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Are there any other wikipedia pages where they specifically tell you which food locations you can find diplomats from a specific country at? That info seems ridiculously unsafe.

It's real odd that this DPRK wiki article has it.

It's been on my mind since then. It remains shocking to me how much "analysis" by Israelis and pro-Israel people entirely falls apart if you push aside such misdirections as "The situation is complex", "War is a blunt instrument", "Military situations are uncertain", etc.

I just read this Economist article with its themes of "complexities" and "uncertainties". I think it's kind of darkly unintentionally breathtakingly hilarious how he snidely says things are complicated and war is uncertain and everybody who isn't Israeli who is judging the situation is silly and wrong. Also - and of course - only one side can commit atrocities.

David Enoch argues that much of the public discourse on the Israel-Hamas conflict is depressingly simplistic

Intellectuals should be more honest about the uncertainties, says the legal philosopher

The morality of war is extremely complicated. So, consequently, are the ethics of commenting on it. But in the war in Israel and Gaza, some things are simple: the horrendous atrocities committed by Hamas cannot be justified, under any circumstances.

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If you think that a call for a ceasefire is justified, given factual uncertainties, as a way of erring on the side of safety, you should remember that when it comes to war, often there is no side of safety. Any mistakes—using too much force, not using enough—will be paid for in the only relevant currency, the blood of innocents.

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What is a conscientious public intellectual to do? Surely we must have something to say about a horrible tragedy that is unfolding in front of our eyes? Indeed, philosophers and other intellectuals have chimed in, not just as individuals, but also in groups. In one such intervention, 45 academics from the University of Oxford wrote an open letter condemning Israel and calling on Britain’s political leaders to urge an immediate ceasefire, without so much as a gesture in the direction of the uncertainties involved.

In another public text, signed mostly by North-America-based academic philosophers, anti-colonialist jargon was lifted unmodified from the nice-sounding-slogans shelf and applied with no sensitivity to any of the facts relevant here.

Before I read the article I googled him and saw a photo that showed him getting arrested by the police. Of course - he wasn't protesting the slaughter in Gaza. That is complicated. It was a photo from March. He was protesting Netanyahu's plans to scale back the independence and power of its judiciary.

An Economist think piece headline "Too soon? Or is now the time to invest in genocide futures?"

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If you're in the mood to read a 850 word article about what The Economist thinks about the word "genocide" - How the term "genocide" is misused in the Israel-Hamas war

This made me laugh.

Even if an army's actions do not pass the threshold of genocide, they can still be wrong.

"An army", The Economist? We all know that Israel is the cop in this so-called theoretical "officer related shooting".

(cw: derogatory uses of "dwarf")

Lion's Den statement excerpt:

The enemy, and those who supported and were allied with them, thought that they could destroy Gaza or destroy its solidity and its social fabric with the multitude of their crimes and their persistence in revenge against children, women and civilians, instead of confronting him man to man, as the sons of the resistance did when they trampled on the necks of its soldiers and leaders and destroyed the entire Gaza Division, which was already equipped and prepared to fight in Gaza.

The enemy knows full well that the resistance did not exert force against civilians, nor against children, nor against women. On the contrary, this war will end, and the occupation public will know that its army committed massacres against the so-called civilians in the Gaza envelope on October 7. Instead of protecting the hostages and seeking their safe exit, [the enemy] was the one who unleashed its tanks and planes to kill everything: resistance fighters, hostages, civilians and children. This enemy is fully prepared to kill “israeli” children and women and bomb “israeli” prisoners just to determine their location rather than ruin the image that it wants to promote to the international community. This will be revealed as soon as this battle ends and the investigation committees begin that will isolate the failure Netanyahu and the dwarves of his government with him.

The occupation public must drag Ben-Gvir through the streets of the entity because he caused them this defeat. This dwarf is the one who indulged in the desecration of Al-Aqsa, and he is the one who armed and directed the settlers to further increase their crimes in the West Bank, which required the resistance in Gaza to stand up to its national responsibility in defending the women who were dragged in the alleys of Al-Quds and the sanctities that were desecrated. The resistance to strike the first blow because this failed government was planning for something greater than that after the end of their holiday.

Here, the Lions' Den groups reassure our proud people that the enemy is tasting what it has not tasted in all the wars it has fought to this day, and that everything that happens and that your eyes see is what the resistance wants, demands, wishes for, and has waited for for a long time. The enemy has fallen into the mud of Gaza and its shifting sands, and no power in the world can get it out from this mire.

We say to the few who began to speculate about the isolation of the resistance in Gaza and its defeat, we say to you: no way, [this is far-fetched]. The resistance will stand victorious, tall, with its head raised, and you will have shame and disgrace. We put the barrels of the destroyed tanks in your behinds, God willing.

Here it is necessary for us to give the salute of the Den to the Den, a greeting from the homeland to the second homeland, the brotherly Jordan, its people with all its parts. We salute the Jordanian Foreign Minister, who read the reality well, unlike those who drooled quickly and thought that he would enter Gaza on the back of tanks.

Our father and brother, [Mohammed Deif] Abu Khaled, to Commander Saleh Al-Arouri, and to all the leaders of the resistance, we say that the West Bank will only be a sword and a shield for you, God willing. O our people in the West Bank, more, more engagement and clashes. Victory is only an hour’s patience, God willing.

The Lions' Den groups declare their responsibility for carrying out more than fourteen shooting operations in the Nablus area and its surroundings, from the area of Deir Sharaf to the Zawata bypass to the post on "Mount Gerizim" and the post of "Ebal" and "Itamar" and "Elon Moreh" and the Al-Muraba'a, and we continue, God willing.

Allah is the Greatest, and victory is but an hour's patience.
Your brothers, the Lions' Den groups.

from https://t.me/PalestineResist/18623 and https://t.me/PalestineResist/18624

Australia has been generous enough to take in climate refugees from Tuvalu due to their country gradually sinking as climate change worsens. The catch? Australia has entered a "defense pact" and has to approve any other defense partnerships Tuvalu takes with any other country. This is obviously in response to the Solomon Islands making that deal with China earlier.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-67340907

archive.today • Viewed Warily by Democrats, a Netanyahu Ally Is a Key Conduit to U.S. - The New York Times

Ron Dermer sits in Israel’s five-member war cabinet and is a crucial liaison to the Biden administration, including U.S. officials he clashed with when he was ambassador to Washington.

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At one level, Mr. Dermer’s membership in the war cabinet is surprising. Born and raised in Miami Beach, he moved to Israel after graduate school and did not serve in the Israeli military. Three of the cabinet members are retired generals, while Mr. Netanyahu served in a special forces unit as a young soldier.

But on another level, it is predictable, given Mr. Dermer’s longstanding ties to Mr. Netanyahu, who is widely known as Bibi. He has advised the prime minister since 2000, whether from Washington or Jerusalem, and is viewed as his alter ago — or, as the Jewish online magazine Tablet once memorably put it, “Bibi’s Brain.”

“He made sure Dermer was a part of” the war cabinet, said Anshel Pfeffer, who wrote a biography, “Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu.” He added, “It’s telling that the only person he trusts on it is Ron Dermer, who has little or no military experience.”

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His first job out of college at the University of Pennsylvania was working for Frank Luntz, the Republican pollster who had taught him there. In a classroom debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Mr. Luntz recalled, he once told Mr. Dermer to take the Palestinian side.

“His side won, which horrified him, so he sprinted to the front of the room to assert that the only reason why he had been victorious is because he lied in all his claims,” Mr. Luntz said. “Israel was already more important to him than his own personal reputation.”

80,000 people used evacuation corridor to flee northern Gaza Thursday, Israeli officials say

Eighty-thousand people fled northern Gaza through an evacuation corridor Thursday, Israel's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said in a statement on social media.

The numbers announced by COGAT would mark a rise in evacuations compared to the previous day, when 50,000 people evacuated northern Gaza, according to Israel Defense Forces figures. CNN cannot independently verify the evacuation totals.

The IDF has opened evacuation corridors several times this week for periods of several hours — a pattern it seemed to formalize Thursday, when the White House announced Israel had agreed to continue with daily four-hour pauses of military operations in parts of northern Gaza.

An IDF spokesperson reiterated Thursday that there is no ceasefire in the territory. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that could only come with the release of all Hamas hostages.

“The fighting continues, there’s no ceasefire. We repeat that — there’s no ceasefire. We continue fighting,” Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said in a news conference. The IDF spokesperson said he visited Gaza in a military convoy and that the evacuation corridor "is working."

https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-11-09-23/h_012af289dde72b9d4dc78cb41fc43f30

It's happening!

Is the assasination attempt on Mahmoud Abbas real or just a false alarm?

[CW: discussion of mass grave and a photo]

BBC No Al-Shifa footage - but images from yesterday show covered bodies in courtyard

"Remember:" is in bold at the site. I thought/think it's funny. "Remember, jack - I said - re-occupying Gaza would be a mistake." Yeah, Biden - I'm sure they give a fuck.

Israel will "retain complete freedom of action" in Gaza after war, defense minister says

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Israel will "retain complete freedom of action to respond to any situation in the Gaza Strip" once the war ends.

Speaking at the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Tuesday morning, Gallant said that "at the end of this 'campaign,' Hamas, as a military organization or governing body in Gaza, will cease to exist." Gallant's comments were published on the Ynet news website.

"There will be no security threat to Israel from Gaza, and Israel will retain complete freedom of action, to respond to any situation in the Gaza Strip that poses any kind of threat," Gallant can be heard saying on the Ynet recording. Gallant’s comments echo those of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who on Monday said in an interview with ABC News that Israel will have the "overall security responsibility" in Gaza for an “indefinite period” after the war ends.

Taken together, the comments shed light on the Israeli government’s plans for post-war Gaza. Government officials have not yet elaborated on how Gaza would be governed should they succeed in eliminating Hamas.

Remember: US President Joe Biden warned Israel last month that re-occupying Gaza would be a mistake.

Gallant also said on the Ynet recording that the war's top priority was to "eliminate this phenomenon called Hamas," and that he was personally focused on "victory in the war" and returning Israeli hostages home.

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Haha.

Way to go, Joe. They didn't even give a fuck before. Now they'll give negative fucks.

US leaving post-war situation to Israel

We know there was a conversation on Monday between the Israeli prime minister and the US president. The two leaders are in close coordination, and there is undoubtedly lockstep support by the Biden administration for Israel.

Having said that, there is this push by the US to have these humanitarian pauses, but for the most part, they are leaving what happens after this conflict to the Israelis.

This is an ongoing conversation, something the National Security [Council] spokesperson John Kirby said, particularly regarding those humanitarian pauses.

This is something the US say they are getting pushback on from the Israelis but are encouraging strongly given the fact that they feel grave concern about the high number of casualties and the insufficient number of trucks going into Rafah crossing.

-Al Jazeera

Please help me find the video of the IDF helicopter attacking the festival or a source that covers that? I can’t find it and somebody asked for proof after I brought it up.

Al-Qassam just announced destroying a 6th tank and targeting an israeli infantry unit fortified in a building with a TGB. Total israeli tanks destroyed today - announced - rises to 8.