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Tattered

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Time for a proper introduction. I am a literature teacher, mostly retired. I love reading, music, baking, nature & cats. I am learning to boost a lot, which includes my passion for a truly inclusive world, so lots of support for Black, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+, Women, Working Class, & other rights. I understand users who want Mastodon to be a quiet corner, but I am more concerned about what happens if we look the other way when people suffer.

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DrALJONES, to Palestine
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Panel discussion

143 member nations of the UN General Assembly voted in favour of Palestine’s full UN membership.

It is the first step, but final approval comes from the Security Council.

Last month, the US vetoed a Security Council resolution tabled by Algeria. It says it will do so again.

So what difference might the backing of 143 nations make?

Panel
Mustafa Barghouti; Yossi Mekelberg; Jeffrey Sachs

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2024/5/11/what-could-sweeping-unga-support-for-palestines-full-un-membership-mean

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Tattered,
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@DrALJONES Is it possible to expel Israel and the USA from the UN?

QasimRashid, to random
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This is just absurd. Israel is invading Rafah and meanwhile…

“Biden administration’s report on whether Israel has violated U.S. and international humanitarian law during the war in Gaza has been delayed indefinitely.”

INDEFINITELY😐
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/07/israel-gaza-state-report-00156619

Tattered,
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@QasimRashid Because they can’t tell the truth without admitting their own guilt.

augieray, to random
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"I'm so angry at Biden over Isreal/Gaza that I'm going to help Trump destroy democracy, weaponize the Justice system, send millions to deportation camps, lower the taxes on the wealthy and shift the burden to the middle class, cut Social Security, track and prosecute women having abortions, pardon the people who violently attacked Capitol police, dismantle NATO, help Russia, AND ON TOP OF ALL THAT do even more harm to Palestinians" is a take--it's just a really awful take, IMO.

Tattered,
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@augieray Do you realize that the choice of Biden or Trump is a choice forced on the people? That with sufficient pressure, a man deeply complicit in the slaughter of innocents could be forced to step down? That you are framing people of conscience as the problem at a time that your candidate is supplying murder weapons to murderers?

If you do realize, you are immoral, regardless of any “pragmatism”.

The problem is in Biden, not in those who refuse to support his complicity in genocide.

Tattered,
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@augieray Limit the violence by bypassing Congress to give the Israelis weapons?

But, anyway, that is a detail.

The point is that the electorate is being given a “choice” between two monsters; and you are blaming those who will not choose one. Not the monster; nor those responsible for making him the candidate. But those who have conscience.

And, thank you, I know my conscience won’t help me when American bombs fall on my country. Biden’s or Trump’s.

lednaBM, to random
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He's got a point....

Tattered,
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@lednaBM When asked if he thought he could ever become a Christian, Martin Heidegger responded that he could not rule out the possibility, but, if he did, he “would no longer be able to do what I do now; which is to say, think.”

Sadly, rather than Christianity, it was Nazism that took him.

And, despite later revoking it as his biggest idiocy, he remained antisemitic.

Like Hemingway, a man of complexities and contradictions.

QasimRashid, to random
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So to summarize:
Adopting BDS is criminalized
Criticizing Israel is antisemitic
Appealing to ICJ is unwarranted
Funding UNRWA is banned
Appealing to ICC Is banned
Ending the occupation is off the table
Ending the settlements is off the table
The peaceful Great March of Return is banned
Protesting peacefully on college campuses is antisemitic
Demanding return of Palestinian children held in indefinite detention in Israeli prisons is not even an option

So what are Palestinians supposed to do??

Tattered,
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@QasimRashid At least most people now know where they would have stood when the Native Americans were being decimated. There’s a reason so many posters go back to 1947, or 1948 but not, say, to 1937 or 1938. The White solution to collective guilt after the Nazis was to steal somebody else’s land. Talk about that. Hamas is a consequence of that, like the IRA, a response to colonialism in their land.

arstechnica, to random
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“Concerning” spread of bird flu from cows to cats suspected in Texas

Mammal-to-mammal transmission raises new concerns about the virus's ability to spread.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/concerning-spread-of-bird-flu-from-cows-to-cats-suspected-in-texas/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Tattered,
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@arstechnica The slow motion apocalypse. Again.

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