Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 7h

I'm not a young person. I'm nearly a decade past retirement. I don't have a Tik Tok account but I am old enough to know you can no longer hide a genocide, and that Israel has lost the war, and with its inability to recognize the human rights of Palestinians, it has lost the world.

mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 7h

For 2 years media has documented the IDF gave "wrong" information to those seeking safety, and deliberately attacked hospitals, refugee camps, schools and aid centers -- all illegal targets. Israel continued to do this to civilians right up until this week.

www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...

In one month, Israeli fire killed over 130 people in 'safe zones' designated by the IDF

Despite Designating Some Refugee Camps in Central Gaza as 'Safe Zones' for Residents Evacuating Gaza City, the IDF Has Continued Attacking Them on an Almost Daily Basis, Killing at Least 130 People

www.haaretz.com

1

mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 7h

This is a real genocide and Israel is committing it. Anyone can easily do a google search and find the many websites that display 2 yeaers worth of openly expressed statements of intent by Israeli officials and soldiers.

You can learn or keep lying to yourself. Others no longer believe Israel.

1 1

mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 7h

What the emir told Trump Israel is doing fits the definition of genocide.

mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 7h

So it has nothing to do with numbers, so quite posting that misleading information.

1

mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 7h

Israel is being made to leave most of Gaza and allow entry of food and medicine. Hamas hasn't gone anywhere. And here is what the emir of Qatar told Donald Trump about Gaza:
bsky.app/profile/mska...

mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 22h

How Trump learned it was genocide:

"Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, told Trump Israel’s real objective was “to destroy Gaza, to render housing, livelihoods, education, and medical care impossible, stripping away the very foundations of human life”.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Trump is like a juggernaut’: how the Gaza ceasefire deal was done

Sidelines chat at UN was turning point for US president, but others also have right to claim role in end of two-year war

www.theguardian.com

1

mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 7h

You don't unerstand what the definition of genocide is, or you are a propagandist who is pretending you don't know.

The definiton is not hard to find online. Would you please post it so everyone can see that you understand what it says?

4 1

mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 7h

Do you live in Isreal? How many of the 2 milliion people of Gaza did you see on the news today?

Hamas and external Arab leaders only agreed to release the hostages with a guarantee that Israel no longer block food and medicine. Why?

1

mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 7h

It doesn't bother me. What bothers you?

1

mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 7h

Most people don't realize that most of this destruction was done with US weapons during the Biden Administration. By the time the first formal ceasefire was implemented, 3 days before Biden left office, 69% of Gaza's infrastructure had been destroyed.

samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 2d

The level of destruction and erasure in the Gaza Strip is simply incredible. North Gaza, before and after:

2 5

mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 7h

This is an important point. Israel for years has dragged innocent people into prison without charges as an "insurance policy" for hostage negotiations, just so they can swap hundreds of people for each Israeli returned but not release political prisoners who could be elected leaders in Palestine.

Toxidrone @toxidrone.bsky.social · 7h

And for the record, every hostage that Israel is holding also has a story. We just don't know most of them. Israel itself admits that the 1500 hostages they are releasing who were taken prisoner after Oct 7 had nothing to do with it. They are prisoners to use in bargaining. Hostages.

1 6

mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 7h

No they are not unless you are breaking news here. Israel has blocked them -- along with medicine and food -- since Oct 2023

1 1

mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 7h

Yes, it does matter. Most people have never heard the voices of Palestinians themselves. The big media companies interview doctors and Arab journalists, but it means something to be on the ground talking to residents directly. And a lot of Westerners don't believe Arab reporters.

1

mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 7h

What excuse do journalists now have for not going in? There will be air trucks, fishing boats, and presumably Tony Blair's limo. Hitch a ride.

Reposted

Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 19h

So what excuse does Israel now have for not letting foreign journalists into Gaza?

20 150 510

mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 8h

When Donald Trump was asked about starvation in Gaza he said the pictures showed it, and that "you can't fake that".

Part of the ceasefire deal is to immediately allow hundreds of trucks of aid into Gaza and to end the GHF distributon. Do you know what I'm talking about?

2

mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 8h

Do you live in Israel?

How many of the 2 million people in Gaza did you see on TV today? When you and your children (if you have them) are ill, do you go to parties?

What would you do differently if you believed Israel was committing genocide?

Can you post the legal definition of genocide?

1

mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 8h

I did already. I never block anybody but cant blame anyboy of wearying ot this guy's lunatic hectoring.

1 1

mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 10h

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/05/w...

Gazans Fear Neither Candidate in U.S. Election Will Help Them

www.nytimes.com

1 2

mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 10h

Many uninformed Harris dead enders lie about Palestinians because exploiting Palestinian suffering is the entirety of their politics. Most can't tell the difference between the truth and a lie to begin with.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/05/w...

Gazans Fear Neither Candidate in U.S. Election Will Help Them

www.nytimes.com

mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 10h

Rima Swaisi, from Gaza City: “If we have to choose between the 2 devils, then anyone but Trump,”
But some said the election did not present Palestinians with a less bad option. Hanin Ashour, 33, said
she is so disgusted by U.S. policies she will not even uss US humanitarian aid.

1

mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 10h

NYT Nov 2024, interviews in Gaza

“I am fearful that both candidates are for the same thing, which is no end in sight for the war in Gaza,” said Abdul Kareem al-Kahlout, 35, a math teacher in Deir al Balah."

“I have no preference,” said Mohammed Owaida, 33, who is from Khan Younis.

1

Reposted

Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 14h

A Palestinian man records a group of puppies in the besieged north of Gaza after he returns back to his home. He says, “life is returning to north Gaza”

1 13 38

Reposted

Farhad ☮️🆓🇵🇸 @faab64.bsky.social · 14h

A child from Gaza dances joyfully with his cat after the ceasefire announcement, hoping to return home to the north, where thousands of Palestinians remain uncertain if their homes still stand.

1

mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 14h

Someday Everybody
Will Have Always Been Against
Ending The Genocide Sooner
Than Harris Ever Would Have

1 1