Fahmida Abrahams

[War Intel @warintel4u]

⚡️Swedish actor Gustaf Skarsgård, known for his role as Floki in the "Vikings" series, has joined the campaign to support the Global Sumud Fleet.

[Fahmida Abrahams @FahmidaAbr]

Check out this review on @hellopetercom https://t.co/wRorqisTHn

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws]

🚨BREAKING: CANDACE OWENS FIRED FROM DAILY WIRE

CEO Jeremy Boreing: "Daily Wire and Candace Owens have ended their relationship."

This is what happens when you go against Zionism, they discredit and cancel you.

We know you are on the right side of history, stay strong @RealCandaceO , full support.

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

Photojournalist Hazem Suleiman posted a video on Instagram showing trucks transporting rubble left behind from Israeli bombardments in Gaza to construct a port. Suleiman posted the video with the caption, ”The new port is being built under American sponsorship and Arab silence, the rubble mixed with the remains of our martyrs."

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

4 of his children were killed by your genocide.

He’s talking to you @POTUS.

We all are.

[Goolam @goolammv]

SOUTH AFRICA UNDER SIEGE AS ILLEGAL FOREIGNERS DECIMATE AND DESTROY INFRASTRUCTURE. This incident happened in Jhb CBD. What is happening here is treason. These criminals are also cutting traffic light poles which kills South Africans and destroys the economy. No other country in SADC has these problems. As a country, South Africa is in serious trouble.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

It is not a Merry Christmas in Gaza.

[Fahmida Abrahams @FahmidaAbr]

@DiedSuddenly_ I have had BP about 15 years ago . Good advise I was given at the time was to go for physio therapy every single day . This helps with restoring your original features . Worked for me after the virus was over my features returned to normal as did the drooping eye and lip.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

To the Intl Law scholars who have built their career on the "Israeli-Palestinain conflict" & stay silent today: have you forgotten the ultimate and noble purpose of the int'l legal system born from the ashes of WWII? I wonder how you explain it to your students.

#protection

[Jake Shields @jakeshieldsajj]

Israel is destroying entire residential neighborhoods

[Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis @DrLoupis]

Good.

BOYCOTT Israel🇮🇱

[United Nations @UN]

Gaza: 27 humanitarian organizations, including the UN & partners, say the situation on the ground is catastrophic.

Humanitarians are calling for an immediate end to the hostilities, and unimpeded delivery of sustained aid.

Details: https://t.co/tZVpY2v5kZ

[Bianca van Wyk @BiancavanWyk16]

“… there is no better litmus test historically for figuring out whether or not you are on the WRONG side of history than asking yourself which side white South Africans are on …”

Ouch!!

[Norman Finkelstein @normfinkelstein]

It is now 24 hours since Israel invaded al-Shifa hospital.  No sprawling Hamas command-and-control center.  No arms caches in the tunnels.  No secret passageways.  No nothing except: DEAD BABIES IN INCUBATORS WITHOUT FUEL.

[K.Diallo ☭ @nyeusi_waasi]

Congo is silently going through a genocide....Don’t keep silent....Speak up for the our Congolese brothers and sisters.

[StanceGrounded @_SJPeace_]

I can’t believe my eyes 😭

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Another masterful interview on Gaza of Dominique De Villepin, former Prime Minister of France, who IMHO is the best diplomat the West has produced in decades.

Again I believe that his words are so important and so rare among Western leaders today, that I decided to translate it in full (the bold parts are emphasis Villepin himself made when speaking):

"The Israeli government, Benjamin Netanyahu, failed on October 7th and failed doubly. Firstly, in its ability to ensure the protection of the Israeli people by allowing massacres that are an abomination to occur. He bears direct responsibility for what happened. And his second failure is having encouraged a policy of occupation and colonization, which continues at this moment in the West Bank and constitutes another threat to Israel if a second front in the West Bank were to open.

Force does not ensure the security of a people! This is what all Israelis must understand today. And what is important is that since October 7th, the Israeli government's choice has been to escalate the use of force. You know, neither force nor vengeance ensures peace and security. What ensures peace and security is justice! And justice is not being served today.

The rationale of the Israeli government for the bombings happening today is flawed, and the whole international community can see it. The principle is: "we target terrorists, and unfortunately, there are also civilian populations," what is euphemistically called in military language "collateral damage." It must be understood that this collateral damage is not accidental. That is to say, it is perfectly predictable and fully accepted.

[Host: "But once again, the responsibility is not solely Israeli."]

But once more, let's stop asking about responsibility; let's look at the reality of what's happening on the ground! Assigning fault, allow me to tell you, we will leave to historians. What we want is to stop this violence, to stop these massacres. Israel is putting itself in danger, even more today, with this type of warfare and these types of strikes.

We are essentially dealing with a policy of vengeance from the Netanyahu government. Israel has the right to self-defense, but self-defense does not give an indiscriminate right to kill civilian populations. When you target an ambulance, you can always imagine that there was a terrorist in one of the ambulances, or not. But the result is that there are children, women who die. Every child, every woman killed, that's more terrorists. Therefore, Israel's objective, what Israel achieves, is exactly the opposite of what they wish. So, it is essential today to change this logic and return to a strategy that is sound.

Hostages, everything must be done to secure their release. But let's not forget: the Palestinian people are also taken hostage, by Hamas and by Israel. And Hamas, we all know, cares little for the Palestinian people. So telling Hamas: "we will not lift the siege, we will not have a humanitarian truce until the hostages are released," is a dialogue of the deaf.

Benjamin Netanyahu is waging a war to do everything so that the political solution does not come to the table. And this is where the international community, Europe, the United States, must tell Benjamin Netanyahu that this war is not acceptable. It is not acceptable because it leads us directly [to escalation] - because we can see it well, from Hamas we will move to Iran, from Iran we will move to other targets, and we then enter into the logic of a clash of civilizations. When Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu says that on one side there is the people of light and on the other the people of darkness, we can see the kind of spiral we are getting into.

All the wars that have been going on for the past twenty years are wars that begin and do not end. These are frozen conflicts. We know how to start a war; we do not know how to end it. And Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu could control Gaza, it would change nothing. There will continue to be terrorist attacks, Israelis will continue to live in fear. We must get out of this. The second reason why this is yesterday's war is that the war against terrorism has never been won anywhere. Force is not the answer, once again. Vengeance is not the answer. The answer is justice, and that is what all the peoples of the world, all those who today watch what is happening, call for justice.

Today the direction we must follow is to prevent Benjamin Netanyahu from continuing his suicidal logic that will make Israel a besieged state. They can besiege Gaza, but they will be besieged. And do not think that tomorrow we will again have a pacified discourse with Saudi Arabia, with the Arab states that will normalize the situation: no! The wounds of history are awakening.

Israel's interest is to have a responsible state at its side. And this responsible state, let's stop splitting hairs, must clearly be the West Bank, all of the West Bank. It must be Gaza, with access between the two territories, and East Jerusalem. The problem, and this is the whole point of Benjamin Netanyahu's escalation, is that Benjamin Netanyahu does not want it. And the policy of separation must be dignified. That is, it must confer to the Palestinians a state where they can live, a viable state, a true state, which can build itself and which will be all the more at peace...

[Host: "Does that mean that the settlements in the West Bank have to be removed?"]

Well, when we left Algeria, there were a million French who left Algeria. Today there are 500,000 Israelis colonizing the West Bank, and there are 200,000 in East Jerusalem.

[Host: "They must leave the West Bank?"]

Yes. Yes, that is history, that is responsibility, that is the price! I tell you solemnly, it is the price of security for Israel! And all those who today consider that it will never be enough are pursuing the worst policy."

Credit to @caissesdegreve who took these extracts from the original interview which can be found here: https://t.co/hRuGw6CbuA

[Rula Jebreal @rulajebreal]

We are witnessing the largest U.S. anti-war protests since the #Iraq war.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🚨🇵🇸 The WHOLE WORLD stands with PALESTINE!