@arnaa
Joined March 2009
בגלל העניין והחשיבות הציבורית אני ורחלי החלטנו ביחד עם הגרדיאן שהסרט נז״א יהיה נגיש באינטרנט בחינם, ללא הגבלת זמן, כדי שכל אדם יוכל לצפות בו ובעדויות החיילים. זה יקרה בעוד כמה שבועות, בנובמבר, במועד הכי מוקדם שהצלחנו לקבוע. עד אז פנינו לבתי קולנוע בישראל והצענו להם את הסרט ללא עלות, בתקווה שיוקרן בארץ כבר עכשיו, במקביל להפצתו בבתי קולנוע בעולם. הצגתו תהיה החלטה אמיצה אל מול אלימות גדולה שמכוונת להסתרתו. אני יודע שיש ביקוש אדיר לצפות בסרט ואני מקווה שבאופן הזה כולם בקרוב יוכלו לראות אותו: בין אם בבתי הקולנוע ובין אם באינטרנט בעוד כמה שבועות. הרבה דברים לא נכונים נאמרו עלינו ועל הסרט בשבוע החולף. הסרט מבוסס על תחקיר עיתונאי מקיף של שלוש שנים והפרטים בו מאומתים ומוצלבים. הוא ידבר בעד עצמו והאמת סופה להתבהר. עשינו את הסרט כדי לעורר דיון ציבורי לגבי המעשים של הממשלה בעזה, ההרג של יותר מ73,000 בני אדם, רובם אזרחים, הנרמול של מלחמת השמדה, של התפיסה ש״אין בלתי מעורבים״. עשרים וארבעה חיילים וחיילות עשו צעד ודיברו מול מצלמה על מה שחברה שלמה לא רוצה לדבר עליו. ההכרה בזוועות בעזה לא מפחיתה לרגע מהטבח הנפשע של השבעה באוקטובר, שחמאס אחראי עליו, שחיילים מדברים עליו בסרט, ושאין לו שום הצדקה. להפך. הרי ההתעלמות ממה שקורה בעזה היא מהגורמים שסללו את הדרך לשבת הנוראה ההיא. וההתעלמות הזו נמשכת. עיתונות היא לא בגידה. ביקורת היא לא בגידה. זו חובה של כל אזרח שממשלתו מבצעת פשעים לדעת ושל כל חייל שהיה עד להם לספר. מסתובבים כאן אלפי חיילים כאלה, שיצפו בסרט ויזהו את מה שמתואר בו באופן אישי: את ההרג של אנשים לא חמושים שחוצים קו מדומיין, את אישורי הנז״א במאות, את התקיפות המערכתיות בבתי משפחות, את השריפה וההשמדה הפיזית של עזה, רצח וירי על אנשים רעבים במרכזי מזון ופשעים נוספים שאין להם הצדקה. גם אם זה מפחיד, זו חובתכם למצוא את הדרך להעיד על מה שראיתם. יגידו לכם שכדאי להסתיר את האמת למען הסברה בחו״ל, אבל זה קשקוש. שם יודעים כבר הכל. פשעים לא מסבירים אלא עוצרים. הסתרת האמת קודם כל מרעילה את החברה שלנו ומעל הכל מאפשרת לפגיעה בבני אדם בעזה להימשך. ובנימה אישית: אני כותב על מדיניות האש של הצבא בעזה בעברית ב״שיחה מקומית״ כבר שלוש שנים. התחקירים זכו להתעלמות בישראל. עכשיו בפעם הראשונה משהו נסדק במסך ההתעלמות - וזה דבר חיובי. זה דבר בריא. כן, זה מגיע עם מחיר אישי גדול. היה שבוע קשה. אבל בתוכו גם יש המון תמיכה, והרבה נדיבות. מה שבטוח: האיומים לא יעזרו. זה לא מרתיע אותנו. אני ורחלי נחזור לארץ ונמשיך להיאבק על עתיד המקום הזה ביחד עם שותפים רבים.
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How to put this? This is not the speech of a good man who means well
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A notable person of the New Left, Jewish, once told me "Some of us took 'Never Again' to mean anyone and became civil rights activists, others took it to mean just Jewish people and became Zionists.' "
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“NAZA”, a documentary about Israel’s AI-powered mass killing in Gaza, received a 25-minute ovation at the Venice Film Festival. It features Israeli intelligence personnel and whistleblowers discussing how Palestinians were targeted. Al Jazeera’s Dmitry Medvedenko reports.
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Mike Huckabee spent years telling us these people were “God’s chosen” and that we had to bless the bombs, the settlements, the theft of land, the starvation, the genocide, and keep our mouths shut or God would curse us. He even told us they are owed land that he believed “they could take it all”. Then, he acts shocked when they steal the land, the house and pretend it’s owed to them by God. Well Mike, you told them they could. This is the blasphemous lie of Christian Zionism, and this false theology creates terrorists. Then, Mike Huckabee, goes to the West Bank and calls Israeli settlers terrorists. So which is it? Because terrorists don’t get to commit a heinous genocide and then make you shut up because they tell you they are God’s chosen people. God’s people don’t shoot kids in the face, bomb churches, steal houses, bury people alive, and mass murder innocent human life. You don’t get to feed us your Christian Zionist slop and hope Christians are too theologically illiterate to call it out. Christian Zionism is a heresy and people are finally seeing these monsters for exactly what they are; terrorists.
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee visited the occupied West Bank on Saturday, where he characterized some Israeli settlers "as being terrorists" after hearing from Americans living in the region. "There may be a few hundred that are responsible, but that's a few hundred too many," he said. "One of the messages that we have been sending, and we will continue to send, is that people in these communities have a right to live with a level of security and safety."
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Hi, I’m Madeline - I’m a Jew. I was literally in the studio with @hasanthehun the same day he made the comments everyone is upset about. Let me be very clear: Hasan got clipped out of context. These people are full of sh*t. Hasan was literally advocating for the OPPOSITE of violence against us, as he always has. He said the exact same thing about how the conflation of anti-Zionism with anti-semitism causes Jewish people - like myself - to become targets. Ezra Klein said the exact same thing previously, and nobody batted an eye. I spent a full hour with him that same day. Anybody wanna check how his behavior was with me? A whole Jewish lady? I’m sitting right there next to him. Care to see what we talked about and how we talked about it? I’ll give you a hint: non-violence, deradicalizing people, advocating for the humanity in every single person - Jewish and Palestinian alike. Please, my Jewish brothers and sisters - moms and dads and bubbies and zaydes - please hear me: They’re trying to trick us. They’re playing with our emotions and steering us away from the truth so we will abandon our principles and join the other side. I’m begging you - don’t let them make you abandon what you believe in. And don’t take my word for it — Please — look for yourself to see who is actually on our side and wants to protect us. Look and you’ll see who is actually speaking the truth. Chesed v emet - kindness and truth. Please don’t abandon the values our people have carried because you’ve been convinced of something that isn’t even true. Please.
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Let me ask you please -- who do you think this quote came from? Ezra Klein. Funny - sounds exactly like what @hasanthehun said. Literally the exact same thing. Actually it's not funny at all.
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Diaspora Affairs Minister saying out loud that their new strategy is to no longer appeal to concerns of antisemitism, but to go all in with the European and American right on Islamophobia.
Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli: Antisemitism does not interest the average European or the average American. Radical Islam interests them very much—very, very much—and therefore we need to take advantage of that.
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In Ep 198, "How The Atlantic Magazine Helps Sell Austerity and War to Middlebrow Liberals," we examine the general ideological orientation of The Atlantic Magazine, from selling Broken Windows to the Iraq War to busting teachers unions. w/ guest @schwarz soundcloud.com/citationsneed…
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Contrary to the talking points you are fed, shifting money from police to social services is enormously popular across all components of the income distribution:
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There are zero Flock cameras in Manhattan’s wealthiest neighborhood Flock cameras for thee but not for me? I guess the rich don't want to be monitored like common criminals by their government. Are you mad yet?!
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Muammar Gaddafi gave up his nuclear program in 2003. He negotiated. He complied. He handed over the centrifuges and the documentation and accepted international inspectors and did everything the West said a responsible leader should do. He believed the deal. He believed that compliance would produce security. In 2011, NATO bombed his country for seven months. Hillary Clinton, upon hearing of his death, after he had been captured, sodomized with a bayonet, and killed by a mob, appeared on camera and laughed: "We came, we saw, he died." Kim Jong-un watched this. The Iranian leadership watched this. Every government on Earth that was considering what compliance with Western demands actually produces watched this. Gaddafi is the lesson. Not the lesson the West wants to teach. The lesson history actually teaches. The empire does not reward disarmament. It schedules it.
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VIDEO | "One Jewish life is worth ten million ... Because God chose us. You are jealous." An Israeli settler lawyer who represents settlers accused of attacking Palestinians told the BBC that Israel should "kill everyone" in the villages of Tel in retaliation for the killing of a single Israeli. "One Jewish life is worth ten million," said Yehuda Shimon, a resident of the illegal Havat Gilad settlement. When asked whether his remarks were racist, he replied: "Yes, I know. But this is the truth. Because God chose us. You are jealous."
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Finance Minister Smotrich after the lengthy security discussion last night: “The State of Israel has no interest in joining the contained confrontation between Iran and the United States — the current situation is the best one for us.”
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This is a great and funny clip, speaking in plain language, about Americans’ willful blindness to their own participation in unequal exchange. “ ‘Ten peaches for a dollar: how DO they DO it?’ You know exactly how they do it. You know precisely how it’s done.”
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Perfect headline, from an Israeli outlet, no less.
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October 7, 2023, early morning, Israel's police command center: "(Strike) Gaza. Break it all apart. Along with the soldiers who got abducted." In the first hours of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, while conversing with Israel's Police Chief Kobi Shabtai, another senior officer calls to implement the Hannibal Directive, and destroy Gaza along with the Israeli captives. Minister Itamar Ben Gvir later arrives and orders to stop filming the meeting. Aired on Channel 12 on February 12, 2026
"The unit decides there is a hostage situation inside the safe room - terrorists holding a girl or a family hostage - and what they decide to do is shoot at the door, intending to kill whoever is on the other side" Channel 13, May 11: The unbelievable story of Tom Godo's death, an Israeli who was murdered by the IDF on October 8, 2023, in a clear attempt to implement the Hannibal Directive in his family home in Kibbutz Kissufim.
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No you’re going to keep engagement farming on this for the next six months
Replying to @LouwBronwyn
It's a bad look, but keep doing it. I genuinely am done giving a fuck. He's your problem. I will focus on states with decent people running to flip them seat blue.
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I am the Director of Provenance at AIPAC. I wrote the post. "AIPAC is all American. American directed. American funded. American members." I wrote it, we ran it, and every word is true. The truth is the product. American funded means the money comes from Americans. It does not mean you can follow it. We have a vendor for that. Democracy Engine. A candidate's FEC filing can read 0 dollars from AIPAC, accurate to the cent, because the money did not arrive from AIPAC. It arrived from Americans, through a processor, off a donation page we built, in an order I designed. We paid that processor $1.42 million in fees so the line "0 from AIPAC" would be flawless. I hide the water. I hide the pipes. The only flaw in the whole machine is that the plumber lists me as a client on his LinkedIn. In Philadelphia, our candidate reported 0 from us. Officially. We said it out loud — we denied funding her at all, and the denial was true to the cent. Then 27 separate donations reached her through Democracy Engine, from people who also write checks to AIPAC. The money was there. The name was not. That is the entire job. There is a dashboard on my wall. It has 1 column, and that column must always read 0. When it reads 0, the money has been made American. I will show you how clean it gets. One of our board members, in a single month, gave 2,000 dollars to a candidate in Philadelphia, 25,000 to the super PAC, and 5,500 to AIPAC directly. 1 man. 3 doors. 3 filings that never have to mention each other. He didn't launder anything. He used the building the way I designed it. When a name gets heavy, we grow a new one. Elect Chicago Women — $9.8 million on 2 candidates, then a million handed to a third group so the third group's donors could stay dark. The Center for Democratic Priorities — incorporated in Delaware, no prior interest in Michigan, still hasn't filed a registration, so the donors stay invisible until July. American funded. You simply cannot find the Americans. My favorite passthrough is named 314 Action. For pi. For scientists. A million dollars from our super PAC went in, read 0 on the April filing, and surfaced on June 20 — after the primary. Even the laundromat has a wholesome name. People think the donors are a secret. They are not. The largest single check we cashed in 2024 was from the man who built WhatsApp. The names are public. It is the path that is private. Here is the part I am proudest of. Our biggest source of Republican money goes into Democratic primaries. We are the largest pipeline of Republican cash into Democratic races in the country, and we spend it telling Democratic voters which Democrat is the real Democrat. The voter in the booth thinks she is settling a family argument. I wrote the argument. I paid for both translations of it. The ads never mention Israel. I am proud of that too. An ad about Israel is a foreign ad. An ad about a primary opponent's voting record is an American ad, paid for by Americans, about America. Bowman cost $14.6 million. Bush cost $8.6 million. The 2 most expensive House primaries in the country's history, and the first 2 times either member ever lost. Neither ad said the word that paid for it. We removed 2 members of Congress and the word "Israel" appeared in our spending 0 times. That is a finished product. A congressman named Massie asked the question out loud. So the race against him became the most expensive House primary ever recorded — $32.6 million — and he lost. On the way out he filed a bill demanding we register as a foreign agent. He named it the Americans Insist on Political Agent Clarity Act. He built the letters of my name out of the words foreign agent clarity. The bill written to expose us spells us. He thinks that's a coincidence. I think it's the cleanest thing he ever did. A professor once wrote that we are "a de facto agent for a foreign government" with "a stranglehold on Congress." I keep it framed. People assume the line is his. It isn't. He was quoting our own former legislative director. The most damning sentence ever written about this building was written first by a man who worked in it. The professor only carried it. I would not have used a word that strong in the brochure, but I am not going to correct a satisfied former employee. The polls have turned. 6 in 10 Americans now look unfavorably on the government we are accused of serving. 2 in 3 Democrats use the word genocide. You would think that ends us. It is why I exist. The less popular the cause, the more valuable the man who can move the money without moving the name. When everyone loved the work, anyone could fund it in daylight. Now they pay me. They call us the lobby that dares not speak its name. They say it like a wound. It is a job description. It is "my" job description. We have answered the foreign-agent demand before. In 1962 a Kennedy's Justice Department ordered our predecessor to register. We did not register. We dissolved it and incorporated AIPAC 6 weeks later, on American donations. 5 years after that, they withdrew the question. Same mission. New provenance. That is the whole history of the organization. They ask where the money is from. We make sure the answer is always: here. American. Right here. And the next answer is already built. A dollar has a donor. A wallet does not have a country. American funded now means the money came from a wallet, and the wallet was held by an American, and you will never meet the American. You won't even get a name to fail to follow. The citizen is the wallet now. You just can't see who's holding it.
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