Anne

[Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick]

So Starmer puts 25 more people into our legislature, with rights to speak & vote on new
laws. Unlike MPs they're
there for life. No advance public scrutiny. No chance for folk to say this woman's a crook or this man lied on his CV. The system stinks:
https://t.co/62JNfRyDj1

[jameel @jameeliscool]

racist culture obsessed with killing arabs

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Lindsey Graham’s sister was sworn into office yesterday and shortly afterward was one of the 50 GOP senators to vote to integrate the U.S. military with Israel’s military. This officially makes her the fastest senator in history to betray her country.

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

On July 20, 1948, five soldiers from the IDF's Oded Brigade abducted four women, including a 15-year-old girl, from the Shia village of Hunin, who had left the village to harvest the fields. Two of the soldiers, brothers Daniel and Avraham Bachar, sought to avenge the death of their cousin, who had been killed two days earlier in battle elsewhere. The soldiers took the four women towards the military camp, and on the way decided to rape them.

After the rape, they murdered the women and left their bodies lying in the field. A few days later, other soldiers from the battalion were sent to search for the bodies, found three of them and buried them in a shallow grave. The fourth was found a few days later in a state of decomposition and her body was burned.

Unusually for this kind of cases, several of the soldiers were arrested and put on trial. When Israeli newspapers reported about the trial, they made sure to mention only the murder, never the rape. After a legal farce lasting more than two years, which included two military trials and one civilian trial, the last two defendants were acquitted. No one was held accountable for this heinous crime.
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After the Zionists occupied and destroyed Hunin, some of the survivors found refuge in the nearby Lebanese village of Hula. Now Hula had been completely destroyed by Israel, just like Hunin. This is Zionism and it must end.

[Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا @SMohyeddin]

Israel is maniacally bombing Palestinians in tattered tents again tonight. Every. Single. Day. Not a single shot from Hamas for more than 10 months & Israel has killed more than a thousand Palestinians since — including more than 200 children.

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

In a video I made a couple of weeks ago I said that one of the reasons Iran was trying to avoid the bigger war was it knew once it began, the US and Israel will bomb every food source in Iran, including markes, warehouses, bakeries and stores - just like they did in Gaza. I expect this policy to continue and expand. The idea is to cause a famine in Iran. This is how the Zionist West wages war

[Anne @Annecagm]

@Peston 'She is admired by all supporters of genocide, censorship & authoritarianism, across the spectrum' 🤢

[Nora Barrows-Friedman @norabf]

These kinds of images will one day be displayed on the walls of the Gaza Holocaust Museum

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

The worst thing about Rachel Reeves is what turns her to tears

Here it’s Starmer resigning

21000 children murdered in Gaza 🇵🇸

We all know Rachel hasn’t lost a single night thinking of those children

These people should disgust all of us:

Phoney
Selfish
Vacuous

Repulsive.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Dominic Waghorn: "I've done this job for 30 years.. I haven't done interviews as harrowing as this in all those decades.. these were missiles designed.. to go into a building & kill everything within it, & there wasn't much left of many of the children"

The US murdered 120 kids.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

What has Iran really done that is so unforgivable?

Did it invade continents?

Colonize half the earth?

Drop atomic bombs on civilians?

Build military bases around the globe?

Topple governments by the dozen?

Starve nations with sanctions and call it diplomacy?

No.

Its unforgivable act was simpler.

It refused to become manageable.

And for some rulers in the Muslim world, that refusal is more offensive than any Western crime, because it threatens the very terms of their own survival.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

The NATO-backed coup in Ukraine was on February 22, 2014. In the article below, the New York Times confirms that two days later, on February 24, the new Ukrainian intelligence chief of the government that the US had handpicked, called the CIA and MI6 to establish a partnership against Russia. Only a few days earlier, Russia had been the main security partner of Ukraine - after the coup, it would become NATO's frontline state against Russia.

The CIA operation against Russia developed from 2014-2022:
- "12 newly-built, forward operating bases constructed along the Russian border. From each base, General Kondratiuk said, the Ukrainian officers ran networks of agents who gathered intelligence inside Russia. C.I.A. officers installed equipment at the bases to help gather intelligence and also identified some of the most skilled Ukrainian graduates of the Operation Goldfish program, working with them to approach potential Russian sources."

- "The listening post in the Ukrainian forest is part of a C.I.A.-supported network of spy bases constructed in the past eight years that includes 12 secret locations along the Russian border... Around 2016, the C.I.A. began training an elite Ukrainian commando force — known as Unit 2245 — which captured Russian drones and communications gear so that C.I.A. technicians could reverse-engineer them and crack Moscow’s encryption systems.

The CIA/MI6 presence in Ukraine became a key motivation for the Russian invasion:
- "Toward the end of 2021, according to a senior European official, Mr. Putin was weighing whether to launch his full-scale invasion when he met with the head of one of Russia’s main spy services, who told him that the C.I.A., together with Britain’s MI6, were controlling Ukraine and turning it into a beachhead for operations against Moscow."

*** The war in Ukraine was clearly provoked (and even started) by NATO. The amount of evidence makes this undeniable. However, the political-media establishment defends the "unprovoked invasion" narrative by dismissing and criminalising all explanations of NATO's involvement as efforts to "legitimise" the Russian invasion. Why is NATO's contribution to starting this war important? If we recognise NATO's contribution and the legitimate Russian security concerns, then it opens up an opportunity for compromise and peace. By clinging to the "unprovoked invasion" narrative, weapons are the path to peace, and NATO gets to continue its war against Russia to the last Ukrainian.
https://t.co/gmmWD698bx

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

"A Palestinian man in his mid-thirties recounted a story of being stranded in his car with his young daughter at the Qalandia checkpoint, the largest and busiest checkpoint between Jerusalem and the central West Bank. The man's daughter desperately needed to use the bathroom, but although the man begged the Israeli soldiers to let him get out of the car for a bathroom, they refused. The little girl was in agony, but the soldiers told the man she would have to “piss herself in the car.” Finally the man told his daughter that she would have to soil herself, because if she got out of the car, she could be killed, and the girl did.

Anyone can understand the traumatic humiliation and rage that would result from such an experience. In Palestine, those humiliations, that trauma, is part of the fabric of everyday life."

from Lara Sheehi's book "Psychoanalysis Under Occupation", 2021.

The humiliation, violence and trauma has been going on for decades.

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

‘I’m proud to announce the release of my new film “Complicit: Bankrolling the Occupation”, my final work for Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit. It dissects Western complicity in the Zionist settlement project inside the West Bank, and shows how western donors evade charity law to provide aid to illegal Zionist settlements.’

https://t.co/zdmyhXwzWx

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Nigel Farage just said the UK was better in the 1950's

In the 1950's the Government owned Gas, Oil, Rail, Power, Steel, Telecoms, Mail, Shipbuilding, Airports, Social Housing, Care Homes (Children and Adults), Schools, Hospitals...

And built 300,000 Council Houses a year.

[Donald Trump Portfolio Tracker @TrumpsPortfolio]

So this is wild if it holds up. A senior Iranian official told Drop Site that Tehran ran the numbers and figures people in Trump’s orbit — they name Kushner and Witkoff specifically — made around $9 billion trading on inside knowledge from the nuclear talks. Iran’s response? They formally asked for half of it, $4.5 billion, routed to them through intermediaries. And they made a point of noting the text messages will end up in the historical record someday.

It gets stranger. During the Switzerland round, Iran reportedly sent Vance a private message warning that Kushner and Witkoff seemed to care more about cashing in on the negotiations than actually closing a deal.

The Iranians also flagged that whatever they said at the table was apparently going straight to Netanyahu — per the official, Kushner and Witkoff are in near-daily contact with him and the Mossad chief.

Worth stressing all of this comes from one Iranian official talking to Drop Site, so grain of salt. But if even part of it is documented, it’s a serious story.

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

In the face of this torrent of absolutely insufferable guff, let it be stated again - Starmer is directly complicit in the slaughter of, at the very least, 25,000 children. /1

[Ben Jamal @BenJamal48]

I dont really have a problem with people feeling the need for kindness towards someone as they leave office. It's a human instinct. But glossing over, or rather lying about their failures is something else. The most egregious lie is the one trumpeted across the political establishment..." whatever he got wrong Keir restored Britain's reputation on the world stage as a state committed to the rule of law" . No. He endorsed mass starving of an entire people, continued to arm a state legitimately accused of genocide , failed to respond to responsibilities layed out by the worlds highest Court to ensure the UK was not aiding and abetting that genocide and for over 2 years failed to respond to further recommendations from the same Court as to how to ensure the UK was not aiding and abetting an illegal military occupation. Posing as an antiracist, he materially supported the imposition of apartheid. He did not enhance the UK's reputation or respect for IHL. He damaged both. That is his legacy. And not stating that demonstrates the poverty of our politics and gives a greenlight to his successor to deliver more of the same. Luckily most people aren't fooled.

[Save the Children UK @savechildrenuk]

This is your legacy on the occupied Palestinian territory, Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer. History will remember your complicity.

Despite a partial arms suspension in 2024, Keir Starmer's government has continued to enable Israel's atrocities against Palestinians, their families and children through the supply of F-35 fighter jet parts.

Nothing can change the horrors Palestinians have faced. But the next Prime Minister has an opportunity to put an end to the UK Government's role as an ally to atrocities.

The UK Government must:
🔴 Suspend all arms sales to Israel
🔴 Suspend the UK-Israel trade and partnership agreement
🔴 Ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements

To the next Prime Minister: what will your plaque say?

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

There are British citizens who have fought in Gaza for the IDF, and likely committed horrendous war crimes, just walking around our country with zero attempts to even interview or investigate their actions.

Meanwhile, our new Prime Minister 👇