Antoinette Abboud

I hate echo chambers & groupthink. Hope is outside the political class. #people #socialmovements #noborders

[Antoinette Abboud @antwoabboud]

@HFalconerMP .@JamesCleverly, please use your office to press for Dr. Abu Safiya’s due process and release. Reports say he has spent 555 days without charge and faced beatings since June 24, with serious head injuries. Act now.

[Antoinette Abboud @antwoabboud]

After seeing footage of Palestinians being burnt alive by Israel, our Foreign Minister condemns Iran.

[Senator Penny Wong @SenatorWong]

Australia is imposing targeted financial sanctions and travel bans on five Iranian individuals contributing to Iran’s missile program.

Iran’s missile program poses a material threat to regional and international security.

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

Every F-35 that is murdering babies in Gaza and Lebanon has key Australian components.

Australia is a partner in the genocide.

Protest this partnership and you'll be arrested.

[Voice of Rabbis @voiceofrabbis]

Torah Jews stand with the Lebanese people.

We support the Lebanese people and state.

Our prayers are for Lebanon.

What Zionists cannot tolerate is Jews carrying Lebanese flags and supporting Lebanon.

It should be known that Israel is not a Jewish state.

Jews are also not safe in Israel because Zionists attack Jews who do not support Israel, do not support the Zionist army, and do not serve in the military.

We all have a common enemy: Zionism and the state of Israel.

[ᵖˡˢsapphic chaos @lenamiusgf]

israel has been bombing palestine for the past 359 days & 76 years. they’ve escalated the bombing to, lebanon, yemen & syria right in front of our eyes & somehow the world leaders will make it about self defence. these are human beings being killed within seconds. human beings.

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

CNN’s reporter in Tel Aviv just made sure to describe in vivid terms that the Iranian strikes targeted densely populated areas which unfairly places civilians lives at risk.

So it’s been a choice all along to omit that context re Gaza and Lebanon.

[OI @OIThirty10]

Israel attacked someone on Iranian soil. Iran did not retaliate. Israel killed the head of Hezbollah, Iran did not retaliate.
Israel then invaded Lebanon AND threatened Iran directly. Just remember this context once the framing starts.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

France’s Jean-Luc Mélenchon:

“After Lebanon and Yemen, Netanyahu is going to war with Iran. Netanyahu is plunging the entire region into total war. He has destroyed peace and the right to life for millions of people. Now, the entire world is paying the price for his impunity.”

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Spain’s Irene Montero:

“Europe and the U.S. allow Israel to bomb schools and hospitals; to deprive millions of people of water and food, and to kill with impunity. Today they are also bombing Lebanon and Yemen. The West’s collaboration with genocide puts all of humanity at risk”

[Eye on Palestine @EyeonPalestine]

A little boy in Gaza cries over the suffering of the children in Lebanon, expressing how much the Lebanese have stood by them. He tearfully explains that neither the people of Gaza nor Lebanon deserve what is happening to them, as both have endured immense hardship.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The language of whitewashing:

🇮🇱: Invades Lebanon
Media: Israel sends troops

🇮🇱: Bombs civilians
Media: Blasts heard, people say

🇮🇱: Destroys Rafah
Media: A limited operation

🇮🇱: Blocks aid
Media: Hunger stalks Gaza

🇮🇱: Flattens apartment buildings
Media: A targeted strike

[Hamzah Raza @raza_hamzah]

Today, my friend, Kamel Jawad of Dearborn, Michigan was murdered by an Israeli air strike in Lebanon

Israel killed an American citizen with weapons provided by the US government

One of the kindest and most generous humans I ever met

إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Jake Sullivan says “obviously this is a significant escalation by Iran, a significant event”

Was Israel exploding devices across Lebanon obviously a significant escalation, how about bombing and invading it? Remind me again, is genocide a significant event?

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

A world where Salvador Allende was assassinated, Patrice Lumumba was assassinated, Berta Cáceres was assassinated, Thomas Sankara was assassinated, Fred Hampton was assassinated, Ken Saro-Wiwa was assassinated, Marielle Franco was assassinated. And Netanyahu is speaking at the UN

[Friendly Neighborhood Comrade @SpiritofLenin]

“Bodies fall, not ideas.”
- Ghassan Kanafani

[Hüseyin Dogru @hussedogru_]

Here’s late Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, laying out his party’s vision for one democratic Palestinian state where Muslims, Jews, and Christians live in peace. “Any other solution would simply not be viable.”

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The universities, research centers and think tanks who have over the years invited Israeli military personnel to share their 'expertise', warfare methods, tools and tecniques, have ultimately contributed to normalise Israel's occupation and its oppression of the Palestinian people.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The worst actions of your government happen not in secrecy, but right out in the open under the narrative cover of mass media propaganda. The western empire doesn't hide its worst deeds, it just manipulates the way people think about them.

Tomorrow we could unearth rock-solid proof that the US government knowingly orchestrated 9/11, and that crime in and of itself still wouldn't be as bad as what the US government is facilitating in Gaza right now, in plain view of the entire world. And even if such a revelation did occur, the imperial media would probably either ignore it or spin it so that its impact is dulled into impotence.

The empire's worst atrocities happen in the open because the empire's worst atrocities involve butchering and starving huge numbers of people, which is impossible to do in secret. They can assassinate a government official here and sign a malignant secret agreement there without needing to do it openly, but murder at mass scale isn't something you can conceal in the information age.

The US-centralized globe-spanning power structure therefore relies heavily on its historically unprecedented ability to psychologically manipulate global populations when carrying out such atrocities. The empire has invested more heavily in soft power than any empire or government in human history, and the science of modern propaganda has been advancing under this investment at least as rapidly as military technology has been.

That's why you can have the most damning information imaginable sitting right out in the open about the people who rule over us, and you won't see anywhere remotely close to the public outrage and backlash you ought to see. The US government can literally back a genocide without hiding any part of it, and the political-media class will simply manipulate public psychology into getting lost in a bunch of hogwash about self-defense and human shields and difficulties delivering food and medical supplies and everything bad that happens in Gaza can be blamed on Hamas.

It's a truly astonishing power that would inspire awe if it wasn't so evil. Power is controlling what happens, but real power is controlling what people think about what happens.

Whistleblowers and investigative journalists provide an invaluable service to humanity for which we should all be grateful, but what this civilization needs more than anything right now is not so much new information about what the powerful are doing, but rather the ability to lucidly perceive the information that's already been made public. We need people clearly seeing what's already right in front of them, without the lens of distortion and obfuscation that the powerful have placed over their eyes.

Until we find a way to snap a critical mass of people out of the propaganda-induced coma the empire has placed them in, they'll be able to get away with any evil they need to commit in order to secure their interests and advance their agendas. We can work on this front by doing everything we can to get people looking at the reality of what our rulers are doing at every opportunity, in as creative and interesting a way as we can come up with. The more eyes open to the truth, the more lucid perceivers there will be to help open the eyes of others.

[free palestine @Afcq1954]

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