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Greatest risk to European democracy is obviously the Gaza genocide. Not Putin, not Orban, not social media, not immigration. Gaza. A whole generation is losing faith in democracy. Will be impossible to recover it
“anytime you live in the 20th century and you walking around here singing “we shall overcome” the government has failed you.”
- malcolm x
crazy how evergreen this shit is
I woke up to hear that Trump announced the US will annex Gaza and the population be deported. The West Bank will be annexed in the next month by Israel.
Any Arab regime which goes along with this will be overthrown. This is going to result in huge unrest and bloodshed.
It also puts the mealy mouthed zionist governments of Europe into a huge dilemma. They will have to face the destabilising consequences of their support for genocide.
#DRCongo 🇨🇩: apocalyptic scenes in #Goma as hundreds of thousands of people are forced to flee, desperate to escape from the advancing #M23 and Rwandan forces.
Many of the people have been on the run for over 30 years at this point.
Miller: We’re watching incredibly closely but we have not seen [Israel] launch a major military operation [in Rafah]
Kirby: They are not moving in, in a major ground operation
This what they told you while Rafah was being destroyed. Continuous lies.
Larry Ellison is a transhumanist. Transhumanism is a fantasy of rich old tech bros that are having trouble facing their mortality. This is like the cryopreservation fantasies of the rich a couple of decades ago. We should feel sorry and have empathy for him and his spoiled godless buddies. But their fantasies should not be the basis for public policy decisions.
Learning stuff here.
Jesus, who spoke Aramaic, did not rename Simon as "Peter". He renamed him as "Kepha", Aramaic for rock.
Simon is actually called "Cephas" by Paul in 1 Corinthians 1:12
He is revered in Islam as "Simon the Pure".
Both local Christians and Muslims believe he is buried in Shama, South Lebanon (as opposed to western Christian belief he is buried in Rome).
The 2,000 year old tomb revered as his was deliberately smashed and dug up by the Israelis during the occupation.
You don't have to subscribe to any belief to deplore this vicious act.
I am trying to get there, currently restricted by Lebanese army. Was turned away at final checkpoint on Monday.
Even after the announcement of a ceasefire, reports indicate that the Israeli military is continuing to flatten the remaining residential blocks in northern Gaza, leaving displaced civilians with no homes to return to. Satellite images from January 2025 reveal widespread destruction in Jabalia, Beit Lahia, and Beit Hanoun, alongside expanding tent camps in Gaza City—highlighting the mass displacement caused by the recent Israeli ground operation in northern Gaza.
If a final ceasefire agreement is not reached, Israel will likely target Gaza City next with the same tactics of systematic destruction and displacement.
More updates: https://t.co/3AS6hL7JPb
I hope I am wrong about some of this, but I strongly suspect these things are true, and we are being played.
Palestine cannot prevail if Palestine’s regional friends and global allies are destroyed - and destroying them is what the US and Israel plan to do.
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When this clip of a Harvard professor/Israeli government spokesperson came out early in the genocide, my jaw dropped. She just out and said it. Zionism can’t be defended. Apartheid can’t be defended. Colonialism can’t be defended. So use victimhood and the accusation of antisemitism to derail any truth-based argument. Listen to it and note how she rhetorically masks this exact message.
.@IanCarrollShow has just ratioed @elonmusk by nearly 30k likes within hours on a controversial post regarding Israel-US relations.
This may wind up being one of the largest ratios ever on X and an extremely important moment in internet history.
We await Elon’s response.