Joshua Daniels

fair weather cyclist, fair weather runner, if it's sports I can probably talk about it, if it's not it's going to be a lottery

[Joshua Daniels @danz04]

@DarrenArsenal1 @6daysawk I put my newborn on in January, they are currently 122,000 on the waiting list, so hopefully we'll get a chance to go together before I die in 50-60 years

[Joshua Daniels @danz04]

@GoonerMafia @_PhilCosta Fuck off. Your a shit fan and a bellend

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@frankdarl @HandofArsenal @tfk_gawat Fuck off, you're a shit fan and a bellend

[Chico Muya @chico_ray]

You obviously don’t know what it is.

Apartheid happens when citizens under the SAME government are treated differently, “set apart”, because of their race.
So if Arab Israelis (living in Israel proper) were treated differently, set apart by law, then THAT would be apartheid. As it so happens, they are thriving, active members of Israeli society.

Palestinians under the PA are not under the jurisdiction of Israel. Ie, they are NOT Israeli citizens. They have different passports.
That isn’t called Apartheid. It’s the same with the Gazans. They are under the governance of Hamas.
Also, Palestinian is not a race.

[Joshua Daniels @danz04]

@KeithAHilton @anon_opin Latin is more useful, at least with Latin you have the basis of Spanish, french, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and probably some others

[Joshua Daniels @danz04]

@gfield02 @WestStandTone Not for some apparently

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@OfficialTourPro Putter

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@RateMySausage Is anything on that plate cooked,?

[Joshua Daniels @danz04]

@JECook96 I can be available if you need

[Joshua Daniels @danz04]

@thebottomcorna Or we're not going for / getting either as both are the wrong profile of player who will improve the team but are big enough names to get people excited

[Ahmed Al-Khalidi @khalidi79397]

A genocide is happening in Gaza, they tell us. Then scroll your feed:

Comma Cafee, just opened in Gaza City. Espresso machines, plated desserts, dim lighting.

Vanilla Café. Upscale, glass facade.

Nova Restaurant in Khan Younis: sleek wood interior, beachfront seating. Named, apparently without irony, after the music festival where 364 Israelis were slaughtered on October 7.

O2 Restaurant. pizza, ice cream, milkshakes, TikTok food porn.

Open-air markets in Gaza City with apples, avocados, oranges, bananas.

Supermarkets stocked for Ramadan with imported goods.

A "Gaza Coffee" brand selling 100% Arabica premium beans, taking online orders, with five-star reviews dated this year.

Even Al Jazeera's writer concedes the cafes "were built with expensive materials, carefully painted, furnished with tables, sofas, and elegant chairs, with glass facades and shining lights."

Now hold that next to actual genocide.

Rwanda, 1994. 800,000 Tutsi murdered in 100 days. ~8,000 per day. Hutu radio read names of neighbors to be hacked apart by morning. No one opened a café.

Cambodia, 1975–79. Khmer Rouge emptied Phnom Penh at gunpoint in 72 hours. Currency abolished. Markets abolished. Eyeglasses got you killed. Two million dead.

The Holocaust. Warsaw Ghetto: 92,000 dead of starvation and disease before the deportations even began. Auschwitz processed 6,000 people a day into smoke. There were no glass-facade espresso bars in Łódź in 1943.

Srebrenica, July 1995. 8,372 men and boys executed in days. No restaurants reopened. They were in mass graves.

Armenia, 1915. Death marches into the Syrian desert. No imported avocados.

The common thread of genocide is that the targeted population is not allowed to exist. Not in cafes, not in markets, not in their homes, not anywhere. The perpetrator's entire project is their absence.

Gaza in 2026, by every honest description, is something else: a brutal war zone, partially destroyed, with a population suffering real hardship and simultaneously a place where new businesses open, beachfront restaurants serve customers, and a post war economy is being written about in business pages. Both things are true.

That is what war looks like. Lebanon 2006. Mosul 2017. Mariupol 2022. Aleppo 2016. Civilians die and life adapts around the destruction.

It is not what genocide looks like.

So why the word?

Because "genocide" is the most powerful word in the post-WWII moral vocabulary. It triggers automatic legal obligations, suspends normal debate, and short-circuits proportionality analysis. Apply it successfully and your adversary loses the right to defend itself before the argument even begins. That is exactly why it is being deployed by a side that started a war on October 7, took hostages, embedded itself in hospitals and schools, and now needs the West to force a ceasefire it could not win on the battlefield.

It is asymmetric warfare with a thesaurus. The rockets failed. The tunnels failed. The word might not.

Coffee in Gaza doesn't prove there is no suffering. It proves there is no genocide. Those are not the same claim and the people conflating them are counting on you not to notice.

[Joshua Daniels @danz04]

@Knifesedge11 It's like Hamas sympathisers are so loud when Israel are down but want to act like victims when Israel claps back

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@Ollie_Davis I assume he'll congratulate arsenal on their title win in it. And take the credit for it

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@gfield02 @DarrenArsenal1 Cheers Gaz, glad your lot did their part last night too

[Joshua Daniels @danz04]

@gfield02 @DarrenArsenal1 One with an hours lunch break and a 15 minute cycle each way 😂

[Miguel Delaney @MiguelDelaney]

It’s an unpopular view but Arsenal’s title is the story of considerable overperformance against wealthier opposition - City’s higher wage bill is the equivalent of more than five Sakas

It wasn’t always pretty but it is maximising everything you’ve got

https://t.co/IqVaAIfOdJ

[Joshua Daniels @danz04]

@RealJamesL_ @JohnCleese @BBCSport How to spot a racist

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@RedCarpetViews I'd take £7.5m