I will never ever condemn Hamas. Why the fuck should anyone?? Hamas is literally just Palestinians resisting their own annihilation. If you were ethnically cleansed and systematically killed, would you be a sitting duck or would you fight? I would be Hamas and so would you.
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UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese:
"The land must be returned to its owners [the Palestinians]."
"Perhaps the Jewish Israelis there should rent rather than steal, and live as Palestinians if there is a Palestinian state."
🚨Body parts and charred bodies at the scene.. Two martyrs, including a young girl, and six injuries following an Israeli airstrike targeting a vehicle near Hamid Intersection in the Al-Nasr neighborhood.
You want to know what actual toughness looks like?
It looks like a Vietnamese woman in a tunnel, three meters underground, while B-52s try to collapse the earth above her, continuing to work.
It looks like a Cuban doctor going to West Africa during an Ebola outbreak when Western governments were still arguing about who should go.
It looks like a Chilean socialist, Salvador Allende, broadcasting on the radio as the coup closes in, telling his people that he will not resign, that he will not flee, that history is on their side, and then dying at his post.
It looks like the people of Gaza continuing to document their own deaths so the world cannot say it did not know.
It does not look like a man in a bunker giving the order for an airstrike on people who cannot reach him.
It does not look like a government that tortures prisoners and then classifies the evidence.
It does not look like an empire that can destroy a country from 30,000 feet and calls the distance from the consequences "strategic."
The people with the most weapons in the room are almost never the toughest people in the room.
The toughest people in the room are almost always the ones who had no weapons and remained standing anyway.
History is extremely consistent on this point.
One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.
Israeli war criminals are using BANNED portable cremation OVENS that vaporize the bodies of their Palestinian victims over 10-12 hours in open air.
A video that the world must never forget.
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"If we fail to stop the suffering of Palestinian children, we have failed."
Iceland's Foreign Minister breaks down in tears over the atrocities in Gaza.
Because Iran is throwing missiles at Jordan right now, you need to know something first. Jordan did not grow out of the ground like an old country. It was stitched together in a hotel in Cairo in March 1921 by a handful of British officials who needed a cheap solution and a quiet map.
The Ottoman Empire had just collapsed. Britain was sitting on Mesopotamia, Palestine, and a big empty stretch of desert east of the Jordan River. Keeping troops there cost a fortune. Winston Churchill, then Colonial Secretary, called a meeting at the Semiramis Hotel. They joked they were the forty thieves. Gertrude Bell was the only woman in the room who actually knew the tribes and the roads. T. E. Lawrence was there. Sir Percy Cox came from Baghdad with the files.
They needed Arab kings who would take British money and not demand a giant army. Faisal, son of the Sharif of Mecca, got Iraq. His older brother Abdullah needed a prize too, otherwise the family would sulk. So they gave him the leftover desert and called it Transjordan. Churchill later said he created the place on a Sunday afternoon with a stroke of a pen. That is not poetry. That is how the country entered the world.
Abdullah became emir, then king. The British paid him, trained his force, and used the land as a buffer. After independence the Hashemite throne stayed. Decades later American aircraft and missile batteries moved onto Jordanian air bases because the same strip of desert sits in a useful place between Iraq, Syria, Israel, and the Gulf. King Hussein Air Base. Al Azraq. Muwaffaq Salti. Names on a modern war map that sit on ground first outlined in that Cairo dining room.
So when Iranian missiles fly toward those bases, they are not hitting some ancient kingdom that chose this fight in the year 700. They are hitting a state invented to save British cash and keep two Hashemite brothers employed. The joke is old and it is not funny anymore. A hotel table made the border. The border hosted the bases. The bases drew the missiles. That is the whole chain.
Read it once more if you have to. Cairo, March 1921. Cheap kings. A Sunday map. A country that still has to catch steel that was aimed at someone else’s war.
Grammy-winning singer Annie Lennox: "The genocide in Gaza is genocide... There is no need for further explanation. And it is not over... It is a deliberate long-term plan to eliminate Palestinians and keep them trapped in this raging conflict."