Jim Cooper
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Jim Cooper
@Spyfor
Polisci. Startup Advisor: Early Stage Emerging Tech. If not playing Aussie Rules, I’m eating ice cream “Like” is a bookmark not endorsement. No Gods/Masters


🚨🇮🇱🇮🇷 BREAKING: Sirens across Tel Aviv right now. Iran just launched another ballistic missile attack on central Israel. Air defenses responding.


Words that describe what Israel is doing in Lebanon: War crime, occupation, ethnic cleansing, threat… Words @nytimes uses: “military-controlled buffer zone”




Dozens of settlers said to raid multiple West Bank villages, torch buildings with Palestinians inside timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry…



I have serious problems with the term “settler violence.” It is a generalization that demonizes a community of 500,000 people - almost all of them are good, law-abiding citizens. But we cannot let that defense blind us. What has been happening in the West Bank - like the attacks by Jewish extremists in some 20 locations last night - is an abomination. These actions are anti-Jewish, they are the antithesis of what it means to be Israeli, and they must be stopped with the most aggressive steps law enforcement has at its disposal. Beyond the moral rot, this is a strategic liability. Israel is in a war against Iran and we have a rare moment to unite a global coalition from the US to Europe to the Gulf, but that support is undermined when these attacks occur. @netanyahu knows this and for that reason he went to the IDF Central Command on Friday to try and stop the violence in the middle of a war that needs to be his sole focus. What these attackers are doing is not just criminal; it is a threat to our national security. We cannot defeat our enemies abroad while a violent fringe undermines our legitimacy from within.


🇺🇸 US Secretary of Defense: “Whether Sunni or Shia, our enemy is Islam.”:









