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Ralph Nader wrote back in early March that the real Gaza death count is probably more like 200,000. There's no good reason to discount this. It's certainly more likely than the number just continuing to sit around thirty thousand for no reason. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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Stop the Worsening UNDERCOUNT of Palestinian Casualties in Gaza By Ralph Nader

Iran is definitely Israel's mightiest military threat, but the truth of that matter is Israel doesn't have a viable way to deal with Hizbullah militarily. Hizbullah can escalate from 0-100 in two minutes... thousands of rockets, missiles, and drones will make their way to Israel within minutes. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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Iran is definitely Israel's mightiest military threat, but the truth of that matter is Israel doesn't have a viable way to deal with Hizbullah militarily.

In the past 48 hours or so, Hizbullah inflicted 20-30 casualties on Israel's northern front - all wounded, but some in critical condition.

Hizbullah has perfect visibility into northern Israel. It is equipped to precisely hit targets deep into Israel's north, all along the Israel-Lebanon border.

Hizbullah has hundreds of thousands of precise missiles, and it has excellent intelligence on Israeli positions and infrastructure. It has fighters who undergo some of the best military training available, and it has 30 years of guerilla warfare experience fighting against all relevant units of the IDF - including the absolute best.

Hizbullah has advanced weaponry for intercepting sea and air targets, and one of the biggest anti-tank arsenals in the world.

What complicates things much further is the fact that Hizbullah can escalate from 0-100 in two minutes. If the right order is given, thousands of rockets, missiles, and drones will make their way to Israel within minutes.

It doesn't need to mobilize and get reserves ready. it is war-ready at every minute. The IDF needs an extended period of time to prepare a major offensive: Hizbullah can do it in the time it takes you to make coffee.

And how will Israel prepare an offensive when Hizbulla tracks every movement many kilometers into Israel? How will the IDF get tens of thousands of soldiers to the northern border under an extremely heavy storm of precise missile and drone attacks, and shelling? Israel cannot do a wide reserve mobilization quietly. Once it even begins to prepare to attack Lebanon, Hizbullah will launch its own attack, wreaking havoc on civilian life and infrastructure, and making the mobilization effort a huge and bloody challenge.

Israel's air force is very powerful, but it doesn't win wars anymore. It didn't win the 2006 war with Hizbullah, and it will not be able to paralyze Hizbullah today. And, with heavy targeting of air bases expected as part of any major conflict, and with new air defense systems and strategies at play, Israel cannot rely on its air force to give it time to prepare a ground offensive.

Traditionally Israel played the role of the neighborhood bully that no one can stop. But now, facing tough competition for the first time in two generations, it is fast losing much of its invincibility aura. The stupid and inhumane Gaza campaign really only weakened Israel militarily, leaving it wounded, tired, and with almost zero room for maneuver of any kind.

Israel is pushed into a corner. Wisely, Iran did not make it quite existential as yet. It is playing a long game, acting like it knows it has the upper hand, but also knowing its position, relative to Israel's, is always getting more advantageous for Iran.
- Israel is paying now for the mistake it made by invading Lebanon and trying to colonize it in 1982. That vain attempt created Hizbullah. What the Gaza genocide will birth into existence, we can only guess.

What empire does is make you so arrogant that you think you can say anything and squash anyone that opposes you. It becomes a game to see what you can say that's so outrageous but so authoritative that you can get away with it. And so, the British are the most hypocritical country in modern times. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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It becomes a game to see what you can say that's so outrageous but so authoritative that you can get away with it.

It's also an assertion of dominance.

What empire does is make you so arrogant that you think you can say anything and squash anyone that opposes you. It becomes a game to see what you can say that's so outrageous but so authoritative that you can get away with it. And so, the British are the most hypocritical country in modern times. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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🇺🇸JEFFREY SACHS:

[Commenting on remarks by UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron regarding the Iranian response to the Israeli attack on the Iran's Consulate in Damascus.]

"I've learned something over the years—I know David Cameron personally, and I know a lot of British leaders.

For a long time, I just loved listening to them because they speak English so beautifully.

But what they say is so absurd, so stupid, yet it's so beautiful that it really had me fooled for many decades.

The British are the worst at this; they're even worse than the Americans because they had a longer imperial reign.

What empire does is make you so arrogant that you think you can say anything and squash anyone that opposes you.

It becomes a game to see what you can say that's so outrageous but so authoritative that you can get away with it.

And so, the British are the most hypocritical country in modern times.

They're not the most powerful—they used to be the most powerful—but they're the most hypocritical because they had the most violent, militaristic empire in the modern world.

They left behind all of these problems.

Now, they want to be a sidekick of the United States, cheerleading on but with their good old imperial ideas.

It's a kind of absurdity at this point, but it's a lot of nerve because—why are we in such a crisis in the Middle East?

Because Britain wrecked the Middle East after World War I."

The US, GB and France, in fact, refused to confirm that the basic principles of international law are valid for and apply equally to all states. The parade of hypocrisy and 'double standards' that is unfolding in the Security Council today is so gross that even being an onlooker feels embarrassing. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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🇷🇺VASILY NEBENZYA:

"What was it that we heard from Western delegations? That everything was not 'so obvious' to them and that it was still necessary to weigh up whether such a signal from the Council would help to stabilize the situation in the region.

The United States, Great Britain and France, in fact, refused to confirm that the basic principles of international law on the inviolability of diplomatic and consular facilities, enshrined in the relevant Vienna Conventions, are valid for and apply equally to all states.

You see the result.

You are aware that an attack on a diplomatic mission is a casus belli under international law.

And if Western missions were under attack, you would not hesitate to retaliate and then you would be proving your case in this chamber.

Because for you everything that concerns Western missions and Western citizens is sacred and must be protected.

But when it comes to other states, their citizens and their rights, including the right to self-defense, then 'it’s different', that’s what you say. And you use your favorite arguments about 'a lack of information', invoke legal casuistry, etc.

The parade of hypocrisy and 'double standards' that is unfolding in the Security Council today is so gross that even being an onlooker feels embarrassing.

Russia has repeatedly warned that failure to resolve the numerous crises in the Middle East, primarily in the area of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which are often fueled by irresponsible unilateral provocative actions, will trigger an increase of tension in the region.

We have repeatedly said that no country in the Middle East and North Africa should become an arena for regional and international confrontation or for settling political scores.

What happened on the night of April 14 did not happen in a vacuum.

Iran's steps were a response to the UN Security Council's shameful inaction on Israel's blatant attack on Damascus (not the first one, for that matter). Syria is being constantly bombarded by Israel.

Many of you did not have the courage to point out directly that the current outbreak of escalation in the Middle East is unfolding against the backdrop of West Jerusalem’s operation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, which has been going on for more than six months on an unprecedented scale, despite the unequivocal demand of UN Security Council resolution 2728 for an immediate ceasefire.

We consider such 'silencing' of the root causes of the current crisis unacceptable, all the more so against the background of the situation around Iran, which is being escalated by our American and other colleagues.

And Israel's failure to fulfill the requirements of the UNSC resolution (which I mentioned) is an obvious disrespect for the Council – for all of you sitting in the chairs of member states – and a complete disregard for the decisions of the Security Council.

No one should be able to get away with non-compliance with UNSC decisions. This is fraught with sanctions against the violators.

We all remember the dangerous escalation in January 2020, when the region was almost on the verge of conflict after the illicit killing of Qassem Suleimani and a number of Iraqi officials committed by the United States on the territory of Iraq.

Washington failed to draw the right conclusions.

And now its allies, too, commit irresponsible actions that undermine the stability, security and sovereignty of Iran's neighbors in the region."

Iran’s attack, the diversity of locations it targeted, and weapons it used, forced Israel to uncover the majority of anti-missile technologies the US and it have across the region. The Iranians did not use any weapons Israel didn’t know it had, it just used a lot of them. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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On Iran’s strike:

At Stanford, I attended a masterclass on military strategy led by a person with decades of experience, including serving at the highest levels in the military and government.

One lesson he thought that I always remember was this:

He asked us:

“Say the US decided to attack Iraq with a new stealth jet it hadn’t used before that evaded all radars? The attack was a success. Was it strategic?”

Many in the class raised their hands to say “yes, it achieved its goal”. But the professor said: “It may not have been”.

Why?

“Because now your adversaries know your capabilities and it’s a matter of time before they find ways around them. If this attack could be done with conventional weapons, it’s better to keep your top weapons until you need them. Using them creates a disadvantage.”

My analysis is that the scale of Iran’s attack, the diversity of locations it targeted, and weapons it used, forced Israel to uncover the majority of anti-missile technologies the US and it have across the region.

The Iranians did not use any weapons Israel didn’t know it had, it just used a lot of them. But the Iranians likely now have almost a full map of what Israel’s missile defence system looks like, as well as where in Jordan and the Gulf the US has installations. It also knows how long it takes to prepare them, how Israeli society responds…etc

This is a huge strategic cost to Israel, while Arab regimes now are being blasted by their peoples, particularly the Jordanian monarchy, for not doing anything to protect Gazans but then going all out to protect Israel.

Crucially, Iran can now reverse engineer all the intel gathered from this attack to make a much more deadly one credible. While the US and Israel will have to re-design away from their current model which has been compromised. Its success in stopping this choreographed attack is thus still very costly.

Moreover, with the threat of a regional war that neither the US nor the Arab regimes want feeling nearer, it’s likely their pressure on Israel to back down will increase, making a ceasefire more feasible.

Anyone assuming this is just theatrics is missing the context of how militaries assess strategy versus tactics. Theatre is an important factor, but gathering intelligence of the “enemy’s” posture is more valuable, especially if one believes they’re in a long war of attrition.

Netanyahu and the Israel government prefer a quick hot and urgent war where they can pull in America. The Iranians prefer a longer war of attrition that bleeds Israel of its deterrence capabilities and makes it an ally for Arabs and the US that’s too costly to have.

Lastly, if you are a person who hates war, if you want peace, the best and only way to get there in the region is to support the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and dignity.

There is no sustainable peace possible as long as Palestinians live under an oppressive system of apartheid.

The destruction of Gaza appears to be a moment in history where humanity is collectively mulling over whether it wants to keep buying into the lies and propaganda and tacitly consenting to the psychopathic murderousness of the powerful, or let the light of truth shine in. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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The main reason I’ve focused so hard on Gaza these last six months isn’t so much because of how evil and horrific Israel’s mass atrocity is in and of itself, but because it’s so intimately intertwined with all our world’s other problems, and with the future of the human species.

In a very real way, the destruction of Gaza appears to be a moment in history where humanity is collectively mulling over whether it wants to keep behaving in a crazy, self-destructive way and continue along its trajectory into dystopia and toward self-inflicted extinction, or abandon this madness and push for something better. Whether it wants to keep buying into the lies and propaganda and tacitly consenting to the psychopathic murderousness of the powerful, or let the light of truth shine in.

A live-streamed genocide happening right out in the open forces a civilization to start asking questions about itself. If something like this can happen in plain view of everyone, and the people in charge not only do nothing but actively facilitate it, then you have to start wondering if everything about your entire nation is deranged, and if everything you’ve been told about the world is a lie.

If something so nakedly evil — undisguised by anything besides a thin veneer of Zionist gaslighting telling us we’re not seeing what we’re seeing — can be allowed to stand by those we’ve entrusted to run things, then it means our entire society is diseased. Our government. Our political systems. Our media. Our education systems. Our worldviews. Our culture. It’s all rotted and corrupted, right down to the core.

The future we are being shown through the window of Gaza is dark. Dark, dark, dark, dark. They’re currently using artificial intelligence to create kill lists and to determine when its targets will be at home with their families to ensure maximum civilian deaths. We used to worry about a dark future where humans send machines to go kill people indiscriminately, but it turns out it’s actually happening the other way around — we’re programming machines to tell us who to kill. The horror in our present dystopia isn’t so much autonomous murderbots as ethical decisions about killing being outsourced to AI.

We’re being asked to accept this and move forward in this direction into the future. We’re being asked to walk into the future holding the assumption that it’s fine and normal for our governments to knowingly support an unforgivable act of mass slaughter upon the inhabitants of a giant concentration camp. We’re being asked to walk into the future holding the assumption that it’s fine and normal for the mass media to lie and distort and misinform the public about a matter of such urgent importance day after day, month after month. We’re being asked to walk into the future holding the assumption that it’s fine and normal for a blatant genocide to take place right in front of our faces, and then move on as though nothing happened.

And right now we’re collectively ruminating on the question of whether we’re going to decide to do those things, or if we’re going to decide to do something else instead.

The Gaza genocide is such a massive thing in and of itself — the injustice, the murder, the loss, the unfathomable suffering. But what’s happening in Gaza is also about so much more than Gaza. It’s a moment in history where humanity is thinking seriously about real revolutionary change, and weighing the options between that and continuing along this tired old blood-soaked path we’ve been travelling on for millennia.

Gaza proves that our entire civilization is cancerous, and that everything we’ve been doing has failed. When you come across information which blows apart your worldview in your personal life, you can either collapse under the weight of cognitive dissonance until you find some way to plug yourself back into the comforting lies, or you can set about the hard work of forming a new way of looking at things. That’s the sort of moment we’re being collectively offered with Gaza. We’ll either accept the invitation, or continue our slide into darkness.

McDonalds is bowing to BDS pressure by getting rid of its genocide-feeding Israeli franchisee. But this won’t stop the boycott because it’s doing it exactly the wrong way. Let’s intensify the #BoycottMcDonalds campaign until it entirely terminates its Israeli business. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://bdsmovement.net/Boycott-McDonalds

Ignore the "blame it all on Netanyahu" and other delusions, this Israeli, and others in the comments, understand just how fvcked they are. Hit translate, or read my comment in the discussion. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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There are growing signs that Iran will respond militarily to the blockade in Damascus. It is difficult to overstate the significance of this moment. Israel is at the greatest strategic disadvantage in its history. But the government responsible for this brings us, in a promiscuous and shocking manner, to the brink of degenerating into a war with an enemy more powerful, sophisticated and sophisticated than anything we have known in the past -

In the political dimension - a rift with the US and the administration's complete lack of trust in the government and its leader. A rift with the European countries who see the war as an injury to their strategic agenda, and an opening to a dangerous regional deterioration for them as well. A crisis also with the Arab countries, including Egypt, Jordan and the Emirates, who understand that Netanyahu thwarts their initiatives to end the war, and to alleviate the humanitarian disaster. Israel's international image is at a historic low, and it is seen by large publics as conducting a war of extermination against innocent civilians, for reasons of "revenge", and for reasons of religious-Christian-racist fundamentalism. Israel is also in the midst of unprecedented legal proceedings in their severity and scope at the ICJ and ICC. The Israelis are still far from understanding the depth of the blow that will be suffered by hundreds, perhaps many thousands of officers, soldiers and civilians who will face the threat of international arrest in any democratic country they try to set foot in. In the military dimension - the IDF is in the most serious crisis in its history. The Chief of Staff, the entire General Staff, and most of the senior officers are responsible and guilty for the failure of the 7/10. And since investigations have not yet been carried out, and there is real difficulty in carrying them out, the failures that led to the failure are still there. The Americans and the rest of our friends in the world are shocked by the depth of the military failure, and the manner in which unrestrained force is used in Gaza. Their professional assessment of the IDF was greatly damaged. The fighting force is very worn out after an intense six months. The reserves are under an unprecedented load, and the IDF claims that it lacks forces. All this, of course, before opening a full front in the north, and/or against Iran.

In the managerial-strategic dimension - the decision-making processes have been corrupted, eradicated and distorted beyond recognition. The lack of trust between the military and political ranks is enormous and unprecedented. All decision-making processes are infected, diseased, and abnormal. Starting with the prime minister, who assumes illegal powers, and uses extraneous and criminal considerations. Go to the irreparably damaged relationship between the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense, who do not speak to each other unless they have no choice, and without a doubt every exchange between them is recorded and lawyers are consulted. Continue to the fictitious "War Cabinet" which has no legal authority, and among some of its members Hostility and suspicion prevail. Come to the statutory cabinet, where the transcripts of the discussions are transmitted almost in real time to the media, when the ministers compete among themselves who will leak louder and faster, and the exchange of words is reminiscent of Opira and Barko in their less good days. The cabinet and the government plenum have been emptied of all content and meaning. Most of them function as "Norwegian ministers", empty suits, weightless, place holders. The critical professional elements - the military, the intelligence, the political, the legal, the economic - have been destroyed by Netanyahu and his partners, castrated and deterred. Some of them enslave their judgment, only a minority still try to fulfill their professional and ethical mission, under impossible conditions.

Economically - Israel is in a severe and unfolding crisis. The deficit is spinning, the budget is fictitious, the financial management is extremely irresponsible. The costs of the war are astronomical, and if God forbid it expands, they will bring the economy to unknown regions. Hundreds of thousands are evacuated from their homes. Abandoned tracts of land. Public morale is low. The majority of Israelis understand the seriousness of the situation, are disillusioned with the illusion of "absolute victory", feel abandoned by the government, and demand its replacement.

Against the background of all this, the decision to carry out the countermeasures in Damascus, which was apparently taken with the knowledge that it would result in a fairly high probability of an Iranian response, and could degenerate into a direct war between Iran and Israel, appears to be one of the most promiscuous and scandalous in Israeli history.

Therefore, at this moment, even before Iran reacts, if it does react, it is necessary to look at the difficult reality. Israel is being led from disaster to catastrophe, from a terrible historical low, to a much deeper and worse low. Netanyahu and his clearly incompetent government must not be allowed to continue spinning the country into the abyss. Israel needs responsible, professional, balanced leadership, connected to reality and the international arena. A leadership that recognizes the limitations of power, and that is able to design a realistic strategy to get out of the crisis. It is a huge challenge, which requires the best minds and forces. In our most difficult hour, we are led by the person least qualified for the task, our national systems are damaged, strained to the limit, and in part mismanaged. Under Netanyahu and his dysfunctional government, it is forbidden to degenerate into a war with Iran and/or Hezbollah. This is a war that will start with very bad opening conditions, and will only deteriorate from there. Even if there is an Iranian response, it is necessary to reach a hostage deal and a ceasefire immediately. to replace the government, to negotiate the end of the war, and to enter into procedures for the restoration and rebuilding of the state's systems and infrastructure.

“We were not interested in killing Hamas operatives only when they were in a military building or engaged in a military activity. The IDF bombed them in homes without hesitation as a first option. It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home. The system is built to look for them in these situations.” by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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THIS IS TERRIFYING and without a doubt one of the most IMPORTANT pieces of reporting on Gaza, and one of the most disturbing:

Based on whistleblower accounts from within the IDF and six Israeli intelligence officers, who have all served in the army during the current Genocide:

The Israeli army developed an artificial intelligence program known as 'Lavender' to generate KILL LISTS, with no human verification to check the targets selected by the machine: only a “rubber stamp” check of about “20 seconds” just to make sure the AI target is male.

These Intelligence sources claim that the Israeli military officials permitted large numbers of Palestinian civilians to be killed.

The ratio revealed in the report says: 'for every junior Hamas operative that Lavender marked, it was permissible to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians. In the event that the target was a senior Hamas official, the army on several occasions authorized the killing of more than 100 civilians in the assassination of a single commander."

A ratio of 20 civilians killed for one target works out to about 95% civilian deaths.

Its influence on the military’s operations was such that they essentially treated the outputs of the AI machine “as if it were a human decision.”

The army gave sweeping approval for officers to adopt Lavender’s kill lists, with no requirement to thoroughly check why the machine made those choices or to examine the raw intelligence data on which they were based.

At one stage, Lavender identified 37,000 potential targets.

The Israeli army "systematically attacked the targeted individuals while they were in their homes, usually at night while their whole families were present, rather than during the course of military activity."

Israel also developed another automated system called “Where’s Daddy?” used "specifically to track the targeted individuals and carry out bombings when they had entered their family’s residences."

One of the intelligence officers is quoted: “We were not interested in killing Hamas operatives only when they were in a military building or engaged in a military activity. On the contrary, the IDF bombed them in homes without hesitation as a first option. It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home. The system is built to look for them in these situations.”

This industrialized extermination is the likes of which we haven't seen before.

The testimony from the six intelligence officers, all who have been involved in using AI systems, was given to the journalist @yuval_abraham for a report published by +972 Magazine and Local Call

It's a chilling read.

🚨 Moments ago, the IOF officially decided to call up reserve soldiers for air defense systems "due to the security situation." For several hours, the IOF's air force and defenses have been on high alert and full readiness, fearing an Iranian response to the IOF's bombing of the Damascus consulate. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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Sounds like another gut punch to the Zionist economy. Iran really doesn't have to do much, it's current strategy is working. Keep the embargo on Zionist / US / UK ships, keep resistance chucking missiles, help the Jordanian people overthrow the monarchy. Let the ZioScum keep spending money and keep them alienating their friends.

🚨 Moments ago, the IOF officially decided to call up reserve soldiers for air defense systems "due to the security situation." For several hours, the IOF's air force and defenses have been on high alert and full readiness, fearing an Iranian response to the IOF's bombing of the Damascus consulate. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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🚨 Moments ago, the IOF officially decided to call up reserve soldiers for air defense systems "due to the security situation."

For several hours, the IOF's air force and defenses have been on high alert and full readiness, fearing an Iranian response to the IOF's bombing of the Damascus consulate, according to Zionist media. Simultaneously, War Minister Gallant made a speech stating the operations will increase on the northern front.

In light of this fear of a response or an expanded war, the central bank of "Israel" is requesting banks to stock up on large amounts of cash, due to a potential increase in demand through ATMs.

Additionally, local sources in #AlQuds reported that schools will switch to remote learning at the end of Ramadan for at least a month, coinciding with a state of emergency to evacuate the schools and turn them into shelters for displaced settlers coming from the north.

6 months of this now. Half a year. Half a year of genocide apologia. Half a year of the most outrageous lies you can possibly imagine. Half a year of seeing children's bodies ripped to pieces and starved to skeletons... of insulting our intelligence... of insulting our humanity. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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Six months of this now. Half a year.

Half a year of genocide apologia.

Half a year of the most outrageous lies you can possibly imagine.

Half a year of seeing children's bodies ripped to pieces and starved to skeletons on our social media feeds.

Half a year of atrocities justified by something that happened way back in October, and didn't even happen the way the news media tell us it happened.

Half a year of western government officials pretending obvious evidence of war crimes is just some ineffable mystery that we'll hopefully have answers to someday.

Half a year of Israeli officials openly stating their genocidal intentions in Hebrew for their Israeli audience and paying lip service to human rights and compassion in English for their western liberal audience.

Half a year of seeing reports that the IDF did something unbelievably evil, thinking "That can't be right, let me check it out," and then going "Oh, nope, it's actually even more evil than I thought."

Half a year of the western political-media class trying to frame the direct sponsorship of an active genocide as something other than what it is.

Half a year of passive-language "Palestinian child walks into bullet" headlines from the mainstream press.

Half a year of insulting our intelligence.

Half a year of insulting our humanity.

Half a year of unfathomable suffering.

Half a year of irreparable trauma.

Half a year of irreplaceable loss.

This fucking sucks, man. It sucks so bad. I've always enjoyed doing commentary on the crimes of the empire, but these last six months have been truly harrowing. It's awful having to stare directly at hell on earth from day to day with compassion in your heart. The only thing keeping this project going is the fact that it needs to be done, and the knowledge that my own suffering isn't the faintest shadow of what the Palestinians are going through right now.

This needs to end. It needs to end with desperate urgency. But we're seeing no signs that it's about to.

I don't have anything wise or insightful to add to any of this right now. Some days all you can do is point to the nightmare and call it what it is, and we can all just be real about reality and feel our feelings about that.

I guess all I can really say is that at least we're not alone in seeing what we're seeing. The whole world is watching Israel commit a horrifying mass atrocity backed by the full might of the empire, and more and more eyes are opening to the reality of what this means for their society and everything they've been told to believe about it.

Every positive change in human behavior is always preceded by an expansion of consciousness, and Gaza is expanding western consciousness like nothing ever before.

So at least there's that. At least there's the possibility that something good might one day grow out of this steaming pile of shit.

And that's all I've got for you. That's the best I can do right now.

Israel is engaged in a deliberate and systematic effort to destroy existing laws and norms around warfare. Even during wartime, embassies are off-limits. Israel just bombed an Iranian diplomatic compound in Damascus. Bombing hospitals is a war crime. Israel has bombed EVERY hospital in Gaza... by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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An important aspect of Israel's conduct - and Biden's acquiescence to it - that has gone largely unreported:

Israel is engaged in a deliberate and systematic effort to destroy existing laws and norms around warfare.

Even during wartime, embassies are off-limits. Israel just bombed an Iranian diplomatic compound in Damascus.

Bombing hospitals is a war crime. Israel has bombed EVERY hospital in Gaza. It has even assassinated patients inside hospitals.

The ICJ just obligated Israel to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza. Israel actively prevents aid from coming in.

Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is prohibited under international humanitarian law. Israel has deliberately created a famine in Gaza.

Indiscriminate bombings are illegal under international humanitarian law. Biden himself admits that Israel is bombing Gaza indiscriminately.

And the list goes on.

Presuming that Israel simply is breaking international law as part of the war but with no larger intent no longer holds IMO.

Rather, Israel is seeking to either destroy these norms or create a new normal in which it - much like the US - will be untouchable above these laws and norms.

This is the exact type of conduct that usually prompts the US to label a country a pariah or rogue state. The US accuses such states of seeking to destroy the "Rules Based Order."

But so far, Biden has acquiesced to Israel's conduct in this area as well as all other aspects of Israel's slaughter in Gaza.

The Zionists take a long view of history, understanding that all the outrage and backlash they're facing over Gaza right now will one day be irrelevant if they can carry out their plan for the territory today. That's why it's so important to oppose this thing now. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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The Zionist plan for the Palestinians is to kill them and drive them off their land by whatever cruelty is necessary, with the understanding that one day people will look back on it like the genocide of other indigenous populations saying "Yeah it was bad, but it's in the past."

The Zionists take a long view of history, understanding that all the outrage and backlash they're facing over Gaza right now will one day be irrelevant if they can carry out their plan for the territory today. They know that future generations of Israeli settlers will be able to say "Sure there was an ethnic cleansing in Gaza and a bunch of mass atrocities were committed, but that all happened before I was born; I had nothing to do with it. What do you want me to do, give up the home I've lived in all my life? That's nuts."

And they're absolutely right: if Israel succeeds in driving the Palestinians out of Gaza (and assuming humanity doesn't wipe itself out via nuclear armageddon or environmental collapse), that is exactly the future they can expect to have. The genocidal atrocities against the Palestinians will be something kids learn about in history class. Israel itself might even be able to be a lot more honest about what happened, once the Palestinian problem has been fully resolved and the threat of a Palestinian state no longer exists.

So they do what they need to do in the meantime, with the understanding that this will one day all be rubbed away by the sands of time. They commit what atrocities they need to commit, they lie in whatever ways they need to lie, and they exert influence wherever they need to exert influence until they can get this thing locked down. Once they have, they can sit back and let old father time do the work for them.

That's why it's so important to oppose this thing now: because once Palestine is erased, it's highly unlikely that it can ever be restored. We see what an uphill battle it is to obtain any rights at all for indigenous populations in other nations founded on genocidal settler-colonialism, and they haven't even been driven out of their national borders into foreign countries.

The sins of the present and the recent past are much, much easier to correct than the sins of the distant past. That's why the Zionists are so keen to move these atrocities into the "sins of the distant past" category.

"They believe that there is no power in the world that will hold them to account. But they are wrong. They and their children’s children will be haunted by what they have done. They will have to live with the loathing and the abhorrence the world feels for them.” - Arundhati Roy by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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“ Even though the highest court in the world believes that almost every indicator seems to meet the legal definition of genocide, IDF soldiers continue to put out their mocking “victory videos” celebrating what almost look like fiendish rituals. They believe that there is no power in the world that will hold them to account. But they are wrong. They and their children’s children will be haunted by what they have done. They will have to live with the loathing and the abhorrence the world feels for them. And hopefully one day everybody – on all sides of this conflict – who has committed war crimes will be tried and punished for them, keeping in mind that there is no equivalence between crimes committed while resisting Apartheid and Occupation, and crimes committed while enforcing them.”

Publication was allowed that 16 Israeli soldiers were released from service in the Gaza Strip due to mental problems. About 20 soldiers during the past month were sent back for support and mental care. Reminder that Israel includes "anxiety" in its injury totals. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://twitter.com/TheGreeneBJ/status/1772385657161203940

NETANYAHU:✅No amount of international pressure will prevent us from achieving the war goals of eliminating Hamas, freeing the kidnapped✅We will work in Rafah. This is the only way to eliminate the rest of the Hamas brigades and to exert the necessary military pressure to release the kidnapped people by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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✅ We succeeded politically in allowing our forces to fight in an unprecedented way for a full 5 months

✅ It is no secret to anyone that international pressure is increasing on us

✅ There are international parties trying to stop the war now before all of its goals are achieved by making false accusations against the army and the prime minister

✅ There are international parties seeking to hold elections now in Israel because they know that the elections will stop the war and paralyze the country for at least 6 months

✅ If we stop the war now, this means that Israel has lost, and we will not allow that and we will not surrender to these pressures

✅ No amount of international pressure will prevent us from achieving the war goals of eliminating Hamas, freeing the kidnapped, and making Gaza no longer a threat.

✅ We will work in Rafah. This is the only way to eliminate the rest of the Hamas brigades and to exert the necessary military pressure to release the kidnapped people.

✅ We approved the executive plans for work in Rafah, including strengthening the steps to evacuate civilians from combat areas

✅ I say to our friends in the international community, have you forgotten October 7 so quickly, and are you prepared to deprive Israel of the right to defend itself?

One myth Ukrainians keep telling the western audience is that Nationalists are in minority! They are not! Banderovtsy are in super majority in Ukraine! 74% of Ukrainians see Stepan Bandera the rabid Nazi ideologue in a positive light and as a Ukrainian national hero! by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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(Of course NATO fluffers love to repeat it as well.)

The support for the recognition of the OUN-UPA as " freedom fighters " stands at 81% and only 10% are against. This support has increased 4 times since 2010, and doubled since 2015.

"In the West, Israeli universities are considered bastions of pluralism and democracy" but they are "a central pillar of Israel's regime of oppression against Palestinians." Hebrew Uni is helping define targets. Tel Aviv Uni is developing arguments against human rights... by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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Details: https://twitter.com/JKSteinberger/status/1769477235516289150

Sharvit Baruch, a military leader now at lecturer and program leader at Tel Aviv Uni, defined Gaza police cadets as combatants instead of civilians since "potentially Hamas" for purposes of the 2008 massacre.

Another Tel Aviv Uni prof, "ethicist" Asa Kasher, teamed up with the Israeli military to estimate how many dead Palestinian civilians were worth it to save one Israeli, averaging 3.14. That would mean Palestinians are 1/3 human, less than the 3/5 of African American slaves.

Kasher seems to be quite the ethicist indeed, inventing new categories of unpersons, apologies, "third persons" to justify slaughtering Palestinian civilians.

The logical conclusion is hardly mysterious, but is Israeli policy: "As a result, they argue that it is in fact immoral for Israel to endanger its own soldiers in order to safeguard the lives of Palestinian civilians."

According to Maya Wind, researchers at Hebrew University are helping the military identify "targets" in Gaza.

Maya Wind explains that Hebrew Uni researchers are collaborating with Israeli military to create "target banks" in Gaza. This level of complicity is staggering, and our own unis have institutional links with them.

Back in October already, I said that the powers that be were trying something out in Gaza that they wanted to roll out to the rest of the world. I didn't realise academic colleagues were at the forefront of the legal and ethical arm of this effort.

Israeli companies continue to go bankrupt. The DIMAR company, located in Shlomi near the border with Lebanon, urgently requested a hearing after facing a debt of 24 million shekels, to issue an order for handling and halting proceedings for the recovery and revival of the company. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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📝Israeli companies continue to go bankrupt

The DIMAR company, located in Shlomi near the border with Lebanon, urgently requested a hearing after facing a debt of 24 million shekels, to issue an order for handling and halting proceedings for the recovery and revival of the company to be presented to the Haifa District Court.

This company was founded in 1960 and is one of the most well-known manufacturers in the world of cutting equipment, products, and tools used for processing other materials such as plastic, aluminum, complex materials, etc.

With the start of the Al-Aqsa Flood and the opening of the northern front, constant barrages of fire began from Lebanon, which affected Shlomi. According to the emergency guidelines, the settlement was evacuated in a way that hindered the factory to continue its operations, effectively bringing an abrupt end to the company's activities.

The complete cessation of factory operations led to most factory workers (about 60 people), locals of the area, to collectively lose their jobs. The war turned the company into its worst crisis in history, as since then, due to the security situation, access to the factory has been restricted and its operations have been completely halted.

The Houthis announced cooperation with Russia and China to weaken the West by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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Houthi spokesman al-Kahum tweeted on his X account:

There is constant interaction and development of relations between Yemen, the Russian Federation, China and the BRICS countries, as well as the exchange of knowledge and experience in various fields. This is necessary in order to drown the US, Britain and the West in the swamp of the Red Sea, so that they become bogged down, weakened and unable to maintain unipolarity.

Happy St. Patrick's Day☘️when we celebrate being Irish! Over 2 million Irish were starved to death & exiled in our famine. Shame on politicians who travel to US to pay homage to Butcher Biden who could end the murder & starvation of 2 million Palestinians. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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Being 🇮🇪 means solidarity with the oppressed not snuggling up to the oppressor!

"Our politicians are owned by Israel" and "Our politicians are 100% dedicated to Israel in every way, but for their own reasons, not because of anything Israel does" is a distinction without a difference that is worth anyone's time. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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It's also absurdly naive because every country in the world that has any capability to influence the US does so.

And to deny that Israel can do so effectively is also absurd.

Admitting the completely obvious is not anti-Semitic any more than criticizing Israel is anti-Semitic.

If you're calling someone anti-Semitic because they say what is obviously true, you should ask yourself:

What are the relevant distinctions between you and a Zionist?

This is an immensely satisfying must-watch: extraordinary rebuke of Scholtz by Malaysia's Prime Minister, while standing right next to him. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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"You cannot find a solution by being so one-sided, in terms of looking only at one particular issue and erase 60 years of atrocities.

The solution is not just releasing the hostages. What about the settlements? What about the behavior of the settlers now? It continues daily!

What about the dispossession? Their land, their right, their dignity, their men, their women, their children? Are these of no concern? Where have we thrown away our humanity? Why this hypocrisy?"

The TikTok ban - what it means, why it’s important, and what are its implications. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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Also, while this thread raises some important issues, it doesn't address every way that the bill is dangerous and an attack on freedom of expression, and is therefore incomplete.

The TikTok ban - what it means, why it’s important, and what are its implications. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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Something I didn't know:

Interestingly, in 2022, Meta hired a company called Targeted Victory which then contracted with dozens of public relations firms across the U.S. to help “sway public opinion against TikTok” by planting local news stories and helping place op-eds targeting TikTok around the country.

To say Meta would benefit from TikTok’s demise is an understatement but also concerning, especially in light of Meta’s censorship of pro-Palestinian content in the last several months.

Everyone scoffs at the idea of revolution but what is the alternative? Seriously, what other option do we have? We can’t rely on politicians or the political parties. None will stop the war machine. Genocide will continue. And not just in Gaza. How can we accept this? by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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I don’t currently nor ever have advocated for violence.

I advocate, very specifically, for organization towards various forms of direct action, including but not limited to general strikes, mass boycotts, and funding of mutual aid.

Our rulers dictate if this can be peaceful.

"This is a situation in which the sanctions were imposed by one important sector of the world economy which then cut itself off from resources that it needs - and that's particularly true of Western Europe - in return for cutting Russia off from various things that Russia doesn't really need." by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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Economist James K. Galbraith, professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

"If you go back to the period before the introduction of the sanctions [...] the Russian economy was very heavily colonized by Western firms. That was true in automobiles, it was true in aircrafts, it was true in everything from fast food restaurants to big box stores. Western firms were present all throughout the Russian economy. A great many of them [...] either chose to exit Russia or were pressured to exit Russia after early 2022. So on what terms did they leave? Well, they were required, if they were leaving permanently, to sell their capital equipment, their factories and so forth, to let's say a Russian business which would get a loan from Russian banks or maybe have other sources of financing, at a very favorable price for the Russians. So effectively a lot of capital wealth, which was partly owned by the West, has been transferred to Russian ownership. And you now have an economy which is moving forward and has the advantage compared to Europe of relatively low resource costs because Russia is a great producer of resources, oil and gas and fertilizer and food stuff and so forth. And so while the Europeans are paying maybe twice in Germany what they were paying for energy, the Russians are not, they're paying perhaps less than they were paying before the war. So again I characterize the effect of the sanctions, in fact as being in certain respects a gift to the Russian economy. And this is, I think, quite different from what the authors of the sanctions expected. [...] And the essence of the situation is this would not have happened without the sanctions. You could have had the war, and it would have gone pretty much as it has gone. But the Russian government in 2022 was in no position to force the exit of Western firms. It didn't want to, wouldn't have done that. It was in no position to force its oligarchs to choose between Russia and the West. It didn't wish to do that. These choices were imposed by the West, and the results were actually, in many respects, favorable to the long-term independent development of the Russian Federation's economy."

A big part of how delusional our discourse is right now relates to Biden himself. Think how many people are involved in the deception operation called Biden - thousands know what we can clearly see - that this old, feeble man cannot by any stretch of the imagination fulfill the office of president. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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And I also insist that a big part of how delusional our discourse is right now relates to Biden himself.

Think how many people are involved in the deception operation called Biden. Think how many people know that he is not well - Secret Service and advisors, staff of all kinds, journalists, make up artists, plastic surgeons, medical staff, family members, high ranking officials - thousands of people know what we can clearly see - that this old, feeble man cannot by any stretch of the imagination fulfill the office of president.

Yet no one speaks. Not a soul. And in the future this, too, will puzzle people: they will not understand how that old and confused man was believed to actually be able to command full days on intense meetings, with a plethora of details and in-house power struggles.

No one thinks that Biden is capable of running this, and it doesn't make an iota of sense to claim that he does. Yet everybody acts like this is fact.

When such a clear lie is allowed to live in the open, no wonder people feel a bit crazy. You have to be crazy to believe such nonsense.

And by never talking about this, we have no conversation about those who actually run things, and what their plans are for the next 4 years that Biden is extremely unlikely to complete even seemingly alive.

Kamala Harris will be boss? That utter buffun? How come there's no conversation about this?

Israel is the enemy of mankind. It represents the deepest form of evil, white supremacy, colonialism, suppression, and terrorism. They bomb children in school. They destroy hospitals and leave babies decaying in their incubators. Then they argue that they’re the victim and they’re killing for peace! by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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Israel is the enemy of mankind.

It represents the deepest form of evil, white supremacy, colonialism, suppression, and terrorism.

They shoot at fathers trying to get food for their starving families.

They bomb children while they’re in school.

They destroy hospitals and leave babies decaying in their incubators.

They dig up graves as a form of punishment in the afterlife.

Then they argue that they’re the victim and they’re killing for peace!

⚡The US is preparing 1000 troops to send to Gaza. The "temporary" port is the excuse... for a US military base... to protect extraction of stolen Gaza oil. The same Israelis that are blocking aid and starving 2.2 million people will be commissioned to secure the transfer of aid through that port. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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Today, Israeli media also wrote that the invasion of Gaza has stalled and there is no progress. Hamas hold their positions firmly. Therefore, it is not excluded that these troops join the IDF.

Israel literally tortured United Nations staff to get them to make false statements against UNRWA. They. Tortured. UN. Staff. If we had anything remotely like objective news reporting in the western press, this would be the top story everywhere for days. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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UNRWA says that Israel tortured some of its employees "to make false statements against the Agency, including that the Agency has affiliations with Hamas and that UNRWA staff members took part in the 7 October 2023 atrocities.”

After saying over 15,000 women and children have been intentionally beheaded, bodies ripped apart, killed, CNN's Dana Bash replies: "Yeah, sure, but at least Israeli troops aren't raping them." The sole reason for the "mass rape" hoax is to justify the ongoing genocide of Gaza. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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What makes it even more grotesque is Israeli troops are actually mass raping Palestinians, including children, constantly all the time, both since Oct 7 in Gaza and long before. But Dana Bash, Schwartz, Sella, don't care about that. They're "human animals."

Israel to the UN: If UN does not activate Article 99 in favor of our abductees and bring the Security Council into a discussion on the sex atrocities committed by Hamas, Israel should take severe action, close the UN headquarters in Jerusalem, deport Senior UN officials and evacuate UNRWA compounds. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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Strategically Israel is getting on the offensive and ahead of what’s to come with the UN.

This is a move to try and severely discredit the UN and ahead of future actions the UN members are being forced to take.

Could it be that Israel sees the writing on the wall and the coming ICJ ruling, and any future ICC cases brought against Israeli war criminals - I’m looking at you Netanyahu. And strategically it’s best play (albeit sociopathic one) is to extinguish any remaining cooperation it has in place with the UN.

https://twitter.com/MawdaDawda/status/1765511709475618830

UN Report CANNOT verify 10/7 Mass Sex Assault Claims. She says her trip to Israel was not to be investigative… she calls on ISRAEL to allow UN to conduct investigations.... also calls on ISRAEL to allow a full investigation into reports of sexual violence committed by ISRAELIS on Palestinians. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1765166767519985880.html

Zionists tell us they find concern for the welfare of Palestinians “offensive”, and that they feel “unsafe” when others raise such concerns. The question for the rest of us is: How do we deal with those “sensitivities”, and how much do we prioritise the “offence” taken by hardline Zionists? by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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My answer:

They don't feel unsafe, they're lying. Lying to manipulate. Which is their primary MO. We should not believe them. Ever.

If we were to give them benefit of the doubt, for some absurd reason, we should tell them to think harder about the actual reasons they feel unsafe.

But there is no sane reason to believe them. We should be offended by the way they lie to us and attempt to curtain our basic rights.

And of course by the way they cheat, steal, rape, murder and genocide.

And for these reasons they do not deserve one iota of our concern.

And we should not just be offended, we should be working to bring justice down upon them.

The full question:

We all understand that, shamefully, a number of Zionist Jews and non-Jews identify so completely with Israel that they are not only willing to excuse the mass slaughter and starvation of civilians in Gaza but think others should not even be allowed to express disquiet at the slaughter.

Hardline Zionists tell us they find concern for the welfare of Palestinians “offensive”, and that they feel “unsafe” when others raise such concerns or call for a ceasefire to end the bloodshed.

The question for the rest of us is: How do we deal with those “sensitivities”, and how much do we prioritise the “offence” taken by hardline Zionists?

Not unreasonably, most ordinary people place very little weight on the “sensitivities” of those who believe mass slaughter and the starvation of children should be allowed to proceed, at least when weighed against the sensitivities of those opposed to mass death.

What’s so weird is the way, as far as official bodies and the western media are concerned, those priorities have been turned upside down.

In an article titled 'Arsenal criticised after Jewish fans walk away over pro-Palestine rally outside stadium', the Guardian in typical fashion falls over backwards to indulge the “feelings” of a few Jewish Arsenal fans. They apparently “felt unsafe” and “betrayed” by their club for not more aggressively stopping protests last weekend at a Women’s Super League game by other fans over the complicity of the UK government in Gaza’s genocide.

No evidence is produced by either the fans or the Guardian that any Jewish fan was in any danger whatsoever. Just that a few Palestinian flags were smuggled into the stadium, that leaflets and stickers were handed out, and that some protesters tried to 'engage' with fans as they arrived at the stadium – presumably in that dangerous tradition of trying to persuade others of the validity of one’s position.

But the Guardian sympathetically dedicates a great deal of space to relaying the concerns of the handful of Jewish fans who “believe their safety was compromised by security staff not curtailing the protest” – that is, those who wanted to prevent an entirely peaceful demonstration taking place in a public space outside the ground.

The story is risible. It is news as therapy for Zionists and gaslighting for the rest of us.

But it is decades of nonsense journalism about Israel and its apologists of precisely this kind that has led us to the dismal place we are today.

The constant indulgence by the political and media class, the constant elevation of these kinds of ugly, ignoble “feelings” – feelings that dehumanise and vilify Palestinians, as well as anyone acting in solidarity with their suffering – the constant treatment of Zionist bigotry as warranted, as justified, as normal, that has gotten us to a position where Israel can commit genocide and its western allies and parts of their Jewish populations can treat it as “offensive” to raise the matter.

If we had not got so entirely used to it, we would immediately understand how completely nuts – and catastrophically inhumane – the coverage is.

trying to change a mainstream political party in the western empire by putting nice people in it is like trying to change an abusive cult by putting nice people in it: the cult doesn't change, the people who go in just get indoctrinated. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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Over and over you see well-intentioned people enter western mainstream political parties with the intention of changing them from this inside, but instead it changes them. They think the problem is that the party just doesn't have enough nice people in it, but it turns out trying to change a mainstream political party in the western empire by putting nice people in it is like trying to change an abusive cult by putting nice people in it: the cult doesn't change, the people who go in just get indoctrinated. The cult isn't bad because there aren't enough nice cult members, the cult is bad because its entire purpose, function and founding doctrine is bad.

A mainstream political party in the imperial core exists solely to promote the interests of the empire. Everything in it is geared toward this purpose. That is its nature. If you join it, you either embrace its doctrines and help it act out its foundational purpose, or you get kicked out of the cult. You cannot change it. It can only change you. How many times does this have to happen before people learn the lesson?

There's an infuriatingly common kind of liberal who purports to oppose Israel's actions in Gaza while also saying they support "Israel's right to exist", as though Israel's existence is somehow separable from its genocidal murderousness. It literally cannot exist without nonstop violence and tyranny by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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There's an infuriatingly common kind of liberal who purports to oppose Israel's actions in Gaza while also saying they support "Israel's right to exist", as though Israel's existence is somehow separable from its genocidal murderousness. This is a state that literally cannot exist without nonstop violence and tyranny, as demonstrated by its entire unbroken history since its inception. It was set up as a settler-colonialist outpost for western imperialism from the very beginning, and that's exactly what it's been ever since.

History has conclusively established that it is not possible to drop an artificial ethnostate on top of an already-existing population in which the pre-existing population is legally subordinate to the new one without tremendous amounts of warfare, police violence, mass displacement, apartheid, disenfranchisement and oppression. This is not actually debatable. It is a settled matter (no pun intended).

Is it possible to have a nation in which Jews are welcomed and kept safe? Of course. Many such nations exist outside of Israel, and the majority of the world's Jews live in them. What isn't possible is a Jewish ethnostate in historic Palestine in which the pre-existing population is treated as less than the Jewish population that does not necessarily entail nonstop violence, tyranny and abuse. This is self-evidently a direct contradiction in goals, but it's what the liberals I'm we're discussing here pretend to believe is a reasonable possibility.

There absolutely could be a state in that region wherein Palestinians and Jews coexist peacefully, but it would be so wildly different from present-day Israel that you can't pretend it would be the same state as the one we see now. It would entail such a radically dramatic overhaul of Israeli civilization, such a comprehensive dismantling of deeply ingrained racism, such a drastic restructuring of governmental and living systems, so much labor, sacrifice, humility, inner work and reparations, that to call it by the same name as the state that presently exists would be nonsensical.

And that isn't what the liberals in question are talking about instituting when they say they oppose Israel's atrocities in Gaza but "support Israel's right to exist". What they are saying is they want Israel to remain the unjust and tyrannical apartheid state that is has always been, but for the killing to stop. They want the injustice to continue, but they want its most overt manifestations to stop causing them cognitive dissonance. They want to status quo, without the murderous savagery that is necessary for the status quo's existence. They want to pretend they live in an imaginary fantasyland where such a thing is possible.

And to be clear this isn't just what liberals want with regard to Israel-Palestine; it's their whole entire position on everything. On every issue their position is little more than "Maintain the status quo, but make it pretty and psychologically comfortable for me." They never want to do what's right, they just want to feel like they are right. Theirs is an imperialist, militarist, tyrannical oligarchic ideology with a bunch of feel-good social justice bumper stickers slapped on top of it. A boot on your neck and a flower in its hair.

That's who liberals are. It's who they've always been. Phil Ochs released the song "Love Me, I'm a Liberal" in 1966, and they haven't changed one iota ever since. The issues change, their arguments change, but their "maintain the status quo but let me feel nice about it" values system has remained exactly the same for generations.

At some point, the Jewish community will need to reckon with the fact that the majority of our community backs genocide. I know most Jewish people don’t see it yet, but it’s very clear to anyone who is not ingrained in Zionist ideology. A reckoning is coming & it’s long overdue. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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At some point, the Jewish community will need to reckon with the fact that the majority of our community backs genocide.

I know most Jewish people don’t see it yet, but it’s very clear to anyone who is not ingrained in Zionist ideology. A reckoning is coming & it’s long overdue.

There will need to be a thorough accounting of every individual, institution and organization that has backed this 76+ year genocide of the Palestinian people, and reparations/accountability will be due however Palestinians see fit.

I was taught about ethics & justice in the context of my Jewish identity: I was raised to hold our moral principles in the absolute highest regard & understand that part of this process is holding my own community accountable.

Dismantling Zionism & Israel is a moral imperative.

Feldman's core argument is that that old European antisemitism has evolved into a "new antisemitism," one which calls Israel a colonial, imperial, & white supremacist project. His argument relies on misinformation & obfuscation. I'm going to focus on 5 claims he makes - by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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(1): Feldman writes that "the application [of settler-colonial theory] to Israel is a secondary development."

This is misinformation. The founder of settler colonial theory, Patrick Wolfe, treated Palestine as a paradigmatic example of settler colonialism. From his 2006 piece "Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native": (image of text)

(2) Feldman writes "whether early Zionist settlers should be conceived as colonialists is a hotly disputed question." He claims that they didn't see themselves as part of a colonial project.

If only early Zionists had written about how they saw themselves--oh wait! they did.

Early Zionist leaders Jabotinsky & Herzl wrote openly about Israel being a colonial project (see photos)

The primary group coordinating Jewish settlement of Palestine in the late 1800s & early 1900s called itself the "Jewish Colonization Association"

More importantly: "I know that Zionists have colonized Palestine without the need to cite Herzl. I know this because I live it, because the ruins of countless depopulated villages provide the material evidence of calculated ethnic cleansing." -@m7mdkurd https://t.co/eY5puNs6Uk

It's true, as Feldman writes, that frameworks like 'colonialism' are "often used today to make moral judgements."

And Palestinians use them precisely. It is Zionists who confound, it is Zionists who hide from the moral stigma that now follows the words they once openly embraced

(3) Feldman writes one of the most inaccurate, ahistorical, and intellectually dishonest descriptions of the Nakba that I have ever read: (image of text)

He inverts the Nakba--the ethnic cleansing of over 750K Palestinians

Feldman somehow starts the clock of the Nakba at the "nascent Jewish state" not at the violence that founded this state.

In other words, he defines our ethnic cleansing as our RESPONSE to our ethnic cleansing.

For a brilliant definition of Nakba [as not just a historical event, but as an organizing structure of Palestinian life], read this piece by Palestinian human rights lawyer Rabea Eghbariah--who Feldman actually supervises. He knows better. https://t.co/6F26TJFyrd

(4)Then, Feldman, from his "office in leafy Cambridge Mass," claims that Israel's genocide is not a genocide.

Sure, he says, there's evidence of genocidal statements by Israeli officials and genocidal actions in alignment w those statements...but Israel SAYS it's not a genocide

This point isn't even worth disputing. It is a genocide. We know it. He knows it. Israel knows it. Here's a database of Israeli incitement to genocide, but we don't need Israeli leaders to tell us what our 30,000 dead already do.

(5)He then argues that even if it was a genocide, we shouldn't call it that...because then it could make Jewish people look bad

1- Insane for him to center Judaism as the primary victim of a genocide when 30000 Palestinians have already been murdered in cold blood.

2- Wrong of him to use Judaism as the analytical frame for understanding Israel's violence rather than Zionism & to project responsibility for Israel's genocide onto all Jewish people.

In conflating judaism & zionism, he's perpetrating the harm he claims to write against.

3- His argument reminds me of this piece by @m7mdkurd , about the absurd expectation that Palestinians suffer silently under the weight of a genocidal ethnostate for fear of committing semantic violence when speaking about the systemic violence they face: https://t.co/nlBhXVYd2A

To Feldman, Palestinian suffering is illegible. It is a secondary phenomenon, notable only for the imagined negative consequences that acknowledging this oppression can have on him and his vaunted status as the "archetypal victim"--whatever that means.

He invisibilizes the Palestinian experience. He erases the checkpoints, the seige, the apartheid, the genocide. He cannot see past his own ego. That's fine. We don't need him to. Palestinians will continue to narrate our struggle. We will not apologize for doing so precisely.

"There’s no escaping being accused of antisemitism. It’s a losing battle and, more importantly, a glaring red herring. . . There are better things to do: we have coffins to carry. We have kin in Israeli mortuary chambers that we must bury." -@m7mdkurd

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), part of the UN system, has concluded that Bashar al-Assad is innocent of chemical attacks in Aleppo province in 2015. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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🔹 According to the OPCW, IS terrorists are responsible for the use of chemical weapons against civilians in the city of Mari and surrounding areas in Aleppo province.

🔹 NATO countries, including the United States, Great Britain, France and Turkey, blamed Bashar al-Assad for the incident and used it as a pretext for military aggression and occupation of Syrian territories. Earlier, last year, France issued an arrest warrant for Assad for allegedly using chemical weapons against civilians in his country.

One thing I want to touch on is people keep sharing Israelis protesting in Tel Aviv but not telling you why. They’re protesting Netanyahu, yes. But not for the reasons you might think. Here’s why: by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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They’re demanding his removal not because of what’s happening in Gaza to Palestinians. Not because of the aggressions and genocide. And not because they care about Palestinians.

They’re protesting Netanyahu for allowing October 7th to happen and for not getting the hostages back yet. These aren’t some pro-Palestinian protests like it’s being made out to be. They don’t give a damn about Palestinians or that their government is killing tens of thousands.

These Israelis who are protesting equally hate Palestinians, they just don’t want their people to die while doing it. Many have served or will serve in the IDF and kill Palestinians themselves, if they haven’t already.

The “liberal” Zionists are still evil, don’t be deceived.

These protests are essentially “how can you let those terrorists attack us innocent Israelis? We need a leader who will make sure we are safe from Hamas!”

The United States 8 years ago created 12 secret bases in Ukraine along the border for actions against Russia, this forced Putin to launch a military defense system - New York Times. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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From the "unprovoked" series:

The United States 8 years ago created 12 secret bases in Ukraine along the border for actions against Russia, this forced Putin to launch a military defense system - New York Times.

▪️Listening of Russian broadcasts was carried out from these bases in underground bunkers, and now kamikaze drones are also being controlled for attacks on the Russian Federation. ▪️ “The CIA and other US intelligence agencies provide intelligence for targeted missile strikes, track Russian troop movements and help maintain spy networks.” ▪️"This has turned Ukraine... into one of the most important intelligence partners of the United States in the fight against Moscow." ▪️In 2016, the CIA began training the Ukrainian “Detachment 2245”, which captured Russian drones and communications equipment so that the CIA could hack them. One of the officers of this unit was Kirill Budanov, the current head of the Main Intelligence Directorate. ▪️"The CIA also helped train a new generation of Ukrainian spies who operated inside Russia, throughout Europe, in Cuba and other places where the Russians have a large presence." ▪️Over 10 years, this cooperation "turned Ukraine into an intelligence gathering center that intercepted more Russian communications than the CIA station in Russia." ◾Such involvement of Americans became one of the factors that formed the basis of Putin’s decision to launch the SMO. ▪️"According to a senior European official, in late 2021 Putin was considering whether to launch an operation. He met with the head of one of Russia's main intelligence agencies, who told him that the CIA, along with British intelligence MI6, were controlling Ukraine and turning it into a springboard for operations against Moscow,” writes the NYT.

Israel, you lost the world. You may have some insignificant supporters and you may own Western Governments, but the world is sick of you and the more you lie about the rationale for your genocide, 7 Oct, the more we'll remember that you played the victim to atrocities that didn't occur. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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Israel, you lost the world. You may have some insignificant supporters and you may own Western Governments, but the collective world is sick of you and the more you lie about the supposed flashpoint that started your genocide, 7 October, the more that date will grow in infamy where you played the victim to atrocities that didn't occur. That was followed by lie, after lie, after lie, and no one takes you seriously anymore. You cry antisemitism and that word has become meaningless. I never thought I'd see the day where the world unites for justice under one banner which is the Palestinian flag. Israel, you lost, and the very thing you feared, will come to pass as an entire new generation of Palestinians will never forget what you did to them and their families. The world will also not forget.

Netanyahu's genocidal regime just put forward its "post-war path for Gaza". It's an explicit acknowledgement that they want to annex it totally. They will handpick some "Palestinian" puppets in their pay, even more compliant than Fatah and the PA, to run their concentration camp. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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one of the most grotesque parts of this genocidal plan is that they want to make their own "schools", after having destroyed all of them in the ongoing genocide, where they will indoctrinate Palestinians into loving their Zionist Jewish supremacist masters. This is pure Nazism

btw the entire Western media and political class cries endless crocodile tears over the "Uyghur genocide", saying there's nothing more horrific than "reeducating people and erasing their culture". Here's the Israeli regime explicitly saying that's their goal, and they all love it

look at how it's being written about in the NYT, BBC, CNN, AP: "Netanyahu said he wants to create schools and teach Palestinians in Gaza not to hate and to disavow extremism." They're writing it up as a glorious humanitarian project. It's astonishing how depraved they are

do you know who needs to be "educated out of extremism"? Zionist Israeli Nazis, who are taught from birth to believe that their genocidal occupation regime is not only perfectly normal, but the height of justice and virtue. They need to be de-Nazified

to be clear, this "post-war plan" is pure deranged Zionist Nazi fantasy. Yes the Western media class loves it and is laundering it as the height of humanitarianism. But there's just one problem: The Palestinian resistance. Even Israeli intelligence admitted they can't defeat them

the Qassam brigades, the socialist PLFP, and the other resistance factions are fighting every day, and they will never stop fighting. And the axis of resistance, stretching from Lebanon to Iran and Yemen, will never stop sending them the means to keep fighting until liberation

the Israeli regime, which is a cancer not just on Palestine and the Middle East but the entire world, has brought to life the worst dystopias we have only seen in fiction, and now they want to recreate Children of Men in Gaza, as the NYT and BBC applaud it

btw it's hilarious to see the Fatah and PA puppets and police force of the genocidal Israeli regime in the West Bank demand that they be picked as the local rules of Gaza. You pathetic depraved traitorous scum. Even Netanyahu has contempt for your cuckery

also it's important to note that Gaza was always already occupied Israeli territory. And a permanent occupation is a de facto annexation, as Norman explains below. Armed resistance is therefore both legally and morally justified, and essential

U.S. pundits are literally starting to say it out loud: for "good" to triumph, we must be evil. "Good" of course being the preservation of the Rules-Based Order, aka U.S. hegemony. That's literally the argument here: "the only way to protect a world fit for freedom is to engage in impure acts." by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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Biden's version of the W Bush era "Welp we're just gonna have to start torturing people!"

You're Vladimir Putin, and everything is going your way... So what do you do? Kill a politically irrelevant, marginalised and long forgotten Western funded stooge to hand the failing West a reason to activate their vast client propaganda media to deflect for all of your recent successes? by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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You're Vladimir Putin.

You've just given a Global, Billion view interview, You've destroyed the Propaganda of your detractors, Your popularity is 80% in the polls at home, Your enemies in Ukraine are facing internal collapse, Your proxies funders are losing interest, Your Army is about to win Victory in Avdeevka, Your enemies have failed to undermine your Economy, Your allies are firmly behind you, BRICS is growing, Your about to be re elected in the upcoming contest.

So what do you do?

Kill a politically irrelevant, marginalised and long forgotten (by the Western Client Media) Western funded stooge ( making sure to use a uniquely traceable Russian poison while doing it) all in an effort to to hand the failing West a reason to activate their vast client propaganda media to deflect for all of the above recent successes?

Anyone in the West who believes this utterly insane fantasy needs to consider how desperate the Western powers, who are set to lose so much in Ukraine, are to inflict any kind of damage, at any price, on Russia, there's a name for this.

Utter Desperation

The lies of our leaders are heavy, put them down, they are not ours to carry. The enemies of our leaders are not ours, the wars they start we do not have to fight. The only enemy we have as Americans are those whom seek to send us to die and suffer in THEIR wars. No more lives for lies. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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The lies of our leaders are heavy, put them down, they are not ours to carry. The enemies of our leaders are not ours, the wars they start we do not have to fight.

They tell us, China is our enemy, they tell us Iran is our enemy, they tell us Russia is our enemy and so on. No... they are our leaders enemies, they get in the way of our corrupt politicians, elites and corporations interests and agendas, nothing more. They are not my enemy, or yours, in fact we know very little about them other than we're supposed to hate them.

The only enemy we have as Americans are those whom seek to send us to die and suffer in THEIR wars.

No more lives for lies.

Imagine a group of countries wagering their whole identity, legacy, stability, future, on their ability to silence and shame millions of people aghast at an endless stream of dead children - not in retrospect, not as regards history, but in real time. Was anything like this even ever attempted? by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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Imagine a country, a group of countries, wagering their whole identity, legacy, stability, future, on their ability to silence and shame millions of people aghast at an endless stream of dead children - not in retrospect, not as regards history, but in real time. Was anything like this even ever attempted? Every day this looks more like war on human nature itself. It is a total mystery how anyone thinks "this could actually work". Heartlessness and brainlessness have never been so monstrously wedded as in this genocide, and its mentally broken defense.

Vancouver police wearing Zionist / Punisher skull (right-wing symbol with US origins) by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://twitter.com/tasjini/status/1758319553308762127

Russia is allegedly fighting with shovels and stealing washing machines to harvest computer chips for its collapsing army, and at the same time they can invade all of Europe and are now accused of building an all-powerful space weapon by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/Glenn_Diesen/status/1758028553080250778

"There is no way to reconcile self-determination with European colonial ambitions; and Zionism is going be imposed on the Palestinians—the vast majority of the inhabitants of Palestine at the time—whether they like it or not." -- proud British imperialist Arthur Balfour by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/UssamaMakdisi/status/1757778661053431987

Israel Sent Palestinian Prisoner to Tell Nasser Hospital to Evacuate Then Shot Him On The Way Out by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/ryangrim/status/1757951498565173709

LOL! This sounds like "Russian interference" to help elect Biden. Is Robert Mueller available? by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/aaronjmate/status/1757954157024084150

Today Michigan is officially no longer a "right to work" state. Michigan is now the first state in nearly 60 years to ditch the union-busting law. Public school workers can now collectively bargain, it's easier for unions to build power. (Did the Dems actually do more than just talk pro-union?) by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/MorePerfectUS/status/1757478745441714643

⚡️BREAKING - The threat to US national security comes from space says Pentagon. It seems that Russia has developed a capability that can neutralize US space assets or another type of weapon. The US is currently using dozens of spy satellites to help the Ukrainians on the battlefield. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/IranObserver0/status/1757845465087827970

There's no good reason not to immediately block someone who openly advertises their support for Israel and Zionism. For me it's like being approached by a stranger at a party with a card on their forehead that says "I have a bad personality and am incapable of real conversation." by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/caitoz/status/1756446731166961794

🤯Polling shows 1/3 of Americans say Israel is committing genocide. Meaning even WITH the endless pro-Israel propaganda pumped out by US media, 1/3 still know the truth. Now, just imagine if the horrific scenes from Gaza were shown on our TVs with the same frequency as Trump or Taylor Swift. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/LeeCamp/status/1757056672088903905

An Israeli Jewish Zionist settler from Scotland who moved from a Gaza border settlement on October 7 to a Tel Aviv hotel raped at least three Jewish Israeli children who were also in that hotel from border settlements. They are actually themselves doing the mass rapes. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/zei_squirrel/status/1757365265610793361

Tucker is basically calling all Western politicians clueless children with no sense of reality. 🔥 Same with too many Westerners. They fail to understand that as we have said for years the US is militarily light years behind Russia. So yes, grow up and deal with reality. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/thesiriusreport/status/1757425644621697125

Member of the Supreme Political Council in Yemen, Muhammad Ali Al-Houthi: "We will stand with Egypt if it stands with the people of Rafah in Gaza to prevent its storming, and we are ready for strong, effective and influential coordination with Egypt." by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/CensoredNws/status/1757160438024810601

I am now more sympathetic to Russia's case in Ukraine, now that the Western powers have revealed their sheer capacity for evil in support of genocide in Gaza - C Murray ... If you are pro-Palestine but condemn Russia, China, Iran, Hezbollah or Syria — you have been fooled by the ZIONISTS! - J Hinkle by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1757185553378787396

https://nitter.cz/jacksonhinklle/status/1756878595291795924

We must end Zionism before it ends us. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/DrLoupis/status/1757128853879713895

⚡️Sayyed Nasrallah: “The cell phone is a listening device, so we ask our brothers in the border villages and throughout the south, especially the fighters and their families, to abandon their cell phones in order to preserve and protect the blood and dignity of the people.” by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/WarMonitors/status/1757418078579622202

You know what’s funny? 😂 Yesterday, the Israeli army was conducting a special exercise in Kiryat Shmona’s police station, replicating a scenario from October 7th police station in Sderot to prevent attacks. Today, Hezbollah directly hit the police station in Kiryat Shmona. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/AryJeay/status/1757413346784006338

A world-historic confrontation is now unfolding as South Africa exhorts the ICJ to deliver an emergency ruling on the imminent genocide in Rafah. It's South Africa demanding an equal place for the world's colored peoples versus Israel holding fast to a principle "Schwarzes need not apply." by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/normfinkelstein/status/1757476690727440867

If you are feeling sad and hopeless that is completely understandable, but it's also a luxury we can't afford right now. Here's a list of some great organisations helping on the ground, just as a handy guide: by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/GoingMedieval/status/1756987214213320837

Biden refers to "our military operation in Rafah." He corrects himself to say "the major military operation in Rafah", but this is yet another occasion where his flubs reveal the truth. Every Israeli massacre in Gaza is a joint Genocide Joe production. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/aaronjmate/status/1757191661522764256

Last night nearly 10,000 people filed a complaint directly with the @FCC over the ads paid for by the Israeli government aired during the Super Bowl broadcast. CBS violated FCC rules by not making proper disclosures to the viewers across all platforms. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/aayoub/status/1757023712736424266

Nazis: Said they were the master race - Ziønists: Say they are the chosen race - Nazis: Stole land and property from Jews - Ziønists: Steal land and property from Palestinians Nazis: Starved Jëws - Ziønists: Starve Palestinians (continued...) by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/AdameMedia/status/1757189565616402821

What a LEGEND! 👏🏻 She took over the loudspeaker at Amsterdam airport and said: 'Dear passengers; We are sorry to tell you that the Netherlands is on the wrong side of history and its taxes are contributing to a genocide. "It is time to act and not leave Gaza alone'. 💥 by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/Kahlissee/status/1757164239809139169

Freudian slip from the graphics department? 😂 Or are they doing their part to resist the Fourth Reich from within? ✊🏿 by FreedomUltd in LeftistHumor

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https://nitter.cz/ArmchairW/status/1756908498359882054

Hearing this from Senator Chris Van Hollen, one of the most respected Democrats when it comes to foreign policy, feels like a watershed moment. He’s actually paying attention and can’t look away: by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/ryangrim/status/1757205932897898616

In an elaborate campaign, the IOF presented its evidence that a HAMAS data center was found just below UNRWA HQ in Gaza City. They released a series of videos, and the Israeli Foreign Ministry wished good luck refuting this unbeatable evidence. (They crowed about their lies, but they're still bad) by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/MichaKobs/status/1756821215212130459

⚡ 🇮🇱 Big Ambush in Khan Yunis, Gaza for the Israeli army, Many Dead and Injured. sources report that this ambush is more terrifying than the one a month ago when an entire building collapsed on Israeli soldiers. More details will be announced tomorrow. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/Megatron_ron/status/1756828775801630844

I love this version 🤣 (If Putin’s translator was an Aussie). TUCKER asks who blew up Nordstream. Putin replies in his Aussie voice that “it was that stupid c**t Biden” 🤷‍♂️🙈🙃 by FreedomUltd in LeftistHumor

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https://nitter.cz/UniqueMongolia/status/1756663407745306703

I am watching Jeffrey Gettleman's first appearance in public, shamelessly defending in the most pathetic, craven, deranged way his genocidal "mass rape" atrocity propaganda hoax in the New York Times, and he's so desperate. He knows his career is over. I will make sure it's ended. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/zei_squirrel/status/1756642588990255359

⚡️Hezbollah published a video showing the recovery of the IOF Elbit “Skylark” drone which was seized by them in a good technical condition. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/AryJeay/status/1756477587692327061

“Israeli politicians have wanted to destroy UNRWA for years. Because UNRWA formalises the idea that there are Palestinian refugees and that they have a right to return, to go back to the homes they were driven out of” by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/DoubleDownNews/status/1756623830557008180

I don’t “believe” anyone. I gather and analyze as much information as I can, then draw conclusions based on trends and track record. I don’t “believe” Putin. He just says things that are true. Putin has been far more truthful than the US and MSM. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/WarClandestine/status/1756395910622331074

When Israelis show you who they are, believe them. They have no right to be angry or hateful like this. They are not oppressed. They can hop on a plane and fly back to Europe any time. Palestine is not their land, and never will be. This is why they are so insecure deep down. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/richimedhurst/status/1756764270342083015

"New evidence shows that innocent Israeli civilians were killed on Oct. 7 by 6 year-old Palestinian girls with sniper rifles!" by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/DD_Geopolitics/status/1756713963612725390

An Israeli teacher was put in solitary confinement for not supporting Israel's genocidal war on Gaza. "They wished me to die, they wished my children to die, they threatened to rape my daughter." 'The only democracy in the Middle East' they say 🥴 by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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He's Jewish. He's Israeli. They threatened to rape his daughter.

https://nitter.cz/CensoredMen/status/1756123009570508851

Europe's interest is to expel the Americans, assume their own defense, and make peace with Russia to finally have a united Eurasia, an obvious condition for prosperity on the continent. For all purposes and intents, they are by far the biggest threat Europe faces today, in all respects. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/RnaudBertrand/status/1756513628063461594

Western riches have only made each shell cost a mountain of cash. But exactly none of this was obvious two years ago, even to NATO - in fact to this day there are bewildered NATO leaders still using the enormous disparity in GDP as a talking point in their favor. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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Despite this the Russians deliberately set out to fight an industrial war against the combined might of the West.

...the Russian government - in 2022 - clearly understood NATO's military-industrial capabilities far better than NATO itself did, to such a high degree of confidence that someone as risk-averse as Vladimir Putin would stake war strategy and to a very real extent the survival of the Russian state on that analysis.

https://nitter.cz/ArmchairW/status/1756590215681155261

The Egyptian Army is building sand barricades on the border with Gaza – Al Arabiya. It is also sending large amounts of tanks and armored vehicles there. Israel will make another massacre there, and Egypt will probably stop people from climbing over the fence fleeing in to Egypt. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/Megatron_ron/status/1756431062459154487

Putin was right. The West promised not to expand NATO eastwards in exchange for German reunification. “We have made it clear that we do not extend NATO beyond the Elbe.” Germany broke its promise and colluded with the US to expand NATO. Hundreds of thousands died as a result. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/KimDotcom/status/1756542577581719591

Egypt: "The entry of the occupation “army” into Rafah will constitute a violation of the “Camp David” agreement. Egypt will not accept any more aggression and bloodshed in Palestinian Rafah". by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/CensoredNws/status/1756428801834201292

LOL. NYT's Gettleman , who weaponized sexual violence to baselessly accuse Hamas of weaponizing sexual violence, goes out of his way to stress that his reporting is not "evidence." Correct you fraudster, it's pro-genocide propaganda. - Aaron Maté by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/aaronjmate/status/1756065589217423473?t=HdkAeUt9KSFEjJfCERj4VA

Sandra Ifrah, the spokesperson for Women United for Peace, admits that the story of the Israeli female detainees, in whom 67 different sperm were found, was a lie. "I regularly receive dozens of testimonies. I depended on rumors under the influence of emotion", she said in a post on X. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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#ZioLie #ZioWhore

https://nitter.cz/QudsNen/status/1756303868613235133

Coincidence that Putin speaks to Xi so soon after the Carlson interview and they issue a statement that they will continue to create a multipolar and fairer world? The right has been given notice that their idiotic fantasy that they can drive a wedge between China and Russia is never going to happen by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/thesiriusreport/status/1756246297684636096

🛑| 𝗔 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝘀𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗹𝗶 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆: Moody’s announces tonight the reduction of Israel’s economy's credit rating from A1 to A2, and also the reduction of the rating forecast for the future from "stable" to "negative". by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/AryJeay/status/1756073491583881598

Bernie Sanders is doing the interview rounds desperately trying to salvage some of his reputation after he spent the last 4 months cheering the mass murder of Palestinian babies. But he keeps spreading genocidal lies: "Hamas started this war, and they killed 1200 innocents!" by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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you old piece of shit scumbag cunt Zionist freak, Hamas did not "start this war", the war was started by the genocidal Israeli occupation regime that turned Gaza into a concentration camp for decades.

and "1200 innocents" weren't killed on October 7 by Hamas. Why is Bernie Sanders including Zionist Nazi troops and cops who were killed as "innocents'? Because he's a Zionist cunt freak. Also, the Israeli regime itself killed many of its own people

why are you still repeating the 1200 killed lie and then add "killed in horrific ways", you fucking disgusting old depraved genocidal cunt. I fucking hate Bernie Sanders so much.

love this squirrel dude!

https://nitter.cz/zei_squirrel/status/1755960204120686656

The Nuremberg trial was the biggest charade ever. The allies convicted just 140 people, mostly people with no real power. Top Nazis were all recruited by the CIA and NATO. Now, top German officials have family link to Hitler’s government. Von der Leyen, Scholz, Baerbock… the list goes on. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/Kanthan2030/status/1756066944778961072

The latest disgusting lie just dropped. Even Hen knew to delete it. Here’s the thing you need to know about Israelis. They are OBSESSED with rape. Their society is full of it, they do it to each other, to Palestinians and particularly to children. This is why they LOVE to fantasize about it. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/AdameMedia/status/1755718051834544359

Scores of Jordanians are rallying towards the border crossing to prevent the delivery of Jordanian products to Israel. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/AdameMedia/status/1756015432719352099

SOUTH AFRICAN MINISTER NALEDI PANDOR AND HER FAMILY RECEIVE DEATH THREATS FROM ISRAELI AGENTS “This is how Israeli agents behave and they seek to intimidate you. So, we must not be intimidated.” by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1755747910623379936

The US needs Beijing to snap and take action against Taiwan so it can then claim China is the aggressor and we need a global response by sanctioning them into oblivion. Never forget the US is a one trick pony. So it will be the same MO as Russia and Ukraine. by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/thesiriusreport/status/1755461402020520220

Wow: this was the reason the Special Counsel gave for why it'd be hard to get a conviction against Biden for the classified docs case. He'd seem to the jury an "elderly man with a poor memory" incapable of committing a crime "that requires a mental state of willfulness."😶 by FreedomUltd in AskALeftist

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https://nitter.cz/ggreenwald/status/1755724880094327160

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