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Kier Starmer getting covered in glitter on live TV

https://streamable.com/fom7np

🚨 BREAKING: Accompanied by dozens of drones, a number of resistance paratroopers are reportedly infiltrating the settlements of occupied northern Palestine.

Is it go time then?

As unofficial news mega bookie, I'm setting the Comment Count Over/Under at 5,250 for the week. We are at 500 as of 7:30 PM ET on Monday.

Egyptian politics regarding Gaza have always been a bit of an enigma to me. These Al Jazeera articles1 2 shed a bit of light on the situation, but I still don't get the politics of the Gaza/Egypt border. How is the Israeli blockade so devastating when they only control one side of the border? To what extent can Palestinians cross into Egypt?

Genuinely wondering why they didnt try to fake photos of the beheaded babies tbh, why did they give into it so easily and admit they made it the fuck up?

I went on private for twitter. I'm not risking getting swarmed by zionists for my likes.

CNN has an onscreen graphic for a family with a hostage held by Hamas and it includes: #HamasIsIsis

I just had a thought;

War Crimes, as a matter of international law where combatants who violate the international laws of armed conflict are, de facto, never prosecuted. There just aren't a meaningful number of war crimes convictions. And in a lot of cases, as with the US especially, the perpetrators of war crimes are shielded by powerful patrons. "So and so did war crimes!" is stating that someone broke a law that cannot be enforced, that is mocked by violent aggressors all the time.

Like of course the IDF is doing war crimes. They know the US would never let them be prosecuted.

I was thinking about it bc people keep saying "Well dropping WP on civilians isn't technically a war crime" and it's like yeah, they're right. it's not a violation of some toothless legal code that everyone ignores. It's an unthinkable crime against all mankind, a horrible act with no justification. We don't need a joke of a legal system to tell us that's wrong and the people who do it should be shunned and condemned, at minimum.

Death to America, the great Karen

https://nitter.cz/WarMonitors/status/1713136853518340345?s=20

they're still at it with the IDF girls

More than two million people are at risk in Gaza as water runs out, the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) has warned.

“It has become a matter of life and death. It is a must; fuel needs to be delivered now into Gaza to make water available for 2 million people,” Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA commissioner-general said in a statement.

“Clean water is running out in Gaza, after its water plant and public water networks stopped working. People are now forced to use dirty water from wells, increasing risks of waterborne diseases,” the statement said.

Unconfirmed reports of a downed f-16. There seems to be video of it being tracked by a missile and popping flares before appearing to be hit and start going down. Another video that appears to show the parachuting pilot.

going to rank the current mood at a

Finkelstein being based and not transphobic. I could never find this clip anywhere so I decided to clip it.

"I think that the Hezbollah represents the hope. Sometimes I think it's a very good thing that Hezbollah inflicted a huge defeat on Israel. You have to keep knocking them into the head until they reach their senses."

I have found some success at arguing that Palestinians have a right to launch attacks into Israel, a country invading the West Bank and bombing Gaza, by equating it with the right to Ukraine to launch attacks into Russia. Libs seem to be sympathetic to that. I know y'all won't like that, but lol.

This morning the Turkish army bombed the Maxmûr Refugee camp in Southern Kurdistan.

Targeting the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK)

Elizabeth Warren spews out lib speak.

Democracies like the United States and Israel must uphold the rule of law and protect innocent civilians. As Israel responds to Hamas's terrorist attacks, it must minimize civilian harm, including to Palestinian children, Israeli hostages, and U.S. citizens.

Nitter

What's great about these sorts of tweets is that it sounds like she's a concerned nobody with zero political power. Like she's still a college professor. The first sentence is so weird. She makes it seem that some unnamed country is doing the slaughter and Israel could be a force for good to get them to stop. Also Israel is already committing war crimes so politely pleading for them to behave ain't exactly going to work.

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From another thread

Remember a few years ago when a reporter asked her about Israel and she literally just ran away?

What? Does anybody have a link for that? I gotta see it!

Edit 1

Apparently it was in 2014.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, 1, ducks question on Gaza, 2, plans trip to Israel, and 3- - Mondoweiss

August 14, 2014

Here is a defining moment: Senator Warren running away, at Netroots on July 18, when a reporter asked her about the Gaza slaughter.

The Youtube embed is "video not available".

Edit 2

PointAndClique found it for me.

In some more positive news:

Other, more neoliberal-leaning forums that I frequent are rapidly turning against Israel as the conflict continues.

Moreover, the support that Western governments are pledging towards Israel, despite the latter's openly genocidal intentions, is acting as a harsh eye-opener.

I can only hope that they won't forget this.

Did a bit more legwork around Tallinn to see what colours the Riigikogu is in. It's still the colours. Also swung past Tornimäe and at least one of the towers is in the Pissnotreal colours, along with many light poles.

Additionally, the South African government continues it's trademark actions of claiming to support Palestine, but doing little more than Ramaphosa keeping his hand in his pants, which certainly hasn't gone unnoticed. Come on when are you imposing sanctions, severing relations by shutting down the embassy in Pretoria (along with any consulates in other cities) and banning El Al from the airspace?

I see a lot of "Hamas are terrorists and therefore bad", but not a lot of concrete examples. The music festival was held next to a concentration camp on stolen land. Regardless of if Hamas intended a massacre at the festival or not, I can't see how you could argue that adults attending that festival didn't know what they were getting into. I think you could certainly argue that they didn't need to be killed (I would agree), but there is essentially no context given (how was the IOF/Police involved, etc.).

The 40 decapitated babies were clearly a lie, they essentially admitted it immediately.

It seems to me that all the violence committed by Hamas is essentially a statistical error in the context of the broader conflict, and that prefacing every statement with a condemnation of Hamas as terrorists only legitimizes the Israeli crybully approach of talking about how they're so victimized and they need to practice self-care by flattening the entire Gaza strip.

What I see, concretely, is that the Israeli state is continuing what it has always done, and that sources are claiming that 90% of the settlers do not intent to return to the stolen land after being "terrorized". While westerners swear that they support Palestine, but wring their hands about Hamas terrorists as Israel kills thousands of children, what I think many people who are victims of colonization around the world will see is that terrorism is the only thing that colonizers respond to, and that all peaceful resistance will get you is hypocritical thoughts and prayers from Twitter-addicted liberals who will forget you ever lived long before your body is cold.

Jesus Christ are the Bulletins and News posts always popping off like this? I like never enter these threads for some reason.

Some good posts in here keep it up comrades

The "F" in "IDF" stands for Fascism.

We finally did it, we finally had a news mega with 72 Trillion comments on it.

Leaked CENTCOM Document: 'If Hezbollah enters the war, Israel won't be able to defend itself' and 'there is growing antisemitism among American troops, who refuse to fight for Israel'

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