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After one year in ICE detention, Leqaa Kordia was ordered released by a Texas immigration judge today at a bond hearing.

Leqaa was abducted a year ago by ICE agents, targeted for protesting and speaking out against Israel’s genocide of Gaza and ongoing occupation of Palestine. Leqaa has been held as a political prisoner in ICE detention longer than any other student protester in the US.

The government must now comply with the court’s orders and release Leqaa immediately. We will not rest until Leqaa and all our political prisoners are free.

Led by Psychopaths, Israel and the U.S. Are Waging a Psychotic War Against Iran

I wish to write my opinion about the war. No filters. It's important to do this because, heaven forbid, a missile will hit our rented apartment in Jaffa or the shelter in the assisted living facility next door where we run to during the incessant sirens. I'm using the free platform provided me by Haaretz, which has been under frontal assault by the government in recent years. It is also my right to make my civic voice heard in a democratic country (still, ostensibly).

I think that this is a psychotic war. One that Israel and the United States entered led by two psychopaths. Vainglorious, narcissistic, disconnected. They're up to their necks in political and legal trouble. They head the two most fundamentalist and anti-democratic governments in the history of their countries. And they have the chutzpah to preach democracy elsewhere.

Read the article here

Trump and Netanyahu at the Knesset, last year. | Photo credit: Olivier Fitoussi / Haaretz

Ret. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Netanyahu Could Turn to Nuclear Bombs If Iran War Escalates | Democracy Now!

This is a different viewpoint from the last post. Both chilling.

Via Democracy Now!

As President Trump gives conflicting statements about the length and objectives of the war he launched with Israel against Iran, fears are growing that the conflict could continue to expand throughout the region and beyond. Lawrence Wilkerson, retired U.S. Army colonel and former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, says the U.S. and Israel are committing wanton “war crimes” in Iran. “We have bombed civilians relentlessly. We have bombed a school. We have bombed a hospital,” says Wilkerson, who also suggests Western media outlets are downplaying the extent of the damage in Israel and how successful Iran has been in defending itself.

“This is a war with long legs. Trump has completely misinterpreted it,” says Wilkerson. “The only one who’s interpreted it correctly is Bibi Netanyahu, and I think he’s ready to use a nuclear weapon, should it become as bad as it looks like it might right now, because Iran has not even began to shoot its most sophisticated missiles.”


Listen or read the transcript of this important interview here.