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f800gecko, 9 hours ago

@plink @palestine @israel

For the first time, the obligatory mention of Oct 7 done correctly.

Israel's devastating assault on Gaza began October 7 in response to a Hamas attack on southern Israel that killed around 1,100 people and captured around 250 hostages. Before that attack, Israel had blockaded Gaza for 16 years.

f800gecko, 2 hours ago

@rrb @plink @palestine @israel

Yes, there is so much more to be said

But at least giving a hint and handhold to encourage the doing of a little more “own research” is useful and something not seen much to date.

I wish other news outlets would act accordingly.

f800gecko, 3 days ago

@StillIRise1963

Shocking to see them killing themselves and their offspring along with it.

Greed and envy seem, like compound interest, to grow only faster with accumulation.

f800gecko, 11 days ago

@Sherifazuhur @israel @palestine

‘fewer than 1% of all complaints against Israeli soldiers result in prosecutions’

It’s a pity this item isn’t able to convey the endless repetition of such events in the decades since Israel began using its military for policing under a set of repressive laws designed solely to repress and harass Palestinians, an institutional systemic war crime that dwarfs these individual incidents.

#Gaza

f800gecko, 13 days ago

@thomasfuchs

Disgusting white men dismissing mass graves, 20k+ women and children put to death, two thirds of the home of 2M+ people razed, thousands maimed, thousands in detention, all in the wake of decades of expropriation and summary imprisonment, torture and assassination.

Palestinians don’t have that luxury, nevermind a platform on a Nazi-owned site called X from which to spew self-righteous invective.

The white guys are terrified the truth is coming out...

f800gecko, 16 days ago

@SocraticEthics

A fascinating tactical assessment of one zone of battle in Ukraine.

And an interesting end comment as to youtube suppressing accounts making information lile this available.

f800gecko, 18 days ago

@RememberUsAlways @palestine @israel

Including genocide?

f800gecko, 19 days ago

@DrALJONES

Some Jewish students: courageously (or even modestly, quietly) expressing opposition to the slaughter in Gaza.

Other Jewish students: on TV news ‘feeling unsafe’ because of the slaughter in Gaza.

As human a situation as any.

But there is a choice.

All the evidence is before us now.

There can be no pleading ignorance later.

#gaza

f800gecko, 19 days ago

@faab64 @Miro_Collas @palestine

Bearing in mind a lot of that censuring talk is really just for show. Not one oligarch has been meaningfully slowed (I’d be glad to learn of any who have) and I’ve just read the UK now deems Russian oil refined elsewhere not to be of Russian origin. The loopholes being for fascists everywhere are seemingly endless.

f800gecko, 19 days ago

@angiebaby @Miro_Collas @happymilk @palestine

I wonder if that’s how she also looks upon 30k+ slaughtered Palestinians…

It sounds like the Dems’ version of ‘crisis actors’.

f800gecko, 19 days ago

@faab64 @Miro_Collas @palestine

You’re correct it’s more complicated than I portrayed it; here’s a good summary of why I feel this way:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-ukraine-war-sanctions-effective-1.7126099

The story on the UK treatment of Russian oil refined outside Russia is in my boosts of today.

f800gecko, 19 days ago

@faab64 @Miro_Collas @palestine

Also, a ton of ‘seized’ oligarch money and other Russian assets—many billions—sits in limbo.

It could be properly confiscated and used to fund the Ukrainian war effort, but it appears to be easier to extract such sums from American taxpayers than from a banking system designed to be and remaining faithful to fascists.

f800gecko, 19 days ago

@radiofreearabia @Miro_Collas @palestine

I understand the anger, but "Shitreal" is not a helpful term. Israel and its millions of citizens (Jewish, Palestinian and other) are there and need to figure in a solution.

Sanctions can be useful, but the first priority in my view is honest and unimpaired news reportage.

Netanyahu and his fascist collaborators know truth is a huge risk & so have been targeting journalists and aid workers.

This represents a soft point we need to relentlessly pursue.

f800gecko, 18 days ago

@faab64 @Miro_Collas @palestine

I agree on the hypocrisy of the West; it is no more evident than in the enormous budget package just passed by the Senate.

I disagree it’s wrong to punish Putin and his criminal friends for their effort to destroy Ukraine.

Prigozhin, remember, was one of them until Putin had his airplane shot out of the sky for having turned against the regime with his slow motion putsch.

If you are ultra-wealthy in Russia, you are a thief either fully with Putin or dead.

f800gecko, 18 days ago

@faab64 @Miro_Collas @palestine

So, you’re friend to the man who, like Netanyahu:

1. Pursues a scorched earth ethnic cleansing policy on lands he considers his (see Georgia, Chechnya, Ukraine, etc).

2. Has political opponents beaten, jailed, tortured and murdered (see Yushchenko, Navalny, etc).

3. Targets journalists and cultural commentators for beatings and assassination (see Anna Politkovskaya, etc.—scores of them).

4. Has repressed just about every non-Russian Orthodox religion…

1/2

f800gecko, 18 days ago

@faab64 @Miro_Collas @palestine

…other than that of the Hasidic Jews of Russia, with whom, for some reason, he goes out of his way to be friendly.

5. Runs a bigger propaganda machine than Israel and helped install the US president who declared Jerusalem to be Israel’s.

6. Has doubtless been hard at work behind the scenes to the genocide in Gaza so as to further divide the American moderates who will decide if Trump returns.

Forgive me for wondering if you know what hypocrisy is.

2/2

f800gecko, 18 days ago

@Miro_Collas @faab64 @palestine

He was hand-picked by Yeltsin and he replaced those oligarchs he didn’t care for with friends at the first opportunity, but, yes, they helped put him there, and those who remain do so only at his pleasure if they wish to maintain their status.

f800gecko, 18 days ago

@faab64 @Miro_Collas @palestine

Bye, friend. Good luck with your campaign to gain support for Gaza.

f800gecko, 15 days ago

@paezha

Some other wag said it means being as stridently independent and self-reliant as a house cat with no idea where the food and comforts come from.