Our daughter, Rachel Corrie, was killed in 2003 in Gaza, while trying to protect a Palestinian home facing illegal destruction by the Israeli military. She was 23 years old. The massive, armored Caterpillar D-9 bulldozer that crushed her was operated by two Israeli soldiers and manufactured in the United States. It was the same type of militarized bulldozer that US presidents from George W. Bush through to Donald Trump have delivered to Israel.
Today, as the destruction of Palestinian homes has only become more commonplace, not to mention the horror of Israel’s genocide, Senator Bernie Sanders will force a vote in the Senate to try to end this cycle of death by banning the transfer of D-9 bulldozers to Israel. We hope he will not take this stand alone.
No policy can bring back those taken from us by these actions—children and other loved ones. But the Senate now has an opportunity to honor the memories of our daughter, other Americans, and thousands of Palestinian civilians killed, and to show that their deaths, and all the destruction, will no longer be condoned and funded. We hope those elected to represent us, the American people, understand the message that voting to block these D-9 bulldozers will send. This will not be a symbolic gesture, but a concrete step toward the protection of human life.
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Actually Iran was a democracy from 1923-1953 , The PM Mohammad Mosaddegh wanted to save his national resources from exploitation from UK/US Oil companies , He nationaled the OIL wells .
MI6/CIA did coup ,removed him and put puppet Shah on throne.
Shah created a secret police SAVAK to supress the opponenets
Bacame more corrupt ,localised the oil Wealth
people became so unhappy with this that 1979 revolution happened ..
He actually paved the way for an Islamic Revolution
“lsraelis are fleeing Tel Aviv.” Imagine if all the borders were shut and they were told to go north. No, south. No, north. No, south. By foot. Carrying all their belongings. Carrying their children. While dodging snipers. As 2000lb bunker bombs were dropping. Since 1948.
WOW IT'S ALMOST AS IF SOCIETAL NORMS AND THE WORD OF THE POPE HIMSELF SEVERELY LIMITED OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN TO PLAY SPORT AT HIGH LEVELS, THUS PREVENTING THEIR SKILL DEVELOPMENT, FOR OVER A HUNDRED YEARS, SO THE TWO SHOULD NOT BE COMPARED.
@weadhitter much as I don't want to defend Oasis, I'd be more inclined to put this down to a coincidence, seeing as Let There Be Love was originally written around the same time as Retrovertigo.
So @MattWalshBlog's crew is trying to trick trans people into joining a fake documentary. His producers set up a whole front organization (@GenderUnityProj) and tried to recruit me into his next anti-trans documentary. Here's the wild story of how it went down (1/x):
Neil, there is a logic flaw in your little aphorism that seems quite telling. Since you and I are part of the Universe, then we would also be indifferent and uncaring. Perhaps you forgot, Neil, that we are not superior to the Universe but merely a fraction of it. Nice day, indeed
Old comedians love hitching themselves to anti-cancel culture discourse because it lets them lazily reheat their old material for bigots rather than just...be relevant.
@TheldlerWheel I hadn't thought about her for years until this morning, when I saw these comments under the Taylor Swift post (not sure what order they're supposed to be in), which in turn led me to your thread about her.
Breaking the habit of years here, but
1) You do want to be alarmist. It’s the point of your tweet
2) My department does industry engagement
3) Food companies have been told no such thing
4) Don’t tweet irresponsible bullshit and then pretend to care about people’s wellbeing