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Being a constant critic doesn't make you a genius. Being a constant pessimist doesn't make you a realist. Being the first to detect loopholes doesn't mean you're overly intelligent.
In fact, intelligence lies in the ability to distinguish when to be for and when to be against.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Benjamin Moser says Israel is "actively fomenting" antisemitism by claiming to act in the name of all Jews:
"It's asking a lot of people to say that there's this Jewish army of this Jewish state with this Jewish star on their flag, and they are mercilessly slaughtering tens of thousands of children, but don't confuse them with Jews," Moser said.
He argues that the reported rise in antisemitism is simply a rise in anti-Zionism, "people reacting to Israel and the evil, wicked things that Israel has been doing in our names."
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There is something beautiful about this video, yet every time I watch it, I feel my soul weeping.
#Gaza
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Sometimes a tweet is so succinct, so true, so utterly bleak, you just want to ...repost it.
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“The more I studied Zionism, the more I realized that every inch of Israel is Palestine. It was always Palestine.”
—Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Benjamin Moser.
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When Israel-US bombings of Iran began last year, Mr. Merz hailed them.
"Doing Europe's dirty work"
100bn Euro is nothing compared to the Earth-shattering blow Iran's Powerful Armed Forces will deal against those who dare harm our people.
Red lines are a thing of the past.
Germany's Chancellor Merz on Iran War:
We now have costs exceeding €100 billion for Europe alone over the last eight months, solely because of the increase in energy prices caused by this conflict.
More than €100 billion extra has been paid by businesses and consumers in Europe because energy has become more expensive as a result of this conflict.
We have an economic interest in bringing this conflict to an end as quickly as possible.
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He never turns on the mic to demand rescue of Borno schoolchildren, over 150days in the hands of terrorists.
He never turns on the mic to demand safety for the daily bloodshed happening in Northern Nigeria.
He never turns on the mic when World Bank revealed that Nigeria would go from 87million people in poverty before Tinubu to 141 million in 2026 since Tinubu took over.
But he is shamelessly celebrating having a president who performs Umrah as opposed to one that goes to church despite the unprecedented hardship and massacres he has brought upon the Muslim Ummah.
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our hearts can't break any harder.
we will never forget, nor forgive. someday they will pay so damn dearly, and they will have no one to blame but themselves.
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She was found hanging from a tree branch. Two weeks old. The 'israeli' bomb murdered her entire family and flung her into a tree. No one survived to claim her. No one knew her name. Her nurse adopter her. Named her Malak (angel). She's now 3 years old.
This too is resistance.
In a story that encapsulates the pain of tragedy and the hope of life.. A baby girl was found all alone, hanging from a tree branch following the Al-Sabra neighborhood massacre in Gaza City on November 19, 2023, which claimed the lives of nearly 300 people while others remained missing.
She arrived at Al-Shifa Medical Complex as an infant, barely two weeks old. With no one to claim her, she remained unidentified for a full month until nurse Amal Ismail adopted her, naming her “Malak” and choosing October 29 as her official birthday.
Malak turns three surrounded by the love of Amal, who raised her as her own child, while hope endures that her relatives will one day recognize her so she can reclaim her roots and identity.
في قصة تختصر ألم الفاجعة وأمل الحياة.. طفلة وُجدت وحيدة ومعلقة على غصن شجرة بعد مجزرة حي الصبرة بمدينة غزة يوم 19 نوفمبر 2023، والتي راح ضحيتها نحو 300 شهيد بينما بقي الآخرون في عداد المفقودين.
وصلت إلى مجمع الشفاء الطبي رضيعة يغمرها الفقد، بعمر لا يتجاوز الأسبوعين. لم يسأل عنها أحد، وبقيت مجهولة الهوية شهراً كاملاً، حتى تبنتها قلباً وقالباً الممرضة “أمل إسماعيل” التي رعتها وأطلقت عليها اسم “ملاك”، واختارت يوم 29 أكتوبر ليكون تاريخ ميلادها.
تكمل ملاك عامها الثالث في أحضان أمل التي احتضنتها كقطعة من روحها، بينما يظل الأمل قائماً بأن يتعرف عليها أحد أفراد عائلتها يوماً ما، لتستعيد جذورها وحقها في الهوية.
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Almost the entire US media and political establishment wants us to ignore this
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亲爱的德国人，你起码犯了两个常识错误。
一、中国没有40平米的房子。除了单身公寓这种数量极少的投资型物业，中国的房子通常在90平以上，大城市在80平以上。
二、奔驰、宝马、奥迪不再是中国人追逐的品牌。现在的中国人喜欢电动车，而德国品牌的电动车被称为杂牌电动车。
当你的基础认知就已经是错误的，你只能得出荒谬的结论。
中国商品之所以物美价廉，是因为中国有齐全且集中的供应链、高效的物流系统、自动化的生产车间，以及规模优势拉低了边际成本。
中国当然也可以为那些优秀的商品定一个昂贵的价格，以换取丰厚的利润。过去你们就是这么干的，现在以我们的产品竞争力，也有条件这么干。
但我们不这么干。
这是因为，提高利润的代价是销量降低。对于你们那个只有几千万人口的国家来说，你们无需追求销量，无需扩大能量，因为你们无需为社会提供那么多的就业岗位。
但我们是一个14亿人口的国家。对我们来说，与其只创造1000个岗位，让这1000人拿一份丰厚的薪水，不如创造10000个岗位，让10000人拿一份普通的薪水。
薄利多销，能够支撑起更大的产能，提供更多的就业岗位。对企业来说，还能获得规模优势，压缩单件商品成本，扩大市场份额，创造更大营收，然后还有了更多的资金投入研发，如此循环滚动。
另一方面，这也大大有利于消费端市场，让全世界的消费者得以享受到物美价廉的中国商品。
想想你们的盾构机。曾经你们以一台 3.5 亿元人民币的价格买给中国。你们自恃垄断了制造技术，宁愿维持一个极低的销量，宁愿让那些发展中国家用不起，也要追求丰厚利润。
中国实现盾构机国产化之后，我们将每台的价格降至3000 万元人民币以下，不到你们价格的1/10。
诚然，我们没有赚到你们那么多的利润，但我们为发展中国家提供了质优价廉的采购选择，促进了那些国家的建设与发展，同时我们扩大了市场份额，创造了更多的生产就业岗位。
我们在做着多方共赢、造福世界的事业，你们则喜欢用技术垄断剥削全世界。当中国打破你们的技术垄断，你们恨得咬牙切齿。因为你们不仅仅是丧失了利润，而且丧失市场份额，丧失了就业岗位。
你们在工业领域的失守，仍在加剧。以前，德国汽车只想要中国的工人和市场，但现在，他们不得不将研发重心也放到中国。
你们愚蠢地与俄罗斯开战，切断了俄罗斯的能源供应。你们几十年去工业化，导致理工科学生数量大幅下降，工程师人才极度缺失。
这样的营商环境，导致你们的企业纷纷关闭德国工厂，迁往中国和美国。
你们失业，你们抗议。但这一切都是你们自己的选择，你们并不无辜。
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The redline on Zionism has been breached. People everywhere are talking openly about this racist and colonial ideology. No going back
The next redline that must be breached is the moral and legal legitimacy of the Palestinian armed resistance. It’s happening
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“He’s from Poland. His mother tongue is Yiddish.”
In a few seconds, Prof. Marandi dismantles the Zionist myth that Europeans of the Jewish faith are indigenous to Palestine.
“Obviously Ashkenazi Jews are not Semites, not from Palestine.”
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“God promised us Israel thousands of years ago.” So if Italians show up tomorrow claiming Palestine on behalf of the Roman Empire, we’re all supposed to respect their ancestral paperwork too, right?
Quite possibly the most ridiculous claim in modern politics.
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Please note the framing: “Russia’s war in Ukraine” is not followed by “the US-Israeli war in Iran” but by “crisis in the Middle East”. This, ladies and gentlemen of the Collective West, is why no thinking person outside and inside your little “garden” takes you guys seriously anymore. Your hypocrisy is now 100% transparent. You frauds.
Russia’s war in Ukraine and the crisis in the Middle East pose major threats to energy and food supplies, trade and freedom of navigation.
Maritime routes are global lifelines.
At the G20 Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Atlanta, I called for a Black Sea freedom of navigation arrangement and reaffirmed the EU’s opposition to tolls and fees on international shipping routes.
Energy security and supply chain resilience are vital for global economic stability.
