looked on and tried to delegitimize and constrain Hizbullah’s resistance activity.
2) It is worth establishing from the outset that Hizbullah's decision to participate in the war was not primarily about supporting Iran strategically nor even about ideological solidarity after Khamenei’s assassination. Iran has been conducting a substantial military campaign of its own which has exceeded the expectations of its foes and friends alike, and which neither required nor was waiting on Hizbullah's participation to prosecute it. Hizbullah’s calculations were purely internal: to secure a more durable and robust ceasefire and beyond that, on emerging from any regional settlement with stronger domestic standing, having watched Saudi and other Arab leverage over Lebanese politics diminish as those actors absorb the costs of backing this military campaign against Iran.
3) Those who characterise this decision as a gamble, fundamentally misread the situation, for a gamble presupposes something of value left to lose. There was little, if anything, worth preserving after 15 months of ceasefire warfare that became an existential threat for Hizbullah and its Shia constituency, as well as for Lebanon as a whole, given Israel’s expansionist colonial ambitions. There was every indication the aggression would only deepen, with full-scale assault on Lebanon as its logical culmination. The choice confronting Hizbullah was therefore never between war and peace, but between slow annihilation within an Epstein-genocidal world order and dignified resistance with the possibility of victory.
4) Notably, in its statement yesterday, Hizbullah did not trouble itself to justify its decision domestically by invoking the considerable evidence available to it (as reported by Israeli media, Israeli cabinet discussions yesterday about expanding the war to Lebanon, 100,000 troops massed on the border, explicit invasion threats, etc.) This is likely because it has ceased to regard the current Lebanese government as a legitimate interlocutor. What it sees instead is a collaborationist , Vichy style authority it does not recognise and whose survival it does not expect, and which has in any case placed itself in violation of international law by criminalising the right of resistance to occupation.
5) The cabinet's ban today on Hizbullah's military activities will not be enforced for the simple reason that the army lacks both the will and the institutional coherence to enforce it. The army chief, Rudolf Haykal declined to act on an equivalent decision in August (tellingly, Haykal and PM Salam were reported today to have quarrelled openly over precisely this question) and there is no credible basis for expecting otherwise during active wartime, not least because any serious attempt to confront Hizbullah would risk fragmenting the army along the very fault lines such a confrontation would expose.
6) In light of the above, it becomes easier to understand Hizbullah's 15 months of restraint which should be read as a deliberate strategic patience serving several simultaneous purposes: allowing its community a period of respite and itself an opportunity to reconsolidate after a bruising war, while extending to the Lebanese state a nominal chance to resolve the occupation through diplomatic channels , not out of any genuine faith in that possibility, but in order to be seen to have exhausted it before returning to armed resistance. Hizbullah must have understood with reasonable certainty that a second and far more consequential round of war involving Iran was an inevitability, and that when it came, Iran would engage fully and without restraint, which would optimize the likelihood of, if not outright victory, denying the US and Israel one.