America has not “become” evil
If you compare what is happening now on university campuses with what happened in the Vietnam war years, nothing of essence has changed.
You’re ok until you listen to your conscience and decide to speak up.
America was not “great” then nor will it be great under a new president.
Under either candidate, it will become even more mediocre at best.
AIPAC owns them both.
Biden will keep pretending to want peace and a ceasefire and a two-state solution, but unless AIPAC, the owner of the US government and the universities, changes its mind, the government and the universities will continue to be the same juggernaut that runs over Americans like the Israeli bulldozer that ran over this Palestinian gentleman:
The US-Israel tag team is doing to us psychologically and spiritually what the IDF does to the Palestinians with their bulldozers.
Most Americans live in la-la Land and have no desire to know the truth about our slave holders. They don’t mind being slaves to monsters who think nothing about stripping us of our rights and our fragile sense of morality and throwing it back in our faces.
Perhaps there were some who thought if we go along and get along, we will escape the psychological torture and murder that visited Gaza thanks to the US working stiff. But what is a US government “guarantee” worth?
How can we make America great again when it was never great before. The only greatness was the greatness of the evil, and it’s only grown.
So no, it was never great before.
Was there even ever an America before? The land of promise?
A land of the free for everyone? Even the blacks? Even the Injun? Even the protesters who didn’t want to be trucked off to foreign shores to kill poor farmers who were not even potential enemies to any American to begin with? But if you’re a poor farmer in a far-off land you’re a potential enemy to the arms lobbies, you’re a Muslim terrorist, a godless commie, an anti-Semite… an animal.
Slap a label like godless communist on the poor Asian farmer and you can napalm his house and his barn and his crops and kill a million of him. He doesn.t lobby Congress so what good is he?
That’s how great we were before.
We’re doomed to become even greater they say. We’ve all seen how great we were in Palestine.
It will get even greater now.
There’s nothing stopping the new greater greatness. Here it comes.
Gee, I can’t wait for November. (No, I’m not peddling despair. The multipolar world is on the way. But it will come from without. The US is helpless to save itself)
Chris Hedges reports how the Great American juggernaut treats people of conscience on US campuses.
If you don’t embrace genocide, you’re in for a wild ride:
PRINCETON, N.J. — Achinthya Sivalingam, a graduate student in Public Affairs at Princeton University did not know when she woke up this morning that shortly after 7 a.m. she would join hundreds of students across the country who have been arrested, evicted and banned from campus for protesting the genocide in Gaza.
She wears a blue sweatshirt, sometimes fighting back tears, when I speak to her. We are seated at a small table in the Small World Coffee shop on Witherspoon Street, half a block away from the university she can no longer enter, from the apartment she can no longer live in and from the campus where in a few weeks she was scheduled to graduate.
She wonders where she will spend the night.
The police gave her five minutes to collect items from her apartment.
More here
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Bernie Sanders: Israel has broken international and US law
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Here’s your daily air strike update for May 13, 2024
AFTER TWO POWERFUL EXPLOSIONS, MEDICS RAISED THE ALERT. THE AMBULANCES WERE UNEXPECTEDLY "SILENCED". RETRIBUTION FOR BELGOROD HAS ALREADY STARTED
On the night of May 13, two powerful explosions occurred in the Poltava oblast, after which doctors began to be put on alert. [Poltava oblast is located just to the east of Kharkov oblast – where fighting is occurring -- and, BTW, just to the east of Kiev oblast] Eyewitnesses noted the unexpected - all the ambulances suddenly “fell silent”, canceling the sirens. Retribution for Belgorod has already begun, which confirms the defeat of the target in Mirgorod. [Russian Belgorod has been struck by cross-border artillery, missiles, drones and has been attacked by terrorist infantry ever since the start of the war, killing numerous civilians. The targets are almost all civilian, the US and its allies are indifferent to the lives and safety of civilians, which is one of the main reasons Russia reacted with alarm to David Cameron’s foolish statement that Ukraine was welcome to use British arms to strike directly on Russian territory. Russia knows that Ukraine’s missile and drone strikes in Russia have targeted primarily civilians, so Cameron was inviting a genocide. This is why Russia has said if a British-supplied weapon should strike in Russia proper, rather than just in the battlefield, Russia reserves the right to target British assets not only in Ukraine but also beyond Ukraine, implying that Russia might target assets located inside Britain. There was also a clear implication that the Russian strike would not be limited to conventional arms.]
Yesterday, in the first half of the day, the enemy once again struck at peaceful Belgorod. The enemy hit with Tochka-U missiles, "Olkha (Vilkha in Ukrainian) and Vampire missiles. The missiles and shells that arrived in the morning were intercepted by the air defense system, but one Tochka-U hit a residential building on Shchors [street], after which the entire entrance collapsed.
The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, commenting on the tragedy in Belgorod, pointed out: “The terrorist attack in Belgorod is another bloody link in the chain of crimes of the Kyiv regime. Targeted shelling of civilians, civilian infrastructure, residential buildings, hospitals, schools, and social facilities has become a signature of Zelensky’s criminal group, which is backed by Western sponsors.” [While it is true that occasionally Russia also hits “civilian” infrastructure, this is generally because a hotel or other building is commandeered for housing military. The Ukrainian press also lies constantly, claiming that debris or missiles of Ukrainian air defense systems that falls on civilians was Russian missiles or drones. Russia does NOT deliberately strike civilian assets or civilians, despite the Ukrainian propaganda]
Maria Zakharova left the comment in the telegram channel.
According to many experts, the growing aggression of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is a consequence of the offensive actions of the Russian Armed Forces in the Kharkov direction.
The situation on the Belgorod border area is complex and tense. After our units penetrated north of Kharkov in some areas and occupied nine settlements, the enemy snapped back, pulling reserves to certain areas closer to the defense lines.
To the right, if you take the federal highway Moscow - Belgorod - Kharkov, there is an international checkpoint Goptovka-Nekhoteevka. On the left side, Streleche and several settlements are already under our control. And to the right there are such fairly large settlements as Cossack Lopan and Zolochev. In which the concentration of the enemy is noted. Ours inflict various attacks on them with fire weapons, says military expert Gennady Alekhin.
According to him, it was from the area of Cossack Lopan, where the enemy is still located, that yesterday a massive missile attack was launched [by Ukraine] from a multiple launch rocket system towards Belgorod.
“I fully admit, and according to preliminary information, the enemy may also have uses their attack aircraft. This means Sushki - Su-24 or Su-27. Which can carry both guided and adjustable aerial bombs and NURs (unguided missiles). In any case case, in the minutes when a massive attack from the MLRS was delivered (as the Ministry of Defense subsequently reported, the Vilkha multiple launch rocket systems, as well as the RM-70 Vampire [US made], were used in the massive attack on Belgorod), two attack aircraft were circling there ", the expert points out.
They took off from the Mirgorod military airfield near Poltava. It is quite possible that they hit from there too. It turns out to be such a complex blow. Our air defense systems were shot down.
Retribution for Belgorod and the “silenced” ambulances
Retribution for Belgorod was not long in coming. The coordinator of the Nikolaev underground, Sergei Lebedev, citing his comrades, said in a conversation with RIA Novosti that the Russian army attacked a military airfield in Mirgorod, Poltava oblast. The same one that was used to attack Belgorod.
“Late in the evening of May 12, the city of Mirgorod, Poltava oblast, received two strikes, the first was at 20:40 in the evening, hitting a military airfield in the southeast of the city. The explosion is described as powerful, with a strong blast wave,” Lebedev noted in an interview with the agency.
According to information received from the underground, it was the airfield in Mirgorod that the Ukrainian Armed Forces used as a jump-off airfield during the recent attacks on Belgorod and Donbass. In addition, this is where the 831st Tactical Aviation Brigade is located.
As the underground fighters told Lebedev, the matter was not limited to one blow, the second was inflicted by 21:20 in the evening.
“The second blow was delivered at 21.20 pm, according to the description of the local resistance, it hit in the same direction, but was much more powerful and with detonation.”
In addition, the underground members said that after the first strike, the Promyshlenny microdistrict, located on the road towards the airfield, was blocked by the military.
After two powerful explosions, doctors in Mirgorod were alerted; Lebedev’s sources report that doctors who were at home received a message about the need to urgently report to work. City residents saw about 10 ambulances. They were driving towards the airport with flashing lights, but what’s interesting is that they suddenly “went silent” - the flashing lights were turned off.
“According to preliminary data, a group of some very important military officials was targeted.” [Note the stark contrast with the Ukrainian forces. The Russians attack strategic targets, while the Ukies attack harmless civilians. In so doing, they are not waging war, just spitting and hissing. They’re fighting a PR war, while Russia fights strategically. It’s an important reason why they are losing]
Consequences of the Belgorod tragedy
The governor of the Belgorod oblast [Russia] Vyacheslav Gladkov, who helped clear the rubble yesterday, said that by now the bulk of the work on clearing the rubble of a residential building on Shchors Street has been completed. The bodies of 15 people were recovered from the rubble, the governor also specified
According to the SHOT telegram channel, according to preliminary data, three children were among the 15 killed as a result of the partial collapse of the house. One of them is a first-grader who came to visit her grandparents. The volunteer girl said in an interview with the channel that none of the family managed to survive - all four died under the rubble.
“There was a girl here in the first grade who died. The whole family: mother, girl, grandparents [...] I’m telling you now, and everything is trembling inside me. It’s very difficult,” the volunteer shared.
According to the report, an 11-year-old boy was also among the victims of the tragedy. At the time of the collapse, he was in the apartment with his mom and dad. In a conversation with the channel, relatives confirmed that, probably, the whole family died - none of them have yet been in touch.
SHOT also writes about the deceased girl - a 17-year-old student at Belgorod Medical College. It is specified that at the time of the impact she was at home with her mother:
The woman is still listed as missing. The identification of the bodies that were pulled out from under the rubble has not yet been completed, but her relatives have already been informed about the death of the student. [One very important difference between Russian and Ukrainian responses to attacks is that Russia retaliates promptly. Ukraine rarely has the manpower or weapons to do this]
There are children among the victims. The youngest of those who was taken to hospitals after a shell hit a house was a two-month-old boy. He has barotrauma, head trauma, burns to the respiratory tract and face. [The warfare methods of US protegees is the same in Ukraine as it is in Israel. The enemy is hardly targeted. Only civilians pay the price. It’s more genocide than war and it’s a reflection of America’s low moral ground]
Doctors assess the child's condition as serious. His mother was also hospitalized with burns to her arms and legs. There is no information about the remaining family members (father and another son).
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2024, 5-13 People killed by Israeli authorities
https://twitter.com/AlnaouqA/status/1789705733723795697
This is the fruits of “Christian” Zionism, the cultlike doctrine driving the pro-Israel politics in the US. Gordon Robertson, head of 700 Club, endorses this murder wholeheartedly – hiding behind the name of Jesus.
https://twitter.com/RamAbdu/status/1763280125800452262
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CA
I agree with you, this does mark a huge shift, and I believe most of all, in public perception ... and it may also indicate that organizations like CNN are increasingly concerned about the effect of social media ... most young people go there now for "news", and their perceptions have been shaped by videos of burned and mutilated children in Gaza, of Israeli soldiers spitting on Palestinians (and there's one video I've seen of a policeman at one of the university protests spitting on a Palestinian flag. These images carry the message.
And among those young people who are politically "engaged", those most likely to vote in November, the attitude has long been, "You've given us no good candidates to choose from; like always, we'll vote for the lesser of the two evils. The issue has been decided for us; there is nothing more evil than genocide."
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The jailing of the ex Pakistani PM Imran Khan is one of the vilest acts in today’s world. As in the case of so many other national leaders, he was wildly popular with his people – until the US meddled in their affairs.
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Friends,
Costas Isichos from Greece, Blaz Kavcic from Slovenia, and Bruce Gagnon from the USA offer analysis and insights on topics you won't find in too many other places.
My friends shared views on Russia's very strong message to the UK, France, and the USA....Nyet means Nyet...do not cross these red lines by using your Storm Shadow missiles to strike Russia, and do not send your French Foreign Legion to Ukraine....or we will strike you there and "beyond."
The Resistance Strikes Back! Are they winning against Israel? Israel has already lost the war on every level.
The importance of Chinese President Xi to France, Serbia, and Hungary. Very interesting views from Blaz and Costas, two Europeans.
https://rumble.com/v4un4mt-russia-to-uk-france-nyet-means-nyet-the-resistance-strikes-back.html
https://www.bitchute.com/video/6DqEcqBdwblF/
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Regis
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
الردّ الأمريكي على روسيا: التهويل في دير الزور؟! (alkhanadeq.org.lb)
Wednesday 12 July 2023 05:12
The American response to Russia: Intimidation in Deir ez-Zor?!
An American soldier in the Deir ez-Zor region [This is the oil-rich region where the US has stationed its Kurdish terrorist friends. It is far from the real Kurdistan but the US scumbags are hoping the world will forget that and pretend the US is just restoring the Kurdish “homeland.” The Kurds are only there to help block the Russians and Syrian army — the legitimate residents — while the US steals the oil]
A few days ago, circles that describe themselves as the "Syrian opposition" claimed that the American occupation forces present in Syria were planning to carry out a military operation, in cooperation with the militias of the Syrian Democratic Forces - SDF, against the Syrian army and its allies present in the Deir ez-Zor region and its countryside.
The media outlets affiliated with these parties published many news releases and videos, showing military reinforcements in some areas in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, some of which belong to the American occupation army and others to the SDF, such as the intense overflight of American helicopters and drones. These circles also claimed that the residents of the 7 liberated towns in the northern countryside of Deir ez-Zor (Husseiniyah, Salihiya, Hatla, Marat, Tabiya Jazira, Mazloum and Khasham) are pressing to join the area under American occupation.
However, the people of these towns responded to these allegations by carrying out a protest at the Salhiya Bridge, rejecting the American occupation and supporting the Syrian [Assad’s] army. [President Assad is perceived as a wise and just leader. He won the last election with over 90% of the vote. The REAL issue here is, as you may have guessed, Israel, which hates Assad and the Syrians because they do not recognize the genocidal occupying entity]
These field developments prompted the Syrian army and its allies to also strengthen their military deployment in return, such as the 4th Division and the 5th Corps, although many circles in the Syrian state confirm that the possibility of a hostile operation against the Syrian army and its allies is very small, for many reasons:
1) Such an escalation will inevitably and directly be responded to by Syria and its allies in the axis of resistance, and the American bases and sites in the region are under full monitoring and control, with vision and precise short- and medium-range fire, and thus Washington would risk the possibility of dozens of its soldiers being killed and wounded there.
2) These measures constitute a threatening American response, in light of the tension with Russia, which has occurred more than once over the past few days, with American drones being exposed to the risk of being shot down by Russian warplanes.
SDF militia denies: Our movements are routine
The SDF militia [the bad guys] denied allegations that it was preparing for an operation in the Deir ez-Zor region, in a statement on its official website, describing this information as false, stressing that all the information circulating as well as the speculations are incorrect and not based on any realistic basis, and that what its forces are carrying out are non-emergency operations within the framework of operations. Routine military. This was also reaffirmed by the leader of the SDF militia, Mazloum Abdi, when he said: “Our military movements in Deir ez-Zor are normal and routine.”
The importance of Deir ez-Zor
Deir ez-Zor Governorate is of great importance in many ways, most notably:
1) Its geographical location, which makes it the land link between the Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, which constituted a permanent nightmare for Washington that it could not prevent by any ways or means, and it always wished to control the entire Deir ez-Zor Governorate, so that it could cut this land link [which allows Iran to arm its resistance allies].
The geographical connection of the areas controlled by the SDF with America's Al-Tanf base in the 55-kilometre area (the Syrian-Iraqi-Jordanian border triangle) requires it to control the city of Al-Bukamal, which includes a large concentration of the Syrian army and its allies in the eastern region of Syria. The SDF and Al-Tanf areas are separated by about 150 kilometers, which makes connecting them very difficult or even impossible.
2) It is rich in mineral resources and agricultural crops: The American forces have been working for years to steal Syrian oil from the Al-Jazeera fields (Al-Omar field and the Coneco facility), and transport quantities of it via dozens of tankers to northern Iraq, and also bring in logistical equipment and materials from the Iraqi Kurdistan region every now and then to its illegal military bases in Al-Hasakah.
Writer:
Ali Nour El-Din
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What strikes me the most about the following report is that it comes from CNN. What does this tell you?
CNN used to tow the Israeli party line. Not any more. There is a breaking point for msn journalists. Despite their commitment to tow the party line and defend the lies, they are, after all, human beings and there comes a point where their instinctive sense of right and wrong kicks in.
This is happening everywhere in the US-dominated pro-Israel West.
No one can now predict how long the lies will last.
There is change in the air.
Strapped down, blindfolded, held in diapers: Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention center
CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG MAY 12, 2024 DR. ADNAN AL-BURSH, DR. MOHAMMED AL-RAN, IDF, ISRAELI HEALTH MINISTRY, ISRAELI SUPREME COURT, ISRAELI TORTURE, ISRAELI WHISTLEBLOWERS, MILITARY CENSORSHIP, MILITARY DETENTION CAMPS, NEGEV DESERT, PRISONERS, SDE TEIMAN DESERT CAMP, SHAWISH
Strapped down, blindfolded, held in diapers: Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention center
“At first you couldn’t see. You couldn’t see the torture, the vengeance, the oppression." (photo)
CNN spoke to three Israeli whistleblowers who worked at a prison camp that holds Palestinians detained during Israel’s invasion of Gaza.
They paint a picture of a facility where doctors sometimes amputated prisoners’ limbs due to injuries sustained from constant handcuffing, and where the air is filled with the smell of neglected wounds left to rot… [Israeli propaganda has it that ONLY terrorists are mistreated. Those hundreds of corpses found with their hands tied behind their backs? Israel said they were all terrorists. But the story shared below tells a different story. Prisoners were tortured before the Israeli ghouls could determine if they were terrorists or not. And BTW, how does Israel define terrorist? Anyone who does not recognize the right of Israel to live on stolen land and who disagrees with the genocide is a “terrorist.” And the US accomplice agrees. Many Congressmen side with the murderers. This makes them murderers too! And eligible for trial at a Nuremberg-type trial, which may actually be held if people of conscience ever wrest control of America from the ghouls. This can only happen in a world dominated by a foreign power. The US is incapable of reforming from within. AIPAC owns the state apparatus.]
By CNN’s International Investigations and Visuals teams, reposted from CNN, May 10, 2024
Sde Teiman, Israel (CNN) — At a military base that now doubles as a detention center in Israel’s Negev desert, an Israeli working at the facility snapped two photographs of a scene that he says continues to haunt him. [NEVER lose sight of the fact that the US Establishment fully supports all the Israeli atrocities — with YOUR money]
Rows of men in gray tracksuits are seen sitting on paper-thin mattresses, ringfenced by barbed wire. All appear blindfolded, their heads hanging heavy under the glare of floodlights.
A putrid stench filled the air and the room hummed with the men’s murmurs, the Israeli who was at the facility told CNN. Forbidden from speaking to each other, the detainees mumbled to themselves.
“We were told they were not allowed to move. They should sit upright. They’re not allowed to talk. Not allowed to peek under their blindfold.”
Guards were instructed “to scream uskot” – shut up in Arabic – and told to “pick people out that were problematic and punish them,” the source added.
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Ask your Evangelical pastor if he “stands with Israel.” Then show him the above photo of a man smashed flat by an Israeli armored bulldozer. Let us know what he says.
If I had a pastor who insisted on ”standing with Israel,” I would do those things and if he said that he thought the photo is a fake, I would say: You are the reason this is allowed to happen.
I would never go back. US “churches” are nothing more than NGOs supporting the interests of the murderous US war machine. Jesus has been banished long ago.
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Email from Code Pink:
Yesterday, Rep. John James (R-MI) accused us of being funded by the Chinese Communist Party in response to a protest in the Senate.
While we’ve never taken any money from foreign governments, Rep. James has taken a whopping $165,426 from pro-Israel groups. [US lawmakers are fully controlled by the foreign lobby AIPAC and are not American representatives, they are foreign agents!]
Countless people donate their time, energy, money, and so much more to stopping the atrocities Rep. James and his colleagues continue to fund and endorse. It is dangerous and libelous for a sitting congressman to make red scare accusations like this against average citizens exercising their democratic rights and resisting the government’s complicity in genocide. Behavior like this is a grave threat to our democracy and civil society. [There is no democracy in the US. Which is why it is a farce to talk about making America “great again.” It’s never been otherwise. You are in thrall to both the Israeli lobby and the arms lobby. He who donates owns the government]
We stand firmly against this xenophobic, anti-communist fear mongering. We refuse to watch silently as our government enables the mass murder of Palestinians. We will fight for peace and liberation everywhere, no matter what.
Solidarity forever. Free Palestine.
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The underlying truth is nauseating:
Comments under the photo
Orlando in FL.
@AnAngelsRapture
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Mar 1
Now we can imagine the tens of thousands crushed by their very own homes.
Brought down on them by US provided bombs instead of US manufactured bulldozers.
Hussain Albukhaiti
@HussainBukhaiti
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Feb 29
it look like that This bulldozer has actually drawn the #US flag with #Palestinian blood and flesh..
Its the goal of #USA that Zionist state of #Israel is continuing its genocide against #Palestinians in #Gaza
أبو مراد
@Abu1murad
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Feb 29
If Israel is not a terrorist, no one else can be described as a terrorist
Rasha Al
@Rashasyrian20Al
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Feb 29
Omg 🥹🥹🥹
Look at his right-hand
This is too much
God.…
صهيب 𓂆🇵🇸
@SuhibPalestine
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Feb 29
حسبي الله ونعم الوكيل عليهم
ali hadi
@alihadi68
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Feb 29
Omg horrific
Wes
@OnlyWesTho
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Feb 29
MAN WTF
Kamil 🇵🇸
@KamilMPoet
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Feb 29
This image will haunt me for the rest of my days.
سيف بن سعيد العزري
@alazriss
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Feb 29
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سيف بن سعيد العزري
@alazriss
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Feb 17
Many people wondered when they saw the steadfastness of the people of Gaza, in contrast to the demolition of their homes, the death of their relatives, the cutting off of food supplies, medicine and their displacement.
In this video, we will show you the secret behind this, we… https://pic.x.com/7q6vkqzmnz
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Nabeel Rajab
@NABEELRAJAB
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Mar 1
This plastic handcuff bears witness to the murder of Palestinian prisoners
John Thomas and 11,000 others
@Ovoh_of_Lagos
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Mar 2
This is glúrry
Stallion
@stallionheat
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Feb 29
Am so speechless. May his soul rest in peace.
Christian Zionism = DOOMSDAY CULT 🍉✌️🪁
@rb202220
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Feb 29
After viewing this D9 bulldozer related atrocity photograph, and similar crimes, I find it helpful and uplifting to rewatch this video of a D9 and its crew, "Getting Smoked"...✌️🔥
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Jon Elmer
@jonelmer
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Feb 1
Qassam vs IDF D9 armoured bulldozer that is flattening a camp in west Khan Yunis. The Yassin strike hits the cockpit directly. The fighters return to their base via tunnel. [Qassam Brigades 1/2]
What Donald Trump's MAGA really stands for:
"Make America Genocidal Again!"
The usa was founded on the dead bodies of black slave labor by white slave masters. Prior to that the invaders killed and massacred millions of the indigenous people who lived there. Then the leadership of the usa, uk, french, germans and eu took over the material wealth of weak nations by force of strength and useless paper money. They have not understood how to live in harmony with humanity. These are predators who thrive on stealing and bombing innocent people around the world. Look around and see. Blackmail, assassination and installing their puppies.