Diaa Bekheet

Journalist, Photographer, Painter & Former VOANEWS Editor. Views Are my Own. Retweets Are Not Endorsement.

[Diaa Bekheet @voaJazz]

"One cannot give one's conscience to any other person or to any institution." ــ #Arthur_Miller #playwright #literature #play The Crucible

[Karen Attiah @KarenAttiah]

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.

His people took issue with my piece, but were respectful.

Now he is tweeting in support of me.

This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.

[Karen Attiah @KarenAttiah]

And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section.

Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Shahed Ghoreishi says Mark Levin’s stepson got him fired from the State Department last month because he didn’t repeat Israeli talking points.

(0:00) What Was Ghoreishi’s Job at the State Department?
(7:26) How Does a Press Officer Know What the Official US Position Is?
(12:03) Why Was Ghoreishi Fired?
(16:17) Trump’s Amazing Anti-War Speech in Saudi Arabia
(21:49) Does the State Department Have Any Position That Differs From Israel’s?
(30:09) Mike Johnson’s Visit to “Judea and Samaria”
(33:42) Who Is David Milstein?
(48:50) Why Does Milstein Have So Much Power Over the State Department?
(53:46) Is Mark Levin Involved at All?
(54:58) Is Anyone at the State Department Truly America First?
(55:46) The Damage Mike Huckabee Has Done to American Foreign Policy
(1:01:17) What Is the Real Plan for Gaza and the West Bank?
(1:06:04) How Many Casualties Have There Been in Gaza?
(1:07:01) Where Are All the Gaza Refugees Going to Go?
(1:11:16) Did They Explain to Ghoreishi Why He Was Fired?

Includes paid partnerships.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

If these were Israeli children, this one atrocity would lead every news bulletin, be splashed on every news front page.

Western leaders would denounce the evil depravity of Hamas.

But these are Palestinian kids, murdered by Israel. So nothing.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Israel murdered Anas al-Sharif, and his fellow Palestinian journalists, to silence witnesses to its genocide.

Gaza's journalists - the bravest journalists who ever lived - never stopped speaking out.

The least we can do is to speak louder than ever before.

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

Please see and post this THREAD

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Drop Site MENA editor Sharif Abdel Kouddous calls out Reuters’ coverage of the killing of their colleague Anas Al-Sharif — noting that Anas was part of the Reuters team that won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, with his Gaza war photograph among the key submissions.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Six babies were butchered to death today in an Israeli bombing of the Irheem family home in Gaza City — hours after Axios reported that Trump and Netanyahu agreed in a phone call to keep military pressure on Hamas with continued strikes.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Two children were killed after Israeli warplanes bombed the tents of displaced families in the Bir 19 area of Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis. Their bodies were recovered by emergency crews.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

NEW: Israeli settlers attacked the village of Abu Falah, east of Ramallah, and set fire to a local resident’s vehicle.

UN OCHA oPt reported about 100,000 Palestinians across 20 villages in the Ramallah governorate had their access to water disrupted by Israeli settler attacks on vital water infrastructure last week.

Between July 15 and 21, OCHA documented at least 27 Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians that resulted in casualties, property damage, or both. These attacks led to the displacement of two households comprising 10 people, including five children, and the injury of seven Palestinians, including one child – six by Israeli settlers and one by Israeli forces. In addition, settlers vandalized more than 560 olive, almond, avocado, fig, and grape trees and saplings.

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws]

⚡️🇺🇸🇨🇦BREAKING: U.S President Trump threatens Canada:

“Wow! Canada has just announced that it is backing statehood for Palestine. That will make it very hard for us to make a Trade Deal with them. Oh' Canada!!!”

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⚠️ An entire family was killed two hours ago in their tent in Deir al-Balah: Mohammad Ayyash, his wife, and their two children.

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨BREAKING: Shocking testimony from American volunteer doctor in Gaza :
Dr. Tom Adamkiewicz called claims of “no famine” a blatant lie, urging Steve Witkoff to visit Gaza and see how famine is killing not just children, but young adults too.

[TCN @TCNetwork]

Gaza Is Being Ethnically Cleansed

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

Israel is acting systematically and deliberately to destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip.

The “Our Genocide” report is based on documentation and research by Palestinians and Jewish-Israelis working together out of a shared moral commitment to human rights.

Genocide is the violent and deliberate destruction of a distinct group in whole or in part, or an attempt to destroy it, whether physically, socially or economically. It does not require the mass killing of all members of the group, but rather refers to any act committed as part of an intention to destroy the society and render its continued existence impossible.

Israel is inflicting a system of total destruction in Gaza:

– Mass killing of civilians
– Forced displacement of millions
– Destruction of homes and infrastructure
– Starvation as a weapon
– Bombing of hospitals and clinics
– Erasure of schools, universities, and cultural institutions
– Collapse of every civil system that sustains life

This is not “collateral damage.” It is the deliberate dismantling of a society.

Genocide is not only about what is done – it is about why it is done.
In Gaza, destruction is not limited to military targets, it is directed at Palestinian life itself. Civilians are killed because they are Palestinians. Children are starved because they are Palestinian. Homes are flattened not to win a battle, but to ensure that there is no life to return to.

The genocide in Gaza cannot be understood in isolation. It builds on decades of occupation, apartheid, and the systematic dehumanization of Palestinians. Israel’s regime of Jewish supremacy laid the ideological and political groundwork for this moment, shifting from domination to erasure.

The horrific Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023, accelerated a process already in motion and served as a catalytic moment in which the Israeli regime shifted from a system of violent control to overt genocide. The trauma suffered by Israeli society and fear it generated were instrumentalized by Israel’s extremist, far-right government to advance policies that key actors had long sought to implement. It provided the justification for every action undertaken by Israel in Gaza since. The language of vengeance and elimination became common in Israeli discourse, as explicitly declared by senior political and military officials.

The actions of the Israeli military in Gaza were not a deviation, but the direct and almost verbatim execution of those threats.

The same regime, commanders and army are also intensifying violence in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and within Israel. Across all of these areas, Palestinians face mounting violence, forced displacement and collective punishment. While the genocide is committed in Gaza, the appropriate trigger could cause it to spread rapidly to other areas controlled by Israel.

There is no mechanism in place to prevent Israel from harming Palestinians, who have been left with no protection.

This is genocide and it is happening now, in real time and in full view of the entire world. Genocide must be named, and everything must be done in order to stop it. There can be no justification or explanation for genocide.

Read the full report, “Our Genocide” >>
https://t.co/s6yp30kgmr

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

10-year old Nour has starved to death in Gaza today.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Sen. Van Hollen reacted to Sen. Lindsey Graham’s statement endorsing World War II type annihilation in Gaza:

“We should make very clear that it’s unacceptable to use U.S. weapons to target or indiscriminately fire on civilians and civilian infrastructure.”

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

German police in Berlin violently assaulting pro-Palestinian demonstrators

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

#Trevorphillips: "The point I'm really just making is, isn't it a bit unfair to say this is the Israelis as a whole"

Bob Geldof: "Stop it Trevor.. if Israelis want to protest.. stuff your cars full of food & drive through that border & let your own army stop you.. shame on you"

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

This is my friend Anas Arafat.

On July 14, his father, mother, two siblings, their wives, and their children were all killed in an Israeli airstrike—13 family members in total.
Remember the woman whose video I shared here moving her hand? It’s that air strike. She died a few hours later.

Twelve of their bodies are still buried beneath the rubble.

Today, for the first time since the attack, Anas returned to the ruins of his home, trying to dig them out with his own hands—just so he can give them a proper burial.

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