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7 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Thread: Israel reopens restaurants as vaccine program gives chance for char. Yesterday, Saturday, chairs were unpacked in Jerusalem to prepare for reopening. Image
Tel Aviv today; cafes and places open and preparing also for nightfall when bars will host as well
A “happy hour” sign not seen in months, in many cases it has been since September 2020 Image
The motto is “returning” and there is a green pass “app” and other methods and rules; of course it’s not “normal” but a slight sense after a year of trauma Image

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9 Mar
When people say that US political campaigns have becoming increasingly expensive...it's not because the money is being used to put adds in front of voters...they are expensive because money is just re-routed to various consultants and "strategists."
US politics is increasingly just a shell game of shell companies...so when people say that this year's election costs more than the past...none of that money really goes into the "election" or even the "campaigning"...it's just that the US has a well-oiled machine moving money
The fact that in just this ONE case some tens of millions were re-routed isn't unique...guarantee this is the tip of the iceberg...you think this one group invented this all on their own...or they learned it over the years as how business of politics is done.
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2 Mar
Ankara is the largest jailor of journalists in the world, routinely bashes LGBT activists, is one of the most authoritarian far-right hate-filled regimes in the world, invaded and ethnically cleansed Afrin, routinely does targeted assassinations abroad, imprisons ppl for tweets..
It’s like Mussolini’s Italy talking about human rights, give us a break. People are in prison for decades for tweets. For tweets....anything critical of the president lands people in prison. There is no critical media or critical voices on state media
Ankara’s state media has LESS criticism of the regime than Iran’s state media. Just read TRT and Anadolu and compare to Fars and Tasnim. And this ridiculous regime talks human rights
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1 Mar
I'm not really sure how the US is sending a message against similar attacks, doesn't Ankara hunt down journalists at home, doesn't Iran target journalists even abroad, and Lokman Slim was murdered and Hisham al-Hashimi...so what is being done.
I mean, Hevrin Khalaf wasn't a journalist but she was a political activist and leader and she was openly targeted and murdered by Ankara-backed extremists, so I'd like to understand how any country in the world is being made to feel such things can't happen.
I look all over the world and see rising authoritarians with impunity. I work as a journalist and there are plenty of countries I can't go to because maybe I wrote critical views in the past...I think most regimes feel total impunity.
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1 Mar
Thread:Saying it now in case I don't find a place or time to write an article on this: Gantz and Ashkenazi have been very good as Israel's Defense Minister and Foreign Minister and it was only a year; they did a lot, shows how bad it was when Israel lacked key people in positions
Sadly too many decisions have all been concentrated in the Prime Minister office as the Foreign Ministry was undermined as well as decisions taken that should have included DefMin; Israel needed robust DefMin, ForMin to do business and meet with other countries
Example: Netanyahu never meets publicly with Jordan's leadership; shame, because Israel and Jordan share many interests. But Gantz can and has. Sidelining these positions or in many cases not even having a foreign and defense minister harmed Israel.
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1 Mar
Thread: I've never seen a clear explanation why the various voices claiming Israel must vaccinate Palestinians include Gaza...but don't claim Israel must provide all the other health care there...only vaccines. It strikes me as just virtue signaling, not a serious argument
Yet these statements say things like: "Equally provide: Israel must fulfill a legal responsibility to make sure all Palestinians living under occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, are vaccinated."

What is this "legal" responsibility?
Some say Israel still "occupies" Gaza...but they don't suggest Israel has a "legal" responsibility to run Gaza's health care system...which has been run by the Palestinian Authority and then Hamas for decades. So what is the exact responsibility...theconversation.com/israel-faces-l…
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14 Feb
So Ankara launched illegal military operation in Iraq...and now has claimed a death toll associated with it to excuse some new military invasion and also a crackdown on dissidents inside Turkey. Also goal appears to be to engineer US support (see it already got US embassy tweet)
Reads like it was orchestrated entirely to create a fake crisis so Ankara could wring a phone call or concessions out of new US admin. Image
See the goal is to use this operation, which Ankara itself launched illegally invading Iraq...claiming it fights “terrorists”...to then actually use this as an excuse to go after the opposition at home, which it has already jailed and dismissed most of its mayors Image
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