Teenage Christian Phalangist militia members during the Lebanese civil war, 1976. pic.twitter.com/eooQuOnPzZ

— Middle East & North Africa Visuals (@menavisualss) November 24, 2023

https://x.com/sad_salvi/status/1728256128847602103

literally fascists lmao

Wtf this is a latinx Canadian neurodivergent lol

https://x.com/PierreHnoud/status/1728522067278999619

A hero in war and in peace.

She defended her country Lebanon against the barbaric actions of the Syrian and Palestinian invaders.

https://x.com/asmrscabpicking/status/1728522988629197031

she threw rice on israeli tanks taking over beirut. moss ayre pierre

The Shiites did that too though

https://x.com/667dzLuk/status/1728156436524318862

That's why they lost 🫵🏼😂😂😂😂

The Palestinians didn't win either though 💅

https://x.com/Warakat1/status/1728589169314664756

Thanks for reminding us of her courage and her struggle for a free Lebanon.

https://x.com/cleanbowled670/status/1728578213159264707

The comments by muslim and leftist freaks is funny. When Muslim Palestinians engage in r*pe and murder it's decolonizing but when Lebanese Christian's defend their homes it's fascism lmao

https://x.com/abellejarred/status/1728166533350728154

i do not support all women...some of you are fascists

I support all women except for pickmeishas

Btw this is an Irish chick 🫖

https://x.com/SultanReina/status/1728289019363270822

Women can do fascism just as well as men can!!

Women can do literally everything better than scrotes sis

Key Takeaways:

• The Israeli Defense Forces announced that it “dismantled” the 12 Hamas battalions in the northern Gaza Strip. CTP-ISW has warned that the third phase of Israeli operations in the Gaza Strip, as described, will very likely enable Hamas to reconstitute itself militarily.

• The Israeli Defense Forces reported that it uncovered evidence of Iran training Hamas in constructing precision munitions in the Gaza Strip.

• The Nahal Brigade Combat Team located a Palestinian compound with dozens of rocket launchers in Beit Lahia.

• The Golani Brigade continued conducting clearing operations in Maghazi and Bureij in the Central Governorate of the Gaza Strip.

• The Kfir Brigade continued conducting clearing operations in Khan Younis.

• Former IDF Military Intelligence Directorate chief Amos Yadlin reported that the IDF knows where Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar is located but that he has surrounded himself with many of the remaining hostages, which complicates Israeli targeting.

• The al Quds Brigades fired five rocket salvos from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel.

• Israeli forces clashed with Palestinian fighters ten times across the West Bank.

• Iranian-backed fighters, including Lebanese Hezbollah, conducted 14 attacks from southern Lebanon into northern Israel.

• The Islamic Resistance in Iraq—a coalition of Iranian-backed Iraqi militias—claimed that it conducted a long-range cruise missile attack targeting Haifa. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq also conducted two one-way drone attacks on US positions in Iraq and Syria.

• Unspecified actors conducted an airstrike targeting an Iranian-backed militia convoy reportedly transferring military equipment in Albu Kumal, Syria. Israel has conducted an air campaign in Syria in recent months meant to disrupt Iranian military transfers into the Levant.

• The Jordanian armed forces reported that they eliminated five Iranian-backed militia members attempting to smuggle drugs and weapons into Jordan from southern Syria.

• IRGC Quds Force officer Brigadier General Eraj Masjedi stated that the Palestinian militias will eventually obtain unspecified “defensive weapons” that would prevent Israel from conducting airstrikes into the Gaza Strip.

“I support Hamas, you f**king Jew,” screamed a NYC high school basketball player during her girls varsity game against a Jewish high school team.

This statement followed an aggressive game that was described by a player from the Jewish school as having “substantially more jabs… pic.twitter.com/36iCxjEynC

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) January 7, 2024

!jidf

!chuds

!nonchuds will make excuses

After years of gloating about Russians not being able to take down a state 1/3rd their size. Losing to one 1/300th their own. JUST.

Last weekend, twenty masked men dragged away my father—an imam in Gaza. His crime? He refused to brainwash his people with their politics.

RAFAH—On Saturday, December 30, our front door was busted down, and twenty masked men barged in and took my father, a widely respected and deeply learned imam here in Gaza.

One dragged him by his head, and another grabbed him by his beard. My younger brother tried to intervene and reason with the kidnappers, but they beat him. I have a medical condition that makes it hard for me to breathe, so all I could do was watch as the horror unfolded.

I know that if Hamas kills my father, they'll say that the Israeli army did it. But my father was very keen that even if he died, we should make known the despicable demands they made of him. It was his last request to us, literally as he was being carried out of the door, that should he die, we should publicize the real reason for his death, and it is this:

He wouldn't preach what Hamas told him to. He refused to tell Gazans that violent resistance, and obedience to Hamas, is the best way out of our current heck.

This story starts before October 7, and even before 2007, when Hamas took control of Gaza.

Our family has lived in Gaza for generations. Before 2007, my father worked for the Ministry of Islamic Affairs. After Hamas took over, they forced him out of his position. This was a hard time for my family; my father was the sole breadwinner. Finally, after three long years, he came back to work first as a mosque servant, then a mosque guard, then an employee of the ministry and finally, he was appointed as a mosque imam. (My father is known throughout the Gaza Strip. He has a doctorate in sharia from Cairo's storied Al-Azhar University, and is well-respected by his peers.)

For Hamas, being Muslim means supporting Hamas, and people who do not support Hamas aren't Muslims. If you don't abide by what Hamas tells you, you'll lose your job or worse. To keep my father in line, ensuring that he would deliver only Hamas-approved Friday sermons and allow Hamas to use his mosque as a clandestine weapons depot, they arrested my brother and me at least ten times between 2016 and 2019. Sometimes they would speak politely, sometimes they would ask us to comply “for the sake of your sisters,” but always the threat of violence loomed in the background. And several times we were beaten and humiliated in front of our father. They beat him, too, once nearly blinding him.

He was forced to do things for Hamas; move money around, store things, keep their secrets.

As an imam, my father keeps the keys to the mosque and is responsible for safeguarding large sums of money that Muslims give as zakat, the mandatory almsgiving of our faith. Hamas members would take advantage of his duties and use the mosque to stash money, weapons, and equipment.

Sometimes they'd bring a large, wrapped-up prayer rug, which they said had been donated—except my father wasn't allowed to open the rugs; only special volunteers were allowed to open them or transport the rugs in and out. My father had to open and close the doors and allow the sacred space to be used as a warehouse for Hamas. What choice did he have? It's a bitter truth that Hamas thinks of mosques as the property of their regime and that they store weapons there.

Once there were big boxes that were marked as food aid. There wasn't food inside, but something made of iron.

The most egregious thing Hamas imposed on my father was the content of his Friday sermons. They instructed him to brainwash people with their politics, to stick with Hamas and with the “resistance,” and that it's the only choice. That those who died fighting would be rewarded with 72 black-eyed virgins. Patience, jihad, all of that stuff. Hamas exploits our religion, pretending to be modern-day prophets, likening themselves to the companions of the prophet Muhammad.

Nobody told my father there was a plan to attack Israel on October 7. There's just this constant overarching message within the mosques, Islamic classes, sermons, and lectures, that the “resistance”—meaning Hamas and only Hamas—is the only way to liberate Al-Aqsa and the only way to alleviate our suffering.

They do all this brainwashing to make you think the cause of our suffering is Israel. But I see very clearly who causes our suffering.

Whereas most aid in Gaza is only accessible to Hamas's loyalists or those who toe the movement's line, my father would collect and distribute zakat alms to those who actually needed it. Some congregants would donate food, furniture, and household goods; and many among Gaza's neediest would come to my father, who would see that they were distributed fairly. My father also strove to give pious Muslims unbiased spiritual guidance, not the propaganda Hamas clerics deliver.

We fled our homes in Gaza City on October 20, moving from place to place until settling at my sister's home in Rafah several weeks ago. Her home was bombed as well, and now roughly forty people, including women and seniors, are sharing space in a building that is partly reduced to rubble.

Since the war, Hamas has put enormous pressure on imams to persuade the population that their only choice is “the resistance.” Schools and universities aren't functioning; the one thing that draws people in is prayer.

But now we have reached a time when nearly everyone in Gaza is saying Hamas caused the death of 20,000 people in Gaza and the injury of 50,000 more. So when the group demanded that my father go to a school where thousands of displaced persons are sheltering and urge them to stand with the “resistance”—to trust Hamas—he flat-out refused. My father knows the difference between right and wrong. He knew that refusing to act as a megaphone for Hamas could lead to his death, and yet he refused. He has a clear conscience. So does everyone who knows what really happened to him, and why.

This time, it's not like the prior wars. This time, people are telling the truth.

Before October 7, people were afraid—and of course some people are still afraid—but ironically, when there is fighting, Hamas goes underground, and people can be more vocal about how Hamas has ruined our lives. People are starting to publicly violate the laws, rules, dictates, and orders of Hamas. They are openly cursing Hamas and its leaders in the streets and markets, and ignoring the directives of the few Hamas officials and police still above ground. They have caused so much damage, it's undeniable. They've imposed themselves on our society, on my father, for too long. We're all paying the price. People want freedom. We hope deeply that this war will end, and that Hamas will end with it.

I don't know where my father is. I don't know if I will ever see him alive again. My hope in telling this story to the public, and putting my name to it, is to somehow offer my father a measure of protection. Hamas may wish to release him and show the world that they would never harm an admired mosque preacher. God alone knows the future, but what I know is that, under no circumstances, would my father want to become a propaganda tool.

!jidf

!chuds

!nonchuds

⚡️Hamas publishes footage of them targeting zionist terrorists in Gaza pic.twitter.com/ugD2qh8y14

— War Monitor (@WarMonitors) January 6, 2024

omg! !commies

!jidf make sure you look through pro-Palestinian accounts like @Transgender_spez and @transgender_spez2 for anything pro-Hezbollah. Then report it to Carp so it can be removed from the site.

it's federally illegal for us to platform most pro-Hezbollah content. Choose your words wisely. - Carp

BREAKING:

⚡ 🇮🇱 Israel's Defense Ministry announced that 12,500 of its soldiers may be classified as disabled after the war, meaning they have varying degrees of disability.

This is far above the number of casualties reported by the IDF until now.

This number coincides… pic.twitter.com/EJejXK9F9Q

— Megatron (@Megatron_ron) January 5, 2024

!commies

I mean, what terrorist attacks did they commit in the past 20 years?

I (sadly, a very white woman) would like to start wearing a keffiyeh in solidarity, but am concerned it might be cultural appropriation. Thoughts? And if I should, any suggestions on a good place to get some (preferably some place that would actually benefit Palestinians)?

— My Aunt Fanny 🇵🇸 (@Dienne_7) December 27, 2023

"I (sadly, a very white woman)" is comedy gold. Incredible

The replies are extraordinary. People debating the origins of hummus, Minnesotans sharing their experiences of keffiyeh solidarity. So much main character syndrome and niche bonkers

"I (sadly, a very white woman)" Seriously this white guilt is just a fetish now.

Solidarity for whom? anti-Semites?

Solidarity against @$$holes like you, genocider.

Is genocider still made with apples?

You could go to Gaza and ask how you can help them directly on the ground? I'm sure they'd give you a very warm welcome and find you plenty jobs to do. Good luck!

You people think you're being cute, but all you're really doing is showing how hateful you are. Keep it up.

In Gaza, exquisite kefiahs are available for purchase. I highly recommend not only visiting the area to acquire one, but also considering the opportunity to reside there in solidarity with Hamas. It promises to be a valuable and enlightening experience.

It would be. I'd get to see first hand how courageous and loving the Palestinians are even while the genocidal Israelis are trying to eliminate them.

You people? Ah, you mean Jews.

I just imagine this woman forced to stand in the town square with this tweet enlarged and hung around her neck while people laugh.

Wear the keffiya, I do, but drop the white self-hate poison that has been fed to you by the very same people now genocide Gaza.

Pro-Palestinoid infighting lmao

"Should we hate the Israelis for being white or for being Jewish?"

Update, per the vast majority of responses here, I went ahead and got one. Hard to find in stock, which is heartening. I should have it by early to mid-January. Look forward to wearing it. Thank you all!

Like there's straight up nothing connecting Starbucks to Isreal bombing children. Is this literally just pizza gate for brown people?

Beverly Hills - Jennifer Garner's 18 year old daughter was spotted today donning a sweatshirt featuring a watermelon, a fruit repurposed to represent the challenges of the Palestinian people.

The symbol erases the entire country of Israel. pic.twitter.com/HYUtu6Vvgj

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) January 4, 2024

No anniversary post this year...