Jam Ral

Father Poet Paramedic

[Jam Ral @jamral2]

Stoked to have my poem here with such an all star group! https://t.co/kN5QYthckv

[Rise Up Review @riseupreview]

Today's poem is by Joe Amaral. If you like it, share! You never know who needs a poem. https://t.co/cTroMyxgVW #Resistance #poetry

[Shaun King @shaunking]

The government of Lebanon just filed a formal complaint with the United Nations because Israel sprayed tens of thousands of pounds of poisonous cancer causing chemicals all over Lebanese farm lands.

If you still think this has ANYTHING to do with Hezbollah you're stupid.

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

Donate here to help first responders in Lebanon get GoPro cameras and emergency kits to help keep them safe and document the attacks against them.

Also take a moment to let it sink in that we are now at a point in time where first responders are being systematically targeted and killed by Israel so often that they need to wear GoPros.

113 medical professionals have been killed by Israel since March 2nd.

https://t.co/6fD0MbOlKa

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

At a time when Israel is systematically murdering paramedics in Lebanon, these heroic men in Nabatieh continue their humanitarian duty rescuing the injured.

Earlier this week, two members of this crew were killed in an Israeli double-tap strike in front of their ambulance center.

Israel has murdered more than 100 medical staff since March 2nd. Targeting medics is a war crime. Israel is committing acts of genocide in Lebanon.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

I'll stop talking about Israel when Israel gets the fuck out of my face.

I don't enjoy writing about this shit. I don't enjoy getting called a Nazi by state-funded shills all day.

I didn't ask to spend years watching a live-streamed genocide perpetrated right in front of my eyes with the facilitation of my own government.

I didn't choose to live in a world where Israel's actions directly affect me and my country.

I never invited the Israel lobby to attack my freedom of speech by trying to outlaw criticism of a genocidal apartheid state.

It was never my decision to live in an information ecosystem where pro-Israel propagandists are constantly trying to deceive me about what's going on in my world and manipulate the thoughts in my head.

Those things were imposed upon me.

Don't want me to talk about Israel? Then stop shocking me with horrifying Israeli atrocities.

Stop trying shove Israeli bullshit down my throat.

Stop trying to erode my rights for the advancement of Israeli information interests.

Stop trying to make my society dumber and more sociopathic with propaganda indoctrination.

Stop starting wars that directly affect me.

Stop lobbying my government to support unspeakable evils.

I'll stop speaking about Israel when Israel stops making itself my problem.

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

The coolest thing about being an American right now is if I pay my taxes I'm not paying for better infrastructure, roads, or social services. I'm paying for some guy across the ocean to shoot a kid in the head with a sniper rifle. Oh, and I'm paying for his health care too.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

This is what it is like to be a paramedic in Lebanon. Watch until the end to hear this man screaming as he is injured in an Israeli attack while carrying out his humanitarian duty to rescue other injured people.

105 medical professionals have been killed by Israel since March 2nd. Almost 250 have been injured.

Israel systematically targets paramedics and medical facilities. Each individual act of targeting is a war crime. When will the world hold the Israelis, the United States and the billionaire class accountable?

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

🔴 Paramedic massacre in Lebanon.

Ambulance teams and members of civil defense were besieged, bombed and murdered tonight by the Israeli army in Majdal Zoun, Tyre district, while carrying out their humanitarian duty rescuing injured civilians.

The Lebanese MOH said in a statement that the preliminary death toll now stands at five. Three of them were paramedics.

Glory to the martyrs. May they rest in peace.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

Report from Kafra.

Per the Lebanese Ministry of Health, 100 healthcare workers have been killed by Israeli attacks and 16 hospitals have been damaged. The Israeli army has systematically targeted paramedics in Lebanon.

Cameraman: @aliezzeddine00

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

This’s not a military uniform, this’s the paramedic uniform who was killed yesterday.

Israel has killed 88 paramedics and first responders after deliberately targeting ambulances and medical centers.

This’s a war crime, but international law clearly doesn’t apply to Israel.

[Alex Christoforou @AXChristoforou]

Don Tzu: Break an enemy blockade by blockading their blockade.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

Regarding the Lebanese army’s statement today I’d like to remind you all that this was never about Hezbollah, or the army implementing 1701. Just like you see in Gaza, West Bank and Syria, it was never about hostages or Hamas.

I am a freelance journalist, I am not bound to any media outlet’s narrative. I am free to report what I see, and that is what I do.

What is happening in the south, Beirut and Bekaa has nothing to do with Hezbollah’s weapons and everything to do with Israel’s expansionist vision. It is ethnic cleansing, plain and simple.

And to the Lebanese here and in the diaspora who attack me here on X and in person for reporting what I see, I say to you to leave your personal bigotry at home with your grandparents. If you’re not a bigot, you’re ignorant. Israel’s regional aspirations have nothing to do with your internal politics. As evidenced in occupied Palestine, they will kill you and take your home regardless of your religion.

When you behave in such an ignorant and bigoted way toward your fellow countrymen in the south, you are playing into Israel’s hands. They want to keep you stupid and fighting with the each other as they encroach on your land. Before you know it, you will be arguing your irrelevant religious bigotry next to an IDF soldier in a cafe in your precious Ashrafieh.

Do some research about the history of Israeli invasion in this country. It pre dates Hezbollah.

It’s a land grab and Israel and the US are gaslighting you and you’re falling for it.

I also call on my foreign colleagues to do their jobs. I read your articles and listen to your radio shows (I’m looking at you @BBC ) and it’s inconsistent with what is happening on the ground. Have some integrity.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel murdered every single person in this photo today in South Lebanon.

Every. Single. One.

2 journalists
7 paramedics
1 Lebanese soldier

They bombed the journalists’ vehicle — then bombed them again when paramedics rushed to help.

[Euro-Med Monitor @EuroMedHR]

🚨 One year since the crime, and still no justice.

Israeli forces ambushed & executed 15 rescue workers, then buried them in a mass grave. A deliberate massacre. A war crime.

🧵A thread on what happened⤵️

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel killed every single paramedic in this photo today in South Lebanon.

12 paramedics slaughtered in one Israeli strike.

Israel DELIBERATELY targeted their medical center.

Killing medics is a war crime.

Killing medics is a crime against humanity.

This is medicide.

[Laura @UlaVaz]

Si un país que calificó al mundial no puede ir porque lo está bombardeando otro país… el país que no debería participar es EEUU.

[The Last Farm @TheLastFarm]

The only reason to bomb anything 40 min apart is to kill the rescuers. Doing that to an elementary school is beyond depraved. The United States is the most evil entity on the planet

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Iran is better than the United States. The United States is worse than Iran.

This is true not because Iran is especially good, but because the United States is especially evil.

Iran isn’t blanketing a major metropolis with military explosives, killing over a thousand people including hundreds of children. The United States is doing this with its partner in crime Israel.

Iran isn’t continuously bombing and invading countries around the world, toppling governments, circling the globe with hundreds of military bases, targeting civilian populations with siege warfare and brandishing nuclear weapons at its enemies in the name of securing planetary domination. Only the United States is.

The US empire is the single most murderous and tyrannical power structure on earth, by an extremely massive margin. No one else comes anywhere remotely close. Not Iran. Not anybody. Every government in the world is morally superior to the most evil government, and the most evil government is the United States.

Whenever I say this I get US empire apologists going “We’re only the ones fighting the wars and dropping the bombs because we happen to be the ones with the power to do so!”

But that’s false. The US isn’t the world’s most vicious government because it happens to be the most powerful, it’s the most powerful government because it’s the most vicious. It’s the power structure which was willing to do whatever it takes to rule the world, no matter how profoundly evil.

Genocides. Starvation sanctions. Nuclear brinkmanship. Imperialist extraction. The deliberate creation of failed states and humanitarian catastrophes. Policies designed to keep entire regions in a continuous state of division and strife. The United States and the globe-spanning empire structured around it have inflicted depravities upon our species which cry out to the heavens for vengeance. If you could truly comprehend the scale of the suffering it has created over the years, even for a second, you would never stop screaming.

Another objection I’ll encounter when I make these observations is “Well, I’d rather live in the US than Iran!”

And it says so much about the western worldview that people think this is an argument. Sure it’s probably nicer to live in the United States than Iran, especially now, and certainly ever since the US has been deliberately strangling the Iranian economy with the explicitly stated goal of making its citizenry so miserable they wage a civil war against their government.

But it’s so revealing that westerners see someone saying Iran is better than the United States and think it’s a statement about where they personally would prefer to live, because it shows how completely invisible US warmongering is in their worldview. Washington’s acts of mass military slaughter simply do not count as immoral or abusive behavior in their eyes, because they are being inflicted on foreigners overseas. So they automatically assume the comparison is asking which country would make your feelings feel nicer to live in as an individual.

The fact that the US government happens to export the majority of its abusiveness to other countries outside its own borders doesn’t make it any less murderous and tyrannical, it just means the people bearing the brunt of its savagery happen to live in other places. Their lives don’t matter any less than American lives, and only a warped, American supremacist worldview would feel otherwise.

The US government is quantifiably morally inferior to the Iranian government. It is quantifiably more tyrannical, more murderous, more destructive, and more megalomaniacal. It is the very last power structure on earth that should have any say in who leads Iran and how the Iranians ought to conduct their affairs. It is not morally qualified to be making those decisions.