Trita Parsi

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2010 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order Recipient. Executive VP nostr:npub1s5de6tmtd3usdtxfvnzqw88hc4sqam86qsnsgd2rjvxj8lfnez7qz5dxms. Author of Losing an Enemy & Treacherous Alliance. Views are my own. This account is a replica from Twitter. Its author can't see your replies. If you find this service useful, please consider supporting us via our Patreon. πŸ”—: Location: Washington DC Official: https://twitter.com/tparsi Support this service: https://www.patreon.com/birddotmakeup
WOW!!! Never thought we would hear this level of honesty from a Western leader, and certainly not Canada, given the direction of Canada in the past 25 years. Canada's shift towards multialignment is quite clear - and this level of honesty from Carney on Western "fiction" about
This is one of the most disgusting things you'll see today, but also extremely revealing. @npub1mvkm...gryy asks former White House Press Secretary Jean-Pierre if she regrets defending Biden’s Gaza policy (blind support and for Israel's genocide). She first tries to explain it away by saying that she spoke on behalf of the President, not herself. When Ayman points out that she now speaks for herself, Jean-Pierre refuses to give a clear yes or no answer but instead says she needs to add context. And what is that context? Here, Jean-Pierre plays the identity card, saying she woke up every morning being proud of being the first black and queer spokesperson for the WH. (So what??) And then she adds: β€œI was very proud of everything that I did. I don’t take anything back.” So she uses the identity card to make genocide apologism permissible. Just as those in Europe who divide the world between Democracies and Authoritarians, and then argue that Israel's apartheid, genocide, and war crimes are all permissible because Israel is a "democracy." Laws, rules, and ethical standards are not objective and do not apply equally to all. Rather, your identity and/or your political makeup determine whether laws and ethical standards apply to you. And in Jean-Pierre's world, her identity gives her the license to support genocide without regret.
This is as shocking as it is revealing: Police in Berlin spray-painted over the Palestinian flag, while leaving the rest of the graffiti unaddressed. Thus, graffiti is not the problem. This is not the case of an expression of violence, either. Nor is it about breaking the law, since all of the graffiti in that case should have been addressed. Rather, the mere symbol of the people of Palestine appears to be an affront to the German authorities. The German government seems to prefer that Palestinians simply didn't exist. So while its weapons help Israel commit a genocide in Gaza, at home, German authorities wipe out anything that reminds ordinary Germans that Palestinians are a people, that they are humans, that they have the same right to statehood as all other peoples. Having committed genocide against the Jewish people in the 1940s, it seems increasingly difficult to deny that Germany today is a full partner in the genocide against Palestinians - both figuratively and literally.
WOW! While defenders of Israel in the West deny genocide, deny starvation, or blame it on the UN, the former deputy director of Mossad, Amiram Levin, calls it a genocide! "The orders the government is giving the army today are a crime... To give an order to shoot at hungry children and parents looking for a piece of bread... This is a crime, this is genocide."
This is what Gaza City looks like right now, the northern tip of Gaza. No journalist has been there for months. No airplane has been allowed to fly over it and take pictures (this pic was taken in secret). I don't think we can imagine what atrocities have taken place there, the number of agonizing deaths, and the extent of the war crimes. We know what Israel has been willing to do IN FRONT of cameras. I don't think we can imagine what they are doing when the world cannot watch. image