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[Zain @Zain_Zaidi]

#MayTheFourth be with the resistance! 🍉 #StarWarsDay

[Zain @Zain_Zaidi]

@ImamRezaEN 🤲🏼

[Dawn.com @dawn_com]

#144stories: Remembering lives lost in the Peshawar school attack https://t.co/VIVAgqDRAU

[Yonah Lieberman 🔥 @YonahLieberman]

I am begging you to watch this six minute @CNN clip from a field hospital in southern Gaza — “a window to hell.”

At some point, you hear the sound of an air strike. Later, you see the people who were maimed in that strike brought in.

Simply horrifying.

[MoTaz @motazazaiza9]

It’s 66 days not 63
Anyway, I am asking all the humans around the world, even animals to go and protest to stop the killing of us.
It’s simple, Stop Killing US !!!
Stop the Genocide
No more words needed
Ceasefire now!

[MoTaz @motazazaiza9]

I believe he was peacefully making a cup of tea before the Israeli warplanes bombed the house.
Israel must be proud about their speed to kill, they can do it before the cup of tea is ready, especially if the target is Palestinians.
I don’t want to imagine, I don’t want to photograph more of this
Please take action to end this before the next cup of tea ! (you know what I mean)

[Zain @Zain_Zaidi]

British columnist @OwenJones84: ‘Israel is wiping Gaza off the map’ https://t.co/mQDjOf06fE

[Fadi Quran @fadiquran]

The end of the myth of Israeli military invincibility: The view from the Middle East

We’ve seen a massive shift in the average perspective on the Israeli military in the MENA region. It used to be viewed as an intimidating advanced force to be reckoned with, with a level of supremacy that could not be broken.

Now it is perceived as extremely weak and fragile. Specifically, the current perspective is that it would be easily defeated if it didn’t have unlimited American backing.

Here’s why:

- Without the 600+ fighter aircrafts and missiles mostly provided by generous US support over the last decades, Israel wouldn’t have its military advantage - which as we’ve seen is simply aggressive air power and carpet bombing.

- Without ammunition restocking by US industrial might, Israel couldn’t fight a long war.

- Without US war ships in the Mediterranean, Israel wouldn’t be able to effectively deter regional actors.

- Without US interventionism in selling advanced weapons to UAE and “gifts” to other regimes, Israel couldn’t entice regional actors or normalize with them.

- Without the US veto at the UNSC against any ceasefire, Israel would be in the gutter diplomatically and couldn’t continue the war.

This war has proven to Palestinians, people across MENA, and the global south just how fragile the Israeli military actually is, and how defeatable it would be if it didn’t have unlimited US government support.

The huge death toll of innocent people, including 7000+ children, and destruction, all through aerial bombardment and carpet bombing, which Israeli strategists assume would create “deterrence”, is instead being perceived as the most cowardly tactic of a military that’s afraid of fighting “face to face” with a militia that is a TENTH its size, has 1% of its resources, and has been under siege for 17 years. Israel’s ground incursions happen through fortified tanks after massive aerial and artillery bombardment and yet still fail to effectively hold territory.

It is also being noted that while in 1967 Israel defeated the largest Arab nations in 6 days, in 60 days it has not achieved any significant strategic successes in Gaza despite using unprecedented force on the whole population.

Now, a generation of people across the region are not only witnessing what appears to them to be weakness and criminal cowardice of Israel’s military, they’re feeling deeply ashamed of their political leaders and guilty because they aren’t doing enough to stop this bloodshed.

Recall that the Arab revolutions in 2011 happened 5 years after the second Palestinian uprising ended, and were led by a generation of activists who came of age organizing for Palestinian rights during that period.

Moreover, across the region people now see this as an American war on Palestinian civilians just as much as it is Israel’s. If there was any doubt about that, the US veto yesterday solidified this view.

Similarly, you now have a generation of Americans who are horrified by what their government is complicit in, with the majority of Americans wanting a ceasefire. Even top US officials, who care about American national interests, are showing their discomfort, realizing that Israel is dragging the US towards a massive strategic failure.

The massive paradigm shifts that are unfolding as a result of these dynamics are going to be profound.

[Zain @Zain_Zaidi]

@LeanInOrg @CNN Please get your founder Sheryl to read this report from 2005 on ‘Violence against Palestinian Women’ from the website of the Office of the @UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: https://t.co/dohmMOcb1S

[MoTaz @motazazaiza9]

It’s been almost 2 months since I came to the beach and watched the sunset. We miss our life

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

The death rate in Gaza is at a historic high, with thousands of children killed in just a few weeks.
Demanding an end to this inexcusable violence is a question of basic humanity. Silence is complicity. You cannot be silent in an unfolding genocide.
https://t.co/Az5O7ZKYU5

[Zain @Zain_Zaidi]

@ImamRezaEN Please perform on my behalf and of my family.

[Mélanie Joly @melaniejoly]

🇨🇦 strongly condemns the extremist settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank and is gravely concerned by reports of Palestinian communities being forcibly removed from their lands.

This violence negatively impacts efforts to achieve a negotiated two-state solution.

[M. Jibran Nasir 🇵🇸 @MJibranNasir]

Decolonise #Palestine from the River to the Sea. New platforms are launched everyday @elonmusk and if this platform won't allow people to speak the truth then people will find new ones. The people of the world won't stay quiet out of fear of losing a mere online account when thousands are losing their limbs and life everyday in Palestine. You can continue to live in the fear of losing Ad revenue by organizations who support the Apartheid regime of Israel.

[M. Jibran Nasir 🇵🇸 @MJibranNasir]

You can dictate views and define policies on this platform because you have the money which brings you control, very similar to the control the apartheid regime of #Israel has over western media and govts. That's all there is money buying the power to dictate views and define policies. For X you can define "justice" as "antisemitism", "decolonization" as "genocide", "apartheid" as "the right to exist" and "babies" in incubators as "terrorists" but remember that people of the world in their hearts and minds will always necessarily define you for who you are; an enabler and collaborator in the killing of thousands of innocent children, women and men of #Palestine who used his 240 billion dollars to ensure that free speech meant that only the wrath of the oppressor will be heard and not the agony of the oppressed.

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Here’s how these Western leaders reacted after attacks on civilians in Gaza vs. Ukraine.

[Zain @Zain_Zaidi]

@ShaykhAzhar @fordnation @fordnation must apologize for mislabelling the Palestinian flag.

This hateful rhetoric is dangerous and gives Israel legitimacy to continue with occupation and genocide.

[Fionnuala Ní Aoláin @NiAolainF]

“Side with the child over the gun, every single time, no matter whose gun and no matter whose child.”

[Abby Martin @AbbyMartin]

After 3 weeks of carpet bombing a caged population of millions while cutting off water, electricity, food & medicine, Israel has severed all telecommunications. Now they can commit genocide without the annoyance of their victims telling the world about it

[Martin Konečný @MartinKonecny]

Worth a watch: Pakistan’s ambassador to the UN criticising Canada's amendment to the UNGA resolution on Gaza, solely condemning Hamas.

All Western states voted for the amendment that nevertheless failed to pass.