Cathy Sucher

perennial expat

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

the most important thing to know about Elon Musk and his relentless maniacal posting about Muslims is that he once agreed with a criticism of Jews and was immediately made to grovel and beg for forgiveness and went on an Auschwitz tour with Ben Shapiro and Israel October 7 tour with Netanyahu, said it was "literally the dumbest thing I ever tweeted" and called himself "Jewish by association", and then exclusively focused all his ire on Muslims as is the hasbara propaganda line that is pushed on the West to deflect attention from Israel and genocidal Zionist Jewish supremacists.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️ Two Israeli female soldiers photographed themselves posing beside a young, blindfolded Palestinian detainee who appears to be a minor and proudly posted the image on Instagram.

The post, which circulated widely online and was reviewed by Drop Site News, was uploaded by Israeli soldier Nikol Stelmashvski as part of a 20-photo carousel containing additional images from her time in Gaza. Her account [@ nikol.stel, IG] has since been made private after the photo drew public backlash.

The image is the latest in a documented pattern of Israeli soldiers publicly sharing evidence of Palestinian detainees being humiliated or abused. Such conduct violates international humanitarian law, which prohibits the degrading treatment of detainees.

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

So this is the creature responsible for the killing of more than a hundred of my relatives, as well as tens of thousands of children and entire families. It is this creature and his fellow officials and criminal soldiers who reduced my city to rubble and left the bodies of my loved ones buried beneath the ruins. He is the subject of an arrest warrant, yet he has been able to travel more than 5,000 miles, move freely throughout the United States, and be welcomed as though everything is perfectly normal.

How is he allowed to walk free with blood on his hands? The Palestinian blood on his hands is dripping onto the streets, restaurants, and government buildings of Washington, D.C.

How on earth is this possible?

[Rahul Balasundaram @rahulbala_]

Not a single Palestinian was interviewed to hear about what this exhibit means to them. Is this supposed to be "balanced reporting" by the CBC when the article is heavily skewed to Gail Asper and somehow her need to "contextualize" the Nakba?

https://t.co/T8C4k8AgRm

[Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East @CJPME]

🚨 For the 3rd time in 7 months, Netanyahu has entered Canadian airspace en route to the United States.

As a signatory to the Rome Statute, Canada is obliged to enforce the ICC arrest warrants against Netanyahu. Instead, @MarkJCarney is allowing him to circumvent justice and avoid any consequences for his war crimes and crimes against humanity.

According to protocol, foreign state flights must seek permission before entering Canadian airspace, which should be submitted at least 72 hours in advance.

Why does Carney continue to give safe passage to this war criminal? Canada should deny diplomatic clearance and close the airspace to ICC fugitives.

[Cathy Sucher @cathysucher]

@Shtuni The civilian was 68, the perpetrator 38.

[Cathy Sucher @cathysucher]

@claudiacm1146 Never have, never will.

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

New footage obtained by B’Tselem uncovers the moments when the Abu Haikal family was shot. Seven-month-old Sam Abu Haikal was killed in the shooting, and both his parents were injured. The footage clearly shows that the Israeli soldier fired at the car as it was slowing to a stop. The car was far from the soldiers and posed no danger to them whatsoever.

Moments later, in another video obtained by B’Tselem, seven-month-old Sam’s father, Fahed, is seen just after his son was shot. Fahed is holding baby Sam in his arms, trying to stop the bleeding from his head with his hands, while Sam’s mother, Daniyah, who was also injured by the gunfire while holding her son, is seen sitting on the ground, next to the car.

Last Friday, 5 June, an Israeli soldier fired at a Palestinian family driving home from a family visit, as they sat in their car in the Tel Rumeidah neighborhood in Hebron. The family was shot as the car was slowing to a stop at the soldier’s command. Sam, a seven‑month‑old baby who was in his mother’s arms in the back seat, was struck in the head and pronounced dead shortly afterward. Sam’s parents were also injured by the gunfire; his mother is still in the hospital. After the shooting, the soldier who fired and another soldier who was with him left the scene without checking the car or offering any assistance to the critically wounded baby or to his mother.

In the past two and a half years, Israel has killed tens of thousands of children in Gaza and the West Bank. The immunity it gets from the international community has led to a reality where, under Israeli rule, Palestinian lives are entirely disposable – even a seven‑month‑old baby.

[Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg]

Israel throws grenades at Muslim believers gathering at the Damascus Gate of the Old City in Jerusalem (the gate to Al-Aqsa) to celebrate Eid. I am ashamed to be an Israeli Jew.

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

They won't and can't leave Rama Duwaji alone because going after family members is central to the Zionist playbook. It is standard operating procedure.
Like the thuggish gangsters they are, the members of this cult have always considered family fair game.
They continue to believe such methods intimidate and silence people, and have yet to figure out that their tactics only amplify revulsion at their methods and increase opposition to the genocidal apartheid rape state.

[Dyab Abou Jahjah @Aboujahjah]

Yesterday, Israel targeted the home of Lebanese journalist Mohammed Sherri, killing him and his wife and injuring his grandchildren. Sherri was the head of political programs at Al Manar TV. While the channel is affiliated with Hezbollah, it remains a media outlet licensed under Lebanese law, and Sherri himself was a civilian. Under international law, this constitutes a crime.

Predictably, there will be little to no outrage among many journalists. He was Arab, Muslim, and held views they oppose, apparently sufficient, in some eyes, to render his killing acceptable.
#IsraeliCrimes #Lebanon

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

Israel has killed 111 children and wounded a further 334, in Lebanon in 2 weeks.

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

Iran is not being attacked because it violates human rights (its attackers are serial violators who don’t give a damn about human rights). It’s being attacked because it dared to defend the human rights of the Palestinian people from the ongoing Israeli genocide- the only recognized state to have done so.

And it’s not being attacked for having nuclear weapons, but rather because it does not have nuclear weapons.

There is no way to put lipstick on the pig of US-Israeli aggression, try as they may.

[Haytham Kaafarani @hayfarani]

I am a US citizen & Surgeon who took care of the Boston Maraton Bombing victims in 2013. I paid for 7 years to own a small apartment in downtown #Beirut for my 3 kids to enjoy summers there. Today, #Israel reduced my dream home to rubble, with american weapons, paid by my taxes.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

'The Voice of Hind Rajab' didn't win an Oscar tonight.

Here's a reminder of the smear campaign it faced in Hollywood:
https://t.co/0iWHBP3fzT

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

A searing yet graceful response to an act of political cowardice. This is real leadership.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Mark Carney, who awed the world with his speech about the rules-based order and his opposition to American belligerence, says he supports this new attack on Iran

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

The term “preemptive” is pure propaganda. The U.S. once again used the veneer of negotiations as a cover to bomb Iran. Tehran had just offered terms that went far beyond the 2015 nuclear deal. What was preempted was diplomacy. The same propaganda tactics used in 2003 Iraq war.

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

The US is poised to commit the crime of aggression (called “the supreme international crime” and “the crime of crimes” at the Nuremberg Tribunal) against a sovereign state that has not threatened or attacked it (Iran) on behalf of an oppressive, genocidal, foreign apartheid regime (Israel), and, in the process, to murder innocents, waste billions in taxpayer dollars, put US military personnel at risk, make Americans less safe and their economy more difficult, and perhaps provoke a regional conflagration in the process. All this against the will of the majority of the American people, and simply because the Israeli regime and its proxies in the US have instructed the US government to perpetrate this crime. This is your “democracy.”