Musings of a Curious Nature

“A dramatic set of capitulations by Donald Trump.” @jeremyscahill of @DropSiteNews lays out what we know about the nascent U.S.-Iran deal to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Drop Site MENA editor Sharif Abdel Kouddous joined Al Jazeera’s Listening Post to discuss Israel’s unprecedented killing campaign against journalists in Gaza, where more than 260 media workers have been killed, nearly a fifth of the territory’s press corps. “The press vest has been turned from a shield into a bullseye,” Sharif said. @sharifkouddous | @meenakshirv

Full interview with @AJListeningPost’s @meenakshirv is here: youtu.be/dTwUMzgYkVo

On the frozen funds:

CBS: The Iranians are saying they're gonna have access to a $300 billion reconstruction fund. True or false? JD VANCE: That's the sort of things they could have access to so long as they honor their end of the obligation

Yesterday, Israel opened fire on two civilians on the Salah Eddin St. east of Der el-Balah, killing a child and critically injuring his father. Immediately, Israel abducted the body of the child and the his bleeding father. A few minutes ago, israel released the body of the child and his wounded father. Such “a moral army.” They released the body of a child after killing him and holding his body hostage for a few hours. The child’s name was Rayyan Abu al-Ajin.

Between an orphaned amputee infant and a little boy whose life deteriorates by the day, tens of thousands of patients remain trapped in Gaza, suffering as their conditions worsen under Israeli-delayed medical evacuations.

🚨 DISGUSTING: France 24 confirms the Zionist regime just committed another horrific war crime. They intentionally fired two missiles into a densely populated residential building right on top of a civilian bakery in Beirut with absolutely zero evacuation warning!

A group of 40–50 settler terrorists torched a mosque with people inside and several cars in the West Bank. How could the IDF have missed 40 young men on their way to attack a village? In fact, they couldn't have. They must have chosen to let it happen.

Drop Site MENA editor Sharif Abdel Kouddous told Al Jazeera’s Listening Post that the October agreement has helped the U.S. and Israel foster the false impression that a meaningful ceasefire exists in Gaza, when in reality “the scorched-earth bombing may have stopped or slowed, but the genocide continues and the killing of journalists continues.” He warned that Israel has learned it can “bomb and shell and shoot and starve and displace Palestinians” without accountability, while the world increasingly looks away. @sharifkouddous | @AJListeningPost | @meenakshirv

Seth Rogen: "As a Jewish person I was fed a huge amount of lies about Israel my entire life. They never tell you there were people there. They make it seem like it was just sitting there empty like oh the door's open! I would never live in Israel. It doesn't make any sense to me"

💢 An Israeli drone strike killed a Palestinian woman and wounded several others Monday near the Abdul Rahman bin Auf Mosque, west of Al-Zawayda in central Gaza, the Palestinian news agency Safa reported. The woman was identified as Nadia Kamal Ayash. Israeli forces continued operations across the Strip, demolishing homes in eastern Gaza and opening fire from military vehicles east of Khan Younis amid artillery shelling, according to Safa. The agency said Israeli forces also expanded the so-called “yellow line” area for a second day by laying concrete blocks west of Khan Younis, while drones flew low over the area. Israel’s continued violations of the Gaza ceasefire have killed more than 986 Palestinians and wounded 3,138 since the truce was announced last October, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. 🎥 Quds News

“But ‘Greater Israel’ is an antisemitic myth!”

United Nations Convention Against Torture explicitly names acoustic bombardment as a torture method. They should sue these data center owners for human rights violations.

“I was raped twice by female recruits … once by them and once by a dog.” A Palestinian detainee recounts repeated abuse he says he endured in Israeli detention. Watch Bodies of Evidence: Israel’s Darkest Weapon, an Al Jazeera investigation aje.news/b66a1s

Ya got that, folks? Tweeting “fuck Kamala” is “disqualifying” but supporting genocide isn’t. 🤡

There is no maybe. This is exactly what he’s going to do. As I’ve said for years now, Israel crossed the point of no return in Gaza in December 2023. Everything they’ve done since then has been about avoiding the day after the war ends, when the world can finally see what they did there. Israel will never recover. Israelis know this. They understand it fully. And they have no plan for how to deal with it outside of never ending war. They will never stop until someone physically makes them. The only way out is through.

remember when people freaked out because obama converted the wh tennis court to also allow basketball? people who had lots to say about that are the exact same people who absolutely love this shit.

Tim Dillon: "Barry Weiss, friend of the show, mission to destroy all life on Earth. She's been working out of a secured locked suite on the sixth floor - physically isolated from the newsroom. You know you're doing a great job when you're afraid of your staff"

It’s infuriating how liberals (and most leftists!) have completely abdicated on fighting for free speech/self expression. If Hasan was a right wing figure this would (rightly) be plastered all over the news. Democrats and leftists need to wake up and fight against censorship