Rooimier 🇿🇦

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

As Arundhati Roy said, what is under the rubble in Gaza is not only the bodies of countless Palestinians killed by Israel, but also the carcass of Western Liberal Democracy...

[Rooimier 🇿🇦 @r001mier]

@JohnLeFevre As usual, dipshit reactionaries reading the graph wrong in their haste to confirm their misunderstanding of life on this planet.

[Rooimier 🇿🇦 @r001mier]

Confronting the roots of racism: a call for white accountability https://t.co/KHPzVI9jDu

[Sameh Ahmed 𓂆 🇵🇸 @PalPress24]

Imagine that today’s bombardment was triggered because a child was playing with a kite, which slipped from his hands and landed in the occupied territories. As a result, we were targeted with airstrikes.

This is how even children’s play becomes an excuse for bombing and killing… A kite carrying nothing but a child’s innocence is met with bombs and fire.

[Rooimier 🇿🇦 @r001mier]

@Nonaligned18514 @Ollie_Vargas_ You should read Vijay Prashad's Darker Nations, it might make you rethink how you think of nationalism.

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

Israel's reaction to the Ceuta thing has to be some sort of performance art

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

El momento en el que "Israel" explotó 700 toneladas de explosivos en la zona del Castillo de Beaufort en Líbano, con más de 900 años de historia es Patrimonio Mundial de la UNESCO.

"Israel" hace lo mismo que ISIS dañando patrimonio de la humanidad para hacer un borrado cultural.

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

So this is the creature responsible for the killing of more than a hundred of my relatives, as well as tens of thousands of children and entire families. It is this creature and his fellow officials and criminal soldiers who reduced my city to rubble and left the bodies of my loved ones buried beneath the ruins. He is the subject of an arrest warrant, yet he has been able to travel more than 5,000 miles, move freely throughout the United States, and be welcomed as though everything is perfectly normal.

How is he allowed to walk free with blood on his hands? The Palestinian blood on his hands is dripping onto the streets, restaurants, and government buildings of Washington, D.C.

How on earth is this possible?

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Insane.

Israeli Defense Minister is bragging about changing Israeli policy so that only Palestinians, not Jews, can be classified as terrorists & thus only Palestinians can be stripped of all rights & put into rape dungeons forever.

He’s bragging Israel is an Apartheid State.

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

A house that is not in Israel and has been there decades before Israel even existed apparently needs a permit from Israel??

[Sameh Ahmed 𓂆 🇵🇸 @PalPress24]

Contaminated Water... Another Face of the Ongoing Genocide in Gaza

Genocide in Gaza is no longer limited to bombardment and starvation it has reached the very source of life: water. Groundwater salinity now averages 3,588 mg/L, with some wells reaching 13,000 mg/L. Around 19% of municipal wells are bacterially contaminated, while 40% lack effective chlorination.
As a result, 48% of all notifiable diseases are linked to unsafe water and environmental conditions, including 25% waterborne diseases and 23% skin diseases, with healthcare facilities reporting dozens of new cases every day and thousands every week.
Depriving civilians of safe drinking water and forcing them to rely on contaminated supplies is not simply a collapse of essential services it is another face of the ongoing genocide in Gaza

[Ahmad Chamseddine @Achamsedine]

Cet automne, pour la première fois depuis 250 ans, ma famille ne récoltera pas d'olives au Liban.

Nos 600 oliviers ont été arrachés du sol par l'armée israélienne, racines comprises, et emportés. Les plus vieux avaient 500 ans !

Cette terre, mon grand-père la tenait de son arrière-grand-père. En deux siècles et demi, ma famille a acheté de la terre. Elle n'en a jamais vendu un mètre, pas un seul jour. Chez nous, on ne construit pas sur la terre. On y plante. Ces arbres ont survécu à plusieurs guerres. Ils ont survécu à tout.

Regardez les deux photos. À gauche, notre terre le 25 juin, la veille de la signature de l'accord entre le Liban et Israël. À droite, la même terre le 20 juillet.

Il ne reste rien. Et c’est justement ça, la preuve. Un incendie laisse des troncs noirs debout. Une frappe laisse des cratères. Ici, pas un tronc calciné, pas une souche, pas un débris. Une terre nue, raclée, griffée par les chenilles des engins. Déterrer un olivier de 500 ans sans le tuer demande des pelleteuses, un savoir-faire, des camions et une destination. Ce n’est pas un dégât de guerre. C’est une opération, sur une terre où il n’y avait ni armes, ni combattants, ni présence militaire. Ma famille n'a jamais été liée de près ou de loin au Hezbollah, et elle ne le sera jamais. Il n'y avait que des arbres, et des gens qui les taillent depuis huit générations.

D'après les témoignages qui nous parviennent, ces arbres auraient été emportés de l'autre côté de la frontière, vers Israël.

L'accord signé entre le Liban et Israël, censé préparer la paix, protège les biens des civils. Je demande simplement qu'il soit appliqué : que le sort des arbres déterrés soit établi, que ceux qui sont encore vivants soient rendus. Si nos arbres sont vivants quelque part, ils peuvent revenir. Je ne cherche pas une vengeance. Je cherche une adresse !

J'ai hésité à écrire ces lignes, pour ne pas provoquer des réactions d'un côté comme de l'autre. Mais je refuse de faire le deuil de ces oliviers. Dans ces arbres vit l'âme de mon grand-père, ancien général de la police libanaise, un homme qui a toujours cru dans la paix, dans les humains et dans la lumière. Il taillait ces arbres à mains nues. Il répétait : “on ne vend pas la terre, on la transmet”
Je lui dois de ne pas me taire.

[Rooimier 🇿🇦 @r001mier]

@swilkinsonbc The cruelty is the point.

[Steve Howell @QuaeroBooks]

"If you are increasing defence spending at the expense of infrastructure spending, or investing in renewable, or health technology, or climate change mitigation, or education, you are actively retarding economic growth."

Exactly. 👇 Arms Lobby Andy is a con-man.

[Wokerati Marty @WokeratiMarty]

Yesterday, Keir Starmer announced another 26 peerages for the House of Lords, bringing his total to 66 in just two years.

Starmer in 2022 👇

“Labour will rebuild trust by replacing the House of Lords with a smaller, democratically elected second chamber.”

Biggest fraud ever.

[Steve Hall @ProfHall1955]

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Aggravated imperialist theft is liberation.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

“it's apartheid" ( @ICAHD , 2010)
"it's apartheid" ( @UNESCWA , 2017)
"it's apartheid" ( @YeshDin , 2020)
"it's apartheid" ( @AdalahCenter , 2020)
"it's apartheid" ( @btselem , 2021)
“it's apartheid" ( @hrw , 2021)
"it's apartheid" ( @fidh_en , 2021)
"it's apartheid" ( @alhaq_org , 2022)
"it's apartheid" ( @Addameer , 2022)
"it's apartheid" ( @AlMezanCenter 2022)
"it's apartheid" ( @cacalqudsuni , 2022)
"it's apartheid" ( @AdvocacyJlac , 2022)
"it's apartheid" ( @miftahpal , 2022)
"it's apartheid" ( @UN , 2022)
"it's apartheid" ( @ICJ_org , 2022)
"it's apartheid" ( @DAWNmenaorg , 2022)
"it's apartheid" ( @amnesty , 2022)
"it's not apartheid" (guy w a 0% chance of winning the Democratic nomination in 2028, @GavinNewsom, 2026)

The sad reality is that apartheid is the least of Palestinians problems right now, as they are being exterminated, ethnically cleansed, tortured & starved by the millions.

[Rooimier 🇿🇦 @r001mier]

@SneKhumaloSA As a contributor, I am excited to see where this goes! Hope to see updates when the ball is rolling.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

I can’t believe Ms Rachel is still asking US lawmakers not to send weapons to kill children, because they’re still sending weapons to kill children.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

I just saw a little girl in Gaza, barely more than a baby, in a blood-soaked shirt and the back of her head split open. She was killed, along with her mother, because Israel is killing Palestinians every day.

The decline in reporting isn’t because the genocide ever stopped. It’s because Israel killed the journalists and their Western colleagues want you to believe there’s a “ceasefire.”