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1000%. This has baffled me as well. Why would Israeli citizens not be demanding to know why their Prime Minister let his own citizens die (and actively killed his own people with Apache helicopter gunfire).
It is almost as if they think the end justifies the means.
How do you not even care that he knew Oct7 was going to happen from multiple people and kept it to himself while begging Qatar to send Hamas money?
A stand down order, Hannibal directive and strangely Israelis don’t even care to find out the truth of his complicity. It’s Weird
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This appeared in a major Israeli news feed. Not just justifying, but celebrating the death of a literal child. Needless to say, he is not a terrorist. The IDF claims he "intended to throw stones." Not even that he threw them. This is, of course, just an excuse to kill. One the Israeli people are happy to lap up.
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The New York Times has published a total of zero [0] articles, reports and videos on the hellish flooding conditions in Gaza.
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There are hundreds of thousands if not millions of intellectually honest Jews worldwide who share this man’s sentiments.
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Obama dropped a bomb every 8 minutes for 8 years straight. In his final year alone, he bombed 7 countries and dropped 26,171 bombs.
He was the first and only Nobel Prize winner who bombed another Nobel Prize winner.
He bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital, mass murdering at least 43 people, and burning patients alive in their hospital beds.
He destroyed Libya as a nation and people, bringing back slave markets to it and destroying the lives of millions.
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Israel did not just commit genocide in Gaza, it committed a systemic ecocide to make the land itself uninhabitable for Palestinians:
Since 2023:
-97% of tree crops have been lost
-95% of shrubland has been lost
-82% of annual crops have been lost
By December 2024, 75% of agricultural land had been damaged or destroyed. 96% of livestock had been lost. 67% of agricultural wells had been destroyed.
34% of Gaza’s coastal zone has been destroyed.
This genocide and ecocide was armed and enabled by the same countries that claim to care about human rights and the environment.
Abby Martin: ‘Wars in the Middle East have gone from GENOCIDE to ECOCIDE.’
‘You look at just the maintenance of a global military empire, the toxification, the dumping, the callous disregard for the environment.
That’s just to maintain the arsenal of military equipment because of the cleaning of the engine parts, the pointless missions of flying these Boeing Pegasuses, which are basically mobile gas stations around, just to keep these machines mission ready.
We're not even talking, we don't know the application of the actual weaponry. We can't even begin to quantify the impact on the environment that war causes.
One just has to look at what is happening across the Middle East today. It is an ecocide in front of our eyes. Genocide turned ecocide.
We see the black soot, the rain, the intentional targeting of oil infrastructure and civilian oil depots and ships. These are crimes against the environment every single day that are not being held to account.
And this isn't even being calculated.
This is just part of the mythology of having a military empire, part of that necessity that's dictated to us by the ruling class that we need this global military empire, that in fact it keeps us safe and in fact it's the solution to climate change.
There's a complete failure of imagination of how we can solve these problems and they just look to the military, the same force that's protecting the fossil fuel corporations and the same force that has exacerbated the crisis that we're in today.’
—@AbbyMartin, Co-Director of ‘Earth’s Greatest Enemy’
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Dear journalists
Palestine isn't simply “flooding” . Israel destroyed the water pumps, stormwater basins, homes, roads and hospitals, then trapped people on a strip of beach with nowhere to go. No tents, no prosthetics, no basic protection from the cold. Children are facing hypothermia with nowhere safe to seek treatment. And somehow the world is still looking the other way. This isn't a natural disaster. It's a Zionists-made catastrophe.
Do better
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Unbearable.
Gaza screams for us to break the siege.
I hope you are all sleeping safely in your homes, surrounded by your families. I hope every child has warm clothes and every parent can provide the care their children need.
I hope your children have umbrellas, raincoats, and rain boots for school. I hope your cities are prepared to respond to winter emergencies.
Of course, sharing this news will change nothing for our families in Gaza, just as the warnings issued days ago changed nothing.
Tonight, at 8:30 p.m., as families slept on the ground inside their tents, a massive landslide of soil and rocks buried at least two families in Deir al-Balah.
The victims have been identified as:
Habiba Hossam al-Zain, 4 years old
Reem Hossam al-Zain
Ibrahim Hossam al-Zain
Salah Nabhan, 7 years old
Mariam Nabhan
The mothers of these five children remain in critical condition.
The father of the first three children had already been killed by Israel.
I hope everyone has heat in their homes.
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Israel dropped 2,000-pound bombs, each with a lethal radius of 3.3 football fields, on refugee camps packed with displaced Palestinians, including on the "safe zone" it forced them to flee to.
Blinken and the Biden administration sent at least 14,000 MK-84 2,000-pound bombs to Israel between Oct. 7, 2023 and late June 2024.
The former Secretary of State today said “Israelis didn’t intend to harm Palestinian civilians.”
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This should be front page news but the U.S.-funded Israeli genocide in Gaza has been relegated to background noise at best. When it does make the news, it’s getting justified by monsters
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Did you know the Israelis concentrated the Palestinians in Gaza in the low lying areas, that always flood?
Did you know the IDF will kill any Palestinian who leaves the flooded concentration camp?
Did you know Israel bombed every single water desalination plant in Gaza?
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All 18 US Intelligence Agencies told Donald Trump that Iran did not have a nuclear weapons program.
•@grok• TRUE or FALSE
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The key to the legacy media’s cataclysmic decline is that they really do think you’re an idiot.
Chuck Schumer has gone from a punching bag for Democrats to the architect of their historic landslide, @FranklinFoer writes. He spoke with the senator: theatln.tc/8GgiSxtj
📸: Tom Brenner / Getty
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We will now go back to lying about children with no power or access to legal counsel subjected to famine and genocidal bombardment by the foreign apartheid state that forms the central pillar of our identity
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I owe much of my political
understanding to thinkers like Chris Hedges.
Chris Hedges diagnosed the rot in our political system decades ago, and his words have never been more relevant.
I urge you to read his work, especially if you want to understand why I’m so critical of our politicians.
The Democrats may have taken control of the House and the Senate, they may have humiliated Donald Trump and the Republican Party, but the real fight is only beginning. It is not simply a battle to hold the corrupt Trump regime to account, something that can only be done if the Democrats are willing overcome their reluctance to carry out impeachment proceedings against the president. It is also a battle to sweep away the corporate-indentured hierarchy of the Democratic Party, including Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries.
The Democratic Party since the presidency of Bill Clinton, who gave us the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the greatest betrayal of the working class since the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, and gutted New Deal-era welfare programs such as the Aid to Families with Dependent Children, is a more polished version of corporate and oligarchic rule, abjectly subservient to the war machine, the Israel lobby and their funders in the billionaire class.
The country is broken. Corruption, in both parties, is endemic. Federal agencies have been hollowed out and destroyed. The courts, including the Supreme Court, have been handed over to right-wing ideologues. The working class is crippled with debt peonage and substandard wages. Constitutional norms and protections have been erased. Billionaires, including Trump, pay little to no income tax. The 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court ruling, which allows big business to fund their hand-picked candidates, sustains a system of legalized bribery.
The public may clamor for a raise in the minimum wage, Medicare for All, regulation of the big banks and private equity firms, an end to arms shipments to Israel and campaign finance reform, but no one in the leadership of the Democratic Party listens or cares. They serve their paymasters.
Will cutthroat capitalism, sold to us under the sanitized name of neoliberalism, be allowed to continue to impoverish the citizenry and funnel wealth upwards into the hands of the 1 percent? Will corporations be regulated and policed? Will corporate criminals be brought to trial? Will our democracy be restored? Or will the grotesque sight of a trillionaire, Elon Musk, gutting federal agencies and pouring hundreds of millions into elections to try and control the outcome be normalized?
The handful of politicians who attempt to confront the corruption and the devastation visited on the American working class through deindustrialization and deregulation, such as Bernie Sanders, see their campaigns sabotaged by the Democratic Party leadership, including Barack Obama.
We must demand that progressive candidates, including Michigan senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed and Maine’s Troy Jackson, build coalitions to oust the Democratic Party leadership, raise the minimum wage, enact universal health care, prosecute corporate crime and impeach Trump. It will be up to us.
The Democratic Party hierarchy will see the results not as a repudiation of Trump, but an endorsement of the flaccid and ineffectual position of a party that stands for little and fights for less. This would be yet another betrayal by the Democrats of voters. It would keep alive the very real prospect of another fascist, one better organized and more intelligent, taking the White House in two years.
Of course, this fight will mean not only jettisoning a corrupt Democratic Party leadership, but turning on the mega-donors, lobbyists and corporations that fund and control the Democratic Party.
The effort to wrest the party back from the hands of corporations and oligarchs will be vicious and difficult. It will require us to rely on the power of mass movements to sever these bonds. Nothing else will work.
If we fail, our anemic democracy will not be saved by these midterm elections, but doomed.
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Not just impeachment.
Hegseth deserves to go to the Haig.
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Massie is forcing a vote to impeach Pete Hegseth next week... and Republicans tell CNN it’s going to PASS
Massie triggers the vote when the House returns, and GOP sources expect their own majority to let it through, which would make Hegseth the first cabinet secretary impeached since 1876, by his own party.
The case from inside the GOP: he sold Trump a fast, easy war with no exit and kept pushing escalation after the bombing stopped working.
One administration official’s verdict:
“I think he probably knows he’s dead but would like an exit sufficiently dramatic that it gives him a launching pad to run for POTUS.”
Trump isn’t there yet.
He told Hegseth days ago “you’re the best guy I have,” and a Democratic Senate won’t confirm a replacement.
Source: CNN / Writer: Daniel
The evil and depravity of this state is astounding. And they have a stockpile of nuclear weapons.
What’s on the menu in Gaza? Pita stuffed with shawarma and decadent chocolate desserts, for starters.
In videos shared by Gazans, shoppers browse market stalls piled high with fresh produce and treats, supermarkets stock their shelves, and local restaurants serve up refined dishes.
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