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The Great Dismal Swamp
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Nougat Hand Bank retweeted
Israeli soldiers forced Palestinian families from their homes in Hebron in the occupied West Bank overnight Friday, taking control of the properties, marking houses with X signs and hanging Israeli flags from balconies. Troops also blocked roads and closed a nearby checkpoint, restricting movement in the neighborhood as the military expanded its presence in the area.
The operation followed an attack Friday in which two Palestinian gunmen killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded three others before being shot dead by Israeli forces. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had threatened a major military offensive following the attack.
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I can't get over this photo. It's the kind of thing that would launch a thousand schizo tracts in the 1990s and vindicate countless more in the years following. You'd see it on posters declaring Trump the Antichrist. Maybe the defining image of Trump II?
BRITAIN IS CLOSE TO POSSESSING A NUCLEAR WEAPON. THE REGIME MUST BE TOPPLED
Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered Israel to support Argentina over the Falklands, The Telegraph can reveal.
The Israeli prime minister told diplomats to change his country’s official position and join Buenos Aires in calling for direct talks over the future of the islands.
🔗 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…
Nougat Hand Bank retweeted
The rise of mass short-form video content has been an unmitigated disaster.
Nougat Hand Bank retweeted
He’s wrong. The message of the Dune series is to support the brave mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan.
Being a liberal Zionist means finding the take that will alienate the people on all other sides of an issue
I’m grieving the deaths of the two Israeli soldiers killed in Hebron today, and praying for the full & speedy recovery of those who were injured.
I’ve spoken out loudly this week against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, which imposes violence on a daily basis, and I will continue to do so. But violence is not the path to ending it — or to achieving safety, freedom, and peace for both Palestinians and Israelis.
And neither is collective punishment or ethnic cleansing of an entire neighborhood, or punishing millions of people for the criminal act of two, which Netanyahu has promised to enact in response.
I’ve seen a lot this week and I’ll have more to say about in the coming days (I’m on my way home shortly). There is a path to ending this excruciating cycle of violence. It starts by insisting that every life is sacred, that everyone is created in God’s image.
For now: Shabbat Shalom, to everyone who believes in the hard work of making peace & justice a reality, for everyone.
He hasn’t received a single accurate briefing since the war started. They’re showing him AI videos of Superman and the Lone Ranger blowing up Tehran
When asked whether the U.S. is preparing for an extended conflict in Iran, President Trump tells CBS News' @weijia , "We can end it very quickly, but Iran is a failing nation."
"The question is, do we want to finish it off, or do we let it — do we just want to let it wither because we're getting everything we want."
Nougat Hand Bank retweeted
My upright ancestors tended the fields and upheld their guild to produce a social surplus so that your parasitic ancestors could go play horsey with the Saracens
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Yggy is the Elizabeth Holmes of punditry. every day he wakes up is a do-over for him and he fundamentally doesn't accept that he needs to be held accountable for anything he's said or done before. it's a level of mendacity & self-belief you can't really break through
There was a time in US history when this would have spelled the end of a presidential administration
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…
