International Committee for Universalizability

We strive to make our precious lives, and our shared world, a more pleasant, logical, and agreeable place to peacefully co-exist.

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

One of the killings involved a ten day old baby being shot by an Israeli sniper in broad daylight whilst the baby was being breastfed : an independent UN Commission says Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Substance aside, it is amazing what Trump gets away with in terms of messaging from his own side and from the media.

Can you imagine the reaction, especially from the right, if Barack Obama or Joe Biden had ever typed the words "I had a very good call with Hezbollah"?

[Zeteo @zeteo_news]

A detailed report on rape against Palestinians was published by the New York Times earlier this week.

@prem_thakker and @minnaharshad examine the media’s double standards in covering sexual violence in the Middle East and the lack of accountability for Israeli perpetrators.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

I feel sick to my stomach waiting around today to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom that our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's really an indictment not just of the electorate but of our whole system of government. We're ruled by a mad king.

[MS NOW @MSNOWNews]

Pressed by a reporter about his threat to target Iran’s civilian infrastructure if a ceasefire agreement is not reached by tomorrow night, Trump said the Iranian people “would be willing to suffer that in order to have freedom.”
https://t.co/AFVwphavBV

[Reuters @Reuters]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 'seeks to inflict the same level of damage and destruction' on Lebanon as Israeli forces wrought on the Gaza Strip, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said, explaining his government's stance against the US-Israeli war on Iran

[MS NOW @MSNOWNews]

"Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"

Trump responds to a reporter's question about why the U.S. didn't alert allies before initial strikes on Iran in a meeting with Japan's PM.

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

NEW: Our in-depth investigation finds that US has violated international humanitarian law by failing to take all feasible precautions to avoid civilian harm. US is responsible for the deadly attack on a school in #Minab packed full of children.

US authorities must ensure that their investigation is transparent, thorough, and that the results are made public. https://t.co/L89oJOfK0N

[Sen. Tammy Baldwin @SenatorBaldwin]

Two headlines published within 24 hours of each other.

The president’s priorities could not be any clearer.

[Reuters @Reuters]

A girls school in Iran had a website filled with photos of students at work and play. The building was destroyed in a strike on the first day of the war https://t.co/VaUKFZxeZx

[CNN @CNN]

Two people are injured and a gunman is dead after a shooting inside an academic building at Old Dominion University in Virginia, according to the school. https://t.co/fE361EAzdK

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday walked back his comments that the United States attacked Iran because of Israel, saying the U.S. strikes "had to happen anyway."

"The president made a decision, and the decision he made was that Iran was not going to be allowed to hide behind its ballistic missile program, that Iran was not going to be allowed to hide behind its ability to conduct these attacks," Rubio told reporters on Tuesday.

"This was a question of timing of why this had to happen as a joint operation," he added. "Not the question of the intent."

On Monday, Rubio said the U.S. "proactively" hit Iran "in a defensive way" to prevent American casualties because the Trump administration believed an Israeli attack was imminent and that Iran "would immediately come after us" in retaliation.

"Obviously, we were aware of Israeli intentions and understood what that would mean for us, and we had to be prepared to act as a result of it, but this had to happen no matter what," he said Monday.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

U.S. and Israeli strikes have killed 555 people in Iran, according to the Iranian Red Crescent society.

The deadliest attack appears to be the strike on a school where over 150 people — many children — were killed, according to Iran’s mission to the U.N. https://t.co/SKYK1ePaQS

[CNN @CNN]

Iranian officials say a US-Israel strike on a girls' primary school in southern Iran killed and injured more than 150 students.

Asked about the strike, a US Central Command spokesperson said "we are aware of reports concerning civilian harm resulting from ongoing military operations. We take these reports seriously and are looking into them. The protection of civilians is of utmost importance, and we will continue to take all precautions available to minimize the risk of unintended harm."

Read more: https://t.co/0imDiuqh4F

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Israel has now killed more journalists than any other government since the Committee to Project Journalists began collecting records in 1992.

The Israel-Gaza war is the deadliest conflict on record for journalists, the CPJ found. https://t.co/v9Nfkwlupa

[NBC News @NBCNews]

Israeli forces kill two Palestinians after they appear to surrender, according to video filmed by Palestine TV that was distributed by Reuters, and video shot by the news agency itself. https://t.co/hiGw8OaiKL

[ABC News @ABC]

BREAKING: Ozzy Osbourne, famed Black Sabbath frontman and heavy metal pioneer, has died. He was 76. https://t.co/NkyzTecVMD

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Iran just became the 8th Muslim-majority country that the US has bombed in the last 15 years, from Obama to Trump to Biden to Trump:

1) Afghanistan
2) Iraq
3) Syria
4) Libya
5) Somalia
6) Pakistan
7) Yemen
8) Iran

#WhyDoTheyHateUs?

[Reuters @Reuters]

India's PM Modi told US President Trump that a ceasefire between India and Pakistan after a four-day conflict in May was achieved through talks between the two militaries and not US mediation, India's senior-most diplomat said https://t.co/5ryrb6fFSY

[Daniel DePetris @DanDePetris]

I will say: Netanyahu is a master of using the American media to impact U.S. policy.