Neil van der Linden (hij/hem, he/him)

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "You know what the Iranians did? They laughed at Obama and they said he's a stupid son of a bitch."

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Trump: "Qatar is the closest to Iran, physically. With other countries, I noticed they had to travel about 45 minutes to get there. With you, you could walk right across the border."

There's no land border between Iran and Qatar. They're separated by the Persian Gulf.

[Neil van der Linden (hij/hem, he/him) @NeilvanderLind1]

Verlangen naar vroeger.

[Breaking the Silence @BtSIsrael]

This is one of the land-grab strategies used by settlers in the West Bank. According to land law in the West Bank, if an agricultural plot has not been cultivated for 3 years, it becomes “state land.” From there, Israel may allocate it to settlers. With or without official authorisation, if settlers move onto this now “public land” and work it for 10 years, it may be allocated to them. For this reason, settlers work hard to prevent Palestinians from accessing their agricultural lands.

And “luckily” for them, the IDF is always there to help. Another land-grab strategy, used alongside the first, involves extending settlements’ “security zones” onto Palestinian agricultural lands. As settlements pop up or expand, so do their “security buffer zones.” These zones, referred to as “sterile” in IDF jargon, are areas near settlements that Palestinians are barred from entering without the IDF’s permission, even when they privately own the land in question.

Working together, settlers and the IDF deprive Palestinians of access to their land, creating the conditions for its eventual takeover.

Explained by Amir Ziv, our Pedagogy Coordinator, on a tour of Masafer Yatta in the West Bank organized by @cfpeace.

[Neil van der Linden (hij/hem, he/him) @NeilvanderLind1]

Ik heb hun kamp bezocht in Irak. “This week, from 2018: They fought for the Iranian revolution – and then for Saddam Hussein. The US and UK once condemned them. But now their opposition to Tehran has made them favourites of Trump White House hardliners.” https://t.co/5ZoCkUNQnJ

[Parody Jeff @Parodyjeffx]

🚨 TRUMP’S OWN AMBASSADOR JUST BROKE WITH HIM

Mike Huckabee openly defied Trump’s position, declaring:

“Without Israel, there would not be an America.”

“We owe our very existence to what happened in this land.”

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

New from @EmpirePodUK
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Where did the idea of one God come from? Not the God of any particular faith — but the very concept that there is only one, that all others are false, that monotheism itself is possible? This week on Empire, we go looking for the answer. It leads somewhere extraordinary.
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[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: They are now pouring bottles of hydrogen peroxide into the ultra-green algae-filled Reflecting Pool that Trump wasted $10m of our money on.

[Neil van der Linden (hij/hem, he/him) @NeilvanderLind1]

@ShaykhSulaiman Just cut the subsidies.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Gavin Newsom said today that Trump has directed the DOJ at him and his wife. Federal agents are knocking on the doors of old friends and former staff, a grand jury is running, and years of documents are being pulled apart on the theory that something incriminating must be in there somewhere.

Investigations are supposed to start with a crime, then go looking for the man. This is that run backwards: they have the man and are hunting for a crime to fit him.

And he is not the first name on the list.

James, Schiff, Cook, Powell all got the same treatment, and the cases keep collapsing in court because they were built backwards.

America spent eighty years lecturing other countries about exactly this. The lecture is over.

[Neil van der Linden (hij/hem, he/him) @NeilvanderLind1]

@DalrympleWill @HFalconerMP Minutes from Jerusalem. Not for Palestinians in Bethlehem and Ramallah.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

At a time when the Palestinians are fighting to survive amidst daily pogroms & ethnic cleansing, to allow this to go ahead is outrageous. What excuse for complicity @HFalconerMP?

"Homes in illegal Israeli settlements promoted at London property show" https://t.co/aGaf3ETtc3

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

MAJOR BREAKING: In a now deleted post by former MMA fighter Daniel Cormier, he posted screenshots of Eric Trump trying to get an insider scoop on whether any of the MMA fights at the White House are rigged so that he could try and illegally make money off of them..

Below is the Direct Messages that Trump allegedly sent Cormier. There is no reason to doubt the legitimacy of these messages.

[Victims of Capitalism Memorial Foundation @karaokecomputer]

CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei awkwardly smiles through his answer to a question about why Claude AI directly contributed to the US Military bombing of the elementary school in Minab.

[Neil van der Linden (hij/hem, he/him) @NeilvanderLind1]

Migratie stond niet eens in de top 5 van Nederlandse kiezers https://t.co/cWY8NcjeWl via @YouTube

[Neil van der Linden (hij/hem, he/him) @NeilvanderLind1]

A look at the Albanian island where a Kushner-Trump resort plan has sparked protests. Ivanka thinks the island is on an ocean. https://t.co/LXIDDutSjx