in reply to Kuenga

@Kuenga @meowskiIt could be both. I think the Wikipedia article mentions rubber "sentries," and then there's this description:

rarehistoricalphotos.com/fathe…

in reply to woodland creature

@meowski @KuengaI think you're looking for a way to deflect blame or rationalize what Europeans did.

Colonization is rarely possible without some form of compliance, and the French themselves cooperated with Nazis. It's always the case that there's always someone willing to sell out their neighbors for an extra crust of bread. It's also always the case that a region's ethnic groups has pre-existing conflicts.

In case you're wondering like I did: unfortunately a European Arrest Warrant offers too many loopholes to act as a guarantee that genocide-complicit countries would be forced to execute it...
kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/1148…


#Spain's top criminal court has initiated legal proceedings against #Netanyahu and several senior military officials for alleged war crimes related to the Israeli navy's assault on a Freedom Flotilla ship bound for #Gaza.

The court is evaluating its jurisdiction to open a full criminal case, seeking cooperation with the #ICC, which has already issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu related to the current conflict in Gaza.

Despite pursuing justice against Israeli leaders, Spain continues defense collaborations with Israel, including a recent agreement with Israeli arms manufacturer #Elbit Systems despite the fact that 82% of Spaniards view Israel's actions in Gaza as genocide, according to a survey by the Elcano Royal Institute.

newarab.com/news/spain-opens-w…

@palestine
@israel
#GazaGenocide


in reply to Infoseepage

We're seriously just a hop skip and a jump away from something like completely autonomous, aerial, roaming, minefields which patrol zones and drop munitions on anything matching a target profile and then return to base to recharge, all without any operator intervention. And of course we'd be trusting crappy error prone AI vision models to do the target ID because otherwise drone C&C signals might get interfered with by jamming.

#Spain's top criminal court has initiated legal proceedings against #Netanyahu and several senior military officials for alleged war crimes related to the Israeli navy's assault on a Freedom Flotilla ship bound for #Gaza.

The court is evaluating its jurisdiction to open a full criminal case, seeking cooperation with the #ICC, which has already issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu related to the current conflict in Gaza.

Despite pursuing justice against Israeli leaders, Spain continues defense collaborations with Israel, including a recent agreement with Israeli arms manufacturer #Elbit Systems despite the fact that 82% of Spaniards view Israel's actions in Gaza as genocide, according to a survey by the Elcano Royal Institute.

newarab.com/news/spain-opens-w…

@palestine
@israel
#GazaGenocide

In this historic clip, comedian Konstantin Kisin discusses shocking facts about British censorship in comedy that has led to a steep rise in arrests across the country.

youtu.be/39hiOZJxYQo

#FuckTheUK

Someone told me that what the world needs most right now is another podcast, and by the time I figured out that person was being facetious, it was too late.

Announcing the launch of "KOHN'S ZONE: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom About Education and Kids." (Two episodes are available, and new ones will drop every 2 weeks.)
I invite you to listen and to spread the word!

alfiekohn.org/podcasts/

A senior official in the Hamas movement, Taher Al-Nounou, has confirmed that the group has agreed to release 10 Israeli captives currently held in Gaza in order to guarantee the delivery of humanitarian aid and bring an end to the ongoing war on the Strip.

In remarks made to the press on Wednesday, Al-Nounou said that Hamas is showing a high degree of flexibility during the current negotiations taking place in Doha.

middleeastmonitor.com/20250710…

🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

Dear Media,

The story is that he’s a fascist, not that he’s ignorant.

Thank you. frontrange.co/@apnewsbot/11482…

in reply to Aral Balkan

Well exactly. I didn't know until now that the official language of Liberia is English, so I was ignorant of that fact (though I'm not the POTUS, and meeting a fellow world leader in an official capacity.) But I'm pretty sure I wouldn't do that condescending racist BS thing of praising the guy's English like it's some kind of shock to me that an African man might speak good English.

something to watch whilst doing stretches.
making samurai armor youtu.be/jVHUOM-WFRc

An Israeli blockade on food, aid and medicine has been fuelling a man-made starvation crisis in Gaza for months.

Now, a notorious Israeli- and US backed group seems to be using aid to move hundreds of thousands of people to the south - where Israel plans to forcibly transfer Palestinians into a “concentration zone.”

On Wednesday, GHF announced that it's now going to operate only one distribution center.

youtube.com/watch?v=A2QKV01H8e…

🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

reshared this

An Israeli drone strike has hit Deir el-Balah in central Gaza close to the site of a charity staffed by volunteers providing food to Palestinians.

Such aid sites have been increasingly targeted by Israeli forces in recent weeks.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum reports from the scene of the latest attack in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Palestine.

youtube.com/watch?v=v4XrwY2nvE…

🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

in reply to Proletarian Rage

These suckers of #EU funded a #genocide. They kept giving political and military cover for the zionist regime for 19 months of genocide. Or for more than 2 months now of total blockade of #Gaza.
19 months saying "Israel has the right to defend itself". For European leaders the colonizer has this right but the colonized not. The colonized needs to be under the genocidal intentions of the colonizer forever.
After all, what we have from the heads of EU? "They WANT TO review their trade relations" with an entity that commits genocide while they took immediate measures against Russia for the invasion of 2022. They haven't take ANY MEASURE against Israel who commits genocide for 19 months and 77 years.
There is no doubt. Current and previous EU leaders commit ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza.
This entry was edited (1 month ago)
in reply to Proletarian Rage

A group of #EU officials has written to the leaders of the European institutions criticising the bloc for “little or no meaningful action” in response to the dire humanitarian crisis in #Gaza.

EU “inaction” has “contributed to the environment of unaccountability that resulted in the full-scale invasion of the Gaza Strip taking place at this moment”, continues the letter sent to the presidents of the European Commission, European Council and the #European parliament.

The letter was sent less than a week after the EU foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas announced a review of the EU’s trade agreement with Israel, at the behest of a large majority of member states. The EU staff group welcomed this move, but said it was “devastatingly late for thousands killed in Gaza”.

EU Staff for Peace last year called for a suspension of the EU-#Israel agreement, an end to member states’ arms exports to Israel and “concrete efforts” to support the work of the international criminal court and international court of justice. The group has now accused the institutions they work for of an “apparent double standard” by failing to condemn European leaders who discussed hosting Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister wanted for alleged war crimes by the #ICC.
theguardian.com/world/2025/may…
#eucomplicity

in reply to Proletarian Rage

There are protests everywhere, including here in #Belgium. On Sunday (11 May), tens of thousands of Belgians took to the streets in #Brussels to demand an end to the blockade and the war on #Gaza.

A week later, on 18 May, a hundred thousand #Dutch people held a march through The Hague with the same demands.

Geert Wilders wrote on X: "Today demo in Dhaag against Israel + for Hamas. Thousands of confused people draw a red line. I also draw a red line. Against terror and starving their own people by Hamas and for maximum destruction of their murderous infrastructure. And for Israel."
So the rest of the world sees this differently.

...For about a week now, we have been reading increasing criticism of Israeli and US policy in #US newspapers. #France, the #UK and #Canada are suddenly threatening concrete action if Israel continues the blockade and war. Belgian rectors took the lead with the joint demand to suspend the #European Association Agreement with Israel.

Many will feel that all this does not go far enough. Indeed, that resolution can be criticised.

The decision by the European Foreign Affairs Council to first "investigate" whether or not Israel is in compliance with human rights before it wants to review the association agreement is also more than cynical.
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-worl…

in reply to Proletarian Rage

A senior #EU official has been lobbying against sanctions on Israel, using claims of antisemitism and arguments that critics say cross the line from political advocacy into disinformation. But what does the leaked diplomatic cable reveal?

Von Schnurbein warned that reviewing the agreement could be based on “rumours about #Jews,” and claimed that humanitarian actions in #Gaza were being ignored by the media and the #UN. She also described charity bake sales for Gaza within EU institutions as creating an atmosphere of "ambient antisemitism."

Her remarks directly contradicted findings from the EU’s own foreign service, the UN Human Rights Office, and the International Court of Justice, bodies that have documented starvation, large-scale civilian deaths, and possible war crimes in Gaza.

By framing calls for sanctions as antisemitic, she didn’t just misrepresent policy, she attempted to delegitimise criticism altogether. That’s a dangerous move, especially when it risks silencing evidence of war crimes and civilian suffering.
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-worl…
#icj #eucomplicity #eupol #gazagenocide #israelsanctions

Proletarian Rage reshared this.

in reply to Proletarian Rage

New report. Not a lot to say. EU actively support the slaughter of Palestinians.

"Meanwhile, In a significant diplomatic step, the EU is set to deepen its cooperation with Israel, and nine southern neighbors, including Syria and Libya. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar appeared unfazed when asked about reports the European Union is weighing up potential actions in response to allegations that Israel is breaching the EU-Israel Association Agreement, including suspending visa free travel and blocking imports from the Jewish settlements."
africanews.com/2025/07/15/gaza…
#eu #palestine #eucomplicity

Proletarian Rage reshared this.

in reply to Susan Ville

@villebooks "Nevertheless, known EU military exports to Isr can be directly connected to the genocide in Gaza. Israeli’s Merkava tanks, operating in Gaza since the ground invasion began in late October, are using engine components manufactured by German company MTU (a subsidiary of Rolls Royce), while Sa’ar corvettes, warships built by German company ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, have been active in the waters surrounding the besieged strip.
British company BAE Systems, in conjunction with German company Rheinmetall, manufactures M109 self-propelled howitzers which have been used to shell densely populated areas in Gaza. Amnesty International has found evidence that these artillery weapons also deployed white phosphorus munitions.
US-manufactured F-35 fighter jets used to carpet-bomb Gaza rely on European components with at least 25 percent of spare parts being exported directly to Israel from Europe.
Since October 7, the EU has granted 126 million euros ($136.5m) in funding to 130 research projects involving Israeli entities. Of these projects, two are providing a total of 640,000 euros ($693,000) to arms company Israel Aerospace Industries. In the years preceding October 7, 2023, Israeli entities received 503 million euros ($545m) under Horizon Europe (2021-2023)."
aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/7/…
This entry was edited (1 month ago)
in reply to Proletarian Rage

@villebooks (gr, machine translation)
"The second reason why the EU leadership will not allow the questioning of economic cooperation with Israel is because Israel is economically dependent on the EU. Although Israel is the EU's 25th largest trading partner, the EU is Israel's largest trading partner. In 2022 28.2% of its trade was related to the EU. Also, 32% of its imports come from the EU and 26% of its exports are directed to the EU. Its imports from the EU were machinery and transport equipment, chemicals and industrial goods, i.e. high value-added goods. This means that if Israel relies militarily on the US, it relies economically on the EU. Washington is Israel's military lung and Brussels is its economic lung. There are therefore increasing reasons for us to call for boycotts and economic sanctions against Israel!"
info-war.gr/oi-egklimatikes-ey…
in reply to Proletarian Rage

@villebooks
#Palestine / Israeli [defense] exports surge 13% to $14.8 billion despite #Gaza #genocide impact

Israel's defense exports jumped over 13% in 2024 to $14.8 billion, even as overall Israeli exports contracted 5.6%. The defense sector now represents nearly 25% of Israel's goods exports and approaching 10% of total exports.

Europe became the dominant market, accounting for 54% of defense exports (up from 35% in 2023) as countries increased military spending amid the #Ukraine #war. Air defense systems, missiles and rockets comprised 48% of exports, with Israeli technology proving effective against drone and missile threats.
#eucomplicity #zionism #palestine
kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/1146…


#Palestine / Israeli [defense] exports surge 13% to $14.8 billion despite Gaza genocide impact

Israel's defense exports jumped over 13% in 2024 to $14.8 billion, even as overall Israeli exports contracted 5.6%. The defense sector now represents nearly 25% of Israel's goods exports and approaching 10% of total exports.

Europe became the dominant market, accounting for 54% of defense exports (up from 35% in 2023) as countries increased military spending amid the Ukraine war. Air defense systems, missiles and rockets comprised 48% of exports, with Israeli technology proving effective against drone and missile threats.

However, industry sources report that images from #Gaza are complicating deal closures. #Spain recently froze a nearly $300 million Spike missile deal due to the situation in Gaza. Defense companies face parliamentary opposition in European countries and competitors using the Gaza war to discourage purchases of Israeli systems.

Sales to Abraham Accords countries reached $1.8 billion (12% of total exports), while Asian exports dropped from $6.3 billion to $3.4 billion due to major 2023 deals with India and Azerbaijan not repeating.

Hebrew themarker.com/allnews/2025-06-… or archive.ph/B0bED

See also

12 countries condemn forced displacement of Palestinian village in occupied West Bank kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/1146…

@palestine
@israel
#GazaGenocide


This entry was edited (1 month ago)

“The users who choose Cursor are hardcore vibe addicts. They are tech incompetents who somehow BSed their way into a developer job. They cannot code without a vibe coding bot.”

I see no lie.

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/09/cur…

#vibeCoding #shiteCoding #AI #cursor

Bilal Barakat 🍉 reshared this.

🇨🇦 🚫 🇺🇸 📢
Dear US Governors:
Begging Canadians to return as tourists is as insulting and absurd as Russia trying to advertise tourism in Ukraine

✅ Your ambassador insults and gaslights
✅ Your members of Congress send letters of complaint about our wildfire smoke while your US company Exxon is the top investor in our oil and gas ( literal gaslighting!)
✅ Your president breaks his very own Big Beautiful Trade Agreement then adds tariffs and threatens to invade Canada
✅ Your border officers reject our citizens and ICE throws Canadians into encampments rather than send them home.

So, please, please explain why in the world would anyone in their right mind desire to to visit the US and spend money that is taxed and eventually goes to support Trump and ICE !

signed,
A Rather Upset Canadian

#USA #USPoli #Canda
#Canpoli #Travel #Immigration

internationaldays.co/event/cap…

Tens of millions are enduring temperatures exceeding 40°C in Eastern China with some deaths being reported from heatstroke. Temperatures have been increasing year on year with 2024 the hottest on record.

bbc.com/news/articles/czrykm5z…

This entry was edited (5 days ago)

Israel enforcing Gaza evacuations with grenade-firing drones: The Israeli army is weaponizing Chinese-made drones to police expulsion orders across Gaza, with soldiers saying they deliberately target civilians so others will ‘learn’ not to return ... (+972 Magazine, 2025-07-10)

972mag.com/drones-grenades-gaz…
------

>> According to interviews with seven soldiers and officers who served in the Strip, these drones are operated manually by troops on the ground, and are frequently used to bomb Palestinian civilians — including children — in an effort to force them to leave their homes or prevent them from returning to evacuated areas.

>> Soldiers most commonly use EVO drones, produced by the Chinese company Autel, which are primarily intended for photography ... However, with a military-issued attachment known internally as an “iron ball,” a hand grenade can be affixed to the drone and dropped with the push of a button to detonate on the ground...

@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel

Καθίκια της ΕΕ.

Η νέα εξέλιξη ουσιαστικά «παγώνει» κάθε συζήτηση για μέτρα κατά του Ισραήλ στο επερχόμενο Συμβούλιο των ΥΠΕΞ την Τρίτη.

Σύμφωνα με ανάρτηση της Ύπατης Εκπροσώπου της Ε.Ε. για θέματα Εξωτερικής πολιτικής Κάγια Κάλας «αυτή η συμφωνία σημαίνει άνοιγμα περισσότερων σημείων διέλευσης, εισόδους φορτηγών βοήθειας και τροφίμων στη Γάζα, επισκευή ζωτικών υποδομών και προστασία των εργαζομένων στον τομέα της ανθρωπιστικής βοήθειας».

#Gaza #NotMyEU

efsyn.gr/kosmos/eyropi/478599_…

#antireport

Tα ξημερώματα της Τετάρτης 9/7/2025, η ΕΛΑΣ σε συνεργασία με τις Κτιριακές Υποδομές (ΚΤΥΠ) και τον Δήμο Αθηναίων, εκκένωσαν τον ελεύθερο χώρο του Αυτοδιαχειριζόμενου Κήπου Κάτω Πατησίων, στην Πάτμου και Καραβία 23.
Ο κήπος των 2.1 στρεμμάτων που ξανάνοιξε στη γειτονιά στις 13 Ιουνίου 2025 μετά από 2 χρόνια για να γίνει ένας ανοιχτός κοινωνικός χώρος και ένα δημιουργικό εργαστήρι αυτοδιαχείρισης, οριζοντιότητας και κοινωνικής αλληλεγγύης στα Κάτω Πατήσια, σήμερα έκλεισε από την αστυνομία, την ΚΤΥΠ και τον Δήμο Αθηναίων ώστε να επιστρέψει στην πρότερη κατάσταση του.
Στόχος τους είναι να ρημάξει ώστε κάποια στιγμή να «γκρεμιστεί», να αποχαρακτηριστεί, να το μπαζώσουν και να το τσιμεντοποιήσουν. Η Δημοτική Αρχή του Χάρη Δούκα σε συνέχεια της παρακαταθήκης του Κώστα Μπακογιάννη επιτίθεται και εκκενώνει απελευθερωμένους χώρους που μάχονται για περισσότερο πράσινο και λιγότερο τσιμέντο.
Σε ΚΤΥΠ, Δήμο, Χρυσοχοϊδη και εργολάβους, ένα πράγμα έχουμε να πούμε: ΔΕΝ ΦΕΥΓΟΥΜΕ ΑΠΟ ΤΗ ΓΕΙΤΟΝΙΑ, ΕΣΕΙΣ ΔΕΝ ΧΩΡΑΤΕ ΕΔΩ.
ΟΧΙ ΑΛΛΟ ΤΣΙΜΕΝΤΟ ΣΤΑ ΠΑΤΗΣΙΑ
36 ΧΡΟΝΙΑ ΚΑΤΑΛΗΨΗ ΠΑΤΜΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΚΑΡΑΒΙΑ!
Αυτοδιαχειριζόμενος Κήπος Κάτω Πατησίων

So is ICE going to kidnap Elon and send him to the Salvadorian gulag now or is "antisemitism" only for people who calmly and peacefully call for divestment from a nation currently perpetrating a genocide?

theguardian.com/technology/202…

Yemen’s Houthis fire at Israel airport amid search for Red Sea ship crew
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/10/houthis-attempt-to-hit-israeli-airport-amid-search-for-red-sea-ship-crew?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Middle East News @middle-east-news-AlJazeera

in reply to Obi-Two al-Menashani

After the politicization of the courts, made obvious by several years of potato judicial results, pleading the fifth is just something you do; because the star chamber will find something, if it deigns to do so, and you can't sue for cruel and unusual until after you suffer it.

I don't think most people see that has happened and accordingly can't process the consequences.

This entry was edited (5 days ago)