Zachary Foster✓

@_ZachFoster

Historian of Palestine | PhD | Founder of Palestine Nexus ↓

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  1. Zachary Foster✓@_ZachFoster
    6 🧵s to make sense of Israel/Palestine: 1) A history Palestinian non-violent resistance 2) A history of Hamas 3) A history of Israel's ethnic cleansing Palestinians 4) A history of Israel's wars on Gaza 5) A history of Gaza 6) A history of Israel’s use of disproportionate force
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    RT @rulajebreal: Palestinian citizens of Israel are the last force standing between Israel and the apocalypse. Netanyahu has answered our votes by claiming that Palestinian parties “stole” the election, even though Israel’s own election authorities say they have seen NO evidence of systematic fraud. His son Yair went further. He used the results to claim that most of Israel’s Palestinian citizens justify “terror”, and he called us “an existential problem no less than the Iranian nuclear program.” Read that again: citizens who went to the polls, placed on the same level as a nuclear bomb. That is the Netanyahu family legacy: disgusting racism, bigotry, corruption, war crimes, and an Israel turned into a rogue genocidal state, despised and isolated around the world. Israel’s opposition now faces a choice: bring Netanyahu down, or commit political suicide.
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    This was @the_andrey_x’s last substack post before he was brutalized by Israeli state militias & the Israeli army in the West Bank
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    This video is completely insane. Israeli state terrorism knows no boundaries.
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    This video is completely insane. Israeli state terrorism knows no boundaries.
    Adele Shoko @AdeleShoko
    🚨 TODAY: Settler-terrorists attacked Andrey, Jasper and me. This video shows the assault. Andrey was severely beaten and lost consciousness several times in front of police. Despite this, he was denied hospital treatment. He was put in an ambulance—but instead of being taken to hospital, he was taken to a police station. He is still there, arrested and being denied medical care. Jasper and I were also beaten. Jasper was then pepper-sprayed and arrested.
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  5. Adele Shoko✓@AdeleShoko
    🚨 TODAY: Settler-terrorists attacked Andrey, Jasper and me. This video shows the assault. Andrey was severely beaten and lost consciousness several times in front of police. Despite this, he was denied hospital treatment. He was put in an ambulance—but instead of being taken to hospital, he was taken to a police station. He is still there, arrested and being denied medical care. Jasper and I were also beaten. Jasper was then pepper-sprayed and arrested.
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    BREAKING: Apartheid Israel police detain American journalist Jasper Nathaniel
    Adele Shoko @AdeleShoko
    @infinite_jaz was arrested after getting attacked Jasper is shouting: "I just got beat up!"
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    @infinite_jaz was arrested after getting attacked Jasper is shouting: "I just got beat up!"
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    'Equality' is not a Zionist goal
    Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2
    "If you ask a Zionist today what his Zionism is, he won't know how to answer. The old Zionism is no longer relevant. It established a state & revived its language. It has no more goals. 'Equality' is not a Zionist goal. 'Zionism' had become an empty word. Until Meir Kahane came along. He came with an updated Zionism whose goals are clear: to expel Arabs & settle Jews. This is a Zionism that doesn't hide behind pretty words. 'Voluntary migration' makes it laugh. 'Transfer' delights it. It takes pride in 'apartheid,' pisses on 'enlightenment,' and vomits on 'the foundations of liberty, justice, and peace.' Give it a few planes and some good bombs, and it will finish off two million Arabs in ten minutes. Then it will destroy evidence, send bulldozers to cover the bodies, and eliminate journalists who documented the horrors. Kahane was right. There's no difference between Netanyahu's Zionism and his own. There's no difference between the Likud's Zionism and religious Zionism. There's no difference between the policy of religious Zionism and the government's policy. The difference is that Netanyahu and Sara fight for power, while Smotrich and Ben Gvir fight for the principle." Excerpt from Israeli journalist Yossi Klein's article "Kahane was right, Leibovitz was wrong" from August 2025 in Haaretz
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  9. Muhammad Shehada✓@muhammadshehad2
    "If you ask a Zionist today what his Zionism is, he won't know how to answer. The old Zionism is no longer relevant. It established a state & revived its language. It has no more goals. 'Equality' is not a Zionist goal. 'Zionism' had become an empty word. Until Meir Kahane came along. He came with an updated Zionism whose goals are clear: to expel Arabs & settle Jews. This is a Zionism that doesn't hide behind pretty words. 'Voluntary migration' makes it laugh. 'Transfer' delights it. It takes pride in 'apartheid,' pisses on 'enlightenment,' and vomits on 'the foundations of liberty, justice, and peace.' Give it a few planes and some good bombs, and it will finish off two million Arabs in ten minutes. Then it will destroy evidence, send bulldozers to cover the bodies, and eliminate journalists who documented the horrors. Kahane was right. There's no difference between Netanyahu's Zionism and his own. There's no difference between the Likud's Zionism and religious Zionism. There's no difference between the policy of religious Zionism and the government's policy. The difference is that Netanyahu and Sara fight for power, while Smotrich and Ben Gvir fight for the principle." Excerpt from Israeli journalist Yossi Klein's article "Kahane was right, Leibovitz was wrong" from August 2025 in Haaretz
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  10. Zachary Foster✓@_ZachFoster
    Israeli terrorists are trying to murder @the_andrey_x.
    Adele Shoko @AdeleShoko
    🚨 URGENT: @the_andrey_x is in very bad shape. He has a concussion and lost consciousness several times while being detained. Settlers blocked the ambulance from evacuating him. He is now being held ALONE in the ambulance inside the settlement and is being denied transfer to a hospital.
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  11. Adele Shoko✓@AdeleShoko
    🚨 URGENT: @the_andrey_x is in very bad shape. He has a concussion and lost consciousness several times while being detained. Settlers blocked the ambulance from evacuating him. He is now being held ALONE in the ambulance inside the settlement and is being denied transfer to a hospital.
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    RT @owenjonesjourno: Netanyahu and his allies have beaten the opposition in the Jewish Israeli vote. That's despite: - Presiding over October 7th - Netanyahu being on trial on charges of bribery and fraud - A cost of living and housing crisis - Attacks on the judiciary - Outrage over shielding ultra-Orthodox Jews from conscription - The Qatargate scandal - The disastrous Iran war - The Israeli establishment rationally believing that Netanyahu was making their state a pariah, and organising to get rid of him - The opposition overwhelmingly also supporting the genocide, occupation and illegal settlements If we include Ofer Winter's party - which pledged to support Netanyahu for prime minister, but hasn't crossed the threshold - then so far 51.5% of the non-Arab list vote went to the Netanyahu bloc. With 84.4% of votes counted, among the non-Arab list bloc, the opposition has only increased its share of the vote by about 1.6 points. Ben-Gvir and Smotrich stood separately this time, but are set to win almost the same combined number of seats as last time. The latter in alliance with Moshe Feiglin, who declared "Every child, every baby in Gaza is an enemy." The only significant shift is the surge in support for the Palestinian-led parties. But most of the opposition is opposed to working with them. Avigdor Lieberman, for example, has taken even more extreme positions towards Palestinians than Netanyahu himself. If they do a pact with the Palestinian-led parties, not only would it not last long, it would produce a huge right-wing backlash. That the opposition could on paper form an arithmetical majority with the support of the Palestinian-led parties - but absolutely will not - trashes the "well if the small minority of Palestinians who remained in Israel after the Nakba can vote, then Israel is a democracy for all its citizens" nonsense. A very likely prospect is that this will pave the way for new elections. The two right-wing parties which didn't cross the threshold would likely not stand again, boosting Netanyahu. The same huge mobilisation of Palestinian citizens of Israel would likely not transpire. Netanyahu and his allies would likely benefit from shock at the unexpected surge in support for the Palestinian-led parties. The opposition would be demoralised by its failure, and Netanyahu strengthened by having come out on top in this election. So it's best to bet on Netanyahu winning a coming election. What does all this mean? Any illusions that change can happen within Israeli society should long ago have been destroyed. The opposition would have continued the genocide, the occupation, apartheid and colonisation. But as Israel's support in the West collapsed, Israel's cheerleaders pushed the position that Netanyahu was the bogeyman, and that a shift in figurehead could allow the state to do a PR relaunch. Netanyahu isn't Israel, we were told. Well that's true in the sense that on many key issues, Israeli society is actually more extreme than Netanyahu. This baseless illusion is now dead and buried. There must now be a much more determined push for a total arms embargo and sweeping sanctions on Israel. Those arguing that Israel is something it plainly is not are now completely and utterly discredited.
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    "Coloured" voter casting his ballot in an Apartheid South Africa election in Johannesburg, August 1984.... but please tell me more about South African 'apartheid'
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    Avi Yemini @OzraeliAvi
    Just in case you were wondering… This is a polling station IN ISRAEL. But please, tell me more about Israeli ‘apartheid’. 🙄
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  14. Avi Yemini✓@OzraeliAvi
    Just in case you were wondering… This is a polling station IN ISRAEL. But please, tell me more about Israeli ‘apartheid’. 🙄
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    RT @BtSIsrael: To achieve this “tremendous” result, the IDF forcibly displaced 780 families from their homes in Hebron: 4,969 people in total, including 312 with chronic illnesses, 44 with disabilities, 216 pregnant or breastfeeding women, 441 adults aged 60 or older, and 336 children under the age of two. The IDF’s operation in Hebron has nothing to do with security. It is an act of collective punishment.
    Israel Defense Forces @IDF
    ⭕️ COUNTERTERRORISM OPERATION IN JUDEA & SAMARIA: Following last Friday’s shooting attack in Hebron, in which Staff Sergeant Ron Yonatan Roytman and Sergeant Yuval Shai Svilem fell, security forces continue operating to thwart terrorism in the area. During the operations, 6 suspects were apprehended, including an individual affiliated with Hamas. The suspects were allegedly involved in terrorist activities, including planning and facilitating terrorist attacks. Additionally, forces confiscated weapons including an M16 rifle, knives, a vest & a replica gun. The IDF will continue operating to thwart terrorism and maintain security throughout Judea and Samaria.
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    ⭕️ COUNTERTERRORISM OPERATION IN JUDEA & SAMARIA: Following last Friday’s shooting attack in Hebron, in which Staff Sergeant Ron Yonatan Roytman and Sergeant Yuval Shai Svilem fell, security forces continue operating to thwart terrorism in the area. During the operations, 6 suspects were apprehended, including an individual affiliated with Hamas. The suspects were allegedly involved in terrorist activities, including planning and facilitating terrorist attacks. Additionally, forces confiscated weapons including an M16 rifle, knives, a vest & a replica gun. The IDF will continue operating to thwart terrorism and maintain security throughout Judea and Samaria.
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    In the summer of 1967, media outlets around the world were broadcasting scenes of Palestinian refugees, loaded with hefty bundles, walking heavily under the scorching summer sun being forced across the Jordan River by Israeli gunpoint. It was a bad look. So Israel came up with a solution: To counter these allegations, Israeli spokespersons argued that anyone exiting the occupied area had to sign a paper stating that he or she was leaving voluntarily. Nothing screams "voluntary departure" quite like being forced to declare your departure is voluntary. Zionism requires Zionists to believe "coerced" actually means "voluntary." source: p.117
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    In 1988, Rehavam Zeevi was elected to the Israeli Knesset on a platform to deport 100% of Palestinians from the West Bank & Gaza Strip. He was considered far extreme for decades. Today, his views are shared by ~82% of the Jewish Israeli public.
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    Israeli journalist: "You are both first time voters. What are you voting based on?" Israeli voter 1: "I don't want there to be Arabs in the county." Israel voter 2: "Me neither." Background: 56% of Israeli Jews want to expel all 2M Palestinian citizens of Israel, and 82% of Israeli Jews want to expel all Palestinains in Gaza to other countries. Turns out, for some voters, it is the only issue they care about: creating an Palestinianrein Israel the same way the Nazis created a Judenrein Germany. source:
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    Israeli journalist: "You are both first time voters. What are you voting based on?" Israeli voter 1: "I don't want there to be Arabs in the county." Israel voter 2: "Me neither." Background: 56% of Israeli Jews want to expel all 2M Palestinian citizens of Israel, and 82% of Israeli Jews want to expel all Palestinains in Gaza to other countries. Turns out, for some voters, it is the only issue they care about: creating an Palestinianrein Israel the same way the Nazis created a Judenrein Germany. source:
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    🚨🚨 Breaking News from the trailblazing reporter @Olivia_Reingold, who broke news that Israel murdered the most vulnerable Palestinian children in Gaza before it murdered healthy children. Now, here is her latest scoop: 1) Israel is a "distinctly Middle Eastern" country. my mind is blown. 2) there are stray cats in Israel. Olivia -- can you do an blockbuster front page @TheFP expose exclusive on this observation, co-authored with @bariweiss? 3) There are mosques in historic Palestine. Olivia is discovering that there were Muslim Palestinians in Palestine before it was colonized by Jews. 4) Black Jews are just as good as committing genocide and apartheid as White Jews, and not enough people focus on the racial diversity of the genocidaires! 5) Arab children are forced to learn the Jewish history of Palestine (while Jewish children are obviously never forced, indeed, never even exposed to Palestinian, Muslim or Arab history). Great observation, Olivia! You are really learning! 6) Olivia met "a Mizrahi cab driver whose parents fled Morocco in the 50s." Now a short history lesson, because you brought it up: ~2/3rds of Jews who sought to immigrate to Israel from across North Africa were rejected before 1954. The highest rejection rates were of Moroccan Jews. Israel adopted a selective immigration policy, rejecting many Jewish prospective immigrants in the early years. The Moroccans were considered the worst of all the Jews, backwards, brown, dirty, etc., so they were rejected em masse, including Moroccan Jews that suffered persecution. Consider the Vazana family, who wished to emigrate from Morocco to Israel in the 1950s, but remained in Casablanca because Israeli immigration authorities did not let them travel with two of their children classified as disabled by Israel. The family was told they should leave them behind. Their story was a typical case in Morocco. Hey @Olivia_Reingold you should publish a memoir about your life changing experiences in Apartheid Israel. I think it would be really eye opening!
    Olivia Reingold @Olivia_Reingold
    I was expecting Israel to be a little America—mostly English-speaking, a land full of convenience. What I found was distinctly Middle Eastern—the people are brash, speak with their hands, and often don't know a lick of English. There are stray cats everywhere, mopeds, and graffiti. The street signs are in Hebrew, English, and Arabic. There is a mosque on prime beachfront property in Tel Aviv. There is every kind of citizen imaginable. I saw Ethiopian Jews serving in the IDF. While touring an ancient Jewish site, I ran into a group of Arab schoolchildren also there to learn. I met a Mizrahi cab driver whose parents fled Morocco in the 50s. Douglas Murray famously made Americans irate when he flamed Dave Smith on an episode of Joe Rogan for having never traveled to Israel—but he’s right. Visiting Israel shows you just how wrong the west is about the Jewish state. Just go there.
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  21. Olivia Reingold✓@Olivia_Reingold
    I was expecting Israel to be a little America—mostly English-speaking, a land full of convenience. What I found was distinctly Middle Eastern—the people are brash, speak with their hands, and often don't know a lick of English. There are stray cats everywhere, mopeds, and graffiti. The street signs are in Hebrew, English, and Arabic. There is a mosque on prime beachfront property in Tel Aviv. There is every kind of citizen imaginable. I saw Ethiopian Jews serving in the IDF. While touring an ancient Jewish site, I ran into a group of Arab schoolchildren also there to learn. I met a Mizrahi cab driver whose parents fled Morocco in the 50s. Douglas Murray famously made Americans irate when he flamed Dave Smith on an episode of Joe Rogan for having never traveled to Israel—but he’s right. Visiting Israel shows you just how wrong the west is about the Jewish state. Just go there.
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    Apartheid Israel, seen here extending its genocidal policies to the West Bank.
    Tamer | تامر @tamerqdh
    الجيش الإسرائيلي ينسف منزل فلسطيني يرفع العلم الفلسطيني في بلدة بيتا جنوب نابلس في الضفة الغربية .
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    الجيش الإسرائيلي ينسف منزل فلسطيني يرفع العلم الفلسطيني في بلدة بيتا جنوب نابلس في الضفة الغربية .
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    RT @muhammadshehad2: Meet Israel's new Knesset members🧵 Moshe Feiglin: "As Hitler said, ‘I cannot live if one Jew is left.’ We can’t live here if one ‘Islamo-Nazi’ remains in Gaza" "Every child, every baby in Gaza is an enemy"
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    Apartheid South Africa embraced the exact same Hasbara as Apartheid Israel.
    Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2
    Apartheid South Africa also used to say "Why are we are the world's most criticized state, despite being the only democracy in Africa with Western values, the only truly industrialized state in Africa, & ranked among the 20 most developed nations in the world"
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  26. Muhammad Shehada✓@muhammadshehad2
    Apartheid South Africa also used to say "Why are we are the world's most criticized state, despite being the only democracy in Africa with Western values, the only truly industrialized state in Africa, & ranked among the 20 most developed nations in the world"
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    Apartheid Israel soldiers (not "settlers") have been directly responsible for 95% of Palestinians murdered & 82% of Palestinians injured in the West Bank in recent years.
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    Why did Israel grant Palestinians it conquered in 1948 citizenship (if under belligerent military rule) but not Palestinians conquered in 1967? In 1948, Israel only had to grant ~150,000 Palestinians citizenship relative to the 600,000 Jews (a number that rapidly increased beginning in May 1948... that had already exceeded a million by 1949). In 1967, Israel would have had to grant over 1 million Palestinians citizenship relative to the 2.3M Israeli Jews at the time (a number that was no longer rapidly increasing). There were simply too many Palestinians by 1967 to grant them citizenship. Ever since, Israel has been kicking the can down the road.... in the process it has imposed an apartheid regime on them and is now genociding them, in both Gaza and the West Bank.
    Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster
    For more than 75% of Israel's history, it has ruled over millions of Palestinians it denies the right the vote. The equivalent would be, imagine if, since 1838, about about ~1/3rd of the population living under United States rule had been denied the right to vote because they are native Americans rather than white settlers. Israel is a democracy the same way the US would be a democracy if we stripped the right to vote from 110 million Americans because they had the wrong DNA.
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    For more than 75% of Israel's history, it has ruled over millions of Palestinians it denies the right the vote. The equivalent would be, imagine if, since 1838, about about ~1/3rd of the population living under United States rule had been denied the right to vote because they are native Americans rather than white settlers. Israel is a democracy the same way the US would be a democracy if we stripped the right to vote from 110 million Americans because they had the wrong DNA.
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    In 1967, US diplomats tried to persuade Israel to allow the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians refugees that they had expelled from their homes to return. President Lyndon B. Johnson and Secretary of State Dean Rusk saw no justification for the crime against humanity. Yet, just like in 1948, the US applied no pressure on Israel to reverse course. source: p.116-7
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    For a brief moment in 1949, the US exerted pressure on Israel to allow the Palestinian refugees to return home: "In May 1949, the State Department conveyed a strong message to the Israeli government that it considered the repatriation of the refugees as a precondition for peace. When the Israeli rejection arrived, the US administration threatened Israel with sanctions, and withheld a promised loan. In response, the Israelis at first suggested taking in 75,000 refugees and allowing the reunification of families for another 25,000... but in the spring of 1949, a personnel reshuffle in the American State Department reoriented America's Palestine policy onto a different course that completely sidelined, if not altogether ignored, the refugee question." source:
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    For a brief moment in 1949, the US exerted pressure on Israel to allow the Palestinian refugees to return home: "In May 1949, the State Department conveyed a strong message to the Israeli government that it considered the repatriation of the refugees as a precondition for peace. When the Israeli rejection arrived, the US administration threatened Israel with sanctions, and withheld a promised loan. In response, the Israelis at first suggested taking in 75,000 refugees and allowing the reunification of families for another 25,000... but in the spring of 1949, a personnel reshuffle in the American State Department reoriented America's Palestine policy onto a different course that completely sidelined, if not altogether ignored, the refugee question." source:
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    Your friendly reminder Apartheid Israel is STILL perpetrating genocidal acts in Lebanon.
    courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages
    🔴Summary of Israeli attacks on Lebanese territory on October 26, 2024: 🟠 Airstrikes: Outskirts of Bani Hayyan 🟠 Artillery shelling: Al-Mansouri Wadi al-Hujair Wadi al-Salouqi Khiam Al-Qantara Outskirts of Baraachit Outskirts of Mifdoun Beit Yahoun Hadatha Wadi Zibqin Majdalzoun Outskirts of Shebaa Zawtar al-Sharqiya 🟠 Demolitions: Zawtar al-Sharqiya 🟠 Illumination flares: Zawtar al-Sharqiya 🟠 Sound grenades: Nabatieh al-Fawqa
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  33. courtneybonneauimages✓@cbonneauimages
    🔴Summary of Israeli attacks on Lebanese territory on October 26, 2024: 🟠 Airstrikes: Outskirts of Bani Hayyan 🟠 Artillery shelling: Al-Mansouri Wadi al-Hujair Wadi al-Salouqi Khiam Al-Qantara Outskirts of Baraachit Outskirts of Mifdoun Beit Yahoun Hadatha Wadi Zibqin Majdalzoun Outskirts of Shebaa Zawtar al-Sharqiya 🟠 Demolitions: Zawtar al-Sharqiya 🟠 Illumination flares: Zawtar al-Sharqiya 🟠 Sound grenades: Nabatieh al-Fawqa
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    RT @MaxBlumenthal: Marco Rubio had to be vetted by Israel’s UN ambassador and ultra-Zionist billionaire Larry Ellison, who owns a private island in Hawaii
    Marco Rubio @marcorubio
    Private island of corrupt regime in Cuba
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    Private island of corrupt regime in Cuba
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