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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 12h

WOW!

New Report: The US has paid $21.7 billion (!!) since Oct 7 to help fuel Israel's slaughter in Gaza!

@QuincyInst's @WilliamHartung in a new report co-published with @costofwar:

responsiblestatecraft.org/us-aid-israe...

$21.7 billion in US military aid has fueled Israel's war on Gaza

A new report shows how American support has been essential to what many experts are now calling a genocide

responsiblestatecraft.org

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 14h

.@GretaThunberg tells Swedish media that Israel subjected her and others on the flotilla to "extreme physical abuse and torture."

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/W0...

Gretas första ord på svensk mark: ”Utsattes för tortyr”

Det var tyst från Greta Thunberg på Arlanda. Men nu berättar hon om upplevelsen i det israeliska fängelset. – Extrema fysiska övergrepp och tortyr, säger hon.

www.aftonbladet.se

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 14h

Netanyahu is building a narrative that Israel starting war with Iran and dragging the US into it, is ultimately aimed at defending the US itself...

The man who pushed for the Iraq war now claims that Iran will soon pose a nuclear threat to Miami, NY, Boston etc...

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 1d

This is the famous interview Palme gave about the bombing of Hanoi in 1972: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGm4...

Olof Palme - Hanoi Speech 1972 (eng)

YouTube video by pachamadresita

www.youtube.com

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 1d

"I will never comprehend how humans can be so evil that you would deliberately starve millions of people living trapped under an illegal siege as a continuation of decades and decades of suffocation, oppression, apartheid, and occupation."

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 1d

This is what Greta Thunberg said as she arrived in Greece after being illegally detained by Israel. Fifty years ago, this speech would have been given by Sweden's Prime Minister Olof Palme.

Today, the Swedish government is effectively on the side of Israel's occupation and genocide.

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 2d

Plenty of interesting points were made in @AmitavAcharya, Heather Hurlburt, Richard Ponzio & my discussion about the future world order at @StimsonCenter.

Amitav's key point about why Global Civilization will survive the decline of the West was 🔥🔥🔥
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY2d...

Reimagining Global Order

YouTube video by Stimson Center

www.youtube.com

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 2d

This was Amsterdam today, an estimated 250,000 people protesting Israel's genocide in Gaza.

Israel is moving - seemingly deliberately - toward pariahhood at an unprecedented pace.

Blind "support" for Israel is ensuring this.

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 3d

Perhaps not a surprise that the talking points were first previewed on Bill Maher's show by Van Jones.

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 3d

A genocide of children conducted by Israel and defended by plenty of folks in the US, many of them on Israel's payroll.

Leaked documents have already shown that Israel's strategy to make the American public favor genocide is to triple down on spreading Islamophobia.

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 3d

Their pro-Israel censorship is not censorship at all, they will claim, but rather a counter to an imagined disinformation campaign run by Iran and Qatar (!!!) that causes these platforms to show what is actually happening in Gaza: >>

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 3d

Van Jones is giving us a preview of the campaign Bari Weiss and Oracle will run to justify their coming censorship of CNN, CBS News, and TikTok.

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 4d

"Greece and Cyprus extended a vital hand of support to Israel during its recent conflict with Iran. As an op-ed in Jerusalem Post aptly noted, “in moments of crisis, Israel’s strongest allies in the Eastern Mediterranean have stepped up—not only with words, but with action”
dayan.org/content/how-...

How the Twelve-Days War with Iran Tested the Strategic Alliance between Israel, Greece, and Cyprus

In our latest issue of Turkeyscope, Spyros Katsoulas explains how the triangular Israeli-Greek-Cyprus relationship survived the test of the 12 day war with Iran this past June, while noting that chall...

dayan.org

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 4d

The picture that emerges is not only that Pahlavi's perceived support among Iranians was manufactured and razor-thin, but also that he is a hapless stooge in Israel's machinations rather than a legitimate opposition leader with independent agency.

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 4d

Evidence exists that its bot army was informed of pending Israeli attacks and had prepared tweets in advance.

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 4d

But not only did Israel use bots to elevate Pahlavi and smear all voices critical of war and sanctions - Israel also used its bot army (unsuccessfully) during its war of aggression in June to help bring about regime collapse.

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 4d

We always knew that Israel played a key role in manipulating public opinion in the Iranian Diaspora through social media in favor of Reza Pahlavi during the Mahsa Amini protests.

@citizenlab and @Haaretz can now reveal what amounts to smoking gun evidence.

citizenlab.ca/2025/10/ai-e...

We Say You Want a Revolution: PRISONBREAK - An AI-Enabled Influence Operation Aimed at Overthrowing the Iranian Regime - The Citizen Lab

We investigate a coordinated network of inauthentic X accounts that is spreading AI-generated content to induce revolt in Iran. The network has been active since 2023, but increased activity during th...

citizenlab.ca

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 4d

Trump just tweeted that "Israel must immediately stop the bombing of Gaza."

In the past, Trump has demonstrated the ability to press Netanyahu into getting what he wants.

What he hasn't shown yet is the ability to SUSTAIN that pressure.

Trump must show that now.

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 4d

The fear is gone! Supporters of Israel's genocide are increasingly failing to intimidate people into silence.

Here's football legend Pep Guardiola calling on the people of Barcelona to flood the streets tomorrow at noon to demand an end to the genocide.

Expect a sea of people!

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 4d

HOLY SMOKES!

Over 2 million people across Italy marched against Israel's genocide in Gaza!

The more Israel kills, slaughters, and genocides, the more it loses.

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 4d

MUST READ! @nick_clevelands broke the story on how Israel pays social media influencers $7,000 per pro-Israel post.

He now reveals that the paid influencers are violating US law if they do not register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influ...

Who are the 'influencers' Israel is paying $7k per post?

We actually don't know and that's likely illegal

responsiblestatecraft.org

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 5d

I had a fantastic conversation with @thantmyintu about his new book about his grandfather. The book - Peacemaker: U Thant and the Forgotten Quest for a Just World - is a fantastic read and reveals the key role U Thant played in resolving the Cuban Missile Crisis.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYXx...

Book Talk | Peacemaker: U Thant and the Forgotten Quest for a Just World

YouTube video by Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

www.youtube.com

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 5d

I have to admit: That the noble Italian people would be on the frontlines of preventing Israel's genocide in Gaza - putting much of Northern Europe to shame - was not on my bingo card.

Rome is rising once more, but now as a moral superpower.

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 5d

In these dark, genocidal times, this little goalkeeper will bring many smiles to your face.

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 5d

Much of the world will soon become inaccessible to Israelis who partook in the Gaza genocide.

Here's law expert Chris Sidoti, arguing that IDF soldiers who had “any involvement" in Gaza should be treated as “suspects" - investigated and prosecuted - if they come to Australia.

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