Yousef Munayyer
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Baba. Poli Sci PhD. Thinks outside tanks, laughs at hasbara, stops pucks. Mid East, Social Justice & Sports Opinions Mine. I block trolls.
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We spend $750 billion annually on "defense" and the center of American government fell in two hours to the duck dynasty and the guy in the chewbacca bikini
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Shooting an unarmed 8 year old child in the back of the head is not a "possible" war crime. It is as war crime as it gets.
Israel accused of possible war crime over killing of West Bank boy
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If you die, in uniform, while killing brown people, you are made into a hero.
If you die, in uniform, protesting the killing of brown people, you are made to be mentally ill.
Are these the esteemed values of western "civilization"?
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When a Michelangelo with a camera captures David fighting Goliath in action.
Getty image by Mustafa Hassouna
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Reminds me of this, when Israel struck a Red Cross ambulance in Lebanon in 2006 right in the logo. There is a series of such images.
Munition dropped right through the World Central Kitchen logo
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Every child killed in Gaza today would be alive if we had a cease-fire yesterday. These are the stakes. This is our failing. You can retweet this everyday until a cease-fire happens because it remains true. How high does the pile of bodies have to get?
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We went from "Never Again" to scrolling past genocide.
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No one asks how Palestinian students are supposed to "feel safe" at institutions who invest in and profit off of the murder of their relatives.
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Amazing, emotional scenes here at Dulles as some passengers finally unite with crying relatives surrounded by protestors welcoming them.
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Journalists should remember that Israel's first response after they killed their colleague Shireen Abu-Akleh was to say Palestinians shot her. This is part of a consistent Israeli military information damage control strategy in response to such events.
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She lost them? What are they, car keys?
42 Human beings were murdered when the Israeli Military, which the British government continues to back, dropped a massive bomb on their house while they slept!
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Have died? Have died of what? Was their a random pandemic flu outbreak at the protests?
How about "Israeli military opens fire on Palestinian protesters again, killing dozens and injuring hundreds more"
Dozens of Palestinians have died in protests as the U.S. prepares to open its Jerusalem Embassy
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They attacked a funeral. The highest profile Palestinian funeral in years and for a slain journalist everyone loved and they did it on a Friday two days before Palestinians commemorate Nakba Day.
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They don't want to call Austin's white terrorist a terrorist.
Do you remember how the media, right wing media especially, covered the story of the brown 14 year old, Ahmed, who brought a clock into his Texas school to show his teacher?
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Imagine this was Georgetown or Harvard or Berkeley. Imagine this was your school.
The Israeli military just blew up the University of Palestine in Gaza City with 315 mines. All the universities in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed. We need a full academic boycott.
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What the photo alone doesn't show, which the video did, is that she reached back to initiate the handshake as they were moving her away. I took note of it as well as a remarkable scene that would undoubtedly make waves.
Israelis are going ballistic over this photo of Israeli elderly woman being freed by Hamas shaking his hand
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Did you know real professional armies get dressed up in the clothing of their female victims and take pictures
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"We've never seen white supremacist violence in New Zealand"
How exactly do you think New Zealand came to be called "New Zealand"?
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This morning I got an email from a cable news network asking me to come on to talk about the "truce" and what happens next. I told them I'd be happy to do so. Then...
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There you have it folks, when Israel is done killing hospital patients, aid workers and journalists, it is going after every terrorist on this list.
Their names are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday!
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Folks, I have done hundreds of segments, and countless ones for this same network over the years to talk about this issue. I have *never* witnessed the level of censorship and discourse policing by cable news that is taking place right now.
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They called them "human beasts" and "children of darkness". They cut water, fuel and power to all of them. They literally told hospitals they would bomb them for days. They've killed over a 1000 kids.
Now they want the benefit of the doubt.
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If Hind was a 6 year old Israeli girl and not Palestinian her harrowing story would be getting non-stop wall to wall coverage until her fate was clear but for Western media her fate is already clear; she is Palestinian and doesn't even exist.
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The Haka is not just a "ceremonial Maori dance" but a form of expression white missionary colonists tried to erase because they saw it as the practice of savages.
The very perseverance of the Haka, like its performance after these murders, embodies resistance to white supremacy.
Students in New Zealand paid a moving tribute to two of their peers who died in the Christchurch shooting. They performed a haka, a ceremonial Maori dance, to mourn the victims and honour the dead.
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I don't feel safe knowing you guys keep voting for Trump's nominees.
Do you feel safe knowing that Trump's national security advisor is under investigation for his dealings with Russia?
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She was shot in the chest.
By an Israeli sniper.
While tending to an injured protester.
Let. That. Sink. In.
Reports now that Israeli military snipers have shot and killed 21 year old Palestinian medic Razan al-Najjar in Gaza today as they brutally repressed protests once again. RIP
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In case you were wondering why the United States has failed to get the global south's support on Ukraine, it is precisely about moments like this when the US makes clear war crimes are totally acceptable if done by their friends and that international law doesn't matter.
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Netanyahu: We're going to invade Rafah.
Biden: Don't invade Rafah. That's a red line.
Netanyahu: We don't care. We are doing it anyway.
Biden: Haha, just kidding, here's billions more in weapons for your genocide.
BREAKING: Biden signs a $95 billion war aid measure with assistance for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
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Less than 24 hours since the murder of these aid works in Gaza and I'd say we're already about 5/7ths of the way through the routine.
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Read this tweet. Then read it again. And again.
Israel's supreme court rejects human rights group's request to declare it unlawful for soldiers to shoot at unarmed civilians.
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When you watch Aljazeera's coverage of this war you see comprehensive coverage that does not exist elsewhere.
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A Columbia student broke a window to stage a sit-in in a building, and an army of cops were set in against them.
At UCLA, a pro-Israel lynch mob shoots fireworks at peaceful protesters, pepper sprays them and then beats them to a pulp, and the cops are standing around watching.
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From the river to the sea, Palestinians are collectively on strike today in the largest national action in in many, many decades, perhaps since 1936.
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The whole point of trying to equate anti-zionism with antisemitism is to make the very existence of Palestinians antisemitic. Thus anyone who even dares look at them as human beings becomes an antisemite or at minimum tolerant of antisemitism. It is disgusting and must be opposed
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White Supremacy
A synagogue
A mosque
A black church
White Supremacy is what drives them to murder at these houses of worship.
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What the
@nytimes
said
@AlJazeera
said vs what
@AlJazeera
actually said.
It is really, REALLY not hard to get this right guys
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Airdropping aid while still giving Israel bombs just uses one US export to keep Palestinians alive long enough to be killed by another. This policy is a farce. End the war. End the siege. End weapons transfers to Israel.
Biden is expected to announce that the US will airdrop humanitarian aid and supplies into Gaza, according to people familiar with the plans
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This is actually quite misleading and dangerously so. I think it is worth explaining why because this apparently benign explanation actually shapes a tremendous amount of misunderstanding of Palestinians.
What Zionist means: Believes Jews have the right to self-determination and a state in their ancestral homeland.
What Zionist does not mean:
• anti-Palestinian
• anti-Palestinian state alongside Israel
• pro-war in Gaza
• Jewish
Glad we could clear that up.
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Bernie Sanders seems like the only candidate trying to beat Donald Trump while all the other Democratic primary candidates are trying to beat Bernie.
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Some want to use bad faith concerns over "genocidal" chants by college kids to distract from their support of an army that is *actually* chanting genocidal songs *while* carrying out genocide. These people are not just unserious. They are disgraceful.
Posted proudly by Bibi-affiliated journalist Yinon Magal:
"I'm coming to occupy Gaza / and beat Hezbollah / I stick by one mitzvah / to wipe off the seed of Amalek / I left home behind me / won't come back until victory / we know our slogan / there are no "uninvolved civilians"
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The Israeli Military massacred one of the few neurologists in Gaza along with his family
Our deep condolences for the tragic death of one of the few Neurologists in
#GazaStrip
, the Palestinian Dr. Moeen Alalool with his five children, as a result of the
#Israeli
bombing of his house in Wahda street in
#Gaza
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#Gaza_Under_Attack
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The Supreme Court has also ruled that:
1. Blacks can not be citizens
2. Forced sterilization was OK
3. Putting Japanese Americans in camps was cool.
4. Racial discrimination in commerce is fine.
The Supreme Court has been wrong many times before and again today
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Yasser Murtaja, Palestinian photojournalist, was murdered in Gaza today by the Israeli military with a sniper's bullet to the chest. Images from today are too graphic. Remember him as he was; a person who loved life.
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We went from Hamas would benefit from a ceasefire to Hamas would benefit from a continuation of war. It seems like they have no clue what they are doing, but with 15k dead, however you get to a call to end the war isn't super relevant, just end it now.
Hamas unleashed a terrorist attack because they fear nothing more than Israelis and Palestinians living side by side in peace.
To continue down the path of terror, violence, killing, and war is to give Hamas what they seek.
We can’t do that.
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What is so striking about this video of blatant and depraved criminality is the confidence of filming and showing the face of the soldier. It speaks to the culture of impunity for war crimes he knows he operates in.
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URGENT: The widespread hyper-dehumanization of Palestinians that is happening now from American officials and in American media is the stuff that makes genocides so much more likely. These create conditions for mass atrocities.
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History will record that the United States government celebrated with Israel in Jerusalem as it massacred scores of Palestinians in Gaza.
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Oh
@JOEL9ONE
don't forget the best one ever, when they brought this guy from Duck Dynasty on as an expert to address 'radical islam'
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Starting a war without approval of Congress seems like an impeachable offense but when it comes to war we pretty much have a one party system.
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One of the oldest churches in the world was just hit in an Israeli strike in Gaza. Hundreds were sheltering there, Muslim and Christian alike, including likely most of the entire Palestinian Christian population in Gaza.
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Wow this video from a pro-Israel protest in Rockville, MD is something
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BREAKING: Reports now of a massive massacre in Gaza after an Israeli strike hits a hospital in Gaza where hundreds were sheltered. Initial reports fear the worst.
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When they were among the survivors of the ethnic cleansing in 1948, my grandfather and young uncle at the time went to the make shift Israeli military outpost for a food ration permit, my uncle realized the commanding officer was using their stolen dinner table as his desk.
Displaying loot on prime time TV!
Friday evening news by Kan (Israeli public broadcaster) featured an item by reporter Uri Levy, where he admires a golden-framed mirror which was stolen from Khan Younis and taken to the Giv'ati Brigade war room. Looting is completely normalized.
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Confederate flags coming down, Obamacare here to stay, gay marriage legal nationwide. Fox news just lost half their viewers to heart attacks
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The entire Zionist project is based on the idea that a Jewish "right to return" didn't expire after 2000 years and that a Palestinian right to return expired immediately. The whole ideology is rooted in hypocrisy and supremacy.
Speaking at UNSC,
@giladerdan1
:
“Let me be clear: There is no ‘right of return’ [for so-called Palestinian refugees]. The demand of returning millions of descendants of descendants is a demand to obliterate the Jewish people’s right to self-determination. This'll never happen.”
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Your dad changed your family name to Netanyahu from Mileikowsky, which means from Milikow, a village in Poland.
The Palestinians’ connection to the Land of Israel is nothing compared to the 4,000 year connection that the Jewish people have with the land.
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They beat the crap out of one journalist live on CNN's air, then come for the cameraman, filming it all.
Israeli forces severely assault a Palestinian Journalist LIVE on CNN.
"SHOOT ME" the journalist screams.
They go on to punch, strangle, weapon butt, throw him to the floor, kick him in the face, and eventually hospitalise him.
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This kind of incitement is vile and dangerous, especially after several students were shot for wearing kuffiyehs. People spewing it will have blood on their hands.
The person who runs the organization that posted this offensive and outrageous statement is on the board of
@DemMaj4Israel
— aka AIPAC4Democrats.
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I will never not cry when I think about how the Israeli military murdered these 4 boys playing soccer on the beach in Gaza 6 years ago today.
Mohamad would have been 17 today
Ahed would have been 16 today
Zakaria would have been 16 today
Ismail would have been 15 today
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In case you ever wonder why no Israeli-Palestinian peace process has succeeded, it's because the world is told that the only country allowed to mediate it is the single country on earth most biased in favor of Israel.
#BREAKING
United States vetoes Security Council draft resolution that would have demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, and immediate and unconditional release of all hostages
VOTE
In Favour: 13
Against: 1 (US)
Abstain: 1 (UK)
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Today in Apartheid
This is happening right now in Silwan. Israel is demolishing a home because it’s owners are Palestinian. This is the front line of Israeli apartheid and ethnic cleansing
#FreePalaestine
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That it took the Israeli Military massacring 3 of their hostages for people to raise questions about their conduct when the killing of thousands of Palestinian civilians have been excused speaks volumes about the racism that makes this all possible.
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Years of war crimes
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Wael Dahdouh, whose family was killed in an Israeli strike yesterday, is back on air reporting out of "an obligation to cover this historic story despite everything"
There are journos sacrificing everything to cover this and journos sacrificing their conscience to cover it up
أول رسالة صحفية من الأستاذ وائل الدحدوح بعد أن قتلت قوات الاحتلال الصهيوني عائلته.
لم يمض 24 ساعة على حزنه.. التغطية مستمرة من غزة
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They starved them en masse then massacred them when they came to finally recieve some food. This is an evil crime atop a massive pile of evil crimes.
BREAKING: Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 70 people were killed and 280 were wounded in a strike on a crowd of Palestinians waiting for humanitarian aid.
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THIS is what resistance looks like!
After Israel demolished their brand new EU funded school, Palestinian kids showed up for class anyway
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Worth pointing out here that Israeli media is not disputing the death toll in Gaza, they are merely justifying the killing of thousands of innocent men, women and children by calling them all "terrorists"
The Israeli TV is saying that they killed 7546 “terrorists”.
I happen to know 14 of these terrorists.
These are my nieces and nephews whose age range between 1 to 13 years.
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When people respond to horrified outrage over the mass killing of civilian life and infrastructure in Gaza by saying things like "Hamas can end this tomorrow" they are clearly endorsing a strategy of targeting civilians to achieve a war aim. They are endorsing war crimes.
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Six minutes after sending that email, I got an email back with this "sincere apologies but due to a last-minute change in plans with the show team, we will have to stand down on this request for today."
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There are Abu Ghraib like videos circulating of Israeli soldiers abusing Palestinians stripped naked and bound, not in Gaza but in the West Bank. This is the military financed by the US which is killing thousands in Gaza.
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As a Palestinian I can tell you this much, if pictures of dead kids really did stir global conscience, Palestine would've been free long ago
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This is a stunningly irresponsible and misleading headline. Israel shot dozens of unarmed Palestinian protestors in Gaza on Friday and killed 4 Palestinians, including two protesters, in Gaza before any projectiles were launched.
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It is a stunning indictment of the western media discourse on this, which is filled with belligerency, that some of the most powerful statements against the continued war on Gaza are coming from Israelis who've lost relatives in the last few days.
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Tijuana (left), Gaza (right)
I bet the tear gas canisters come from the same place.
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To call this "unprovoked", as the initial WH statement did, is to ignore the daily and constant Israeli violence and war crimes against Palestinians which has only escalated in recent years. It is language that erases Palestinians and enables continued violence against them.
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JOURNOS: Understand that you are doing a great disservice when you liken these scenes to the "middle east". Not only is it orientalist, it further prevents Americans from understanding their own country's long & deep history of political violence that is far more relevant.
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"This morning two unarmed Palestinian children were shot and killed by the Israeli military in occupied Jenin highlighting how even in a moment of "cease-fire" unending military occupation continues to claim the lives of Palestinians."
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If you are more offended when people compare genocides than when they conduct them, it seems never again isn't really your thing.
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Believe it or not, the Israeli military is ONCE AGAIN saying it likely shot a Palestinian girl in the head, killing her, and did so on accident.
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"There is no military solution to this issue, the only path forward is one based on addressing the root causes which are the denial of basic rights to Palestinians."
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Accusing Palestinians of "dying for photo ops" "human sacrifice" and "dead baby strategy" is nothing more than a calculated effort to dehumanize Palestinians & suggest they don't care about life so their lives don't matter. This racist garbage should be called out for what it is
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What is weirder, keeping a detailed calander as a 17 year old or hanging onto your high school calendars for 40 years?
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"The Israeli government, led by Netanyahu, sold Israelis the notion that they could have unending occupation and security at the same time. This was always untrue but it became undeniable on Oct 7th...
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This is beyond parody. Absolutely embarrassing for the United States. Around the globe people are wondering what planet our officials are looking at our world from.
NSC Spokesperson John Kirby: There is no evidence that Israel deliberately struck and killed WCK aid workers in Gaza.
Kirby adds that to date, the US has found no instances where Israel has violated international humanitarian law in their war with Hamas.
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So, something Israel has been consistently refusing to do suddenly happens once there is a prospect of consequences. Remarkable, perhaps there is a lesson here that should be applied consistently to Israeli behavior.
BREAKING: The Israeli security cabinet approved the opening of the Erez crossing with the Gaza strip for the first time since October 7 in order to allow more humanitarian aid to go in, Israeli official said
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The amount of this sort of thing we know about now will pale in comparison to the amount we ultimately find out about.
The UN “has received disturbing information alleging that Israeli Defence Forces summarily killed at least 11 unarmed Palestinian men in front of their family members in […] Gaza City, which raises alarm about the possible commission of a war crime.”
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Shout out to the WKCR student reporters who are putting many national media outlets to shame and doing an incredible job under extreme pressure
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These Israeli hostages survived two months in captivity and were killed the minute they ran into the Israeli troops by the military supposedly sent there to save them. This is a killing machine and the only reason your finding out is because these civilians were Israeli.
The 3 Israeli hostages who were killed Friday by the IDF were shirtless and waving a white flag when they were shot, the IDF says. The soldiers also heard a cry for help in Hebrew. “This was against our rules of engagement,” IDF said today.
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..Netanyahu knows his political career and his government's days are numbered and he is hoping to put off the day after the war as long as possible. The US must not accept that."
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These NINE People:
Jeff Bezos
Bill Gates
Warren Buffet
Bernard Arnault
Mark Zuckerberg
Amancio Ortega
Carlos Slim
Charles Koch
David Koch
Have more wealth than ~ 4 BILLION People
If economic inequality isn't at the center of your agenda, be sure it is at the center of theirs
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People don't want to talk about this but for a very long time Israel's policy has been to keep Hamas in charge of a besieged and starved Gaza so nothing else could change
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy"
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I've seen nearly no coverage of the bombing of the church in Gaza and no condemnation from American officials who are backing this bombardment. Another green light for genocide.
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"They are armed with cameras"
Every journalist should read this.
This is the Israeli Military
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Cool, do Israel next.
Follow the money: How the Saudis influence U.S. politics
@jaketapper
reports
@TheLeadCNN
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War Criminal
Netanyahu: “We will not allow humanitarian assistance in the form of food and medicines from our territory to the Gaza strip”
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If you are uncomfortable with seeing military deploy in American streets this week just imagine what living under foreign military occupation for half a century feels like.
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It amazing how CNN goes from 24/7 "you can't believe anything you hear from the Trump administration" to unquestioning presentation of their propaganda the minute they drop bombs on brown people.
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