Another jawdropping all female band from Japan.
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Another Major GOP Failure in a Year of Losses: Democrats Win New York State Senate Race in District Where Trump Garnered 77% Votes
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“Microsoft has simply given us no other option,” Signal says as it blocks Windows Recall
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Signal Messenger is warning the users of its Windows Desktop version that the privacy of their messages is under threat by Recall, the AI tool rolling out in Windows 11 that will screenshot, index, and store almost everything a user does every three seconds.
Even after its refurbishing, Recall provides few ways to exclude specific apps.Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)
Great day for fans of stuck boats, as a Cypriot cargo ship has parked itself in somebody's garden in Norway - AND THERE'S LIVE FOOTAGE!
It's actually really relaxing to watch unless, presumably, you're one of the crew...
Edit: boo! They've turned the camera off now it's dark and the page is down. I'll see if there's a YouTube version tomorrow or something.
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Because I’m quite dim, I didn’t realise exactly what they had done and how extremely clever these women had been. #TransLivesMattter 👏👏👏
The government (and everyone else, frankly) need to stay out of trans people’s underwear. 🏳️⚧️
*edit to add the link to the Pink News article: thepinknews.com/2025/05/17/sco…
*edit 2 to add a link to an interview with Sugar, who organised and took part in the protest: youtube.com/watch?v=wbA0q0eqYn… (thanks to @anni for sharing this)
Trans women staged a topless protest outside of the Scottish parliament to condemn the UK Supreme Court's ruling on the definition of 'sex'.Sophie Perry (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
ITXPlus: A ITX Sized Macintosh Plus Logicboard Reproduction
Link: 68kmla.org/bb/index.php?thread…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
I haven't done project thread in a while as writing is not my favourite past time but people seem to enjoy them so here it goes ITXPlus is a Mini-ITX sized Macintosh Plus logicboard clone that...max1zzz (68kMLA)
Two employees of the Israeli embassy—a man and a woman—were shot and killed near the Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
Great season of CBC's Understood podcast with @pluralistic. about the history of enshittification, who's responsible for it (and why), and (hopefully in the upcoming final episode), what can be done to deshittify the internet.
4 episodes, all under an hour. No reason not to listen!
Episode 1: Don't Be Evil
Episode webpage: cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews
Media file: mgln.ai/e/12/cbc.mc.tritondigi…
First-term Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego from Arizona emerged as a potential 2028 presidential contender this month after unveiling his own border plan and traveling for an appearance in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.
justthenews.com/politics-polic…
The senator has acknowledged that he has been considered a possible candidate for 2028, but said he was not immediately thinking about running for the Oval Office.Misty Severi (Just The News)
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.From Voice of Korea. http://vok.rep.kp/ind…/detail_com/comde/iee250405001/57/en All the households are affiliated with the neighborhood units in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a renewed offensive in Gaza with the aim of retaking the entire strip and eliminating Hamas. As a result, the country’s foreign allies have begun to substantially push back on Jerusalem and public opinion has turned decidedly against the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and their ongoing efforts in the coastal region.
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Though the ongoing conflict has long prompted humanitarian objections from Western leaders and even led to the International Criminal Court issuing an arrest warrant against him, Western countries have largely confined their objections to public crit…Ben Whedon (Just The News)
Two Israeli embassy workers were shot dead outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington D.C. on Wednesday night in an episode authorities called an act of antisemitic terrorism.
justthenews.com/government/loc…
The Metropolitan Police Department said an investigation into the shooting is underway near the museum, and a man and woman have been killed.Misty Severi (Just The News)
Federal health officials received reports about potential cardiac inflammation effects just months after the mRNA vaccines were approved, but delayed notifying the public about them and ultimately downplayed the risks, a senate subcommittee concluded…Steven Richards (Just The News)
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The GOP-led House early Thursday morning passed President Trump's spending bill, following an all-night debate that started at about midnight.
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From Voice of Korea. http://vok.rep.kp/index.php/detail_com/comde/iee250503001/57/en The respected fatherly Marshal Kim Jong Un visited the Taesongsan General Hospital on May 18, 2014, which touches the heartstrings of all people today, too.Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
Aufgrund starker Nachfrage einer einzelnen Person ;) biete ich demnächst wohl wieder einen #Hörbuch-Workshop an. Gibt es hier weitere Interessierte Autor:innen, die ihre eigenen Hörbücher produzieren möchten und einen Einstieg dazu suchen?
#Audiobook #Audiobooks #Selfpublishing #Indieauthor #AuthorBusiness #CreativeBusiness
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) — The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea decided to convene the Twelfth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK late in June to conduct an interim review of the executi…Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
first thing I heard on the news this morning... some guy with a handgun walks up to a group of 4 people coming out of the Washington DC Jewish Museum... - and then kills only 2 of them.
anyways, I thought, "well... that's sus AF". (has anyone searched their social media for anti-Netanyahoo posts?)
and now, I find out the guy is an Hispanic Communist.
the irony...
(If you don't understand, just move along... and maybe look into the Spanish Civil War as well as Golem mythology)
BTW, handguns are not legal to carry in DC - so much for gun laws
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House Republicans Ram Through Procedural Vote on Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” Amidst Internal Dissent
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/h…
In the early hours of Thursday morning, the House of Representatives narrowly approved a procedural motion to advance President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending package, dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill.Jim Hᴏft (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
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John Godfrey Saxe: Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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- Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
- Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
- Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
- Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
- Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
- Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
- Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
- Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
- Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
- Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
- Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
- Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
- Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
- Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
- Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
- Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
- Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
- Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
- Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
- Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
- Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
- Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
- Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
- Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
- Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
- Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
- Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
- Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
- Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
- Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
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Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) — A ceremony of launching a newly-built 5 000-tonnage destroyer took place at the Chongjin Shipyard on May 21.Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
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MUSCAT, May 21 (YPA) - The Grand Mufti of the Sultanate of Oman, Sheikh Ahmed bin Hamad Al-Khalili, expressed his gratitude on Wednesday to "the heroes of Yemen," in reference to the Yemeni armed forces, who continue to bravely confront the Zionist ebasheer (Yemen Press Agency)
While testifying in Diddy's federal trial, a male escort took the stand and alleged the rapper paid him $800 to have freak offs with Cassie.Jacquez Printup (Yahoo News)
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A pro-Palestinian gunman suspected of shooting a young #Jewish diplomatic couple dead was seen in chilling video manically screaming #FreePalestine as he was hauled into custody. Chilling footage emerged overnight of 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez as he was taken into custody after two #Israeli #embassy #staffers were gunned down outside the Capital Jewish Museum in #Washington D.C.Israeli embassy staffer Yaron Lischinsky and his girlfriend Sarah Milgrim were identified as the victims in the vile attack that was condemned by #President #DonaldTrump. Lischinsky was a German-Israeli dual national employed as a research assistant for Middle East & North African Affairs at the Embassy’s Political Department, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Details emerged of the suspect’s background and political affiliations overnight on Thursday, including his reported membership of a #far-left group. He’s believed to have been involved in activism with the Part for Socialisma and Liberation and #BlackLivesMatter.
And now we get to listen to somber #lectures about #anti-semitism, #October-7th, and the #Holocaust, as if tens of thousands of #Palestinians aren’t being #murdered in their #homeland. But it’s really not that difficult. #Pakistanis and #Indians are squaring off everywhere from #Toronto to #Birmingham, #UK because of what’s taking place in #Kashmir. The Israeli diplomat was targeted for #assassination because of what #Israel is doing in #Gaza, not because random Hispanic immigrants happen to harbor irrational #hatred for #Jews.
What should be of considerably more concern to everyone is that the killer wasn’t #Palestinian, or even #Arab or #Muslim. It’s another sign that the vast #majority of the #world is vehemently opposed to the #Netanyahu #regime and its #insane #campaign of #murderous #ethnic #cleansing in #Gaza. It’s a little difficult to convincingly cry victim when everyone knows which party is the aggressor and initiated the hostilities.
Terrifying footage has emerged overnight of suspected gunman, 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez, in the immediate aftermath of shooting dead two Israeli embassy staffers.Brittany Chain (Daily Mail)
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Matt Walsh is getting more based as time goes by... he was a total douche bag just a few years ago.
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agreed.. he's been hitting the itsokaytobewhite lately.
probably just trying to stay relevant... but normies need to hear it from somewhere.
On May 17, the 15th Chinese Peacekeeping Horizontal Engineering Company to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) launched the rehabilitation of a main supply route from Tonj to Romich.eng.chinamil.com.cn
The full error for anyone having issues with the screenshot is:
Installation Failed
Bootloader installation error
The bootloader could not be installed. The installationc ommand
grub2-install -target=i386-pc -recheck -force /dev/nvme0n1
returned error code 1.
Context:
I've had a hell of a rough time trying to install linux on my system, I've tried Pop, 2 versions of Ubuntu, Mint, and now I'm trying Nobara, and it's the first one that failed to install (I've mostly had video driver issues with the others.) My current disk situation is kind of a mess, I have 4 in the system:
1. ~15 year old OCZ SATA 128GB SSD (windows/boot)
2. ~10 year old WD SATA 512GB SSD (windows libraries like pictures, documents, downloads, etc)
3. ~6 month old Samsung 990 EVO 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD (games installed from windows)
4. ~5 year old BPXPro 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD (previous Ubuntu install that I had other issues with)
#1 is my boot drive and has the bootloader on it (when I want to boot ubuntu I hit F11 and select the second entry for that drive in the menu.) Previous distro installs have had no problem installing right over top of that and disk #4, but for whatever reason Nobara has failed to install the boot loader and I have no idea how to even begin to resolve this. I've done some searching and only found results with similar situations that aren't quite the same, it seems this is commonly an issue with linux installs into partitions of a drive that is shared with windows, but that's not what I'm doing (at least not for the main install, I guess that is kind of what it's doing with the bootloader?)
I can manually erase disk #4 if that would help, but is there some way I can manually go in and clear out the old bootloader (without messing up the windows install/boot)?
Other specs in case it's relevant:
* Ryzen 7 3800X 3.9GHz 8-core CPU
* 32GB DDR4-3200 RAM
* Gigabite Vision OC 12 RTX3060 GPU
Pars Today- The minister of defense and logistics of the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in a meeting with his Armenian counterpart, called k...Pars Today
Otto von Bismarck: Secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Quotes
- Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
- Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
- Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
- Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
- Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
- Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
- Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
- Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
- Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
- Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
- Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
- Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
- Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
- Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
- Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
- Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
- Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
- Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
- Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
- Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
- Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
- Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
- Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
- Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
- Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
- Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
- Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
- Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
- Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
- Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
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The Machine Stops (1909)
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Known as the second biggest city in Timor-Leste and just two hours from the capital of Dili, Baucau makes a fabulous overnight trip from the capital city.Gareth Johnson (Young Pioneer Tours)
Le scénario est trop parfait pour ne pas être suspect.
Le jour exact où Israël ouvre le feu sur une délégation diplomatique européenne et arabe à Jénine, deux employés de l’ambassade israélienne sont tués par balles à Washington. Et comme par enchantement, la machine médiatique s’emballe : fini les diplomates visés, les 20000 enfants massacrés à Gaza, les 210 journalistes abattus, les hôpitaux rasés.
Le nouveau récit est tout trouvé : “les Juifs ne sont plus en sécurité, même à Washington.”
Mais regardez bien les éléments :
• un suspect filmé, étrangement calme, presque posé,
• un keffieh soigneusement déposé à côté de lui, comme pour signer la scène,
• des cris de « Palestine libre » hurlés mécaniquement, presque comme un slogan appris par cœur.Ce genre de mise en scène n’a rien de nouveau. C’est une vieille méthode : celle du faux drapeau, utilisée depuis des décennies pour justifier l’injustifiable, déclencher des représailles, ou détourner l’opinion.
Israël en a fait un outil stratégique. Quelques rappels historiques :
•1946, hôtel King David : attentat de l’Irgoun déguisé pour en accuser les Arabes.
•1948, assassinat de Folke Bernadotte, envoyé spécial de l’ONU, par des milices sionistes.
•1954, opération Susannah (affaire Lavon) : des agents israéliens déguisés en Arabes posent des bombes dans des bâtiments britanniques et américains en Égypte. But : faire accuser les musulmans.
•1967, attaque contre l’USS Liberty : navire américain mitraillé pour tenter de le couler, Israël pensait pouvoir en imputer la responsabilité à l’Égypte.
•Années 1980, France, affaire Osirak : un faux groupe armé pro-palestinien revendique l’attentat contre un site nucléaire irakien… avant qu’on découvre que c’était un coup monté du Mossad, pour détourner l’attention de l’opération aérienne israélienne sur le réacteur.
Alors aujourd’hui, quand un homme crie “Palestine libre” en posant un keffieh à côté de son arme, au moment même où Israël est diplomatiquement acculé, nous avons le devoir de douter et même, de ne pas y croire.
Car ce n’est pas la première fois qu’Israël crée l’attaque dont il a besoin pour redevenir la victime dans le récit occidental.
Et seuls les ignorants — ou les racistes en quête d’excuses — peuvent encore croire à ces contes-là.
50,000+ murdered Palestinians: EU announces review of trade ties with Israel.
What will we get at 100,000? Any ideas?
dw.com/en/eu-israel-gaza-war-t…
#EU #complicity #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza
Amid growing pressure over Gaza, EU foreign ministers say they want to review their trade relations with Israel, but they have stopped short of announcing firm action.Tessa Walther (Deutsche Welle)
@Alexandrad1 @rzeta0 The link to the article in Haaretz appears broken. This one works: haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0…
And while the quote is there, it might be misinterpreted. The senior official might have meant that they had intelligence that this was going to happen.
A different quote from the same article:
“‘The bullet has left the barrel,’ said Maya Sion-Tzidkiyahu, Director of the Israel–Europe Relations Program at the Mitvim Institute and lecturer at the Hebrew University’s European Forum. ‘There's no telling where this will lead or how the legal review will conclude. This step further isolates Israel as a pariah state, losing some of its closest friends in Europe.’
According to her, ‘This shift happened fast, in just two weeks, and the decision may trigger a diplomatic tsunami.’
‘This is a very clear message to Israel: we've had enough of a senseless war. You're increasingly seen as a country whose values no longer align with those of the European Union,’ Sion-Tzidkiyahu added.”
Citing the 'unbearable' Gaza crisis, European leaders are warning of sanctions against Israel. Netanyahu's limited aid move has failed to ease concerns, with one diplomat calling it a 'disaster.Jonathan Lis (Haaretz)
@rzeta0
I fear you are correct. #Macron said he considered recognizing the State of Palestine in June. Why in June? Now there are rumours it will be even more delayed. Looks like he is waiting for it to be too late.
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/…
A senior Israeli official told Haaretz that Israel was 'part of a planned ambush we knew about... a coordinated sequence of moves'Ed Sykes (The Canary)
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There are highly educated people that believe that way.
Sorry. Typo.