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@Elizrael

Passionate about human rights. Research Fellow at the Israeli Forum for Regional Thinking () focusing on Syria. Poli-sci grad student

Chicago, IL
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Joined December 2008
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    May 10

    My new piece for the on Israel's unprecedented attacks in Syria last night & why Russia seems content to let Israel bomb Iranian targets

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  2. 2 minutes ago

    The Onion is consistently doing a better job satirizing Israel-Palestine than mainstream U.S. media does covering it.

    Netanyahu Announces Day Of Mourning For Fence Damaged In Yesterday’s Conflict
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  3. 36 minutes ago

    From the protest in Tel Aviv: "No to the murder of protesters", "A Palestinian state alongside Israel"

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  4. 41 minutes ago

    Following the killings in Gaza, about 500 protesters are blocking a central street in Tel Aviv opposite Likud HQ chanting: "The answer to the Right - Israel & Palestine". Signs read: "They are humans, not targets", "stop the fire", "peace now", "against the occupation"

    כ-500 מפגינים חוסמים הכביש בקינג ג׳ורג׳ למרגלות מצודת זאב. ״התשובה לימין - ישראל ופלסטין״
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    3 hours ago

    Seventeen human rights and civil society organizations call on Israel to take its finger off the trigger. Read more:

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  6. 4 hours ago

    Hayat Tahrir a-Sham (Nusra) stole 2 vehicles from the Darat Izza local council (Aleppo), apparently because the Council refused to grant HTS control over the local bakeries via

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    4 hours ago
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    : "The exit wounds are fist-size. Bone is pulverized into dust. This is the reality for half of the injured patients received in my organization’s clinics since the launch of the Great Return March in Gaza."

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  8. 4 hours ago

    Base was identified by intelligence analysts as apparently connected to Iran due to its similar design to a missile base in Tehran (Heb)

    Replying to @QalaatAlMudiq
    : suspected Missile Factory built in Wadi Jahannam E. of nearing completion. New buildings finished past 6 months in red. …
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    5 hours ago

    Abadi's gracious behavior promotes good norms about elections, transfer of power, nationalism, anti-sectarianism: all rare in region

    Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi congratulates Muqtada al-Sadr on his victory in the elections. This is a great & nice touch that is unusual among Iraqi politicians. …
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    6 hours ago

    זה ברור לחלוטין שכל מי שהיום מברך ומגבה את לוחמי צה"ל בגבול עזה ומצהיר שהם גיבורים, בעוד שנה שנתיים יקרא לאותם לוחמים בוגדים שצריך לזרוק לעזה בשניה שהם יעזו לספר לציבור איך בתכלס זה היה שם בשטח.

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    16 hours ago

    The Israelis also are agents of their own actions.

    No. It is a deliberate decision by Hamas to send their people to death in order to put international pressure on Israel. To suggest otherwise means to paternalize Palestinians and suggest they are not agents of their own actions …
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  12. 16 hours ago

    I've seen several sensible Germans tweet hasbara nonsense about the killings in Gaza. We, Jews, are not helpless anymore. Unarmed protesters are not a deadly threat. No reason to hold Israeli soldiers to different standards just because they're descendants of Holocaust survivors

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    May 14

    This footage shows unarmed Palestinian protesters being shot hundreds of metres from the Gaza perimeter fence. Reporting by

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    May 14

    A Palestinian on a bike with his young daughter ducks as an Israeli sniper bullet lands nearby

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  15. 19 hours ago

    Buses continue to arrive in Qalaat al-Mudiq, northern Hama, with Syrians forcibly displaced from besieged northern Homs. Activists on the ground report that about 5,000 people have arrived today thus far.

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  16. 19 hours ago

    Syrians forcibly displaced from their homes in the besieged northern Homs countryside arrive in Idlib, but there are no shelters capable of receiving them. The region is bursting with hundreds of thousands of internally displaced Syrians.

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  17. 19 hours ago

    Israel carried out multiple airstrikes, drone strikes & shelled with tanks Hamas & Islamic Jihad positions today in response to shootings & an attempted IED attack. 40,000 protested today. IDF expecting more people to participate in tomorrow's protests (Nakba day).

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  18. 19 hours ago

    "The IDF's Southern Command expressed satisfaction about the conclusion of the day of riots along the border of the Strip, as the forces on the ground fulfilled their mission & the border fence wasn't breached despite 100s of attempts by Palestinians" (עב)

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  19. 20 hours ago

    Signs read: "Thou shalt not kill", "Solidarity with Gaza" "Stop the killing"

    NOW: Israelis protesting Gaza massacre in front of PM residence in Jerusalem
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  20. 21 hours ago

    Israeli soldiers killed 55 Palestinians in Gaza today & injured over 2,400. During the opening ceremony of the US Embassy in Jerusalem, Netanyahu proclaimed "today is a great day for peace" "War is peace, freedom is slavery"

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  21. 21 hours ago

    The Assad regime carried out dozens of airstrikes on the Palestinian Yarmouk camp today. Syrian-Palestinian NGO estimates that 60% of the camp have been destroyed (Ar)

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