Citizen X

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[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

No other words other than genocide

[Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee]

Absolutely shameful.

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.

How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.

Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.

An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.

For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.

It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.

By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.

So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.

How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.

At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.

It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Norman Finkelstein has been telling the truth about Gaza longer than anyone else in academia. Naturally the media have dismissed him as an antisemite or ignored him completely.

0:00 The Gaza Concentration Camp
11:37 The Military and Intel Operations Focused on Destroying Gaza
14:05 Evidence of Israel's Genocide in Gaza
27:58 The Attacks Against Anyone Who Criticizes Israel
46:29 Israel's Targeting of Children, Medics, and Journalists
52:04 The Corruption of Benjamin Netanyahu and Denying Jewish Americans Entry
55:41 Has Finkelstein Faced Backlash in the US for Speaking Out?
59:39 Propaganda in the Classroom
1:11:34 Why They Kicked Finkelstein Out of Hunter College
1:25:50 Is Finkelstein Bitter About the Consequences He's Faced?
1:31:07 Are These Reports About Hamas Accurate?
1:45:31 Will Anyone Be Held Accountable for These Actions?

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

ADIDAS launches “SINGLE-SHOE SERVICE" for Israeli soldiers who lost a foot in Gaza.

Boycotting is the least we can do.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Hi @piersmorgan remember when you asked me on your show two years ago what Israel's goal in Gaza could be, if not fighting Hamas, and I said they wanted to depopulate the strip of Palestinians?

Well.... ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Congress did one and only one thing today.

The House passed a bill to withhold money from universities if they don’t play nice with Israel.

I voted No.

It’s not proper for our federal government to coerce universities into engaging with any particular foreign country.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Netanyahu:

I’ve been dealing with Iran for close to 40 years.

It took me a long time to get our security establishment to deal with Iran itself.

It also took a long time to bring the United States to this understanding. I was able to do that because I had close to a thousand hours on American television.

[Eli Clifton @EliClifton]

Netanyahu is campaigning for reelection touting his skill at “influencing” U.S. politicians and the U.S. media.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Netanyahu appeals to Israeli voters by boasting that he manipulated Trump:

“it took a long time to get the US to come to its senses” but I finally got it to attack Iran due to my “influence” over its leaders through “1000 hours on American television”

[BIG Hardy O @BigO2286]

Then why does it go to @Israel ?

[Dan Bilzerian @DanBilzerian]

They clearly cheated, they literally took away my votes

[CNN @CNN]

The Israeli military acknowledged firing on a car carrying 5-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza after earlier denials as it opens a criminal probe into the January 2024 killing. https://t.co/447KgMpwoI

[Our Documentary Series "Genocide in Gaza" out now! @ICCAHOPT_BRICS]

🧵With Part IV finally released, we are again proud to share our documentary, "Genocide in Gaza", now available to watch online in this platform.

This project has been a painful labor of love and dedication, aimed at honoring the memories of those murdered and ensuring their stories are not forgotten.

In times when denying the existence of a people and then directly exterminating them is not enough, the very perpetrators have launched a multi-million-dollar online campaign - featuring bots, trolls and paid influencers - that also aims to deny the atrocities committed by Israel against the civilian population of Gaza (as if we were not facing the most documented genocide in history) by seeking to promote a post-truth in which a productive/artistic capacity and resources would supposedly operate in Palestine that would in fact be superior to that of Hollywood itself, by producing so many hours of apocalyptically hyperrealistic video per day.

Please, feel free to repost, quote or comment on our videos in cases where you come across some of the negationist accounts. And, of course, to make visible the painful drama of the people of Gaza, who have been massacred for almost ten months without their suffering being shown by the mass media.

🚨 Content Warning: This documentary contains graphic scenes and sensitive content related to violence, loss]. Viewer discretion is advised.

🇵🇸 All credit for the images to the brave journalists, photographers, YouTubers and Civil Defense crew from Gaza.

⬇️ Find the different parts of "Genocide in Gaza" in the tweets below. ⬇️

[Dan Bilzerian @DanBilzerian]

Young Floridians, get out and vote like your life depends on it—because it does.

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

Karoline Leavitt's legacy will be that of a woman who wore a cross around her neck while helping cover up the largest child sex abuse scandal in modern history.

This is how she'll be remembered.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

El-Sayed on Trump posting an image of him and his wife in a restaurant with the caption "two VERY DIFFERENT Americas": "He's right. One in which your overlords are two people who don't like each other but joined in the interest in making billions of dollars off of you, or two people who genuinely love each other enjoying some pancakes together ... "

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

Trump cheated on his third wife with a porn star while she was at home nursing their newborn.

El-Sayed married his college sweetheart at 22.

I choose El-Sayed’s America.

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

This is who we send our tax dollars to and fight wars for.

Congrats America!

Stop whining about your $20 burritos you spoiled brats!