We are still in Iraq. Eighteen years later and we are still there. Still lying to ourselves by insisting that the presence of US soldiers is necessary. Like a degenerate gambler. Waiting for a payout to make all the wasted lives and money make sense.
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@SchwartzTime@DrCaseyBabb@UofT I see your wit is no match for your ignorance. Support for Israel is circling the drain and comments like yours only prove the point that you need to censor and silence the criticism as you have no other adequate reply.
@kylekuzma@caracalla232@NYCMayor For one thing, US taxpayers aren't being forced to subsidize the Houthi forces with tens of billions of dollars in US handouts. That's a massive distinction that you are ignoring our of convenience to your worldview.
Bob Kraft and Pink believe that their feelings—and their defense of the indefensible—matter more than the reality on the ground in Gaza. They are wrong.
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This is solidarity and poetic justice at the same time.
Ed Sheeran Loses All Opening Acts After Macklemore Dropped Over ‘Free Palestine’ Backlash via @forbes https://t.co/fckJTfsGSU
@EdbieLigerSmith I would add that those alliances are only possible because the Saudi, Israeli, and US government's crimes against humanity are so obvious, disgusting, and vile that many of these Yemeni tribes are willing to put away their past grievances to fight the greater evil.
Today is September 9. It is Day 193 of Trump's "2-3 week war" to overthrow Iran's government and send Iran "back to the stone age" that started on February 28.
Today, after carrying out three different attacks on American military infrastructure without the U.S. responding, Iran launched a massive retaliatory attack on U.S. bases in Jordan with 30-40 ballistic missiles in response to U.S. attacks on Iranian oil tankers.
Despite false claims by CENTCOM, the Strait of Hormuz remains largely impassable due to the actions of the IRGC Navy, which Trump claims to have completely destroyed. American gas prices remain at an all-time high for this war as a result.
Most/all Iranian missile bases remain fully functional, and only a few of Iran's hundreds of ballistic missile launchers have been targeted by U.S. airstrikes in the last few months.
Iran retains thousands of ballistic missiles in their underground cities. America's interceptor stockpiles are becoming more and more critically low as days go by - a trend that is only being worsened for them after they launched over 100 Patriot PAC-2/3 interceptors during today's Iranian attack.
The Iranian government and military command structure remains firmly in place, and there are no signs of cracks within their chain of command or inner circles.
This was has exposed America's weaknesses for the entire world to see, and they aren't even fighting a great power like Russia or China, but rather a middling/regional power. America's remaining reputation on the international stage is now extremely tarnished, and even their allies are beginning to turn towards China as a more reliable trading partner.
I can say that as someone in New Zealand, while my country has historically been one of, if not the most politically "anti-American" western countries in the world, any confidence or trust in the U.S. here has completely collapsed, as we now view them as an imperialist joke. More people here view China as a "friend" compared to the U.S. for the first time ever. I can imagine other countries are experiencing a similar phenomenon.
@wajacobson@ggreenwald What a pathetic take.
Israeli's and their apologists in the US have been using the smear of "antisemitism" to define any criticism of Israel since before I was born.
It doesn't even matter if the American critic of Israel is Jewish. It's all you have. And it no longer works.
A horrific expose on the murder of Palestinian prisoner Tha'er Abu Assab, a Palestinian prisoner at Ketziot prison by guards in November 2023 appeared in Haaretz today.
Among the most damning evidence in the case are the texts of one warden, Oshrit Aliga, who as you can see in the video inlcuded here was literally the poster child for the Israeli Prison Services. Here are the texts verbatim:
On the night Tha'er Abu Assab, was murdered, she texted a friend: "Sweetie, here is an update for you, he's dead now." She added that she was "very happy and satisfied, but it's a mess right now. There was a lot of blood and they broke them."
Follow-up clarification to her friend:
"It'll be fine, I'm glad it happened. I'm ready to put my career on the line for this, I'm at peace with it, all of us are. The commander knew something like this would happen. he told us in the briefing and also asked, whoever feels they can't handle it should say so, because he really wanted to break them. I'm really fine, but you know how it is, investigations and all that mess."
WhatsApp exchange with her friend, December 2023 (re: new detainees arriving):
"They brought some Amalek-son whores down in the middle of the street, sitting there on the ground with just underwear and blindfolds on. I'm already getting myself and the shift ready to receive them for Shabbat, we will give them a proper Shabbat reception."
Responding to her friend's joke about her baton: "My club is fine, after a fair number of disinfections."
"Imagine me and you in a cell with two prisoners cuffed hand to hand, and the shift commander tells us 'go ahead, cut loose', sweetie, I swear you'd have enjoyed it here with me."
When her friend asked if she physically hits them: "I wish I had a way to prove it to you, to show you something, I swear to you, sis, I break them apart. You've never known me like this. [This is] routine. [When the] next round comes, if I haven't cracked one of his kidneys, as far as I'm concerned I'm not going into the wing."
WhatsApp exchange with her domestic partner, corrections officer Tamer Trudi, same month:
"We got another 70 whores from October 7th. Each one of course got a personal welcome, and some got a joint one because of the [limited] supply of handcuffs."
After Trudi replied "Haha, how nice that there's always a welcome": "And since we were already tired from hitting them, the commander took off his belt and undid it on them. And the screaming , like females — at minimum they're a punching bag."
Watch the video to see her enthusiastic physical training that allows her to murder and torture inmates. She has not been charged for her crimes despite the overwhelming evidence, though others have for that murder.
I know you're a former Israeli diplomat living in France, so you may not be familiar with American history.
John Adams, one of our Founding Fathers, proudly served as a lawyer for the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre. His commitment to due process was absolute.
Congress did one and only one thing today.
The House passed a bill to withhold money from universities if they don’t play nice with Israel.
I voted No.
It’s not proper for our federal government to coerce universities into engaging with any particular foreign country.
@sfcmac419203@DSA_Watch You have become what you claim to hate. A man willing to rationalize the mass killing of civilians in pursuit of some perceived political benefit.