Sardines
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I think it's more of a giant tiny-dick joke.
Israel-Hamas War
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Sardines
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Mongoose
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Red
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Some Israeli reservists say they'd rather go to jail than serve in the assault on Gaza City
Some reservists, battered by multiple deployments and questioning the end game of the war, are refusing to fight if called, which could land them in jail.
www.nbcnews.com
JERUSALEM — He was once proud to be part of the Israeli military, eager to defend his homeland after the Hamas-led terrorist attack of Oct. 7, 2023.
Today, Max Kresch, 29, refuses to serve in Gaza.
The Israeli American veteran combat medic is among a growing number of reservists questioning the war’s end game and refusing to fight if called to serve, risking jail.
“The war right now is a direct threat to our future. It’s a direct threat to the future of Israelis, of civilians, of our own values,” said Kresch, whose mandatory military service ended in 2018, and who served on Israel’s northern border with Lebanon during the current war.
Amid widespread global outrage about renewed military operations in northern Gaza and large-scale protests in Israel calling for a deal to free the hostages still being held, NBC News spoke to several reservists including Kresch, all of whom have served but do not want to fight any more in Gaza.
Red
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When October 7 happened, I thought of my Jewish friends, sons and grandsons of Holocaust survivors. I thought of those living Holocaust survivors, and what Oct. 7 must be like, to see “never again”…again.
Once it became clear Netanyahu and his Far Right allies were willing to do what we all know they did, and are continuing to do, my moral priorities made the necessary adjustment. My father taught me right from wrong. I know genocide when I see it.
I really don’t know who you’re talking to, as if any of us support atrocities, but it ain’t me. Holier than thou, much?
Red
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Israeli attack on Hamas leaders in quiet Qatar shocks Gulf allies and tests US ties
The tiny, wealthy Gulf Arab state of Qatar has long hosted the biggest American military base in the Middle East.
apnews.com
On Tuesday, Israel made a dangerous gamble, analysts say, poisoning Israel-Hamas ceasefire talks, sending political shock waves through the region and raising doubts about historical U.S. security guarantees for its Gulf Arab allies.
It didn’t immediately pay off for Israel: Hamas claims its senior leadership survived the strike.
“This is a broader shock for the international order, raising questions about sovereignty and the free rein being given to Israel,” said Sanam Vakil, the director of the Middle East and North Africa Program at Chatham House. “The reliability of the United States in the Middle East will be questioned.”
Red
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Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, U.N. inquiry finds
The new report Tuesday by a team of independent experts adds to a growing chorus leveling the accusation against the U.S. ally as it launches an intense new ground offensive in Gaza City.
www.nbcnews.com
Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, a United Nations commission said Tuesday, calling on the international community to end the campaign and punish the top officials it found responsible for inciting it.
Israel rejected the accusations as “distorted and false,” labeling them "scandalous."
A team of independent experts called a commission of inquiry detailed their assessment in a new report, joining a growing chorus of rights advocates and scholars to level the accusation against the U.S. ally.
The findings were published as Israel launched its long-anticipated ground offensive on Gaza City, a widely condemned assault on a famine-stricken area where hundreds of thousands of people were living.
“The Commission finds that Israel is responsible for the commission of genocide in Gaza,” said Navi Pillay, the commission chair and former U.N. human rights chief. “It is clear that there is an intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza through acts that meet the criteria set forth in the Genocide Convention.”
The three-member team said in its 72-page report that Israel has committed four of the five “genocidal acts” defined under the 1948 Genocide Convention: Killing members of a group, causing serious bodily and mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to destroy the group, and preventing births.
To count as genocide, at least one of five acts must have occurred.The commission found no evidence in relation to the fifth category, forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
The inquiry's conclusion is the strongest U.N. finding to date but the body is independent and does not officially speak for the U.N. The team was commissioned by the Human Rights Council, the U.N.’s top human rights body.
The commission concluded that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli President Isaac Herzog, and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant had “incited the commission of genocide.”
In Historic Shift, U.K., Australia and Canada Recognize a Palestinian State
Story by Max Colchester, Vipal Monga, Anat Peled• 26m•
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LONDON—The U.K., Australia and Canada said Sunday they would formally recognize a Palestinian state, a significant shift in longstanding foreign policy among Western governments and a reflection of growing global dissatisfaction with Israel after nearly two years of war in Gaza.
Red
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This morning, Trump decided to go full on “lunatic” at the United Nations.
www.theguardian.com
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Meanwhile, “global warming” is “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world,” invented by radicals who want to bring down industrialized countries while letting rules-breakers like China thrive. Windmills “rust and rot,” they depend on subsidies, and don’t work when the wind isn’t blowing. America is thriving, he said, because we’re going back (so he claimed, with no supporting evidence) to “clean beautiful coal.” (His “standing order” in the White House is “never to use the word ‘coal,’ only ‘clean, beautiful coal’—it sounds much better, doesn’t it?”)
“I’m really good at this stuff,” Trump bragged. “Your countries are going to hell. … I’m really good at predicting things. I’ve been right about everything.”
www.msnbc.com
Over the course of his remarks, he told strange lies about foreign investments in the U.S. He generated murmurs in the hall by declaring, “Our message is very simple. If you come illegally into the United States, you’re going to jail or you’re going back to where you came from — or perhaps even further than that. You know what that means.”
He pretended that he’s ended seven wars, while pointing to approval ratings that exist only in his mind. He renewed his pathetic lobbying for a Nobel Peace Prize, falsely claiming that “everyone” wants him to get one. He took pointless shots at ostensible U.S. allies in NATO. He told unnamed officials that their countries are “going to hell.” He bragged about campaign swag sales. He attacked clean, renewable energy, while insistingthat climate science is an elaborate “con job” and a “hoax” concocted by nefarious people with “evil intentions.”
And for good measure, he claimed that unnamed “environmentalists” want to ban cows.
Perhaps most importantly, Trump told one of his favorite lies, bragging that international respect for the U.S. has reached all-time highs now that he’s back in power.
Zelenskyy tells UN Putin is ‘trying everything’ to prolong Ukraine war; Trump says Nato can shoot down Russian aircraft – as it happened
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www.theguardian.com
This Might Just Be the Most Bonkers Speech of Trump’s Career
And I say that knowing the bar is high here.
Meanwhile, “global warming” is “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world,” invented by radicals who want to bring down industrialized countries while letting rules-breakers like China thrive. Windmills “rust and rot,” they depend on subsidies, and don’t work when the wind isn’t blowing. America is thriving, he said, because we’re going back (so he claimed, with no supporting evidence) to “clean beautiful coal.” (His “standing order” in the White House is “never to use the word ‘coal,’ only ‘clean, beautiful coal’—it sounds much better, doesn’t it?”)
“I’m really good at this stuff,” Trump bragged. “Your countries are going to hell. … I’m really good at predicting things. I’ve been right about everything.”
With bizarre remarks at the U.N., Trump embarrasses himself and the United States
In 2018, officials at the U.N. laughed at Trump because they thought he was kidding. In 2025, they stopped laughing because they know he isn’t kidding.
www.msnbc.com
Over the course of his remarks, he told strange lies about foreign investments in the U.S. He generated murmurs in the hall by declaring, “Our message is very simple. If you come illegally into the United States, you’re going to jail or you’re going back to where you came from — or perhaps even further than that. You know what that means.”
He pretended that he’s ended seven wars, while pointing to approval ratings that exist only in his mind. He renewed his pathetic lobbying for a Nobel Peace Prize, falsely claiming that “everyone” wants him to get one. He took pointless shots at ostensible U.S. allies in NATO. He told unnamed officials that their countries are “going to hell.” He bragged about campaign swag sales. He attacked clean, renewable energy, while insistingthat climate science is an elaborate “con job” and a “hoax” concocted by nefarious people with “evil intentions.”
And for good measure, he claimed that unnamed “environmentalists” want to ban cows.
Perhaps most importantly, Trump told one of his favorite lies, bragging that international respect for the U.S. has reached all-time highs now that he’s back in power.
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