Utopia

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[Utopia @nikitsh]

@CraigMokhiber This is what Israel represents at its core: a state built on war crimes, land theft, genocide, & ethnic cleansing. The only thing we need is leaders like the Iranians to withstand this belligerent nation — though I am worried about what is coming next from the Zionists' cookers.

[Alex Shams @alexshams_]

In case you're wondering about all those sus pro-Israel tweets all over your feed:

"Israel is training soldiers and other defense officials to conduct psychological operations designed to “influence public consciousness," an internal Defense Ministry reveals.

Among the offerings are courses on how to use data to discretely shape the attitudes and actions of target audiences, intelligence gathering for such operations, and influencer training."

https://t.co/h5MIuYunl3

[Utopia @nikitsh]

@RezaNasri1 Israelis blocking aid to starving children in Gaza are civilians.
Yemenis blocking trade to stop genocide are pirates.
Iranians blocking the Strait of Hormuz to prevent ethnic cleansing in Lebanon are terrorists.
This language is invented to cloak war crimes— plain and simple.

[Sina Toossi @SinaToossi]

The Lebanese government's posture in this war, and its striking deference to Israel despite widespread opposition to normalization among Lebanese, is yet another indictment of the post-Sykes-Picot order.

Israel is seizing Lebanese territory, displacing hundreds of thousands of Lebanese, and entirely destroying Lebanese towns and villages. Yet the state appears not only incapable, but unwilling, to defend its citizens or impose meaningful costs for these actions.

Indeed, a major reason Hezbollah emerged as a bottom-up movement in the 1980s was the Lebanese state's inability to defend its citizens amid Israel's brutal occupation of the south. And it endures because that failure remains unresolved.

A political order built around sectarianism rather than a genuinely national project has left Lebanon vulnerable to both paralysis and outside domination.

[Hadi @HadiNasrallah]

One day after this statement Israel massacred Lebanese Army soldiers and bombed the president’s hometown. Do you understand now who’s the aggressor mr. President?

[Lara Bitar @LaraJBitar]

Disgraceful and embarrassing.

It is Iran, and Iran alone, that stopped the attacks on Dahieh and Beirut and is insisting on incorporating Lebanon into its negotiations with the US.

But this stooge is ordered to view Iran as the enemy, rather than the settler colony erasing dozens of southern villages from existence and slaughtering entire families together.

[Utopia @nikitsh]

@tparsi @moorehn What you once create, will destroy you.

[Utopia @nikitsh]

@MaxBlumenthal @mamoun_linda History will record that Iran stood alone in defending southern Lebanon and compelling an end to the bombing of Beirut—while the Arab nations, including Lebanon’s own government, remained silent.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Israel expelled ~430,000 Palestinians & Syrians from their homes in 1967 & yet most people know little about these expulsions. So I wrote a concise but comprehensive history of Israel's ethnic cleansing operations in 1967:

[Utopia @nikitsh]

@kajakallas In 1982, Israel bombed Beirut airport. As the IDF advanced into the city, thousands of Lebanese civilians were trapped and killed. At that time, Hezbollah did not yet exist.
The Israeli attacks have nothing to do with Hezbollah.Hezbollah exists to resist Israel’s brutality.

[Utopia @nikitsh]

@AmirAminiMD The world is done with a Germany that was never truly de-Nazified—neither in 1945 nor now.

[Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad]

No one wants Germany anywhere near a position of power.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING - A Swiss Tribunal recognises the legitimate right to peacefully oppose the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

One again: justice for Palestine starts at home. It only takes people caring and applying Intl Law. And persevering.

[Nader Soltanpour نادر سلطانپور @NaderSoltanpour]

خانم علی‌نژاد، سوال این‌است که هدف اکثر ما ایرانیان که از کشوری عمدتا مسلمان می‌آییم چه باید باشد؟
تغییر بسیلری از قوانین انعطاف‌ناپذیر اسلام یا جلوگیری از ورود این قوانین به سیاست‌گذاری کشورمان؟
به دریا انداختن مسلمانان یا همزیستی مسالمت‌آمیز در سایه نظامی مبتنی بر حقوق جهانی بشر؟
اگر اولی است که هیچ. اما، اگر دومی است، راه شما راهش نیست‌.

برخلاف ۵۷، امروز بیش‌تر ایرانیان مسلمان پذیرفته‌اند که قوانین شرع جایی در سیاست ندارد. پس چه نیازی هست که دین و‌ مذهب‌شان را سکه یک پول کنیم و خودشان را بی‌آبرو؟ چه نتیجه‌ای می‌گیریم از منزوی کردن آن‌ها جز این‌که انگیزه عبور از جمهوری اسلامی را ازشان بگیریم؟

حداقل ببینید دنیای غرب چه‌کار کرده. دنیای غرب با اعتماد به نفسی که از قوانین سکولار مستقر در جوامع خود دارد نگران هیچ دین و مذهبی نیست و نفرت‌پراکنی علیه همه از جمله مسلمانان و اسلام‌هراسی را ممنوع کرده.
این‌گونه است که جامعه به تعادل و ثبات می‌رسد.
به‌همین دلیل سیاست‌مدارش احساس امنیت و راحتی می‌کند تا در مراسم آن‌ها روسری بر سر کند. سیاست‌مدارانی که اولویت‌شان تامین منافع حوزه انتخاباتی‌ و در سطح کلان ایالت و کشورشان است نه کشور ما یا دادگاه بررسی پرونده‌ ترور شما.

ما ایرانیان مرکز‌ثقل جهان نیستیم، غربی‌ها هیچ چیز به ما بدهکار نیستند، آن‌قدر اولویت‌های دیگر و منافع اغلب درتضاد با ما دارند که نباید هیچ انتظاری ازشان داشته باشیم. وقتی هم فکر می‌کنیم انتظار ما را برآورده کرده‌اند نتیجه‌اش می‌شود جنگی که دست حکومت تهران را بازتر کرده هم برای سرکوب و هم‌ اعدام.
همین سخنرانی این هفته شما در اجلاس کمبته یهودیان آمریکا. می‌توانید بگویید دستاوردهایتان از سخنرانی‌هایی از این‌دست چه بوده؟ نهادهایی که اولویت اول و آخرشان اسراییل است و بود و نبود ایران هیچ اهمیتی ندارد چگونه در پیشبرد اهداف دموکراتيک مردم ایران کمک کرده‌اند؟
شما با آویزان شدن از نیروهای راست و راست تند در آمريکا و اسراییل عملا آلت دست آن‌ها شده‌اید چون برای جلب نظرشان مدام دارید به چپ و لیبرالیسم حمله می‌کنید. شما دارید با تزریق نفرت در تنها جناح سیاسی که به طور تاریخی به نقض حقوق بشر در جهان اهمیت داده به جنبش آزادی‌خواهی ایرانیان آسیب می‌زنید.
شما هنوز متوجه نشده‌اید که ما و جناح راست آمریکا و اسراییل تضاد منافع داریم؟
اولویت ما عبور از جمهوری اسلامی است، برای آن‌ها نوع حکومت اصلا مهم نیست، فقط ایرانی می‌خواهند آن‌قدر ضعیف که هیچ‌گاه تهدیدی برای اسراییل نباشد.
اسراییل می‌تواند روزی دوست ما باشد اما نه امروز که دولتش قتل‌عام کرده و متهم به نسل‌‌کشی است.
نزدیکی شما و آقای پهلوی به آن‌ها مجبورتان کرد نه فقط بر همان قتل‌عام چشم ببندید بلکه مقابل کشته شدن مردم خودتان در جنگ هم سکوت اختیار کنید.
می‌بینید هر دو چه دامی برای خودتان گسترده‌اید؟
دشمن دشمن من دوست من است، استراتژی نیست‌، تاکتیکی است که طرفی که قدرت و کنترل را در دست دارد نتیجه‌اش را تعیین می‌کند و شما فقط بازیچه‌اید. بازیچه دست مردانی نارسیست که از دست بر قضا برای ماندن در قدرت از افراط‌گرهای مذاهب خودشان آویزان شده‌اند و کمترین ارزشی برای زن قائل نیستند.
می‌بینید به چه مضحکه‌ای قدم گذاشته‌اید؟

شما و آقای پهلوی مردم خودمان، نهادهای مدنی خودمان‌ و اپوزیسیون واقعی خودمان در درون کشور را کنار‌گذاشته‌اید و به عنوان سلبریتی‌های سیاسی کارتان شده حضور در سخنرانی‌هایی که استقبال و تشویق حاضران تضمین شده‌.
حاضرانی که تا وقتی برای‌شان شیرین‌کاری می‌کنید حلواحلوای‌تان می‌کند، خسته که شوید، خواهید دید کالایی بی‌ارزش بیش نیستید.

دوباره از خود بپرسید هدف اکثر ما ایرانیان که از کشوری عمدتا مسلمان می‌آییم چه باید باشد؟
آب به آسیاب راست ریختن برای زدن چپ با اسلام‌هراسی و نفرت‌پراکنی یا استفاده مماسب از هر دو برای جایگزین کردن جمهوری اسلامی با نظامی سکولار و دموکراتیک؟
اگر اولی است، که هیچ اما اگر دومی است هم شما و هم آقای پهلوی به شدت به خاکی زده‌اید.
اگر می‌خواهید بچرخید، الان وقتش است.

امیدوارم به جای دشنام هواداران و توجیه خاک‌ساران خودتان شفاف‌سلزی کنید.

[Utopia @nikitsh]

@BBCWorld Germany’s scandalous support for genocide in Palestine, its aggression against Iran, and its repression of human rights defenders at home were all on full display as the body handed Germany this unprecedented loss.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

UN Special Rapporteur @profbensaul in 2024: "Germany & the United States supply 99% of the weapons exported to Israel. They could stop this conflict overnight if they stopped the weapons that kill the Palestinians"

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

Read the room guys. We don’t want to be Israel and we don’t want Israel to lead our military anymore. We are done with this dynamic.

[Utopia @nikitsh]

@fragermk @StefanTalmon The whole world knows who the real terrorists are. Soon they will reckon with all Zionist criminals, who make up only 0.00001 % of humanity.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

"You're f****** crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your a***. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this."

That's what a U.S. official tells Axios President Trump unloaded on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a heated phone call over Israel's military actions in Lebanon.

Trump was reportedly furious that Israel's moves risked blowing up U.S. diplomatic efforts in the region, at one point also asking Netanyahu: "What the f*** are you doing?"

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

“The genocide in Gaza is an unequivocal message sent from the industrialized nations of the north, which spent billions to sustain Israel’s mass slaughter, to a global population that subsists on a few dollars a day:

We don’t care about humanitarian law. We don’t care about human rights. Your lives mean nothing to us. We will use any tool, including genocide, to protect our monopoly on wealth and power.”

Chris Hedges on what’s really at stake in Gaza – humanity’s survival against the billionaires’ insatiable appetite for hoarding wealth.
https://t.co/f7Tsrl3c78

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

recently Elon Musk and his Mossad handler Nikita Bier banned the accounts of Iranians exposing war propaganda. They gave no reason for the ban. It was a list given to them by the Israel lobby FDD, and they obeyed. One of those banned was Ali Alizadeh, one of the most insightful Iranian analysts whose show is one of the best I've come across at deconstructing the various propaganda lies that are fabricated and spread about Iran, as well as having the most astute and correct analysis of the fake "negotiations", the "ceasefire", and how Zionists and the Israel lobby drive the war with Iran and will continue it until they either accomplish their objective of destroying Iran as a nation and people, as they did in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, or until they are sufficiently deterred by Iran and the Axis of Resistance's military response.

I read his account in translation here for his insights, as well as that of the accounts he followed and had as guests on his show. Now he has two channels, called Jedaal Farsi and English, and you can watch both as a non-Farsi speaker as you can turn on auto-translate subtitles. I highly recommend you do that, as there is no place where you can find more detailed and insightful analysis on Iran than from his show, and the various guests he has on.

Recently he had a show with the great Dr. Foad Izadi, who has also appeared on some English language media like Drop Site and Al Jazeera. He and Ali are both entirely in agreement on the nature of this war and how it should be resolved, and if you want to understand it properly, you should watch it. I agree with their analysis entirely. So I have found a way to download the Farsi subtitles that are auto-generated, and translated them into English and they look good. I'm going to post the full show here, and then also link to it. I will try to do the same for other shows by Ali that are particularly insightful, given that he can no longer post them here himself as he was banned exactly because he is right and is therefore seen as a threat by the Israel lobby.

[Utopia @nikitsh]

@henry2071 @dw_politics @giulio_mattioli Thank you for proving your ignorance. Israel has been starving Gaza and is still committing genocide to steal land—as usual.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Now that Gaza lies in ruins—shattered, like a beloved face after a long brutality—Israel moves with a terrible confidence to the next act: The act of leaving every soul there not merely wounded, but permanently disabled. Injured, sick, hungry, homeless, without work, without hope. This is not war’s collateral damage. This is design.

As my friend Gideon Levy writes—and he knows, he knows—this is the prelude to expulsion. Think of it: a society without teachers, without doctors, without social workers, without engineers, without clerks. That is not a society. That is a holding pen. A slow erasure. And when nothing functions—no school, no hospital, no office, no heart—then it becomes ‘easy,’ they tell themselves, to scatter the people to the four corners of the earth. Like seeds from a broken pod, except no soil will take them.

We must name this. Not with rage alone, though rage is honest. But with the cold, clear tears of recognition: they are making life impossible so that departure becomes the only ‘choice.’ And the world watches, adjusts its spectacles, and calls for restraint. Restraint! There is no restraint in a slow drowning.

[Utopia @nikitsh]

@fragermk @StefanTalmon Under occupation, resistance against Zionists is a right, not a crime.