.@DAWNmenaorg to U.S.: Declassified Materials Should Include All Information Concerning #Saudi Government's Possible Role in 9/11 Attacks dawnmena.org/u-s-declassifi…
“Without guarantees that these declassified documents will not shield Saudi Arabia and Saudi officials from information about their role in the attacks, U.S. officials will again fail to provide the truth to those most directly affected by this event.”
"We must urgently overhaul legal & policy rationale underpinning Global War on Terror that allowed for unlawful invasion of Iraq, torture of prisoners in Abu Ghraib, unlawful detentions at Guantanamo Bay & various CIA 'black sites,' warrantless surveillance, & other abuses."
“Congress failed in its responsibilities to oversee the disastrous policies of the U.S. since 9/11; it should investigate these failures, hold the responsible U.S. military and government officials accountable, and ensure they are not repeated.”

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More from @sarahleah1

13 Sep
We expect @POTUS administration to lift $300m block on #Egypt military aid tomorrow despite Egypt’s total failure to meet any of Congress” “human rights conditions”.

That’s all ya need to know that our fight isn’t just against the government of Egypt but its enablers in the US.
All those folks in @biden admin who’ve whispered in our ears telling us the waiver is imminent - and struggled alongside us against Egypt’s abuses when they were outside the government - are they just whispering in Sisi’s ears now too?
The real farce of all this is orchestrated show to give @SecBlinken excuses for a waiver: thanking Sisi for his “essential” mediation w Hamas (bullshit), Sisi releasing a few detainees (of 50,000), Egypt releasing a “national human rights strategy (double bullshit).

Why bother?
Read 4 tweets
16 Jul
My latest on #Egypt in ⁦@ForeignAffairs⁩ - America Must Stop Underwriting Sisi’s Brutal Reign foreignaffairs.com/articles/middl…
For decades, a steady flow of funds —more than $50 billion in military aid plus $30 billion in economic aid since 1978—has assured Egyptian leaders that they possess something world’s dictators value far more than even most advanced military hardware: political support from US
steady stream into their coffers sends important message to ordinary Egyptians, too. No matter what state-sponsored torture or terror they suffer, US has their govts back, &aside from the occasional stern statement of concern, US will do nothing to end support for their abusers.
Read 17 tweets
14 Jul
#Egypt released 46 detainees Tuesday, apparently political cases, names not confirmed, in PR buildup to show compliance with human rights conditions on $300M in blocked US weapons, give @SecBlinken excuse he wants to waive condition.

Don't fall for it.
@SecBlinken In past week, #Egypt has also indicted @hosambahgat leading human rights activist, arrested a scholar coming home for a family visit, and today sentenced another 6 Egyptians to die, and 37 to life imprisonment.

This is on top of 50,000 political detainees languishing in prisons
@SecBlinken @hosambahgat And on top of that, in mind-boggling brazenness, Egypt intelligence chief Abbas Kamel showed up in DC a few weeks ago, palm out, but demanding that US jail US citizen @soltan complaining US didn't keep its "promise" to jail him in exchange for securing his release in Egypt
Read 5 tweets
22 May
طيار إسرائيلي: نسف أبراج غزة كان طريقا
للتنفيس عن إحباطنا | القدس العربي alquds.co.uk/?p=2704517
“An Israeli pilot revealed that the destruction of residential towers in #Gaza Strip was "a way to vent the army's frustration"

in an interview w Israeli Channel (12) with pilots who participated in blowing up 9 residential towers in Gaza, inc one that housed media offices.
For more testimonies from @idf soldiers about their war crimes against #Palestinians see the brave and honorable work of @BtSIsrael

The Israeli govt has tried to silence them, harass them and sue them but still they persist.

breakingthesilence.org.il
Read 6 tweets
21 May
Support artists in #Gaza defying the odds to create beauty. This work by Muhammad al-Huwaijri is striking; find him on @instagram @huwajriart
@instagram More about Mohamad and his work here @DAWNmenaorg

dawnmena.org/art-as-respons…
This beauty:
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20 May
Yet again people of color and #BLM leading all of America to wake up about racism and oppression at home -- and also in #Palestine -- based on a shared understanding of what a boot to the neck actually feels like aje.io/ejfpq via @AJEnglish
As @saharazizlaw explains "a 21st-century anti-racism movement is schooling Americans on how powerful manipulate media, politics, & economics to oppress entire groups of people, while blaming those same people for their hardships."
"As these lessons are increasingly applied to #Palestine, the question is when, not whether, US foreign policy will finally come to value Palestinian life."
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