clueless

Pretending to be relentlessly sane.
#Librocubicularist

[clueless @athaagot7]

First lines of books read in 2022 - a thread.

(Mostly re-reading whats already on my shelf).

[Adi Alardah @alardah91]

She calls out for her father, unaware that he is gone forever and will never return to hold her in his arms again. 💔

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

To be clear, the only reason I was able to reach Heidi was because young Palestinians provided cover with rocks against machine-gun- and tear-gas-wielding settlers and soldiers. It’s those kids, not the settler terrorists, who the IDF was hunting after the attack.

[Tamer | تامر @tamerqdh]

قتلها الجنود الإسرائيليون بالرصاص..

قتلت إسرائيل الطفلة مسك صباح اليوم وسط قطاع غزة.

[Motasem A Dalloul @AbujomaaGaza]

Mariam Ghanem, who lost her mother in Israeli bombing last week is fighting for recovery as she does find two out of three medicines urgently needed for her treatment..

[Squinter @squinteratn]

Israel in a picture.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

If Palestinians attacked a European delegation they would be called “terrorists.”

When Israelis attack journalists and diplomats, burn olive trees, homes and animals, and kill Palestinians, they’re called “settlers.”

[TIMES OF GAZA @Timesofgaza]

A child was killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting civilians in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

America has bases in 80 countries.

Think about what it means to need 800 bases across 80 countries to feel secure.

This is not the behavior of an invincible power.

This is the behavior of a power so terrified of a world that organizes itself without its permission that it has planted itself, at enormous expense, on every continent, in every strategic geography, in every chokepoint and sea lane and border region where independence might otherwise take root.

Invincibility does not require this.

Invincibility does not need to be everywhere.

Invincibility does not spend trillions maintaining a presence in 80 countries to prevent the world from discovering what it would look like without that presence.

The 800 bases are not evidence of strength.

They are evidence of what strength is terrified of.

A world that has noticed it can function without asking permission.

[Eye on Palestine @EyeonPalestine]

The occupation army detains dozens of ID cards belonging to farmers from the village of Salem, east of Nablus, while they were trying to reach their lands to harvest olives.

[Motasem A Dalloul @AbujomaaGaza]

Israeli occupation forces kidnapped at least 25 Palestinians in across the occupied West Bank tonight..
This is from the city of Tulkarm..

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Jordan has a peace treaty with Israel.

It has maintained that treaty through every Gaza war, every settlement expansion, every demolition of Palestinian homes in the West Bank, every eviction in Jerusalem.

It maintains the treaty because without American support, the Jordanian monarchy is not certain it survives.

The Palestinian population of Jordan is estimated at roughly half the country.

Half the country.

Watching their government maintain normal relations with the government killing their families across the river.

King Abdullah occasionally makes statements of concern.

Occasionally summons the Israeli ambassador.

Occasionally gestures toward displeasure.

Then the treaty continues.

The aid continues.

The normalization continues.

The king, educated at Sandhurst and Georgetown, who speaks better English than Arabic, who is received in Washington as a reliable moderate...

He has made his calculation.

His calculation has nothing to do with Gaza.

It has to do with the throne.

[Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸 @MuhammadSmiry]

Israel did this to a Palestinian girl from Gaza

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

🚨 NOW: Settler terror attack on Abu Falah in the West Bank.

American journalist Heidi Levine was beaten by the settlers, many Palestinian were injured, one shot by the IDF.

The army allowed the settler attack, and tear gassed and assaulted the Palestinians.

[Tamara Nassar @TamaraINassar]

This is how Tel Aviv was built too.

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

This will get overshadowed by the attack on an American journalist, but half an hour after Heidi was beaten, the IDF shot a Palestinian man simply standing inside his own village.

Then the soldiers pointed an assault rifle at the paramedics trying to help the victim.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

What is this headline @AP?

The territory isn’t just “hungry.” Israel controls what gets in, hunger is being weaponized.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

There is a quote from Vietnam that has never been adequately reckoned with:

"We had to destroy the village to save it."

An American officer said that about Bến Tre in 1968 after U.S. forces leveled it.

Nobody was fired. Nobody was tried.

The officer was not considered a war criminal but a candid man who had said the quiet part loud.

They said the same thing in Fallujah in 2004, when they hermetically sealed a city of 300,000 people, cut off the water, and then bombed it block by block.

They said the same thing in Mosul, in Raqqa, in Gaza, where 82 percent of structures have been damaged or destroyed and the rubble is measured in tens of millions of tons.

City after city where the "liberation" looked, from ground level, indistinguishable from annihilation.

The village is always destroyed.

The saving is always announced at a press conference.

The rubble is always left to people who were not consulted about either.

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

Unapologetic war crimes in front of the camera

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

"Allahu Akbar" has been said at the bedsides of dying parents.

At the birth of children.

At the moment of surviving something unsurvivable.

It means "God is great."

It is said billions of times a day by people making tea, driving to work, watching their children sleep.

Then one man says it before he kills someone, and suddenly it belongs to the violence.

"God Bless America" has been said over every war the United States has launched since 1945.

Korea. Vietnam. Iraq. Afghanistan. Libya. Yemen. Iran.

Said from podiums by men who had already signed the orders.

Said in the same breath as the casualty projections.

One phrase gets blamed for its worst day.

The other gets absolved of its daily use.

That asymmetry is not an accident.

That asymmetry is a policy.

[Eye on Palestine @EyeonPalestine]

Israeli forces prevent a Palestinian farmer from accessing his own land in the village of Burin, north of the occupied West Bank, as a group of Israeli settlers harvest olives from his land before his very eyes.