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The word "terrorist" gets more and more meaningless by the day.
In the UK a terrorist is someone with a cardboard sign saying "I support Palestine Action".
In the US a terrorist is a Venezuelan suspected of drug trafficking.
In Israel a terrorist is someone resisting occupation.
We're told Yemen is full of terrorists because they're trying to stop a 21st century holocaust.
We're told Lebanon is full of terrorists because they oppose a genocidal apartheid state.
We're told Iran is full of terrorists because its government resists imperial regime change agendas.
We were told Al Qaeda were terrorists because they perpetrated the 9/11 attacks, but when Al Qaeda helped the west get rid of Assad they suddenly weren't terrorists anymore.
Uyghur militants used to be terrorists, but they came off the list when they were deemed useful operatives against Beijing and Damascus.
Iraq needed to be invaded because Saddam wanted to give weapons of mass destruction to terrorists, but after the invasion it turned out that there were no weapons of mass destruction, and then Iraq was suddenly plagued by an epidemic of suicide bombings.
Afghanistan needed to be invaded because the Taliban was providing a safe haven for terrorists, but after 20 years of military occupation the empire needed its war machinery for other duties so they let the Taliban retake Afghanistan.
In 2010, then-vice president Joe Biden proclaimed Julian Assange a "high-tech terrorist" because his journalism with WikiLeaks exposed US war crimes.
Terrorism was used as an excuse to roll out the Patriot Act in the US and the Terrorism Act in the UK, and countless other authoritarian measures throughout the western world which tyrannical empire managers had been seeking to impose for years.
Really "terrorist" just means someone the empire wants to kill or imprison, or a group whose terrorist designation might be used to justify the advancement of preexisting geostrategic agendas.
Propaganda is used to seer events like 9/11 into western consciousness as examples of terrorism which must be prevented at all cost, and then this label "terrorism" is applied to literally anyone who poses an obstacle to the agendas of the western empire.
Once it is accepted that there should be no rules restricting how the state responds to the threat of terrorism, all the state needs to do is label someone a terrorist to remove all rules which might stop them from doing whatever they want to do. Nowhere is this more clearly illustrated right now than the ongoing genocide in Gaza which is being justified by the need to eliminate terrorists.
When power-seeking empire architects are given limitless power to fight terrorism, we suddenly find ourselves in a world full of designated terrorists.
The more despised the western empire becomes, the more "terrorists" there are going to be. Because a terrorist is anyone who takes action which inconveniences the empire.
If this keeps up, soon we will all be "terrorists".
@AFpost I just can't get over how pathetic it is that the greatest power since Rome was just subverted and owned without firing a single shot (other than the one in 1963).
The DOJ’s June 2025 memo to denaturalize certain citizens lists “ending antisemitism” as one of its main reasons.
The Trump administration is poised to denaturalize and deport American citizens who criticize Israel.
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This morning, on my way to the clinic, though even calling it that feels absurd now, it is more graveyard than refuge; I saw a girl. She was sixteen, no older. She was thin, with the kind of tiredness around her eyes that children should never know. In her hands, she carried a pot, a blackened metal container, steaming faintly. Inside was a thin, soupy liquid. It was mostly water, with a few pale white beans floating like little wrecks in an ocean of absence.
Behind her, her father moved through the crowd with a soldier’s gaze. It was not the gaze of one trained for war, but of one forced to survive it. He was scanning faces, perhaps for danger, perhaps for hope, or perhaps for something in between.
The girl looked back once, then again. When she saw him turn away, she seized that brief moment of freedom. She dipped her fingers into the pot, scooped a few beans, and stuffed them into her mouth with the speed of guilt. Her eyes darted around as she chewed, terrified that he might see her, that he might scold her. Not because he was cruel, but because that pitiful soup was meant to feed not one child, but an entire family. Perhaps five. Perhaps ten. We no longer count mouths. Only spoons.
There was a kitchen once, a charity. They cooked for over a thousand families every day. They did it not for profit, and not for recognition, but because their souls could not do otherwise. That kitchen shut down three days ago. Not because people stopped being hungry, but because the shelves became empty. The rice, the oil, the flour — everything ran out.
And now the people go to the American aid centers.
Yes, of course. "Humanitarian corridors." What a beautiful phrase. How clean, how sterile, how bureaucratically elegant. It sounds like "collateral damage" or "operation." The Americans built them. The Israelis secured them. And forty people die at their gates every day.
Crushed. Shot. Starved. They come seeking bread and leave as corpses.
Everyone knows this. Absolutely everyone. And yet they still go.
Hunger will drive a man to walk toward his own execution if there is even a shadow of rice behind the gun.
Yesterday, my friend Al-Aloul went. He is not a fighter. He is a software engineer, a quiet man.
He came back stabbed, in the neck.
Six stitches. Blood soaked through his shirt.
But he smiled.
"I got the box," he said. "They did not take it."
What kind of world is this? What kind of man smiles through blood because he has a box of flour?
This is not the war of tanks and planes. Those have become irrelevant. This is the war of hunger, the war of slow death.
Mothers fast for days, not in spiritual devotion, but because their sons must eat first.
Children stand in line for aid, not knowing if they will return alive.
Girls eat in secret, and fathers carry shame heavier than bread.
This is genocide by exhaustion, by silence, by paperwork, and by averted eyes.
Do you want to know what the modern age has made of evil?
It has made it bureaucratic.
Digitised.
Professionalised.
A genocide in which the world debates definitions while children chew air.
The child who ate those beans is more real than your opinions.
My friend who smiled through blood has more dignity than your excuses.
Gaza is not a headline. It is a mirror.
And when you look at it, what you see is the measure of your own humanity.
You want God to speak?
Perhaps he already has.
He speaks through the silence of that girl.
Through the blood on that box.
Through the words I now write with shaking hands.
Gaza is not dying.
It is being crucified.
And we are the crowd at Golgotha.
Watching.
#GazaGenocide
I’m not sharing this meal from two days ago to seek pity,
nor to expose my family’s hardship like others might.
But in the shadow of war and erasure, this is our reality.
To kind hearts: if you can give, let it be quiet and sincere✍️❤️
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🇮🇱: Committing genocide in Gaza
🇮🇱: Annexing West Bank
🇮🇱: Occupying parts of Lebanon and Syria
🇮🇱: Bombs neighbors at will
🇮🇱: Has nuclear weapons
🇮🇱: Bombs Iran killing civilians
🌎: Does nothing
🇮🇷: Retaliates
🇮🇱: The world must not be silent
🇺🇸🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇧: We condemn Iran