You don’t get it.
It’s not about an UNRWA teacher who held an Israeli kid hostage in his house.
It’s all about how for 75 years you have destroyed the future of generations of Palestinians, including my family.
My cousins in Arab countries are still not citizens - not even the… https://t.co/nv6anubGhc
Dear Mohamed, nobody should go through this.
If not for @UNRWA, you’d be taken care of by the real refugees agency @Refugees and you’d no longer be a refugee.
I pray that one day you and your loved ones will be able to live together as an integral part of your societies.
In final analysis UN should be held accountable.
UNRWA is mandated by the UN General Assembly.
US$ 1.6 billion in 2022 is enough to have free breakfast and build weapons and to create billionaire leaders.
almost all #unrwa workers are of locals Gazan appointed by Hamas.
Almost all #unrwa-s 1B$/year budget is form the west. But it is almost fully captured by Hamas (jobs, taxes, corruption), with little to no supervision from the paying countrieshttps://t.co/CDwlKfpJMC
I still own a UN issued ID but when I turned 16 requested and was granted citizenship. Needless to say, my children and grandchildren are not refugees.
Only Palestinians keep that status, and UNRWA salaries and power.
The War of Return (https://t.co/h5HQuCb57U) is an excellent book detailing how the Palestinian refugee problem was purposefully inflated and how #UNRWA aggravates the problem (as opposed to UNHCR, which successfully helps literally all other refugees except Palestinians).
I think shutting down UNRWA would be a significant step closer to peace. It’s ridiculous that Palestinian refugees were and have been treated differently from other refugees in the world for generations in perpetuity. It guarantees a never ending conflict.
I think that Israel must condition any peace agreement in the Gaza Strip on the dismantling of UNRWA, in order to finally get the Palestinians out of the refugee situation that it is trying to perpetuate for them
“‘When he arrived in Gaza, civilians hit him’…the boy and other kidnapped children were forced to watch videos of the atrocities committed on Oct. 7. When he and others cried, she said, their captors threatened to shoot them.” https://t.co/d1eImxg9s1
Edit to add, just in case you never really *got* the meaning of "never again"; it meant no longer lambs to the slaughter, that they are going to fight back and furthermore do so ferociously, and give a damn what anyone else thinks. You were expecting nicey-nice? Those who did so are fools!
For those of who know the horrors of the Holocaust, the idea that these Jewish adults & children went through such horrors again - & as with the Nazis, too often at the hands of “civilians” — is a heart rending failure. How could we let this happen again? https://t.co/PVV2AsEpEn
I see dazed women hostages with one dazed male hostage,and a pair of Red Cross, male and female, being subjected to an uncivilized frightening & real noisy large chanting crowd of men & boys, no women, civilized or not. The disgusting base testosterone ELEPHANT again:
Palestinian civilians in Gaza continue to try their hardest to scare Israeli hostages as they are being transported out of the Gaza Strip.
^ as a female, I would want those in that crowd responsible for: NOTHING, absolutely nothing.Hard to see them redeemable for human civilization purposes.
In my latest for @TheAtlantic I explain how the next phase of this vicious conflict will almost certainly lead Israel to an unenviable dilemma: whether to grant Hamas a small and ultimately hollow victory or a much larger and all-too-real one. https://t.co/dLSn8jgLns
This thread is a far far better description of *The Video* than the one I posted on the older thread, this guy is a real pro really at describing visuals; HIGHLY recommended:
I just watched the roughly 45-minute footage of October 7th at a private screening in NYC. Here are my immediate thoughts minutes after watching it.
Many scenes of burned bodies. Bodies frozen in awkward positions in vehicles, on the highways, in their homes and burned to ashy skeletons. It gave me memories of visiting concentration camps of Dachau and seeing the photos of the holocaust.
I've seen my share of evil firsthand around the world in wars of the Middle East/Ukraine/etc. I've seen heinous cruelty/dehumanization/mutilations. I've looked evil men in the eye. But I've never seen so many evil men (hundreds, thousands) show such joy in committing their acts.
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Fathi Hammad, leader of Hamas, screams in rage that Hamas will never allow peace with Jews, according to him the only thing they will offer the Jews is beheading with a sword, as he demonstrates with his hand.
What to know about the elusive Hamas military commander behind the attack on Israel: Known as "the guest" for his habit of staying in a different house each night to evade Israeli attacks, Mohammed Deif, leader of Hamas' military wing, remains an… https://t.co/25wa0uJgnqpic.twitter.com/UbHb3dBiDw
CNN producer Ibrahim Dahman recently escaped to Egypt with his young family, but yesterday he learned at least nine of his relatives trapped in northern Gaza had been killed in a strike on his aunt’s house. His childhood home in Gaza City was obliterated in a separate strike on…
You can research the names and stories of the victims of Zikim beach and the other massacres, which have been diligently collected here: https://t.co/PuwRdTIa83.
May their memories be a blessing, and may they rest in peace.
This is dirty. A Hamas fanatic edited this video to warp a little survivor's words and imply she learned to be kind from Hamas when she was actually learning from "they" meaning the other hostages. Videos saying something outlandish need to be treated with immense skepticism. https://t.co/Jees2zL6ONpic.twitter.com/vRF2pNvco7
Did the Arab community denounce these atrocities? Did they send aid? How much clamor was there at the UN?
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Dit is “20 Days in Mariupol”.
De onvoorstelbaar wrede en bloederige… pic.twitter.com/eGUSexjrvV
The plight of those taken to Russia without their families’ consent has received comparatively little attention
Gillian Tett SEPTEMBER 13 2023
...Lubinets said he has records of almost 20,000 such deportations. He added, however, that Russia’s children’s rights commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, has proudly claimed “several times” that there are 700,000 Ukrainian children in Russia. (In March.
...
In Kyiv, I met the bestselling French novelist Marc Levy, whose new novel La Symphonie des monstres recounts the tale of a nine-year-old boy called Valentyn, who is deported, and his frantic mother. Although the character is fictional, he is a composite based on true stories. Levy decided to write the book (which is mesmerising) because the deportee issue cuts deeply for him. He lost his grandparents in Auschwitz, and his Jewish father was deported during the second world war. “I can’t imagine losing my own children like this. I don’t know how I would survive,” he told me.
He had another motive: Levy is deeply frustrated by how little attention the issue of child deportations is receiving, as were many others I spoke to in Kyiv. “The [French] television is pro-Ukrainian and speaks day and night about tanks and satellites and drones and the front, but [not] the children,” said Patrick Desbois, a Catholic priest involved in the campaign to change this. Desbois, whose grandfather was also deported in wartime, runs a Holocaust memorial group that has searched for other displaced youth, such as the Yazidi children taken by Isis nearly a decade ago. As he pointed out, little attention was given to them initially.
There is now a race against time for deported Ukrainian children. Since they are often adopted after a few months in Russia and, as Lubinets observed, “in the documents the Russians often change everything, like name and date of birth and place of birth”, it will become increasingly hard to find them as time passes.
Lubinets complained bitterly about what he sees as the inaction of the UN and International Committee of the Red Cross, among other groups. Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, a former European parliamentarian involved in children’s issues told me: “The UN is useless because Russia is on the security council and blocking everything.”
In this void, private charities and the Ukrainian government are using any avenue they can to track and retrieve children. Precise tactics are closely guarded, but include hacking the Russian internet to search for records, sending letters to Russian bureaucrats, calling sympathetic Russian citizens and dispatching mediators (and parents themselves) to Russia to argue their case.
Andriy Yermak, head of the presidential office in Kyiv, spoke about seeking help from third parties such as Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Roman Abramovich, the Russian oligarch, to try to broker a deal to repatriate Ukrainian children.
Sometimes this works. But the truth is that only about 400 children have returned so far — and this is unlikely to rise rapidly without new inducements or pressure on Russia, be that bribes or a fear of sanctions for lower-level officials. “The practical question is what can we give Russia to get the children back?” asked Desbois...
It boggles my mind why there is not more universal outrage. Death from bombing has become routine 'collateral damage' to many, but stealing children is still the basic stuff of nightmares.
Of course not, it's a disagreement between whypipple about borders, and furthermore Zelensky is Jewish and a supporter of the evil hegemon Israel. Basically fascists vs. fascists; why should they care?
p.s. you should be at the social workers teach-in tomorrow, they would no doubt splain it all to you why Hamas' struggle on behalf of the Palestinian cause is the most important issue as to the world order. Get the Palestinians in charge from the river to the sea-intifada forever-and everything else will fall into place. You will start to see how bin Laden was right and how 9/11 deaths were necessary collateral damage. (Don't worry about Islamic fundamentalist attitude towards non-male beings, that will all be straightened out later after the revolution.)
BTW birthrate has dropped down to 2.7, though annual decrease has slowed the past 5 years. Still, heading towards the rest of the civilized world in at least that regard.
Left out E-choli. A bit distraught to see harp music tied to the Bunnymen - then again, "Killing Moon" prolly fits the Illuminati rung as well. And always wearing shades...
The BBC has seen and heard evidence of rape, sexual violence and mutilation of women during the 7 October Hamas attacks.
WARNING: CONTAINS EXTREMELY GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND RAPE
Several people involved in collecting and identifying the bodies of those killed in the attack told us they had seen multiple signs of sexual assault, including broken pelvises, bruises, cuts and tears, and that the victims ranged from children and teenagers to pensioners.
Video testimony of an eyewitness at the Nova music festival, shown to journalists by Israeli police, detailed the gang rape, mutilation and execution of one victim.
Videos of naked and bloodied women filmed by Hamas on the day of the attack, and photographs of bodies taken at the sites afterwards, suggest that women were sexually targeted by their attackers.
Few victims are thought to have survived to tell their own stories.
Their last moments are being pieced together from survivors, body-collectors, morgue staff and footage from the attack sites.
Police have privately shown journalists a single horrific testimony that they filmed of a woman who was at the Nova festival site during the attack.
She describes seeing Hamas fighters gang rape a woman and mutilate her, before the last of her attackers shot her in the head as he continued to rape her.
In the video, the woman known as Witness S mimes the attackers picking up and passing the victim from one to another.
"She was alive," the witness says. "She was bleeding from her back."
She goes on to detail how the men cut off parts of the victim's body during the assault.
"They sliced her breast and threw it on the street," she says. "They were playing with it."
The victim was passed to another man in uniform, she continues.
"He penetrated her, and shot her in the head before he finished. He didn't even pick up his pants; he shoots and ejaculates."[....]
Amit is a normal person just like you. She has three cats, enjoys rock music, and plays tennis in her free time. Amit's favorite TV show is “The Sopranos”.
The other hostages are also normal people like you, snatched from their homes or going about their normal day. pic.twitter.com/nwS6ocIQkX
If you don't see Hamas waging war against 'the west" and "western values (much more than Putin is, for one example) you're missing the real point. It's not just about Palestinians; there's a reason the Iranian mullans support them.
Hayder Alasadi @Sumerian2022: Founder CEO of the Iraqi-Israeli Association of Peace @iiapeace. Husband. Dad to a little queen. member of #JTwitter family. Atheist/Ex-Muslim/Refuge
From which river to which sea? “Only 47% of the students who embrace the slogan were able to name the river & the sea. Some of the alternative answers were the Nile & the Euphrates, the Caribbean, the Dead Sea (which is a lake) & the Atlantic…. There’s no shame in being… pic.twitter.com/sdfT0CYrHS
ignorant, unless one is screaming for the extermination of millions.”
The good news: students moderated or changed their views significantly once they looked at the map, learned which river & which sea, & what the slogan meant in practice. “Those who hope to encourage extremism depend on the political ignorance of their audiences. It is time for good teachers to join the fray and combat bias with education.”
It’s been 61 days. Arab punditry has extensively debated everything: Gaza War, thrashing Netanyahu and Israel’s radical Right, expecting Arab-Americans to punish Biden in the coming election, hailing the anti-Israel protests in Western capitals, analyzing US-Israeli relations,…
bringing in Iran, Russia and Iran, demanding Israeli concessions and insisting that America should give the Palestinians a state.
The only thing that Arab punditry has not debated is what we, the Arabs and Palestinians, should or can do, where we have erred (if at all, since it does not seem we commit any errors). There is no discussion of our civilizational failure in the Levant, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Algeria. There is no review of the horrible“resistance” model that many Arabs endorse, a resistance that can neither liberate Palestine -- according to Arab nationalist and Palestine policy tsar in #Qatar Azmi Beshara (former #Israel MK) -- nor prevent Palestinian deaths. So what’s the point of resistance? Just spite Israel and cause death and destruction?
It’s horrible that we the Arabs never perceive of ourselves as people with agency. We are always objects of the actions of others, usually victims, and we want the world to reverse whatever it’s doing and turn us from whining victims (whose victimhood justifies the killing of others) to victorious conquerers (maybe give us Spain back?) because we are entitled and think whoever disagrees with us is on the wrong side of history.
Then come the bored middle class Westerners, who prioritize native and indigenous as authentic (cute?) over functioning institutions, states and rule of law. If the Arab world behaves half as native and indigenous as these Western kids want us to, the Levant and Iraq will look like even more Medieval than it does today, with more barbaric raids, counter raids, thuggery, and oppression of women and LGBTQ, etc.
Instead of spending our time discussing Netanyahu, Biden and everybody else, we should focus on us, why did we fail and produce Hamas and Hezbollah instead of functioning state. How can we play whatever hand we have in the best way to save as much Arab lives and give them much possible hope and better lives? (Hint: Hamas and Hezbollah surrender for a start)
It is a discussion that we must have, but that we are unfortunately wasting time and not having, instead analyzing everything and everyone but our own shortcomings.
Attached is an example of the best and the brightest Arabs debating, not our own failure, but everything else. https://youtube.com/watch?v=6a2nOe8foQw
Interesting that this guy is hard selling it, to the point where he's buying advertising spots on "Twitter"
The Jerusalem Accord: A New Vision for Peace
In this new vision for tranquillity, the Jerusalem Accord advocates for the establishment of the State of Jerusalem, which supersedes the confines of the city to encompass the whole territorial canvas of what is currently understood… pic.twitter.com/fxonwQE8k7
as Israel and Palestine. In doing so, it emphasizes the necessity of peaceful coexistence underpinned by an acknowledgment of the region's multifaceted historical narratives. This is not simply about the city of Jerusalem, but a much broader territorial reimagining.
While valuing the cultural melange that the current Israel and Palestine brought forth, it encourages a transformation into a unified territorial entity, the State of Jerusalem. This state would rise beyond territorial disputes and operate on a shared governance model, ensuring equal representation and cultivating an environment of mutual coexistence.
Abiding by this vision, the State of Jerusalem would witness a celebration of multiculturalism, reflecting the rich historical and cultural lineage of the lands of Israel and Palestine but echoing an evolved narrative of unity and cooperation.
The proposal served by the Jerusalem Accord is an appeal for resolution, a call for establishing a State of Jerusalem that welcomes diversity but unifies under shared governance—a beacon of how we can reimagine an Israel and Palestine under one banner: a peaceful State of Jerusalem. This testament only becomes possible through mutual respect, understanding, and resilience. It's about recognizing the appeal and practicality of unity instead of division, symbolizing one land, one shared past, a harmonious present, and a diverse future.
You're correct, color film processes were not commonly used until much later, in the 1950s. Therefore, the original footage from 1928 would have been in black and white, and the color was likely added using modern digital techniques. Using this information, here's a revised suggestion for your post:
Immerse yourself in history with the video below, titled "Jerusalem, 1928 Rare Color Footage”. Through the wonders of modern technology, this originally black-and-white movie has been meticulously recolored, breathing fresh life into our shared past. As we witness scenes from a momentous period in Jerusalem's history transform before our eyes, let us pause to reflect. Unity, understanding, and the path to peaceful coexistence are timeless pursuits that we continue to champion in the Jerusalem Accord. Enjoy this vivid journey into history, as we remember our collective heritage and aspire to a harmonious future. #ANewDawnForJerusalem
Since there has been a sudden burst of experts on the handling of prisoners of war, here is what I see from the photos of the @IDF and Hamas prisoners of war in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/Z5lVk80Yhq
According to the Geneva Conventions prisoners of war may include the following:
Members of the armed forces
Volunteer militia, including resistance movements
Civilians accompanying the armed forces
When prisoners surrender (some unofficial reports Hamas surrendered out of tunnels) or are captured, they are immediately searched. Many militaries have internal processes, in the U.S. military it is to search, silence, segregate, speed (to the rear for processing), & safeguard.
In Israel and Gaza, combatants often have weapons and explosives (suicide vests and other) so a tactic of the @IDF is to have the prisoners remove their clothing down to their underwear from a distance to ensure they are not a threat to their captors or other prisoners.
Once searched, prisoners of war are rushed to safe areas (safeguarded) for processing for intelligence and detainment. This includes collecting individual information so prisoner information may be submitted to the ICRC. pic.twitter.com/AIigWt9n2f
Steven Spielberg will be, again, the voice of a jewish people tragedy.
After his masterpiece about the Holocaust, “Schindler’s List” (no8 in the Top “100 Best Movies” in history and 7 Oscars), Spielberg has a team on the ground to document the #Oct7Massacre .
Too bad that the… pic.twitter.com/PBhjOst27j
American teenagers, in a scary procentage, think that Holocaust it’s just a myth and…just a movie. I think the American educational system is too rotten to even correct this. Maybe Spielberg can do more.
People don’t get that Israel/Palestine *exactly like every other issue involving small far-off countries* is something that Americans have no information about. The difference is that you’re expected to express an opinion, so people do, but that doesn’t imply learning anything. https://t.co/DWDnOHZ0YF
The Sam Cooke thing? Don't know much about history...
"The memory of the Holocaust, as Enzo Traverso has argued, is the “civil religion” of the modern West...and as with every religion, there will be blasphemers."
It's possible all are not true but it's the best counter I've seen so far to Hamas-furnished agitprop:
Claims that Israel is "indiscriminately" bombing or causing disproportionate civilian deaths in Gaza can be easily proven false based on actions & statistics. Here are SEVEN items of evidence that debunk claims of war crimes, genocide, unprecedented civilian deaths, etc. 1/
Piers Morgan vs. "current Chairman, UK-Executive Committee Hizb ut-Tahrir":
I found your answers horrifying given your position as an NHS doctor working here in London. You’re a Hamas terrorist supporter who doesn’t think Oct7 was a terror attack, or that atrocities were even necessarily committed, and you want sharia law in Britain. Just astounding. https://t.co/JNfvf2ljcj
Don't want to burst the bubble of North America's supporters of a one state for Jews and Arabs, but the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) -- the sole and legitimate representative of the Palestinian people according to the UN, Arab League and the Organization of Islamic… pic.twitter.com/qZHQdoOOvr
Cooperation -- wrote the constitution of the state of Palestine as a mono-ethnic state that has no place for non-Arabs, or even non-Muslims.
As such, Israel must be a state for the Jews, a demand that Israel has been asking the PLO to recognize for over a decade, to no avail, hence we've been in this status quo situation of no peace and low intensity war (except for when Hamas bursts out of Gaza to massacre Israelis).
-- Constitution of Palestine --
Article 1:
Palestine is part of the big Arab homeland, the Arab Palestinian people is part of the Arab nation, and pan-Arab unity is a goal that the Palestinian people strives to achieve.
Article 4:
1. Islam is the official religion in Palestine...
2. Islamic Sharia is a main source of legislation.
3. Arabic is the official language.
My wife just filmed some clips as she was shopping with my daughter during the Christmas season in downtown Montreal. They asked her to participate because undoubtedly "she looks Arabic." You cannot go to the university without seeing this; you cannot walk in the street… pic.twitter.com/S3AnmKg1fs
Since we are hearing once more of battles in “refugee camps” and about UNRWA ‘unable to do its work’ - reposting this two-part post on why neighborhoods in Gaza are called “refugee camps” and an exposition of UNRWA’s real work and purpose: https://t.co/4Wra7BqlDU
...Those were the Arab refugees from the war of 1948, later to be known as Palestinians. All other refugee groups, except the Palestinians, were presented with a clear message: “it’s tough, it’s tragic, move on”. There was a clear understanding that in the most fundamental sense there is no going back - not in place and not in time (thus, there was no such thing as “a right of return”). To seek to go back would mean endless war. And so the message was forward looking and future facing. Tens of millions of refugees and displaced persons, among them millions of Jews, would build new lives in the new countries to which they fled....
....Palestinians don’t need to move on and can keep insisting on “return”, both in space and in time, to a time when there was no Israel. UNRWA thus became the mechanism by which the Jewish people alone were denied the right to to consider their hard won self-determination and sovereign statehood as a done deal.....
That’s one UN staff for every 114 refugees in Gaza. Compare that to the largest refugee camp in the world, Cox Bazar with only 1,550 UN staff serving 1.24 million refugees. That’s one UN staff for every 800 refugees. In comparison, there are… pic.twitter.com/rUIux40bgR
7 times more UN staff serving refugees in the Gaza Strip.
There are more UN staff in the Gaza Strip than the total employees of the World Bank with more than 10,000 employees in over 120 offices worldwide?
There are more UN staff in Gaza than in Geneva (8,500 UN staff) or New York (6,400 UN staff)? Gaza has twice as many UN Staff than in New York.
UNRWA leverages the UN brand to appear to casual observers as a team of relatively unbiased international aid workers, when in fact they're a $1 billion/year Palestinian business, run by Palestinians and staffed by Palestinians.
They need Palestinian refugees to exist. If Palestinians got their state, there would be no more "refugees," and the business and flow of aid money would end. It's in their best interests to perpetuate the conflict and leave Palestinian statehood up in the air. UNRWA schools literally taught a whole generation of Gazans to hate their neighbors and make unrealistic demands so that the core issue of sovereignty is never addressed.
Its sole achievements are radicalizing Palestinian children and keeping Palestinians refugees for generations. As you have read in the news recently, they also kept some of the hostages.
UNRWA should have been disbanded decades ago, all they do is perpetuate the conflict and keep Palestinians poor and uneducated.
The increasing frequency of UN posts on Twitter regarding the Palestinian situation in contrast to other conflicts reveals a distinct pattern.
As the pressure on Hamas tightens, Antonio takes actions that would hinder the eradication of Hamas. UN agencies are in a campaign against Israel, Led by UN WOMEN who silently betrayed by turning a blind eye to the mass rape.
Antonio is becoming increasingly panicked about what may be discovered once Hamas leaders are interrogated and the money trail investigated.
It's time to sue the United Nations for being a party to terrorism. Israel should build a case, and individual Israelis whose family members suffered in the October 7th terrorist attacks should file a Claim against the UN. Put them on the defensive.
Gaza is a cash cow for the UN. The moment Hamas goes out so does the cash flow from which the people who really need help don't benefit anyway. Had they really done their jobs then Gazans would fare much better and Oct.07 wouldn't have happened in the first place.
I think Yglesias is sort of making that point here
If you’re an American who wants to get into nationalism, I think you should consider American nationalism as an option rather than Russian or Arab or Hungarian nationalism.
The New York Times has published a lengthy investigation into the sexual violence and brutality faced by women in Israel on October 7 by Hamas terrorists.
Don’t you dare look away. This is what you’re advocating for when you chant for globalizing the intifada. At least have the fucking courage of your convictions. #Hamasrapistspic.twitter.com/kyQI9KJFTb
If you read the @nytimes article on the sexual assault and rape of Israeli women at the hands of Hamas and Palestinians and still side with Hamas and the Palestinians, you’re evil. No seriously. You’re fucking evil. #RapeIsNotFreedomFighting#RapeIsNeverOK#HamasRapists
My stomach remains turned, my head still spinning. On Twitter it's still only "alleged rape". As always, nothing can be actually true, just a misunderstood detail to wipe aside to get back to other complaints. But did Jews in terror coordinate a cover Story of fictitious rape while hiding from murderous gangs in the desert? Occam says no, whatever less true "beheaded babies" may have popped up in the immediate aftermath. And isn't it part of the UNHRA's mission to figure out what it's wards did on their kill spree holiday?
"I know that if Hamas kills my father, they’ll say that the Israeli army did it. But my father was very keen that even if he died, we should make known the despicable demands they made of him.
It was his last request to us, literally as he was being carried out of the door,…
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Lama Al-Arian is a multi-Emmy-award-winning journalist based in Beirut.
by artappraiser on Sun, 12/03/2023 - 4:39pm
"Hostages Freed From Gaza Recount Violence, Hunger and Fear"
Edit to add, just in case you never really *got* the meaning of "never again"; it meant no longer lambs to the slaughter, that they are going to fight back and furthermore do so ferociously, and give a damn what anyone else thinks. You were expecting nicey-nice? Those who did so are fools!
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I see dazed women hostages with one dazed male hostage,and a pair of Red Cross, male and female, being subjected to an uncivilized frightening & real noisy large chanting crowd of men & boys, no women, civilized or not. The disgusting base testosterone ELEPHANT again:
by artappraiser on Mon, 12/04/2023 - 1:16am
^ as a female, I would want those in that crowd responsible for: NOTHING, absolutely nothing.Hard to see them redeemable for human civilization purposes.
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^ I would like to stress this sentence:
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This thread is a far far better description of *The Video* than the one I posted on the older thread, this guy is a real pro really at describing visuals; HIGHLY recommended:
Note especially:
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Were there NY & London protests against Russian shopkeepers over brutal RU bombing of apartment complexes, hospitals, fire station?
https://twitter.com/cisrits/status/1730937962509078772
Or the abduction of 100s of thousands of Ukrainians kids for "adoption" in Russia?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War
Did the Arab community denounce these atrocities? Did they send aid? How much clamor was there at the UN?
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 12/05/2023 - 5:42am
Ukraine's abducted children, FT:
https://www.ft.com/content/888ca4dd-7cda-4873-ab49-6df7ca1b1ad9
The race to save Ukraine’s abducted children
The plight of those taken to Russia without their families’ consent has received comparatively little attention
Gillian Tett SEPTEMBER 13 2023
...Lubinets said he has records of almost 20,000 such deportations. He added, however, that Russia’s children’s rights commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, has proudly claimed “several times” that there are 700,000 Ukrainian children in Russia. (In March.
...
In Kyiv, I met the bestselling French novelist Marc Levy, whose new novel La Symphonie des monstres recounts the tale of a nine-year-old boy called Valentyn, who is deported, and his frantic mother. Although the character is fictional, he is a composite based on true stories. Levy decided to write the book (which is mesmerising) because the deportee issue cuts deeply for him. He lost his grandparents in Auschwitz, and his Jewish father was deported during the second world war. “I can’t imagine losing my own children like this. I don’t know how I would survive,” he told me.
He had another motive: Levy is deeply frustrated by how little attention the issue of child deportations is receiving, as were many others I spoke to in Kyiv. “The [French] television is pro-Ukrainian and speaks day and night about tanks and satellites and drones and the front, but [not] the children,” said Patrick Desbois, a Catholic priest involved in the campaign to change this. Desbois, whose grandfather was also deported in wartime, runs a Holocaust memorial group that has searched for other displaced youth, such as the Yazidi children taken by Isis nearly a decade ago. As he pointed out, little attention was given to them initially.
There is now a race against time for deported Ukrainian children. Since they are often adopted after a few months in Russia and, as Lubinets observed, “in the documents the Russians often change everything, like name and date of birth and place of birth”, it will become increasingly hard to find them as time passes.
Lubinets complained bitterly about what he sees as the inaction of the UN and International Committee of the Red Cross, among other groups. Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, a former European parliamentarian involved in children’s issues told me: “The UN is useless because Russia is on the security council and blocking everything.”
In this void, private charities and the Ukrainian government are using any avenue they can to track and retrieve children. Precise tactics are closely guarded, but include hacking the Russian internet to search for records, sending letters to Russian bureaucrats, calling sympathetic Russian citizens and dispatching mediators (and parents themselves) to Russia to argue their case.
Andriy Yermak, head of the presidential office in Kyiv, spoke about seeking help from third parties such as Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Roman Abramovich, the Russian oligarch, to try to broker a deal to repatriate Ukrainian children.
Sometimes this works. But the truth is that only about 400 children have returned so far — and this is unlikely to rise rapidly without new inducements or pressure on Russia, be that bribes or a fear of sanctions for lower-level officials. “The practical question is what can we give Russia to get the children back?” asked Desbois...
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 12/05/2023 - 6:08am
It boggles my mind why there is not more universal outrage. Death from bombing has become routine 'collateral damage' to many, but stealing children is still the basic stuff of nightmares.
by artappraiser on Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:36am
Of course not, it's a disagreement between whypipple about borders, and furthermore Zelensky is Jewish and a supporter of the evil hegemon Israel. Basically fascists vs. fascists; why should they care?
by artappraiser on Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:26am
p.s. you should be at the social workers teach-in tomorrow, they would no doubt splain it all to you why Hamas' struggle on behalf of the Palestinian cause is the most important issue as to the world order. Get the Palestinians in charge from the river to the sea-intifada forever-and everything else will fall into place. You will start to see how bin Laden was right and how 9/11 deaths were necessary collateral damage. (Don't worry about Islamic fundamentalist attitude towards non-male beings, that will all be straightened out later after the revolution.)
by artappraiser on Tue, 12/05/2023 - 12:04pm
BTW birthrate has dropped down to 2.7, though annual decrease has slowed the past 5 years. Still, heading towards the rest of the civilized world in at least that regard.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 12/05/2023 - 5:33pm
helpful reminder
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by artappraiser on Tue, 12/05/2023 - 1:53pm
Left out E-choli. A bit distraught to see harp music tied to the Bunnymen - then again, "Killing Moon" prolly fits the Illuminati rung as well. And always wearing shades...
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 12/05/2023 - 5:39pm
beginning excerpt:
by artappraiser on Tue, 12/05/2023 - 10:52pm
thread:
If you don't see Hamas waging war against 'the west" and "western values (much more than Putin is, for one example) you're missing the real point. It's not just about Palestinians; there's a reason the Iranian mullans support them.
by artappraiser on Wed, 12/06/2023 - 12:35am
by artappraiser on Wed, 12/06/2023 - 12:59am
by artappraiser on Wed, 12/06/2023 - 4:35pm
Hayder Alasadi @Sumerian2022: Founder CEO of the Iraqi-Israeli Association of Peace @iiapeace. Husband. Dad to a little queen. member of #JTwitter family. Atheist/Ex-Muslim/Refuge
by artappraiser on Wed, 12/06/2023 - 4:51pm
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by artappraiser on Thu, 12/07/2023 - 1:08pm
Interesting that this guy is hard selling it, to the point where he's buying advertising spots on "Twitter"
by artappraiser on Thu, 12/07/2023 - 2:57pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 12/07/2023 - 7:05pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 12/07/2023 - 10:29pm
Média as Hamas "captive" audience
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/07/opinions/israel-hamas-gaza-media-pres...
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 12/08/2023 - 3:23am
^ straight talk from experience like hers is so, so valuable! and increasingly rare, especially in such dangerous zones
by artappraiser on Fri, 12/08/2023 - 11:16am
Ok, 1) what's point of hunger strike if ppl already underfed? Will they care more about Cynthia Nixon?
2) does a state resolution for a country across the world valuable in some way?
Asking for a confused friend.
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 12/08/2023 - 7:19am
1) actress = DRAMA!
2) they do it to curry favor with local *activists*
by artappraiser on Fri, 12/08/2023 - 11:03am
by artappraiser on Mon, 12/11/2023 - 2:48am
A suggestion to take those polls of Americans on this issue with a heaping dose of salt:
by artappraiser on Mon, 12/11/2023 - 3:55am
The Sam Cooke thing? Don't know much about history...
by artappraiser on Mon, 12/11/2023 - 4:42am
It's possible all are not true but it's the best counter I've seen so far to Hamas-furnished agitprop:
by artappraiser on Mon, 12/11/2023 - 5:37pm
Piers Morgan vs. "current Chairman, UK-Executive Committee Hizb ut-Tahrir":
by artappraiser on Mon, 12/11/2023 - 6:17pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 12/11/2023 - 6:26pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 12/11/2023 - 6:32pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 12/27/2023 - 3:51pm
especially fthese excerpts from part one:
by artappraiser on Wed, 12/27/2023 - 5:21pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 12/28/2023 - 5:23am
So what's chance of that happening in our climate? Pro-Palestunian protests in a few minutes at our local US & German embassies.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 12/28/2023 - 8:50am
I think Yglesias is sort of making that point here
by artappraiser on Thu, 12/28/2023 - 4:23pm
Hmm, not sure that addresses UNWRA
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 12/28/2023 - 8:06pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 12/28/2023 - 9:11pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 12/29/2023 - 9:22pm
My stomach remains turned, my head still spinning. On Twitter it's still only "alleged rape". As always, nothing can be actually true, just a misunderstood detail to wipe aside to get back to other complaints. But did Jews in terror coordinate a cover Story of fictitious rape while hiding from murderous gangs in the desert? Occam says no, whatever less true "beheaded babies" may have popped up in the immediate aftermath. And isn't it part of the UNHRA's mission to figure out what it's wards did on their kill spree holiday?
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 12/30/2023 - 11:49pm
Threaded summary
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 12/31/2023 - 6:05am
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by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 01/16/2024 - 6:24am