remember, u.s. foreign policy has always been a joke.
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#iran #iranisraelwar #yellowcake
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Unter dem Islamisten Ahmed al-Scharaa werden Christen verfolgt und nun auch eine „sittsamere Badekleidung“ vorgeschrieben. Die Bundesregierung, Geldgeber des Regimes, spricht von einer „Phase der politischen Neugestaltung“
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In einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft passen sich die Gäste dem Gastgeber an.
In Deutschland passt sich die Gesellschaft den Gästen an und verzichtet auf seine Kultur.
#Islamismus #Gruppenvergewaltigungen #Messermorde #Brandmauertote #Islam #Brandmaueropfer #Massenvergewaltigungen
#Islam #Moslem #Islamisten #Migration
#Sharia #Islam #Islamismus #GG #Grundgesetzt
An Syriens Stränden sollen Frauen künftig am besten nur noch Burka tragen – verordnet von den neuen Machthabern. Das Auswärtige Amt nimmt das nur „zur Kenntnis“. Immerhin redet es nicht mehr von feministischer Außenpolitik.Sandro Serafin (JUNGE FREIHEIT)
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CNBC: NYC mayoral candidate Brad Lander handcuffed by ICE
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The incident comes days after police handcuffed Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., after he was forcibly removed from a press conference that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem was holding.
The incident comes days after police handcuffed Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., after he was forcibly removed from a press conference that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem was holding.Erin Doherty (CNBC)
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Anfang des Jahres empfingen 5,4 Mio. Personen in Deutschland #Bürgergeld. Knapp die Hälfte waren #Ausländer, darunter alleine 707.000 #Ukrainer.
Über den Anteil der Deutschen mit #Migrationshintergrund werden aktuell keine Daten geliefert. Im vergangenen Jahr hatten rund ein Drittel der deutschen #Staatsbürger, die #Bürgergeld empfingen, einen #Migrationshintergrund.
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“UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!” Trump Reveals the US Now Has Control Over Iran’s Skies, Says He Knows Where Supreme Leader is Hiding
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President Trump on Tuesday revealed the US now has control over Iran’s skies and seemingly called for Iran’s “unconditional surrender.Cristina Laila (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
The $96 Billion Lie: How Liberal Economists Manipulate Immigration Statistics to Hide the Truth About America’s Job Crisis
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An economic analysis reveals how selective statistics are used to portray illegal immigration as beneficial while obscuring its true impact on American workers.Antonio Graceffo (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
Firefox is dead to me • The Register
No notes. All good points. I'm still not going to a Chrome based browser. Not yet.
I hear Opera is nice if that day ever comes.
Main points:
As is pointed out in the article, most of the crap comes directly from Mozilla and management, not the people doing development.
It could be righted with a massive leadership change that isn't going to happen.
I've switched to IronFox on my phone and LibreWolf on my laptops. I'll keep doing that as long as it's feasible.
I have to use Edge and Firefox at work because they are "approved" (along with Chrome) and centrally managed.
Edit: fixed a typo.
#Mozilla #Firefox #FirefoxIsDead #LibreWolf #IronFox
Opinion: Parent company Mozilla's not my fave eitherSteven J. Vaughan-Nichols (The Register)
I am so pissed. Went to login to my credit union today after a few months (normally I use the mobile app) and found I couldn't login.
When I contacted member services they told me that Firefox was no longer supported that it was "being sunsetted" and discontinued.
I'm like WHAT THE FUCK!
Told me my only option was Chrome.
Or the mobile app.
Yeah.
This isn't going to end well.
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🚨 ‘For the first time ever, Israel is asking America to fight alongside it – or for it’ By Aluf Benn Article 🧵
For the first time ever, Israe...
Breaking the longest taboo, Israel is requesting not defensive support but direct military involvement: U.S. pilots and planes, to bomb Iran's uranium enrichment facility in Fordow. It is an unprecedented peak in Israel's reliance on the U.S.Aluf Benn (Haaretz)
Nizam #Mahode, chirurgien britannique , submergé par l'émotion devant le Parlement britannique, il témoigne à son retour de #Gaza: les #drones israéliens tirent intentionnellement sur des #civils, y compris des #enfants déjà à terre après les bombardements.
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The cops in LA are more out of control than normal in the footage of these protests.
They are shooting into crowds who are standing in a park with signs during the day well before curfew. Throwing tear gas. And also not saying anything? There are no instructions to leave or anything being given as they try to make the protest end.
It's not about keeping the streets clear for cars. They are acting like having a protest is illegal.
This is LAPD too. What is they mayor doing?
Is it legal to gather in the park and shout slogans and hold some signs to petition the government for redress of grievances or nah?
I think it can be easy to get jaded and assume that when people get injured by police in protests they must have "done something" eg not gone on the sidewalk when asked by the police* or whatever but this isn't true. We don't really live in a country where protest is defacto legal anymore and this has been the case more and more over time.
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Unter der Bundespräsidentin folgt eine anti-queere Geste auf die andere. Statt „verbindend und verbindlich“ zu sein, provoziert und polarisiert sie.
CSD-Absage des Bundestags: Klöckner macht Kulturkampf
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Let me get this straight. #Atomic/#Nuclear #weaponry has supposedly been around since 1945. It’s very old, very basic technology that has been acquired by countries as underdeveloped as #India, #Pakistan, #SouthAfrica, and #Israel.
#Hypersonic #missiles are so technologically advanced and difficult to manufacture that only four countries in the world have deployed them: #China, #Russia, #NorthKorea, and #Iran. The #USA hasn’t successfully developed one yet, neither have #Japan, #France, or the #UK.
And yet, we’re supposed to believe that Iran doesn’t already possess nuclear warheads to install on those hypersonic delivery systems?
I don’t buy it. If nuclear weaponry actually exists – and there is very good reason to #doubt that it does – then Iran has it. If Iran doesn’t have it, then no one does because it doesn’t actually exist. The fact that nuclear weapons have been held over humanity’s collective heads for generations and used to justify globalist organizations for decades is sufficient reason for them to have been among the foremost #myths perpetrated by #ClownWorld.
Let me get this straight. Atomic/Nuclear weaponry has supposedly been around since 1945. It’s very old, very basic technology that has been acquired by countries as underdeveloped as India, Pakistan, South Africa, and Israel.VD (Vox Popoli)
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Lewis Herms Live announcement Monday June 2nd Regarding California and the Nation's Politics
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This is about California politics as well as the entire nation.
Texas AG Candidate EXPOSES George Soros' Dark Plot to Control State
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Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Monday that China stands ready to work with Kazakhstan to contribute more to regional and world peace and development with stability and positive energy of bilateral ties.en.qstheory.cn
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At least internally.
"❗️“This is not our war.”
Republican Congressman Thomas Massie has introduced a resolution to prevent the Trump administration from involving the United States in Israel's ongoing war on Iran.
“Even if it were [our war], Congress must decide such matters according to our Constitution.""
Texto Via #thecraddle
Israel's use of human shields:
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Concluding the introduction to his 1967 work On Zionist Literature, the Palestinian writer and revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani remarked that he had completed his study on the basis of one central principle: “to know your enemy.” Less than five years later, that very enemy murdered both him and his 16-year-old niece, Lamiss, in a car bomb outside his family home in Beirut. The following week, Zionist agents sent letter bombs to a number of other prominent Palestinians then living in Lebanon, including Anis Sayegh, the man who, in his capacity as director of the PLO’s Beirut-based Palestine Research Center, had published On Zionist Literature. Sayegh, who also wrote the preface to Kanafani’s book, was seriously wounded in the attack, but miraculously survived.
The PRC had been established in 1965 by Anis’ brother, Fayez Sayegh, just a year after the formation of the PLO itself. Anticipating Kanafani’s sentiment, Sayegh’s proposal outlining his rationale for the establishment of the center had noted similarly that “knowing the enemy is a parallel process to knowing the self.” Thus, from its inception, the PRC placed significant emphasis on studying the history, ideology and practices of Zionism in both its research activities and its publications. The first monograph it published, released in the same year that the center was founded, was a study by Fayez Sayegh himself entitled Zionist Colonialism in Palestine. In this succinct and insightful book, Sayegh argues that the three defining characteristics of what he terms the Zionist settler-state are: (1) its racial complexion and conduct (2) its addiction to violence and (3) its expansionist stance.
Sixty years later, amidst the ongoing genocide in Gaza and rampant Zionist violence and expansionism in the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and beyond, it would be an understatement to call Sayegh’s work and its conclusions prescient. With remarkable clarity, his book demolishes a number of damaging myths about the Zionist movement and the settler colony it established, myths that unfortunately remain prevalent several decades later — even among some who consider themselves to be supporters of the Palestinian cause.
Dispelling the spurious notion that at some point after its establishment ‘Israel’ became a racist entity, Sayegh explains how racism “is not an acquired trait of the Zionist settler-state. Nor… an accidental, passing feature of the Israeli scene,” but in fact “congenital, essential and permanent… inherent in the very ideology of Zionism.” He then identifies three corollaries that this explicitly racial identification gave rise to: “racial self-segregation, racial exclusiveness, and racial supremacy.” It is of course these characteristics which made the forced removal of the indigenous population of Palestine, as attempted in the Nakba, essential to the Zionist project’s actualization.
Sayegh also examines the treatment that those Palestinians who Zionist forces were unable to remove in the Nakba received at their hands from the moment ‘Israel’ was established. He argues that through its systematic oppression of this internal population, the Zionist settler-state had “learned all the lessons which the various discriminatory regimes of white settler-states in Asia and Africa can teach it.” Outlining the manifold official and unofficial oppressive measures that these Palestinians had faced — measures that have only grown ever more cruel and deeply ingrained over the six decades that have since passed — Sayegh comments that whereas “the Afrikaner apostles of apartheid … brazenly proclaim their sin, the Zionist practitioners of apartheid in Palestine beguilingly protest their innocence.” Sayegh’s explicit use of ‘apartheid’ here came six decades before a number of Western NGOs decided to apply this label that if anything falls short of fully capturing the level of violence, racism and hatred that characterizes the Zionist state’s treatment of Palestinians under its occupation.
Events since the publication of Sayegh’s book offer grim and emphatic confirmation of his assertion that the Zionist settler state is addicted to violence. Since 1965, it has perpetuated a literally unbroken line of violent acts against the Palestinians too long to list here. This violence manifests in every imaginable — and often unimaginable — form, ranging from the most genocidal and apocalyptic in scale as we see in Gaza today, to more routine but insidious daily acts of aggression, humiliation, indignity, and psychological torture across all of occupied Palestine. Furthermore, the targets of this violence have not been limited to the Palestinians; throughout its short history the Zionist settler state has also committed multiple aggressions against other states in the region, including Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Yemen, and Iran.
Sayegh’s declaration that Israel is perpetually expansionist in nature has similarly been confirmed beyond doubt, for not only has it consistently increased the territory under its occupation since he wrote Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, but it has also resolutely refused, up to the present moment, to ever officially declare its borders. In fact, the entirety of Israel’s history consists of nothing more than perpetual expansionism cynically disguised as a virtuous quest for ‘secure borders’. Writing just two years before Israel’s seizure of the West Bank (including Jerusalem), Golan Heights, Sinai Peninsula and Gaza during the June War of 1967, Sayegh argued with devastating foresight that expansion “is the ‘unfinished business’ of Zionism. It cannot fail to be the main preoccupation of the Zionist movement, and of the Zionist state, in the future. For the Zionist settler state to be is to prepare for and strive for territorial expansion.” These almost prophetic words flashed into my mind when Israel launched an immediate military onslaught against Syria and seized even more of its territory following the overthrow of the country’s government in December 2024. These events effectively marked the culmination of a multi-faceted war waged against the Syrian state for over a decade, of which Israel was a key participant.
The fate that befell the PRC itself offers further and especially direct evidence of Sayegh’s tragically accurate foresight. After the center was looted wholesale by Israeli military forces during their invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and then bombed by a terrorist group acting as a proxy for Israel the following year, it was forced to close, and, like so many Palestinian institutions and individuals of that era, left Beirut never to return. A word here is needed on Israel’s assault on Beirut in 1982, a crime that in many ways foreshadowed its genocidal offensive on Gaza that began in October 2023.
In the summer of 1982, West Beirut was encircled by Israeli forces — with all water, fuel and food blocked from entering — then pounded mercilessly by artillery, aerial and naval bombardment for weeks on end. Hospitals, charities, residential buildings, refugee camps, embassies, clinics and hotels were all targeted and thousands of Lebanese and Palestinian civilians were slaughtered. The destruction was so comprehensive that the Canadian Ambassador to Lebanon at the time, Theodore Arcand, said it made “Berlin 1945 look like a tea party.” The siege was part of Israel’s broader assault against Lebanon that was so violent and destructive that most of the members of an international commission formed to study Israel’s violations concluded that not only had the invasion entailed multiple breaches of international law, but also in fact constituted “a form of genocide.”
Though Sayegh’s book stresses that Palestine’s liberation must be spearheaded by the Palestinians themselves, he states clearly that the “problem of Palestine … is not the concern of Palestinians alone,” since Israel’s commitment to expansion also threatens the security and territorial integrity of the Arab states as a whole. This understanding of the Zionist project and the threat it poses to the entire region has been advanced and built on by an array of figures since Sayegh. For instance, the martyr Husayn Muruwwah, then the foremost ideologue of the Lebanese Communist Party, wrote in 1985 that the:
… cause of liberating Palestine is the absolute basis of all Arab struggles … [w]hen we refer to the Palestinian cause, we might very well be referring to that of Lebanon, or any other Arab country — and vice versa. When we mention the Lebanese resistance, we might very well be referring to the Palestinian resistance – and vice versa …
More recently, the martyr Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah regularly stressed in his speeches and analysis that Israel constituted an existential threat not only to Palestine and the Palestinian people, but in fact to Lebanon itself and to the peoples of the Islamic and Arab worlds in their entireties.
Sayegh concludes his excellent book by stating that as an entity “animated by doctrines of racial self-segregation, racial exclusiveness, and racial supremacy” that translates those doctrines into “ruthless practices of racial discrimination and oppression,” the political systems erected by Zionism in Palestine must be recognized as a menace to all who are “dedicated to the safeguarding and enhancement of the dignity of man. For whenever and wherever the dignity of but one single human being is violated, in pursuance of the creed of racism, a heinous sin is committed against the dignity of all men, everywhere.” It is sobering to read these words in the middle of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Sayegh’s sentiment and analysis are being proven painfully correct in front of our eyes every day.
As Sayegh saw and understood his enemy with such clarity sixty years ago, we must do so today. Zionism is not a redeemable movement gone awry; it did not become an occupying power only in 1967 but is so inherently and inescapably. Its appetite for extreme violence and expansion is insatiable and facilitated without limits or red lines by what Sayegh calls its “vital and continuing association” with imperialism. Since Sayegh wrote, the Zionist settler-state has consolidated its role as the attack dog and vanguard of US imperialism in West Asia. US support for Israel, Joe Biden stated unashamedly in 1986, “is the best $3 billion investment we make. Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interests in the region.” Israel’s violence, although portrayed by some as taking place against the wishes of the US, invariably aligns with American interests and strategic goals, while at the same time providing it with plausible deniability as to its own involvement. The recent (and at the time of writing, ongoing) Israeli attacks against Iran are no exception to this broader phenomenon.
Those who argue that peace with the Zionist entity is desirable, or even possible, deny the stark historical track record and present genocidal reality staring them in the face. There is no better or more palatable version of Israel that can or will ever exist. Netanyahu is not an outlier or unrepresentative of the whole, but in fact the perfect embodiment of the racism, violence and expansionism that Sayegh understood was inherent to Zionism over half a century ago, traits that are supported by the overwhelming majority of the settler population. Then as now, the only just and lasting solution remains the complete rejection, isolation and eventual military defeat and dismantlement of the Zionist settler-state. Re-visiting the work of vindicated and principled scholars like Sayegh can help us hold on to that certainty and be cognisant of the historical continuity that doing so represents.
Louis Allday
Source: Al-Akhbar
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#imperialism #palestine #resistance #zionism
On 17 February 1987, during one of the bloodiest periods of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), the prominent journalist, literary critic, intellectual, and activist Husayn Muruwwah (or Hussein Mroué[i]) was assassinated at his home in Ramlet al-Baid…Jadaliyya
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Zionism: Inherently Racist, Violent, and Expansionist
Concluding the introduction to his 1967 work On Zionist Literature, the Palestinian writer and revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani remarked that he had completed his study on the basis of one central principle: “to know your enemy.” Less than five years later, that very enemy murdered both him and his 16-year-old niece, Lamiss, in a car bomb outside his family home in Beirut. The following week, Zionist agents sent letter bombs to a number of other prominent Palestinians then living in Lebanon, including Anis Sayegh, the man who, in his capacity as director of the PLO’s Beirut-based Palestine Research Center, had published On Zionist Literature. Sayegh, who also wrote the preface to Kanafani’s book, was seriously wounded in the attack, but miraculously survived.
The PRC had been established in 1965 by Anis’ brother, Fayez Sayegh, just a year after the formation of the PLO itself. Anticipating Kanafani’s sentiment, Sayegh’s proposal outlining his rationale for the establishment of the center had noted similarly that “knowing the enemy is a parallel process to knowing the self.” Thus, from its inception, the PRC placed significant emphasis on studying the history, ideology and practices of Zionism in both its research activities and its publications. The first monograph it published, released in the same year that the center was founded, was a study by Fayez Sayegh himself entitled Zionist Colonialism in Palestine. In this succinct and insightful book, Sayegh argues that the three defining characteristics of what he terms the Zionist settler-state are: (1) its racial complexion and conduct (2) its addiction to violence and (3) its expansionist stance.
Racism: Inherent in Zionist Ideology
Sixty years later, amidst the ongoing genocide in Gaza and rampant Zionist violence and expansionism in the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and beyond, it would be an understatement to call Sayegh’s work and its conclusions prescient. With remarkable clarity, his book demolishes a number of damaging myths about the Zionist movement and the settler colony it established, myths that unfortunately remain prevalent several decades later — even among some who consider themselves to be supporters of the Palestinian cause.Dispelling the spurious notion that at some point after its establishment ‘Israel’ became a racist entity, Sayegh explains how racism “is not an acquired trait of the Zionist settler-state. Nor… an accidental, passing feature of the Israeli scene,” but in fact “congenital, essential and permanent… inherent in the very ideology of Zionism.” He then identifies three corollaries that this explicitly racial identification gave rise to: “racial self-segregation, racial exclusiveness, and racial supremacy.” It is of course these characteristics which made the forced removal of the indigenous population of Palestine, as attempted in the Nakba, essential to the Zionist project’s actualization.
Sayegh also examines the treatment that those Palestinians who Zionist forces were unable to remove in the Nakba received at their hands from the moment ‘Israel’ was established. He argues that through its systematic oppression of this internal population, the Zionist settler-state had “learned all the lessons which the various discriminatory regimes of white settler-states in Asia and Africa can teach it.” Outlining the manifold official and unofficial oppressive measures that these Palestinians had faced — measures that have only grown ever more cruel and deeply ingrained over the six decades that have since passed — Sayegh comments that whereas “the Afrikaner apostles of apartheid … brazenly proclaim their sin, the Zionist practitioners of apartheid in Palestine beguilingly protest their innocence.” Sayegh’s explicit use of ‘apartheid’ here came six decades before a number of Western NGOs decided to apply this label that if anything falls short of fully capturing the level of violence, racism and hatred that characterizes the Zionist state’s treatment of Palestinians under its occupation.
Zionism: Addicted to Violence and Expansion
Events since the publication of Sayegh’s book offer grim and emphatic confirmation of his assertion that the Zionist settler state is addicted to violence. Since 1965, it has perpetuated a literally unbroken line of violent acts against the Palestinians too long to list here. This violence manifests in every imaginable — and often unimaginable — form, ranging from the most genocidal and apocalyptic in scale as we see in Gaza today, to more routine but insidious daily acts of aggression, humiliation, indignity, and psychological torture across all of occupied Palestine. Furthermore, the targets of this violence have not been limited to the Palestinians; throughout its short history the Zionist settler state has also committed multiple aggressions against other states in the region, including Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Yemen, and Iran.Sayegh’s declaration that Israel is perpetually expansionist in nature has similarly been confirmed beyond doubt, for not only has it consistently increased the territory under its occupation since he wrote Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, but it has also resolutely refused, up to the present moment, to ever officially declare its borders. In fact, the entirety of Israel’s history consists of nothing more than perpetual expansionism cynically disguised as a virtuous quest for ‘secure borders’. Writing just two years before Israel’s seizure of the West Bank (including Jerusalem), Golan Heights, Sinai Peninsula and Gaza during the June War of 1967, Sayegh argued with devastating foresight that expansion “is the ‘unfinished business’ of Zionism. It cannot fail to be the main preoccupation of the Zionist movement, and of the Zionist state, in the future. For the Zionist settler state to be is to prepare for and strive for territorial expansion.” These almost prophetic words flashed into my mind when Israel launched an immediate military onslaught against Syria and seized even more of its territory following the overthrow of the country’s government in December 2024. These events effectively marked the culmination of a multi-faceted war waged against the Syrian state for over a decade, of which Israel was a key participant.
The fate that befell the PRC itself offers further and especially direct evidence of Sayegh’s tragically accurate foresight. After the center was looted wholesale by Israeli military forces during their invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and then bombed by a terrorist group acting as a proxy for Israel the following year, it was forced to close, and, like so many Palestinian institutions and individuals of that era, left Beirut never to return. A word here is needed on Israel’s assault on Beirut in 1982, a crime that in many ways foreshadowed its genocidal offensive on Gaza that began in October 2023.
In the summer of 1982, West Beirut was encircled by Israeli forces — with all water, fuel and food blocked from entering — then pounded mercilessly by artillery, aerial and naval bombardment for weeks on end. Hospitals, charities, residential buildings, refugee camps, embassies, clinics and hotels were all targeted and thousands of Lebanese and Palestinian civilians were slaughtered. The destruction was so comprehensive that the Canadian Ambassador to Lebanon at the time, Theodore Arcand, said it made “Berlin 1945 look like a tea party.” The siege was part of Israel’s broader assault against Lebanon that was so violent and destructive that most of the members of an international commission formed to study Israel’s violations concluded that not only had the invasion entailed multiple breaches of international law, but also in fact constituted “a form of genocide.”
Zionism: “Not the Concern of Palestinians Alone”
Though Sayegh’s book stresses that Palestine’s liberation must be spearheaded by the Palestinians themselves, he states clearly that the “problem of Palestine … is not the concern of Palestinians alone,” since Israel’s commitment to expansion also threatens the security and territorial integrity of the Arab states as a whole. This understanding of the Zionist project and the threat it poses to the entire region has been advanced and built on by an array of figures since Sayegh. For instance, the martyr Husayn Muruwwah, then the foremost ideologue of the Lebanese Communist Party, wrote in 1985 that the:… cause of liberating Palestine is the absolute basis of all Arab struggles … [w]hen we refer to the Palestinian cause, we might very well be referring to that of Lebanon, or any other Arab country — and vice versa. When we mention the Lebanese resistance, we might very well be referring to the Palestinian resistance – and vice versa …
More recently, the martyr Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah regularly stressed in his speeches and analysis that Israel constituted an existential threat not only to Palestine and the Palestinian people, but in fact to Lebanon itself and to the peoples of the Islamic and Arab worlds in their entireties.
Knowing the Enemy Today
Sayegh concludes his excellent book by stating that as an entity “animated by doctrines of racial self-segregation, racial exclusiveness, and racial supremacy” that translates those doctrines into “ruthless practices of racial discrimination and oppression,” the political systems erected by Zionism in Palestine must be recognized as a menace to all who are “dedicated to the safeguarding and enhancement of the dignity of man. For whenever and wherever the dignity of but one single human being is violated, in pursuance of the creed of racism, a heinous sin is committed against the dignity of all men, everywhere.” It is sobering to read these words in the middle of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Sayegh’s sentiment and analysis are being proven painfully correct in front of our eyes every day.As Sayegh saw and understood his enemy with such clarity sixty years ago, we must do so today. Zionism is not a redeemable movement gone awry; it did not become an occupying power only in 1967 but is so inherently and inescapably. Its appetite for extreme violence and expansion is insatiable and facilitated without limits or red lines by what Sayegh calls its “vital and continuing association” with imperialism. Since Sayegh wrote, the Zionist settler-state has consolidated its role as the attack dog and vanguard of US imperialism in West Asia. US support for Israel, Joe Biden stated unashamedly in 1986, “is the best $3 billion investment we make. Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interests in the region.” Israel’s violence, although portrayed by some as taking place against the wishes of the US, invariably aligns with American interests and strategic goals, while at the same time providing it with plausible deniability as to its own involvement. The recent (and at the time of writing, ongoing) Israeli attacks against Iran are no exception to this broader phenomenon.
Those who argue that peace with the Zionist entity is desirable, or even possible, deny the stark historical track record and present genocidal reality staring them in the face. There is no better or more palatable version of Israel that can or will ever exist. Netanyahu is not an outlier or unrepresentative of the whole, but in fact the perfect embodiment of the racism, violence and expansionism that Sayegh understood was inherent to Zionism over half a century ago, traits that are supported by the overwhelming majority of the settler population. Then as now, the only just and lasting solution remains the complete rejection, isolation and eventual military defeat and dismantlement of the Zionist settler-state. Re-visiting the work of vindicated and principled scholars like Sayegh can help us hold on to that certainty and be cognisant of the historical continuity that doing so represents.
Louis Allday
Source: Al-Akhbarabolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=…
#imperialism #palestine #resistance #zionism
Remembering Husayn Muruwwah, the ‘Red Mujtahid’
On 17 February 1987, during one of the bloodiest periods of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), the prominent journalist, literary critic, intellectual, and activist Husayn Muruwwah (or Hussein Mroué[i]) was assassinated at his home in Ramlet al-Baid…Jadaliyya
SUM OF ALL FEARS - Q WW3 SCARE EVENT - ISRAEL FALSE FLAG US - TRUMP WARNS IRAN - EP. 427
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🇮🇷 Exiled Iranian opposition leader Prince Reza Pahlavi has called on the people of Iran to rise up against the Ayatollah regime:
"The Islamic Republic is collapsing — the process is irreversible. The future is bright. Now is the time to rise, to reclaim Iran. I hope to stand beside you soon."
#geopolitics #Zionism #imperialism #war
My master Emmanuel Todd's analysis of the current situation, prophetically (as usual ;) published 6 months ago.
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Interview for Elucid, December 2024substack.com
und #Eingebürgerte tauchen gar nicht mehr in der Statistik auf. Warum man nicht zählt, was man nicht sehen will.
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#reitschuster
In einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft passen sich die Gäste dem Gastgeber an.
In Deutschland passt sich die Gesellschaft den Gästen an und verzichtet auf seine Kultur.
#Islamismus #Gruppenvergewaltigungen #Messermorde #Brandmauertote #Islam #Brandmaueropfer #Massenvergewaltigungen
#Islam #Moslem #Islamisten #Migration
#Sharia #Islam #Islamismus #GG #Grundgesetzt
Fast jeder zweite Häftling hat keinen deutschen Pass – doch bei Eingebürgerten wird nicht mehr gezählt. Warum die offizielle Statistik ausgerechnet da endet, wo es brisant wird.Boris Reitschuster (reitschuster.de)
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„Wir setzen den Ausbau der #Windkraft fort“, heißt es im schwarz-roten #Koalitionsvertrag der neuen Bundesregierung.
Dabei ist der Nutzen dieser Technologie fragwürdig.
nius.de/analyse/news/sechs-gru…
#Merz ist ein #Lügner
#erneuerbareEnergien #Energiewende #Windkraft #Windenergie-Branche
#solarenergie #CDU #CSU #KlimaUnion #WKA #Windkraft #Windkraftanlagen #Umweltzerstörung #Klimaschutz
NIUS nennt sechs Gründe, warum die Windkraft in Deutschland definitiv gescheitert ist.NiUS.de
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O3 Turns Pro
Link: thezvi.substack.com/p/o3-turns…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
You can now have o3 throw vastly more compute at a given problem.Zvi Mowshowitz (Don't Worry About the Vase)
"A CNN report on Tuesday revealed that American intelligence does not currently assess #Iran to be on the verge of producing a nuclear weapon. The U.S. intel report concluded that Iran is not actively pursuing such a weapon and was up to three years away from being able to 'produce and deliver one to a target of its choosing.'”
Make it make sense.
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Trump raised the possibility that the U.S. could directly target Iran's head of stateSalon.com
Editorial: As Palestinians starve amid the rubble, western governments defend Israel, fund armed aid and dismantle the very rules they claim to upholdEditorial (The Guardian)
iran is certainly taking plenty of hits, there is no denying that. but whats really hard to ascertain between western media's propaganda and the military censor in israel is exactly how much of a price the israeli state is paying as well. we keep getting general statements about "most of their missiles are being intercepted", but is this video from this morning we can see at least 4 points of contact.
x.com/TheCradleMedia/status/19…
and given that the iranians are only shooting 8-10 missiles per barrage for the last 24+ hours, 4 hits doesn't sound unsuccessful.
larger piece about the hit on Mossad's 8200.
thecradle.co/articles/iran-tar…
Heavy Israeli media censorship has been imposed on sites impacted by Iranian ballistic missilesthecradle.co
Germany's Merz says Israel doing 'dirty work for us' in Iran. You gotta love when these ghouls just come out and say these things openly.
dw.com/en/germanys-merz-says-i…
The German chancellor's support comes amid fresh strikes launched by both Israel and Iran. Meanwhile, in Gaza, dozens were reported killed near a GHF aid distribution site. Follow DW for more.Rana Taha (Deutsche Welle)
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Wie kommt man auf solche Gedanken
Geht es teuflischer und bösartiger?
#Organspende #Grüne #DieGrünen #Sozialismus = #Faschismus
Verfolgung Andersdenkender ist hier Programm
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Declaración Solidaria sobre las Redadas de Migrantes en Estados Unidos y la Intensificación de la Represión del Estado en Los Ángeles California Nosotros, la Liga Internacional de la Lucha de los Pueblos (ILPS) comité provisional para América Latina …Cody Urban (International League of Peoples' Struggle)
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Israel is calling upon its secret weapon: the Trump paedophile tape
Thank god for Jeffrey Epstein...
You have to feel sorry for Israel: after committing genocide for 20 months and starting an illegal war of aggression, it has somehow found its airbases and intelligence buildings and arms factories keep exploding for some reason. I can't explain it either.
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Educators are horrified as their students become hopelessly dependent on AI models that do their thinking for them.Frank Landymore (Futurism)
#UE #VDL #corruption #Pfizer #UE #lacorde #guillotine2025
L'UE est un cloaque de corruption et de trahison. Guillotine générale !
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We're expanding our Gemini 2.5 family of models
Link: blog.google/products/gemini/ge…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro are now generally available, and we’re introducing 2.5 Flash-Lite, our most cost-efficient and fastest 2.5 model yet.Tulsee Doshi (Google)
The US and Israel have launched Phase One of a calculated, long-term war against Iran — but this isn’t about nuclear weapons. It’s about total strategic coll...YouTube
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#Antifa ist #Faschismus im Mäntelchen des #Antifaschismus
#DieLinke ist antisemitisch und rassistische!
#Rassismus #Antisemitismus #Gesellschaft #Kapitalismus #new normal
Lodernde Flammen, giftiger Rauch, platzende Reifen: In der Nacht zu Dienstag haben zwei Großbrände in Berlin für eine dramatische Kulisse und Großeinsätze der Feuerwehr gesorgt.NiUS.de
#géopolitique #impérialisme #guerre
Le vrai sujet, c'est que Trump a trahi toutes les attentes que certains en ont espéré 😀
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#TooLong4FessHole I have been trying to become better friends with the partner of my bestie for over a decade since they hooked up - for the obvious reasons. I never felt as though I was making any progress; all of the work was being done by me and I still felt like I was receiving "disapproving father in law" vibes.
Recently I behaved poorly about something; I immediately reconciled with bestie, but their partner overreacted and have cut off all contact.
And I am somewhat relieved.
I admin a Facebook group with just about 30k people in it. It used to be great, and over the past few years the enshittification has been too much. Lately there is an out of control Facebook AI bot posting constantly pissing everyone off that we can't seem to turn off. I only use FB for the group, and don't have their spyware - I mean, app - installed and wont. Admin abilities are severely limited on the webapp.
I'm stepping down as admin cuz I'm tired of this mess. But I'd like to offer an alternative community to members who are ready to jump ship. Is a Lemmy community the best option? It's a photo heavy group so when Pixelfed launches groups that will be great, but I haven't seen an ETA on that. I've read that Piefed has better mod controls. It can/should be public and accessible across platforms.
Thoughts? And before anyone points it out, I know most folks won't bother switching. But I also miss when it was smaller and had more chill vibes so I can live with that.
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Pixelfed won't launch groups anytime soon unfortunately, I've followed closely and it seems it'll be out about the same time as Tesla's full self driving.
I think the best way would be choose yourself piefed or Lemmy, and then you offer mastodon or pixelfed as places for your users to join and subscribe. So it's a little more natural to them.
While your goal is noble, reality is that I would expect a very small percentage of people to migrate. Less than one maybe even. I think that even a few hundred more people joining the fediverse here is a great idea, but I don't want you to be discouraged when it doesn't turn out the way you hope. People love their platforms. (I also just read your last paragraph after writing this, my bad, glad you're in the right headspace 😀
El viernes día 20 a las 19:00 en la plaza Bideonera de Barakaldo concentración en solidaridad y apoyo a las seis de la suiza.
¡Hacer sindicalismo no es delito!
Sindikalismoa egitea ez da delitua!
Eta delitua bada GORA GORA DELINKUENTZIA!
Send fotos de gatetes y perretes y otros animaletes que hoy tengo un día un poco de mierda. Y me preocupa que con este calor y poder hacer muchas menos cosas vaya otra vez a bajonas... Perdonad el desahogo 😅
Edito: muchas gracias por todas las fotos! Estoy mucho mejor 
Source: techlog.jenslink.net/posts/dns…
$ whois as60068 | grep country
country: GBLast time I checked #GB was not part of the EU. And it’s also a member of #FIVEeyes.
So we have a service sponsored by EU, to protect the #privacy of EU citizens using mainly non-EU services and routing all of their traffic, at least for the sample I took, via an non-EU provider.
Don't forget that normal DNS traffic is unencrypted! 😩
#cybersecurity #security #spy #politics #routing #dns #news #Intelligence #fail #problem #Europe
This is another post that started after several toots on mastodon. Most of the things presented here were already tooted by other people, but I think this is a good chance to write a mini tutorial about what to look at.Techlog
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The first change you'll notice here is the Activities button. Functionally, it's the same, but visually, it shows your current virtual desktop as a pill, and the other available virtual desktops as small circles, so you know where you are in your strip of desktops. This change also comes with the removal of the app menu from the top bar.
The quick settings get the ability to control keyboard backlight from this little menu. You can also open the quick settings menu with a keyboard shortcut which is Super + S. In the top bar, next to these quick settings, you'll also get a new webcam activity indicator.
The Adwaita cursor theme has changed a tiny bit, with a longer stem for the main mouse cursor, and revamped cursors for dragging stuff, and hovering over clickable links, but the changes are really minor.
There is also a true Light theme available, although you'll have to enable it using dconf or through an extension. Apart from that, there's a new "split headerbar look" that reached a few apps, like the settings, the calendar, or the file manager.
Nautilus gained a way faster search. Once a search has completed, you also get a "Search everywhere" button that lets you search the whole filesystem. Selecting columns in the list view is now a bit nicer looking, you can move the columns around to change the order, and you can apply the changes to all folders, or just the one you're viewing.
There's also a brand new image viewer for GNOME, called Loupe. It replaces the old "eye of gnome" viewer, and functionally, it's the same, but it's much more in line with modern GNOME apps.
Other core app changes are Snapshot, the new camera app that replaced Cheese as the default in GNOME. GNOME calendar also gained infinite scrolling in the month view. The event dialog has also been revamped using libadwaita components.
GNOME console got a new preference item to customize fonts, GNOME maps gained a new experimental vector based tileset, and the Connections app now supports copying text, files and images through RDP. GNOME Web got the tab overview.
And finally, the calculator app now handles more currencies and currency conversions.
For Flatpak apps, you'll now get the option to clear the app storage, and remove all the data associated with the app, when uninstalling it, just like what KDE added recently in Discover.
Flatpak apps that are end of life will be marked in the app page in Software, and in the "installed apps list" in GNOME software itself.
Mutter now supports YUV color space, which is generally used for video and image processing. Fractional scaling under wayland now is also officially supported, and the compositor now handles the mouse cursor's movement in its own thread, which means it won't be impacted as much by anything else needing to be rendered.
The "About" page gained a new "System details" dialog that will give you a bit more information, with a "copy" button to quickly share these when you have to write a bug report or something along those lines.
A few options from GNOME tweaks also made their way to the Date and time settings, there are smaller changes as well, like the ability to remove a wifi network with a dedicated icon, and a confirmation dialog to verify you actually want to remove it, the sharing page losing its global toggle, and searching through the settings has been improved.
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You can't currently run any linux distro you want on Apple Silicon hardware, but thankfully, some insanely good developers have created Asahi Linux: it's Arch Linux with some super bleeding edge drivers to support the newest macbooks, and desktop macs, from M1 to M2.
Installing Asahi Linux is a simple process: you just run a single terminal command.
Asahi supports all M1 machines for now, except the mac Studio, and you'll need about 60 gigs of storage. Once the script has done its thing, you'll need to completely shut down the mac, then reboot it by pressing and holding the power button, until you see a volume list to boot on, where you can pick Asahi Linux.
So, on my macbook pro, a lot of stuff works perfectly without anything to do on my part. The keyboard is perfectly recognized. Keyboard backlight also works out of the box. The touchpad works perfectly. The display is recognized with its full resolution although it doesn't support the high refresh rate that it should have, it's locked to 60 hertz. Wifi also worked immediately, but audio didn't.
Bluetooth also works perfectly. Of course charging the laptop works, and in terms of ports, the USB C ports do work, but only as USB C, and USB 2 for now, not USB 3 and not thunderbolt either.
The SD card slot also works, but the HDMI port doesn't. Your webcam also won't work here, and the onboard mic isn't detected for me either.
What about CPU performance and battery life then? The M1 Pro under Linux got a single core score of 1718 and a multi core score of 10079.
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Compare that to Geekbench 5 on macOS, where I got 1775 in single core, and 12521 in multi core. That's a difference of 3% for single core, and 24% for multi core, in favor of macOS.
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In terms of battery life, though, it's WAY WORSE. With youtube videos playing in a loop in the background, Asahi barely lasted for about 5 hours.
THe Asahi Linux team managed to write a fully conformant OpenGL driver for Apple SIlicon, something APple themselves doesn't have, because they only support their own graphics API, called Metal. You CAN install these GPU drivers, optionally, with a few commands. They will replace your current version of mesa, with one including these nice openGL drivers.
And now, you DO get GPU acceleration, and it's now recommended you use Wayland, because the Asahi team said X11 wouldn't really be a supported target for their graphics drivers.
As per gaming, don't expect much here. Steam won't run, because, well, it's ARM, and Steam on Linux doesn't have an ARM version. Even if it did, there are no Vulkan drivers yet, so stuff like DXVK wouldn't work, and there is no translation layer baked in to run x86 apps in there.
And of course, we need to talk about app support. Asahi Linux is basically Arch + more drivers, so you do get the AUR and everything else Arch has access to. BUT it's also an OS running on ARM, which means some software just isn't available for that architecture.
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shitbox:~/src/linux-rcore$ echo CONFIG_MUX_MMIO=y >> .configshitbox:~/src/linux-rcore$ make oldconfig## configuration written to .config#shitbox:~/src/linux-rcore$ grep MUX_MMIO .configshitbox:~/src/linux-rcore$
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in reply to Coded Artist • • •19-year-old looks up the law, sees he can open carry, does so, engages in protected first amendment speech in an area where everyone is doing that and also in pretty edgy ways, gets attacked by boomers who
a. are in fear of the lives of the protesters against this obviously harmless clown
b. cynically decided that a Nazi salute meant that killing him was functionally legal and would not lead to prosecution
and someone dies, so now there are murder charges.
Q: What was his mistake?
A: not believing his own narrative. The left are violently insane unhinged retards. Provoking such people would obviously lead to violence. Doing something that would obviously lead to violence while armed is a crime in itself.