Gul Khansa

Miracles do happen if you believe enough 🦋

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

The media won’t tell you this but Israel has now killed 16,550 Palestinian children in Gaza, in 8 months.

16,550 children killed. In just 266 days.

This is a holocaust.

Repeat. Spread it. Let the world know.

[ADAM @AdameMedia]

This isn’t Germany 1934

It’s Israel 2024

Israeli’s run the cоncentration camps now.
https://t.co/bcC0FrzwKb

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

In 1947, Zionists were called settlers.

In 1947, Palestinians were called natives.

In 1947, the use of force to ethnically cleanse land was known.

One year later the Nakba happened.

Don’t let them re-write history. This is a settler-colonial project born of ethnic cleansing.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It’s very revealing how everybody’s focusing on what Biden’s dementia-addled debate performance says about his ability to win re-election instead of on the fact that the current, sitting president of the United States has dementia.

If you were lucky enough to have missed the debate, Biden was so confused and zoned out that not only did CNN’s audience overwhelmingly say Trump won while the word “dementia” was sent trending on Twitter, but it was also uniformly acknowledged to have been a horrifying catastrophe by Democratic Party operatives and liberal media pundits, who are now widely suggesting that the president should withdraw from the race.

But the conversation has almost entirely revolved around Joe Biden as a presidential candidate, with relatively little attention going to the fact that this person is the president right now. Everyone’s talking about whether Biden can assure American voters that he has what it takes to be president, and nobody seems all that concerned about the fact that he is already president and will remain so for half a year.

What this suggests is that people already kind of know on some level that the president of the United States doesn’t really run the United States, but are still mentally compartmentalized away from this reality enough to care who wins the presidential election.

If people really believed the president runs the country, they’d be freaking out that Biden in his demented haze might order an attack on the Soviet Union or nuke Libya to kill Muammar Gaddafi or something. They’re not worried that this will happen because they know their government is actually being run by unelected empire managers from behind the scenes, and that Biden is just the official face on the operation.

So in order to hold their mainstream worldview together, liberals are simultaneously straddling the two completely contradictory concepts that (A) it doesn’t matter who the president is because the country is actually run by unelected empire managers, and (B) that Biden’s debate performance was very concerning because it means Trump will become president.

If they let go of (A) then they’re no longer in the mainstream worldview where their country works how they were taught it works in school, and if they let go of (B) then they’re no longer in the mainstream worldview where presidential elections are super duper important and all their country’s problems are the result of Americans voting incorrectly. So they straddle them both and try not to think too hard about the obvious contradictions between them, in order to avoid the crushing cognitive dissonance they’d experience if they looked at them too closely.

In reality the US empire has marched along in all its usual depravity despite its official leader having Swiss cheese for a brain this entire time. They got their genocide in Gaza and their world-threatening proxy war against Russia, as well as China policy that is vastly more hawkish than that of Biden’s predecessors. The imperial murder machine hasn’t skipped a beat in its nonstop campaign of steadily increasing global tyranny.

This has happened because US presidential elections are fake and the results don’t matter. It wouldn’t matter if Americans elected a labrador retriever or a bottle of Tabasco sauce; the empire would roll forward without the slightest interruption. The wars would continue. The economic injustice would continue. The surging authoritarianism would continue. The oligarchy and corruption would continue. The ecocidal capitalism would continue. The imperialist extraction would continue.

US elections are just a diversion to keep Americans from pushing for real change in ways that pose a meaningful challenge to power, and Americans already kind of know this. The sooner they stop compartmentalizing away from this fact that they’re already dimly aware of and face reality, the sooner they can start bringing health to both their nation and the world.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It is un fucking believable that eight months into a genocide the conversation is still being dragged kicking and screaming back to a completely fictional antisemitism crisis on the political left. There is no epidemic of antisemitism on the left. It is not happening. The people pushing these conversations know it is not happening. It is utterly transparent bad faith concern trolling, but they're managing to monopolize the conversation with it. They're using a fictional story to steal the spotlight from a real genocide.

[لينة @LinahAlsaafin]

Every news outlet that reported this as a rescue mission has blood on its hands. 210 Palestinians were massacred and 400 others wounded. This was not a rescue operation, this is a mass slaughter.

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

This is satanic. Absolutely satanic. Evil of a kind no normal person can grasp or conceptualize. The fact that it is allowed to go on for so long casts a deep dark shadow over all of humanity

[Zayd (زيد) 🇵🇸🔻🇸🇩 @Zayd_Zxd_]

They used an aid truck as a Trojan horse to lure in starving Palestinians and then massacred them after they were discovered.

THEY USED AN AID TRUCK AS A TROJAN HORSE TO LURE IN STARVING PALESTINIANS AND MURDERED OVER 200+ OF THEM

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

This is beyond words.

The US ‘humanitarian pier’ was used to massacre hundreds of Palestinians, many of them children.

This is how despicable the US is — they disguise war crimes as humanitarian aid to a starving population, then murder them.

[Warfare Analysis @warfareanalysis]

What happened in Al-Nuseirat?

- An American force used an aid truck. The aid truck came from the American pier to Al-Nuseirat camp... (video and photo of truck)

- A clash erupted with the American force once it was discovered.

- Airstrikes were conducted on the Al-Nuseirat market, which was full of civilians, to create a path for the “rescue vehicle.”
This resulted in the massacre of over 150 civilians who were at the market.

- The force headed back to where it came from, the American pier, while the warplanes bombed everything in its path.

[𓂆 deeja🫒 @deedeehimawari]

ARE Y’ALL NOT HEARING THIS?? ARE YOU NOT ENRAGED??? THEY INFILTRATED THE REFUGEE CAMP IN TRUCKS DISGUISED AS HUMANITARIAN AID!!! IN TRUCKS DISGUISED AS HUMANITARIAN AID. IN TRUCKS DISGUISED AS HUMANITARIAN AID. IN TRUCKS DISGUISED AS HUMANITARIAN AID. IN TRUCKS DISGUISED AS HUMANITARIAN AID. IN TRUCKS DISGUISED AS HUMANITARIAN AID!!!!!!!

[inqilāb @tastefullysaucy]

After stabbing Halima to death and wounding her husband and son, he threatened to rape their 10 year old daughter. This is Zionism.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

All facts in evidence overwhelmingly show that Israel let October 7 happen on purpose in order to advance the pre-existing agendas we're seeing advanced today. Neither Zionists nor hardcore Hamas supporters like to admit this for their own reasons, but it is what the facts show.

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Nothing will or should be the same again. Including us.

[ADAM @AdameMedia]

This needs to be seen to be believed.

IDF forcibly stop paramedics from saving a life and then attack the patient.

Palestinian life is worthless to them.

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

This sentence should bring shame to the world.

[s @yoongienthusias]

people are being burnt alive in rafah right now. what the fuck do i care about international law when this is what they are condoning

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

There Was A Time

It’s hard to believe there was a time when I didn’t know what a child’s insides look like.

That I didn’t know how limp babies’ limbs go when they are dead,

when they are missing parts of their body,

missing their head,

limbs dangling lifeless as parents hold them in front of the camera,

screaming, crying, pleading, desperate.

There was a time when I didn’t know how it feels to watch a man scream “Free Palestine” while burning alive,

until there was nothing left to scream with and he lost his voice forever,

but still by some power remained standing long after his voice was gone.

I didn’t used to know just how sadistic people can be,

how hateful they can be,

how apathetic they can be toward the suffering of human beings,

or how heroic others can be in times of great need.

I didn’t used to know. Now I do.

And now I sit here, head heavy like lead, tongue limp like a baby’s corpse,

hands feeling older than the stars,

and I don’t know what to do.

There is nothing I can say to make this okay.

There is nothing I can say to make any of this make sense.

This is the civilization we were born into.

This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal,

as the airman said before he burned.

I lift my ancient hands to my sore heart

and say a prayer to the great Whatever

in a desperate plea

for a better world.

[Imran Khan @ImranKhanPTI]

No condemnation is enough for the massacre being carried out by the apartheid state of Israel in Rafah. Israel's genocide of Palestinians continues unabated in complete violation of all international laws, and despite the ICJ ruling. If ever there was a rogue state in all senses of the word, it is Israel, which sees itself above all international laws & norms of intra-human conduct.