[-] Pierre121000@lemmy.ml 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 11 minutes ago)

From https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1948865864935047607, it's everyday :

« The spring, which feeds the pumping station, is the main or backup water source for some 110,000 people, according to the Palestinian company that manages it – making it one of the most vital in the West Bank, where water is in chronic short supply. » (source
« He said two other springs in the area had also recently been taken over. (...)
“We have no options; digging a well is not allowed,” despite the presence of local water springs, he said, pointing to a well project that the UN and World Bank rejected due to Israeli law prohibiting drilling in the area.
The lands chosen for drilling sit in the West Bank’s Area C, which covers more than 60 percent of the territory and is under full Israeli control. (...)
Whereas nearly all residents of Israel and Israeli settlements have running water every day, only 36 percent of West Bank Palestinians do, the report said.»
It's not about filling a private pool, but about depriving palestinians of water, obviously. And there has been no investigation from the israeli police.

And tomorrow it'll be something else, at least internet laws haven't made these informations illegal(, yet).

note on these internet laws

I thought in the past that profiling citizens could already be done through IP adresses, and that it was enough ; however because of VPNs or Tor, these new laws want to go further by not allowing any circumvention.
Besides profiling citizens according to their opinions, there's also the very valid threat of automatic sanctions(, see the law Avia in France, which enforced a ban on terrorist apologia in 1 hour, and hate speech in 24 hours, under the threat of huge sanctions, up to 4% of the social media's worldwide turnover, it was fortunately partially censored in the end, but they still don't see a problem with it, it was followed by a law on global security, the introduction of FranceConnect, and soon the same law than in the UK against anonymity online, in the name of protecting poor little children from pornography).
Italy also aims to put an end to online anonymity in order to fight "hate speech"(, it'll still be mandatory to hate your enemies), or misinformation(, we banned Red and African Stream, along with every russian media, misinformation is whatever isn't allowed by our officials).
The EU has the Digital Service Act, and the eIDAS 2.0 is coming, as well as perhaps Chat Control, which France's attack on Pavel Durov give no doubt about their goal to end privacy(, including on Signal, ProtonMail, ...), and we know that the next step will be an automatic sanction for illegal speeches.
These sanctions were already in place for whomever is considered a terrorist(, e.g. it felt natural not to have any knowledge of Hamas' point of view/narrative, nothing new since it's always the same lies, ugly biases, atrocity propaganda, ...). We(sterners), or at least we{french}, did not have much problems in censoring(, dis-informing,) "terrorist" or russian medias. So my guess is that the next step aims at targeting domestic medias, but what do i know, i can only see that the current censorship legislation/powers still aren't enough for them, and that accusations of misinformation or hate speech have been abused, and will continue to be so.

I.d.k., is Georges Ibrahim Abdallah right ?

pointless remarks

Even if Hamas implicitly recognized Israel in the Art.20 of its 2017 charter, its speeches, along with the lines of Iran and other antizionist states, seem to imply that they wouldn't be satisfied with a two-states solution.
I disagree with that stance, mainly because Israel isn't left with any other choice than destroying them, since even sharing the land wouldn't be enough.
I'd advise going back to the position of 1988-1993 when the palestinians were the peaceful ones, admitting their unilateral defeat, and recognizing Israel, who, a.f.a.i.k., greedily wanted the rest of Palestine instead of making peace.
But i'd also advise to never cease asking for a compensation for the lost territories, a compensation which has to come from western countries since israelis don't have anything to offer. Which would mean that the arabs(, and other muslim-majority countries,) would refuse to have any commerce with the west as long as they're not compensated for what's objectively one of the most important loss of their history. It has to be through an alliance with the means to exert pressure and the will to stay cohesive, even if it'll take them centuries to obtain a just retribution.
Also, if they recognize Israel, they'll have to absorb the israelis into their culture, so that they become middle-easterners and not westerners anymore, it's not hard to envision a day when friendship among them and their neighbours will feel natural.
But my point is that countries&movements that ask for a disparition of Israel will naturally be hunted down by israelis. And yes, Israel doesn't want a two-states solution and they couldn't give a damn about the ninth commandment(, or the sixth one and many others for that matter). As long as they don't show their change of mind, e.g. by removing their illegal colonies and retreating to the 1967 borders(, or the 1948 ones), then i'll continue to point them as the main responsible for this situation, just that i can't pretend that they're the only ones opposed to a two-states solution, even if they're the main problem, that's all.

The second Intifada and Hamas wouldn't have appeared if Israel respected the Oslo I and II agreements that it signed(, and every survey show that palestinians were much more supportive of them than israelis, videos show a radiant Yasser Arafat, he publicly praised again the Geneva Initiative in 2003 and authorized Abed Raddo to sign it, while Ariel Sharon categorically opposed it as well as the Oslo agreements).
It's Netanyahu who freezed the process in 1996 : the first step of the agreements were respected by Yitzhak Rabin(, withdrawal from Gaza and Jericho in 1994, palestinian elections in 1996, and then israelis had 18 months to withdraw from the zone C towards the zones B and A), and even american negotiators like Dennis Ross said that the "further redeployments" in Annex I, Article I, Appendix 1, was understood as a total withdrawal, not Netanyahu's 2%, who continued to increase the number of settlements in the West Bank, claiming a lack of security but i'm not the only one who thinks that what they're really interested in is an excuse to have more lands.
Netanyahu only won with 50.4% in 1996, the present would have been different.
The Palestinian's refusal of the two-states solution is a consequence of Israel's refusal, not the cause.

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From https://x.com/liamcunningham1/status/1946575903238095166

There's a need for at least 700 trucks every day to cover everyone's needs(, at least 1000-1500 according to wikipedia), three months ago the WaPo talked about only allowing sixty trucks per day, citing israeli officials.
Since the last ceasefire there's apparently less than a hundred trucks per day(, 27/day for the WFP, sometimes with a week-long pause on truck movements). The WFP claims to possess more than 116,000 tons of food assistance, enough to feed 1 million people for up to 4 months.
The GHF only fed 2% of the population. The same wiki article says it now delivers 2.6M meals/day of 500-700kcal, enough to feed 800.000 people, others only speak of 1.2M meals, confirmed here and in most articles. Note that they proudly claim transparency, but that's the most official page i could find launched the 11th of June and last updated the 12th. They weirdly did not even bother to create a website(, why ?), and are critized for their behavior(, here as well,) and opacity, apparently linked with Boston Consulting Group who was «shocked and outraged to learn that people at the firm were so closely tied to it», and fired two people linked to the project.
The UNRWA is mostly inactive now, the OCHA doesn't distribute food, nor does the UNICEF/WHO/..
The World Central Kitchen has suspended its programs in April after Israel killed 7 of its workers, and only partially relaunched their program.
The help from some border states, like Jordan or Egypt, doesn't amount to that much a.f.a.i.k.(, perhaps 50 trucks per day for Jordan, while Egypt is blocking the aid).

Their goal is to get rid of the local population, either though murders or by forcing them to flee, while systematically destroying their habitation like during the Nakba.

In April 2025, Israel Katz, Israel's Defense Minister, said that « Israel's policy is clear : no humanitarian aid will enter Gaza, and blocking this aid is one of the main pressure levers preventing Hamas from using it as a tool with the population. »

Edit/Addition : Another worrying thing is that COGAT, a unit from Israel's ministry of defense, stopped updating its weekly reports, 150 trucks for 2M people has always been far below the minimum of 700 required, and that weren't given for some weird reasons somehow linked to Hamas.
I couldn't find an official statement from COGAT explaining why they stopped, but it should logically be somewhere. Doesn't help in trusting Israel's intentions.
We still have the UN weekly reports, the chapter "Deteriorating Food Insecurity and Malnutrition" in their most recent one seems worth reading.

ramblingsI've already mentioned in previous posts that we(sterners) should give territories, or that there could be an international governance to force israeli and palestinian coexistence on these lands, and that there are other solutions than "let the strongest remain".
It goes beyond Israel : there'd be no reason for a struggle towards hegemony if we aimed to live united in diversity, never possibly threatened again by our "opponent"'s rise.
Such world system cannot be established if you're not at the top of the world, and whoever reached the top never wanted anything else than hegemony/'the destruction of whichever diversity it doesn't like', not caring that protecting (the 'diversity of'/'path chosen by' )others would also protect us

[-] Pierre121000@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

once netenyahu is dead the problem will not be solved

Yeah, just for the record : i agree. It was probably a misleading title, surveys give less hope.

[-] Pierre121000@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If i'm accused of double standards : among other reasons to support Russia, their war had less civilian deaths than the civil war waged by Ukraine from 2014 to 2022
https://ukraine.un.org/en/289667-civilian-harm-and-human-rights-abuses-persist-ukraine-war-enters-fourth-year

[-] Pierre121000@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Just adding that here :

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From https://x.com/BMoon_bee/status/1944154267864248392 :

Invited on 🇮🇱 Channel 13, former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert breaks the official 🇮🇱 propaganda live and doesn’t mince words:

— “In the West Bank, war crimes are committed daily. Jewish settlers murder Palestinians, they burn them alive. When these crimes are committed with the government’s complicity, the police are present — they turn a blind eye. As for the Israeli army, it is not fulfilling its role.”

Facing him, the hosts try to downplay the facts, claiming that the true perpetrators of the violence are the Palestinians and that settler attacks are the work of only a tiny minority.

Olmert retorts, firmly:

— “What you’re saying is false and misleading. Every day, the ‘hilltop youth,’ these extremist terrorist militias, carry out mass attacks. Palestinians are assaulted, driven off their land. Their fields are set ablaze, their homes too. Just yesterday, an American citizen was struck on the head with a baton. He was murdered.”

Olmert’s intervention is not only a damning admission aimed at Israelis but also at European leaders: the crimes against humanity committed against Palestinians in the West Bank are not isolated incidents, but a systematic genocidal policy aimed at deporting all Palestinians, not just those in Gaza.

And when a former 🇮🇱 Prime Minister speaks like this, the world no longer has an excuse to look away and deny these crimes!


Channel 13 is a capitalist-owned media, with ties to Netanyahu like a lot of other israeli medias, it's in third position after shifting closer to Netanyahu's far-right in recent years : https://www.timesofisrael.com/is-israels-channel-13-being-neutered-for-netanyahus-sake-its-not-so-simple, https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jul/20/uk-billionaires-israeli-tv-channel-accused-of-axing-show-for-netanyahu
The channel 14, ranked second, is also on the far-right and pro-Netanyahu : https://www.972mag.com/israel-right-media-now14
As usual the right only cares about themselves while accusing the left of being too 'nice for their own good'/naive/unrealistic.

(from s.m.b.c.)


And yes, sure, on the other side : https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8433596


Just that i'd prefer if Netanyahu's goverment was an exception, if there was still a chance for justice/peace instead of the law of the strongest : https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8394953/6633521


Worth adding Ehud Olmert's realignment plan : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realignment_plan

According to the plan, Israeli settlements in 90% of the West Bank would be evacuated and dismantled.

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[-] Pierre121000@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

À toi aussi, et merci encore, ce fut une longue semaine, aucun de nous deux n'acceptait de laisser le dernier mot à l'autre ^^

👋

[-] Pierre121000@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I included these graphs because people are saying that communism doesn't work, which is why we have to sanction them to death, for their own good(, and also because all of our enemies are dictators, what a coincidence, that's a manipulation easy to disprove, old allies are suddenly depicted as authoritarians as soon as they change allegiances, while true authoritarians aren't talked about, N.Chomsky and many others already proved this over and over).
Freedom has always been our sole argument, without which we have nothing left to defend our side. And it's not even a good one since poverty is slavery, "freely" working to fatten our annuitants lord capitalists. The entrepreneurial freedom isn't that bad though, we all have to learn from each other and i would prefer for all ideologies to cohabit together instead of only one of them imposing his unique view. Think it was Hegel who said that theses need antitheses in order to evolve into better syntheses.

I haven't lived under the Stasi's threat so for all i know i may be wrong and you may be right about the accusations of authoritarianism. It's easy to prove that their paranoia wasn't delusional though, they faced more powerful countries(, remember McCarthyism when the u.s.a. still thought that they were in a dangerous position, kinda isolated/outnumbered ? As stupid as it may seem, i quickly read the short comic "superman : red son", and was pleasantly surprised to see that the author depicted an authoritarian u.s.a. once it began to lose the cold war, with economic difficulties, state separatism, ..., that's an honest take which should probably be kept in mind when discussing the soviet's alleged authoritarianism, the only thing we remember about their society)
And our representatives were elected by a population who believed our propaganda when it celebrated the west achievements while omitting the soviets ones, when it vilified the soviet's actions and omitted our numerous misdeeds, ...
My point about authoritarianism is that it isn't inherent to communist ideals(, on the contrary, "democratic socialism in deeds and not in words" has a meaning), and since «whomever wants to drown his dog accuses him of rage», i'm almost certain that they were exagerated, Solzhenitsyn wasn't celebrated around the West for humanitarian reasons.
When you see how many impossible odds the u.s.s.r. had to face before the second world war you can understand their authoritarianism, understandable in war conditions, and the Moscow trials were during the Spanish civil war, Trostkyists were indeed traitors collaborating against communists, including in Asia, while the black book of communism with its 100M death claims has been abundantly debunked, gulags were a sad thing of course but opposing communism "because freedom" is idiotic, i'm sorry.

As for Syria, we both share an insignificant portion of the pain felt by the syrians, but i blame the west for opposing Bachar al-Assad(, elected by his population), while you blame him for not submitting. Fortunately Russia helped, we wouldn't consider V.Putin a dictator if he was aligned with our actions around the globe, i could give you as many surveys as you want proving that he didn't ever needed to cheat in the elections, contrary to our usual propaganda about our enemies, etc.

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There's so many arguments explaining why they were the one responsible for this wall

And everyone in 1989 talked about the lack of bananas in the eastern part without realising that the western sanctions were responsible for this absence. People aren't naturally ignorant
And they grew grew at the same rate rate despite socialism never working(, both sides were helped, but one of them was under sanctions and without any neocolonial help, a higher military burden, etc.)

Not forgetting that eastern germans(, who saw their shared properties stolen by western capitalists b.t.w.,) are still unapologetically voting left ever since

I've learned in highscool that Stalin was disfigured by some kind of disease but modified the photographs, that was a western lie still taught more than half a century after his death, i've also been taught that if someone stopped clapping first they were at a high risk of being deported, which was why rounds of applause could last a long time, i was naive enough not to have doubts. I didn't know that we were the most propagandised population in the world back then, something that most readers would disagree with(, if you cite north korea it'll even more point out (y)our ignorance&propagandization).

If you (dis)agree, then just ask yourself what's contained in the medias of our proclaimed enemies(, Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba, and any leftist south american, Zimbabwe, ~Burundi, ~'Central African Republic', ~Congo, ~Somalia, Sudan, and so many more african countries, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Palestine, and even Lebanon because of the Hezbollah, Afghanistan, Russia, China, North Korea, Belarus, Serbia, and too many others that i've ignored, if i'm taking the last 100 years then we've oppressed every single country at one point or another, including Ukraine when it elected pro-russian leaders. Read them and you'll understand that we're at the very least as propagandised as they are(, if not more, like i suppose, because they know our dominant point of view, cited in their articles, while we totally ignore theirs).

[-] Pierre121000@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

Does anyone know how to save pictures on this app ?

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Yet we won't hear about people like Ousmane Sonko and so many more, including in Ukraine, just today Saïd Boukioud was condemned to 5 years of jail in Morocco, and Julian Assange has been persecuted for more than a decade for wanting to keep us accountable/transparent(, as well as at least dozens of whistleblowers). Piotr Pavlenski was celebrated by french medias when he denounced the russian "regime", but condemned by the same medias when he did the same things in France. We simply wouldn't hear&support A.Navalny if Russia was our ally, thats all.
Just in(, an hour ago) : Imran Khan has been condemned to three years of jail ! Will you complain ?
And Juan Branco.

A country authorizing opponents/diversity outside&inside its borders is undoubtedly better than a country forbidding them inside&outside. It's harder to compare between a country forbidding diversity outside its borders and another forbidding it only on its territory.
A real union in diversity would cancel any possible international insecurity of a given country, but not directly its potential royalist/authoritarian tendencies since it'd allow their difference(, however, their inhabitants don't need to be saved by (c)overt operations, because the proximity of free people will elicit a desire of change in their own country, as long as this country doesn't protect itself from our proximity like we protected ourselves from socialist examples ; being united means being informed of the other ways of living, and desiring what we lack, it also means 'working for our species instead of our nations'/'loving/helping other countries as much as we love/help our own inhabitants').

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I've heard that their history books talk about european history(, Charlemagne, ...), that's insane, i didn't believed it at first(, and still suppose that it was exaggerated, and that their school books probably talk less about the history of Greece, Rome, and western Europe, than Africa and the rest of the world).
I can attest as someone living in France that we know much more about allied/useful countries like Japan and Korea(, and the u.s.a. of course,) than about other african countries that speak french, we can't expect them to seek a strong alliance/union with us if we don't know their cultures, these ties will fade if the french government does nothing linked to them except anti-immigration laws to preserve our so-called "french" "historic" culture, we could begin by t.v. shows partnering with them, but it only shows how our efforts to maintain these (cultural/.. )ties are close to none, we could have salvaged some connection with them(, not economic). We're living in a bubble, afraid of foreign "disinformation".
And while westerners forget(never learn) about our actions to preserve a favorable status quo, africans are more aware than us of what we did in their country, and probably also in Asia, the Middle-East, South America, and their own continent.
If we succeed in being united in uniformity, like we're fighting for, then does it mean that future schisms will be sanctioned ? Is it even worth fighting for hegemony if a diverse union is more desirable ?

Honestly he's right, the most ressources/..-rich continent is suspiciously the poorest, it can't continue like that, i've only theories(, protectionnism//liberalism, exportation of raw materials to import manufactured goods, crazy compounded interests, ..., i've started two posts on this topic this past year w/o ending them), but i certainly hope it'll change, as soon as possible.
And we(sterners) shouldn't simply stop benefiting from the global South, but actively help each other instead, to the point of slowing/stopping our growth for them, 'and then they'll help in return later if we need it'/'simply because we can&should'.
(That's partly how/why a union is still possible/desirable, and how 'a muslim/christian/.. behave'/'the Kingdom/City of God comes unto the Earth', if we 'seek the Supreme Good in deeds and not in words'/'take religion seriously')

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Now : of course you're sanctioned, because you're allowing Wagner to help you instead.
«You're free but not from consequences»(/s)
Imagine if Russia sanctioned Mali over the presence of french troops on their territory.
They can't fight the u.s., so should submit to their power and expel Wagner, too many dozens of countries have experimented, and are still suffering from, the cruel western economic sanctions/warfare, they can't win.
(Thing is that they first ask for a finger and end up taking the arm, universalism rimes with uniformism. And all in the name of freedom once again, so much hypocrisy)
Yet another information you won't hear in m.s.m.

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Senegal
Kenya
Ghana
Benin, after the usual economic sanctions
Mali, apparently
Sudan
Somalia
...

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Peru's (unpopular )Congress approved the entry of US troops into their territory, and calls for the US military to train Peruvian "Special Forces, boosting their interoperability with NATO systems and doctrine" : https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/06/us-troops-are-in-peru-to-counter-chinese-and-russian-influence-in-latin-america-reports-peruvian-weekly.html

These troops are set to arrive from June through Dec 2023 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-implications-of-new-us-troop-arrivals-in-peru/

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With some help from R.T., 'as usual'/'of course'.

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It also prevented China from recovering Taiwan

Does anyone know how to post videos in this sub without resorting to external links ?

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Yeah, ban me please

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