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Comments on American war crimes are good, oddly enough. Lots of people calling out american's hypocrisy when it comes to painting all western Asians with the same brush but demanding that the troops don't represent Americans and deserve nuance.

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please

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History repeats itself

Also looking up Southern Lebanese cities that Israel would have retreated from, I encountered this page about a 'detention' center (torture facility; content warning: descriptions of torture because Western secular liberal democracy):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khiam_detention_center

Gonna check the Hebrew version of this page and see what Israelis are saying was actually happening there.

EDIT: Translating the Hebrew to English, we get:

In southern Lebanon, there was a barracks of the French army which was built in the thirties. After that, the building was used by the Lebanese army, until it came under the control of the South Lebanese army. In 1985 it was converted to serve as a detention center, a prison and an interrogation facility until the withdrawal of the IDF from South Lebanon in May 2000 and the dissolution of the South Lebanon Army. After the withdrawal, Hezbollah turned the prison into a museum[1]. Prisoners who stayed in the prison reported harsh interrogations and the use of torture. Among other things, it was reported Confinement cells with a height of 0.7 meters and a floor area of ​​0.5 square meters, about confinement in perpetual darkness, and about whippings.

Al-Khyam prison also had a women's wing for female prisoners. The most famous prisoner in the prison was Suha Beshara who tried to assassinate the commander of the SDF, Antoine Lahad.

The prison building was destroyed by Israeli Air Force strikes during the Second Lebanon War.

The State of Israel denied direct involvement in the management of the prison and claimed that the facility was transferred to the authority of the South Lebanese Army in 1988. Before the prison was transferred to the responsibility of the South Lebanese Army, the IDF confirmed (in 1986) that an American citizen captured by the forces of the South Lebanese Army was transferred to Al-Khyam Prison and was interrogated in the camp by two SDF members and an Israeli investigator in order to ensure that the interrogated received proper treatment[2]. However, in the affidavit[3] given by Dan Halutz on behalf of the Ministry of Defense, he admitted to some involvement of Israel, including the payment of salaries to prison guards and staff and the training of investigators.

In 2022, following a petition by human rights activists to the High Court, the Shin Bet allowed the publication of documents including documentation of torture such as electrocution, starvation and denial of medical treatment. Additional documents that the Shin Bet allowed to be published in 2024 show that a member of the Shin Bet supervised the SDF investigators and guided them

HMMMMMMMM.........HMMMMMMMMMMM..........Very interesting wording and speculation here! Also the omitted quote from the English article!

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I got caught drinking again. It feels better to come clean about it. I'm tired of being a drunk mess. It takes so much energy to be a functional alcoholic. Please don't do what I did when faced with this genocide reality. Its so hard. You just want to push it aside. Don't fall into the self medication trap. Its a trap and it will fuck you! Christ I am still so fucked up and I try not to do the "drunk posting" thing. I smashed a glass thing and picked through the glass to find something worthy, something with a cutting edge, because concerned relatives already emptied my gun closet and took them away. I'm bleak as hell right now. I want to be ethered. something where I can go away but I won't fuck up my family by doing it. But thats selfish. I'm a communist. I can't do that to myself because I don't want it to bounce back on other people. Communism is why I don't slouch and let myself slide into these pits. I need to be here for the rest of y'all. The hiding takes so much energy away from myself. I'm so tired of the selfish act of nipping a bott;e. Im very sorry but theres nowhere else to post it

I hope I helped somebody else laugh. Like when you re-read what I wrote I was just trying to have a positive energy or I was doing a bit

I read awhile that they call these things "deaths of despair." for whatits worth I get that. I finally get that. But we aren't alone. Im fucked up but I won't be part of that grim tally. I refuse that.

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Amin reports that these contacts between the CIA and Lebanese security officials may have played a role in Israel’s recent attempt to assassinate a Hezbollah political leader, Wafiq Safa.

On 10 October, Israeli airstrikes leveled a residential building in central Beirut, killing 22 people. Israel stated that Safa was the target of the attack. However, they were unsuccessful in killing him.

The official stated that the US wanted to kill Safa, who has no military role in Hezbollah, as part of a campaign launched by the US Ambassador to Beirut, Lisa Johnson, who recently “called on Lebanese political and non-political forces to begin working to establish the stage of “post-Hezbollah Lebanon.”

amerikkka

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A justification for American militarism from the South Park guys in the form of "dicks have to fuck assholes" or whatever.

Racism towards Middle Easterners and Kim Jong-il too, because why not?

very-intelligent The real problem is that some Hollywood actors said the Iraq War was bad.

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We don't have companies called Militech or anything, we have companies named shit like Poob. Palantir is the only suitably evil sounding company

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I read 30 pages. Absolute shit. Could have guessed because it's appelbaum, the anti-communists darling, but damn the introduction alone is filled with ahistoric liberal revisionism. All respect in the world for my friend, but its shit like this i cant take seriously. Doesnt help that this place has shown me that engaging with liberals is by and large pointless (i have known the guy for years but certain things i cant get through his head), so most of my criticism is just dunking on Appelbaum.

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my capacity for hate watching MSNBC is being eroded.

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xi-plz i'm so so so so so so tired. please.

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ypg-brace never talk without a lawyer

Also lmao @ expecting Trump to die from having the presidential limo overturned by a forklift, those things probably have tungsten-reinforced seatbelts

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They're engaged. That's it, that's the post.

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stalin-stressed

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from https://xcancel.com/wyattreed13/status/1845923375681884607

this video is being removed from Twitter

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the-podcast compares ukraine and gaza coverage in first 100 days

conclusion:

This survey of CNN and MSNBC coverage is quantitative evidence of a double standard in both empathy and emphasis during the early weeks of conflict—when moral narratives are cemented and sympathies are shaped for the public. Palestinian victims are made abstract, rarely given humanizing portraits, and their killings are seen as incidental and unintended. The killing of Ukrainians and Israelis, however, is put in stark moral terms, broadly presented as deliberate. This is just one part of a broader regime of media dehumanization that makes the ongoing decimation of Gaza palatable to the American public whose leaders continue to arm and fund it.

compacted twitter thread

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palestine-strong

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