asiriusbee

Army brat & Air Force retiree. Love Mother 🌎. Dog lover, music 🎶 lover; sci-fi, Anime, and philosophy. Belief in Karma and Humanity's coming reckoning.

[UnbiasedUnicorn @UnbiasedUnicorn]

Dan, the burden isn’t on critics to update their scorecard every time Israel rotates the same hardline security establishment figures. The burden is on Israel to stop the policies those figures have consistently backed, occupation without equal rights, settlement expansion, and the scale of destruction in Gaza, and to actually recognize Palestinian rights in deeds, not just softer PR. Leadership cosplay doesn’t erase the body count or the legal findings.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Hi Dan, thanks for the serious question. Here is the serious answer: Gadi Eisenkot is opposed to a two-state solution and equal rights for the Palestinians; he also helped conceive of the brutal 'Dahiya Doctrine' which has killed countless civilians, and was a member of the Netanyahu war cabinet when the genocide was at its worst in the first few months after Oct 7th 2023. Naftali Bennett has made racist anti-Arab remarks over the years, backs Israel's illegal wars in Iran and Lebanon, and was actually the prime minister of Israel when Amnesty published its lengthy report accusing Israel of apartheid in February 2022. Yes, they may sound less hawkish and racist than Netanyahu and his coalition allies; they might make more conciliatory noises and gestures, especially to western governments; but at a policy level they just don't differ from Netanyahu that much on the key issues (Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, equal rights, etc). Or do you disagree? Do you have evidence that they do? Happy to hear it.

But so, look, there is a simple way for Israel to change my "perspective" - not by swapping one hawkish, anti-Arab leader for another, but by NOT engaging in genocide and apartheid.

Actions speak louder than words - or personalities.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Hi Senator, thanks for the quote-tweet, but why are you so full of bile and hate against Muslim-Americans who aren't terrorists and have never harmed you, while sycophantic to the man in the Oval Office who called your wife ugly and said your dad killed JFK?

[NONAME @blaqoutfit]

@allenanalysis

[Capitol PUN-ishment @cappundc]

@allenanalysis

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: A federal judge has officially thrown out the felony case against former Olympian Davey Hearn.

Prosecutors admitted the Reflecting Pool damage was caused by a flawed, rushed installation; not by Hearn. The case is over.

[asiriusbee @aSiriusBee]

😏😏😏

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

Leaders of the reptilian community are calling out HBO for encouraging dragon-on-dragon violence, criminalizing Sheepstealer as a left-wing antifa terrorist & whitewashing the Sunfyre genocide. https://t.co/XBwQd0aJaD

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Remember when the Panama Papers came out, revealed that all rich people in the world are part of enormous criminal network to dodge taxes and hoard stolen wealth in offshore accounts, and the journalist who reported was murdered by a car bomb, and no one was held accountable, and literally nothing happened.

This is what will happen with the Epstein Files if we don't unite against child rapists.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I see a lot of people defending the late Rod Liddle’s long list of racist, bigoted, misogynistic remarks by saying he was a ‘provocateur’, he was a free speech champion.

These are the same people who are totally fine not just with smearing little old ladies and priests at pro-Palestine demos as antisemites but also with the British state literally arresting them on terrorism charges.

Free speech! Right to offend!

Oh… wait.

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

This is why reading at the library is a top tier experience

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

Wasn’t it y’all who said “shut up and dribble?”

Oh wait, that only applied to the Black people. My bad, I forgot the rules.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

It's shocking how few understand this IMO.

Trump pardoned the Jan 6 rioters and wants to get them paid to send the message that if you break the law for him, if you 'fight' for him, he will pardon you+pay you for your 'loyalty' to him.

It's for the NEXT TIME he needs the same.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Hilarious.

They all bow the knee to him and then he drops them if they dare disagree with him or do anything that displeases him.

Such is the cult.

[Basharat Ali @basharaatali]

@mehdirhasan @lucyjaynewhite1
foreign names
William-Germanic brought to England by William the Conqueror a migrant who arrived by boat.
Matthew–from Latin Matthaeus
Peter – from Greek Petros
John – from Hebrew Yochanan
Christopher – from Greek Christophoros
Samuel – from Hebrew Shemu’el

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Well, your forebears should have thought of that before they went around the world colonizing the lands of Mohammeds, Khans, and Patels.

Enjoy your racism!

[Warren @swd2]

@mehdirhasan I hear you but I can't even entertain this take. I have a daughter. It would've taken me 0.000001 seconds to reach this conclusion. And I don't think that makes me unique. Every dad would feel that same way. How do you put political considerations above flesh and blood?

[UnbiasedUnicorn @UnbiasedUnicorn]

@mehdirhasan Better late than never” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here
Two years late is less “better” and more “when it became useful.” At least the Fauci grilling had passion
this one feels like it was workshopped by a crisis PR team

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Better late than never from Moreno but a reminder that this GOP senator was more angry and ruder to Fauci than he is here to the man who allegedly assaulted and threatened his daughter.

[TIME @TIME]

Cyberattacks targeting water systems in multiple states over the past week have raised questions about infrastructure security and whether the incidents are connected to Iran.

https://t.co/h6bFmacwpB

[Fidasays 🇸🇦🇵🇰 @fidasays]

@mehdirhasan Israel is the absolute worst enemy of humanity, and anyone who supports them is just as bad as they are.