Mohammed Shamil Shareef

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[Mohammed Shamil Shareef @pmshamil]

"Human In the Loop" should be renamed to "End Human" like "Endpoint" or "End Node".. at least that's what i would call Humans if i were an agent..

[Mohammed Shamil Shareef @pmshamil]

The gap between wanting something digitally and what you have to express/do to get it is shrinking drastically #cowork

[Yusuf / Cat Stevens @YusufCatStevens]

Bombs or food? What wins hearts more?

War mongers are trying to gaslight the world into believing that the violent overthrow of governments is going to change things for the better. It's never gonna happen. Hearts that disagree with you, live for the day when the world is free of such delusions.

#Peace

[Mohammed Shamil Shareef @pmshamil]

I am heart broken to hear about the grandfather Khaled Nabhan passing away. it feels like yesterday him huggin his lifeless grand daughter reem was on the news, he said she was the soul of my soul... Everyone has the right to live.. the perpetuators need to be brought to justice.

[Mohammed Shamil Shareef @pmshamil]

Invincibility is very relative.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

It shocks me that I keep coming across in my threads variations of the following tweet:

"The Palestinians have it within them to rise up against Hamas to free themselves. Or Hamas can willingly surrender. Two real choices there."

This view isn’t just being promoted in bad faith by Israeli apologists. It seems to resonate with ordinary people who presumably know very little about the histories either of Palestine or of settler colonial movements such as the Zionist movement that founded Israel.

So let’s delve briefly into both.

First, settler colonial movements are distinguished from standard colonialism – like British rule in India – by the fact that the settler population wishes not just to steal the native population’s resources but to replace the native population itself.

There are lots of examples of this: European settlers dispossessed native peoples in what we today call the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, for example.

The definition of genocide in international law exactly describes what those Europeans did to the local population: mass killings; inflicting conditions calculated to bring about the physical destruction of all or part of the native community; preventing births within the local population; and forcibly transferring native children to the settler population.

European settlers who today call themselves Americans, Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders never had to account for their crimes against those native peoples. Which possibly explains how commonplace the tweet above is – and why European countries and their settler colonial outgrowths are today lining up againt the rest of the world to support Israel as it intensifies industrial genocide in Gaza.

The truth is the “western” world order was built on genocide. Israel is just following in a long tradition.

Settler colonial movements do not always end up committing genocide. In South Africa, a heavily outnumbered settler colonial population came to an “accommodation” with the native population: apartheid. The white group took all the resources and privileges. The black group was allowed to live but only in ghettoes and squalor.

In such circumstances, peace is possible only when the settler colonial project is abandoned, power is shared and resources distributed more equitably. This happened, imperfectly, with the fall of apartheid.

The final model for a settler colonial population is to drive the native population over the border, in an act of ethnic cleansing. This was Israel’s preferred option in 1948 and again in 1967, when it decided to expand its borders by occupying remaining Palestinian lands in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza.

The Palestinians in Gaza are an object lesson in the various ways a native population can be abused by a settler colonial movement.

Most are refugees or descended from refugees from Israel’s ethnic cleansing operations of 1948. In other words, their family homes are in what we today call Israel. They were driven off their lands into a tiny enclave, to be ruled for the next 19 years by Egypt.

When Israel seized Gaza during the 1967 war, it had to fall back on the second settler colonising option: apartheid. So it turned the enclave into an open-air prison, or – if we’re going to be more honest – a long-term concentration camp.

Gaza was a larger – and, with Israel’s 16-year siege, increasingly much harsher – version of the townships that held the native black populations in apartheid South Africa.

What we are seeing now is Israel finally recognising that the apartheid model has failed to subdue the Palestinians’ desire for freedom and dignity.

Unlike white South Africa, Israel is not looking for peace and reconciliation. It is revisiting other settler colonial options.

In the current attack on Gaza, it is implementing a mixed model: genocide for those who remain in Gaza, ethnic cleansing for those who can get out (assuming Egypt finally relents and opens its borders).

None of that has anything to do with Hamas. The most one can say is that Hamas’ resistance has forced Israel’s hand. It has had to abandon its siege-apartheid model – the long term imprisonment of a population with no resources, no freedom of movement, no clean water, no jobs.

Instead, it has returned to the tried-and-tested formulas of genocide and ethnic cleansing.

Hamas is a symptom of the decades of trauma Palestinians in Gaza have been through, not the cause of that trauma.

Palestinians overthrowing Hamas, or Hamas surrendering, would not turn Gaza into a Dubai-on-the-Mediterranean. Palestinians there would still be prisoners, though possibly allowed slightly better conditions.

If you doubt that, look to the West Bank, which is ruled not by Hamas but by the supine Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas. He calls security cooperation with Israel – suppressing on Israel’s behalf the Palestinians' craving for freedom – a “sacred” duty. His biggest aspiration is a diplomatic solution that creates a severely circumscribed Palestinian mini-state.

If Israel can’t allow freedom to the West Bank under Abbas, how is it ever going to give freedom to tiny Gaza, even without Hamas, after the United Nations declared the enclave as fundamentally “uninhabitable” in 2020?

Israel could never allow the Palestinians out of their Gaza prison because their rapid growth in numbers is seen as a threat to Israel’s Jewish majority.

Remember: settler colonial populations are there to replace the native population, not to make peace with them, not to shares resources, not to give them their freedom.

Israel is doing the only thing it knows how to do. And as long as the West is cheerleading, that includes genocide.

[5Pillars @5Pillarsuk]

"He is a liar!"

Palestine's Ambassador to the UN, Riyad Mansour, calls Benjamin Netanyahu a liar and says Israel is "fabricating stories" to cover up its deadly air raid on the Al Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza that killed at least 500 people.

[Censored Men @CensoredMen]

🇵🇸🇮🇱 #BREAKING: The Director of The Al-Ahli National Baptist Hospital in Gaza Delivers A Speech Surrounded By Dead Bodies.

“The IDF told us, ‘we warned you yesterday with two bombs.

So why have you not evacuated the hospital until this moment?”

[Mohammed Shamil Shareef @pmshamil]

@tomaspueyo i am unable to comprehend, why you are okay creating refugees?

[Siddharth @DearthOfSid]

What an absolute legend. This is a must watch!

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

Breaking now: terrible news coming in. Al Jazeera reports as per Gazan health ministry that at least 500 people killed in an Israeli air strike that has hit the Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza.. civilians suffer in a cycle of endless violence.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

THREAD ⤵️

Why is so much anti-Palestinian disinformation coming from India?

Here's how Indian right-wing accounts are among the leading amplifiers of anti-Palestinian fake news. https://t.co/V7REXGHczS

[Siddharth @DearthOfSid]

In the future, when people look back at the genocide in Gaza and ask “how did the world let this happen?” we’ll tell them exactly as it is: that it was done with the explicit support of imperialists, justified by the media and cheered on by shameless bigots across the world.

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

Dear world,

Israel just bombed a Christian hospital in Gaza and murdered over 500 Palestinian civilians. White phosphorus chemical bombs confirmed by human rights watch was not enough to open your eyes. Over 1000 dead children wasn’t enough. Will you open your eyes and act now?

[Ali Hashem علي هاشم @Alihashem]

The moment the hospital in Gaza was hit by Israeli airstrike

[Mohammed Shamil Shareef @pmshamil]

@abidsensibull 🤣🤣🤣 .. i guess it's time for a boom.. "Almanack of Abid Hassan"

[Siddharth @DearthOfSid]

"The last paradox is that the tale of Palestine from the beginning until today is a simple story of colonialism and dispossession, yet the world treats it as a multifaceted and complex story—hard to understand and even harder to solve."

Noam Chomsky

[Siddharth @DearthOfSid]

The story of #Palestine: A must-watch!

[Abid Hassan 🇮🇳 @abidsensibull]

A heartfelt appeal to the good people of Twitter. 🙏🙏🙏

I hate scams. It angers me when a scammer loots an innocent person of his life savings. Perhaps that is why when we got the chance, we implemented Verified by Sensibull. But there is sad news.

We can bust all the scams here, but we will not be able to save people till we go to Youtube and finish the scammers. Here is why, and here is what we can do

1. Twitter is a smarter crowd than YouTube. People here smell a scam from 10 miles away. Youtube has gullible folks who are fooled. Youtube is where scammers have their empires. Twitter is just an outpost

2. Youtube is not social media. It is a mass broadcasting platform where the content creators can delete comments. And scammers after getting busted in Twitter go to Youtube and just do business as usual

3. I repeat, every scammer who was caught with a fake P&L on Twitter has a thriving business in Youtube even now. Go their their channel and see yesterday's video's number of views, and how people comment "Sir aap bhagwan ho". The moment there is a negative comment that talks about fraud, they just delete it

What can we do?
1. Create awareness. What is awareness? The knowledge that most scammers are horribly incompetent. In politically correct terms, we must shine the light of knowledge. In politically incorrect terms, we must expose the frauds for who they really are. In the last 5 years, what has caused real damage to them is not the fear of regulation, but breaking the trust they have among gullible retailers. And breaking that trust that is simple - Verified P&L. Most of them are loss making. May be all of them are.
2. If your broker does not have verified P&L, ask them to implement it. Force them, pressurize them. No broker has a reason to not implement Verified P&L. A broker who truly cares about doing the right thing will implement verified P&L. And unless all brokers do it, there is no point - frauds will say this is marketing tactics by one broker
3. Comment on their Youtube channels about their frauds exposed. They will delete, but eventually they cant keep up if everyone does this. And some people will see. Mass report the Youtube channels for financial frauds and giving tips.
4. Most important - talk about it anywhere you can. Spread awareness about what happened here - tell them our stories - scams, scammers, about how P&L can be faked and P&L verification. Everytime someone is busted, share it everywhere - your social media, your get togethers, your offices, your apartment whatsapp groups etc. Heck, your family group mein there will be uncles following these scammers. They need to know. This is negative news, and will spread like wildfire. For a change, we need to do some good with negativity :)

Thank you. Please retweet this for greater awareness
🙏🙏🙏

[Mohammed Shamil Shareef @pmshamil]

@abidsensibull I kind of did the same with my CH3(CH2)nCOOH :|