Mohtashim Abbasi

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[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

Israel has different colored license plates for Israelis and Palestinians.

This makes it easier for Israeli terrorists to identify Palestinian cars and attack.

And cars with Palestinian plates cannot access all of the roads; Israelis can.

But it's not apartheid, guys.

[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

Buried on page 30 of 'Sir' David Bellend's report into antisemitism in schools in the UK it explicitly says there hasn't been a rise in antisemitism, only in anti-Israel sentiment. Astonishingly fraudulent crisis/debate, all to shield a genocidal state

[anas tipu @teepusahab]

Zahir jaffer still alive and not being extra judicially killed by CCD is what's wrong with CCD encounters. Because they don't work against rich and powerful.

[Zarrar Khuhro @ZarrarKhuhro]

No surprise given that this is the most utterly depraved nation on earth

[Mohtashim Abbasi @abbasiam79]

@thewebbie They are too busy carrying out a genocide.

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

Just been to see NAZA.
For those of you who are of the opinion that ‘it’s complicated’ you’ll find out that it isn’t. It’s Genocide. The intent is blatant.
Go see it.

[Dr. Taimur Rahman @Taimur_Laal]

Stop religious extremism.

[Richard H @TheHoogie]

I’d you’re shocked at the damage in France to an old town hall you’ll be horrified to hear what’s happened to the beautiful old buildings and heritage of the Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans

[Mohtashim Abbasi @abbasiam79]

@fasi_zaka No hyperbole. It has started. It just isn't being fought like WW1 & WW2.

Nukes have made that unlikely.

[Mohtashim Abbasi @abbasiam79]

In 2022 the establishment with full backing of #PPP & #PMLN handed #PTI a lifeline nationally & now they have done the same in KP.

Are we sure that the establishment & PTI are actually at odds?
#Pakistan #GovernorRule

[William Peynsaert @PeynsaertBill]

Quite possibly the most surreal thing you'll read in our surreal times.

Kids face machine guns with stones so a beaten up journalist can receive help and those kids are then hunted by a terrorist army funded by the journalist's government.

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

With her lonely stand for Palestine, Sally Rooney has exposed the contemporary literary world as a nest of cowards and careerists

Where are all the Doris Lessings, Harold Pinters, John Bergers, Graham Greenes, Samuel Becketts that once raised their voices against war and injustice?

Rooney stands almost alone

[ًً @kelevitch]

The uncomfortable conversation is that if the Houthis have the nerve to hit Riyadh’s airport, to strike near Mecca and Medina, to declare Saudi airspace a target it’s because they’ve watched this war for nine years. They know exactly what Saudi Arabia can do alone militarily, which is little, and exactly how far Washington will go to protect it, which is also very little, once American interests aren’t directly on the line, they don’t much to protect their ‘Alies’.

Iran knows the same thing. Everyone in the region has run that calculation, and it keeps coming back the same way: the cost of attacking a Gulf capital is lower than anyone assumed.
This was never really about resources. We are some of the wealthiest states on earth. So It’s about a choice made generations ago and never revisited: build militaries strong enough to crush a coup, never strong enough to actually win a war, because a competent army is also the single greatest threat to the people who built it. That trade worked for fifty years against the threat it was designed for. It was never tested against an enemy actually willing to fight, because nobody tried.

Someone’s trying now. And the bill for optimizing against the wrong enemy for half a century just came due, over an airport terminal, a stretch of coastline, and a strike near the two holiest cities in Islam.

There’s no way around it anymore. Either these monarchies accept the real risk that comes with a real army, or they keep absorbing this, indefinitely, because the alternative, permanent dependency on a patron that’s already shown exactly where its loyalty ends, just failed in front of the whole world.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The mecca pact might be exactly the right instinct, an attempt to build precisely the kind of independent military capability the Gulf never had, but instincts take years to become capability, and the Houthis aren’t waiting around for that timeline. The urgent crisis and the long-term fix are running on completely different clocks, and that mismatch, not the pact’s sincerity, is the actual problem right now.

[Mohtashim Abbasi @abbasiam79]

#Trump saying they #US will not attack #Iran before the #Midterms26 in November.
Means the #America is definitely attacking Iran before the mid-term #elections.
#IranWar

[Mohtashim Abbasi @abbasiam79]

@MattooShashank Well thats a moronic take if there ever was one.

[Yousef Munayyer @YousefMunayyer]

Get ready for way more of this as Ellison takeover of major US media comes into effect. Just unchecked racist hasbara nonsense on full blast.

[Mohtashim Abbasi @abbasiam79]

@AbsarAlamHaider I think your generation failed them. Period.
The young who are able to, are leaving because they do not see any prospect of upward mobility in the current system & do not have the patience to wait 20-30 yrs.

[Mohtashim Abbasi @abbasiam79]

@NickKristof Ask your friends @nytimes who were helping make it happen.

[Mohtashim Abbasi @abbasiam79]

@NickKristof Your employer @nytimes helped all the way by gaslighting the critics, runnjn interference for #Israel & straight up lying.

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

I was an Israeli soccer player (youth level) fan and sports writer. I’ve been to thousands of games and in each one I heard at least one racist chant at black players or Arab players. There is no such thing as a game without them. Israel is racist to the core.