Palestine

I would really like it if Chris Smalls ran for political office.

DRAFT CHRIS SMALLS 2026/2028

Trump's MAGA base defies conservative pro-Israel doctrine - US AFP News (2025-07-30)

https://us.afpnews.com/article/?trumps-maga-base-defies-conservative-proisrael-doctrine,688Q364
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>> Political scientist and former US diplomat Michael Montgomery thinks the tonal shift might in part be emotional -- with TV images of starving children resonating more profoundly than the aftermath of air strikes.

>> "Perhaps it is because no civilized people see starvation as a legitimate weapon of war," the University of Michigan-Dearborn professor told AFP.

>> Israel has always enjoyed broad bipartisan support in Congress but the rise of the isolationist MAGA movement under Trump has challenged the ideological foundations ...

>> Pro-Trump think tank The Heritage Foundation in March called on Washington to "re-orient its relationship with Israel" from a special relationship "to an equal strategic partnership."

#USPol #MTG
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No info was posted if the tent was occupied at the time. No casualties were mentioned. So the tent was likely empty.

It does however show how Palestinians now have to look out for not getting killed by literal food while they are in their tents.

Mile after mile of grey rubble - the view from a plane dropping aid to Gaza (Sally Lockwood | Sky News, 2025-07-28)

https://news.sky.com/story/mile-after-mile-of-grey-rubble-the-view-from-a-plane-dropping-aid-to-gaza-13403242
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>> Sky News goes on board a Royal Jordanian Air Force plane for one of the first aid drop flights since Israel announced they could resume.

>> As land approaches, I look down. The ground is modern and built up - we're still over southern Israel.

>> Then a few short minutes later, it's clear we've crossed Gaza's border.

>> The ground turns grey, the shapes of buildings disappear, there are no cars, no people.

>> You can see the outline of communities and villages that are now flattened…

>> And Monday's flight came with strict media conditions.

>> We were told the Israeli side had warned that any shots of Gaza filmed from the air could result in these aid flights being cancelled.

>> But Israel's tight grip has not stopped the images from Gaza getting out …

#StopGenocide #ConfessionOfCrime
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GetUp! - ✊ Australia can no longer look away

https://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/palestine/australia-can-no-longer-look-away/australia-can-no-longer-look-away
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via Caitlin’s Newsletter https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/my-letter-to-australian-mp-mark-dreyfus
“Australians can use this form from GetUp to urge their local MPs to take action on Gaza.”

>> Prime Minister Anthony Albanese admitted that Israel's actions are "indefensible" and in breach of international law.5

>> He's right — but words aren't enough. It's time for Australia to take real action …

#Australia #StopGenocide #CaitlinJohnstone
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A court in Israel has released to house arrest an Israeli settler accused of fatally shooting a Palestinian activist in the occupied West Bank.

The suspect, identified as Yinon Levi, was placed under house arrest on Tuesday after a Magistrate Court in Jerusalem declined to keep him in custody.

Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Levi faced charges of manslaughter and unlawful firearm use in connection with the killing of 31-year-old Palestinian activist and English teacher Awdah Hathaleen, who was shot dead on Monday night in the village of Umm al-Kheir, south of Hebron.

Hathaleen was well known for his activism, including helping the creators of the Oscar-winning film No Other Land, which documents Israeli settler and soldier attacks on the Palestinian community of Masafer Yatta.

We've just uncovered hundreds of shipments of weapons from Canada to Israel | Report - Arms Embargo Now (2025-07-29)

https://armsembargonow.ca/report/
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>> Canada’s secret arms trade with Israel, exposed: This hard-hitting report exposes the damning data—hundreds of shipments, hundreds of thousands of bullets—and the Canadian government’s web of lies that has been concealing its role in arming genocide in Gaza.

#StopArmingIsrael #Canada
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US government under guide of ADL pressured #TikTok to hire ex-IDF instructor Erica Mindel to combat “anti-semitism” on TikTok. She’ll be making up to $300k base salary to censor free speech on this platform. This is why Trump signed executive order to unban tiktok.

All those "China China spying" was just a show. The real problem was anti-zionist contents.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33856702

As the world watches Gaza starve, Republicans in Congress quietly advanced a new ban on funding a United Nations agency that delivers food aid to Palestinians.

The GOP-dominated House Appropriations Committee last week voted to bar financial support for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East, long the main hub of aid distribution in Gaza. If passed by Congress, the ban would reinforce a financial blockade on UNRWA that began last year as Israel subjected the agency to an intense pressure campaign.

Congress first banned funding for UNRWA in March 2024 as Israel pushed allegations that the agency’s employees were involved in the October 7, 2023, attacks. Democratic President Joe Biden had already paused funding for the agency.

The $46 billion bill would slash funding for many foreign aid programs and ban funding for UNRWA, while handing Israel $3.3 billion to buy more American arms.

Peter Beaumont
July 29, 2025 10:57 EDT

Never again has turned into never mind.

Disgusting hypocrisy of the world ignoring Israeli made famine in Gaza and refusal to call an end to the immoral and illegal genocide in Gaza.

All of a sudden celebrities are posting "let in the aid" while ignoring who is behind it and call for an end of occupation. This is "all eyes on Rafah" all over again.

A stupid riding the popular trend by ignoring the 21 months of Israeli/American genocide.
#Hypocrisy
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Only in Israel you can murder someone on camera and go home. In any other country these so called "settlers" would be rightfully labelled "terrorists".

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غزة: “أبدًا مرة أخرى” هي الآن - نداء يائس للتدخل العسكري

https://farid.ps/articles/gaza/_never/_again/_is/_now/ar.html

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#Palestine #Gaza

Polymath vs. LLM: How Facts and Logic Broke the AI Narrative

https://farid.ps/articles/polymath/_vs/_llm

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Activist [Awdah Hathaleen*] Who Helped Film “No Other Land” Shot and Killed by Israeli Settler | Truthout (2025-07-28)

https://truthout.org/articles/activist-who-helped-film-no-other-land-shot-and-killed-by-israeli-settler/
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*) His name romanized also “Odeh Hadalin”; in Arabic عودة هدالين.

>> “... My dear friend Awdah was slaughtered this evening. He was standing in front of the community center in his village when a settler fired a bullet that pierced his chest and took his life. This is how Israel erases us — one life at a time,” said Basel Adra, activist and Palestinian co-director of #NoOtherLand.

>> [Israeli co-filmmaker Yuval] Abraham said that local residents identified Hathaleen’s killer as Yinon Levi, who lives in an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied #WestBank. Levi was sanctioned … under the Biden administration in April 2024, ...

>> President Donald Trump lifted the U.S. sanction on Levi and other Israeli settlers and settler groups on his first day in office this January.

#EndOccupation #StopIsrael #USPol
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Israel’s top human rights group B’Tselem has finally declared that Israel is committing genocide, as has the Israel-based Physicians for Human Rights. The Israeli organizations join Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, UN human rights experts, and the overwhelming majority of leading authorities on the subject of genocide in their conclusion.

The debate is over. The Israel apologists lost. And we are seeing this reflected in mainstream discourse. Pop megastar Ariana Grande has started speaking out in support of Gaza, telling her social media followers that “starving people to death is a red line.” This is a new threshold. Opposing Israel’s genocide is now the most mainstream as it has ever been.

We’re now seeing notoriously Zionist swamp monsters in the Democratic Party like Barack Obama, Hakeem Jeffries, Cory Booker and Amy Klobuchar changing their tune and attacking Netanyahu and Trump for their joint genocide project in Gaza, with increasingly forceful pushback from some on the right like Marjorie Taylor Greene as well.

As western pundits, politicians and celebrities suddenly pivot to denouncing Israel’s genocidal atrocities after two years of silence, it’s hard to believe that just a few weeks ago we were being told that saying “death to the IDF” is a hate crime.

People who’ve been staring at this genocide from the beginning have been asking the entire time, what is it going to take? What will it take for our society to stop sleepwalking through inane trivialities and vapid distractions and start opposing the holocaust of our day?

• Raining military explosives on a giant concentration camp packed full of children wasn’t enough.

• Burning children alive wasn’t enough.

• Systematically destroying Gaza’s entire healthcare infrastructure — up to and including entering hospitals they’ve attacked and destroying individual pieces of medical equipment one by one — wasn’t enough.

• Killing more journalists than were killed in both World Wars plus the US Civil War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Yugoslav Wars, the War in Afghanistan, and the ongoing war in Ukraine wasn’t enough.

• The systemic rape and torture of prisoners wasn’t enough.

I’m glad people are waking up to the cruel reality of this nightmare. I’m grateful to each and every influential voice who uses their platform to speak out, even at this late date. I truly am.

But I also think we need to take a very hard, very uncomfortable look at ourselves as a society right now. If all those monstrous abuses were tolerable for us over these last two years, there’s something deeply and profoundly sick about our civilization.

The way things are clearly isn’t working. The mainstream worldview is clearly a lie. Everything we’ve been taught to believe about our society, our nation, our government and our world was clearly false.

We need to fight our way through the cognitive dissonance of recognizing that our entire way of looking at things as a collective has failed, and we need to find a new way of being.

Otherwise we’re going to keep being smashed in the face with increasingly horrifying reminders of what we have allowed ourselves to become.

The lessons will repeat until they are learned.

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