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[Desiree BB @DesiBenton]

"It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, ... a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance." ~Rothbard

[Adi Alardah @alardah91]

Two little survivors of the ongoing Holocaust in Gaza are rescued by a Palestinian man from the rubble of the Abu Oudeh family home after an Israeli airstrike.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Covering up details of the killing of Americans while soliciting bribes in a foreign country goes beyond the typical corruption we are used to

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Benjamin Moser questions Israel's ancestral land claims:

"I can walk into Tel Aviv airport and sign up to be an Israeli, and I can have housing, subsidies... that people who have actually lived there for thousands of years don't have. It's like walking into somebody's house and saying, 'I lived here 3,000 years ago.'"

[Middle East Observer @ME_Observer_]

⚡️🚨 Israeli military confirms death of Major Eliab Haim Tzaflamos in helicopter crash in southern Lebanon, with four other soldiers critically wounded.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Hold that thought for a sec.

Hamas offered to release hostages on October 7, by that evening, with no conditions or demands in return. Israel refused

According to this report, Netanyahu knew about it as far back as July. Plenty of time to prepare the perfect scenario…i.e. the Nova music festival

[Desiree BB @DesiBenton]

@RamAbdu The most evil people in world history!

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Nearly two years ago, during an Israeli military incursion into Gaza’s Zeitoun neighbourhood, Israeli forces surrounded Palestinian detainee Majdi Al-Ayyoubi, his mother, and his wife, who was nine months pregnant.

While Majdi was being tortured during a so-called field interrogation, an Israeli officer ordered his mother and wife to walk north. Shortly afterwards, Israeli forces bombed them, killing both women and his unborn son. A Shin Bet officer then boasted to Majdi about their killing. They murdered his family and turned his grief into yet another instrument of torture.

I shared some of the darkest chapters of suffering with Majdi inside the Sde Teiman torture camp. We were held together in the section they called “Hell,” where he endured both the agony of his injuries and the unbearable loss of his family.

Majdi survived captivity and emerged from that graveyard of the living. Yet Israel would not let him live.

Just moments ago, Israeli forces killed Majdi in a strike on a vehicle in Gaza City. He has now joined his mother, his wife, and the son he never had the chance to hold in his arms.

Majdi carried his longing for that child until his very last breath.

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

We have become the same as nations we bomb for doing this stuff.

After starting the illegal war, one of Trump’s many revolving “reasons” for the war was Iran’s public executions.

6 months later, Trump is doing a public execution.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

The best way to combat antisemitism is to stop killing Semitic peoples in Lebanon and Palestine.

Many people don't know the differences between Jewish, Zionist, Arab, and Semitic, and confusing them is one of the world's biggest identity misconceptions. Something quite tragic which is because of the merging of Judaism, Semitism, and Zionism.

Judaism is not Zionism. The Talmud is not the Torah. Israelis are not Israelites. Zionism and Judaism are diametrically opposed. Zionism is harming Judaism. Zionism hijacked Judaism and used it to build Israel. The Jewish religion is manipulated by the Zionist.

Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. Zionism is not about Jewish people, it is a political ideology based on racial discrimination; "Zionism is a form of racism."An anti-Semite used to mean a person who hated semitic people. Now it means a person who is hated by Zionist while claiming to act on behalf of the Semitic people—the Jews.

The Lebanese and the Palestinian are semitic too. Semitic means semitic people. Semitic people are people who speak semitic languages. The three main Semitic languages are Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic.

You can't cry about "Antisemitism" while at the same time killing Semitic peoples in Lebanon and Palestine.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

There is no doubt Hassan deserves to die. His crimes were demonic and unforgivable—death by firing squad is borderline too merciful. But broadcasting his execution is beneath the dignity & decency of our nation.

Americans will use violence if and when justified, but we do not rejoice in it. Kill him swiftly & silently.

Streaming his execution is not just a stain on our morality—it also gives the terrorists free propaganda that they will use to radicalize & recruit more terrorists like Hassan.

[Daniella Modos - Cutter -SEN @DmodosCutter]

Footage shows a large number of US military aircraft arriving at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport, amid preparations for a potential escalation with Iran.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Why do PA security forces never intervene against Israeli settlers,at least in areas under their control?
Because under the Oslo Accords PA security is not meant to protect Palestinians.
Voilà what 33yrs+ of int'l community backed peace process have delivered to the Palestinians.

[Desiree BB @DesiBenton]

@atrupar That's pathetic! How can you defend a free market or oppose central planning if you don't even know how to define socialism? Or, perhaps, he actually supported central planning all along.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

The region's focus has shifted from Hormuz to Saudi & Yemeni. This was the main airport in Riyadh today.

Flights to Riyadh are being cancelled.

Though this conflict has its own dynamics, its reignition is partly a consequence of Trump and Israel's war of choice with Iran.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Breaking: It feels like doomsday in Gaza right now.

Israeli bombs are falling everywhere, and civilians have nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, and no way to survive!

The so-called ceasefire and @BoardOfPeace are the most grotesque lies in history. @nmladenov

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: US prepares intense three-day military campaign against Iran, targeting Iran's energy facilities, infrastructure, missile and drone arsenal, and IRGC command posts and headquarters, with US military commanders ready to begin the large-scale operations in the coming days, per the NYT.

Monday, Oct 12, is Columbus Day in the US, making this a three-day weekend.

The plans are a change from earlier expectations that Trump would wait until after the Israeli elections on October 27 and the US midterms the following week. Vance chaired the Camp David meeting on Friday where they were discussed.

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

🚨 TREASON IN THE U.S. EMBASSY IN ISRAEL: David Milstein, a top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee, covered up Israeli killings of American citizens and falsified embassy reports about Israeli settler violence.

"Since taking up his post in April 2025, Mr. Milstein, 36, has repeatedly suppressed or significantly revised embassy reporting on Israeli activities to present the Netanyahu government in a favorable light."

"Soon after arriving in Jerusalem, Mr. Milstein began insisting on approving communications from the embassy section that handles Palestinian affairs,"

"As settler violence in the West Bank surged in the spring, for instance, he stymied embassy reporting suggesting that the Israeli government was failing to take action,"

"When members of Congress pushed for accountability over the killings of Palestinian Americans by Israeli settlers and security forces, he suppressed a detailed report that the embassy staff had written, effectively stonewalling lawmakers’ efforts to gain information,"

People who interact with Mr. Milstein professionally "say he goes to unusual lengths to frame Israel in a positive light. He has blocked reporting from being sent, rewritten cables to deliver a different — sometimes opposite — message from the original, and delayed approving drafts until the topic was no longer relevant, these officials said."

"Mr. Milstein also questioned several colleagues on whether they were “pro-Israel” or “pro-Hamas,” according to four officials,"

Mr. Milstein is the stepson of the right-wing radio host Mark Levin, a close ally of both President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

- via The New York Times

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇵🇸 “The genocide that they deluded you into thinking stopped.”

Palestinian journalists in Gaza City filmed the scenes Thursday evening as family members mourned a boy killed in an Israeli strike. In the video, they say Israel gave residents of an entire block less than 10 minutes to evacuate before it bombed.

Palestinian outlet Shehab reported that Thursday evening's strikes on Gaza City came at the same time as, or shortly after, Israeli evacuation orders reported in Hebrew-language media. One strike, on a home in the Sabra neighborhood, killed a boy, Hussam Abu Asr, and a woman, Intisar Abu Asr, and wounded 10 others.

🎥 The video was filmed by journalists Wadea Abu Alsoud and Ali Jafarawi. Translations and editing by @WearThePeaceCo.

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

🇺🇸 Marco Rubio: “We would never violate the sovereignty of any country. We don't violate the sovereignty”

While Marco Rubio was in office the US attacked Venezuela, Iran, Yemen, Iraq, blockade on Cuba, massive pressure on Denmark to hand over Greenland etc…

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

There are a very small number of countries that still carry out public executions. Those are the countries we are constantly told are uniquely primitive, barbaric, sick and evil.

It's revealing that Pete Hegseth wants the US to join that group but also entirely unsurprising.