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[Paddy McMenamin @PaddyMcMenamin2]

Anyone seen this lad

[edd the duck @TheMacIsBack79]

Cunt

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

Israeli TV having a ‘kill count’ for the ‘terrorists’ they murder, when the average age of their victims is FIVE, is truly demented.

A nation celebrates child genocide.

On a people they colonised.

Who have nowhere to go.

[Zak @BoufontZak]

Zionism is a Mental Illness.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Israelis Keep Hurting Their Own PR Interests By Talking

One problem Israel keeps running into is how the institutionalized dehumanization of Palestinians which keeps the apartheid state operational also causes Israelis to say things that non-Israelis will find extremely shocking, which hurts Israel’s PR interests.

We saw this illustrated in a recent New Yorker interview with Daniella Weiss, a leader of the push to build illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian land. Weiss stated frankly and unapologetically that she supports apartheid, that she doesn’t believe Palestinians should have any sovereignty anywhere, that she doesn’t believe Palestinians should have voting rights, that she wants the population of Gaza to be replaced by Israeli settlements, and that she is untroubled by the killing of children in Gaza because she feels it’s being done in the interests of Israeli children.

Asked where the Palestinians in Gaza should go, Weiss replied, “To Sinai, to Egypt, to Turkey.” When the interviewer said the Palestinians are not Egyptian or Turkish, she contended that “The Ukrainians are not French, but when the war started they went to many countries.”

To the question “When you see Palestinian children dying, what’s your emotional reaction as a human being?”, Weiss answered, “I go by a very basic human law of nature. My children are prior to the children of the enemy, period. They are first. My children are first.”

Asked if she believes human rights are not universal and should not apply equally to everyone, Weiss replied “That’s right.”

But perhaps the most revealing statement Weiss made was her entirely truthful explanation of what drives the Israeli push to colonize Palestinian land:

“In Israel, there’s a lot of support for settlements, and this is why there have been right-wing governments for so many years. The world, especially the United States, thinks there is an option for a Palestinian state, and, if we continue to build communities, then we block the option for a Palestinian state. We want to close the option for a Palestinian state, and the world wants to leave the option open. It’s a very simple thing to understand.”

That one paragraph right there will teach you more about the present-day realities of the Israel-Palestine conflict than an entire year of watching CNN. It’s horrid, and it’s jarring to hear it spoken out loud in a favorable way… but it’s true.

This sort of thing has been happening for years. Israelis who’ve been marinating in a self-validating echo chamber of Zionist ideology which dehumanizes Palestinians and normalizes oppression and abuse don’t think twice about saying things that make Israel look bad on the world stage, because to them it’s just the standard status quo way of looking at things.

In 2021 a settler from New York named Yaakov Fauci made headlines around the world with his candid statements to a Palestinian family whose Sheikh Jarrah home he was squatting in.

Fauci, apparently fully aware that he was being filmed, famously replied to the family’s complaints that he was stealing their home by shamelessly telling them, “If I don’t steal it, someone else will steal it.”

And the thing is, he wasn’t lying. He was truthfully describing an abusive dynamic in apartheid Israel where Palestinians are being forced out of their homes in order to control ethnic demographics and advance the agenda outlined above by Daniella Weiss. If he’d been a trained propagandist for the Israeli state he never would have made such comments on camera, but because he was just a Zionism-indocrinated member of the Israeli public he saw no reason to hold his tongue.

Some years ago The Empire Files’ Abby Martin put together a devastating critique of the Zionist ideology just by going around the streets of Jerusalem with a camera and a microphone and talking to Jewish Israelis about their views on Palestinians. Over and over and over again they shared their support for tyranny, murder, genocide and ethnic cleansing in their own words and without hesitation, never thinking that their words could be used to harm Israel’s image, because to them these were just normal things that they said all the time in their day to day life.

You see the same sort of thing when Israelis are filmed sitting in lawn chairs to watch and cheer IDF bombing operations on Palestinian neighborhoods, during which a woman once told the press “I’m just a little bit fascist” after advocating the total destruction of Gaza City.

Every time this happens it sends viral video footage around the internet and does real damage to the world’s perception of Israel. That’s a big part of why Israel is struggling to control the narrative about the Gaza massacre today, which is in turn being exacerbated by more incendiary statements by Israelis, not just from the general public but from within the Israeli government itself.

On Saturday Israeli security cabinet member and Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter casually referred to the violent forced expulsion of Palestinians from the northern half of the Gaza Strip as “Nakba 2023”, a reference to the violent forced expulsion which was inflicted on Palestinians at the establishment of the Israeli state in 1948.

Haaretz reports:

Israeli security cabinet member and Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter (Likud) was asked in a news interview on Saturday whether the images of northern Gaza Strip residents evacuating south on the IDF’s orders are comparable to images of the Nakba. He replied: “We are now rolling out the Gaza Nakba. From an operational point of view, there is no way to wage a war — as the IDF seeks to do in Gaza — with masses between the tanks and the soldiers.”

When asked again whether this was the “Gaza Nakba”, Dichter — a member of the security cabinet and former Shin Bet director — said “Gaza Nakba 2023. That’s how it’ll end.”

When later asked if this means Gaza City residents won’t be allowed to return, he replied: “I don’t know how it’ll end up happening since Gaza City is one-third of the Strip — half the land’s population but a third of the territory.”

Dichter’s comments are surprising not only because Israel has been publicly framing the mass displacement in Gaza as a measure taken solely to protect civilians, but also because the Israeli government has long officially denied that the Nakba ever happened, even passing laws forbidding its history to be taught in schools.

Even as western officials hasten to frame Israel’s actions as a defensive and measured response to the Hamas attack on October 7, Israeli officials have been falling all over themselves in a mad rush to make those western officials look like liars.

When talking about the Gaza assault Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made headlines by invoking the biblical nation of Amalek, whose people God instructed the Israelites to commit total genocide against. The first book of Samuel contains the instructions, “Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.”

President Isaac Herzog insinuated last month that all civilians in Gaza are legitimate military targets because they failed to overthrow Hamas, saying, “It is not true this rhetoric about civilians not being aware, not involved. It’s absolutely not true. They could have risen up. They could have fought against that evil regime which took over Gaza in a coup d’etat.”

When announcing the total siege on Gaza which would see the enclave cut off from electricity, food, water and fuel, Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant stated that “we are fighting human animals, and we are acting accordingly.”

IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said Israel would turn Gaza into a “city of tents” and that Israel’s “emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy” in its bombing campaign.

Dan Gillerman, Israel’s former ambassador to the UN, said last month that “I am very puzzled by the constant concern which the world is showing for the Palestinian people and is actually showing for these horrible, inhuman animals who have done the worst atrocities that this century has seen.”

“Hamas became ISIS and the citizens of Gaza are celebrating instead of being horrified,” The Economist cites an Israeli general saying last month. “Human beasts are dealt with accordingly.”

“Creating a severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza is a necessary means to achieve the goal,” a major general named Giora Eiland wrote in an Israeli newspaper, adding, “Gaza will become a place where no human being can exist.”

Israel’s allies keep trying to portray it as a rational actor and a positive force in the world, but if you listen to Israelis themselves you get a very different understanding of what this murderous apartheid state is actually about.

As Maya Angelou said, when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Ministry of Health informs that 39 Palestinian infants in incubators & in intensive care in Al-Shifa Hospital have died due to the lack of oxygen

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"Many @UNRWA workers in Gaza are themselves members of Hamas. The time has come to bust the myth of UN supplied facts"

The Israeli representative at the United Nations launches a tirade against the UN, UN agencies, UN workers and UN officials

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

Israeli occupation forces open gunfire on civilians trying to leave the Al Nasr Hospital in #Gaza which is under a tight Israeli military siege from all directions.

[Nour Naim| نُور @NourNaim88]

🚨🚨Urgent : Tanks are besieging the AL Rantisi Children's Hospital, trapping medical staff and patients inside. Direct sniping at anyone moving in the area.

This is extremely serious ‼️

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

Hamas is a brutal terrorist organisation which murdered civilians and must be condemned

Israel has murdered at least THREE times as many civilians as Hamas

How then should we describe Israel? Surely we should condemn them too?

[Bint E Hawwa 🇵🇸 @Bint_E_Hawwa___]

Fuel supply has been stopped in #Gaza since October 7, due to which the whole city is in darkness. Al-Quds Hospital doctors are operating under the light of mobile phones

#IsraelTerorrist #PalestinianGenocide #جازان_الان #فلسطين_الان #غزة_تستغيث #AmericaIsTerrorist #GazaGenocide

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Genocide is all about intent.

Here's the evidence (cc: @ICJ_org):

[Censored Men @CensoredMen]

Why did u delete your initial tweet?

You’ve already confirmed that Netanyahu has put you on an official Israeli task force to control the narrative online, this means you get information from Israeli intelligence BEFORE the media does.

This means that your initial tweet most likely got checked by Israeli intelligence officials before you were allowed to post it.

But then you deleted it.

Maybe they told you to retract the initial script of Hamas using the hospital as a human shield, and now it’s a misfired Hamas rocket that hit the hospital.

Very suspicious.

[Mahmoud Al-Qudsi @mqudsi]

@AlanRMacLeod English translation of doctors from the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza hold a press conference among the bodies of those slaughtered by Israel in an airstrike.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

How to destroy the NHS:

Step 1. Run it into the ground with austerity.

Step 2. Exploit the crisis to empower the private sector.

Step 3. Abolish the principle of universal health care.

End privatisation, support striking workers and save our NHS.

[Autismdad @Autismdad67]

Any special needs assistants on here willing to take part in my next podcast looking at autism support in schools. Please let me know and please share #autism #AutismAwareness #autismacceptance

[NI CLASICO @niclasico]

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[edd the duck @TheMacIsBack79]

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[Di 🇮🇱 @WeeLassDi]

Congratulations to the Nationalist community on reviving the IRA!
You’ve allowed your anti-British bigotry and jealousy to taint another generation.

When will that community produce actual moral leadership?!

#IRA
#NorthernIreland

[Belsonic @belsonicbelfast]

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[NI CLASICO @niclasico]

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