Conrad88

homeless 5 times, commenting on politics and world events while picking myself up from the last homeless situation.

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

Remember that Israel make up insane lies with zero evidence so you waste time trying to disprove something that deserves no attention.

Focus on Israel's crimes. They are real, documented, and too many to count.

[Censored Men @CensoredMen]

🇵🇸🇮🇱 This is just heartbreaking.

Israel even slaughtered this amazing street vendor.

He worked hard so all his children could receive a proper education.

His slogan was: "let the poor eat."

He's more of a hero than any Israeli soldier will ever be.

RIP Abu Shadi 💔🕊️

[Mondoweiss @Mondoweiss]

A New York Times story claiming a pattern of gender-based violence on October 7 hinged on the story of Gal Abdush. But the Abdush family says there is no proof she was raped, and that Times reporters interviewed them under false pretenses.

https://t.co/CO3eaXw6gi

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

My fellow Jews, how can you look at this and not see our own past. How can you look at this and not see what Israel is doing.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Putin Was Declared A War Criminal For *Relocating* The Same Number Of Children Israel Just *Killed*

It’s probably worth noting at this point in history that the total number of children killed in Gaza has just surpassed the number of children the International Criminal Court indicted Russian president Vladimir Putin for relocating out of a war zone.

A recent estimate by Gaza authorities puts the number of Palestinian children killed by Israel’s bombing campaign over the last seven weeks at just above the six thousand mark. This number comes from the Gaza Media Office, which is only able to make unconfirmed estimates since the Gaza Health Ministry who normally reports such numbers has lost the ability to count the dead effectively due to communications collapse caused by the bombing.

In March of this year — ironically on the 20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq — ICC judges issued an arrest warrant charging Putin with war crimes in Ukraine. The allegations? The “unlawful deportation” of some six thousand Ukrainian children to a network of “re-education” camps inside Russia.

As The Grayzone documented at the time, the ICC charges were based on a Yale HRL report which is rife with contradictions, plot holes, and the fairly significant conflict of interest of being funded by the US State Department. The report itself acknowledges that it found “no documentation of child mistreatment,” and that nearly all of the children were returned to their families in a timely manner.

But even if these points were all false and Vladimir Putin did just illegally kidnap six thousand Ukrainian kids to turn them into Russians, would that be worse than murdering them by dropping powerful military explosives on areas known to be packed full of children? Why is one a war crime and the other apparently fine? Russia is no more a party to the ICC’s Rome Statute than Israel is, after all.

A recent United Nations report says that “Since 7 October, when Hamas fighters attacked Israel, 67 per cent of the more than 14,000 people killed in Gaza are estimated to be women and children.” If we assume it’s an even 14,000 and make the obscenely generous assumption that every single one of the men killed by Israel were Hamas combatants, 67 percent puts the total number of women and children killed at 9,380 in just seven weeks of bombing.

In the 21 months of the war in Ukraine, the UN estimates the number of civilians killed at around ten thousand. The total number of children killed? Around 560.

The numbers show that Israel is plainly behaving in a way that is far, far more murderous and criminal in Gaza than Russia is in Ukraine, but we good and faithful members of the international community are meant to desire only the Russian leader’s prosecution at The Hague.

Really “international law” does not exist in any meaningful way, which is why powerful governments always just ignore it while the people who are actually detained by the ICC are always from weaker nations (overwhelmingly African). Perhaps nothing better exemplifies this dynamic than the the US government’s American Service-Members’ Protection Act, better known as the Hague Invasion Act. This 2002 law authorizes the use of military force to liberate any US or US-allied military personnel from any ICC attempt to prosecute them for war crimes. “US-allied” would ostensibly include Israeli forces.

In truth our world is ruled by tyrants who do whatever they want to do, and their actions are justified by the mass media who function as propagandists for the US-centralized power structure. Pundits weep and rend their garments over Russian crimes while defending, minimizing and obfuscating the far greater crimes of Israel, because Israel is a part of that globe-spanning power structure while Russia is not.

I have never been particularly interested in defending the Russian government. What I am interested in is opposing the murderousness of the globe-spanning power structure I live under, and all the lies, double standards and hypocrisy used to keep the murders going.

[Censored Men @CensoredMen]

🇵🇸🇹🇭 The sister of one of the Thai released hostages had to say this about the way he was treated:

"He said that he was neither tortured nor assaulted, and he had been fed good food.

He was very well taken care of.

It seems as though he stayed in a house, not a tunnel."

[Dr Andreas Krieg @andreas_krieg]

Civilians for civilians #HostageRelease

"They’re seized in the dead of night, blindfolded and cuffed, abused and manipulated to confess to crimes they didn't commit. Every year #Israel arrests almost 1,000 Palestinian youngsters, some of them not yet 13"
https://t.co/W3DfPSak6a

[Diana Buttu @dianabuttu]

Every one of the Palestinian kids released from Israel’s prisons is speaking about how they were beaten and abused. Kids.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Israel Has Damaged Israel's Reputation Far Worse Than Its Enemies Ever Have

"The violence on October 7 was the echo of the violence Israel has been inflicting on Palestinians for generations. Only a fool gets angry at his echo for talking back to him."
https://t.co/My4r6JlEa5

[Conrad88 @Conrad8810]

@jajcatsc1 @caitoz I assume of course that you're talking about how the Jews of occupied Palestine treat the native inhabitants of Palestine (the PALESTINIANS) multiple phone vids have shown this of course

[Conrad88 @Conrad8810]

@LouiseCulmer1 @Molsen68 @BenJamalpsc @arghavan_salles Palestine*
The Jews of occupied Palestine want to destroy Palestine and commit genocide against the Palestinians

- correct it for you, use of the word Israel is wrong, against facts and the statements coming from both sides in this conflict

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Politicians and the media whipped up a firestorm of lies against those of us who opposed the massacre of Palestinian civilians.

In doing so, they whipped up a far right mob.

And look at that mob at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Day.

You fucking clowns.

[Conrad88 @Conrad8810]

@ccwild79 I've been homeless 6 times, through death, false friends, false accusations and backstabbing family, I never made the choice to be homeless. It isn't something most people choose. Whether it's city council of Bunbury in Western Australia or a MP those in power have no idea

[Antony Balmain @aabalmain]

Dear @abcnews and @theage

Tens of thousands have marched in Melbourne for peace in Palestine and currently ZERO coverage on your digital platforms.

It’s the largest peace rally in 20 years. What is going on? Self censorship?

#ceasefire #FreePalestineNow

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

In a just world, anyone who supports this massacre would be driven out of public life and treated as disgraced amoral pariahs.

In the world we live in, those who oppose this massacre are being demonised as hateful dangerous extremists

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

I can’t reshare 99% of the videos and photos that cross my timeline. I can’t bear the responsibility of the trauma that might cause someone. But this is a clip you can watch. It will break your heart but these reunited children need us to see them.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

if they did this to the israeli hostage posters (which the israeli govt has refused to negotiate on receiving for 10 days now) there would understandably be chaos. palestinian lives are not seen as anything but collateral damage to a lot of americans.

[Conrad88 @Conrad8810]

@soopdragons @caitoz 1400? You mean that was reported by the ILLEGAL OCCUPATIONAL GOVERNMENT OF PALESTINE right? The same ones you have admitted to wanting to slaughter the Palestinians into oblivion? The ones constantly being caught out lying? Yeah sure we believe them, NOT!

[Conrad88 @Conrad8810]

@mishanoah1 @caitoz You believe in, mass murder, genocide, ethnic cleansing is wrong and you saying it's not wrong shows where your morals are. /2