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Murtaza Hussain

@MazMHussain

2 months

There’s a food influencer I used to follow on TikTok from Gaza who did reviews of restaurants and dishes there. He disappeared for months after the war but now he’s back making cooking videos using things from aid packages for kids in the refugee encampments:

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The Prime Minister of Israel is allowed to say this as a matter of policy but if some college student says it its a national emergency?

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@disclosetv

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NOW - Netanyahu: "In the future, the state of Israel has to control the entire area from the river to the sea."

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Palestinians have a very education-obsessed culture and have a 98% literacy rate despite living in difficult conditions as refugee population. Getting rid of UNRWA and blowing up Palestinian universities seems aimed at making sure future generations don’t become engineers.

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I’m skeptical of people who hang on every inflammatory word of 19-year-old college students but are indifferent to members of Congress calling on people to run over protestors with cars or use nuclear weapons on civilians. There is a revealing inconsistency and imbalance here.

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The Herero genocide was preceded by an attack against a German colony in Namibia that killed 100 people. German reprisals killed around 75,000 people and almost eliminated the Herero as a people. Important context for Namibian views on Gaza conflict.

Reckoning with the 20th century’s first genocide in Namibia

German abuses of the Herero and Nama were the 20th century’s first genocide, a harbinger of the Nazis’ WWII Holocaust.

www.aljazeera.com

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"Over 390 bodies have been discovered at Nasser and Al Shifa hospitals, including of women and children, with many reportedly showing signs of torture and summary executions, and potential instances of people buried alive."

Onslaught of violence against women and children in Gaza unacceptable: UN experts

GENEVA (6 May 2024) – UN experts* today condemned the continued and systematic onslaught of violence committed against Palestinians in Gaza, with most victims being women and children over the past...

www.ohchr.org

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1 month

I actually find this much more insulting than the honest mendacity of the Trump people.

Trita Parsi

@tparsi

1 month

Baghdad Bob and Sean Spicer have nothing on John Kirby. Kirby says that there is no evidence that Israel deliberately struck WCK aid workers in Gaza. He also says that Israel has NOT violated international humanitarian law in Gaza (!!!) #CeasefireNOW

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He looked white when he was doing his show but Jerry Seinfeld is looking increasingly Arab as he gets older. He looks like a former Jordanian defense minister who now speaks at regional diplomatic conferences. If he adds a mustache it’s game over.

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No country has screwed up its immigration policy as badly as Canada. The employment, housing, infrastructure, healthcare system are all in freefall. The intention was good but you can’t just dump millions of people on a few urban areas year after year with no real planning.

pagliacci the hated 🌝

@Slatzism

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this is the lineup for a job interview at a liquor store in London, Ontario. Canada is so incredibly fucked you have no idea.

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German publisher Axel Springer's CEO has said chants of “from the river to the sea” are tantamount to genocide but the company also prints classified ads for real estate listings in West Bank settlements with the tagline "From the River to the Sea."

German Media Giant Axel Springer Makes Money on Israel’s Illegal Settlements

“From the river to the sea” says an ad for Axel Springer’s classifieds site in Israel, which lists homes for sale in Jewish-only West Bank settlements.

theintercept.com

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4 months

A lot of South Africa's ICJ case against Israel simply consists of reading back Israeli officials genocidal public statements and then showing military personnel on ground echoing these statements. I can't imagine having to live in America and professionally defend this.

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These were the kind of insane people who were in charge of counterterrorism for the FBI for the first decade after 9/11.

John Guandolo

@JGuandolo54271

2 months

My initial assessment of bridge collapse due to the main support column being struck by a ship in Baltimore is that it is more likely than not - intentional. I worked several AQ/Hamas cases while in the FBI & since and found - verified by state intel agencies - AQ/Hamas targeted

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UN: “The IDF allegedly separated the men from the women and children, and then shot and killed at least 11 of the men, mostly aged in their late 20’s and early 30’s, in front of their family members.” Horrifying incident needs urgent investigation.

UN Human Rights Office - OPT: Unlawful killings in Gaza City - occupied Palestinian territory

News and Press Release in English on occupied Palestinian territory about Protection and Human Rights; published on 20 Dec 2023 by OHCHR

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It’s insane that the U.S. is participating in a military campaign that is directly employing starvation as a weapon of war against a civilian population. Really rules-based and righteous stuff.

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A group of four undercover FBI agents in Denver spent over a year talking to a 16-year-old online about joining ISIS and arrested him shortly after his 18th birthday when he went to the airport:

Undercover FBI Agents Helped Autistic Teen Plan Trip to Join ISIS

FBI agents posing as ISIS members began chatting online with Humzah Mashkoor when he was 16 years old. He was arrested weeks after his 18th birthday.

theintercept.com

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@MazMHussain

2 months

Just terrible. I hope someone finds out which university this young man attends.

Mike Sington

@MikeSington

2 months

“Like Nagasaki and Hiroshima.” Shocking comments from Republican Rep. Tim Walberg when asked about US spending in Gaza. He says, “We shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid. It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Get it over quick. The same should be in Ukraine.

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I understand the point that it is exceptional but it must be crazy for Palestinians in their own towns to encounter a hostile armed soldier speaking his native Incan dialect and informing them that actually this is his country.

Marc Zell

@GOPIsrael

4 months

Update: One of the soldiers killed yesterday, Yuval Lopez, was from a family of Incan native Peruvians whose entire community converted to Judaism en masse over 30 years ago, emigrated to Israel and settled in my former home of Alon Shevut in Gush Etzion (Judea). When they

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This 100-year time lapse of Cincinnati is the worst one of these I’ve seen. 20th century American urban planners should be hunted down and put on trial for crimes against humanity in the style of Eichmann.

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People from every part of the world have sent me these videos. Can't emphasize how much hatred and desire for retribution they are generating.

Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده

@RamAbdu

2 months

Graphic scenes: An Israeli army drone pursued four civilian youths who attempted to reach their destroyed homes and killed them with missiles in Khan Younis at the start of last February.

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2 months

This video was removed from TikTok for allegedly violating TikTok standards. I’m sharing a screenshot the user shared with me (translated from Arabic):

Murtaza Hussain

@MazMHussain

2 months

There’s a food influencer I used to follow on TikTok from Gaza who did reviews of restaurants and dishes there. He disappeared for months after the war but now he’s back making cooking videos using things from aid packages for kids in the refugee encampments:

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There really is a whole culture of Japanese guys who are really into dancehall and are also very good at it

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@PinstripeBungle

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for every western weeb I feel like there is a japanese guy who is like no I'm gonna be a cowboy now, I love jamaican dancehall more than anything in the world, I am going to go fight in the soviet-afghan war.

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Dash Dobrofsky

@DashDobrofsky

3 months

If you voted “uncommitted” in Michigan instead of voting for Biden, you’re a Trump supporting terrorist.

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Referring to Motaz Azaiza as a “Hamas journalist” is despicable for a number of reasons but particularly because he was recently being attacked for publicly criticizing Hamas. I really dislike this guy.

Shai Davidai

@ShaiDavidai

23 days

President Minouche Shafik of @Columbia (who has said in a recently revealed post-9/11 interview that terrorism can be seen as a form of legitimate protest) is not allowing me nor the @NYPDnews on campus. You who she is allowing on campus? This Hamas "journalist". Let me get

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India simultaneously has good relations with Iran, the Gulf Arabs, Israel, Russia, Afghanistan, while simultaneously being a member of the Quad and BRICS. This is impressive because goal of diplomacy should be to maximize friends rather than adding pointless strategic enemies.

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Murtaza Hussain

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This is Hosni Mubarak dictatorship-level stuff.

Matt Katz

@mattkatz00

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Dep. Commissioner Daughtry says he found "a book on terrorism" at Columbia. (The book is not a how-to book, but a history written by a renowned British historian.)

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Photo of me talking to Jon Stewart earlier this week. It was enjoyable but a little bittersweet because my father was a big Jon Stewart fan but passed away last year so couldn’t see. But I feel as though he somehow was around.

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Israel announces 3,500 new settlement units in occupied West Bank. Clearly very concerned about Biden executive order:

Israel approves 3,500 new homes in Judea - JNS.org

Yesha head Shlomo Ne'eman: Move "the most appropriate Zionist response."

www.jns.org

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Indian travel vlogger visits West Bank and is met with immense hospitality of Palestinians towards Indians. Nice scenes he seems quite touched:

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So many hateful responses to this post which makes zero mention of Israel; this is a very nice guy who makes travel videos including many in the Arab world building bridges between people. Antisemitism is abhorrent as is blaming ordinary Jewish people for Israel.

Shloime Zionce | שלומי זייאנץ

@Chusidel

5 months

✡️ I’m trying to look as Jewish as possible on my flight today, because no anti-Semite is gonna make me hide my Jewish Pride. 💪🏻

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One thing I have noticed from talking to Pakistanis lately is how recent events have disillusioned people about the ideology of Pakistan. The army was the standard-bearer of this ideology but now many feel it was like a big hoax that had been played on them for decades.

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Wow: Saudi Foreign Ministry statement calling for international community to intervene halt to Israeli military campaign against Rafah says that that Israel is committing "genocide" against civilians in the territory.

Foreign Ministry 🇸🇦

@KSAmofaEN

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#Statement | The Foreign Ministry expresses Saudi Arabia’s warning of the dangers of the Israeli occupation forces targeting the city of Rafah as part of its systematic bloody campaign to storm all areas of the Gaza Strip and displace its residents towards the unknown.

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This is crazy because this is a person who actually does real reporting with classified documents and sources.

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2 months

Before I started reporting on Pakistani internal politics I didn’t appreciate how obsessed Pakistani military and civilian officials were with what Americans think of them. They seem to view any random mid-level State Department official like an imperial viceroy.

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People in other countries have to understand that when their compatriots and children immigrate to America they become different people with new identities forged by their experiences there. Being American is not like being a political satellite of your country of ethnic origin.

saloni🇮🇳

@salonivxrse

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Avantika is an actress of Indian origin. She was named as “South Asian Person of the Year” by Harvard University. She dedicated this award to “her” people of Gaza. And that’s great, everyone believes in different causes & try to create awareness about them. Being of Indian

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Random Arab kids on TikTok are a million times funnier than SNL:

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4 months

Interesting report from Barak as always but I have noticed that Democratic administrations always leak these types of comments to try and make it seem like they are dissidents against their own policies and thus have it both ways.

Barak Ravid

@BarakRavid

4 months

New: Biden is frustrated and "running out" of patience with Netanyahu as Gaza war hits 100 days, U.S. officials tell me. My story on @axios

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Imran Khan writes from prison: "The military establishment has done all they could against me. All that is left for them is to now murder me. I have stated publicly that if anything happens to me or my wife, Gen Asim Munir will be responsible."

All that’s left for them now is to murder me – but I’m not afraid to die

The former Pakistani prime minister writes exclusively for The Telegraph from his prison cell

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@MazMHussain

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Shocking. Pakistani journalist arrested against after disappearing for months under torture and confinement by the Pakistani military regime last year.

Ihtisham Ul Haq

@iihtishamm

3 months

Arrest video of Imran Riaz Khan..

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You can read the document that Imran Khan is accused of leaking here and decide for yourself why he is being sentenced to 10 years in prison today:

Secret Pakistan Cable Documents U.S. Pressure to Remove Imran Khan

“All will be forgiven,” said a U.S. diplomat, if the no-confidence vote against Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan succeeds.

theintercept.com

Al Jazeera English

@AJEnglish

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BREAKING: A Pakistan court has sentenced former PM Imran Khan and former FM Shah Mehmood Qureshi to 10 years in jail in a case related to the leaking of state secrets

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“Both in absolute numbers and per capita, Gaza is currently experiencing the most acute hunger crisis anywhere in the world, according to the IPC.” The strong do what they will, and the weak do what they must. But no more moralizing lectures after this.

Over One Million Gazans Are Estimated to Be Starving

Food-insecurity experts also warn of ‘imminent’ famine in northern Gaza

apple.news

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Its insane U.S. has a veto on Iran and Pakistan (neighboring countries on the other side of the world) engaging in trade. Pakistan desperately needs alternate sources of LNG as became clear after the Ukraine war began. Also note India buys energy from whoever it chooses.

Jalil Afridi

@afridijalil

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I suggest #Pakistan to not waste money on lawyer’s fees. #America is not going to allow the gas pipeline project with #Iran .

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Israel has right to respond to charges leveled against it at ICJ and will have space to do so at hearing tomorrow. But an official referring to South Africa and its legal team as “the functioning legal arm” of Hamas is rejectionist and extremist hyperbole used by rogue states.

Lior Haiat 🇮🇱🎗️

@LiorHaiat

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Today we were witness to one of the greatest shows of hypocrisy in history, compounded by a series of false and baseless claims. South Africa, which is functioning as the legal arm of the Hamas terrorist organization, utterly distorted the reality in Gaza following the October 7

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This is basically the root of the problem with Pakistan. There are plenty of smart people but the country is administered as a business run by a few families and backed by the military.

Pakistan Walli

@pakistanwalli

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Indian Foreign Minister: Diplomat for over 38 years. MA in political science, M.Phil. and PhD in international relations. Pakistani Foreign Minister: Nawaz Sharif’s relative.

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From a postcolonial perspective it has to be respected India is now meaningfully independent. It buys oil from who it likes and has political ties irrespective of blocs. Pakistanis are unable to choose their own leaders or foreign policy and their country remains a U.S. satrapy.

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Taking this seriously: There is apparently a burgeoning effort to declare a major U.S. foreign policy issue off limits for debate, including through violence. This is a real "free speech" issue and I'd not support doing this to other people even if I disagreed with them.

Keith Rabois

@rabois

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1. Congress needs to immediately end all federal aid to Columbia. 2. Congress should immediately impeach the head of the DOJ’s civil rights division for failure to enforce Title VII. 3. Employers should immediately refuse to hire any Columbia graduates until the President is

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Members of Congress are calling on the U.S. government to not recognize Pakistan’s election result absent a full investigation into the vote:

Members of Congress Demand Biden Withhold Recognition of Coalition Claiming Power in Pakistan

Pakistan’s election was so thoroughly corrupted that the U.S. should not recognize the coalition claiming to be able to form a government, according to 31 members of Congress.

theintercept.com

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@MazMHussain

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Actually if you automatically start at the age of 19 on the front page of one of the small handful of elite publications that is both lucrative and uncommon. It’s not like being sent to be a local news freelancer in a small town in Michigan or Ohio.

Jake Anbinder

@JakeAnbinder

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You can take issue with the article but it's bizarre that people are calling Peter Baker's son a "nepo baby," a term coined to describe why so many Hollywood stars are children of Hollywood stars. Like, oh no, Theo Baker might enter the lucrative, dynamic world of...journalism?

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This is what I don't understand – I don't bother making moral arguments usually because I don't think the world works like that. But from a strategic perspective the U.S. is incurring huge costs while getting nothing in return for embedding itself in this radioactive situation.

Matt Stoller

@matthewstoller

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I really hope every Biden national security official realizes just how tarred they will be for their entire career based on what they are enabling in Israel. They will never live it down, not because it's a moral wrong, but because it's a strategic disaster for America.

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A State Department panel recommended suspension of funding to several Israeli military units accused of extrajudicial killing, torture, and rape of Palestinians in line with Leahy Laws but Blinken has apparently ignored this legal guidance:

Blinken Is Sitting on Staff Recommendations to Sanction Israeli Military Units Linked to Killings...

A special State Department panel told Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the U.S. should restrict arms sales to Israeli military units that have been credibly accused of human rights abuses. He...

www.propublica.org

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If The Intercept did not exist the 2023 Imran Khan cipher story would not have been reported. It is not just a matter of political barriers (story fit the interests of no one in power) but the technical and security challenges in reporting it required discrete skills to overcome.

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Every death is a tragedy but it is interesting that according to the UN the Russian invasion of Ukraine has killed less civilians in two years than were killed in the first month and a half of the war in Gaza.

Dawn Clancy

@dawnmclancy

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According to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has already resulted in the death of 10,703 civilians. We condemn all attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure - they are prohibited under international law. They

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This is a deeply demoralizing picture for many or most Pakistanis. There is sense that their country is merely the heirloom of a tiny handful of wealthy families and military officers. The suggestion of inheritance is underlined by the presence of multiple generations.

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This mentally ill scam artist blocks me but for the record this is the quality of analysis you get rewarded for from most establishment news outlets.

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A top election official in Pakistan has publicly admitted that he rigged votes under duress in the February 8th election to take away support from the PTI. In a normal country this would result in some kind of revistation of the results:

Senior Pakistan official admits election rigging as protests grip country

Confession by Punjab commissioner exacerbates tension over legitimacy of February general election results

www.theguardian.com

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*autistic 16-year-old

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The Pakistani military is now going to have to rig the elections even further after getting blown out despite tons of pre-vote rigging. It’s going to be difficult to show face and govern as a nominal democracy with this nadir of public consent though.

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Pakistan would have so much potential as a country if it had a different political economy. Bangladesh was the poorest country in South Asia until it was able to free itself of the dead hand of military control. Now it has the highest per capita GDP in the region.

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U.S. defying united global public opinion on this issue as well its own allegedly preferred solution to this conflict. Underscores need to reduce profoundly dysfunctional U.S. influence in this region.

Barak Ravid

@BarakRavid

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BREAKING: U.S. to vote NO and veto the UN security council resolution to accept Palestine as a full member state of the UN, @StateDeputySpox says

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If the Israeli military is so cavalier about targeting clearly marked Western aid workers in Gaza one can only imagine what kind of targeting they are using against Palestinians.

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Pakistani military and government officials really care about what is said about them in the West so statements from U.S. officials and media about the election are significant. Its not like Turkey where they simply don't care or Iran where they relish hatred of enemies.

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This is way more violent than anything the protestors did during this entire time by the way.

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Pakistani military underestimated importance of social media and thought they could control the information environment just by muzzling establishment press. Kind of inexcusable belief in 2024.

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These accounts of torture of children are very similar to those that emerged from Syria.

Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸

@MuhammadSmiry

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“The soldier used to put out his cigarettes in my feet and ears” 14 year old Khalid Jenaid talks about his detention by lsrael.

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Did the U.S. greenlight or otherwise have foreknowledge of Israel's bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus? If not then giving blanket insurance against the blowback of such an action would be allowing another state to dictate when America goes to war.

BBC News (World)

@BBCWorld

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Biden vows 'ironclad' support for Israel over Iran attack fears

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Objectively speaking it seems like Ukraine would need this support more; they are fighting a much larger and truly existential enemy while Israel is a nuclear state fighting a lightly armed militia.

Jake Sherman

@JakeSherman

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🚨BREAKING NEWS -- IN A REVERSAL, @SpeakerJohnson will put a bill on the floor to send $17.6 billion to Israel with no corresponding spending cuts, a reversal meant to preempt the Senate's border-and-national-security supplemental. Here's a letter from Johnson to the House GOP:

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@jessesingal His tag is hamadashoo

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This is very dysfunctional view of political economy; these countries need to rely on domestic growth rather than waiting for periodic external injections of capital. What Egypt and Pakistan have in common is being run by rent-seeking postcolonial militaries.

Kamran Khan

@AajKamranKhan

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Egypt hits the jackpot.The IMF-UAE-SAUDI-US bailout package is massive game changer. Pakistan is an almost identical case. Can Shahbaz Sharif-General Asim Munir duo deliver the miracle that General Sissi delivered to Egypt?

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I have to assume Netanyahu is trying to win domestic political points from being seen as standing up to Biden, while waiting for a likely Trump presidency within a year that will help him execute what he wants regarding final status of the Palestinians.

Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي

@NTarnopolsky

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💥Netanyahu goes head-to-head with Joe Biden: "I will not compromise on full Israeli security control over the entire area west of the Jordan river - and this is incongruent with a Palestinian state."

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@MazMHussain

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Dawkins spent his whole life taking part in a ruthless culture war against Christianity and now belatedly realizes that he didn’t understand what he was doing and wants to take some essential part back. Doesn’t work that way unfortunately.

LBC

@LBC

2 months

"If I had to choose between Christianity and Islam, I'd choose Christianity every single time." Self-proclaimed 'cultural Christian', ＠RichardDawkins, tells @RachelSJohnson he's 'slightly horrified' to hear Ramadan lights were hung on Oxford Street rather than Easter lights.

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@MazMHussain

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I watched some of the debate between Norman Finkelstein, Mouin Rabbani, Benny Morris, and Destiny found it was actually very enlightening in many parts although Destiny should not have been included. I am glad it exposed more people to Mouin Rabbani who is an excellent scholar.

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I find it amusing that when speaking to a Western audiences Imran Khan’s political opponents suggest he’s a radical Islamist verging on the Taliban but in Urdu the narrative is that he’s a crypto-Jewish Zionist working for Israel to destroy Pakistan. Real kitchen sink approach.

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@MazMHussain

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"At least two female Palestinian detainees were reportedly raped while others were threatened with rape and sexual violence. Photos of female detainees in degrading circumstances were also reportedly taken by the Israeli army and uploaded online."

Israel/oPt: UN experts appalled by reported human rights violations against Palestinian women and...

GENEVA (19 February 2024) – UN experts* today expressed alarm over credible allegations of egregious human rights violations to which Palestinian women and girls continue to be subjected in the Gaza...

www.ohchr.org

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@MazMHussain

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The U.S. does not favor a two-state solution. It favors a policy of gradually shepherding Palestinians towards oblivion while pretending to be a benign mediator. This is why internationalizing the issue with more involvement of China, Russia, Turkey and other powers is vital.

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@MazMHussain

2 months

Awful stories of Indians hired for advertised jobs and tricked into being sent to the frontlines of Russia's war with Ukraine. Says a lot about the type of gangster state that Russia operates:

Indians die fighting for Russia in Ukraine, leaving a trail of helplessness

At least two Indians have died on Ukrainian front lines, revealing the desperation caused by widespread joblessness.

www.aljazeera.com

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@MazMHussain

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“Supporting Palestine is about ending an illegal occupation and holding Israel accountable to international law. It is not about supporting killing of Israeli civilians or destruction of Israeli cities. Upholding the law means upholding it for everyone.”

The Palestinian Resistance Isn’t a Monolith

As Palestinians reckon with the genocide being inflicted on them and their prospects for national liberation, it does them a disservice to flatten their political diversity and complex ongoing...

jacobin.com

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@MazMHussain

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Israel has nuclear weapons, superpower patronage and a large defense sector. It killed tens of thousands of people in response to the attack against it. The invocation of trauma as a reason for a state not to act is totally illegitimate.

Laura Rozen

@lrozen

3 months

🧵Israel Pres. Isaac Herzog at Munich Sec. Conference, says Israelis feel too traumatized and insecure for talk of a two state solution: “Saying now a Palestinian state or a two state solution is kind of giving actually, without intention, kind of credit…to the fact that Hamas

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@MazMHussain

2 months

Here are more details about @Hamadashoo situation in the video below. U.S. financial institutions sometimes sanction or otherwise block transactions from Gaza so this fundraiser was set up in Ireland:

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@MazMHussain

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Pretty much all fascist regimes are built on some kind of narrative of victimhood. This is why embracing victimhood as an identity can be so debilitating and dangerous.

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@MazMHussain

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These are the only people I can never forgive in this situation; people who go and join in for purely ideological reasons like they’re going on crusade. It should actually be illegal to serve in a foreign military as an American.

Younis Tirawi | يونس

@ytirawi

1 month

An 🇺🇸American serving in the Israeli occupation forces shared a picture on his social media account displaying a kidnapped Palestinian from the West Bank last night.

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@MazMHussain

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Despite terrible recent events I’ve never been more optimistic Palestinians are going to achieve statehood and citizenship. They lived under a very fragile system of control that has been irrevocably broken and I believe this period will be remembered as a war of independence.

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@MazMHussain

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When push comes to shove it seems that Iran is more isolated regionally than Israel. Most Sunni Arab states either seek to stay neutral or tactically support Israel in conflict with Iran. Makes Israeli claims of feeling too insecure to allow Palestinian statehood look ridiculous.

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@MazMHussain

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If Israel goes beyond pretext of retaliating for October 7th or deposing Hamas and actually ethnically cleanses and annexes Gaza then the post-WWII era is officially over. We will be back in the age of conquests and redrawing of borders and I think this is possible.

Pelham

@Resist_05

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Israel Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir says now is the time to push SETTLEMENTS into Gaza. Israel must take over Gaza and its allies (America) must take Palestinian refugees for them.

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@MazMHussain

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Never seen someone so angry at people for getting killed and thereby making Israel look bad.

Edward N Luttwak

@ELuttwak

1 month

When I made cruel fun of the celebrity chef humanitarians who died in delivering trivial amounts of food in Gaza while hundreds of heavy trucks enter each day, I did not know where these humanitarians stayed before venturing south : the Norman Hotel in Tel Aviv : $800 /basic room

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@MazMHussain

3 months

On top of his other convictions this week a Pakistani court has invalidated his marriage and sentenced him another seven years for allegedly fraudulent matrimony with his wife. Window into insane vindictiveness of Pakistani state:

Imran Khan: Pakistan ex-PM and wife Bushra Bibi jailed for illegal marriage

A court voids Khan's marriage with a faith healer, in the latest case against the Pakistani ex-PM.

www.bbc.com

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@MazMHussain

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I'm surprised officers in the IDF haven't disciplined their soldiers for engaging in this behavior for months and broadcasting it if only for the reason that it is harming their reputation. It suggests poor discipline and low professional standards.

موشي يائير יאיר משה

@mosha3324

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🔴🔴🔴 قمة السفالة

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@MazMHussain

1 month

Recently announced U.S. arms sales to Israel seem to be more about preparing for war with Lebanon and Iran than the present conflict in Gaza. Israel does not need dozens of F-15s for dogfights or airstrikes against Hamas in Rafah.

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@MazMHussain

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Important context elided here is that this began with Israel blowing up the Iranian consulate in Damascus and killing several of its top military officials. They are an independent nation and can do as they like but they should similarly deal with the consequences independently.

Chuck Schumer

@SenSchumer

1 month

As Israel is under attack from Iran, we stand with Israel and its people, and the United States will do everything we can to support Israel’s defense against Iran.

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@MazMHussain

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Feels like Bill Burns grew this mustache under influence of the Arab intelligence chiefs he has spent his entire career hanging around. It is atypical in America and makes him look like a senior Syrian mukhabarat official.

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@MazMHussain

2 months

If you liked this video please consider contributing to @Hamadashoo fundraiser to get his family out of Gaza:

Help evacuate Hamada and Lamis from Gaza

Hello, this is Hamada (32) & Lamis (25) , a newlywed couple from Gaza, that were married two months before the war. We worked in social media marketing, I (Hamada) was also a food blogger covering...

gogetfunding.com

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@MazMHussain

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U.S. being dragged back into open-ended war in the Middle East by Israel-Palestine conflict. Pivot to Asia provisonally postponed to 2035.

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@MazMHussain

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One thing I love about Bosnia is how women have equal rights to public space and very notably so in mosques and other religious institutions. This is in contrast to backwards and unequal norms in many Muslim countries. Great country.

Šmina

@schminzilla

1 month

thank God I'm from Bosnia and I get to pray in the actual mosque, and not in a windowless basement

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@MazMHussain

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Bill Ackman is fully distracted now from his original goal of shutting down public criticism of Israel to avenging personal slights against himself and his wife.

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@MazMHussain

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Wahhabism deserves to be remembered alongside 20th totalitarian ideologies like fascism and communism that also focused on wiping out cultures to establish clean-slate ideological purity and inspired outbursts of organized mass murder. ISIS was the final revolting apotheosis.

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@MazMHussain

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These images are clearly intended to terrorize civilians sheltering in other parts of Gaza. Imagine being being a woman, or with your female relatives, trapped in the same territory with hostile soldiers making it a point of broadcasting to you such images.

Younis Tirawi | يونس

@ytirawi

2 months

Gaza city | Lingerie doesn’t stop. Israeli sergeant from the 890th Paratroopers Battalion displaying lingerie belonging to displaced/killed Palestinian women in Gaza.

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@MazMHussain

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Both those examples from Congress are just from the past few weeks. If you spend a few hours watching Fox News and collating the various statements from influential people it’ll give you a good sense of perspective about the other side of this issue.

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@MazMHussain

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You can be dismissive of Palestinians if you like but I think it’s important to be fair and give complete picture. They resisted nonviolently in 2018-2019 Gaza border protests and the outcome was that the Israeli military just shot and killed hundreds of them and nobody cared.

Kareem Rifai 🌐

@KareemRifai

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"Nonviolent" plane hijackings. "Nonviolent" Houthi drone strikes.

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@MazMHussain

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Growing wellspring of pressure from U.S. Congress contesting Pakistan’s dubious recent election.

Rep. Susan Wild

@RepSusanWild

3 months

Proud to co-lead this effort with @RepCasar . The United States and the international community must make clear that we stand with the people of Pakistan, not with the forces subverting democracy.

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If Biden greenlights a broader war in the Middle East in contradiction of bipartisan public preference to stay out of the region he will certainly deserve to lose the election. This will set the stage for more dominoes to fall with Trump likely exiting NATO upon taking office.

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@MazMHussain

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@GradyTripp00 As someone pointed out its a big resource expenditure

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@MazMHussain

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Has something actually happened to this gentleman that he is so vocally afraid? Every time I hear comments from him for months he’s describing how afraid and unsafe he feels. It is a little bit unbecoming and seems as though he is trying to direct attention towards himself.

Oliya Scootercaster 🛴

@ScooterCasterNY

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#BREAKING "I know you are afraid because I'm afraid" - says Shai Davidai, Pro-Israel professor at Columbia is currently outside of the gates attempting to go inside the 'Liberated Zone' encampment with his supporters. Video by @yyeeaahhhboiii2 Desk @freedomnews .tv to license

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