Shahril Hamdan

Recovering politician. Corp and private markets advisory for a living. Podcasting for kicks. NUFC, cricket and music for fun. Semi retired from X.

[Shahril Hamdan @ShahrilHamdan]

10mins to last buka. Personal goal: Every Ramadhan from now on (if Allah permits) ought to be educational in at least one way. This year I think I discovered a lot about how options/decisions are much clearer when we constantly stop to ask ourselves "am I doing this for my ego?"

[Nathan FOIA Tankus @NathanTankus]

This is such an incredible video. What a time to be alive.

[Halal Nation @HalalNation_]

Mohammed Hijab SHOCKS Piers 😯

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

Not a Borat Sketch! The IDF Spokesman points to a random calendar at the Rantisi hospital as "evidence" of a "hostage keepers' list" with "terrorists' names".

But the ONLY thing on that "list" is literally the days of the week (Saturday-Friday).

No tunnels, no weapon stash...🧵

[N🇵🇸 @Messssut_]

This video was the funniest thing I’ve seen this past month ffss

[Abdalhadi Alijla عبد الهادي العجلة @alijla2021]

The last message of MD Hamam before he was killed. Listen to it carefully and remember his name.

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

Israel's Security Minister calls for "eliminating" anyone celebrating "terrorism"!

SAME Minister took part in 2 settler parties that glorified & celebrated terrorism & the burning of a Palestinian infant!

Ben Gvir called them "salt of the earth", hired 1 as his cheif of staff🧵

[Danny Haiphong @GeopoliticsDH]

Watch this. Then you’ll understand why Zionism is barbarism.

[Jake Shields @jakeshieldsajj]

The left is Racheal Corrie she was an American citizen who was purposefully ran over by a bulldozer in Israel

She died a long drawn out painful death after

On the right is Israelis throwing pancake party to mock the American citizen they just brutally murdered

[Dr. Mads Gilbert @DrMadsGilbert]

BREAKING -
This message just in from Shifa:

Shifa hospital completely besieged.
Surrounded by Israeli attack army.
Snipers are shooting through the windows.
Killing.
We are minutes away from death as the world is watching.

[Zara Magnusson @zaramagnusson]

A 🧵 of all the protests in support of Palestine WORLDWIDE! ✊🏻🇵🇸

Please share your own pictures and videos in the comments so I can add them too! 🙏🏻

1. Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪

[Ahmed Alnaouq @AlnaouqA]

Displaced first time in 1948 and now she is displaced again.

This old Palestinian woman embodies the suffering and displacement of the Palestinians throughout the past 75 years.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Another masterful interview on Gaza of Dominique De Villepin, former Prime Minister of France, who IMHO is the best diplomat the West has produced in decades.

Again I believe that his words are so important and so rare among Western leaders today, that I decided to translate it in full (the bold parts are emphasis Villepin himself made when speaking):

"The Israeli government, Benjamin Netanyahu, failed on October 7th and failed doubly. Firstly, in its ability to ensure the protection of the Israeli people by allowing massacres that are an abomination to occur. He bears direct responsibility for what happened. And his second failure is having encouraged a policy of occupation and colonization, which continues at this moment in the West Bank and constitutes another threat to Israel if a second front in the West Bank were to open.

Force does not ensure the security of a people! This is what all Israelis must understand today. And what is important is that since October 7th, the Israeli government's choice has been to escalate the use of force. You know, neither force nor vengeance ensures peace and security. What ensures peace and security is justice! And justice is not being served today.

The rationale of the Israeli government for the bombings happening today is flawed, and the whole international community can see it. The principle is: "we target terrorists, and unfortunately, there are also civilian populations," what is euphemistically called in military language "collateral damage." It must be understood that this collateral damage is not accidental. That is to say, it is perfectly predictable and fully accepted.

[Host: "But once again, the responsibility is not solely Israeli."]

But once more, let's stop asking about responsibility; let's look at the reality of what's happening on the ground! Assigning fault, allow me to tell you, we will leave to historians. What we want is to stop this violence, to stop these massacres. Israel is putting itself in danger, even more today, with this type of warfare and these types of strikes.

We are essentially dealing with a policy of vengeance from the Netanyahu government. Israel has the right to self-defense, but self-defense does not give an indiscriminate right to kill civilian populations. When you target an ambulance, you can always imagine that there was a terrorist in one of the ambulances, or not. But the result is that there are children, women who die. Every child, every woman killed, that's more terrorists. Therefore, Israel's objective, what Israel achieves, is exactly the opposite of what they wish. So, it is essential today to change this logic and return to a strategy that is sound.

Hostages, everything must be done to secure their release. But let's not forget: the Palestinian people are also taken hostage, by Hamas and by Israel. And Hamas, we all know, cares little for the Palestinian people. So telling Hamas: "we will not lift the siege, we will not have a humanitarian truce until the hostages are released," is a dialogue of the deaf.

Benjamin Netanyahu is waging a war to do everything so that the political solution does not come to the table. And this is where the international community, Europe, the United States, must tell Benjamin Netanyahu that this war is not acceptable. It is not acceptable because it leads us directly [to escalation] - because we can see it well, from Hamas we will move to Iran, from Iran we will move to other targets, and we then enter into the logic of a clash of civilizations. When Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu says that on one side there is the people of light and on the other the people of darkness, we can see the kind of spiral we are getting into.

All the wars that have been going on for the past twenty years are wars that begin and do not end. These are frozen conflicts. We know how to start a war; we do not know how to end it. And Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu could control Gaza, it would change nothing. There will continue to be terrorist attacks, Israelis will continue to live in fear. We must get out of this. The second reason why this is yesterday's war is that the war against terrorism has never been won anywhere. Force is not the answer, once again. Vengeance is not the answer. The answer is justice, and that is what all the peoples of the world, all those who today watch what is happening, call for justice.

Today the direction we must follow is to prevent Benjamin Netanyahu from continuing his suicidal logic that will make Israel a besieged state. They can besiege Gaza, but they will be besieged. And do not think that tomorrow we will again have a pacified discourse with Saudi Arabia, with the Arab states that will normalize the situation: no! The wounds of history are awakening.

Israel's interest is to have a responsible state at its side. And this responsible state, let's stop splitting hairs, must clearly be the West Bank, all of the West Bank. It must be Gaza, with access between the two territories, and East Jerusalem. The problem, and this is the whole point of Benjamin Netanyahu's escalation, is that Benjamin Netanyahu does not want it. And the policy of separation must be dignified. That is, it must confer to the Palestinians a state where they can live, a viable state, a true state, which can build itself and which will be all the more at peace...

[Host: "Does that mean that the settlements in the West Bank have to be removed?"]

Well, when we left Algeria, there were a million French who left Algeria. Today there are 500,000 Israelis colonizing the West Bank, and there are 200,000 in East Jerusalem.

[Host: "They must leave the West Bank?"]

Yes. Yes, that is history, that is responsibility, that is the price! I tell you solemnly, it is the price of security for Israel! And all those who today consider that it will never be enough are pursuing the worst policy."

Credit to @caissesdegreve who took these extracts from the original interview which can be found here: https://t.co/hRuGw6CbuA

[Omar Baddar عمر بدّار @OmarBaddar]

This is incredibly insightful about how desperate life in Gaza is right now:

[Shahril Hamdan @ShahrilHamdan]

@Idzerqq1 Thanks..

[Idza Hajar @Idzerqq1]

A very well done written article by @ShahrilHamdan on how this unfolding atrocity, politicisation of it in Malaysia and the wider spectrum of how the west will never be the same again in light of the shedding of western hypocrisy, due to a new generation that relies on social media as opposed to narratives largely controlled by the west via its media. A recommended read

https://t.co/YGNkCBxVgr

[James Foster @JamesEFoster]

Don’t know who she is, please tag her if you know.

But this is so eloquent and hysteria free.

It’s excellent.

She speaks for me. https://t.co/JLI1Ktbcpx

[Ahmed Alnaouq @AlnaouqA]

ISRAEL BOMBED ALSHIFA HOSPITAL!!!!!!!!!!

[James🔻 @GoodVibePolitik]

Wearing a symbol from the Holocaust as you indiscriminately massacre people in a concentration camp

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

A horrifying and blood-chilling compilation of clips and verified quotes from the current Israeli civil and military leadership calling for the levelling of Gaza and/or the extermination of its "human animals." After seeing this, no one should believe any PR spin about "doing all that they can to avoid civilian casualties," "precision bombing" or worse still "the most moral army in the world." A significant proportion of Netanyahu's generals and ministers clearly want to wipe out the people of Gaza, or to ethnically cleanse them and drive them into the Sinai desert. Here is the evidence in their own words, recoded live on television.

[rob delaney @robdelaney]

Watch & share this immediately. Ta-Nehesi Coates is perhaps an even better speaker than he is a writer.