Suey.

I fetishize psychological horror.

[Suey. @iSsea__]

But if the skies are not tumbling from your eyes then what's the fucking point?

[Maha Hussaini @MahaGaza]

Sandra Ifra previously said that an Israeli woman was raped by dozens of Hamas members. "There was a hostage from Hamas who had 67 different sperms on her" she confirmed.

Today, Ifrah admits this is not true. "It was a mistake. I apologize," she says

[Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti @MustafaBarghou1]

The Israeli main newspaper Yediut Ahranot says that it was proven that the Palestinians that were arrested by the Israeli army and forced to be naked were civilians and not Hamas fighters.

[Yumna @yumna_patel]

Women in Gaza don’t have sanitary pads or formula to feed their babies. Women doctors and journalists are being killed. Young women students don’t have universities anymore. Pregnant women are being bombed. But really happy for these girl bosses. 👸🏼

[MoTaz @motazazaiza9]

وكأن الهدنة جسراً تسير فيه نحو ضفة الموت الأخرى
تنتظر مصيرك لينالك ما نال الآخرين
هدنة لا شيء فيها يشبه الهدنة
فلا وصلتك مساعدات ولا استطعت حتى شراء ما يلزمك لأنه غير موجود
تستمر في معاناتك بينما ينعتك الآخرون بالصامد القوي فيرون بذلك انك اسطورة فترتاح ضمائرهم
وتصدق أنت تلك الخدعة فتخجل أن تقول تعبت.
#غزة #Gaza

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

In my book, Goliath, I recounted how a former Israeli military intelligence analyst told me he nearly lost his mind during the second Lebanon invasion in 2006, when the army ran out of targets, and his unit was asked to concoct them. This meant finding any civilian structure in southern Lebanon to hit, and obliterating family homes, hospitals, apartment blocs - anything. In a state of anguish, he asked a friend to break his leg with a 2x4 so he could escape military service, but the bone refused to give in. He eventually left Israel for Germany and became involved in anti-Zionist activism.

A handful of Israeli intelligence sources involved in the current assault Gaza appear to have developed similar issues with their military's targeting system. In anonymous interviews with the left-liberal @972mag, they disclosed how Israel uses AI to generate targets out of the Gaza population register. They call it a "mass assassination factory."

Under the AI system, known as "The Gospel," any home or neighborhood containing even a low level Hamas activist becomes a target, and the civilian death toll is known in advance: "Nothing happens by accident,” said one source. “When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed — that it was a price worth paying in order to hit [another] target. We are not Hamas. These are not random rockets. Everything is intentional. We know exactly how much collateral damage there is in every home.”

As is well known, Israel's Unit 8200 tracks cellphone signals to find targets. In the current round of fighting, if the army detects the cell signal of a Hamas target in a densely populated area like the Jabaliya refugee camp, "we shell based on a wide cellular pinpointing of where the target is, killing civilians. This is often done to save time, instead of doing a little more work to get a more accurate pinpointing," a source told 972.

The intelligence sources not only state that most targets in Gaza contain zero military value, but that the logic of "human shields" used to justify slaughtering civilians could easily be turned back on Israeli society. “I remember thinking that it was like if [Palestinian militants] would bomb all the private residences of our families when [Israeli soldiers] go back to sleep at home on the weekend,” reflected a soldier in an intel unit.

I have been saying since the start of the Israel military's blitzkreig on Gaza that its conduct is influenced less by strategic guidance than by a political imperative to satiate the outrage and bloodlust of the Jewish Israeli public. This too is confirmed by an intelligence source: "There is a feeling that senior officials in the army are aware of their failure on October 7, and are busy with the question of how to provide the Israeli public with an image [of victory] that will salvage their reputation.”

[📕 @SwampCommunist]

This is incredibly funny when you know the origin of so-called Stockholm "Syndrome"

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

BREAKING:

🇮🇱The Israelis have surrounded Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem and are demanding his resignation.

Earlier, it became known that #Hamas is delaying the release of the second group of #Israeli hostages until Tel Aviv begins to adhere to agreed standards for the release of prisoners.

[Hadi @HadiNasrallah]

Community Notes destroying Israeli propaganda part 32

[ONE @One_Dawah]

Belgium very pro 🇵🇸, ISIS attack last month
Ireland very pro 🇵🇸, knife attack today

Don't be surprised for more false flags

[Arielle Angel @ArielleLAngel]

“It is much easier to consider genocide in the past tense rather than contend with it in the present. Legal scholars tend to sharpen their pens after the smell of death has dissipated and moral clarity is no longer urgent.”

[Paulie Doyle @BigPaulieDoyle]

Beyond parody. Israelis are hostages, mothers and children. Their Palestinian equivalents are prisoners, women and minors.

[ib @Indian_Bronson]

If you've ever wondered why US foreign policy is so bloodthirsty and insane, it's because it's entirely staffed and politically controlled by people like Stuart Seldowitz:

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Someone uploaded one of those viral “help identify this racist jerk” clips featuring a man accosting a street vendor with awful Islamophobic vitriol, and it turned out he was the former US State Department Deputy Director in the Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs.

It sounds made up, but that’s exactly what just happened; Vice has a whole article out about it. The video was uploaded today, and within hours the man was identified as Stuart Seldowitz, who helped direct US diplomacy on Israel-Palestine from 1999 to 2003 and then served on the Obama administration’s National Security Council.

Seldowitz’s identity was confirmed by his former employer Gotham Government Relations, who released a statement denouncing him and saying they’ve ended all affiliation with him.

Seldowitz is seen hounding the New York City vendors in multiple different videos wearing multiple different outfits, showing a sustained campaign of harassment and abuse. He told them while fully aware he was being filmed that Israel killing thousands of Palestinian kids “wasn’t enough”, insulted their religion, threatened them, mocked their intelligence and their English, called them terrorists, and asked “Did you rape your daughter like Mohammed did?” From the videos he appears to be harassing them for no reason other than because they are Muslims selling halal food.

That such a horrible person could climb his way to the highest echelons of the world’s most powerful government — working on Palestinian affairs no less — illustrates an important point about the US empire and what it is. There are no barriers stopping such creatures from rising to the top of that power structure, just the opposite in fact — they get an express lane to the top. That’s why bloodthirsty swamp monsters like John Bolton, Lindsey Graham, Victoria Nuland and Elliott Abrams find themselves so intimately involved with US policymaking.

That’s the true face of the US empire, right there. That’s the empire at its most honest. Not dressed up in affable charm and slick PR work, but sneering and hurling racist invective at immigrants who are just trying to do their jobs in peace. Not performing carefully rehearsed faces of compassion for the Palestinians who are being tragically unintentionally killed as collateral damage in Israel’s war of defense against Hamas, but staring right into the camera and saying “If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, you know what? It wasn’t enough.”

Too many people look at Israel as something separate from the US empire, seeing it as a small nation run by a historically mistreated ethnic group that everyone singles out and picks on unfairly. If you look at Israel separately from the US-centralized global power structure, it feels off to have any forceful animosity toward Israel and its government, because it feels like you’re picking on the little guy.

It’s only when you see clearly that Israel is just an arm of the same empire that’s been murdering people by the millions around the world with nonstop invasions, bombing campaigns, proxy conflicts, starvation sanctions and CIA coups that you understand that, yes, Israel really is exactly as evil as it appears to be, and its behavior in Gaza is exactly what it looks like.

The US empire backs Israel for the same reason it backs most of the world’s dictatorships: because a globe-spanning empire can only be held together by nonstop violence and tyranny. Israel and other US-aligned states in the middle east are like the chair and the whip of a lion tamer — weapons used to violently abuse the populations of a crucial geostrategic region into compliance. It suits the empire perfectly to have a nuclear-armed government which exists in a constant state of war in the middle east governed by officials who speak English with American accents and interests which are reliably in alignment with those of the United States.

Stuart Seldowitz is not an aberration but a perfect manifestation of all this. This is the sort of mind which keeps the empire marching along from administration to administration no matter who Americans elect. This is the sort of mind which keeps the weapons flowing, the blood pouring, the fossil fuels burning, and the terrified screams which power the imperial machine continually erupting into the night sky.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

One of the many, many things that sucks about all this is knowing that when there is a violent retaliation for Israel’s actions in Gaza which kills Israeli civilians, Israel will look up with Bambi-eyed innocence and say “What did we ever do to them?? We just want to live in peace!”

And the entire western press will amplify the same message. They’ll once again frame it as an “unprovoked” attack and say there’s “no justification” for what was done, frame every conversation as though history began on the day of that attack, and demand that everyone who wants to say anything critical of Israel first preface that criticism with an adequately forceful condemnation of a small group of militants on the other side of the world who have nothing to do with the person who is speaking.

When this act of violence occurs (and it will), the ones behind it will have watched Israel murder children by the thousands in Gaza in 2023. Maybe they’ll be the orphans of parents killed in the massacre. Maybe they’ll have seen their sister ripped apart by military explosives, their brother’s head blasted in half, their neighbors crushed by a bombed building, their family’s bodies burnt to blackened skeletons. Or maybe they, like all the rest of us, will have simply watched it all unfold on electronic screens.

Whatever the case, the circumstances in late 2023, which planted the seeds of vengeance that we will necessarily see sprout some time later, will go unmentioned by the authorized narrative-makers of the western world. The fact that the violence is simply Israel’s chickens coming home to roost will be erased from the story.

Again.

Did you know that since the United States brought its “war on terror” to Africa, terrorist attacks on that continent have increased by 75,000 percent? That’s right: 75, then three zeros, percent. I learned this neat little stat from a new article by journalist Nick Turse, who also notes that “according to the Pentagon, terrorist attacks in the Sahel region alone have resulted in 9,818 deaths — a 42,500% increase.”

People have been documenting the way attempts to bomb terrorism out of existence actually creates more terrorism for many years. In 2010 Professor Robert A Pape wrote an article for Foreign Policy titled “It’s the Occupation, Stupid” about his study with University of Chicago which found that suicide bombings are the result not of Islamic fundamentalism but of foreign military occupations.

Some notable excerpts:
- “More than 95 percent of all suicide attacks are in response to foreign occupation.”
- “As the United States has occupied Afghanistan and Iraq, which have a combined population of about 60 million, total suicide attacks worldwide have risen dramatically — from about 300 from 1980 to 2003, to 1,800 from 2004 to 2009.”
- “Over 90 percent of suicide attacks worldwide are now anti-American.”
- “Each month, there are more suicide terrorists trying to kill Americans and their allies in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other Muslim countries than in all the years before 2001 combined. From 1980 to 2003, there were 343 suicide attacks around the world, and at most 10 percent were anti-American inspired. Since 2004, there have been more than 2,000, over 91 percent against U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other countries.”

Journalist Jonathan Marshall wrote the following in 2017:

The most authoritative new study of the sources of terrorism and insurgency on the continent, Journey to Extremism in Africa (September 2017), finds that what triggers many individuals to join violent groups are incidents of government-sponsored violence, such as “killing of a family member or friend” or “arrest of a family member or friend.”

“These findings throw into stark relief the question of how counter-terrorism and wider security functions of governments in at-risk environments conduct themselves with regard to human rights and due process,” concludes the report, based on interviews with more than 500 former members of militant organizations.

“State security-actor conduct is revealed as a prominent accelerator of recruitment, rather than the reverse. . . These findings suggest that a dramatic reappraisal of state security-focused interventions is urgently required.”

Numerous other experts have drawn similar conclusions from conflict zones in the Middle East and Asia. In 2008, a RAND Corporation report on Lessons for Countering al-Qa’ida warned the U.S. military to “resist being drawn into combat operations in Muslim societies, since its presence is likely to increase terrorist recruitment. . . . Military force usually has the opposite effect from what is intended: It is often overused, alienates the local population by its heavy-handed nature, and provides a window of opportunity for terrorist-group recruitment.”

Similarly, the Stimson Task Force on U.S. Drone Policy, composed of former senior officials of the CIA, Defense Department and State Department, warned in 2014 that U.S. strikes had strengthened radical Islamic groups in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia.

In other words, there’s no better way to make people want to attack you in whatever way they can than bombing their neighborhoods, killing and displacing their loved ones, and dominating them with an oppressive military occupation. All of which Israel has been doing to the Palestinians for generations.

October 7 was a response to decades of oppression and abuse by the Israeli regime. Israel created that violence, in the same way it created the violence that will with absolute certainty come its way in retaliation for its actions in Gaza today. The official narrative makers always try to restart history at the moment of the last act of violence from Palestinians, because it is only by framing such violence as unprovoked that they can legitimize the idea that it’s possible to bomb a population into submission and obedience.

But of course, it is not possible to bomb a population into submission and obedience. Every atrocity you inflict upon them will only increase their desire for revenge — a desire Israelis should sympathize with since it has consumed them and turned them into crazed genocide cheerleaders since October 7. But their desire for vengeance is only made possible by the false mainstream narrative that the attack came from nowhere, completely unprovoked.

The actual crime that Palestinians are being punished for is refusal to submit. That’s all this conflict has ever been, from the very beginning. Palestinians refused to accept being thrown off their land and killed and forcibly displaced at the creation of the Israeli state in 1948, and that refusal has seen them hammered with tremendous amounts of violence and oppression from year to year and from decade to decade under the premise that it’s possible to bomb and tyrannize a population into obedience.

Nothing will radicalize you toward violence faster than seeing your neighbors and loved ones ripped apart by military explosives supplied by a globe-spanning empire. Nothing will ensure further violent resistance more certainly than murdering Palestinian children by the thousands in plain view of everyone. Which means that nothing but restitution, reparations and return of land to the Palestinians will end this nightmare once and for all.

[lex @lexbyanyname]

bin laden was bad
9/11 was bad

but read the letter yourself (i haven't heard a single summary that wasn't rewritten entirely based on the persons own beliefs)
it's available, publicly, even on .gov websites

and then really ask yourself why it's going viral 20 years later, during a genocide against palestinians, by teens and young adults who have spent their entire lives living through a post-9/11 world

you really think the problem here is social media? the algorithm? dumb kids? that the answer to that is further restricting information?

i'm sorry but these are natural consequences of americas continuous failures coming to fruition. biden didn't have to call october 7th "15 9/11s" but he did. our administration didn't need to compare palestinian resistance groups to Al Qaeda and ISIS but they did. israel didn't need to use "it's too complicated for you to understand, you dumb little baby 🥺" as their main propaganda tool for decades...but they did.

if people can praise those CURRENTLY committing genocide and not be called terrorist supporters or a national security threat, i just don't think we have legs to stand on here- and yes, it will create violent extremists in its wake. but it's not going to be because a girl went viral for telling people to go read a letter published on the guardian.

[ape attack survivor @pissvortex]

sorry but it’s really fucking funny that biden handled the palestine situation so bad that there are white teens on tiktok posting that Osama Bin Laden was right. he’s so fucked

[Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي @MariamBarghouti]

After destroying Shifa hospital. Bombing it. Drying it out. Denying it fuel. Killing babies. 3 weeks of air strikes directly on it. All the name of “saving hostages”

The Israeli military spokesperson just “confirmed” there are no hostages or trace of hostages found in Shifa.

[Yumna @yumna_patel]

This y’all?

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Here's a tip: the side that keeps having to come up with justifications and explanations for why it's fine and normal for them to be killing thousands of children and perpetrating ethnic cleansing is probably not the side that's in the right.