There are some militants hiding out near the err 12th fairway. Aim there first
There are some militants hiding out near the err 12th fairway. Aim there first
dont think he cares about that in fairness. He’s enough of a c*nt of a human being that he’ll be looking at the demolition costs more so
Saudi Arabia have been the only country trying to facilitate something constructive ( no pun ) in Palestine for decades. They even to got Reagan to give them a Palestinian state however Arafat rebuffed them.
For the last decade the Gulf states - mostly Saudi aligned - have been normalising relationships with Israel. On my last trip I was able to fly from the Gulf to Tel Aviv, something unthinkable since 1948.
The hypocrisy here is amazing. Two nurses make a (granted) screwed up video against Jews and our politicians are busy drafting new laws, wanting changes to immigration policies and everything. Two Muslim women actually get attacked in Melbourne and not a single peep.
How long have we been told that its only anti-semitic if you’re prejudicing against Jews?
And no, I definitely don’t condone prejudice against Jews, or anyone else. But the clear hypocrisy has to stop and I’m happy to keep calling it out until this situation is rectified properly.
It really does have to stop. Racism of any kind is abhorrent and should be stamped out. But claiming racism against a specific racial group is worse than others is in itself a form of racism and discrimination, which is what really shits me.
At least things aren’t as crazy as the US…
A Jewish Israeli (ed: I’m not sure he might actually be Jewish American or dual national) shot at two Jewish Israelis in a car in Miami. He allegedly told police he thought they were Palestinians.
One of the two victims posted on socials they had been victim of an anti-semitic attack and signed off with “death to Arabs”
My Uncle used to travel all around the middle east in the 1960’s. He was an engineer and worked all over including Israel, Saudi Arabia & Egypt.
I’m talking specifically about direct flights from the gulf to Tel Aviv. When i first started before Trump’s first presidency, you had to connect through Jordan, who weren’t on the best of terms with Israel in the 60s.
I find it interesting that Arabs seem to be able to differentiate between Zionists and Jews, but we make them all the same.
I would say it’s because we’re more exposed to zionists over here, than your regular Jews. They’re not in the media so it slowly creeps into the psyche that all Jews are zionists
Worth considering that there’s a strong history of using “Zionist overlord government/ZOG” among the far right in the English speaking west to refer to the secret Jewish conspiracy that they use to explain away all the problems with capitalism, which was displaced around 30 years ago by the “new world order” and today by “globalists” as a dog whistle.
On the other hand, we also have a lot of actual Zionists who aren’t Jewish - most Young Liberals and far right figures are committed to Zionism as a political project, in conjunction with their own ethno-state agenda. In America this is even more influenced by Christian Zionism which derives from a literal interpretation of the old testament, that only those who side with the Kingdom of Israel will ascend on judgement day.
Zionism has also evolved significantly from the late 19th/early 20th C to now. there was a significant influence of socialist principles. The lean towards the hard right has overlapped with a less European, more American zionism with less utopian ideals of peaceful co-existence.
These two origin story podcasts are good overview on the history:
Nobody seemed to be injured from this.
So bit of a break down in negotiations transitioning from phase 1 to phase 2, which was originally supposed to happen this weekend. Israel has once again blocked aid trucks. There’s been agreement for an extension of the phase 1 ceasefire through to the end of ramadan.
Egypt has prepared a plan to rebuild Gaza and start the cycle all over again, in opposition to Trump’s AI generated occupation tourism. The Arab states will have an emergency summit Wednesday AM our time to sign off on it. Aid funding is still likely to come from Europe rather than the Arab countries alone, so I still hold onto the idea the “Gaza riviera” nonsense is all Trump showmanship trying to get the US out of paying for the clean up.
Not sure how Egypt will assist with the cleanup though. Israel is still occupying all the Egyptian crossing points. The fact that they’re blocking aid trucks when negotiating the next state of the ceasefire is nothing short of disgusting though
So part of the Egyptian brokered deal is that Israel would get to normalise relationships with all the Arab states and every other Muslim-majority country the Saudis can lean on (basically just not Iran). This is pretty huge, that kind of normalisation has until now only been on the cards for a final outcome to the conflict peace deal, and now it’s being offered just to go back to the status quo of Palestinians being allowed to rebuild the Gaza enclave.
Meanwhile, Trump has posted online that the “people of Gaza” are “DEAD” if the hostages aren’t released.
Normalised relationships with the Saudi sphere is exactly what they were all working on before Oct 7. So back where we started