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Trump’s cabinet picks are agents of his contempt, rage and vengeance | Sidney Blumenthal
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/20/trump-cabinet-picks-contempt-rage-vengeance
#TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #EnemyTrump #ResistFascism #NaziTrump #GOPWeirdos #RacistGOP #DonaldTrump #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
It's good to see the government identify extremists for what they are.
Government of Canada lists Samidoun as a terrorist entity - Canada.ca https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/news/2024/10/government-of-canada-lists-samidoun-as-a-terrorist-entity.html
Today, the Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs, announced that the Government of Canada has listed Samidoun, also known as the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code.
When on this sad anniversary of last year's October 7 interrupted genocide we remember the 1,200 human souls intentionally slaughtered by fanatical terrorists, it's also worth to look at the rotten Nazi roots & affinities of those still wishing to drown the Jews in the Mediterranean, especially WWII Nazi friend, intimate & admirer of Heinrich Himmler, then supreme SS commander & boss of all German concentration & extermination camps, Amin al Husseini, Grand Mufti (Islamic legal scholar) of Jerusalem at the time.
It's his murderous fanaticism that also lives on in today's Palestinian islamists & committed Jew haters.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-ny-yiddish-center-finds-nazis-lurking-deep-within-hamass-ideology/
#WeRemember #October7 #IsraelPalestine #BringThemHome #EndTerrorism #PeaceSalaamShalom #Antisemitism #Nazism #Holocaust #Oct7Genocide
There's a lot of coverage on how #Israel has expanded the war in the #MiddleEast.
On the 1 yr anniversary of #Oct7, let's not forget WHAT started it — It was a surprise rocket attack on Israel by #Hamas from #Gaza, followed by repeated cross-border attacks by #Hezbollah from #Lebanon.
BOTH Hamas and Hezbollah have agency and are responsible for triggering and escalating this war, as is their benefactor #Iran and its #AxisOfAlliance.
Let's not forget WHO started it.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-one-year-anniversary-cf123f95609051e8e8eaf6aebe661b6a
Israelis are holding somber ceremonies to mark a year since the deadliest attack in the country’s history. The Hamas-led raid shattered Israelis' sense of security and ignited wars on two fronts with no end in sight. Hamas marked the anniversary of its Oct. 7, 2023, attack by firing a barrage of rockets at Tel Aviv, underscoring its resilience after a year of war and devastation in Gaza. Lebanon’s Hezbollah vowed to continue firing rockets at northern Israel in support of Hamas and the Palestinians despite its recent losses. The Israeli military says it will soon launch operations on Lebanon’s southern coast, telling residents to stay off the beaches and fishermen off the sea for a 60-kilometer stretch along the Mediterranean.
When proxies are not enough, when proxy leaders are falling dead, what is a hostile adversary to do?
Take matters into its own hands, of course.
And so, after waiting nearly a year since #Hamas, a member of #Iran's #AxisOfAlliance, launched a surprise attack on #Israel on #Oct7 2023, Iran delivers an #OctoberSurprise of its own to the #US by launching missiles directly at US-ally, Israel.
But it is not really a surprise ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111885708359978243 #TimingIsNoCoincidence
Iran launched at least 180 missiles into Israel, the latest in a series of escalating attacks in a yearslong conflict between Israel and Iran and its Arab allies. The missile attack — and a retaliation promised by Israel — threaten to push the Middle East closer toward a regionwide war. Before Iran’s attack on Tuesday, Israel had landed a series of devastating blows in recent weeks against Hezbollah’s leadership in Lebanon. It ratcheted up the pressure on the militant group — which has been firing rockets into Israel since the war in Gaza began — by launching what it said is a limited ground incursion in southern Lebanon. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Iran will pay a price for its missile barrage.
Iran has started firing ballistic missiles at Israel, IDF says.
Let's remember, they're targeting Arabs & non-Arabs, Israelis & Palestinians, Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sunnis, Shiites, Druze & people of other faiths indiscriminately, in a strip of land as tiny as Israel.
Hasn't the non-Arab Iranian Shiite regime caused enough trouble in Arab lands & wider Middle East since revolution brought Khomeini to power in 1979?
They built, funded & armed Hezbollah, recruited & funded Hamas & deployed Revolutionary Guards units to Syria & Lebanon more than four decades ago, opening an arms trafficking route from Iran down to Gaza.
Not to forget Iran's sponsoring of the Yemeni Shiite Houthi rebels.
Time for Iran to tone down its terrorist activities (and of course also its military support for war criminal Putin's war of aggression against Ukraine)
https://www.mediaite.com/news/just-in-iran-planning-imminent-attack-on-israel-with-ballistic-missiles-says-u-s/
#IsraelPalestine
A senior White House official told Israel on Tuesday that Iran is planning an “imminent” attack with ballistic missiles, reported multiple media outlets. Israeli media quoted IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari confirming the warning from the anonymous source in the Biden administration but said that Israel has not yet detected any launches from Iran,
Remember how in 2017 the American left collectively went into convulsions because Trump said there were “very fine people on both sides” regarding the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville… so why are we now pretending that there are very fine people amidst the pro-Hamas mob?
Matthew Schultz, Dispatches from the Promised Land
(Forwarded quote, I don't actually know him)
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Iian Milley 🇺🇲🇺🇦
Andy Kaplan-Myrth
Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌
Ramesh #NotGoingBack
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