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Mar 3 6 tweets 1 min read
Huge war Europe? ✅
Country of 40 million invaded? ✅
Millions fleeing? ✅

Some media: Let’s find a way to blame Israel and shift focus to Israel…
And they do this with no other country. Qatar is a major non-NATO ally of the US and there is no obsessive commentary looking at its role.

And unlike in Qatar, large numbers of Israelis have backed Ukraine. But you wouldn’t know that from media that claims Israel isn’t.
This is an example of entrenched antisemitism. Nothing else explains the obsessive attempt to shift focus to Israel, a country far from the conflict that has no connection to it.

Imagine all this obsessive coverage of Tunisia’s portion on Ukraine.
And this isn’t coverage because Israeli commentators are going to media to say Israel should do more; this is mostly American and US media trying to make everything about Israel.
You have to ask these folk who immediately shift the story to Israel and often lie about Israel’s actual stance…what did they ever do for Ukraine, they want to bash Israel but they weren’t there in Ukraine before the war were they?
It’s always about Israel. They can’t stop. 200 countries in the world and they ignore them all.

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Thread: Russia clearly used the Syrian war as preparation for war on Ukraine. Remember how Russia went into Crimea in 2014 and into the Donbas via support for separatists...and then paused and intervened in Syria in 2015. As Syria wound down as major conflict, it planned Ukraine
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