Tim Watson

believer, teacher. principal at NBCS. views are my own.

[Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani]

Now The Economist is reporting about how the Israeli military grabbed Palestinians and used them as human shields

All of sudden the taboo against admitting all of the uncivilized Israeli behavior during the war has been broken

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

One for @bbclaurak who asked on air "Why would Israel lie?"
A leak has revealed the IDF actually has a programme to train its people in the “fundamentals of psychological warfare, propaganda, deception, legitimacy and public diplomacy." https://t.co/yW2WeZakYA

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

"The strictest rules of engagement I ever had in the army."

An Israeli soldier has described being ordered to "kill immediately" any man in Gaza, regardless of age, and to use his own judgment on women, children, and even donkeys.

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

We regret suggesting that international law is a matter of opinion

[Save Our Citizenships 🔻 @LetsStopC9]

Children Were Kept In Outdoor Cages During Snowstorms

This is a clip from Stone Cold Justice, John Lyons’ investigation for Four Corners (ABC, 2014). It exposed Israel’s industrialised cruelty way before Oct 7th 2023.

At Ofer Military Prison, Palestinian children are dragged through hearings that last seconds. Shackled, silenced and convicted without being looked at.

Israel’s military courts brag about a 99.74% conviction rate. That’s not law, that’s a rigged machine. A conveyor belt designed to crush children until guilt becomes inevitable.

UNICEF called it systematic, institutionalised abuse: threats of death, beatings, isolation, sexual violence.

This is Israel’s legacy in full view: a state so afraid of Palestinian children it has to break them, then call it justice.

And the world still calls this a democracy.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Their absence of self-awareness is a serious pathology. They just killed 3k civilians (really, civilians) and are complaining that their invading soldiers are facing some risks WHILE INVADING.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Now that Gaza lies in ruins—shattered, like a beloved face after a long brutality—Israel moves with a terrible confidence to the next act: The act of leaving every soul there not merely wounded, but permanently disabled. Injured, sick, hungry, homeless, without work, without hope. This is not war’s collateral damage. This is design.

As my friend Gideon Levy writes—and he knows, he knows—this is the prelude to expulsion. Think of it: a society without teachers, without doctors, without social workers, without engineers, without clerks. That is not a society. That is a holding pen. A slow erasure. And when nothing functions—no school, no hospital, no office, no heart—then it becomes ‘easy,’ they tell themselves, to scatter the people to the four corners of the earth. Like seeds from a broken pod, except no soil will take them.

We must name this. Not with rage alone, though rage is honest. But with the cold, clear tears of recognition: they are making life impossible so that departure becomes the only ‘choice.’ And the world watches, adjusts its spectacles, and calls for restraint. Restraint! There is no restraint in a slow drowning.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Monster

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

“Captured a strategic mountain”

At this point it sounds like AP is celebrating Israel’s unlawful occupation of Lebanon.

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

“Some of the most punitive campaigns [to demonise the Palestinians] have played out not in the corporate sector but at the ABC and within the university sector.”

Friday essay: How to Sell a Genocide exposes the double standards of reporting on Gaza https://t.co/RB5ozMvD9e

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Former Israeli official Michael Oren, an enthusiast of Israel's genocide of the Palestinians, just published an op-ed suggesting that Israel receive "compensation" from the US for the "increased risks to our security" Israel now faces as a result of its genocidal wars of aggression around the region.

After dragging the US into a war, getting hundreds of US American servicemen & women injured or killed, driving up inflation for US Americans, driving up gas prices for US Americans, now Israel wants cash transfers from US.

It would be difficult to exagerate just how arrogant, entitled & addicted to US weapons Apartheid Israel is.

If you don't support a full arms embargo on Israel, you are complicit in genocide. it's one of the most black and white issues of our time.

https://t.co/RKwrQmQ1Ax

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

My friend from Gaza has just posted this:

Nine years in Gaza.
Yesterday, as I scrolled through the names of the victims, one stopped me: “Sarah Rajab, 9 years old.”
Sarah was our neighbors' daughter. In the second month of the genocide, she survived an Israeli strike that killed her mother, her grandmother, and both of her siblings. Though injured, Sarah survived. She was left with only her father until he was killed a few months ago.
Today, that entire family is gone.
At just nine years old, Sarah had already been a survivor, a patient, and an orphan. Now, she is dead.

[Muhammad Mazen @mhmd_s09]

One of the most horrific scenes in human history has been revealed.

A video shows people trying to rescue an injured person and carry him to the hospital; Israel bombed them all and killed them with a missile.

A video the world must never forget.

[Nadim Kobeissi @kaepora]

The Israeli army blew up my aunt Zeinab’s house yesterday. She is the fourth immediate family member of mine to have her house destroyed by the IDF in the past two months, ours was destroyed in April.

The IDF knew that this house had no weapons or any sort of military presence, since as can be seen on the fourth photo, they had occupied it for a few days before destroying it: we’ve obtained a subscription to a satellite service, and have been monitoring the area daily to check on our family’s homes. The house was destroyed yesterday as part of a systematic and evil process of destroying every single house in the village of Bint Jbeil.

Israel has been making my family homeless for generations. My grandparents lost their homes to them once. My mother has lost her home to them three times, and myself twice.

None of us have ever been involved in any sort of “resistance” or military action against Israel. In every case, we have been uninvolved, innocent civilians: I am a cryptographer, my mother is a retired journalist, and my father a deceased philosophy professor. My uncles and aunts are history professors and homemakers.

May the world bear witness to this.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Look at the framing of this post. All of it is designed to justify and sanitize Israel’s actions. “Orders evacuation” is a euphemism for forced displacement, they’re destroying people’s homes on purpose.

They call it a “conflict with Hezbollah” as Israel kills Lebanese children.

[Tim Watson @TimWatson21]

This is an exceptional piece. Watch it. It uses the direct words of early Zionists to lay out what was clear but was obscured, yet is being made clear again in the actions of Israel today.

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

🚨This short film exposes the true story of Israel's creation, entirely through the words of its own founders

For decades, Israel’s lies have been carefully designed to demonize its victims. To ensure that no matter the crimes it commits, the children it slaughters, the world remains incapable of empathy for Palestinians, or at best, treats it with the same apathy that has allowed this to go on for as long as it has

On the 78th anniversary of its creation, it's time the world knew that Israel's past is not different from the brutal present the world is finally seeing

[Jadaliyya @jadaliyya]

"I'm sorry, gentlemen, but I have to answer to hundreds of thousands who are anxious for the success of Zionism: I do not have hundreds of thousands of Arabs among my constituents." Harry S. Truman (1945)

"Rethinking US Middle East Policy: Past, Present, and Prospects," with @MouinRabbani and @SecurityContext.

[Zo Brown @receipts_lol]

We won't let genocidal intent get scrubbed.

It's in our database.

There is another database at @Law4Palestine and another database at https://t.co/7syvWnnCBj.

Memory and accountability is everyone's job.

[Zo Brown @receipts_lol]

Israeli forced displacement order from 1948.

[Alternate Media Watchers @AltMediaWatch]

Yesterday the @australian published an article denying the systematic ethnic cleansing of more than 750,000 Palestinians that took place in 1948.

The fact that a media company is trying to erase the suffering of Palestinians is a disgrace.