Last paragraph here is interesting:
Netanyahu’s political survival skills are well-known, but it will be hard to avoid blame for such a self-evident intelligence fiasco. Golda Meir was gone as prime minister within six months of the Yom Kippur war, giving way to Menachem Begin and eventually the Camp David agreement with Egypt’s Anwar Sadat in 1978. Right now, it is hard to envisage a repeat of such an optimistic chain of events.
BBC News - How Hamas staged attack no one thought possible
Getting rid of Netanyahu would be a good thing, whatever else happens.
Horrific. And every such report of a Hamas atrocity should be accompanied by at least one of the ten times as many IDF atrocities. There’s a long history of plenty to choose from.
A message from the President of Colombia:
The only way for Palestinian children to sleep in peace is for Israeli children to sleep in peace.
The only way for Israeli children to sleep in peace is for Palestinian children to sleep in peace.
War will never achieve this, it can only be achieved by a peace agreement that respects international legality and the right of the two peoples to exist free.
These photos are of Palestinian children murdered by the illegal occupation of their territory.
ETA
ETA
When I was a little boy, the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor. It was a surprise attack, and thousands of U.S. servicemembers perished. As a nation, we were stunned. And we vowed to strike back. Revenge was understandably on everyone’s mind, including many Americans of Japanese descent who opposed the emperor and were peaceful and law-abiding U.S. citizens and residents.
In its zeal to exact that revenge, however, the U.S. government overreacted, out of fear and bigotry. They targeted everyone who happened to look like the people who had carried out the attack. Those of us who had done nothing wrong were forced to pay the consequences for the decisions of others far away and disconnected from us. We were interned for years, in open-air prisons, while America went off to fight Japan, Germany and Italy.
It’s so important that we carry the lessons of the past through to today. Merely because one group commits atrocities and acts with depravity does not mean vast hundreds of thousands or even millions of others should be lumped together with them and made to suffer. We must never paint with the brush of justice and retaliation too broadly, or the toll of human suffering will rise immeasurably.
I think the awful war in Israel/Palestine should get its own thread now if that’s okay?
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According to a government press release, the authorities have located the damage point in the Balticconnector natural gas pipeline.
In addition, there is also damage to the communication cable between the countries.
According to Yle sources, the leak “does not appear to be an accident” and the press conference is believed to be related to “a worrying change in Finland’s security situation”.
