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[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

Pete Hegseth wasn’t removed from the DC National Guard by accident.

A Major General is now warning that his rhetoric and actions are putting him on a path toward war crimes—and he lays out exactly why.

[Motasem A Dalloul @AbujomaaGaza]

I cannot bear this anymore..

The world is celebrating @olympics2024 and giving a blind eye to #Israeli_war_crimes in #Gaza!

[Jake Shields @jakeshieldsajj]

Actual photo of congress

[Adam @AdameMedia]

Netanyahu: two babies in an attic were ki!!ed on October 7.

These babies do NOT exist, as confirmed by Haaretz and *Israeli* police records.

Congress applauded this…

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

BOYCOTT MOVEMENT

[Bassem Youssef @Byoussef]

Said the traitor who wears the uniform of a foreign army . How is that @AIPAC check coming along ? In 2022 they paid you more money than your next highest 7 donors combined. Time for a raise ? Are they paying you by the vote ? Tweet? Legislation? Or do you have to roll over every time to get your treat ? You lying , treasonous piece of shit .

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

.@BenJamalpsc: "People need also to be aware of who Mr Falter is and the organisation he represents"

Well said Ben.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Wow… listen to this:

“For every 1 Jewish Zionist,there are 30 Christian Zionists.
Christian Zionism is predominant form of Zionism”

So much to learn with Katie ♥️

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Don’t be silly Muhammad, the mainstream media doesn’t have time for mass graves as they are busy covering a college campus protest (against the people who dug those graves!)

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Totally normal society and media

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Stephen Walt is undoubtedly Harvard's most renowned professor of international relations.

Here is what he says on Iran's strike, which is an immense departure from what we commonly hear in Western media 🧵
https://t.co/AV5jDPPe3r

First of all, he writes that Iran's general support of Hamas is legitimate under international law: "According to the Geneva Conventions, a population living under 'belligerent occupation' has the right to resist the occupying force. Given that Israel has controlled the West Bank and East Jerusalem since 1967, colonized these lands with more than 700,000 illegal settlers, and killed thousands of Palestinians in the process, there is little doubt that this is a 'belligerent occupation.' Acts of resistance are still subject to the laws of war, of course, and Hamas and other Palestinian groups violate them when they attack Israeli civilians. But resisting the occupation is legitimate, and helping a beleaguered population do so is not necessarily wrong, even if Iran has done this for its own reasons and not from a deep commitment to the Palestinian cause."

Secondly, he qualifies Iran's response to the bombing of its consulate by Israel as reasonable: "Iran’s decision to retaliate after Israel bombed its consulate and killed two Iranian generals is hardly evidence of innate aggressiveness, especially given that Tehran has repeatedly signaled that it had no desire to widen the war. Indeed, its retaliation was conducted in a way that gave Israel considerable warning and seems to have been designed to signal that Tehran did not want to escalate further. As U.S. and Israeli officials typically say when they use force, Iran is simply trying to 'restore deterrence.'"

Lastly, he says that "the responsibility [for what's happening] lies more in Washington than in Tehran." How? Basically because the U.S. "provides Israel with billions of dollars of sophisticated military equipment every year, along with repeated assurances that U.S. support is unconditional".

Walt writes that "states with unchecked power tend to abuse it, and Israel is no exception. Because Israel is vastly stronger than its Palestinian subjects—and more capable than Iran, too, for that matter—it can act with impunity against them, and it typically does. Decades of generous and unconditional U.S. support have enabled Israel to do whatever it wants, which has contributed to its politics as well as its behavior toward the Palestinians becoming increasingly extreme over time."

He also notes that a situation has been allowed to develop whereby only effective armed resistance tends to have an effect on Israel: "Only on those rare occasions when Palestinians were able to mobilize effective resistance—as they did during the First Intifada (1987-1993)—were Israeli leaders such as former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin forced to acknowledge the need to compromise and attempt to make peace. Unfortunately, because Israel was so strong, the Palestinians so weak, and U.S. mediators so one-sided in Israel’s favor, none of Rabin’s successors were willing to offer the Palestinians a deal they could accept."

He concludes that they're an immense irony here as "the individuals and organizations in the United States that have been the most ardent in shielding Israel from criticism and pushing one administration after another to back Israel, no matter what it does, have in fact done enormous damage to the country that they were trying to help."

He describes the current situation where 1) "the two-state solution has failed", 2) Israel is "turn[ing] into a pariah state", 3) "support among younger Americans—including many Jews—is cratering", and 4) Iran is "close to having a nuclear weapon, and thwarted U.S. efforts to isolate it".

Unescapable conclusion: "if the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and its allies were capable of self-reflection, they’d be mortified by what they have helped Israel do to itself." And, I'd add, all the suffering they've unleased on the Palestinians (if they were capable of basic human empathy, that is).

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[Mashhood @smashh55]

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[John Cusack @johncusack]

The Palestinians, facing down the most powerful countries in the world, left virtually alone even by their allies, have suffered immeasurably. But they have won this war. They, their journalists, their doctors, their rescue teams their poets, academics, spokespeople, and even their children have conducted themselves with a courage and dignity that has inspired the rest of the world. The young generation in the western world, particularly the new generation of young Jewish people in the US, have seen through the brainwashing and propaganda and have recognised apartheid and genocide for what it is. The governments of the most powerful countries in the western world have lost their dignity, and any respect they might have had. Yet again. But the millions of protestors on the streets of Europe and the US are the hope for the future of the world.
Palestine will be free.

Statement by Arundhati Roy at the meeting of Working People Against Apartheid and Genocide in Gaza, at the Press Club, New Delhi, on March 7.

[BBC World Service @bbcworldservice]

1.5 million people are currently sheltering in Rafah. @fergalkeane47 tells The Global Story’s @BBCkatyaadler what his camera team found inside the southern Gazan city

https://t.co/SvURMCVEDt

[Censored Men @CensoredMen]

Me: "Hey Siri, describe a win-win scenario."

Siri: "Sure.

An example of a win-win scenario would be the US ending all aid to Israel and withdrawing all troops from the Middle East.

This would save billions of dollars, which could be spent on America's domestic issues, (there's a lot), and would also improve relations between Middle Eastern countries and the US.

Middle Eastern countries like Syria, Yemen, Iraq etc, could focus on rebuilding themselves without worrying about western intervention, and Iran would be far less hostile towards the US because of this."

Me: "Well Siri, that seems great! So why doesn't the US do just that?"

Siri: Good question!

The vast majority of American politicians are bought and paid for by Israel.

Israeli lobbies like AIPAC, and other private billionaire Jewish donors, provide the financial means for politicians to be elected, and in return the politician protects Israel's interests first.

Congress is quite corrupt!"

Me: "So why do Americans perceive Iran as a threat?"

Siri: "Iran is a threat to Israel, not the US.

Iran only hates America for its actions in the Middle East, and its diehard support for Israel.

As soon as this ends, Iran's hatred for the US would decrease significantly.

The Israeli lobby have convinced Americans that Iran is an enemy of the west in hopes of triggering a full-scale war with Iran.

A war with Iran would hold no benefit to the US, but would greatly benefit Israel as it would mean one more threat to the existence of Israel would be wiped out.

This would be another example of American lives, and most likely the lives of other western nations, being discarded for the safety of Israel.

In conclusion, if America wants what's best for its national security and the interests of its people, it should:

- End all aid to Israel

- Withdraw its troops from the Middle East

- Reallocate that money to solve America's own domestic problems"

Me: "Wow Siri, thanks!

I now know that Israel has a chokehold on the US and the sooner that chokehold is removed, the better!"

[Mashhood @smashh55]

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