⚡️Journalist Mohammad Haniya:
While the masked man was walking through one of Gaza’s streets during the war, his longing for his sister led him toward where she was staying. At that moment, he decided to go and surprise her with a visit. His heart ached to see her.
Then he changed his mind and turned back, fearing that he might be tracked and that visiting her could put her at risk.
Days passed, and the first ceasefire of the war came. He rushed to see his parents, only to be met with news heavier than mountains:
“His sister and her children had been martyred in an Israeli bombing.”
Yes, the very sister he had decided not to visit out of fear that he might be tracked and bring danger to her. She was martyred without him ever getting to see her.
Iran is not fighting this war only for Iran.
Understand that first. Absorb it. Because until you understand it, nothing else about this conflict makes sense.
Iran is fighting for the right of any nation on earth to exist outside the permission structure of Washington and Tel Aviv.
It is fighting for the principle that sovereignty is not something granted by empire, it is something inherent. And if it must be defended with blood, then blood is what gets spent.
Every country that has been sanctioned into poverty for daring to disagree.
Every government that has been coup'd out of existence for nationalizing its own resources.
Every leader who has been assassinated by a drone because he refused to make himself useful to someone else's agenda.
Every people told that their choices are submission or destruction.
Iran is fighting for all of them.
You don't have to like the Iranian government to understand what's at stake.
You don't have to agree with every policy, every ideology, every internal decision.
That's not the point.
The point is that a country of 90 million people has looked at the most powerful military and financial empire in human history, and said: no.
Said it for forty-seven years.
Said it under sanctions that would have broken most nations.
Said it while being threatened with annihilation on a weekly basis by countries with actual nuclear weapons.
The question this war is really asking is not whether Iran survives.
The question is whether any country is allowed to survive on its own terms.
That question belongs to all of us.
Israel's Ben Gvir Calls For Nightly Kill Quota In Gaza
Ben Gvir:
"There are people there who are not alive. They don't need to live. They are not people. I'm doing them a favor by calling them people."
He is calling for the killing of 30 to 50 people in Gaza EVERY NIGHT, pushing Palestinians to EMIGRATE, so they can begin building Jewish SETTLEMENTS across Gaza.
There's a specific technique used in drone operations called the "double tap."
A strike hits a target. Then, when survivors, neighbors, and first responders arrive to help, when people are pulling bodies from rubble, when paramedics are treating the wounded, a second strike hits the same location.
The explicit purpose is to kill people who respond to the first strike.
The people killed in the second strike are not targets whose identity has been confirmed. They are people who were close enough to help.
In some cases, they were journalists. In some cases, they were family members who heard an explosion and ran toward it. In some cases, they were children who ran toward a sound.
Double tap strikes are not a malfunction.
Double tap strikes are a tactic.
Someone thought of this. Someone approved it. Someone trained operators to execute it. Someone reviewed the results and decided to continue.
When you tell me 168 dead children is an error and not a design, I need you to explain the double tap to me.
I need you to explain which part of deliberately striking rescuers is the error.
Take your time.
Muammar Gaddafi gave up his nuclear program in 2003.
He negotiated. He complied. He handed over the centrifuges and the documentation and accepted international inspectors and did everything the West said a responsible leader should do.
He believed the deal.
He believed that compliance would produce security.
In 2011, NATO bombed his country for seven months.
Hillary Clinton, upon hearing of his death, after he had been captured, sodomized with a bayonet, and killed by a mob, appeared on camera and laughed:
"We came, we saw, he died."
Kim Jong-un watched this.
The Iranian leadership watched this.
Every government on Earth that was considering what compliance with Western demands actually produces watched this.
Gaddafi is the lesson.
Not the lesson the West wants to teach.
The lesson history actually teaches.
The empire does not reward disarmament.
It schedules it.
They are all our children. Look what we’ve allowed happen to them.
The genocidal apartheid regime are doing it and the ‘West’ are their cheerleaders.
And our silence permits it.
One of the Gaza armed resistance snipers contemplating in battle.
Then, some so-called Muslim politicians in the West, especially the US, who are now trying to salvage genocidal parties' reputations, are execrating them to woo more swarms of neo-liberal voters.
His name is Mohammed Mohammed Moin Al-Ja'bari. He wrote on the fractured wall, "I swear to Allah we never fear them."
Mohammed was locked and martyred in combat during the genocide.
🚨Israel's style of "co-existence" in Jaffa, by War Minister Yoav Gallant:
His father stole a Palestinian home & squatted in it, even though a family was still inside. That family was forced to live with Gallant & share a bathroom & kitchen until Gallant took them to Ramallah & kept the rest of the house.
Gallant is narrating this with pride as some sort of a beautiful kumbaya story.
Yoav Gallant is named after "Operation Yoav"; a major terrorist attack which his father took part in. The operation saw the carpet bombing, ethnic cleansing & full destruction of 30 Palestinian villages, including my own family's village. All the Palestinian inhabitants were loaded on trucks at gunpoint & sent to Gaza.
Gallant was the Israeli war minister that called the very people his father ethnically cleansed to Gaza "Human Animals" & vowed to ban "all food, water, medicine, fuel & electricity" to the population his father caged in this enclave.
Gallant is wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity & war crimes.
Genocidal systems do not survive by force alone.
This is the most important sentence.
Because it means the system needs you.
Not your gun. Not your vote, necessarily.
Your perception.
It needs you to experience the bombing of a hospital as a "tragic mistake" rather than a war crime.
It needs you to experience the death of a child in Gaza as "sad but complicated" rather than the direct consequence of a funded, armed, diplomatically protected military policy.
It needs you to experience poverty in former colonies as a "development challenge" rather than an ongoing extraction.
It needs you to feel the distance between yourself and those deaths as natural, a fact of geography and culture, rather than as a manufactured moral boundary maintained by editorial decisions, political language, and the careful architecture of whose suffering gets a name and whose gets a statistic.
The moment you stop experiencing it as background noise, you become a problem for the system.
Not a big problem.
One person seeing clearly is not a revolution.
But a population that sees clearly is.
Which is why so much effort, so much money, so much institutional energy goes into managing perception.
The weapons are the obvious part.
The part that takes real genius, dark, studied, generational genius, is convincing the people who are not being bombed that the bombing is "necessary," "proportionate," and conducted with the "deepest regret" by people who had "no other choice."
They have been doing it for five hundred years.
They are very good at it.
And the first act of resistance is simply this:
Seeing it.
Naming it.
Refusing the background.
The greatest achievement of Western imperial ideology is this:
It convinced the people it was most visibly harming to defend it.
Not all of them. Not forever. But enough, and for long enough.
The Black soldier who fought for the United States in Vietnam while his family faced segregation at home.
The South Asian immigrant who defends the British Empire because his own success within it feels like evidence of its fairness.
The Latin American middle class that supports U.S. sanctions on its neighbors because it has absorbed the language of democracy promotion and believes, genuinely believes, it is applying it neutrally.
This is the masterwork.
Not the bombs. Not the bases. Not the gunboats in the harbors.
The bombs require money and maintenance.
The masterwork requires nothing once it's installed.
Because it runs on the inside.
It runs as identity. As aspiration. As the deep, barely conscious belief that proximity to Western power is proximity to civilisation, and that civilisation, for all its admitted flaws, for all the history we are still reckoning with, is better than the alternative.
That belief does not need to be renewed by force every generation.
It renews itself.
Through schools, through films, through the passport that opens doors, through the currency that is accepted everywhere, through the daily, unspoken, omnipresent experience of what it feels like to be on the right side of the arrangement.
Genocidal systems do not survive by force alone.
They survive by convincing people that the system is not what it is.
And the most convinced defenders are always the ones who have the most to lose if they look at it clearly.
Because looking clearly costs them the story.
And the story is all they were ever given.
The bombs were for everyone else.
no, this was completely engineered by the US, Israel, and Morocco. This is how Sanchez, and Spain at large, are punished for challenging Israel, and "re-educated" to fall back in line with western imperial objectives.
Here is the question that European civilization has never answered:
At what point, in the five hundred years of colonial practice, should a European person have been expected to know that what was happening was wrong?
Not 1945. That is too easy, and too convenient.
1904, when the German Empire issued a written extermination order against the Herero people and generals carried it out and soldiers followed orders and administrators recorded the deaths and the skulls were shipped to universities for racial science.
At that point, should someone have known?
1890, when the systematic amputations in the Congo were being photographed by missionaries and the photographs were being published in European newspapers and reformers were raising the alarm and Leopold II was receiving those reformers in his palace and explaining that the civilizing mission required certain difficult measures.
At that point?
1830, when the Trail of Tears was a policy debated in the United States Congress and approved by elected representatives and challenged by lawyers and litigated to the Supreme Court, which ruled against it, and then carried out anyway.
At that point?
1619?
1492?
The question matters because the defense of European civilization against the charge that the Holocaust was colonialism coming home always rests on the assumption that colonial violence was invisible, unexamined, a product of its time.
It was not invisible.
It was photographed and debated and reported and litigated.
It was chosen.
At every decision point, by specific people with names and offices and moral agency, the choice was made to continue.
The Holocaust produced Nuremberg because the victims were European and the defendants were the enemies of the victorious powers.
The colonial period produced nothing comparable because the victims were not European and the defendants were the victorious powers.
That is the only reason one has a trial and the other has a museum of natural history.
Same civilization.
Same logic.
Different documentation.
They Said...
If a settler comes to your land, carrying his rifle more heavily than his humanity,
do not raise your voice.
Do not raise your hands.
Do not defend the home where you first learned your own name.
Let him uproot the olive tree.
Let him break down the door.
Let him carve his name into your walls.
Then, if you must weep, weep softly, lest you be accused of disturbing the world's peace.
And if you die,
die quietly, so the evening news can keep its tidy headlines.
For in this age,
the victim is not expected to survive.
Only to master the art of dying without troubling anyone's conscience.
They sermonized about democracy and protected Epstein's network.
They sermonized about human rights and armed Israel as it carried out genocide in Gaza.
They sermonized about the rule of law and prosecuted whistleblowers, the people who revealed the crimes, while the people who committed the crimes received security clearances and consulting contracts.
They sermonized about a free press and prosecuted Julian Assange for the crime of publishing documents that proved war crimes, documents whose accuracy no one disputed, documents that showed the people prosecuting him had lied under oath to Congress and murdered journalists and laughed about it on radio intercepts.
They sermonized about financial responsibility and bailed out the banks that crashed the global economy and then hired the regulators who approved the bailout.
This is not hypocrisy as a character flaw.
This is hypocrisy as an operating system.
A system in which the sermon is not meant to describe what they will do.
The sermon is what they do instead of what they will not do.
The sermon is the product.
The outrage is the product.
The investigation that goes nowhere is the product.
The bipartisan commission with its measured, multi-year report, released after all the relevant statutes of limitations have expired, is the product.
The product is the management of your anger.
Not its resolution.
And they are very, very good at it.