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Reality check.
Get out of your fucking own head.
No one cares about you.
No one cares if you stay stuck, tired, or “figuring things out.”
Everyone’s too busy fighting their own silent battles.
You’ve been waiting for the perfect moment.
It doesn’t exist.
You’ve been waiting for people to notice your potential.
They won’t until you make them.
Stop chasing validation from people who haven’t even built shit themselves.
Stop talking about what you could be.
Start showing it.
Get uncomfortable.
Go quiet.
And do the work no one will clap for
because that’s the only work that changes everything.
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GOOD MORNING. Life is very short, Take risks. Get out there and try stuff and keep trying until you find something that thrills you and makes a real difference in the world. This is the first thought I had when I woke up today and I wanted to share it while it’s fresh in my mind.
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🇸🇩 Darfur, Sudan:
460 massacred in maternity hospital
2,000 executed earlier this week
460,000 people trapped
🇺🇳 Reaction by U.N. Human Rights Council:
0 resolutions
0 urgent sessions
0 commissions of inquiry
Maternity hospital massacre leaves 460 dead: Fresh horror in Sudan as patients and staff are butchered, after 2,000 civilians were executed in two days trib.al/tuUcxn1
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My take on the genocide question, at this moment in time.
* The 7/10 attack on Israel by Hamas, Islamic Jihad and thousands of Gazan civilians was genocidal in intent and practice.
* Hamas, Hezbollah and some leaders of the Palestinian Authority are genocidal toward Israelis in intent and often in practice.
* Official PA policy is not genocidal, with two notable exceptions: jihadist school curricula, and idolizing killers of Jewish civilians, also financially supporting their families.
* The statements of leading Israeli politicians (the vast majority of whom are from the coalition) and some celebrities are genocidical in intent.
* As far as I can judge from Israeli journalists, reliable analysts and people I know who fought in Gaza, the current war is ugly, dirty, includes war crimes, but it is not a genocide.
* Based on Israel’s future conduct and the availability of well-established facts, I will review my position if needed.
* The future ruling of the ICJ will probably impact my judgment, but this will also depend on the informed input of internationally recognized jurists.
* At this time, I therefore can’t and won’t agree or engage with people who take an Israeli genocide in Gaza to be a proven fact.
* Israel’s war in Gaza began as a just war (with a legal casus belli), but should and could have stopped, at least temporarily, to allow a hostage deal and far better humanitarian aid.
Deliberate starvation of civilians and plans for land grabbing are criminal and morally wrong.
* Wars are by definition horrific. This one is worse than many, and worse than it might have been. I blame Hamas first, the Israeli government second.
That’s it. I am trying to be honest with you and with my own conscience, and even this task is devilishly difficult.
Debate is welcome, trolling is not.
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No, @AmnestyUK.
You're way off the mark.
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Does astrology work? We tested the ability of 152 astrologers to see if they could demonstrate genuine astrological skill.
Here is how the study was designed and what we found (including a result that really surprised me):
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"Apartheid"
Israel is being defined as an apartheid state by some because Palestinians (and their supporters) believe the entire territory is theirs. They don't view it in terms of two (or three) states, but rather as one.
Israel doesn't view itself as an apartheid state because functionally, Gaza/West Bank are basically already independent states. They do not occupy them. They see themselves as having and enforcing a border.
They view Gaza as governed by Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization, and the West Bank as an area governed by the Palestinian Authority.
An argument can be made that when Israel doesn't actively combat settlements, and Gaza relies on particular resources from Israel, there's a level of control. While the first is valid, of course, on the latter point, for some reason there's never complaints about Egypt, which also shares a border.
But I think this key difference of vision of one state vs two, is what causes some to view this as apartheid vs others being confused as to why they would use such terminology—particularly since those Palestinians or Arabs who are citizens of Israel enjoy completely equal rights.
This is in contrast with South Africa where institutionalised racial segregation existed within one entity.
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1. There’s a Hamas tunnel under a civilian’s house.
2. The tunnel only has military or criminal uses. It was built under the civilian’s house to protect it from attack.
3. The people in the house have been told repeatedly to get out to save their lives—but they decide not to.
4. Now you’re telling me no one is allowed to bomb the tunnel because the house is in the way?
5. Either (a) you don’t understand the basics of morality during wartime; or (b) you are pretending you don’t understand.
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WARNING: The WhatsApp group chat of the Nir Oz Community Group has been published.
it is horrific, as one can imagine. I only share it because at this point
we are fighting a pr battle we can not win without authenticated information. This is painful to read, and I couldn't finish it. I warn you in advance that the crimes committed here are beyond human comprehension. The kind of savagery and barbarism we've only heard about from our Holocaust survivors. H'YD
yediot.webflow.io/7days/nir-…
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Why is everyone calling for a ceasefire rather than for Hamas to surrender? When did supporting barbaric medieval terrorism become acceptable?
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A Palestinian scholar from the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem sends a message to the “Queers for Palestine-crowd” in the West:
“The people of Palestine will not allow a single homosexual in our land," such perversion brings the wrath of Allah”
🇵🇸🏳️🌈
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The TikTok War: Why High School & College Kids Are Getting The Wrong Information about Hamas & Israel
I spent the weekend trying to reverse engineer the TikTok algorithm, as I am convinced this is the reason we're losing the information war with high school & college students.
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Deeply concerned by the inadequate response to the targeting of Israeli civilians by Hamas - a disturbing trend in the global left's political culture. On the statement signed by tens of Israel-based academics & activists committed to peace & human rights: bit.ly/Isr1023
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It's hard to stay ahead of reality at The Babylon Bee. We had this written last night only to wake up and see the White House doing exactly this before we had the chance to publish
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ניסיתי לעשות לעצמי סדר בראש. אתם מוזמנים לא להסכים כמובן:
1. חמאס ביצע פשעי מלחמה ופשעים נגד האנושות. אין בכך שום ספק. הייתי בזירות, דיברתי עם ניצולים, ראיתי את התמונות, נחשפתי לסרטונים. קראתי את חוו"ד של עו"ד איתי מק (מצ"ב). >>
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