@1358531 @MazMHussain Writing takes every day doesn’t make someone an expert, and a think tank publishing policy papers doesn’t mean it controls US policy.
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ModerateHank
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Life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness. Resisting the democratization of truth & the normalization of hatred.
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@HankModerate @MazMHussain FDD has been implicated in US policy for three decades. Meanwhile, the fact that you're making this comment on Murtaza's post—someone who presents "real arguments" every day—undercuts your own argument from the start. responsiblestatecraft.org/2020/10/14/fdd…
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The administration is completely controlled by the Israelis. Nothing they are doing is in American interests and they are only prioritizing Tel Aviv.
Zachary Foster@_ZachFoster
This is wild. The @WhiteHouse plagiarized its reason for launching a war on Iran from @FDD, a cutout of Israeli intelligence. Side-by-side screenshots in the 🧵
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@gscott1233 @Hertsnik @EpshtainItay @EinatWilf One viral graphic vs decades of Palestinian rockets, suicide bombings, and stipends for Palestinian murderers of Israelis. Weird what you choose to mask.
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Einat Wilf, a former Labour member of the Knesset, offers what passes, in certain quarters, for strategic insight: the casual suggestion that nuclear devastation might be deployed against Iran to engineer regime change. One pauses not only at the violence of the proposal, but at its familiarity. This is the same voice that has long entertained the mass deportation of Palestinians. It is tempting to dismiss such views as fringe. That would be a mistake. They echo, rather than depart from, a strain of thinking that sits at the centre of Israeli political life.
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@TArkesteijn @HenMazzig @RepSummerLee If that’s your standard, then no civilian building on earth is off-limits.
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@HankModerate @HenMazzig @RepSummerLee Lol. 100% chance there were people in there that are or were in the IDF, have a family member in the IDF, or that once had their picture taken with someone wearing an IDF uniform.
Per 🇮🇱's sick logic as applied to "Kkkkhamas" that makes them legitimate military targets
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Our tax dollars are paying for bombs dropped on civilians from Gaza to Iran to Lebanon, and we're supposed to just sit back and watch full homes blown up on social media. It's sickening.
No more weapons to Israel or bombs sent abroad, period.
The Associated Press@AP
An Israeli airstrike struck an apartment building in central Beirut, on Wednesday. The Israeli army had warned residents to evacuate about an hour before completely flattening it as day broke.
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@websterkaroon Iran is under attack. Lol. Iran is literally firing missiles at cities and infrastructure across the region. Context matters
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As Iranians celebrate Eid Nowruz Israeli jets are raining death and destruction down on Tehran and every major Iranian city
Trey Yingst@TreyYingst
As Muslims celebrate Eid al-Fitr, and Jews prepare for Shabbat, Iranian missile shrapnel is raining down on Jerusalem’s Old City. All holy sites in Jerusalem remain closed due to the incoming fire. Jerusalem was targeted with seven rounds of ballistic missiles today alone.
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@VisionVV0 @TedRutland Hezbollah has been firing rockets into Israel for months, displacing hundreds of thousands of Israelis. That part always disappears when people post headlines like this.
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1,000 people. Israel killing 1,000 people is barely news it’s so normalized now.
Drop Site@DropSiteNews
🚨 Lebanon death toll surpasses 1,000 as strikes continue nationwide Lebanon’s Health Ministry said at least 1,001 people have been killed and 2,584 wounded since the start of Israeli attacks, according to official figures released March 19. At least 33 people were killed and 152 injured in the past 24 hours alone. ➤ 804 men, 79 women, and 118 children are among those killed ➤ 1,805 men, 414 women, and 365 children have been wounded ➤ 5 hospitals and 42 ambulances have been hit, along with 18 civil defense centers and 68 health facilities ➤ 40 healthcare workers have been killed and 107 injured, according to the ministry
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@TedRutland You took a raw number from a partisan source, stripped all context, and turned it into a moral conclusion. That’s the epitome of propaganda.
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@_ZachFoster @WhiteHouse @FDD This is such a reach. When multiple sources describe the same decades of attacks, of course the wording overlaps. Facts don’t belong to one think tank.
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This is wild. The @WhiteHouse plagiarized its reason for launching a war on Iran from @FDD, a cutout of Israeli intelligence. Side-by-side screenshots in the 🧵
Stephen McIntyre@ClimateAudit
The most definitive White House statement purporting to justify the Israel-US war on Iran was its March 2, 2026 statement entitled "The Iranian Regime's Decades of Terrorism against American Citizens". whitehouse.gov/articles/2026/… After a brief editorial opening, the article lists 44 incidents with a total of 992 US deaths. The source of the data wasn't given. Where did it come from? Unlike the Iraq war or the Russia collusion allegation, the reporting didn't come from an intelligence assessment, flawed or otherwise. It turns out that the list was plagiarized by the White House from a June 19, 2025 list (fdd.org/analysis/2025/…) prepared by a former AIPAC employee (Tzvi Kahn) for a think tank (FDD) founded "to provide education to enhance Israel's image in North America". The think tank's original identity was "EMET (Hebrew for 'truth')". The June 19, 2025 publication was literally on the eve of the first US bombing of Iran on June 21, 2025. In this thread, I'll compare each and every item in the White House statement to the corresponding item in the original list by the former AIPAC employee. The list is virtually identical. Any slight changes are always in the change of ratcheting up the underlying allegation.
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@LadyLevnon People really think air defense is a force field. It’s not. It’s interception under pressure, and even the best systems miss.
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How could Israel let Iran hit Jerusalem?
Why didn’t they stop the missile?
Yes, that’s how stupid people sound
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@ThatDude3210 @CrandleRobert @cameron_lee4 @JamesWebb_16 You’re assuming intent instead of proving it. Targeting leadership and infrastructure is literally about ending threats faster, not dragging things out for chaos.
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@CrandleRobert @cameron_lee4 @JamesWebb_16 You don't blow up the equivelant of a congressional session, then expect to negotiate with the survivors.
I get that you're a bloodthirsty zionist, but at least attempt to approach this from a rational direction.
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Assassinating heads of state has been taboo since at least the Treaty of Westphalia. There are a number of very practical reasons it's a very bad idea. For one, it makes it near impossible for states to negotiate. It also galvanizes public opinion (in places such as Iran) behind the regime. It's seen as an attack on the whole people.
Aaron Bastani@AaronBastani
The response to this is rather strange. Did anyone sensible seriously think that Israel and the US could assassinate a literal head of state, and that this wouldn’t normalise…political assassinations?
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@cameron_lee4 @JamesWebb_16 That’s not a rule, it’s a theory. Sometimes it hardens resistance, sometimes it collapses command faster. It depends on the regime, not a blanket outcome.
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@JamesWebb_16 It also extends wars for much longer and the fighting much more ferocious than they otherwise would be.
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@JamesWebb_16 “Taboo” hasn’t stopped reality. States have targeted leadership networks for decades - because it degrades command and shortens conflicts. The alternative is often longer wars with more casualties.
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What we've done to the children of Gaza is unforgivable.
UN News@UN_News_Centre
Gaza: 96% of children say they feel death is imminent. After more than two years of war & relentless violence, young Palestinians face a deepening mental health emergency. Girls are at particular risk, including a rise in child marriage, @UNFPA reports. news.un.org/en/story/2026/…
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@arashreisi Cool history lesson. Doesn’t change that the Strait of Hormuz today is an international waterway, where most of the primary shipping lanes run through Omani waters, not something Iran controls.
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404 years ago, Iranians ended 115 years of Portuguese occupation in #Hormuz and liberated the island.
This was not just a military victory; rather, it was a geopolitical reset. By breaking Portuguese control over a critical chokepoint, Safavid Iran demonstrated a timeless rule:
control over strategic geography can overturn even the most powerful maritime empires.
Today, after four centuries later, the Strait of Hormuz has once again emerged as the most critical geopolitical chokepoint in the world.
A second #Hormuz_War now appears imminent. This will not remain confined to the region as it will have far-reaching consequences, reshaping the geopolitical power arrangement and the international economic order.
Arash Reisinezhad@arashreisi
۴۰۲ سال پیش در چنین روزی #شاه_عباس بزرگ #جزیره_هرمز را آزاد کرد؛ جزیرهای که ۱۱۵ سال زیر یوغ پرتغالیها بود. در ۱۴۹۷ م. #واسکودوگاما پرتغالی از دماغه امید نیک در جنوب آفریقا گذشته و با دور زدن راه زمینی در قلمروهای اسلامی توانست مسیر دریایی را از آتلانتیک به اقیانوس هند بیابد.
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@shaunking Hormuz gets threatened, Bibi proposes a workaround, and suddenly that’s the real purpose? Such spin. That's why we call you an antisemite.
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And there you go. The true purpose is now clear.
I would have been called an anti-Semite if I said this was true yesterday.
But today they admit the very thing we always knew. This is about oil, land, wealth, and power. All of it.
Reuters@Reuters
Netanyahu wants oil, gas to flow through Israel post-Iran war reut.rs/4sODnPY reut.rs/4sODnPY
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@DanielSeidemann Intent aside, you don’t fire into Jerusalem and pretend holy sites aren’t at risk.
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The same occurred this past Sunday adjacent to the Holy Sepulcher.
There's no indication that Holy Sites are being targeted. There ARE indications that Jerusalem is, putting Holy Sites at grave risk.
FWIW, official Israel is mortified by the threat of a hit to the Holy Sites.
Ihab Hassan@IhabHassane
BREAKING: An Iranian missile struck just meters away from Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
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@Iam_Lekinx Panama Canal is man-made and inside one country. Strait of Hormuz is an international waterway where another country owns half of it. In fact, the major shipping lanes are all under Oman's sovereignty. Iran can’t just start charging tolls in someone else's country.
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Wait, it's been toll-free all this while? This country might be different from what the world powers are saying about them. Do you know how expensive it is for ships to pass through the Panama Canal?
BRICS News@BRICSinfo
JUST IN: 🇮🇷 Iran considers charging taxes and toll fees to cross the Strait of Hormuz.
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@wickdchiq Launching drones and missiles across the region indiscriminately at civilians isn’t standing up to a bully. It’s escalating war regionally.
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Iran is showing the whole world how to stand up to a bully
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@HenMazzig @RepSummerLee But you start crying when appartment buildings in Tel Aviv are targeted. Even though there's a 100% chance there are IDF in there.
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@Anna1595625 @HenMazzig @RepSummerLee Iran funds Hezbollah. Iran has IRGC commanders IN Lebanon directing Hezbollah.
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