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[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

Elon Musk's pet demagogue, the serial fabricator Gad Saad, has gone full KKK.
Difficult to interpret his frenzied, hysterical posting as anything other than incitement to anti-Muslim violence, and lots of it.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

When you listen to James Talarico, you realize that last night's results were not just a rejection of Trump and Israel's Iran war, but also a rejection of a Democratic Party led by people like Biden, Blinken, and Sullivan:

"I've never taken money from AIPAC, and I'm not taking money from AIPAC in this campaign. Seeing what's happening in Gaza makes me sick to my stomach as a teacher, as a Christian, as a human being"

This is his message, and he won in Texas!

[Huthaifa | حذيفة @Shack_Rat]

This is an absolutely insane thing for a sitting VP to post. Vance is openly blaming his own admin's war in Iran for this Republican electoral collapse, while citing voters' anger over America's relationship with Israel.

It may very well be that, in an effort to salvage whatever's left of his political future, Vance eventually goes further and breaks with Trump over the war, much like Hubert Humphrey belatedly distanced himself from LBJ over Vietnam in 1968.

And if he does, the irony of JD Vance doing what Kamala Harris refused to do with Biden over the genocide in Gaza would make her refusal to break with him look even more indefensible.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Rep. Nancy Mace: I've been to Israel. I've been to the border where I could touch Libya or be right next to Syria. And I've seen what these terrorists like Hamas do.

Omar Baddar: You've got your borders a little confused.

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

Tucker Carlson, Thomas Massie, Joe Kent, Megyn Kelly and everyone else who opposed the idiotic, disastrous war of choice in Iran were right.

The people who demonized them for their principled opposition deserve to be ruled by Democrats. But the rest of us don’t.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Tonight’s outcome isn’t about placing faith in Democrats or socialist principles; it’s about holding Republicans accountable for betraying their promises.

All Republicans had to do was:

1. put Americans First
2. not start another war
3. prosecute sex traffickers

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

Tucker frustrates me terribly over many issues, but on this war he seems to be one of the only people in the US with any platform that actually gets it.

I have no doubt Netanyahu is pushing for the most extreme measures: he does it to drive systems insane, but also as a psychological trick to get a little less as a compromise.

I still don't believe nuclear weapons will be used: this is a scenario with unknown and unimaginable consequences for the world, which will definitely, definitely, push Iran to develop a nuclear arsenal of its own within weeks.

Also, using nuclear weapons against Iran legitimizes the US of nuclear weapons against Israel. And it may not always be clear who used them.

I am mostly certain that a major attack on Iran will happen. What Carlson half says here could be the most important part: the license Israel has been issued by the West to enact greater and greater acts of insane barbarism have brought humanity to the brink.

Stopping and isolating Israel needs to be a top agenda for everyone, everywhere. It's a shame he doesn't go far enough in this respect.

One thing I do know: humanity's indifference to the cries of Gaza's babies will return to haunt it, and collect a steep price. Everybody was warned, but no one listened, and now judgement day (and that's in the case of a conventional war) seems right around the corner.

We will deserve whatever we get. We left children to die. We are not worthy of anything

[679 Enthusiast @marionumber4]

Republicans protecting people from Sharia Law:

[DOAM @doamuslims]

Islamic University of Madinah Bans Books of 100 Islamic Scholars

The Islamic University of Madinah has imposed a ban on books by 100 scholars.

Among the scholars blacklisted were the founding members of the Islamic University of Madinah, Maulana Abu A'la al-Maududi and Sheikh Abul Hasan al-Nadwi.

Among the scholars blacklisted who are currently detained include Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Tarafe, Sheikh Salman al-Awdah, Sheikh Muhammad Musa al-Shareef, Sheikh Suleiman al-Alwan, Sheikh Nasser al-Omar and Sheikh Safar al-Hawali.

Books by Imam Hasan al-Banna and Syed Qutb are also banned.

[Abdul Wahid @AbdulWahid_X]

If you stop to think how many people were killed by Obama’s administration, you’d never let your kids anywhere near him!

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

BREAKING | Jordan launches airstrikes on Deraa, southern Syria, in retaliation for Friday’s deadly Karak church massacre, according to the Jordanian army.

Syrian health officials and sources say the strikes killed at least 7 civilians, including women and children.

[Levant24 @Levant_24_]

The Syrian government announced that the Jordanian Air Force strikes in southern Syria, which killed and wounded civilians, including children, were conducted without prior coordination with Damascus.

Expressing condolences and pledging support to the affected families, Damascus stated that authorities have launched an investigation into the strikes while opening direct communication channels with Amman to address the situation and emphasize the necessity of joint security and field coordination along the border to preserve Syrian sovereignty and bilateral stability.

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

"Carpet bomb them all".

Speaking to The Guardian at an event ahead of Israel’s elections, a young Israeli woman called for Palestinians to be forcibly displaced from the Gaza Strip, saying they should be killed if they cannot be removed.

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

A Palestinian family in Hebron, south of the occupied West Bank, watch in heartbreak and anguish the remains of their home that was levelled to the ground by Israeli occupation authorities.

📹 Bilal al-Taweel

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

I guess it wasnt about Hamas or the hostages after all, but always about ethnic cleansing. Who’d have known!!

[Warfare Analysis @warfareanalysis]

This is the Farsh al-Hawa area in al-Khalil, where clashes took place between two Palestinians and Israeli army soldiers stationed at a military checkpoint used to harass, humiliate, and detain Palestinians entering and leaving al-Khalil.

Israel held Palestinian families living near the checkpoint responsible for the clashes and for failing to defend the Israeli military checkpoint!!!

As a result, the Israeli army demolished their homes, shops, and warehouses surrounding the checkpoint and displaced the residents!

[The War Journal @TheWarJournal]

The former director of the CIA, John Brennan, said that the US never supported Ahmed al-Sharaa's Al-Nusra Front. Nusra, which later turned into Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), was instead supported by locals in Syria, according to the former spymaster.

Brennan was director of the CIA under President Barack Obama from 2013 to 2017.

[Dr Tallha Abdulrazaq @TalAbdulrazaq]

The allegation that the US or Israel supported Nusra/HTS is purely a malevolent, vile and low attempt by Iran sycophants to discredit the Syrian revolution as a whole, not just Sharaa.

They seethe that Syria is no longer their playground.

[Thomas van Linge @ThomasVLinge]

Well there you have it. Matter of time before she is also endorsed by Israel and she can be hailed as the “peace” candidate, disregarding the hundreds of thousands of Sudanese victims she swept under the rug.

There is absolutely nothing to suggest she will be a neutral Secretary-General. If her track record is anything to go by, she will abuse the position to protect Emirati interests and hide the genocidal violence it facilitates.

[Warfare Analysis @warfareanalysis]

Popular anger and mass protests across Syria in solidarity with southern Syria,

following repeated Israeli army assaults on Syrian villages in Daraa and Quneitra, and the killing of a Syrian civilian with Down syndrome yesterday in a village in Daraa.