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Racism isn't something you're born with, it's taught. #FreePalestine #GazaUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/ZO7ZZChiHF
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Date: 2014-07-17 08:03 pm (UTC)Where we go from here is the only thing to figure out.
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Date: 2014-07-17 08:08 pm (UTC)I cannot see a happy ending anywhere.
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Date: 2014-07-17 08:33 pm (UTC)At first, I thought it was considered outrageous that we would be making some a minimalist demand. However, judging by the feed, it is considered outrageous that Israel should hold back at all - civilians be damned!
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Date: 2014-07-17 08:42 pm (UTC)Apparently there was a suspicious package that brought the White House into lockdown mode, but the package proved to be a false alarm.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/10/29/authorities-investigating-suspicious-package-near-white-house/
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Date: 2014-07-18 12:07 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2014-07-18 02:24 am (UTC)That tweet is an uninteresting, non useful red meat for the red states that I don't get.
Why did you bother posting this one in particular? Did you think it would spark some interesting convo? Present a POV we didn't know existed?
We know right-wingers will use any and all excuses to say "Thanks Obama!" and blame him for everything. It's just....I don't wanna be harsh, but it seems like your using twitter as a way to be lazy.
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Date: 2014-07-18 02:48 pm (UTC)For that matter: what about 1948-1967 when it was actually Jordan and Egypt because instead of giving the Palestinians a state at the end of the first war, the Palestinians' Arab brothers held them stateless for propaganda purposes? Here's a fact: The Palestinians have NO friends within 1000 miles of their homes.
Israel is being incredibly shitty. They ought to have begun the process of building the Palestinians an infrastructure after the 1973 war and turned it over to them after the Egyptian peace treaty. Israel has refused to recognize that they face no existential threats today. Hamas and Hezbollah can threaten security but not existence.
But Israel turns to Likud in times when security it threatened and Likud makes coalitions with settler maniacs. Then they radicalize more militants who threaten safety and send Israelis back to a Likud government.
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Date: 2014-07-18 02:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2014-07-18 12:23 am (UTC)[...]/
Critics accused Israel of violating the laws of war in practice. But Hamas flouted those laws explicitly. It fired rockets on every city within reach, declaring, "All Israelis have now become legitimate targets.” Weapons launched by Hamas and its allies have hit citizens in Gaza. They’ve hit Palestinian homes and buildings in the West Bank. They’ve hit Gaza’s power lines twice, knocking out 20 percent of the strip’s electricity. All this while managing, with more than 1,200 rockets, to kill only one Israeli.
The vast majority of the damage in Gaza has been inflicted by Israel. Yet Hamas has contrived to make the carnage worse. It has encouraged Gazans to stand in the way of Israeli missiles. When Israel advised 100,000 Gazans to evacuate an area targeted for invasion, Hamas instructed them to ignore the warnings. It added: “To all of our people who have evacuated their homes—return to them immediately and do not leave the house.”
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Hamas didn’t just reject the cease-fire. Its spokesmen mocked Israel for agreeing to the plan, calling this acquiescence “indicative of Israel's weakness.” They “condemned international and regional support for the ceasefire initiative.” They derided Egypt, scoffing that “the Egyptian initiative is an attempt to defeat us” and that “those who ignore the Palestinian resistance should not be dealt with.” Egypt’s current regime has certainly been hostile to Hamas. But when you’re trapped by Israeli blockades, finding new ways to insult the only other country that borders your territory is deranged, particularly when it’s offering to stop the destruction of your people.
-- William Saletan at Slate.com (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2014/07/hamas_is_destroying_gaza_the_palestinian_militant_organization_is_sacrificing.single.html)
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Date: 2014-07-18 01:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2014-07-18 02:18 am (UTC)I get it, you like twitter.
But seriously, when you post like 30 diff comments, each consisting of nothing more than a twitter screengrab, I'm no longer on LJ, I'm on Twitter.
Would you think of scaling back on the size and frequency of using such a tactic?
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Date: 2014-07-18 04:52 pm (UTC)[...]
Israel immediately sought to undermine the reconciliation agreement by preventing Hamas leaders and Gaza residents from obtaining the two most essential benefits of the deal: the payment of salaries to 43,000 civil servants who worked for the Hamas government and continue to administer Gaza under the new one, and the easing of the suffocating border closures imposed by Israel and Egypt that bar most Gazans’ passage to the outside world.
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Hamas is now seeking through violence what it couldn’t obtain through a peaceful handover of responsibilities. Israel is pursuing a return to the status quo ante, when Gaza had electricity for barely eight hours a day, water was undrinkable, sewage was dumped in the sea, fuel shortages caused sanitation plants to shut down and waste sometimes floated in the streets. Patients needing medical care couldn’t reach Egyptian hospitals, and Gazans paid $3,000 bribes for a chance to exit when Egypt chose to open the border crossing.
For many Gazans, and not just Hamas supporters, it’s worth risking more bombardment and now the ground incursion, for a chance to change that unacceptable status quo. A cease-fire that fails to resolve the salary crisis and open Gaza’s border with Egypt will not last. It is unsustainable for Gaza to remain cut off from the world and administered by employees working without pay. A more generous cease-fire, though politically difficult for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, would be more durable.
The current escalation in Gaza is a direct result of the choice by Israel and the West to obstruct the implementation of the April 2014 Palestinian reconciliation agreement. The road out of the crisis is a reversal of that policy.
-- Nathan Thrall, "How the West Chose War in Gaza" at The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/18/opinion/gaza-and-israel-the-road-to-war-paved-by-the-west.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region®ion=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=0)
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Date: 2014-07-21 12:36 am (UTC)http://angryarab.blogspot.com/
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Date: 2014-07-21 12:51 am (UTC)-- Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asad_Abukhalil)
It sounds like he might in this community fairly well, heh. Though, I suppose we are not quite that solidly anti-Israel.
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Date: 2014-07-21 08:47 pm (UTC)I somehow never seen this one before.