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Gaza-based Palestinian author Alaa Alqaisi asks herself the question posed more than half a century ago at the end of Ghassan Kanafani’s “Men in the Sun”: Why didn’t they knock on the walls of the tank?

By Maha Hussaini and Mohammed al-Hajjar in Gaza City, occupied Palestine Published date: 27 May 2025 15:58 BST

"Palestinians clamoured for aid and gunfire rang out in chaotic scenes, as a controversial US-Israeli aid distribution scheme turned to shambles.

Journalists in the besiged Gaza Strip said hungry and beleagured residents forced to stand outside a facility holding aid rushed inside because of delays conducting detailed security checks on recepients.

According to Israeli army sources cited by Israeli media, Americans affiliated with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation had to be rescued once they lost control of the facility."

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The Technological Republic, his new “treatise” urging executives and engineers to abandon their pursuit of “trivial consumer products” and recommit their capital and talent to a “national project,” Karp’s effort feels less like a timely cultural intervention and more like what you get when the boss’s pontifications go unchallenged for too long.

This carefully maintained mystique provides the perfect backdrop for Karp to play the eccentric intellectual, someone who drops incendiary statements with academic detachment. On a recent earnings call, he gloated, “Palantir is here to disrupt and make the institutions we partner with the very best in the world and, when it’s necessary, to scare enemies and on occasion kill them”; at the World Economic Forum, he dismissed the United Nations as “basically a discriminatory institution against anything good”; during an AI conference on Capitol Hill, he castigated pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses as the adherents of a “pagan religion” and asserted that they should be sent to live in North Korea. These statements all come wrapped in eager demonstrations of his knowledge on the history of philosophy, art, and science—a performative erudition very different from the safe, generic corporate-speak of most of his peers. Though identifying as a liberal, Karp’s general strategy seems to be to position himself as a guy that can “talk sense” to the left, which of course appeals to the right—criticizing progressives for their ostensible lack of patriotism, naïve cosmopolitanism, and unwillingness to embrace US military power. It’s a disposition designed for dual purposes: to make the embrace of a hawkish foreign policy and digital dragnet technology appear as the thoughtful centrist stance, and to provide Palantir with a politically palatable counterweight to the more odious ideological baggage of Thiel.

Karp idealizes the Manhattan Project as a Platonic unity of the state and business. He romanticizes the World War II–era entanglement of science and government as a heroic partnership

Oh... great... especially considering this:

Trump signs executive orders to boost nuclear power, speed up approvals

To speed up the development of nuclear power, the orders grant the U.S. energy secretary authority to approve some advanced reactor designs and projects, taking authority away from the independent safety agency that has regulated the U.S. nuclear industry for five decades.

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By Alexander Cornwell May 26, 20253:26 PM EDT

"The Jerusalem municipality advertises the event, known as the flag march, as a “festive procession”, part of a broader programme of events celebrating the “liberation” of the city.

The march has been marred by racism and attacks on Palestinians for years, and is preceded by a campaign of violence in the Old City that in effect shuts down Palestinian majority areas, particularly in the Muslim Quarter."

A week after David Lammy announced the suspension of free trade agreement negotiations with Israel, Keir Starmer's trade envoy to Israel, Ian Austin, tweets about being in Israel to "promote trade with the UK".

#UK #Israel #Hyppocrisy #Genocide #Europe #Starmer #StopTheLies
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By Alexander Cornwell
May 26, 20253:26 PM EDT

Summary

• Annual 'Flag March' draws tens of thousands of far-right #Israelis, mainly settlers, to #Jerusalem
• Youthful marchers seen harassing, assaulting some #Palestinian residents, other Israelis and journalists, witnesses say
• Violence follows Israeli far-right security minister's visit to Al-Aqsa mosque compound in East Jerusalem
• Rally marks #Israel's capture of East Jerusalem in 1967 #MiddleEast war

Wadephul lehnt Stopp von Waffen für Israel ab (tagesschau.de, 2025-05-26)

https://www.tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveblog-nahost-montag-254.html#Wadephul-lehnt-Stopp-von-Waffen-fuer-Israel-ab
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>> Bundesaußenminister Johann #Wadephul lehnt einen Stopp von deutschen Waffenexporten nach Israel ab. Israel sei zahlreichen Gefahren von außen ausgesetzt, etwa von der Hisbollah, den Huthi und aus dem Iran, sagte Wadephul bei einem Besuch in Madrid. All diese Akteure hätten die Vernichtung Israels zum Ziel. Zugleich sei das Existenzrecht Israels Teil deutscher Staatsraison. Die Bundesregierung sei daher dazu verpflichtet, Israel bei der Gewährung seiner Sicherheit Beistand zu leisten, und dazu gehörten auch Waffenlieferungen. Das Abkommen sei mit dem Staat Israel geschlossen worden und nicht mit der Regierung

#StopArmingIsrael #StopIsrael #Staatsrason

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Amid calls for arms embargo, who supplies Israel's weapons? – DW (2025-05-26)

https://www.dw.com/en/amid-calls-for-arms-embargo-who-supplies-israels-weapons/a-72675978
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>> Crucially, three nations account for almost all of Israel's weapons supply: the United States, #Germany and #Italy.

>> … From 2020-2024, Germany accounted for about a third of Israel's incoming arms supply…

>> And that is unlikely to change, despite Spain's calls for an embargo.

>> "As a country that understands Israel's security and existence as a core principle, Germany is always obliged to assist Israel," said German Foreign Minister Johann #Wadephul.

>> Those comments came as German chancellor Frederich Merz told public broadcaster WDR he "no longer understands” Israel's objective in Gaza …

>> Despite his remark, any future restriction on Germay's arms supply would be a significant development…

#StopArmingIsrael #StopIsrael

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As Gaza faces annihilation under Israel’s relentless bombardment, a grim lesson offers no solace: surrendering to Israeli terms does not guarantee safety – a truth painfully reflected in the reality of the West Bank.

Gaza bleeds under genocide, but another wound festers within: a deepening emotional and political divide between Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Many in Gaza feel abandoned — not just by the international community, but by their fellow Palestinians across the separation barriers.

The anger reached a boiling point after a televised speech by Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, in which he seemingly referred to Hamas as “sons of dogs” and demanded they “just hand over” hostages.”

For many in Gaza, his remarks seemed aimed at all Palestinians in Gaza. This was not merely a political misstep – it was an unforgivable betrayal.

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Jeremy Scahill May 26, 2025 [~4:00pm EDT]

"But before the deal could advance, Israeli officials rushed to the media to kill it. Soon after, Witkoff publicly accused Hamas of misrepresenting the proposal—directly contradicting what sources told Drop Site had been agreed to in private discussions.

The negotiations are ongoing."

The turning point that wasn’t: the way the world talks about Israel’s war has changed. Nothing else has | Nesrine Malik (Guardian, 2025-05-26)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/26/israel-gaza-war-turning-point-uk-eu-changed
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>> The recent change in language from Israel’s international allies is remarkable. But it would be dangerous to overestimate its significance. Israeli authorities not only do not care, but draw strength from the condemnation. It all serves to prove that the country is on its own and must persevere because it is, as ever, misunderstood, discriminated against, surrounded by enemies...

>> If this new attitude taken by western leaders is designed to fend off a reckoning, then it’s too little, too late: the record has already been taken...

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The journalist Rashad Omary does important work in covering the cases of young Palestinians who are suspects of participating in events of "Habeh alKarama" in may 2021. He gives you a perspective on this struggle and brutality, oppression and injustice.
https://t.co/9hJtzsmlx6
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Donya Abu Sitta
May 26, 2025

"Meanwhile, their mother, Alaa, had heard the news and rushed home. By the time she arrived, her husband, Hamdi, had been taken to hospital with severe injuries, while the charred, dismembered bodies of her children were being lifted out of the rubble. Three children had already been retrieved and she watched, weeping in distress, as four more were carried out. When her daughter, Rivan, was pulled out, she begged rescuers to let her hold her body.

In total, the bodies of seven of her children were retrieved...The eldest, 12-year-old Yahya, and the youngest, six-month-old Sayden, are still missing. "

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By #Reuters
May 26, 2025 1:04 PM EDT

"CAIRO, May 26 (Reuters) - A #Palestinian official said on Monday that #Hamas has agreed to a proposal by U.S. special envoy #SteveWitkoff for a #Gaza ceasefire, only for an Israeli official to deny that the proposal was Washington's and add that no #Israeli government could accept it.

Witkoff also rejected the notion that Hamas had accepted his offer for a hostage deal and a ceasefire in Gaza, telling Reuters that what he had seen was "completely unacceptable" and the proposal being discussed was not the same as his."

Israeli attacks have killed more than 50 people in the Gaza Strip since dawn on Monday, including 36 in a school-turned-shelter that was struck as people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, according to local health officials.

The attack on the Fahmi al-Jarjawi School in the Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City also wounded dozens of people, said Fahmy Awad, head of the Gaza Ministry of Health’s emergency service. He said a father and his five children were among the dead.

The al-Shifa and al-Ahli hospitals in Gaza City confirmed the overall toll.

Awad said the school was hit three times while people slept. Footage circulating online showed rescue workers struggling to extinguish fires and recovering charred remains.

Palestinian Civil Defence spokesman Mahmoud Basal told the AFP news agency that the school had been sheltering “hundreds” of people, adding that those killed were mostly children and women.

Why do white supremacists—who hold deeply antisemitic beliefs—support Zionism? The answer lies in Zionism itself.

Israeli nationalists chanted "death to Arabs" and scuffled with Palestinian shopkeepers and left-wing activists ahead of Tuesday's so-called flag march in Jerusalem.

Held every year to mark the occupation and conquest of Palestinian East Jerusalem, the event sees hundreds of Israeli nationalists march through the Old City of Jerusalem waving Israeli flags and intimidating Palestinian merchants and residents of the city.

This year scuffles broke out between the marchers and Palestinians and left-wing Israeli activists, who had gathered along the route.

Other chants included "let your village burn", a reference to the 1948 Nakba, in which Zionist militias ethnically cleansed 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and villages to make way for the establishment of Israel.

It is the stated aim of many on Israel's far right to expel those Palestinians who remain within the borders of modern Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza.

Footage shared online by journalists, showed the right-wing activists circling Palestinian women in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City.

According to the Times of Israel, Israeli police arrested a Palestinian youth who was involved in scuffles with the marchers.

In the march last year, the Israeli activists attacked Palestinian residents, as well as journalists covering the event...

Malta to recognise state of Palestine next month, says Prime Minister (Malta Today, 2025-05-25)

https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/135122/malta/_to/_recognise/_state/_of/_palestine/_next/_month/_says/_prime/_minister
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>> Prime Minister Robert Abela has announced that #Malta will recognise the State of Palestine, marking the end of a 45-year national debate on the issue.

>> The announcement came during a political event on Sunday, in which Abela raised local and global matters, focusing strongly on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

>> He shared his experience from a recent visit to refugee camps in Jordan, where he met Palestinian children who were brought to Malta for medical treatment.

>> The recognition of Palestine will take place following a conference on 20 June. The Prime Minister stated the move is a moral responsibility, considering the worsening situation in the region.

#StateOfPalestine #TwoStateSolution
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By MEE staff Published date: 26 May 2025 12:36 BST

Nesrine Malik - Opinion
Mon 26 May 2025 01.00 EDT

"But there is a disconnect between condemnation and outrage, and what happens on the ground. When it comes to Israel, the levers of international censure are broken. Throughout the war, international organisations, humanitarian missions and courts of justice have been rendered powerless by their inability to translate their findings into action. Words alone mean nothing. They simply bounce off #Israel’s iron dome of impunity. Every day, the world wakes up and is confronted with an #Israeli leadership that violates every law of morality and logic. Victims are aggressors, humanitarians are biased, an army that kills unarmed medics is the most moral army in the world. Up is down."