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appassionato, 3 months ago to Palestine

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history.

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appassionato, 6 months ago to DadBin

Gaza's children living under wars

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Current number of childen killed: over 3,000.

appassionato, 6 months ago to Israel

Resignation letter of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in New York.

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#Israel
#HumanRights
#UN
#genocide

appassionato, 6 months ago to books

The Collapse of Complex Societies

Political disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. The Collapse of Complex Societies, though written by an archaeologist, will therefore strike a chord throughout the social sciences. Any explanation of societal collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all such societies in both the present and future.

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appassionato, 6 months ago to books

Language, Thought and Reality
Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf

The pioneering linguist Benjamin Whorf (1897–1941) grasped the relationship between human language and human thinking: how language can shape our innermost thoughts. His basic thesis is that our perception of the world and our ways of thinking about it are deeply influenced by the structure of the languages we speak.

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appassionato, 6 months ago to Israel

This is not the first time that Israel has rejected a resolution from the UN Security Council.

Here’s a look at some other historic examples:

2016: Resolution demands halt to Israeli settlements

2009: Resolution calls for Gaza ceasefire

2004: Israel demolished homes in Rafah refugee camp

1967-: Numerous resolutions on occupied East Jerusalem

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/6/un-resolutions-on-occupied-east-jerusalem

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appassionato, 4 months ago to macrophotography

In macro photos, Barry Webb captures the fleeting, otherworldly characteristics of slime molds and fungi.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/08/barry-webb-fungi-photos/

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Cribraria
Didymium squamulosum with ice crown. All images © Barry Webb
Pink stemonitis

appassionato, 1 month ago to KindActions

World Central Kitchen founder's response

“The air strikes on our convoy were not just some unfortunate mistake in the fog of war. It was a direct attack on clearly marked vehicles whose movements were known by the [Israeli military]. It was also the direct result of his [PM Netanyahu’s] government’s policy to squeeze humanitarian aid to desperate levels.”

Jose Andres

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appassionato, 3 months ago to Belgium

Belgium refused to cut funding for UNRWA, so Israel just bombed their office building in Gaza.

https://www.tumblr.com/sar-soor/741277496539004928

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#Belgium

appassionato, 7 months ago to DadBin

Gaza children

Will they survive?

Children sit in the back of an ambulance at Shifa Hospital after an Israeli air strike hit the nearby Al-Ahli Hospital, according to Gaza Health Ministry in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, October 17, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Al-Masri

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appassionato, 1 month ago to KindActions

World Central Kitchen

"These are the heroes of World Central Kitchen. These 7 beautiful souls were killed by the IDF in a strike as they were returning from a full day's mission. Their smiles, laughter, and voices are forever embedded in our memories. And we have countless memories of them giving their best selves to the world. We are reeling from our loss. The world's loss.” - Erin Gore, CEO

https://wck.org/news/honoring-gaza-team

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#volunteers

appassionato, 6 months ago to palestine

“We are facing together a barbaric war of aggression and an open war of genocide against our people in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank.”

“It is a war against the existence of the Palestinians, against the Palestinian national identity, the identity of the land and the identity of its inhabitants.”

“Palestine is our only homeland and we will not accept an alternative, and if there is anyone who must leave our land it is the occupation – and only the occupation.” Mahmoud Abbas

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appassionato, 2 months ago to books

Pandora's Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk by Alison Young

This fearless, deeply reported book about laboratory accidents asks the haunting question some elite scientists don’t want the public to entertain: Did the COVID-19 pandemic start with a lab leak in Wuhan, China?

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appassionato, 1 month ago to KindActions

Zomi Frankcom, an Australian aid worker who was killed in an IDF attack in Gaza.

Australian PM Anthony Albanese says the death of an Australian aid worker in Gaza is “completely unacceptable” and “beyond any reasonable circumstances”, saying the government will call in the Israeli ambassador and contact Israel’s government.

Albanese says the government is demanding “full accountability” over the death.

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appassionato, 4 months ago to Futurology

Water delivery

A girl sits in a makeshift cart as Palestinians wait to receive food amid shortages of food supplies, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

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appassionato, 6 months ago to Israel

During a news conference outside al-Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, a doctor has urged the international community to put a stop to the war crimes being committed against Gaza’s hospitals.

“We are now calling [on] the whole world, if there is any awake conscience, please [take] action,” he said. “Any politician in the world now who cannot put the pressure to stop these war crimes on the hospitals, his hands are bloodied.”

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appassionato, 5 months ago to DadBin

Riyad Mansour recounted at the UNSC the story of 12-year-old Dunia Abu Mohsen, who lost her family, and her legs, in an Israeli attack at the end of last month. After telling an interviewer that she wanted the war to end, and wanted to be a doctor when she grew up, she was killed in another Israeli attack on Nasser hospital on Sunday.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/12-year-girl-killed-gaza-hospital-weeks-after-interview/story?id=105750059

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appassionato, 3 months ago to australia

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong has announced the temporary suspension of funding for the UN’s relief agency in Gaza following allegations staff were involved in Hamas’ October 7 attacks.

The allegations pertained to 12 UNRWA employees.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/26/unrwa-probes-employees-over-suspected-involvement-in-october-7-attacks

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appassionato, 1 month ago to palestine

A fireball erupts during an Israeli bombardment of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 26, 2024 [Said Khatib/AFP]

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appassionato, 17 days ago to Israel

Israeli government votes to shut down Al Jazeera

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that the Israeli government has voted unanimously to shut down Al Jazeera in Israel.

The news agency Reuters also reports that the Israeli cabinet has decided to close down Al Jazeera’s operations.

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appassionato, 5 months ago to palestine

Aftermath of Israeli air strikes in Rafah

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appassionato, 5 months ago to palestine

The Palestine Red Crescent (PRCS) is reporting that the Israeli army is besieging both Jenin Governmental Hospital and Ibn Sina Hospital in the occupied West Bank.

In a post on X, the PRCS also said that the Israeli army is obstructing and preventing their emergency medical services teams from reaching the injured and continuously inspecting its ambulance vehicles.

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#hospitals
#PRCS

appassionato, 3 months ago to KindActions

HRW said that the decision by 18 governments to suspend funding to UNRWA comes months after Israeli authorities cut off essential services, including water and electricity to Gaza.

Israeli forces are deliberately blocking the delivery of water, food, and fuel, willfully impeding humanitarian assistance & razing agricultural areas.

Unless governments reverse their decisions to suspend aid to UNRWA, they risk contributing to the current catastrophe.

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appassionato, 6 months ago to Futurology

Article 7 of the Rome Statute stipulates that “cutting off civilians from basic supplies – such as food, medicine, drinking water, which is essential for the daily life of the people – is a crime against humanity”.

Pedro Arrojo Agudo, the UN special rapporteur on water and sanitation

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appassionato, 1 month ago to Israel

What’s in the US’s latest arms package to Israel?

The packages includes:

1,800 MK84 2,000-pound (925kg) bombs
500 MK82 500-pound (227kg) bombs
25 F-35A fighter jets and engines

The 2,000-pound bombs, which can inflict damage to people up to 300 metres (1,000 feet) away, have been linked to previous mass-casualty events throughout Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.

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