from #TheGuardian
‘What’s happening is not genocide’: #Biden criticizes #ICC for seeking arrest warrants for #Israel officials – as it happened
[Live blog for May 20 - now closed, but still available]
@plink@palestine@israel he evidently didn't bother to read the ICC statement. It didn't use the word genocide. I did read it, and it sounded pretty straightforward and accurate to me.
Israëlian racist government don't want Palestine state. They want eternal war until genocide is complete.
...Israel's foreign minister, Israel Katz, who met top House Republican Elise Stefanik earlier, said if a Palestinian state was established, Iran would use it as a base to "work towards the destruction of Israel"....
those killers want us to believe something about palestinian, they does them self
Well it's nice to hear that Saint Reagan wasn't so preoccupied with murdering Catholics in Latin America to attempt a death bed conversion of his atheist father in-law by testifying to how prayer cured a peptic ulcer. Really puts a human face on an impersonal god.
A march by Edgar Elgar is the traditional soundtrack for American college commencements and high school graduations. It’s a stirring bit of music, but perhaps an odd choice, given its roots as a celebration of the British king.
Et les autres problèmes, c'est qu'Israël et ses soutiens ont beaucoup trop tiré sur la corde de l'antisémitsme, mais aussi de ds guerres comme la Lybie, et l'Irak avant, ont rendu méfiants le monde qui ne veut plus être trompé une fois encore.
from #WashingtonPost
Business titans privately urged #NYC mayor to use police on #Columbia protesters, chats show
A #WhatsApp chat started by some wealthy #Americans after the Oct. 7 #Hamas attack reveals their focus on Mayor #EricAdams and their work to shape #USA opinion of the #Gaza war.
"Business executives including Kind snack company founder Daniel Lubetzky, hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb, billionaire Len Blavatnik and real estate investor Joseph Sitt held a Zoom video call on April 26 with Mayor Eric Adams (D), about a week after the mayor first sent New York police to Columbia’s campus, a log of chat messages shows. During the call, some attendees discussed making political donations to Adams, as well as how the chat group’s members could pressure Columbia’s president and trustees to permit the mayor to send police to the campus to handle protesters, according to chat messages summarizing the conversation."
from #TheGuardian
‘Israelis, go back to Europe’? Some on the left need to rethink their slogans
by #Jo-AnnMort
"A majority of Israel’s #Jews today are not descended from #Europe, but rather from #Arab nations. To expect them to leave #Israel 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".]
@plink@palestine@israel Yeah the Sephardim are native to Palestine and the rest of Arabia. I dont really like the idea of telling ethnicities to go somewhere anyway, because thats weird. Jews and Arabs can live in harmony if the states and colonisation stopped
@plink That statement about most jews in Israel being Arab is nonsensical and factually baseless garbage. There have been quite a few genetic studies proving that false and you know? My brooklyn neighborhood in the 1960s was full of semitic dark skin jews who fled. The invaders didn't trust them b/c they lived peacefully with the arabs, and the arabs stopped trusting them because most saw it as a tribal issue and conflict. @palestine@israel
@TheConversationUS@academicchatter
East for you to say... did you spend 4 + years of your life and a hundred thousand to get a degree that barely gets you a job? People deserve to celebrate some parts of their short life on earth without political interference.
A new analysis from #HumanRightWatch argues that numerous attacks on humanitarian relief operations by #Israeli forces prove the bombing that killed 7 people was "far from being an isolated 'mistake.'"
"Any objective observer knows Israel has broken international law, it has broken #American law, and, in my view, Israel should not be receiving another nickel in #US military aid," #Sanders said.
@plink@palestine@israel he is on the correct side of history. Biden’s footnote in history will not be for anything positive he’s achieved, but how he was an enabler of the destruction of Gaza and deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinians