Israel - Palestine conflict. 2023-24 misery and horror continues

On Nov. 22, Parham Daghighi and Callie Kennedy, graduate student teaching assistants at UT Austin, had their employment terminated, effective immediately, by Dean Allan Cole of the Steve Hicks School of Social Work.

Daghighi and Kennedy offered a message of support to their students regarding the conflict of the war in Gaza.

Israel-Hamas war: Israeli bombing of Gaza intensifies and death toll surpasses 15,000

From the Guardian liveblog:

10m ago17.12 GMT

An Israeli airstrike targeting the town of Al-Faluja, 30 km (18 miles) northeast of Gaza City, has killed prominent Palestinian scientist Sufyan Tayeh and his family, the Palestinian Higher Education ministry announced on Saturday, Reuters reports.

Tayeh, who was president of the Islamic University of Gaza, was a leading researcher in physics and applied mathematics.

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I got a wall (for making an account, which I’m not interested in doing, so):

https://archive.ph/74xEd

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… into a smaller shape :thinking:

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Smaller to possibly non-existent.

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Watching an RQ-4 Global Hawk doing passes off the Israel coast.

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https://nitter.net/Jake_Hanrahan/status/1731006276400824500

How Israeli soldiers killed a Jewish Israeli “Good Guy with a Gun” who had killed two Palestinian gunmen in Jerusalem. (The first few tweets explain the background before getting to the incident.)

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… it’s just sparkling eliminationism :face_with_monocle:

I’m listening now… it’s actually a pretty decent discussion of the history of the term and how it’s being used so far in this conflict…

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… OTM is in my podcast subscriptions but I haven’t heard that episode yet

“Reveal” and “Throughline” are also good

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It’s good…

I get Reveal on my local member station, but I don’t think we get Throughline… I should check it out.