Sōnny Binar-Mourad

Teacher/Learner

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Summary of Gaza ceasefire talks

Hamas: We want a ceasefire that actually ends the war

🇮🇱: We want to continue the war but call it a ceasefire

🇺🇸: We want to look like we’re working for a ceasefire while letting Israel do whatever it wants

🌏: We just want the slaughter to end

[Sophie McNeill @Sophiemcneill]

It’s almost as if the Biden Admin has to actually take action & provide deterrence to Israel deliberately starving civilians, hey @PowerUSAID?

This genocide is happening on your watch, Sam. If you can’t get urgent aid into #Gaza by now, what is the point of all your life’s work?

[Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention @LemkinInstitute]

The Lemkin Institute has had it with the cynical lies and propaganda from Israel and the USA. One can have different views about the definition of genocide, but one may not use definitional disputes to deny genocide. If a genocide may be occurring, every nation is compelled by customary law to try to stop it.

Let us be clear: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The US is complicit in genocide. These are not political statements. They are statements that are made from knowledge and experience. Nevertheless, you do not need a PhD , a law degree, or X-ray vision to see the genocidal dimensions of Israel’s carnage in Gaza. It is clear in the behavior of the state and its military, on full display in yesterday’s horrific bombardment of a Rafah camp.

But even if there were legitimate doubts about Israel’s genocide, there is no doubt that Israel is committing atrocity crimes of the most barbaric kind. Israel must be stopped. Israel must be stopped now.

We are disgusted by Western leaders, especially in the USA, Germany, and the UK. They have demonstrated not only that they don’t care one bit about genocide prevention and human rights, but also that they are willing to allow an ally to commit atrocity crimes while they offer material and diplomatic support. It is reprehensible and the individuals involved in this gaslighting campaign should be deeply ashamed. They should also be put on trial.

Humanity has a choice: Either we decide that our children can all be killed whenever a superior force alleges that “terrorists” are among us, or we decide that under no circumstances will we allow these superior forces to lay waste to our world any longer.

We each must choose and act accordingly. The watershed moment is now.

[David Moscrop @David_Moscrop]

We simply cannot just do stenography with headlines on this one. A lot of people won't read past the headline.

Put it up front that people are calling his explanation bogus.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

You should be absolutely terrified by a society where leading publications start arguing that killing children is legal. If anything is a code red alarm, this is it.

[Jared Yates Sexton @JYSexton]

This is an absolutely incredible, must-watch, all-timer of a clip.

The Secretary of State admits social media has made it almost impossible to hide atrocities and a sitting senator agrees by saying outloud that was a factor in leveraging the power of the state against TikTok.

[Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention @LemkinInstitute]

The @LemkinInstitute is horrified by the dire situation transpiring in the #WestBank. During what has already been a devastating six months of genocide in #Gaza, the Israeli government has used this opportunity to expand and intensify expulsions and forced displacements of Palestinians throughout the West Bank. We believe this process is tantamount to a slow, structural genocide of the Palestinian people and is deeply imbricated with the actions of @Israel's government (@IsraeliPM @netanyahu) and the @IDF in Gaza. We call on the international community (@UN, @CIJ_ICJ, @IntlCrimCourt, @POTUS, @RishiSunak, @EmmanuelMacron, @JustinTrudeau, @melaniejoly, @Europarl_EN, @vonderleyen, @Bundeskanzler) to immediately condemn Israeli actions in the West Bank, including the largest seizure of Palestinian land since the Oslo Agreement in 1993. Genocide has no excuse or justification. The Palestinian people, community, and culture must be protected at all costs.

Read the full AGA here: https://t.co/aU5vd7PS0V

[Sōnny Binar-Mourad @sbinar4]

@simonmontefiore You lose credibility each time you post something that is so unbalanced, poorly written and clearly Islamophobic. The article ends up conflating citizens who are protesting with mainstream journalists. Just bizarre lack of logic.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

No, NYT, starvation isn't stalking Gaza's children, like some weird, abstract predator. Israel is choosing to starve Gaza's children by blocking aid.

Starvation isn't committing genocide. Israel is.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

According to reports on the ground, Israel is now also bombing Rafah. This isn't self-defense. This is indefensible. Anyone committed to to justice and humanity must demand a ceasefire and immediate humanitarian aid to Gaza.
#CeasefireNOW

[Rawaa Augé روعة أوجيه @Rawaak]

Good morning world..

[Fiza Pirani @fizapirani]

Tonight, Atlanta press & allies gathered to honor the 60+ journalists killed since Oct. 7. We cried, made new friends, reunited with old ones. I heard people say they didn’t know they needed this. Same. Dear journalists in Gaza, we hear you. And we won’t let the world forget.

[Karen Attiah @KarenAttiah]

The racism is loud

[Saul Williams @SaulWilliams]

It really is crazy to think of how world leaders showed up after 8 journalists were killed at Charlie Hebdo & now over 90 journalist have been targeted and murdered by the US/Israeli gov. and y’all are like Shut up and get with the pogrom!

[Annalena Baerbock @UN_PGA]

Make peace, for all.

In the name of humanity, I ask you all once again, stop this violence, now.

Remarks to the #UNGA 10th Emergency Special Session (resumed) - https://t.co/E0ADOOy6sB

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Six leaders of different aid groups -- who have worked in every recent major war zone and humanitarian crisis -- say there is nothing that compares to Gaza in terms of the sheer level of civilian suffering and destruction to civil society.

Please read:

https://t.co/pqBQjLg1zb

[Sōnny Binar-Mourad @sbinar4]

He evaded accountability for war crimes he should have been tried for in international criminal court. This piece does a good job reflecting that.

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies

More: https://t.co/6kaj57PyIQ

https://t.co/6kaj57PyIQ

[Sōnny Binar-Mourad @sbinar4]

Genocidal intent. Again and again, they shout it. What is the "international community" waiting for?

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

Good summary of main statements from Israeli officials on Gaza

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

The head of the aid organization that runs the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza, now under sustained assault by Israeli forces, wrote a letter to Pres. Biden:

"You have destroyed the international rules of the game, insulted the authority of the UN, torn apart the sense of justice, and hurt human values, and tarnished the face of human civilization."

https://t.co/3Q8taAos8m

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

I'm speechless.

Biden folks feared that a pause in the fighting would enable more journalists to get into Gaza and cover the carnage...

"And there was some concern in the administration about an unintended consequence of the pause: that it would allow journalists broader access to Gaza and the opportunity to further illuminate the devastation there and turn public opinion on Israel."

https://t.co/rFrV6OoXGZ