Nick G

@Granules2012

Joined March 2012

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75 Followers

852 Posts

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NATO Maritime Command

@NATO_MARCOM

almost 2 years ago

🇦🇺 Navy Commodore David Landon and 🇳🇿 Army Major General Hugh McAslan were welcomed to #MARCOM HQ this week, strengthening ties with #NATO Partner nations. They were briefed on current maritime operations alongside senior MARCOM staff #WeAreNATO #StrongerTogether

NATO_MARCOM's tweet photo. 🇦🇺 Navy Commodore David Landon and 🇳🇿 Army Major General Hugh McAslan were welcomed to #MARCOM HQ this week, strengthening ties with #NATO Partner nations. They were briefed on current maritime operations alongside senior MARCOM staff #WeAreNATO #StrongerTogether https://t.co/ghUQzMjUtG

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Hussain Abdul-Hussain

@hahussain

almost 3 years ago

As Arabs, our message to the world cannot be restricted to eliciting global sympathy for the children of Gaza. We cannot depict ourselves as helpless children, behind whom we hide our failure to control our Hamas thugs who massacred 1300 non-combatant Israelis. This is a moral failure that the world sees but that we try to hide behind the “rights of the Palestinian people,” rights that none of us are willing to articulate. Free Palestine can mean anything, from an Arab Palestinian state living in peace next to Jewish Israel to an Arab Palestinian state instead of Jewish Israel. For Arab Israeli peace to happen, and since Palestinians are either children, or Hamas thugs, or useless corrupt Mahmud Silicon-Face Abbas, non-Palestinian Arabs should step up to save the Palestinians from themselves and save the region ongoing sorrow. We, Arabs, have to show the world that we are at peace with the idea of a Jewish state, that we are willing to concede what we believe – rightly or wrongly -- is ours (1948 territory), that we genuinely want bygones to be bygones, without secretly holding grudges and passing them to our children. We must seek a better future for ourselves and our kids, as well as for Israelis and their kids. The Palestine disaster (nakba) is not a disaster of land loss or military defeat. It is a disaster of absence of leadership that can articulate the Arab alternative to war and death. We ask the world to stop the Israeli war on Hamas, but what do we offer as an alternative to stopping the war? Just let those Hamas thugs who massacred 1300 Israelis get away with their crime (because there is a history of dispute)? Ask Israel to go back to October 6? Knowing that Hamas can break out of the Gaza fence and repeat its massacre any minute? Hamas must go. We Arabs must help get rid of it, and most importantly, we must show that we have a plan for the day after Hamas. Let’s learn from the mistake of Iraq and Arab Spring countries, that once what we have is gone, what comes next looks worse. Let’s preempt the worse by offering the better. As long as we, the Arabs, do not have answers to all these questions, the world will manage things without us. It does not matter if all of us, 1.3 billion Muslims, think that Israel is at fault. What matters is global perception, which clearly thinks that Islamist terrorism is the problem, not Israelis dancing at a music festival. And we, the Arabs, are not even talking to the world. We are talking to each other, patting ourselves on the back for being utopian and principled on Palestine, while we are in fact idiotically out of touch with reality. We insist on our backward message, then act surprised why many of our states are failing and why we are migrating in droves. Please stop treating Palestine like religion, like we have to stick to our principles to win credit in the afterlife and to garner social acceptance among each other (Arabs and/or Muslims). Please think of Palestine like a problem that requires troubleshooting, compromise, pragmatism, and most importantly, looking toward the future, not the past.

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ABC News

@abcnews

almost 3 years ago

It's understood the helicopter was taking part in the joint Australia-US military operation, Exercise Talisman Sabre. https://t.co/x9LpMrFJzG

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Royal Australian Navy @Australian_Navy

about 3 years ago

Gone but not forgotten The sun has set over #HMASLaunceston (III) for the last time following its decommissioning on June 1. After protecting our borders for more than 15 years, to all members, from the first crew to the last, we thank you for your service!

Australian_Navy's tweet photo. Gone but not forgotten

The sun has set over #HMASLaunceston (III) for the last time following its decommissioning on June 1. After protecting our borders for more than 15 years, to all members, from the first crew to the last, we thank you for your service! https://t.co/icQgo89zpW

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Air Marshal Glen Braz AM CSC DSM

@CJC_ADF

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Chris Field

@ChrisFieldAUS

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Daisy Huntly

@DaisyHuntly

Journalist, digi specialist, based @dailyadvertiser. Extreme redhead. Cronulla fan. Views my own. Never forget where you come from. DMs open, tell me a yarn.

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7AFL

@7AFL

about 3 years ago

It's official. Tasmania will enter the AFL in 2028.

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Nick G @Granules2012

over 3 years ago · Melbourne

First time at the Australian Open, going to make this a regular thing! 🎾🇦🇺#AO2023 #ausopen #tennis #aus #melbourne #australianopen #sport #holiday #rodlaverarena #victoria @ Australian Open Tennis Rod Laver Stadium https://t.co/iJSsDOVtxR

Nick G @Granules2012

almost 4 years ago · Kosciuszko National Park

Great day at the snow! #ski #snow #perisher #adventure #outdoors #explore #australia #guthega #aus #nsw #epic #mountains #skiing #kosciuszkonationalpark #kosciuszko 🇦🇺⛷🎿❄️🗻 @ Guthega https://t.co/r42WHRASu9

Nick G @Granules2012

almost 4 years ago · Danbulla

Just posted a photo @ Cathedral Fig Tree https://t.co/JofmGDihKn

Nick G @Granules2012

almost 4 years ago · Cairns

Just posted a photo @ Josephine Falls https://t.co/qFDz2WN79D

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський

@ZelenskyyUa

over 4 years ago

Talked to @POTUS, @OlafScholz, @eucopresident, @AndrzejDuda, @BorisJohnson. Urge to stop Putin, war against 🇺🇦 & the world immediately! Building an anti-Putin coalition. Immediate sanctions, defense & financial support to 🇺🇦! Close the airspace! The world must force 🇷🇺 into peace

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