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American televised news’ superficiality is creating an inflammatory picture of the protests, reducing it to hyper-charged good-bad, us-them. Quick clips of violent action to sum up everything. On the ground of the conflict, the really bad actors are...
by Soulfulpsy44
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on Thu May 02, 2024 at 07:11 PM PDT
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TimesOfIsrael May 30, 2024 [EU] foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says countries include Spain, Ireland, Belgium, Slovenia and Malta, as Arab and European officials discuss end to Gaza conflict in Riyadh Several European member states are...
by mettle fatigue
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on Tue Apr 30, 2024 at 02:28 AM PDT
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Axios and other sources are reporting that Secretary of State, Antony Blinken is expected to announce sanctions against a specific unit of the IDF — the "Netzah Yehuda" battalion — for human rights violations it perpetrated in Gaza. This is the first...
by Munchausen
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on Sun Apr 21, 2024 at 12:01 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. When you watch the latest TV news on Israel’s war in Gaza, it feels as if its military had invaded another country. So, it’s...
by TomDispatch
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on Mon Apr 15, 2024 at 07:36 AM PDT
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Back on April 4, 2024, Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo offered up an observation that I found rather striking. Many people have been outraged that Biden has not forced Israel into a cease-fire and are angry that the U.S. is still sending weapons...
by xaxnar
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on Mon Apr 15, 2024 at 06:56 AM PDT
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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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Admin note: This story has been retracted for violating the Rules of the Road.
by MizC
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on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 08:50 AM PDT
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After IDF raided the Zaytoun quarter of Gaza City in Dec 2023, Hadeel al-Dahdouh, a mother of two, was abducted by Israeli soldiers and thrown into the back of the truck pictured above. Hadeel al-Dahdouh was separated from her breastfeeding son for...
by C0RI0LANUS
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on Thu Mar 28, 2024 at 01:38 PM PDT
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USAF crewmembers airdropping pallets of humanitarian aid to Palestinians had eye-opening experiences after witnessing the devastation in the Gaza Strip. “It hits home for a lot of the air crew, when they look out and they see firsthand the environment...
by C0RI0LANUS
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on Fri Mar 22, 2024 at 01:15 AM PDT
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BiBi has proved over the past year or so that he is determined to prove that he can be just as or worst than than Hitler. Think about it. He is applying the same terror and misery on the Palestinians that Hitler applied to the Jews during WWII. He has...
by purified
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on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 06:50 PM PDT
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SEE UPDATES AT FOOT OF DIARY _______________________________________________ CNN 3 days ago World Central Kitchen & Open Arms ship carrying aid to Gaza depart from Cyprus Summarizing this and later articles, a former...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sun Mar 17, 2024 at 11:17 AM PDT
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Anti-progressive PACs will do anything to maintain their leverage over US politicians, undermining not only Progressive Democrats and liberals in the 2024 elections, but sabotaging any efforts towards peace in the Middle East. According to Politico,...
by C0RI0LANUS
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on Mon Mar 04, 2024 at 03:04 AM PST
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Since this is a fact-based site, let’s start with the DNA evidence: A 2020 study on human remains from Middle Bronze Age Palestinian (2100–1550 BC) populations suggests a significant degree of genetic continuity in Arabic-speaking Levantine populations...
by Irenaeus
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on Sat Mar 02, 2024 at 01:10 PM PST
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The Israeli government lobbed a symbolic bomb into a group of starving and desperate Palestinians yesterday. The day started with the news of throngs of hungry Palestinians, ostensibly lured into an area (promising food) and then shot, bombed, and run...
by ReasonaBill
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on Fri Mar 01, 2024 at 12:22 PM PST
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As we all know, Speaker Johnson is now the one man blockade preventing the Senate’s Ukraine/Israel/Palestinians/Taiwan (U/I/P/T) Aid Bill from getting on the House floor for a vote. A vote that everyone expects will be heavily bipartisan and have way...
by Doctor Who
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on Wed Feb 21, 2024 at 09:32 AM PST
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UPDATE: Monday, Feb 19, 2024 · 3:51:02 PM +00:00 · Dem Despite the fact that there is a link, a person decided in advance that what was posted in the diary was inaccurate. The person's paradigm took priority. They didn't care for this poll result. I...
by Dem
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on Mon Feb 19, 2024 at 06:17 AM PST
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There are some people who strongly disagree with me and most Americans and the president about a particular issue, but despite their strong disagreement they would NEVER EVER EVEN BEGIN TO CONSIDER ATTACKING THE PRESIDENT NOW MUCH LESS PUSHING FOR HIS...
by Dem
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on Sat Feb 10, 2024 at 12:23 PM PST
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MiddleEastEye War on Gaza: Charity says Egypt intelligence-linked firm charging $5,000 [per truck] to get aid over border January 30, 2024 Speaking on condition of anonymity, to avoid obstruction to relief effort, an...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Feb 10, 2024 at 03:07 PM PST
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To quote Robert Burns: "O, wad some Power the giftie gie us/ To see oursels as others see us!" Growing up in my argumentative Jewish family, I remember most political and cultural issues were subjected, at some point, to the question: but is it good...
by AliceT4
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on Sat Jan 20, 2024 at 11:08 AM PST
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People like me When I was in elementary school, I was the only Jewish kid in my school, and one day out of the blue a classmate on the playground called me “Jew boy.” I was shocked. I knew about antisemitism, about Jewish history, but I’d never...
by Rob in Vermont
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on Sun Dec 31, 2023 at 01:34 PM PST
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