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@jimsciutto This is a lie, Jim, and you should have pushed back. The law applies to all terrorists, regardless of ethnicity.

“Even the apartheid regime in South Africa did not dare to say that if a black man kills a white man, he will be executed. But if a white man kills a black man, he will not be. What Israel did…it is exactly that saying that a Palestinian could be sentenced to death penalty, but an Israeli no for the same crime.” -@MustafaBarghou1 on Israel’s new death penalty law.

@afshineemrani But has the US actually won? And what about Israel, whose aims were broader and more focused on regime change?

Iran. America. Israel. Pezeshkian will release an important letter to the American people. (Much less radicalized?) Trump will be addressing the nation. (We won the war, they lost, Hormuz open, don't mess with America...?) Passover.

Iran was trying to use the North Korean model to get a nuke: create sufficient conventional deterrence so you won’t be challenged in acquiring one (it’s called the Seoul Hostage Problem). This has been explained over and over since day one. Everyone claiming shifting goalposts or no imminent threat has been lying. The reason North Korea was allowed to get nukes is because Seoul (and its 10 million inhabitants) is within artillery and rocket range of North Korea. During the 1994 nuclear crisis, the Clinton administration seriously considered airstrikes on North Korea’s Yongbyon reactor but backed off precisely because of the artillery threat to Seoul. Iran was trying to accomplish the same by stockpiling missiles and drones which would have had the same deterrent effect. The proof is what Iran has been doing in the past month: attacking all its neighbors in order to pressure the US to stop attacking it Beyond this, they were building medium-range ballistic missiles that could reach Paris and London, meaning all of Europe could be held hostage as they built a nuclear bomb. The reason Iran has not built a nuclear weapon until now is not because it couldn’t, but because it knew it would be attacked and denied this capability. So by allowing them to continue developing this conventional deterrence, you would be allowing Iran to get a nuclear weapon. And unlike North Korea, Iran is led by an eschatological death cult Reagan saw nuclear mutually assured destruction (MAD) as both morally bankrupt (because of the innocent-body-count problem) and dangerously fragile because it assumed flawless rationality between adversaries…this means it only takes one irrational actor to destroy the world. Working backwards from the conclusion that Iran’s Islamist regime must never have a nuclear weapon, it was necessary for the US to attack Iran to deny it the conventional capacity to hold the entire eastern hemisphere hostage. Every European leader knows this and behind the scenes praises the US for this action. But they are cowards, held hostage by their own internal Muslim populations, and so adopt these ridiculous public positions. This was never about Israel. And if your argument is that Iran should be allowed to get a nuclear weapon then you are a fool and a traitor to western civilization…you’re a useful idiot

@KhalilJeries I believe this "recognition offer", such as it was, required a right of return for all Palestinians to Israel proper. As such, it would result in the destruction of Israel. As such, it would not have been a genuine offer.

The entire arab world proposed to recognize Israel in exchange for giving the Palestinians their state, and Israel refused and continues to refuse

@AnitaAnandMP Why are you implying that Palestinians are terrorists? This is a law that allows the death penalty to be applied to terrorism-related murder. It has nothing to do with Palestinians. They can avoid any issues by - you know - not committing terrorism. Easy peasy!

Canada joins its partners in expressing concern about the death penalty law passed by the Israeli Knesset that, in practice, systematically targets Palestinians. This discriminatory law adds to a growing list of actions which enables illegal settler violence while dehumanizing the Palestinian people. Canada unequivocally opposes its application. We reaffirm our commitment to human rights and the global movement to abolish the death penalty.

@andrewfeinstein How does this apply only to one ethnic group? It allows a death penalty option for terrorism-related murder. (Btw, countries like America and Japan also have the death penalty for these crimes.)

Not even apartheid South Africa codified executions for only one ‘race group’. Israel is now the most racist state the world has ever known. Shame on every government, every company, every individual who offer it support.

@moizali Israel is not an apartheid state! Also, this law targets actions (terrorism) vs ethnic groups. You're the racist for assuming it only applies to Palestinians.

No one can honestly say Israel is not an apartheid state.

@BenjaminBadejo These people are actually incredibly racist bc they implicitly assume that this would only apply to Palestinians. Many countries - including America - have a death penalty option for murder, let alone terrorism-related murder.

“Terrorist” isn’t an ethnicity.

@dlLambo It applies to those convicted of terrorism-related murder. You're the one implying that only one ethnic group (I presume you are referring to Palestinians) would commit such crimes. Pretty racist of you!

Israel is the first state in history to legislate a death sentence that applies only to one ethnic group. There's a reason nobody has ever done this. It's a depth of evil beyond humanity itself.

@cem_uk_ Oh, no, it's not for Palestinians. It's for individuals convicted of terrorism-related murder charges. Are you implying Palestinians are terrorists? Shame on you!

Imagine if a country announced it was introducing the death penalty, but only for Jews. Imagine the global outcry. But apparently it's fine to introduce the death penalty only for Palestinians...

@afshineemrani Here is the problem: Iran can "win" simply by surviving, even if it is hobbled. For America and Israel to claim victory, they need to demonstrate tangible, long-term achievements. This asymmetry is often what happens when you fight religious fundamentalists.

People don't realize this IS THE END for Iran’s Regime. Trump has already won. Iran will be free. Don't waste your time with the idiots who are always wrong. This is NOT Iraq or Afghanistan.

@jk_rowling My favorite series of all time - for kids and adults! I read the series multiple times through pregnancy and breastfeeding...your voice was with me through those long, exhausting nights. And I hope one day I can read it to the children of those children. Thank you!

If you're the mother who was reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone aloud to your child on the LNER train from London to Edinburgh yesterday, one of my grown up children was listening and says you did the voices brilliantly❤️🥹

@JeffreyLuscombe Nope. The US is awesome - so close, and so many things to see! Just wish our $$ wasn't in the toilet compared to theirs.

We cancelled a planned trip to Florida last winter and another in the summer to New York City. I hear a LOT of other Canadian have done the same. You?

@politico @GovAndyBeshear @DashaBurns Thank you, Gov Beshear! (It's not a genocide, so that's why there's no need for this purity test.)

Dem @GovAndyBeshear is declining to call Israel’s actions in Gaza “genocide.” “That’s becoming one of those new litmus tests that we said we would never do as a party,” he told our @DashaBurns on #TheConversation. Listen to the full interview: politi.co/4uVmEfE

@travisakers The second last one! 🤣 Just trying to slip that in between some solid advice :)

If you do this for 30 days you will be unrecognizable: -Sleep 8+ hours -Drink 2L of water a day (high pH) -Get sun daily -No sugar -Read 30 min a day -Workout 3x a week -Capture someone, cut their face off, and sew it onto your face -Meditate for 10 min daily

@souljagoyteller You're so right. The Middle East is absolutely rife with secular states!

I agree that Jews should be treated like everyone else. Israel should become a secular state for all people who live in the Levant

@sarahadams @mark_slapinski Please ignore Mark. He's one of the most embarrassing Canadians we have here, and that's really saying a lot!

@mark_slapinski Are you stupid or something?

@afalkhatib Every normal Jewish person, Israeli or not, agrees with this.

Raviv Drucker, an Israeli journalist who presents an investigative program on Israel’s Channel 13, doesn’t mince his words and offers what must be said by those who actually care about Israel’s democratic ethos and rule of law: "When dozens of masked people beat Palestinians for no reason, other than wanting to expel them, that's Jewish terrorism. When there's a Telegram group where they proudly boast about the number of houses set on fire and cars burnt every week, that's Jewish terrorism. Arab terrorism is much more serious. The number of victims from Palestinian terrorists is immeasurably high. But at least the state is fighting Arab terrorism. Against Jewish terrorism, we’re not so sure. "The Shin Bet, with or without connection to the identity of the organization’s new head, is not felt. The Judea and Samaria District Police is not involved. The Minister of Defense forbids the issuance of administrative orders, and the army seems to be content with lip service."

@RobynUrback Oh come on!

I get why people are rolling their eyes at this (and normally I would too!) but one of the deceased pilots was a francophone from Quebec. It would've been nice if the CEO spoke a few words to his family, in their language

@hubermanlab Do you have a podcast episode on this? (You must :))

I predict peptides will change everything re public health discourse for health & disease. B/c they’re closer to medications (in many cases actual medications!) than supplements but they entered the picture in supplement-like fashion. HRT went the other direction. Get educated.