Na'omi 🪷
@iNaomiAllen
American expat, interrogating prevailing narratives.
I've been posting a lot lately. It's wintertime in South Africa and I'm spending more time indoors and online. My new puppy is not helping me get offline either. He's also cold and wants to lay on my lap all day, and I don't have a TV to watch while we cuddle to keep warm. 😅
My bad. I thought "Open the gates!" was about Gazans and Pro-Pali folks rallying for the international community to save Palestinian innocents from the ravages of war and #LetThemOut out of the combat zone, but saw this and now see it's about ending the imaginary food blockade.
In 1970, Israel threatened to crush Assad’s army if he entered Jordan to save Palestinian militias at war with King Hussein, therefore saving the king and his rule. In 1982, Israel moved heaven and earth to get a powerful Bachir Gemayel elected president of Lebanon to end civil…
Tom Barrack is nothing if not blunt, telling AP that “Strong nation states are a threat—especially Arab states are viewed as a threat to Israel.” That's why he indicated that Israel would prefer to see Syria fragmented and divided rather than a strong central state in control of…