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[Stellar Opinions and Mediocre Rants @FullStellar]

Time to bring back my favourite drama film of all time
https://t.co/h268pbko8z

[Stellar Opinions and Mediocre Rants @FullStellar]

My name has been misspelled on my @O2 account for 14 years. Every time I asked to correct it, it's been misspelled in a new way. Submitted a copy of my passport last week, and just got a msg from them that they don't accept it as proof. My passport!!!! I give up. 🥲

[Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם @yuval_abraham]

Our film “No Other Land” on occupied Masafer Yatta’s brutal expulsion won best documentary in Berlinale. Israel’s channel 11 aired this 30 second segment from my speech, insanely called it “anti semitic” - and I’ve been receiving death threats since. I stand behind every word.

[Cris ✨ @lionesspike]

i just feel like anatomy of a fall is being branded as a writing achievement only which is unfair to sandra hüller who brought this script to life in a way no one else could

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

The images from Rafah are unbearable.

What is there left to say? Do our political leaders not see what we see? Is there really no limit to what Palestinians must endure?

Enough! Stop equivocating. Stop stalling. Stop hiding — and call for an immediate ceasefire, now.

[Pelham @Resist_05]

This is why the IDF is killing any journalist that flies a drone over Gaza, they don’t want the world to witness the sheer scale of the genocide…🇵🇸��

[missfalasteenia @missfalsteenia]

Gaza, Palestine in July 2023.

[🔻 @atlajala]

been sharing a lot of posters frm the revolutionary period (68 - 82) of Palestinian struggle recently & i admit personally i'm deeply inspired by modes of resistance art that often come abt thru old school ways, there is so much amazing work being made currently i want to share🧵

[Amitangshu| অমিতাংশু। @amitangshu]

"The only moral thing Palestinian civilians can do apparently is to die. The only legal thing the rest of us can do is to watch them die. And be silent. If not, we risk our scholarships, grants, lecture fees & livelihoods." Arundhati Roy, as candid as ever
https://t.co/B3RiuJsJDd

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Palestinians are being killed in their thousands. Those who have survived the bombs face death by disease and starvation.

It is incomprehensible that we are still debating whether more human beings should die.

This cannot go on any longer. We need a permanent ceasefire, now.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

🚨Breaking| The Death toll in #Gaza so far is 24142 including 9420 children, 4910 women, and 48901 injured. According to our @EuroMedHR’s statistics.

Notes 📝

-The killed number includes those presumed dead under the rubble.

-More than 92% of the dead are civilians.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The Official Story Of October Seventh

The official story is that on October 7, 2023, thousands of evil Hamas terrorists broke out of their walled-in enclave and killed approximately 1,200 Israelis for no reason other than because they were evil and wanted to kill Jews. Nothing was done by the Israeli government to provoke this attack, and nothing of any relevance happened prior to this date.

The attack was as undefended as could possibly be; Israeli defense forces did not respond for nine hours despite having received ample warning that an attack was coming for months, from both their own intelligence services and from Egyptian intelligence. No attempt was made to warn the Nova music festival of an impending attack despite Israeli security forces being aware the day before that an attack was coming, resulting in hundreds of deaths and captured hostages. The attack was met with so little resistance that Hamas themselves were reportedly surprised by how many Israelis they were able to capture and kill, their surprise perhaps due to the fact that they’d spent two years training right out in the open less than a mile from the border for an air, sea and land attack using motorized paragliders, drones and motorboats. This is all perfectly normal and not suspicious at all.

Also not at all suspicious is the fact that 100 percent of the 1,200 Israeli deaths on October 7 are being attributed to Hamas despite Israeli media and eyewitness testimony reporting that the IDF was firing indiscriminately into areas full of Israelis. The burned bodies you see in photos of the October 7 devastation were with absolute certainty burned by Hamas, despite the Israeli government’s acknowledgement that it had previously misidentified hundreds of dead Hamas fighters as Israeli because they’d been so badly burned by IDF fire that their corpses were unrecognizable.

(The official story of October 7 also previously included narratives about beheaded babies, babies cooked in ovens, and babies ripped from the wombs of pregnant mothers, and you were an evil Jew-hating Holocaust denier if you doubted them, but those narratives have since been walked back and are no longer part of the official story, so belief in them is now optional.)

The murder of 1,200 Israelis was so evil and egregious that it has warranted the killing of more than 16,000 Palestinians in Gaza, including more than 7,000 children. It will likely warrant the killing of far more, because Israeli lives are worth much, much more than Palestinian lives. Only a racist Nazi would believe that Palestinian lives matter.

Israel is not to blame for any of the killings in Gaza anyway, because Hamas is using civilians as human shields. It is anti-semitic to ask how Israel has managed to kill so many human shields while killing astonishingly few Hamas fighters and dealing no meaningful damage to Hamas leadership in the process.

Now that 1.7 million Gazans have been displaced and they are being shoved toward the Egyptian border, it is perfectly fine and normal to be seeing official agendas being pushed by Israeli officials and thought leaders to “thin out” Gaza’s population and relocate them to other countries. Only an evil terrorist supporter would call this ethnic cleansing; one ought to think of it more as a permanent vacation.

If you question any part of this official story, you’re an evil Jew-hating monster who loves terrorism and wishes Hitler had won. You should be censored, fired from your job, kicked off campus and disappeared from polite society, because you support genocide and you want good people to die.

Does this make you feel like you’re going crazy? Good. That means it’s working. That means the official story is taking root in your mind. Let it blossom and bloom inside of you. Stop struggling. Relax. The more you struggle, the more it will hurt. Just let your mind go blank and obey. This will be over before you know it.

[nadira @nadirawrites]

People of the year.

Plestia Alaqad.
Motaz Azaiza.
Hind Khoudary.
Bisan Owda.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Message I just received from an Israeli friend in Israel: "We need your urgent help. If there is no international intervention, we're gone. The entire Palestinian people are under a genocidal attack, and democratic Jews in Israel are under violent fascist persecution that increasingly resembles the junta regimes of the 1970s in Latin America.
Help us!"

[Zachary Al-Khatib @ZaKhatib]

Reuters, not the Onion.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

WOW, this might be THE most important piece of journalism on the war on Gaza since it began, by Israeli newspaper @972mag :
https://t.co/njWGP6RpDO

Essentially they confirm, with unimpeachable sourcing, that the killing of civilians was all calculated and intentional.

Their investigation is "based on conversations with seven current and former members of Israel’s intelligence community — including military intelligence and air force personnel who were involved in Israeli operations in the besieged Strip — in addition to Palestinian testimonies, data, and documentation from the Gaza Strip, and official statements by the IDF Spokesperson and other Israeli state institutions."

What the investigation reveals is that "the Israeli army has files on the vast majority of potential targets in Gaza — including homes — which stipulate the number of civilians who are likely to be killed in an attack on a particular target. This number is calculated and known in advance to the army’s intelligence units, who also know shortly before carrying out an attack roughly how many civilians are certain to be killed."

One source told them: "Nothing happens by accident. When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed — that it was a price worth paying in order to hit [another] target. We are not Hamas. These are not random rockets. Everything is intentional. We know exactly how much collateral damage there is in every home."

Even more dystopian - and this might be a first in the history of warfare - a lot of the targets are identified by AI: for instance they "use of a system called 'Habsora' ('The Gospel'), which is largely built on artificial intelligence and can 'generate' targets almost automatically at a rate that far exceeds what was previously possible. This AI system, as described by a former intelligence officer, essentially facilitates a 'mass assassination factory.' According to the sources, the increasing use of AI-based systems like Habsora allows the army to carry out strikes on residential homes where a single Hamas member lives on a massive scale, even those who are junior Hamas operatives."

I'm not going to copy the whole article here, you have to read this for yourself. IT IS INSANE. They've essentially been running, as the sources say, a "mass assassination factory" at a terrifying scale with massive and intended "collateral damage" (often the targets' entire families, or even sometimes much of their neighborhood), alongside an objective to destroy much of Gaza to “create a shock”, all on a population that had nowhere to escape. It'll likely remain in history books as one of the most depraved massacres in modern history.