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There are more Arabs in Israel than Jews in Europe.

NEW: An exhibition in Amsterdam this week memorializing children killed in Gaza appeared to appropriate Holocaust imagery by using shoes to symbolize the Palestinian victims. The event was held on Sunday, less than two days before Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah, in the Dutch capital’s central Dam Square. It included thousands of shoes arranged in rows, an apparent allusion to iconic displays of the shoes of Holocaust victims throughout Europe. These include the Shoes on the Danube Bank memorial in Budapest, Hungary, and a collection of about 8,000 shoes of child victims of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The pro-Palestinian group Plant an Olive Tree Foundation, which organized the event, said the shoes were placed to commemorate more than 20,000 children who were killed in Gaza during the war, which began with the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, invasion of Israel. Read more on The Times of Israel.

We’re told we can’t afford doctors. But we can afford £1.6 BILLION in profits for private companies. These are deliberate choices to move NHS money into private hands, not frontline care. The government's privatisation of the NHS isn't so secret anymore.

The IDF says it raided a hospital in the southern Lebanon town of Bint Jbeil where armed Hezbollah operatives had been holed up, killing some 20 gunmen and seizing weapons in the process. Last week, troops of the Givati Brigade first identified Hezbollah military activity at the Bint Jbeil Governmental Hospital. The IDF says that in recent days, it identified several terror operatives who had been carrying out surveillance from within the hospital, and who then opened fire on the Israeli troops. "Within a short time, the tropps eliminated the terrorists. In addition, approximately 20 terrorists were targeted and eliminated in the hospital area to remove an immediate threat," the IDF says. The military says the soldiers then raided the medical center, where they located a cache of weapons belonging to Hezbollah. "The Hezbollah terror organization systematically and continuously used the hospital compound and its immediate surroundings for the military purposes of the terror organization, in severe violation of international law," the IDF says. The IDF has previously warned that Hezbollah has been making use of medical facilities and ambulances for military purposes. "Prior to the operation, the IDF clarified to the relevant authorities in Lebanon that all military activities in hospitals in Lebanon must cease, and published these warnings through various means. Despite this, the Hezbollah terrorist organization continued to use the hospital for military activity," the IDF says.

"I will reduce from 45 minutes each half to 25 minutes.” Aurelio De Laurentiis, owner of Napoli, believes football will lose the younger generation. But he has ideas. Lots of them, including no red and yellow cards and changing the rules so there are more goals...

One thing that often gets overlooked when people moan about VAR is that a new ref this season looked at it and kept to his decision, something everyone has been longing for, got the correct call, and the media hounded him for it all week Can't remember his name

As the Pope visits mosques and calls for Catholics to "live peacefully with Muslims". These are the walls around the Vatican. Literally built to keep invading, pillaging, Muslims, out.

sheer amount of landlords issuing section 21s in the last few weeks before they're abolished is disgusting. Helping a cleaner at work who's distraught, it's so opportunistic