Palestine

Israel's Own Actions Invalidate All Pro-Israel Arguments (Caitlin's Newsletter, 2025-06-14)

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israels-own-actions-invalidate-all
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>> All arguments made in defense of Israel ultimately rest on the unquestioned assumption that the Jewish people must definitely have a homeland where Jewish people are in control, and that this homeland must definitely be in the location that Israel is in right now...

>> But we’ve seen the results of what that premise entails. It necessarily means nonstop violence, tyranny, war and abuse. It necessarily means genocide. It necessarily means ethnic cleansing. How do we know it necessarily means that? Because here we are.

>> So the premise upon which all pro-Israel arguments rest is invalid.

>> Which means all the arguments are baseless.

>> Which means there’s really no good reason to keep maintaining the status quo of modern Israel.

#StopIsrael #CaitlinJohnstone
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Rule 1: Israel is never the aggressor. If Israel attacks someone it’s either a response to an aggression that happened in the past, or a preemptive attack to thwart an imminent aggression in the future.Rule 2: History automatically restarts at the date of the last act of aggression against Israel. If someone attacks Israel it was completely unprovoked, because nothing happened before the attack on Israel.Rule 3: Anything bad that Israel does is justified by Rule 2.

https://nitter.tiekoetter.com/ME_Observer_/status/1933645188544516183#m

10:45pm CET: Air raid sirens are sounding in Iran's capital Tehran.

Al Mayadeen reports that clashes between Iranian air defenses and Israeli aircraft are still ongoing at this moment

#Iran #Israel #Tehran #IranUnderAttack
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A federal judge ruled this week that the government cannot hold the Columbia University graduate under the rarely invoked law it used to detain him.

By Jonah E. Bromwich
June 13, 2025, 11:04 a.m. ET

https://archive.ph/o4Lvd

Japan vows to work with G7 partners to ease Middle East tensions (Al Jazeera, 2025-06-13, 15:50 GMT)

https://aje.io/auoxkc?update=3772588
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>> Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has condemned the attack on Iranian nuclear and military sites, and promised to work with other G7 members to ease tensions in the Middle East.

>> Ishiba was quoted as saying by the local media that Israel’s move was “totally intolerable” and “extremely regrettable,” adding, “any actions that could further escalate the situation must be refrained from”...

Oh, wow... 😮 “TOTALLY INTOLERABLE” !!

#Japan #StopIsrael
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Iran requests emergency meeting of UNSC (Al Jazeera, 2025-06-13, 10:20 GMT)

https://aje.io/auoxkc?update=3772087
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>> Amir Saeed Iravani, Iran’s permanent representative to the #UN, made a written request for an emergency meeting of the council, calling for it to take “decisive action… against these criminal acts”, Iran’s Tasnim state news agency reported.

>> “In a reckless, illegal and premeditated act, the Zionist regime has carried out a series of coordinated military attacks against the nuclear facilities and civilian infrastructure of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which are considered a clear violation of the UN Charter and the fundamental principles of international law, ...” the letter said.

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IDF boosting troops, raising alert level along borders and in West Bank | The Times of Israel (2025-06-13)

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog/_entry/idf-boosting-troops-raising-alert-level-along-borders-and-in-west-bank/
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>> Amid the Israeli airstrikes on Iran, the IDF … is raising its level of alert along Israel’s borders and in the West Bank, the military says.

>> In the West Bank, all Palestinian towns are under #lockdown until further notice.
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There is another report from Israel Hayom saying #WestBank “completely sealed off”…
cf. https://norden.social/@stephie/_hamburg/114674898902293375

#StopIsrael #EndOccupation
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Al Jazeera quoted Israeli media:

🔹 #Mossad had established a drone base on Iranian soil, which it used in today's attack.

#Iran #Israel #Terrorism
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The wife and son of Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, the president of Azad University in Tehran and one of Iran's prominent nuclear scientist, were murdered alongside the him by the Israeli terrorist attack against their home in Tehran earlier today.

#Israel #Iran #Terrorism
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#Israel Avichay Adraee announces that the strikes against the #Iran resulted in the elimination of three senior leaders of the Iranian military and security establishment, foremost among them:

• Mohammad Bagheri, Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces

• Hossein Salami, Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard

• Gholam Ali Rashid, Commander of the Iranian Khatam al-Anbiya Command

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PS: THIS IS NOT TRUE

I am sorry, but the image is from Iran's petrochemical plant fire a few years ago, there are no report of ID attacks against Abadan right now.

Abadan oil refinery, one of the largest refineries in Iran was attacked by Israeli forces today.

This is not a military target. It's a clear indication that Netanyahu is trying to cripple Iran's economy and bot just it's nuclear plants.

#Iran #Israel #IranUnderAttack #StopIsrael

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The Israeli occupation army spokesperson:
- We killed the heads of the Iranian security system
- We targeted the Iranian defense system
- The army is still attacking on Iranian territory
- 200 fighter jets participated in the attack on Iran
- Our pilots are attacking and continue to attack Iranian nuclear facilities
- Iran was close to obtaining nuclear weapons and the goal of our operation is to eliminate the threat
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@iran

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31287216

New legislation in Florida introduces a financial model that would enable local governments around the country to invest virtually limitless sums in the Israeli war effort, despite the mounting financial risk of doing so.

The #UK is 'currently' hosting & training Israeli terrists from the Iraeli Diaper Farce despite genocide allegations, a Labour minister has admitted....
#LikudLabour #Shameless #WarCrime
#LabourFriendsOfGenocide
#KidStarver #Gaza #Genocide #Israel #IDF

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Gaza’s Hamas-run police force said Thursday that it killed 12 members of the Israeli-backed Abu Shabab militia in Gaza, which said its fighters had killed five Hamas operatives but made no mention of its own casualties.

According to Hamas, the Abu Shabab gunmen were killed early Wednesday by the Gaza police’s Sahm unit, which Hamas says was established to combat looting. The unit released video footage showing several dead men lying in the street, saying they were Abu Shabab fighters who had been detained and killed for collaborating with Israel. It was not possible to verify the images or the claims around them.

Abu Shabab has been operating in an Israeli-controlled area of southern Gaza’s Rafah. Israel confirmed last week that it was arming the militia to bolster opposition to Hamas.

#Haifa, tonight. #Gaza_Genocide @[email protected] @[email protected]
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"Dear Tereza,

I’m sorry for not being around these past days, but Daddy was trying to bring food to other children as beautiful as you. Unfortunately, they are starving because some people don’t understand that every human being has the right to freedom.

Your father is one of the millions of people doing something to end the greatest violation of rights of our generation.

I truly hope to come home soon. I think of you and your mother every day. And that is why I cannot accept that the world we live in has so much exploitation, oppression, and destruction.

Do not be afraid for your father. I am okay and hopeful."

Original, untranslated text and video is available here https://www.correiobraziliense.com.br/cidades-df/2025/06/7171140-direto-da-prisao-em-israel-thiago-avila-envia-carta-a-filha.html

Adalah Update - 12 June 2025, 13 PM Jerusalem Time
via https://x.com/AdalahCenter/status/1933107350455640426

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Two volunteers, Pascal Maurieras (France) and Yanis Mhamdi (France), remain in custody at Givon prison, ... awaiting their deportation tomorrow, 13 June, afternoon. They will be seen by their lawyers today.

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The six volunteers expected to be deported today or early tomorrow morning are:
Mark [Marco] Van Rennes (The Netherlands),
Şuayb Ordu (Turkey),
Yasemin Acar (Germany),
Thiago Avila (Brazil),
Reva Viard (France), and
Rima Hassan (France).
So far, #Adalah lawyers are facing difficulties visiting them at the airport.
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#Madleen #FreedomFlotilla #BreakTheSiege
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Doubling down on the conflation of Zionism and Judaism won’t stop violent attacks.

[This is a must-read article on the recent killings in DC and the attack on the protest in Boulder, Colorado.]

from Jewish Currents
Daniel May
June 11, 2025