Arif Baradia

Bone Surgeon in the bustling Kenyan capital, Nairobi, twitter newb! People watcher..

[Cucsman @CucsmanE]

So there is no single company that has issued a statement about the death of its founder😂😂😂

[Caverta @Cavertiano]

Este video ha sido de los que más me ha radicalizado. La primera vez que salió recuerdo que lo tradujeron y entre lágrimas dice (si no mal recuerdo): Perdóname Señor Perdóname Allah pero han matado niños, Han Matado Mujeres. Perdóname".

[Arif Baradia @_sawbones_]

@Acyn What an asshole

[Arif Baradia @_sawbones_]

@Wordslinger__ And Uganda too.. which seems to be different from their usual rhetoric

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Israel’s UN envoy brings a Starlink device to Iran’s envoy and talks about “regime change in Iran.”

The Iranian envoy ignores him.

[Yamen Nashwan𓂆🇵🇸 @YamenNashwan11]

Last night, Israeli occupation forces dropped barrels over the skies of Gaza. When we saw them, we thought: finally, perhaps this world will have mercy on us from this injustice, and they will kill us while we sleep.

But about half an hour later, those barrels opened in the sky, resembling bubbles. Unfortunately, there was no death inside them.

Instead, an extremely foul smell, like feces, spread everywhere. It seeped into homes and tents, into people’s chests and their breathing.

My nephew Fathi, who suffers from asthma, could not sleep all night. More than once, he choked and struggled to breathe because of the smell.

Even the air is something they begrudge us. They want to take away our last breath.

They want us to breathe the stench of this world’s filth—the smell of helplessness and complicity with all of this terrorism.

We are facing one of the lowest and dirtiest occupations in history. An occupation that does not want us to live, and does not even want us to breathe.

[Pádraig Murchadhfinn @murchadhfinn]

“This is an opinion column. It usually runs to 1,000 words. Eight hundred of them have been spent naming ordinary things Israel has illegally denied the people of Gaza. I could fill another column and still not exhaust the list.”
~Colin Sheridan

Irish Examiner

[Alaa From Gaza @alaafromgaza92]

I have never seen such a blatant double standard in my life.

In 2018, when 12 young Thai football players and their coach were trapped in a cave in Thailand, the world did not say, “They are not our citizens.” Britain sent some of its best cave divers. Australia sent doctors and rescue experts. The United States sent more than 40 military personnel and equipment. Countries came together and worked with the Thai authorities to get those children out.

And they did as clear in the video below. They saved all 13 of them.

Tonight, in Gaza, people woke up to the screams and cries of children, women, and elderly people after a six-story building known as the “Al-Saada” building collapsed. Nearly 100 people were sheltering inside. Dozens of tents surrounded the building. Many of those trapped under the rubble are children.

They are still under the rubble. So where are the international rescue teams?

Why aren't neighboring Arab countries sending rescue teams? Why aren't Western countries sending specialized teams to save whoever can still be saved?

My heart aches for my people in Gaza :(

[OrangeMaxxing FreddyG @OrangeFreddyG]

Ed Sheeran is getting cooked by literally everyone

[Jim Norton @JimNorton]

In solidarity with @macklemore, I am cancelling my upcoming shows at @LFFStadium and @GilletteStadium.

[⭐️ @billi3pilled]

This comment on Finneas’s instagram 🥹

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

Remember you cannot say you want freedom for this kid.

That would be antisemitism and you might hurt the feelings of a billionaire Jews in the USA.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Double-tap strike on a child trying to rescue a rescue worker. During a “cease fire.”

This comes as Israeli media and politicians are calling a documentary about this sort of attack a “blood libel.”

[gorillaz 🇧🇷 @gorillaz_br]

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[Pop Tingz @PopTingz]

Ed Sheeran’s band, Beoga, have dropped out of his tour:

“We have made the decision to depart as Ed Sheeran's band on the remaining US Loop tour, following the silencing of Macklemore by zionist lobbies.”

[Un Étrange En Terre Étrange @LoinDuTribu]

I shouldn’t laugh, but the epistemology here is incredible.

Show them actual footage of dead or injured Palestinian children and suddenly everyone is Werner Herzog: Pallywood, crisis actors, staged blood, manipulated footage, fake funerals, context missing.

Show them a scripted Netflix drama written by Israelis and apparently we have discovered the Zapruder film.

Fiction becomes documentary when it confirms your politics. Documentary becomes fiction when it threatens them.

Absolutely immaculate.

[Variety @Variety]

Macklemore is speaking out after being dropped from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour, seemingly placing blame on New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, saying that the billionaire rallied other stadium owners to ban him from performing at their venues:

“Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years.... I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened [in Gaza]... Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues....

Ed was in a fucked up position. He knew it. His typical apolitical stance was being challenged in a way it never had been before. He told me that the words 'Free Palestine' and the image of the Palestinian flag were hurtful to a lot of people he spoke with. I told him that if those words were more offensive than tens of thousands of Palestinian children being killed by Israel, then there was a fundamental disconnect between where those people stood and where I stood. But he couldn't get past his public facing, 'I don't take sides'....

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed. Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation....

I didn't need 10 shows from Ed. I needed 2. Two chances to stand in front of 90,000 people and say the words that somehow became too dangerous to say. Free Palestine. But if those words cost me the stage, while turning the conversation back to Palestine, then it was the most successful tour I've ever been on.”

https://t.co/ff6jdXCfa1

[Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum]

Appalling:

"In every location MSF visited, solar panels powering water infrastructure had been struck or damaged ... [affecting] the entire water ecosystem, including wells, pumps, filtration units, storage tanks, generators, pipelines, and solar-powered systems."

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[Jomba @mwabilimwagodi2]

The fat fucker is your son? What is your son doing in a GOK office? What does he do in your office? This is not your home Jomba kwanza your office is unconstitutional.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The Israeli press have published three significant revelations about the Gaza holocaust, reporting (1) that Benjamin Netanyahu concealed advanced knowledge of the Hamas attack on October 7, (2) that Israel rejected a Hamas offer to release all civilian hostages immediately after October 7, and (3) that according to an IDF drone operator, the Israeli military was intentionally firing on civilians throughout Gaza during its operations in the Palestinian territory.

The first two come from a Haaretz article titled “Revealed: Netanyahu Received an Explicit Warning Days Before Oct. 7. He Didn’t Brief Israel’s Security Chiefs”, which was released ahead of an upcoming Haaretz book about the hostage standoff in Gaza.

Haaretz describes a call between Netanyahu and UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, citing three foreign senior sources:

“A week and a half before October 7, 2023 the Emirati ruler called Netanyahu from the Presidential Palace in Abu Dhabi and spoke with him for 45 minutes. In that conversation, bin Zayed warned that Hamas’ leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, was planning a major operation against Israel. Bin Zayed expressed concern that the event in question would not only lead to bloodshed but also destabilize the entire region and undermine the Abraham Accords.”

Haaretz reports that rather than pass these warnings on to Israeli national security officials, Netanyahu chose to sit on information which an unnamed Shin Bet official said could have “changed our entire assessment picture.”

Haaretz also notes that Israel had received similar warnings about a coming Hamas attack from Egyptian intelligence, which had been reported earlier. These are just two items in the mountains upon mountains upon mountains of evidence indicating that powerful people in Israel knowingly allowed Hamas to inflict as much damage as possible on October 7 2023 in order to advance the murderous ethnic cleansing objectives we’ve seen rolled out in the years since.

Nothing will turn you into a conspiracy theorist faster than learning basic facts about what happened on October 7. But even without knowing those facts it already strains credulity to believe Israel had no advance knowledge of a complex attack which would require extensive open-air training in one of the most heavily surveilled strips of land on our planet. Especially when you look at all the pre-existing military agendas Israel was able to push forward in the aftermath.

Later in that same article, Haaretz quotes a Palestinian politician named Samir Mashharawi describing what Hamas leadership told him during his mediation efforts between Israel and Hamas after October 7:

“He told me that in the first stage, they had no problem releasing all civilians without anything in return,” Mashharawi recounts. “I swear, those were his exact words: all civilians, without anything in return. They had only one condition: They wanted us to bring in an agreed-upon mediator as quickly as possible, so that negotiations could immediately begin over everything else.”

Mashharawi said Israel rejected the offer. A senior Israeli defense official corroborated this, telling Haaretz:

“The release of the hostages did not even enter the list of war objectives formulated by the government on the night of October 7. Could the proposal have been properly discussed and a decision reached? In substantive terms, the answer is yes. But the prevailing mood was like after Pearl Harbor: We had just suffered a brutal blow, we were in the midst of war, who had the bandwidth to talk about stopping the fighting and starting negotiations now, even if it was to save the lives of dozens of people, whose final number was still unknown?”

So all that hasbara about the hostages and the Bibas kids and how Hamas needed to be destroyed because they were refusing to release innocent civilian captives was complete bunk from the very beginning. Hamas offered to release them with no conditions but the opening of communication lines. Israel refused, because what they wanted was to steal more Palestinian land. It was never about the hostages, and anyone who said it was is a liar.

Lastly, a separate report in Hebrew from Haaretz quotes an Israeli air force reserve major describing how IDF policies and culture ensured the deaths of large numbers of civilians. Here are a few quotes, translated by Israeli-American political analyst Shaiel Ben-Ephraim:

1) He was involved in the March 23, 2025 paramedic killings in Tel al-Sultan, Rafah and said, “You could clearly tell these were rescue vehicles even as fire was opened on them from the ground. For no apparent reason, the force on the ground charged the convoy. They shot the first vehicle, the medical personnel got out, hid behind the ambulances and begged for their lives, and the soldiers shot them one after another.”

2) On how the yellow line was used as an excuse to kill innocent people: “The Palestinians didn’t know it existed, and the Air Force wasn’t always updated either. From the perspective of a farmer walking onto his own land — he has no idea he’s stepping into an area the IDF suddenly decided is a fire zone. And then all kinds of retroactive justifications started coming up. ‘He came for an arms deal.’ ‘He touched the ground, maybe he’s planting an explosive.’ To me it looked like they were trying to incriminate people with no intelligence and no proof.”

3) On how all morals were lost in Gaza: “”The feeling was that something tore, everyone had already become cynical about death, you can’t understand it from the outside. It’s not just fatigue, it’s an erosion of morality, of responsibility, of the sense that someone is still managing the event. Very quickly this whole business of ‘collateral damage’ disappeared from the considerations. They fire on anyone they see. The atmosphere started to be like the stands at a soccer match. The way you shout at a player, ‘Yalla, score,’ that’s how they shout at a soldier, ‘Kill him, strike him.’”

Like the other revelations, this report further discredits the lies the public was sold about Israel’s reasons for its atrocities in Gaza. All those lies about how Israel is taking extraordinary measures to protect civilian life in Gaza and only kills civilians because Hamas “hides behind human shields” has been thoroughly discredited by copious amounts of evidence that Israel was going out of its way to kill noncombatants throughout the course of the onslaught.

The world was lied to about the Gaza holocaust, just like it was lied to about every other act of mass military slaughter that the US involves itself in. Please carry these lessons into the future.