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Germany may resume compulsory conscription if it fails to recruit enough willing contract soldiers, the country’s defence ministry chief Pistorius has said. “Our model is initially based on voluntary participation.
Le Reichsleiter Bouhler et le Docteur Brandt sont chargés d’étendre les pouvoirs des #médecins à être nommément désignés afin que, selon le jugement humain, les patients en phase terminale puissent BÉNÉFICIER D’UNE MORT MISÉRICORDIEUSE après l’évaluation la plus critique de leur état de santé. Signé Adolf #HITLER
Rogue communication devices found in Chinese solar power inverters
“Rogue communication devices not listed in product documents have been found in some Chinese solar power inverters by US experts who strip down equipment hooked up to grids to check for security issues, the two people said. Over the past nine months, undocumented communication devices, including cellular radios, have also been found in some batteries from multiple Chinese suppliers, one of them said.”
I generally ignore all the unsubstantiated propaganda (think Huawei) out of the USA unless it actually is substantiated by some evidence. This does look like such a case, as undocumented devices have apparently been found in some Chinese inverters. Pure speculation is never evidence of anything.
My own LiPO4 battery for example does have a Wi-Fi communication device in it for calling home to the OEM, but firstly it is documented, and secondly I configure it to only connect via my IoT VLAN, and thirdly it calls home to the local company in my town who manufactured it. The same goes for my German made Victron inverter.
It is becoming more and more apparent though, given all the IoT devices we now install on our home networks, that just using any basic ISP router is no longer acceptable. You do need to separate your user devices from any such IoT devices, and then also vet which of those devices are allowed to access the Internet. There may be valid reasons for accessing the Internet such as getting updates, managing warranties, syncing to a cloud service you know about, etc.
Remotely accessing your IoT devices when you are away from home should be considered carefully. For example, my CCTV cameras are not allowed any Internet access, and if I want to access them while I’m away, I have to initiate a secure Tailscale tunnel and only then can I see them. The same goes for login access to my OPNsense firewall, it has no open login access facing the Internet at all.
It is true though that anyone capable of accessing your inverter (or many of them across a city or a country) could not only disable all your power, but it could also spark a massive demand load on the grid, possibly calling a blackout. So this has more severe implications than one home just being hacked to access data.
The analogy could be made with cars where 20 or 30 years ago airbags were not seen as essential, and going back further, neither were seatbelts nor power brakes, but today those are essential standard components of all cars. It is also time that home networking started to move with the times. There is actually no excuse on the hardware side, as much of this is just about software, not even actual hardware requiring replacement.
The problem though is a bit more complex as:
OEMs want to sell you new hardware, not just upgrade software on what you have.
Many cheaper devices have no automatic software upgrades.
Most home users are just not skilled enough yet to implement VLANs properly.
It is too easy for IoT devices to just be connected with a Wi-Fi ID and password to open home networks.
So there is some way to go still before this type of vulnerability will be properly addressed.
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"Un nouveau sondage de Penn State confirme que la société juive israélienne est globalement fasciste, totalement irrécupérable et qu'elle constitue une menace grave pour l'humanité : -82% soutiennent l'expulsion forcée des habitants de #Gaza -56 % soutiennent l'expulsion forcée des citoyens arabes d' #Israël -47% pensent que l'armée israélienne devrait « agir comme les Israélites bibliques sous Josué à Jéricho - tuer tous les habitants d'une ville conquise ». -65% « croient en une incarnation moderne d' #Amalek, l'ennemi biblique des #Juifs ». -93 % de ceux qui croient en « Amalek » pensent que le commandement biblique d'« effacer Amalek » s'applique encore aujourd'hui. -69 % des Israéliens laïques soutiennent l'expulsion de la population de Gaza et 31 % sont favorables à l'imitation de la destruction biblique de Jéricho. -Seulement 9 % des hommes de moins de 40 ans s'opposent à tous les scénarios de #génocide des Palestiniens." source : Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday sent a congratulatory letter to the 20th Western China International Fair, held in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province.
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SANAA, May 25 (YPA) - Ansarullah Political Bureau in Sanaa congratulated on Sunday the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon, and the Lebanese people on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of resistance and liberation.In
Yacobi, Haim. 2016. “From ‘Ethnocracity’ to Urban Apartheid: A View from Jerusalem\al-Quds.” Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 8 (3): 100–114.
Over the past 20 years, changes in demographic control, militarization, and state violence have radically transformed the city from an ethnocracity into an urban apartheid.
An ethnocracity refers to a city where a dominant ethnic group appropriates and controls the city apparatus to produce a contested, unstable space. Jerusalem was previously theorized as an ethnocracity.
Urban apartheid combines ethnic exclusion and segregation with market-driven forces like privatization, gentrification, and tourism planning. It relies less on formal legal structures and more on economic restructuring.
Urban apartheid intentionally segregates groups and allocates resources/rights based on race rather than residency. It is an intentional creation reflecting ideology and policy goals of domination, not just individual choices.
#reference / Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Promise of Universality. Zahi Zalloua (2023).
[…] Foregrounding Palestinian Indigeneity reframes the Palestinian-Israeli conflict as a problem of wrongful dispossession, a historical harm that continues to be inflicted on the population under the brutal Occupation of the West Bank and #Gaza. At the same time, in a global context marked by liberal democratic ideology, such an approach leads either to liberal tolerance – the minority is permitted to exist so long as their culture can be contained within the majority order – or racial separatism, that is, appeals for national independence typically embodied in the two-state solution.
Aburish, Saïd K. 1989. Children of Bethany: The Story of a Palestinian Family. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
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In the 1920s and 1930s, life in the peaceful village of Bethany, outside #Jerusalem, was dominated by its flamboyant headman, Khalil Aburish, guardian of the tomb of Lazarus. Said Aburish, grandson of the headman, relates the vivid history of his family which, like so many others, has been torn apart by events in Palestine in the course of the century.
In 1948, with #Palestine in flames, the Aburish family scattered. Some remained in #bethany. Others began a new life across the world, establishing themselves as journalists, advertising executives, professors, bankers-even revolutionaries.
The Aburishes who stayed in Bethany watched as their peaceful way of life was destroyed by events in the outside world-culminating in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank which threatens their very existence.
#reference/ Chances for Peace: Missed Opportunities in the Arab-Israeli Conflict. University of Texas Press, 2015.
“Drawing on a newly developed theoretical definition of “missed opportunity,” Chances for Peace uses extensive sources in English, Hebrew, and Arabic to systematically measure the potentiality levels of opportunity across some ninety years of attempted negotiations in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
With enlightening revelations that defy conventional wisdom, this study provides a balanced account of the most significant attempts to forge peace, initiated by the world’s superpowers, the Arabs (including the Palestinians), and Israel.
From Arab-Zionist negotiations at the end of World War I to the subsequent partition, the aftermath of the 1967 War and the Sadat Initiative, and numerous agreements throughout the 1980s and 1990s, concluding with the Annapolis Conference in 2007 and the Abu Mazen-Olmert talks in 2008, pioneering scholar Elie Podeh uses empirical criteria and diverse secondary sources to assess the protagonists’ roles at more than two dozen key junctures.
A resource that brings together historiography, political science, and the practice of peace negotiation, Podeh’s insightful exploration also showcases opportunities that were not missed. Three agreements in particular (Israeli-Egyptian, 1979; Israeli-Lebanese, 1983; and Israeli-Jordanian, 1994) illuminate important variables for forging new paths to successful negotiation.
By applying his framework to a broad range of power brokers and time periods, Podeh also sheds light on numerous incidents that contradict official narratives. This unique approach is poised to reshape the realm of conflict resolution.”
Magid, Shaul. 2023. The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance. First. Brooklyn: Ayin Press. ayinpress.org/the-necessity-of….
[...] Magid's book dissects and critiques terms like Zionism, anti-Zionism, identity, Indigeneity and antisemitism – subjects that have dominated the public discourse over the past two and a half months.
[...] "But still, amidst the mourning and devastation, when the fog of war lifts and the mourners rise from shivah or take down their mourning tents, the same dilemma will exist: competing claims for rights, claims of ownership, and the land, the land, the land. … We can think – we must think – a way out of the cognitive trap of exceptionalism and exclusivity, rights and victimhood, on both sides, and the illusion of seeing violence as a solution, whether terrorism or state violence, even if we must do so through tears of grief, of sorrow, and of pain."
A thought-provoking work of political imagination, The Necessity of Exile seeks to rethink exile as a positive stance for constructive Jewish engagement with Israel|Palestine, antisemitism, diaspora, and a broken world in need of repair.
While researching the work of the Palestine Conciliation Commission (PCC, or UNCPP) , came across this quote from Conciliation Commission member Mark F. Ethridge in Moris' "The birth of the Palestinian refugee problem revisited" (2012):
[...] Mark Ethridge, the Southern Baptist appointed by Truman to the PCC, quickly understood that the developing impasse over the refugees was lethal to any possibility of peace. Ethridge thought Shertok’s attitude – that the refugees were ‘essentially unassimilable’ in Israel and should all be resettled in the Arab world – ‘inhuman’. Israel’s views in this context, he said, were ‘similar to those which I heard Hitler express in Germany in 1933. It [sic] might be described as anti-Semitism toward the Arabs.’ At the same time, he believed that ‘it might be wise in long run to resettle greater portion Arab refugees in neighbouring Arab states’.
#reference / Zwi Migdal (or Zvi Migdal) was a Polish-Jewish-run, most profitable prostitution ring in South America and beyond
Apropos Jeffrey Epstein’s unsealed court documents , his real heritage is possibly Zwi Migdal - a Jewish global crime syndicate trafficking Jewish women as sex slaves.
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1930 - The big trial had just ended. Judge Manuel Rodriguez Ocampo convicted 108 criminals with long sentences, forever disrupting the activities of the Zwi Migdal, the 30-year old, Jewish-run, most profitable prostitution ri…
#reference / The Catholic Church, anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism
from Theodor Herzl's personal diaries [English translation]; Book I, May-June 17, 1895:
[...] Anti-Semitism has grown and continues to grow — and so do I.
[...] I can still recall two different conceptions of the Question and its solution which I had in the course of those years. About two years ago I wanted to solve the Jewish Question, at least in Austria, with the help of the Catholic Church. I wished to gain access to the Pope (not without first assuring myself of the support of the Austrian church dignitaries) and say to him: Help us against the anti-Semites and I will start a great movement for the free and honorable conversion of Jews to Christianity.
[...] And because the Jewish leaders would remain Jews, escorting the people only to the threshold of the church and themselves staying outside, the whole performance was to be elevated by a touch of great candor.
[...] We, the steadfast men, would have constituted the last generation.
#reference/ Tabar, Linda, and Samia Al-Botmeh. 2021. “Real Estate Development Through Land Grabs: Predatory Accumulation and Precarity in Palestine.” New Political Economy 26 (5): 783–96. doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2020.…
Global capitalist dynamics within the settler colonial realities in #Palestine, examining the implications for Palestinians struggling to remain on their land
#reference / Shlaim, Avi, Nadim Rouhana, Andre Zaaiman, and Na’eem Jeenah. 2012. “Pretending Democracy: Israel, an Ethnocratic State.”
The "Iron Wall" doctrine is a political strategy proposed by Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky in 1923. Knowing very well European Jewish presence in Palestine would never be accepted, It advocated for the establishment of a Jewish state as a so-called "iron wall". The doctrine argued that Zionists should prioritize building up their own military and economic power without making any concessions to Arab interests or seeking Arab cooperation.
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Zionism, the founding fathers and the Palestine Arabs, Avi Shlaim
[...] My central thesis in this chapter is that the iron wall was a national strategy to which rival Zionist political camps subscribed during both the pre-independence and the post-independence periods. In other words, it will be argued that there was a remarkable convergence between mainstream Labour Zionism and right-wing Revisionist Zionism when it came to the Arab question and that this convergence persisted after 1948 under the Labor Party, Likud, and Kadima. To say this is not to deny the existence of deep differences between the rival political camps. Clearly, there was always a European-style ideological divergence between the left and right wing on social, economic and political issues. Nor is it to deny that there were also significant differences when it came to the Arab question. Rather, the argument is that while left and right were divided on the territorial aims of Zionism, they were united on the strategy of the iron wall. Revisionist Zionism staked a claim to a Jewish state over the whole of the British mandate of Palestine, including Transjordan. Labour Zionists, on the other hand, accepted the principle of the partition of Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. At the risk of over-simplification, the two groups may therefore be described as territorial maximalists and territorial realists. Yet – and this is the crucial point – regardless of the extent of their territorial ambition, the two groups understood that, given the absolute Arab rejection of the whole idea, a Jewish state could be established only by force of arms.
#Palestine and the UN / Imseis, Ardi. The United Nations and the Question of Palestine: Rule by Law and the Structure of International Legal Subalternity. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New york, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Imseis criticizes the two-state solution, stating that it was not aligned with core principles of international law when originally envisioned and has contributed to Palestine's contingent status in the international legal order. Despite the Palestinian Liberation Organization's recognition of Israel in 1988 and acceptance of the partition plan of 1947, the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territory remains in place, raising questions about the validity of this historical compromise.
[...] Put simply, partition could never be legal without the freely expressed consent of the governed, and in #Palestine the vast majority of the population outright refused partition as an abomination of international law and their right to self-determination vis a vis the European settlers in their midst. Examination of the #UN record, in the form of the public and private meetings and report of the UN Special Committee on Palestine (#UNSCOP) as well as the General Assembly debates that followed, demonstrates that partition was not based on these international legal considerations. Rather, it was driven by powerful European states and their settler-colonial affiliates. The UN record reveals that the declared goal of these states was to rectify Europe’s centuries-old Jewish question in the wake of the #Holocaust and to do so at the expense of the innocent third-party Palestinians.
Germany and Israel: Whitewashing and Statebuilding by Daniel Marwecki (London: Hurst & Company, 2020), 274 Pages
From the abstract:
[…] Thorough archival research shows how German policymakers often had disingenuous, cynical or even partly antisemitic motivations, seeking to whitewash their Nazi past by supporting the new Israeli state. This is the true context of West Germany’s crucial backing of Israel in the 1950s and ’60s. German economic and military support greatly contributed to Israel’s early consolidation and eventual regional hegemony. This initial alliance has affected Germany’s role in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict to the present day.
#UNRWA / Preserving the Palestine Heritage: paper and film documents held by UNRWA need preservation
[...] Hundreds of thousands, 296,680, of family files containing more than 16 million documents, including travel documents; land deeds; birth, death and marriage certificates; guardianship papers; utility and tax bills; curfew permits from the British Mandate period and other documents dating back to the period of Ottoman rule before World War I are also held by UNRWA. They are being preserved now through a project that is seeing the digitizing and indexing of these files.
In #genocide and #colonialism / Ahmida, Ali Abdullatif. Genocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge, 2021.
[…] Between 1929 and 1934, thousands of Libyans lost their lives, directly murdered and victim to Italian deportations and internments. They were forcibly removed from their homes, marched across vast tracks of deserts and mountains, and confined behind barbed wire in 16 concentration camps. It is a story that Libyans have recorded in their Arabic oral history and narratives while remaining hidden and unexplored in a systematic fashion, and never in the manner that has allowed us to comprehend and begin to understand the extent of their existence.
Tamir, Dan. Hebrew Fascism in Palestine, 1922-1942. 1st ed. 2018, Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
A timely read, considering all the conditioned Tamir discussed in 2019 seem to be present in Israel today.
The combination of a constitutional crisis, a major national threat, economic distress, and a charismatic right-wing leader could potentially lead to a resurgence of fascist-like politics in Israel, even if the manifestations would differ from historical #fascism. But this scenario is not inevitable.
CAMERA [The Zionist Watchdog] vs. JPS [and Ilan Pappé):
#CAMERA's relentless pro-Israel activism has drawn significant criticism, yet some mainstream media outlets continue to quote the organization as if it is a neutral arbiter on Middle East issues.
This is one example of how they work.
The Journal of Palestine Studies (#JPS) published an article by Ilan Pappé in 2006 that contained an inaccurate citation of a quote attributed to David Ben-Gurion. #CAMERA jumped at the opportunity.
Upon further review, JPS found an even more serious error - a misplaced quotation mark that significantly changed the meaning of the Ben-Gurion quote. To correct this and provide more context, JPS obtained a full translation of Ben-Gurion's 1937 letter to his son, which discusses Ben-Gurion's views on partition, the need to transfer Arabs, and using force if necessary.
The full letter shows that Pappé's portrayal of Ben-Gurion's thinking on transfer was accurate, and that the quotes attributed to Ben-Gurion are well-supported by the historical record.
"We must expel Arabs and take their place."
"If the Arabs stand in our way, we shall have to push them aside with the use of force, if need be."
"Our strength vis-à-vis the Arabs will likewise increase. The possibilities for construction and multiplication will speedily expand. The greater the Jewish strength in the country, the more the Arabs will realize that it is neither beneficial nor possible for them to withstand us."
"If we are compelled to use force - not in order to dispossess the Arabs of the Negev or Transjordan, but in order to guarantee our right to settle there - our force will enable us to do so."
The letter shows Ben-Gurion explicitly supporting the idea of forcibly transferring Arabs out of areas designated for a future Jewish state, even if it required the use of military force.
“JPS Responds to CAMERA’s Call for Accuracy: Ben-Gurion and the Arab Transfer.” Journal of Palestine Studies, vol. 41, no. 2, 2012, pp. 245–50. JSTOR, doi.org/10.1525/jps.2012.xli.2…. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
More information on the letter, Ben-Gurion's intent. Of interest is Rabbi Chaim Simons , who concludes:
"But at no point during the 1930s and 1940s did Ben-Gurion ever go on record against the idea or policy of transfer. On the contrary, Ben-Gurion left a paper trail a mile long as to his actual thinking, and no amount of ignoring, twisting and turning, manipulation, contortion, and distortion can blow it away."
Attar, Samar. Debunking the Myths of Colonization: The Arabs and Europe. Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 2010.
[...] Chaim Weizmann (1874–1952), who was born in Russia and later became a naturalized British subject and in 1948 the first president of the State of Israel, said of the Palestinians: “The British told us that there are some hundred thousands Negroes. . . and for those there is no value.” Rafael Eitan, the Israeli general and former Chief of Staff, whose ancestry goes back to Russia too, speaks of Palestinians in 1983 as “drugged cockroaches inside a bottle.” This is the common crude language of intruders/ colonists who have originally arrived from Europe to different parts of the world. Ironically, the Jews in Europe were never considered Europeans, yet some of them seemed to have emulated the racial and ideological make-up of their tormentors!
It's still colonialism, but Epstein was witness to the dispossession of Palestinian tenant farmers from their land by Jewish land purchasing practices, and in his speech to the 7th Zionist Congress in Basel in 1905, he advocates for an ethical and inclusive approach to the Zionist settlement, recognizing the rights and humanity of the Arab population, and promoting a path of coexistence, cooperation, and mutual understanding between Jews and Arabs in #Palestine.
[...] We devote attention to everything related to our homeland, we discuss and debate everything, we praise and criticize in every way, but one trivial thing we have overlooked so long in our lovely country: there exists an entire people who have held it for centuries and to whom it would never occur to leave.
Author Ehud Ben Ezer [...] From my understanding, the issue that troubled Yitzhak Epstein was the manner in which lands were acquired from the #Druze tenant farmers in the Metullah area (now the Rosh Pina moshav). He opposed the violent expulsion of the peasant farmers from the lands they had worked for generations, despite it being a difficult process accompanied by hatred and a desire for revenge from the displaced Druze.
Epstein supported an approach of coexistence and cooperation between Jews and Arabs in Palestine. He criticized the violent way in which the Metullah lands were acquired and called for closeness and mutual respect between the two peoples, as he tried to implement in the Rosh Pina moshav where he taught, in an attempt to expose his students to Arab culture.
In his speech "The Hidden Question," he presented his firm stance against the expulsion of Arab peasants from their lands, and called for mutual respectful relations, learning about Arab culture, and cooperative agricultural methods that would benefit both sides.
"צל הפרדסים והר הגעש: שיחות על השתקפות השאלה הערבית ודמות הערבי בספרות העברית בארץ־ישראל מסוף המאה הקודמת ועד ימינו / אהוד בן עזר - פרויקט בן־יהודה." 25 Apr. 2024, benyehuda.org/read/25465.
See also:
+972 Magazine. "The Zionist educator we should have listened to - +972 Magazine." +972 Magazine, 3 Apr. 2016, 972mag.com/the-zionist-educato….
At a time when Israel’s education minister sees only Jews as moral, it is worth remembering a prominent Zionist educator who taught us that things could have turned out differently.
Wind, Maya. Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom. Verso, 2024.
Excerpts:
The settler university: Israeli academia has always been part of Israel’s territorial objectives in Palestine. (2024, April 29). Retrieved from mg.co.za/thought-leader/opinio…
This is part two of three excerpts from Maya Wind's book Towers of Ivory and Steel. Based on research, the book is a gamechanger in the conversation about Israe
[cont'd] Eve of the 1948 war: 20,000 tons in food supplies for the Jewish community
Contrary to the myth that "few triumphed over many," Israel was well-prepared for a protracted conflict in 1948 and stood to benefit from taking over more Palestinian land than was allotted to it in the partition plan.
This preparedness became evident even before the British Mandate (occupation) over Palestine ended on May 15th, 1948. Israel's reliance on external assistance is a recurring theme throughout its history.
Unfortunately for the Palestinians, this reliance was not reciprocated by neighboring Arab countries.
Snippet from a UN Palestine Commission report dated April 12, 1948:
“walked back to #Palestine against the traffic of exile”
[…] In 1967, Sireen Sawalha's mother, with her young children, walked back to Palestine against the traffic of exile. My Brother, My Land is the story of Sireen's family in the decades that followed and their lives in the Palestinian village of Kufr Ra'i.
A riveting and unapologetic account of Palestinian resistance, the story of one family's care for their land, and a reflection on love and heartache while living under military occupation.
Diplomacy in the Shadow of Memory: Israel and West Germany, 1953–1965 ( Roni Stauber, 2023) [translation of the original title in Hebrew]
Israel's story is one where realpolitik often superseded moral considerations. Leveraging the "guilt card" proved advantageous for Israel, a tactic it continues to employ effectively even today. However, in recent decades, Israel has wielded this strategy more from a position of strength than out of the survivalist mindset of a persecuted people.
Tauber's books includes interesting revelations (or reminders, really), among which:
- Former Nazi officers assisted Israel in the 1950s and 1960s.
- Israel secretly used reparations money from Germany to purchase military equipment, with the Germans turning a blind eye to this violation of the reparations agreement.
- Germany funded the purchase of submarines, helicopters and missile boats for Israel from Britain and France.
- There are hints, but no definitive proof, that Germany also helped fund Israel's nuclear program at Dimona.
- High-ranking former Nazis and Wehrmacht officers who took senior positions in the West German administration assisted Israel and expressed admiration for its military capabilities, seeing it as a strategic asset in the Cold War.
- Israeli leaders like Ben-Gurion were willing to ignore the Nazi pasts of the German officials in order to secure vital military and economic aid for Israel's security.
- There were fierce internal debates in Israel over this pragmatic policy towards West Germany, with critics like Golda Meir accusing Ben-Gurion of giving Germany a "certificate of integrity."
- Israel later used the "guilt card" and Jewish influence (real or perceived) to pressure West Germany into establishing full diplomatic ties in 1965 after a crisis over an arms embargo.
While this heart-warming Israeli-German relationship has undoubtedly benefited Israel, it has come at a cost to the Palestinians. A reasonable expectation could be for Germany to adopt a more neutral stance regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, rather than favoring Israel, regardless of Israel's implicit involvement in war crimes. Israel's security concerns are no longer existential in nature, and its primary motivation is to annex the occupied territories.
See also: Germany and Israel: Whitewashing and Statebuilding by Daniel Marwecki (London: Hurst & Company, 2020), 274 Pages kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/1120…
Germany and Israel: Whitewashing and Statebuilding by Daniel Marwecki (London: Hurst & Company, 2020), 274 Pages
From the abstract:
[…] Thorough archival research shows how German policymakers often had disingenuous, cynical or even partly antisemitic motivations, seeking to whitewash their Nazi past by supporting the new Israeli state. This is the true context of West Germany’s crucial backing of Israel in the 1950s and ’60s. German economic and military support greatly contributed to Israel’s early consolidation and eventual regional hegemony. This initial alliance has affected Germany’s role in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict to the present day.
#Israel / On the brink of fascism, will Israel actually cross over? In light of the occupation, the ethnocracy, and the strengthening of racist forces, one cannot ignore the danger of the fascist option being realized in Israel.
[...] At the head of the arrow of the nationalist ideology and the historical philosophy that mandates 'the eternity of Israel' and is intertwined with non-recognition of the legitimacy of 'the enemy', stands a populist, charismatic, demagogic and authoritarian leader - #Netanyahu, who is one step away from becoming a fascist leader. It is no wonder that neo-fascist or authoritarian-populist leaders, like Donald #Trump in the US, Narendra #Modi in India or Viktor #Orban in Hungary, are his reference group and fitting analogies for the kind of leadership he represents.
[...] If we add to all this the occupation and #apartheid regime that #Israel has been leading for more than half a century in the West Bank - and the transition from a 'temporary occupation' to a permanent colonialist situation, which paved the way for the legal process now awaiting at the International Criminal Court in The Hague - and if we add the ethnocratic features, whereby according to the political geographer Oren Yiftachel one ethnic group appropriates the institutions and resources of the state at the expense of minorities, while continuing to present itself as a (hollow) democracy, and above all the strengthening of the religious-racist forces - then we cannot ignore the danger of the fascist option materializing in Israel.
Prof. David Ohana is the author of the book The Fascist Temptation (Routledge 2021), and Prof. Oded Heilbronner is the author of the book From Popular Liberalism to National Socialism (Routledge 2017).
Tamir, Dan. Hebrew Fascism in Palestine, 1922-1942. 1st ed. 2018, Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
A timely read, considering all the conditioned Tamir discussed in 2019 seem to be present in Israel today.
The combination of a constitutional crisis, a major national threat, economic distress, and a charismatic right-wing leader could potentially lead to a resurgence of fascist-like politics in Israel, even if the manifestations would differ from historical #fascism. But this scenario is not inevitable.
Memorandum Prepared in the Department of State from June 4, 1947.
A Plan for the Future Government of Palestine
I. basic principles
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B. Palestine should become neither an Arab State nor a Jewish State but a single independent Palestine State in which all its people, of whatever religion or blood, may dwell together in concord. In particular, Palestine should continue to provide a Jewish National Home in its spiritual and cultural aspects, as well as a home for the Arabs and all others who live there.
This document is a memorandum prepared in the U.S. Department of State in 1947 outlining a plan for the future government of Palestine. It was published as part of the Foreign Relations of the United States (#FRUS) series, which is a collection of documents compiled by the U.S. Department of State that contains records of the foreign policy of the United States.
W. Thomas Mallison and Sally V. Mallison. 1979. “International Law Analysis of Major UN Resolutions Concerning the Question of Palestine - CEIRPP Study.” un.org/unispal/document/auto-i….
On the issue of self-determination and its application to Palestine: The analysis examines the development of the right to self-determination as a legal principle, citing historical examples like the American Revolution and its codification in the UN Charter. It analyzes General Assembly resolutions that further define and apply this right (Resolutions 1514, 2625, 2649, 3089D, 3236) and asserts its specific applicability to the Palestinian people. The analysis underscores that this right encompasses "national independence and sovereignty" and permits "all means," including armed struggle, to regain it when denied.
[...] Since the American Revolution relied upon armed struggle to achieve self-determination about a century and a third before the principle of self-determination was used in the post World War I peace settlement, 168/ it is not surprising that the General Assembly specifies it as a permissible method now. Its permissibility is legally significant as an authoritative General Assembly assertion that armed struggle for self-determination is consistent with the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter. In a situation such as Palestine where the people has been denied its right of self-determination by armed force, the right to regain it by armed struggle is considered permissible under article 51 of the Charter concerning self-defense.
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AN INTERNATIONAL LAW ANALYSIS OF THE MAJOR UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTIONS CONCERNING THE PALESTINE QUESTION
by W. Thomas Mallison *
[...] Ben-Gurion probably never heard the word “Nakba,” but early on, at the end of the 1950s, Israel’s first prime minister grasped the importance of the historical narrative. Just as #Zionism had forged a new narrative for the Jewish people within a few decades, he understood that the other nation that had resided in the country before the advent of Zionism would also strive to formulate a narrative of its own. For the Palestinians, the national narrative grew to revolve around the Nakba, the calamity that befell them following Israel’s establishment in 1948, when about 700,000 Palestinians became refugees.
Historian Shay Hazkani (today an associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland) uncovered in this early publication a concerted effort orchestrated by Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, to manipulate the historical narrative surrounding the 1948 Palestinian exodus/explosion.
Seeking to secure international sympathy for the Jewish state (which declared independence unilaterally after a failed attempt to implement the partition resolution and while the UN were busy formulation a trustsheep, suggested by the U.S.), Ben-Gurion instructed Israeli historians to produce research that would obscure the expulsion of Palestinians, instead promoting the narrative that they fled their homes voluntarily.
Hazkani argues that this manipulation was a calculated attempt to rewrite history, downplaying Israel's role in the Palestinian #Nakba and swaying global opinion in favor of the newly established nation.
"The Palestinian Arabs wanted Palestine because they lived there. The Zionists demanded it because the land had been promised by their God "Yahwa" which promise was later confirmed by "Balfour", ratified by the League of Nations, and finally, by the United Nations. For the Zionists it was a "return" full of mystical significance. For the Arabs, it was simply another invasion."
Armajani, Yahya. 1970. Middle East: Past and Present. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall. p. 315.
Book review: **Dimitri Shomsky**. Did Zionism Seek to Establish a Nation-State? The Zionist Political Imagination from Pinsker to Ben-Gurion (1882-1948)
Dimitri Shomsky's book challenges the conventional narrative of Zionist aspirations, arguing that before the Peel Commission's 1937 proposal to partition Palestine, the dominant Zionist vision wasn't necessarily a fully independent nation-state. Instead, Shomsky posits that many Zionist leaders favored a model of Jewish autonomy within existing empires, drawing parallels to similar aspirations of other nationalities within the Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and Ottoman empires.
He examines the writings of key Zionist figures like #Herzl, #Jabotinsky, and Ben-Gurion, highlighting instances where their proposals suggested a degree of autonomy rather than outright independence.
The book also explores the influence of the "Helsinki Program," a plan focusing on securing equal rights for Jews within the Russian Empire. Shomsky's work introduces previously unknown Russian-language materials, particularly concerning Jabotinsky's dual commitment to both Jewish nationalism and his deep-rooted connection to his Russian identity.
The author ultimately presents an alternative historical perspective on Zionism, suggesting a path that could have been, but wasn't, taken.
Review by Anita Shapira, Professor Emerita, Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University.
Dr. Omri Shefer Raviv’s book, “The Homeowners: The Israeli Government and the Palestinians, 1967-1969”, researches the formative decisions that shaped Israel’s governance of the Palestinians in the immediate aftermath of the 1967 war—policies whose echoes resonate today while Israel is destroying Gaza and attempting, again, to empty it of its indigenous population (mostly descendants of the internal refugees of the 1948 #Nakba).
Raviv argues that the initial assumption of a temporary occupation quickly fractured, with divergent views emerging within the Israeli government. While some envisioned annexation, others saw the territories as bargaining chips, and still others prioritized a strong military presence. However, a common thread was the desire for control.
Moshe Dayan, Minister of Defense, emerges as a central figure, actively dismissing any prospect of a political solution and advocating for the perpetuation of the occupation. As described in the book, Dayan prioritized a strategy of economic dependence to maintain control, declaring that it was the "most important success" and that "100,000 refugees have passed from Israel to Jordan.” The book details how policies were deliberately designed to create this reliance, hindering Palestinian development.
[...] "I wish they would all leave… I know the images and descriptions in the newspapers of people wading through water with their children… and in the heat of Jericho, those aren’t dignified scenes… but it’s the most practical thing happening today, with 1,000 refugees crossing every day.”
Raviv describes systematic efforts to encourage Palestinian emigration, including outright expulsion. Dayan reportedly expressed a desire to see Palestinians leave, stating that "it would be a pity if we had to deal with them," and that he hoped "they all pass”. These actions, coupled with the creation of conditions meant to incentivize migration, foreshadowed current strategies.
In this document, which is a communication from the UK Delegation to the UN Palestine Commission, forwarding questions and answers from the UK House of Commons on February 18, 1948, Mr. Bevin, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs outlines the UK's stance on Palestine as the mandate nears its end on May 15th [1948], is acknowledging the #UK will not enforce the partition of Palestine or impose solutions unacceptable to both Arabs and Jews.
[...] Mr Bevin: I have repeatedly announced, as my Right Honourable Friend the Secretary of State for the Colonies announced at the beginning and His Majesty’s Government adhere to it now, that we cannot take part in forcing partition in Palestine or in any solution that is not acceptable to the Arabs and the Jews.
Sayegh, Fayez A. Zionist colonialism in Palestine. Research Center, Palestine Liberation Organization, 1965.
Fayez Abdullah Sayegh (1922-1980) achieved his most significant diplomatic victory on November 10, 1975, when, as Kuwait's delegate, he co-authored and presented UN General Assembly Resolution #3379, which determined Zionism to be "a form of racism and racial discrimination."
This resolution represented the culmination of his lifelong intellectual and diplomatic work challenging Zionist colonialism, though it was later revoked in 1991 as a precondition for Israel's participation in the Madrid Conference.
He was born in Syria to a Presbyterian minister, and earned is PhD in philosophy from Georgetown University. He taught at major institutions including Yale and Stanford before founding the #PLO Research Center in 1965 and serving on its Executive Committee.
His analysis of Zionism, most systematically presented in "Zionist Colonialism in Palestine" (1965), distinguished the Zionist project from other European colonial movements by emphasizing its unique features: racial self-segregation, fundamental rejection of any coexistence with indigenous populations, unbending drive toward territorial expansion, and reliance on structural violence to achieve its goals. He argued these characteristics were "congenial, essential and permanent" rather than temporary tactics, making Zionist settler colonialism incompatible with Palestinian existence and posing a broader threat to regional stability and anti-colonial movements worldwide.
His framework positioned Palestinian resistance as legitimate anti-colonial struggle, arguing that "rights undefended are rights surrendered" and that Palestinian sacrifices maintained the legitimacy of their claims even in defeat.
"Unlike European colonization elsewhere, therefore, Zionist colonization of Palestine was essentially incompatible with the continued existence of the 'native population' in the coveted country" [p. 5]
[…] If we are thirsty, we will squeeze the rock, and if we are hungry, we will eat the earth. We will not leave. Here we have a past, present, and future.
Zionist historians, such as Benny Morris, dismiss personal accounts of survivors and eyewitnesses, except for those who were #Holocaust survivors. In fact, Israel’s ethos is built on these accounts, albeit retrospectively. These accounts have been exploited to justify the genocide of the Palestinian people.
The #Tantura massacre, an event of the Nakba that Israelis are still unable to acknowledge, has been a subject of controversy in recent years. Documentaries exposing the horror of the massacre continue to be produced today. Here’s a story of a second-generation #Nakba survivor from her speech at the ceremony commemorating the ongoing Nakba on May 14th, Antin Square, Tel Aviv University (which stands on the lands of Sheikh Munis).
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Ayoub, Muhsen, Dasouki, and Kanaanah. These are the names of my families, from different places in historical Palestine. In a parallel world, where the Nakba had not occurred, I would have grown up in Ajzam, my father's family's village, and I would spend every weekend at my grandfather's house, facing the coast in Tantura. I was supposed to be a daughter of the Carmel, and even though I am now a daughter of the Carmel and the coastal plain, it is much more complicated... I remember the age when I began to see the difference between my grandfathers. One would go to Ajzam, today Kerem Maharal. The other would walk down to the beach of Tantura every morning, and I would accompany both of them on their walks.
I don't know how to tell you this story. The most appropriate thing is to tell it to you as it is. My grandfather, Youssef, is a survivor of the Tantura massacre. He was six years old at the time of the massacre, when he saw his loved ones killed, and was forced to bury some of his family with his own hands. His entire family is buried under the ruins of the village. Today, this area has a parking lot for visitors to the beach, which has been given the name "Dor Beach."
My grandfather was not one of those who talked about and shared the story of their displacement. He was one of those who lived the tragedy in silence and pain. Until a certain age, I was unable to understand his insistence on visiting the beach every day. Until one day he said that he had one wish in life – to die on the beach of Tantura. My grandfather did not continue with his wish, and did not say that he wanted to be buried on the beach of Tantura, because he knew that a thick layer of asphalt separated him from his wish.
My grandfather on the other side, Hassan, was a farmer who loved his land. He taught us to love the land like him and to enjoy picking za'atar, hubeza, and everything that the good land gives us. He used to describe Ajzam as a paradise, where pure springs flow. Although he was displaced and lived in several places since that cursed day, in Ein Hod or in my current residence of Furaydis, the name Ajzam always remained on his lips. He would glorify it to such an extent that if one of his grandchildren showed intelligence or talent, my grandfather would say to him with great pride: "You are truly a Jazmawi."
Despite the different stories, both of my grandfathers felt the pain of losing land and saw their loved ones die before their eyes. Israel not only stole the land and the lives of those who lived on it, it also stole their dreams and wishes, it stole their lives. I want to go back and complete the story of my grandfather Youssef – the Tanturi. The story of my grandfather's life ended two years ago, but it accompanies me to this day. His wish that I told you about came true. On a day like any other, two years ago, my grandfather went for a walk on the beach of Tantura – and fate decided to fulfill his last wish. My grandfather died of a heart attack on the beach of Tantura, after he finished walking, breathed the air of Tantura, and was satisfied with the beauty of its landscapes.
My grandfather Youssef's story is indeed a sad story, but I, as his granddaughter, would not wish him any other fate. He was born in Tantura and returned to it. How can I wish something else for someone who was always singing about Tantura: "You filled my heart with your love. Wrap yourself in my eyelashes and sleep in peace. And like your land, I have not loved and to my blood it is equal." Both of my grandfathers continued to Furaydis, which was a safe haven for them. But my story does not end there.
Israel, in its criminal ways, has tried and is still trying to erase everything Palestinian. The war of extermination against our people in Gaza is still ongoing. Since its beginning, many stories have been added to the stories of the Nakba – more than 70,000 stories. From this platform, I want to promise my grandfather and our heroic people clinging to their homeland in Gaza that we will preserve your stories and tell them to preserve the memory. They will be the answer to any attempt to separate us from our people and from their right to return and liberation.
And because we are a proud, stubborn, and living people, I found in the stories of our family displacement the story of Palestine. My grandfather Youssef fulfilled his wish and died on the beach of Tantura as he wished. I found the spring of Ajzam and drank from its waters, and I met my neighbor from #Ajzam on the path of struggle. But the road is still long. The Palestinian students, and all our people who remained in their homeland, promise that we will continue on this path until the end – until liberation, return, and the Palestinian state. We are here to stay, and if you do not agree – drink the sea water. We will preserve the shade of the fig and olive tree and sow thoughts, like yeast in dough, with coolness and a burning heart. If we are thirsty, we will squeeze the rock, and if we are hungry, we will eat the earth. We will not leave. Here we have a past, present, and future.
Anti-War Activism / We Refuse: Saying No to the Army in Israel [French]
A new book titled "Nous refusons. Dire non à l'armée en Israël" (We Refuse: Saying No to the Army in Israel) has been published by #Libertalia m.
It is a collection of testimonies and photographs of Israeli war and occupation resisters. The book is a follow-up to a previous work by Martin Barzilai, "Refuzniks," published in 2017, and includes personal stories of Israeli activists explaining their reasons for refusing military service.
The introduction was written by French-Israeli filmmaker Eyal Sivan.
We Refuse: Saying No to the Army in Israel
[…] « La chose la pire qui soit en Israël, à part être palestinien, c'est être un traître. » Eviatar Rubin a 22 ans. Quand le photographe Martin Barzilai le rencontre pour la première fois il y a deux ans, l'attaque terroriste du Hamas et la riposte israélienne n'ont pas encore eu lieu. Le jeune homme, qui vit à Haïfa, est déjà déterminé : pas question de faire son service militaire, pas question de « participer à l'occupation sioniste, à un régime d'apartheid ». Alors il refuse de rejoindre l'armée. Il passera pour cela quatre mois en prison. Puis il retournera à ses activités militantes : manifestations politiques et soutien aux familles palestiniennes expulsées de leur logement.
[…] "The worst thing in Israel, apart from being Palestinian, is being a traitor." Eviatar Rubin is 22 years old. When the photographer Martin Barzilai meets him for the first time two years ago, the Hamas terrorist attack and the Israeli response have not yet taken place. The young man, who lives in Haifa, is already determined: no question of doing his military service, no question of "participating in the Zionist occupation, in an apartheid regime." So he refuses to join the army. He will spend four months in prison for this. Then he will return to his militant activities: political demonstrations and support for Palestinian families evicted from their homes.
Dire non à l'armée en Israël « Quand j'ai reçu la première lettre de l'armée, à 16 ans, j'étais en compagnie de ma meilleure amie qui est palestinienne. Nous avons grandi comme des sœurs. Elle a jeté un œil sur l'enveloppe.
Something *really* big seems to be happening in Russia. Government official planes fly east, military build up near border at Lithuania and overflight into Finnish airspace.
Link is live feed but timestamped top pick up where it gets interesting.
Only minutes ago over a dozen Russian government aircraft have taken off form Moscow's airports, flying to every corner of the Russian Federation filled with...
Health authorities in Gaza report 38 killed and over 200 injured in 24 hours, bringing the total toll to 53,939 dead and 122,797 wounded since the Israeli genocide began.
With the right care routine, you can keep your marble looking stunning. Here’s how to clean and protect it in humid environments.
Marble’s timeless elegance enhances any space, but humid climates can threaten its pristine condition. If you’re in a damp, coastal, or tropical area, you may have noticed marble surfaces—like a large marble slab for wall accents or luxury wall tiles—showing signs of mildew, yellowing, or dullness. With the right care routine, you can keep your marble looking stunning. Here’s how to clean and protect it in humid environments.
Why Marble Struggles with Humidity
Marble’s porous nature makes it vulnerable to moisture. In humid conditions, water from steam, spills, or even the air can penetrate the stone, leading to stains, etching, or mold growth. Grout lines are particularly susceptible to mildew, especially in bathrooms or kitchens. High-end installations like luxury wall tiles or a large marble slab for wall use require consistent care to maintain their beauty in moist settings.
Keep It Dry Every Day
The best defense against humidity is keeping marble dry. Wipe down marble surfaces daily with a soft, dry microfiber cloth, especially in high-moisture areas like bathrooms or kitchens. Focus on areas where water tends to pool, such as near sinks or the base of a large marble slab for wall installations in showers. Even small amounts of standing water can cause damage over time.
Don’t let wet items like towels, sponges, or soap bottles sit on marble surfaces. A quick daily wipe-down prevents moisture from seeping in and keeps mold at bay.
Clean with Care
Marble demands a gentle cleaning approach. Avoid acidic cleaners like vinegar or bleach, which can etch or discolor the stone. Opt for a pH-neutral cleaner formulated for natural stone, or mix a few drops of mild dish soap with warm water. Wipe the marble with a damp, soft cloth, rinse with clean water, and dry immediately to avoid water spots.
This method is essential for luxury wall tiles, where even slight damage is noticeable. Never let cleaning solutions linger, as they can cause etching if not rinsed promptly.
Seal Consistently for Protection
Sealing is critical in humid climates to protect marble from moisture. A quality sealant forms a protective layer that blocks water and prevents stains. In drier climates, sealing once a year may be enough, but in humid areas, reseal every six months. This is particularly important for light-colored marble or luxury wall tiles in high-traffic areas like bathrooms.
To check if resealing is needed, place a few drops of water on the marble. If they bead up, the sealant is working. If they soak in or darken the stone, apply a new coat of stone-specific sealant, ensuring the surface is clean and dry.
Maintain Grout Lines
Grout is a magnet for moisture and mold in humid environments. Seal it every six months alongside the marble to keep it protected. For stains or mildew, apply a paste of baking soda and water, let it sit for a few minutes, then scrub gently with a soft brush. Rinse thoroughly and dry completely to prevent further issues.
Avoid harsh chemicals or abrasive scrubbers, as they can damage both the grout and the marble. Regular grout maintenance ensures your marble installation stays clean and durable.
Enhance Ventilation
Good airflow is essential for marble in humid spaces. Stagnant, damp air encourages mold growth, even on sealed surfaces. Run exhaust fans during and after showers or cooking to lower humidity levels. A dehumidifier can help in consistently moist rooms. Open windows when the outdoor air is less humid, and use ceiling fans to promote air circulation. This is vital for large marble slabs for wall use, where trapped moisture can cause unseen damage.
Prevent Small Mistakes
Marble damage often results from minor oversights. Don’t let wet items like soap dispensers or damp cloths sit on marble surfaces, as they can cause stains over time. Clean spills immediately to avoid etching. Avoid abrasive scrubbers or generic cleaners, which can strip the sealant or scratch the stone. Regularly dry areas prone to water buildup, like shower corners or sink backsplashes.
Polish Carefully
If your marble loses its shine, a marble-specific polish can restore its natural luster. Use it sparingly with a soft cloth, following the product’s instructions closely. Over-polishing or using the wrong product can harm the surface, so aim for a gentle, natural sheen rather than an overly glossy finish.
Call in Experts When Needed
For deep stains, persistent mold, or severe etching, professional help is the best option. DIY attempts to sand or chemically treat marble can worsen the damage. A stone restoration specialist can safely repair high-value installations like luxury marble tiles or a large marble slab for wall use, ensuring long-lasting results.
Final Thoughts
Marble can remain stunning in humid climates with consistent care. Dry it daily, clean it gently, seal it regularly, and maintain good airflow. These straightforward steps protect your investment, keeping your marble—whether it’s a large marble slab for wall accents or exquisite luxury wall tiles—beautiful for years.
This paragraph from the excellent article in the Irish Examiner nails it. #TransRights #SistersNotCISters “It’s too early to know the practical ramifications of Wednesday’s UK Supreme Court ruling on trans identities, in which the meaning of the Gender Recognition Act was reversed without a single testimony from a trans person being heard, but said ruling has been a source of lip-smacking delight for the fringe group of gender-critical activists who have worked hard to making Britain the Anglosphere’s uncontested capital of galloping, gleeful transphobia. And it is this glee, this sheer horrible joy at everything being done, that can be so hard to swallow, so wearying to comprehend. It’s not enough that decades of slow, painful advances in human rights and basic decency can be reversed in a matter of weeks, it’s that we must watch the world’s collective ghouls cackling loudly with ecstasy as it happens”
Séamas O'Reilly: 'We’ve watched as the worst people on Earth have had the best days of their lives' irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co…
UPDATE; I am adding this long and excellent article from The Gist, because it’s a really important one; it clarifies where the UK has gone wrong, and where the EU gives protections for trans people. It also points out at the end that the UK is going to have a little issue with that ruling from the Supreme Court…. thegist.ie/the-gist-trans-righ…
Another important edit. - the science on genetics DNA and the variety of genders. The transphobes, Starmer and the Supreme Court judges really need to read and understand all of this. thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p…
UPDATE [26th April 2025] This is one excellent journalist, who really gets to the heart of the matter. And no, we do not want this very British hate and harassment coming to Ireland at all. #TransRightsAreHumanRights irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co…
A UK court has made a decision defining genders which has put it at odds with a less noticed, more important, decision from the CJEU. This is the Gist.
Caracas, May 25 (Prensa Latina) President Nicolas Maduro called today for a vote for peace and life for a better Venezuela, at the start of the regional and legislative elections taking place there.
President Trump is ramping up pressure on the European Union with a stark trade ultimatum: either align with Washington’s tariff agenda vis-à-vis China or risk sweeping 50% duties on exports to the US.
My wife's Meta accounts have been deleted for reasons that are not particularly clear.
She uploaded some (extremely uncontroversial) family holiday photos to Instagram and some AI bot has decided they "Violated community rules". She appealed and another AI bot agreed with the first one.
So her Instagram account was "permanently disabled", and that appears to have taken down her Facebook and Messenger access too. Because apparently that's a thing that can happen to loyal users of 15 years.
Doing my best to convince her to take the hint and join the Fediverse instead, but running into the usual Mutual Action Problem.
Anyway, I was reminded of this column from Cory Doctorow, outlining how Metagoogle have done even worse to others. pluralistic.net/2022/08/22/all…
Well that sucks. But stories like yours will be grist to the mill when trying to convince others to migrate. Like many families, we use Facebook Messenger for chats, photos and general banter. But recent changes there (in particular the intrusion of various "AI" "assistance") is making things less and less useful. I think this might be enough to convince at least some some of those families move to Signal @signalapp
Painful though it is, this is a bit like the first time someone loses all their data because they weren't backing up. I.e., it's a lesson that most people have to learn the hard way.
The added irony is that she doesn't even care about Instagram, and only uses it to post photos for some far-flung family. But it's taken down Facebook and Messenger that she does rely on for communication.
The added added irony is that she posted the exact same photos to Facebook the day before without any problems.
Welcome to a world where AI has ingested The Trial by Franz Kafka and mistaken it for an instruction manual.
#Germany / Growing internal pressure to halt weapon exports to Israel
Leading members of Germany's SPD are urging the government to stop weapon exports to #Israel die to concerns about potential war crimes in #Gaza. Pressure is mounting on the government due to the humanitarian crisis and alleged violations of international law. The #SPD is also facing internal pressure to take a stronger stance.
In Gaza könnte sich Deutschland an Kriegsverbrechen mitschuldig machen, fürchten führende Sozialdemokraten. Die Regierung dürfe keine Waffen mehr an Israe...
Es ist gut, dass sich der Wind in Deutschland ein bisschen dreht und sagbar wird, dass in Gaza Menschen leben, hungern, sterben.
Etwas kritische Selbstbetrachtung derer, die das jetzt endlich sagen, würde nicht schaden. Auch hier leben Palästinenser*innen und es ist kaum Vertrauen übrig.
Mes amis, nous ne sommes ni dans un film ni dans les années 40. Nous sommes en 2025, les sionistes ont frappé l’école Fahmi Al-Jargawi, brûlant vives 30 personnes, dont les frères et la famille de la petite fille qui a survécu aux flammes.
Partagez au maximum pour que le monde voie la réalité : c’est un nettoyage ethnique sous les yeux de tous.
I will be selling my Pete zine at this market in Saturday. Our local writers networking group will have a stall there ❤️ I love this market and try to get there as much as possible to support local creatives. If you are in #launceston go check it out ❤️👏#writer
Laith Marouf & Hadi Hotait drive to two villages in south Lebanon, Toul in the Nabatieh region and Touline right on the border with occupied Palestine, to investigate the sites of Zionist attacks designed to terrorize civilians and to deter high vote…
Meet Collario — the world’s first AI-powered smart accessory that combines fashion, function, and full-time guidance. Equipped with dual cameras, a microphone, LED indicator, speakers, and a self-adjusting fit system, Collario watches your surroundings, listens, and speaks back through a built-in assistant. It’s always on, always with you — making decisions easier, safer, and smarter.
We’re building a new category of wearable: not just a tracker, but a behavioral co-pilot. Think of it as an AirPods-meets-guardian-angel — with mass market potential across lifestyle, wellness, and security.
We’re raising a seed round at a $2B valuation to launch the future of autonomous personal guidance.
Hmmmm.... There have been several science fiction stories, including TV shows and movies, where prisoners, or "citizens", are "collared" with a smart device..... I think in some the devices were programmed to decapitate the wearer.
A while ago I got the chance to get lessons on NoSQL. I already had lessons and some experience with SQL in the past, so here I'd like to share in short my current knowledge about these two concepts. Note that I liberally use the word query in this article both for querying data (i.e. select), as well as changing data (i.e. insert, update, delete).
SQL
SQL is short for Structured Query Language, and is often pronounced "sequel". It's a language to query a so called Relational Database. When people talk about a SQL database, they mean a Relational Database that you can query using the SQL language. The database model is mostly aimed at being consistent. The database consists of tables with columns and rows. Columns tell you what type of data we have, and new data is added by adding rows. You can visualise it by thinking of spreadsheets. There can be relations between different tables, they are defined by saying what columns in different tables correspond with each other. There are so called one-to-one relations, one-to-many relations, and many-to-many relations. Typically you can group tables together in a so called schema. It's not always useful to use this, so in many cases people just put all tables from the database in a default schema. In PostgreSQL the default schema is called public.
To give a simplified example of how a SQL database can look; Let's say we have a social network platform with users who make posts and they can like posts. We want to store that in a SQL database. We can have a table USERS, a table POSTS, and a table LIKES. The USERS table can have a column username. Maybe there's also other columns, like profile for profile information, email and passwordhash for authentication, etc. Then we have the POSTS table who needs a column content, user, and created_time. A table will generally have a so called "primary key". This is a unique value that we can use to uniquely identify the correct row. Often this is a single field, but it's possible to use a combination of fields to form a so called composite primary key. Let's say we use username as the primary key for USERS. We currently don't have a unique key for POSTS, but you can always add an extra column for that, so we will add a column id for POSTS. Finally we have the LIKES table who needs the user who did the like in a user column, and a post column containing the id of the post that was liked. Columns also have a type and it's possible to set constraints on columns like saying that they must be unique or can't be NULL. A post is always made by a user, that's a one-to-many relation between the USERS and POSTS table. We can define this relation by stating that POSTS.user is a foreign key corresponding to USERS.username. Meanwhile a like is made by a user, and corresponds to a post. These relations can be defined by saying that LIKES.user is a foreign key corresponding to USERS.username, and LIKES.post is a foreign key corresponding to POSTS.id. The primary key for the LIKES table can be a composite primary key of user and liked post.
To create these, it could look something like
create table if not exists public.users(
username varchar primary key,
profile varchar
);
create table if not exists public.posts(
id serial primary key,
username varchar,
content varchar,
created_time timestamp default current_timestamp not null,
foreign key (username)
references public.users (username)
);
create table if not exists public.likes(
username varchar,
post serial,
foreign key (username)
references public.users (username),
foreign key (post)
references public.posts (id),
primary key (username, post)
);
NoSQL
Depending on implementation, a NoSQL database can also use the SQL language for querying. The difference is not so much the language to query the database, but rather the underlying technology. While the data is strongly defined in SQL by using columns and types, a NoSQL database doesn't have that. It consists of so called containers that store JSON objects, and there is no check on the content of the JSON object. This JSON object is also called a document in this context, which is why people sometimes refer to this type of database as document storage. It's not about documents like you have in a file system, but storage of JSON objects. In a way you can see the containers as being similar to SQL tables and the documents similar to the rows in SQL. You can also define a partition key per container. The partition key is a field that you expect in each of the JSON documents of the container, and allows the underlying database system to split the container up over different servers. This can reduce load when querying on a specific partition key.
If we take the previous example, and we decide that we generally want to fetch all the likes corresponding to a post, then the users can be put into a container users, and posts and likes can be put together in another container post_actions (feel free to come up with a better name). We have to make sure that the field we query on has the same name, so a post can look something like {post_id: 123, content: "blablabla", created_time: "2023-08-16 10:06:23+00:00", user: "Alice"} while a user can look like {username: "Alice", profile: "Hey, I'm Alice, let's be friends <3"}, and if Alice likes her own post, it could look like {user: "Alice", post_id: 123}.
Now we can query select * from post_actions where post_id = 123 and we immediately have the post and all likes corresponding to it. And if we add a partition key on post_id, or some function based on it, we won't even need to query all partitions, only the one where this post is stored. When done right, this can be a very powerful setup.
Scaling
While SQL was mostly aimed at consistency, NoSQL is mostly aimed at horizontal scaling.
When we talk about vertical scaling, it often means that, to allow more load, you have to use a heavier server. More RAM, faster CPU, larger and faster disks... This is the case for a SQL database. Horizontal scaling on the other hand allows you to scale by adding more servers instead of having to make them heavier.
In NoSQL you will mostly group data according to how it's queried, and, unlike with SQL who wants to be consistent, duplication of data is allowed. As we saw in the example, one simple select can often give you a full set of data of different types, and a partition key allows you to split up the container so that one container can be split up and stored across multiple servers, while only having to query the one partition, and thus spreading load over the different servers. Another reason why NoSQL can scale better, is because it does less. For example, it doesn't check for correct data types or consistency. It's up to the application to do that, and it's up to the developer to make sure their application can properly scale.
SQL normalisation
When you have an application and you need a database, you need a way to represent the data correctly. There's a whole study on how to properly do that. In SQL we call this process normalisation. Here's a short list of steps to take, but note that for most applications these steps are not followed to the letter. Sometimes because a developer sees a reason to deviate from it, but a big reason is that frameworks take over a lot of the logic, and they may have reasons to do things in slightly different ways.
For each form/page you have, list the data. Choose good names for each piece of data, group repeating parts (e.g. a profile with posts has the data of the profile, but posts can be grouped as repeating parts).
Now we isolate the repeating parts in their own separate entity. One attribute should be the primary key of the parent (e.g. for posts, we require the username of the person who made the post as attribute) and you should find a second unique attribute. Together they can form the primary key.
Check for attributes with composite primary keys for attributes who are not functionally dependent from the primary key. These should also be made their own entity with their own primary key. (E.g. login data can be considered functionally different from the username they post with)
Bring attributes together who are functionally dependent from non-key attributes. These should also be brought into it's own entity, and the attribute that identified this entity becomes the primary key.
Integrate the normalised data groups. This is mostly choosing consistent naming for everything and group entities together where you're talking about the same underlying data.
Then we determine the relations between the entities. A relation in SQL is always 1-to-1, 1-to-many, or many-to-many. A user has multiple posts, so that's a 1-to-many relation. In SQL we show this by making sure the primary key from the user is a foreign key attribute in the post. For a many-to-many relation, we add a new table with records containing the primary key from one entity and the primary key from the other.
Note that the example we used earlier was mostly to show some principles, and may not be a good example of a properly normalised model.
NoSQL modeling
While NoSQL is much newer, there are similar steps you can take to create a proper model of your data. Here it's less important to force consistency, but more important to keep queries cheap. You can take the word cheap very literally. Each query takes cpu, memory, time... All of this costs money. As such, it's possible to estimate how much a certain execution costs. This cost is what we want to optimise for. Here are steps you can take to model your database;
look at the normalised (i.e. SQL) model, including the relations
In a normalised model, we want to put things in different tables if they are functionally different. In NoSQL that isn't the case. We want to group things according to what will be cheapest when querying. When we have a relation, we check if we should embed or reference
Typical cases where you embed are 1:1 or 1:few relations who are read and updated together
Referencing (i.e. put the data in different containers) is typically done with 1:many or many:many relations when you read or update separate
Note that there may be cases where we both reference and embed, see later
Choose a partition Key
This must obviously be a name of a key in our document
You should not have too many documents per partition and you should have a nice spread regarding both storage and request. When the partitions are not nicely balanced like that, you have a so called "hot partition".
Depending on technology, the maximum JSON object and partition size may both have a limit.
Maybe counterintuitive, but there is no limit regarding the amount of partitions, so one document per partitions is OK. Many partitions like this is also referred to as having a "high cardinality".
What partition key to use, depends on the most important requests.
If the data you generally select on is not part of the data, because you normally join, you can embed the data but also keep the data in a separate container, and make sure that updates propagate.
When you don't really have a key you query on, you can add a new key-value with fixed value, e.g. {type: ""}. This is OK, because it's probably only intermediate, see next step.
When different containers have the same partitionKey, move the data to one container. This step shows how completely different data can be stored in one container.
Lastly, add fields to keep queries cheap. Expensive (e.g. cross partition) queries should only run rarely. Think once per week, rather than multiple times per day. This is typical for things like count(*) and you need to make sure your software updates these fields in the same transaction of the corresponding change.
I'm an expert now!
This is just a short introduction, and there are many peculiarities that you only learn to see and properly handle by experience. I think the important difference is that in SQL you try to optimise for consistency, while in NoSQL you try to optimise for keeping the queries cheap, even for huge amounts of data. If you optimise for the correct property, you should be fine. I think it's also important to note that while you're supposed to optimise for being cheap in NoSQL, it is therefor not always cheaper than SQL. NoSQL is good for huge amounts of data where vertical scaling becomes hard or impossible. But it also requires more work from your program to keep things consistent. Whether SQL or NoSQL makes more sense for your project, is something you'll need to decide yourself.
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Hallo @Friendica Support, ich glaube, wir haben bei der aktuellen DEV-Version ein Problem bei der Option "Entkoppelter Empfänger":
Habe diese Option heute mal testweise aktiviert. Wie zu erwarten, treten nach der Aktivierung alle "paar" Minuten Spitzen beim Worker auf. Ich habe gelernt, dass dies angeblich normal ist, wenn man diese Option aktiviert hat. Siehe Screenshot: In diesem Screenshot sieht man auch ganz deutlich, wann diese Option aktiviert wurde.
Sobald so eine Worker-Spitze auftritt, lädt die Oberfläche deutlich langsamer. Aber auch das Abschicken von Beiträgen oder Kommentaren sowie "Liken" in der Oberfläche dauert ewig.
Dabei ist die Auslastung des Systems alles andere als hoch. Siehe Screenshot:
Was mir auffällt, dass immer zu der gleichen Zeit wenn so eine Spitze auftritt, folgende Exception beim Worker im Logfile auftaucht:
2025-05-26T07:15:51Z worker [ERROR]: Uncaught exception in worker method execution {"class":"TypeError","message":"Friendica\\Util\\HTTPSignature::isValidContentType(): Argument #2 ($url) must be of type string, null given, called in /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Receiver.php on line 2068","code":0,"file":"/var/www/html/src/Util/HTTPSignature.php:509","trace":"#0 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Receiver.php(2068): Friendica\\Util\\HTTPSignature::isValidContentType()\n#1 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Receiver.php(1896): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Receiver::getObjectDataFromActivity()\n#2 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Receiver.php(1475): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Receiver::processObject()\n#3 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Receiver.php(424): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Receiver::fetchObject()\n#4 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Receiver.php(680): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Receiver::prepareObjectData()\n#5 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Processor.php(1788): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Receiver::processActivity()\n#6 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Processor.php(1689): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Processor::processActivity()\n#7 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Receiver.php(830): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Processor::fetchMissingActivity()\n#8 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Queue.php(235): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Receiver::routeActivities()\n#9 /var/www/html/src/Worker/ProcessQueue.php(25): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Queue::process()\n#10 [internal function]: Friendica\\Worker\\ProcessQueue::execute()\n#11 /var/www/html/src/Core/Worker.php(570): call_user_func_array()\n#12 /var/www/html/src/Core/Worker.php(378): Friendica\\Core\\Worker::execFunction()\n#13 /var/www/html/src/Core/Worker.php(112): Friendica\\Core\\Worker::execute()\n#14 /var/www/html/src/Console/Worker.php(91): Friendica\\Core\\Worker::processQueue()\n#15 /var/www/html/vendor/asika/simple-console/src/Console.php(108): Friendica\\Console\\Worker->doExecute()\n#16 /var/www/html/src/Core/Console.php(171): Asika\\SimpleConsole\\Console->execute()\n#17 /var/www/html/vendor/asika/simple-console/src/Console.php(108): Friendica\\Core\\Console->doExecute()\n#18 /var/www/html/src/App.php(234): Asika\\SimpleConsole\\Console->execute()\n#19 /var/www/html/bin/console.php(22): Friendica\\App->processConsole()\n#20 {main}","previous":null,"worker_id":"9fd747b","worker_cmd":"ProcessQueue"} - {"file":"Worker.php","line":572,"function":"execFunction","request-id":"6834151fdcb0a","stack":"Worker::execFunction (378), Worker::execute (112), Worker::processQueue (91), Worker::doExecute (108), Console::execute (171), Console::doExecute (108), Console::execute (234), App::processConsole (22)","uid":"3a8c6f","process_id":511148}
Ist so eine Worker-Spitze abgebaut, verhält sich das System bzw. die Oberfläche wieder normal. Bis eben wieder die Spitze aufgebaut wird. Das ganze ist also reproduzierbar.
Fürs Erste werde ich die entkoppelten Empfänger wieder deaktivieren und hoffe, dass diese Symptome wieder verschwinden.
@Michael 🇺🇦 Werde mal zur Sicherheit ein git pull ausführen. Bin mir nicht sicher, ob ich das am Freitag zuletzt ausgeführt habe oder doch am WE. Werde berichten. Danke für den Input.
@Michael 🇺🇦 Okay, Update ist durch. Habe die "Entkoppelung" wieder aktiviert und das System einige Zeit beobachtet. Die Fehlermeldungen bzgl. der Exception sind weg. Allerdings ist das System damit immer noch kaum nutzbar, da die gleichen Probleme immer noch existieren.
Sobald so eine Worker-Spitze auftritt, lädt die Oberfläche deutlich langsamer. Aber auch das Abschicken von Beiträgen oder Kommentaren sowie "Liken" in der Oberfläche dauert ewig.
Hab das gleiche vor einigen Wochen festgestellt. Nachdem die Option lange Zeit aktiviert und unauffällig war, hatte ich plötzlich extreme Verzögerungen in der Abarbeitung von Jobs. Die Queue ist auch immer wieder extrem angestiegen - über 100000 wartende Jobs.
Nach der Deaktivierung der Einstellung, war die Queue schnell abgearbeitet und das Verhalten war wieder normal.
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Hallo @Friendica Support, ich glaube, wir haben bei der aktuellen DEV-Version ein Problem bei der Option "Entkoppelter Empfänger":
Habe diese Option heute mal testweise aktiviert. Wie zu erwarten, treten nach der Aktivierung alle "paar" Minuten Spitzen beim Worker auf. Ich habe gelernt, dass dies angeblich normal ist, wenn man diese Option aktiviert hat. Siehe Screenshot: In diesem Screenshot sieht man auch ganz deutlich, wann diese Option aktiviert wurde.
Sobald so eine Worker-Spitze auftritt, lädt die Oberfläche deutlich langsamer. Aber auch das Abschicken von Beiträgen oder Kommentaren sowie "Liken" in der Oberfläche dauert ewig.
Dabei ist die Auslastung des Systems alles andere als hoch. Siehe Screenshot:
Was mir auffällt, dass immer zu der gleichen Zeit wenn so eine Spitze auftritt, folgende Exception beim Worker im Logfile auftaucht:
2025-05-26T07:15:51Z worker [ERROR]: Uncaught exception in worker method execution {"class":"TypeError","message":"Friendica\\Util\\HTTPSignature::isValidContentType(): Argument #2 ($url) must be of type string, null given, called in /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Receiver.php on line 2068","code":0,"file":"/var/www/html/src/Util/HTTPSignature.php:509","trace":"#0 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Receiver.php(2068): Friendica\\Util\\HTTPSignature::isValidContentType()\n#1 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Receiver.php(1896): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Receiver::getObjectDataFromActivity()\n#2 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Receiver.php(1475): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Receiver::processObject()\n#3 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Receiver.php(424): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Receiver::fetchObject()\n#4 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Receiver.php(680): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Receiver::prepareObjectData()\n#5 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Processor.php(1788): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Receiver::processActivity()\n#6 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Processor.php(1689): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Processor::processActivity()\n#7 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Receiver.php(830): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Processor::fetchMissingActivity()\n#8 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Queue.php(235): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Receiver::routeActivities()\n#9 /var/www/html/src/Worker/ProcessQueue.php(25): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Queue::process()\n#10 [internal function]: Friendica\\Worker\\ProcessQueue::execute()\n#11 /var/www/html/src/Core/Worker.php(570): call_user_func_array()\n#12 /var/www/html/src/Core/Worker.php(378): Friendica\\Core\\Worker::execFunction()\n#13 /var/www/html/src/Core/Worker.php(112): Friendica\\Core\\Worker::execute()\n#14 /var/www/html/src/Console/Worker.php(91): Friendica\\Core\\Worker::processQueue()\n#15 /var/www/html/vendor/asika/simple-console/src/Console.php(108): Friendica\\Console\\Worker->doExecute()\n#16 /var/www/html/src/Core/Console.php(171): Asika\\SimpleConsole\\Console->execute()\n#17 /var/www/html/vendor/asika/simple-console/src/Console.php(108): Friendica\\Core\\Console->doExecute()\n#18 /var/www/html/src/App.php(234): Asika\\SimpleConsole\\Console->execute()\n#19 /var/www/html/bin/console.php(22): Friendica\\App->processConsole()\n#20 {main}","previous":null,"worker_id":"9fd747b","worker_cmd":"ProcessQueue"} - {"file":"Worker.php","line":572,"function":"execFunction","request-id":"6834151fdcb0a","stack":"Worker::execFunction (378), Worker::execute (112), Worker::processQueue (91), Worker::doExecute (108), Console::execute (171), Console::doExecute (108), Console::execute (234), App::processConsole (22)","uid":"3a8c6f","process_id":511148}
Ist so eine Worker-Spitze abgebaut, verhält sich das System bzw. die Oberfläche wieder normal. Bis eben wieder die Spitze aufgebaut wird. Das ganze ist also reproduzierbar.
Fürs Erste werde ich die entkoppelten Empfänger wieder deaktivieren und hoffe, dass diese Symptome wieder verschwinden.
The EU is launching another attack on end to end encryption with the most draconian mass surveillance bill ever, and our media doesn't seem to notice or care. Read it here, it is jaw dropping: home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/docu…
TL;DR The end off e2e, even for self hosting, even for peer to peer messengers. EUSSR used to be a bit of a joke of mine, but we've passed that
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Israeli military now controls 77 percent of the Gaza Strip, the enclave’s Government Media Office said, through ongoing genocide, ethnic cleansing, and occupation.
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