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Mar 4, 2025

Basel Adra, left, and Yuval Abraham, winners of the award for best documentary feature film for

No Other Land winning an Oscar shows a shift in perception of Western opinion on Gaza. Seyed Mohammad Marandi reports that Iran will not negotiate with the US because Trump violates agreements. Why is the ABC gaslighting Anthony Albanese’s election chances? Jonathan Pie gives his spin on Trump’s response to Ukraine.

No Other Land winning an Oscar underlines how Western public opinion and culture is shifting against Israel
@owenjonesjourno

The Oscar win for ‘No Other Land’ should scare Israel.

Israel’s genocide is succeeding right now.

But this film winning an Oscar underlines how Western public opinion and culture is shifting against Israel.

One day, that will mean no more arms and support for Israel’s crimes pic.twitter.com/30y60awWrB

— Owen Jones (@owenjonesjourno) March 3, 2025

Iran will not negotiate with the US because it violates agreements.
@s_m_marandi

Iran will not negotiate with the US because it violates agreements. Trump has violated his previous agreements with Mexico and Canada. He is a guarantor for the ceasefire agreements between Israel and Gaza, as well as Lebanon, yet he allows the regime to continue the slaughter. pic.twitter.com/wtc8Jdiisx

— Seyed Mohammad Marandi (@s_m_marandi) March 3, 2025

Why would an ABC journalist speculate and assert that this is likely to be Albanese’s last campaign?
@EddyJokovich

Why would an ABC journalist speculate and assert that this is likely to be Albanese’s last campaign? He hasn’t even completed his first term yet. Why the constant gaslighting? #auspol pic.twitter.com/JdVwRe9u1I

— Eddy Jokovich (@EddyJokovich) March 3, 2025

A brief summary of Trump’s idea of a ‘peace deal’
@JonathanPieNews

A brief summary of Trump’s idea of a ‘peace deal’:

Zelenskyy: “I need help to protect my people.”
Trump: “Well, you should have thought of that before you got invaded…”

Full version here: https://t.co/Irz8PbUCCm pic.twitter.com/8leNROiROE

— Jonathan Pie (@JonathanPieNews) March 3, 2025

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