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I don’t know why I am the way I am. POMEPS/Pasiri. GW Professor on leave AY24-25. Somewhere in Ohio. abuaardvark.substack.com

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Rima I Anabtawi's avatar Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social
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Group of coalition, opposition MKs aims to pass resolution against Palestinian state
61 lawmakers have reportedly already signed on to such legislation, with supporters seeking to pass it before Netanyahu’s speech to Congress later this month

www.timesofisrael.com/group-of-coa...

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“Israel has seized control of 26 percent of the Gaza Strip.. Palestinians are barred from entering, residential buildings were destroyed, vegetation has been uprooted and the IDF built a new road with four bases. "This is an effort toward a prolonged occupation.”

www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...

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Jonathan Cohn 's avatar Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social
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"The group’s data indicate it was the largest single appropriation approved since the 1993 Oslo accords at the start of the peace process." apnews.com/article/isra...

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Titanic, deck chairs

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Nick Brumfield's avatar Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
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Well well well, if it isn't exactly what I predicted six months ago

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Erin A. Snider's avatar Erin A. Snider @erinsnider.bsky.social
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"After Israel launched its war, more than 115,000 Gazan refugees in Cairo, Egypt, remain in limbo, with no legal status and nowhere else to go. They are members of a new diaspora of Palestinians, a people already haunted by memories of displacement."

menasky

wapo.st/3XRMV0e

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Sam Heller | سام هيلر's avatar Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.bsky.social
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Important: New edition of UNHCR annual Return Perceptions and Intentions Survey of Syrian refugees regionwide: data.unhcr.org/en/documents...

Results mostly consistent with 2023; conditions inside Syria still tend to be main driver of decision-making around return.

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🤖 AP Breaking News (unofficial)'s avatar 🤖 AP Breaking News (unofficial) @ap-bot.bsky.social
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BREAKING: Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades, anti-settlement watchdog says.

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The New Arab's avatar The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social
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In Sudan's conflict, WhatsApp voice notes have not only become vital for families to stay connected and coordinate safe evacuations but also to archive the war.

Read🔗 www.newarab.com/features/sud...

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Abu Aardvark (on leave, allegedly)'s avatar Abu Aardvark (on leave, allegedly) @abuaardvark.bsky.social
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Guardian unveils network that “harassed pro-Palestinian activists including many Jews, offered bounties for the identity of pro-Palestinian protesters, spread conspiracy narratives centered on figures like George Soros, and boasted of an AI-surveillance platform “
www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

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Erin A. Snider's avatar Erin A. Snider @erinsnider.bsky.social
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Utterly delusional on every front as this piece articulates well: “This [plan] is just the latest iteration. The idea in Israeli minds is that someone — the Arab states, the international community — will pay for it, & locals in Gaza will run it. But no one is biting,” the person added. menasky

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Abu Aardvark (on leave, allegedly)'s avatar Abu Aardvark (on leave, allegedly) @abuaardvark.bsky.social
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God save us from 80 year old men who can’t just go enjoy their grandchildren.

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Crisis Group's avatar Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org
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Israel’s threatened termination of a banking waiver would paralyse financial activity in the West Bank, causing an economic meltdown and risking the Palestinian Authority’s collapse – with dire consequences for West Bank Palestinians.
www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...

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The New Arab's avatar The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social
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"Life in Egypt is not as easy as we thought… Everything here requires a lot of effort, time and expenses that we can barely handle, especially since we escaped death without being able to secure enough money to live here." The latest dispatch from our Gaza correspondent ⬇

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Sam Heller | سام هيلر's avatar Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.bsky.social
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@hrw.org on deportations of Syrians from Iraq – including Syrians possessing legal Iraqi residency or registered with UNHCR – as part of crackdown on illegal foreign labor: www.hrw.org/news/2024/06...

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Nathan K. Hensley's avatar Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social
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the bill says that Palestinians will get no aid if they try to report war crimes

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Biden: hey Israel since you obliterated our red line on Rafah and did nothing we asked, and then Bibi openly humiliated me, take these 500 pound bombs and other weapons, whatever you want. How’s that feel? Want some more?

www.axios.com/2024/06/27/u...

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jon ben-menachem's avatar jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com
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it’s striking how many charges against palestine protesters have been dropped. it’s good that reform prosecutors are doing the right thing. but at the same time, this shows how “the law” really boils down to cops deciding who they’ll brutalize

apnews.com/article/univ...

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى's avatar Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com
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Great article except for the part where the article pretends any of this is new.

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Emily L. Hauser's avatar Emily L. Hauser @emilylhauser.bsky.social
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"96% of the population [of Gaza] is facing acute food insecurity at crisis level or higher." NINETY-SIX. Famine is a choice made by the powerful. Famine in Gaza is a choice made in Jerusalem and supported in Washington.

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What an embarrassment Fetterman has become. Pennsylvania deserves so much better.

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Zeynep Arsel 🍉's avatar Zeynep Arsel 🍉 @zeyneparsel.bsky.social
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I don’t know what is more deplorable for a higher education institution than this:

The University of Waterloo has filed a lawsuit against its students over encampment for Palestine, seeking $1.5m in damages

www.middleeasteye.net/news/canadia...

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Rima I Anabtawi's avatar Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social
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New report-A high risk of Famine persists across the whole $Gaza Strip as long as conflict continues& humanitarian access is restricted. 96% of the pop in the Gaza (2.15M people) face high levels of acute food insecurity, w/over 495K people (22%) facing catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity

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It’s also just… a terrible plan, if you can even call it that.

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David Kaye's avatar David Kaye @davidkaye.bsky.social
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"The decades-old image that Israel alone gets named, blamed and punished for the kinds of things all others do for free is one of the greatest historical fictions in Israel's history." Dahlia Scheindlin in Haaretz.

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Eugene Finkel's avatar Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social
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Calling?? Screaming from the top of the lungs, from the rooftops, on the air, on the beaches, on the landing grounds, in the fields and in the streets, in the hills, as if any of those in Congress responsible for this abomination gives a flying fuck

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Saeed Jones's avatar Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social
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“A landmark new citizenship law came into force in Germany on Tuesday with an explicit requirement for applicants to declare the state of Israel’s right to exist.”

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Israel has killed unprecedented numbers of UN staff and aid workers in Gaza and now wants to blame them for not distributing aid.

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Important investigative report into “one of the many strategies used by the Israeli military to stifle information in Gaza: the destruction of press infrastructure.”

forbiddenstories.org/the-destruct...

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Sober and extremely sharp read of the reality of Palestinian institutions - Palestinians are governed by a state but it isn’t Palestine, and pretending otherwise won’t help. By Nathan Brown

carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

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Matt Novak's avatar Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social
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“More than half [of Gaza households] also reported that, often, they do not have any food to eat in the house, and over 20% go entire days and nights without eating."

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Worth stepping back to acknowledge how absolutely stupid and crazy this is.

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Deep dive into “hardline and sometimes covert operation by the Israeli government to strike back at student protests, human rights organizations and other voices of dissent.” Brings together lot of important details.
www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

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Amid ongoing civil war Sudan is facing the largest famine the world has seen for at least forty years / searing by Joshua Kraze, Kholood Khair and Raga Makawi

www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...

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"There will be no postwar for Gaza. The children of Gaza will forever be marked by the duration of time they spent in “hunger-time,” when their growth was arrested by starvation, their minds marred by trauma." lareviewofbooks.org/article/hung...

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