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[Rowan @RowanI51605]

@MAXlDENT_ @cedrusephaistos Ça me fume de devoir justifier ça mais « les libanais du pays » ont de plus grands soucis que ça, notre sud est sous l’occupation, les drônes israéliens sont au dessus de nos têtes, et on est combattu par les mêmes libanais racistes que vous visez

[Rowan @RowanI51605]

@MAXlDENT_ @cedrusephaistos « les libanais du pays »? Lol c’est l’inverse.
Ça me fait rire que vous n’ayez jamais posé votre pied au Liban, vous ne connaissez rien au contexte local, et vous voilà généralisez tout.
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[Rowan @RowanI51605]

@omar_mou3awiya مش مظبوط، بكذا بلذ آخر ما تسمّى استعمار
بتونس مثلا او مغرب كانوا يسموا Protectorat

[Rabbi David Mivasair @RabbiMivasair]

We Jews have no right to steal even one centimeter of our ancestral homeland from the people already living there, much less to expel them, mass murder them, erase them.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

So he does a documentary & the evil state blows up his house in S. Lebanon. Cowards, evil Zionist terrorists.

They didn't do it with Israelis & Westerners.

[Henry VIII @SussexHenryVIII]

“I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip.”

- William Shakespeare, Othello (1604)

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

A timely reminder that leaked Israeli studies found that pushing pro-Israel propaganda to Westerners didnt work & instead they advised spending millions blasting the West with racist Islamophobic content demonizing Muslims instead.

I think about that a lot while browsing Twitter

[Rowan @RowanI51605]

@MhrS4569 هني فرنسيين شئت ام أبيت،
معن الحنسية الفرنسية😂

[Rowan @RowanI51605]

@ground7x @elcapitanleb @LombreDeElle Just open an accurate history book and you’d know that this claim is so false and outdated lol

[Linda Mamoun @mamoun_linda]

This was one of the largest mass terror attacks in modern history killing dozens of Lebanese civilians and wounding 4000 including children who went blind, and now they’re celebrating it. Very normal.

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.

How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.

Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.

An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.

For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.

It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.

By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.

So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.

How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.

At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.

It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

And in Houla, southern Lebanon with Khadija Attwi, shot in the face and left to bleed to death in front of her family, while paramedics were shot at as they tried to reach her. It required UN intervention to recover her dead body more than 24 hours later.

[Rowan @RowanI51605]

@0xEll1ot @Kha_lidit كيف ممكن ما تقبل اذا تصوت عليه ومشيت؟ ونزلت فيديو حكت عن الموضوع

[Halima El Kaakour | حليمة القعقور @halime_el]

عن اتفاق الاطار، خلال جلسة مناقشة الحكومة في مجلس النواب.

[Pratik Sinha @free_thinker]

You all are uploading your photos to ChatGPT for a silly trend? Are you all not aware how desperate these AI companies are for this data? Are you not aware that OpenAI and other such AI companies are selling their services to defence departments of countries who are waging wars? Are you not aware that your data will be used to train their models for facial recognition? Are you not aware that various governments, including the union and state governments in India, and its police departments are weaponising facial recognition to surveil citizens?

[James Li @5149jamesli]

Are any components of the new foldable iPhone designed in Israel? @grok

[Globe Eye News @GlobeEyeNews]

BREAKING:

Anthropic is reportedly building an extensive surveillance and intelligence system to monitor activists and protests opposing artificial intelligence, according to The Prospect.

[King Wow @KingWow]

Yeah the next generation is absolutely cooked

[Fzy @leofzy]

Friendly reminder that every new AI trend is just another massive data mining exercise of your facial data. we really shouldn't be okay with this.

[Amir @AmirAminiMD]

that’s not the scandal - the scandal is pretending that ISIS isn’t a branch of the Israeli army.