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Reactionary US client states Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, and Jordan are supporting Trump's plan for a fake Israel-Palestine apartheid bantustan peace plan.

All 4 countries told Jared Kushner they're willing to abandon the Palestinian Authority to fulfill it
middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-uae…
The Trump administration has quietly frozen US aid to the Palestinian Authority, as it prepares to rubber-stamp Israel's permanent control over the occupied territories
i24news.tv/en/news/intern…
UNRWA, the UN agency that helps the world's 5.4 million Palestinian refugees survive, could start running out of money next month because of Trump's aid cuts.

This is the agency's worst financial crisis since its creation in 1949.
nytimes.com/2018/06/25/wor…
Head of UNRWA: “we are going to run out of money for food distribution in Gaza, for psychosocial support in the Gaza Strip and also cash for work programs in the West Bank and others in a matter of weeks”

While the US helps starve millions in Yemen, it is also starving Palestine
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(Movie Review Thread) I just saw Peter Jackson's new film They Shall Not Grow Old, a documentary on World War I. The film is technically breathtaking, but I was shocked to see a film on WWI that is completely apolitical. It's about political mass slaughter but it avoids politics!
They Shall Not Grow Old does not even try to explain why WWI was fought — let alone why it was an entirely preventable, pointless inter-imperialist bloodbath that led to the unnecessary deaths of tens of millions of (almost entirely poor) people!
Instead the whole point of the film is to humanize the soldiers fighting in WWI and show what day-to-day life was for them. And that's great; it's important to see the mind-boggling horrors of WWI and trench warfare. But that must be done *in historical and political context*.
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I just saw @ViceMovie, and it's brilliant. The film shows how well-made narratives can capture the zeitgeist and politics of an era not only more captivatingly but even more accurately than documentaries. Because it's not just about the facts; it's about the tone and attitude.
.@GhostPanther masterfully captured the essence of Cheney and the Bush admin -- and the facts, yes, but more importantly the spirit.

Christian Bale and Amy Adams used their bodies as instruments, like musical virtuosi, to forge a sick world in which reactionary power intoxicates
Vice does much more than just retell the story of Cheney/Bush's crimes; it offers profound human insight into how right-wing aspiring autocrats think about and see the world, and their place in it

By humanizing blood-soaked Dick Cheney, it makes his crimes all the more monstrous
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I interviewed peace activist @MedeaBenjamin of @CODEPINK, who stressed that US support for the Saudi monarchy must be fundamentally challenged.

Some US officials want a cosmetic change, simply replacing Crown Prince MBS, but the problem runs much deeper
.@MedeaBenjamin: "It's our job now to say this is not just about MBS... We have to use this time to re-evaluate the entire relationship. But it’s very difficult then, because there’s so much money that is involved in this."
therealnews.com/stories/the-re…
Back in early 2016, @CODEPINK organized the first-ever summit calling for an end to the "suicidal death pact between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia" salon.com/2016/03/10/ins…
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Actually, it took him quite a long time. He accepted collusive pre-election assistance from an Israeli government-linked "business intel" firm run by Joel Zamel and has furthered Israel's interests in the region (including a reconstituted GCC run by Saudi Arabia) for three years.
2/ He—directly or indirectly—instructed Flynn to illegally negotiate with Israel pre-inauguration; Kushner angrily threw a wrench into Middle East peace talks to preserve the status quo for Netanyahu... sorry, but it's a bad take to ignore the longstanding Trump-Israeli alliance.
3/ It's understandable that Americans who broadly support Israel are angry at Trump for his Syria "plan." What isn't OK is for journalists of any stripe to—in expressing that anger—change history in a way that'll make taking Trump to task for his pre-election collusion(s) harder.
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It is not lost on me that whenever I post about women raped, abused, tortured, threatened with jail for journalism, be they in the US, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Switzerland, Egypt, Philippines, I am told:
- the women are lying
- the women want attention
- the women are ugly
- I am ugly
All fucking day, the same thing just from different locations. All demanding the women & by extension I “prove” that the boy king of Saudi Arabia tortured feminists,the ruler of Dubai abducted & imprisoned his princess daughter, the thug president of Philippines bullies a journo
Sometimes it’s obvious they’re trolls, other times they are shamefully real people NOT being paid to regurgitate misogynist shit, but ALL times they are dipping into a deep well of patriarchy that demands women “prove” the very patriarchy that patriarchy insists doesn’t exist.
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🌳TGIF🌳

📌America deserves to know how
much money Trump is getting from the Saudi government. $3.6B to nuke the Iran deal?

📌Trump’s corruption is a national security issue.

📌Saudis may well have felt emboldened by Trump’s attacks on journalists as the “enemy of the people.”
🌳TGIF🌳

CT: “Trump (and some adult family) negotiated a deal with the Saudis and the Emiratis for 3.6 billion to get rid of Iran nuclear deal and reimpose sanctions. The payment was made in two installments. The first last year and the second earlier in 2018”
🌳TGIF3🌳

📌Trump’s “rhetoric against journalists probably encouraged the Saudis to do it,”

📌“Trump hates journalists & he would not react if we kill one journalist.”

📌Senators warn Congress may block Trump's SA arms deals
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1) This is my #Qanon thread for September 4, 2018

Q posts with research tools can be found here: qmap.pub

Android apps:
bit.ly/Q_Alerts
bit.ly/Q_Drops

My Theme: Alice And Wonderland
2) This thread is about the odd signatures used by #Qanon and how, over time, they become proofs of insider knowledge.
3) If you've followed Q's posts you may have seen some of the more common "signatures," #Qanon uses—usually the titles of films or books.

Examples:
Iron Eagle
Hunt for Red October (more recently simply: "Red October"
Godfather III
Snow White
Alice & Wonderland
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#Israel will never recognize #Palestine,illegal segregated settlements in the #WestBank keep growing & #Gaza is a #ConcentrationCamp.
THE 2-STATE SOLUTION FACADE ENABLES #ISRAEL TO CLAIM THEY'RE A DEMOCRACY,allowing settlers in the occupied territories to vote & #Palestinians not
#Netanyahu:"I Deceived the #US to Destroy Oslo Accords"
#Israel never wanted peace,they already occupy #Palestine, only maintain the 2-state solution topic alive so they don't have to let Palestinians vote while claiming to be a Democracy.
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#Israel Incapable of Telling Truth About #Water It Steals From #Palestinians.
Water is the only issue in which Israel (still) finds it difficult to defend its Discriminatory, Oppressive & Destructive Policy with Pretexts of Security & God. #ApartheidIsrael haaretz.com/opinion/.premi…
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SAUDI ARABIA ON THE BRINK OF CIVIL WAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saudi also arrested Prince Al Waleed bin Talal tonight, the richest man in Saudi Wahabia.
Saudi arrested 'Sheikh' Waleed bin Ibrahim al Ibrahim as well tonight. the CEO of @mbc_group !! Net worth: 11 billion US dollars!!
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