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I keep seeing the recurring theme of HAMAS HAMAS HAMAS from media outlets. It's time the world was reminded why Hamas exists, the purpose it has served the Israeli right and why Israeli politics has to fundamentally change if peace is to be achieved in the Levant. Brig. Gen.…
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@BenMFreeman Jews will be in the march, like they have been on every march.
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@Jerusalem_Post I can think of better 'bad places'. Like prison.
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@mikemoves12 There’s no white people in power in India, so does that apply to Hindus as well?
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@OliLondonTV Oli, i know you're new to the game. So just a couple of simple historic questions. How long did ancient Israel exist and when was it conquered? Did King David found or conquer Jerusalem?
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@mishtal By killing 26,000 civilians.
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@BellaWallerstei There is nothing brave about assassinating an unarmed man in a hospital bed Bella. It's actually a war crime. Look it up.
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@lukeakehurst Luke do you even accept that Israel is an occupying force?
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@mishtal How about this map?
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@DouglasKMurray @spectator 30,000 dead is not a myth. It’s been happening for over 4 months IN FRONT OF OUR EYES.
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@BellaWallerstei @thetimes The hubris that the Times would do as you demand... Besides, where is the lie?
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@mishtal The median age in Gaza is 19 David.
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@JewishChron It's pretty sad when a Jewish newspaper posts an article saying the nazis weren't that bad just to demonise the Palestinians...
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@VerminusM Because they'll be arrested or lose their jobs.
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@DouglasKMurray You really are a fraud of an academic if you can’t see how much hate you load into islamaphobia and Muslims.
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@mishtal The fact that Israel is an occupying force. It did.
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Politically Weaponising Antisemitism IS antisemitism @tom_watson But surely you’d know that, so why would you?
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@GoldingBF Paul, quick question... How many times have you been to church in your life?
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@piersmorgan Demanding every Palestinian condemn Hamas, that their voice and your sympathy are conditional is a sick joke. Clearly double standards. A myopic view of the Palestinian Israeli struggle that distills the troubles to Oct. 7th. It’s shameful.
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@mishtal The WCK share co-ordinates with the IDF to ensure of the safety of its aid workers. The IDF targeted them anyway after returning from an aid drop. You can't actually blame Hamas for this.
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@mishtal There is NO genocide & NO famine…
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@HananyaNaftali So instead of arresting them, which the IDF could have easily done, they executed them? A most moral army in the only democracy in the middle east or something you like to parrot...
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@LozzaFox @SuellaBraverman Most people are decent human beings Laurence and not gaslighting fascists.
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@jzimelstern When Israel commits genocide we should just accept it and protesting such despicable actions are futile? Is that what you're saying Joel? Are we at that point in mankind when calling for an end to war is met with condescending nonsense? What do you think that says about you?
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@RabbiShmuley Mr Shmuley, He destroyed your argument and now you’re begging for money.
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@kiyahwillis So victim blaming now… In the future, do you think you will be able to look back at this time of your life with pride?
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@kiyahwillis @palace_1990 As Gaza is occupied as recognised by International law, they have the right to self defence. By your logic Oct 7 was justified.
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@JakeWSimons @BowenBBC @jondonnisonbbc If you don’t believe the IDF you’re antisemitic because Jewish? I mean forgive me if I’m wrong but part of journalistic integrity – which you would know as an editor OF A NEWSPAPER – is fact checking? Jake, we need to sit down and have a chat.
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@DPJHodges Thousands upon thousands of Palestinian deaths dan.
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Went to pick up my sons results with him. He has autism so you can imagine we’ve been having a anxiety attacks as to what results. Top 20 in his year for achievement. He’s worked so hard. I can’t believe it. Passed everything with flying colours. #ProudDad #gcseresultsday2019
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@VerminusM My that’s a big hole… Maybe dropping 1000lb bombs on residential buildings isn’t a good idea as it’s a war crime.
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Can someone check on @RachelRileyRR please? Orthodox jews were holding a prayer service for peace at St Pancras station in London. At this stage we can only assume she was locked in a safe room or shelter fearing for her life.
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@roryr97 @BenMFreeman Labelling Jews good or bad is shithouse activity and not the point I’m making.
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@DPJHodges @Kevlets You know very well Dan that the majority will not read the piece and just make the visual association. Which is exactly what you want. You are disingenuous and hypocritical.
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@mishtal How do you excuse the IDF executing 3 men holding white flags trying to flee to safety?
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@GoldingBF If you were born here, deported where genius?
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@ArielleLAngel What kind of country that declares it is the only democracy in the Middle East, with the most moral army, would need to pass a law allowing it to shoot unarmed peaceful protestors? Is the west to overlook this, standing blindly aside as another potential tragedy unfolds?
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@HananyaNaftali "I’m that Israeli who talks to the camera about peace in the Middle East"... ...by trying to demonise muslims in a video of them praying, 6 years ago.
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@HilzFuld It’s kinda indicative that when you build settlements on other peoples land, take over peoples homes, impose apartheid conditions on the people you occupy, that you expect resistance for these actions… and when they fight back, you want everyone armed in order to keep that land…
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@notomedia5 Operation Autumn Rains, Hot Winter, Cast Lead, Protective Edge, Returning Echo, Piller of Defence and the latest Gaza war. All within the last 20 years.
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@TalkTV @JuliaHB1 The guy literally said the nazis wasn't that bad compared to Hamas... and you're talking about holocaust denial? Jesus christ. He even said nationalism was good, it's just that the Germans made a hash of it – much to pithy laughter.
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@SuellaBraverman How do you mistakenly strike a convoy 3 times? This was a mistake like the USS Liberty was a mistake.
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@kiyahwillis Equal laws? Here is the Nation State Law. 1. It states that “the right to exercise national self-determination” in Israel is “unique to the Jewish people.” 2. It establishes Hebrew as Israel’s official language, and downgrades Arabic — a language widely spoken by Arab Israelis…
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@Ostrov_A I love how you flipped from it wasn't Israel how dare you accuse us to ok it was Israel but how dare you denounce us.
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@DPJHodges Oh I know it's all so very tedious having to deal with an immense humanitarian tragedy.
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@mishtal There won’t be any left with snipers taking them out when they want to use the bathroom David.
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@VerminusM So how do you avoid accusations of blood libel when you demand massive civilian casualties including women and children?
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@MeghanMcCain Why won't Egypt and Jordan facilitate ethnic cleansing?
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@roryr97 @BenMFreeman Hamas’s lawyer was Jewish.
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@roryr97 @BenMFreeman Guns don’t really work in court. Israel also has guns… and bombs. Uses them a lot. So also needs lawyers. You may have noticed.
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@elicoh1 Here’s a more appropriate use of the word ‘Despicable’ There has been a despicable loss of life in Gaza. We demand an immediate ceasefire.
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@GoldingBF So religious violence then?
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@DPJHodges You don’t get to decide this Dan. It’s not a view, it’s an ongoing atrocity. Sustained pressure on our government is the only way to force a diplomatic solution. Staying at home will not achieve this.
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Poor @GerardButler if only he could've spared a thought for Palestinian every town and village destroyed by the IDF. For every home demolished across the West Bank and Jerusalem before raising millions for the Israeli Army.
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@aziz0nomics exposing yourself again John. It's weird that most of your talking points are entirely zionsist.
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@TomCottonAR Tom, simple question: Is occupation in perpetuity an American democratic ideal?
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@kiyahwillis You don’t get to decide. These territories are occupied and have the right to resist. This is supported by international law. Your arguments are baseless and disgusting. Your application of human rights is disgusting.
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@mishtal The IDF itself has stated it uses AI to mass process targets with a huge acceptable increase in collateral damage to targets. Then consider the munitions routinely used, 1-2000lb bombs to cause massive damage and the monumental death toll. We can comprehensively conclude that…
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@roryr97 @BenMFreeman Legally, occupiers can’t claim the right to self defence…
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@BellaWallerstei Bella, airstrikes don't exactly equate to over 2 million displaced civilians, 24+ thousand dead and the complete destruction of Gazan homes & infrastructure but do go off.
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@HeidiBachram What's interesting is that you demand a police state to censure essentially peaceful protestors. Thats just a tad fascist you know...
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@DPJHodges Wind your neck in Dan. The biggest display of racism was at the cenotaph.
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@BeharGiacomo So it's better to look white and european and pretty when committing genocide... Gotcha!
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@mattwridley Wind your neck in. The police have already confirmed the flags were removed for cleaning ahead of the service.
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@HananyaNaftali @DouglasKMurray Who are 'they' and tell me how Israel is the gateway to Europe? I'll wait...
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@piersmorgan This is where you unmask yourself Piers. You cannot empathise with the Palestinian cause, what it means to live under occupation and oppression and the desire to enjoy the freedom you take for granted.
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@mishtal At least 90 journalists and staff have been killed since the conflict began on October 7. But sure, go off.
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@DPJHodges Isn’t this a copy-paste from the anti-Corbyn playbook? Pretty sure I’ve seen this before.
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@paulrubens Gaza could have become a state… Netanyahu 2015: “There will be no Palestinian state on my watch and I will increase settlement building” Who are you kidding?
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@AndyRubinski @dieduopolydie You’re the Zionist argument in microcosm. You post a ridiculous declaration. It gets refuted by someone with first hand experience. You call them an antisemite. And repeat.
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@Megatron_ron @MadridCatz1990 The comments are awful, this should not be celebrated. Shameful behaviour.
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@AviMayer Victim blaming Avi? Is that all you’ve got now?
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@mishtal It's weird how these claims come out, then 2 weeks later it gets debunked...
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@lukeakehurst Luke, let's be very clear. The dehumanising language being used by Israeli ministers to describe Palestinians and then parroted verbatim by the media have actually lead to deaths. A 6yr old boy was murdered in the USA. Attacks on jews across the world because of whats happening…
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@DouglasKMurray Was genocide an acceptable consequence Douglas?
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@mishtal @UN @amnesty Jerusalem isn’t Gaza David.
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@Assita_Kanko Triggered over a flag? That’s peak Israeli.
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@jpodhoretz The babies in oven claim was a lie and debunked. But sure, go off.
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@RishiSunak @netanyahu And this was after Israel bombed a refugee camp…
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@ThomasSzymon @geertwilderspvv Weird how all the Arab states don’t want to enable ethnic genocide.
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@DPJHodges 750,000 people marched today Dan and you have a handful of examples.
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@lukeakehurst So you don’t accept international law? Even the American government has stated that Gaza is an occupied territory. And what about East Jerusalem? Perhaps show me an occupying force that has been as brutal as Israel, that history has looked kindly upon?
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@Umayr_Iskafi2 Why would you seek to delegitimise her? What does her fathers political ideology have to do with anything? She was born under occupation, she lives under occupation and has been fighting it all her life. The girl just spent 7 months in prison. She is no Bena Al’Abed!
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@BellaWallerstei It's nothing to do with double standards. Either you're a signatory to the Geneva conventions or not. Israel is.
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@lambdaorange @BoudPrototype @SanaSaeed France colonised and murdered its way through so much of North Africa and you wonder why you have Muslim population? Shame on your government.
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@mishtal David, what do you think Israel has been busy destroying the last few weeks? School, hospitals, factories, shelters, farms, homes. Gaza is a huge built up strip of land, being reduced to rubble.
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@kiyahwillis So you've never heard of the nation state law then I take it? And in your confusion, the oppressed Palestinians would be the ones living under occupation in Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank, or have you forgotten these places exist?
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@engineers_feed My first thought is for the poor nurse who has to clean this thing.
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@JakeWSimons @SkyNews Didn't take long for you to see this ruling based on International Law to be dismissed as mere 'propaganda'. Are you really saying that 15 judges sitting at The Hague base their judgements on nonsense? Is it so hard to accept the reality of whats happening in Gaza Jake?
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@JakeWSimons 29,000 bombs dropped on Gaza by December and the numbers are statistically impossible?
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@kiyahwillis You mean, there cannot be a two state solution due to all of the illegal settlements built in the West Bank?
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@drill_josh You left New Jersey to help enforce a brutal occupation for a country who gaslighted you into thinking it was a democracy… What kind of society did you think you were advancing? You understand how many forms of manipulation Israel uses to project this utopia right?
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@AvivaKlompas You don't see any fragments on IDF bombs in Gaza. You do however, see huge craters and massive destruction.
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@aziz0nomics Your whatabouterry is not context. Claiming genocide in the systematic destruction of Gaza is just 'war' is also not context.
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Lily Allen trends. A 1000 angry men, triggered.
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@AllisonPearson Put the bottle down Alison.
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@AviMayer False equivalency at its very finest. From a world war, to an event that spawned the invasion of 2 countries and over a million civilians dead. Three weeks after a terrible atrocity. Three weeks and 7000 Gazans dead. A million displaced, 45% of all homes destroyed, over…
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@VerminusM The IDF headquarters is in downtown Tel Aviv. Just so we’re clear. And you can supply zero proof any command centre is there. Much like when Israel claimed there was a command centre at Al Shifa. If you’ve noticed, Israel is routinely targeting apartment buildings.…
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@mishtal FACT: the IDF has created a mass assassination factory that has increased civilian deaths. “The numbers increased from dozens of civilian deaths [permitted] as collateral damage as part of an attack on a senior official in previous operations, to hundreds of civilian deaths as…
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