Daniel Rubenstein
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🇮🇱 Middle East analyst. Tour guide. Lecturer. Subscribe to my Substack. I write about Israel. It's free, but you can support me with a paid subscription ⬇️
Joined March 2009
I have a question for you, @PiersMorgan. Stay with me for a moment. I just listened to your conversation with @TuckerCarlson. You said that what the United States did to Japan in World War II was morally justified. This includes killing hundreds of thousands of Japanese.
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Let’s talk about the water situation in the Gaza Strip. Gaza has an underground aquifer. If Gaza was governed in a remotely sane manner, the aquifer would provide enough water for everyone’s needs. But Hamas, being a genocidal terrorist group and all, didn’t effectively manage
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CNN: A survivor of Hamas captivity said he was held hostage by an UNRWA teacher. What's UNRWA's response?. UNRWA: I can speak about the flour that UNRWA delivers. CNN: Does it bother you that an UNRWA teacher held somebody hostage?. UNRWA: Every bag of flour is cross-referenced.
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UNRWA website: "More than 2 million registered Palestine refugees live in Jordan. Most, but not all, have full citizenship.". You’re not a refugee if you are a CITIZEN of the place where you live. Why does UNRWA operate in Jordan? I never get an answer.
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There are more Muslims in Israel than Jews in Europe.
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Hi @FourSeasons. I just wanted to ask you if it's true that Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh lives at the Four Seasons hotel in Doha, Qatar. If it is true, do you worry about your brand reputation?. cc: @billgates, majority owner.
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“For every Nazi member that you kill, how many did you create?”. – question that no serious American asked in 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, or 1945. Why?.
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UNRWA website: "More than 2 million registered Palestine refugees live in Jordan. Most, but not all, have full citizenship.". You're not a refugee if you are a CITIZEN of the place where you live. UNRWA is a political organization pretending to be a humanitarian organization.
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Hamas's talking points:. 1. Nobody in Israel is a civilian. 2. Nobody in Gaza is a combatant.
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UNRWA says "at least 243 UNRWA personnel have been killed" in the war. I will keep asking a simple question until I get a simple answer. What are their names?.
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Hamas's talking points:. 1. Nobody in Israel is a civilian. 2. Nobody in Gaza is a combatant.
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Gaza wanted war. Gaza got war. When Gaza wants peace, Gaza will get peace. These are the only two options.
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Ok so it's confirmed that Hamas was in the tents with displaced civilians.
Hamas will regain control of Gaza even while the IDF is there, just as fast as the Taliban took over Afghanistan before the US completed the withdrawal. They are literally remerging from displacement tents, as you can see in the 1st video, with uniforms, insignia, vehicles & guns
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If you and 3,000 of your well-armed colleagues decide to massacre people at a music festival, burn families in their homes, gun down people in their cars, occupy villages, partake in barbaric sexual violence, and take grandparents and small children as hostages, make sure when.
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Many people say that the October 7 Massacre does not justify Israel's actions Gaza. I have a simple question:. What does the October 7 Massacre justify?. Be specific.
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There is an enormous gap between what Westerners think the Palestinian cause is and what Palestinians think the Palestinian cause is.
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There is an enormous gap between what Westerners think the Palestinian cause is and what Palestinians think the Palestinian cause is.
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It’s great to see how many Palestinians and their friends worldwide are marching in the streets and demanding that Hamas immediately release the Israeli children whom they are holding as hostages in Gaza. This is a thread of all the photos from those marches. Please share.
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Let’s say that a guy walks into a classroom and starts shooting. Twenty kids die. Then he takes 20 kids who survived as hostages. In exchange for freeing the 20 kids, he demands that the government release 1,000 prisoners who are serving life sentences for being school shooters.
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Hamas is a genocidal terrorist organization. See for yourself – and please share the truth widely. THREAD ⬇.
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Everyone working in Shifa Hospital on October 7 saw that armed Hamas guys brought hostages seized from Israel into the hospital. Did anyone say a word?
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“UNRWA is irreplaceable” is a very stupid thing to say. There are other organizations that can drive trucks and unload boxes.
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There is an enormous gap between what Westerners think the Palestinian cause is and what Palestinians think the Palestinian cause is.
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The Qatari royal family doesn’t want you to retweet this.
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Hamas: We demand a 100 percent Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank, a 100 percent Israeli withdrawal from half of Jerusalem – including the entire Old City and the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim holy sites – and a 100 percent "right of return" for five million Palestinians to
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Here's a story for you about how the news industry works. Earlier tonight, the group that invaded Israel, massacred 1000+ people, burned families to death in their homes, took hostages back to Gaza, and recorded it all with GoPros – this group announced that Israel bombed a
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The Hamas-appointed mayor of Gaza City has published an op-ed in the New York Times. He asks: “Why can’t we live in peace and have open borders and free trade?”. You can’t make this up.
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There are more Muslims in Israel than Jews in Europe.
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Saudis are providing more responsible analysis of Israel’s war against Hamas than many members of Congress.
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My radical idea: Gazans should stay in Gaza and make peace with Israel. Literally nobody is suggesting this.
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When a Palestinian hears an Israeli say “I am a peace activist,” the Palestinian assumes that the Israeli is open to the possibility of dissolving Israel. That is, in effect, what peace means to Palestinians. When an Israeli hears a Palestinian say “I am a peace activist,” the.
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Hamas turned hospitals in Gaza into bases for its terrorist army. Listen to what a British doctor told France 24 last year about what it was like working at Shifa hospital in Gaza City:. "The main point was when I was first asked to work there, I was told there was a part of the
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How did Hamas have such incredible intelligence?. Here is one possible answer:. In the past year and a half, Israel raised the quota of work permits for Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to around 20,000. The Israeli "defense establishment" viewed the policy as a way to improve.
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Hamas is torturing the hostages. Hamas leaders live in Qatar. Qatar refuses to demand that Hamas release the hostages. Why? Because Qatar thought that the October 7 Massacre was wonderful. Qatar loves Hamas. Qatar told Hamas to keep the hostages. Qatar is an enemy state.
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Hamas is more popular in Palestinian society in 2023 than the Nazis were in German society in 1932.
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Is calling for the genocide of Jews considered bullying and harassment?. There are two possible answers:. 1. Yes. 2. No. Calling for genocide is WORSE than bullying and harassment. Why couldn’t the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and Penn give either answer?
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WSJ last week:. In 2014, part of the parking lot at the UNRWA headquarters in Gaza began sinking, likely from a Hamas tunnel dug beneath. “No one talked about what was causing the collapse,” a former UNRWA official said, “but everyone knew.” . UNRWA head today:.
- UNRWA did not know what is under its headquarters in Gaza. - UNRWA is made aware of reports through the media regarding a tunnel under the UNRWA Headquarters in Gaza. - UNRWA staff left its headquarters in Gaza City on 12 October following the Israeli evacuation orders and as.
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Senior Hamas official: Nobody could have predicted that our invasion, massacre, rape, and taking children and grandparents as hostages would have sparked such a strong response from Israel.
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Please please please explain to me what it means for Hamas to be “possibly more radicalized.”
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On October 7, Hamas took Emily Damari to Shifa Hospital in Gaza. Did anyone in the hospital – a doctor, a nurse, an administrator – tell the outside world that Emily was there? Before the doctor at Shifa performed surgery on Emily’s hand, he said to her: “Hi, I’m Dr. Hamas.”.
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I’m trying to put together a list of Palestinians who have condemned Hamas’s barbaric attack and called it immoral. I want to show how unpopular it is in Palestinian society to behave like ISIS. I have zero names so far. Please retweet to help me.
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Here's something you don't see every day: Hamas policemen guarding an aid truck as it reaches the UNRWA logistics base in Rafah. Two of the men on the truck have their faces covered; the one in the front is holding a baton but is not wearing any kind of uniform. I first saw this
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The @IDF found this tunnel entrance in a bedroom in Gaza. Think about what this means. Hamas guys can ambush Israeli soldiers, disappear into tunnels, walk long distances undetected, enter their own homes from underground, and go back to pretending they are just UNRWA teachers.
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@HillelNeuer @hrw I'm old enough to remember 2009, when Human Rights Watch founder Bob Bernstein wrote an op-ed in the New York Times about how HRW had lost its way. "Leaders of Human Rights Watch know that Hamas and Hezbollah chose to wage war from densely populated areas, deliberately.
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"Hamas accepts a ceasefire" was breaking news sent as push notifications to MILLIONS of people just now. One small problem:. Hamas accepted a proposal that Israel hasn't seen. That's not usually how negotiations work. Doesn't matter. Another communications win for Hamas.
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Israel does not want Gaza. The problem is that Gaza wants Israel.
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People still don’t understand the point. The existence of this tunnel network meant that Hamas guys could carry out attacks from urban areas of Gaza and then escape undetected INTO A HOSPITAL and just chill out there for a while looking super civiliany.
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Gaza could have become a state. The only price was peace with Israel. Not one Palestinian ever suggested it.
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The CNN digital team continues to copy-paste press releases from Hamas and then send them out as push notifications to millions of people.
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Hamas guys opened fire on the streets of their own city in order to try to prevent four of their Israeli slaves from escaping captivity. What is the maximum number of Palestinians that Hamas is willing to sacrifice in order to keep one runaway Israeli slave? Is there a number?.
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What is the proportional response to the threat of annihilation?.
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On October 7, 2023, the government of South Africa condemned Israel. I won’t forget.
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This is the first Palestinian public opinion poll that I've seen since Hamas's October 7 operation to rape, massacre, and abduct Israelis. 75 percent of Palestinian respondents said that they support Hamas's October 7 operation to rape, massacre, and abduct Israelis.
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“You don’t need to read between the lines. Just read the lines.”. –@elonmusk on the genocidal threats of Hamas leaders.
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“Globalize the intifada” means that every Jew is a target. There’s a word for that.
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Gaza could have become a state. Every Palestinian in Gaza could have had citizenship, due process, freedom of movement, and the right to vote for the government that controlled their lives. The only price was peace with Israel. Not one Palestinian ever suggested it.
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When a Palestinian hears an Israeli say “I am a peace activist,” the Palestinian assumes that the Israeli is open to the possibility of dissolving Israel. That is what peace means to Palestinians. When an Israeli hears a Palestinian say “I am a peace activist,” the Israeli.
On 4.10 Shaked’s mother and aunt went to a peace conference with other women from Beeri. On 7.10, Hamas invaded the kibbutz with a list of the conference participants. They went house to house murdering or kidnapping each one. Hamas wanted to murder anyone who supports peace.
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There is an enormous gap between how Westerners explain Palestinian motivations to other Westerners and how Palestinians explain Palestinian motivations to other Palestinians.
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The Palestinian government in Gaza had enough money to build a war machine that could carry out a surprise invasion and then fight the Israeli military for a year, but you want me to believe that the children of Gaza needed international donors to pay for their education.
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Jabalia is one of many fake Palestinian "refugee camps.". It is not a camp and there are no refugees. The residents are Palestinians living under the authority of a Palestinian government in a territory that they call Palestine.
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Qatar is waging a massive information warfare campaign in order to brand Israel as the greatest source of evil in the world and I’m supposed to be impressed that Qatari officials have been “cordial” to the family members of the hostages. Sorry, I’m not going to play this game.
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Hamas is reportedly demanding that UNRWA be allowed to continue to operate in Gaza. That should tell you everything you need to know.
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It is absolutely not against international law for Israel to stop supplying an enemy territory. It is unbearably stupid for people to repeat this point just because it FEELS true. In related news, Hamas terrorists attacked the border crossings that you think should be opened,.
The Israeli government has cut off food, water, and fuel to 2 million people inside Gaza. Collective punishment is not only contrary to international law, it is inhumane and illogical. How will this deescalate the violence rather than radicalize many more? It is madness.
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All of this could have been avoided if Israel had just agreed to dissolve itself, disband its military, open its borders, absorb five million hostile immigrants, and change its name to Palestine.
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Hamas is not a party to the Geneva Conventions and does not consider itself bound by international humanitarian law. Israel is a party to the Geneva Conventions and considers itself bound by international humanitarian law. Start with that, or don’t start at all.
Indiscriminate rocket fire by Hamas into Israel & use of civilians as human shields is against laws of war, but doesn't absolve Israel of its own violations. Int'l humanitarian law can't be applied selectively. It's binding equally at all times & doesn't depend on reciprocity.
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All of this could have been avoided if Israel had just agreed to dissolve itself, disband its military, open its borders, absorb five million hostile immigrants, change its name to Palestine, and co-exist with its neighbors.
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Absolutely wild. IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari went to Gaza City himself today with a camera. What he filmed in the basement of a children’s hospital is shocking. You have to see it to believe it.
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Fun fact: @Malala tweeted absolutely nothing on October 7, absolutely nothing on October 8, absolutely nothing on October 9, and a call for a ceasefire on October 10. Her Twitter bio: “Still just a girl who wants to learn.”.
I am appalled that Israel keeps targeting schools in Gaza — where thousands of displaced people are sheltering — with indiscriminate strikes. My heart goes out to the loved ones of all victims, including the UN aid workers who were tragically killed. Schools and humanitarian.
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Hamas continues to publish videos that make the case for Israel better than @EylonALevy. In this video, Hamas shows why Israeli airstrikes in urban areas of Gaza are proportionate and in compliance with international humanitarian law.
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This is what it looked like when the mainstream media took an unverified Hamas claim and made it the top news story in the world. We know the truth now: A rocket that terrorists fired at Israelis malfunctioned and crashed into Palestinians. I won’t forget. Please share.
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UNRWA says that Palestinian “refugees” will be considered “refugees” until their political demands are met. It’s insane. More than 2 million Palestinian “refugees” live in Jordan. Most are CITIZENS OF JORDAN. You are not a refugee if you are a citizen of the place where you live.
“We have to maintain @UNRWA until the aspiration of the Palestinians for self-determination has been achieved”. @UNLazzarini at #UNGA on the Agency’s role in responding to the humanitarian crisis in #Gaza & providing human development services to #PalestineRefugees in the region.
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“There’s a perimeter wall, a gate, cameras, at the gate they log who comes in and out. Whoever worked at UNRWA knew very well who was coming in, and who they were covering for.”
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Jenin Camp is not a camp. Nobody there is in a tent. Nobody there is refugee. The residents are Palestinians living under the jurisdiction of a Palestinian government that refuses to provide services to them. UNRWA should be dismantled and Palestinians should take responsibility.
UNRWA has been forced to suspend services in Jenin Camp, in the northern West Bank, for yet another day, as violent clashes between Palestinian Security Forces & Palestinian armed actors continue. Children remain out of school & camp residents are unable to access primary
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Tweet from ten years ago.
Romney, who calls Russia our "No. 1 geopolitical foe," doesn't seem to realize it's the 21st century. #RomneyNotReady
http://t.co/xcvhOAFS.
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It’s a war. You’re playing dumb and you’re good at it.
It’s not ‘humanitarian’ if you turn it off though, is it?.
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As soon as @DouglasKMurray asked @janedutton to think for herself, she was unable to have a conversation.
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Qatar is waging a massive information warfare campaign in order to brand Israel as the greatest source of evil in the world and most of you are responding by trying to explain why Israel is not the greatest source of evil in the world. This is not a good strategy.
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Did you guys hear the story about the Palestinian woman from Gaza who entered a family home in the Israeli community of Nir Oz on October 7, prepared food in the kitchen for two Palestinian men who had broken in earlier, and then the three of them sat in the living room, turned.
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Palestinian “refugee camps” in the West Bank do not have refugees and they are not camps.
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There millions of people who know literally nothing about Hamas. This video by @bararit is an excellent starting point.
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When you read news stories about Qatar and its role as a mediator, please keep in mind: At 3:15 pm Israel time on October 7, 2023, long after it was clear that Hamas was carrying out barbaric atrocities and taking hostages, the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs published a.
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Wow I can't believe Josh Paul said this on 60 Minutes:. "I think the moment of October 7th was a moment of incredible worldwide solidarity with Israel, and had Israel leveraged that moment to press for a real, just, and lasting peace, I think we would be in a very different place.
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On October 7, the government of South Africa condemned Israel. I won’t forget.
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Hamas fired a barrage of rockets from Rafah that killed a bunch of Israeli soldiers and then Hamas basically sent out a press release saying that it accepted the ceasefire that it negotiated with itself.
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Hamas has been the government of Gaza since 2007. Why did the Hamas government of Gaza rely on its enemy to provide electricity? Why did Israel provide it?.
BREAKING: Israel says it is cutting off its electricity supply to Gaza, a week after cutting off all supplies of goods to the territory. Israel has sought to press Hamas to accept an extension of the first phase of their ceasefire.
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Josh Paul resigned from the State Department ten days after the October 7 Massacre. He said he was taking the side of "people caught in the middle" of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Right, sure. Paul is now an advisor for @DAWNmenaorg, a rabidly anti-Israel organization that.
The U.S. provides Israel with most of the bombs and all of its fighter jets, says Josh Paul, a former director in the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs. He’s one of the more than a dozen government officials who have resigned over the U.S. role in Gaza.
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Which Palestinians are calling on Hamas to release the hostages? I want to show how unpopular it is in Palestinian society to hold hostages. I have zero names so far and oddly I have no photos from any public demonstrations. Please retweet to help me.
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If an UNRWA staffer is a Hamas terrorist, then the UNWRA staffer is a legitimate military target under international humanitarian law and may be targeted in accordance with the rules of engagement. You don't get to wear a blue vest and claim immunity.
Outraged by the killing of 6 @UNRWA staffers after IL strikes hit - for the 5th time - a school in Nuseirat sheltering 12,000 displaced people. The disregard of the basic principles of IHL, especially protection of civilians, cannot & should not be accepted by the int. community.
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@SohiubN @EylonALevy The Palestinian "right of return" is not based on the Green Line. If you correct yourself and try asking again, I might be able to answer.
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The leaders of Hamas live in Turkey and Qatar. The leaders of Hamas live in Turkey and Qatar. The leaders of Hamas live in Turkey and Qatar. The leaders of Hamas live in Turkey and Qatar. The leaders of Hamas live in Turkey and Qatar.
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