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@StateDept You started a war (you murdered school children) but the other side is ‘illegal’. Do you know what that word means?

SECRETARY RUBIO: The straits have to be open. What’s happening there is illegal. It’s unsustainable for the world and it’s unacceptable.

@OHanlonEilis You are criticising her for not doing something because you can’t criticise her for she’s done. A bit lame.

Would it really have been too much for President Connolly to say something positive about Britain on her first official visit there? It was all about how great the Irish in the UK are. This self-obsession speaks of incecurity not confidence. Today's column independent.ie/comment/opinio…

@mishtal Show the evidence.

Israel produced forensic evidence, videos, and 1000s of photos documenting the sexual violence of Oct 7. The world stayed silent. A handful of activists get off a boat making up sexual abuse claims against Israel. And it becomes headline news. Make it make sense.

@theliamnissan It would be a scandalous waste of AIPAC money for there to be peace.

Negotiations have failed, the ceasefire is over. Hormuz will remain closed. The price you pay for everything will continue to increase.

@AJENews So when Iran’s legislature were discussing a deal, they were bombed… and when Iran is in Qatar discussing a deal, Iran and Lebanon are bombed…. I think some people aren’t really looking for a deal at all.

BREAKING: US strikes on Iran's Bandar Abbas a 'small hurdle' but unlikely to derail peace talks 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/tmpkj5?update=…

This is a “far-right” politician who was just elected in Australia. He proceeded to come out as gay and announce “I love immigrants.” Supporters are FUMING. Bro was a Trojan horse 😂

@Malcolm_Pal9 Can give you million$ of rea$on$

Why do American politicians love a foreign country🇮🇱 so much?

Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt's 1948 letter to the New York Times: They saw the creation of a Jewish ethnostate in Palestine at the expense of its indigenous Muslim and Christian population as a profound injustice and moral catastrophe. Einstein and the other signatories explicitly compared Begin’s Herut (Freedom Party), born from the Irgun, to Nazis and Fascists, warning that their ideology of racial superiority and violent ethnic nationalism posed a grave danger to the moral and political future of the new state. - - - Full text of Einstein and Hannah Arendt's letter to the New York Times: TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES December 2, 1948 Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our time is the emergence in the newly created State of Israel of the “Freedom Party” (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy, and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine. The current visit of Menachem Begin, leader of this party, to the United States is obviously calculated to give the impression of American support for his party in the coming Israeli elections and to cement political ties with Zionist elements in the United States. Several Americans of national repute have lent their names to welcome his visit. It is inconceivable that those who oppose fascism throughout the world could condone, even by silence, the appearance of such a party in Israel. Within the Jewish community they have preached an admixture of ultra-nationalism, religious mysticism, and racial superiority. Like other fascist parties, they have been used to break strikes, and they have encouraged demoralization among labor. In their actions they have been marked by cruelty and contempt for human life. During the recent past, they have systematically terrorized the Arab population, attacked Jewish settlements, and sabotaged the rescue of displaced Jews from Europe. A shocking example was their behavior in the Arab village of Deir Yassin. This village, off the main roads and surrounded by Jewish lands, had taken no part in the war and had even fought off Arab bands that wanted to use it as their base. On April 9 (1948), terrorist bands attacked this peaceful village, which was not a military objective in the fighting, killed most of its inhabitants — 240 men, women, and children — and kept a few of them alive to parade through the streets of Jerusalem. Most of the Jewish community was horrified at the deed, and the Jewish Agency sent an apology to King Abdullah of Transjordan. But the terrorists, far from being ashamed of their act, were proud of it, widely publicized it, and invited foreign correspondents to view the corpses and the ravaged village. The Deir Yassin incident exemplifies the character and actions of the Freedom Party. Within the Jewish community they have attempted to institute a reign of terror, have beaten up Jews who opposed them, and have, by gangster methods, terrorized the population. It is inconceivable that those who oppose fascism throughout the world could condone, even by silence, the appearance of such a party in Israel. The undersigned therefore take this means of publicly presenting a warning to the American people concerning a danger to be found in the Freedom Party in Israel, a danger to which the leadership of Menachem Begin gives the greatest emphasis. (Signed): Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Sidney Hook, Rabbi Jessurun Cardozo, Irma Lindheim, and 22 other Jewish scholars, writers, and public figures. (Published December 4, 1948, in The New York Times.)

@portraitinflesh So it’s about length of time , really?? When was the last time a concentration camp survivor was dismissed for not being held long enough?

The thing about concentration camps is that people were sent there indefinitely, until they died of starvation, brutality or disease. Even if we accept that Israel mistreated the flotilla members, in what universe can that be comparable, when they were released after a day or so?

@LauraLoomer Remind us how many times Iran started wars?

People are going to be jolted when they realize there’s no such thing as a peace deal with a Muslim country. Islamic countries, especially the Islamic Republic of Iran, don’t believe in peace, because Islam is inherently violent and focuses on conquering and killing all non Muslims. No peace deal with any Muslim country will ever be fruitful long term because Islam is inherently violent. Anyone who says otherwise has no concept of Islam. This is simply a fact.

@RepMikeLevin Appeasing never works.

Not enough people are talking about this. A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there. But the story of how he got it is even worse. County staff told commissioners that rejecting the name change would put state transportation funding at risk. DeSantis has already removed state attorneys and school board members who dared to cross him. That is the reality the Democratic commissioner who cast the deciding vote was living in when she made her choice: hand Donald Trump control of a public airport or watch Florida Republicans strip funding from the very people she was elected to represent. That is absolutely insane. Florida Republicans handed Trump a money machine and called it a naming rights deal, and the people of Palm Beach County never got a say in any of it. theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…

@kevintoconnor @seandebrun2 They did but won’t admit it. Carry on yerself

@Hiyahmoki @seandebrun2 They didn't but carry on.

I’ve been a SF voter all my voting life, and I will continue voting for them. But if the party do not win a by-election seat in the leaders constituency, then the leader must go. It’s simple stuff really.

@GeorgeSzamuely Orban’s loss must have hurt

Six NATO states now border with Russia. Almost the entire European continent has been subsumed within NATO. And it's Russia that's the "threat to world peace."

@danobrien20 The first duty of FFG is to ensure their own re-election. This means decision-avoidance, can-kicking and doing nothing that rocks what has become a one party state.

The utter recklessness of successive governments on energy security is well captured here. People will die if the gas pipeline from Scotland stops functioning. Homes wouldn't be heated and businesses would have to close. This is all clearly understood in government. Yet still no storage facilities and no LNG import capacity exists, and it will be many years before this changes. All of this reflects the failure of the political class to understand that the first duty of government is to protect citizens and the state. More widely, it explains why another vital strand of national security - defence force modernisation and resourcing - is not treated as the emergency that it is. independent.ie/comment/sarah-…

@RachelMoiselle I take it that in the context of abused Palestinian prisoners, you mean the “sexually perverted humans” are Israeli prison guards? If so then say so.

As a simple matter of fact, the specific assertion highlighted is wilfully misleading. Niklas very cleverly says the medical literature ‘documents rectal injuries’. Note that he does not say ‘documents dog rape’. That is because there is no such occurrence in the literature, it is completely without precedent in this regard. As @AviBittMD wrote (full comment linked below): ‘No cases of canine rape have ever been confirmed in the medical literature, and the very few cases of rectal injuries that are described are documented as being initiated by sexual/curious zoophilia on the part of the human, not an assault on an unwitting human on the part of the dog. Moreover those very same medical journals specifically state what you are claiming as “never been described, nor is such a such a thing likely”.’ There were credible testimonies in the Kristof piece. However, the Sagan standard was obviously - obviously - required on claims of dog rape and it was not provided in the piece. I am honestly dumbfounded that Nick and the New York Times have gambled their credibility as a journalist and paper respectively by insisting on publishing and standing behind the dog penetration aspects of the piece. Worse, they are now wilfully misrepresenting the medical literature on the subject. This is a total collapse of journalistic and editorial standards that, aside from anything else, has left the credible testimonies - ones that deserve to see the light of day - in the dust.

@mactre4217421 Your silent majority eh? Aka the 3% who vote for the loonies

No chance they would get this through today.

Der italienische Journalist Alessandro Mantovani bezeichnet bei seiner Ankunft in Rom die israelischen Folterlager als „Orte des Terrors“. Er sagte wörtlich: „Sie haben mich in die Beine getreten und ins Gesicht geschlagen. Sie haben dich verprügelt und dabei gesagt ‚Willkommen in Israel‘.“ Mantovani beschrieb, wie er und andere in Containern festgehalten wurden, wo systematische Schläge erfolgten. Der italienische Abgeordnete Dario Carotenuto berichtet nach seiner Freilassung in Rom, dass die Gefangenen nach Nummern aufgerufen und misshandelt wurden. Der britische Aktivist Ben Trowell schildert bei seiner Rückkehr: „Sie ließen die Leute einschlafen, und sobald sie eingeschlafen waren, haben sie sie mit Wasserwerfern beschossen.“ Viele seien stundenlang nass gewesen und hätten in der Kälte gefroren, ohne sich trocknen zu können, bis die Sonne aufging. Es gab Momente der Einschüchterung und Panik, einschließlich plötzlicher Flashbang-Explosionen“, so Trowell. Tagsüber herrschte extreme Hitze, Wasser wurde kaum ausgegeben. Er selbst wurde in einen Container gebracht, wo er „viele Tritte“ abbekam, darunter gegen Kopf, Rücken und Bauch. Er sah, wie ein Mitgefangener von einer nicht-tödlichen Kugel ins Bein getroffen wurde. Der brasilianische Aktivist Thiago Ávila berichtet, er sei „mit dem Gesicht nach unten über den Boden geschleift und so schwer geschlagen, dass er zweimal das Bewusstsein verlor“. Er hatte sichtbare blaue Flecken im Gesicht, wurde isoliert und und mit Augenbinde gehalten. Beide sprachen von schweren Schlägen, Isolation, Drohungen und stundenlangen Stresspositionen an Bord und in der Haft. Die Menschenrechtsorganisation Adalah dokumentierte systematische Misshandlungen: wiederholten Taser-Einsatz, Stresspositionen, sexuelle Belästigung, Abreißen von Hijabs und demütigende Behandlungen. Eine Aktivistin wurde gezwungen, sich nackt auszuziehen und zu laufen, während Wachen lachten. Videos zeigen wie die Verschleppten auf dem Boden knien mussten, mit hinter dem Rücken gefesselten Händen, während Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir sie verspottete. Folter hat in Israel System. Die UN wirft Israel systematische Gewalt gegen Palästinenser in Folterhaft vor.

@CulchieThe @IrishTimes @MickFoley76 The Low Arousal method can help - avoid the hard No

@IrishTimes @MickFoley76 Sounds like PDA or Pathological Demand Avoidance. Generally seen as a profile type within the Autism spectrum. It is something very difficult to manage for both the child an parents. Usual parenting generally makes things worse rather than better. Therapy and creating a low ..

My seven-year-old son can have these intense meltdowns at home, which can result in him shouting and hitting out at myself and my husband. They can be triggered by anything, but usually when we ask him to do something reasonable such as tidy up after himself, or even wash his hands after he has been messy. irishtimes.com/health/your-fa…

@bundeskanzler Dude, stop trading with genocidal Israel. Your words are worthless unless you do something

Settler violence in the West Bank is at unprecedented levels. Together with the United Kingdom, France and Italy, we call on the Government of Israel to end its expansion of settlements. For a comprehensive and just peace based on a two-state solution.