Ciaran Ó Corbáin

[Martyn Jones - goodstrat.com @GoodStratDotCom]

Here is a quick summary of why that tweet is historically illiterate:

Ireland secretly helped defeat the Nazis: While officially neutral in WWII, Ireland covertly aided the Allies by providing crucial D-Day weather reports, allowing British airspace access, returning crashed Allied pilots, and seeing over 70,000 of its own citizens volunteer to fight Hitler.

The "Antisemitic" claim ignores reality: Far from being structurally antisemitic, deeply Catholic Dublin elected an Orthodox Jewish Lord Mayor in the 1950s. Furthermore, Israel’s 6th President grew up in Ireland and specifically praised its lack of systemic antisemitism compared to the rest of Europe.

The stance on Palestine is driven by anti-colonialism: Ireland's heavy criticism of Israel isn't born from religious bigotry. It stems from the Irish public seeing clear parallels between the Palestinian experience and their own centuries-long history of British military occupation, land confiscation, and partition.

In short: The tweet relies on total historical ignorance to weaponise the Holocaust and dismiss legitimate geopolitical criticism.

[Haytham Kaafarani @hayfarani]

I am a US citizen & Surgeon who took care of the Boston Maraton Bombing victims in 2013. I paid for 7 years to own a small apartment in downtown #Beirut for my 3 kids to enjoy summers there. Today, #Israel reduced my dream home to rubble, with american weapons, paid by my taxes.

[Ciaran Ó Corbáin @kcmnt]

@LauraLoomer

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Maduro was a brutal ruler, it’s true. So is Putin—who Trump supports. So was Bolsonaro, who Trump supports. So was the drug-trafficking former head of Honduras, who Trump just pardoned. So is Nayib Bukele in El Salvador. MBS. Bibi.

Stop pretending Trump cares about illegitimacy.

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

The Kennedy Center was named after my uncle, President John F Kennedy. It was named in his honor. He was a man who was interested in the arts, interested in culture, interested in education, language, history. He brought the arts into the White House, and he and my Aunt Jackie amplified the arts, celebrated the arts, stood up for the arts and artists.

It is beyond comprehension that this sitting president has sought to rename this great memorial dedicated to President Kennedy. It is beyond wild that he would think adding his name in front of President Kennedy’s name is acceptable. It is not.

Next thing perhaps he will want to rename JFK Airport, rename the Lincoln Memorial, the Trump Lincoln Memorial. The Trump Jefferson Memorial. The Trump Smithsonian. The list goes on.

Can we not see what is happening here? C’mon, my fellow Americans! Wake up! This is not dignified. This is not funny. This is way beneath the stature of the job. It’s downright weird. It’s obsessive in a weird way. Just when you think somone can’t stoop any lower, down they go…

[Mohamed Salah @MoSalah]

Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

Note that this image had to be smuggled out of that military aircraft against all Israeli orders, like the Maladie de famine photos smuggled out of Warsaw in 1942

[Ross Greer @Ross_Greer]

You:
- Hosted the head of the Israeli air force last week
- Are currently training Israeli troops in the UK
- Said Israel has the right to cut off water in Gaza (a war crime)
- Haven't stopped arms sales
- Haven't even recognised Palestine as a state

You have enabled a genocide.

[Ciaran Ó Corbáin @kcmnt]

@LaobhaoiseNihE

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"Utter carnage... mostly children... I did 6 operations overnight, half on small children, most will go on to die... utter carnage as usual, when you drop bombs on tents thats what happens

@FerozeSidhwa speaking from Nasser hospital in Gaza.

[Ciaran Ó Corbáin @kcmnt]

@SuzieD755164 How did your election bid go? How many votes first preference votes did you get? A lot I assume, considering you represent the silent 90% minority.

[Ciaran Ó Corbáin @kcmnt]

@RobJLong91

[Ciaran Ó Corbáin @kcmnt]

@RoseRed202 @SkyNews I'd imagine it may have something to do with the murder of over 17 thousand children.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Lebanese paramedics sit amidst the rubble, grieving their murdered colleagues.

Israel bombed a Civil Defense Center in Baalbek, Lebanon, wiping out 15 paramedics in an instant.

These were first responders, not combatants.

This is sheer barbarity.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

“The drones would come down and pick off civilians – children.”
A former NHS surgeon, Nizam Mamode, who spent a month working in Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, broke down while testifying about children in Gaza being shot by drones.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

The @nytimes published a piece in which dozens of foreign medical volunteers who went into Gaza recounted seeing and treating children who were deliberately shot in the head and neck by Israeli soldiers (you can tell from the x-ray they're 5.56 rounds used by the IDF). These volunteers describe in painful detail the extent of horror they saw firsthand, including mass killings, malnutrition, targeting of civilians, and repeated and documented patterns of IDF soldiers behaving ruthlessly toward Palestinian noncombatants throughout the war in Gaza.

It is indisputable that horrendous war crimes were and are continuing to be committed in the Gaza war, no matter the claims to the contrary. Hamas's criminality and terrorism on October 7 can never justify this behavior by a professional military with clear rules of engagement and codes of conduct. There must be accountability for these crimes.

Gift article link below.

[Younis Tirawi | يونس @ytirawi]

Read.

"I came to search for the remains of my son, who had gone ahead to the dawn prayer. Someone gave me a bag of 23 kilograms and said, 'This is your son; bury him.' As I carried him, I remembered a day when I was coming back with him from the market, carrying a heavy bag. He, in complete filial piety, asked to carry it for me. He went to his mother happily, boasting of his manhood, singing in front of his siblings, and teasing them that he carried all this weight alone for his father. His siblings embraced him, and his mother prayed for his long life and goodness. Now, once again, you precede me with the bag to the house, my son. But how do I convince them that you are the one inside it? That your laughter, which used to fill the house, your thin arms that you used to use to spar with your siblings, your head that used to rest on your grandmother’s lap, and your feet that tirelessly searched for water—all have become one in this bag. When your mother asks me in a bitter Gazan tone, 'Do you know if there is any electricity, Abu Saleh? Where will I store all this?'—all the goodness we give to the neighbors—how will I tell her, my son, that what’s in this bag is not suitable for charity, and that 23 kilograms of remains is our share of death this week?"

[Adam @AdameMedia]

"He has gone... my brother has gone to join our father. Pray for him, and please don't cry."

A brave young girl fights her tears to console her brother.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Out of over 100 civilians that Israel cold-bloodedly killed, they singled out 19 and falsely claimed they were Hamas members. Four of them were from the Jaabari family, whom I personally know—they never engaged in any political or military activities. Another was an imam, one was my neighbor from the Habib family who had a serious dispute with Hamas, and a university professor from the Kahlout family who never participated in any political work.

Israel lives on lies.

[Mohamed Moawad @moawady]

Here is Ismail’s tribute to himself and the dying humanity.

“Let me tell you, my friend, that I no longer know the taste of sleep. The bodies of children and the screams of the injured and their blood-soaked images never leave my sight. The cries of mothers and the wailing of men who are missing their loved ones never fade from my hearing.

I can no longer bear the sound of children’s voices from beneath the rubble, nor can I forget the energy and power that reverberates at every moment, turning into a nightmare. It is no longer easy for me to stand before the rows of coffins, which are locked and extended, or to see the dead people more than the living who are fighting death beneath their homes, not finding a way out to safety and survival.

I am tired, my friend…”

Ismail Al-Ghoul
Al Jazeera Correspondent in Gaza