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In a poorly lit room, Winston sat hunched over his crude desk, the flickering light from a single bulb casting elongated shadows on the walls. The stale air of his cramped apartment seemed heavier than usual. His gaze fixed on a worn piece of paper, a...
by michlawa2
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on Fri Apr 26, 2024 at 07:27 AM PDT
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Suppose for a second, the Pentagon started installing long range missile batteries on hospital roofs, town squares, in school yards, theaters, markets, and farm buildings, and created a vast network of tunnels for maintaining offensive arsenals...
by Grandpa Fred
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on Thu Apr 25, 2024 at 03:21 PM PDT
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The Palestinians have very little political control over their lives, even in the semi-sovereign parts of the West Bank known as Area A and B. A constitution could be the enabling bootstrap to change this. There are 2.8 million Palestinians living in...
by Brad Kirk
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on Thu Apr 25, 2024 at 09:59 AM PDT
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As Israel’s genocide against Palestine continues to escalate, students from universities across the United States are leading campus protests en masse and demanding their respective schools divest from corporations and institutions linked to Israel’s...
by VPSReports
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on Thu Apr 25, 2024 at 04:29 AM PDT
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As protests related to the Israel-Hamas war erupt at college campuses nationwide , it's worth looking at the recently released Harvard Youth poll to take the temperature of what's important to young ...
by Kerry Eleveld
104 comments
on Thu Apr 25, 2024 at 09:40 AM PDT
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With the passing of $26 billion in funding for Israel in the US Senate yesterday, Democrats risk losing elections in November. Some voters, particularly in swing states, will not vote for elected officials/candidates who provide support the unfolding...
by tbeer
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on Wed Apr 24, 2024 at 04:30 AM PDT
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At a time when the rhetoric around Israel/Palestine is at a fevered pitch throughout all aspects of daily life, this lucid and succinct book couldn't be more needed. Raja G. Khouri, a Palestinian, and Jeffrey J. Wilkinson, a Jew, are the co-authors who...
by Marcia G Yerman
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on Mon Apr 22, 2024 at 11:21 AM PDT
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The US and EU have imposed sanctions on additional Israeli individuals and entities responsible for terrorism against Palestinians. These include settler organizations and settler leaders and could soon include a unit of the IDF. The listed entities...
by Irenaeus
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on Mon Apr 22, 2024 at 08:32 AM PDT
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UPDATE: Monday, Apr 22, 2024 · 6:09:31 PM +00:00 · LaFeminista Link to the full report Independent Review of Mechanisms and Procedures to Ensure Adherence by UNRWA to the Humanitarian Principle of Neutrality Israel has yet to provide evidence of Unrwa...
by LaFeminista
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on Mon Apr 22, 2024 at 06:58 AM PDT
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Everything associated with the indigenous people of Palestine has been demonized in a campaign of lies and disinformation, from the name Palestine to the denial of the existence of Palestinians as a people. All of this is at the service of a campaign...
by Irenaeus
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on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Today at Columbia University the NYPD was called to execute a fascist raid against college students…exercising their right to protest…. www.nytimes.com/… I haven’t seen anything about this here..,.but this is a police state type action. These young...
by meowmeowmeow
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on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 05:56 PM PDT
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I am not an antisemite. I believe in the right of Israel to exist as an independent country in the Middle East. I recognize that many of the original Jewish settlers in Palestine after World War II were survivors of the European Holocaust desperate for...
by Alan Singer
35 comments
on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 02:35 PM PDT
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A memo leaked to The Intercept reveals The New York Times directed its reporters to limit or not discuss certain terms like genocide, ‘ethnic cleansing’ and ‘occupied territory’ and other descriptors in their coverage. The memo also encouraged its...
by elliott
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on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 11:55 AM PDT
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I’m sickened and disgusted and angered at the ethnic cleansing going in the abusive, bigoted apartheid state of Israel and in Gaza. BUT, if I was stuck in traffic while trying to catch a plane at O’Hare, I would be pretty disgusted and angered by...
by wren
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on Tue Apr 16, 2024 at 12:18 PM PDT
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I am riffing here on a Sunday night, but bear with me. Does anyone else in the DKos community see the same value I see — value writ large — in the Biden camp corralling Big Dog Bill, Bush 2, and Obama to deliver a joint 4 President statement on...
by Americans for a Republican Irrelevancy
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on Sun Apr 14, 2024 at 07:29 PM PDT
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Norway and a core group of EU countries will formally recognize the state of Palestine soon and they are pushing for the EU to do so as a bloc as well. Norway, Spain, Ireland, Malta and Slovenia are working jointly to get more EU countries on board as...
by elliott
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on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 04:48 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. I was born on July 20, 1944, barely a year before the world (potentially) ended. On August 6 and 9, 1945, the U.S., which had...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Apr 11, 2024 at 07:19 AM PDT
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1-The 7th of October 2023 2-The 1st of April 2024 The first date was Hamas’ atrocious attack on Israel, the second was the targeted attack and killing of World Central Kitchen staff. Everything before, between, and after these dates does not matter....
by LaFeminista
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on Wed Apr 10, 2024 at 04:36 AM PDT
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Before I get to the main body of the diary, last night I was watching the news and an Israeli mother was burying her son, he had died in Khan Yunis. Unfortunately, I did not catch her name, and just a few words in English, “this hatred must stop”, the...
by LaFeminista
111 comments
on Mon Apr 08, 2024 at 05:55 AM PDT
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Oren Ziv of +972 Magazine has published an interview with the 18 year old conscientious objector, Ben Arad of Israel. He will be imprisoned for his refusal to serve in the war in Gaza that he contends will only perpetuate the cycle of violence. He will...
by AvoidAmnesia
7 comments
on Sat Apr 06, 2024 at 07:22 PM PDT
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