Every generation of Palestinians has been offered the same choice presented as a new "peace process."
Accept less than the last offer.
Sign a document legitimizing what was taken.
Call it a "state" when it has no army, no contiguous territory, no control of its borders, no sovereignty over its airspace, no capital in the city that was promised.
Call it "peace" when the settlements continue to expand during the negotiation.
Call it a "partner" when that partner is chosen by the occupying power based on their willingness to police their own people on the occupier's behalf.
And when the answer is no, when the people being asked to sign away the remainder of what was taken from them say no, the world nods gravely and says:
They are "not ready for peace."
They have never been offered peace.
They have been offered the administrative language of peace wrapped around the continuing material reality of dispossession.
The difference between those two things is not subtle.
It is the difference between a door and a painting of a door.
You can talk about a painting of a door for decades.
You cannot walk through it.
The Wikipedia entry for Rafah, a city bigger than Limerick, is now in the past tense.
It is gone. Not a single building left intact.
An entire city erased by Israel.
They are the Nazis of today.
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Recurrent neural networks process sequences by propagating information through time via shared parameters.
A hidden state h receives input x via weight U and produces output o via weight W while connecting back to itself through recurrent weight V in the compact form.
The unfold operation expands this across time steps t-1, t and t+1, where each hidden state h_t incorporates the prior state via V along with the current input x_t via U to generate the corresponding output o_t via W.
It powers sequence prediction in applications such as next-word suggestion in keyboards.
"Ningún francotirador dispara 2 veces a la cabeza del mismo niño por error". "Los niños fueron empujados a la fosa común con excavadoras y la tierra que les echaron encima ahogó sus gritos".
Médicos en Gaza
Ningún ser humano -y, desde luego, ningún niño o niña- debería sufrir el horror que se vive en Gaza.
Hoy, nuestro país acoge a 100 personas palestinas, 20 de ellas menores, junto a sus familias, para que puedan recibir el tratamiento que necesitan.
Atenderlas es una obligación moral. Defender su derecho a volver a un hogar en paz, también.
La indiferencia nunca puede ser una opción.