gothamtomato

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[Bassem Eid @realbassemeid]

BREAKING from @Jerusalem_Post: A Palestinian man from Gaza has formally demanded that the International Criminal Court investigate 14 Hamas leaders for crimes committed against Palestinians.

The man lost his wife, children, and other family members during the war in Gaza. He argues that if Hamas had not committed war crimes against Palestinians, particularly the crime of using civilians as human shields, his family and countless other Gazans would still be alive.

War crimes and crimes against humanity listed in the submission include using civilians as human shields, attacking civilians, causing great suffering, destruction of property, excessive incidental death, injury, or damage, conscripting children, murder, extermination, torture, persecution, and more.

The Hamas leaders named in the submission are Izz al-Din al-Haddad, Khaled Mashaal, Mahmoud al-Zahar, Mohammed Odeh, Muhannad Rajab, Khalil al-Hayya, Mousa Abu Marzook, Ghazi Hamad, Izzat al-Rishq, Fathi Hamad, Nizar Awadallah, Husam Badran, Zaher Jabarin, and Basem Naim.

For decades, innocent Palestinians have paid the price for Hamas's genocidal war against Israel. They deserve justice.

The submission was filed on behalf of the Gazan man by American attorneys @ElliotMalin and Eli Rosenbaum and French attorney @sarah_scialom.

[Adam Fisher @AdamRFisher]

This is a devious rhetorical trick. Labeling someone a “Nakba survivor” is designed to evoke instant sympathy and a false sense of moral clarity, but it is little more than taxpayer-funded propaganda.

Consider the absurdity: roughly 99% of Palestinian Arabs alive in 1949 survived the war and its displacements. Calling the displaced a “survivor” stretches the word beyond recognition. It is a newly coined term, crafted in academia and activist circles long after the events.

Its real genius lies in creating false equivalence. It places ordinary Palestinian civilians who were displaced amid a war their own leaders launched on the same moral plane as Holocaust survivors (of whom only about one-third emerged alive).

It airbrushes away the ~6,000 Jews killed in 1948, elevates the ~12,000 Arab deaths, and erases the thousands of Jews forcibly expelled from the Old City of Jerusalem and other areas.

By anointing the displaced as sacred “survivors,” the term invites us to forget that the Nazi-aligned Palestinian leadership rejected the UN partition plan, chose war to prevent any Jewish state, and promised quick victory while urging Arabs to flee.

It glosses over Israel’s Declaration of Independence, which explicitly invited Arab inhabitants to “participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship.” And it conveniently overlooks the ~150,000 Arabs who stayed put, accepted Israeli citizenship, and whose descendants now form over 20% of Israel’s population.

This is international grievance politics pushed by the Mayor of New York City, who genuinely believes that Palestinians should be able to “return to their homes” – a nonsensical idea designed to justify perpetual victimhood and violence.

The move weaponizes real civilian hardship while inverting roles: turning a war of choice and rejectionism into an unprovoked “catastrophe” inflicted by the intended victims. It sustain grievance and does not nothing to advance peace.

[Simon Schama @simon_schama]

bravo Bill

[UJA-Federation of New York @UJAfedNY]

Mayor Mamdani: the refugees you post about exist because 22 Arab states launched a war to destroy Israel on May 15, 1948—rejecting the UN plan that also called for a Palestinian state. In its aftermath, 800,000 Jews were expelled from Arab lands. Your post mentions none of this.

[gothamtomato @gothamtomato]

@NYCMayor Don’t approve construction next to @MerchantsHouse that could damage/destroy a precious historic public institution and landmark! Don’t vote to approve on Tues. — give the public a chance to respond! @gvshp

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

RETWEET if you stand with the Obamas against Trump’s racist attacks.

Racism isn’t “politics.” It’s desperation.
And America sees right through it.

[Maca Iglesias 🇺🇸Thank You, President Biden🇺🇸 @rotterdamvvg]

No wonder the toddler is unhinged once again.

The Obamas are competent, classy, loving, Harvard and Princeton graduates, loved by many, not on the Epstein files, got the Nobel Peace Prize, and gave us a steady economy to boot!

Repost this if you agree they are AMAZING!

[John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz]

Peerless.

[Bill Clinton @BillClinton]

Over the course of a lifetime, we face only a few moments where the decisions we make and the actions we take will shape our history for years to come.  This is one of them.

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

Kash Patel today: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want."

Kash Patel in 2021: "This is what Fight with Kash is for. We will help Kyle Rittenhouse."

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

[gothamtomato @gothamtomato]

@thejtlewis I don't know. The vulgarian's fingers are so short it's hard to tell.🤣

[Deborah Gilbert @E20Launderette]

To all Members of the Tribe - Be loud & proud - and have a safe and Happy Chanukah!🕎✡️💜 #HappyChanukah #HappyHannukah

[gothamtomato @gothamtomato]

@newconciousness @PatriciaHeaton All of their videos are filmed at their house upstate, so I don't think they even live in NYC anymore.

[Deborah Gilbert @E20Launderette]

So is it the ghost of Den Watts doing the haunting this week??? After all, his famous last words were, "You'll never get me out of the Vic!"😱😎❤️ #EastEnders @bbceastenders @TracyAnnO @BRYANKIRKW00D

[gothamtomato @gothamtomato]

@RandPaul Someone needs to post the info on which of the ballroom-funding billionaires have pay their employees so little they need SNAP benefits to survive.🎯 #GOPShutdown

[gothamtomato @gothamtomato]

@adgirlMM Trump is villianizing Mamdani because he & the GOP want him to win.

[gothamtomato @gothamtomato]

💜This essay from Rick Wilson is long, but it is absolutely beautiful & important & worth a read. Please read & share. The East Wing Obscenity: Trump's Ballroom Is a Tumor On The People's House. "Picture, then, the moment Trump is gone." via @substack https://t.co/k59eXtSDvJ

[gothamtomato @gothamtomato]

@TheOnlyEsta NO. Absolutely NOT. Mamdani is just another Trump; a jumped up rich kid with a hateful agenda disguised as populism. He's a liar who will take a proverbial wrecking ball to everything that's good abt NYC the same way tRump has taken a wrecking ball to everything good abt the US.