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. Compassion, Reasoning, and the Urgency of Healing Divided Societies 2. The Theory and Practice of Compassionate Reasoning3. Compassionate Reasoning, the Mind, and Moral Choice4. Violent Ideas Treated as Disease and Compassionate Reasoning as Treatment
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The October Council - survivors and bereaved families - rallied over 100K people tonight in the Hostages Square in Tel Aviv. It’s their last pre-election event. They called for a new government, accountability, and of course a state inquiry commission on 7 October and the Gaza war.
In the nearby Rabin Square thousands supported Yair Golan’s Democrats party. Many people went to both rallies.
Spirits were high. This week we are set to change Israeli history for the better.
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Not security, not deterrence, it’s diabolical
Israeli forces demolished homes and damaged roads in Hebron in the occupied West Bank, forcing around 1,200 Palestinians to leave their homes a day after a Palestinian attack killed two Israeli soldiers reut.rs/3ULnOwX
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The horrific escalation of violence and racism towards Druze Arabs in Israel, continues. Three young Druze men from Isfiya, two of them serving soldiers and the third about to enlist, were sitting in a Tel Aviv club “quietly speaking Arabic among themselves” when a group of young men came over and started an argument. Within minutes it turned into a fight outside, and the one about to enlist was stabbed. Amram says he was taken to hospital with “stab wounds to his body and severe injuries”.
One of the victims wrote:
"To everyone justifying this attack, and to everyone spreading hate over the Arabic language, I’m asking you for one moment of soul-searching.
I’m Adam, a Druze from Isfiya, 24 years old. In October 2024 I was wounded defending our homeland. The injury changed my life and kept me in hospitals and rehabilitation for long months, until I was discharged from Loewenstein Hospital in May 2025. I still pay the price of that injury every day, in body and in spirit.
I’m Druze. My mother tongue is Arabic, and I’m proud of it, just as I’m proud to be Israeli. And just as I’m not afraid to stand in a foreign country and say proudly that I’m from Israel, in my own country I shouldn’t have to be afraid to open my mouth and speak my mother tongue.
I want to ask you one question. When I stood up to defend this country, did my language bother anyone? Is my blood worth less because I speak Arabic? How can a person who is ready to give his life for this country be made to feel like a stranger in it, just because of the language he speaks?
I’m not telling my story so you’ll pity me or thank me. I’m telling it so that maybe next time, before you write a comment full of hate, you’ll stop for a moment and think about the person behind that language.
I don’t need to prove my loyalty every time I speak Arabic. I’ve already paid for it with my body, and I keep paying every day.
But know this: even someone who never wore a uniform and was never wounded deserves the same basic respect. If we’re good enough to stand together on the battlefield, we’re good enough to stand together on the street.
Do some soul-searching. This country isn’t built only by the people who are ready to die for it, but also by the people who know how to respect one another and live in it together.
I’m proud to be Druze, proud to be Israeli, and I have no intention of apologising for either of my identities.
Abroad, I don’t hide that I’m Israeli. And in Israel, I shouldn’t have to hide that I’m Druze."
Serving in the IDF will not save you. If you are an Arab in Israel, you will be treated like garbage.
Marc Gopin retweeted
A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE
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The same US president who treats our friend Canada as an enemy is trying to give Alaska to Russia, a country whose absolutely overt foreign policy is to destroy us. This superpower suicide has to be stopped.
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Elon Musk's X account has devolved into a 24/7 exercise in dumbfuckery. This is what truly desperate shitposting looks like. He's losing, he knows it — and the meltdown has been spectacular.
Criminal
In retaliation for the attack in Hebron, the IDF done the following:
1) Ethnically cleansed the neighborhoods of al-Jalda and Ein Dir Baha in western Hebron. Well over 20,000 people in total were told to leave their homes with no date of return. Demolitions in the area have already begun. They have nowehere to go and will have nowehere to return to.
2) They cordoned off Hebron, a city of more than 200,000. He also announced a siege on Hebron and Halhul. It is worth noting that the Hebron governorate was already in dire economic straits, with five of seven entrances closed to a region where over 1 million Palestinians live.
3) Launched a military operation which will last a few days. Netanyahu has warned that a military operation, "the largest in teh West Bank since teh Six Day War" is being consdiered as well.
This is, of course, collective punishment which is a war crime. They are attacking the entire clan from which the attackers came from. All this without trial and without right of appeal. Once settlers moved into Hebron in the 1980s it was always going to end like this. The complete ethnic cleansing of this historic city is just a matter of time.
Marc Gopin retweeted
Trump shaming Amy Action because she’s a child rape survivor…
While supporting Amy’s mother, and step father who raped her.
Reporter - “Now that you know the back story about Amy Action and her step father…”
“Her step father was indicted for rape…”
“Now that you know all that sir, do you change your mind about the ad?”
Trump - “No…No. It’s a mother speaking badly of her daughter….”
“For me it’s very easy… I Don’t Care.”
Trump just said he didn’t care a woman was raped as a 12 year old child.
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Trump and the GOP have been working hard to keep this video from being reposted on social media. Repost it, keep it alive. Too many people aren't paying attention to who Donald Trump is.
He's a liar, and by his own words, he must be held accountable.🤥
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US energy company execs have resigned in disgust as the Trump family is caught secretly expediting the funneling of $25 billion from a sanctioned Russian energy giant in exchange for allowing Russians to obtain a natural gas project in Alaska.
According to investigations by The New York Times and Financial Times, Russia's Novatek allegedly concealed its financial involvement in the American project through a UAE-linked intermediary.
Gentry Beach, a longtime Trump ally and close friend of Donald Trump Jr., signed an agreement with Novatek to pursue natural gas development in Alaska. Reuters documented the arrangement in February.
Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin discussed this cooperation on the Alaska energy project with Trump's representatives, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, during negotiations involving Russia and Ukraine.
The controversy deepened when Polar Train LNG's CEO, Joel Riddle, raised concerns about concealed Russian financing and possible sanctions violations. He departed in September, followed by other senior executives.
The Financial Times also described discussions about a potential arrangement under which Novatek would provide technology for the Alaska project in exchange for sanctions relief benefiting its Arctic LNG 2 development in Siberia.
According to The New York Times, Riddle and two other departing executives warned the Trump administration about the Russian financing and urged officials to investigate.
The White House maintains that the project was mentioned only briefly and that no detailed discussions took place. There is no established evidence that Kushner or Witkoff knew about the allegedly concealed financing. Polar Train LNG denies wrongdoing.
The central question is how a sanctioned Russian energy company became involved in a major American energy venture while Putin was discussing potential economic cooperation with Trump's representatives and a longtime Trump family associate was pursuing a separate agreement with the same Russian company.
Selling Alaska to the Russians or selling Ukraine to the Russians - to the Trump family it's all the same.
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Fatah leader Jibril Rajoub said in an interview with Alaraby TV that Hamas carried out suicide bombings in Israel in 1996 to help Netanyahu win the election, bring down Shimon Peres’s government, and derail the peace process.
Rajoub said his account was based on testimony from the Hamas member who planned the bombings and was arrested by the Preventive Security Service, which Rajoub headed at the time. According to Rajoub, the Hamas member admitted that this was their intention and that the orders came from Hamas leader Khaled Mashal.
Hamas issued a statement later today denouncing Rajoub’s remarks.
Undoing Democracy every day
JUST IN: The Trump administration has preemptively filed a lawsuit seeking to block certification of Alaska's US Senate election if the Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan loses in the state which could decide the balance of power in the Senate. cnn.it/4i52DPm
Marc Gopin retweeted
If you’re unclear Amanpour’s exit from CNN after 43 years has to do with the Ellison takeover and her coverage of Israel/Gaza you’re not paying attention.
Fascism is taking hold in 🇺🇸, as the Trump-friendly pro-Israel oligarchs buy up the outlets.
Marc Gopin retweeted
Let's talk about Elon Musk, shall we? He was a homely kid from South Africa who came to America with his brother on a student visa, and then dropped out of college and was living here illegally until he finally got citizenship. Yeah...he was an "illegal immigrant." He eventually inherited money from his daddy, who owned a South African emerald mine. Both of his parents are right wing, racist psychos from the Apartheid era. His father has 2 children with his stepdaughter, who he adopted at around the age of 4. A pedophile, no doubt. Musk and both of his parents are in the Epstein Files. Musk used his money to completely redo his face and his hair, and his body is warped from all his testosterone injections. He's also a ketamine addict. He somehow believes he's "genetically superior," however, and has about a million test tube children with various women. None of his business accomplishments arose from his intelligence or skills. He simply paid others to create things for him. Now, he's used his vast (and illegitimately conceived) fortune to buy off America's government. He's just as big of a fraud as Trump.
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Netanyahu has vowed to launch a major operation in the West Bank following a shooting in Hebron in which two Palestinians killed two Israeli soldiers and injured three other Israelis. According to Netanyahu, the operation would be similar to “Iron Wall,” the ongoing military operation in refugee camps that has displaced 33,000 Palestinians from their homes, with those displaced still barred from returning.
Iron Wall has led to what the UN describes as “the longest and largest displacement crisis in the West Bank since 1967.” The IDF has demolished entire residential blocks and streets. According to satellite imagery, 52% of buildings in the Jenin refugee camp have been destroyed or damaged, along with 55% in Nur Shams and 37% in Tulkarm.
The mass demolitions were stark examples of the West Bank’s Gazafication. Now, Netanyahu is effectively vowing to expand the use of these devastating tactics, which he called successful, even further. This is happening ahead of Israel’s Knesset elections on October 27.
As insane as it sounds, this is what an election campaign can look like under occupation.
Video: The destruction in Nur Shams caused by Operation “Iron Wall.”
Marc Gopin retweeted
So this cop was verbally talking to this guy, and the guy was very respectful. He was just protesting the ticket to the cop.
So the cop gets mad and body slams this guy and kills him. He’s dead now.
This elderly 70-year-old man is dead
All because he protested getting a ticket because he felt like he shouldn’t have got a ticket
And the cop couldn’t let it go
So he body slammed him, and the man ended up dying from his injuries
I don’t think a man would do this. I don’t think this cop is a man.
Only a punk thug would do something like this to an elderly old, frail, weak old man🇺🇸
Marc Gopin retweeted
“The Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner’s phone and monitored him as he accessed a Dubai-based bank account.
What was odd, the source said, was that the money in the account—hundreds of millions of dollars—had come from a bank in Azerbaijan. Most importantly, Kushner appeared to have transferred significant amounts of money from the Dubai account to other individuals, including a warlord, a mercenary and a one-time hit man”
An exclusive excerpt from Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East examines how bank accounts linked the president’s son-in-law—and former senior adviser—to Israel, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia.
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The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…