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American election campaigns should be about what candidates can offer their constituents, not about their positions on Israel and Palestine.
Many commentators and policy voices discussing Gaza still fail to grasp the scale of damage Hamas inflicted over two decades, let alone the catastrophic consequences of October 7, and what that means for how Israel will view Gaza for the foreseeable future. Even if you condemn Israeli actions, Netanyahu’s leadership, or the IDF’s conduct, Gaza will be regarded with deep suspicion for years. Israel is not going to withdraw quickly before disarmament is credible and nearly complete. The Israeli public will remain anxious about what follows any withdrawal, shaped by the long, painful experience after the 2005 disengagement. Hamas ultimately validated Israel’s core argument for the blockade: the group transformed Gaza into a fortified launchpad for smuggling, rockets, tunnels, and attacks. After the worst single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, fears of Gaza again becoming a threat are only exacerbated.
This reality puts the burden squarely on Hamas to expediently exit the scene, and on observers to understand Israel’s security lens. It requires reimagining Gaza’s future in a post-war, post-Hamas era: a territory rebuilt into a hub of Palestinian stability, prosperity, effective governance, and peaceful regional integration, making up for the two decades Hamas hijacked. Acknowledging this does not mean endorsing Israeli policy or perpetual military control. But insisting on full Israeli withdrawal while Hamas remains present is unserious, detached from the realities on the ground, and ignores how Israel’s security establishment actually operates.
***Excerpt from my conversation with a panel on TRT World regarding Gaza and the announced Hamas disarmament proposal.
Every day, for years now, someone asks me the same question: "How much are the Israelis paying you?" As if the only explanation for defending Jews and Israel is a paycheck. The idea that I might simply see this conflict differently doesn't compute for them. What I do is, to me, entirely normal. It only looks strange in a world where hating Jews has become the default setting of the crowd, and staying silent, or joining in, is what passes for sanity.
Many are familiar with this photograph from the Lviv pogrom, 1941. Locals — including a child and an adolescent — chase a woman stripped of her clothes, bleeding, terrified, humiliated. The Nazis had spent years demonizing the Jews before this moment. They didn't need to pull the trigger themselves. They just needed to make the target "legitimate," and ordinary people did the rest, voluntarily. Something otherwise suppressed in them came out, and they let it.
On October 7, I woke up to the videos. One of them was of Naama Levy, arms zip-tied behind her back, dragged by her dusty hair out of a black jeep. As she was moved to the front of the car, she looked straight into the camera of the man filming her. The back of her trousers was soaked in blood. I saw the cuts on her arms, her bare feet, and I watched a crowd film her while cursing her, spitting on her, hitting her. I wished I did not have an imagination. I wished I could delete what I'd seen before her mother saw it.
Weeks later, I flew to Israel for the first time, burning every bridge to a world that was celebrating what I'd watched. I went to Ra'anana and met Naama's mother, Ayelet. We made the first post from Israel asking the world to listen, asking the universe to bring her back alive. I promised her that what Hamas did would haunt them in their graves.
Arendt called it the banality of evil, and people needed mental gymnastics to accept what she meant. It's easier to believe monsters do monstrous things than to believe your neighbor might. But human beings are built for both good and evil. What we become is a choice, shaped by the moral compass we build or fail to build.
Just like an ordinary person joins a mob to taunt a scapegoat, an ordinary person is capable of standing against it. For some of us, peer pressure is minuscule in comparison with a nagging conscience.
That's why the photo above matters, still, 85 years later. The Nazis were defeated in Europe but their legacy is rampant in large parts of the Arab world, especially in Palestinian culture. Fused with a dash of communism and a splash of Jihadism, that legacy morphed into global Antizionism.
#October7
@tatertotsconor Bloody hell, that's so self aggrandising.
If only the pesky proletariat could be more refined, grateful, and for the love of god, quieter in a cafe where I insist on doing my work instead of home or library, at least I would know my sacrifice meant something!
A “new left” is forming in the United States, and it has very little in common with the traditional left. Its defining issue is foreign policy: hostility toward Israel and Ukraine, sympathy for Russia and Iran, and, among some, increasingly favorable views of China.
This group is a bizarre horseshoe coalition: It includes self-described communists like Jackson Hinkle, conspiracy theorists like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens on the populist right, traitor Michael Flynn from the MAGA world, Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian from The Young Turks, and the anti-Western ecosystem around The Grayzone.
Politicians like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie increasingly overlap with this coalition on Ukraine, Israel and American foreign policy.
These people disagree on plenty of domestic issues. But when it comes to geopolitics, they increasingly end up in the same place: Ukraine is the enemy. Israel is the enemy. NATO is the enemy. Western institutions are corrupt. Russia's aggression is explained away or ignored. Iran is treated as a victim. And authoritarian regimes are often given far more sympathy than America's democratic allies.
Some of them are now turning against Trump because he attacked Iran and failed to give Russia the victory in Ukraine they expected.
This movement shouldn't be dismissed as a collection of internet weirdos. MAGA was once an online grassroots movement too, but it eventually took over the Republican Party.
Now there is a political vacuum on the other side. The Democrats are weak, unpopular and struggling to define what they stand for, and yhis “new left” wants to fill that vacuum.
Il est des crimes de masse qui n’ont semble-t-il pas d’importance. Pas un mot ce matin dans la presse nationale ou internationale pour commémorer le 12ème anniversaire du génocide des Yezidis par l’Etat Islamique et rendre compte de leur calvaire actuel. (1/2)
I think this is the most important concept to understand right now: LLMs can’t jump.
OpenAI says an internal version of Astra, its next major model, has solved ten major open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science.
This is extraordinary.
And I don’t use this word lightly.
During my PhD in mathematics, I worked on a problem closely related to Gromov’s conjecture. For decades, constructing a non-sofic group—an infinite group whose finite pieces cannot be approximated by finite groups—was a dream shared by many of us.
Now Astra appears to have done it.
This is not a toy result. This is serious mathematics.
But it is not “the most significant day in the history of mathematics”, as some have claimed.
This claim confuses scale with kind.
Astra has solved difficult problems inside existing conceptual worlds.
Calculus, topology, and scheme theory created new conceptual worlds.
They did not merely answer questions. They changed which questions mathematics could ask.
Induction finds patterns. LLMs are extraordinary at it.
Deduction follows implications. Using symbolic AI tools, LLMs are becoming formidable at traversing chains of logic that humans missed, abandoned, or could never afford to search.
But abduction is different.
Abduction invents the right concept, the right representation, the right question.
That is the jump.
Current LLMs can fill the gaps of knowledge left by humans.
But they can’t jump beyond the external boundary of existing knowledge.
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Full paper in the first reply
To make a compelling case that Islam & Muslims are not violent, UK student, Aisha, at the Oxford Union argued that Tommy Robinson (whatever you think of him) should be grateful for the security staff to ensure that her co-religionists outside don't kill him. You lost badly, Aisha
You don’t have to be a genius OSINT expert to find out how many bots, accounts etc, were translating every single thing Sanchez was saying on welcoming migrants. The messages were spreading since May, and the Supreme Court decision regarding those who come swimming was also amplified.
@Mazelit_ Mazal tov to both of you!
The Moroccan Ministry of the Interior has officially confirmed the existence of an online campaign encouraging people to attempt to reach Ceuta. According to the ministry, the campaign falsely claimed that the border was open, that anyone who reached Ceuta would be allowed to remain, that those who swam across would face no legal consequences, and that entry was easy.
Someone wanted to destabilize the country, the elections are coming with Islamists in full force, Morocco just signed numerous partnerships with US, Morocco just launched a pipeline that will help Spain get rid of Russian gas, is negotiating a peace deal with Algeria, and is finally solving the Western Sahara issue. Morocco also doesn't benefit from this since the country is already under pressure with Sahel migration.
2/3 August 1944 | The Germans liquidated the so-called Gypsy camp (Zigeunerlager - sector BIIe) of Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Some 4,300 children, women and men - the last Roma prisoners of the sector - were loaded onto trucks and driven to the gas chambers. The Roma tried to resist, but their efforts were brutally suppressed by the SS.
Of the approximately 23,000 Sinti and Roma deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, some 20,000 lost their lives there. Most of them died due to diseases, hunger and atrocious sanitary conditions. The remaining were murdered in the gas chambers.
Learn more about the fate of Roma and Sinti victims of Auschwitz.
See our online lesson: https://t.co/NfsvDCoJ6r
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Listen to the podcast about their story: https://t.co/VeaZzt2cTx
In the picture, the Emmler Sinti family deported to #Auschwitz. From the left: Wally (b. 1936), Elisabeth (b. 1917), Ali (b. 1938) and Oscar (b. 1935)
1 August 1944 | Anne Frank wrote the last entry in her diary. It reads:
"Dearest Kitty,
"A bundle of contradictions" was the end of my previous letter and is the beginning of this one. Can you please tell me exactly what "a bundle of contradictions" is? What does "contradiction" mean? Like so many words, it can be interpreted in two ways: a contradiction imposed from without and one imposed from within.
The former means not accepting other people's opinions, always knowing best, having the last word; in short, all those unpleasant traits for which I'm known. The latter, for which I'm not known, is my own secret.
As I've told you many times, I'm split in two. One side contains my exuberant cheerfulness, my flippancy, my joy in life and, above all, my ability to appreciate the lighter side of things. By that I mean not finding anything wrong with flirtations, a kiss, an embrace, an off-colour joke. This side of me is usually lying in wait to ambush the other one, which is much purer, deeper and finer. No one knows Anne's better side, and that's why most people can't stand me.
Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that everyone's had enough of me to last a month. Actually, I'm what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker – a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten: not bad, but not particularly good either.
I hate having to tell you this, but why shouldn't I admit it when I know it's true? My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can't imagine how often I've tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne-to beat her down, hide her. But it doesn't work, and I know why.
I'm afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I'm afraid they'll mock me, think I'm ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I'm used to not being taken seriously, but only the "light-hearted" Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the "deeper" Anne is too weak. If I force the good Anne into the spotlight for even fifteen minutes, she shuts up like a clam the moment she's called upon to speak, and lets Anne number one do the talking. Before I realize it, she's disappeared.
So the nice Anne is never seen in company. She's never made a single appearance, though she almost always takes the stage when I'm alone. I know exactly how I'd like to be, how I am… on the inside. But unfortunately I'm only like that with myself. And perhaps that's why-no, I'm sure that's the reason why I think of myself as happy on the inside and other people think I'm happy on the outside. I'm guided by the pure Anne within, but on the outside I'm nothing but a frolicsome little goat tugging at its tether.
As I've told you, what I say is not what I feel, which is why I have a reputation for being boy-crazy as well as a flirt, a smart aleck and a reader of romances. The happy-go-lucky Anne laughs, gives a flippant reply, shrugs her shoulders and pretends she doesn't give a darn. The quiet Anne reacts in just the opposite way. If I'm being completely honest, I'll have to admit that it does matter to me, that I'm trying very hard to change myself, but that I I'm always up against a more powerful enemy.
A voice within me is sobbing, "You see, that's what's become of you. You're surrounded by negative opinions, dismayed looks and mocking faces, people, who dislike you, and all because you don't listen to the advice of your own better half."
Believe me, I'd like to listen, but it doesn't work, because if I'm quiet and serious, everyone thinks I'm putting on a new act and I have to save myself with a joke, and then I'm not even talking about my own family, who assume I must be sick, stuff me with aspirins and sedatives, feel my neck and forehead to see if I have a temperature, ask about my bowel movements and berate me for being in a bad mood, until I just can't keep it up anymore, because when everybody starts hovering over me, I get cross, then sad, and finally end up turning my heart inside g out, the bad part on the outside and the good part on the inside, and keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if… if only there were no other people in the world.
Yours, Anne M. Frank"
On 4 August 1944, the Anne Frank's family, along with the other four people hiding in the secret annex on Prinsengracht in Amsterdam were arrested along with their helpers Johannes Kleiman and Victor Kugler. The Frank family was deported to Auschwitz on 3 September 1944.
In 2014 ISIS burned 19 Yazidi girls alive in iron cages because they refused to become sex slaves.
Nearly 12 years after the 𝐘𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐝𝐢 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞, more than 2,500 Yazidis remain missing—many of them women and children abducted by ISIS…
The world is still silent while the gallows keep working in Iran.
Ali Dashti, Amirhossein Maleki, Ghaem Hosseini, and Shervin Bagherian — four more young people whose only dream was freedom, now standing on the edge of execution.
This regime is massacring Iran’s youth.
In just a few days, on August 3rd, we mark 12 years since the Yazidi genocide began.
We hold close the memory of those we lost, and we honor the strength of every survivor.
We remember, and together, we move forward, stronger and renewed in hope.
Even Mexican Nazis are happy with how much the far left blames everything on the Jews.
I’m unapologetic that the far left helped mainstream nazi ideas in today’s society more than any neo nazi could have dreamed of.
Alireza Sepahi was due to be executed alongside his cousin, Abolfazl Sepahi, in connection with the Alikhani Square case in Isfahan.
However, on the way to the gallows, he suffered a stroke and was taken to hospital.
A few days ago, his sister wrote on Instagram:
“For the first time in my life, I am praying that a patient does not recover”
In this video, a mother stands beside her son’s hospital bed, begging him not to regain consciousness, because she knows that if he opens his eyes, he will be taken back to be executed.
Just imagine a terrorist regime turning the most heartbreaking scene from a fictional film into the reality of a family’s life, forcing them to pray that their own son does not survive.
The thought of a sister, out of nothing but love for her brother, wishing he never recovers should shake the conscience of the world.
This is not just an execution.
It is the execution of hope, humanity, and love.
And this is the reality of Iran today.
Netanyahu’s government is highly unlikely to accept a phased disarmament plan for Hamas. The newly announced proposal by President Trump and the Board of Peace (BOP) hinges on gradual, outcome‑based steps that require Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in “lockstep,” as BOP’s High Representative Nickolay Mladenov put it. Israel also remains concerned about weapons beyond the “heavy weapons” Hamas says it will surrender. And with Israeli elections two months away, the current government will be reluctant to endorse such an agreement while Netanyahu faces sharp criticism for failing to defeat Hamas after nearly three years of war. The Israeli military also has little interest in withdrawing back from the current boundaries of the “Yellow Line” and relinquishing territorial control before a new Palestinian police force is functional and international stabilization troops are deployed. It fears Hamas could regroup long before those institutions are ready, providing the terror organization with opportunities to re-establish its control and maintain relevance and dominance over the territory.
Still, any chance to remove weapons, munitions, and tunnel infrastructure from Gaza should be pursued. Hamas can no longer replenish its arsenal through smuggling, Israel retains the ability to re-enter Gaza if needed, and trusted third parties can verify disarmament and implementation. Private security contractors can work with Israeli authorities, the technocratic transitional committee (NCAG), the new police force, Hamas, and international forces and actors to strengthen transparency and build confidence. Even partial disarmament would chip away at a finite stockpile and increase pressure on Hamas remnants to abandon violence and the armed‑resistance narrative that has arrested Gaza’s development for two decades.
The Trump administration will likely push Israel to accept the proposal, which may fuel resentment among Israelis who feel Washington is imposing risks on them. Yet the unavoidable question remains: what is the alternative?
31 July 1919 | Primo Levi was born in Turin. He was an Italian Jewish writer & chemist. From 26 February 1944 a prisoner of the German Nazi #Auschwitz camp no. 174517. In September 1947 he published his book "If this is a man". He passed away in 1987.
“I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.”
Those words by Primo Levi are still very relevant. 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz we still need this warning to reflect about our moral responsibility for the world we live in.
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"If this is a man"
You who live safe
In your warm houses;
You who find on returning in the evening
Hot food and friendly faces:
Consider if this is a man
Who works in the mud
Who knows no peace
Who fights for a bit of bread
Who dies because of a yes and because of a no
Consider if this is a woman,
Without hair and without name
Without enough strength to remember
Vacant eyes and cold womb
Like a frog in the winter:
Reflect on the fact that this has happened:
These words I commend to you:
Inscribe them on your heart
When staying at home and going out,
Going to bed and rising up;
Repeat them to your children:
Or may your house fall down,
Illness bar your way,
Your loved ones turn away from you.
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