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Donna Kay 🟧🎨👩‍🏫 LA Strong! @donnakay.bsky.social · 4h

On the subject of Jews. I have known, dated, worked with & gone to school with more Jews (many Israeli) than I could possibly count.

I’ve never met a Palestinian. Why? Because 70% are stateless and can’t travel. No passport, no job, no opportunities.

And, Israel bombed all the schools in Gaza.

Donna Kay 🟧🎨👩‍🏫 LA Strong! @donnakay.bsky.social · 4h

Israelis hate Palestinians. It goes both ways. And both of these statements are false because they are gross generalizations. You say your “sympathy for people who want to murder me is limited.” And yet, it is the Palestinians who were being murdered daily for 2 years. On average 100 per day.

Donna Kay 🟧🎨👩‍🏫 LA Strong! @donnakay.bsky.social · 6h

To all my #California #NOKINGS protesters this Saturday, Hegseth and Vance are attending an event at Camp Pendleton featuring an amphibious assault demonstration--a military exercise showcasing a coordinated attack from the sea, involving naval ships, tanks, helicopters, and ground troops.

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Donna Kay 🟧🎨👩‍🏫 LA Strong! @donnakay.bsky.social · 6h

As for how do I know they are under rubble, that is what Hamas has said. Are they to be believed? Who knows. But they have stated that recovering their remains takes time. Again, who the hell knows. But, the living hostages were more of a bargaining chip and they released them.

Donna Kay 🟧🎨👩‍🏫 LA Strong! @donnakay.bsky.social · 6h

You mistake opposition to Israel for "Jew hatred." They are not the same. I am equally furious with MY country of origin for their treatment of immigrants. And ICE is looking and acting a lot like the Israeli Police in the West Bank and the IDF in Gaza; i.e., disappearing people off the streets.

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Donna Kay 🟧🎨👩‍🏫 LA Strong! @donnakay.bsky.social · 7h

They are under rubble. This is Netanyahu's way of breaking the ceasefire. Do you really think Hamas is hoarding dead bodies? Why?

Did you know that Palestinians taken prisoner cannot be represented by Palestinian lawyers in military court? Only Israeli lawyers which their families cannot afford.

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Donna Kay 🟧🎨👩‍🏫 LA Strong! @donnakay.bsky.social · 7h

...killed over 200 journalists, and shot people who waited in line for food and water. These are all war crimes. And for every Palestinian prisoner released, the IDF has detained 10 more. They are held w/o charge and no representation. Some as young as 13. What about their moms?

Donna Kay 🟧🎨👩‍🏫 LA Strong! @donnakay.bsky.social · 7h

It was not a war. It was a massacre. Israel declared war on Hamas which they had EVERY right to do. Every right. But they bombed civilians. That is a war crime. And then they held humanitarian aid from reaching civilians with a lot of excuses that were simply not true. They bombed hospitals...

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Donna Kay 🟧🎨👩‍🏫 LA Strong! @donnakay.bsky.social · 7h

Israel is holding necessary aid from entering Gaza until they get what they want from Hamas. That is a war crime.

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Donna Kay 🟧🎨👩‍🏫 LA Strong! @donnakay.bsky.social · 7h

Israel is holding necessary aid from entering Gaza until they get what they want from Hamas. That is a war crime.

Donna Kay 🟧🎨👩‍🏫 LA Strong! @donnakay.bsky.social · 8h

Who are they killing? A rival gang that Israel armed. Netanyahu wants civil war. Trump applauded the murders. Hamas is evil. But their depth of evil does not excuse the fact that Israel has been on a killing spree in Gaza for the past 2 years.

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Donna Kay 🟧🎨👩‍🏫 LA Strong! @donnakay.bsky.social · 10h

Gaza today because of Netanyahu and the US.

Donna Kay 🟧🎨👩‍🏫 LA Strong! @donnakay.bsky.social · 11h

Israel is arming gangs in Gaza to kill Hamas and Trump has applauded Hamas for killing them. The IDF killed 6 Palestinians yesterday and still occupies over 50% of the strip.

Who should lay down their weapons?

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Donna Kay 🟧🎨👩‍🏫 LA Strong! @donnakay.bsky.social · 14h

Netanyahu slaughtered tens of thousands of innocent people, obliterated a city the size of 4 Manhattans, and used life saving food, medicine and other necessities as a tool to intimidate the enemy.

He commits war crimes every day.

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Donna Kay 🟧🎨👩‍🏫 LA Strong! @donnakay.bsky.social · 2d

…by Israeli police in the occupied West Bank because they threw rocks at the police guarding the settlers while they bulldoze their home.

The current Trump regime does not mimic Nazi Germany, it mimics Israel with Palestinians stolen from their homes and disappeared. That’s “Zionism.”

Donna Kay 🟧🎨👩‍🏫 LA Strong! @donnakay.bsky.social · 2d

You lost me at “proud Zionist.” While 10,000 Palestinians remain in Israeli prison, 900 under 18, many w/o being charged or tried, suffering starvation and torture, no due process, how can you call yourself a Zionist. Children are pulled from their beds in the middle of the night and dragged off…

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Peter Beinart @peterbeinart.bsky.social · 5d

If the bombs stop, and the hostages go home, that will be a tremendous blessing. Thank goodness. But there will never be real peace--Palestinians and Israelis will never enjoy real safety--until Palestinians are free.

Returning the Hostages and Stopping the Bombs is Good

But the Trump Plan Ignores the Core Problem: Palestinians Are Not Free

peterbeinart.substack.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a start. Keep making phone calls to keep partisan politics out of airport safety PSAs.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

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Donna Kay 🟧🎨👩‍🏫 LA Strong! @donnakay.bsky.social · 2d

He could have brokered this "peace deal" in March. He wanted to wait until the Nobel Committee met to decide in October. He doesn't care about peace in the Middle East. He cares about anything that benefits him. He wanted the coveted prize.

Since March, Gazans lost over 20,000 innocent civilians.

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Donna Kay 🟧🎨👩‍🏫 LA Strong! @donnakay.bsky.social · 2d

He doesn’t let go of people’s hands.

Donna Kay 🟧🎨👩‍🏫 LA Strong! @donnakay.bsky.social · 2d

It is a good day for the innocent Israeli hostages and the Palestinian prisoners (many of whom were never charged or tried).

But, it must be remembered that he chose this time because it coincided with the Nobel Peace Prize which is what he wanted. This could have been done back in March.

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Donna Kay 🟧🎨👩‍🏫 LA Strong! @donnakay.bsky.social · 2d

ICE is more like the West Bank’s Israeli Border Police and Latinos are the Palestinians.

www.btselem.org/sites/defaul...

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Donna Kay 🟧🎨👩‍🏫 LA Strong! @donnakay.bsky.social · 2d

Did you know that Israel can try Palestinian kids as young as 12 as adults? Did you know that most are held as enemy combatants and tried in a military court where only Israeli lawyers are allowed. Thousands of Palestinian parents weep for their kids too. Who covers that?