Amid Trump’s immigration crackdown, travel bans & sweeping global tariffs (& his threats, detaining tourists, alignment with the RW parties: around the world, Putin...), the US is expected to be the only one out of 184 countries to see foreign visitor spending fall in 2025.

The study suggests that the US economy is on track🚨to lose $12.5B in INTL spending this year alone -actual shortfall might be much greater.
#Tourism #Immigrants #Trumpcession #Economy #Protest #USPol independent.co.uk/news/world/a…

US is the only country facing tourism decline as Trump policies to cost $29 billion in visitor revenue

Study from World Travel & Tourism Council looked at the economic impact of tourism in 184 countries

^{James Liddell (The Independent)}

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Qatar could mediate, but it couldn't make decisions for Hamas. Its influence was real only when it served as the organization's main ATM, funding its activities and civilian institutions, paying salaries to officers and fighters, and helping to rebuild Gaza after every Israeli military operation. And all that was done with the permission of the Israeli government.

Similarly, Egypt could put pressure on Hamas only as long as it controlled the economic pipeline that fed Gaza and Hamas – the Rafah border crossing. But this lever disappeared after the Israel Defense Forces took control of both the crossing and the Philadelphi corridor along the Gaza-Egypt border.
As a result, in an unprecedented development, the

Americans are now directly negotiating with Hamas, but nobody is complaining about them violating the principle of not negotiating with a terror group. Moreover, Trump can no longer threaten to open the gates of hell on Gaza if Hamas doesn't accept the proposed deal. Hell has already been achieved.
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haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0…

(w/o paywall)
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@palestine #Gaza

Eternal war: Israel is marching straight into the trap of 'seizing' Gaza

Israel's leaders seem to have no plan for the Strip but occupying it. They must ask themselves what they'll do when the enclave's 2 million people, who have nothing left to lose, rise up

^{Zvi Bar'el (Haaretz)}

Esto está pasando en Inglaterra. Lo digo para cuando os suelten eso de "somos una democracia" porque ahora mismo apesta a dictadura de 💩💩
#uklabour #ukdictatorship

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Arrested in style 🔁 via defendourjuries (6 July 2025) on ‘that other app’: Tim Crosland, former gov’t lawyer and founder of charity planb.earth was one o

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These quotes are not representative of the whole article, which is long, and covers many different themes, but jumped out at me as being observations I've not seen articulated a lot.

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Filiu [one of the only historians studying the Gaza Strip] accuses Israel of turning a blind eye for years to what has been going on in Gaza: "For 20 years now, Israel has been unable to nurture networks of collaborators inside Gaza. [The Israelis] tried every tool in the book, and they failed. Because they don't know Gaza's society. And because they operate either from a tank or from a drone, which is not the most efficient way to operate."

To bolster his views, Filiu cites a surprising example: the Israeli television series "Fauda." "The first two seasons, which were set in the West Bank, were quite impressive," he says. The third season, which takes place in Gaza, however, was out of touch with reality. The people who created it, he adds, "don't know what they're talking about. They're speaking about Mosul, they're speaking about the Taliban, they're not talking about Gaza. They don't know Gaza."

One of the tragic consequences of this blindness, Filiu observes, is the mortal blow being dealt to everyone in the Strip who opposes Hamas. "There were thriving universities, intellectual circles and artists. There were so many rap groups in Gaza, and you can imagine that their members weren't exactly sympathetic to Hamas.
"There was a civil society that didn't want to be part of Hamas' Islamist scheme," he continues, "but all that has been destroyed now by the Israeli invasion.
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archive.is/Y6iDg

@palestine #Gaza

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The defense establishment, and following its lead, most Israelis, expect one thing from the Palestinian: surrender. Voluntarily and quietly. It's expected that the Palestinian won't defend himself, won't resist, won't fight the occupation imposed by Israel. If she dares defend herself, she will immediately become a target. If he appeals to the United Nations, he will be accused of "political terrorism." This system is designed to see the Palestinian as the ultimate and immediate suspect, even when she's the victim.
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According to this system, a Palestinian who picks up a stone is a terrorist, but a settler who burns down a village is "frustrated.”…
This isn't security or self-defense. It's apartheid, it's ethnic supremacy, and it won't last forever.
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Israel claims that Palestinian resistance of any kind is violent and illegitimate, but the question is: What does legitimate resistance look like in a situation of ongoing occupation? Is the Israeli justification of self-defense an exclusive right, or does this right also belong to the Palestinians?
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we've never heard a Western leader talk about the right of the Palestinian people to self-defense. In the eyes of the world, the Palestinian should simply die in silence.
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haaretz.com/opinion/2025-07-05…

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archive.is/E4Cy3

West Bank settler violence: Do Palestinians have a right to self-defense – or only Israelis?

In Israeli eyes, a Palestinian who picks up a stone is a terrorist, but a settler who burns down a village is 'frustrated.' This isn't self-defense, it's apartheid, and it's unsustainable

^{Ahmad Tibi (Haaretz)}

Al-Qassam Targets Occupiers, Vehicles in Top-Tier Op. in Khan Younis, Yemen Continues Missile Attacks

The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced Saturday the execution of a top-tier operation against Zionist occupation forces in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

According to details released by the Brigades, the operation took place on Friday morning near the Directorate of Education in the al-Mahatta area, in central Khan Younis. Resistance fighters stormed a gathering of Zionist soldiers and their military vehicles, the statement added.

Al-Qassam targets 2 Zionist tanks, APC

As part of the operation, al-Qassam fighters targeted two Merkava tanks using two Shawaz explosive devices, resulting in its crew members being either killed or injured.

In addition to the tanks, the Resistance fighters also struck an armored personnel carrier with a Yassin 105 shell.

When Zionist rescue forces arrived at the scene, they were attacked with light and medium machine gun fire, the Brigades pointed out.

During the operation, al-Qassam fighters observed the landing of helicopters conducting an evacuation that lasted several hours.

The Brigades also reported a second operation on Friday, in which its fighters targeted another Zionist armored personnel carrier using a Yassin 105 shell on al-Bi’ah Street in central Khan Younis.

Al-Quds Brigades documents complex, top-tier operation in al-Shuja’iyya

Meanwhile, the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) Movement, released footage on Friday documenting a complex and top-tier operation its Resistance fighters conducted on Wednesday in the eastern al-Shuja’iyya neighborhood of Gaza City.

The al-Quds Brigades operation targeted Zionist military vehicles and soldiers, as well as homes where occupation forces had taken cover, engaging in direct confrontations at close range.

The commander of the operation reported that the Zionist soldiers showed no initiative or response, resorting only to screaming and fleeing without returning significant fire toward the Resistance fighters.

He added that the fighters encountered charred bodies of officers and soldiers, confirming that 40 Zionist soldiers were either killed or wounded, and stated that the occupation continues to lie and conceal its losses as it always does.

Yemen launches ballistic missile in solidarity

Zionist air defenses scrambled to intercept a ballistic missile launched from Yemen over occupied Palestine early Sunday.

At 2:45 am (local time), the Zionist military command warned that a missile was launched from Yemen, later announcing that its air defenses successfully intercepted it. Sirens sounded in settlements in the southern occupied West Bank as well as some settlements near the Dead Sea.

The strike comes as Yemen reiterates its military support for Gaza, vowing continued operations until the aggression ends.

Yemenis affirm their continued support for Palestine

On Friday, the Yemeni governorates of Saadah, Raymah, and Marib witnessed massive rallies in support of the Palestinian people and their Resistance and in solidarity with the Gaza Strip under the slogan: “Steadfast with Gaza, prepared and mobilized in the face of aggression.”

Participants raised slogans affirming Yemen’s unwavering support for Palestine, in light of the ongoing Zionist aggression on the Gaza Strip.

Earlier, the leader of the Ansar Allah movement, Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, emphasized the continuation of the Yemeni ban on Zionist shipping, affirming its success and praising Yemen’s ability to continue the battle.

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#alAqsaFlood #ansarallah #hamas #palestine #pij #resistance #westAsia #yemen

Are We the Baddies?

Link: geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Max Verstappen starts on pole for Formula 1's British Grand Prix, with title rivals behind
https://apnews.com/article/f1-british-grand-prix-verstappen-piastri-norris-31758f43eaf5ee92d3a878625c14e5f6?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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My Long Read today on Arran’s UNESCO Geopark

#Srebrencia, replacement ferries, #Gaza, forensic science and rocks.

thenational.scot/comment/25292…

Arran's rocks tell stories of the issues I'm fleeing from

It's the first Saturday of the Scottish school holidays and I’m still a wee bit bleary-eyed after an early morning train down to Troon to take the…

^{Alison Phipps (The National)}

Tropical Storm Chantal strengthens slightly as it nears landfall in South Carolina
https://apnews.com/article/tropical-storm-chantal-north-south-carolina-rain-7207004bc5d47546d14631a1859a34ff?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin

Link: simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/5/c…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Serving 200 million requests per day with a cgi-bin

Jake Gold tests how well 90s-era CGI works today, using a Go + SQLite CGI program running on a 16-thread AMD 3700X. Using CGI on modest hardware, it’s possible to …

^{Simon Willison’s Weblog}

Dalai Lama, a global symbol of Tibetan culture and resistance, turns 90
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Ο Παλαιστίνιος σκηνοθέτης, Μπιλάλ Χαμντάν, στο FLASH TV: «Δεν μας αφήνουν να ζήσουμε»

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O οσκαρικός Παλαιστίνιος σκηνοθέτης, Μπιλάλ Χαμντάν, στο FLASH TV: «Δεν μας αφήνουν να ζήσουμε»

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