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exclusively engage with delusions. auspex. pineal gland 3rd worldist. fail to signify. My word for heaven was not yours
Mar 12 4 tweets 1 min read
Steadily escalating over the 80s, but exploding since Al-Aqsa Flood is a process of refractory genocidal projection, happening in tandem to the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, towards Shi'a, identified as the most intimate symbol-from-without of the Palestinian cause While genocides are usually thought of within neatly delineated frames of victim groups, in practice, the naturally paranoiac genocidal process proceeds through binding various communities -- racial, religious, or political -- as bearers of guilt & targets for eradication
Jun 6, 2025 9 tweets 2 min read
Very brief notes from an old presentation I never formalized, I think you have three general theories of the "special relationship" between the US and Israel: 1. Structural affinities: settler-colonialism, religious-colonial visions of the desert lands, Islamophobia, and anti-philosemitism syntax (Sayegh 1965; Abu Lughud & Abu Laban 1974; Said 1979; Sharif 1983; Said 1992; Massad 2005; Davis 2016; Hanieh 2024)
Jan 16, 2025 6 tweets 5 min read
sending the jinns from joko anwar's films to haunt every hitlerlib from the past 15 months Image
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Sep 21, 2024 14 tweets 3 min read
The Hezbollah calculus is three-fold:

1. the failures of prior Arab resistance have been their pre-emptive and emotional character. They either engage in war without strategy or they break their strategy at every Israeli provocation 2. the best approach to undermining Israel is a "boiling the frog" approach. Engage as a support front causing protracted attritional damage that eventually leads to fissures and collapse among the Zentity. This strategy demands maintaining a sub-threshold response that doesn't
Aug 7, 2024 68 tweets 10 min read
Yahya Sinwar was just elected head of the political division of Hamas today, replacing the late Ismail Haniyeh, assassinated last week by an Israeli strike on Tehran. Seems like an opportune moment to do a overview of the institutional evolution of Hamas. Yahya Sinwar was just elected head of the political division of Hamas today, replacing the late Ismail Haniyeh, assassinated last week by an Israeli strike on Tehran. Seems like an opportune moment to do a brief cover of the institutional evolution of Hamas.
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Jul 9, 2024 25 tweets 8 min read
Going to highlight core takeaways from Jeremy Scahill's interview with Hamas officials, found here dropsitenews.com/p/on-the-recor… Why a strategy of violence? While centrally identifying as a resistance organization, Hamas has often times reinterpreted what "resistance" is meant to entail, often reflecting internal struggles between factions and sub-organizations. In its early emergence, it largely argued
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Aug 31, 2018 13 tweets 5 min read
I'll repost some material from "The Seventh Million" about the response of the yeshuv (pre-Nakba colonies) to German Jewry The Jewish Agency, headed by the Labor Zionists, would maintain a general policy of limiting German Jewry (derisively labeled "yekkes") from settling in Palestine; the perception was that German Jews would bring with them "assimilationist" and "bourgeois" attitudes, as Herzl had
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