@Sharfowein@MariaPIreland I am a nurse and live in Longford. I could not get public transport to St James to work with nurses shift times. Nurses/carers can't afford to live in Dublin. They will not be able to staff the new hospital. This is fact
Photo via Longford County Library of a Longford team circa 1905, donated to the Longford GAA Archive at the County Library by Luke Baxter. Longford are sporting the jerseys of the Clonguish Gallowglasses Gaelic Football Club (now Clonguish GAA). Credit: Longford County Library.
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.
I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.
May God bless America.
This is a photo of Mustafa Ali Bani Odeh, an 8 year old Palestinian child, after he witnessed Israeli soldiers kill his mother, his father, and two of his brothers, aged 7 and 5.
This took place in the occupied West Bank, land Israel has no right to patrol.
The NYT account of the shooting is worth sharing:
"Ali Bani Odeh’s wife and four young boys hadn’t seen him in a month and a half when he came home to Tammun, in the West Bank, from his construction job in Israel late on Friday to spend the last few days of Ramadan with his family.
On Saturday night, the boys persuaded him to take them out for a drive. Eid al-Fitr, the end of Ramadan, was coming, so there were new clothes to buy. The day’s fast had been broken, so there were sweets to be had, too.
They picked up fried doughnut holes in Tubas, saving them for later, but the clothing shop they went to in Nablus was closed. It was already past midnight, so they headed back to Tammun: Khaled, 11, the oldest, in the back with Mustafa, 8, and Muhammad, 5. Othman, 6, blind and incapable of walking or feeding himself, was in his mother’s lap in front.
As they rounded a corner slowly, a few minutes from home, young Khaled and Mustafa recounted on Sunday, their mother, Waad, 35, asked her husband to pull over and take Othman from her so she could get something from her bag on the floor. Suddenly, the boys said, they saw laser pointers shining on their family from every direction, heard their mother scream, heard their father say “God is great” — and then heard a deafening fusillade of gunfire."
Why did the soldiers kill this family? They say they "sensed danger".
Imagine the strength it will take for Mustafa to resist turning to violence against the country that killed his parents and his brothers. By killing so many innocent men, women, and children, Israel is ensuring the cycle of violence continues and making everyone, everywhere less safe.
The grief of Mustafa is unimaginable. But his story is not unique. Tends of thousands of children killed. Many more have had their parents, brothers, sisters, family, friends killed by Israeli snipers or Israeli bombs.
We cannot let this continue.
Dear Jewish followers,
Imagine that Pessach or Rosh Hashanah came; you take your wife and four children in the family car going to buy new clothes to celebrate the ocasion, you drive until you find an army car; the soldiers, ruthlessly and without any concern for who is inside, open their fire, killing the father, the mother, and their two children.
This is what happened in Tammunn last night: the Israeli army opened their fire on a Palestinian family who were on their way to buy clothes for Eid al-Fitr and killed father Ali Khaled Bani Odeh, 37; his wife, Waad Othman Bani Odeh, 35; and their two children, Mohammed, 5, and Othman, 7 years old. The other two children, Mustafa, 8, and Khaled, 11, sustained shrapnel injuries to the head and face.
When Palestinian Red Crescent crews arrived, Israeli forces blocked them from reaching the wounded inside the vehicle and forced them to leave the scene entirely before eventually allowing them to retrieve the four bodies.
This is the West Bank in 2026.
How easily insignificant nitwits can torture a brilliant, immensely useful, dedicated pillar of a society to death in the most gruesome way
Adnan Al-Bursh was born in the Jabalia refugee camp in 1974, at the time a large slum. He applied himself and went to study medicine in Romania. He became a prominent orthepedic surgeon and chose to help his people. The world was robbed of his talent when far less gifted IDF guys sodomized him to death, showing zero respect for human life, zero respect for a towering mind that most likely outclassed them in every possible way.