Jenan Matari

@AOC The iron dome - which you have consistently voted for funding for - is fucking military aid. You bullshitting hack of a politician.

The Israeli government is well able to fund the Iron Dome system, which has proven critical to keep innocent civilians safe from rocket attacks and bombardment. Consistent with my voting record to date, I will not support Congress sending more taxpayer dollars and military aid to a government that consistently ignores international law and U.S. law. Netanyahu’s allies in the Knesset just approved a $45 billion defense budget, and the Prime Minister himself also asserted his interest in withdrawing from the MOU with the United States in January. It is fully within their ability to fund Iron Dome and other defensive systems. Our allies who need our military aid must understand that we will provide it consistent with the Leahy amendment and the foreign assistance act.

I don't think people understand the gravity of the situation as the UN is preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran. This is a picture of Tehran. For you uneducated, untraveled, never-served, warhawks licking your chops at the thought of bombing it. It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, family pets. Regular working class people with dreams. You're sick to want war. Tehran is a city of nearly 10,000,000 people. Imagine nuking Washington, Berlin, Paris, London, or beyond, bombed with nuclear weapons. I gave up my diplomatic career to leak this information. I suspended my duties so as not to be part of or a witness to this crime against humanity, in an attempt to prevent a nuclear winter before it is too late. Yesterday, nearly ten million people protested “No Kings” in the United States. The possibility of the use of nuclear weapons must be taken very seriously. It's dangerous. Act now. Spread this message worldwide. Take the streets. Protest for our humanity and future. Only the people can stop it. History will remember us.

@MLBONFOX Fuck them and shame on you for letting genociders play this game.

Israel has been eliminated from WBC title contention after their loss to the Dominican Republic.

I'm going to explain this in detail for people aren't familiar with it. It's going to sound somewhat unbelievable because it's some of the most stone cold Sun Tsu Machiavelli shit of all time, but Sinwar openly described it in these terms. First, put yourself in his shoes. Gaza is an open air concentration camp, and there's no indication this will ever change. The Israelis are gobbling up increasing amounts of Palestine outside of Gaza. They're also normalizing relations with the Sunni Arab states to an unprecedented degree. The Abraham Accords were signed in 2020, and Israeli relations with the entire Sunni world are on an upward trajectory. The only faction within the region that could possibly come to your rescue is the Shia. The Iranians have huge military potential, but their strategy is to keep themselves at a distance while slowly attriting the Israeli axis with proxy forces, and this is having mixed results. The Iranians are under severe economic pressure and have no interest in a wider war. It looks unlikely that they'll be able to change the picture for the Palestinians if this continues. So what do you do? First, you need to understand the mindset of all the factions involved: Israel, the US, Hezbollah, Iran, the Gulf monarchies, Egypt, Ansar Allah, and so on. The Israelis are almost as dissatisfied with the present situation as you are. While they're achieving diplomatic success, their goal is to fully ethnically cleanse Gaza and the rest of Palestine, and start gobbling up territory in Lebanon and Syria to drive towards a future Greater Israel. Even if their position is gradually improving with the Sunni states, ultimately they're nowhere close to their long term goals, and have serious regional enemies in the form of Hezbollah and Iran. And they have the largest military in the world at their disposal if they need it. Sinwar's strategic decision was to force a "great battle," a "flood for Al-Aqsa." His calculus was that if Hamas initiated a massive, open attack on Israel, the Israelis would use it as a casus belli to implement their strategic goals with regard to Palestine. With relations still not fully normalized with the Arab states, this would heighten the contradictions within the Middle East and lead to a massive regional war. As the Israelis would be forced to go for broke, they'd attempt to also resolve their goals in Lebanon, which would of course suck in Hezbollah, and in turn suck in Iran. Perhaps the most crucial second-order effect without which this plan could have failed is the reaction of Ansar Allah. Their actions in the Red Sea and decision to regularly lob missiles and drones at Israeli territory kept the situation from cooling off. If they hadn't been willing to take on the US Navy solo, the plan might have failed. It's taken until this latest outbreak of hostilities between Israel and Iran to get the Iranians to fully break with their strategy of caution and de-escalation. Sinwar understood the US/Israeli relationship. The Israeli ability to wield the US military like a tool ensured that a direct American attack on Iran was inevitable, forcing the Iranians to adjust their posture. This plan required a willingness to make enormous sacrifices. Gaza has been destroyed, Hezbollah is severely degraded, and the Iranians are now under existential threat. But much of the public worldwide is rapidly coming to grips with the true nature of the US/Israeli relationship. Support for Israel around the world is at a 70 year low. Tel Aviv has been hammered with hundreds of ballistic missiles in four separate True Promise operations, and there are active blockades in both the Red Sea and Persian Gulf. The US has openly abandoned its Gulf allies, paving the way for a total collapse of the geopolitical picture as it stood in October of 2023. The Israeli position is more tenuous than it's been in decades. The most mind boggling thing is that Sinwar set all of this in motion and then took up a rifle and went out to meet the IDF head on. Once Al-Aqsa flood began, the situation, which would pull in dozens of countries, was beyond his control.

On Jan. 20th, the @HindRFoundation filed a request for prosecution in the US against Israeli "comedian" Guy Hochman for incitement to genocide. On Jan. 29th, @PENamerica issued a press release condemning the cancellation of some of Hochman's inciting performances. Our response:

@JuliaHB1 I literally forget you exist and then some shit like this pops up and reminds me to be annoyed about that.

Hey, New York, it was fun while it lasted. Enjoy the ride. It only goes one way from here.

@CoryBooker Huh seems like you missed one you Zionist piece of shit

@Councillorsuzie Why? No one made y’all speak our languages while you inserted yourselves in our countries and colonized and abused us.

Unacceptable- This is England, we speak English. Those that don’t and live here must learn the language and dare I say ‘integrate’

@JuliaHB1 Literally forgot you existed but nice to see you’re still the same old piece of shite. A+ for consistency, I guess.

Today's lesson: don't start wars you can't win.

@DHSgov Whoops, I dropped this...

@elonmusk Watching the richest man alive and the most powerful man in the world go head-to-head

A man living in a luxury high rise dumped bleach and feces on a pro-Palestine march passing by below his building yesterday in midtown Manhattan. NYPD did not respond to the blatant attack — but they did soon after make arrests for standing in the street. Do you recognize him?

Luigi Mangione’s lawyer should put the entire health insurance industry on trial and argue that Mangione was defending the public from a predatory CEO who profited off killing and bankrupting people.

Palestinians abducted from Jabalia tonight .

@jacobkornbluh I thought he died?

Rudy Giuliani: “The Palestinians are taught to kill us at two years old. They won’t let a Palestinian in Jordan.. in Egypt. And Harris wants to bring them to you. “They may have good people. I’m sorry, I don’t take a risk with people that are taught to kill Americans at two.”

@USA_Polling @c7495867 I just know this is a white man behind this account bc only a white person could have the irony lost on them this terribly

@USA_Polling @c7495867 “Chief”..!!!!????? is this a for real thing you said rn on a fucking whole ass thread tryna tell Indigenous folks what they can and cannot say on their own land….??

@c7495867 Nah, this wasn't the time or place for this one, chief

Interrupting an event with Palestine-related chants where the President is apologizing for harm the government did to indigenous people in America is just a wild choice

@The_One1001 🫶🏽🇱🇧

@JenanMatari is on point here… She speaks to a fairly straight forward assignment, the current status quo must be eradicated to make way for something new If you find this uncomfortable then please tell me what changed in the last 30 years that gives you this false confidence Take a leap of faith and break this duopoly