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@AlanRMacLeod
May 20, 2021 • 12 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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(Thread) Israel is not just attacking Gaza; it is targeting journalists.

Here are some of the most notable attacks on the media.

Pictured is Gazan Momen Faiz Quraiqea outside his bombed out press office. (A previous 2008 Israeli airstrike blew his legs off).
2. Journalists from Andolu Agency were fleeing an airstrike in a car clearly marked TV when they themselves were targeted by an Israeli strike.
3. Israel blew up the multi-storey building home to the headquarters of Al-Jazeera and the Associated Press.

Journalists pleaded with the IDF to give them just a few minutes to collect their cameras and computers. That was denied.

aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/15…
4. An Israeli airstrike hit the home of Palestinian journalist Yousif Abu Hussein of @Timesofgaza
5. Anadolu Agency cameraman Mohammad Dahlan was taken to hospital yesterday, wounded in the leg from an Israeli attack on Gaza City.

aa.com.tr/en/pg/photo-ga…
In total, Israel has destroyed the offices of more than 20 news outlets so far, and is blocking foreign journalists from entering Gaza to document its crimes.

bit.ly/3wkZno9
7. Here is footage of the IDF roughing up veteran CNN correspondent Ben Wedeman and his team with complete impunity.

If they feel comfortable doing this to CNN, what are they doing to Palestinian journalists?

To be clear, Yousef Abu Hussein was killed in the Israeli airstrike that destroyed his home.

Here he is being buried with his press jacket.

Increasingly, it seems, these identifiers are targets, not shields.
9. Pictures of the bombed out building that used to house the Nawa Online Women Media Network.
10. 🇮🇱 forces attacked @MiddleEastEye reporter Latifeh Abdellatif on Tues. as she was covering the detention of a young boy in Jerusalem.

"I'm a journalist," she shouts.

The soldiers then pull her veil & beat her with truncheons.
middleeasteye.net/news/israel-pa…

11. Attacks against journalists inside Israel are also on the rise, as the far-right increasingly sees media as an enemy to their goals.

haaretz.com/israel-news/.p…

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Oct 16
[Thread 🇻🇪🇺🇸] Discussion of the phrase "Venezuela human rights" has hit a massive all-time high, according to Google Trends.

In this thread, I'll show how that is a clear sign that a potential US military intervention is imminent. Image
The United States has moved around 10,000 troops to the region, as the Trump administration openly states it is trying to carry out regime change in Venezuela.

Yesterday, Trump announced he had authorized "lethal" CIA missions inside Venezuela, in order to topple President Nicolás Maduro.

Interest & use of the phrase "Libya human rights" peaked in March 2011, just hours before the US led a massive intervention in the country, overthrowing President Gaddafi, and turning North Africa's most prosperous country into a failed state, replete with open-air slave markets.

Once the operation started, Western interest in Libyan human rights fell to almost zero.Image
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Sep 18
[Thread]

3 of the 6 largest VPN companies are owned and operated by an Israeli company, founded and led by "former" Israeli spies?

Is your VPN affected? My investigation reveals all:

mintpressnews.com/exposed-how-is…
Kape Technologies controls much of the online privacy market, including ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, Private Internet Access, ZenMate, Intego Antivirus, and a host of tech websites that promote its products.

Kape's co-founder and longtime CEO, Koby Menachemi began his tech career as a developer for Unit 8200, the IDF's most elite, and most controversial spying unit.

Menachemi’s successor as Kape CEO, Ido Erlichman, is a veteran of Unit 217, the IDF's Duvdevan Unit, an elite commando group that carries out intelligence operations and assassinations against the local Arab population.Image
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What are the Duvdevan and Unit 8200?

Duvdevan: Described as Israel's top "death squad", Duvdevan members are given special training to disguise themselves as Palestinians in order to infiltrate enemy groups and carry out extrajudicial killings. Both the selection process and the training are exceptionally rigorous, and Duvdevan commandos often spend months or even years undercover before being assigned a mission.

Unit 8200: Unit 8200 is the centerpiece of Israel's hi-tech surveillance state. Unit 8200 uses big data to compile giant dossiers on every single Palestinian, so it can be used for blackmail and extortion.

Information, such as if a person was cheating on their spouse or was homosexual, is also used as bait for blackmail. One former Unit 8200 soldier said that as part of his training, he was assigned to memorize different Arabic words for “gay” so that he could listen out for them in conversations.

Unit 8200 created a gigantic, AI-generated kill list for Gaza, allowing the IDF to bomb targets virtually indiscriminately. It was also the brains behind the 2024 Lebanese pager attack.

Unit 8200 agents have gone on to produce much of the world's top spyware devices, used to hack into the phones of governments and world leaders.

An example of this is Pegasus, the invasive software that was used to spy on more than 50,000 prominent individuals around the world, including politicians such as President Emmanuel Macron of France, Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan, and President Barham Salih of Iraq.

Known purchasers of the software include the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, as well as the governments of the UAE, Panama, and Saudi Arabia, who used the software to surveil Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi before he was assassinated by Saudi agents in Türkiye.
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Jun 27
Thread🧵: Facebook is controlled by the US national security state.

Let me explain how and why the world's largest social media company has been penetrated by intelligence agencies.

For the full investigation, based on years of research, click below:

mintpressnews.com/meet-ex-cia-ag…
In 2018, Facebook announced a deal with the Atlantic Council, which would give the latter significant influence over the world's news feeds, controlling what billions see -- and what they don't see.

The Atlantic Council is a Pentagon-funded think tank with no fewer than 7 former CIA directors on its board. It was founded as a NATO offshoot project, is staffed by NATO generals, and acts as the military alliance's brain.

In other words, giving the Atlantic Council control over 3 billion people's newsfeeds is a half-step away from state censorship, but on a global level.

about.fb.com/news/2018/05/a…Image
Even more worryingly, Facebook is absolutely teeming with US spies.
My research has uncovered dozens of former national security state agents working in key positions in politically sensitive departments like Trust and Safety, Content Moderation, and Security.

Here, in this official Meta (Facebook) video, a guy called "Aaron" is identified as the company's face of content regulation.

You'd never guess from this video that Aaron is a CIA agent.
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Jun 23
Football legend Diego Maradona showing his Fidel Castro tattoo to Castro himself (2001).

A poor boy from the slums of Buenos Aires, Maradona grew up to become a sporting legend.

Despite his riches, he remained a revolutionary socialist throughout his life; one who described Castro as a "father," and said that he "hated the United States with all my strength".

He also supported liberation struggles around the world. "In my heart I am Palestinian," Maradona saidImage
Maradona with his Che Guevara tattoo. Image
Maradona with socialist president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, sporting a "Stop Bush" t-shirt.

He considered the US to be the center of capitalism and imperialism. "I hate everything that comes from the United States. I hate it with all my strength," he said. Image
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Jun 19
Thread 🧵: I'm seeing a lot of US politicians express outrage at the Iranian strike on an Israeli hospital, so I thought I'd fill you all in on the shocking history of the US purposely bombing hospitals around the world.

For more, see my investigation:

mintpressnews.com/us-bombing-hos…
Yemen 🇾🇪

In March, Trump carried out 14 separate attacks against the Al Rasool Al-Azam Oncology Hospital in Saada, Yemen, turning it into rubble.

The newly built Al Rasool Al-Azam Hospital was the centerpiece of the region’s healthcare network. Costing over $7.5 million, the center provided crucial treatment to hundreds of cancer patients who previously went without any care at all or faced an eight-and-a-half-hour round trip to the capital, Sanaa, for therapy.

The Anti-Cancer Fund, a local government medical organization, described the events as a clear “war crime.”

“These attacks are not just airstrikes, but systematic executions, intended to eliminate hope and wipe out life amid a suffocating blockade,” it said in a statement.

These images give a taste of what repeated US bombardment did to it.Image
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Syria 🇸🇾

In 2017, on Trump's orders, US forces repeatedly bombed the National Hospital in Raqqa, Syria, carrying out 20 separate attacks against the building, including using white phosphorous munitions.

A highly controversial and widely-banned weapon, white phosphorous instantly ignites upon contact with oxygen, sticks to clothes and skin, and burns at an extremely high temperature. It cannot be extinguished by water, leaving those affected to suffer excruciating – and deadly – injuries.

At least 30 civilians were killed, some likely due to the effects of the white phosphorous, which causes respiratory damage and organ failure.Image
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Jun 19
Thread🧵 In light of Iran's allegations about WhatsApp sharing user location data with Israel, it's important to understand how deep Israeli intelligence penetration of big tech firms goes.

I've been working on this topic for 4 years. Here's what I found.
mintpressnews.com/revealed-forme…
Firstly, Meta (WhatsApp's parent company) is filled with former intelligence agents from the Israeli Defense Force's elite cyberwarfare battalion, Unit 8200.

Chief among these is Emi Palmor, who sits on Meta's Oversight Board - a 21-person panel that ultimately dictates the direction of the company, deciding what content is allowed and what is disallowed.

Palmor is a former Israeli spy and later went on to become General Director of the Israeli Ministry of Justice. In this role, she directly oversaw the stripping away of Palestinian rights and created a so-called “Internet Referral Unit” which would find and aggressively push Facebook to delete Palestinian content on its platform that the Israeli government objected to.Image
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Another important person at Meta is Eyal Klein, head of data science.

Klein spent six years in Unit 8200, rising to the rank of captain. Image
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