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Our tax dollars and weapons are supplying this never-ending siege/genocidal massacre of Gaza. Netanyahu’s intentions are clear. He wants to kill as many Palestinian people as possible. Except he, the IDF, and most Israelis who are not protesting him in...
by sbd
on Mon May 06, 2024 at 07:11 AM PDT
with 12 Recommends
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While it took a little time to emerge we can now see the shape of the Russian propaganda effort post the Crocus City Hall attack. Blame Ukraine and establish a connection to ISIS-K. This BBC report shows this in action pretty well. This is of course to...
by Judeling
on Sat Mar 23, 2024 at 10:26 AM PDT
with 30 Recommends
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I need to start with some explanations for my silence. Despite not having written any diary on any topic for 11 months, I am cumulatively the most prolific Israel and Palestine diarist who still has some connection to this site; most prolific I-P...
by Assaf
on Thu Feb 08, 2024 at 07:09 AM PST
with 25 Recommends
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I received a WhatsApp message the other day asking me to sign a petition demanding the Obama Foundation cancel the scholarship of a student for posting the above commentary on a photo of students demonstrating with Israeli and IDF flags. The people...
by thewavethatiam
on Thu Dec 14, 2023 at 09:28 PM PST
with 3 Recommends
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“It’s not a high bar,” said Professor Amichai Cohen, of the Israel Democracy Institute, when asked to comment on the assertion that Israel has the most moral army. Cohen is a recognized expert in the International Law of Armed Conflict, National...
by thewavethatiam
on Thu Dec 07, 2023 at 04:43 AM PST
with 1 Recommend
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Cease fire on everything!
by laloalcaraz
on Fri Nov 03, 2023 at 10:10 PM PDT
with 34 Recommends
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I think we’re approaching a moment when a real life judge is going to be pushed into considering a pre-trial detention of the defendant — Donald Trump — due to repeated and flagrant violations of court orders to not prejudice the proceedings with...
by citixen
on Mon Nov 06, 2023 at 03:16 PM PST
with 8 Recommends
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The People of Israel Live. A rough translation of the title. Teddy bear bulldozers are ready at the border with Gaza, where a 1000 of them have massed, it was reported. Each building that will be targeted (those with intel connecting it to terror...
by maydon
on Fri Oct 20, 2023 at 12:02 PM PDT
with 4 Recommends
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The conflict in Israel and Gaza brought to my mind the iconic Mexican mural by Jorge González Camarena of a Spanish conquistador and an Aztec Eagle Warrior in a death struggle. It’s a fruitless cycle of violence.
by laloalcaraz
on Thu Oct 12, 2023 at 09:55 PM PDT
with 154 Recommends
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Yesterday morning at 6:15 am Provo time, Craig Robertson was shot and killed by the FBI after posting to Facebook that he was going to assassinate President Biden during his trip this week to Utah. Had the FBI not stopped him, he may well have pulled...
by thomhartmann
on Thu Aug 10, 2023 at 07:50 AM PDT
with 134 Recommends
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Community Unitarian Universalist Church of Plano, Texas was firebombed overnight on July 23, 2023. According to the church, a hate group has been targeting it since at least June 25. Their statement: On Sunday, July 23, 2023, between 12:00 am and 12:30...
by DemSign
on Sun Jul 23, 2023 at 12:28 PM PDT
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Last time I checked, magicians, pickpockets, and pols have been prone to conjure distractions. With that in mind, let’s make bold to shift our focus from internecine grousing over the House speaker’s gavel to the hard right’s malign, ceaselessly...
by Inspector Clueso
on Sun Jan 08, 2023 at 01:47 PM PST
with 7 Recommends
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A terrorist attacked Club Q in Colorado Springs Saturday night. Another terrorist attacked WalMart workers in Virginia yesterday. It’s happened over 600 times this year. But nobody’s calling them terrorists, and that’s a problem for America. We didn’t...
by thomhartmann
on Wed Nov 23, 2022 at 09:59 AM PST
with 234 Recommends
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The Fort Lupton police department has released a video showing the moment a police vehicle was broadsided with 20-year-old Yareni Rios-Gonzales handcuffed inside. For no discernable reason, the police car was left parked on a set of train tracks during...
by announ
on Tue Sep 27, 2022 at 05:31 AM PDT
with 243 Recommends
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These are the Women, of the YPJ, the ones who kicked ISIS’ butt so that our troops did not have to. These are the women written about in Gayle Tzemach Lemmon’s NY Times best-seller, The Daughter’s of Kobani: a story of Rebellion, Courage and Justice,...
by David B
on Sat Jul 23, 2022 at 10:10 AM PDT
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This time it was the terrorist attack was during a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois. The shooter was a slightly built 21 year old man, who has bought his weapon legally. He acted alone and he’s under arrest. But before that it was...
by Old Verger
on Tue Jul 05, 2022 at 10:59 AM PDT
with 13 Recommends
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Yesterday‘s elections show both a strong progressive drift across the Democratic Party, and an aggressive move toward fascism being driven by the base of the GOP and some of its billionaire donors. But more urgently, the Republican Party has a...
by thomhartmann
on Wed May 18, 2022 at 08:33 AM PDT
with 177 Recommends
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Have to move by May 31. Terrified. Well, moving is always traumatic, isn’t it? But there’s a dearth of affordable housing around here...and I have two cats I adore. Baby, the ginger, lets it be ...
by Youffraita
on Thu May 05, 2022 at 06:00 PM PDT
with 115 Recommends
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Cities across Ukraine are under siege as you read these words. Families gathering their most precious goods, trying to calm their terrified children, desperate to flee but unsure where to go. Americans have no memory of what it’s like to have their own...
by thomhartmann
on Thu Feb 24, 2022 at 07:01 AM PST
with 192 Recommends
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The problem of prosecuting some of the main 9/11 plotters like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, is the role of torture and the abrogation of rights, while new threats have been assessed for the likelihood of domestic terror attacks stimulated by the rightward...
by annieli
on Tue Sep 07, 2021 at 12:25 AM PDT
with 29 Recommends
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