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"If Israel wants to evict the people of Gaza, they have the Negev desert." - Egypt

The lie that will never die.

Biden urges two-state solution to support peace

Iraq: Al-Mayadeen correspondent: Angry demonstrators are trying to cross the security barriers to enter the American embassy in Baghdad.

For the record, the Palestinian side of the Rafah Crossing is in a bad state after it got bombed.

Some of you will recognise this location from the live stream:

C-130 currently over Nazareth

In this war you either support a terror group or a terror regime.

Business Insider writes an article that screams projection and crying about the Chinese communists not thinking about the poor landlords.

It’s official: The era of China’s global dominance is over

We've reached the end of an era for the Chinese economy.

For the past three decades, China has been on the upswing of a supercycle that saw an almost uninterrupted expansion of the country's capacity to manufacture, appetite to consume, and ability to project power across the world economy. The Chinese Communist Party relentlessly pursued economic development over all else, even when that single-mindedness pushed the party to make debilitating policy mistakes — creating a massive bubble in the property market, saddling provinces with loads of debt, and failing to transition away from an overreliance on investment. There was no time to stop for corrections while China's mind was on money alone.

This era of expansion was not only a boon for Beijing, it also helped fuel global demand. Countries relied on China's hunger for speedy modernization and industrial might to supercharge their own development. Even American companies saw China as the next great global market — and made bets accordingly.

They lost those bets.

China's leader, Xi Jinping, has shifted the CCP's raison d'être to national security over the economy. Getting rich isn't China's big project anymore; the project is power. As a result, both the government's priorities and its behavior have changed. In the past, whenever it seemed that a recession was on the horizon, the CCP came to the rescue. There's no hefty stimulus coming this time. Nor will the explosive growth that experts once expected from China return. Beijing's relationship with the outside world is no longer guided by the principles of economic rationality, but rather by its yearning for political power.

"This isn't about the economy anymore, it's all about advanced technology and weaponry," Lee Miller, the founder of the Chinese economic surveyor China Beige Book, told me.

In response, American businesses need to consider how else Beijing's decision-making may now be flipped on its axis. For everyone from American farmers to pharmaceutical companies, this means shrinking demand and unstable supply chains. For policymakers, it means a China that is harder to mollify when conflicts arise. For the rest of us, it's a more precarious world.

guy going over hamas' operations orders/recovered documents pretty cool seeing how well prepared they were tbh. It was a super clean attack ngl

::: spoiler ASPI snakes being, well, snakes

There was very little information that suggests Israel was behind a devastating strike on a hospital in Gaza which left hundreds of people dead.

That's according to Malcolm Davis, a senior analyst in defence strategy and capability at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, who said it wasn't in Israel's interests to score an "own goal".

"The vast majority of information that is currently out there that is from credible sources is suggesting that this was a rocket that was launched from Gaza and crashed onto the hospital and exploded," Dr Davis told News Channel's Ros Childs.

"Israelis are not going to make a horrendous mistake like attacking a hospital for the civilians right at the point when it's in their strategic interest to ensure as much of backing as possible.

"You can see the consequences of this action if the Israelis had done this, it would have been an incredible own goal of sorts to essentially kill large numbers of civilians deliberately — the Israelis don't do that."

Civilians that were killed in airstrikes was down to Hamas refusing to let them withdraw, he said.

Technologies such as airborne surveillance can detect and track missiles and rockets can hit the wrong target.

"Mistakes are made and I think that this is clearly one of those," Dr Davis said.

"I think that if you look at what Hamas and also what Hezbollah developing and capable of using in terms of the rocket technology, they have large numbers of rockets … I'm not sure how sophisticated the rockets are but if this was one of theirs, it suggests that either it was a faulty rocket or that they made an error when they launched it."

I haven't been glued to the media but I feel like in the past day or two I have seen more pushback from western media on Israel. Could be ass-covering or maybe the bias of the stuff I've been watching and reading I dunno.

Anyway, free Palestine forever

The ADL really do be like the Adolph Hitler Institute for Friendship and Tolerance.

Ok so this is surely a deeply cold take and an entirely unoriginal thought by this point, but is it even remotely conceivable that Hamas has (or had) military hardware capable of destroying that hospital? Like even if a rocket hit a whole bunch of oxygen tanks, I can't see the resulting explosion killing more than 100 people at the absolute worst.

Here's an excellent 3k word article by the Wall Street Journal.

archive.today • How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas - WSJ

Jan. 24, 2009

Nitter

Hezbollah blowing up some black thermal blobs

https://streamable.com/m3oivf