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[Tom London @TomLondon6]

"Free Palestine" is NOT antisemitic, it is NOT hate speech, it is NOT a call to kill all Jewish Israelis

"Free Palestine" is a call for all Palestinians to have EQUAL HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS to Jewish Israelis and to be FREE from persecution, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and GENOCIDE

ALL DECENT, HUMANE, MORAL PEOPLE should say, "Free Palestine"

[Boogertooth @boogertooth]

Couldn't have said it better

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

"Free Palestine" is NOT antisemitic, it is NOT hate speech, it is NOT a call to kill all Jewish Israelis

"Free Palestine" is a call for all Palestinians to have EQUAL HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS to Jewish Israelis and to be FREE from persecution, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and GENOCIDE

ALL DECENT, HUMANE, MORAL PEOPLE should say, "Free Palestine"

[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.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

My statement on Israel's decision to ban me and 10 other British MPs from entry.

"I have visited all parts of Palestine on several occasions, where I have witnessed the horrors of occupation, as well as the resilience and humanity of the Palestinian people.

They are the ones who suffer from Israel's apartheid. It is their freedom which is egregiously curtailed, alongside thousands of Palestinian refugees who are denied the right of return.

As the world wakes up to the genocide in Gaza, it is shocking that Israel continues to deny entry to UN investigators and international journalists. Israel doesn't want the world to see what it is doing - but we can never give up in our attempts to expose the truth.

That is the real scandal. Israel’s genocide cannot go unpunished - and I will keep speaking up for peace, freedom and justice for the Palestinian people."

[Macklemore @macklemore]

Wanting all humans to be treated equal should never be controversial.

[Boogertooth @boogertooth]

@hodgetwins I bet she shags like a mink!

[Boogertooth @boogertooth]

@Bert5hd0 @FmrRepMTG Biggest retard on the internet right here folks.

Get off the drugs bud

[James Li @5149jamesli]

When do we start calling this a holocaust?

[Boogertooth @boogertooth]

Israel deliberately targeting Gaza children to commit genocide, UN inquiry finds https://t.co/43NiBuVnwP

How can the world look away?

I'm appalled at the indifference of our governments.

[Yuen Pau Woo @yuenpauwoo]

Why has Canada found it so difficult to move beyond statements in response to grave violations of international humanitarian law in Gaza?

At the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, former Canadian Ambassador to Israel, Jon Allen, offered his assessment.

[Boogertooth @boogertooth]

@SherM616428 @IrrelephantC @sarobertson_ Name calling bot accounts is beneath me

[Boogertooth @boogertooth]

@CanadianStadium @sarobertson_ What does China have to do with the topic at hand?

Is this discussion uncomfortable for you?

[Boogertooth @boogertooth]

@rig_pig_11 @sarobertson_ America comes up and you try to shift attention to China outta nowhere. Try to stay on point, if you have the attention span for it.

You know what pisses off Albertans? Whataboutism. Gaslighting.

We see you.

[Boogertooth @boogertooth]

Those who championed free speech in the UK and US now wage war on it. And here’s why: Palestine
https://t.co/31JoVsjyHE

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Ms Rachel: “Why don’t people care about kids who were born in certain places? You could have been born there. Your kids could have been born there.”

[Boogertooth @boogertooth]

@RamAbdu I hope there is an afterlife. One that will be denied to the monsters that hurt these children.

If not protection, the innocent deserve at least justice.

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

You can’t call yourself a Christian if you don’t demand these war crimes to stop.
Children and babies are NOT TERRORISTS!!!
Those that murder them are!!!

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Normal person: Genocide is bad.

Israel supporter: Just say you hate Jews.

Normal person: I oppose Zionism.

Israel supporter: Jews. You mean Jews. Say Jews.

Normal person: The Israel lobby is causing problems.

Israel supporter: Jews Jews Jews Jews Jewy Jew Jews.

Normal person: But I don't mean Jews. I'm expressing specific grievances against a specific state, its backers, and the political ideology it is premised upon. I judge people based on their individual actions, not on their religion.

Israel supporter: JEWWWWWWS.

Normal person: You realize you're doing the exact same thing neo-Nazis do, right? You're conflating all Jews with everything bad about Israel and the forces which give rise to its abuses.

Israel supporter: It is antisemitic to conflate all Jews with the actions of Israel.

Normal person: Then why do you keep conflating all Jews with the actions of Israel?

Israel supporter: Because it is antisemitic not to conflate all Jews with the actions of Israel.

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

The Israeli military has detained hundreds of activists who sailed to Gaza to break Israel’s blockade.

In the face of unending genocide and impunity, they continue to challenge Israel, to keep the spotlight on ongoing genocide.

At least 11 Canadians are among those taken.

We're calling on the federal government to drop its usual kid gloves treatment of Israel and exert real diplomatic pressure to secure their immediate release.

https://t.co/XP0ZmSf1Hp

[Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا @SMohyeddin]

Word salad. Canada also asked Israel to investigate itself when Israeli soldiers filmed themselves gleefully mining and blowing up a solar powered water treatment plant that Canada built in Rafah in the 1990’s.
That happened two years ago. No response.