From the River to the Sea: Ibaitik Itsasora (151)

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Twenty-five seconds filmed by my husband Omar during the displacement trip to southern Gaza, which will show everyone the extent of the misery and pain we are living through. Please RT، share and donate

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The Dumbest Diplomat Ever

Jeffrey Sachs – Kaja Kallas is one of the most aggressively russophobic politicians in the world.

EU boss openly boasts about interfering in Moldova’s elections

The EU sent a “specialist team” to Moldova this past spring to address so-called “illicit financing” (read financing for candidates Brussels doesn’t like), and deployed a “hybrid rapid response team to support Moldova against the foreign interference,” EU foreign policy head Kaja Kallas said in June at a meeting of the EU-Moldova Association Council.

“You can rely on EU support to ensure the integrity of your elections,” Kallas assured.

Let’s review:

Vocal EU backing of Maia Sandu’s regime and framing her victory as the only acceptable option? Kosher.

Supporting Chisinau’s ban on regional and national-level opposition politicians and parties? Fine.

Funding Sandu to the tune of €1.9B ($2.2B) with a Reform and Growth Plan conditioned on painful neoliberal restructuring? Okay.

Undermining Moldova’s constitutionally enshrined permanent neutrality to sign an EU Security & Defense Partnership? Sure.

Flooding the tiny country with Western-funded political and ‘civil society’ NGOs (slashed USAID programs alone worth $164M – over 1% of Moldova’s GDP)? No problem.

Pavel Durov

About a year ago, while I was stuck in Paris, the French intelligence services reached out to me through an intermediary, asking me to help the Moldovan government censor certain Telegram channels ahead of the presidential elections in Moldova.

After reviewing the channels flagged by French (and Moldovan) authorities, we identified a few that clearly violated our rules and removed them. The intermediary then informed me that, in exchange for this cooperation, French intelligence would “say good things” about me to the judge who had ordered my arrest in August last year.

This was unacceptable on several levels. If the agency did in fact approach the judge — it constituted an attempt to interfere in the judicial process. If it did not, and merely claimed to have done so, then it was exploiting my legal situation in France to influence political developments in Eastern Europe — a pattern we have also observed in Romania

Palestine Highlights@PalHighlight

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A disabled child in Gaza crawls on the ground, struggling to carry a water container to secure his share of drinking water.

Follow: http://T.me/presstv

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Our brave team is still standing strong in northern Gaza — side by side with the families who chose to stay, the journalists reporting the truth, and the medics risking everything to save lives.

#Gaza #StandWithGaza #Solidarity

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Grandmother is carrying the remains of their home. Mother is carrying her newborn baby with one hand and hold the two-year-old baby with the other hand.

Escaping Israeli bombing of Gaza, all of them are walking towards the south, facing these possible ends:

being targeted and killed like what Israeli occupation military did with many others

reaching the south after unbearable suffering

finding themselves in the streets without any services like hundreds of thousands others

being killed by the Israeli occupation military, or

finding a tent and living in unsafe area like all displaced persons in the south

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WearThePeace@WearThePeaceCo

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1973119108456562967

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BREAKING: The Voice of Hind Rajab WON the Audience Award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival with a RECORD 95.2% of the vote

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Tony Blair’s catastrophic decision to invade Iraq cost thousands upon thousands of lives.

He shouldn’t be anywhere near the Middle East, let alone Gaza.

It is not up to Blair, Trump or Netanyahu to decide the future of Gaza. That is up to the people of Palestine.

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On 3 April 2025 Hamas offered to release all the hostages. Israel rejected their offer.

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt@FranceskAlbs

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I am honored beyond words can say. I look forward to our embrace, people of Apartheid-free South Africa. You shine.

World Affairs@World_Affairs11

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BREAKING: Mohammed zohran says once he becomes Mayor of New York, he will arrest Netanyahu if he enters the New York ,

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Russia is not Enemy@RussiaIsntEnemy

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“Zelensky’s grandfather fought against the Nazis during WWII. I talked to him about this once. I said, ‘Volodya, what are you doing? Why are you supporting neo-Nazis today, when your grandfather fought fascism?’ I will not say what he replied; that’s a separate topic. I think it would be incorrect. He came to power on the expectation of the Ukrainian population that he would lead Ukraine to peace. That’s what he talked about. He won the election by a huge margin because of this. And then, when he came to power, he realized two things: first, it’s better not to mess with neo-Nazis because they are aggressive and you can expect anything from them; and second, the West, led by the US, supports them and will always support those who fight Russia, as it is profitable and safe. He took the conciliatory position despite his promise to his people to end the war in Ukraine. He deceived his constituents” – President Putin

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1972941079168106691

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Yahia Barazq, a well-known photographer who ran a private newborn photography studio in Gaza City, was killed tonight in an Israeli strike in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza.

Barazq had recently shared a video of him being displaced to the south following the relentless Israeli bombardment of Gaza City.

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My friend, Yahia Barzaq, the talented photographer who captured Gaza’s babies in light and laughter,

Pray for him!

Translating Falasteen (Palestine)@translatingpal

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The same grieving mother from Bint Jbeil, southern Lebanon, whose children and husband were recently martyred in an Israeli occupation airstrike, described how confronting the moment gave her strength. “I held on to the seat until I saw them with my own eyes only then did I become strong. If I hadn’t seen them, I would have been weak.”

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Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1972791345967215088

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“They’re saying we’re going to free 1,700 Palestinians taken since October 7th, including all women and children. And, you know, first of all, why doesn’t anyone ever talk about this?… Why is Israel holding children?… Israel is holding hundreds of dead bodies of Palestinians… For each Israeli body that they’re going to return, Israel would give 15 Palestinian bodies. They’re holding Palestinians in numbered freezers… in graves marked only by numbers. There are hundreds of Palestinian bodies being held by that sick society right now… They are holding unknown numbers of children. There are as many as 15,000 or more Palestinians held captive right now in Israel.”

Scahill explains that while the deal promises 1,700 detainees and 250 lifers, Israel intends to veto figures like Marwan Barghouti of Fatah or Ahmad Sa’adat of the PFLP. He says the exchange reveals Israel’s vast system of mass detention, where children, bodies, and symbolic leaders are held as leverage.

@jeremyscahill

@ryangrim

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Israeli soldiers were filmed detaining two Palestinian children in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, while demanding to know their father’s whereabouts.

When a passerby intervened and urged their release because of their young age, a soldier replied, “I don’t care”.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1972941990183547313

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Daniel Lambert@dlLambo

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Israeli Knesset lawmakers vote 71-13 in favour of illegally annexing the West Bank

Stealing what’s left of Palestine.

It’s never been ‘defence’ never been ‘Hamas’

It’s always been a land grab and ethnic cleansing.

A terrorist state

Sam Husseini@samhusseini

ira. 28

Important!!!!

Craig Mokhiber stresses that the Uniting for Peace proposal that Petro of Colombia has backed could done “if it isn’t overwhelmed by the French Saudi scheme — or if it isn’t obstructed by the Palestinian Authority itself.”

I recall that the Palestinian Authority stood in the way of invoking the Genocide Convention.

@CraigMokhiber continues: “It would be a scandal of historic proportions if an opportunity to provide protection to the Palestinian people found a way through #UnitingForPeace to get around the US veto only to be vetoed by the Palestinian Authority.” …

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BREAKING: “I cannot be here celebrating without talking about Gaza. What is happening is a humanitarian tragedy that cannot be normalised. We cannot turn a blind eye to the destruction of an entire people” – Best Actress Winner Joana Santos

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Ahmed El-Madhoun@madhoun95

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Danger is all around in the north, but our team is doing everything possible! We’re delivering pastry meals to the staff and patients at Al-Shifaa Hospital, ambulance crews, journalists, and families who have chosen to not leave the north!

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EXPOSED: “Palestinian Authority is a Comprador Class which Serves Israel’s Interests.”

@Lowkey0nline

@AlnaouqA

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JUST IN: Russian President Putin says “Gaza has been turned into the largest children’s cemetery in the world.”

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1973815653296652795

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Fascinating geopolitical analysis by Emmanuel Todd, one of the very few great French intellectuals we have left. I added English subtitles for you.

He believes – as I do – that, fundamentally the US is accepting what he calls “defeat” against not only Russia but China as well, and that Trump is effectively trying – clumsily – to manage this defeat and to adapt the US to multipolarity.

He says that the US’s defeat in Ukraine isn’t like Afghanistan or Iraq but that it represents what he calls “America’s first major strategic defeat of its history.”

In the war, he says Russia has become “the shield of all the rest of the world who can’t stand US guardianship of global finance [and] the exploitation of the working populations in the rest of the world by Westerners.”

As he puts it, Russia has demonstrated “that they were able to face the whole West,” and with the rise of BRICS financial systems, this represents nothing less than “the end of the American imperium” – a defeat Trump must now manage.

With regards to China he says that the US have in fact “given up” trying to contain them because the balance of power now makes it impossible. He points to “Chinese naval production that will soon make the US Navy a dwarf navy”, “US aircraft carriers [that] are irrelevant facing hypersonic missiles” and the fact that China managed to “put the Americans under embargo” for rare earth exports.

Arguments that undoubtedly will sound very familiar to my readers because I make the same ones in my articles (like this one: https://arnaudbertrand.substack.com/p/has-america-in-fact-already-withdrawn?r=4r0pw), which I know Todd reads because, full disclosure, we know each others

In this picture, Todd characterizes (quite rightly) Europeans as “crazy, we are dealing with crazy people” who think they can act as winners and impose conditions despite being the biggest losers of the war.

He is particularly virulent against the media and the general intellectual climate in Europe, speaking of a “process of intellectual and moral degeneration” where “all notions of truth, of honor, of reflection” are being lost.

He says that the end of the US’s global hegemony doesn’t mean they won’t relinquish control of what they still do control, specifically Europeans

I’ll let you watch the whole video for more, including his excellent analogy between Trump and former French 4th Republic President Henri Queuille: quite out-of-the-box comparison but actually not bad!

This is part of a longer video (https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z5FHLciLBsU).

They actually have an English version of the video here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZJyaBbyAPs8 dubbed with AI if you prefer to watch it in English.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1973680121895866479

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We UN Independent Experts firmly object a plan that risks brazenly trump int’l law. Yes: bombs have to stop, a permanent ceasefire is needed, persons illegally detained must be freed, but States and the UN cannot and shall not bury Palestinian self-determination and justice.

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BREAKING: The Israeli army killed child Abdullah Atef Abu Labda with a gunshot to the head in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. He now joins his brother Mohammed, who was killed at the beginning of the war.