Richard Medhurst
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Independent journalist. British 🇬🇧 Based at UN 🇺🇳 Lived around the world 🌍. International affairs, US politics and Middle East. ✉️ richimedhurst @gmail .com
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Oh you “love Obama”? Name 7 countries he’s bombed
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A thread of World Cup football fans refusing to speak to isreali channels
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They deleted it but I kept a screenshot.
The Ukrainian government actually posted this picture, acting like Ukraine has been bombed more than Syria.
This is not only despicable, but a flat-out lie.
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Confirmed.
India has just bought oil from Russia-- at a discount (!) AND in rupees-roubles.
This is the real story that you won't hear on the news.
Global realignment.
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I support the 2 state solution:
Palestinians get Palestine, and israelis return to their original countries.
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"looting"
THEY'RE LITERALLY STARVING BECAUSE YOU CUT ALL FOOD AND WATER TO GAZA YOU SOULLESS GHOULS
Videos emerge of crowds looting a humanitarian air truck in
#Gaza
'What we see are civilians looting the humanitarian aid truck, but what could be beneath the surface, is that some of these civilians are indeed embedded Hamas who are trying to just get whatever they can at the…
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You can't have healthcare or college, but Israel can have your money to commit genocide against Palestinians.
US House passed a Republican $14.3 BILLION military aid package for Israel [226 - 196]
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If Putin banned 11 opposition parties under the pretext of war, just as Zelensky has done today, Western media would be likening it to a Stalinesque purge.
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The idea that a Jew from Manchester, or a Jew from Brooklyn, or Berlin, has a "birthright" to Palestine, thousands of kilometers away-- a place they've never been to-- but a Palestinian doesn't, is the psychotic horse manure that you have to believe in in order to commit genocide
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No Arabic speaker says "khamas" lol
A group of Arab peace activists sat through the 47 minutes of footage from Hamas October 7 massacre against Israeli civilians
This is their response:
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It's not a war between Russia and Ukraine. It's a war between NATO and Russia, with Ukraine being used as a pawn, and Ukrainians paying the price of NATO expansion and antagonism.
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We have a new Prime Minister in the UK, unelected by the British people or even the Tories. He didn’t give a single debate, interview or statement about what his “program” is. All we know is he’s stinking rich & worked for Goldman Sachs. But hey, he’s the first non-white PM! Lol
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Israeli soldier laughs about raping a 16yo Palestinian girl.
Now you know the war started in 1948, not Oct 7, and why it's called the "Nakba" (catastrophe).
Zionist soldier, while laughing in an Interview with the Israeli channel Hot 8:
"We put Palestinians in cages and killed them. One of us raped a sixteen-year-old girl; some of us ran after them with flame throwers and burned them."
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"why don't Arab countries take in Palestinians"?
1. They have. Several times.
2. Palestinians are people, not inconvenient "things" to be moved around
3. "Why don't the Israelis stop stealing land and turning people into refugees?" is what you should be asking.
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They killed her then attack the people carrying her coffin. Even in death Israel cannot leave Palestinians in peace. Revolting.
Palestinian mourners of slain
#AlJazeera
journalist
#Shireen_Abu_Akleh
are attacked by Israeli forces while carrying her coffin during her funeral procession in
#Jerusalem
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A holocaust.
Israel just killed 500 Palestinian civilians after bombing Baptist Hospital.
Sadistic and cruel.
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Explosive.
Russia is now demanding that Europe pay for gas in rubles.
Europe gets 40% of its gas from Russia. That’s 200-800 million euros per day.
Putin is basically saying: you want to play sanctions? Either pay up in rubles or freeze.
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This is like the SS filming a video of one of their "brave" concentration camp guards coming home to his kids.
It stinks.
After weeks of fighting, this soldier came straight to meet his wife and newborn son.
This is what Israel is fighting for - its children and its future.
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Ghufran Warasneh, Palestinian journalist shot dead today by the israelis.
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How you gonna call Hamas "religious extremists" while ignoring the giant Star of David on the Israeli flag, and the fact any Jew can get off a plane in Israel, live on stolen land, and walk on Jew-only roads?
Hamas' fight is against colonialism and occupation, not about religion
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Germany rejects South Africa's case against Israel, claiming there's no genocide in Gaza.
I wouldn't take anything Germans say seriously.
They also said they weren't gassing people or that they "accidentally" bombed London.
Their Holocaust guilt is their problem, not Arabs'.
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"Israel has the right to defend itself" is like saying a rapist has the right to fight back when a woman punches him.
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You can tell who’s the landowner and who’s the occupier
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When you realize your NATO crush only likes you as a proxy
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Every sentence about Yemen has "Iran-backed houthis" in it. How often do you see "US-backed Israel"?
Another is "Hamas-run health ministry". Who else is supposed to run it? Nickelodeon? Hamas are the govt.
Do the garbage press ever say "Likud-run health ministry" about Israel?
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I recall when US troops were caught torturing Iraqis at Abu Ghraib and posing on camera, there were no real consequences but it was still a scandal.
Today, Israelis proudly film themselves torturing & abusing hostages, and 0 criticism in the West
Our media and govts are evil.
Cigarette burns, electrocution, spitting in people's mouths, sleep deprivation and more: Israel's torture camp in Gaza
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🚨 BREAKING: Niger have broken off all military ties with the United States, and told them to leave the country and close their bases.
The US' most expensive drone base ($100m) is in Niger. 😂😂
Another major victory after expelling colonial French troops 6 months ago.
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Israelis are so pathetic lmfao
This is originally an Arabic song. Another thing they've stolen, like Arabic food, and the land itself.
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Why do mainstream media refuse to broadcast court proceedings at the world's highest court on the most important war and political event today? No license or rights are required.
It's to protect Israel's image, like everything else they do. They are the Zionist PR department.
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South Africa's ambassador channelled the entire Arab world through his face 😂
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The best thing about Israelis is how they casually announce their crimes when speaking in Hebrew.
Completely different to how they speak in English, where they make a bit more effort to conceal their atrocities.
A great video for anyone who thinks history began on Oct 7:
Zionist soldier, while laughing in an Interview with the Israeli channel Hot 8:
"We put Palestinians in cages and killed them. One of us raped a sixteen-year-old girl; some of us ran after them with flame throwers and burned them."
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This is the United States' legacy, and I will never forget seeing these images when they came out. Scandalous doesn't even begin to cover it.
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These fucking lunatic israelis just bombed the Iranian embassy in Damascus
Unbelievable violation of the Vienna convention and Syria and Iran's sovereignty.
Israel is a cancer to the Middle East
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If someone from Mexico goes to a house in Britain and says it's their "ancestral homeland" from 2000 years ago; that they must take it by force and kill the family inside, you would put them in a psychiatric hospital.
That is exactly how unhinged Israelis behave in Palestine
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Israel just bombed Syria, hitting a residential area in Damascus. 15 people killed.
Can’t leave people in peace even in the aftermath of an earthquake + sanctions.
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Israeli settlers rushing to Ben Gurion and whipping out their 2nd passports.
The busiest day since Oct 7
When push comes to shove, Zionists don't stick around to assert their "claim" over the land. Palestinians do. That's the difference.
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Israel, America and Britain have no right to self defense in the Middle East.
They are colonizers, invaders, and occupiers.
You don't get to attack millions of people and pretend you're a victim.
If they want peace, go home and pay reparations, or face resistance.
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Why do Europeans and Americans love Zionism so much but won't give any of their land to the Israelis?
They are the ones who persecuted Jews, let them pay for it.
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Funny how Al Qaeda and ISIS haven't lifted a finger to help the Palestinians.
It's almost as if they work with Israel and America, not against them.
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Hey real quick what do you call it when the government bans opposition parties and takes over the media?
Ukrainian President
#Zelensky
has signed a decree to unite national TV channels into one platform, citing martial law.
“It’s important that the country has a unified information policy”
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The fact that Britain and America would rather bomb Yemen, a country where they created the worst humanitarian crisis on earth, rather than rein in their bloodhound Israel tells you everything about their moral standing, or lack thereof.
The whole world looks on in disgust
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If Yemen want to stop Israeli ships passing through their seas, that's their right.
The US can f**k off back to their country on the other side of the planet.
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Israel never shut up about Oct 7, the same way the US never shut up about 9/11, because they are so used to doing these things to other people, over and over for decades, that even a tiny, microscopic version of that happening to them is considered an outrage.
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Israel has the right to exist.
Just not in Palestine, on top of other people's land.
Let Europe and the United States give Israel their land since they love it so much.
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Earlier this week,David Cameron didn't know whether Israel cutting off water to Palestinians is a war crime. He said "I'm not a lawyer". Now he is suddenly an expert on international maritime law and freedom of navigation and says bombing Yemen is "defensive". Maybe he thinks…
The UK and US, with support from the Netherlands, Canada, Bahrain, and Australia, have carried out targeted strikes on Houthi military targets in Yemen.
Our action is necessary, legal, proportionate and right.
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They blockaded Yemen and Gaza for years.
Oh how the tables have turned.
Yemen's blockade has left shipping companies scrambling to find war-risk insurance, as "rates have spiked from 0.01% in December to 0.7% today". (CNN)
"The cost to insure a $100 million container ship has spiked from $10,000 per voyage to $700,000".
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Do Hamas meddle in our elections?
Do Hamas buy off our politicians?
Do Hamas restrict our freedom of speech?
Do Hamas enact cancel culture on us?
Do Hamas take billions from us?
Have Hamas ever executed a terrorist attack on us?
No. But Israel has done all of those to US/UK
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So you were targeting children and fell for the trap. Lol. Good you admit what we already knew
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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If anyone had done this to a European airport they would call it terrorism.
But because israel did it to Damascus' international airport they suddenly have nothing to say.
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Are you still going on about Oct 7?
You're worse than a broken record.
I hope the war ends very soon. But given that you’ve never condemned the Hamas massacre on Oct7,
I urge YOU to look into the eyes of the families of the defenceless Israeli children murdered that day and be an advocate for an end to Hamas massacres.
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Cowards.
Can't take a single military objective. All they do is destroy schools, hospitals, and pose in front of them. Zionism is sick.
Israeli soldiers proudly take a picture inside a school in Gaza that they turned into an IDF military outpost.
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If Hamas treated Israeli hostages badly, wouldn't the first thing on Israel's mind be to get them in front of cameras & have them say how awful it was?
Instead Israel refuses to allow any released hostages to talk to media. Afraid what they'll say doesn't fit Israel's narrative?
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Never apologize to Zionists. Ever.
They are bullies and you stand up to bullies.
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Seems the Russians are striking parts of Ukraine’s energy grid after the Crimea bridge attack.
The Americans & Israelis would have already destroyed the power grid from day 1. Weird how none of the Western press called it terrorism when they did it to Iraq, Yugoslavia, Lebanon.
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Usually, when a bridge is blown up using a truck bomb, killing civilians, or a pipeline is blown up, it’s called terrorism.
Unsurprising to see ISIS tactics being used. Wherever NATO go they bring misery and terrorism with them, just like they brought to Syria, Libya and others.
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How do you starve two million people and still get mainstream media to portray you as a victim?
We keep hearing Hamas are this and that — what does that make Israel? Blockading and bombing 2 million people?
Israel is a nasty bully and the media are complete garbage.
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1. You're an Ashkenazi Jew, not a Semite.
2. Palestinians are Semites. Slaughtering 23,000 of them in 3 months makes you and your friends the real anti-Semites.
3. Yelling "anti-Semitism" at criticism of Israeli policy doesn't work anymore & South Africa's case is rock solid.
The Hague hearing is the Dreyfus affair of the 21st century.
A show of hypocrisy, antisemitism and shame.
It was Hamas who on October 7th—for no reason—attacked, burned, murdered and raped Israelis, yet it is Israel which is standing accused.
Shame on those who take part of…
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Nothing funnier than European officials sanctioning Russia, then complaining about "blackmail" when Russia demands gas payments in rubles. I guess they thought sanctions only go one way?
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Can someone explain why Indians have such a raging hard on for Israel?
You'd think they'd despise a British colony when they see one.
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I'm sure Native Americans also attacked Europeans because they just hated whites so badly, and it had nothing to do with with all their land being thieved away.
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Reporter (in Arabic): Hi, I'm from Israel
Fan: There's no such thing as israel, only Palestine
Reporter: Yes there is
[Drowned out by fans]: "Free Palestine, amen"!
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Europeans have no right to lecture Arabs about Jew-hatred.
UK and Spain expelled their entire Jewish populations
Germany, Austria, France carried out a Holocaust
Russia had pogroms til 1917
Where did Jews go to escape this? To Palestine, the safest place in the world for them.
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"We trapped 2 million people in a concentration camp. They cannot leave by land, air or sea and we control their food and water. Why are they digging tunnels? So much waisted potential!"
When you compare the size of Gaza to London, insane that Hamas built an underground military tunnel network reportedly 1.5 times the length of the Tube. Every shaft in a school, home, mosque, hospital, or UNRWA facility. So much wasted potential for Gaza under Hamas. For what?
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When Israelis show you who they are, believe them.
They have no right to be angry or hateful like this. They are not oppressed. They can hop on a plane and fly back to Europe any time.
Palestine is not their land, and never will be. This is why they are so insecure deep down.
"You will die, you will starve, and your homes will be burned."
Israelis on Channel 14 talk about ethnically cleansing Gaza and building Israeli settlements
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Yemen sunk a British ship this week, but made sure to rescue the entire 24-man crew of the RUBYMAR. They're all safe.
Yemen's blockade has killed no one to date
This is the difference between how they conduct their warfare, and how the US/UK show up and start killing people.
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"The State of Israel has the right to exist"
Says who?
Britain and France? Who carved up Syria between themselves into 6 pieces just to make it? Who simply made up countries in the Middle East and Africa? What about their right to exist free of arbitrary European maps?
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So Zelensky banned the center and left parties with “ties to Russia” but none of the parties with ties to Neo-Nazis? What’s that about?
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There is something profoundly evil about Zionism.
It is an affront on humanity itself.
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If a group of Arabs, Muslim or not, entered a hospital in Tel Aviv or Paris or Berlin, dressed as women and doctors, and then shot 3 Israeli patients in the head, they would be called a "death squad" and "terrorists", but when Israelis do this, it's fine; they're "commandos".
Earlier today, Israeli soldiers dressed as medics shot and killed three Palestinian men in a hospital in Jenin, occupied West Bank.
Israel claims the men were fighters, however, International law prohibits the killing of combatants receiving medical attention if they are “not,…
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This is huge.
Over a dozen countries have now applied to join BRICS, including Algeria, Iran and Argentina. The multipolar order is taking shape before us.
If expanded, BRICS would comprise over half the global population, 60% of global gas and 45% of global oil reserves.
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White European colonizer saying Palestinians should be “distributed” and scattered around the world.
1. Palestinians are in their own country. They are not boxes or items.
2. This is genocidal intent. Do you know what that means? You are a war criminal
3. If someone said this…
"Let us distribute them all over the world. There are 2.5 million Gazans... each country takes 25 thousands."
Ram Ben Barak, former deputy director of Mossad on Israel plans to forcefuly displace Gazans.
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People always talk of casualties in deaths and injuries.
What about mental scars? How many children in Gaza have been traumatized?
Who will fix them? Heal the PTSD & multi-generational trauma they have to live with their whole lives?
Israel/US/EU are child abusing murderers.
"They killed my father and brother"
Children are searching for their father after Israeli forces bombed their house in Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza.
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Breaking: Imran Khan is no longer the Prime Minister of Pakistan.
He has just been removed via a no-confidence vote, with 174 out of 172 votes needed.
Khan had visited Moscow a few weeks ago to to secure gas & wheat, criticizing US foreign policy and meddling in Pakistan.
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What stage of genocide is this?
And the woman in purple, she is also a "Hamas fighter"?
Zionism is evil.
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Israel keep saying they're "fighting Hamas". So far Israel
-Killed 10 journalists
-Killed 2000 people in Gaza, most were women & children
-Ordered people to evacuate then slaughtered them
I'm starting to think Israel's "right to defend itself" is an excuse to commit war crimes
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Nasrallah's message to Israelis:
"If you want to be secure and safe, you have a US passport, go back to the US. You have a British passport, go back to the UK.
Here you don't have a future. From the river to the sea, the land of Palestine is for the Palestinian people only."
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VISA and Mastercard pulled out of Russia.
China saw the opportunity, came in and linked its UnionPay to Russia's Mir system.
Now Caracas is in talks to link Mir to Venezuela.
The West shooting itself in the foot again.
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Israel's lawyer lost his place and said: "someone shuffled my papers"
Obviously it was kkhamas.
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Yemen just released footage of them capturing the Israeli ship yesterday.
The West and Israel want to murder Palestinians? Cut the oil, shut the straits and canals, and see how quickly they reconsider.
Despite all the destruction the West wrought, Yemen still fights for 🇵🇸
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The United States has hatched a plan to get rid of Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan.
That attempt FAILED today.
This was going to happen via a no-confidence vote. Instead, the vote was declared unconstitutional, and Khan announced snap elections within 90 days.
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The cruelty
An israeli guard executed an autistic Palestinian named Eyad Hallaq.
The israeli guard shot him in the leg, chased him to a garbage room, then fired 3 more bullets in his chest with an M16.
Eyad's mother screams as the israeli court lets her son's killer walk free
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Israel is basically Jewish-European ISIS.
Once you see it, you can never unsee it.
>Religious extremists
>Think the land is theirs
>Work for CIA
>Think they speak for everyone of same faith
>Kill anyone who stands in their way
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Hamas are resistance fighters. I don't give two craps what the US, Israel and UK claim. The right to armed struggle is a guaranteed right under international law, for every single Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese person living under illegal Israeli occupation.
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Look how Israel fills Palestinian wells with cement to deny them their own water.
97% of water in Gaza is undrinkable— and this is before the latest assault.
Israeli occupation is just about constantly making every aspect of life miserable for Palestinians.
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It's not just Palestine.
How many people have the US/EU/Israel killed in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan?
Why do Western countries constantly invade other people, steal their resources, and murder them? What kind of sickness is this?
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Believe me when I say that Israel is facing an unprecedented crisis.
All their bogus claims of "anti-Semitism" don't work anymore. No one cares. No one is intimidated.
There is no hiding from the crimes in Gaza.
Everyone can see Zionism's true colours
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Israel wants to frame the conflict as "Muslims vs Jews", when it's really "European colonizers vs Arab Muslims, Christians, and Jews"
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Israel illegally annexed Golan Heights from Syria, and Jerusalem in violation of UNSC resolutions. The US recognized both, and Liz Truss contemplates the latter in moving the UK embassy to Jerusalem. On what basis exactly are they lecturing anyone about intl law? Mind-boggling.
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Israel literally just murdered 6 members of his family and the first thing out her mouth is:
"But do you condone the actions of Hamas?"
These people are not journalists. They are robots with no soul or humanity. Ghouls who can't stop repeating the same shite.
Head of the Palestinian Mission to the UK, Husam Zomlot, lost 6 family members in Israeli strikes on Gaza.
BBC: "Sorry for your personal loss, can I just be clear though, you cannot condone the killing of civilians in Israel, can you?"
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Nice of you to join us Bernie.
Where were you the last 4 months?
Oh that's right, defending Israel's wholesale slaughter of Palestinians.
The United States of America cannot allow the wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people.
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"why didn't Palestinians move south as ordered?"
1. Who do Israelis think they are to bark orders at people to leave their homes?
2. Bombing people in their homes because they refuse to obey an invading army is illegal
3. Israel lied and bombed the south anyway. Mass murder.
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Yemen fulfilled their duty under Art. 1 of the Genocide Convention to prevent and punish Israel for its genocide.
If you don't like Yemen firing at commercial ships, then you shouldn't fire 2000lb bombs at Palestinians.
All non-Israeli ships can pass np
It's very simple.
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A thief walks into a home.
He kicks the owners out, and puts them in the dog kennel outside. Controls their food, water. Even kills some of them.
The home owners say "one day, we'll get our home back".
The thief says "you're literally calling for my destruction, you racist"
"From the River to the Sea" is an explicitly genocidal slogan.
It calls for the complete destruction of Israel and the killing of all Jews, not just in Israel. If you are posting this, we're not friends.
If you are posting this, you are calling for my murder.
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So China having a base in the Solomon Islands is a "threat" to Australia, 2000km away, but Ukraine potentially joining NATO and being trained and given weapons by NATO is not a threat, it's "Putin propaganda"?
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