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[louis @loapps]

@madjav8 @JoeyMannarinoUS The only battle you’re in is with reality

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

When you try to remove a piece of art and accidentally make it better.

[Reginald D Hunter @reginalddhunter]

#pledgewithreg
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[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

New video of IDF soldiers raping Palestinian

Victim suffered ruptured intestine, severe injury to anus & lungs & broken ribs.

Israelis then rioted for right to rape & government ministers defended the soldiers & one of the rapists became a TV celebrity

[louis @loapps]

@IsabelOakeshott @metpoliceuk Barely containing them

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

If any other country did this, the "West" would lose its mind and go to war. Now? Not even a condemnation...

A Palestinian orthopedic nurse was shot in the knee by Israeli soldiers for refusing to stop operating on a wounded patient. He is later taken prisoner by the Israelis for 45 days. When the Israelis confirmed he isn't Hamas, they took out his eye and dropped him on the other side of the border, forcing him to crawl for 3km...

[Hala Jaber @HalaJaber]

They coordinated with the Red Cross. They went in to save lives. Israel executed all 16 of them—ambulance crews, first responders—then buried their bodies & destroyed their vehicles. This isn’t self-defense. This is a war crime. A massacre. And the world is still silent.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Here's a brief history of Gaza (full disclosure: I'm a historian of Palestine):

1516 - Ottomans rule Gaza

1917 - Britain occupies Palestine, adopting the anti-democratic Balfour Declaration, rejecting the political will of 85% of the population of Palestine who declared their opposition to Zionism to the King-Crane Commission. https://t.co/VZEMubfrm5

1917 - 1947 - Britain subjugates 90% of the population of Palestine (the Palestinian Arabs), ignoring their democratic wishes, favoring the Jewish minority, making it easier for Jews to buy land via the annulment of Arab communal land tenure, granting Jews but not Arabs communal autonomy, favoring Jews over Palestinians in awarding contracts & industrial concessions (e.g. Palestine Electric Corporation, Palestine Salt Company, Palestine Potash & Sulphur Quarries), imposing a surveillance regime over the Arabs to subvert their political activity, imposing harsher penalties for Arabs than Jews for similar crimes; preventing the establishment of a Palestinian university & limiting Palestinian secondary education to subvert their political activity. https://t.co/l0K7AFOl4J

1947 - UN proposes giving the Zionist community of Palestine 56% of Palestine, even though they constituted 33% of the population & owned ~5.5% of the land.

1948 - Israel tried (and failed) to conquer Gaza even though the partition plan called for an Arab state there.

1948 - Israel tried to poison Palestinian Arab wells in Gaza, killing many innocent civilians https://t.co/GosqdvSLgu

1948 - Israel violently expelled ~200,000 Palestinians from their homes, pushing them to the Gaza Strip (in total, some 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes by Israel during the war).

1950 - Israel expel the last remaining 2,600 Palestinians in Majdal. Israeli forces loaded them onto trucks, sending them off to Gaza. Whoever refused to leave was coerced through intimidation and violence. https://t.co/1d4VqUjxvE

1953 - The Israeli military attacked the al-Bureij Camp in Gaza, killing 50 civilians, seeking to dismantle the refugee camp altogether to disperse in residents. Another Egyptian-UNRWA plan, supported by Israel, was to expel some 60,000 Palestinians from Gaza to Sinai, where land & Nile River water for irrigation was apparently going to be provided. But the project failed when Palestinians demonstrated en masse on 1 March 1955. https://t.co/1d4VqUjxvE

1949-1956 - Tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees (many from Gaza) tried to return home. They were overwhelmingly unarmed. The Israeli army adopted a shoot to kill policy, massacring ~2,700-5,000 during this period. https://t.co/lrcVTMPhrG

1956-1957 - Israel invaded Gaza, occupying it for 4 months. On 3 Nov 1956, Israeli forces entered Khan Yunis, rounding up all men 15+, lined them against a wall, & executed them. They did the same thing in Rafah. They massacred hundreds of Gazan Palestinians in cold blood. https://t.co/wLpnb2ABgc

1967 - Israel re-invaded the Gaza Strip in a war of choice (https://t.co/TzAtZhfToN) imposing a belligerent military occupation there that has lasted to the present day.

1967 - On 18–19 June 1967, the Israeli cabinet adopted this decision: "...[the Gaza Strip] would be annexed to Israel once the number of refugees there was significantly reduced by transfer to other locations of countries." https://t.co/9GQvuTITUI

1967 - Israel pushed out some ~40,000 Palestinians from Gaza, because they were of the incorrect religion/ethnicity. https://t.co/rm4KhVazUY

1968-1970 - Israel pushed out tens of thousands of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, then forcibly expelled another 38,000 Palestinian refugees in Gaza in 1971 and tried to compel the rest to give up their refugee status or leave the refugee camps throughout the 1970s and 1980s. https://t.co/16FarJ7vAw

1967-1987 - Israel kills 32 Palestinians on average every year for 20 years (in Gaza & the West Bank); Israel denies Palestinians politica rights. Israel imprisons Palestinians like Fathi Ghaben for painting paintings with black, red, green and white. Israel regularly arrests, detains, tortures and deports Palestinians for speech critical of Israel's brutal military occupation. https://t.co/16FarJ7vAw

1987 - From December 1987 - December 1988, Israeli forces slaughtered 142 Palestinians in Gaza, while Palestinian forces killed 0 Israelis in Gaza. https://t.co/X39kxQJRLH

1987 - 1993 - Israel killed about 1,200 Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

1990 - Israel threatens the livelihoods of 40% of the population of Gaza, who was at the time working in Israel or in Israeli settlements in Gaza, by requiring them to apply for a permit that was previously granted automatically.

1994 - 1996 - Israel imposes suffocating lockdowns on Gaza, leading to 70% unemployment rate in Gaza during periods of total closure. see Gordon, Israel’s Occupation, 73.

2000 - 2005 - Israel slaughtered ~3,000 Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, imposing suffocating lockdowns on Gaza, leading the World Food Programme (@WFP) to spin up an emergency food operation in Gaza to save hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza from going hungry.

2006 - 7 - Israel tightens it's illegal & inhumane siege on Gaza, whose goal was to "dispel the claims regarding Israel's responsibility for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip" & to “freeze the peace process" (words of Dov Weisglass, Advisor to the then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon).

2007 - present. Israel imposes the longest lasting siege in modern history on Gaza, putting 2M Gazans "on diet," controlling their caloric intake, leading to widespread devastation: 40% of Gaza's population live in poverty, most of them in extreme poverty, more than 80% of households dependent on food aid. Dozens if not hundreds but probably thousands die in Gaza every from inability to receive proper medical and Israel's refusal to allow Gazans to seek care outside of Gaza, owing to the punishing siege, including Fatimah al-Masri, who was murdered by Israel in 2022 after Israel refused to allow her to exit Gaza for medical treatment source https://t.co/8IoD9raMHt

2008-9 - Israel waged a war on Gaza. Israel killed 1,400 Gazans (who killed 3 Israeli civilians). The Goldstone Report found no justifiable military objective was identified in 90% of Israel's deadly attacks on Palestinian civilians & that Israel's goal was “punish, humiliate & terrorize civilians.” https://t.co/Cy2vX39LF9

2012 - Israel killed 171 Gazans (who killed 4 Israeli civilians); 60% of Gazan victims were civilians; the war started when Israel assassinated Ahmed Jabari, who was about to sign a permanent ceasefire with Israel. Israel preferred war to strengthen it’s “deterrence capacity.” https://t.co/I2WcybEIoO

2014 - Israel killed >1,500 Gazan civilians (who killed 6 Israeli civilians). Israel launched 6,000 airstrikes on Gaza, mostly on residential buildings. In 40% of investigated cases, the @UN found no explanation for bombing civilians, concluding Israel likely committed war crimes https://t.co/wO5vdKHZph

2018-9 - Israel killed 223 Palestinians & Israeli snipers left 6,106 Palestinians with life-changing wounds (0 Israeli casualties) after 10s of thousands of unarmed overwhelmingly peaceful Gazans marched to the fence, demanding the right of return and protesting against the siege. No Israeli experienced any major harm at all. https://t.co/Cy2vX39LF9

2021: Israel killed 261 Gazans (who killed 14 Israelis); 113,000 Palestinians were internally displaced; Airwars report concluded: in 70% of the deadly airstrikes on civilians, no militants or military targets were found & Israel indiscriminately targeted dense civilian areas. https://t.co/BP64kqyYZc

2023 - present. Israel has slaughtered hundreds of thousand of Palestinians in Gaza, used starvation, sexual violence and rape as weapons of war, denied 2.2M people access to water, medicine and shelter, froze dozens of babies to death, in what @hrw, @amnesty, @un and @msf call a genocide.

[louis @loapps]

@elonmusk Is the president supposed to operate with in the law?

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

THOUGHTS?

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

"My olives, my olives"

Israelis uprooting olive trees with chainsaws and bulldozers.

Only a colonizer with no attachment to the land could be so cruel.

[Pelham @Resist_05]

First time I’ve ever seen a “nation defending itself” offering pleasure cruises to watch the live g—nocide of Gaza.

Daniella Weiss is selling first class tickets to front row cruises watching Israel destroy Gaza, whilst she talks about the future settlements…🇮🇱

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Tommy Robinson sent a letter to himself, he meant to log out and send it from a different account.

But he didn't.

Don't RT 🤣

[Only Fools and Horses Lines @OnlyFoolsLines]

😂😂😂

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Wes Streeting thinks privatisation is the solution to the NHS.

Like if you know it isn't.
RT if we need a fully nationalised, fully funded, staff properly paid NHS

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Just for clarity: this is 1000x worse than anything anyone has said or done at a protest or occupation in the U.K. or U.S.

Hard to think of something lower than this.

[louis @loapps]

@OfRossonero Maldini was justified in keeping them players, the increas in revenue from champions league and winning the league is worth more. No guarantee we would have achieved that with their replacements.

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Known as "Black Death," Henry Johnson was one of the most heroic American soldiers of World War I.

Despite his lack of experience and training, he agreed to help the French Army with sentry duty in the Argonne Forest. And it wasn't long before Johnson and a fellow American soldier, Needham Roberts, were brutally attacked by German snipers.

Despite enduring 21 wounds, Johnson fought back, killing four enemy soldiers and injuring up to 20 others.

He also saved Roberts from being taken prisoner. Perhaps most impressively, Johnson almost single-handedly stopped the Germans from breaking through the French line.

Indeed, he fought with such valor that the French awarded him the Croix du Guerre, the country's highest military honor.

But when he returned to America, he was not officially recognized for his bravery at home — and he didn't even receive a disability pension.