@rustmarrow This is really cool. W is one of my favorite Riders, I'm really into this. Are you going to design Shotaro and Philip (possibly as the digitama equivalent)?
All civilians, Israeli and Palestinian, must be protected. Deeply saddened by the explosion at the Al Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza. As @POTUS said, “The United States stands unequivocally for the protection of civilian life."
Congress is preparing to fund a genocide. Rather than seek deescalation, the ruling class spends its time smearing those who recognize the humanity of Palestinians and the true cause of this conflict: apartheid. We will not be cowed in the fight for peace and liberation.
Reminder: As the House of Representatives has no Speaker of the House, Congress cannot pass any new policies or allocate addition funds to support Israel.
The chaos caused by House Republicans have real life consequences, especially in urgent situations like this one.
To call this "unprovoked", as the initial WH statement did, is to ignore the daily and constant Israeli violence and war crimes against Palestinians which has only escalated in recent years. It is language that erases Palestinians and enables continued violence against them.
I condemn the horrific acts we are seeing unfold today in Israel against children, women, the elderly, and the unarmed people who are being slaughtered and taken hostage by Hamas. Such senseless violence will only repeat the back and forth cycle we've seen, which we cannot allow to continue. We need to call for deescalation and ceasefire. I will keep advocating for peace and justice throughout the Middle East.
The current Israeli government is overtly genocidal and routinely kills Palestinian civilians as a matter of policy; it’s about to kill many more. There’s no excuse for not knowing this; to rally behind them now is a statement of geopolitical preference, not moral principle.
THREAD: As you watch news in Gaza & Israel today, keep 1 thing in mind: The largest terrorist org in all of Palestine & Israel (known as the Israeli military) has killed thousands of Palestinian civilians in hundreds of raids into Palestinian towns over the past decade. 1/4
Netanyahu knows he’s about to commit an unprecedented massacre in Gaza. He knows civilians in Gaza have nowhere to go because Israel has them trapped under siege. This meaningless “leave now” nonsense is for fooling uninformed people into thinking he cares about civilians.
one of the great propagandist successes is absolutely disappearing how many times Palestinians have tried to protest "the right way" and how it always goes the same way
An open-ended threat where “Hamas hiding places” means anywhere/everywhere. He’s made no distinction between Hamas and civilians. Palestine is an open-air prison, movement is controlled, where are they to go? This is “I’m going to slaughter people” and the world will allow it.
There is no "both sides" argument:
~Only Palestinians live under military occupation
~Only Palestinians have homes stolen for illegal Israeli settlements
~Only Palestinians are being dispossessed
~Only Palestinians face apartheid laws
ALL of this is done by one side: Israel
editorial note: any comment today that mentions a “two state solution” is unserious, it’s just a rhetorical thingamajig at this point. It’s not a real thing and hasn’t been for decades. Simply replace “work towards a two state solution” with “indefinite apartheid status quo”.