ruth62 🍉🇵🇸

Retired environmental scientist; current “difficult woman”

[Masu Zafi 🔥🔥 @masuzafi]

👑🔥Again a Woman a Queen That Stands Up ‼️
Spanish MEP Irene Montero just torched the room in Strasbourg. While EU leaders posture and celebrate, she looked them dead in the eye and asked:

What exactly are we celebrating?

Prevented a genocide in Gaza?
Stopped the illegal US-Israeli aggression on Iran?
Broke relations with Israel?
Ended the occupation of Lebanon?
No. We cannot celebrate any of these things.

Then she dropped the line that’s echoing across the internet:

“Happy Birthday, Mr. Genocide.” aimed straight at Trump.

The men in suits stayed silent or complicit. She spoke.

Thank you,

@IreneMontero.

Thank you, Spain.

This is what moral courage looks like when institutions choose cowardice.

[The Ummah Awakens @Islamic_2_0_2_2]

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[Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷 @JonesHowDareYou]

Wilcox. #auspol #Burning

[stranger @strangerous10]

Amanda Vanstone unloads on Pauline Hanson’s “legacy”
“What’s she achieved? Two fifths of sweet you know what all!”
“bloody nothing!”🔥🤣
“It’s all about her, she doesn’t give a rats about you.”💥💯

[Jennifer Gai Lambie @JenLambie @JenGLambie]

The wonderful Louise Adler

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

Name a better take than this on the Iran war, I’ll wait.

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

Nothing’s changed…

[The Chaser @chaser]

Today, Pauline Hanson complained about people who have difficulty speaking English. Luckily, her speech provided the perfect example for anyone wanting to learn the language.

[Costin Heaps 🌈 💉x 5 @DianneCostin]

Willcox strikes again.
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[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

A very dangerous new nightmare we are living in Gaza City, and no one in the world is paying attention to it.

Days ago, the Israeli army installed huge military cranes, each about 30 meters tall, on the eastern areas it controls. These cranes are equipped with machine guns and cameras, and they fire randomly and almost continuously at tents, streets, and exposed neighborhoods.

Gaza City is extremely narrow, only 10 kilometers wide. A single crane at that height is enough to expose the entire city from east to west. Every street, every square, every tent, every house has become completely exposed. There is no place to hide, and not a single moment of safety.

In just the past two days, three people were killed by fire from these cranes. One of them was sitting quietly with his father in a small café, trying to breathe for a few minutes. Hours later, a 5year old girl was killed while playing near her home.

These cranes have turned the entire city into an open field. The latest military technologies are directed at civilians. We have become an open testing ground for their new weapons. The horror is not just in the sound… it is the constant feeling of being an exposed target at all times, where even children cannot run in the street without fear.

[💧Michael West @MichaelWestBiz]

Epic response by Cathy Wilcox to Murdoch grubs after their Israel lobby smear campaign

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Yup

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

‘Besides her extensive personal experience dealing with far-right antisemitism — including being doxxed in neo-Nazi chat groups — Silverstein emphasised in her evidence that “the majority of the antisemitism [she has] experienced has come from Jewish Zionists”.
“While I have a PhD in Jewish history, it has repeatedly been made clear to me that I will never be employed in a Jewish Studies department in Australia because I and my work are anti-Zionist,” Silverstein’s evidence stated. “I have also been targeted on social media by Jewish people who discuss me as being a ‘traitor to Jews’, as ‘self-hating’, and so on.”
Examples of such targeting featured in Silverstein’s report include a Melbourne rabbi accusing her of “adopting a narrative of those who hate us”; a prominent Melbourne lawyer describing her on social media as “a token self-hating Jew”; a pro-Zionist Instagram account depicting her and other anti-Zionist Jews as rats and comparing them to Nazi collaborators; and abusive emails labelling her “kapo shit” and wondering why her family did not die in the Holocaust.
While many of the witnesses before the Commission have routinely conflated antisemitism with support for Palestinians and opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Silverstein noted in her report that, “I have never experienced antisemitism from proponents of the [pro-Palestine] movement throughout the course of my extensive, decades-long, professional and personal involvement in the Palestine solidarity movement and in researching histories of Palestinians in Australia”.’

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[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

GAME OF THRONES STAR LIAM CUNNINGHAM DROPS TRUTH BOMB:

“Doing business with Israel is a PERMISSION SLIP for GENOCIDE!”

“There is NO middle ground. You either stand with Palestine… or you stand with Genocide... SANCTION ISRAEL NOW!” @liamcunningham1

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

The israelis are the most awful people I have ever met in my life, says Gregory Terry from @gbsumudflotilla: relentlessly vindictive & cruel

[Dr. Ezzideen @ezzingaza]

Yesterday, a bakery in Gaza City announced that it needed four workers.

Within twenty-four hours, the bakery announced that registration had closed.
More than 4,500 people had applied.

Not bakers. Not craftsmen.
Not men seeking a profession.
Only people seeking permission to survive one more month.

Four thousand five hundred souls standing before an oven as though it were the gate to life itself.

This is what remains after a war has not merely destroyed a city, but rearranged the meaning of human existence.

For what is work, after all? It is not money alone.
Work is dignity.
It is a man returning home with tired hands and an unbroken spirit.

It is the silent proof that tomorrow exists.
And in Gaza, tomorrow has become uncertain.

Since the war began, the young have lost everything at once.

Their work. Their homes. Their carefully assembled futures.

An entire generation suspended between life and ruin.

Sometimes I sit with my friends. Engineers. Lawyers. Accountants.

Men and women who spent years building themselves patiently, as one builds a cathedral stone by stone.

They studied while dreaming quietly of ordinary things: A home. A family. A desk. A future.

How tragic that the ordinary should become impossible.

Now they sit without work.
And poverty, terrible as it is, is not the cruelest wound.

No.

The cruelest wound is to awaken each morning and feel yourself becoming a burden in the house that once celebrated your achievements.

To have nowhere to go. Nothing to build. Nothing to wait for except another day identical to the last.

War does not merely destroy buildings. That is the least of its crimes.
War destroys the sacred bond between a human being and their future.

It leaves people alive while quietly stealing the ability to imagine life ahead.

And perhaps the most painful truth of all is this: Many are no longer asking whether they will leave Gaza.

That decision has already been made, silently, somewhere deep within them.

What keeps them here is no longer hope. Nor belonging. Nor love for the place that raised them.

Only closed crossings. Only gates. Nothing more.

And one day, if those gates open, the world may witness something more terrible than people fleeing bombs.

It may witness an entire people leaving willingly. Quietly. Without shouting.

Without looking back.

Not because they ceased loving their homeland…But because they finally understood that survival alone is not enough to call something a life.

#WoundedGaza

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

Brilliant. Raw hypocrisy.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

A Global Sumud Flotilla participant just testified from the depths of an Israeli detention center

"I was illegally kidnapped by Israel - like 425 other people."

"Handcuffs on my hands and feet. Dragged me. When I couldn't walk, they dragged me on the ground."

"They hit us. Hurt all of us a lot. Handcuffs so tight my hands lost feeling."

"They laughed all the time. Super sadistic."

"Took off my shirt. Took pictures. Mistreated us all night long."

Then she delivered her message to the world:

"Shame on you. Shame on all of you. Shame on every government that keeps trading with Israel. My government is complicit. Europe is complicit. The whole world is complicit."

[Abier @abierkhatib]

“As a mother and a doctor and an Irish citizen, this barbaric cruel regime must be disbanded”

Margaret Connolly