Israeli rights groups accuse Israel of genocide in Gaza
Israeli rights groups accuse Israel of genocide in Gaza
Israel's government rejects the allegations in the separate reports by B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel.Emir Nader (BBC News)
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Thousands in Greece and Turkey evacuate as winds and heat fan wildfires
Thousands in Greece and Turkey evacuate as winds and heat fan wildfires
Czech firefighters and Italian aircraft join rescue effort in Greece, and firefighter among those killed in TurkeyHelena Smith (The Guardian)
Brazil to double down on Brics in defiance of Donald Trump
Celso Amorim, lead foreign affairs adviser to leftwing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, told the Financial Times those attacks “are reinforcing our relations with the Brics, because we want to have diversified relations and not depend on any one country”.
I believe in the BRICS proposal. For any of you who don't, if you lived in a third world country you would understand what the missed potential is all about. Latin America is somewhat integrated, but people from Brazil could do scientific exchange with Uzbekistan, or an Algerian could be a professor in Senegal. The human potential is so great, because there are a lot of people who are left out from the current state of things.
Everyone wants to go study or be a professional in Europe, but what about all the other countries? Doing the hard thing (working together to reach new heights) is difficult, but it is the only way forward. And that's what the BRICS propose.
Lula says the US has ignored Brazil’s attempts to negotiate Trump's announced tariff
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Thursday that his government has not been successful in trying to negotiate the 50% tariff on Brazilian imports that Donald Trump has threatened to impose.
Washington has ignored Brazil’s attempts to negotiate ahead of the measure’s expected implementation on Aug. 1., the Brazilian leader said.
https://apnews.com/article/lula-brazil-trump-tariffs-bolsonaro-561abba98f3a66ef2bfc36c7cb2034a4
Our Genocide
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Since October 2023, Israel has shifted its policy toward the Palestinians. Its military onslaught on Gaza, underway for more than 21 months, has included mass killing, both directly and through creating unlivable conditions, serious bodily or mental harm to an entire population, decimation of basic infrastructure throughout the Strip, and forcible displacement on a huge scale, with ethnic cleansing added to the list of official war objectives.This is compounded by mass arrests and abuse of Palestinians in Israeli prisons, which have effectively become torture camps, and tearing apart the social fabric of Gaza, including the destruction of Palestinian educational and cultural institutions. The campaign is also an assault on Palestinian identity itself, through the deliberate destruction of refugee camps and attempts to undermine the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
An examination of Israel’s policy in the Gaza Strip and its horrific outcomes, together with statements by senior Israeli politicians and military commanders about the goals of the attack, leads to the unequivocal conclusion that Israel is taking coordinated, deliberate action to destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip. In other words: Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
The term genocide refers to a socio-historical and political phenomenon involving acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group. Both morally and legally, genocide cannot be justified under any circumstance, including as an act of self-defense.
Genocide always occurs within a context: there are conditions that enable it, triggering events, and a guiding ideology. The current onslaught on the Palestinian people, including in the Gaza Strip, must be understood in the context of more than seventy years in which Israel has imposed a violent and discriminatory regime on the Palestinians, taking its most extreme form against those living in the Gaza Strip. Since the State of Israel was established, the apartheid and occupation regime has institutionalized and systematically employed mechanisms of violent control, demographic engineering, discrimination, and fragmentation of the Palestinian collective. These foundations laid by the regime are what made it possible to launch a genocidal attack on the Palestinians immediately after the Hamas-led attack on 7 October 2023.
The assault on Palestinians in Gaza cannot be separated from the escalating violence being inflicted, at varying levels and in different forms, on Palestinians living under Israeli rule in the West Bank and within Israel. The violence and destruction in these areas is intensifying over time, with no effective domestic or international mechanism acting to halt them. We warn of the clear and present danger that the genocide will not remain confined to the Gaza Strip, and that the actions and underlying mindset driving it may be extended to other areas as well.
The recognition that the Israeli regime is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, and the deep concern that it may expand to other areas where Palestinians live under Israeli rule, demand urgent and unequivocal action from both Israeli society and the international community, and use of every means available under international law to stop Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people.
OUR GENOCIDE
OUR GENOCIDE B’Tselem, July 2025 Since October 2023, Israel has fundamentally changed its policy toward the Palestinians. For more than 21 months,…Vimeo
The Fediverse is the Left Wing Circle Jerk
You could be forgiven for looking around Reddit and saying "this is the most Left wing place on the Internet".
But there is an even bigger Left wing bastion of insanity, Transgender orthodoxy, and unchecked out of control Moderation. And its called "the Fediverse"
Never in my life have I seen such a Hive containing the Damned and Reprobates of life.
A wise man once said "I may had voted for Obama.....but you people are insane".
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‘Revenge Is Not a Policy’: Israelis Voice Dissent Against the War in Gaza
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All it took for the West to so much as begin turning on Israel was pictures of skeletonised children.
If America and Europe truly believed in "Never again!" we would have carrier groups running 24-hour sorties and bombing Tel Aviv into the stone age. Any other country (outside of Africa, ugh) pulling this shit would have been flattened and invaded by now.
Nope! Instead we paid for this genocide. Solid return on AIPAC's investment!
I'm fucking sick. We're seeing images out of WWII concentration camps on the 2025 news. Cut Israel out from the world of decent men. They've forfeited their right to exist. Sorry guys, used to root for you. Never again!
I'm pretty sure Yemen is outside of Africa, yet America and Europe have not gone after Saudi Arabia and the UAE for their war crimes there.
What might be the connecting factor here?
Any other country (outside of Africa, ugh) pulling this shit would have been flattened and invaded by now.
Are you not aware of many wars around the world like Myanmar (and rohingya genocide) and Ukraine? What about yazidi? You're straight up delusional if you truly think any country with sizeable power would get flattened, especially nuclear-power.
Israel only has power because America gives it to them. They would collapse overnight if we went rolled into the Mediterranean looking for a fight.
Hell, if America pulled our support, their neighbors would flatten them, Sampson Doctrine be damned.
USA didn't give nukes to Israel and the neighbour thing you talk about was already tried in arab-israeli war.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/07/i…
Israel's Nuclear Weapons: How Israelis Deceived American Presidents From Eisenhower to JFK and Johnson
Newly declassified documents reveal how Israel operated under the noses of U.S. inspectors.Avner Cohen (Foreign Policy)
Trump says he cut ties with Jeffrey Epstein because 'he stole people who worked for me'
Trump says he cut ties with Jeffrey Epstein because 'he stole people who worked for me'
Trump's past friendship with Jeffrey Epstein has come under scrutiny after Attorney General Pam Bondi said she would not release files about Epstein.Dan Mangan (CNBC)
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Trump Gives Russia Less Than Two Weeks to End Its War in Ukraine
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Ah, the infamous two weeks deadline. The same two weeks he would eradicate ISIS, fix American healthcare, create peace in the Middle East etc. etc.
Which means in two weeks he will never mention it again and act like he never said it.
Thailand and Cambodia Agree to Halt Fighting That Has Killed Dozens
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Tech bug keeps Mazda radios locked in to NPR
Tech bug keeps Mazda radios locked in to NPR
National Public Radio becomes essential listening for some drivers - because they are unable to retune.BBC News
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups
Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the country’s western allies have a legal and moral duty to stop it.In reports published on Monday, the two groups said Israel had targeted civilians in Gaza only because of their identity as Palestinians over nearly two years of war, causing severe and in some cases irreparable damage to Palestinian society.
Multiple international and Palestinian groups have already described the war as genocidal, but reports from two of Israel-Palestine’s most respected human rights organisations, who have for decades documented systemic abuses, is likely to add to pressure for action.
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups
Reports detailing intentional targeting of Palestinians as a group, and systemic destruction of Palestinian society, add to pressure for actionEmma Graham-Harrison (The Guardian)
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Two ~~leading human rights~~soon-to-be-terrorist organisations based in Israel
I guess this would be the important internal test for this society. Wether they'd snap out of it and face the crimes they committed and drastically change direction as a result. Or wherher they double down and increase domestic repression against dissenting voices who bring up those crimes. I bet on the latter since that's where many economic interests are vested and it would avoid instability at least for a while.
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French PM says EU-U.S. trade deal an act of ‘submission’ and a dark day for Europe
French PM says EU-U.S. trade deal an act of ‘submission’ and a dark day for Europe
France called a framework trade deal between the United States and European Union a “dark day” for Europe, saying the bloc had caved in to U.S.Reuters Staff (CTVNews)
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Thanks, good point, I think I just had a subconscious need to take a sideswipe at the reality that, had the US I was taught about in school not been a fabrication, we would not today be in the circumstances we are in.
I'm carrying a certain baseline level of rage pretty continuously since Jan 20, 2025, and it sometimes leaks out at inappropriate times.
Edit: No, since the morning of November 6th when I awoke to find myself having this reaction:
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Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups
Reports detailing intentional targeting of Palestinians as a group, and systemic destruction of Palestinian society, add to pressure for actionEmma Graham-Harrison (The Guardian)
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Viral 'honour' killing in southwest Pakistan triggers national outrage
KARACHI (Reuters) -A viral video of the "honour killing" of a woman and her lover in a remote part of Pakistan has ignited national outrage, prompting scrutiny of long-standing tribal codes and calls for justice in a country where such killings often pass in silence.
While hundreds of so-called honour killings are reported in Pakistan each year, often with little public or legal response, the video of a woman and man accused of adultery being taken to the desert by a group of men to be killed has struck a nerve.
The mother, Gul Jan Bibi, said the killings were carried out by family and local elders based on "centuries-old Baloch traditions", and not on the orders of the tribal chief.
"We did not commit any sin," she said in a video statement that also went viral. "Bano and Ehsan were killed according to our customs."
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups
Reports detailing intentional targeting of Palestinians as a group, and systemic destruction of Palestinian society, add to pressure for actionEmma Graham-Harrison (The Guardian)
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Maybe they should also make it mandatory for pedestrians to carry rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and be trained in their operation.
This would hopefully make car drivers to exercise more caution.
/sarcasm that has an unfortunate chance of becoming reality in a few decades, you just watch
Cambodia and Thailand agree to ceasefire, says Anwar
Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to an immediate and unconditional ceasefire beginning at midnight, following a successful special meeting hosted and chaired by Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
Cambodia and Thailand agree to ceasefire, says Anwar
PUTRAJAYA: Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to an immediate and unconditional ceasefire beginning at midnight, following a successful special meeting hosted and chaired by Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.The Star Online (The Star)
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More than 40 killed in DR Congo attack linked to Islamic State
ADF in DR Congo: IS-linked rebels accused of killing Christian worshippers in Komanda
Most of the dead were worshippers taking part in a night vigil which was stormed by armed men, officials said.Joseph Winter (BBC News)
BBC investigation uncovers lasting toxic legacy of cargo ship disaster off Sri Lanka
BBC uncovers lasting toxic legacy of cargo ship disaster off Sri Lanka
Scientists warn the damage to the environment after the 2021 X-Press Pearl disaster could be much more enduring.Leana Hosea & Saroj Pathirana (BBC News)
Nurdles are the raw materials that are melted to make plastic products and it is not unusual for large amounts to be transported in the global plastic supply chain.
Plastic should be banned for at 90% of its current usage.
Stop Big Oil from making billions from plastic.
Sewage spill causes deadly train derailment in Germany, police say
Sewage spill caused deadly train derailment in Germany, police say
The train driver, another rail employee and one passenger died, while 41 people were injured, prosecutors say.Emily Atkinson and Bethany Bell (BBC News)
Five killed in Bangkok market mass shooting
Thailand: Five killed in Bangkok market mass shooting
Police say officers are investigating the motive behind the incident in Thailand's capital.Jonathan Head (BBC News)
Head of Shaolin Temple in China under investigation on suspicion of embezzlement
Head of Shaolin Temple in China under investigation on suspicion of embezzlement
Controversy comes to the birthplace of kung-fu with accusations against head monk Shi YongxinGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Muscovites’ travel plans disrupted as Ukraine targets airspace with drones
Muscovites’ travel plans disrupted as Ukraine targets airspace with drones
Tens of thousands of passengers affected by systematic campaign aimed at bringing the war home to ordinary RussiansPjotr Sauer (The Guardian)
Moscow starts direct flights to North Korea amid decline in options for Russian tourists
Moscow starts direct flights to North Korea amid decline in options for Russian tourists
The Moscow-Pyongyang flights operated by Russia’s Nordwind Airlines will initially operate only once a monthGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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US-EU trade deal is a ‘dark day’ for Europe, says French PM
Trump tariff of 15% means European exporters will face more than triple the average 4.8% levy now in force
The US-EU trade deal, clinched in a ballroom at Donald Trump’s golf resort in Scotland on Sunday, has been criticised by France’s prime minister and business leaders across Germany.
The deal, which will impose 15% tariffs on almost all European exports to the US including cars, ends the threat of a punitive 30% import duties being imposed on Trump’s 1 August deadline for a deal, but it is a world apart from the zero-zero import and export tariff the EU offered initially.
It also means European exporters to the US will face more then triple the average 4.8% tariff now in force, with negotiations to continue on steel, which is still facing a 50% tariff, aviation, and a question mark over future barriers to pharmaceutical exports.
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Thailand: Five killed in Bangkok market mass shooting
Five people were killed in a mass shooting at a food market in Bangkok on Monday.
The suspect in the attack at Or Tor Kor Market died after taking his own life, police in Thailand's capital confirmed.
Four of those killed were security guards and the fifth victim worked at the market. Two other market sellers were injured, police said.
Police Lieutenant Siam Boonsom told local media that the gunman was Thai and he had disputes with the market's security guards before.
Thailand: Five killed in Bangkok market mass shooting
Police say officers are investigating the motive behind the incident in Thailand's capital.Jonathan Head (BBC News)
The rise of Japan's far right was supercharged by Trump - and tourists
Japanese politics is a usually steady ship, verging on the boring most of the time.
Not anymore.
Last Sunday, a once obscure far-right party, Sanseito, surged from one to 15 seats in the elections, making them a serious contender in Japan's political scene.
With their "Japanese First" slogan, riffing off US President Donald Trump's "America First", they have truly ruffled the feathers of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its embattled prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba.
How Japan's far right was supercharged by Trump and tourists
‘Sanseito says what others are thinking’: Why a once-obscure far-right party shook up Japan's political sceneShaimaa Khalil (BBC News)
Tourists always act like assholes according to the locals. The local customs aren’t always understood. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a single place who says they love the behavior of tourists— except perhaps the people benefiting from those tourists.
The article mentions people jaywalking, which is annoying but seems pretty innocent. Trash, etc… the solution is clean the trash up… using all that tourist money. A solution could be to tax the tourists or the tourist industry. But I think we know that most governments are corrupt and only a fraction of that money will ever make it back, and even then it will probably be embezzled or misspent. I get it though, I used to live near a tourist area and they were so fucking annoying. But the only solution would be to get rid of tourist attractions, and some of those attractions are part of the local culture.
Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash
Tesla was caught withholding data, lying about it, and misdirecting authorities in the wrongful death case involving Autopilot that it lost this week.
The automaker was undeniably covering up for Autopilot.
Last week, a jury found Tesla partially liable for a wrongful death involving a crash on Autopilot. We now have access to the trial transcripts, which confirm that Tesla was extremely misleading in its attempt to place all the blame on the driver.
The company went as far as to actively withhold critical evidence that explained Autopilot’s performance around the crash. Within about three minutes of the crash, the Model S uploaded a “collision snapshot”—video, CAN‑bus streams, EDR data, etc.—to Tesla’s servers, the “Mothership”, and received an acknowledgement. The vehicle then deleted its local copy, resulting in Tesla being the only entity having access.
What ensued were years of battle to get Tesla to acknowledge that this collision snapshot exists and is relevant to the case.
The police repeatedly attempted to obtain the data from the collision snapshot, but Tesla led the authorities and the plaintiffs on a lengthy journey of deception and misdirection that spanned years.
Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash
Tesla was caught withholding data, lying about it, and misdirecting authorities in the wrongful death case involving Autopilot that it...Fred Lambert (Electrek)
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Shaolin Temple: Abbot Shi Yongxin under criminal investigation in China
Shaolin Temple: Abbot Shi Yongxin under criminal investigation in China
Shi Yongxin earned the nickname "CEO monk" for popularising Shaolin kung fu around the world.Koh Ewe (BBC News)
Russia scales down celebrations honoring its navy as Ukraine launches more drone attacks
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/33555222
Russia on Sunday scaled down the festivities honoring its navy citing security concerns as continuing Ukrainian drone attacks posed a challenge to the Kremlin.Russian authorities canceled the parades of warships in St. Petersburg, in the Kaliningrad region on the Baltic and in the far-eastern port of Vladivostok that are usually held to mark the annual Navy Day celebrations.
Asked about the reason for the cancellation of the parade in St. Petersburg even as President Vladimir Putin arrived in his home city to visit the navy headquarters, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that “it’s linked to the overall situation, security reasons, which are above all else.”
The Russian Defense Ministry said that air defenses downed 99 Ukrainian drones over several regions overnight. Later in the day, officials reported more drones shot down near St. Petersburg. A woman was injured by drone fragments in the Lomonosov region, according to the local authorities.
St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo airport suspended dozens of flights early Sunday because of the drone threat.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-putin-navy-b895fd179433ce1f555795e86891fc32
There are some moderation actions you can do from a different instance, I'm not sure which ones don't work or if they've all been fixed
You should create an account on a different instance and appoint yourself as moderator, at least for times when you don't want to get on VPN, like using an app on your phone
Israel attacks so-called 'safe zone' despite military pause
Israel attacks so-called 'safe zone' despite military pause
The Israeli military has carried out several attacks across Gaza, killing over 53 people - including 32 aid seekers - despite announcing a "tactical suspension" of operations in three areas.Mera Aladam (Middle East Eye)
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in elementary school i had a Jewish teacher. he taught me way back in 1998 that Israel was something called "fascist." he told me he didn't want to burden me too much before i was ready to know what that meant. but he told me no Jewish person could ever support fascism and remain Jewish at their core.
years later he showed me why he always wore long sleeves when teaching elementary school. it was to cover a tattoo on his arm. it was a number the nazis had assigned him when he was the age i was when we met (3). "this is why fascism is bad," was the message. "it almost killed me and my entire family," was the spoken justification for why no Jewish person could ever be fascist and remain linked to their Jewish identity.
he told me about some of the people who didn't make it out of auschwitz he had loved. his mother. his father. his sister. another little boy he made friends with at the death camp. countless people he never learned the names of but who always took a moment when they saw him to hug him and tell him they loved him, and that they envisioned a future for him where he told their stories to children so that no one would ever enact this kind of evil again.
i grew up in the south. while i was in school he introduced me to some of his friends in Appalachia.
- a cherokee man who wanted us to know his culture wasn't backwards, outdated, or novel. it was just his life
- an old man who had trouble writing because he'd been shot on blair mountain
- a gay woman who wasn't sure she believed there truly is such a thing as a "man" or a "woman" at birth, but rather that these are things our society we're supposed to be
These are just a few examples. there was always some marginalized person at his place teaching him how to make a recipe that he'd introduce to us before they moved on.
he told me in 2016 shortly before his death that his only regret in life was being a hypocrite. he told every person he ever imparted wisdom to to never hate, and to never let someone convince you to hate someone you never met. within the camp, there was a schism between people who blamed Poles and Ukrainians alongside nazi Germans for theis presence there. he told me the person who held his hand and walked him out of auschwitz was a Ukrainian man. my teacher didn't speak Ukrainan, not yet anyway. but he led him to a stew pot, hugged him, and gave him a bowl of borscht, made in the jewish style rather than the Ukrainian style. he learned in that moment that no one is ever simply part of a group, or that any group is simply represented any individual in it. people are complicated and groups are complicated.
but what made him feel like a hypocrite ever since the 1960s was that he couldn't find it in his heart not to hate israelis. he felt so deeply offended and betrayed by the usage of symbols he identified himself with to implement the very things that had taken from him nearly everything that it made him hate. i knew this man for the last 21 years of his life. the idea that he could hate anyone was… shocking. it… kind of shifted my world view forever because like… he never allowed himself to share this hate with anyone. he would criticize israel in action, he would tell us the star of david was not meant to represent what they used it for, he would explain to us their recontextualize the menorah to mean something it oughtn't was hurtful, but the idea that there were people on earth he didn't have the patience to listen to because he found them so wretched and vile that it twisted his soul in a knot was new to me.
i don't hate the israelis the way he hated them. i don't think i'm capable. not without the pain he suffered. but i do find them offensive on his behalf. i do think often about how wretched a person must be to wound the soul of someone so unfailingly patient and kind. i think about the crises of faith their re-contextualizing of his symbols gave him. but most of all i think about what he told me (paraphrased because this is a memory and memories change a little bit every time you access them)
"Some of my elders tried to teach me to hate the Ukrainian and make my way to Israel when everything was over. A few considered themselves Ukrainian in addition to being Jewish and told me that the way to make the world safe for Jews wasn't to go to Israel, but to go anywhere the poor and downtrodden are and help them resist their pharaoh. The soldiers who freed us were mostly Ukrainian. They fed us borscht because they knew from first hand experience that a starving belly can eat borscht without vomiting. Borscht makes you strong. It gives you power. The russian commanders wanted to send us to reeducation centers and bring us into the fold of authoritarian communism. One of the Ukrainian soldiers falsified documents for me and my Uncle to come to the United states to stay with 'our family' (his family) in hopes that we were more likely to be allowed to be ourselves here.
"Here in the United States, that soldier's cousins would tell me that under nazi occupation, Ukrainians were offered, in effect, 3 choices for survival. Collaborate with the Nazis, work with the antisemitic underground movement, or join the red army. Many like that soldier chose the red army even though it meant giving up on the dream of an independent Ukraine for a long time because Jews had been their friends and neighbors for 1600 years. They chose when faced with their burning home to save their friends rather than any of their own possessions. It was a grand act of kindness given to us by an entire group of people who had already suffered immensely under Bolshevism.
"Israel does not represent to me any future for the Jewish people. They are the same death cult that tried to kill me as a child for the unforgivable crime of existence. Every day, I work to make the world a better and safer place. Everyday it is made harder by people who claim that they do it in my honor. It hurts me in ways I cannot describe. Someday a time will come you will need to assemble a coalition of misfits. People will despise every member of your group. If you do it right, you will find at least one Ukrainian who will find you. They will be building their own band of misfits. Our people lived together for 1500 years before the Time of Separation started in the 1880s. We work the same way in times of desperation. We learned it from each other. It will be okay in that time to be selfish in your help. It will be okay to see someone in need and and feed them some soup for the selfish reason that the world will get safer for you when people in more danger than yourself are made safe."
i have spent the decade since his passing at the age of 76 trying to become the person he always hoped i'd be. he spent a lifetime trying to figure out his religious identity. i find myself on a similar journey, having started my political life as a democratic socialist, then moving into the space of anachocommunism and now operating in a space somewhat between anarchocommunism and religious anarchism. but the one thing that has never changed about my politics is the core of what drove his religious practices. it's basically the following principles:
- if you are hungry, i will feed you
- if you are thirsty, i will water you
- the only people who will be denied either of these gifts will be racists
- racists in hunger will be offered food, but not water
edit i math bad from 2016-1940 and missed my teacher's age by a decade
I found this the other day:
Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Ariel Sharon criticised the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia as an act of "brutal interventionism" and said Israel was against "aggressive actions" and "hurting innocent people" and hoped "the sides will return to the negotiating table as soon as possible".
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