AP: Egyptian intelligence official says Israel ignored Egypt's repeated warnings of ‘something big'
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy conveyed his message for #Israel after the attack by #HAMAS terrorists
"Terror should have no place in the world, because it is always a crime, not just against a specific country or this terror’s victims, but against humanity in general and our entire world. " - President of Ukraine Volodymyr #Zelenskyy
#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
#СлаваУкраїні! #StandWithUkraine
"Open brutality has again become celebrated in international conflicts, and a long time may pass before that changes."
There are No Rules:
There Are No Rules
States and quasi-states are using extreme, uninhibited violence against civilian populations.
By Anne Applebaum
Extract
The russian invasion of #Ukraine and Hamas’s attack on #Israeli civilians are both blatant rejections of that rules-based world order, and they herald something new. Both aggressors have deployed a sophisticated, militarized, modern form of terrorism, and they do not feel apologetic or embarrassed about this at all
Read more here🔗 https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/israel-war-hamas-terrorism-ukraine-russia/675590/
*While high on LSD. That’s a f’d up trip.
Now navigating as his cousin drove “white-knuckled with a cigarette burnt down to the filter in his mouth,” Weinstein said they attempted to convince some of those fleeing on foot to get in. https://apple.news/AJQlnI6zSTAaQI3dU2f6SAg
It's the whole party. Since the 1980s, the Republican Party has been trying to eliminate public education, and replace it with taxpayer-funded religious nationalist indoctrination for profit. It's been a long fight, and now they're winning.
BREAKING: Desantis loses lawsuit for hiding covid data from the public. State will have to resume posting data and pay attorney’s fees. Story …https://www.meidastouch.com/news/desantis-loses-lawsuit-for-hiding-covid-data
I blame it all on evangelicals. That small parcel of land known both as Israel and Palestine does not belong to them.
They want all Jews to move there to make their fairy tale come true. They don’t care at all what happens after that goal, and they definitely don’t care about the Palestinians.
Get the evangelicals out of the Middle East!
Who could have predicted that Sarah Huckabee Sanders' "parental choice" voucher program would turn out to be a massive grift of taxpayer dollars to private Christian schools? https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/report-arkansas-voucher-program-gives
@AlliFlowers @crooksandliars well Hamas and MAGA do have a lot in common, so Hamas would be welcomed in Alabama.
re: i/p, antisemitism
When people say "Israel gets what it deserves" or when a Jew is saying that they're worried about a missing family member and the reply is "Free Palestine!", or when someone says "See, all religion is bad!", etc.
With >50 reports, my brain is fried.
I have coined a new term:
Spoon Eater.
For all those people who waste your time and energy, leaving nothing for the stuff that is important.
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But if anyone asks, you didn’t hear about them from me.
Let me help y'all (especially folks who aren't Jewish or Palestinian) out with something:
Yes, I would argue that the ultimate responsibility for the deaths of both Israelis and Palestinians falls at the feet of the Israeli reactionary right and the settlers, and especially on Netanyahu and his cronies.
Hamas, however, are NOT the "good guys".
And advocating for what amounts to additional war crimes and genocide in response to war crimes and genocide is a really bad look.
Did you know that home schoolers have their own NRA-like lobby?
This is a very good time to speak carefully and attend to your language around state versus people.
The STATE of Israel absolutely engages in genocidal behavior.
But a whole lot of antisemites are trying to use that reality to sow hate by pretending that the state and the people there are one and the same.
They are not.
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