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Why Israel’s attack on Iranian consulate in Syria was a gamechanger Not the fact that Iran engaged a major and wildly disproportionate massive air assault from it’s own land directly on Israel for the first time. Not that a great many Iranians do not...
by DrLou
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on Sun Apr 14, 2024 at 07:01 PM PDT
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Hamas says it won’t compromise on key demands as US leans into hostage talks Perhaps the Allies should have 'negotiated' with Hitler in 1945. Hitler could have promised to — generally — end hostilities which would have been, as would be now from Hamas,...
by DrLou
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on Tue Apr 09, 2024 at 01:34 PM PDT
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I got this message last Friday 29th of March from DK after someone flagged a comment, so I was already restricted. I don’t know what happened after that because I did not post another comment. More punishment? Hello. Your comments in threads to...
by forest gardener
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on Fri Apr 05, 2024 at 01:07 AM PDT
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I can find no official transcript of the presentation made by Ralph Wilde on behalf of the League of Arab States to the ICJ. This is an auto-generated transcript from the video. I fixed what errors I could find and added punctuation to make it...
by Irenaeus
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on Fri Mar 01, 2024 at 09:08 AM PST
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. At some level, it wasn’t very complicated for me. Simply put, I was horrified by the Hamas assault on Israel: the slaughter of...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Jan 11, 2024 at 07:36 AM PST
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From the Times of Israel (there are quite a few other links if you cant access this one) Prominent Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi was arrested Monday after posting on social media that Palestinians will “slaughter” settlers and “drink your blood.”...
by SevenStrings
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on Mon Nov 06, 2023 at 07:28 AM PST
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This I imagine will take a lot of flack. It is also hardly a perfect analogy, because Bibi is hardly FDR, Israel is not quite America between the world wars, And Japan did not take hostages, or brutally rape, murder and Dismember civilians on Oahu...
by David B
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on Wed Oct 25, 2023 at 08:28 PM PDT
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For my "friends" who support the murder of Israeli Jews because "Occupation," the answer is simple: Just give Jews back the land taken from them in Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Poland, France, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic,...
by David B
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on Sun Oct 08, 2023 at 05:50 PM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. It’s little short of remarkable when you think about it. Last March, Bezalel Smotrich, the minister of finance in Prime Minister...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Aug 10, 2023 at 07:04 AM PDT
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The US State Department has approved the sale of HIMARS to Morocco. “WASHINGTON, April 11, 2023 - The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Morocco of High Mobility Artillery Rocket...
by tbeer
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on Thu Apr 13, 2023 at 10:55 AM PDT
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Even as centrist and left-of-center Israelis take to the streets en masse attempting to stop the new far-right government’s rapid initiative to neuter the Judiciary, the government still counts on most of that very same opposition, to continue...
by Assaf
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on Mon Feb 27, 2023 at 08:11 AM PST
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For 33 years, on and off, I have tried to interest my fellow Israelis in human rights - to no avail. During my undergrad in Jerusalem in the early 1990s I volunteered in the human-rights organization, “Hamoked” (“The Hotline”). I quickly discovered...
by Assaf
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on Tue Nov 22, 2022 at 08:11 AM PST
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Sorry to interrupt an odd July 4th, with the rogue SCOTUS drama, and war in Ukraine. You might be interested to know that on Nov. 1, Israel is going to have its 5th general election in 4 years. Before anyone falsely cries “foul” or even...
by Assaf
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on Mon Jul 04, 2022 at 07:58 AM PDT
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“She found it hard to believe that there would be any bold moves, because too many people had dirty flour in their bags, and people with filthy fingers are hardly enthusiastic about digging up the past . . . those who poke around in the past will get a...
by Bo Realis
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on Fri Jan 27, 2023 at 08:09 AM PST
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Canada’s borders are now cleared, but the capital city has been occupied for weeks by noisy, aggressive anti-vaxxers and their anti-masking friends. Nationally, any support the protesters in Ottawa were getting from the general population has waned...
by GoinFawr
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on Sat Feb 19, 2022 at 09:20 AM PST
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I was not a big fan of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream in the past. I find their flavors are a little too sweet and include too much candy for my taste. But now I’m becoming a big B & J fan. In July, Unilever, the parent company for Ben and Jerry’s,...
by Alan Singer
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on Sun Oct 31, 2021 at 12:21 PM PDT
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H/t LaFeminista who first reported this here in a short diary with the concise and accurate title: “The Methodical Silencing of Palestinians.” Here’s The Guardian’s description (this happened on Friday): Israel labels Palestinian human rights groups as...
by Assaf
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on Sun Oct 24, 2021 at 11:41 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. In the wake of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, among the many things barely mentioned or already long forgotten (if ever...
by TomDispatch
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on Mon Sep 27, 2021 at 07:41 AM PDT
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Joe Saboe is a 36-year-old Iraq war veteran. He started Team America by chance. The group has been described as “an impromptu network of veterans and citizen volunteers who came together to execute an ad hoc mission to get American citizens and Afghan...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Sep 16, 2021 at 12:22 PM PDT
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I am a Jew and a long time opponent of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, Israeli settlements there, and the blockage of Gaza. I believe in the right of Israel to exist, but I also believe in democracy and that Palestinian lives matter. I can wear...
by Alan Singer
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on Wed Jun 02, 2021 at 05:07 PM PDT
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