Do you think Palestinian Americans demanding accountability from those the US government asserts are their “leaders” but won’t even name makes me and these 548 people “sad, pathetic trolls”? How are you so arrogant and contemptuous, Jim? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
Any person of principle would and should object to be used as window dressing by @Ablinken, so he can falsely appear "evenhanded" by talking to "Palestinian American leaders" while giving full support to Israel's genocidal apartheid regime.
.@jjz1600 knows very well that nothing he or the other anonymous "Palestinian-American leaders" (Jim isn't even Palestinian) will change US policy by one iota. The only thing you did was allow Blinken to market his extreme Zionism as a kinder, gentler form of racism.
Since the people who met with Blinken are not actually "Palestinian American leaders" and have no constituency, they cannot bring any pressure on the US government. They would have done more good by publicly refusing to be used as window dressing.
The biggest lie the Washington bit players hungry for access, Iftar invitations and photo-ops tell themselves and others is that they are "changing things from the inside." This game is fooling no one. You cannot advance yourselves at Palestinian expense anymore.
I do not mind being called names by the likes of @jjz1600 and others. I consider it part of my job. But I will not allow him to claim that his decades long pursuit of access in the Democratic Party and the DC establishment is for the sake of Palestinians and their rights. Enough

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8 Jun
Outrageous and offensive for @IlhanMN to compare Palestinians resisting US-backed apartheid in the same category as the US empire which has killed millions, and Israel’s illegitimate terrorist colonial regime. Omar must stop pandering to Zionists with anti-Palestinian attacks.
The fake “even handedness” @IlhanMN is displaying by placing Palestinian resistance in the same category as the aggressor and its American accomplices is another way of saying “All Lives Matter.” It’s anti-Palestinian and we should not accept it from a “friend”
.@IlhanMN thought that by attacking Palestinian resistance, racist white supremacists would praise her fairness and balance. But they are only smearing her for comparing the US to Hamas (and Taliban). She threw Palestinians under the bus for free. With friends like these ...
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It's especially important for all of the Zionist settler-colony's European and American "friends" to know that their beloved apartheid regime will never know "peace" in the sense they mean it: Palestinian submission to conquest. Palestinians will resist until liberation.
Less than a year ago, Zionist fascists and Gulf tyrants celebrated their marriage, presided over by the US, over what they thought was the dead body of the Palestinian cause. Now they know, the Palestinian people are alive, and they will free their country, from river to sea.
There is no room for a racist colonial apartheid regime in Palestine. There is room for all the people, regardless of religion or origin, but on the basis of equality, and restitution for the crimes of Zionism. US, UK and Europeans, especially, must pay.
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Absolute folly for anyone, especially a Palestinian, to demand even more Silicon Valley censorship of those whose views they don’t like. Violent threats and targeted harassment are one thing but demanding political censorship is wrong and bad.
.@marwasf demands censorship of so-called "Assad apologists" while working for @accessnow, an NGO funded by UK, EU, Canada govts and big US foundations, that claims it "defends and extends the digital rights." I suppose "digital rights" but only for those you agree with!
The trick here is to sweeten the pill of censorship by demanding censorship of "Assad apologists" and "Nakba deniers," because that makes this US/EU/UK/Canada authoritarianism and control of discourse seem "pro-Palestinian."
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This makes me feel bitter. For decades @nytimes has been and remains one of the leading outlets for racist Zionist propaganda dehumanizing Palestinians and justifying their murder. This does not wash their crimes away.
During second intifada of early 2000s, @nytimes and other US papers, week after week, would publish vile pieces claiming that Palestinian parents deliberately sent their children out to be killed to make Israel look bad. Nazi-style dehumanization. Will there ever be a reckoning?
I documented this horrific, routine propaganda in a chapter in the book “The New Intifada.” It was routine and normal in US, including in major papers, to represent Palestinians as a monster race that sacrifices children.
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25 May
Bu çiçeğin Arapça adı “saat”? Türkçe adı ne? Image
Saat hem o çiçeğin Arapça adı hem de Arapça bir kelime. Kelime de Arapça bir kelime! Atatürk’ün reformları rağmen Türkçede birçok Arapça kelime vardir! Rağmen de Arapça bir kelime!!
Arapça kelimeler rağmen Türkçe Arapçadan gerçekten farklı. Ama her gün biraz daha anlıyorum ve umarım bir gün yine Türkiye’ye gelirim sizinle konuşmak için.
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248 people were killed during the Israeli attack on Gaza, including 66 children. But the enemy claims it killed “200+ terrorists.”

248-200=48 and 66-48=18

So according to enemy occupier math, roughly 18 of the babies killed in Gaza were “terrorist” babies.
The vast majority of people the Israeli regime kills are always civilians. This includes men, women and children. Colonial wars are always like that. The colonizers can’t get at the resistance so they take revenge on civilians.
So the “math” above is just sarcasm. In reality, most of the men Israel kills are civilians, as are the women and children. But typically there is an emphasis on women and children which can inadvertently obscure that the men are civilians too.
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