Omar Baddar عمر بدّار
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Progressive; political analyst (US/Middle East, Palestine/Israel). Formerly @theIMEU / @AAIUSA / @AJStream . Into MMA. Views are mine. 🇵🇸🇺🇸
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Palestine/Israel remains the ONLY contemporary context in which media discourse is obsessed with the invaders & occupiers’ right to “self defense” against the people they’re oppressing, but NEVER a word about the right of the occupied to defend themselves from their oppressors.
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It's strange to be Israel: You violate a mountain of UN resolutions, condemn the UN at every turn, bomb UN schools & shelters, murder UN employees, & then you demand a UN meeting over another country responding to your bombing of their consulate 🤯
BREAKING: Israel calls for an emergency meeting of the UN security council over the Iranian attack
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Palestinians don’t get the luxury of being a-political.
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If this statistic still leaves you unaware of what Israel is trying to do, then you simply don’t want to understand.
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This is incredibly insightful about how desperate life in Gaza is right now:
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I wonder what they’re hiding & worried might come to light 🤔
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If 4 Israeli teens were murdered by Hamas today, it would be the top headline on every single mainstream network, & US politicians would compete in bloodthirsty calls for vengeance.
But it's Israel killing Palestinian kids in a "ceasefire," so it doesn't even merit a mention.
Israeli forces killed four Palestinian boys in the occupied West Bank in the last 24 hours: Ahmad Mohammad Hamed Abu Al-Haija, 16; Mahmoud Khaled Mahmoud Abu Al-Haija, 17; Ammar Mohammad Faisal Abu Al-Wafa, 14; and Mohammad Riad Fathi Saleh Farhan, 15.
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“Most signed anonymously for fear of losing their jobs.” Reflect for a moment on the fact that we live in a country where people who don’t want thousands of children to be slaughtered have to hide, while those cheering on this massacre can do it out in the open.
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Israeli officials didn't want depictions of the true story of what happened to Palestinians in 1948 to be shown on Netflix. But Netflix stood firm & released 'Farha' today. Watch it!
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How do I explain to the rest of the world that I live in a place where saying “free Palestine” is a genocidal threat, but carpet bombing an entire society, murdering them at a rate of 10,000 per month, & starving their children is celebrated & rewarded w/$billions in weapons?
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As Biden bombs Yemen over shipping freedom, remember this:
When Israeli commandos boarded a Turkish humanitarian ship that aimed to break the starvation siege on Gaza to deliver food & medicine in 2010, they MURDERED AN AMERICAN CITIZEN on board, & the US didn't move a finger.
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Seriously, just a couple of minutes to watch this:
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In over 30 years, no one has killed journalists at the rate Israel is currently killing them (not to mention their families) in Gaza.
Israel killed yet another Palestinian journalist - now 36. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists “The Israel-Gaza war has become the deadliest period for journalists covering conflict since CPJ began documenting journalist fatalities in 1992.”
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This is on the milder side of abuse, but it’s worth highlighting b/c there is no pretense here that this guy is even suspected of anything. This is just the baseline daily treatment of ordinary Palestinians under Israeli occupation to remind them they have no freedom or rights.
📹 A bunch of heavily armed Israeli soldiers humiliate and step on a gas station employee near Al-Fawwar Refugee Camp, Hebron, occupied West Bank.
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Israel just killed 500+ Palestinians in an instant in one hospital bombing. Thousands of civilians had taken shelter in this hospital.
I feel like I'm living a nightmare & can't wake up. Why is my government supporting this genocidal war on Palestinians in Gaza? STOP THIS NOW!
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Israel just murdered a 17-year-old American citizen. There will be no effort at meaningful accountability because U.S. policy on Israel is so deeply broken!
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13 year old Palestinian boy was raped in an Israeli prison. When the US State Department raised the incident with the Israeli government, the Israeli government stole
@DCIPalestine
's computers & declared them a terrorist entity for daring to bring the incident to light.
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Americans can identify with being at a music festival (part of our normal life), so they see themselves in the victims who were gunned down there. But they can't identify with being stuck in a concentration camp of 2 million people that's besieged by an apartheid government for…
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Crickets from the free speech warriors most concerned with cancel culture…
The comments that reportedly led to Melissa Barrera being fired from ‘Scream 7’ were:
“Gaza is currently being treated like a concentration camp. Cornering everyone together, with nowhere to go, no electricity no water...people are still silently watching it all happen. THIS IS…
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Israel murdered 700 Palestinians in the last 24 hours. This headline is nowhere to be seen on a single US media outlet.
If 700 Israelis were killed today, EVERY outlet would lead with it as their top headline.
This deplorable media climate has no regard for Palestinian life.
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Netanyahu knows he’s about to commit an unprecedented massacre in Gaza. He knows civilians in Gaza have nowhere to go because Israel has them trapped under siege. This meaningless “leave now” nonsense is for fooling uninformed people into thinking he cares about civilians.
BREAKING: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Palestinian civilians in Gaza to “leave now” because the Israeli military is going to “turn all Hamas hiding places into rubble”
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Wall-to-wall coverage of Israelis experiencing for a few hours what Palestinians have continuously experienced decade after decade is incredibly telling about the discrepancy in the value of human life in our corporate news.
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CNN anchor discovers the intent of Israel's war crimes in Gaza after a retired US General says the quiet part our loud:
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BREAKING: AOC just gave a powerful speech demanding a suspension in the transfer of U.S. weapons to Israel. "If you want to know what an unfolding genocide looks like, open your eyes!"
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@atrupar
You in 1950: “Jim Crow is complicated. Conflict between White & Black people in America has been going on for a long time. This isn’t a simple story of good vs evil. My nuanced centrist position is hated both by white supremacists & by equality advocates, so it must be right.”
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This is just a lie! It’s not just about “crossing into Israel,” it’s a full air & sea blockade (airport destroyed, shores blocked). The last time a Turkish ship tried to deliver humanitarian supplies to Gaza, the Israeli navy murdered 9 ppl on board, including a U.S. citizen.
Remember when they say Gaza is an "open air prison"--they mean Israel has restrictions for Gazans crossing *into Israel*.
Israel places no restrictions on Gaza's southern border with Egypt--but Egypt frequently does.
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Scary stat:
In just 1 WEEK, Israel killed 724 Palestinian children in Gaza.
In ONE WHOLE YEAR, Russia killed 487 children in Ukraine.
Israel is killing children in Gaza at a rate 100x greater than that of Russia's killing of children in Ukraine. Will the media tell you this?
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THREAD: As you watch news in Gaza & Israel today, keep 1 thing in mind: The largest terrorist org in all of Palestine & Israel (known as the Israeli military) has killed thousands of Palestinian civilians in hundreds of raids into Palestinian towns over the past decade. 1/4
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Absolutely TERRIFYING video of California woman (Rebecca Hacket) driving through the raging fire:
@joerogan
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Louder please so the International Court of Justice can hear you!
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Watch this: Florida State Rep
@AngieNixon
asked how many dead Palestinians is enough, & Republican
@michellesalzman
responded: "All of them."
In this sick moment in this country, elected officials everywhere are openly endorsing genocide of Palestinians.
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Nothing to see here, folks, just the speaker of the House explaining that we have a biblical duty to arm a genocidal army that has killed 15,000 children in the past 6 months.
Speaker Mike Johnson, on NEWSMAX promoting his war funding bill: "For those of us who are believers, it's a Biblical admonition to stand with Israel"
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They're saying "Hamas targets," but they're showing you entire city blocks reduced to rubble, where 500 Palestinian children have been killed. This is terrorism. The Israeli military's terrorism is the greatest killer of children in all of Palestine & Israel combined.
Dozens of fighter jets and helicopters attacked a series of terrorist targets of the Hamas terrorist organization throughout the Gaza Strip.
So far, the IAF has dropped about 6,000 bombs against Hamas targets.
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I was recently booked & repeatedly confirmed on a major network. Day of, I was asked to summarize what I planned to say. When I obliged (US shouldn’t support war crimes, we need a cease fire, Palestinians need freedom, etc.), the producer said they could no longer squeeze me in.
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I've ignored
@nasdaily
forever because his content was largely apolitical, but his video yesterday on Palestine & Israel was so absurd, it merited a response:
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20 years ago today, an American young woman (23 yrs old) was run over and killed in Gaza by an Israeli military bulldozer as she protested the Israeli war crime of demolishing the homes of Palestinian civilians. The US government never sought justice for this crime.
#RachelCorrie
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1) Status quo: occupation/apartheid is violence against Palestinians
2) Then Israel escalates through evictions/beatings/shootings
3) Then some Palestinians respond w/violence
4) Then Israel "responds" w/massacres
If u start reporting at
#3
, you're misleading your audience.
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This slip by Regev is consequential because US media displayed Israeli evidence of burnt Israeli bodies from October 7th as evidence of uniquely evil crimes by Hamas.
But if Hamas fighters & Israelis were indistinguishably charred in mass numbers, who the hell killed them & how?
Interesting! Israel now admits some 200 of the bodies they said were Israelis turned out to be "so badly burned" bodies of "Hamas terrorists"!
The question then is: who burned them?!?
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THREAD: As the Israeli military invades Gaza on Eid, there are 5 things to keep in mind:
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If a Russian soldier had scuffled with & then killed a young man in Ukraine, NOT A SINGLE U.S. MEDIA OUTLET would describe the occupying Russian soldier as "police" or the Ukrainian victim as "the suspect." But Israel's illegal occupation is always given a pass in coverage.
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Timeline on repeat:
• Israel commits massacre
• Israel denies massacre
• Media says we don’t know who committed massacre
• investigation reveals Israel committed massacre
• News cycle moves on
• average person doesn’t know Israel systematically committing massacres.
CNN’s analysis of dozens of videos and testimonies from 22 eyewitnesses’ casts doubt on the Israeli military's timeline of February 29, when more than 100 people were killed and 700 injured during a food aid delivery southwest of Gaza City.
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When it's Palestinian hostages held by Israel, no one gives a damn.
Palestinian released from Israeli prison describes beatings, sexual abuse and torture .
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Breaking down Destiny's grift, & exposing his intellectual dishonesty in the aftermath of our "debate" on Palestine & Israel:
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Unacceptable!! Bethlehem is in the Palestinian territories which Israel illegally occupies (Katie Needle got the correct answer & was robbed).
@Jeopardy
owes an apology for endorsing Israel's universally-condemned illegal takeover of Palestinian lands.
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US Secretary of State
@ABlinken
thinks denying heat, water, & electricity to children is barbaric... But only when Russia does it to Ukraine. When Israel does it to Palestinian children? He supports it 100%.
The sheer hypocrisy of the ghouls who run our foreign policy is beneath…
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@benshapiro
You so lack self-awareness that you actually forgot one: Do not share videos promoting the shooters ideology, like (for example) a video by Ben Shapiro claiming that the majority of Muslims are dangerous radicals.
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The climate in America is wonderful now!
@Ash_Prashar
isn't even Palestinian, but his kuffiyeh scarf was enough to get this racist, entitled woman to physically attack him & throw hot coffee at him & his 16-month old child, whom she wished would "burn in an oven."
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If Hamas militants had taken over a synagogue and did this, it would dominate the headlines for a week. But I'm fine with this being ignored, just please cover Israel's deliberate slaughter and starvation of civilians with a little more clarity, & that'll be good enough!
Israeli troops took over a Palestinian mosque in Jenin and have filmed themselves chanting Jewish prayers on the mosque loudspeaker.
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If 200 Israelis were murdered in the last 24 hrs, it would be the top headline on every mainstream US media outlet. But it's Palestinians getting killed, so it's nowhere to be seen on US networks. When the victims are invisible, it's easier for monstrous policies to continue.
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In honor of Jon Stewart's impending return to the Daily Show, some of his best hits on Palestine:
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It is increasingly difficult to remain diplomatic in the face of this glaring & utterly shameless hypocrisy.
The U.S. strongly condemns Russia’s horrific strikes across Ukraine today. As Putin continues his brutal war of aggression, we must support Ukraine in defending itself. Congress needs to act in the new year.
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For the record, Israel killed 63 Palestinians in Gaza in the last 24 hours.
In any other context, that’s a horrific & unspeakable massacre. But in the context of Israel’s genocide, that’s apparently “low intensity.”
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A quick thread on Gaza.
4 Palestinian protesters killed in Gaza by Israel on Friday, BEFORE rocket fire out of Gaza. But what are today's headlines?
CNN: "430 rockets fired from Gaza, Israel responds with airstrikes"
BBC: "Gaza rocket barrage prompts Israel strikes" (1/?)
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Powerful interview tonight with Tariq Habash who resigned from the Biden administration today in protest of the president's support for Israel's atrocities in Gaza and beyond (Thank you
@tariqhabash_
for your courage!):
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@emilykschrader
@AOC
She doesn’t have to be an expert to know that Israel is an apartheid state, in the same way it doesn’t take a lawyer to know that murder is illegal, nor a doctor to know that cancer is bad, & it certainly doesn’t take a mechanic to know that this car is undrivable.
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A few quotes to remember:
Ben Shapiro: "above 800 million Muslims are radicalized...that's a majority"
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: "every devout Muslim...must have at least approved of [9/11]"
Brigitte Gabriel: "A practicing Muslim...cannot be a loyal citizen to the US"
#Christchurch
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“Ceasefire” = temporary halt to the mass slaughter & a return to the lower intensity violence of Israeli occupation, ethnic cleansing & apartheid that deprives Palestinians of freedom, dignity, security, or the pursuit of happiness.
We remain far from justice.
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@davidfrum
Israel killed thousands of Palestinian civilians during its ongoing 17 year siege on Gaza, & killed 250+ Palestinians in the WB just this year prior to October 7.
If you think this “started” on Oct 7, you either don’t know or don’t care about Israel’s killing of Palestinians.
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Jon Stewart delivered incredibly smart, funny, & spot-on political commentary tonight, including on Israel's massacre in Gaza:
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I dream of the day armed Palestinian resistance to foreign invaders & occupiers in their homeland is treated by American media with the same sympathy & lionization that Ukrainian resistance is rightly portrayed.
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@SecBlinken
The hypocrisy, indecency, & lack of integrity demonstrated by this administration as it utters lofty rhetoric about human rights while enabling some of the worst atrocities against Palestinians in Gaza is beyond contemptible.
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Quick thread of videos showing what Palestinians are facing right now:
Here, Palestinian children (citizens of Israel btw) break down crying as an Israeli mob tries to break into their home in Haifa:
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@benshapiro
Yes, observing reality is totally blood libel.
The mass starvation and destruction of Gaza & the indiscriminate slaughter of its children by the thousands is an act of incredible kindness & goodwill by Israel. To think otherwise is blatant antisemitism.
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Remember when CNN fired Marc Lamont Hill for saying free Palestine? Meanwhile, this blatantly racist smear against a sitting member of Congress has yet to be addressed.
CNN pundit calls Democratic Rep.
@IlhanMN
a “public relations agent for Hamas” with no push back.
Islamophobia is not only normalized in American politics, it’s rewarded.
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This is a big deal! Bernie Sanders says we can't keep giving unconditional funding to Israel's racist, anti-Palestinian government, & adds that he's considering legislation to that effect. Anyone who claims to be a progressive or cares about human rights must support this effort!
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1) Israel isn't "responding" to violence, Israel is the initiator of violence, by virtue of being an occupying power over the Palestinian territories, including Gaza.
Before a single rocket was fired, Palestinians in Gaza were already suffocating under a brutal siege.
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South Africa's case against Israel lacks evidence: All it shows is that Israeli leaders said they will commit genocide, that Israel's military proceeded to commit genocide, & that Israeli soldiers are openly celebrating the genocide they're committing. How's that evidence enough?
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US Members of Congress are literally covering for genocidal Israeli violence in Gaza by comparing the innocent victims to Nazis. I have never seen a more openly racist and murderous climate in this country in my lifetime than in this disgusting moment!
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Keep in mind the Palestinian child is on his land, and the armed invader is participating in illegal land theft. This is what it means to be a Palestinian under Israeli occupation.
A 6 year-old Palestinian child was detained this morning by an armed settler guard while grazing his family’s sheep outside of the village of Khan al-Ahmar.
Two women from the village were arrested when they arrived to free him.
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The dominant political establishment & media narrative on the killing of Israeli civilians: “No matter what Israel did, nothing justifies Hamas’s killing of civilians!”
Same people: “Given what Hamas did, you can’t blame Israel for its mass bombing of Palestinian civilians!” 🤬
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@TomiLahren
You're like a racism parody, except you're serious! This "if only Black people acted more like us White folk, everything would be great" is obvious garbage! The REASON "the talk" is different for Black America is PRECISELY because of systemic racist violence, you clueless dolt.
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@benandjerrys
Thank you for 2 things:
1) Thank you for displaying consistency in your commitment to international law & human rights by correcting your policy.
2) Thank you for braving the ugly & hysterical smears you'll undoubtedly receive for this basic decency & common sense move.
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Now they’re bombing orphanages. There really aren’t words left to describe this cruelty, or to describe the moral bankruptcy of people who defend these monstrous policies.
Breaking | Israeli airstrikes target the gates of Al-Amal Orphanage Institute on Wahda Street in Gaza City.
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@charliekirk11
No President has degraded women more than the orange one you support, so your hypocrisy here isn't missed on anyone whose IQ is above average room temperature (lucky for you, that's a high bar for most of your followers).
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Israeli military: "We're not taking chances, we don't care about accuracy, we're destroying absolutely everything & killing anything that moves."
US politicians: "Israel does everything it can to avoid civilian casualties."
The definition of gaslighting!
“We are not taking any chances,” said Amir Avivi, former deputy commander of the Gaza Division of Israel’s military. “When our soldiers are manoeuvring we are doing this with massive artillery, with 50 aeroplanes overhead destroying anything that moves.”
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@benshapiro
Remember how you keep saying the left are a bunch of snowflakes who level frivolous charges of racism at anyone who says something they don’t like?
Have you looked at a mirror lately?
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MORAL HYPOCRISY QUIZ:
Are you outraged by Hamas's kidnapping of Israeli civilians, but completely indifferent to the thousands of Palestinian civilians held by Israel w/out charge or trial, & the hundreds of Palestinian children currently in Israeli military detention?
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My appearance on MSNBC, explaining why
@RashidaTlaib
&
@IlhanMN
are victims of a smear campaign & how no American should accept Israel's mistreatment of them:
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“There are people throughout the government who have repeatedly tried to use every avenue available to raise concerns b/c they care about this country… What the President is doing, by ignoring the will of the people… is undermining America.” -
@tariqhabash_
(who resigned today)
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In honor of Jon Stewart's return to the Daily Show tonight, here's Jon on Palestine & Israel over the years:
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Israel's "exemption" for
@RashidaTlaib
doesn't convey generosity, it only highlights a disconcerting reality where an American lawmaker must restrict her free speech in order to be allowed to visit her family in lands unlawfully controlled by Israel.
#FreePalestine
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Remember when pro-Israel groups were recruiting people of "Middle Eastern appearance" to "embed" themselves "undercover" in Palestine solidarity demonstrations "masked" and in Kuffiyehs?
Keep that in mind when you see heavily disguised protesters yelling inflammatory things that…
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For those wondering whether they should speak up and how much effort they should put into trying to stop Israel's genocidal violence in Gaza, I want to point you to the words of Rachel Corrie from 20+ years ago; words she wrote to her parents in the US a month before the Israeli…
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Hi Joe, if the openly racist, child-starving, journalist-targeting, civilian-bombing apartheid gov of Israel is somehow not responsible for an attack that's straight out of their playbook, yes I'd take this back. But 1st, a review of Israel's lies to avoid accountability [THREAD]
If it turns out Israel wasn’t responsible for the hospital bombing, and Hamas was, will you apologize for this tweet? And, respectfully, why did you tweet this out before knowing for certain who’s responsible for the bombing?
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@piersmorgan
@normfinkelstein
Norman showed the patience of a saint & the discipline of a man of integrity who actually cares about the merits of the argument & the people impacted by the horror. Shmuley is a distasteful character who is there to “perform” by vomiting an avalanche of lies & personal insults.
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3) As Israel massacres civilians in Gaza, you'll hear about how it's an accident because militants use them as human shields. THAT'S A LIE. Human rights organizations have documented a pattern of Israel using "reckless & indiscriminate" bombing of civilian areas to punish people.
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QUICK THREAD on the Israel/UAE normalization of relations: 1) There is nothing "historic" or "groundbreaking" about this agreement: Israel & the UAE have been strong allies under the table for many years! This is merely making that friendship public (which is still interesting).
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This is an extremely serious escalation. Bombing Beirut or its suburbs had long been declared a red line by Hezbollah that would necessitate significant retaliation. All eyes on Lebanon now.
Lebanon state media says Israeli drone targeted Hamas office in Beirut's southern suburb - Reuters News
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Israeli soldiers & settlers murdered 110 Palestinians in the West Bank (not Gaza) in the last 3 weeks.
No media interviews with their families, no tears from anchors, no stories about their lives under military occupation, & no statements of solidarity from companies.
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We’ve normalized the mass murder of Palestinians, so headlines like these don’t make it to mainstream U.S. outlets, but remember that if 132 Israelis were murdered today, it would be the top story on every network & would dominate the commentary of our elected officials.
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"9 in 10 people in northern Gaza are no longer eating every day."
@JoeBiden
complicity in this atrocity is simply unforgivable!
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I have officially spoken to the dumbest & most ridiculous show on the planet about Gaza. To be in the midst of one of the biggest & most horrific crises of our lifetimes, and then to see this kind of pathetic & unserious coverage is an indictment of the whole media environment.
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