Alex H Swift

and all my words come back to me, in shades of mediocrity, like emptiness and harmony...

Simon & Garfunkel

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

Approximately 20 Jewish Israelis raided this Palestinian town at 8:30 this morning and provoked a clash with the residents.

When the Israelis started getting their asses kicked they called in the IDF who murdered 4 Palestinians in cold blood so they could rescue the invading Jews.

And bc one of those invading Jews was killed in the attack THEY provoked, Netanyahu and his psychotic ministers are now calling for the IDF to conduct extensive counterattacks and to raze the houses of every Palestinian “terrorist” involved.

See how that works? Jews invade a West Bank town and terrorize the Palestinian population and the worst they are labeled is hoodlums. And MAYBE they’ll be given a slap on the wrist, perhaps house arrest for a weekend, depending on how badly their attack makes Israel look in the world press.

But if Palestinians fight back against these violent Jewish extremists, they are either murdered by the IDF or branded as terrorists by the Israeli government who will then destroy their homes and leave their entire family homeless.

Every human being has a God given right to use force to defend themselves, their families and their homes. Men who claim that exercising this right makes one a “terrorist” are the enemy of liberty. They are wicked tyrants who should be treated accordingly.

[stranger @strangerous10]

Rabbi Allison Conyer lists some examples of incidents she regards antisemitism, including a University Professor that said “Israel is committing genocide”

Since when is it racist or antisemitic to state documented facts? What a nerve.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

The gas chambers of our time—more brutal and horrific than anything Germans dreamed up

[Amir @AmirAminiMD]

Weird what a difference just one genocide can make.

[Doug Cameron @DougCameron51]

Marles says he’s “disappointed and it’s unfair” that his US buddies are screwing Australia by increasing tariffs. Such an underwhelming but predictable response from Marles who seems to care more about US submarine jobs than jobs in Australia.
When will the ALP wake up to the US?

[cmdibley @cmdibley]

Fascinating that @SenatorWong says China is ‘bullying’ us, albeit she is very non-specific about the bullying, but the US threatening us with tariffs & to destroy our PBS & superannuation investments is our ‘strongest ally.’ Sorry, Penny. I’m still not afraid of China.

[Dr Rhonda Garad Difficult by Design @RhondaGarad]

History will remember @AlboMP as the PM who watched Palestinians bombed, starved and destroyed—and chose to stand with the perpetrators instead of the victims.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Israel’s crimes have been so normalized that Doctors Without Borders can post about colleagues being shot in their tents and it’s not even a news story.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

Israeli Major General Giora Eiland, former head of Israel's National Security Council, wrote an opinion piece in Yedioth Ahronoth, November 2023, in which he argued that Israel should not "shy away" from facilitating the outbreak of disease in Gaza.

He said: "severe epidemics in the south of the Gaza Strip will bring victory closer and reduce casualties among IDF soldiers."

[AWPR @WarPowersReform]

AUKUS will leave Australia clinging to a 'slipping' world order, inquiry hears

"Australia will become a “junior” partner to the United States and lose its strategic independence if it continues to push ahead with the AUKUS nuclear-submarine deal"

https://t.co/4tFJ1PIu7N

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

Not a friend. End AUKUS.

[IP VOICES @IPvoice1]

Recently released Palestinian detainees have shared harrowing testimonies about the conditions of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya inside Israeli prisons.

According to Euro-Med Monitor, he has been kept shackled for days at a time, with his hands tied behind his back and his legs bound, while enduring repeated abuse and inhumane treatment.

The testimonies have renewed calls from human rights groups for his immediate release and for an independent investigation into the conditions faced by Palestinian detainees in Israeli custody.

[Ben Pennings @BenPennings]

“All of that vegetation was habitat for native animals and was sequestering carbon so those numbers tell a story of massive damage to nature and the climate in NSW.”

https://t.co/sgn2Dy8Tzc

[KellieTranter @KellieTranter]

"Every base in the United States and around the world is a story of danger. It's a toxic dumping ground, it's a story of legacy contamination. No, there's no reparations to the American people or the global Indigenous communities that have been desecrated and destroyed.

And the continuous expansion of the US military industrial complex in their lands and backyards, I mean, that's the problem. When the US military goes somewhere, they don't leave. When they set up shop, they expand.

We see this in every single place around the world and every base they callously dump, they treat every base as a dumping ground. And these people are only there for a couple of years, they come and go.

The Australians are going to be suffering the brunt of the poisonous, toxic dumping that is going to come with every US base and installation here in this country....

Australia, I think that there's this bizarre rationalisation based on fantasy, it's not based in the material reality as in the roots of anything that exists in the world today, which is the fear of something else that justifies this continuous expansion and military presence.

But Australia is going to be fed to the wolves. Australia is expendable....You guys are the unsinkable aircraft carrier between the war that the US starts and wages and our soil at home. Every base that exists here is going to kill, not only the environment, but the people that live on it and around it. The US doesn't care. The modus operandi of US military personnel is to lie and deny..."
~ American investigative journalist, @AbbyMartin

#auspol #AUKUS #dangerousallies @IPAusNet

[Doug Cameron @DougCameron51]

The tip of the iceberg. As the ALP pours obscene amounts of our money into the military/ industrial complex, grifters, thieves, opportunists and greedy ex politicians queue up to line their pockets.
Marles must act decisively and demand the accused faces an open criminal trial.

[mitul kanji @mitulkanji]

Remember: Anne Frank wasn’t thrown into a gas chamber. She died of typhus, likely contracted from the filthy, overcrowded conditions at Bergen-Belsen. Yet, to call her anything but a very much intended victim of the Holocaust is basically Holocaust denial.

What, then, is this?

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

I’m proud to announce that we’ve just built another school in Gaza that will be open for 500 more students at the start of the new school year in September. Our schools are 100% free. We also provide books, supplies, and uniforms, as well as psychological and nutritional support.

[Donna Miles دانا مجاب @UnPressed]

The firsthand observations of former New Zealand PM @HelenClarkNZ and @TheElders meet the textbook definition of ethnic cleansing carried out by the extremist government of Israel in the West Bank.

Time for accountability and action to stop it. #WestBank #EndOccupation

[Labor Against War @LabAgainstWar]

As the evidence mounts against AUKUS the ALP leadership continues to stick its head in the sand.

Blocking any debate at ALP conference this week is a sign of denial not strength.

https://t.co/KEsuZ85bih

[Amir @AmirAminiMD]

I wish it were only one school 4 months ago.