An English message for an Arabic-speaking population whose communications you’ve already cut off is how you know this is propaganda for Western audiences.
Trump arraigned, Marxist wins Mayoral race in Chicago, and Democrats flip Supreme Court in Wisconsin. Very bad day. No spin, no bs. Country is in collapse. We need God and dutiful action.
Saudi Arabia decides it’s in their interest to cut oil production, fine. Maybe the US decides it’s in its interests to ground the Saudi Air Force. For starters. I don’t know, just thinking out loud.
Hey journalists, if you're not quoting actual Palestinians in your pieces on Trump's plan for stealing their land and denying their rights, you're not doing journalism, you're doing PR.
You accused Obama of having a “Kenyan, anti-colonial” worldview. You accused him of playing "a wonderful con" to become president. You spent 8 years stoking racism against him. The insult is you thinking we wouldn't remember.
Does Bernie Sanders not know that Barack Obama was elected President twice? Sanders’ comment that America is a “racist society from top to bottom.” Is an insult to a country that is promoting Americans of every background.
Q: "Is it now fair to say that the US is at war in Yemen?"
Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh: "We don't think that we are at war."
Q: "We've bombed them five times now...If this isn't war, what is war?"
Singh: "We are not at war with the Houthis."
The fact that Tapper, Greenblatt, and others can engage in a multi-day defamation campaign against
@RashidaTlaib
by blatantly misquoting her and face zero repercussions for it is a great example of the institutional anti-Palestinian bias she called out in the first place.
Tomorrow marks 28 years since George H.W. Bush pardoned six defendants as part of the Iran-Contra cover up, one of whom, confessed criminal Elliott Abrams, was brought back into government by George W. Bush, and now serves as Trump’s Iran/Venezuela envoy. Corruption is the rule.
Can't remember anyone getting more liberals to out themselves as bigots more quickly and effectively than Ta-Nehisi has done simply by applying the same principles to Israel-Palestine that he does to America.
As a Ukrainian-American I am immensely proud of the bravery of Ukrainians and of the support being shown by Americans.
As a Middle East analyst I am floored by the blatant double standard on resisting occupation and repression.
We can argue all day that Trump is worse, and he is, but we need to understand that for a lot of people withholding their vote is the last tool they feel they have toward a president who simply refuses to hear them.
In our focus group of Michigan voters, Thasin tells
@margbrennan
he "was a champion" for President Biden, but now feels Biden has "disowned" and "disenfranchised" Muslim Americans with his stance on Gaza.
"I was never a single-issue voter...but for me this is a deal-breaker."
Maybe withdrawing from a nuclear agreement we negotiated alongside them and then waging economic war on them because they continued to honor it wasn’t a great way to get their help.
To every Democrat who said nothing about the anti-Muslim bigotry, harassment, and bullying Rep. Ilhan Omar has been enduring over the past months, and longer, but only spoke up to criticize her: You are part of the problem.
The fact that Tapper, Greenblatt, and others can engage in a multi-day defamation campaign against
@RashidaTlaib
by blatantly misquoting her and face zero repercussions for it is a great example of the institutional anti-Palestinian bias she called out in the first place.
🧵 THREAD:
CNN anchor Jake Tapper joined ADL head Jonathan Greenblatt and others in blatantly mischaracterizing Rep.
@RashidaTlaib
’s remarks, saying Tlaib accused Michigan AG Dana Nessel of bringing charges against U. of Michigan campus protesters “because she’s Jewish.”
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Blaming Hamas for every Israeli atrocity is the argument of an abusive partner: “Look what you made me do!”
Hamas bears responsibility for Oct 7. Israel bears responsibility for its indiscriminate assault on Gaza. Neither justifies the other.
No. It gives me no pleasure to say it but Biden chose this path. So many have been sounding the alarm for months, both inside and outside the administration. Biden thought he knew better, and stubbornly refused to change course. This is on him.
If the DC foreign policy establishment got as agitated by a school bus full of kids getting blown up as it does for an oil refinery, the Yemen war would be over.
Jackson got demoted and shitcanned for being drunk on duty, sexually harassing subordinates, and running a WH pill mill, if you want to know what disgracing the uniform actually looks like.
Fraud Tim Walz is a lying coward who NEVER deployed and was NEVER in harms way.
He never deployed to Iraq.
He never deployed to Afghanistan.
Your “war stories” disgust me and disgust most other veterans that actually deployed in defense of this country!
SIMPLY PUT, YOU ARE
One consequence of the Solemani assassination that shouldn't be missed: the US just greenlit every authoritarian regime in the world to assassinate any foreign official it deems a threat.
Imagine the administration had intel on an imminent terrorist attack that would kill over 100,000 people, and chose to do nothing because it was politically easier. That’s what we have here.
We need to be talking about accountability. For all of it.
Consultants are going to get paid a lot of money to help pretend the problem is more complicated than failing to pass extremely popular legislation after promising to do that.
Democrats have faced brutal midterm climates and slim margins in Congress before. But the current iteration of the Democratic Party has rarely, if ever, been on such shaky ground with young people.
Every Catholic, indeed every person of any faith, has to realize the left despises them and that the Democrats shelter this virulent bigotry and pretend it’s something else. Catholics should vote accordingly, whether or not a Democrat is Catholic. The left controls the party.
We’re in an absurd situation where both Hamas and Israeli officials agree that Netanyahu is blocking Biden’s ceasefire proposal, Netanyahu publicly rejects key elements of it, but Biden and Blinken continue to insist that Netanyahu supports it and Hamas is blocking it. What.
Bernie was right.
Two years later AIPAC has endorsed over 100 pro-insurrection candidates, including some who promote the great replacement conspiracy theory. Still proud to work with them? You haven't said. You seem to have lots of time to go after progressive activists though.
It’s offensive that
@BernieSanders
denigrates the
@AIPAC
policy conference as a platform for bigotry. At a time when we see a surge of real hate across the US, it’s irresponsible to describe AIPAC like this.
@ADL
proudly will be there.
Cheney's group Keep America Safe launched a series of attacks against Obama that were so inflammatory and racist that she had it scrubbed from the internet before she ran for Congress.
.
@RepLizCheney
says she voted against the anti-hate resolution this week because she saw it as "an effort to protect Ilhan Omar" by Democrats, rather than call her out specifically
It’s official: Israel will bar Congresswomen
@RashidaTlaib
and
@IlhanMN
from entering Israel due to "suspected provocations and promotion of BDS” at this time the final decision is been drafted and passed for comments before a press release.
This is apparently hard for some folks to grasp because it's not true in many other areas of foreign policy, but a responsible progressive position on Ukraine is basically what Biden is doing right now.
Republicans spent 2 1/2 years and 33 hearings investigating Benghazi and yet somehow the Obama administration wasn't too distracted to lead a successful global effort to contain Ebola.
McConnell just said on
@hughhewitt
that impeachment diverted the attention of the government in Jan while virus was developing. - paraphrasing but thrust is correct
Bernie voted against the Russia sanctions because they were added to an Iran sanctions bill at the last minute. Bernie stated at the time that he supported Russia sanctions but voted against the bill to protect Obama's Iran deal. Biden knows this.
This is so dishonest. The Palestinians said yes and recognized Israel in 1993.
The entire Arab League offered normalization in 2002 in exchange for Israel adhering to UNSC resolutions. Israel said no.
Palestinians still say yes to a 2SS. Netanyahu offers them bantustans.
For 72 years Israel has extended its hand in peace to its neighbors.
When Egypt said yes, there was peace.
When Jordan said yes, there was peace.
When UAE & Bahrain said yes, there was peace.
It’s
#ANewEra
in Israeli-Arab relations.
It’s time for the Palestinians to say yes.
There was a protest movement that kicked off in Seattle 1999 that warned you about exactly this and you mocked them as "a Noah's ark of flat-earth advocates, protectionist trade unions and yuppies looking for their 1960's fix."
"As the nation watches a disgraced Donald Trump departing the White House for the last time-- hold on, it appears that someone is clinging to the helicopter's landing gear as it flies away. Is it -- yes, it's Lindsey Graham."
In addition to keeping the planet habitable, another good reason to aggressively transition to green energy is we wouldn’t have to go hat in hand to beg our corrupt authoritarian petrostate partners for help against corrupt authoritarian petrostate enemies.
SCOOP: Biden’s advisers are discussing a possible visit to Saudi Arabia this spring to help repair relations and convince the Kingdom to pump more oil, Axios has learned.
Others have made this point but it bears repeating: $6 trillion and counting on a global war on terror, additional millions plowed into the antiterrorism grifter complex to keep us scared and paying, and yesterday actual, literal Nazis just walked right in the front door.
People who say we need to move past the Iraq war are wrong. When you really consider the scope of the disaster -- to the region, to its people, to our politics, to our military, and more -- we have barely started to talk about it.
Dear centrist friends, the progressive left put differences aside and worked extremely hard to help get Biden elected. 2022 is not far off. If you want to keep folks energized and mobilized maybe don't blame them for your tough races.
@TheAtlantic
@davidfrum
If history shows us anything it's that militias are helpless against modern armies. This is why Vietnam and Iraq are the 51st and 52nd states.
Absolutely condemn this with every fiber of my being. Oct 7 wasn’t just an offensive against Israel, it was an offensive against our shared humanity. Anyone who cannot state that plainly is not a progressive. Go cosplay somewhere else.
“The amazing, brilliant offensive waged on October 7th.”
This is real, Natalie Knight at a Pro-Hamas rally in Vancouver, Canada.
To see people celebrate the massacre of Jews only a few minutes from where I grew up makes me sick to my stomach.
@KenSimCity
@CIJAinfo
Amused by claims that 10 days in Israel-Palestine doesn’t qualify Ta-Nehisi to have an informed opinion given that most members of Congress’ sole experience is a week-long AIPAC junket, which apparently qualifies them to vote for billions in new weapons every year forever.
It’s hard to overstate what a massive miscalculation it was for Biden to yoke his presidency, and our country’s security, to a corrupt authoritarian racist whose only hope of political survival is prolonging the Gaza war as long as possible.
One of the most ominous phrases in Washington is "I agree with you, but let's be smart about this." It's a signal that you're about to hear a clever sounding justification for absolute cowardice.
I think to the average person headlines like these read as “Glad they patched things up and let her in” and not “Israeli won’t allow a Congresswoman to do her job and attend meetings.”
The fact this is all being portrayed as a “humanitarian gesture” is embarrassing.
What is depressing about Pompeo’s legacy at State is he knows better. He graduated first from West Point and went to Harvard Law. Still he plays down to the ignorant autocrat tearing away at the heritage of America’s political and constitutional norms.
It’s funny hearing old folks blame TikTok for young people’s support for Palestinian rights, as if their own views weren’t shaped by decades of pro-Israel messaging. The young have access to a far greater range of views than you ever did, they can see what you refused to see.
Majority of Senate already voted in favor of similar amendment, but didn't pass because McConnell used procedural shenanigans to require 60 votes. Key point is: Bipartisan majority of Congress has now made clear that Trump has no authority for war with Iran.
This is pretty standard procedure for the Israelis. Drop a big pile of intel, allies spend time trying to verify, and when they can’t just give them more to make them waste more time. The bet is that allies will be too nervous to call bullshit. Usually works.
“Israel says it has shared intelligence detailing Hamas operations at Al-Shifa with Western allies. One Western security official said there was “no way to verify the truthfulness” of Israel’s allegations.”
.
@LindseyGrahamSC
: "I didn’t sign up for Bernie Sanders’s foreign policy.” If you did you might've gotten it right on Iraq, Senator. Or Iran. Or Yemen. Or North Korea. I'll put
@BernieSanders
' foreign policy judgement up against yours any day.
There's no such thing as "hands off" when you're giving one side $3.8 billion a year in military aid. There's just deciding that Palestinian lives don't matter.
We were deeply troubled by the images of Israeli police intruding into the funeral procession of Palestinian American Shireen Abu Akleh. Every family deserves to lay their loved ones to rest in a dignified and unimpeded manner.
One of the best questions journalists can be asking about Gaza right now is why we’ve been ok with a fifteen year long blockade that violates the most basic principles of civilian protection.
On one side, a white supremacist president who openly supports and encourages authoritarian racists. On the other, a black Democratic Congresswoman who criticized a powerful lobby group. But sure, both sides.
Sen. Chuck Schumer at
#AIPAC
: "When someone looks at a neo-Nazi rally and sees some, 'very fine people' among its company, we must call it out. When someone suggests money drives support for Israel, we must call it out."
Josh Shapiro wrote in his college newspaper that peace “will never come” to the Middle East and expressed skepticism about a two-state solution, describing Palestinians as “too battle-minded” to coexist.
A spokesman says his views have changed.
Absolutely astonishing when you consider the amount of deference this administration has shown these regimes. Also a sign that they’re confident they have DC completely bought off and thus won’t face real consequences.
Leaders of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates declined requests to speak to President Biden during the Ukraine crisis, officials say. They both took calls from Putin.
Carlson calls Zelensky "Sweaty and rat-like, a comedian turned oligarch, a persecutor of Christians"
I don't care if his ersatz populism gives you a little thrill, no decent or effective antifascist left can have anything to do with this antisemite.
"Gazans." Not Hamas. Not Islamic Jihad. "Gazans."
The constant attribution of collective guilt as justification for collective punishment by people with actual power is obviously far more dangerous than offensive chants by protesters, but receives a tiny fraction of attention.