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Jul 18, 2020 5 tweets 3 min read Read on X
A welcome development to see #UAE crown prince #MBZ used for torture in #France by #Yemen victims. No more chateau and fine wine excursions to Paris for the emir 😢 france24.com/en/20200717-ab…
@hrw and others extensively documented the role of UAE forces - under command and responsibility of MBZ - along w their proxies in torturing Yemenis:

hrw.org/news/2017/06/2…
And ofc the US knew about these #UAE torture centers in #yemen and interrogated prisoners there anyway.

apnews.com/4925f7f0fa6548…
Super nice stuff the UAE did to Yemenis: “Prisoners in these centers were “crammed into shipping containers smeared with feces & blindfolded for weeks,” beaten, and trussed up on a “grill” – a spit like a roast to which the victim is tied and spun in a circle of fire”.
So now some of this feces is being slapped right back at #MBZ in the case filed against him in #France. You have super bad karma MBZ, and human rights activists are always gonna be after you.

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For everyone just “outraged, outraged” by the execution of an American citizen by a bunch of terrorist thugs, I remind you of the execution of American-Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu-Aqleh, assassinated in cold blood, broad daylight, by the @IDF in 2022. Image
The @idf lied and lied about it until multiple investigations confirmed it was their bullets, with a trigger pulled by a sniper who shot her exposed neck in the narrow area exactly between her helmet and flak jacket.
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We’re shocked, shocked we tell you, that Israel is openly talking about resettling Palestinians outside of Gaza. Sure, they’ve said it in their plans, destroyed all the housing, shoved all Gazans to the border, but still we are shocked! state.gov/rejection-of-i…
We’re about to enter the Grand Middle East Bazaar, as governments start the horse-trading to see what they can get (from the US of course, not Israel) to acquiesce to the resettlement plan.
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