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Leitartikel zum katastrophalen inneren Zustand Israels von Gad Lerner (ein jüdischer Italiener) in "Manifesto". Der erste Text, der alles zusammenfasst & zuspitzt, aus jüdischer Perspektive. (Ital. Long Tweet von @paolomossetti, maschinenübersetzt)
«La società israeliana è malata nel profondo. Magari bastasse sanzionare il ministro Ben-Gvir... la trasfigurazione fascista d’Israele è un processo avvertibile prima dal basso che dal vertice delle istituzioni. Lo cogli nello scherno diffuso per gli aravim (pochi chiamano i palestinesi col loro nome); nella tracotanza dei coloni che ormai inquina l’operato dei giovani militari; nello sfoggio impunito della crudeltà vissuta come manifestazione di potenza, nel disprezzo misogino per l’Europa femmina sottomessa; nel gusto di offendere le religioni altrui. Sono comportamenti di una minoranza soltanto degli israeliani? È vero. Quasi certamente il prossimo settembre si svolgeranno elezioni democratiche che potrebbero spedire a casa Netanyahu? È vero. Sono falliti i tentativi di minare per legge le funzioni di garanzia della Corte suprema? È vero. Ma la dissennatezza con cui il governo ha concepito una sequenza di guerre senza fine nel tentativo di saziare il bisogno di sicurezza degli israeliani angosciati dalla minaccia esistenziale del 7 ottobre, lascia presagire quel che i regimi fascismi hanno sempre fatto quando restano isolati e sfiduciati: rivolgere le armi contro il nemico interno. Una guerra civile scatenata dai coloni e dalle milizie di Ben-Gvir non sarebbe eventualità remota allorquando una nuova leadership israeliana -a ciò costretta da Usa e Ue- decretasse concessioni territoriali in favore di un nascituro Stato palestinese. Se e come la fascistizzazione sia reversibile, è dunque l’interrogativo del momento. Di fronte al quale non possiamo rimanere solo spettatori. Sono necessarie pressioni efficaci dall’esterno -stop a rifornimenti militari e accordi commerciali- da parte dei governi alleati la cui benevolenza ha indotto fin qui Israele a concepire un progetto di egemonia regionale al tempo stesso delinquenziale e irrealizzabile... Ma è dentro al mondo ebraico che si gioca la partita determinante sul futuro di uno Stato che -persistendo nell’espansionismo suprematista e nella persecuzione dei palestinesi- altra scelta non avrebbe che trasformarsi definitivamente in regime autoritario. Mi ha colpito verificare, durante una visita recente, quanto sia diffuso anche fra gli oppositori di Netanyahu (che sono la maggioranza) e fra gli illuminati cercatori di pace con i palestinesi (che oggi sono una minoranza) l’istinto di negazione dei crimini perpetrati dalle forze armate israeliane. Assumere consapevolezza di quanto Israele sia caduto in basso significherebbe veder crollare l’idea che ti eri fatto del luogo a te più caro, spesso l’approdo cui la tua famiglia era giunta dopo immani sofferenze. Dal quale andarsene per molti è impossibile e, per chi può, equivale comunque a un fallimento. Per quanto faticoso, il superamento dell’istinto di negazione della realtà è indispensabile a rafforzare le difese immunitarie, di fronte al degrado di civiltà. Non è un problema nuovo quello del fascismo e del fanatismo in Israele. Nuovo semmai è il pericolo di risultare sprovvisti di anticorpi». (Gad Lerner sul Manifesto ieri)
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Gezielte Schläge gegen zivile Infrastruktur. (Mission: den Menschen das Leben zur Hölle machen.)
Israeli forces appear to have destroyed two buildings (apparent booster/pumping stations) at a wasterwater plant in northern Gaza somewhere during the past two weeks, new @planet satellite imagery shows. @JakeGodin shared the finding on BlueSky. Coordinates: 31.5098, 34.5075.
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Senator Mark Kelly, a war hero and NASA astronaut, has gone after Trump — it turns out Trump was sending letters to certain “sponsors,” offering them paid access to classified national security reports. Mark Kelly reads one such letter aloud to the CIA director, who pretends he knew nothing about it. Another detail in the portrait of the con artist and Putin's lackey who is currently the President of the United States. This guy is ready to sell absolutely everything. From early access to his posts on Truth Social to classified national security reports. Just imagine how much information has been leaked to Russia. This is some kind of surrealism… This guy is causing absolutely staggering damage to US interests, trading insider information, selling out national security, carrying out Putin's orders, and there's nothing anyone can do about him. mykhailorohoza.substack.com
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“We refuse to accept a government allowing children to freeze to death!”
Ms Rachel calling out the Israeli government more than political leaders: “We refuse to accept a government allowing children to freeze to death!”
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Today, the promises of transhumanism and posthumanism are multiplying. These are ideological currents according to which, sooner or later, technology will eliminate all disease and pain, as well as aging and even death itself. Precisely because scientific progress is a supreme achievement of human intelligence, it must not be confused with a privilege reserved for millionaires seeking immortality, while entire peoples suffer from poverty and oppression. In the face of this mirage, which promotes the illusion of human beings perfected by cybernetics and biotechnology, Christian anthropology reminds us that a limitation is not a manufacturing defect, but rather the very condition of human grandeur. #ApostolicJourney #Peru #MagnificaHumanitas vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
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Israel says it gave a warning to Nasser hospital in Gaza before it attacked. Speaking from the hospital (where he is currently working), British surgeon Dr Gopher Rahbour is clear. There was no warning.
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It's 2026 and Merkel defends a genocidal maniac and de facto war criminal. The German shitshow doesn't end.
Germany's Merkel on Israel: If you try to put yourself in the position of an Israeli prime minister, it is an incredibly difficult task. If there is a bunker beneath every kindergarten and every hospital, and Hamas is sitting there, knowing that I can only destroy its position if I also attack what is above it, then the task becomes at least somewhat more complicated. An Israeli prime minister must do everything to promise his citizens security, just as our citizens in Germany expect from those who govern them.
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In 1939, following its pact with the Nazis, Moscow demanded -- and got -- bases of its own in the Baltic states. Its demand was backed by threat of force, and the Baltic states, which had no strong external allies, felt they could not resist. Once the Soviet army was in, annexation by the USSR soon followed. Today, Moscow still seeks a say over who is stationed on Baltic soil. The difference is that instead of being able to impose ultimatums on isolated countries, it has to bargain with an alliance that already exists. Without NATO, the Baltics would be back in the world of "bilateral" ultimatums followed by unilateral annexations. This is what "NATO expansion" has changed for us.
Estonia and Latvia signed non-aggression treaties with the USSR in 1932. The secret protocol of the the Nazi-Soviet Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact followed in 1939. It turned out a bilateral promise from Moscow was only as good as Moscow's willingness to keep it.
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Greta Thunbergs Statement:
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Our civilization is built on writing. We use the ability of a person to write as a measure of intelligence, skill, and trustworthiness. We even made of plagiarism a sin worse than adultery. Being caught on plagiarism destroys decades of impeccable reputation. Today, this measure of intelligence, skill, and trustworthiness is gone, but our civilization hasn't adapted. It doesn't know how. Writing is too deeply embedded into this civilization mere foundation. We cannot read minds, we are unable to meet everyone in person, we are unable to detect plagiarism anymore. We used to write. Now we do what?
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay, one of the world's leading jurists, is certain that Israel committed genocide in Gaza. And that is precisely why she wants to address Israelis directly. | An interview by @nirhasson 🔗Read the full interview here: haaretz.com/israel-news/isra…
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Dr Gabor Maté Diagnoses Israel. IT'S WORSE Than You Think
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The Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital was a war crime. I went through the law and the army’s own statements. Here is the case: 1) The Rome Statute makes it a war crime to intentionally attack a hospital, “provided they are not military objectives.” That is Article 8(2)(b)(ix). 2) It was a hospital. AP says the bombs hit “a patient recovery area,” “operating rooms” and “a rest area for doctors.” 3) It was deliberate. The army’s first English post begins with the word “STRUCK.” Israel Hayom, per Kipa, says the strike was planned “for weeks.” 4) A hospital loses protection “only after due warning,” naming “a reasonable time limit” in all appropriate cases. That is Article 19 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. 5) The army’s published warning is a 37-second recording. It names five hospitals “and others.” It has no date and no deadline. 6) The army first alleged misuse of that floor on August 20. The strike came 84 days later. In February 2024 it gave this same hospital a 12-hour deadline. 7)Six people were killed. Two are men the army named as targets. The others include Dr. Rizq Abu Shaira, a surgeon, and Jihad Abu Tilkh, who was 13. A hospital, hit on purpose, with no evidence shown and no deadline given. I count that as a war crime. The full case, with every source. read it for free on my Substack, link below.
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For 35–40 years he believed the standard story: no land was stolen from Palestinians. Everything was legal and above-board until May 14, 1948. Then five Arab armies invaded and the land taken in the war was simply kept. Then he read Ilan Pappé’s The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (written by an Israeli Jewish historian using contemporaneous Israeli sources—Jewish Agency minutes, Ben-Gurion’s diaries, military reports). That book ended the myth for him. It showed the planned transfer/expulsion of Palestinians (Plan Dalet and the destruction of hundreds of villages) was not an accidental byproduct of war but the deliberate project of creating a Jewish-majority state. He followed it with Thomas Suárez’s State of Terror. Each step pushed him further until he concluded the foundational premise of Zionism itself is wrong. This is from a rabbi who once taught the usual Zionist history, sold Israeli bonds, and led a congregation. The evidence in the archives changed him. Read the books. The history is not what most of us were told. #FreePalestine #Nakba #EthnicCleansingOfPalestine
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Nelson is a small grey donkey who has chosen a seventeen-hand horse called Hector, and if he ever loses him, it could kill him. Vets mean that literally. They have a name for it, a treatment for it, and a rule about leaving the body in the field. Donkeys do not have friends the way horses have a herd. They pick one. They graze nose to tail with it, stand flank to flank in the rain with it, doze in its shadow, and if it is led out of sight for ten minutes they lift their heads and let the whole valley know. Nelson does all of this with a retired cavalry horse three times his size. The bond can last thirty years, and it is the quietest, most stubborn love on any farm. When the other half dies, the one left behind may simply stop eating. It does not pace or call. It goes still, ears slack, head low, standing where the two of them used to stand. Donkey people have a saying for that look: a dull donkey is an emergency. They are right, because of how a donkey was built for the desert. A donkey that stops eating starts drawing fat out of storage to keep its organs going, and the signal that should turn the tap off never properly comes. Fat floods the blood until a sample in a tube comes back cloudy as milk, and the liver and kidneys go under. It is called hyperlipaemia. Once it takes hold, between 60 and 90% do not come back. So the people who know donkeys best keep rules that could have been written for a hospice. When one has to be put down, its companion is brought to the body and left there, an hour, three hours, as long as it takes, until it has sniffed, nudged, stood guard over its friend and walked away of its own accord. If one goes into hospital, the other goes in the trailer with it. After a death the survivor is watched at every feed for three weeks, because the grief can take that long to land. The ones that come through are given somebody new, introduced slowly, over a fence, the way you would bring anyone to a house in mourning. For 7,000 years we have called this a dumb animal. It is an animal that has to be given a funeral to survive one. Nelson knows none of this is written down. He is where he always is, half a length off Hector's shoulder, keeping an eye on things.
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Mississippi
On November 11, the AP called Mississippi’s Senate race for Scott Colom. I’ve spent most of this year telling you how bad things are in this country, and I wasn’t wrong. But Mississippi is about to send a Black senator to Washington for the first time since 1881. Look at what that state was, and how recently. 1) Mississippi sent the first Black senator in American history. Hiram Revels was seated in 1870, in the seat Jefferson Davis had left to run the Confederacy. Blanche K. Bruce followed in 1875 and left in 1881. Mississippi didn’t send another Black senator for 145 years. 2) In 1890 the state rewrote its constitution to take the vote away from Black citizens. Six years later its own Supreme Court said so. The convention, the court wrote in Ratliff v. Beale, set out to “obstruct the exercise of the franchise by the negro race.” 3) Part of that constitution is still law. Section 241 bans people convicted of certain crimes from voting for life, and the framers picked the crimes they thought Black people were likelier to commit. A Fifth Circuit panel struck it down in August 2023. The full Fifth Circuit put it back in July 2024. 4) Statewide candidates also had to carry a majority of state House districts on top of the popular vote. That rule was written to stop Black-backed candidates. Mississippi voters got rid of it in November 2020. 5) Mississippi’s constitution banned interracial marriage until 1987, twenty years after Loving v. Virginia. The repeal got about 52% of the vote. 6) What about the 13th Amendment, the one that abolished slavery? Mississippi didn’t certify its ratification until February 2013. 7) In May 2016 a federal judge ordered Cleveland, Mississippi to desegregate its schools. That was 62 years after Brown v. Board of Education. 8) The Confederate battle emblem stayed on the state flag until 2020. Mississippi still marks Robert E. Lee’s birthday on the same day as Martin Luther King Jr. Day. 9) The last Democrat to win a Senate race in Mississippi was John Stennis, in 1982. Stennis signed the Southern Manifesto against integration in 1956. Stennis voted against the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. Before any of that, as a prosecutor, he won death sentences for three Black men whose confessions came from whippings. 10) Colom beat Cindy Hyde-Smith. She went to a school founded to avoid integration. In 2018 she joked she’d be “on the front row” at a “public hanging,” in the state with the most recorded lynchings in America. In 2023 she blocked Colom from becoming a federal judge. 11) On November 3, Colom was at the Ice House in Jackson waiting on results. By November 11 he led by 4,669 votes on NBC’s count with 98.7% in, the race was called, and Hyde-Smith conceded. I’m pessimistic about this country. I think I’ve earned it, and so have you. But organizers in Mississippi did this against every barrier the state could build, and I’m not going to pretend it didn’t happen. If we can’t let ourselves feel good about a win like this, we’ve already given up.
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Ben Marmarelli, an Israeli lawyer says his client was sodomized with a mop handle before every legal visit at Ganot Prison An Israeli lawyer was doing exactly what a lawyer is supposed to do. Visiting his client. Then one day, the prisoner begged him to stop coming. Not because he no longer wanted legal assistance. But because, according to his lawyer’s account, Israeli prison guards had raped him with a mop handle before every visit. His lawyer is Ben Marmarelli, an Israeli attorney who represents Palestinian prisoners, including the imprisoned political leader Marwan Barghouti. The client in this account was not Barghouti. In an April 2026 interview with JURIST, Marmarelli said he had obtained access to this client at Ganot Prison after petitioning an Israeli court. After visits resumed in July 2025, the prisoner told him in November that he had allegedly been raped before each meeting. Different guards, Marmarelli says. Repeated assaults. Always before the lawyer arrived. He believes the aim was to make the prisoner refuse further legal visits. He also acknowledges that he has no documentary evidence of a formal policy ordering those assaults. Consider the psychological cruelty of that. The person who comes to help you becomes associated with the worst thing that happens to you. The possibility of justice becomes a source of terror. I find Marmarelli credible. His testimony is specific and public. He described the same core allegation in November 2025, months before the JURIST interview. That consistency matters, though repetition of a testimony does not independently establish that the events happened. In its 2026 report on conflict-related sexual violence, the United Nations documented sexual violence against Palestinian detainees attributed to Israeli armed and security forces, including the Israel Prison Service. In a separate October 2026 investigation, a UN Commission of Inquiry described a case in which a Palestinian detainee at Megiddo Prison was repeatedly raped with objects during interrogation. That was a different prisoner and case. The Israel Prison Service denies allegations of widespread sexual abuse, describing them as false and unfounded. Marmarelli’s particular account has not been independently verified. The UN findings concern other detainees and other incidents: they document a broader pattern of sexual violence, but do not confirm what happened to this particular prisoner or establish the alleged motive behind the assaults. Those independent findings provide important context for assessing his account without serving as proof of this individual allegation. A prisoner should never have to choose between seeing his lawyer and protecting his body from sexual violence. If Marmarelli’s account is true, that is precisely the choice his client was made to face. And if the authorities dispute this allegation, an independent investigation with access to prisoners, guards and records should establish what happened. The prisoner asked his lawyer to stop coming. That sentence alone should disturb us profoundly. The picture is a still from an Instagram interview featuring Israeli lawyer Ben Marmarelli.
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Mientras tanto en Gaza,"Israel" bombardeó esta noche el Hospital Nasser, asesinando al menos a 6 palestinos, entre ellos el médico palestino Rizq Abu Shaira, e hiriendo a más de 20 personas. "Israel" sigue bombardeando hospitales impunemente en Gaza y ya no es siquiera noticia.
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Das Interview in der Süddeutschen Zeitung von @RonenSteinke mit dem #Völkerrechtler #MarkusKrajewski ist ein begrüßenswerter Versuch, Licht ins verbal-ideologische Zwielicht des „Existenzrechts“ eines Staates, in diesem Fall Israels, zu bringen. Zumal der Begriff „Existenzrecht“ gerade dem „Antisemitismus“ als Joker im politischen Alltagsgeschäft der Bundesrepublik den Rang abzulaufen scheint. Bei allem, was man gegen Israel ins Feld führen mag, bleibt doch richtig und festzuhalten, was Krajewski klarstellt: „Sowohl dieser heutige Staat Israel in seinen völkerrechtlich anerkannten Grenzen als auch die Menschen, die in diesem Staat leben, haben ein Recht darauf, in Frieden und Selbstbestimmung zu existieren.“ Punkt! Auch wenn man manchmal den Eindruck bekommt, die israelische Führung selbst lege es darauf an, mit ihrer Politik den Staat Israel und sein Überleben in Frage zu stellen. Aber ein paar Floskeln und Phrasen stören die Klarheit die das SZ-Inteview zu bringen versucht: Bei aller entschiedenen Ablehnung terroristischer Gewalt gegen Leben und Gesundheit von Menschen: der unreflektierte schlagwortmäßige Umgang von Krajewski mit „Intifada“ und „Widerstand“ gegen ein völkerrechtswidriges und brutales Besatzungsregime erscheint mir äußerst bedenklich. Die Gewalt der sogenannten jüdischen Siedler und die Rolle der israelischen Armee ist gemeinhin bekannt und wohl dokumentiert. Widerstand, auch bewaffneten Widerstand gegen die bewaffneten Kräfte dieser Besatzungsmacht zu delegitimieren, ist unredlich. Zumal zugunsten Israels, eines Staates, der sich selbst stolz zeigt auf den eigenen terroristischen „Widerstand“ in der Gründungsphase des Staates, dessen Führer sogar zu maßgeblichen Politikern Israels wurden. Und, man mag Probleme mit der Vokabel „Kolonialismus“ im Zusammenhang mit Israel haben. Aber die Begründung, die Krajewski im Interview dafür gibt, klingt auch hier eher ideologisch motiviert denn klar: Seine personalisierte Darstellung der systematischen Landnahme in der israelisch besetzten Westbank, bei dem „die Täter dieses Land wollen, weil….“ ist eine grenzwertige Verharmlosung staatlicher Strategien zur Einverleibung fremden Landes. Die „Siedler“ fallen nicht vom Himmel, sondern werden von Israel angelockt, eingebürgert, unterstützt, vor Strafverfolgung bewahrt und bewaffnet. Ihre Eroberungen bzw. die sogenannten "illegalen Siedlungen" werden anschließend vom Staat Israel anerkannt und ihr Ausbau finanziert. Also lassen wir doch die Kirche völkerrechtlich mal bitte im Dorf! Und selbst die Geschichte, die Motive und die treibenden Kräfte hinter der Idee von einem Staat Israel in Palästina und seine praktische Gründung gerät Markus Krajewski zur anekdotenhaften ideologischen Rechtfertigung statt „historisch“ belegt, wie er behauptet. Und wenn er sie schlicht darstellt als: „...Absicht, aus der heraus jüdische Flüchtlinge aus Osteuropa oder auch aus arabischen Staaten sich von 1948 an in Israel ein neues Leben aufgebaut haben. Für viele war das die einzige Möglichkeit, ihr Leben zu retten.“ Das war letztlich sicherlich auch das Resultat für viele der Flüchtlinge, denen die USA und andere Länder die Aufnahme verweigerten. Aber „Israel in Palästina“ war „historisch“ alles andere als so simpel und harmlos gewachsen, wie Krajewski es darstellt. In der UNO, zwischen den beteiligten damaligen Großmächten und vor allem natürlich seitens der Bevölkerung Palästinas war die Aufteilung Palästinas zugunsten eines jüdischen Staates heftig umstritten. Und vor allem war es ein zionistisches Projekt, das lange vor der beschriebenen Not der Flüchtlinge aus Osteuropa und arabischen Ländern entworfen, geplant und betrieben wurde. Das ändert nichts an der Tatsache, dass Israel heute ein existierendes Land mit Millionen israelischer Bürger ist und nichts, das man sich wieder „wegdenken“ kann oder versuchen sollte, es mit Gewalt wegzudenken. Aber ideologische und ja auch falsche Plattitüden, wie die eben angesprochenen, sind nicht hilfreich, den Konflikt um Israel vernünftig zu lösen. Sie existieren, um genau das zu verhindern und den traurigen, blutigen, ungerechten Status Quo aufrechtzuerhalten.
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.@SECWAR “The philosophical doctrines of the Frankfurt School – critical theory and the corrosive apparatus of ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ – are fundamentally INCOMPATIBLE with military service and antithetical to the Constitution of the United States.”
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Ein langer, ungewöhnlicher, autobiografischer & sehr lohnender Text über den liberalen jüdischen Mainstream in den USA, in dem Moser selbst aufgewachsen ist.
“The cause of Zionism, is dead, and the decent part of the Jewish people will shun the houses of ill repute over which this establishment presides.” equator.org/articles/we-have…
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