@LukefromDC @ayoub (of course the transition from Nasrallah puppets to actual leftists won't be, eh, bloodless, but, truly, if we reach that point, the US is gonna intervene anyway)
Please note when you’re reading reports in media outlets talking about the explosions in #Lebanon: the use of ‘Hezbollah’ here means anyone remotely connected to the party, not just armed operatives. Like all political parties in Lebanon, Hezbollah has a civilian wing. These are medical workers, grocery workers etc who just got a job in a country with one of the worst economic crises in the world. Many people just had a job but #Israel gets to decide that their lives are forfeit.
So many ppl I know have been badly affected by this attack. None of them have anything to do with Hezbollah. They’re in favt all anti-Hezbollah. Not that this ever mattered to Israel.A close friend’s sister almost died just bcs some Hezbollah dude was near her and his pager blew up #Lebanon #pagers #Hezbollah
The first 14 pages are the names of babies under the age of 1 alone. That’s what #Israel has unleashed on #Gaza. https://x.com/sharifkouddous/status/1835292186818056667#genocide
France recognised Western Sahara as part of Morocco, meaning that Macron's France has formally accepted that territories can be conquered through military means. The US has provided Israel will all of the cover to do the same.The more this becomes the status quo, the more very basic assumptions about sovereignty start crumbling, meaning any smaller nation to a bigger and more aggressive nation is at greater risk.
The only criteria in many circles is that you say something vaguely 'pro-Palestine', but God forbid this includes knowing anything about the Palestinian working class in Syria that was annihilated by Assad. God forbid you know that even before Israel unleashed hell on Gaza, Assad unleashed hell on Yarmouk.
The far right has more weight on French politics than it did before losing the elections because Macron decided they are better than him dealing with the Green-Left coalition. #Macron #Barnier #France
In 2020 two academics published a paper looking at how The Guardian has been mainstreaming the Far Right. At the core there is one problem (this is my simplification): the conflation of Far Right concerns with 'the people'. By default whatever the Far Right says has be taken more seriously than anything even left of center (let alone further left) which is also why the Guardian often uses 'populism' and 'the far right' interchangeably.
He’s not a ‘fascist’. He’s a fascist. Putting it in quotation is a choice, not an expression of pure journalism or whatever. Linguistically, there is no good reason to put the word fascist in quotes unless the intention is to downplay the threat of #fascism. #Germany #AFD #Elections https://www.dw.com/en/the-afds-bj%C3%B6rn-h%C3%B6cke-a-fascist-wins-election/a-67990287
Never forget this and never forget that this was repeated a dozen times since. There was no need for this war. No need for the genocide. No need for any of this. It was all a political decision for Netanyahu to avoid accountability, and it was only possible because of the direct complicity of the Biden administration. #Gaza #Israel #Genocide
By June, Israel had dropped over 70,000 tons of bombs on Gaza Strip, "exceeding World War II bombings in Dresden, Hamburg, London combined" There's an estimated 42 million tonnes of rubble in Gaza today. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-gaza-who-will-pay-to-rebuild/