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[Justin Bonomo 🇵🇸 @JustinBonomo]

Insane framing.

He was anally gang-raped.

He was severely beaten and then anally gang-raped on camera. Both a knife and a taser were reportedly used.

There was a hole in his rectal wall. He got surgery for it.

Because he was anally gang-raped by the IDF (on camera).

He also had 7 broken ribs and other injuries as well.

After it happened, Israelis staged multiple large protests in the streets. Not because they believe these soldiers did anything wrong, but because they were infuriated that the soldiers were arrested for anally gang-raping a Palestinian on camera.

These protests weren’t just random people. They included multiple high ranking Knesset members (their Congress) who defended the anal gang/rapists.

They didn’t stop there. They went after the lawyer who leaked the video. She was publicly smeared, was forced to resign, and was arrested.

And now the anal gang-rapists who were caught on camera have had their charges dropped. They didn’t win in court. They weren’t somehow exonerated. The charges were completely and indefensibly dropped. The Jerusalem Post reports that there was sufficient evidence to take this to trial.

This is part of a larger pattern of torture and impunity. NYT and many other major outlets have extensively detailed the abuses at the Sde Teiman torture factory. NYT reported that Prisoners lose 30+ pounds, a nurse was anally raped by a metal rod, another man was raped by a dog, and another was anally raped by a fiery hit rod until he died. Yes, the NYT reported all of that. I’ll share sources in the replies. Torture and sexual assault are commonplace at Sde Teiman, and many prisoners die in the process.

The UN concluded that rape from IDF soldiers is so commonplace that it constitutes official “strategy of war”.

And of course these monsters virtually never face jail time. Because Israelis by and large don’t have any problem with any of it.

This is just what their society does.

They torture Palestinians.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better."

The Defense Secretary calling for a billionaire ally of the government to take over a media outlet & make it more pro-government. This is what authoritarianism looks like. But in other countries they try & hide it.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Here’s Meir Shitrit, who raped a Palestinian detainee on camera, being trotted out as a hero on Israeli national TV

Israeli reservists staged riots in his defense, and the lawyer who tried to prosecute him is now under house arrest

The sickest society

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

No amount of Zionist or American propaganda will ever succeed in convincing me this man is not my brother

[CSPAN @cspan]

Cato Institute Immigration Studies Director @David_J_Bier: "They're trying to deport U.S.-born citizens…These are not hyperbolic statements!"

.@SenJohnKennedy: "What planet did you just parachute in from? You trigger my gag reflex, Mr. Bier."

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

The Iranians did not harm any of the soldiers and returned them the same day. We committed a war crime.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

why target a football stadium? the answer is simpler than you imagine. Israel literally cannot bear the site of Muslims around it being anything but subservient, poor, and broken. Israelis cannot bear the site of modernity and sophistication in the region belonging to anyone but them.
I know it sounds far fetched, but we have generations of being on the receiving end of their hate and jealousy, and we've become experts on their psychology.
they are a twisted, demonic, parasitic, hateful, and jealous society, because ultimately they are irrelevant to the region and its history. so they want to burn everyone else's lives.

[John Wight @JohnWight1]

An image that should be engraved on every human heart and mind.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them.

I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

Any person with a brain and a heart would watch this and conclude that the US has become a danger to humanity. You may want to deceive yourself and find all kinds of excuses but deep down you know this is true

[Jeremy Loffredo @loffredojeremy]

Iran is allowing CNN, an American network from a country currently bombing Iran alongside Israel, into the country to document the war. Imagine Israel allowing Iranian media into their country? Israel arrested me, an American journalist from its "closest ally" simply for documenting Iranian attacks on the country the wrong way.

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

Leftists, for years: NATO is a vehicle for US imperialism

Intellectual children: No it’s not!

NATO: We are a vehicle for US imperialism

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

Russia has the ability to carpet-bomb Kiev in the exact same way the genocidal Israeli-US-Epstein regime is doing in Tehran and across Iran right now. They can destroy every hospital, school, government building, residential building. All the NYT/BBC/AP/Reuters/Guardian Zionist scum now salivating over the murderous bombing of Iran would cry endless crocodile tears. Why? Because they consider Iranians, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Libyans, Syrians to be sub-human, while they, the Zionist Jewish supremacists are human. They admit this openly and with glee.

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

The massacre of the girls elementary school pupils (ages 8 to12) in Iran, now stands at one hundred and eighty five.
Any person attempting to justify this unprovoked obscenity is a psychopath.

[Arkansas Worker @ArkansasWorker]

Israel’s Iron Dome interceptor missiles are built in Camden, Arkansas.

About a quarter of Camden lives under the poverty line.

Each missile costs about two years’ salary of the workers assembling them.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent boasts that sadistic US sanctions deliberately devalued Iran's currency and "this is why [Iranians] took to the streets"

"This is economic statecraft, no shots fired," Bessent added

One of the most important confessions of the US war on Iran

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

I call on the Europeans to stop their inflammatory rhetoric. The only formula is land for peace. Europe must be realistic and make territorial concessions. Intransigence and radicalism are not the path forward. Only dialogue and negotiation.

[Federal Reserve @federalreserve]

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: https://t.co/5dfrkByGyX

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

🚨A father held by ICE screams for his son. My translation:

"Help me. Help me. Help me. BRAYAN! Ay, no. Help me. Help. Help. Ay, no. Help. Help. Help. Help me. Help me"

In the background, there is a sound like a child shouting back to him. I make out the words "papa, papa!"