Our Favorite Ally, Model of Democracy

by Oui Sun May 29th, 2022 at 01:35:33 PM EST

Roughing up an oppressed people by Israeli occupation forces ...

Israeli occupation forces assault Palestinians in Sakhnin. pic.twitter.com/B56XlcU3E7
— PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 (@OnlinePalEng) May 28, 2022

🚨#Breaking: The settlers as they leave the courtyards of #AlAqsa Mosque after performing their rituals under the protection of the police to raise up the Israeli flags in an attempt to provoke the Palestinian worshippers inside #AlAqsa pic.twitter.com/e9PprpRTBZ
— Nour Al-Houda Press (@NhpressNow) May 29, 2022

An Israeli settler spits at an old Palestinian woman during a provocative march in Jerusalem today. pic.twitter.com/A43whGH37X
— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) May 28, 2022

Activists inside and outside Palestine call for raising the Palestinian flag across Palestine pic.twitter.com/izRuGl6WdU
— Aya Isleem 🇵🇸 #Gaza (@AyaIsleemEn) May 29, 2022

#شاهد: جيش الاحتلال يعتدي بوحشية على سيدات فلسطينيات في شارع الواد بالقدس المحتلة. pic.twitter.com/N3Duu1Wp35
— 48 الإخبارية (@48nnews) May 29, 2022

I went for a haircut, but got an education on #JerusalemDay about how #Israelis feel about the prospects of a peaceful solution to the Palestinian conflict.[_link]
— David Brinn (@davidbjpost) May 29, 2022

Jordan accused Israel of violating the status quo on the Temple Mount after MK Itamar Ben-Gvir visited to mark Jerusalem Day and Jewish activists at the site waved Israeli flags, singing "the Jewish people live."

Report by @tovahlazaroff | #Jerusalem [_link]
— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) May 29, 2022

Kahane Lives

In 1981, I spent a day w/#Kahane as college journalist following #Israel's election. Virtually alone w/him in his campaign tent, I'll never forget him lecturing me on need to ban sex btw Jews & Arabs. I fear for any democracy that mainstreams such hate. [_link]
— Robert Satloff (@robsatloff) February 20, 2019

Watch the Israeli settlers chant racism against the Arabs and Palestinians, the world must see the extent of the Israeli hatred. Please share this tweet widely.#القدس pic.twitter.com/N4IQ2EPOmq
— ✌️🇵🇸✌️ Mohammed Najjar (@hamada_pal2020) May 29, 2022

Ultra-nationalist Jews storm Al-Aqsa ahead of Israeli flag march | Al Jazeera |
Sami Abu Shehadeh, a Palestinian member of Knesset, told Al Jazeera that the march represents a very fast deterioration of the majority of the Jewish population of Israel into fascism.
"We are talking about a society that is celebrating the occupation of another people," he said, speaking from the city of Jaffa.

"Slam a rifle to his head," shouted one of the soldiers, who secured settlers as they lowered Palestinian flags in the center of a Palestinian town. These violent assaults followed. As a script, it would have sounded far-fetched. But in the West Bank, it is everyday reality. pic.twitter.com/ChgTnGyHQC
— B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم (@btselem) May 26, 2022

Oslo Accords are dead, a Palestinian state will not happen

Jerusalem will remain a united city forever, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett pledged on Jerusalem Day in a ceremony in memory of the Ethiopian Jews who died attempting to reach Israel.

Report by @tovahlazaroff | #Jerusalem [_link]
— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) May 29, 2022

A number of senior #Israeli officials visited Saudi Arabia in recent years, including Defense Minister @gantzbe and the past two heads of the #Mossad. [_link]
— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) May 29, 2022

Palestinian Cause

israeli forces deliberately shot #ShireenAbuAqleh #Palestinian probe finds. #Palestine Attorney general, Akram Al Khateeb announced the results of the investigation at a news conference in #Ramallah [_link]
[]#FreePalestine from the Worlds Evil, #ApartheidIsrael[]
— Assem Sweidan (@AssemSweidan) May 26, 2022

2/7 A political briefing and discussion on the support work being carried out by @IrlRepPalestine Don Sexton and team in Ramallah. Really impressive @Irish_Aid funded work in education including the provision of 25 Masters scholarships to Palestinian students to study in Ireland. pic.twitter.com/y3sBcBRIud
— Lord Mayor of Dublin (@LordMayorDublin) May 26, 2022

The #SecretaryOfState and #Israel's FM @yairlapid discussed a range of issues from #Iran to the shooting of #AlJazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗡 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 ⇣ | #IsraelNews [_link]
— Jewish News Syndicate (@JNS_org) May 29, 2022

What's happening now in #Jerusalem , you won't know if watching #BBC #skynews #CNN or the rest, watch #AlJazeera Arabic you will learn enough from the pictures without understanding Arabic
— it is #Palestine, nothing else (@JamalKhanfer) May 29, 2022

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Iraq Leadership Adopt Saddam's Stance (none / 0)

It's now illegal in Iraq to normalize relations with Israel according to a law the Iraqi parliament unanimously passed on Thursday. [_link]
— Press TV (@PressTV) May 29, 2022

Angry vigils mark death anniversary of Soleimani and Muhandis in Iraq | MEE - Jan 3, 2021 |

Brainless act by a maverick US president encouraged by Israelis, a number of Congressional lobby groups and a pervert vision on the world.

Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani Martyred In Baghdad

US Ally Soleimani's Global Fight Against Terror

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Sun May 29th, 2022 at 08:51:39 PM EST

Chants Death to Arabs In a Democracy? (none / 0)

New Post: Jerusalem Day = Nuremberg Day The day Judeo-fascists chanted 'Death to Arabs' at a holy Muslim shrine. [_link] pic.twitter.com/mhyGpUEOjN
— Tikun Olam (@richards1052) May 29, 2022

Stalemate: Occupation of Palestinian Land Continues | June 29, 2018 |

New Fascist Pariah States America and Israel Lashing Out

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Mon May 30th, 2022 at 09:16:39 AM EST

Re: Chants Death to Arabs In a Democracy? (none / 1)

Nothing personal. They chanted the same thing at Blacks in Crown Heights. (The counter-demonstrators responded with "Free Palestine....)

by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Mon May 30th, 2022 at 09:20:41 AM EST
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Unbelievable ... community spirit (none / 0)

Ends well ...

That evening, Helen Robinson celebrated the news with a traditional Jewish healing ritual: She headed to the Russian and Turkish Baths in the East Village and took a shvitz. JC

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Mon May 30th, 2022 at 12:10:51 PM EST
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America's Standing In Muslim World (none / 0)

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman and ex-premier Imran Khan said on Sunday the rulers were a security threat for the country, alleging that they had been `tasked with recognising Israel' and compromising with India on Kashmir issue. [_link]
— Dawn.com (@dawn_com) May 30, 2022

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Mon May 30th, 2022 at 02:17:29 PM EST

UAE and Enduring Freedom In Yemen (none / 0)

United Arab Emirates intercepted a ballistic #missile that was fired by #Yemen's Houthi as the Gulf state hosted Israel's President #IsaacHerzog in a first such visit pic.twitter.com/IhgQDVzBPl
— DD News (@DDNewslive) January 31, 2022

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Mon May 30th, 2022 at 02:18:41 PM EST

Outburst of Hate By Judeo-fascists In Israel (none / 0)

Israel's Paroxysm of Judeo-Hate [_link] pic.twitter.com/KbEV1dsMQK
— Tikun Olam (@richards1052) June 1, 2022

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Wed Jun 1st, 2022 at 09:03:58 AM EST

Pacification of West Bank and E Jerusalem (none / 0)

In racist, apartheid state normalizing genocide, it's only natural 2 out of tens of thousands of Jews committing acts of violence would be arrested. [_link]
— Tikun Olam (@richards1052) June 3, 2022

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Fri Jun 3rd, 2022 at 08:16:24 AM EST

Fascism: Where Alt-Right Meets One Another (none / 0)

In solidarity- @Stanleycohen In a similar vein, @Facebook today posted a warning concealing a post I wrote about Richard Spencer SIX years ago!! pic.twitter.com/vI5miXwINK
— Tikun Olam (@richards1052) June 3, 2022

Alt-right terrorist charged with murder member Vanguard America in role of security guard for Islamophobe Richard Spencer.

When the 'Alt-Right' Hit the Streets: Far-Right Political Rallies in the Trump Era | SPLC - Aug. 2020 |

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Fri Jun 3rd, 2022 at 08:17:26 AM EST

Re: Fascism: Where Alt-Right Meets One Another (none / 0)

Richard B. Spencer: The founder of alt-right presents racism in a chic new outfit | ECPS - June 28. 2021 |
Richard Bertrand Spencer is a well-groomed, well-educated advocate for the creation of a "white ethno-state" in North America for a "dispossessed white race." He has also called for "peaceful ethnic cleansing" to halt the "deconstruction" of what he describes as "white culture" and to achieve a "white homeland." Spencer has become the most recognizable public face of the white supremacist and nationalist movements. As an ardent white supremacist and ethnonationalist, Spencer says America belongs to white people, who he claims have higher average IQs than Hispanics and African Americans, and that the latter are genetically predisposed to crime. In Spencer's "America," Asians, Muslims, and Jews don't qualify as "white" either.

Related reading ...

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"Fake Reporting or Propaganda Does Not Violate US Law" - Gen. Casey | @BooMan - March 2006 |

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Fri Jun 3rd, 2022 at 08:18:05 AM EST
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Free Palestine (none / 0)

US labor needs to boycott Israel: a fascist state that impoverishes its working class and exploits Palestinian labor. [_link]
— Tikun Olam (@richards1052) June 3, 2022

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Fri Jun 3rd, 2022 at 08:18:42 AM EST

Kushner and Mnuchin Business Deals with Arabs (none / 0)

Abraham Accords a gold mine for Kushner and Mnuchin, who exploited them by bellying up to Bin Salman's bar and raking in $2-billion for their new investment fund. [_link]
— Tikun Olam (@richards1052) June 3, 2022

In the footsteps of Bill and Hillary -- Tony and Cherie.

What's In A Name: oligarch - олігарх - олигарх - אוליגרך

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Fri Jun 3rd, 2022 at 08:24:18 AM EST

Re: Kushner and Mnuchin Business Deals with Arabs (none / 0)

The #TrumpCrimeFamily continues its overt excess, flagrantly flaunting the excess in #America 's face & laughing while adding to the #JaredKushner #IvankaTrump coffers Disgusting unethical #GOP [_link]
— Mireya Louise (@louise_mireya) June 3, 2022

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Fri Jun 3rd, 2022 at 08:25:08 AM EST
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Re: Kushner and Mnuchin Business Deals with Arabs (none / 0)

Jared Kushner's Middle East Peace Plan Involves Nations Giving Him Billions of Dollars

Jared Kushner and Steve Mnuchin courted investments from Middle Eastern nations before Trump left office, The New York Times reports.

One of the major benefits to Palestinians Jared Kushner touted, as part of his investments in the Abraham Accords, was to "upgrade" Israeli checkpoints. Ya can't make this stuff up. [_link]
— Tikun Olam (@richards1052) June 3, 2022

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Fri Jun 3rd, 2022 at 08:25:34 AM EST
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Pillsbury Divests From Occupied Territory (none / 0)

Last April, four descendants of the Pillsbury family urged General Mills to get out of Israeli settlements and dump its factory in East Jerusalem. Yesterday, it did so But claimed the Pillsbury lobbying had nothing to do with the decision. Yeah, right. [_link]
— Tikun Olam (@richards1052) June 3, 2022

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Fri Jun 3rd, 2022 at 08:26:33 AM EST

Re: Pillsbury Divests From Occupied Territory (none / 0)

Now that General Mills has divested its Israel business, based on stolen Palestinian land in Beit Hanina, it's time for @benandjerrys & their parent company @Unilever to divest as well. No profit fr Palestinian suffering. [_link]
— Tikun Olam (@richards1052) June 3, 2022

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Fri Jun 3rd, 2022 at 08:26:59 AM EST
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Debbie Does Deuteronomy (none / 0)

Sex on shabbat is specifically encouraged in the Talmud and some consider it to be a mitzvah -- or good deed.

Sex act on bat mitzvah Zoom stream renews questions about online Shabbat services | TOI |
It also points to potential risks in the use of streaming technology by Conservative synagogues, which are barred by the movement's religious law authorities from engaging with electronic devices on the Sabbath. In allowing the use of streaming on Shabbat in an emergency measure early in the pandemic, the movement's Jewish law committee stated that any streaming equipment should be "set it and forget it" -- teed up prior to Shabbat and not touched once it begins.
Meanwhile, at my synagogue: A couple begins having sex on Zoom during Bat Mitzvah services. Nobody would pick up the phone to put a stop to it because it was the sabbath so it went on for 45 minutes. Amazing.

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Fri Jun 3rd, 2022 at 06:30:35 PM EST

Seen Abraham In the Footsteps of Kushner (none / 0)

Bullshitter-In-Chief ... bringing peace ☮️ ... remind me in his political career he succeeded once, I will bring half a dozen cases of warmongering.

"Look, I'm not going to change my view on human rights but as president of the United States my job is to bring peace if I can and that's what I'm going to try to do," Biden said in explaining his reasoning for why he may make the trip.[_link]
— Dawn.com (@dawn_com) June 3, 2022

Joe bringing fighter jets and more arms into the volatile region ... will he visit Iraq? What about Iran living under 42 years of inhumane sanctions ... perhaps Yemen where he too was responsible for many drone strikes (and cruise missiles) killing hundreds of civilians ... Pakistan where its sovereignty was violated ... stopping by in Libya and Syria where Joe and Hillary have caused immense suffering ...
Don't fool the World Joe, you are only interested in building military alliances to further increase the goal of Trump's MAGA ... annihilating the Russian Federation and China as Dutch Defense Minister Ollongren so triumphantly exposed when Rutte IV increased her budget by €5bn.

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Fri Jun 3rd, 2022 at 07:55:59 PM EST

Illiterate and Foxed by Fake Headlines (none / 0)

Who knew the @TimesofIsrael was illiterate in addition to being fooled by numerous media hoaxes and generally publishing Likudist drivel. pic.twitter.com/iB7KAkfX20
— Tikun Olam (@richards1052) June 3, 2022

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Fri Jun 3rd, 2022 at 09:20:30 PM EST

Israël and Shameful Settler Violence (none / 0)

Nazi culture minister (slightly revised): "When I hear the word 'Palestinian' I reach for my gun." [_link]
— Tikun Olam (@richards1052) June 5, 2022

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Sun Jun 5th, 2022 at 09:43:10 PM EST

Re: Israël and Shameful Settler Violence (none / 1)

Actually the quote is merely from a play by Hanns Johst. He was a Nazi, but I've no idea whether the character in the play was.

by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Mon Jun 6th, 2022 at 07:53:01 AM EST
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Re: Israël and Shameful Settler Violence (none / 0)

... these statements are derived from those in the play Schlageter by Hanns Johst: "Wenn ich Kultur höre ... entsichere ich meinen Browning!" [Whenever I hear of culture... I release the safety-catch of my Browning!] (Act 1, Scene 1) The play was first performed in April 1933 for Hitler's birthday.

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Mon Jun 6th, 2022 at 10:05:00 AM EST
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B'Tselem on Human Rights (none / 0)

"To sign a court ruling spelling out the forcible transfer of more than a thousand human beings - as just happened a few weeks ago, regarding the Palestinian communities of Masafer Yatta - requires three arrogant judges who are committed to enforcing apartheid." > pic.twitter.com/2qMh11YGB7
— B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم (@btselem) June 1, 2022

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Sun Jun 5th, 2022 at 10:22:33 PM EST

Re: B'Tselem on Human Rights (none / 0)

"A new alliance in the ME emerged between authoritarian regimes and the apartheid regime of Israel. Both agreed, in principal, to establish a system that... suffocates every call for democracy, for freedom, for human rights and for liberation." > pic.twitter.com/FrTgVoAQ16
— B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم (@btselem) June 1, 2022

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Sun Jun 5th, 2022 at 10:23:26 PM EST
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Re: B'Tselem on Human Rights (none / 0)

Watch our historic London conference on Apartheid in Israel (full video). Huge thanks from ICJP Director ⁦@tayab_ali_⁩ to our special guests from @DAWNmenaorg⁩ @ICJPalestine @alhaq_org @btselem @amnesty @hrw ⁦@khanfarw⁩ [_link]
— ICJP (@ICJPalestine) June 1, 2022

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Sun Jun 5th, 2022 at 10:24:17 PM EST
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Deportation of Palestinians a War Crime: UN (none / 0)

When becomes apartheid ethnic cleansing and a war crime?

On a single day, 1 June 2022, Israel demolished the homes and ruined the lives of five Palestinian families. 25 people, including 11 minors, lost their homes. In Masafer Yatta, four homes and two agricultural structures were demolished after a previous demolition last month. > pic.twitter.com/QWN6dCYQZo
— B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم (@btselem) June 7, 2022

UN experts alarmed by Israel High Court ruling on Masafer Yatta and risk of imminent forcible transfer of Palestinians | OHCHR |
Israel's decision to evict approximately 1,200 Palestinians from their homes in Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank may amount to a war crime, UN human rights experts said.
The decision to forcibly transfer the Palestinian residents is a serious breach of international humanitarian and human rights laws, and an independent and impartial investigation into the matter should be established, the experts said.
"By upholding this policy to drive Palestinians out of Masafer Yatta, the Israeli judicial system has given carte blanche to the Israeli Government to perpetuate the practice of systematic oppression against Palestinians," three UN special rapporteurs said in a joint statement.

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Tue Jun 7th, 2022 at 12:44:55 PM EST

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