Desert Gooner

Musings & mutterings of a Gooner in the Sandlands.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Here's the insane thing about Israel's crimes.

Israel's apologists deny the very crimes which Israeli leaders literally boast to the world about doing!

[Dr Myriam François @MyriamFrancoisC]

@DalrympleWill @nytimes Timing! https://t.co/AZ2IIEF6SB

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

This Jewish supremacy didn’t appear out of nowhere.

It has been deliberately cultivated by the Zionist movement since before Israel’s violent creation on other peoples land. And there is a massive propaganda apparatus devoted to covering it up with anti Arab racism and behind false accusations of antisemitism.

[Chino @ChinoUTD]

🚨 Roy Keane on Nico Williams disallowed goal against Argentina:

“I’ve just seen the biggest robbery of this World Cup. The ball comes into the box, nobody touches anybody, everyone goes up for it, then one Argentina player starts shouting. The next thing you know, two defenders are on the floor appealing,

Nico Williams has scored, and Emiliano Martinez … who wasn’t even touched… is somehow lying there as well asking for a foul.

The referee blows immediately. No VAR review. No replay. No check to see if there was actually any contact. Just disallowed. Apparently if enough Argentina players fall over at the same time, that’s now considered conclusive evidence.

If we’re being honest, Paredes shouldn’t even still be on the pitch after some of the tackles he’s made today. Yet somehow the only thing the referee managed to spot instantly was an invisible foul.”

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This. Is. Amazing.

lol.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: INDICT HIM! Jared Kushner gets caught in a massive scandal as it's revealed that Iran warned the U.S. that he was abusing his negotiating role to line his and his cronies' pockets with $9 BILLION!

We suspected it, now we have the smoking gun...

According to bombshell reporting from Drop Site News, Iranian officials sent a private message to JD Vance in late June warning him that Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and his corrupt son-in-law Jared Kushner were endangering the viability of negotiations to end the war.

The message revealed that Witkoff and Kushner were "more interested in exploiting insider knowledge of the negotiations to profit in financial markets than they were in reaching a deal." That characterization tracks with what we know about the two men, because neither has ever displayed any genuine interest in obtaining peace in the region.

We also know that there has been a troubling trend of Trump administration officials using insider knowledge about forthcoming government decisions and announcements to rake in massive fortunes through betting markets and stock market speculation. They're treating government like a casino, accumulating massive fortunes, and leaving the rest of us to deal with the fallout from their disastrous policies.

"Iran calculated profits from such alleged manipulation had reached $9 billion and formally requested, in writing, that Iran should share in the proceeds," Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Grim of Drop Site reported.

“We have conveyed through intermediaries that $4.5 billion of this sum should also be allocated to the Iranian side,” an Iranian official stated. “The exchanged texts will ultimately become part of the historical record.”

Not only that, but the Iranians were concerned about "repeated leaks" from Kushner to indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, an unsurprising trend given the "Israel First" nature of this administration.

“Even before the Islamabad talks kicked off [in April], we had already sent multiple messages to Trump through the Pakistanis, warning them about [Witkoff’s] overall destructive role in the previous negotiation,” the Iranian official said

When efforts to arouse the White House's concern about Witkoff's and Kushner's machinations failed, the Iranians reached out to Vance through intermediaries.

Vance's team insists that the message never reached the vice president, but given his demonstrated penchant for lying — and the fact that he would have never dared challenge Kushner for fear of alienating Trump — it's safest to presume that they're lying.

In any other era, this kind of scandal would bring down an entire presidency and lead to massive investigations and prosecutions. Under Trump, it's just accepted as par for the course.

But we need not accept this as the status quo.

When Democrats retake power, we must launch a well-funded forensic investigation into Kushner and the rest of these crooks, uncover their crimes, and lock them up for the maximum amount of time possible.

Please ❤️ and share if you support prosecuting Kushner!

[Leandro Trossard @LTrossard]

To all the Arsenal fans, thank you for everything, from the bottom of my heart.

Once a Gunner, always a Gunner.

Leo

[⁦🇵🇸⁩⁦🇰🇼⁩⁦🔻✌🏻 موسَى @Mousak11]

@CFC_lova One of the movies that American soldier travels from America to other country for k!lling innocent children and when they get there revenge Hollywood honors him with a shitty movie

[5Pillars @5Pillarsuk]

"I was astonished frankly at the relentless ways in which The Spectator appears to pursue a grudge against two billion people around the world who happen to be of the Muslim faith."

Senior mainstream media journalists slam The Spectator Magazine for Islamophobia.

A new report today by the @cfmmuk accused the influential magazine of an eight year campaign to demonise Muslims.

[Craig Foster @Craig_Foster]

Thanks to Infantino and Trump, the World Cup is now caught in a maelstrom of conspiracy theories, consistency is non-existent, and perceptions of favoritism and bias rampant.

Balogun’s red card was explicitly classified as serious foul play following VAR review. However, the Disciplinary Committee not only failed to impose the additional match penalty, it suspended implementation for one year on probation, after Trump called the FIFA President.

In contrast, England’s Quansah received the minimum two-match ban for serious foul play against Mexico.

We now have more controversy, a complete lack of consistency and integrity, new precedents, widespread criticism and scepticism, and overt politicisation of on-field decisions.

And this comes after the VAR ruled out an Egyptian goal in their round of 16 match, then failed to apply exactly the same process for a penalty for Egypt, fuelling further perceptions of bias.

Unfortunately, once one nation is given special treatment, the supposed independence of the process is fatally undermined, every decision thrown into doubt, and trust erased.

The beautiful game deserves far better.

[Roshan M Salih @RmSalih]

The great Israel Parliamentary debate stitch up

I've just totaled up the amount of time each side had to speak during the parliamentary debate yesterday on Israeli influence over UK politics.

The pro-Israel side had 1 hour and 9 minutes to put forward their pro-Israel views.

The anti-Israel side had 15 minutes only to put forward their anti-Israel views.

So in effect, the pro-Israel side had 82% of the speaking time during the debate, and the anti-Israel side had 18% speaking time.

This wasn't a debate, it was a forum for Israeli hasbara and propaganda.

And it proves exactly why 117,000 people signed a petition questioning Israel's influence over UK politicians.

[David Miller @Tracking_Power]

It’s a mystery! Who could be behind these fake ‘antisemitism’ attack in Canada?

Could it - by any chance - be the same people who paid people to do attacks in Australia, Greece, Belgium, France, the Netherlands and the U.K.?

And would the perpetrators also be linked to the agency which announced that it was the IRGC to blame?

What was their name again?

Oh, yes: Mossad!

Read my investigation below.

[MP𖤐 @MagicalPep]

🚨 Thierry Henry Explains Why Arsenal Are One of the Most Hated Clubs in Football

🗣️: “People always ask why everyone is so obsessed with Arsenal. The answer is simple: relevance. When Arsenal are struggling, the world talks about them. When Arsenal are winning, the world talks about them. Very few clubs in football command that level of gravity.

Arsenal have one of the biggest fanbases in the world, and with a fanbase that large, every opinion becomes louder. Every victory feels bigger, every defeat becomes a global discussion, and every title race turns into a war between supporters online.

In recent years, Arsenal have returned to competing for the biggest trophies, and that naturally creates enemies. Nobody hates teams that are irrelevant. Rival fans say they dislike Arsenal supporters because they are confident, loud, and everywhere. But if we're being honest, every successful club has supporters like that.

After losing to PSG in the Champions League final, you can already see thousands of fans who don't even support the opposing team celebrating Arsenal's downfall. That’s not just rivalry; that’s fear and obsession.

The reality is that Arsenal are one of the few clubs in world football that people either love or love to see lose. That's usually what happens when a club becomes big enough to live in everyone's mind, even when they're not playing.”