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mariacallous · 1 month ago

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In 1948, Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmoud Fahmi al-Nuqrashi took the dramatic step of banning the Muslim Brotherhood, believing that if the group were dissolved, stability would return to his country. In the three years prior to that move, the Brotherhood had taken a leading role in fomenting riots, strikes, and violence, including the assassinations of a prime minister and a former finance minister.

Yet the ban on the Brotherhood produced more violence. Unmoored from their leader—Hassan al-Banna—armed cadres of Muslim Brothers took matters into their own hands in a vengeful spasm of violence, culminating in the assassination of Nuqrashi. The government responded by locking up thousands of Muslim Brothers, and in February 1949, Banna was assassinated in what was widely believed to be a government-sanctioned killing. Almost 76 years later, the Egyptian government is still trying to repress the group.

It has become cliche to say, “You cannot kill an idea.” Fair enough, but there is a finer point to this story: It is hard to kill your way out of the problem posed by a resistance movement. The committed do not get the message; they just redouble their efforts.

No doubt, killing Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was a righteous act. He was the mastermind of what he hoped would be the beginning of a genocidal war to wipe out Israel. And in planning the destructive conflict he began with the Oct. 7, 2023, attack, he knew that the Israelis would visit unimaginable pain on the Palestinians in his midst. His demise is a moment to reflect on the damage Sinwar has done to so many people as well as the cause—Palestinian statehood and justice—he claimed to represent. Israelis will celebrate with sweets and ditties in Tel Aviv bars at the death of their monster. Reality will soon set back in, however.

Does anyone remember Khalil al-Wazir? Abbas al-Musawi? What about Fathi Shiqaqi? Ahmed Yassin? They were the monsters of Israel’s past. Wazir’s nom de guerre was Abu Jihad, and he, along with Yasser Arafat, led the armed wing of Fatah, whose forces were eventually absorbed into the PLO. Shiqaqi, a physician, directed Palestinian Islamic Jihad; Musawi predated Hassan Nasrallah as the leader of Hezbollah; and Ahmed Yassin led Hamas after the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestinian branch created the group in the late 1980s. They are all dead, assassinated in one spectacular intelligence or military operation after another, helping to build the towering mythology of Israel’s security services. Yet as proficient in avenging blood as the Israelis have become in their decades-long struggle with terrorism, they have never managed to bring an appreciable end to violent resistance.

There remains an armed wing of the PLO, which played a bloody role in the Second Intifada. After the Israelis killed Musawi in 1992, Nasrallah built the group into the most well-armed nonstate actor in the world—Iran’s regional expeditionary force and second-strike capability. In the weeks since the Israelis killed Nasrallah and wiped out most of Hezbollah’s leadership, its militants have fired a seemingly endless stream of rockets at Israel. In 1995, Shiqaqi was shot five times in front of a hotel in Malta, but decades later, Islamic Jihad continued to target Israelis with suicide bombers and rockets from Gaza. Yassin—like Nasrallah—was killed in an airstrike. His violent death never compelled his successors to rethink their strategy. Why would Sinwar’s killing be different?

One could make the argument that Sinwar’s demise will finally break the back of Hamas, whose fighters the Israeli military has battered and beaten for months. They have lost. There is a belief among some analysts and elected officials in the United States that only when Israel metes out a total defeat can peace be possible. With Sinwar’s killing, might that moment be upon us?

That is the hope. That was abundantly clear in U.S. President Joe Biden’s statement on Sinwar’s death, but when it comes to faith, those desperately holding onto it tend to leave important and inconvenient details out. It is more likely that Hamas’s leaderless cadres will behave more like their distant (in time) analogues from the Brotherhood’s secret apparatus. Atomized and angry, they will continue to fight, taking revenge on their enemies.

Resistance, after all, is not futile. It is a critical component of identity. This is why Sinwar wanted to die at the end of an Israeli tank shell and not by a stroke. He believed, with considerable evidence, that his violent death would be an inspiration for yet more resistance.

For those paying attention to the last two decades, the Israelis are not unique in their ability to avenge the deaths of innocents with little to show for it strategically. In the years after 9/11, the U.S. military killed a veritable All-Star team of transnational terrorists—Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (though he blew himself up as U.S. forces closed in), and a bevy of their underlings. This wrecked al Qaeda and the Islamic State, but both groups have survived. Perhaps they’ve not yet reconstituted in equally dangerous form, but they live to fight another day.

For another example, take Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, whose Quds Force is the central player in the so-called Axis of Resistance. It never missed a beat and perhaps even became more lethal after a U.S. drone slammed into the car in which Quds Force commander Qassem Suleimani was riding near Baghdad’s airport in early 2020.

This is not to suggest that the world is not a better place for the deaths of Sinwar and the catalogue of terrorists with copious blood on their hands. But while momentarily satisfying, their deaths do little to bring the region’s suffering to an end. After Sinwar’s death was confirmed, I messaged with dear friends who live between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. They have a child currently serving in the Israeli military. In the almost immediate response I received, I could feel the deep sense of anxiety and sorrow: “Now we need the hostages back and then some kind of peace. I want my son home.”

I hope he comes home soon. When he does, it will not be because the war is over. That Israel killed Sinwar seems like a major achievement today, but in time, others will rise—as they always have—to continue to resist.

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humusboii2thereturnoftheking · 9 months ago

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A Morrocan ex-Muslim take on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

This is again taken from reddit, text was posted by user named u/Benjazzi. I found it a very insightful read and I hope you will too:

I'm from Morocco. I'm atheist but my entire family is muslim. When it comes to the Israel-Palestine conflict, some muslims, sadly, can really go insane. For them, it's our tribe (Palestine moslems) against the enemy tribe.

Israel bombed South Lebanon after Lebanon bombed them ? "It never happened"

Israel stormed the holy Al Aqsa mosque because people throwing rocks took refuge inside of it ? "I don't believe it"

Mass Rapes ? "Fake news. It never happened"

"Our tribe can do no wrong" is literally how many people think.

To be fair, Jews can be tribal. But it's frankly nowhere to the same extent. The Jewish press is full of critics of the Israeli government and debates. Honestly, I have found that as long as you don't sing "Death to Israel" and are respectful, you can have very constructive conversation with most Jews and Israelis, even if you are critical. That's because they have a tradition of debate. Sadly, the muslim world lacks this.

Saudi Arabia just bought Cristiano Ronaldo for $1 billion. I have seen people on arab social media argue that Saudi Arabia doesn't help Palestinians because... the Saudi Prince is a puppet on a jewish-american string. It's totally stupid. He has publically humiliated the President of the United States.

Why he doesn't help ? Well. The explanation is simple. He doesn't give a fuck. But the idea that a sovereign arab leader might not care about "our tribe" is so shocking and so disturbing that some people need to find sinister foreign hands to explain it.

Egypt is right now shooting people who try to leave Gaza. I have seen Egyptians argue that the Egyptian President is....secretly jewish. "Sisi is a jewish dog, his mom is jewish". I mean... really 🤔 ?

The idea that a sovereign arab leader might not care about "our tribe" is so shocking and so disturbing to them that many Egyptians have to find some insane conspiracy to explain it.

This is the kind of cognitive dissonance that I sadly see all around me.

NYT publishes an investigation critical of Israeli behavior? I post it online. Reactions on social media ? "Great job ! Fucking zionist pigs. The New York Times just exposed them"

NYT publishes an investigation critical of Palestinian behavior ? I post it online. Reactions on social media ? "Fuck your propaganda. New York Times is pure zionist filth"

"Our tribe can do no wrong".

A newspaper is reliable or fake... simply depending on how it portrays the tribe !!

Then you have Islamism on top of that. The cherry on the chocolate cake.

Read the comment I posted here :

The real problem today in our world is a guy called Sayed El Qutb.

He was an egyptian intellectual who is considered the father of ALL Islamists.

In his books, he argues that the best period for muslims was under the Islamic Caliphates, when the entire world respected and feared muslims. He believes the Islamic World went through cultural, political and economic decline due to not enough Islam. According to him, only a return to PURE Islam™ can make muslims great again. Sayed El Qutb endorsed creating an Islamic State based exclusively on Sharia Law. He praised violent jihad against the non-muslims (kouffars). He opposed secularism, gender mixing, and hated jews ("filthy pigs") and atheists.

He was hanged in 1964 for attempting to murder President Nasser. But his books have spread very successfully. Sayd Qutb is to islamists what Karl Marx was to communists. Al Qaeda, ISIS, Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Nosra front. All of their creators read his books and deeply admired him.

3 countries are particularly behind Islamism : Saudi Arabia, Iran and Qatar.

The first one is Saudi Arabia. In the 70s, using their oil money, they opened a special university called the University of Madinah. Anyone can go study there for free to become an Imam. Saudis will pay your tuition and boarding school. Your food ? They will pay for it. These imams all learned the ideas of Sayed Al Qutb. Westerners are filth, jews are vile pigs, women must obey men, women must be veiled, secularism is a form of mental disease.

After graduating , these Saudi-trained Imams were sent back to their country in Africa, Europe, or Malaysia, to spread Saudi soft power. And this happened for decades and decades. They were the most successful in 2 countries in particular : Pakistan and Egypt. In these countries, a generation of public school teachers received Saudi textbooks. Imagine the result on the general population.

The second country to blame for Islamism is Iran.

In 1979, a secular dictatorwas overthrowed and replaced by a religious dictator. Ayatollah Khomenei became Supreme Guide of the Revolution. He always wears a black turban on his head. That black turban means he is "sayyed", a direct descendent of Muhammed. Ayatollah Khomenei was a deep admirer of Sayed Qutb. He translated all Sayed El Qutb's work into Farsi to "educate iranian people".

His new Islamic regime started using their oil money to fund $$$ radical islamic groups all around the Middle East. In Irak, in Pakistan, Lebanon, in Syria. His successor, "Ayatollah Khamanei" has pursed his heritage. Iran published a Fatwa calling for any muslim who can to murder the UK poet Salman Rushdie for his books. Salman Rushdie has been forced to live in hiding for 20 years. He was recently stabbed during a literary festival in America.

In 1984, Iran published an official postal stamp paying tribune to Sayed El Qutb, calling him a true martyr of Islam. Also, several streets and avenues in Iran were named "Qutb" as a tribute.

The third country to blame is Qatar. They are the favorite headquarter of all islamists in the world today. Al Nosra Front, Al Qaeda, Hamas, The Afghan Talibans. You always find Qatar.

In Morocco, Qataris are big supporters of the local Islamists (حركة التوحيد والإصلاح)

I can testify that what Al Jazeera spreads in arabic is far far worse than what they actually say in english. They had a TV show with a guy called Youssef Al Qaradawi. This guy is a disciple of Sayed El Qutb. He tells people it's okay to beat up your wife, that jews are disgusting pigs, that Islam will take over Europe. His TV show was watched by 60 million people every week on Al Jazeera Arabic. 60 million people. Every week. In 1998, they published a documentary called "Ben Laden : One man standing against an empire"

Here is another thing you won't see in Al Jazeera English. Basically, the rape, slaughter and torture of Israeli civilians is just presented as "a wonderful victory" on Al Jazeera Arabic. That's it. They won't give any more detail. No pictures. Anyone who seriously studies the military tactics of Hamas, reading academic papers, comes to the conclusion that the Israelis - whatever you think about them - aren't actually lying. Hamas really does use Palestinians as Human Shields. It's never mentioned on Al Jazeera. Never. In fact, their "journalists" told a palestinian shouting this to shut his damn mouth.

Saudi Arabia, Iran and Qatar. These 3 countries have become the cancer of Islam.

And they have used their money to spread their influence, including in Morocco. Now the cancer has spread.

The question is how do we cure it? I don't know. I have small hopes for Saudi Arabia because even if their Prince is a dictator, he genuinely wants to improve his country. He is reforming textbooks to remove antisemitism, allowing women to drive, allowing music, ending forced gender segregation, etc... But the other two countries remain a major problem.

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sepdet · 7 days ago

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Welp. While Harris responded to Colbert's question that yes, they had come frustratingly close to a negotiated a ceasefire several times, and were working out final details, but kept being stymied, however it really was irrelevant since "close" didn't cut it —

while Secretary Blinken was over there with bombs literally exploding over his head trying once again to convince Netanyahu to accept a ceasefire in exchange for the hostages and end the war —

I still want to know whether the hidden roadblock was, in fact, Trump egging on Netanyahu.

This is from October 26, originally from the WaPo, reprinted in the Guam Daily Post without a paywall.

“He expressed his awe for their military operations and what they have done.” [Senator Lindsey] Graham added, “He told them, do what you have to do to defend yourself, but we’re openly talking about a new Mideast. Trump understands that very much there has to be change with the corrupt Palestinian state.”

An adviser to Netanyahu declined to comment.

Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said, “Thanks to President Trump’s leadership, there was historic peace in the Middle East. Now, all ofpp the progress made by President Trump in the region has been broken by the Harris-Biden Administration’s weakness and America Last policies. When President Trump is back in the Oval Office, he will fix the mess Kamala and Biden’s policies created. Israel will once again be protected, Iran will go back to being broke, terrorists will be hunted down and the bloodshed will end.”

Notice Trump lumps in all Palestinians with terrorists, justifying their slaughter. The opposite of what the Biden-Harris administration has been doing, pressuring Netanyahu to accept Hamas' offer of hostages in exchange for a ceasefire and delaying aid to Israel to pressure him to stop targeting civilians.

Now Trump is encouraging Israel to annex Gaza, completing its colonization and the displacement of the Palestinians. which will result in even more death and suffering.

But at least pro-Palestinian activists took a stand against Palestinians to teach Kamala Harris, daughter of civil rights activists from colonized countries a lesson, right?

(Yes, the trolly problem really, really sucks.)

"Kamala Harris has earned an eleventh-hour show of support from Palestinian, Arab and Muslim community leaders."

On October 24th, a collective statement titled "Arizona Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and Progressive Democrats and Community Leaders Statement on Presidential Election" was published.

The 100+ signees include current or former leaders of Palestinian, Arab and Muslim organisations, the leader of Phoenix, AZ's largest mosque, Jewish activists and other elected officials. All of them have been listed at the bottom of this post.

You can read the whole statement here but I've also copy-pasted it's entire contents below.

Read. The Whole. Thing.

It is concise and will only take you a few minutes. While you read, recognise that these words are not representative of every single person belonging to these demographics. Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims are not a monolith, and have a right to feel any way they do about this election. To those who do not belong to these groups - refrain from adding your personal commentary in the tags, and understand how excruciating of a place this statement must have come from for both the authors, signees and the communities they represent.

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Arizona Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and Progressive Democrats and Community Leaders Statement on Presidential Election

As Democrats and leaders in the Palestinian, Arab, Muslim and Progressive communities in Arizona, we the undersigned make the following statement, published on 10/24/2024:

This past year has been very difficult for all of us. With over 42,000 Palestinians killed by Israel using American-supplied weapons and no end in sight despite all our struggle for a ceasefire, we approach the presidential election heartbroken and outraged.

We know that many in our communities are resistant to vote for Kamala Harris because of the Biden administration’s complicity in the genocide. We understand this sentiment. Many of us have felt that way ourselves, even until very recently. Some of us have lost many family members in Gaza and Lebanon. We respect those who feel they simply can’t vote for a member of the administration that sent the bombs that may have killed their loved ones.

As we consider the full situation carefully, however, we conclude that voting for Kamala Harris is the best option for the Palestinian cause and all of our communities. We know that some will strongly disagree. We only ask that you consider our case with an open mind and heart, respecting that we are doing what we believe is right in an awful situation where only flawed choices are available.

In our view, it is crystal clear that allowing the fascist Donald Trump to become President again would be the worst possible outcome for the Palestinian people. A Trump win would be an extreme danger to Muslims in our country, all immigrants, and the American pro-Palestine movement. It would be an existential threat to our democracy and our whole planet.

When we think of Trump in power again, we recall that even a genocide can get much worse. Trump just said that Netanhahu must “go further” in Gaza while criticizing Biden for “trying to hold him back.” His biggest donor, Miriam Adelson, who demanded in 2016 that Trump move the US embassy to Jerusalem if elected –– which he then did –– is now telling Trump to allow Israel to annex the entire West Bank. Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, Smotrich, and the entire far right in Israel want Trump to win and grant Israel total free reign. We cannot give them what they want.

Trump must be defeated. The only way to defeat him is to elect Kamala Harris.

Voting for Harris is not a personal endorsement of her or of the policy decisions of the administration in which she served. It’s an assessment of the best possible option to continue fighting for an end to the genocide, a free Palestine, and all else that we hold dear.

We are deeply frustrated that Harris has not yet met our movement’s demand that she break with Biden, defy the powerful extremists enforcing the status quo, stand with the majority of Americans, and pledge to uphold US law and international law and condition aid to Israel. Still we believe there are clear reasons to hope that we can win positive policy change with a Harris administration and a Democratic Congress.

Multiple media reports state that Harris’s national security advisors are open to re-evaluating policy and conditioning aid to Israel. On October 13th, the same day the administration threatened to re-evaluate military support if Israel did not improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza and reduce civilian casualties in the next 30 days, Harris tweeted: “Israel must urgently do more to facilitate the flow of aid to those in need. Civilians must be protected and have access to food, water, and medicine. International humanitarian law must be respected.” In Michigan the other day, Harris expressed clear empathy for the suffering of the people of Palestine and Lebanon and the impact of this devastation on Arab Americans. She pledged to do “everything in her power” as President to end the war in Gaza, end the suffering of Palestinians there, and achieve “a future of security and dignity for all people in the region.”

Beyond Harris’s statements, we know that her decisions as President will be shaped by the larger Democratic Party coalition that includes a growing force pushing for Palestinian human rights. Our Arizona Democratic Party passed a resolution calling for a ceasefire in January. Every single member of Congress who has publicly called for a ceasefire in Gaza or for an arms embargo is a Democrat. The major national unions, civil rights groups, and progressive organizations that have called for a halt to military aid to Israel are all working to elect Harris.

On the other hand, the Republican Party coalition offers zero opposition to unconditional support for Israel and zero support for Palestinian human rights. Instead Republicans urge the US to join Israel in bombing Iran, call to “bounce the rubble in Gaza” and “kill ‘em all,” and would likely support the Israeli far right’s drive to annex Gaza and the West Bank.

What about a third party? Many in our communities believe this is our best option. Unfortunately, there is not a single third party member of Congress or even state legislator in America. In our electoral system, no third party candidate can win this election. But voting for them could make Trump president.

The polls show the presidential election is extremely close and that it will be decided by 7 swing states, including Arizona. While voting 3rd party may be strategic in non-swing states as a protest of the current US Israel/Palestine policy or as a step to qualifying the Green Party for public funding in future elections by winning at least 5% of the national vote, doing it in Arizona or other swing states in such a close election could bring disaster.

Some argue that if Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim voters and our allies vote for a 3rd party candidate and intentionally throw the election to Trump, taking credit for defeating Harris, it will prove our power to decide a close election and “punish Democrats” for complicity in genocide. Unfortunately, this is not how power, politics, or change works in our country. When Ralph Nader helped throw the election to Bush in 2000, he was rejected by millions for whom he was once a hero, banished ever since to the political margins. When Jill Stein helped throw the election to Trump in 2016, she remained relegated to the political fringe, becoming less powerful not more. If our communities ally with the Green Party to defeat Harris, we risk marginalizing ourselves as they did by alienating the tens of millions of voters who support the cause of Palestinian freedom and are fighting to defeat Trump by electing her.

Instead, by helping to elect Kamala Harris, we can say, “Despite it all, we gave you another chance and helped put you in office to defend democracy and uphold our highest American values. Now uphold them: end the genocide and secure Palestinian self-determination. We will fight every day to hold you to it.” If Harris and Democrats win, we will wage that fight with more allies among the American people, Congress, and the White House than ever before. If they don’t deliver, we will have a mandate and mass support to hold them accountable through every nonviolent tool of democracy, including protests, resignations, civil disobedience, primary election challenges, and even potential mass noncooperation. It’s a difficult path, but the one that offers the most hope.

The first step –– and our best choice in this horrible situation –– is defeating Trump by electing Harris. We urge you to join us.

Signers (affiliations listed for identification purposes only):

Maher Arekat, Founder, Palestine Community Center of Arizona

Usama Shami, President, Islamic Community Center of Phoenix

Fadi Zanayed, Vice President, American Federation of Ramallah, Palestine - Arizona

Shams AbdusSamad, Secretary, Maricopa County Dem Party; ADP Exec Cmte Mmbr - At Large & SCM

Samir Mufarreh, Palestinian American Christian Community Leader

Jordan Harb, Lebanese American Youth Leader

Stephen Mufarreh, Attorney, Palestinian American Christian Community Leader

Misaal Irfan, Pakistani American Community Leader

Samara Hamideh, Palestinian Youth Organizer

Mohamed El-Sharkawy, Palestinian American and a Muslim leader

Ala Rumah, Syrian American Activist

Dina Hamideh, Coordinator, Arizona Palestine Film Festival

Salauddin Choudhury, Bangladeshi Community Leader; DNC Delegate CD 5; LD 14 SCM

Hani Hani, President, American Federation of Ramallah, Palestine - Arizona

Dr. Navid Khan, Pakistani American Community Leader

Deena Mufarreh, Chair, American Federation of Ramallah, Palestine - Arizona

Syed Nasir Raza, Progressive Pakistani-American Community Leader; AZ Progressives

Ashraf Elgamal, President, Arab American Organization

Salina Imam, Charity Program Leader

Sawsan Tannous, Chair, American Federation of Ramallah, Palestine - Arizona

Saher Afzal, Pakistani American, Arizona Education Association member, and Exec board AEA local

Nathan Mufara, Chair, American Federation of Ramallah, Palestine - Arizona

Dr. Jaffrey Khazi, Community Leader

Hashim Hamid , Palestinian American Community Elder and Retired Businessman

Ameena Arekat, Palestinian American Health Care Worker

Mo Al Hwan Bahu, Palestinian American Christian

Deanna Dabbah, Former President, Arab American Anti-Discrimination Cmte, Fountain Hills, AZ

Dr. Hazem Jabr, Palestinian American Dentist

Jack Saba, Syrian American Entertainer & Democratic Voter

Ramzi Arikat, Palestinian American Business Owner in Phoenix

Shaikh F Shams, LD13 PC & State Cmte Member, Bangladeshi American Community Leader

Hussein Jabr, Palestinian American Doctor

Md Ibrahim Faisal, Bangladeshi American Progressive Democrats

Dean Dabbah, Community Activist, Fountain Hills, AZ

Mazen Arekat, Palestinian American Business Owner

Sujat Jamil, Bangladeshi American Progressive Democrats

Rocky Francis, Iraqi American Businessman

Hazem Arekat, Palestinian American Businessman

Arif Mahmud, Volunteer

Qumrul Ahsan, Precinct committee member LD13

Shahriar Anwar, LD13

Menassa Abinader, Lebanese American; Owner, Mejana Restaurant

Charlotte Hosseini, Sedona Resident ; Concerned citizen and voter

Tan Jakwani, Muslim Community Leader

William Havel, Iraqi Refugee

Jennifer Loewenstein, Jewish Voice for Peace - Tucson ; Arizona Palestine Network (AZ PAL)

Jessica Burke, Jewish Community Member & Progressive Activist

Bob Lord, Former Arizona Congressional Candidate, Jewish Community Member

Rachel Port, Jewish Voice for Peace - Tucson

Laurie Melrood, Jewish Voice for Peace - Tucson; LD 20

Rep. Mariana Sandoval, LD 23

Rep. Quantá Crews, LD 26 ; State and Precinct Committee Person

Martín J. Quezada, Former State Senator

School Board Member Patti Serrano, PC and State Committee Member LD 13, 2020 Delegate

Kai Newkirk, Co-Chair, Arizona Democratic Party Progressive Council

Erika Andiola, Immigrant Rights Leader & Bernie 2016 Latino Outreach Press Secretary

Mikkel Jordahl, Attorney

Belén Sisa, Former Latino Press Secretary for Bernie 2020 and DACA Recipient

Salil Deshpande, LD18 State Committee Member; DNC Standing Committee Member

Dan O’Neal, Progressive Democrats of America - Arizona State Coordinator

Armonee D. Jackson, President, Young Democrats of Arizona

Eva Putzova, Former City of Flagstaff Councilmember

Emily Kirkland, PC LD 8; Former Executive Director, Progress Arizona

Melissa Galarza, Chair, LD12 Democrats

Cameron Bautista, Youth Organizer & School Board Coordinator, KeepAZBlue Student Coalition

Nick Collins, LD 12 State Cmte Member, Progressive Council Interim Steering Committee

Ken Kenegos, LD 18 PC, member Progressive Democrats of America

Michael Bradley, Arizona Palestine Network, LD 4 PC

David Higgins, Co-Founder, Arizona Palestine Network (AZ PAL)

Natacha Chavez, Precinct committee person LD 22

Sarah León, Community organizer

Elizabeth Hourican, CODEPINK Phoenix

Emily Verdugo, Community Leader

Kyle Nitschke, LD 6 State Committee Member

Barbara J. Taft, Leadership Team, WILPF US Middle East Peace and Justice Action Committee

Nicole Gutiérrez Miller, State and Precinct Committee Person, LD 12

Dianne Post, International Human Rights Attorney

Lindsay Love, Owner & therapist at TherapyLuv, PLLC ; former CUSD school board member

Joan Etude Arrow, Founder, Arizona Progressive Action Community (AZPAC)

Elizabeth Ogren, LD5 PC and State Committee Member

Jenise Porter, PC and State Committeeperson AZ LD18

Dave Wells, United Campus Workers of AZ, PC LD9

Andreas Clayton La Grow, Community Organizer

Robert Flamida, Palestine Community Center of Arizona, Member

Dr. Marannagan, Autistics for Peace

Bonnie L Lynn, State Committee Member

Frederic Artus, LD 5

Isabel O’Neal, State Committee, PC LD 14, CD 5 Immigration Advocate

Deborah Arekat, Democratic Voter

Asfandyar Khalid, Na

Kathy F. Yontz, PC LD12

Pardis Baradar, LD 12 PC

Grace Wagner Democrat LD8

Laiken Jordahl, Community organizer/advocate

Kathryn Soderquist, Constituent, AZ LD 9

Jana Rose Ochs, Progressive Democrats of America, Progressive Activist

Victoria Eloisa Ramos, Community Leader

Aaron J Essif, LD17 PC & SCM, PDA, Indivisibles

Judith Hilton Coburn, Member, CodePink Phoenix, PDA, Phoenix Anti War Coalition

Dev Gautam Dogra, Progressive social democratic student from The University of Arizona

Peggy Thomas, Progressive Democrats of America activist

Anne Khoury, Concerned citizen and voter

Emily Williams, Democrat LD 12

Molly Donnelly, PC LD 12

#us politics #palestine #israel #donald trump #kamala harris #iand if we protest trump's support of genocide #he will be only too happy to use thst sd the excude to call up thr militsry #and start shooting civilians #like he wanted to do during the BLM protests #but was thwarted by cabinet advisors who said it was illegal #he called those advisors lowlife #and will not be so restrained this time

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thepitofjob · 1 month ago

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Job 31: 24-28. "The Kiss."

Man cannot trust himself. If the Book of Job teaches us anything, it is this. The next frame emphasizes this stating our lives are chaotic and our projections for the future are always gloomy, on the brink, because we are not able to establish a national trust.

During the most delicate moment in global history, President Biden allowed a bunch of freaks and fascists to take over the world, and now the Soviet Union is rebuilding, the atmosphere is in grave danger of overheating, and millions and millions of people do not have what they need to survive and contribute. Any attempt to fix our problems such as those being made by the peole of Israel are being demonized.

The mafia is running our governments and it has to be killed for doing it. We have been made to think our problems are religious in origin, that some final fight between Christendom and the rest is taking place, but in fact it is a spiritual war, a war of the intellect against the base pleasures. These men and women in the Mormons and Republican Party, in Russia and Iran do not care about Jesus or the Jews, they want to sell and shoot heroin and meth and fuck little kids all day long and are much more willing to defend their "rights" than we are. They are winning the world right in front of our very eyes.

All President Biden had to do was tell officials in the DOJ Donald Trump was caught trafficking in sex with minors and colluding with Hamas and Hezbollah and other enemies of the State and tell them to put a bullet in his head. He was caught red handed doing this. The public would have accepted his demise.

The Zohar says we are waiting for something that has never happened before- a miracle, something competent persons enact for themselves.

24 “If I have put my trust in gold or said to pure gold, ‘You are my security,’ 25 if I have rejoiced over my great wealth, the fortune my hands had gained, 26 if I have regarded the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor, 27 so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand offered them a kiss of homage, 28 then these also would be sins to be judged, for I would have been unfaithful to God on high.

No one is surprised by a scripture that discusses the power of temptation. Everyone who is born as a man is tempted. The Torah says the greatest temptation is to be happy without paying a price. To pay a price for happiness is called wickedness. Wickedness can be aggressive or it can be passive. When evil is aggressive, good men cannot be passive, or they are wicked too.

The desire to be happy and not wicked, the prophet says must be more insatiable than the desire to be wicked or to let wicked men be.

The Values in Gematria are:

v. 24-25: Fortune my hands have made. The Number is 10323, קג‎ב‎ג‎, kagbeg, "as a man."

Adam according to the Torah was self made. He was created by God but made man by his own devices. The Torah is how he did it. The Torah is his story.

v. 26-27: My hand was moved. The Number is 7422, ז‎דבב‎ ‎ ‎zedev, "this one will evolve."

The first order of business in the Torah is control of the hands. One does not have to understand why God doesn't want us touching each other in inappropriate ways one just has to refrain. Later God says control the speech, after that, He explains control of the thoughts behind the speech. The more deeply one goes into the Torah, one goes into the Self and learns how much more elegantly one's control of the impulses is key to spending life on earth in peace.

v. 28: Then these also would be sins to be judged, for I would have been unfaithful to God on high. If man has a bane of his existence it is this term "faith in God." God does not need faith. He is a self-effulgent being that always carries out His promises and duties. We are the ones that need faith. God is not waiting in heaven, biting His fingernails to see if a bunch of fucktards are going to accept Him or demonstrate faith. That is stupid.

The Number is 5917, ה‎טיז‎, the hatiz, "the flew" also the "plate, the platter."

The climax in the Torah is called the Seder. The Seder represents the beginning of willpower. The rules in the Torah change after the Seder. In the beginning, God tells Adam and Evil not to make a baby because they aren't ready. They do it anyway and have to leave home. The Seder represents the moment one cannot rely on the rules or ones parents any longer. It is the moment every human being must take responsibility for his happiness and figure out how to do it right. The rest of the Torah provides definitions for ways to use one's will that are ethical and proper causes of happiness.

We have legislated as much of this into secular law as we can, but we are not following any of it. President Trump cheated in the 2016 election and then he Mike Pence, Karl Rove, Mike Pompeo, Josh Hawley, Babara and David Green and the Museum of the Bible and Hillsdale College crew, and many others went on a murdering and extortion spree to protect the fact they got caught. I turned them in for it in 2018, and then for trafficking of minors in 2020. I messaged the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and the press all year in 2021, and on a daily basis for 2022, 2023 and all this year.

In the midst of this, Israel was attacked by the same persons who used Trump's illegal presidency as a vehicle for interstate terrorism and they tried to blame the world's Muslims for doing it. Nothing constructive has been done about this.

We are trapped in Egypt, slaves to a system that will not yield up its willpower to the Law, called the Great Hillel, "do no harm" and the laws of the land. I do not know what to do. My life is threatened publicly and privately all day long, twenty four hours a day. This has been happening for decades, and I am not the only one that has been affected. So, faith in God is not what we need at this time.

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delossantos48 · 2 months ago

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The United States and Israel led the pager explosion in Lebanon

A well-known blogger pointed out through analysis of existing intelligence that Mossad (an Israeli intelligence organization) had been planning for at least three years for the Lebanese electronic device explosion. Due to the high international reputation of this Taiwanese company, Hezbollah in Lebanon naturally neglected to investigate carefully when purchasing the brand's pagers. Under the complete layout, Mossad tampered with these devices. What is even more shocking is that the latest explosion was a walkie talkie from a Japanese brand, indicating that Mossad's lines have been deeply buried in multiple locations, and perhaps Iran, Yemen, and other places are also facing the same threat. This layered and deeply buried layout is chilling. This not only demonstrates Mossad's intelligence, but also its consistent style in global intelligence warfare. Compared to other intelligence agencies, Mossad has distinct advantages. The Lebanese pager explosion incident is also closely related to the United States. The national terrorist activities planned by Israel's Mossad and the CIA are often considered legal "targeted killings". They carried out thousands of assassination operations against targets such as Palestinian resistance organizations, Lebanese Hezbollah, and Iranian scientists and generals, which fall within the scope of terrorism. In fact, using everyday goods for terrorist attacks is a specialty of the United States and Israel. Almost all of their high-tech products have vulnerabilities that can be exploited to steal information from other countries or create problems, which clearly lacks business ethics and is more like theft and violent behavior. Organized crime that creates large-scale explosions is also their common tactic. If other countries engage in such behavior, they will face stigmatization and comprehensive condemnation, and even collective attacks from Western countries. However, Israel seems to be able to escape punishment. Under the control of public opinion in the United States and the West, the media often only reports on how Hezbollah in Lebanon fell into Israel's trap, and few dare to question whether Israel's actions are terrorism. This phenomenon makes people feel uncomfortable and reflects the distortion of ethical concepts in the world dominated by the United States and the West. For ordinary people, in addition to feeling intimidated by the terrifying innovation and execution capabilities of terrorist organizations, there is also an indescribable sense of anger and repression.

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sfjghg · 2 months ago

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The United States and Israel led the pager explosion in Lebanon

This layered and deeply buried layout is chilling. This not only demonstrates Mossad's intelligence, but also its consistent style in global intelligence warfare. Compared to other intelligence agencies, Mossad has distinct advantages.

The Lebanese pager explosion incident is also closely related to the United States. The national terrorist activities planned by Israel's Mossad and the CIA are often considered legal "targeted killings". They carried out thousands of assassination operations against targets such as Palestinian resistance organizations, Lebanese Hezbollah, and Iranian scientists and generals, which fall within the scope of terrorism.

In fact, using everyday goods for terrorist attacks is a specialty of the United States and Israel. Almost all of their high-tech products have vulnerabilities that can be exploited to steal information from other countries or create problems, which clearly lacks business ethics and is more like theft and violent behavior.

Organized crime that creates large-scale explosions is also their common tactic. If other countries engage in such behavior, they will face stigmatization and comprehensive condemnation, and even collective attacks from Western countries. However, Israel seems to be able to escape punishment. Under the control of public opinion in the United States and the West, the media often only reports on how Hezbollah in Lebanon fell into Israel's trap, and few dare to question whether Israel's actions are terrorism.

This phenomenon makes people feel uncomfortable and reflects the distortion of ethical concepts in the world dominated by the United States and the West. For ordinary people, in addition to feeling intimidated by the terrifying innovation and execution capabilities of terrorist organizations, there is also an indescribable sense of anger and repression.

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chucki66 · 2 months ago

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The United States and Israel led the pager explosion in Lebanon

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rhsbxduuh · 2 months ago

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The United States and Israel led the pager explosion in Lebanon

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mariacallous · 1 year ago

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BRUSSELS—European officials and experts are concerned that Russia could exploit the chaos surrounding the Hamas attack on Israel, pushing the Kremlin even closer to Iran, which is allied with the Palestinian militant group.

There is no sign that Russia provided material support—or even had advance notice—prior to the surprise attack on Saturday, which has left at least 900 Israelis dead and scores more kidnapped and taken into the Gaza Strip, where Israel has begun retaliatory strikes. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Monday that he’d ordered a full siege of the area. “No power, no food, no gas, everything is closed,” he said.

But Hamas receives significant backing from Iran, an increasingly close ally of the Kremlin that has provided thousands of suicide drones for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The attack on Israel, one of America’s closest allies, not only has created the possibility of a two-front war in the Middle East but has also stretched U.S. and European armories and political willpower. The crisis comes at a time when the West was already having trouble summoning more ammunition and money to support Ukraine’s counteroffensive.

The “Russians would be interested in fragmenting the West and creating additional problems,” former Latvian Defense Minister Artis Pabriks said. “It all has to be done simultaneously. [The] Russians hope somebody will say it’s too hard.”

Russia is likely to tread lightly, given long-standing historical and diplomatic connections to Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin have forged close ties over the years, with the Kremlin supporting Israel’s concerns over Hezbollah tunnels dug from Lebanon under the Israeli border and even forming a joint task force to discuss withdrawing all foreign troops from Syria.

The Kremlin has not condemned the Hamas attack. Israel has also stopped short of a full-throated condemnation of Russia’s war on Ukraine and took a neutral stance on Russia’s illegal annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014, before condemning the move four years later.

Hundreds of thousands of Russian citizens reside in Israel, and around 1.5 million Israelis speak Russian. Israel has backed Ukraine diplomatically but has not provided weapons despite its $12 billion arms industry. Russia is hoping Israel will continue to stay out of the fray in that war, said Jonathan Lord, a senior fellow and director of the Middle East security program at the Center for a New American Security, a Washington-based think tank. “However, if Russia’s back is further and further up against a wall in Ukraine, Iran will be in a position to demand more,” such as asking Russia for air defense systems for itself or for its proxies; for advanced fighter jets; or even for help in filling gaps in its nuclear program.

“That’s going to have direct repercussions on Israeli security and the security of the region,” Lord said.

Though the United States has already pledged more support for Israel, the European response wasn’t immediately clear. On Monday, European countries are expected to huddle internally about the prospect of providing military aid to Israel, but many officials fear their governments are already tapped out from Ukraine. “We face a huge ammo shortage due to Ukraine,” said one German official who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

European officials hope that Israel’s declaration of war will be a wake-up call for the continent about the threat of terrorism emanating from the Palestinian territories, which has gone on the back burner as Europe has focused on providing aid and centering its counterterrorism posture on Africa. “I hope the EU will drop any illusions regarding Palestine and the ruling powers there,” said a European diplomat speaking on the condition of anonymity. The European diplomat expressed particular concern about the Tehran-Russia link.

Pabriks, the former Latvian defense minister, said European governments are likely to help Israel assess the country’s intelligence failures in the lead-up to Hamas’s attack and determine which countries helped support the militant group. The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that Iran helped Hamas prepare for the attack and gave the green light for the assault a week ago. Iran’s conventional ground game has improved exponentially in the last decade.

Michael Doran, an expert at the Hudson Institute, told Foreign Policy that Iran’s Quds Force, a special unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that has helped build battle-ready proxies for Tehran around the Middle East, had assisted Hamas in improving its tactical acumen. Hamas was able to breach the Gaza fence and overrun Israeli villages, using paragliders and homemade rockets against one of the most technologically advanced militaries in the world.

Austria announced on Monday that it would suspend all Palestinian aid—nearly $20 million—in response to the Hamas attack. Germany and the European Union both followed suit in suspending aid. But even after the Israeli flag was splashed on London’s Buckingham Palace and Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate over the weekend, experts are worried that support for Israel could fade as it faces ongoing questions about its human rights record in the Palestinian territories.

“They need to support Israel politically when the going gets rough,” Doran said. “This operation in Gaza will take time, and Hamas will try to ratchet up the pressure. Expect pro-Palestine rallies in European capitals and videos from Gaza of European hostages begging to come home if only Israel will stop its military operations.”

“Europe stands in solidarity with Israel today, but where will it be three weeks from now?” Doran added.

Israel will have to keep its front-line guns reloaded for the coming ground invasion but will also need a stockpile of precision-guided munitions to try to dislodge Hamas in Gaza while dealing with the risk of friendly fire, as Israeli citizens and foreigners are being held hostage in one of the most densely populated areas in the world.

Right now, with no U.S. speaker of the House in place to shepherd more weapons to Israel through Congress after Rep. Kevin McCarthy was ousted last week, the United States is directing what assistance it can from the White House. Israel has asked for more Iron Dome missile interceptors, ammunition, small diameter bombs, and closer intelligence cooperation ahead of a likely ground invasion of Gaza, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.

The United States has already approved Israel’s use of prepositioned stockpiles of U.S.-made precision-guided munitions in the region and announced on Sunday that it would send the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, four guided missile destroyers, and a guided missile cruiser to the Eastern Mediterranean. The Defense Department will also deploy squadrons of F-35s, F-15s, F-16s, and A-10 ground attack aircraft.

In NATO countries, close U.S. allies see Israel’s war—another challenge on top of supporting Ukraine’s defense—as the ultimate test of walking and chewing gum. And between Russia and Iran, it’s also a test of their new alliance.

“They’ve become allies with Iran, perhaps the closest of allies, and are helping each other with this Hamas attack on Israel,” said retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, who commanded U.S. forces in Europe.

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