Aianawa (17th February 2024), Octopus Garden (29th February 2024)
I think needing a military base in the Middle East has EVERYTHING to do about capitalismIt doesn't have anything to do with capitalism in and of itself, and certainly not with saving the planet, nor with Jews versus Muslims. Israel is important to the US Empire because it's the Empire's military stronghold in the Middle East. That's all there is to it.
What is the purpose of your presence?
Aianawa (17th February 2024), Aragorn (17th February 2024), Emil El Zapato (17th February 2024), Lord Sidious (17th February 2024), Octopus Garden (29th February 2024), Wind (17th February 2024)
Aianawa (17th February 2024), Emil El Zapato (17th February 2024), Lord Sidious (17th February 2024), Octopus Garden (29th February 2024), Wind (17th February 2024)
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
Aianawa (18th February 2024), Aragorn (19th February 2024), Lord Sidious (19th February 2024), Octopus Garden (29th February 2024), Wind (18th February 2024)
What is the purpose of your presence?
Aianawa (18th February 2024), Aragorn (19th February 2024), Emil El Zapato (18th February 2024), Lord Sidious (19th February 2024), Octopus Garden (29th February 2024), Wind (18th February 2024)
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOicAK8QXek
Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz has warned that unless Hamas frees all hostages held in Gaza by 10 March an offensive will be launched in Rafah.
It is the first time Israel has said when its troops might enter Gaza's overcrowded southern city.
Global opposition is growing to such an attack in Rafah, where some 1.5 million Palestinians are sheltering.
Earlier, the World Health Organization said a key Gaza hospital had ceased to function following an Israeli raid.
Speaking on Sunday, Mr Gantz, a former defence minister, said: "The world must know, and Hamas leaders must know - if by Ramadan our hostages are not home, the fighting will continue everywhere, to include the Rafah area."
Ramadan - the Islamic holy month of fasting - begins on 10 March.
"The more I see, the less I know for sure." ~ John Lennon
Aianawa (20th February 2024), Aragorn (20th February 2024), Emil El Zapato (21st February 2024), Fred Steeves (21st February 2024), Octopus Garden (29th February 2024)
May piss be upon all war criminals.............
Ní siocháin go saoirse
Aragorn (21st February 2024), Emil El Zapato (21st February 2024), Fred Steeves (21st February 2024), Octopus Garden (29th February 2024), Wind (21st February 2024)
"Finish the job" is the key point, and also lays at the boundary of where any western media, including the BBC, are authorized to trod.
"Finish the job" is not about the hostages or Hamas, not in the slightest. They're only the public face, the official excuse, as to what this job really is:
The Final Solution.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
Aragorn (21st February 2024), Octopus Garden (29th February 2024), Wind (21st February 2024)
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
Aragorn (21st February 2024), Octopus Garden (29th February 2024)
"The more I see, the less I know for sure." ~ John Lennon
Aragorn (22nd February 2024), Emil El Zapato (22nd February 2024), Octopus Garden (29th February 2024)
Tough one to listen to, but I think you really should:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-V6VN-TSeU
Last edited by Wind, 25th February 2024 at 03:05. Reason: Embedded the video
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Aragorn (25th February 2024), Emil El Zapato (25th February 2024), Octopus Garden (29th February 2024), Wind (25th February 2024)
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Doctor freed from Egyptian jail no extremist: colleagues
Lauren Vogel
Colleagues of Dr. Tarek Loubani, a Canadian emergency physician recently freed from prison in Egypt, are calling for his speedy return and decrying mounting media backlash against the man.
Friends say their initial relief over Loubani’s Oct. 5 release, with filmmaker John Greyson, was crushed when they learned Egyptian officials had placed the pair on a no-fly list. Loubani and Greyson were arrested on Aug. 16 during violent antigovernment protests in Cairo and held seven weeks without charge. Now recovering in a safe house, it’s unclear when the pair will be able to leave Egypt. An investigation into potential charges continues.
“We are told that they will wait in Cairo until the fate of all 602 protesters is determined,” says Dr. Benjamin Thomson, a nephrologist at London Health Sciences Centre in Ontario.
Support for Loubani and Greyson has remained strong, both among the public and among Canada’s medical leaders. “We remain concerned that the Egyptian authorities still won’t let them out of the country and we call on these authorities to expedite their safe passage,” Canadian Medical Association President Dr. Louis Hugo Francescutti urged in an email.
However, there’s also been growing criticism of the men and their motivations for traveling to the region. Margaret Wente of The Globe and Mail wrote in a column that Loubani and Greyson are “troublemakers who knowingly stepped into a volatile situation.” Sun Media’s Ezra Levant referred to them in a column as “left-wing extremists” and “serial, professional protestors who engage in anti-Israel protest tourism.”
Loubani has run afoul of authorities in Canada for protesting against federal cuts to refugee health care and in the West Bank over Israel’s presence in the region, but colleagues say he’s not a hot-head or grandstander.
Egyptian officials held Canadian humanitarian Dr. Tarek Loubani for seven weeks without charge.
“Tarek has a history of principled opposition and peaceful protest for causes he believes in,” says Dr. Amit Shah, a fellow medical professor at Western University in London, Ontario, who volunteered with Loubani to train physicians in Gaza. “Rather than being spun into something negative, if more people spoke out in a peaceful, rational way for those who don’t have a voice, we’d have a better world overall.”
Thomson, who has also accompanied Loubani to Gaza, says allegations of a hidden agenda are “patently false” to anyone who knows the man. “He’s the first person to step up to care and be compassionate for anybody [regardless of the circumstance], and I think the proof of that is even while in prison he was the doctor to his cellmates, organizing antibiotics and making sure every man got food.”
In London’s medical community, Loubani is known for his commitment to improving care for refugees and other marginalized groups. Colleagues share stories of Loubani’s dedication, from small acts of compassion, such as buying lunch for a cash-strapped patient, to his willingness to shoulder tasks others avoid, such as hitting the streets to conduct check-ups on homeless patients.
“Tarek relates to people in this remarkable way across the whole spectrum, from people in positions of a lot of power to those in positions of no power,” says Dr. Kate Hayman, an emergency medicine resident who also worked with Loubani to train physicians in Gaza. “He recognizes humanity across the board in a way that’s tremendously unique and rare to see in action.”
Even during medical school, Loubani was “quite passionate about making the world a better place,” says Dr. Neil Arya, founding director of the Office of Global Health at Western University and Loubani’s former instructor.
Arya says that Loubani’s imprisonment and recent tarring by some members of the Canadian media speak to the shrinking space in which physician advocates operate. “Such targeting has increased in the last two decades, and while health workers try to be impartial to get access, the very act of providing care to some populations has become a political act.”
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“El revolucionario: te meteré la bota en el culo"
Anybody with the stomach for it, this is the raw video of the air force airman who self immolated outside the Israeli Embassy in DC. Fucking horrific...
https://twitter.com/MeZo1989/status/1762251502607818852
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
Aragorn (27th February 2024), Octopus Garden (29th February 2024), Wind (27th February 2024)
I did as the curiosity got the best of me. I have seen burning people before, but that was probably the most brutal and clearest video I've ever seen. You won't survive burn injuries like that. I can't really imagine the mind-space one occupies when they bring themselves to do something like that. It grabbed the attention of many. Back in the days of the war in Vietnam some vietnamese monks did the same thing with self-immolation. Indeed it's an extreme form of protest although I don't think people should do something like that to themselves.
"The more I see, the less I know for sure." ~ John Lennon
Aragorn (27th February 2024), Emil El Zapato (29th February 2024), Fred Steeves (27th February 2024), Lord Sidious (27th February 2024), Octopus Garden (29th February 2024)
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