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🇺🇸🇮🇱AMERICANS SERVING IN FOREIGN NATION [ISRAEL] TO BE TREATED SAME AS U.S SOLDIERS.
U.S Congress is about to extend certain legal and financial protections to 23,000+ American citizens serving in the Israeli military (IDF).
The proposal explicitly frames IDF service as deserving of treatment similar to U.S. military service, stating it would treat Americans serving in the IDF “in the same manner as service in the uniformed services” for specific legal protections.
The measures focus on benefits like job protection and financial relief during service, but remain proposals and have not been fully enacted.
This is the West Bank. An Israeli soldier assaults a Palestinian child near Ramallah. The child looks no older than 6.
If any other country's soldiers did this to a child, Washington would call for military intervention.
But because it is Israel, US taxpayers finance this.
Absurd and inhuman violence is spreading ferociously through the sacred places of the Christian East, profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business, with no regard for people’s lives, which are considered at most collateral damage of self-interest. But no gain can be worth the life of the weakest, children, or families. No cause can justify the shedding of innocent blood.
I was smeared as an anti-Semite and “Holocaust denier” for even broaching this topic.
Turns out I was onto something…..
“Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails and interviews show. But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out.
The approximately 40-page document, which the Israeli authorities code-named “Jericho Wall,” outlined, point by point, exactly the kind of devastating invasion that led to the deaths of about 1,200 people.
The translated document, which was reviewed by The New York Times, did not set a date for the attack, but described a methodical assault designed to overwhelm the fortifications around the Gaza Strip, take over Israeli cities and storm key military bases, including a division headquarters.
Hamas followed the blueprint with shocking precision.”
https://t.co/mL6H1v5jk0
Today I$rael tried to kill me in a targeted airstrike in southern Lebanon as I was reporting on was the targeting of bridges and the forced displacement of 1 million people, an ethnic cleansing operation on a larger scale than the Nakba
I have absolutely no doubt that this was deliberate. Despite claims there were no warnings ahead of the strike and no notifications sent to the Lebanese Army who allowed us to film
As we have seen in Gaza they want to silence journalists who document and report their war crimes
It is the western powers who provide political and military support for I$rael, arming it to the teeth to carry out genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing here in Lebanon. They are not simply complicit, but active participants and should be held accountable for their actions.
But if I$rael thinks today’s strike will silence us and keep us out of the field they are very, very mistaken
New investigation by Earshot and Forensic Architecture: "Israeli soldiers fired nearly a thousand bullets during the massacre of 15 Palestinian aid workers in southern Gaza on March 23, 2025 — with at least eight shots fired at point blank range..." https://t.co/N0wFIiXn6k
Venezuela's Nobel prize winner Maria Corina Machado:
"As soon as we conquer freedom, I will move our Israeli Embassy to Jerusalem."
It’s difficult to find a U.S. war that doesn’t, in some way, benefit Israel
Israel has claimed responsibility for bombing a wedding celebration in Gaza City yesterday that killed 7 people from two families, including a 4-month-old baby. Israel offered no explanation for violating the ceasefire, but acknowledged that “uninvolved civilians” were killed.