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Former liberal, ☭, Jewish anti Zionist. Politics, economics, war, NFL, love Joker and Wemby. Bastard child of dear uncles Karl and Carl (Marx and Clausewitz).

[Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape]

This is tragic but predictable

The US/Israeli triggered the worst escalation trap since Vietnam

Iran is stronger and now defending its ally Hezbollah after Israel attacked Beirut

This is a major setback

The ceasefire won’t hold unless Trump decisively restrains Israel

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

When the President of France visited the United States in April 1960, he asked the FBI to help him find a man.
The man he was looking for was an American citizen. He was sixty-four years old. He had been awarded fifteen French military decorations and — six months earlier, in a ceremony in Paris — had been made a Knight of the Légion d'honneur, the highest civilian honor France can give. The medal had been pinned to his chest by the President himself, who had publicly called him un véritable héros français. A true French hero.
The FBI located the man within a few days.
He was operating an elevator at Rockefeller Center in New York City.
The elevator operator's name was Eugene Bullard. He had been born in Columbus, Georgia, in 1895, the son of a man whose own father had been a slave.

He had run away from Columbus at the age of eleven, after watching a white mob nearly lynch his father.
He spent the next several years drifting through the American South. At sixteen, he stowed away on a German freighter at Norfolk, Virginia. He landed in Aberdeen, Scotland. From there he made his way to London, where he learned to box. By 1913, at eighteen, he was prizefighting in Paris.
When Germany invaded France in August 1914, Bullard was nineteen years old. He had no legal obligation to fight. He had no French citizenship.
He went to the recruiting office on October 19, 1914, and signed up for the French Foreign Legion.
He spent the next eighteen months as an infantryman in some of the worst fighting of the war — at the Somme, at Champagne, at Verdun. He was wounded three times. The third wound, on March 5, 1916, tore open his thigh and left him with permanent damage to his leg.
He was twenty years old. The doctors told him he would not return to the infantry.
He decided he wanted to fly.

In a Paris café in the spring of 1916, while he was recovering, Bullard mentioned to three white American friends that he was thinking of joining the French air service. A Mississippian named Jeff Dickson laughed.
Gene, Dickson said, you know damn well there aren't any Negroes in aviation.
Bullard answered: Sure do. That's why I want to get into it. There has to be a first to everything, and I'm going to be the first.
Dickson bet him two thousand dollars he would not make it.
Bullard took the bet. He earned his pilot's license on May 5, 1917. He won the bet.
He reported to the front in August 1917 and flew approximately twenty combat missions over the next three months in a SPAD VII. The fuselage was painted with a bleeding heart pierced by a knife and the French phrase Tout le Sang qui Coule est Rouge — All Blood that Flows is Red.
He carried, on every combat flight, a small capuchin monkey named Jimmy in the front of his flight jacket.
The French press began calling him L'Hirondelle Noire — the Black Swallow.

When the United States entered the war in 1917, Bullard immediately applied to transfer to the U.S. Army Air Service.
His application was rejected.
The U.S. Army Air Service had a policy, in 1917, of not accepting Black pilots. The other American pilots flying for France in his unit, all of them white, were transferred to the U.S. Air Service.
He was the only one who was not.

For the next twenty years, he was one of the most familiar faces in the Montmartre nightlife of Paris between the wars. He owned a nightclub called L'Escadrille. He spoke fluent French, English, and German. Hemingway drank there. Fitzgerald drank there. Langston Hughes drank there. Josephine Baker performed there. Louis Armstrong was a personal friend.
When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Bullard was forty-four. His fluent German and his ownership of a nightclub frequented by German officers made him useful to the French Resistance. He became an intelligence agent — eavesdropping in his own bar on conversations between German officers who did not know he understood every word.
When France fell in June 1940, friends in the Resistance smuggled him across the Spanish border before the Gestapo could arrest him.
He came back to the United States for the first time in twenty-eight years.
He arrived in New York with thirty dollars in his pocket and a permanent limp.

He did not return to a hero's welcome. He returned to a country that had no idea who he was.
He worked at a perfume counter. He worked as a security guard. He worked at the Staten Island shipyards. By the late 1940s, he had taken the job that he would hold for most of the rest of his life.
He operated the elevator at Rockefeller Center.
He was wearing the elevator uniform on the day a producer from NBC came down from the studios upstairs to ask if he was the man Charles de Gaulle had been looking for.
A few weeks later, NBC sent a film crew to interview him in the lobby. The studios where NBC produced The Today Show were on the floors above. He had operated the elevator that took the network executives up to those studios every morning for nearly ten years. He had not been recognized as he did it.
He went back to operating the elevator the following Monday.

He died of stomach cancer on October 12, 1961, three days after his sixty-sixth birthday.
He was buried in the French War Veterans' section of Flushing Cemetery, in Queens, in the uniform of the French Foreign Legion. The casket was draped with the French flag.
In 1994 — thirty-three years after his death — the United States Air Force formally commissioned Eugene Jacques Bullard as a Second Lieutenant, posthumously.
It was the first commission the U.S. military had ever offered him.
He had been the first Black combat pilot in American history.
The French had been calling him a hero since 1917.
The Americans got around to it in 1994.

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

All the news outlets will now report a “wave of missiles”, “a barrage of rockets”, and “bombardment” because Israel is being struck.

The sanitising language of “targeted attacks”, “military action”, and “operations” will suddenly disappear.

[john @johnsemley3000]

what was the endgame here? did they think they’d successfully convince him that he hit the guy?

[Séamus Malekafzali @Seamus_Malek]

Celebrations in Baalbek in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley tonight in support of Iran's retaliatory strikes on Israel.

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

No - Musk allocated 42% of the shares to retail investors because he knows retail investors are far more likely to overpay for SpaceX because they're Elon fanboys and will be indifferent to the fact that SpaceX is massively overvalued.

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

Introducing Elon Musk, the world-renowned authority on the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, perhaps the largest such colonial campaign in history, and a leading historian of Italian East Africa.

[Séamus Malekafzali @Seamus_Malek]

The entire IDF military strategy is doing the "time out, time out, time out, TIME IN" trick in a fight and getting pissed off when someone starts hitting them back

[Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad]

When Ayatollah Ali Khamenei met with the Lebanese leader Saad Hariri in 2010 in Tehran, Hariri wanted to talk about the disarmament of Hezbollah.
Khamenei asked Hariri if he had read Victor Hugo's 1831 novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Hariri had not.
Khamenei told him that the character Esmeralda always carried a knife or a dagger to protect herself. Esmeralda is wanted, just as Lebanon is, by everyone, including Israel.
Hezbollah, Khamenei said, is Esmeralda's dagger. Why would you want to remove it from her?

[Amal Saad @amalsaad_lb]

Iran’s opening of a Lebanon support front not only overturns the nonsensical “proxy” label routinely levelled against Hizbullah, but also demolishes the very premise of the Lebanese collaborationist government’s mantra that Hizbullah “dragged” Lebanon into a “war of others.”

But more importantly, Iran’s provision of this security umbrella to Lebanon demonstrates not merely the inextricability of Iran’s and Hizbullah’s strategic interests, nor just the depth of their ideological and religio-cultural ties, but their shared conception of sovereignty as regional self-determination--a substantive, lived sovereignty that must be continuously enacted and defended through struggle and solidarity, as opposed to the formal externally conferred sovereignty, which as the Lebanese government demonstrates, can be denied or surrendered entirely in practice.

[Hadi @HadiNasrallah]

Iran is bombing Israel. Tehran warned Tel Aviv: bomb Beirut and face the consequences. Iran will not let Israel mask its failures in southern Lebanon by targeting Beirut. Lebanon is not alone; the days of unpunished rabid Israeli aggression are over

[Scott Nover @ScottNover]

New: The Washington Post reconstructed journalist Amal Khalil’s final hours in Lebanon found that Israel’s military denied rescuers access to her during a key period when she was still alive.

w/ @suzanHaidamous, @mmkelly22, and @MohamdEch

https://t.co/ar48t6g4ei

[Matthew Petti 👨‍🎓 @matthew_petti]

“There's no direct spying on America, because the costs of discovery would be enormous.”

Like the “enormous” costs of the Pollard case? Or the Lawrence Franklin case? Or spying on Obama advisors who dealt with Iran? Or putting Stingrays outside the White House in 2019?

[Jason Paladino @jason_paladino]

Hey @ericbradner, curious why you would describe this political consultant who worked for Dem Majority For Israel as simply a “Maine Democratic voter?” Seems pretty dishonest, given her resumé. Does CNN have any standards?

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[The Hasbara Buster @ibrahimibnyusuf]

Hamas killing infants in their cribs is ignored because it didn't happen. The only infant killed on Oct. 7 was Mila Cohen and she was shot through a safe room door by a terrorist who couldn't possibly know a baby was inside.

The "teenagers" shot at the music festival were overwhelmingly military-age males.

As for the other incidents, the fact that we have videos of them doesn't tell us anything regarding their prevalence. Statistics, however, do tell us important facts. And one very relevant fact is that young-age kids were vastly underrepresented on Oct. 7, but were represented proportionally to their numbers in the general population in Gaza. This indicates a Hamas policy of not targeting young children, and an IDF policy of indiscriminately targeting Gazans of whatever age.

[Don't become one of Hitler's children 🇵🇸🍉🇨🇺 @DickCheneyFacts]

The war powers resolution was defeated 324-92, Bell's vote was nowhere near "important".

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Wesley Bell skipped a candidate forum saying he had an important vote. That vote was apparently to continue the war in Lebanon because reasons.

[Greg Krieg @GregJKrieg]

This person is a consultant who’s worked with Jake Auchincloss, Ritchie Torres and DMFI — might be worth noting here!

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

Meet Lizzy Savetsky, the Israel influencer who met with Netanyahu. Prior to meeting her dear leader, she posted her admiration for the Israeli terrøríst, Meir Kahane on Instagram.

Lizzy likes to yell at NYers about not loving America followed by chants of “Long Live Israel” 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@itslaylas on upscrolled 🪬 @itslaylas]

btw: this is the same lady who bought a cardboard cutout of Zohran Mamdani to the Israel Day Parade with Ben Smotrich AND she was dropped from filming real housewives because her husband kept saying the n word...