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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · Aug 18

‘The people we have been starving were already quite ill’ is an admission of guilt not a defense.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Aug 18

beyond the moral ghoulish ness I just don't understand the basic contention of how this is supposed to work as a defense. if a whole population of people was starving en masse, would one expect people with "pre-existing conditions" to be over or underrepresented amongst those who die first?

David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · Aug 18

‘The people we have been starving were already quite ill’ is an admission of guilt not a defense.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Aug 17

The former head of Israel's military intelligence just praised the deaths of innocents as "necessary...as a message for future generations." If we do nothing, we will have to tell our children that we stood idly by as millions of people were sent to their graves.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Ex-Israeli intelligence chief said 50 Palestinians must die for every 7 October victim

‘It does not matter if they are children,’ said Aharon Haliva in recorded comments calling the death toll ‘necessary’

www.theguardian.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jul 28

Journalists covering the aid air drops say they have been warned by Israel not to film Gaza from the air or the air drops will stop. (Do they not want us to see the scale of the damage?)

“International journalists have not been allowed inside Gaza.”

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · Aug 1

A retired U.S. soldier who worked at Gaza aid delivery sites said, “What I witnessed in Gaza, I can only describe as a dystopian, post-apocalyptic wasteland. We, the United States, are complicit. We are involved, hand in hand, in the atrocities and the genocide that is currently undergoing in Gaza.”

Fmr. Green Beret Who Worked at Gaza Food Sites Reveals Rampant War Crimes

YouTube video by Democracy Now!

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Jul 31

This clip...I have no words.

Gaza Humanitarian Fund whistleblower Anthony Aguilar describes ordering pizzas for their site while Palestinians starve.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · Jul 28

National security report in the Netherlands has, for the first time, identified Israel as a foreign threat, citing alleged disinformation campaigns and attempts to influence Dutch politics

www.ynetnews.com/article/skk2...

Dutch intelligence flags Israel as foreign influence threat

National security report in the Netherlands has, for the first time, identified Israel as a foreign threat, citing alleged disinformation campaigns and attempts to influence Dutch politics; The assess...

www.ynetnews.com

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · Jul 27

It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Jun 27

"Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites..."

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid

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www.haaretz.com

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Peetar Pun 🇩🇪🌻 @liposolublevitamin.bsky.social · Jun 25

Americans' fear of #socialism is the greatest proof that if you want to destroy a country, all you have to do is destroy its education system.

Then just sit back and watch the uneducated jerks destroy everything in a domino effect.

#Mamdani has supporters all over Europe, yeah, he's that good! 💚

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · Jun 25

Children in Gaza dying of thirst after trucks carrying water blocked - UNICEF

Children in Gaza are dying of thirst, says UNICEF

UNICEF has warned that while the world's attention is focused elsewhere, the situation in Gaza is "at the worst it has ever been" with the Palestinian territory hitting "rock bottom".

www.rte.ie

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · Jun 24

In addition to its expanding violence throughout the entire region, the Israeli military is still slaughtering Palestinians in Gaza — and it's counting on all of us to be too distracted to pay attention. We refuse to look away.

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · Jun 23

Dear AUS PM @albomp.bsky.social
cc @senatorwong.bsky.social
Reasons I won't vote (and will actively campaign against) Labor:
• support for US bombing Iran
• supporting Israel's #GazaGenocide
• pro-fossil fuels
• pro-gambling
• anti-environment
• failure to protect Indigenous sites 😢 #auspol

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · Jun 23

Nearly two million Palestinians, now forced into just 18% of the Gaza Strip, are enduring overcrowding, disease outbreaks and severe distress

Growing hardship especially for women and girls.
@nirhasson.bsky.social

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

As living space in Gaza shrinks, remaining pockets endure hellish conditions

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www.haaretz.com

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · Jun 23

The UN, international rules based order is pretty much done. And Australia’s govt said not a word of compliant.

Might is right.

Albanese has not grasped that China, North Korea, Russia and anyone else can now claim the precedent of the Iran Bombing as justification for “pre-emptive” attacks.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · Jun 22

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · Jun 22

"The ease with which Israel was able to cut off virtually all movement in and out of Palestinian towns and cities, thanks to an apparatus of control that includes nearly 900 checkpoints and gates, highlights the extent of the occupation’s footprint in the West Bank."

www.972mag.com/west-bank-lo...

With Iran war as pretext, Israel suffocates the West Bank

After striking Tehran, the army closed hundreds of gates to seal Palestinians inside towns and strand them on roads — proof of annexation in all but name.

www.972mag.com

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · Jun 22

Penny Wong, 2003: "I say suspicion is not enough. To justify going to war we need more than suspicion. What sort of world would we live in if suspicion alone was justification for participation in unilateral military action outside the auspices of the UN? "

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Farid Anvari @faridanvari.bsky.social · Jun 23

Didn’t they all invade Iraq for reasons that didn’t hold up to the mildest scrutiny?

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Alisru @alisru.bsky.social · Jun 23

www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/23/i...
So we were involved in this US-Iran strike, why bother dancing around the bush when all other countries have confirmed their lack of involvement
A lack of no just means 'yes, and you'll be upset if you knew the details'
#auspol

What was Australia's role in Trump's attack on Iran? You're not allowed to know

Other US allies are being transparent with their people about any role their nation played in the attack on Iran. But from Australia's leaders? Crickets.

www.crikey.com.au

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · Jun 22

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · Jun 20

A new justification for the war on Iran dropped today from the IDF: that Iran was aiming to produce 10k ballistic missiles "by the end of the decade".
This only casts further doubts on the claim that Iran has been building nuclear weapons.

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IDF Hannibal Brigade @hannibalbrigade.biz · Jun 19

In 2025 alone, Israel has bombed:
- Gaza
- Syria
- Lebanon
- Yemen
- The aid boat “Conscience” in international waters near Malta
- Iran

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · Jun 18

They learned lessons from Iraq. These lessons were:

- Don’t seek public consent
- Enforce your version of events
- Enforce it via media panics and physically by police, if required
- Never admit an error, let alone anything worse
- Instantly forget what you did: if possible, never refer to it again

Abi Wilkinson @AbiWilks
It's absolutely not 2003 again. They're going through the motions as a sort of ritual, but nobody in power gives a single fuck about securing public consent
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Abi Wilkinson @AbiWilks • 52m
The main message of the current era is "nothing you can say or do makes a difference, so you might as well just give up and accept it"
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I think this is a lot of why Brexit has become so symbolically important, and specifically reducing immigration as a sign of whether politicians are respecting the popular mandate.
It goes beyond anti-immigration sentiment for its own sake, which is obviously also v existent

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onion person @junlper.beer · Jun 17

does it ever disturb anyone how willing our governments are to drop bombs and murder indiscriminately

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