Caitlin Johnstone
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Biden Wanted To Sanction An Israeli Battalion But He Didn’t Because Israel Said No
The Biden administration has reportedly canned its plans to issue sanctions on an extremist IDF unit for human rights violations in the occupied West Bank, following backlash from Israel and its…
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That image right there has been the recurring nightmare of every king, emperor, oligarch and tyrant throughout history. Our entire civilization has been structured around keeping us from noticing how easy it is.
NOW - Protesters storm the presidential palace in Sri Lanka's capital.
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Israel: You guys need to evacuate that hospital or you'll get killed.
Palestinians: We can't evacuate the hospital, it's a hospital.
*powerful missile hits hospital*
Israel: ...
Israel: ...
Israel: It was the Palestinians.
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The western press have been finding themselves in the uncomfortable position of having to do reporting next to the middle easterners they've been lying about for generations, and discovering that a lot of those middle easterners speak English and have a few things to say.
"No, we ask YOU to condemn!"
An Egyptian woman at the Rafah crossing exposes western media hypocrisy on Palestine.
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Yeah yeah. The hospitals are Hamas, the ambulances are Hamas, the UN buildings are Hamas, South Africa is Hamas. Everyone we don't like is Hamas.
BREAKING: "It is a matter of public record, that South Africa enjoys close relations with Hamas"
Tal Becker, representing Israel at the
#ICJ
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Probably not great for Israeli PR that the IDF shot and bombed the hostages while Hamas treated them nicely.
"why did you shake the hands of the Hamas fighter?"
- "Because they treated us *very* nicely."
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Hamas terrorists are in the ambulances. Hamas terrorists are in the hospitals. Hamas terrorists are underneath the refugee camps. Hamas terrorists are behind the children.
Maybe they're just massacring civilians.
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He did it. Aaron Bushnell forced this to happen. He did something so jarring and impactful that the mass media would be forced to report the raw facts about it if they want to avoid internal conflict like CNN and NYT have been experiencing in recent weeks. He left them no choice.
I can't believing I'm saying this, but Aaron Bushnell's last words were just read live on CNN.
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They're just insulting our intelligence at this point.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog seeks to justify his mass killing of Palestinian children by holding up the book Mein Kampf and claiming it was found in a "children's living room."
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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.
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The ten dumbest things we're being asked to believe about Gaza:
1. That Israel had no idea what Hamas was up to prior to October 7, but ever since October 7 has known about every hospital, mosque, school, refugee camp and water tower that Hamas is hiding in.
2. That the blame…
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What the fuck. WHAT THE FUCK.
On Sunday in Balata refugee camp, Israeli forces released a military dog on 4-year-old Ibrahim Hashash, who suffered internal and external injuries after the dog tore off his clothes and bit him for at least three minutes.
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"This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal."
~ Aaron Bushnell
A picture showing aid drops and Israeli airstrikes targeting civilian areas in northern Gaza at the same time.
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UNRWA is Hamas. The hospitals are Hamas. The ambulances are Hamas. The journalists are Hamas. The schools are Hamas. South Africa is Hamas. People tweeting unfavorable things about Israel are Hamas. Basically everyone Israel and its supporters want killed is Hamas.
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I used to be pro-Palestinian. I thought Israel was wrong for carpet bombing Gaza and using siege warfare on civilians.
But then I ran into a very wise Israel apologist who changed my way of looking at things forever.
I was walking down the street and I saw him leaning against a…
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In case you missed it there's an overwhelming amount of evidence that many of the horrific acts Hamas is accused of committing on October 7 (burning people alive, burning babies, mowing down concertgoers, etc) were actually the result of indiscriminate fire by Israeli forces.
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@elonmusk
Chanting 'from the river to the sea implies genocide.'
But when Israeli officials openly call for genocide in Gaza and then actually begin to carry out that genocide… that's not genocide.
Got it 👍🏽
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This has been an extraordinarily dangerous year for press around the world. Many killed, many more wounded, hundreds detained, attacked, threatened, injured – simply for doing their jobs. I am profoundly grateful to the press for getting accurate, timely information to people.
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Sane person: Stop murdering thousands of children.
Crazy person: You hate me because of my religion.
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No no you don't understand, the side that's killing babies and incinerating families and assassinating journalists and starving civilians and bombing cultural heritage sites and carpet bombing entire neighborhoods and driving an indigenous people off their land are the GOOD guys.
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Crazy how last week Israel had no idea what Hamas was up to and this week they know every hospital, mosque and school Hamas is hiding in.
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Fifteen things you should never have to say to a country:
1. Stop bombing children.
2. Don't kill journalists.
3. Don't bomb hospitals.
4. Don't shoot patients through their hospital window.
5. Don't drive bulldozers over dead bodies.
6. Don't bomb ambulances.
7. Don't do ethnic…
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Holy fucking shit. This is the single largest escalation in online censorship that has ever happened. Just outright suppressing normal political speech on completely false grounds.
As I said earlier this week, “decolonization”, “from the river to the sea” and similar euphemisms necessarily imply genocide.
Clear calls for extreme violence are against our terms of service and will result in suspension.
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Israel: Our intelligence services had no idea Hamas was planning its attack on October 7.
Also Israel: Here's an audio clip from our intelligence archives of Hamas fighters talking to each other.
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Oh yeah well my six month-old baby just said "Israel is an abusive apartheid state that cannot exist without nonstop war and violence which is exactly why the US empire uses it as a military and intelligence proxy in a geostrategically crucial region it must dominate by force."
“I don’t want to be Jewish. They don’t shoot non-Jews.” - my four year old
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Democrats were happy to have a Palestinian woman in congress until they found out she was the "Palestinians are human beings" kind of Palestinian and not just the "Look how diverse and inclusive Democrats are" kind.
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Israel supporters are some of the worst people on earth. I've clashed with damn near every political faction in the English-speaking world over the years and I've never encountered any so immoral, dishonest and outright malicious as those who defend the apartheid state of Israel.
There were some really nasty, hateful people at the pro-Israel rally. Check it out.
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Last month I said there's evidence that many of the atrocities Hamas is accused of committing on October 7 like burning people alive were actually instances of indiscriminate Israeli fire, and people called me an antisemitic Holocaust denier. Yesterday an Israeli official…
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"This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal."
~ Aaron Bushnell
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Turns out “Israel has a right to defend itself” actually meant “Israel has a right to commit genocide, and no other countries have a right to stop it.”
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Unforgivable journalistic malpractice to publish a headline like this.
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Sometimes Israel’s crimes are so horrific that at first you don’t even understand what you’re looking at. You just stare at it trying to make sense of what you’re seeing for a bit, like you would if you suddenly saw a space alien or a leprechaun or something.
It happened to me…
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The Most American Thing That Has Ever Happened
A man set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington today. He said he did it in protest of the genocide in Gaza.
Independent journalist Talia Jane reports that she was able to obtain footage of the incident, which…
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Crenshaw: [Chinese citizens] must cooperate with Chinese intelligence whenever they are called upon, and if they are called upon they're bound to secrecy. That would include you.
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew: I'm Singaporean.
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You're laughing. Twenty-eight Israeli soldiers just got blown up planting explosives in Gazan buildings and you're laughing.
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However Bad You Think Israel Is, It's Worse
"So it turns out the IDF has been running a Telegram channel featuring homemade snuff films in which Gazans are brutally murdered by Israeli forces, captioned with celebrations of the gore and pain therein."
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The international symbol for "You're about to read a really stupid tweet."
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Israel supporter: [Walks up to a guy at a restaurant, grabs his sandwich, starts eating it.]
Guy: Hey!
Israel supporter: What?
Guy: That's my sandwich!
Israel supporter [still eating]: Sandwich? What sandwich?
Guy: Right there! You're eating it right now!
Israel supporter:…
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I am so fucking done with people handwringing about October 7 while Israel has been October 7ing the Gazans every day since.
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We're meant to accept that it's fine and normal for Israelis to hate the Palestinians they're murdering and oppressing so much that they cheer for their deaths, but it's outrageous and unforgivable that the Palestinians who are being murdered and oppressed hate them back.
Article from 2014 shows the level of dehumanization taking root in Israel as average people cheer the bombing of Gaza while partying from a nearby hilltop. Helps explain how the mass killing of 5,000 children in Gaza can happen.
Partying like this is not just wrong. It's sick.⬇️
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A US serviceman self-immolating in front of the Israeli embassy in protest of the Gaza genocide while a first responder screams at police to stop pointing their guns at his burning body and go grab fire extinguishers just might be the most American thing that has ever happened.
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Aaron Bushnell did not commit suicide. Suicide is something one does when they don't want to be alive anymore. Bushnell would've been happy to go on living, but he saw Gaza as more important than his own life. His death was exactly what he said it was: an extreme act of protest.
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Imagine being held hostage by Hamas for months, finally escaping, trying to make your way back home, and then getting killed by your own military forces because they mistook you for Palestinian civilians.
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Biden could end this with one phone call. With. One. Phone. Call. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either lying or ignorant. This mass slaughter is happening because Washington wants it to happen.
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If you're among the millions of people who are coming to realize that the western political/media class have been lying to you about Israel-Palestine this entire time, you should probably be aware that they've been lying to you about every other foreign conflict as well.
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I hate Israel about as much as I always did, but I hate its defenders much, much more than I did before all this started. Absolute scum of the earth.
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A nation whose existence requires the mass murder of children every few years is not a nation that should continue to exist.
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If you're just tuning in, Israeli intelligence ignored mountains of information that the October 7 attack was coming and left Israelis completely undefended, then the IDF killed significant numbers of Israelis with indiscriminate fire and pinned the blame for 100% of Israeli…
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LOL holy shit. I saw claims from Hamas several weeks ago that they'd been successfully setting up ambushes for IDF troops by playing recordings of children to draw them in because the IDF reliably go after kids, but I thought "Hell, that one can't be true." And yet there you go.
In an attempt to ambush our troops, Hamas terrorists connected dolls to speakers playing crying sounds and set them up in an area rigged with explosives.
The dolls and children's backpacks were intentionally placed near a tunnel shaft connecting to a large tunnel network that…
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"Putin must be held accountable for his war crimes," said the empire while imprisoning a journalist for trying to hold it accountable for its war crimes.
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Does it still count as a conspiracy theory when they're just coming right out and saying it?
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Gaza isn't one of those issues where you have to respect the other side's opinions. Supporting a genocidal massacre is not an acceptable opinion for anyone to have. This is worth hurting people's feelings over. Worth losing friends over. Worth disrupting Thanksgiving dinner over.
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There's no evidence. THERE'S NO EVIDENCE. They cut off aid to the most aid-dependent population on earth during the world's worst humanitarian crisis based on no evidence, and now they're saying they need to keep it cut off WHILE THEY LOOK FOR THE EVIDENCE to justify cutting it.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre when asked about the explosive reporting, finding that there was no evidence of UNRWA staffers involved in the October 7th attack: "As you know, there's an investigation happening. We're gonna let the investigation move forward."
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If you've noticed Israel apologist trolls swarming all over the Aaron Bushnell story, it's because they know how damaging a US airman self-immolating while screaming "Free Palestine" is to US and Israeli information interests, and they're scrambling to manipulate the narrative.
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Israeli Intelligence Suddenly Knows Exactly Where Hamas Is
It’s interesting how last week Israel had no idea what Hamas was up to, and yet this week they know every mosque, school and hospital that Hamas is hiding in.
When you live under an empire of lies you’ll be asked to…
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If you look at the actual demographics of people Israel is killing it makes a lot more sense to call this the Israel-Children War than the Israel-Hamas War.
The largest group of Palestinians killed so far by Israel are children aged 0-17.
They are massacring an entire generation.
UNICEF say more than 420 kids in Gaza are killed or injured each day.
6 times more children have been killed in 3 weeks than in the entire Ukraine war.
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I don't give a fuck if you're Jewish. I don't care what religion you are. If you're murdering thousands of children, the *very least* significant thing about that situation is what religion you happen to be. I think the overwhelming majority of people on my side see it this way.
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So lying. They lied. In court. Because Israel.
NEW REPORT: We analysed the visual material presented by Israel at the
@CIJ_ICJ
hearing on 12 Jan '24. We found 8 instances of the Israeli legal team misrepresenting materials presented through incorrect annotations and misleading descriptions. Full report
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Someone uploaded one of those viral “help identify this racist jerk” clips featuring a man accosting a street vendor with awful Islamophobic vitriol, and it turned out he was the former US State Department Deputy Director in the Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs.
It…
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Normal person: It's wrong to kill children by the thousands by dropping military explosives on the places where they are known to be located
Crazy person: Oh so you're saying you love Hamas and you want them to kill every Jew in the world???
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Israel supporters have been circulating a fake screenshot of Aaron Bushnell's Reddit account saying “Palestine will be free when all the jews are dead.” The fact that they’re doing this shows two things: that Israel supporters are liars, and that they’re panicked about Bushnell.
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Actually, what fuels antisemitism is murdering children by the thousands under the banner of the Star of David while adamantly insisting that your actions are inseparable from all Jews and the totality of Judaism.
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Israel has done more to damage Israel's image in the last seven weeks than anti-semites did in the last seven decades.
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Oh shut the fuck up you pathetic, worthless waste of space.
This is a very difficult moment for the world. Given that reality now, more than ever, we must stand up to the ugliness of anti-semitism, Islamophobia and all forms of racism. We cannot descend into hatred. We must work towards peace.
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One of the main reasons the self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell is having such an earthshaking impact on our society is because it’s the single most profound act of sincerity that any of us have ever witnessed.
In this fraudulent civilization where everything is fake and stupid,…
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Normal person: It's bad to massacre tens of thousands of civilians.
Crazy person: Oh so you're saying you hate Jews then. You're saying Jews shouldn't defend themselves. You want all the Jews to die so there won't be any more Jews because you hate Jews. Jews Jews Jews Jews Jews.
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Make no mistake: Israel has lost control of the narrative about Gaza, and they are very, very worried about this. That's why they're making big moves like the below. Don't let anyone tell you your efforts to expose Israel's criminality to more people make no difference.
Israel Buys Tech for Mass Influence Operations
Haaretz reports, “Israel has responded to its "clear loss" to Hamas on the digital battlefield by making its first-ever purchase of a technological system capable of conducting mass online influence campaigns, according to numerous…
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If I Were Going To Commit A Genocide
If I were going to commit a genocide, I’d make sure to kill as many women and children as possible to eliminate the future generations of the people I was trying to wipe out. Come to think of it, I guess I’d do what Israel is doing in Gaza.…
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This isn't a war against Hamas, it's a military operation to facilitate an ethnic cleansing. Hamas aren't the targets, they're the excuse.
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Commemorating the Holocaust while cheerleading for the current holocaust is next-level dystopia.
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"Hamas just needs to surrender and everything will be fine."
Surrender? You mean wave a white flag?
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Barack Obama Belongs In A Fucking Cage
The Twitter account of America’s 44th president just casually shared some links to organizations providing relief to the victims of the terrible flooding in Libya, which as of this writing has already killed thousands of people.
And that…
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Carpet bombing. This is carpet bombing. Any news outlet which reports that Israel is striking "Hamas targets" is committing unforgivable levels of journalistic malpractice. They're not targeting Hamas. They're targeting Gaza itself.
Journalist
@motaz_azaiza
shared this video moments ago showing the complete destruction of Al Zahra city.
He asks whether the world will finally stop this Nakba aka ethnic-cleansing of Palestinians using genocide.
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A guy stole my phone. Wasn't sure where he was staying so I had to set fire to the entire neighborhood. A lot of people died, but it's his fault for being where noncombatants are. He was using his neighbors as human shields. He is 100% responsible for their deaths, not me.
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Israel apologists are swarming the comments of anyone discussing Aaron Bushnell going "He died for nothing! He didn't accomplish anything!"
Bitch if he didn't accomplish anything you wouldn't be here in my mentions.
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They drove over sleeping hospital patients with bulldozers and buried people alive? That's one of those things where even after all this you still look at it and go "I must be reading this wrong." You'd be considered a monster if you killed livestock in that way.
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They're dropping bombs on a concentration camp full of children. THEY'RE DROPPING BOMBS ON A CONCENTRATION CAMP FULL OF CHILDREN.
Not in the past. Right now. They're still doing it. They show no signs of stopping.
No part of opposing this should be remotely controversial.
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I was upset when I saw that Israel has killed seven thousand people in its Gaza bombing campaign but then a really smart Israel apologist told me Hamas might be exaggerating those numbers and maybe it's more like four thousand, so now I think it's fine.
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When you realize your government and all its allies bet all their middle east foreign policy chips on a psychotic cult leader.
NOW - Netanyahu: "We are the people of the light, they are the people of darkness... we shall realize the prophecy of Isaiah."
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The CCP has arrested a woman for "insulting" President Xi Jinping on the Chinese social media site Weibo. She'll have to stand trial for calling Xi "filth" and will receive a massive fine if convicted.
Just kidding it's not China, Xi and Weibo, it's France, Macron and Facebook.
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Aaron Bushnell Burned Himself Alive To Make You Turn Your Eyes To Gaza
I watched the uncensored video of US airman Aaron Bushnell self-immolating in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington while screaming “Free Palestine”. I hesitated to watch it because I knew once I put it…
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We're risking a very fast, very radioactive third world war defending the "democracy" of a regime who just banned eleven opposition parties.
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Israel isn't bombing Gaza with the intention of wiping out Hamas, Israel is bombing Gaza with the intention of wiping out Gaza.
This is Gaza. And this is why any honest person can't really say that Israel is just targeting Hamas.
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Oh fuck you. I'm so embarrassed I used to defend this piece of shit. She duped people like me into thinking she was a good faith anti-war progressive when she was really just a garden variety Fox News Republican warmonger cynically playing to the political winds of the moment.
Islamist jihadists, both Sunni and Shiite, openly call for wiping out all Jews from the face of the earth—yet Cori Bush, the Squad, and others support or act as apologists for such jihadists and say that Israel is guilty of human rights abuses and genocide. This is one of the…
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I promise there is nothing you can say to me that will cause me to cease opposing the murder of thousands of children. There is no name you can call me, no accusation you can scream at me, no talking point you can regurgitate at me that will ever make me shut up and accept this.
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I saw a comment from an Israel defender saying “You just lack the intellect to comprehend the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict!”
Just in the last few days we learned that Israeli snipers have been deliberately picking off children in Gaza by shooting them in the…
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Israel supporters are seriously some of the worst people in the world.
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Mass media employees are every bit as psychopathic as the empire they administer propaganda for.
CNN host (and the wife of a Citigroup banker)
@ErinBurnett
is openly celebrating US strikes Yemen tonight
“Finally!” She exclaimed to guests, as US troops hunker down for World War III
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They lied about decapitated babies so that they could kill babies.
They lied about rape so that they could rape.
They lied about Hamas using civilians as human shields so that they could use civilians as human targets.
They lie about being victims so that they can victimize.
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Here's a tip: the side that keeps having to come up with justifications and explanations for why it's fine and normal for them to be killing thousands of children and perpetrating ethnic cleansing is probably not the side that's in the right.
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This genocide is happening because the US government wants it to happen. Don't let those freaks in Washington wash their hands of this atrocity.
IDF Maj. Gen (ret) Yitzhak Brick:
“All of our missiles, the ammunition, the airplanes, it’s all from the U.S. The minute they turn off the tap, you can’t keep fighting. You have no capability. … We can’t fight this war w/o the United States. Period.”
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HAHAHAHA holy shit, the Biden administration was trying to help the International Criminal Court compile evidence of Russian war crimes but the Pentagon made them stop because it might lead to ICC prosecution of American war crimes.
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Israel has been struggling with a rapidly worsening PR crisis ever since Palestinians started getting internet access and smartphones with video cameras and exposing Israeli apartheid abuses. So if you're wondering why they cut off Gaza's internet and electricity, that's why.
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Fucking ridiculous that it's 2022 and it's still a shocking and controversial position to say your government and media are lying to you about a fucking war.
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