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15 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
I'm confused...A Newsweek report says there are "Shahed-136" drones in Yemen, a drone I've never heard of before...and then Israel's reports, based on Newsweek, turn them into "Shahed 129", both reports call them kamikaze drones...but Shahed 129 is a copy of a Predator? Confusing ImageImageImage
I'm all for articles about Iranian drones in Yemen...definitely there are Iranian-style drones and technology, the Qasef series, for instance. But what's up with the reports about the Shahed-136 and Shahed 129 and calling them loitering or kamikaze UAVs?
Here is the report; newsweek.com/iran-suicide-d…
Here is the Hebrew language Israel report ostensibly following on it...kan.org.il/Item/?itemId=9…
Here is my take; jpost.com/middle-east/re…

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18 Jan
Quick thoughts and thread on the recent barrage of articles seeking to push the view that all of Israel, and the West Bank, and Jerusalem and Gaza are “apartheid”...implications of this is to roll it out on eve of Biden admin to try to shift narrative (again) ImageImageImageImage
First of all the whole “Zionism is racism” and “Israel is apartheid” has been a talking point for decades pushed first by the “anti-imperialist” crowd and then later in the 1990s after end of Cold War and end of actual apartheid in S. Africa.
Second this argument has shifted from seeking to encourage Israel to leave the “Occupied Palestinian Territories” which means Gaza and West Bank and East Jerusalem; to arguing all of Israel is “apartheid”
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11 Jan
It’s interesting that when ISIS used social media and messaging platforms to coordinate a genocide and attacks in which thousands were murdered the big tech didn’t take those platforms off line. Was it just because they didn’t feel lives in Iraq and Syria were as important?
I remember in 2014 how open support of ISIS was, we learned later the group even used platforms to trade and sell slaves. Millions of pro-ISIS accounts were later closed but no one moved as quick as they did to stop Parler. That is interesting historically.
It took years to remove the ISIS extremist accounts between 2014 and 2017...I know because I followed and wrote about this issue and was in Sinjar after the genocide. It took just days to remove Parler.
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10 Jan
Can someone do a roundup of these Soleimani statues...here I’ll start a thread
Here is one of them #SoleimaniStatues
That’s the Beirut one
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10 Jan
Thread: If this was actually broadly happening then they would talk about them the way they do those "militants," arguing to use counter-insurgency strategy to make them feel enfranchised and moderate them, rather than radicalize them further.
The fact is that if this were true, then we would hear that the militants have been driven to this by poverty, desperation and feeling humiliated and disenfranchised and the US would send special forces to meet with "tribal elders" and build schools for them...obviously not.
While some may draw parallels between US militias and militias in some place like Iraq, the fact is that no one proposes treating them as militias in Iraq are treated...like "oh let's incorporate them into the security forces like the PMU"...
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4 Jan
Thread: I would take more seriously the "Israel doesn't vaccinate people in areas it doesn't control that are run by hostile governing authorities recognized as a foreign state" more seriously...if the same people conjured this up about Donbas, Kashmir, N. Cyprus etc...
Israel hasn't 'excluded' anyone from a vaccine...in the opposite its massive vaccination program, from personal experience, is open to everyone who arrives...the idea that it should be bashed for not doing the same in Gaza is ridiculous.
And we know it is ridiculous and hypocritical misleading lies because the same voices don't make this argument for Turkey providing health care to Idlib...and they don't argue that Russia must vaccinate the "Donbas People's Republic"...in no other case does this claim arrive.
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3 Jan
Thread: The same people who often refer to Arab citizens of Israel as Palestinians, claim Israel isn’t vaccinating Palestinians. They are wrong.

Israel is vaccinating Arab citizens of Israel, which some refer to as Palestinian citizens and Palestinian Arab residents of Jerusalem
It’s true Israel isn’t vaccinating non-citizen residents of Gaza, which Israel left in 2005, and of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. 139 countries have recognized a Palestinian state, so that state has responsibility for vaccinating its citizens and deserves support.
The fact is that Palestinians, whether Arab citizens of Israel or non-citizens will do better under the health system of Israel and the Palestinian Authority areas than in many neighboring states. The international community should definitely help Gaza, and Israel can too.
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