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“Love loves to love love" - James Joyce, Ulysses.

[Cultivated Soul @CultivatedBooks]

Some of my favorite history books.

[BookNote @BookNoteApp]

the greatest historical novels ever written:

[LOS MEJORES LIBROS @Bibliomaniatico]

Cuatro muy buenos libros que llegaron a ganar el PREMIO PLANETA.

*1. Yo, Julia - Santiago Posteguillo (2018)*
El mejor puntuado de todos. Novela histórica sobre Julia Domna, la emperatriz romana que manejó Roma durante la guerra civil del 197. Para muchos el Planeta más sólido literariamente.

*2. Todo esto te daré - Dolores Redondo (2016)*
Thriller en la Ribeira Sacra gallega. Muerte, familia, secretos. De los pocos Planeta que engancha de principio a fin como novela negra.

*3. Lituma en los Andes - Mario Vargas Llosa (1993)*
El único Planeta ganado por un Premio Nobel de Literatura. Ambientado en un campamento minero en los Andes peruanos, con desapariciones misteriosas. Es literatura mayor, no bestseller de aeropuerto.

*4. Los mares del Sur - Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (1979)*
Detective Pepe Carvalho investiga la muerte de un empresario en Barcelona. Más que policial, es un retrato brutal de la Barcelona post-franquista. Ganó también premios en Francia y está en la lista de las 100 mejores novelas del siglo XX de El Mundo.

[Frank Lipman MD @DrFrankLipman]

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[Brian Greene @bgreene]

My brief explainer on the just-announced Nobel prize in Physics--a breakthrough that will allow us to probe the cosmos in a new way:

[🔻Uprising_Spirit🔻 @1Uprising27091]

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More importantly, on May 21, 1948—after the war had already begun—Azzam told the Palestine Post that Arabs would offer Jews equal citizenship in an Arab Palestine, that Jews could remain Jewish, and that Jewish-majority areas would have complete autonomy.

You cannot take the most inflammatory quote from a single interview, strip it of its context, and use it to claim that the Arab position was simply "exterminate all Jews." The historical record does not support that.

5. "Arid Desert and Malaria Swamps" vs. Ottoman Tax Records

The claim that Palestine was "mostly arid desert and malaria swamps" is a deliberate exaggeration. Yes, there were dry regions and malaria-infested areas. But Palestine was not an empty, barren wasteland.

Ottoman tax registers (daftar) record taxable wheat, barley, olives, vineyards, fruit trees, sesame, livestock, beehives, and agricultural presses across hundreds of Palestinian villages. A recent study based on Ottoman records found that in 1596, there were approximately 1,400,794 olive trees in 400 Palestinian villages. By 1943, British agricultural data recorded over 6 million olive trees in 644 villages.

A functioning agricultural tax system is documentary evidence of a productive agrarian society. You cannot collect taxes on wheat, barley, and olives from a "desert."

6. "The Arabs Rejected Partition" – A Half-Truth

Yes, the Arab leadership rejected the Peel Commission in 1937 and the UN Partition Plan in 1947. But you omit a crucial fact: the Zionists also rejected the 1939 White Paper, which would have limited Jewish immigration and led to a binational state. And you ignore that the Arab rejection was not a rejection of "peace" but a rejection of a plan that gave 56% of Palestine to a Jewish minority that owned only 6% of the land and constituted one-third of the population.

The Arab side chose war over a border, yes. But the Zionists chose expansion over coexistence. Both sides made choices. Presenting only one side's choices as the sole cause of the conflict is propaganda, not history.

Your narrative is not history. It is a legal brief for one side.

It takes a small ancient community, adds hundreds of thousands of modern immigrants, wraps them in the language of "legal purchase," ignores the dispossession of the native peasantry, and then uses a single out-of-context quote to paint the other side as genocidal.

The historical question is not whether Jews lived in Palestine before Zionism. They did.

The question is whether a pre-existing religious minority's historical presence gives a later political movement the right to transform the country's demographic and political structure through mass immigration, acquire territory, establish a sovereign state, and then present the resulting conflict as merely "defending the people who were already there."

That is the question your narrative avoids. And it is the question that history demands we answer.

[🔻Uprising_Spirit🔻 @1Uprising27091]

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The narrative you posted collapses three distinct historical layers—ancient presence, land purchases, and modern sovereignty—into a single misleading story. Let’s separate them.

1. "They were already there" vs. 367,845 Registered Immigrants

Yes, a small, ancient Jewish community existed in Palestine for centuries. No serious historian denies that. But you are using that tiny, religious minority to erase a massive, modern demographic transformation.

The British Mandate government itself—not Palestinian or Arab sources—classified the newcomers as immigrants. According to the official A Survey of Palestine (Vol. I, Chapter VII, Table 1, p. 185), between 1920 and 1945, 367,845 Jews were registered as immigrants into Palestine, out of a total of 401,149 registered immigrants. That is 91.7% of all legal immigration in that period.

In 1935 alone, 61,854 Jews arrived. In 1934, 42,359. In 1933, 30,327.

If these people were simply "already there," why did the British government issue them immigration certificates? Why did they need to be registered as immigrants at all? The existence of an old Jewish community does not magically transform hundreds of thousands of new arrivals into "natives."

2. "Legally bought land" vs. The Dispossession of Peasants

The claim that Jews "legally bought large tracts at premium prices from absentee Arab landlords" is technically true in form but deeply misleading in substance.

Research by historian Amos Nadan (published in Continuity and Change, Cambridge University Press) documents how the Ottoman Land Code of 1858 allowed cultivated land to be registered in the names of non-peasants. By 1930, three-quarters of Arab peasants in Palestine were cultivating land they no longer legally owned, while many others were pushed to migrate to cities.

The "absentee landlords" in Beirut, Damascus, and Cairo who sold land to the Zionists were often not the actual owners in any moral sense. They had acquired legal title through a bureaucratic loophole, while the peasants who had worked the land for generations became tenants on their own ancestral soil.

So when you say "they bought land legally," you are hiding the fact that this "legality" was built on the legal dispossession of the native farming population.

3. The Fatal Flaw: Buying Land ≠ Buying Sovereignty

Even if we accept, for the sake of argument, that every single land purchase was perfectly legal, it still does not justify the creation of a sovereign state.

Buying land gives you property rights. It does not give you sovereignty.

If a group of wealthy Jews bought all of Manhattan, would they have the right to declare a Jewish state, raise the Israeli flag, and expel non-Jewish residents? Of course not. The world would call that a colonial project, not a legal right.

The same logic applies to Palestine. The Zionist movement did not just buy land; it used land purchases as a legal facade to build a parallel state, import hundreds of thousands of settlers, create a separate economy, and eventually expel the native population. The legal title of a few plots does not justify the creation of a new sovereign entity on someone else's homeland.

4. Azzam Pasha: The Misused Quote

You cite Azzam Pasha’s "war of extermination" statement. That statement is real—it was made in an interview with Akhbar al-Yom on October 11, 1947. But you are misrepresenting its context and ignoring what he said later.

In that same interview, Azzam said the Jews were "pushing us into this war." He was warning of a catastrophic conflict over the Zionist political project, not calling for the extermination of every Jew living in Palestine.

More importantly, on May 21, 1948—after the war had already begun—Azzam told the Palestine Post that Arabs would offer Jews equal citizenship in an Arab Palestine, that Jews could remain Jewish, and that Jewish-majority areas would have complete autonomy.

[Andrew Panella @Longevity_EDU]

The 80 year old physician who heals what medicine can't:

Dr. Gabor Maté.

"True healing comes from nervous system regulation, not drugs or meditation."

7 of his forgotten laws for solving chronic stress:

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

Seneca on grief and the key to resilience in the face of loss — an extraordinary letter to his mother https://t.co/dOpHnf68hJ

[Latest in Cosmos @latestincosmos]

🚨: NASA Physicist Thomas Campbell states the universe tracks every human decision to measure individual spiritual growth.

This system operates like a cosmic feedback loop, testing whether our avatars choose love over chaos.

[English Grammar @GrammarUpdates]

100 Words for Things You’ve Noticed Your Whole Life

[English Grammar @GrammarUpdates]

100 Books Every Educated Adult Should Know

[Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD @LORWEN108]

Seneca cured anxiety 2,000 years before therapy existed.

He was the richest man in Rome and advisor to an emperor. And yet he spent his life writing about how to calm the mind.

If your mind keeps turning tomorrow into an emergency, read this: ↓

[Jozef Andrew K. 🌐 @jozefandrewk]

Graham Greene called it “the only flawless English novel.” He was right.

[Ted Ryce @ted_ryce]

Isometrics are the cheat code for sore knees.

But no one knows how to do them properly.

Here are 5 bodyweight isometrics to fix knee pain (no equipment needed):

[Dr Rangan Chatterjee @drchatterjeeuk]

Forgiveness is not justifying, forgiveness is not condoning, forgiveness is not excusing, and forgiveness is not reconciling. Forgiveness is letting go, in order to free yourself of a burden .

Sonja Lyubomirsky (@slyubomirsky) has spent 36 years studying the science of happiness. And her reframe on forgiveness in this conversation is one that I think many people might find reassuring.

In this week's new episode of my 'Feel Better, Live More' podcast, Sonja walks us through her five mindsets for feeling more loved, including radical curiosity, sharing, listening to learn, an open heart and multiplicity.

I think you'll find something in this conversation that stays with you long after you've listened.

[John Crotty @itsjohncrotty]

The lies told about Ireland - Israeli edition

Since Ireland has voiced an opinion on Israeli actions in Gaza, certain commentators have sought to invent or inflate aspects of Irish history to diminish Ireland's voice.

Here are the common myths, and the reality:

'Ireland has an inflated history of antisemitism'

Ireland has more arguably had the lowest levels of antisemitism in Europe since its first Jewish arrivals in the 11th century, and following partial independence in 1922.

Zero expulsions. No pogroms. No exclusion from government/societal roles.

The Irish fought for Jewish rights in the 1800's, led by its inspirational leader Daniel O'Connell who said:
“Ireland has claims on your ancient race, as it is the only Christian country that I know of unsullied by any one act of persecution of the Jews."

Ireland enshrined Jewish right of practise in its 1937 Constitution, a unique action in an antisemitic age.

Ireland's Chief Rabbi's repeatedly held Ireland up as an example to the world regards antisemitism - some examples below.

(Note - of course some antisemitism existed - idiots are everywhere) (1)

[Daniel Pink @DanielPink]

If you want to understand people, these are the 5 books I'd hand you.

(With the one takeaway from each that almost nobody mentions) 🧵

[Iñigo San Millán @doctorinigo]

WHAT IS ZONE 2?

I would like to condense 30 years of work and research in muscle physiology, metabolism, and bioenergetics into how I understand and describe Zone 2 from a bioenergetic perspective.

I have explained these concepts many times over the years in podcasts, interviews, lectures and posts, but I have never tried to bring the entire metabolic story together visually.

So here it is: 30 years of work and research condensed into five slides, in an AI-produced carousel that I guided scientifically, concept by concept.

For me, Zone 2 is not simply a heart rate, power output, pace or lactate number…It is a METABOLIC STATE.

It is the intensity at which mitochondrial and bioenergetic demand is the highest, while the cell can still maintain METABOLIC EQUILIBRIUM.

And when that equilibrium begins to break, we start moving away from Zone 2 and into what I describe as METABOLIC DRIFT

This carousel is my attempt to explain my vision of what Zone 2 represents at the biochemical and bioenergetic level.

Identifying where your Zone 2 is can help targeting these cellular and mitochondrial adaptations.

#zone2 #metabolicequilibrium #MetabolicDrift

[Ireland Football ⚽️🇮🇪 @IrelandFootball]

Three points in Debrecen.