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Israel Launches New Ground Operations in Lebanon Despite Truce For months, Israel has conducted near-daily strikes against what it says are Hezbollah targets. Hezbollah has not responded militarily since a November truce.

Israel’s military launched its first ground incursions in months into parts of southern Lebanon. Since agreeing to a cease-fire in November, Israel has been conducting near-daily strikes against what it says are Hezbollah targets. Hezbollah has not responded militarily since the truce.

IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid ***

"Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites..."

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

if i were a plant i think i’d like to have my leaves spritzed on hot days

If you live in the West and you lose family members (something I was lucky enough to avoid because they got lucky enough), well, you’ve just got to accept that as the price of global security.

In Iran—as we’ve seen to a monumental extent in Gaza—if you’re a scientist, an ambulance driver, a hospital janitor, there will always have been a reason for you to become a legitimate target of death from above.

Membership in knowledge communities is also restricted according to a racial/civilizational logic: if you’re part of that great exclusion zone known as the global south, your murder can always be retroactively justified as strategically necessary

This would've been a daily stormer thread a decade ago. Neo-nazi conspiracy theories are mainstream now.

ngl I think the idea that feelings don't need to be justified in order to be respected is one of the sicknesses of modern culture

Bill Clinton please endorse my enemies

Every day, starving Palestinians in Gaza have no choice but to try to get food for their families, knowing full well it’s a trap and they’re likely to be murdered. This bait-and-switch starvation/extermination move will be studied for decades, after it can’t matter. Unforgivable.

Kindly close the New York Times browser window, close your eyes, and ask yourself if you really are for U.S. bombs shredding human beings for the crime of living in a state that doesn't want to submit to U.S. hegemony.

CENTCOM cooked up a military operation independent of the president?

once sleeper cells infiltrate the brain they are virtually impossible to remove

Wonderful that in the 22 years since the Iraq war there is still no serious anti-war coalition in either US party.

Cable news suddenly keeps mentioning “sleeper cells” in Iran. Heard it at least 3 times on CNN. Unbelievable 2003-style reporting malpractice, just spitballing ways of making Iran seem like a threat to Americans sitting at home watching tv

They were wrong in 2003 and they're wrong now.

the media is so deeply complicit

And it did all of this to protect (and later, after failing in that, punish the loss of) Western resource dominance. So much wreckage and devastation to support oil flows and revenues, and eventually, to demarcate where and for whom sovereignty exists.

can you imagine thinking the anti-war left is who you should be attacking right now?!?! absolutely disgusting

The US, the greatest purveyor of global violence, attacked a country it had been pretending to negotiate with—and did so in collaboration with a genocidal client regime. That is what has happened. It’s not “WWIII”; it is part of a history of militaristic surplus extraction in West Asia.

No war but class war.

I can't help but think about how the Bush-Cheney administration set this up.

The domestic opposition to US war with Iran must be resolute, immovable, and massive.

No nuances, just clarity:

US out of Iran.
US must cease supporting Israel's military.

I am incensed. This is all so heartbreaking and despicable. The Iranian people do not deserve this violence. We do not deserve this governance. The world does not deserve this. These outrages must end.

No qualifiers, no caveats: hands off Iran!

No qualifiers, no caveats: hands off Iran!

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