Wednesday, March 15, 2017

'Rebel group' = al Qaeda coalition (Rania Khalek)


Here are some Tweets from journalist Rania Khalek.


  •  Pinned Tweet
     Mar 2
    Arming Syria's rebels drove the refugee crisis & helped ISIS, which fueled the resurgent far right across the west
    40 replies377 retweets450 likes
     
     
  •  3 hours ago
    Eventually these extremists we empowered will attack a western target and our government's role in helping them will be totally omitted.
    11 replies31 retweets57 likes
     
     
  •  3 hours ago
    What refers to as a "rebel group" is actually an Al Qaeda coalition that includes US-armed elements
    2 replies127 retweets120 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     4 hours ago
    Someone was celebrating their birthday today inside al-Rabweh restaurant, Damascus when a suicide bomber blew up the place.
    2 replies47 retweets26 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     5 hours ago
    Who will answer for this? Age 4 months / Injured in explosion in Damascus today😔
    10 replies46 retweets30 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     5 hours ago
    Scenery from AL Rabweh restaurant where suicide explosion occured, someone was having a BD party 😞
    4 replies207 retweets120 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     6 hours ago
    At least 25 dead in a bombing in Damascus' Justice palace. 6th anniversary of the Syrian devolution marked in blood.
    7 replies113 retweets46 likes
     
     
  •  6 hours ago
    What about the countries that funded the armed insurgency that keeps doing suicide bombings?
    0:52
    Government & armed groups committed war crimes in Syria for 6 years. Today we can STOP them getting away with it:
    14 replies46 retweets97 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     8 hours ago
    Breaking: Second terrorist attack rips through on 6th anniversary of Syrian Uprising
    1 reply99 retweets27 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     7 hours ago
    Ppl desperately trying 2get out of Mezze area , driving on pavements as rumours abound of 3rd bomb on 6th anniversary of war
    3 replies85 retweets40 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     8 hours ago
    It's amazing how these assholes are rebels in Syria, but when they go to Europe, they're arrested for terrorism. Double standards, eh?
    12 replies138 retweets219 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     7 hours ago
    Death toll of the terrorist attack, that targeted the court house in , raised to 34 killed and 80 injured.
    10 replies128 retweets49 likes
     
     
  •  19 hours ago
    Great thread
    One thing the right seems to get that the left often doesn't is that people have different roles in movement building, and that's okay
    16 retweets48 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Mar 14
    Good on big difference between conservatives & liberals: latter revere institutional procedures & norms
    31 replies85 retweets203 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     20 hours ago
    But they support former IDF Zionists, F[**]k um
     
    2 replies8 retweets17 likes
     
     
  •  20 hours ago
    It's only worth pushing back against when it's coming from outside the Arab community I guess.
    2 replies7 retweets29 likes
     
     
  •  20 hours ago
    Thank you to the ppl in my community who stand by me against this toxic hate. Unfortunately too many of you watch and keep silent
    8 replies18 retweets81 likes
     
     
  •  20 hours ago
    This is the sort of hate I'm used to getting from Zionists and white nationalists. Now it's from right-wing Arabs and Muslims.
    Instead of debating ....these scumbags chose sectarian terms and disgusting sexual references to degrade her...but Free Syria
    21 replies51 retweets107 likes
     
     















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