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Retired healthcare IT programmer/analyst, #FOSS advocate, eternal student of #Esperanto (and making progress), supporter of: #CubanRevolution, #Palestine #BlackLivesMatter, #WomensRights, defense of the environment. Enjoy exercise, music, reading, nature.
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Opinion - The View Within Turns Bleak

[It's not just Netanyahu - "the darkness is everywhere.”]





@palestine @israel

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/opinion/israeli-palestine-psyche.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sk0.FH40.XTtWPGGt68-F&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

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What It's Like on the Front Lines of Gaza's Hospital Hell

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/tanya-haj-hassan-interview-gaza-healthcare/#respond

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see above article - What It’s Like on the Front Lines of Gaza’s Hospital Hell

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Livestream and Location Sunday May 17 Event "The After "

From the broad support for the uncommitted movement, to calls to “vote blue no matter who” in order to “preserve American democracy,” navigating the electoral landscape at this moment presents unprecedented challenges. Together we’ll explore these questions with , , , and , hosted by .

@palestine @israel

https://jewishcurrents.org/newsletter/livestream-and-location-for-sundays-event-the-election-after-gaza?token=tMgwZlPEroMhJzbDmEH9itV3TVajsSWE

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denies port of call to ship carrying arms to

Foreign ministry says it will reject all such stopovers because ‘the Middle East does not need more weapons, it needs more peace'





@palestine @israel

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/spain-denies-port-of-call-to-ship-carrying-arms-to-israel?CMP=share_btn_url

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Critics Denounce Israel's Defense Against Charges as 'Dishonest Talking Points'

"The problem for is that the world has seen what they've done," said one observer.





@palestine @israel

https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-defense-icj

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Estudiantes protestan contra la guerra de Israel en y responden a la falsa acusación de que se trata de odio contra los judíos

@palestine @israel

https://world-outlook.com/es/2024/04/24/estudiantes-protestan-contra-la-guerra-de-israel-en-gaza-y-responden-a-la-falsa-acusacion-de-que-se-trata-de-odio-contra-los-judios/

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on , ‘from the river to the sea’ and political messaging: ‘We need to bring unity to this struggle’

professor interviews the political scientist and longtime critic of after his speech at University



@palestine @israel

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/17/university-protests-gaza-norman-finkelstein?CMP=share_btn_url

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I’ve never felt more disillusioned as a
by Ahmad Ibsais

My classmates and school at large, like most of the west, see the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians as a far-removed problem





@palestine @israel
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/17/palestinians-gaza-news-coverage?CMP=share_btn_url

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We Risked Our Lives to Treat Patients in Gaza. Now President Biden Must Act to Save Lives

As I think about my colleagues who put their lives at stake to save wounded in , the question I must ask is: when will President force the government to stop this slaughter?

#

@palestine @israel
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/doctors-gaza-joe-biden

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officials see strategic failure in ’s invasion

and intelligence officials doubt that can be fully defeated and worry the widening invasion will frustrate attempts at a peace deal.




@palestine @israel

https://wapo.st/3QQeN0B

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' for Jamaal' and Push Back Against Attack on

"It's our duty to fight back," said Rep. Summer#Lee, arguing that no super PAC "should be able to drop millions to usurp the conversation for their agenda."




@palestine @israel

https://www.commondreams.org/news/jamaal-bowman-primary

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'Dark Times': Historian Detained, Interrogated by

"The good news is—actions like this by the or countries taken under pressure from the pro-Israeli lobby or itself smell of sheer panic and desperation," the renowned author said.







@palestine @israel
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ilan-pappe

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Business titans privately urged mayor to use police on protesters, chats show

A chat started by some wealthy after the Oct. 7 attack reveals their focus on Mayor and their work to shape opinion of the war.





@palestine @israel

https://wapo.st/3WJ4sqO

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calls for full participation of in General Assembly





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‘Israelis, go back to Europe’? Some on the left need to rethink their slogans
by -AnnMort

"A majority of Israel’s today are not descended from , but rather from nations. To expect them to leave is unprecedented, unrealistic and wrong."

[I don't agree with her opinion on "river to the sea", but I do agree on "go back to Europe".]



@palestine @israel

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/15/israelis-go-back-to-europe-slogan?CMP=share_btn_url

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Wants Endless War Without the Politics. ’s Going Along for the Doomed Ride

This isn’t “politics by other means,” it’s never-ending conflict.





@palestine @israel

https://theintercept.com/2024/05/15/israel-palestine-forever-war-biden-gaza/

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College Professors Are Being Fired for on War

As brutal police repression sweeps campus encampments, schools have been cutting ties with pro- faculty members without tenure.





@palestine @israel

https://theintercept.com/2024/05/16/university-college-professors-israel-palestine-firing/

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The Unpunished: How Extremist Settlers Took Over

[This is a blockbuster 3-part article, which gives much detail and background.]







@palestine @israel

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/magazine/israel-west-bank-settler-violence-impunity.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sU0.TezS.2uZeKjNXYIvU&smid=url-share

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’s Understanding of History Beats ’s
by

Her recent placing of all the blame on the is typical of inside-the-Beltway Goy , and is profoundly ahistorical.




@palestine @israel

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/macklemore-hillary-clinton-on-palestine

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The Journalists of Taught the World Why Outrage and Protest Were Required

By granting its 2024 World Press Freedom Prize to journalists covering the war on , has acknowledged a historic truth.




@palestine @israel

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/journalists-gaza-war

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'Most Thorough Legal Analysis' Yet Concludes Committing Genocide in

The report also stresses that other nations are legally obligated to "refrain from recognizing Israel's breaches as legal or taking any actions that may amount to complicity."




@palestine @israel

https://www.commondreams.org/news/genocide-gaza

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1st Appointee to Resign Over Quits on Day

"I can no longer in good conscience continue to represent this administration amid President Biden's disastrous, continued support for 's genocide in Gaza."





@palestine @israel

https://www.commondreams.org/news/1st-jewish-staffer-resigns-gaza

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’s Leader Called in Police Quickly. The Fallout Was Just as Swift.

Local law enforcement went in just a couple of hours after a protest encampment went up.






@palestine @israel

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/dartmouth-campus-protests-police-beilock.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sE0.LXgI.S718qumNFa72&smid=url-share

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First Appointee Resigns Over ’s Response to War in

An staffer accused the president of “making the face of the American war machine.”





@palestine @israel

https://newrepublic.com/post/181609/biden-appointee-jewish-resigns-war-gaza

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The 2024 Class of : The Students Have Done Their Part
by

[Eloquent and moving article summing up what the student protests for Gaza have been and where they fit into history. Includes links to 3 very moving videos]






@palestine @israel

https://www.commondreams.org/further/the-2024-class-of-gaza-the-students-have-done-their-part

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Moves Forward With 'Immoral' $1 Billion Arms Shipment to

The new shipment was announced "right after the admits Israel has 'likely' used -supplied weapons in violation of humanitarian law," said one journalist.





@palestine @israel

https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-israel-aid-2668266725

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'A War Crime': Rights Group Details 's Use of Children as Human Shields

" treatment of children, the way they see them as well as how they abuse their bodies, is genocidal," said one journalist.







@palestine @israel

https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-human-shields

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's Deadly Bombing of Convoy Was No Anomaly: Report

A new analysis from argues that numerous attacks on humanitarian relief operations by forces prove the bombing that killed 7 people was "far from being an isolated 'mistake.'"




@palestine @israel

https://www.commondreams.org/news/world-central-kitchen-gaza

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Medical Missions Trapped in Gaza, Facing Death by Dehydration






@palestine @israel

https://theintercept.com/2024/05/13/rafah-doctors-european-hospital-un-employee-killed/

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‘Total outrage’: condemns settlers’ attack on aid trucks

Protesters block convoy, throw food into road and set fire to vehicles at checkpoint near

[just who are the "animals"?]





@palestine @israel

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/13/total-outrage-white-house-condemns-israeli-settlers-attack-on-gaza-aid-convoy?CMP=share_btn_url

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'Has Gone to War Against the Entire People':

"Any objective observer knows Israel has broken international law, it has broken law, and, in my view, Israel should not be receiving another nickel in military aid," said.




@palestine @israel

https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-israel-war-palestinian-people

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"The Shocking Truth About
"

A friend sent this to me. I want to read more about these references, most of which are new to me.






@palestine @israel

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/WhYYGt8FJc1UncQC/?mibextid=xCPwDs

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@dans_root @socialmedia @palestine @israel

Good point - I'll work on that. 🙂

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13% of 2020 Swing State Voters Won't Be in 2024 Because of Gaza: Polls






@palestine @israel

https://www.commondreams.org/news/13-ex-biden-voters-gaza

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@tadbithuman @palestine @israel

Yeah, I found that confusing too. I think it is "won't be Biden voters in 2024"

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Citing , Major Resigns Over 's Assault on

"As the descendant of European I was raised in a particularly unforgiving moral environment when it came to the topic of bearing responsibility for ethnic cleansing," wrote Maj. Harrison Mann.




@palestine @israel
https://www.commondreams.org/news/resignation-gaza

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13 May 1948 the Palestinian village of Najd was ethnically cleansed of its Arab residents by Zionist militia. They were expelled and forced to live in nearby Gaza as refugees. The Israeli town of Sderot was later constructed over it. Learn more: https://t.co/RRaJ3aEwu2 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/11420/najd-ethnically-cleansed?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

plink ,
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see post above - 13 May 1948 the village of was ethnically cleansed of its residents by militia.

@workingclasshistory




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Parents of over 900 soldiers urge to call off ‘death trap’ attack

Letter sent to defence minister and IDF chief says assault on city ‘appears to be nothing short of recklessness’





@palestine @israel

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/13/parents-israeli-soldiers-idf-death-trap-rafah-attack

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This is disproportionate, capricious and unjust. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/05/12/metro/mit-encampment-protesters-suspended/?event=event12

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See above article - Suspended and protesters barred from graduation, evicted from campus housing

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see post above - article from the Crimson with update on Harvard protest

@ozdreaming
Great news - thanks for sharing that!





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Solidarity with Key Theme of in








@cubainfo
@palestine @israel

https://world-outlook.com/2024/05/12/solidarity-with-palestine-key-theme-of-may-day-in-cuba/

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Battles rage across as death toll tops 35,000 and tens of thousands evacuate






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https://w.st/wZ0Zn

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Fierce battles in as forces attack militants

Heavy bombardment and airstrikes reported in devastated north while clashes also seen in south as tens of thousands flee





@palestine @israel

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/12/fierce-battles-in-gaza-as-israeli-forces-attack-hamas-militants

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[Bias alert - NYT usually favors Israel]
A Chaotic Night at Raises Questions About Police Response

"Counterprotesters attacked a pro-Palestinian encampment for several hours without police intervention, and none were arrested. Now, the police response is under investigation."




@palestine @israel

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/us/ucla-counterprotesters-police-response.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rU0.Tvf-.4H4UIwmRlPIC&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

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As Assault Intensifies, Joins Case Accusing of Genocide

"It's a real diplomatic punch," a former diplomat said. "Israel would have to take it very seriously."






@palestine @israel

https://www.commondreams.org/news/egypt-icj-israel

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"“The direct and deliberate Israeli targeting of civil defense crews prevents us from reaching some of the targeted places in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City,” spokesman Mahmoud Basal told Anadolu.
He said the teams were unable to reach 16 members of a family who were trapped under the rubble of a house in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood."

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240512-gaza-civil-defense-says-unable-to-reach-jabalia-camp-due-to-intense-israeli-fire/

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See article above - Gaza civil defense says unable to reach Jabalia camp due to intense Israeli fire

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Today's daily blog from TRT World

Main items:

  • Claim of safe zones in Gaza 'false and misleading' — UNRWA chief
  • UK rejects calls to halt arms sales to Israel amid Rafah military offensive
  • Israel reports rocket fire from Gaza as Tel Aviv expands offensive
  • Internet service cut off in southern Gaza: Palestinian telecom company
  • Gaza civil defence says unable to reach Jabalia camp due to intense Israeli fire

https://www.trtworld.com/middle-east/live-blog-claim-of-safe-zones-in-gaza-false-and-misleading-unrwa-chief-18127099

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See article above - Today's daily blog from TRT World

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“Enough of what's happening to us”

A video on social media shows a Palestinian woman collapsing in tears as she expresses her exhaustion from constantly moving from one place to another every day while fleeing from Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.

Source: Middle East Eye(https://twitter.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1789680263527563390)

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See video above

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