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Pans narrans. Bella horrida bella. “Life always takes the side of life, and somehow the victims are blamed.” -Maus

Cleveland, OH Katılım Haziran 2013
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Drop Site
Drop Site@DropSiteNews·
⭕️ Trump’s Board of Peace has received zero dollars in its World Bank fund four months after launch — FT ▪️The financial fund set up by the World Bank for Trump’s Board of Peace has received no money from donors four months after its establishment, the Financial Times reported, citing four people familiar with the matter. ▪️Instead, donations have been routed through a JPMorgan account with no independent transparency requirements. ▪️ Morocco’s ~$20 million has funded the office of Nickolay Mladenov, the board’s ‘high representative’ for postwar Gaza, and salaries for a Palestinian technocratic committee. The UAE provided $100 million to train a Gaza police force, but the program has yet to start and the funds are frozen. ▪️ Member states had pledged $7 billion for the board’s Gaza relief package and Trump promised a further $10 billion in U.S. funding. ▪️”Not one US dollar has been deployed for the rebuilding of Gaza,” two people familiar with postwar planning told the FT. No reconstruction contracts have been awarded.
Financial Times@FT

FT Exclusive: Four months after its establishment, the organisation’s financial fund set up by the World Bank has received no money from donors, according to four people familiar with the matter. ft.trib.al/aqWkkaM

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Hüseyin Dogru
Hüseyin Dogru@hussedogru·
Support the international campaign to lift these illegal sanctions against me and end the punishment of my family and children by signing the petition. free-dogru.com
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KHAL@Hal9000_T1·
Netanyahu calls them 'terrorists' and adds them to his body count that he crows about 'during the ceasefire'. In the meantime Hezbollah is attacking Israeli soldiers. That's the difference.
Hala Jaber@HalaJaber

Among the first victims identified in Haboush tonight are Abdallah Tufaili & his two sons, Ali and Abbas. A father & his children killed together under Israeli bombardment on the eve of Eid al-Adha. Another family erased inside their home. Another photograph turned into a memorial.

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Bill Stearns 🍉@wmsts·
@Normanjam67 Exactly. The postwar international order gave the West its now vanishing legitimacy. Perhaps the open corruption we now see has always been there, and the seemingly infinite possibilities of the early post-Cold War era were a delusion. Regardless, rough times ahead.
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Sir Norman of Nowhere. 🏴‍☠️
Sir Norman of Nowhere. 🏴‍☠️@Normanjam67·
The reason the world is in such a mess is because we didn't hold Bush and Blair responsible for their illegal wars of aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan. They murdered international law.
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Jim Garrison Keillor
Jim Garrison Keillor@books_rum·
Communication was supposed to be easier and more pleasant with smart phones but every time I try to write a text message I make ten mistakes and I end up wondering what I’m doing with the precious moments of my life as they slip away
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Paul@WomanDefiner·
My take on the whole Hasan Piker and code pink thing is that they are foreign lobbyist for the CCP and took money from CCP actors to push leftist goals in America. None of them disclosed this, none of them filed as foreign lobbyist under the FARA act, none of them would have even admitted they took money from CCP actors but Hasan threw everyone under the bus on stream yesterday. The left is going to get hoisted by its own petard with the precedent they set with Paul Manafort. That's my take.
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Bill Stearns 🍉@wmsts·
@nypost Very patriotic of you to lie about innocent Americans on behalf of a foreign genocidal power.
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New York Post
New York Post@nypost·
Vile antisemitic UCLA students formed Jewish exclusion zone, beat them unconscious, attacked with sticks: suit trib.al/CZCe1u5
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Sam Haselby
Sam Haselby@samhaselby·
We're "silencing" Larry Ellison and Miriam Adelson
Jacob N. Kornbluh@jacobkornbluh

In interview with @jmart, Josh Shapiro on AIPAC spending: “I think it's been used cynically by some to try and silence certain voices, to try and say that certain people participating in politics shouldn't count or should be viewed in a toxic way…. “What you are seeing is not, ‘AIPAC money’ or however it was termed, but you're getting ‘the Jews who give to that candidate who also support AIPAC.’”

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Nicholas Noe
Nicholas Noe@NoeNicholas·
Yeah unfortuantely that "illusion" is creating real damage. How can anyone take these folks seriously given what we now know about their lies and exagertions during the recent war?
Joseph Haboush@jhaboush

On intensified Israeli attacks, official says Hezbollah clearly manufacturing conflict for own political survival. “It keeps firing because stopping completely would make it much harder to restart attacks later, and because it needs to sustain the illusion that it is resisting in order to justify its power inside Lebanon.”

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Robin Brooks
Robin Brooks@robin_j_brooks·
@RKelanic Thanks much for highlighting this work with @econ_harris. Only thing I'd add to what you said is that the effect of the US blockade on Iran obviously also builds over time, so it's possible Iran's negotiating position deteriorates also over time...
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Rosemary Kelanic
Rosemary Kelanic@RKelanic·
A new Brookings analysis finds the Strait of Hormuz closure will *really* bite within 1-2 months: -by mid-July, temporary price buffers will be exhausted -once markets figure out buffers are gone, prices could reach $150/barrel Have to hand it to @robin_j_brooks, a proponent of Trump's blockade, for doing crucial analysis on the timeline for costs hitting the US. I would add that as the costs of the Hormuz standoff become more apparent and severe, Trump's bargaining leverage vis-a-vis Iran will decrease accordingly. Better to reach a deal TODAY, when oil prices are still moderate, than try again in 1-2 months when prices -- and Trump's leverage -- will be worse. brookings.edu/articles/the-t…
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Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald@ggreenwald·
Similar to when Israeli cyber official Tom Alexandrovich -- after meeting with NSA and other US agents -- was arrested in Las Vegas for trying to arrange hook-ups with underage girls. He was then bizarrely released with no restrictions, waltzed back to Israel, never returned.
Ryan Grim@ryangrim

So the feds are dropping charges against the Israeli citizen caught in Las Vegas with an illegal biolab, after he was caught in LA with an illegal biolab ktnv.com/news/crime/fed…

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Saagar Enjeti
Saagar Enjeti@esaagar·
Strange news out of Las Vegas: The Israeli property manager linked to an illegal Las Vegas biolab (which contained HIV and dengue fever) just had federal charges dismissed against him
Las Vegas Locally 🌴@LasVegasLocally

Federal charges have been dropped against Ori Solomon, the mysterious Israeli property manager linked to an illegal biolab found at a short-term rental in East Las Vegas. Solomon still faces a Clark County criminal charge for the improper disposal of hazardous waste.

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Bill Stearns 🍉@wmsts·
@NoeNicholas Whatever Iran’s crimes, they’re a whisper compared to those of the United States & Israel. And in this context, they’re completely irrelevant.
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Nicholas Noe
Nicholas Noe@NoeNicholas·
It is hard to understate the sea change in views by many who tried to work towards and advocate for a "moderate" two state solution, who criticized Iran and its regional allies etc. The criticism remains of course for Iran and its allies, but since the Genocide, its a new lens.
Rami G. Khouri@RamiKhouri

Israel govt. frustrated for not achieving its Lebanon aims by death & destruction and faces huge local, regional and global pressures; so it expands its killing zones & wonders why it still fails... I explain why on Aljazeera tv today. open.substack.com/pub/ramigkhour…

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Mike Lee
Mike Lee@BasedMikeLee·
IRGC messed with the wrong president Play stupid games Win stupid prizes
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Domhnall (Cogito)
Domhnall (Cogito)@CogitoEdu·
"You can be openly gay in 1 city a short drive from the mass graves of the children we slaughtered by the tens of thousands"
Peter Savodnik@petersavodnik

In Tel Aviv, gay people can walk hand in hand, live together, embrace their sexual orientation. Across the Arab world, that kind of openness would be unthinkable. You must know this, but your unslakable antisemitic — sorry, ant-Zionist — bloodlust inhibits honest tweeting.

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Department of State
Department of State@StateDept·
SECRETARY RUBIO: The straits have to be open. What’s happening there is illegal. It’s unsustainable for the world and it’s unacceptable.
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Eric Brewer
Eric Brewer@BrewerEricM·
One of the problems with this approach and deciding that you will just deal with the nuclear issue later is that waiving sanctions on Iranian oil exports now will decrease, not increase, Iran's motivation for reaching a nuclear agreement. Also, by tying those sanctions to the Strait, you've lost your ability to reimpose them without a huge risk that Iran retakes control of the waterway.
Barak Ravid@BarakRavid

🚨שני הצדדים יחתמו על מזכר הבנות שיימשך 60 יום ויוכל להיות מוארך בהסכמה הדדית 🚨במהלך תקופת 60 הימים, מצר הורמוז יהיה פתוח ללא תשלום אגרות, ואיראן תסכים לפנות את המוקשים שפרסה במצר כדי לאפשר מעבר חופשי של ספינות 🚨בתמורה, ארה"ב תסיר את המצור שלה על נמלי איראן ותעניק כמה פטורים זמניים מסנקציות כדי לאפשר לאיראן למכור נפט באופן חופשי למשך 60 יום

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@bonzerbarry In what respect are their hands tied exactly? They’re bombing civilian areas, targeting paramedics, etc., none of which have anything to do with Hezbollah, who they have free rein to target.
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barry with the NED@bonzerbarry·
Channel 12 confirms my assessment from the published videos and field reports that occupation army forces have continued to pull out of Lebanon in the face of Hezbollah's FPV operators. Channel 12: To prevent drone strikes: IDF reduces forces in southern Lebanon. A senior Israeli official who is participating in the limited consultations warns - "Right now we stand helpless in the face of a deadly reality, a real roulette," According to the Israeli official, there are "improvised solutions on the battlefield - and improvisations without solutions in the political field." He accused the ministers: "Soldiers are dying because they are acting against their instinct to strive for contact and are focusing on defense, civilians and property have become easy targets at a low cost and with a simple operation." "The truth is that our hands are tied and that has to change now," he said. "As the days go by, Hezbollah is allowing itself more and more. It's done with zero effort and record lethality. Something has to change - not today, yesterday, long ago. It will take time to bring about protective solutions, and until then, what?"
barry with the NED@bonzerbarry

Hezbollah publishes footage of a FPV operator destroying a concealed ISV near Bayada. This is the first ISV I’ve seen on the frontline. Notably, this sector has seen a dramatic reduction in IOF presence and a transition to small and more mobile units that only move at night as they try to adapt to the FPV challenge.

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@mohamad77758428 @ryan_rk2 Perhaps it would be workable with a new census, becoming more reflective of the people, not granting some groups unaccountable, undemocratic power.
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محمد@mohamad77758428·
@ryan_rk2 اذا بدنا نحكي منطق سبب اساسي لأزمة لبنان انو نظام طائفي من استقلال لليوم
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Ryan
Ryan@ryan_rk2·
الحزب العلماني يلي عندو فيلق موتسيكلات شيعة شيعة شيعة للتكسير والجعير والسرقة ودخول المناطق المسيحية والسنية، مزعوج من النظام الطائفي يا سيّد 😔😭
Al Jadeed News@ALJADEEDNEWS

حزب الله في ذكرى مئوية الدستور اللبناني: التجربة اللبنانية أثبتت أن النظام الطائفي لم يعد قادرًا على إنتاج دولة عادلة وفاعلة ومستقرة

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