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@noOne233456 @ajplus Hey no one knew, are you afraid to show your name? Your racist comments should make any decent person blush

@ajplus Stop calling it Gaza and just call it the terrorists’ corridor. Denounce Hamas and we’ll care. Even their neighbors don’t want to help—I wonder why?

This is Gaza, six months after “ceasefire.” The war never stopped.

@AnnieAnnab @susanabulhawa Thank you

I want to post a point of historic fact regarding the current "border" of Gaza. The 1949 armistice line was actually 3 kilometers wider along the full perimeter of the Gaza Strip. However, Israel declared this area as a "buffer zone," and ultimately absorbed it as de facto Jewish-only territory. Those lands around the strip, called the Gaza envelop, are technically supposed to be part of the strip itself. But Israel built settlements and farms there. Today, when Israel talks about creating a "buffer zone," it's actually a buffer zone of the buffer zone, and so imperialism by the inch continues.

@SlawomirMentzen ouch. the truth hurts

Polish MP Konrad Berkowicz compares Israel’s crimes against humanity to those of the Third Reich and displays an Israeli flag with a swastika. Israel is the new Third Reich!

@prem_thakker This is very encouraging!! But we shd not overestimate what this means. I think most of those "favourable to Palestinians" still think Israel has the right to defend itself and that we shd support its fight against Palestinian "terrorism.'

This is a -15 point swing (!) in Americans' views of Israel just since last year:

@AlecDacyczyn @JamesWebb_16 source? or are you on the ground speaking Farsi?

@JamesWebb_16 You have to remember that most of the Iranian army doesn't want to fight us and woudl be glad to be rid of the clerical government. Remember how quickly the Iraqi army units surrendered whenever they got the chance. These guys are even more hated by the people than Saddam was.

I just heard from a source very close to top of the White House that, following today’s shootdown of an F-15, an A-10, and the successful hits on multiple helicopters and other aircraft, the WH is choosing further escalation, including US troops on the ground. This would be madness. I truly hope that someone in the Pentagon or elsewhere can prevent this from happening. If anything was proven today, it’s that Iranian AD is still very capable and very intact. Any US ground operation will be heavily reliant on helicopters and other slow-moving airframes. Despite the assertions of both the Pentagon and POTUS, it is crystal clear that we have not reduced Iranian AD to the point where a ground operation is even a remotely wise decision. Let alone potentially inserting by air and then being exclusively reliant on an air corridor for things such as resupply and CASEVAC. History is replete with examples where this reliance has been disastrous. Further, the hard part would be after troops were on the objective. Our lack of manpower leaves little room for maneuver, and once static (which would be required), Americans will become a stationary target for the entire inventory of Iranian indirect fire capabilities on Iranian soil, and it is a recipe for failure. Simply put, this is not an existential war for the US's survival. It’s a war of choice that should never have happened in the first place, and POTUS should be finding a way out, rather than clumsily and recklessly sacrificing America’s finest.

@SpencerHakimian april 26? what year?

🚨BREAKING: GOLD COLLAPSES AS ARAB GULF STATES SELL THEIR ASSETS TO RAISE MONEY

@MarkJCarney It reads like it was drafted by CIJA.

My statement on Iran-related hostilities in the Middle East:

@MarkJCarney I think he misspoke. The PM does not seem to recognize that it is Israel that is a principal source of instability and terror in the region and has by far the worst Human rights record as per the UN, IJC, ICC etc. Compare Gaza to anything Iran has done anywhere.

@AnnieAnnab @susanabulhawa Thank you

@DAWNmenaorg @MichaelLynk5 They will just keep waiting for an opportunity to exercise their superiority - pretext. Israel needs to be dezionized and de militarized.

"No peace plan for Palestine and Israel has any hope of success unless it is a rights-based approach grounded in international law. The Trump plan—full of ambiguity, escape clauses and disappearing ink—is a recipe for more sorrow, more suffering, less justice.” — @MichaelLynk5

@DAWNmenaorg @MichaelLynk5 agree. Until Israeli society is convinced - or forced - to give up the Jewish supremacist idea that Jews are superior and that all of Palesltine belongs to them, there will be no peace in Palestine. They have to be convinced - or forced - to give up that racist idea.

@DAWNmenaorg @MichaelLynk5 Agreed. There is a straight line from the Nakba of 47/48 to the annexation of the West Bank and the genocide in Gaza. The global North has supported this from the start. This has to stop.

“Gaza’s unimaginable suffering has become the Global North’s moral litmus test. And it has failed. Starvation has become famine. Mass killing has become genocide. Humanitarian aid has become a weaponized death trap... Power has triumphed over law for now.” — @MichaelLynk5

@MarkJCarney Are you kidding? Iran WAS at the negotiating table.

Iran’s nuclear programme is a grave threat to international security, and Canada has been consistently clear that Iran can never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon.     While U.S. military action taken last night was designed to alleviate that threat, the situation in the Middle East remains highly volatile. Stability in the region is a priority.   Canada calls on parties to return immediately to the negotiating table and reach a diplomatic solution to end this crisis. As G7 leaders agreed in Kananaskis, the resolution of the Iranian crisis should lead to a broader de-escalation of hostilities in the Middle East, including a ceasefire in Gaza.

@AliAbunimah Solidarity from snowy Ottawa

I’m free! I wrote this on the plane and I’m posting it just after landing at Istanbul. On Monday evening I was brought to Zurich airport in handcuffs, in a small metal cage inside a windowless prison van and led all the way to the plane by police. This is after three days and two nights in a Swiss prison cut off from communication with the outside world, in a cell 24 hours a day with one cell mate, not even permitted to contact my family. On Saturday in a police interview in the presence of my lawyer they accused me of “offending against Swiss law” without ever telling me what crime I had committed in Switzerland or listing any charges. As far as I know I have not been charged with any crime whatsoever and I was held in “administrative detention.” On Sunday morning, they took me from my cell for questioning by Swiss defense ministry intelligence agents without the presence of my lawyer, and they again refused to allow me to contact her or my family. I refused to talk to them without my lawyer and told them take me back to my cell. During my imprisonment I refused every meal and every cup of coffee or tea they offered me except the last meal, after I knew I would be going home. I accepted only water, which is the right of every human being. All of this was after I was abducted off the street around 1:30pm on Saturday while on my way to the Palestine teach-in by undercover agents, handcuffed, forced into an unmarked car and sped straight to the prison. My “crime”? Being a journalist who speaks up for Palestine and against Israel’s genocide and settler-colonial savagery and those who aid and abet it. I came to Switzerland at the invitation of Swiss citizens to talk about justice for Palestine, to talk about accountability for a genocide in which Switzerland too is complicit. But while I was hauled off to prison like a dangerous criminal before I even had a chance to say a word, the Israeli president Isaac Herzog, who declared at the start of the genocide that there are no civilians in Gaza, no innocents, received a red carpet welcome in Davos, a carpet soaked in the blood of the more than 47,000 known victims of the genocide and the thousands more still under the rubble, or who died of deliberately inflicted starvation and denial of medical care. And on this very day Netanyahu freely travels to Poland to make a mockery of the Auschwitz commemoration despite an outstanding ICC arrest warrant. That is the perverse, unjust world we live in. This ordeal lasted three days but that taste of prison was more than enough to leave me in even greater awe of the Palestinian heroes who endure months and years in the prisons of the genocidal oppressor. More than ever I know that the debt we owe them is one we can never repay and all of them must be free and they must remain our focus. The police gave me my phone back only at the gate of the plane so I’m only seeing now the extent of the overwhelming support and solidarity from all over the world. I’m deeply grateful to each and every person who stood up for me. I’m especially grateful to my lawyer Dina Raewel and her team, to our friends in Zurich who I learned afterwards demonstrated outside the prison, to my family and my colleagues at EI and so many others. I honestly had no idea what was happening outside that concrete room! Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I want to tell the whole story of what happened, perhaps in an @intifada livestream in the next day or two, because I think it’s important for people to know the depths to which their Western so-called “democracies” have sunk in the abject service of genocidal Zionism. Right now I’m glad to be on my way home. I’m looking forward to hugging my mom and dad, taking a shower and sleeping in my own bed. Journalism is not a crime! Speaking out for Palestine is not a crime! Standing against racist genocidal Zionism is not a crime! Say it with me: From the River to the Sea Palestine Will Be Free! ❤️🇵🇸✌️

@FranceskAlbs ❤️ 😍 💖

Los pueblos de España ocupan un lugar especial en mi corazón. Agradecida por este reconocimiento. Continuemos en la lucha, con la justicia como guía, la solidaridad en el corazón y el coraje en las manos. Adelante, hacia la luz. No podemos ni debemos detenernos jamás. --- P.D. ¡El dibujo de mi cara me encanta!

@CENTCOM Did US use B-52 in Vietnam? How did that work out? The whole world loves US now, right?

B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers from Minot Air Force Base's 5th Bomb Wing arrived in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility.

@redstreamnet who are the dogs?

Israeli journalist Antonia Yamin just casually threatens all Arabs in Germany on TV. “Every dog gets their own,” she says, addressing any possible Arab viewers.

@Jonathan_K_Cook How were journalists silenced in Weimar republic? Bit by bit, or all at once?

A message to my fellow journalists on the British state's persecution of Asa Winstanley: First they came for Julian Assange And I did not speak out Because I was not Julian Assange Then they came for the Palestinian journalists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Palestinian journalist Then they came for the independent journalists And I did not speak out Because I was not an independent journalist Then they came for the investigative journalists And I did not speak out Because I was not an investigative journalist They never came for me And I never needed to speak out Because I was not a real journalist

@DoubleDownNews @OborneTweets We should not see Israel as an "ally". The west created it in 1947, ostensibly to protect jews. But it should never have been done. It was massively unfair to Palestinians, and it does not Protect Jews.

EXPOSED: Israel's Secret War in the West Bank @obornetweets

@MouinRabbani I ran into the argument that Hamas is mostly a financial empire yesterday from a serious friend. I didnt have a serious answer for him. Can anyone recommend a serious refutation of these pernicious claims?

Israel and its flunkies have concocted a spellbinding fable about a major row between Turkey and Ismail Haniya's surviving children regarding the "billions" he amassed and left behind after his assassination. (NB: only a few years ago Israel was "exposing" Haniya as only a "millionaire"). I presume the purpose of this story is to emphasise the contrast between the profligate, corrupt Haniya and the frugal Netanyahu, whose name has become a byword for probity and financial transparency.