VOANews, to random
@VOANews@mastodon.social avatar

▶️ While sounds of the Israel-Hamas war echo nearby, an Israeli dance group, joined by American artist and influencer Montana Tucker, performed Friday in southern Israel, in tribute to Oct. 7 Hamas attack victims.

https://youtu.be/4wx697duw40?si=rRb6YzGzxyYEVDyG

HistoPol,
@HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar

@VOANews

Another TV station has a longer clip with interviews mostly in English, but foreign language commentator:

https://youtu.be/RtK9FbbGRtM

michael_martinez, to Israel
@michael_martinez@c.im avatar

It's a clear sign of the antisemitism at the United Nations that they didn't blast this change out to every major news agency in the world.

"According to data published May 6, of the 34,735 people who have died in Gaza, more than 9,500 were women and more than 14,500 were children. Two days later, the United Nations reduced those figures to 4,959 women and 7,797 children killed while maintaining that the overall number of more than 35,000 deaths in Gaza remains unchanged."

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/05/13/israel-thousands-flee-rafah/5461715634015/

DrALJONES, to Israel
@DrALJONES@mastodon.social avatar

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  • HistoPol,
    @HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar

    @DrALJONES @Miro_Collas

    (1/n)

    " is not completely in error if we consider more qualitative aspects of history & look to European fascism as a whole and not just the German National Socialists (who were peculiar in many ways)."

    Agreed.

    , on the other hand, stands for the systematic destruction of a people on an industrial level including its culture. Even, , as I, too, have started calling him, falls a bit short by this measure.

    ..

    HistoPol,
    @HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar

    @DrALJONES @Miro_Collas

    (2/n)

    ...IMHO, can only be compared to very few people in recent history. Among them are only , , and possibly , as well as 's .

    Many years ago, the late German Chancellor Dr. hat a PR disaster when he compared a minister to the infamous Propaganda Minister, .

    Thus, 's comparison is very much out of...

    https://allthatsinteresting.com/who-killed-the-most-people-in-history

    HistoPol,
    @HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar

    @DrALJONES @Miro_Collas

    (3/3)

    ...place, from a valid historical point of view.

    More importantly, it indirectly "normalizes" 's crimes against humanity by diminishing them, relatively speaking.

    Even if the Government really did plan the mass flight of the and even their eventual resettlement in , it simply would still be (fortunately) way below the atrocities committed by the big slayers of the Modern Age.

    //

    HistoPol, to worldwithoutus
    @HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar

    #USpol #GeoPol #WarInGaza

    (1/n)

    New perspectives on the conflicts in the #MiddleEast by Firas Modad, "...a Middle East analyst for 20 years."

    Via @thehill

    "The foreign policy establishment fails to see that the Middle East balance of power has shifted"

    "#Arab leaders in #Syria, #Egypt, #Jordan and #Lebanon 👉never wanted #Palestinian radicals to wage insurgency against #Israel👈, not out of hatred of the #Palestinians, but out of fear of the consequences.
    The...

    https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4492433-the-foreign-policy-establishment-fails-to-see-that-the-middle-east-balance-of-power-has-shifted/?utm_source=press.coop

    HistoPol,
    @HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar

    @thehill

    (3/n)

    ...in which leaders have accepted their weakness in material and military affairs and sought to normalize with a much more powerful, Western-backed .

    By contrast, the , , , the and others chose a more religiously-sound approach. They accepted that the could overwhelm them with high-tech “shock and awe” aerial attacks. 👉They chose to focus instead on delivering...

    HistoPol,
    @HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar

    @thehill

    #MiddleEast #USpol #GeoPol #WarInGaza

    (4/n)

    ...decisive blows that show that some key aspect of the enemy’s power, some Goliath, such as the air force, is in fact impotent."👈

    "👉#Iran and its allies, by contrast, regularly show that they can keep fighting and landing decisive blows.👈 They, like the #Arab peoples led by #America’s allies, 👉are religiously committed to destroying #Israel.👈

    As such, 👉helping the Israelis win by taking in #Palestinian refugees, whom the ...

    HistoPol,
    @HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar

    @thehill

    (5/n)

    ... know would never allow back, is not in the interests of leaders.👈

    Rather, their best bet is to stay on ’s good side rhetorically and commercially, but 👉to quietly improve their ties with Iran and other enemies, and prepare to end their normalization with Israel.👈

    This is 👉why the reconciled with under auspices, and why the is helping both and evade ...

    HistoPol,
    @HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar

    @thehill

    (6/n)

    ...sanctions. 👈

    The balance of power, which previously forced the states to avoid fighting Israel and antagonizing the U.S., has shifted. 👉Now the balance of power dictates that the prevent from winning and avoid antagonizing and their own publics.👈

    But the balance of power has not shifted enough for leaders to disengage from the U.S.,...

    HistoPol,
    @HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar

    @thehill

    #MiddleEast #USpol #GeoPol #WarInGaza

    (7/n)

    ...which is why the Saudis still talk to the Americans of normalization.

    //

    COMMMENT:

    I have a lot of reasons to believe that #FirasModad of #ModadGeopolitics
    is right in his assessment.

    Continuing this train of thought, however, this leaves only dire outcomes for the #Israelis and the #Palestinians:
    If no #Muslim country will grant them refuge for political reasons, a lot of the #Gazan #refugees will die on that border wall...

    HistoPol,
    @HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar

    @thehill

    #MiddleEast #USpol #GeoPol #WarInGaza

    (8/n)

    ...There will never be peace in #Palestine, not even if there were a #TwoStateSolution, placating the #Palastinian population, neither the #Sunni, nor rhe #Shia neighboring countries will stop their hostilities until the whole of the #Israeli state is eradicated from the map.

    If #Trump should at last really get his second term as president, the global balance of power will further shift even further towards #America's antagonists...

    HistoPol,
    @HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar

    @thehill

    (10/n)

    ...are in a position of probably maximum historic strength.
    So, right now would be the time for both to negotiate.

    Alas, the leaders of the two peoples are arguably the worst combination in decades: their chief (only?) aim is to remain in power.

    So, we have two peoples, and two groups of leaders, whose aims are or should be aligned, but whose, likewise aligned, leaders make a solution impossible.
    A cataclysmic irony of fate.
    //

    Do..

    HistoPol,
    @HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar
    fingolas, to Israel
    @fingolas@journa.host avatar

    Scrambles as , and Chief Face ICC Warrants for in

    Warrants could be issued this week against Netanyahu, Defense Minister and army chief . Some legal experts say the attorney general and army lawyers are partly to blame for not doing enough to prevent Israeli violations of

    https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-04-28/ty-article/.premium/israel-scrambles-as-netanyahu-defense-chiefs-face-possible-icc-arrest-warrants/0000018f-2537-d0a5-abcf-37ff394f0000

    Oeneus, to random
    @Oeneus@assortedflotsam.com avatar

    The Free Palestine movement is white kids looking for clout by posting genocidal derangement about a region they've never been to.

    image/png

    HistoPol,
    @HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar

    @specked

    (1/2)

    Yes, and that makes things more complicated.
    In the end, if not one of the 2 peoples is rather completely anihilated, an unthinkable outcome, the 1947 solution of the , developed by great thinkers, is IMO the only way to a lasting solution that will not necessarily entail terrorist attacks on a daily basis.

    I am not a big fan of quotes, but 8:7 holds a lot...
    @marcelliotnet @Oeneus

    HistoPol,
    @HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar

    @specked

    (1/n)

    "...but also on the ground realities at the time, such as the population's presence and the outcome of the - War of 1948."

    I can agree with all the facts that you state here (with the whole post, in fact) as they coincide with my recollection of things I have read and heard in the past. Thank you, too, for the recap.

    However, just like President , I am...

    @wikipedia @marcelliotnet @Oeneus

    GottaLaff, to France
    @GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

    's Macron warns Israel's that forced Rafah population transfer could be 'war crime' + France raises security alert level following 'threats', says PM—AFP

    HistoPol,
    @HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar

    @angiebaby

    Certainly not.

    Haven't read the announcement but it is rather about institutions like being at risk.

    The following detailed article from the makes no mention of terrorism, though:

    https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-793539

    @GottaLaff

    ifnotnowboston, to random
    @ifnotnowboston@mastodon.social avatar

    “If you want to know what an unfolding genocide looks like, open your eyes. It looks like the forced famine of 1.1 million innocents. It looks like thousands of children eating grass as their bodies consume themselves, while trucks of food are slowed and halted just miles away.” -Rep. Ocasio-Cortez

    AOC testifying in the House today 3/22/24

    HistoPol,
    @HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar

    @ifnotnowboston

    #USpol #WarInGaza #Israel

    Brilliant foreign-policy speech by #AOC in the House on the unfolding #genocide in #Gaza.

    #StopUSweapons delivery to the #Netanyahu regime NOW!

    https://mastodon.social/@ifnotnowboston/112141170016555062

    GottaLaff, to random
    @GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

    Thom Hartmann shared this on his show today. Thread 🧵via Marty Taylor, Executive Director NewBlueUSA. President niteflyermedia. Pilot. Musician. Political and media consultant. 1/...

    A personal story about Donald Trump, Marla Maples. The “Carpet King” Bob Shaw, Adolph Hitler and my wife Martha.

    HistoPol, (edited )
    @HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar

    @GottaLaff @MichelleRNCHPN

    #USpol #History #Fascism #NationalSocialism #Hartmann

    (6/6)

    #Nazis do fascists deeds. Sometimes, you just have to see the ovious.

    The #Israelis will not be on the winning side of this #WarInGaza, even if they managed to eliminate every last #Hamas fighter.

    //

    cyberpunk1999, to random Japanese

    米国:陸軍が協賛するエンタメフェスSXSW、出演予定者多数がボイコット

    Everyone Who Has Pulled Out of SXSW in Opposition to the U.S. Army Being a Sponsor (Time)

    Artists and Speakers Withdraw From SXSW Over U.S. Military’s Support of Israel (New York Times)

    イスラエルのガザ侵攻が続く中、テキサス州オースティンで開催される音楽、映画、インタラクティブなど多彩な大規模イベント、サウス・バイ・サウスウエスト(SXSW)の出演、参加を取りやめるアーティストが相次いでいる。理由はSXSWのメインスポンサーのひとつ、米国陸軍やイスラエル軍に武器を供給するRTX Corporationへの抗議とパレスチナとの連帯を示すためだ。出演を取りやめたアーティストや講演者は80を超えた。

    https://www.matatabi.com/b/cp

    touaregtweet, to Israel
    @touaregtweet@mastodon.social avatar

    #Israel #Westbank #occupation

    1/3

    "As Jews, we don’t get to fly under the radar and break the law and hide it in the synagogue”. [...]
    "I know there is going to be a demonstration, because I’m going to organise it, " Mr. Rich Siegel (Teaneck, NJ)

    👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼

    ❗ 👇🏼

    RT @BonsaiSky
    Stolen West Bank settlement homes are being sold in America to Jews. An real estate event at a synagogue was set up, and this fine gentleman (a Jewish man) was having none of it.

    2:05 p.m. · 29 feb. 2024

    video/mp4

    HistoPol,
    @HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar
    w7voa, to random
    @w7voa@journa.host avatar

    Axios - The Biden administration gave Israel until mid-March to sign a letter that provides assurances that it will abide by international law while using US weapons and allow humanitarian aid into Gaza. https://www.axios.com/2024/02/27/israel-sign-letter-international-law-weapons-us-aid

    HistoPol,
    @HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar

    @w7voa

    #USpol #GeoPol #Biden #Netanyahu
    #WarInGaza

    "‘The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead,’ wrote John Maynard #Keynes in his 1923 work, A Tract on Monetary Reform."

    Mid March is the long run for many Gazan refugees, Mr. President!

    https://journa.host/@w7voa/112005815039131677

    thejapantimes, to worldnews
    @thejapantimes@mastodon.social avatar

    Any transitional administration will need a free hand to retain many of the tens of thousands of Palestinians who worked for the Hamas government. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2024/02/28/world/removing-hamas-gaza-bad-idea/

    DrALJONES, to Israel
    @DrALJONES@mastodon.social avatar

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    @HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar

    @bifouba

    It was the starting point of the current , when "things went from bad to worse."

    @DrALJONES

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