The Oldest Man posted:

thats a lot of people who believe the robot quadcopters machine-gunning people at the food aid distribution center isnt genocide somehow, really makes you think

Al! posted:

the other two thirds are 1/3rd nazis, and 1/3rd people who don't know what the words israel or genocide mean, sounds about right for americans

Bro Dad posted:

https://i.imgur.com/YBDSR6t.mp4

carcinofuck posted:

Okay so what I want to know is what are the Arabic words that keep being translated for Israel?
'the usurper' = ?
'the zionist entity' = ?

edit: and why is 'zionist' الصهيونية
sahiyoniyya? y'all have a Z sound, you know..


edit 2: and I just really like that all these government entities/institutions simply refer to them as 'the zionist entity'.


dttze

Adenoid Dan posted:

I'm just going off of Wikipedia there but you are probably right. Maybe it just means using 55 gallon drums.

exmarx posted:

lmfao these guys are mad dogs

https://twitter.com/bezalelsm/status/1750270931354693791

Qatar is a country that supports terrorism and finances terrorism. She is the patron of Hamas and is largely responsible for the massacre committed by Hamas of Israeli citizens. The West's attitude towards her is hypocritical and based on improper economic interests. The West can and should exert much stronger levers on her and bring about the release of the abductees immediately.

30.5 Days posted:

Biden: *chuckles nervously* well gee fellas I don't know about all that

DancingShade posted:

Nah. Too lucid.

Should be staring into the distance while mumbling about something that happened 20-30 years ago in a fictional version of his past, that clashes with the historical record.

"My 5th son won the medal of honor in the grasshopper wars where we saved the vanilla ice cream from those drat pony slappers (audibly chokes up a bit on drool) but you know tutti fruiti was always my favorite anyway." Starts wandering off from the podium, looking confused.

Weka posted:

China has a state its citizens believe in. They also have like half the world's manufacturing capacity, which I understand is useful in war.

Rigged Death Trap posted:

Lmao any arabized hebrew word is going to be closer than its anglicized version.

Mamy arab nations and organizations do not recognize israel even by nameand 'the zionist entity' can also means non-israeli zionist organisation, and often also america, thus the term.

The word غاصب means 'someone who unjustly takes that which isnt theirs' and is the root word for rape, إغتصاب.
A closer word in meaning would be rapacious, but it has no adverb form.

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/GlobeEyeNews/status/1750121984049176773

some kinda jackal posted:

Harik posted:

Sancho Banana posted:

"Will Israel make a survival-horror video game about October 7 massacre?"


https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-783324

Truly unhinged minds at work

Grimson posted:

https://twitter.com/USSbriefs/status/1750259710169694442

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/Joe_Roberts01/status/1750313955661131954?t=aG_MG_0u9ewnyzJ1UTB2kQ&s=19

gently caress yeah gonna get a Hamas meal at October 7

gradenko_2000 posted:

I think the point of asking why Bellingcat isn't posting about Gaza is that it's supposed to discredit them: you can't play the part of "neutral observer that applies fact-based analyses of conflicts to combat disinformation" or whatever and then just not be concerned with bombings worse than anything Assad ever did

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Uhhhhhh I'll have uhhhhhh an Uburger?

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/Joe_Roberts01/status/1750313955661131954?t=aG_MG_0u9ewnyzJ1UTB2kQ&s=19

gently caress yeah gonna get a Hamas meal at October 7

Sancho Banana posted:

The Iftah Brigade withdrew from Gaza.

https://twitter.com/ynetalerts/status/1750450758443499805?t=IVHYDk6LTereBCq_frHPHg&s=19

My gut feeling is that the recent activity is western Khan Younis is the last significant move the IDF will make in the south before largely withdrawing like it did in the north. The demolition of buildings close to the fence - the new buffer zone - is the final bit of preparation for that.

Al-Saqr posted:

what makes you think that?

Raskolnikov38 posted:

meanwhile Americans faced with 81mm mortar fire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwNUMM4iRb0

Sancho Banana posted:

"Will Israel make a survival-horror video game about October 7 massacre?"


https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-783324

Truly unhinged minds at work

30.5 Days posted:

American warship, go gently caress yourself!

quote:

Israeli occupation forces said "an all-clear is given" after a suspected infiltration from South Lebanon close to the "Hanita" Kibbutz in the western al-Jalil this morning.

“The IDF conducted searches in the area and ruled out the suspicion of an infiltration or any security incident,” the Israeli military added.

Large forces of the Israeli army rushed to the area, as reported by Israeli media.

Israeli media reported that sirens blared in large areas near the border with Lebanon and the Israeli army instructed settlers close to "Hanita" Kibbutz in the North to stay in shelters. Simultaneously, several roads were closed, and checkpoints were set up in several areas.

The IOF also declared a state of alert in 9 settlements near the border with Lebanon, noting intensive activity by Israeli drones and warplanes in the skies over the northern border.

go play outside Skyler posted:

is this twitter account a reliable source?

not that i don't believe it, but on principle i try and cite sources when i share stuff on social media, and i think this is something people really need to see.

quote:

One of the most notable incidents involving the use of quadcopters was during the massacre on 11 January at Al-Rasheed street near the Gaza City coast.

Middle East Eye spoke to several witnesses, who said quadcopters opened fire on hundreds of people who had gathered there to wait for the arrival of aid trucks.

“We heard that trucks loaded with food and aid were going to pass through Al-Rasheed street,” said 42-year-old Qassem Ahmed, a resident of northern Gaza.

“Since we’ve been cut off from aid and food for around three months, we run after the aid trucks to try and get as much food as possible," he added, during a conversation with Middle East Eye.

"I left home with my 18-year-old son at around 8am. We went to Al-Rasheed Street on foot because there were no cars, and the roads were too damaged for animal-drawn carts.”

Ahmed and his son got to the area where the aid was expected at around 9am and there was already a crowd of hundreds there.

Around an hour later, before the trucks had arrived, Ahmed and the other Palestinians in the area were set upon by the Israeli military.

“We were taken by surprise by the heavy gunfire coming from above, there were quadcopters shooting directly at the crowd," he said.

"We started running in all directions. Within a few seconds, dozens of people fell and we could not stop to help or pull them up because the shooting continued."

According to eyewitnesses, more than 40 people were immediately killed and dozens others were injured in the incident.

quote:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67945137
The killing spree in Yemen - more than 100 assassinations in a three-year period - is just one element of an ongoing bitter internecine conflict pitting several international powers against each other in the Middle East's poorest country.

[...]

The majority of those assassinated were members of Islah - the Yemeni branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. It is a popular international Sunni Islamist movement which has never been classified by the US as a terror organisation, but is banned in several Arab countries - including the UAE where its political activism and support for elections is seen by the country's royal family as a threat to their rule.

[...]

Mr Gilmore, and another Spear employee in Yemen at the time - Dale Comstock - told me that the mission they conducted ended in 2016. But the assassinations in southern Yemen continued. In fact they became more frequent, according to investigators from the human rights group Reprieve.

They investigated 160 killings carried out in Yemen between 2015 and 2018. They said the majority happened from 2016 and only 23 of the 160 people killed had links to terrorism. All the killings had been carried out using the same tactics that Spear had employed - the detonation of an improvised explosive device (IED) as a distraction, followed by a targeted shooting.

The most recent political assassination in Yemen, according to Yemeni human rights lawyer Huda al-Sarari, happened just last month - of an imam killed in Lahj by the same method.

Mr Gilmore, Mr Comstock, and two other mercenaries from Spear who asked not to be named, said that Spear had been involved in training Emirati officers in the UAE military base in Aden. A journalist who asked to remain anonymous also told us he had seen footage of such training.

[...]

The BBC has found that despite the American mercenaries' stated aim to eliminate the jihadist groups al-Qaeda and Islamic State (IS) in southern Yemen, in fact the UAE has gone on to recruit former al-Qaeda members for this security force.

The whistleblower sent a document with 11 names of former al-Qaeda members now working in the STC, some of whose identities we were able to verify ourselves.

During our investigation we also came across the name Nasser al-Shiba. Once a high-ranking al-Qaeda operative, he was jailed for terrorism but later released. A Yemeni government minister we spoke to told us al-Shiba was a known suspect in the attack on the US warship USS Cole, which killed 17 American sailors in October 2000. Multiple sources told us that he is now the commander of one of the STC military units.

Lawyer Huda al-Sarari has been investigating human rights abuses committed by these UAE-backed forces on the ground. As a result of her work, she would frequently receive death threats. But it was her 18-year-old son Mohsen who paid the ultimate price.

He was shot in the chest in March 2019 while on a trip to a local petrol station, and died a month later. When Huda returned to work after his death, she says she received messages warning her to stop. "Was one son not enough? Do you want us to kill the other?" they said.

A subsequent investigation by Aden's public prosecutor found that Mohsen was killed by a member of the UAE-backed Counter Terrorism Unit, but the authorities have never pursued a prosecution.

Members of the prosecutor's office - who we cannot name for safety reasons - told us that the widespread assassinations have created a climate of fear that means even they are too afraid to pursue justice in cases involving forces backed by the UAE.

Reprieve has received a leaked UAE document that shows Spear was still being paid in 2020, though it is not clear in what capacity.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://twitter.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1750472415300186348?s=20

Grimson posted:

https://twitter.com/kthalps/status/1750375639578779922