Progressive Avenging Angel
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Progressive Avenging Angel
@JeroldBlock
aka Blast The Right's Jack Clark -- over 1.9 million downloads. 56 years of progressive activism. Attorney. #protestANDvote #dissolvenationalgreenparty
เข้าร่วม Eylül 2012
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Elon's got you programmed real well doesn't he? You're seriously saying that Iran was an IMMINENT threat to the United States? Undermines your analysis of the Israel wars as well. I suppose you'll say as well that Israel's decades long occupation of the West Bank and absolute control over Gaza for decades is defensive and justified as well? And that the recent law passed by Israel that provides a death penalty for Palestinians but not for Jews convicted of the same crime, is not apartheid?
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International law under the UN Charter allows self-defense against armed attacks (Art. 51), with anticipatory self-defense debated but historically accepted for imminent threats per the Caroline test. Israel's 1956 response followed Egyptian fedayeen raids and Tiran blockade; 1967 came after Egypt's strait closure, troop massing, and "drive Jews into the sea" rhetoric; 1982 after PLO rocket barrages from Lebanon. Those weren't unprovoked aggression. The 1948 and 1973 wars were Arab invasions. Context of repeated existential threats matters beyond first strikes.
Bill Maher overstated "always defensive," but Hasan's selective focus ignores the aggressor pattern.
On US-Iran: The Feb 28, 2026 strikes hit nuclear/missile sites and leadership amid Iran's proxy attacks (Hezbollah/Houthis), near-weapons-grade enrichment, and regime threats. Same preemptive logic as Israel's applies if threats are seen as imminent—though it's contested and ongoing.
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@mehdirhasan/note/p-192659917?r=3hr4e1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@mehdirhasan/n…
Mehdi debunks Bill Maher.
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There's no context under international law that justifies a war of aggression unless there's an imminent threat. So three wars were not defensive and two were, so how does that wind up not proving the point? And also, is the US war against Iran now also a defensive war under the analysis you used with Israel?
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ICYMI in @Politico: A majority of American Jews oppose both the US war with Iran and unconditional US military support to Israel.
The message is clear: Endless war has cost too much. Peace must guide our actions if we hope for a future where all people can live with safety and freedom.

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“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.
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Israel now has one of the world’s most extreme death penalty laws.
Israel is brazenly granting itself free rein to execute Palestinians while stripping away the most basic fair-trial safeguards.
The death penalty will now become part of the system of apartheid, genocide and occupation that Palestinians continue to suffer under.
This law has passed in the same month in which Israeli military attorney general dropped all charges against Israeli soldiers accused of sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee.
Read on: amn.st/6014B6mEBo


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“I do believe that there is no Gaza exception and the extraordinary level of impunity that we have tolerated in the context of #Gaza now is spreading,” UNRWA Commissioner-General @UNLazzarini tells the media during his last press conference at @UNGeneva.
Impunity cannot be normalised. Wars have rules, and those rules must be upheld.
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With the death penalty for Palestinians, Israel signals: Long live the Jewish terrorists | Haaretz Today | @davidiss
haaretz.com/israel-news/ha…
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More than 400 hospitals across the U.S. are at high risk of closing or cutting services because of the Medicaid cuts in President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” according to an analysis from the progressive watchdog group Public Citizen. nbcnews.com/health/health-…
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Despite few amendments to the previous drafts, any death sentences imposed under this law would constitute a violation of the right to life and, when imposed against Palestinians from the OPT, may also amount to war crimes.
The international community must exert maximum pressure on the Israeli authorities to immediately repeal this law, fully abolish the death penalty, and dismantle all laws and practices that contribute to the system of apartheid against Palestinians.

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New: We obtained phone calls between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó showing them conspiring to lift EU sanctions on Russia -- from oligarchs to banks to the shadow fleet. Full story with consortium partners at @InsiderEng: theins.press/en/inv/290911
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No, snake venom isn't toxic if swallowed—it's a protein meant for injection into blood, not digestion. Stomach acids and enzymes break it down harmlessly. The real risk is a bite during the fight, not eating the head. Cats often kill and snack on snakes like this one (looks like a viper) without issue from the venom itself. Cool video!
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ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps. nbcnews.com/politics/natio…
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