Piuttosto's Italy

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

At long last, the UN Human Rights Council has formally acknowledged that Hamas in Gaza carried out executions, torture, improperly used medical facilities for terror purposes, and engaged in violent abuses against women and children after October 7. The report captures only a fraction of what actually occurred, in part because documenting these crimes is extraordinarily difficult and because Gazans fear retaliation if they report anything to the UN or other investigators. The findings on Hamas were buried beneath a long section on Israeli settler abuses in the West Bank, but even so, this marks a significant shift for an international body that has long struggled to speak plainly about Hamas’s brutality in Gaza.

Most importantly, the report acknowledges but barely scratches the surface of how extensively Hamas has weaponized Gaza’s medical infrastructure, embedding fighters in hospitals, using patients as shields, and turning civilian facilities into operational hubs. The UN even notes that Doctors Without Borders evacuated non-essential staff from Nasser Hospital because Hamas was interfering with the hospital’s operations.

When I shared this information, including testimonies from Gazans who documented Hamas’s fascistic behavior inside hospitals, and photos of fighters emerging from Nasser Hospital after the ceasefire, the online “pro-Palestine” chorus had nothing to offer except accusations of Zionist collaboration, accusations of betrayal, and personal insults. This UN report is an indictment not only of Hamas, a violent extremist terror organization responsible for immense suffering, but also of every activist, journalist, and academic who chose to look away. It shows that Hamas’s crimes were so egregious, so undeniable, that even a slow, hesitant, and often ineffectual body like the UNHRC could no longer pretend not to see them.

Shame on anyone who still defends Hamas or ever believed its violence constituted “resistance” on behalf of the Palestinian people.

[Piuttosto's Italy @PiuttostoS]

@BMitraglia A Gaza è attaccato il diritto degli uomini di fare soldi e carriere sulla pelle di bambini e donne che non possono rifugiarsi nei tunnel sono gli ultimi ad accedere a viveri e medicine. Col nuovo medioevo I diritti dei deboli sono distrutti, vedi anche USA ,la sinistra è demente

[Piuttosto's Italy @PiuttostoS]

@BMitraglia Guerra di religione , papa Woytila nel suo viaggio incitò I cattolici Hutu a ribellarsi contro I Tutsi ,animisti, e che preti e vescovi attirarono i Tutsi nelle chiese per massacrarli.

[Rocco Tanica @rocco_tanica]

“Immagina di avere una sola figlia, #CarolinBohl. Viene attaccata e assassinata dai terroristi #october7massacre. La tua vita è distrutta. La tua piccola è morta. Poi @FranceskAlbs ti scrive, da donna a donna, «Cambia farmaco.»”

[Piuttosto's Italy @PiuttostoS]

@ninabecks1 A dir la verità la Meloni ha fatto carriera richiamandosi al fascismo, quanto a Musk è piuttosto un feudatario medievale, l' economia sta cambiando la società senza che nessuno se ne accorga

[Piuttosto's Italy @PiuttostoS]

@DrNeilStone In Italy they are free

[Mariano Giustino @MarianoGiustino]

ULTIM'ORA: Presa dalla polizia la sede centrale di #Ankara del maggior partito d'opposizione in #Turchia. Fate girare per favore! È come un colpo di stato, è in corso il tentativo di annientamento dell'opposizione in Turchia.
@RadioRadicale

[Piuttosto's Italy @PiuttostoS]

@InconnuStudioIT Aveva sottovalutato che un paese al 70 % contadino è legato alla religione, l' Italia si è laicizzata con l' industrializzazione.

[Piuttosto's Italy @PiuttostoS]

A Roma ci vorrebbero proprio queste toilette autolavanti, gratuite per la città con la cessione di spazi pubblicitari, Parigi, Berlino ecc @QuinziUgo @romacapitalenet @gualtierieurope

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A French ad company once pitched the city of Paris on a strange deal: let us put ads on your bus stops, and we'll build you public toilets that clean themselves every time someone uses them. Paris now has 435 of them on its sidewalks. Taxpayers paid nothing.

The toilets are called Sanisettes. JCDecaux invented them in 1981 and put the first two near the Centre Pompidou museum. They cost 1 franc back then. The city made them free in 2006. People used them 18 million times in just the first nine months of 2025.

The cleaning is what people film and share. After you walk out, the door locks. The floor swings open. Jets spray the toilet, the walls, and the floor with disinfectant. The whole cabin gets a wash. About 30 seconds later, the door unlocks for the next person. If you try to walk in during the cycle, the door doesn't open. There's also a 15-minute timer inside, so you can't move in.

Cities don't pay for any of this. JCDecaux builds the toilets, installs them, cleans them, and maintains them with their own staff (who, by the way, stay on the job for an average of 18 years). In exchange, the city lets the company sell ads on bus stops, info displays, and other things on the sidewalk. JCDecaux pulled in nearly €4 billion in revenue last year doing this around the world.

This same trade was offered to New York. In 2006, NYC signed a $1.4 billion deal for 20 of these toilets plus 3,300 bus shelters. Two decades later, only 7 toilets are in service. The rest spent years sitting in a warehouse in Queens. The reasons get bureaucratic fast: neighborhood boards rejecting locations, state laws getting in the way, fights over wheelchair access, fights over which agency cleans them. Paris was swapping in 7 new toilets every single week during its 2024 rollout. New York managed 7 in 20 years.

The same model now runs in 28 countries. The full network is 2,500 toilets strong, used by over 30 million people every year. Berlin alone has 278 of them, the second-biggest network in the world. San Francisco, Stockholm, Lagos, and Abidjan all use the same trade. Nobody pays except the advertisers.

A private ad company has been keeping millions of strangers in 28 countries from peeing on the street, for free, for 45 years now. And most cities still can't pull it off.

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

On This Day — May 18, 2014

A Palestinian professor, Dr. Mohammed Dajani, was forced to resign after weeks of vicious threats, smears, and campus incitement — all because he led 27 Palestinian students to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau, guided by Jewish Holocaust survivors.

They studied the systematic murder of six million Jews. In return, his own university caved: faculty called him a traitor and “normalizer,” students protested with signs branding him a collaborator, the staff union expelled him, and the administration quietly accepted his resignation rather than defend academic freedom.

Just months later, in January 2015, Dajani’s car was torched in a sophisticated arson attack outside his home. Perpetrators had pre-placed chemicals in the engine days earlier specifically to make it explode while driving — an attempt so dangerous it nearly killed him on the road from the airport.

The message was crystal clear: there is no place in Palestinian society for acknowledging Jewish suffering, learning real history, or building any bridge of understanding.

Dajani had co-written a 2011 New York Times op-ed arguing that teaching Palestinians about the Holocaust would make peace more attainable — by rejecting false equivalences with the “Nakba” and fostering basic human empathy. He believed knowledge could humanize the other side.

Palestinian society answered with pure fury. An article about the trip was pulled after online outrage. Dajani, a former Fatah fighter, was branded a traitor for doing the unthinkable: exposing young Palestinians to the truth.

This is the core problem with Palestinian society: genuine efforts at reconciliation, Holocaust education, or simple historical honesty are treated as betrayal and treason.

Bridges are not wanted. Dialogue is not wanted. Learning the “Other’s” pain is not wanted.

They want Israel destroyed — period. That’s why every serious peace offer has been rejected, why “normalization” is a dirty word punishable by social death (or worse), and why even a respected university professor trying to tell the truth had to flee his own community.

When your culture punishes the moderates who seek knowledge and coexistence while rewarding the rejectionists and jihadists, the results are predictable: endless conflict, generations raised on hate, and no path forward except through Israeli strength.

Dajani tried. Palestinian society made sure it would never happen again.

[M Khalid @khalidJMSW]

I am a Druze American, and today I feel deeply ashamed to call myself Syrian. All this horror—and much more—has unfolded in my city, Sweida, solely because we are Druze.

We are a small minority in the Middle East—a secular, peace-loving people who have rejected takfirism and jihadism for over a thousand years, since the birth of our faith. Yet we are not cowards. We have survived in one of the harshest corners of the world for more than a millennium, holding steadfast to our humanity, dignity, and moral integrity.

We do not preach our religion, nor do we seek converts. We cherish science, art, and music. We value life and family. We honor women, never veil them, and practice monogamy as our faith commands.

If these savage, bloodthirsty extremists are allowed to destroy us, they will do so without hesitation. They possess no moral compass, only the delusions of a psychotic ideology. The West must not look away and must not tie Israel’s hands, for it is the only nation that has tried to help us and halt the massacre.

If the world remains silent, they will wipe us out and then turn their fury toward the Christians and every other minority in the Middle East. Their ultimate aim is to create another Afghanistan at Europe’s doorstep, then Europe itself or “Rome” as they like to say.

We can hold the line—but we need the West’s support, not its complicity with the Jihadists.

[Piuttosto's Italy @PiuttostoS]

@GiuseppePalombo E poi i giornalisti si preoccupano perché il loro Ordine non si occupa delle notizie false, l' Ordine dei medici si muove come un bradipo con l'artrosi

[Maurizio Molinari @Maumol]

Karim Khan, procuratore capo della Corte Penale Internazionale, ammette: non ci sono prove sufficienti per accusare i leader israeliani di genocidio a Gaza: “Sarebbe sconsiderato procedere solo per la pressione pubblica, continuiamo a indagare”
Fonte: Zeteo
#gaza #israele

[Piuttosto's Italy @PiuttostoS]

@DrNeilStone In Italy we say "cura da cavallo " (a cure for horses) when a person takes too high doses of medications

[S.A. @shiafz]

Il regime islamico ha imprigionato migliaia di manifestanti per aver esercitato la libertà di espressione e ora ne sta giustiziando molti con processi farsa.
Sii la voce del popolo iraniano: il silenzio non è un’opzione.
#StopExecutionInIran

[Maryam @hell_line0]

2022: “Stop overreacting, they won’t overturn Roe.”
They did.

2023: “Stop overreacting, they won’t let women die rather than get an abortion.”
They did.

2024: “Stop overreacting, they won’t arrest women for miscarriages.”
They did.

2025: “Stop overreacting, they won’t turn women into incubators.”
They did.

2026: “Stop overreacting, they won’t attack mifepristone.”
They did, today.

Now: “Stop overreacting, they won’t go after birth control next.”
They will.

[Piuttosto's Italy @PiuttostoS]

@BMitraglia @annabelladellac L ' ECONOMIA !Ringraziate gli imprenditori, a Monfalcone i bengalesi tengono aperte le acciaierie, ovunque gli immigrati tengono bassi i salari, 500000 immigrati richiesti da Confindustria Meloni li ha promessi. Deviare le esigenze economiche in religiose conviene ai capitalisti

[Piuttosto's Italy @PiuttostoS]

@HillelNeuer As and italian I am ashamed but not surprised, southern Italy, under spanish rule , expelled Jews and Muslims, and the racial laws of Fascism were largely approved

[Piuttosto's Italy @PiuttostoS]

@UNWatch @RepBrianMast Did the states that voted for Iran obtain something ? I know that realpolitik exists but you must obtain something important to forget ethics

[Mariano Giustino @MarianoGiustino]

È evidente che #Facebook sostenga l’organizzazione criminale denominata “repubblica islamica dell’#Iran”. Ha rimosso questo mio post in cui documento l’utilizzo da parte del regime iraniano di milizie mercenarie straniere come quelle afghane, irachene, yemenite, libanesi, pakistane nella brutale repressione interna. Vergogna!