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11 minutes ago, aristocrat said:

https://x.com/oilfield_rando/status/1714041400147194112?s=46&t=WfwBbfFkRiZZWCMxTdpkOw
 

Stop all donations to them. Void all degrees of this guy is still teaching there. 

Anyone professor who thinks terrorism is exhilarating needs to be relieved of their employment. You have the freedom of speech in this country. You don’t have the freedom of consequences when you act like a moron. He should move over to Gaza if he wants to support Hamas. 

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58 minutes ago, aristocrat said:

https://x.com/oilfield_rando/status/1714041400147194112?s=46&t=WfwBbfFkRiZZWCMxTdpkOw
 

Stop all donations to them. Void all degrees of this guy is still teaching there. 

 

43 minutes ago, Andy1 said:

Anyone professor who thinks terrorism is exhilarating needs to be relieved of their employment. You have the freedom of speech in this country. You don’t have the freedom of consequences when you act like a moron. He should move over to Gaza if he wants to support Hamas. 

Yeah he comes off like an idiot.

 

 

More context of it, still don't like it. I can at least figure out the point he's trying to make though. Which I can't necessarily disagree with the concept that if you're on a side that's just getting that absolute ***** kicked out of you for a long ass time and then suddenly the script gets flipped you'd feel some type of way about it.

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44 minutes ago, SCBills said:

Alicia Keys casually posting about wanting to kill Jews. 
 

 

 

Not sure she's talking about what happened in Gaza.  Apparently she lives next to a paragliding port.  I'd need to see more than that.

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Just now, Doc said:

 

Not sure she's talking about what happened in Gaza.  Apparently she lives next to a paragliding port.  I'd need to see more than that.


That would be the wildest coincidence I’ve ever heard of in my life. 

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Just now, BillStime said:


Article dated May 18, 2018.

 

Cool 


What’s changed?   BLM, DSA, Trans community majority support Palestine for … reasons. 
 

If anything, a terrorist attack on innocent people has made them more steadfast in their support. 

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From 2014-2020, UN agencies spent nearly $4.5 billion in Gaza, including $600 million in 2020 alone. More than 80% of that funding is channeled through the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, who make up three-fourths of Gaza’s population. Some 280,000 children in Gaza attend schools run by UNRWA, which also provides health services and food aid.

 

— Qatar has provided $1.3 billion in aid to Gaza since 2012 for construction, health services and agriculture. That includes $360 million pledged in January for 2021 and another $500 million pledged for reconstruction after the war in May. Qatar’s aid also goes to needy families and to help pay Hamas government salaries.

 

— The Palestinian Authority says it will spend $1.7 billion on Gaza this year, (2021) mainly on salaries for tens of thousands of civil servants who stopped working when Hamas took over in 2007.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/where-do-the-billions-of-dollars-in-foreign-aid-to-gaza-really-go/

 

So Hamas relies on funding from the good will of other countries to take care of their own people. Israel provides them with water and electricity. Then they literally attack the hand that feeds them. I would think the people in Gaza would support getting rid of Hamas based on their performance as a ruling party. 

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https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1714138050031198583?t=ow23I3QnUJAuWomLEG1ZMw&s=19

 

 

Amazing stuff... the US, UK, France, and Japan just voted *against* a UN Security Council resolution on Gaza calling for:

 

-- "An immediate, durable, and fully respected humanitarian ceasefire"

 

-- "Secure release of all hostages"

 

-- "Safe evacuation of civilians"

 

-- "Unimpeded provision and distribution of humanitarian assistance"

 

The resolution further emphasizes that both "the Israeli and Palestinian civilian population must be protected," and "strongly condemns all violence and hostilities directed against civilians and all acts of terrorism"

 

But, it was drafted by Russia and supported by China -- so of course had to be intrinsically Bad

 

Can't make it up. 

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None of this is going well for anyone

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/15/middleeast/israel-hamas-gaza-war-sunday-intl-hnk/index.html

 

Gaza is suffering shortages of every kind, including body bags, say aid groups. Internet access, through which residents communicate their plight to the world, is shrinking. Food stocks are dwindling, the World Food Programme has warned.

Hospitals have run out of painkillers and many Gazans are beginning to suffer from severe dehydration due to lack of drinking water, according to medical NGO Medecins sans Frontieres.

“The situation is very difficult…today for two hours we searched for drinkable water—even drinkable water is not available anymore,” said Dr. Mohammed Abu Mughaiseeb, the organization’s deputy medical coordinator in Gaza. “There is food. No electricity, no pumping of normal water as well, the hospitals are barely working… They are bombing all day. We don’t know what’s going to [happen] tomorrow and where we are going.”

 

“We are on the verge of the abyss in the Middle East,” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned in a statement Sunday.

He issued urgent appeals to Israel and Hamas: “To Hamas, the hostages must be released immediately without conditions. To Israel, rapid and unimpeded aid must be granted for humanitarian supplies and workers for the sake of the civilians in Gaza.”

“Each one of these two objectives are valid in themselves. They should not become bargaining chips and they must be implemented because it is the right thing to do,” he said.

For days, Israel has cut off the Gaza population’s access to electricity, food and water, prompting warnings of dire humanitarian crisis.

Pope Francis on Sunday also called for the establishment of humanitarian corridors in Gaza and for the release of hostages taken by Hamas.

 

In over a week of bombardment, Israeli airstrikes have killed least 2,670 people in Gaza, including hundreds of children, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

 

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What is the point of going over there, a photo op? Couldn't do this over the phone/zoom call?

 

President Joe Biden will travel to Jordan on Wednesday to meet with Arab leaders following his trip to Israel as concerns increase that the raging Israel-Hamas war could expand into a larger regional conflict.

 

White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Monday evening that Biden would go to Jordan where he would meet with King Abdullah, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

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