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alternate video link: https://streamable.com/0jp0xw

I mean, this was always sort-of in place, but it is always 100% enforced when the word goes out from the top. Then, every network gets a few years when they are allowed to pretend to be more diverse in opinion in order to keep their viewership up. And repeat.

https://twitter.com/OmarBaddar/status/1714030764776477059

MSNBC Capital Hill reporter.

The entire tweet...

Jim Jordan is within 5-10 votes of becoming speaker, per sources. The question now isn't who will support him, it's which Republican lawmakers vote against him — and hold the line against the onslaught from conservative media. Some Rs resent his tactics.

Vid clip at the tweet.

I'm actually amazed. A couple days ago pundits were laughing at him and saying he only had 155 votes and he had no path to speaker.

Yo what the fuck.

Seems bad

https://twitter.com/IsraelWarRoom/status/1713123297708183913?t=9qwE-4SMlmEFIhTRYLzTEQ&s=19

1. The IDF will be spread too thin to maintain the intensity of occupations in the West Bank and growing conflict along international borders

2. Their rapidly crumbling international support will take a massive hit from the brutality of such an assault and could prompt direct retaliation from Hezbollah

3. Many, many IDF soldiers will get fucking obliterated entering hyper dense urban combat against a million people with nothing left to lose

These three combine to create the likelihood that Israel would be utterly defeated in such an action. The IDF is a paper tiger when they aren't bombing an imprisoned civilian population.

Thoughts? Am I right or wrong with this take?

https://archive.ph/mV33f

https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1713231232438264018

Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is a British charity that offers medical services in the West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon, and advocates for Palestinians' rights to health and dignity. It is in special consultative status with ECOSOC since 2002.

Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) works in partnership with Palestinian communities to uphold their rights to health and dignity. We do this by developing effective, sustainable and locally-led healthcare services, providing medical aid during emergencies, and campaigning to break down the barriers to Palestinian health and healthcare today and for the future. 

MAP History

Between 16 and 18 September 1982, Lebanese Phalangist militants entered the Beirut refugee camp of Sabra and Shatila, and killed and injured hundreds of unarmed Palestinian and other civilians inside. The camp’s residents were defenceless.

The Israeli army, who had invaded Lebanon earlier that year and had surrounded the camp, had full knowledge of what was taking place inside, yet they never intervened. Instead, they illuminated the camp throughout the night by flares launched into the sky from helicopters and mortars.

Working in a hospital inside the camp at the time was a young orthopaedic surgeon from London, Dr Swee Chai Ang. Refusing to leave the hospital, Dr Ang worked tirelessly to save the injured and protect her patients during the massacre.

On her return to London, Dr Ang joined with fellow medical professionals and humanitarians to establish Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), in order to send doctors and nurses to work in the Palestinian refugee camps and provide frontline care.

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Since then, MAP has been working with Palestinian communities, to deliver locally-led health and medical care to those worst affected by conflict, occupation and displacement.

Today we have offices in the West Bank, Gaza, Jerusalem, Lebanon and London. With our extensive local knowledge and experience, we work closely with communities, hospitals, clinics and healthcare providers to coordinate care and medical aid even where there are severe restrictions on access.

MAP provides immediate medical aid to those in need at times of crisis, while also developing local capacity and skills to ensure the long-term development of the Palestinian healthcare system.

We are also committed to speaking out against injustices that prevent Palestinians from fully enjoying their rights to health and dignity, and campaign to ensure the voices of Palestinians impacted by occupation, displacement and conflict are heard at the highest levels.

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