Seems that most people in most countries other than the US worked this out long ago. It would be nice if their elected and/or unelected representatives, not to mention media editors, would catch up and do the same

400-500 years older than Israel, gets destroyed by Israel

Be careful - this story comes from the Telegraph 🤣

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You’re suggesting that it might be a bad idea to get involved in a….land war….in…..Asia?

Two Kuwaiti officers killed. The videos coming of Tehran are horrific. 450,000 people displaced in Lebanon. My heart aches for my people.

Victims in our countries seldom get profiled and humanised in Western media. This is a portrait of a life cut short. What a tragedy. "Saleh Ahmed (55) lived in the UAE as an expat for 25 years, sending under £500 per month in earnings to Bangladesh for his wife and four children."

The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed. We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.

Conservative economic policy in the 1980s meant that Britain’s oil windfall was spent on enriching one sector of society and thereby deepening division and inequality, so that by the time the money ran out there was nothing to show for it, least of all a functional rail system. Contrast Norway.

There's enough well documented atrocities happening right now. I don't see why people have to invent ones.

Nice idea but Trump doesn’t think. He can’t. It’s about the enablers, for whom Trump is perfect cover

Been writing. Took a break from everything else. Might come back now. Book out November 12th. Details soon

I wrote this about the different conversations happening in the Gulf about the ongoing war.

I can’t take my kids to where current genocides are being enacted, so I took them here instead

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Dear mushy-headed liberal people 1- Trump is too stupid to know anything. Miller and the enablers aren’t, but they don’t care about infinite, they care about the next 5 years 2- Putin’s had 30 years and isn’t ashes or dust 3- That arc of the moral universe shit makes you feel good, right? 4- Act

Well, Prime Minister, it’s your Chamberlain moment. Is this a country far away of which we know little, like you judged Palestine to be?

Just a few more facts needed. Any minute now we’ll have enough facts.

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Distinguished Ethiopians leaving Jerusalem The Family of Ras Kassa Photograph by Sgt Gladstone, 6th October 1942 IWM Archive

I’ll tell you one way to win at Whamageddon - make sure you’re writing a book with a deadline in January because all you can think about is your book and I don’t think I’ve been to a shop or listened to music radio or been within half a mile of public places with piped music since at least Halloween

Very welcome. “Biological [A] who identifies as [B]” is a stomach-churning abomination that should never have been normalised by the BBC and belongs in the same dustbin of history as all those slurs that would get this post deleted if I were to type them

the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

Hold on, friends! It's going to get spooky! To celebrate 10k followers, I'm answering your questions about Palestinian folklore here in this mega thread.

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I am honestly sick of being told — at a university FFS — that we need to ‘embrace’ this profoundly unethical and irresponsible technology.

“Farage is right but don’t vote for him” Blue Labour killed Labour

3 months to go, 25,000 words to write. Loving it

Genuinely such an interesting long thread on why these suits look crap and yet how a particular type of crap suit has become a cultural signifier for right-wing men.

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An advisory opinion

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When a Palestinian scholar of Arabic literature in Haifa tells me they have been disinvited from a conference in an Arab country that has no diplomatic relations with Israel because the organisers feared criticism from BDS, something is very screwy. "Should I be boycotting myself?" the scholar asks.

President Trump has just announced that Princeton University PhD student Elizabeth Tsurkov who was kidnapped in Baghdad in March 2023 and held by Kata'ib Hezbollah has been released and is now at the American Embassy in Iraq.

Look what's in close proximity to Israel's illegal attack on Doha, at least 2 nurseries, 3 schools, 6 embassies, a petrol station, a public park. This all happened in the middle of the afternoon, when schools are ending and children engaging in extra curricular activities

Live on KALW radio San Francisco with Mahmoud Muna and Juliette Touma, talking about Gaza & taking listener calls Thursday Sept 4 10a PDT, 1p EDT, 6pm UK, 8pm Palestine www.kalw.org/show/your-call

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It’s all so stupid and evil, developed by the worst people for the worst reasons.

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Or Nairobi, Jakarta, Dublin, Tokyo…

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Never forget Dr. Hanan Ashwari’s words, “Now, we have settlers in the WH.” “Former WH senior adviser Jared Kushner was reportedly behind his father-in-law..Donald Trump’s plan, announced yesterday, for the US to take over Gaza and clear it of Palestinians." www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Exactly this, and all polling has made this clear for a long time. While there’s a 10-20% group who back any and every draconian idea, few of that group are likely to vote Labour, and most other voters anxious about immigration are responsive to specifics and context (eg deporting to Taliban is bad)

Not seeing a downside here

No, with respect, the buck stops with him. He's the leader. Not McSweeney, not the comms guy. He sets the strategy, tone and values. He is responsible. Either Starmer and his whole crew are ousted and are replaced by something very different or its Vichy Labour from here until doomsday.

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