World Citizen Wire

Video:
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1722975333752692883?t=fSqxfN-sScAsWzm7hEFcuw&s=19

Lots of people incorrectly frame the israeli-palestine issue as a problem of the jewish religion vs the muslim religion.

First, many original founders of modern Israel were atheist ethnic Jews and ethnic cleansing for an ethnocratic state is primarily a political project.

Second, Palestinians are overwhelmingly driven by political grievances of decades of oppressive occupation, apartheid & ethnic cleansing; religion is of very distant secondary importance.

Thirdly, yes, Religion does play an important role in the 75+ year war ON Palestinians, but its not Judaism or Islam so much. The religion that is the problem is American Christian Zionism, huge backers of Zionist American politicians who give $260 billion+ for ethnic cleansing, occupation, apartheid & war on Palestine. Whats sickest about it is in their twisted theology they are only using Jews so that Jesus will come back for the End Times, or some such nonsense.

Great analysis on the US-NATO failure to "defeat Russia" from the Great French-Chinese citizen Arnaud Bertrand:

"This is arguably a bigger news than what's going on in Gaza (as horrifying as it is). In fact there's no understating how significant this is.

For the past 2 years we've had NATO countries send hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine, a quantity of weapons so enormous it depleted their own reserves, a vast undisclosed amount of mercenary soldiers, and threw everything but the kitchen sink in terms of sanctions to cripple Russia. The result? It simply didn't work, NATO is now suing for peace and Ukraine will probably end up having lost at least a fifth of its country, a territory half the size of the UK.

All this after having been told during almost the entire duration of the war that Ukraine was winning...

Of course people will be told that it's not a defeat, merely a "stalemate", that NATO comes out of it reinforced with additional members, that it's Ukraine or Zelensky's fault anyhow, blablabla...

But the crux of the matter is NATO defined an extremely clear objective - which was to "drive Russians back to pre-invasion lines" to directly quote Anthony Blinken - and that failed miserably despite their unprecedented efforts. Which means that the West is much less powerful than they thought they were, they just couldn't collectively defeat Russia.

This has immense implications. First of which being: if they can't defeat Russia, what hope do they have against China which is likely - just looking at metrics (number of people, production capacity, military budget, etc.) - at least 5 times more powerful? The answer is obvious.

Another one is that all those places around the world who thought they were protected by the US will start (in fact are already starting) asking themselves: "wait a minute... That protection isn't worth much, is it?" And so we'll likely witness very significant shifts of alliances and protection arrangements.

Lastly people in Western countries will at some point wake up from their propagandized haze and ask very simple questions like: why did we ruin ourselves for Ukraine with almost nothing to show for it? Wouldn't we and the Ukrainians have been better off if we'd respected Minsk 2 and if we hadn't tried to convert Ukraine into a Western bulwark against Russia? And so this will likely serve as a hard lesson domestically that we'd better be much more humble about our geopolitical ambitions (assuming the West still is capable of learning lessons, which is far from certain).

All in all, this will undoubtedly be seen by history as the defining event that signified we moved from Western hegemony into a multipolar world. A very long chapter of our collective world history book has just been closed.

U.S., European officials broach topic of peace negotiations with Ukraine, sources say The conversations have included very broad outlines of what Ukraine might need to give up to reach a deal with Russia.

Lecture on Israeli ethnic cleansing from superb Jewish Israeli historian Pappe on the same subject as his crucial book
https://youtu.be/buhpHTGAlTE?si=woFuI5ZgCaRYsPas

This point has been on the tip of my tongue for over a week. Thank this person for nailing it. Yes, compared to Israel, Russia has been soft af. Russia always had the capacity to level the US-installed govt in Kiev on Day 1 and they didnt. Western propaganda squawked about Russia committing genocide, but no serious body of evidence supports that charge. Unlike Israel, Russia has overwhelmingly killed soldiers.

Israel, on the other hand, is committing a Textbook Case of Genocide, according to serious genocide scholars. USA & Israel put Russia to shame when it comes to massacring populated civilian cities, from Gaza to Iraq to Vietnam and Korea to the nuclear attack of Hiroshima/Nagasaki. In fact, no other post-WW2 nation come close to the record of USA, and Israel appears joined at the hip with its Genocide World Leader & partner in war crimes. We should stop this redundant historical record. Lets jump off the insanity loop of wasting millions of lives & trillions of dollars on endless war, and the Apex Insanity of tempting nuclear war with Russia, China, or catastrophic war with Iran. We can stop war with Russia & China by examining the contextual grievances. Stop supporting US-sponsored Israeli genocide of Palestine. End war before it ends us.

War ...Its literally a dead end.
Try Justice & Peace instead.
Free Palestine & End U.S. Imperialism
-Abel Tomlinson, WCW Editor

"You see kids, Israel needs to keep dropping bombs on buildings full of children and targeting civilians with siege warfare and murdering Palestinians in the West Bank and censoring the media and arresting dissidents and killing journalists, because if it doesn’t, the bad guys will win.

No no you don’t understand: if Israel stops killing children by the thousands in its relentless bombing campaign, the nation could be taken over by murderous terrorists.

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Normal person: It’s wrong to kill children by the thousands by dropping military explosives on the places where they are known to be located.

Crazy person: Oh so you’re saying you love Hamas and you want them to kill every Jew in the world???

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Normal person: It’s wrong to drop bombs on buildings full of children and it needs to stop right now.

Crazy person: BUT A BAD THING HAPPENED TWO WEEKS AGO

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One of the dumbest things Israel apologists ask us to believe is this bizarre narrative that Hamas bears 100 percent of the responsibility for the children killed by Israeli bombs, and Israel bears zero percent of the responsibility. It’s just self-evidently moronic and nonsensical.

And the thing about this framing is there’s no upper limit on it. If Israel kills 10,000 children, Hamas killed 10,000 children. If Israel kills 100,000 children, then Hamas killed 100,000 children. If Israel exterminates all the Palestinians, then Hamas exterminated all the Palestinians.

It’s plainly absurd.

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Israel-Palestine is not complicated, it only looks complicated after you add in all the freakish mental contortions Israel’s apologists ask you to perform to make it look like its self-evidently indefensible abuses are justifiable.

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The thing about Israel apologists who say Israel needs to go scorched earth on Gaza or else there’ll be another Hamas attack is that, in the sense that they mean it, they’re correct. Because they have already ruled out the option of rolling back the many Israeli abuses which led to the rise of Hamas and the attack on October 7, it is a safe bet that if they agreed to a ceasefire right now and returned to the abusive status quo which provoked the attack it would only be a matter of time before Gazans launched another one. So, from within that framework, the only other option is to kill and kill and kill and destroy and destroy and destroy until Gaza can pose no further threat.

The problem, of course, is that their framework is bu****it. The obvious other option is to move toward peace and reconciliation and right all the wrongs which gave rise to the attack on October 7, which would mean a one-state or two-state solution that Palestinians are happy with instead of the status quo of apartheid and tyranny and ghettos and a giant concentration camp of profound human suffering. That would allow the possibility of a ceasefire without the need for continued Palestinian resistance.

But Israel is unwilling to do this because it would mean ceding a bunch of land or ending Israel’s existence as a Jewish ethnostate, so that option is framed as unthinkable nonsense instead of the glaringly obvious fix for this problem that it plainly is. Murdering children by the thousands and carpet bombing Gaza is seen as preferable to the measures that would be necessary to achieve a lasting peace.

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Officially Israel has three options:

1. Make huge compromises and right all wrongs so the Palestinian resistance has no further reason to exist,

2. Return to the status quo and accept that there will be more attacks in the future, or

3. Go scorched earth genocide on Gaza.

A hidden fourth option which nobody wants to talk about would be to address the uncomfortable fact that Israeli intelligence probably allowed the Hamas attack to happen. It seems highly unlikely that Hamas spent two years coordinating and openly training for an attack of unprecedented scale and sophistication involving motorboats, drones and motorized paragliders in an enclosed area the size of Philadelphia which also happens to be one of the most spied-on places on earth, and that the attack was carried out so successfully even Hamas was surprised at how many Israelis they were able to kill and capture because it went completely undetected by Israeli intelligence those entire two years despite being warned by Egyptian intelligence that an attack was coming, and despite the fact that US intelligence was aware of unusual activity by Hamas on October 6.

If Israel got real with itself and investigated and found that officials in Israeli intelligence kept operatives looking the other way to allow the October 7 attack to occur, then simply acknowledging this and taking steps to ensure that it never happens again would be enough to feel secure that Israel won’t suffer any more attacks of that scale, because Israeli intelligence can indeed prevent them from happening. The premise that Hamas needs to be eliminated to prevent such attacks would be proven false.

This is perhaps the least likely of all possible options, though, because the internal political fallout that would occur when the Israeli public learns their nation’s intelligence services sacrificed massive numbers of their own citizens to advance a pre-existing agenda would collapse the entire national order.

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Israel apologists are like, “All you goddamn anti-semitic terrorist lovers just don’t get it: if Israel doesn’t go full scorched earth and completely obliterate Hamas right now, what’s to stop another massive Hamas attack from being intentionally allowed to happen by Israeli intelligence?”

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Funny how empire simps spent the last seven years screaming the word “whataboutism” and saying it’s evil, and now their response to all criticisms of Israel is “what about what Hamas did” and “what about those other countries who do bad things”.

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Westerners who didn’t already know about Israel’s criminality have been learning that Israel

Routinely bombs hospitals, churches and mosques

Constantly lies and circulates disinformation

Is fine with killing children by the thousands

Sees Palestinians as sub-human

We’re fast approaching the point where the emotional heat of October 7 wears off and people start looking at Israel’s actions more rationally, after which point they’ll look over and just see Israel murdering children by the thousands and reducing Gaza to rubble for no legitimate reason.

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If Israel Stops Murdering Thousands Of Children, The Bad Guys Might Win Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): You see kids, Israel needs to keep dropping bombs on buildings full of children and targeting civilians with siege warfare and murdering Palestinians in the West Bank and censoring the media and a...

Experts hired by the British news station Channel 4 have found that the audio tape the Israeli government produced, purporting to show Israel's innocence over the Baptist Hospital bombing, was actually a fake.

Excellent thread of videos and photos of massive protests for Palestine in cities all over the world!
https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/1713546615993041055?t=E1ABTQmZqOmfUo1iZdyFtQ&s=19

This is who the Mighty U.S.-sponsored Israeli military must "defend" itself from with mass carpet bombings.

#اللهم_عجل_لولیک_الفرج. ياصاحب الزمان

I keep seeing this meme about caring for both sides...and yes, We should care about deaths on both sides, but also understand that the Root Cause of the conflict is very singular & one sided. The war is caused by 75 years of Israeli Ethnic Cleansing & the longest ILLEGAL military occupation in modern history. If we're Serious about Peace, we gotta recognize the Root Cause & dig the w**d up.

Genocidal U.S.-backed Israelis cut off all food & water to over 2 million trapped people, so hundreds of Egyptian heroes are carrying in large backpacks of food & water 💜
Video:
https://twitter.com/AndyLeeParker1/status/1712898103974810072?t=McB6i7roaWWInW7TwJ0Y3A&s=19

At least 40 people have been killed in an Israeli air strike that hit a truck evacuating people from their homes in northern Gaza.

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, 150 people were injured as well in the attack on the Salah al-Din Road which connects the north and south of the Gaza Strip.

The ministry said that 70 people, mostly women and children, had been killed in total by the Israelis in attacks on the road after they ordered residents of northern Gaza to leave their homes, while more than 200 have been injured.

Israel has given a hospital in northern Gaza two hours to leave as doctors were still treating patients, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said

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Live updates: https://pulse.ly/efrmiszofq

Video of a hand of a girl buried under tons of rubble from US-sponsored Israeli bombs. Can you imagine being trapped like this, with a high probability you will slowly die of thirst & starvation?
https://twitter.com/SRKian_OM/status/1712698911587176453?t=7pgjIHs58rVLXW464fLyEQ&s=19

Video Evidence Exhibit A, B, C, D, Etc:
https://twitter.com/ivan_8848/status/1393719603193434112?t=unTzgwrn_755jECoIXDglg&s=19

In this video, the President of Iran & anti-Zionist Jewish leaders warmly greet eachother.

The Central Problem is the politics of Zionist land theft, apartheid & ethnic cleansing, not religious war as Western propagandists would have us believe.
Video:
https://twitter.com/RabbiAmramBlau/status/1607768602245054466?t=sBiiy-IM2cuwko1e1aduBQ&s=19