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lynn, 1 day ago to random

On October 7, 2023, four thousand terrorists from Hamas and other groups crossed into Israel and attacked over twenty sites in southern Israel. The attacks killed over 1,200 Israelis and the attackers kidnapped 240 hostages, taking them back into Gaza.
highlights many of the common characteristics of urban warfare that were on display during the attacks and how it might serve as a case study from which to extract lessons on terrorism and urban warfare.

https://mwi.westpoint.edu/urban-warfare-project-podcast-studying-the-october-7-terrorist-attacks/

lynn, 2 days ago to random

Just finished #jewelry #porcelainjewelry

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lynn, 3 days ago to random

Article: My father grew up in a village in the Swiss mountains, where he ate fresh, whole foods that had been cooked from scratch and prepared on the day they were eaten. But in the 30 years between his childhood and mine, in the suburbs of London, the nature of food transformed across the Western world. He was horrified to see that almost everything I ate was reheated and heavily processed. The evidence is clear that the kind of food my father grew up eating quickly makes you feel full. But the kind of food I grew up eating, much of which is made in factories, often with artificial chemicals, left me feeling empty and as if I had a hole in my stomach. In a recent study of what American children eat, ultraprocessed food was found to make up 67 percent of their daily diet. This kind of food makes you want to eat more and more. Satiety comes late, if at all.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/opinion/ozempic-weight-loss-drugs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

lynn, 7 days ago to random

Texas man files legal action to probe ex-partner’s out-of-state abortion.

senior staff attorney with the Center for Reproductive Rights, described Mitchell’s statement and general approach as misleading “fearmongering.” “People need to understand that it is not a crime to leave Texas or any other state in the country for an abortion,” said Duane, who is working with lawyers from the firm Arnold & Porter to represent the woman and others targeted in the Davis case. “I don’t want people to be intimidated, but they should be outraged and alarmed.”
#abortion #womensrights
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/05/03/texas-abortion-investigations/

lynn, 8 days ago to Jewish

I have let people go who may not be aware they come off as uneducated or antisemitic.
Currently at 0% patience.
#Jewish #antisemitism

lynn, 8 days ago to random

appears, that over 40% of those who participated in Columbia and CUNY were not from the school and they were outsiders,” Adams told NPR
#palestineprotests
https://nypost.com/2024/05/02/us-news/nearly-half-of-anti-israel-protesters-arrested-at-columbia-city-college-werent-students/

lynn, 10 days ago to Meme

#meme

lynn, 11 days ago to Columbia

On the news “up to 800 people” are involved in the protest at Columbia.
There are about 37,000 students at Columbia, so around 2%.
Also - many protesters are faculty - and many more aren’t Columbia students.
So more likely between 1-1.5% of the student body.
There are over 8k Jewish students at Columbia.
#columbia

littlemiao, 11 days ago to random

I’m sharing this because it is some of the most vile Mein Kampf level #Antisemitism I have seen on Mastodon. Isn’t this place supposed to be better than that?

It is astounding to me how people who espouse Nazi beliefs can actually consider themselves anti-Nazi.

This is indistinguishable from Hitler’s (yimakh shemo) perspective. If you lament that we “didn’t learn our lesson” from the Holocaust or if you, like this poster, consider the Holocaust to be some kind of preemptive justice against us, you are part of the “Hitler was right” crowd even as you delude yourself that you’re anti-Nazi. We see through you. All you’re missing is a swastika armband.

lynn, 11 days ago to Palestine

Egypt, the first Arab country to make peace with Israel, has developed a close security partnership with its neighbor over years of jointly combating militancy in northern Sinai. Egypt and Israel have also worked together to blockade Gaza to contain Hamas, whose brand of militant political Islamism Egypt considers a threat. And Egypt needs Israel’s cooperation to prevent a huge influx of Palestinian refugees from Gaza.
#palestine #egypt
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/29/world/middleeast/gaza-arab-protests-crackdown.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

lynn, 13 days ago to Israel

documents that the 'Arab Palestinians' are in fact mostly from other places, and migrated to what is now Israel at the same time as the Zionist Jews, many of them because of the economic boom that the Zionist Jews produced in what was then British Mandate Palestine. The Zionist Jews did not steal the "best" land from Arab landowners but in fact purchased abandoned desert and swamp land from absentee Arab landlords who were quite eager to sell. This was explained by Hajj Amin al Husseini himself. Husseini, father of the Palestinian movement, launched his fourth terrorist attack against the Jews of the Mandate in 1936-39. The violence was so great that the British sent a team to investigate. When questioned, Husseini admitted that the Zionist Jews had not stolen anybody's land but in fact had bought it. In fact, Husseini had been among the major consolidators and sellers of land, and growing tremendously rich by it.
#israel
https://vimeo.com/77053361

lynn, 13 days ago to random

A multimillionaire tech mogul and his wife are helping to bankroll groups behind pro-Palestinian protests that have occurred in the wake of the Oct. 7 terror attack by Hamas on Israel.
Neville Roy Singham, a U.S.-born entrepreneur who made millions after founding and selling an IT consulting firm called Thoughtworks, and his wife Jodie Evans, the co-founder of left-wing anti-war group Code Pink, have been the primary funders of a group called The People’s Forum since 2017

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/american-multimillionaire-couple-fund-marxist-group-coordinating-anti-israel-protests

lynn, 13 days ago to random

In war-battered Gaza, residents grow angry with Hamas.

In interviews with more than a dozen residents of Gaza, people said they resent Hamas for the attacks in Israel and — war-weary and desperate to fulfill their basic needs — just want to see peace as soon as possible. If Hamas wanted to start a war, “they should have secured people first — secured a place of refuge for them, not thrown them into suffering that no one can bear,” said Salma El-Qadomi, 33
#gaza #hamas
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/27/gaza-hamas-public-support-israel/

lynn, 13 days ago to Palestine

He also compared Zionists to white supremacists and Nazis. “These are all the same people,” he said. “The existence of them and the projects they have built, i.e. Israel, it’s all antithetical to peace. It’s all antithetical to peace. And so, yes, I feel very comfortable, very comfortable, calling for those people to die.”
And, Mr. James said, “Be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists.”#palestine #columbia
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/nyregion/columbia-student-protest-zionism.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

lynn, 14 days ago to Palestine

Many people have no clue what they’re protesting for. #palestine #lgbtq

lynn, 23 days ago to random

Secret Russian foreign policy document urges action to weaken the U.S.
document provides official confirmation and codification of what many in the Moscow elite say has become a hybrid war against the West. Russia is seeking to subvert Western support for Ukraine and disrupt the domestic politics of the United States and European countries, through propaganda campaigns supporting isolationist and extremist policies, according to Kremlin documents previously reported on by The Post. It is also seeking to refashion geopolitics, drawing closer to China, Iran and North Korea in an attempt to shift the current balance of power.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/17/russia-foreign-policy-us-weaken/

lynn, 26 days ago to random

What I’m working on. Porcelain and Sterling Silver. It will be a brooch with a convertible for a pendant. #jewelry

lynn, 29 days ago to Jewish

So many places Jews can’t go back to. #jewish #Israel

lynn, 1 month ago to Israel

Hamas has failed to provide Israeli negotiators with a list of the remaining hostages, raising fears that the group lost track of them amid the war — or worse, that it might not want to reveal how many have been killed.

Israel says that 133 hostages are still in captivity, ranging from toddlers to the elderly, and that 36 of those hostages are confirmed dead.
But the fates of about 100 hostages — including Israelis and foreign nationals, peace activists and soldiers, mothers and grandfathers — are still unclear, six months after the start of the war. The uncertainty is not only complicating negotiations but also leaving the hostages’ families in anguish.
#israel #hamas #gaza
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/10/gaza-hostages-hamas-israel-ceasefire/

lynn, 1 month ago to Israel

“Hamas smuggling tunnels below the Philadelphia route raise two challenges for Israel, as they enable the illicit transit of weaponry into Gaza and may facilitate the escape of Hamas leaders, thus circumventing Israeli apprehension or attacks.”
“Israel has made it clear that one of the primary goals of the war is to demilitarize Gaza. If Egypt wants to see an end to the war, it should neutralize the tunnels that have provided a critical artery for supplying weapons to Iranian-backed terror organizations in Gaza. Cairo must also ensure that Hamas leaders don’t use those tunnels as an escape hatch to avoid the consequences of their atrocities.”
#israel
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/10/28/hamas-tunnels-to-egypt-played-key-role-in-arming-hamas/

lynn, 1 month ago to random

The global media consistently quotes Hamas' figures regarding the casualties in Gaza. As of this writing, the number they cite uncritically is 33,000 Palestinian deaths in Gaza, but these numbers are inflated and hide the fact that, in this war, the civilian casualty mortality rate is relatively low. It's imperative to understand these figures, as Hamas' sole way to survive is by increasing and inflating the civilian casualty figures, in order to pressure the international community to stop Israel's just war on the perpetrators of the October 7 massacre.
#Hamas #gaza
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sydqaxqlr

lynn, 1 month ago to random

Iran is operating a clandestine smuggling route across the Middle East, employing intelligence operatives, militants and criminal gangs, to deliver weapons to Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

The goal is to foment unrest against Israel by flooding the enclave with as many weapons as it can.

The covert operation heightening concerns that Tehran is seeking to turn the West Bank into the next flashpoint in the shadow war on Israel.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/09/world/middleeast/iran-west-bank-weapons-smuggling.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

lynn, 1 month ago to random

Replacing existing power lines with cables made from state-of-the-art materials could roughly double the capacity of the electric grid in many parts of the country, making room for much more wind and solar power.
This technique, known as “advanced reconductoring,” is widely used in other countries. But many U.S. utilities have been slow to embrace it because of their unfamiliarity with the technology as well as regulatory and bureaucratic hurdles, researchers found.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/09/climate/electric-grid-more-power.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare