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Sep 26, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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@AOC needs a history lesson. #Rabin's funeral was attended by Pres. Mubarak of Egypt & King Hussein of Jordan, which lost the '67 war to Israel led by Rabin. Hussein gave a eulogy: "You lived as a soldier, and you died as a soldier of peace." baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-19…
2/ @AOC: At Rabin's funeral King Hussein said, "As long as I live I will be proud to have known him, to have worked with him as a brother, a friend." Hussein was King of Jordan in '67 when it lost to IDF led by Rabin, and made peace with Israel only the year before Rabin's death.
3/@AOC: What's your excuse for withdrawing from the memorial for Rabin, who was such a brave peacemaker he was eulogized at his funeral "as a brother, as a friend" by King Hussein who was literally defeated in the '67 war by that same Yitzhak Rabin when he was IDF chief of staff?
4/: @AOC withdrawal from @PeaceNowUS memorial for Rabin will be seen as confirming that for US hard-left even making peace with the Palestinians will not be enough, that BDS supporters such as @AOC won't be satisfied by anything less than Israeli surrender to eradication.

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Thread: Analysis of today's ICJ order by Orde Kittrie (law professor, senior fellow, and former US State Dept. attorney):
ICJ order's negative impact on US national security: “The ICJ’s failure to entirely dismiss South Africa’s meritless claims undermines the West’s on-going fight against the many authoritarian and terrorist leaders who are willing to drive up their own sides’ casualties by using their own civilians as human shields. The court ignored that Gaza civilian casualties are massively inflated by Hamas' rampant use of Palestinian civilians as human shields.  But the court used those inflated civilian casualty figures, for which Hamas is responsible, to justify measures against Israel. In doing so, the ICJ incentivized the use of human shields by authoritarian enemies such as China and Russia, and by terrorist enemies such as ISIS and the Taliban, who like Hamas are happy to sacrifice their own civilians if it will help them to undermine Western militaries by falsely accusing them of war crimes.” 1/9
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🧵As part of new Iran deal, US to reportedly lift all sanctions on many of Iran’s most barbaric abusers of human rights, including Khamenei, Raisi, Rezaei, Deghhan. This thread gives five reasons why that is a very bad idea and describes each of their abuses of human rights. 1/
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🧵As war rages in Europe, US & Russia must carefully avoid getting close to the nuclear brink. The stakes are too high. Even in less tense periods, technical & other errors have several times nearly led to nuclear war between the US and Russia/USSR. 1/ ucsusa.org/resources/clos…
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Thread -- The Israel Defense Forces announced today its discovery that Hezbollah is storing rockets, military-grade explosives and other weapons in a home 25 meters from a children's school in Lebanon. 1/ jpost.com/middle-east/id…
By using the civilian students of the school and civilian residents of the home as human shields for its weapons, Hezbollah is engaging in a war crime, in violation of the Geneva Conventions and customary international law. fdd.org/2020/10/15/tim… 2/
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Thread: The FBI and U.S. prosecutors today announced "the government of Iran directed" its agents "to plot to kidnap a U.S.-based journalist and American citizen" in New York City and smuggle her to Iran because she criticized the Iranian regime's human rights abuses. 1/
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Thread on my new article, which lists numerous examples of Hamas use of human shields (a war crime) during May 2021 Gaza conflict and explains why Biden should fulfill his statutory obligation, under the Shields Act, to respond with sanctions. 1/ fdd.org/analysis/2021/…
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