Of course, the Herzlian ambassador insisted that the Islamic Rep. of Iran was targeting civilians. Nobody commented on the fact that somebody had the ingenious idea to build these military facilities ridiculously close to civilian structures.

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Hamas was obviously using them as human shields. Get with the programme.

Considering how unhappy apartheid officials were with Washington announcing a 17% tariff on their régime, I find that unlikely.

Trump has told Reuters in a phone interview that it was unclear if Iran still has a nuclear program following Israeli strikes on the country.

Trump said [that] the U.S. still has nuclear talks planned with Iran on Sunday, but that he is not sure if they will still take place. He said [that] it was not too late for Iran to make a deal.

“I tried to save Iran humiliation and death,” Trump said.

He said [that] he is not concerned about a regional war breaking out as a result of Israel’s strikes.

(Source.)

To Kill a Nation (which I highly recommend reading, by the way) does seem to be the culprit here. Michael Parenti questioned the circumstantial evidence that the capitalist media put forth for its conspiracy theory that the Federal Rep. of Yugoslavia sought to create an ethnostate, notably the infamous Srebrenica massacre of 1995. Although it was criminal, I doubt that it was genocidal, which seems like a petty distinction until you remember that ‘genocide prevention’ was a necessary criterion for NATO intervention.

Me too, thanks.

I still remember how yesteryear I was replaying Conflict: The Middle East Political Simulator while listening to Al Jazeera, and afterwards I assembled this image as a snarky comment on the Islamic Rep. of Iran launching drones at the occupation. At the time, I did not seriously believe that the Islamic Rep. of Iran was going to invade the occupation, only devastate the IOF. Now? An invasion doesn’t sound that unlikely. Maybe Tehran will limit itself to mere bombardments, but at this point, who knows.

All that I can say with certainty is that I’m mad at how this entire situation has been a waste of everything. A huge waste of Palestinian lives, a waste of the effort and other resources that went into their neighborhoods, a waste of their precious history, a waste of their time, a waste of our planet, and it is all because of this settler-colonial project that never needed to happen.

Benjamin Netanyahu I wanna beat the shit out of you.

Only a handful of Italians lived in Gubba and Afodo. The colonial presence was overwhelmingly represented by Ethiopians and Eritreans. They would have been very glad to keep on with their customary eating and drinking habits. Yet they were provided with European foods and drinks at an enormous cost.

Chaos & Cruelty: Trump Deploys Thousands of Soldiers to Put Down Anti-ICE Protests in Los Angeles

On Tuesday, Democracy Now interviewed Jean Guerrero, author of a book about Stephen Miller and Trump’s immigration agenda aptly titled Hatemonger. The segment first quotes LA mayor Karen Bass talking about the situation in LA: “We didn’t need the National Guard. Why on Earth? What are they going to do? … So, they need marines on top of it? I don’t understand that. That’s why I feel like we are part of an experiment that we did not ask to be a part of.”

Guerrero highlights the way the community in LA is coming together across traditional lines of division: “…people of all races and backgrounds are putting their bodies on the line to protect their friends, their neighbors, their family members from these arrests… I spoke to… white grandmothers, who are going out to protect people that they love and who they’re afraid could be picked up by ICE. I spoke to Latinas who are, you know, afraid of being racially profiled and arrested because of the indiscriminate nature of these arrests, but they are nevertheless putting their bodies on the line, because they’re citizens and they believe in using their privilege to defend the people that they care about.”

Anyone who has a phone and witnesses an ICE action can help by documenting that action: “The administration is ramping up deportations to a never-before-seen level, which means that they are more visible than ever. They used to happen in the shadows. Now people can see it happening everywhere. And people are taking out their phones… as a result, these deportations, these arrests are becoming much harder to misrepresent, and this is a threat to the narrative that Trump and Stephen Miller have spent years putting out there.”

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action. Emphasis original.)

The question should not so much be about ‘supporting Brazil’ as it should be about opposing imperialism. You can all say that I am splitting hairs here and that opposing British imperialism is effectively supporting Brazil, but saying that you ‘support Brazil’ would simply be too vague to be helpful. Imagine if this were 1938 and the Third Reich was on the verge of annexing Austria, a (para)fascist state. Would you seriously say that you ‘support fascist Austria in its struggle against imperialism’? Saying ‘yes’ would be too misleading. The focus should be on inhibiting the German Reich’s quest for empire.

So while I think that Trotsky could have worded this better, overall he had a point here: tolerating or supporting imperialist aggression would only make everything worse, even if the government facing the imperialist aggression is awful enough as it is. It would be roughly analogous to trying to put out a fire by splashing it with petroleum.

It’s so weird how Herzlians have been telling us for months to go to Gaza, like that’s the ultimate gotcha argument, but they’re forgetting about that now that a foreign civilian actually tried to visit Gaza yet failed because of the IOF. How convenient.

I’ll give them this much: it is wise of them to whinge about Greta since that distracts people from how utterly fucking brainless their comeback was.

I’ve seen first-person clips of October 2023 atrocities attributed to Hamas.

Do you have any idea if those are real or not? Given how self-incriminating those would be, I find it odd that Hamas would upload those videos.

The IOF and the apartheid officials need to be forced to watch every hour recorded of Palestine’s suffering.

Fair’s fair.

Oh, sorry about that! I’ll avoid doing that again; I understand not wanting to get involved in other people’s battles. I can redact my mention of you if that would make you feel better.

r/Jewish has to be one of the most toxic subcommunities that I’ve seen not yet banned from Reddit. I have never seen them say anything nice. I don’t have the link to prove it, but I could have sworn that I saw a user unjokingly say that ‘the world won’t stop being antisemitic!’

It is my duty as a Jew to call out bigotry + genocide wherever it exists.

They love to say Israel doesn’t represent them but then act as if their voice carries more weight because they’re Jewish.

I’m sorry, are you saying that Jews should not call out either bigotry or extermination campaigns wherever they exist?

Good grief.

You kids can’t cry ‘antisemitism’ at the drop of a hat and then throw a fit when somebody tries to counteract the phenomenon in question with some positive representation. What would you rather do, mope around all day?

this person must be furious about what’s happening in sudan and yemen then

I wonder how @onandrah1@hexbear.net or @CyaraKaira@hexbear.net would feel about Zionists referencing their difficulties simply to delegitimise pro-Palestinian protesters.

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@Lemvi@lemmy.sdf.org would you care to explain your dissatisfaction?