Andrew Lucas

I go where I’m called -with a keen sense of injustice

[Breaking the Silence @BtSIsrael]

"Never before have such serious accusations been leveled against an Israeli government and the entire defense establishment, certainly not by someone who once held ultimate responsibility for Israel's security. But after a long and painful period of restraint, there is no choice but to say these things plainly and in full"

An op-ed by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
https://t.co/GUvZXOSZUS

[Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין @MairavZ]

Bibi is not special. People forget, but during Menachem Begins' rule as PM from 1977-1983, Israel bombed nuclear reactor in lraq, started a bloody war in Lebanon (deadliest attack on US soldiers overseas since WWII and Sabra and Shatila massacre) and annexed the Golan Heights.

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

Haaretz ran a major investigation on the mental health toll of the war inside Israel. The reporters talked to the country's top trauma and psychiatry figures and pulled the official numbers. The picture is a national crisis the state is choosing not to look at. The data:

1) Defense Ministry rehabilitation cases went from 62,000 before the war to 87,000. Psychological cases went from 11,000 to 31,000. The division now expects to cross 100,000 treated within a year.

2) Civilian psychological disability recognition by National Insurance went from 6,412 before October 7 to over 69,000. More than tenfold in under three years.

3) Population PTSD symptoms hit 30% a month after October 7. Two years later still 19.7%. The global lifetime rate is 3.9%.

4) Road deaths climbed from 361 in 2023 to 459 last year. Researchers link post-traumatic symptoms to worse driving.

5) Domestic violence reports up 65% in the first half-year. Eight times the risk of physical or sexual violence when both partners serve reserves.

6) Clinical insomnia went from 5% to 28%. One in four Israelis now uses alcohol, cannabis, or sedatives at elevated risk. Among severe PTSD cases it is 54%.

7) Rehabilitation division suicides went from 6 in 2024 to 13 last year. Experts predict a further 20 to 30% rise once the fighting stops.

8) The state is short roughly 270 psychiatrists and 500 psychologists. Each rehabilitation caseworker carries about 770 patients. Psychiatrists are emigrating in batches.

Now imagine Gaza. No rehabilitation division. No budget. No comparable study because there is barely an institution left to run one. The exposure is total, and the buffer is zero. If this is what trauma looks like with a state behind you, picture it with nothing left standing.

[European Democrats @democrats_eu]

Yesterday’s protest in Tirana has outgrown one resort, one investor, one Trump-linked name. It has become a people’s movement for transparency, accountability and dignity. Albanians are saying something Europe must hear: public land is not a toy for billionaires, democracy is not a concierge service for the ultra-rich, and no country’s future can be bought with a cheque. This is a European demand: clean power, fair rules, citizens first.

[מסתכלים לכיבוש בעיניים @Mistaclim]

היום בא-טוואייל.
יש ילדים שהולכים לחוג מדע, וכאלה שמעדיפים לצייר, יש ילדים שמשחקים כדורגל בשכונה וכאלה שמעדיפים לנגן. אבל הילדים של המתנחלים פולשים לבתים הפרטיים של התושבים, וכשהם נדרשים לצאת הם מאיימיים לשחוט את הפלסטינים.

[Andrew Lucas @robbonscott]

@RepJoshG Look at your life , and admit your mistakes bro , and grow from it

[Bek Lover @BekLoverNYC]

Albanian continue to remove all perceived obstacles to their natural resources

[Turkish Archives @TurkishArc]

His kids will spend this Father’s Day without him.

John Chapman, British special forces veteran, left combat behind to feed starving children in Gaza.

An IDF soldiers killed him anyway.

Remember his name.

[Tariq Kenney-Shawa @tksshawa]

No alternative to Palestinians in Gaza being locked away in a concentration camp, she means. Of course, there are several plans for Gaza’s future that are designed by and for Palestinians, but those don’t even register to her. A future can only be imposed on Gaza.

[Jane of the North @JaneotN]

If you look like a Nazi, talk like a Nazi, and act like a Nazi, you're going to get called a Nazi.

[OrangeMaxxing FreddyG @OrangeFreddyG]

Israel is like “we are ethnic cleansing you to destroy the resistance group that formed to keep us from ethnic cleansing you.”

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Well said @RoKhanna.

Is @elonmusk ready to answer to a Democratic-controlled House of Representatives next January?

[Steve Hanke @steve_hanke]

An estimated 1 MILLION Albanians protest in Tirana. Protesters demand an END to Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner's Sazan Island luxury resort project and PM Rama's gov't corruption.

THE FLAMINGO REVOLUTION HAS LEGS.

[Andrew Lucas @robbonscott]

@veilofignoranc @mehdirhasan You giant dork

[Andrew Lucas @robbonscott]

@mehdirhasan Whose this fucking weirdo

[Breaking the Silence @BtSIsrael]

You shouldn't be composed. Israeli detention facilities have become torture camps for Palestinians. More than 100 Palestinians have died in custody since October 2023. Do you have anything meaningful to say about that?
https://t.co/2gd4kft87l

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

Hey America,
Hundreds of thousands of Albanians have been in the streets for 21 FUCKING DAYS over Jared Kushner’s plan to turn an island into a billionaire resort.

You’re watching your country get hijacked in real time. Maybe get off the fucking couch?

[Andrew Lucas @robbonscott]

@haaretzcom Why the fuck did they do this ?

[Turkish Archives @TurkishArc]

This Father’s Day, remember Jacob Flickinger, an American father killed by an IDF strike while cooking meals for starving families in Gaza.

He never made it home to his son. Justice for Jacob.

[Adam Mockler @adammocklerr]

This is what true leadership looks like.