Matthew Koonce

Tweeting about things I find interesting. Focused on Colombia as well as Palestinian history. Temple U.

[Matthew Koonce @matthewkoonce_]

Type of logo you'd see on a Pibes Chorros album cover.

[CIA Drugs @CIADrugs]

The Virginia Beach police narcotics division logo is something else
https://t.co/u6nJ6z9sc3

[Matthew Koonce @matthewkoonce_]

New photo released of the IRGC's Quds Force coordinator for Palestinian affairs Saeed Izadi (killed during the 12 day war), and Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi (Hamas co-founder killed shortly after Shiekh Yassin) in exile in Marj al-Zahour, sometime in 1992 or 1993.

[AHMAD SLMAN @ahmadslmanx]

تنشر لاول مرة.. صورة تجمع بين الشهيد القائد الجهادي (محمد سعيد ايزادي) حاج رمضان مع الشهيد عبد العزيز الرنتيسي رئيس حركة حماس الاسبق.

[Matthew Koonce @matthewkoonce_]

For some reason it also made this edit of Vladimiro Montesinos aura-farming in court for corruption pop back into my head.

[Matthew Koonce @matthewkoonce_]

I've been thinking about this video for like a week now.

[Sambastaporfa @culofilosofico]

Entonces, ¿solo será un Asume tu voto?
#keikonuncamás

[Matthew Koonce @matthewkoonce_]

Tariq's father in conversation with a CIA officer shortly after his attack. By the following year, all of the settlers had been evacuated from Gaza.

[Matthew Koonce @matthewkoonce_]

From the days of the occupation of Gaza. Somehow all of the Israeli soldiers survived the blast. Clip from a documentary that's so bad I'm not even going to mention it's name.

[Matthew Koonce @matthewkoonce_]

Great find. Roberto was KIA in October of 1982, the following year.

[plaka @operativplaka]

Roberto Montoya, Aeropesca Curtiss C-46 aircraft hijacker. The plane water landed in the Ortegaza river (Caquetá) for the M19 guerrilla to recover ~500 assault rifles

More here https://t.co/DUnbrwqfmG

[Matthew Koonce @matthewkoonce_]

Some excellent photos here. Gift link to the article for anyone interested. https://t.co/VSgDqfy2Aa

[Federico Rios @federicorios]

Diez años después de un acuerdo de paz histórico, los grupos armados en Colombia están desatando una violencia mortal, combinando el combate en la selva con la nueva guerra de drones.

Abro hilo 🧵 🪡:

[Matthew Koonce @matthewkoonce_]

Being an ex-president of Colombia and having a portrait of Teddy Roosevelt in your office is baffling to me. He's like, the least likely US president to be idolized in Colombia in my mind.

[Matthew Koonce @matthewkoonce_]

This book is interesting because it is still the best source I have found on the topic, 40+ years after it was published, but now the Palestinian-American author is a huge Trump supporter. Strange.

[Matthew Koonce @matthewkoonce_]

There's a very sad irony to the fact that a lot, if not most, of the weapons supplied to the PLO ended up being used against liberation movements in Central America.

[Matthew Koonce @matthewkoonce_]

The assasination of Karmi ended the short-lived hudna between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups that began in December 2001. Sharon's calculation is left to history to interpret.

[Matthew Koonce @matthewkoonce_]

Going through an old hard drive and this image caught my eye. The last photo taken of Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade member Abdul Hassuna. He carried out an attack on a bat mitzvah in Hadera in January 2002 in retaliation for the killing of AAMB leader Raed Al Karmi.

[Matthew Koonce @matthewkoonce_]

@Gredtoo Thanks for sharing!

[Matthew Koonce @matthewkoonce_]

Cool photos I hadn't seen before. Takao died on Land Day in 2002, after self-immolating in protest of the destruction of the Jenin Refugee Camp.

[Najlaa . @Gredtoo]

Photos from Takao Himori’s visit to Lebanon in 2000 to attend the liberation celebrations and visit the grave of his comrades,before a portion of his ashes along with those of Osamu Maruoka was buried beside them,while the gravestone tells the story of all the heroes of the tale.

[Matthew Koonce @matthewkoonce_]

https://t.co/RKpdm4DIQW further info here courtesy of @Gredtoo . Also, for anyone interested in this topic, check out the documentary "Stars of Orion: Japanese Martyrs for Palestine" here https://t.co/hrbTrdqQc4

[Matthew Koonce @matthewkoonce_]

Making a career out of defending the AUC is certainly worse, but the icing on the cake is that he was the lawyer and good friend of the recently extradited Alex Saab. https://t.co/QYKfaS5gkx

[Jake Johnston @JakobJohnston]

There is being a lawyer for right-wing, drug trafficking paramilitaries, and then there is Abelardo de la Espriella:

[Gustavo Petro @petrogustavo]

Ahora toca sufrir.

[Alexander McKeever @AKMcKeever]

The site of the PKK’s first ever combat casualties, according to the party’s paper, with ten fighters killed defending the castle from the invading Israeli army along with the DFLP and others in 1982