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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-18/us-says-hamas-must-release-hostages-for-gaza-to-get-more-aid

POW/MIA all over again. Israel has made this impossible by burying half of these people under a mountain of rubble. This provides convenient justification for continuing the depraved starvation.

Is there even a complete list of hostages anywhere?

To the repeated lines of "but but Hamas no likey teh gay" it was the British Colonal system that didn't like "teh gay". It's the same reason why the uber modern secular country of Singapore hasn't leaglized gay marriage and still criminalized it until 2022....oh that's right - Israel doesn't do gay marraige either! they only do "unions" in Tel-Aviv and only recongize marraiges from OUTSIDE the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_State_of_Palestine

On September 18, 1936, the criminal code of Mandatory Palestine, British Mandate Criminal Code, which drew from Ottoman law and English law,[1] was enacted. Section 152(1)(b)(c) of the code states that any person who "commits an act of sodomy with any person against his will by the use of force or threats" or "commits an act of sodomy with a child under the age of sixteen years" is liable for imprisonment up to 14 years, while Section 152(2)(b) states that anyone who has "carnal knowledge" of anyone acting "against the law of nature" is liable for a prison term up to 10 years.[2] Palestinian academic Sa'ed Atshan argued that this criminal code was an example of British export of homophobia to the Global South.

Also it isn't criminal in the West Bank

In the Gaza Strip and West Bank, the local LGBT community faces a precarious situation due to the general lack of civil rights legislation aimed at tackling discrimination. However, there is also a significant legal divide between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with the former having more progressive laws and the latter having more conservative laws. Shortly after the Jordanian annexation of the West Bank in 1950, same-sex acts were decriminalized across the territory with the adoption of the Jordanian Penal Code of 1951. In the Egyptian-occupied Gaza Strip and under Hamas's rule, however, no such initiative was implemented.

“I grew up in the Soviet Union so I feel that we are one country,” he said, sitting in the camp’s sick bay where he is recovering from a bullet wound in his arm.

It is this neo-imperialist ideology, famously expounded by President Putin in a 7,000-word essay, that the camp authorities are trying to deprogramme from their charges before they are returned home.

“Russians have been subjected to propaganda their whole lives,” said Petro Yatsenko, spokesman for Ukraine’s co-ordination headquarters for the treatment of PoWs, during a tour of the camp at an undisclosed location in western Ukraine. “It’s like trying to pull someone out of a religious sect.”

To get from their living quarters to the canteen, prisoners must pass along an alleyway lined with photographs of figures from Ukraine’s past, such as Stepan Bandera, the divisive and controversial leader of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) during and after the Second World War, and Taras Shevchenko, the 19th-century national bard.

Another day, another banger. They were one country deepshits, and saying bandera is controversial is some shit

Zionists have been harassing, doxxing, and threatening students and faculty at schools around the country and still have the fucking gall to play the victim. Vile

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-speaker-says-jan-6-security-footage-posted-online-public-access-rcna125778

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-launches-investigation-top-universities-antisemitic-islamophobia

Another source: https://theintercept.com/2023/11/17/pentagon-audit-failed/

The DOJ action comes after a ProPublica investigation last year found that Texas-based software provider RealPage used algorithms to recommend rents to landlords across the country to maximize profits — a practice that experts said may violate antitrust laws.

In throwing its weight behind plaintiffs in the price-fixing case, the Justice Department waded into a fraught corner of federal antitrust law that could have a wide-reaching impact not only on the way businesses use technology to drive profits but also on the marketplace consumers confront.

In the past, collusion happened with “a formal handshake in a clandestine meeting,” they wrote.

“Algorithms are the new frontier,” federal prosecutors said in their filing. “And, given the amount of information an algorithm can access and digest, this new frontier poses an even greater anticompetitive threat than the last.”

Our thread from last year

Can the Assad curse affect a whole country?

You mean mass, indiscriminate air strikes aren't a good way to save hostages and actually just result in dead people???

Holy shit are they actually going to do it for real this time. Naturally the "Apartheid-Lite" coalition all oppose this motion

On the morning of November 9, 2023, leading member of the Israeli Communist Party (Maki), former leader of Hadash, and chairman of the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel, Mohammad Barakeh, was arrested alongside members of the Balad party: Sami Abu Shehadeh, Mtanes Shehadeh, Haneen Zoab, and the party’s general secretary Yousef Tatour. Fellow member of the High Follow-Up Committee Mahmoud Mawasi was also detained.

Comrade Barakeh was arrested following his announcement of a protest to be held later that day denouncing the war in Gaza. The protest was to be organized by Arab officials and the High Follow-up Committee, and no more than 50 people were expected to attend. Barakeh emphasized that, according to Israeli law, the protest did not require a permit and requested that the police refrain from interfering with its organization. The police however detained him and his colleagues anyway for “defying police instructions and attempting to organize an unlawful protest that had the potential to incite public disorder and disrupt the peace.”

On November 8, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that the police have no authority to sweepingly and arbitrarily ban protests by Palestinian citizens in Israel, with no exception being made during wartime. In practice, however, the Israeli Police have been quick to ban and crack down on all anti-war and anti-occupation demonstrations, particularly those held and organized by Palestinian citizens of Israel. The Israeli Police and its ban on demonstrations is intended to silence all forms of criticism and to suppress the freedom of expression of not just Palestinian citizens but any Israeli citizen organizing anti-occupation activities.

The Israeli Communist Party (Maki) stated on November 9: “The unlawful arrests today come at the heels of orders issued by the Israeli Police to ban all demonstrations calling to end the war in Gaza and the occupation, upheld by the Supreme Court yesterday. It reflects the swift intensification of state repression against the Palestinian minority, which includes legal prosecution of citizens who express their solidarity with Gaza or their Palestinian identity on social media, as well as swift amendments to Emergency Regulations, which sanction shooting live ammunition at unarmed civilian demonstrations.”

The Israeli Communist Party (Maki) has since reported that on November 10, comrade Barakeh was released from police custody without any restrictions after hours of interrogation. Sami Abu Shehadeh, Mtanes Shehadeh, Haneen Zoab, Yousef Tatour and Mahmoud Mawasi have all since been released after similar conditions of detention and interrogation as well, although have had restrictions placed upon them, such as being distanced from Nazareth for two weeks and are prohibited from organizing demonstrations for a similar time period.

link: https://redphoenixnews.com/2023/11/16/communist-palestinian-citizen-of-israel-arrested-for-organizing-protest/

Not sure what to make of this. TikTokers' first anti-imperialist "theory" being from a far-right anticommunist religious zealot with valid criticisms but no real analysis and a bit of "Jews control everything" seems perfect for the mainstream media to weaponize. On the other hand, people are realizing America are the bad guys and terrorists don't hate us for our freedom, and will hopefully learn more, far better stuff?

Tiktok took the videos down but I screenshot these two comments lmfao:

Edit:

CNN article (the thing I linked in the post was a video)

FOX News, NBC, New York Times, Forbes, Washington Post, the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, CBS, Reuters, TIME Magazine, The Hill, etc. all reported on it in the past few hours. You got headlines like "Bin Laden's Letter to US Stuns Young Americans: 'He Was Right'"

Full article: https://imgur.com/a/AN3rWAJ

I'm sure Xi is beyond having his feelings hurt by Biden, but just look at Bilken's reaction lmao.

Inviting a head of state to your country to publicly insult them is unacceptable anywhere, so this is only going to further tarnish the shitty reputation of American diplomacy.