I just replaced #HandsOffIran in my bio with "stopping US imperialism", bc there's not enough room to also put #HandsOffCuba , #HandsOffVenezuela , #HandsOffSyria , etc. The US is targeting so many countries, for no reason besides a desire to control the world. I.e. megalomania.
@nietzsche258918@ggreenwald Maybe. I'd say it depends on what they can use to try to coerce Vance, and on whether Vance is smart enough to realize that his base is pissed over the people they voted for doing everything Israel wants for so long. Caving to Israel would ensure he'd be a one-termer.
I just made this my ring-tone.
It could all lead to nothing, or worse (a joint US/Israel resumption of the war). But there hasn't been a week where American leaders have spoken so sternly, clearly, truthfully and decisively about Israel since . . . well, perhaps ever.
@BubblesToBurst Haaretz doesn't have a perfect record, but it's told the truth pretty often, especially by the standards of other Israeli papers. I saw an article in it many years ago entitled something like "It's time to admit that this is an apartheid state." So good for them, then and now.
@ZaidJilani Thought for a while that maybe they didn't have the option of refusing Netanyahu bc of blackmail involving Epstein stuff. But if Trump and Vance can get away with defying them now, and if it isn't all just an act that Netanyahu's in on, then it looks like that's not the case. 2/2
@ZaidJilani Agreed. Polls show Kamala would have won if she had denounced Israel's genocide instead of scolding protestors and even calling them antisemitic once. One would hope that Trump and the GOP would learn from her mistake. But if they have now, it's too late. 1/2
@AZMaGHaMaMa@yechielleiter@grok So back then, and before that, and to this day, Israel responds to one of its people being killed by killing scores of Palestinians.
They believe that 1 Israeli life is worth more than 100s of Palestinian lives. This is because they are racist scum.
@AZMaGHaMaMa@yechielleiter@grok The answer Grok gave doesn't surprise me. I looked at the numbers back in 2008, when there were rockets fired and Gaza bombed.
Per Wikipedia, total # of Israelis killed by rockets that year: 8. Total # of civilians killed by IDF bombs over a month or two, by IDF's own count: 295
@GumSlinger@jimbodean1984@shawnhale369@gardener809471@ggreenwald I'm sorry, you were never told to listen to the Pope? I thought that the whole point of having a Pope was that he would tell Catholics what was right and wrong. Whoever is Pope always does that, after all. Not everyone does what he says, but isn't that his function? 😕
@AZMaGHaMaMa Cheney can give them the tour after they arrive. Hope his equally neocon daughter gets hit by a bus or something and joins him there sooner rather than later.
@JenniferLoewe10@ME_Observer_ For a long time I didn't want Israel to be bombed, because I knew there would be collateral damage and that if I assumed every civilian deserved it I would be no better the sick pro-genocide ppl. But it's getting really hard to NOT wish destruction on that country. 😡
@JenniferLoewe10@ME_Observer_ Or, hopefully, they never saw this coming and have no plan for it. I'm usually a pessimist, but I hope that I see them either forced to accept that they've lost this one and be miserable, OR stupidly try to take on multiple countries w/o US aid as Bibi said, and get crushed.
It is apartheid. There is not even the slightest doubt about it. In the West Bank, there are quite literally two legal systems: one for Israeli settlers and another for Palestinians. The former enjoy rights and freedoms, the latter live under military dictatorship.
@AmericaExpanded@ZaidJilani Second, if someone punches you in the nose, and you respond by knocking them to the ground and then wailing on them with a crowbar for ten minutes straight, leaving them in a coma with multiple broken bones, then that makes you a psycho who has gone too far. Just like Israel.
@AmericaExpanded@ZaidJilani Violence begets violence. If the IDF hadn't bombed Gaza over and over since the mid 2000s and blockaded the Strip for that long (a blockade is an act of war under international law), and shot peaceful protestors when they tried doing that, far fewer Gazans would want to attack.
I was accused of "Disinformation" for reporting on the fact Israel used a dog to attack a 66 year old Palestinian woman, because I used an artistic depiction of the incident rather than the actual video of the attack.
Here is the actual video of the attack
Plus a news piece about it. https://t.co/VW87Y11Rk3
@denischamp@BtSIsrael Breaking The Silence are former IDF soldiers, whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning or Edward Snowden. They have consciences, they feel guilty about what they took part in as part of that occupying force, and so they tell the world about the IDF's war crimes. So this is word of IDF
You're right, the death toll has stayed at 40k for the last two years and counting. Even though Israel admits that it let NO food in starting immediately after 10/7, and even though they never stopped bombing for long, I'm sure that most of the people of Gaza are just fine. 🙄
@XSiveVerbosity@BtSIsrael Over 1 million… ????
Are you joking …???
At least 780 million, indeed at least 9 billion Palestinians killed and 17 billion children exterminated.
Maybe much more, Word of Hamas