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🎥 “I remember covering the Second Intifada. You couldn’t say Palestine… You would get attacked so viciously,” Sharif Kouddous recalled, before asking Palestinian-American human rights attorney Noura Erakat how she gauges this moment entering the third year of genocide. Erakat said despair is real, but hope comes from action:...

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After human rights attorney Noura Erakat testified at the UN Security Council on the legal arguments for why Israel’s war in Gaza constitutes genocide, U.S. envoy Dorothy Shea responded by labeling it “false” and “antisemitic.” Erakat told Drop Site that while Palestinians have long described their suffering as the Nakba, using the term genocide is important because it strips away the lie of legitimacy. Wars, she explained, can still be defended as lawful even if they include atrocities; genocide, by definition, never can. That’s why Israel’s stated aims, “destroying Hamas, freeing captives,” are nothing but “cover.” The true goal, she asserted, is to eliminate Palestinians’ very capacity to resist. Naming it genocide forces recognition of Israel’s intent: the destruction of a people. Sharif Kouddous شريف عبد القدوس | Noura Erakat
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After human rights attorney Noura Erakat testified at the UN Security Council on the legal arguments for why Israel’s war in Gaza constitutes genocide, U.S. envoy Dorothy Shea responded by labeling it “false” and “antisemitic.” Erakat told Drop Site that while Palestinians have long described their suffering as the Nakba, using the term genocide is important because it strips away the lie of legitimacy. Wars, she explained, can still be defended as lawful even if they include atrocities; genocide, by definition, never can. That’s why Israel’s stated aims, “destroying Hamas, freeing captives,” are nothing but “cover.” The true goal, she asserted, is to eliminate Palestinians’ very capacity to resist. Naming it genocide forces recognition of Israel’s intent: the destruction of a people. Sharif Kouddous شريف عبد القدوس | Noura Erakat

Drop Site

19,681 views • 10 months ago

As Israelis and Palestinians who live here and are exposed on a daily basis to testimonies and lived realities, it is our duty to speak the truth and say in the clearest way: Israel is committing genocide - this is our genocide. We believe that it is our duty to speak truth from within the atrocity. To call it by its name. To fight and demand: Stop the genocide. Now.
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As Israelis and Palestinians who live here and are exposed on a daily basis to testimonies and lived realities, it is our duty to speak the truth and say in the clearest way: Israel is committing genocide - this is our genocide. We believe that it is our duty to speak truth from within the atrocity. To call it by its name. To fight and demand: Stop the genocide. Now.

B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم

146,832 views • 1 year ago

.Charlie Kirk “COURAGE IS DOING THE RIGHT THING WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW HOW IT IS GOING TO WORK OUT. COURAGE IS COMMITTING YOURSELF TO THE CORRECT COURSE OF ACTION REGARDLESS OF THE COST ASSOCIATED TO IT. EVERY HUMAN BEING I BELIEVE IS MADE IN THE IMAGE OF THE DIVINE, SCARED AND UNIQUE. AND IF WE GET AWAY FROM THIS PRINCIPLE, AS WE HAVE, WE NOT ONLY HAVE MORAL DEGRADATION, WE NOT ONLY HAVE THE COLLAPSING SOCIETY AROUND US, BUT IT’S BAD FOR THAT BEING ITSELF. THAT BEING ITSELF IS UNIQUE. THAT BEING HAS RIGHTS AND WHO ARE WE TO SAY JUST BECAUSE WE’RE OLDER THAT WE GET TO MURDER IT.”
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.Charlie Kirk “COURAGE IS DOING THE RIGHT THING WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW HOW IT IS GOING TO WORK OUT. COURAGE IS COMMITTING YOURSELF TO THE CORRECT COURSE OF ACTION REGARDLESS OF THE COST ASSOCIATED TO IT. EVERY HUMAN BEING I BELIEVE IS MADE IN THE IMAGE OF THE DIVINE, SCARED AND UNIQUE. AND IF WE GET AWAY FROM THIS PRINCIPLE, AS WE HAVE, WE NOT ONLY HAVE MORAL DEGRADATION, WE NOT ONLY HAVE THE COLLAPSING SOCIETY AROUND US, BUT IT’S BAD FOR THAT BEING ITSELF. THAT BEING ITSELF IS UNIQUE. THAT BEING HAS RIGHTS AND WHO ARE WE TO SAY JUST BECAUSE WE’RE OLDER THAT WE GET TO MURDER IT.”

🦅 Eagle Wings 🦅

32,111 views • 11 months ago

🎥 Drop Site introduced Maysa Mustafa, our newest journalist, as she joined Ryan Grim and Sharif Abdel Kouddous on the livestream this morning. Ryan and Sharif then broke down the UAE’s region-shaking decision to leave OPEC, with Sharif placing it within the wider oil crisis triggered by the U.S.-Israel war on Iran and the effective shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz. Ryan noted the move may not immediately lower oil prices, since Abu Dhabi is already producing below its OPEC quota, with its energy sector and cash flow under significant strain following Iranian retaliation. Ryan Grim | Sharif Kouddous شريف عبد القدوس | Maysa Mustafa
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🎥 Drop Site introduced Maysa Mustafa, our newest journalist, as she joined Ryan Grim and Sharif Abdel Kouddous on the livestream this morning. Ryan and Sharif then broke down the UAE’s region-shaking decision to leave OPEC, with Sharif placing it within the wider oil crisis triggered by the U.S.-Israel war on Iran and the effective shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz. Ryan noted the move may not immediately lower oil prices, since Abu Dhabi is already producing below its OPEC quota, with its energy sector and cash flow under significant strain following Iranian retaliation. Ryan Grim | Sharif Kouddous شريف عبد القدوس | Maysa Mustafa

Drop Site

29,989 views • 4 months ago

Thank you Nigel Branken. As she is busy with her campaign trail. The questions below should be posed to Helen Zille each time she opens her mouth: I asked Johannesburg Mayoral Candidate, Helen Zille a simple question last night... First: when will she finally call this what it is? GENOCIDE! How many more dead children, how many more starving families, how many more bombed hospitals, before she finds the moral courage to say the word genocide? Second: the claim that we must all sit quietly until the ICJ gives a final ruling is nonsense. The genocide convention requires we act to prevent genocide. The ICJ has already acted because the rights protected under the Genocide Convention were plausibly at risk. Amnesty International has called it genocide. Human Rights Watch has documented extermination and acts of genocide. The International Association of Genocide Scholars has said it is genocide. It is genocide - we MUST name it and act to prevent it. ... and Third: the DA keeps telling us they can do nothing and that South Africa cannot influence what is happening. That is also nonsense. They can support the South African ICJ court case. They can support sanctions. They can support stopping coal exports. They can support the prosecution of South Africans serving in the IDF. They can choose to stand on the side of the oppressed instead of pretending powerlessness. And how did she respond? Basically this: South Africa is busy with its own great kumbaya project, we cannot influence the rest of the world, and what matters most is that we work on our project. In other words, our diversity becomes an excuse for silence while Palestinians are bombed, starved and erased.
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Thank you Nigel Branken. As she is busy with her campaign trail. The questions below should be posed to Helen Zille each time she opens her mouth: I asked Johannesburg Mayoral Candidate, Helen Zille a simple question last night... First: when will she finally call this what it is? GENOCIDE! How many more dead children, how many more starving families, how many more bombed hospitals, before she finds the moral courage to say the word genocide? Second: the claim that we must all sit quietly until the ICJ gives a final ruling is nonsense. The genocide convention requires we act to prevent genocide. The ICJ has already acted because the rights protected under the Genocide Convention were plausibly at risk. Amnesty International has called it genocide. Human Rights Watch has documented extermination and acts of genocide. The International Association of Genocide Scholars has said it is genocide. It is genocide - we MUST name it and act to prevent it. ... and Third: the DA keeps telling us they can do nothing and that South Africa cannot influence what is happening. That is also nonsense. They can support the South African ICJ court case. They can support sanctions. They can support stopping coal exports. They can support the prosecution of South Africans serving in the IDF. They can choose to stand on the side of the oppressed instead of pretending powerlessness. And how did she respond? Basically this: South Africa is busy with its own great kumbaya project, we cannot influence the rest of the world, and what matters most is that we work on our project. In other words, our diversity becomes an excuse for silence while Palestinians are bombed, starved and erased.

@luphumlongcayisa

16,328 views • 4 months ago

🚨🇮🇱 🇵🇸 NETANYAHU: IF WE WANTED TO COMMIT GENOCIDE, WE COULD DO IT IN ONE AFTERNOON — BUT WE DON’T "Free Gaza, I agree... free Gaza from Hamas terror, free Gaza from Hamas tyranny. As far as Israel's performance on the battlefield, this is the fraud. It's not merely the starvation fraud, it's a genocide fraud. If we wanted to commit genocide, we would have done it in one afternoon. We have the capacity. But we don't do that. We call up Palestinian civilians, millions of texts and phone calls, and Hamas prevents them from leaving by shooting them. So what do you think? Is that genocide? No, it isn't. And yet Israel is being blamed." Source: TRIGGERnometry
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🚨🇮🇱 🇵🇸 NETANYAHU: IF WE WANTED TO COMMIT GENOCIDE, WE COULD DO IT IN ONE AFTERNOON — BUT WE DON’T "Free Gaza, I agree... free Gaza from Hamas terror, free Gaza from Hamas tyranny. As far as Israel's performance on the battlefield, this is the fraud. It's not merely the starvation fraud, it's a genocide fraud. If we wanted to commit genocide, we would have done it in one afternoon. We have the capacity. But we don't do that. We call up Palestinian civilians, millions of texts and phone calls, and Hamas prevents them from leaving by shooting them. So what do you think? Is that genocide? No, it isn't. And yet Israel is being blamed." Source: TRIGGERnometry

Mario Nawfal

280,053 views • 1 year ago

Kamala Harris: We cannot despair. We cannot despair. The nature of a democracy is such that I think there's a duality. On the one hand, there's an incredible strength when our democracy is intact. An incredible strength in what it does to protect the freedoms and rights of its people. Oh, there's great strength in that. And it is very fragile. It is only as strong as our willingness to fight for it. And so that's the moment we're in. And I say do not despair because in a democracy, as long as we can keep it, in our democracy the people, every individual has the power to make a decision about what this will be. And so let's not feel powerless. Because then we have been defeated. And that's not our character as the American people. We are not one to be defeated. We rise to a moment and we stand on broad shoulders of people who have fought this fight before for our country. And in many ways let us look at the challenge then that we are being presented and not be overwhelmed by it. The baton is now in our hands, to fight for, not against, but for this country we love.
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Kamala Harris: We cannot despair. We cannot despair. The nature of a democracy is such that I think there's a duality. On the one hand, there's an incredible strength when our democracy is intact. An incredible strength in what it does to protect the freedoms and rights of its people. Oh, there's great strength in that. And it is very fragile. It is only as strong as our willingness to fight for it. And so that's the moment we're in. And I say do not despair because in a democracy, as long as we can keep it, in our democracy the people, every individual has the power to make a decision about what this will be. And so let's not feel powerless. Because then we have been defeated. And that's not our character as the American people. We are not one to be defeated. We rise to a moment and we stand on broad shoulders of people who have fought this fight before for our country. And in many ways let us look at the challenge then that we are being presented and not be overwhelmed by it. The baton is now in our hands, to fight for, not against, but for this country we love.

Acyn

343,187 views • 1 year ago

In the closing exchange on Drop Site News’ final livestream of the year, Sharif Abdel Kouddous asks Jeremy Scahill whether the international community is trying to “reset the clock” on Gaza back to October 6: back to siege, blockade, and erasure, but with better optics than live-streamed genocide, and with zero accountability. “You don’t reset the clock to October 6 after you’ve committed genocide and razed the entire place to the ground,” Scahill said. He warns against treating post-war rebuilding as an endpoint, saying Palestinians “didn’t come this far… after the past two-plus years, just to be told what they need is slightly better food distribution,” or to be moved “out of a tent and into a conex box.” Scahill says there is no question that Palestinians will resist, say “no,” and not submit. “But the moral burden” of not accepting a return to October 6 is “not on Palestinians. It is on all of the rest of us.” Sharif Kouddous شريف عبد القدوس | jeremy scahill
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In the closing exchange on Drop Site News’ final livestream of the year, Sharif Abdel Kouddous asks Jeremy Scahill whether the international community is trying to “reset the clock” on Gaza back to October 6: back to siege, blockade, and erasure, but with better optics than live-streamed genocide, and with zero accountability. “You don’t reset the clock to October 6 after you’ve committed genocide and razed the entire place to the ground,” Scahill said. He warns against treating post-war rebuilding as an endpoint, saying Palestinians “didn’t come this far… after the past two-plus years, just to be told what they need is slightly better food distribution,” or to be moved “out of a tent and into a conex box.” Scahill says there is no question that Palestinians will resist, say “no,” and not submit. “But the moral burden” of not accepting a return to October 6 is “not on Palestinians. It is on all of the rest of us.” Sharif Kouddous شريف عبد القدوس | jeremy scahill

Drop Site

17,508 views • 8 months ago

Hassan Jabareen, "The Nakba of the Palestinians in 1948 cannot compare to genocide they are facing in Gaza" Victoria Derbyshire, "Your assessment as a human rights lawyer is that it's a genocide?" Honorary President of the Jewish Labour movement, Louise Ellman, "It's not a genocide" Hassan Jabareen, "10% of the population of Gaza were killed, injured or disappeared" "Take the UK, 70 million people. Imagine 7 million were killed, injured or disappeared" "Besides that, In Gaza 70% of any building was destroyed" "Imagine 70% of the UK was destroyed" "How can we say this is not genocide?" "What amazed me on October 7th was the response of the international community" "We thought that after the Holocaust the 'never again' was serious. But here, we see, for the first time in history, televised genocide" Louise Ellman, "It is not a genocide, it is Israel defending itself" Hassan Jabareen, "However, I have to appreciate the response of the youth in the world.. They are not accepting genocide" Louise Ellman, "What is happening is horrendous, and many civilians are dying, but this is not genocide. It is Israel defending itself.. It is not the holocaust that you are implying.. I object to that very strongly" Hassan Jabareen, "The world sees it differently to you.. International human rights organisations see it differently to you" "10% of the population in Gaza has been deleted and you accept that so easily?"
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Hassan Jabareen, "The Nakba of the Palestinians in 1948 cannot compare to genocide they are facing in Gaza" Victoria Derbyshire, "Your assessment as a human rights lawyer is that it's a genocide?" Honorary President of the Jewish Labour movement, Louise Ellman, "It's not a genocide" Hassan Jabareen, "10% of the population of Gaza were killed, injured or disappeared" "Take the UK, 70 million people. Imagine 7 million were killed, injured or disappeared" "Besides that, In Gaza 70% of any building was destroyed" "Imagine 70% of the UK was destroyed" "How can we say this is not genocide?" "What amazed me on October 7th was the response of the international community" "We thought that after the Holocaust the 'never again' was serious. But here, we see, for the first time in history, televised genocide" Louise Ellman, "It is not a genocide, it is Israel defending itself" Hassan Jabareen, "However, I have to appreciate the response of the youth in the world.. They are not accepting genocide" Louise Ellman, "What is happening is horrendous, and many civilians are dying, but this is not genocide. It is Israel defending itself.. It is not the holocaust that you are implying.. I object to that very strongly" Hassan Jabareen, "The world sees it differently to you.. International human rights organisations see it differently to you" "10% of the population in Gaza has been deleted and you accept that so easily?"

Farrukh

301,572 views • 1 year ago

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte PRAISES President Trump for decisive action in Iran, calling it “CRUCIAL” for the entire world if reports that Iran can strike as far as Diego Garcia are confirmed. RUTTE: “We are looking into that. But if this would be true, it is the more evidence what the president is doing here, taking out the ballistic missile capability, taking out the nuclear capability from Iran, is crucial.” “And exactly as the ambassador just said, Ambassador Waltz, we have seen with North Korea if we negotiate for too long, you might pass the moment when you can still get things done and North Korea now has the nuclear capability.” “If Iran would have the nuclear capability including together with missile capability, it would be a direct threat to Israel and to the region and to Europe and to the stability in the world.” “So the president doing this is crucial.” “And I have seen the polling. But I really hope the American people will be with him because he is doing this to make the whole world safer.”
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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte PRAISES President Trump for decisive action in Iran, calling it “CRUCIAL” for the entire world if reports that Iran can strike as far as Diego Garcia are confirmed. RUTTE: “We are looking into that. But if this would be true, it is the more evidence what the president is doing here, taking out the ballistic missile capability, taking out the nuclear capability from Iran, is crucial.” “And exactly as the ambassador just said, Ambassador Waltz, we have seen with North Korea if we negotiate for too long, you might pass the moment when you can still get things done and North Korea now has the nuclear capability.” “If Iran would have the nuclear capability including together with missile capability, it would be a direct threat to Israel and to the region and to Europe and to the stability in the world.” “So the president doing this is crucial.” “And I have seen the polling. But I really hope the American people will be with him because he is doing this to make the whole world safer.”

Overton

50,113 views • 5 months ago

Dr. Mahrang Baloch is not only our leader. But, she is our sister, our mother, our courage, our hope in times of despair, our commitment in times of doubt, our strength in times of weakness and the brave daughter of Baloch Nation. She has mobilized not only Baloch nation but sparked a ray of hope for all the Oppressed communities to break the chains of silence and stand united and firm against the tyrant. Today, the barrel of the Gun is pointed towards our chest. And we shall not bend the knee and surrender to our Genocide. But stand tall and confront it with all our strength and all our might. This is the lesson, this #MarchAgainstBalochGenocide and our brave daughter Mahrang Baloch have taught us during this fight for our survival as a nation. Complete video of Mahrang Baloch's Speech at Shahwani Stadium, Shaal.
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Dr. Mahrang Baloch is not only our leader. But, she is our sister, our mother, our courage, our hope in times of despair, our commitment in times of doubt, our strength in times of weakness and the brave daughter of Baloch Nation. She has mobilized not only Baloch nation but sparked a ray of hope for all the Oppressed communities to break the chains of silence and stand united and firm against the tyrant. Today, the barrel of the Gun is pointed towards our chest. And we shall not bend the knee and surrender to our Genocide. But stand tall and confront it with all our strength and all our might. This is the lesson, this #MarchAgainstBalochGenocide and our brave daughter Mahrang Baloch have taught us during this fight for our survival as a nation. Complete video of Mahrang Baloch's Speech at Shahwani Stadium, Shaal.

Baloch Yakjehti Committee

73,307 views • 2 years ago

⚡️Jeremy Scahill told Electronic Intifada that Palestinians accepted Trump’s deal knowing “there is no real guarantee” Israel won’t resume the genocide. He said the calculation was that “the entire… constellation of the Arab states, Islamic states, and Trump” had put themselves forward as guarantors of the agreement, and those states told Hamas they had “firm assurances from Trump… that he is not going to allow Israel to resume the genocide.” jeremy scahill said, “Palestinians know this way better than I do. And they’re saying, ‘We know all of this.’ When you push back on it, they say, ‘Yes, we understand all of that.’ But… we have a genocide of our people. We need to end that… while preserving the [larger Palestinian] struggle.’ And they felt that they did it.”
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⚡️Jeremy Scahill told Electronic Intifada that Palestinians accepted Trump’s deal knowing “there is no real guarantee” Israel won’t resume the genocide. He said the calculation was that “the entire… constellation of the Arab states, Islamic states, and Trump” had put themselves forward as guarantors of the agreement, and those states told Hamas they had “firm assurances from Trump… that he is not going to allow Israel to resume the genocide.” jeremy scahill said, “Palestinians know this way better than I do. And they’re saying, ‘We know all of this.’ When you push back on it, they say, ‘Yes, we understand all of that.’ But… we have a genocide of our people. We need to end that… while preserving the [larger Palestinian] struggle.’ And they felt that they did it.”

Drop Site

57,099 views • 10 months ago

It’s not over. Almost two months into the so-called “ceasefire” in Gaza, Israel is still killing Palestinians there and in the West Bank. Gaza is still being starved and homes in it destroyed. Ethnic cleansing in the West Bank is accelerating. We cannot treat this as normal. When we face genocide, apartheid and ethnic cleansing – we choose to resist. If you believe, as we do, that in moments like this we must choose a side – support B’Tselem. Join our fight to defend human rights from the river to the sea and to expose the crimes Israel is committing against Palestinians. Every donation makes a difference. Every share is part of the struggle for justice, freedom and equality. In the face of genocide – choose to resist.
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It’s not over. Almost two months into the so-called “ceasefire” in Gaza, Israel is still killing Palestinians there and in the West Bank. Gaza is still being starved and homes in it destroyed. Ethnic cleansing in the West Bank is accelerating. We cannot treat this as normal. When we face genocide, apartheid and ethnic cleansing – we choose to resist. If you believe, as we do, that in moments like this we must choose a side – support B’Tselem. Join our fight to defend human rights from the river to the sea and to expose the crimes Israel is committing against Palestinians. Every donation makes a difference. Every share is part of the struggle for justice, freedom and equality. In the face of genocide – choose to resist.

B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم

16,699 views • 8 months ago

🔥 MEP Christine Anderson Issues Stark Warning to World Health Organization: “We Will Bring You Down!” “We are here today to tell you WHO globalitarian misanthropists. We are here today to tell you — you picked this fight! You wanted this fight. Well, guess what? You’ve got it. Let’s fight,” announced German MEP Christine Anderson during the Citizen’s Initiative conference in Brussels. “It is you [WHO] that is the small fringe minority,” she continued. “You are the ones who do not have the right to dictate to the people what they want and what they don’t want.” “So take it from me ... take it from the millions and millions of people around the world. We will bring you down, and we will not tire until we have done just that. So brace yourselves. We are here, and the fight is on. So let’s have the fight.” Read the full story:
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🔥 MEP Christine Anderson Issues Stark Warning to World Health Organization: “We Will Bring You Down!” “We are here today to tell you WHO globalitarian misanthropists. We are here today to tell you — you picked this fight! You wanted this fight. Well, guess what? You’ve got it. Let’s fight,” announced German MEP Christine Anderson during the Citizen’s Initiative conference in Brussels. “It is you [WHO] that is the small fringe minority,” she continued. “You are the ones who do not have the right to dictate to the people what they want and what they don’t want.” “So take it from me ... take it from the millions and millions of people around the world. We will bring you down, and we will not tire until we have done just that. So brace yourselves. We are here, and the fight is on. So let’s have the fight.” Read the full story:

The Vigilant Fox 🦊

422,655 views • 3 years ago

Rep Andy Ogles isn’t holding back “I've had enough. I've said it once, and I'll say it again, DEPORT THEM ALL. This is our country. We get to decide who comes in, and we get to decide who has to leave. And I say, deport them all” “90% that have come into this country are from third world countries, most of which are sucking resources from American citizens burdening our cities. They do not belong here.”
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Rep Andy Ogles isn’t holding back “I've had enough. I've said it once, and I'll say it again, DEPORT THEM ALL. This is our country. We get to decide who comes in, and we get to decide who has to leave. And I say, deport them all” “90% that have come into this country are from third world countries, most of which are sucking resources from American citizens burdening our cities. They do not belong here.”

Wall Street Apes

234,597 views • 8 months ago

Greta Thunberg, "I could talk for a very very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment, trust me, but that is not the story" "What happened here was that Israel, while continuing to worsen and escalate a genocide, and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an entire population, an entire nation, in front of our very eyes" "They once again violated international law by preventing humanitarian aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved" "We do not only need humanitarian aid to enter Gaza, we need an end to the siege, the occupation, the oppression" "That is what this story is about" "We cannot take our eyes away from Gaza, from all the places in the world that are suffering from this business as usual system" "Congo, Sudan, Afghanistan, Gaza and many more" "What we are doing is the bare minimum" "This genocide and other genocides are being enabled and fuelled by our own governments, our own institutions, our media and companies" "It is our responsibility to end that complicity"
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Greta Thunberg, "I could talk for a very very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment, trust me, but that is not the story" "What happened here was that Israel, while continuing to worsen and escalate a genocide, and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an entire population, an entire nation, in front of our very eyes" "They once again violated international law by preventing humanitarian aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved" "We do not only need humanitarian aid to enter Gaza, we need an end to the siege, the occupation, the oppression" "That is what this story is about" "We cannot take our eyes away from Gaza, from all the places in the world that are suffering from this business as usual system" "Congo, Sudan, Afghanistan, Gaza and many more" "What we are doing is the bare minimum" "This genocide and other genocides are being enabled and fuelled by our own governments, our own institutions, our media and companies" "It is our responsibility to end that complicity"

Farrukh

68,736 views • 10 months ago

As Arabs, we need to understand that Israel and the West are not our oppressors or enemies. We, Arabs, are our own worst enemies. We, Arabs, are our greatest oppressors. We, Arabs, have killed and oppressed a million times more of our people than the West and Israel can ever do. It is not Israel that married off my mother when she was a child. It is my people who did. It is not the West or Israel that has been bombing Yemen for the past decade and killed 400,000. It is us, Arabs, who did it. It is not the Israel that implanted Islamic extremism in the East and the West. It is our mosques, it is the books we worship, it is the Imams we follow, it is what we learn and what we teach. It is not the West that forces us to treat women like commodities. It is our people. And most of all, it is not the West or Israel that doesn’t value Arab lives. It is us, Arabs, who do not value human life. If we do not admit to ourselves that WE are the problem, that WE are refusing to progress, and that WE need to change – then change will never happen, blood will keep flowing, and we will never know peace. How do we expect the world and the International Community to respect us, when we don’t respect ourselves?
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As Arabs, we need to understand that Israel and the West are not our oppressors or enemies. We, Arabs, are our own worst enemies. We, Arabs, are our greatest oppressors. We, Arabs, have killed and oppressed a million times more of our people than the West and Israel can ever do. It is not Israel that married off my mother when she was a child. It is my people who did. It is not the West or Israel that has been bombing Yemen for the past decade and killed 400,000. It is us, Arabs, who did it. It is not the Israel that implanted Islamic extremism in the East and the West. It is our mosques, it is the books we worship, it is the Imams we follow, it is what we learn and what we teach. It is not the West that forces us to treat women like commodities. It is our people. And most of all, it is not the West or Israel that doesn’t value Arab lives. It is us, Arabs, who do not value human life. If we do not admit to ourselves that WE are the problem, that WE are refusing to progress, and that WE need to change – then change will never happen, blood will keep flowing, and we will never know peace. How do we expect the world and the International Community to respect us, when we don’t respect ourselves?

Luai Ahmed

2,986,393 views • 2 years ago