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Jazz singer & Eurocrat on a career break

[gigi @gigi52335676]

Finalmente un giornalista che non ha paura di porre domande scomode

[Sandra De Waele @EUAmbLebanon]

مبروك للبنان انتخاب رئيس!
Very encouraging statements by President Joseph Aoun - responsibility towards future generations, unity across sects, reforms and state monopoly over arms.
We look forward to the swift formation of a government as a next step.
The EU is ready to support.

[Andrea Capecci @a____capo]

#Corriere omette di dire nel titolo che l'ostaggio è un soldato e non una semplice "19enne". Perché?

[Kim Ghattas @KimGhattas]

Bashar al Assad shook hands and had a pretty blonde wife. He also slaughtered half a million Syrians. The debate about handshakes is tedious, ignorant, superficial. Focus on how/whether Sharaa and co apply governance, rule of law and build an inclusive state, handshake or not.

[Josep Borrell Fontelles @JosepBorrellF]

I unequivocally condemn Minister Smotrich’s call to “apply sovereignty” in the West Bank, a clear step towards illegal annexation.

Such rhetoric undermines international law, violates Palestinians’ rights and threatens any prospects for a 2-state solution.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Nowhere in this article does it tell you that all these "girls" are actually active duty IDF soldiers.

Instead, they're presented as innocent children abducted by an evil force, not troops guarding the world's largest open-air prison.

[Samuele Tofano @samgam75]

L’editoriale di Haaretz parla espressamente di pulizia etnica.
Che dice la stampa e l’opinionismo italiano?

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

My first encounter with Israelis was when I was backpacking through South America in my twenties, and I remember being shocked by how consistently awful they all were. I guess after their mandatory military service they tend to go traveling for a bit, and whenever I'd run into them they were reliably some of the nastiest people I'd ever encountered.

They weren't ever nasty to me, though. I am a white westerner, and I never had a problem with them. They were nasty to the impoverished brown-skinned people who were hosting us. They were obnoxious and bullying toward local guides, they'd leave the place in a mess, and they were always trying to screw over the locals for a better deal or extra meals or favors. One time they tricked a hostel into putting up a sign in Hebrew for other Israeli backpackers which said ugly things about our hosts (they told the hostel owner it was a great review), which I only know because they were laughing hysterically about it and told me. They consistently treated the people who were looking after us like they were much lesser than us. Their pushiness and entitlement were just unbelievable.

It was a very educational experience for me. I knew the Palestinians were being treated unfairly because my father had told me so, but I also had a great love of Jews and Jewish culture. I had visited Auschwitz and Dachau and Anne Frank's house in my travels, and I remember having some romantic ideas about kibbutzim. This was my first time directly encountering the reality that there is something unhealthy about Israeli society. Not Jews or Jewish culture, but Jewish Israelis.

Now I see evidence of this on my news feed every day, in the IDF soldiers prancing around in the undergarments of dead and displaced Palestinian women, in the AI translations of Hebrew tweets, in the polls which show widespread Israeli approval for the atrocities in Gaza, in Israeli TikTok videos mocking the suffering of the Palestinians, in the Israelis showing up in my comments justifying the worst things in the world in the most depraved ways imaginable.

My encounters with Israelis in South America were an early taste of ugly things to come. Everything I glimpsed then I've been seeing online over the past year. I keep thinking about those obnoxious pricks I met all those years ago, and about how they didn't know at the time that they were giving me very useful information for me to make use of in the future.

When Israel supporters tell you to shut up about Gaza until you've been to Israel and met Israelis, just ignore them. Don't go to Israel; you're a westerner, they'll be nice to you. Go to one of the tourist spots in the global south that Israelis like to visit, one with lots of brown-skinned people who've been colonized by the west, and watch how they treat people there. That will show you what Israelis are really like.

[Casual Geopolitics @Casualgeopol]

No toddler gets shot by mistake by a sniper.

If you haven’t seen this interview, you should.👇

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Yesterday, Iran fired rockets at empty military installations in Israel, killing zero civilians.

Today, Israel has been bombing Beirut relentlessly for hours, levelling apartment building after apartment building.

Can it get any clearer? Israel is a genocidal rogue state.

[Eli Clifton @EliClifton]

Is there another word for sending troops across an internationally recognized border without the other country’s permission?

[Bassem Youssef @Byoussef]

Kill. Steal. Expand. Settle. Push people to the brink. They resist, they fight back. I need to defend myself. Kill more . Steal more. Expand more settle hard. Rinse and Repeat. Israel in a nutshell.

[Alessia Squarcella @AlessiaSq]

@CarloCalenda Finalmente ti sei svegliato Carlé

[Alessia Squarcella @AlessiaSq]

@IDF As you were so kind to invite Dahyeh residents to leave their homes before you destroyed them, will you also rebuild them?

[War Monitor @WarMonltor]

⚡️Displacement of our citizens in Dahye

[Gert Jan Koopman @GertJanEU]

Inspiring to see resilient refugee women like Amira get back on their feet with the help of the 🇪🇺#EU!

In 🇱🇧#Lebanon, their small business 'Kabkouba' is up & running thanks to #EUTFSyria support. 🧶

Learn more ⤵️

[Alessia Squarcella @AlessiaSq]

This is so disturbing that even the word “disturbing” is not enough to describe it
#StopTheGenocide

[Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا @SMohyeddin]

This is Israel’s longest-running English podcast, Two Nice Jewish Boys. Hosts Naor Meningher and Eytan Weinstein call for wiping out every single Palestinian in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

Radio Rwanda in full effect here. This is deeply disturbing.

[Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا @SMohyeddin]

This is Israel’s longest-running English podcast, Two Nice Jewish Boys. Hosts Naor Meningher and Eytan Weinstein call for wiping out every single Palestinian in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

Radio Rwanda in full effect here. This is deeply disturbing.

[Bassem Youssef @Byoussef]

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