Maisha

Even as a politics lecturer in a Middle East department, I am lost. Israel has a right to self defence, but Lebanon does not? Israelis have the right to be safe, but Palestinians do not? Iran can’t launch missiles into civilian areas, but Israel can? None of this is coherent.

If you understand that Beirut is an international city, in a sovereign country, inhabited by people with lives like you and me, how can you stay silent when 2000lb bombs are dropped on densely populated quarters? I cannot comprehend. Unless you participate to the dehumanisation.

The media spoke for MONTHS regarding Jewish people in the uk being scared to go to certain places because of peaceful protests Will they discuss the fear that some Asians & Muslims must feel where people bring punched in the face, attacked, racially abused?

I’m disgusted but not shocked that politicians the in U.K. who labelled 10 months of peace pro-Palestinian protests as hateful, dangerous and intimidating are yet to use the same language to describe the destructive violence we’ve witnessed over the last few days.

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Selling stolen land at a synagogue and then crying that people are "hating you for your religion" is one of the most simultaneously cynical amd insane gambits I've ever seen.

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BREAKING: The UN just released its first actual investigation into October 7 and ongoing Gaza genocide by Israel. It concludes that though there was violence against women (SVGB), there is no proof of any rape, let alone "mass rape", or that it was "ordered by Hamas". It's over

If she was in the blindfold, and the Palestinian woman in Hijab posing like her, how would you see it? Or are you so deeply conditioned that you’re completely blind to your own biases? Yes, your “precious dove” is capable of being a devil worth fighting.

How the Nuseirat Massacre unfolded: Israel used the US-built ‘humanitarian pier’ to sneak in a unit of Israeli soldiers, and reportedly American soldiers. The soldiers boarded a humanitarian aid truck and drove to Nuseirat refugee camp. Once inside, they were discovered by Palestinians, which resulted in nonstop Israeli aerial bombardment and the soldiers opening fire inside the central market, killing over 210 Palestinians and injuring hundreds. The ‘humanitarian pier’ gets exposed to be an occupation, assassination, and massacre pier. The Americans cannot be trusted under any circumstances. A humanitarian pier built under the guise of helping hungry and starving Palestinians, was actually used to massacre them. Every day the US’ colonial barbarism gets revealed to be more and more horrific.

i cant believe we live in a time when "amount of bombs israel has dropped on gaza surpassed that of world war II" is a real fucking headline

Israel killing Palestinians

in case anyone is under any confusion here - we are WAYYYY past a ceasefire deal now - this is a liberation movement which demands nothing less than the full dignity, freedom&security of all who live under violent military occupation - this is a demand to end Israeli apartheid

Headless children in handcuffs. Doctors tortured and their bodies decayed with scrubs still showing. This is what @POTUS has funded and protected. This is what every politician and supporter has on their hands. You've lost your entire moral conscience and humanity.

BREAKING: A senior US State Department official has confirmed that the Israeli regime and military are systematically raping Palestinian women. This has shocked the genocidal Israeli regime who demanded they not say this publicly and are now trying to get her fired

This is among the worst footage I've seen. Not only were these boys clearly unarmed & present no threat whatsoever, but they were struck multiple times even after stumbling/crawling away. There is no way they could have been considered combatants. This is unreal.

The Rabbi who debated Candace Owens kept saying antisemitism is "uniquely evil". He even said it was antisemitic to put the suffering of Jews in the same conversation as the suffering of Palestinians. The rabbi said October 7th was uniquely tragic, comparable only to the Holocaust. In other words, the millions dead in the Korean war, Vietnam, the Balkans wars, the Cambodian genocide, 9/11, Iraq, Syria... they all pale in comparison to the thousand+ killed on October 7th. Why? Because those millions of lost lives were not Jewish. How do people hear statements like that and nod along as if the person they're listening to has any moral authority? Like the rabbi who eulogised mass murderer Baruch Goldstein by saying a million Arab lives are not worth a Jewish fingernail, this is simply an assertion of Jewish supremacy. We would not tolerate this level of narcissism from anyone else. People's patience is running out.

Hostages tortured to death. Parents executed in front of their children. Doctors beaten. Babies murdered. Sexual assault weaponised. No, not Hamas crimes. This is part of an ever-growing list of documented atrocities committed by Israel in the five months since 7 October – quite separate from the carpet bombing of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and a famine induced by Israel’s obstruction of aid. And yet while the western establishment media has been chock full of the most lurid allegations of savagery directed against Hamas, sometimes with little or no supporting evidence, Israeli atrocities are excused or quickly forgotten. Accusations against Hamas are endlessly reheated to paint a picture of a supremely dangerous and bestial militant group, in turn rationalising the slaughter and starvation of Gaza’s population to “eradicate” it as a terrorist organisation. But equally barbarous atrocities committed by Israel – not in the heat of battle, but in cold blood – are treated as unfortunate, isolated incidents that cannot be connected, that paint no picture, that reveal nothing of import about the military that carried them out. If Hamas’ crimes were so savage and sadistic they still need to be reported months after they took place, why does the establishment media never feel the need to express equal horror and indignation at equivalent or worse acts of cruelty and sadism being inflicted by Israel on Gaza – not five months ago, but right now? Israel's torture of doctors, its sexual assaults of Palestinian women, it's leaving premature babies to die after its forces stormed a hospital. Where is the outrage? This is part of a pattern of behaviour by the western media that leads to only one possible deduction: Israel’s five-month-long attack on Gaza is not being reported. Rather, it is being selectively narrated – and for the most obscene of purposes. Through consistent and glaring failures in their coverage, establishment media – including supposedly liberal outlets, from the BBC and CNN to the Guardian and New York Times – have smoothed the way for Israel to carry out mass slaughter in Gaza, what the World Court has assessed as plausibly a genocide. The role of the media has not been to keep us, their audiences, informed about one of the greatest crimes in living memory. It has been to buy time for US President Joe Biden to keep arming his most useful of client states in the oil-rich Middle East, and to do so without damaging his prospects for re-election in November’s US presidential vote. If Russian President Vladimir Putin was a madman and a barbarous war criminal for invading Ukraine, as every western media outlet agrees, what does that make Israeli officials, when every one of them supports far worse atrocities in Gaza, directed overwhelmingly at civilians? And more to the point, what does that make Biden and the US political class for materially backing Israel to the hilt: sending bombs, vetoing demands for a ceasefire at the United Nations, and freezing desperately needed aid? Worrying about the optics, the president expresses his discomfort, but he carries on helping Israel regardless. While western politicians and commentators worry about some imaginary existential threat those brief events of five months ago pose to the nuclear-armed state of Israel, Israel is quite literally wiping Gaza off the map day by day, quite undisturbed. Read more in my latest article here: middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-ga…

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