Israel, Iran, Syria, and the rest of the ... Middle East
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@antipodean I suppose the tunnels under the hospital also belong to the security team as well...
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This really kicked off on UK twitter last night, Dan Hodges vs Owen Jones.
Shows just how bad this war is. So deeply divided that if you are pro Palestine then everything the IDF says is clearly bullshit, vs commentating on the IDF statement as if it's fact.
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@antipodean said in Israel, Iran, Syria, and the rest of the ... Middle East:
He's family (my Dad's first cousin)
Very disappointing
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We've now reached the bizarre stage were pro-Hamas supporters are arguing Hamas videos showing Israeli citizens being killed were faked by Hamas, no-one was killed and it was all staged propaganda.
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@Victor-Meldrew all generated by AI obviously 😂
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@antipodean if you want to know where the UK liberal establishment sit on any particular issue or what their agenda is, look at BBC programming and the propaganda that comes out of the news service.
Sad really, as it was a really good news service in the 80s. Too many political appointments have corrupted it.
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@Victor-Meldrew Starmer now knows how to lie and not give it away. Thousands of pounds it cost for the training 😂
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@MiketheSnow Jeremy Bowen hasn’t got much of a reputation left. He’s long gone native in the Middle East and the photo below shows he is happy to fabricate the news to push the required agenda. Basically a dick!
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This is an absolute hoot - could go in a number of threads but I'll stick it here.
My Resignation from the New York Times
I have resigned as poetry editor of The New York Times Magazine.
The Israeli state's U.S-backed war against the people of Gaza is not a war for anyone. There is no safety in it or from it, not for Israel, not for the United States or Europe, and especially not for the many Jewish people slandered by those who claim falsely to fight in their names. Its only profit is the deadly profit of oil interests and weapon manufacturers.
The world, the future, our hearts—everything grows smaller and harder from from this war. It is not only a war of missiles and land invasions. It is an ongoing war against the people of Palestine, people who have resisted through decades of occupation, forced dislocation, deprivation, surveillance, siege, imprisonment, and torture.
Because our status quo is self-expression, sometimes the most effective mode of protest for artists is to refuse.
I can’t write about poetry amidst the "reasonable" tones of those who aim to acclimatize us to this unreasonable suffering. No more ghoulish euphemisms. No more verbally sanitized hellscapes. No more warmongering lies.
If this resignation leaves a hole in the news the size of poetry, then that is the true shape of the present. — Anne Boyer
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@Victor-Meldrew Self important much ... ?
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Luttwak is a conservative zionist, but he is worth reading.
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@MajorRage said in Israel, Iran, Syria, and the rest of the ... Middle East:
@Victor-Meldrew Self important much ... ?
Deranged more like.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Israel, Iran, Syria, and the rest of the ... Middle East:
This is an absolute hoot - could go in a number of threads but I'll stick it here.
If this resignation leaves a hole in the news the size of poetry, then that is the true shape of the present. — Anne Boyer
Quite the bold assumption that leaving poetry out of the news creates any sort of hole at all...
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@Tim said in Israel, Iran, Syria, and the rest of the ... Middle East:
is the blue octopus a well known thing?....feel ive seen lots of them in kids shops etc
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Lex Fridman Podcast - #401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3
John Mearsheimer is an international relations scholar at University of Chicago. He is one of the most influential and controversial thinkers in the world on the topics of war and power. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Notion: https://notion.com - ExpressVPN: https:/...
Lex Fridman podcast with John Mearsheimer. John's notable for being an expert, an international relations scholar at University of Chicago and being utterly wrong with nearly every prognostication about the Ukraine war so far.
I haven't listened to it yet, but I'm hoping that somewhere in the three hours Lex asks him why, as an expert, he's consistently wrong.
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@Tim said in Israel, Iran, Syria, and the rest of the ... Middle East:
Luttwak is a conservative zionist, but he is worth reading.
To see how crazy these conservative Zionist are?
Tucker Carlson is in the 'lets start a war with China' camp too isn't he. Luttwak in the 'let's take on Russia and China at the same time' , but not Iran, camp it seems. I'm sure there are some who would like a war with these 2 plus Iran as well.
Me thinks the US empire is close to finished. Halfwits have taken over.
While this greatly reduces the burden on the Biden team, there is one serious, unavoidable repercussion: Israel’s war is a terrible distraction from Ukraine’s, which is itself a huge distraction from the confrontation that really matters with the People’s Republic of China. That Biden met Xi Jinping in San Francisco last week, without the two coming to blows, may be a Good Thing, but it does not solve the problem that arises from Xi’s bellicosity.
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Unfucking believable bullshit from the leadership of Penn, MIT and Harvard in answer to the question ‘does calling for the genocide of Jews violate the university’s code of conduct’. Don’t think I’ve ever seen anything more shameful or more shocking in a Congressional Hearing. They should all resign
my resignation
Will Israel hand America a ceasefire?
