Ardennes posted:

Some odd things are happening in Eastern Europe as well, Slovakia and Poland in particular seem to swinging around to a more neutral position (Slovakia, if anything may be slightly pro-Russian at this point). The Ireland has also been less poisonous than other Europeans as well (weird there was a far-right promoted race riot that occured out of nowhere).

Insanite posted:

lol the (American) company treat I work for has a pretty decent Israeli presence and they’ve been soliciting folks to use PTO to pick crops in Israeli fields to support the war effort

Al-Saqr posted:

can someone explain to me why spain and belgium of all european countries are being surprisingly decent about this? especially the spanish theyve been remarkably great

Maya Fey posted:

imagine being the child/grandchild of one of the elderly israeli hostages and having to deal with "at least the Hamas boys were nice to me..." complaints for the next 10 years

crepeface posted:

"this hummus sucks!"

FlapYoJacks posted:

If your country is the one arresting children, they are not the good guys.
If your country is bulldozing olive trees, they are not the good guys.
If your country has laws for one race and laws for a different race, they are not the good guys.
If your country is Israel, they are not the good guys.
If your country is from the west, they are not the good guys.

PawParole posted:

https://twitter.com/DaliaHatuqa/status/1728045720790278590

Insanite posted:

lol the (American) company that I work for has a pretty decent Israeli presence and they’ve been soliciting folks to use PTO to pick crops in Israeli fields to support the war effort

Insanite posted:

lol the (American) company that I work for has a pretty decent Israeli presence and they’ve been soliciting folks to use PTO to pick crops in Israeli fields to support the war effort

crepeface posted:

this thread moves too fast, does anyone have that link/extract/whatever about zionism's lovely attitude and policies against holocaust survivors and ashkenazi?

Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:

Check out what Zionists thought of Holocaust survivors ...

https://www.jta.org/archive/behind-the-headlines-holocaust-restitution-deals-fail-to-engross-israeli-public-2

“Israeli survivors did not want to have anything to do with these issues,” he says. “They wanted to close the book on the Holocaust.”

Sanbar traces this attitude to survivors’ experiences just after their liberation from the death camps and arrival in the nascent Jewish state.

“They called us the sabonim,” he says — using Hebrew slang for “cowards.”

But it also sounds like the Hebrew word “sabon,” or soap, which survivors perceived as a reference to the soap the Nazis made from Jewish corpses.

With some justice, survivors arriving in Israel felt stigmatized. Israelis were creating a “new Jew,” symbolized by the suntanned kibbutznik working the fields or the fearless underground fighter.

They looked down on the passivity of European Jews, who they felt went like sheep to the slaughter.

dads friend steve posted:

lol what? they offering to foot the air fare at least?

FlapYoJacks posted:

Are the IDF aware at how bad of a look it is from a PR standpoint that all of the hostages are women and loving children? This is a monumental PR win for Palestine and Hamas.

FlapYoJacks posted:

https://twitter.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1728173023239471215

Death to Israel.

Honky Mao posted:

Israel absolutely reeks of doomed colonial ethnostate these days. Lmao

galagazombie posted:

I’m well aware of that and that’s not what I was arguing against. It’s that she kept calling various things “Euro-Centric” when it’s like, has she read Chinese history? It’s nothing but the settled agricultural people calling the pastoral people savages from the Bronze Age to the Qing. Half the things she lists aren’t even unique to settler-colonialism (though they do get used by it as you pointed out with the puritans, because people conquering other people tend to use similar justifications regardless of whether it’s settler-colonialism or not). She just seemed uncomfortably close to saying “Noble Savage” to me is all.

galagazombie posted:

I’m well aware of that and that’s not what I was arguing against. It’s that she kept calling various things “Euro-Centric” when it’s like, has she read Chinese history? It’s nothing but the settled agricultural people calling the pastoral people savages from the Bronze Age to the Qing. Half the things she lists aren’t even unique to settler-colonialism (though they do get used by it as you pointed out with the puritans, because people conquering other people tend to use similar justifications regardless of whether it’s settler-colonialism or not). She just seemed uncomfortably close to saying “Noble Savage” to me is all.

Al-Saqr posted:

This is Fatima Amarneh, the woman who was brutally assaulted by Zionist soldiers about two and a half months ago near the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque. The scene of her assault was very provocative. Today she is free in the arms of her family after the Mujahideen of the Qassam Brigades liberated her from the Israeli occupation prisons.

https://twitter.com/rdooan/status/1728192779589922972?s=46&t=kY7HKwmb1RBg9U186lxtbg

dads friend steve posted:

lol what? they offering to foot the air fare at least?

dads friend steve posted:

lol what? they offering to foot the air fare at least?

Insanite posted:

lol no

Insanite posted:

lol no

quote:

Filipino national released by Hamas doing “better than expected,” says family of employer

One of the hostages released by Hamas on Friday, a Filipino national who had been working as a caregiver in Israel, is doing “better than expected,” according to the son of the man he was caring for during the October 7 attacks.

Avishay Ben Zvi’s father, Amitai, was killed in the Hamas attack on his kibbutz while his caregiver Gelienor “Jimmy” Pacheco was taken hostage.

Speaking to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, Zvi said his brother had spoken to Pacheco and that he was OK.

“He was talking to his wife tonight and so better than expected, I would say,” said Zvi, referring to photos of Pacheco FaceTiming with his wife in the Philippines.

“They're going to do some medical tests and emotional tests and treatment but yes, most likely he will go to meet his family,” Zvi said.

“It actually came as a surprise, because we knew that there were 13 being released, but they were all Israelis with the Israeli ID. We knew that there was some guys from Thailand. We saw his picture in the videos this morning and then among the brothers we talked about it, we verified with his wife later. So, we were very, very happy obviously to see him but it was a surprise to us. We didn't know.”

quote:

Rashwan also said increased deliveries of medical supplies, food and fuel to Gaza residents was another factor that would help maintain the truce.

Earlier on Friday, the United Nations said 137 trucks of humanitarian aid were driven into the enclave. The relief convoy marked the largest delivery of aid since Israel enforced a total blockade of Gaza following the October 7 Hamas attack.

quote:

Eyal Mor, whose family members were among those hostages released by Hamas on Friday, said he has “mixed emotions” about the complicated homecoming.

The family – Ohad Munder, who turned 9 while in captivity, his mother, Keren Munder, 54, and grandmother, Ruth Munder, 78 — are in good shape “both physically and mentally.” But, added later: “Of course, we have to see, this is all initial reports.”

“The psychologist says it has to be very slowly, very progressive. The come back to normality has to be very controlled way so we will follow that advice,” Mor told CNN.

PawParole posted:

The Tweet posted:

Not enough people seem to catch what happened here:

Israel stole a number of *Palestinian* children’s bodies when they raided Al-Shifa hospital last week.

They then used these bodies to stage a film for private audiences depicting the bodies as *Israeli* children.

Honky Mao posted:

Israel absolutely reeks of doomed colonial ethnostate these days. Lmao

Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:

VomitOnLino posted:

galagazombie posted:

Is this person seriously arguing that sedentary states looking down on nomadic/pastoralist peoples as barbarians, or the idea of might makes right are “European ideas”? Because I’ve got a World history book to give them.