Pessimist of the intellect, optimist of the will. Editorial lead at AJ+. Views are my own, not those of my employer. RT ≠ endorsement
Jul 27, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Joe Biden and Donald Trump's racist contempt for Palestinian life has many hoping (against hope, I'd say) that a President Kamala Harris would change the direction of U.S. policy towards Israel's criminality. There's no question she's adopting a different tone... 🧵 1/4
but how much does tone, and rhetoric, actually matter in the US-Israel relationship? I can't help but remember President Obama's 2009 speech in Cairo, which recognized Palestinian suffering caused by Israel's very creation and its expansion... 🧵2/4 tonykaron.com/2009/06/08/oba…
Oct 7, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Today’s Hamas operation from Gaza surprised Israel, but it should be no surprise that Palestinians refuse to accept the fate to which Israel seeks to consign them. The fighters of Gaza and West Bank see a choice between living on their knees or dying on their feet 🧵1/7
Gaza is a giant refugee camp –70% of its population are families forced from their homes by the creation of Israel in 1948. It has been under a brutal siege for almost two decades, facing constant bombardment, thousands of casualties and permanent humanitarian crisis🧵2/7
Jan 3, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Some key points of context that we can't allow the media whose failures enabled the last catastrophic US war of choice in the Middle East to ignore as Trump plunges the region into chaos when other choices were available:
The US military presence in Iraq (on Iran's doorstep) is the legacy of an illegal invasion that began in 2003, and which resulted in the deaths of 100s of 1000s of Iraqis.
