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Joe Biden has called for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza, telling Benjamin Netanyahu that future US support for Israel will depend on it taking concrete action to protect civilians and aid workers. As the two leaders held their first phone call since Israeli airstrikes killed seven employees of the international food charity World Central Kitchen (WCK), Biden issued the strongest US rebuke toward Israel since the start of the conflict. In Thursday’s call, which lasted less than 30 minutes, the US president “made clear the need for Israel to announce and implement a series of specific, concrete and measurable steps to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering and the safety of aid workers”, the White House said in a statement.

FINANCE MINISTER SMOTRICH INFORMS PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: A DEAL UNDER THE CURRENT CONDITIONS - THE END OF THE GOVERNMENT.

"Mr. Prime Minister,

Egyptian mediation deals that ended previous "rounds" when Hamas was alive and kicking and allowed it to strengthen again and again and massacre Israeli citizens like it has not happened since the Holocaust, this is exactly what you have led in the last two decades, and it is exactly, but exactly what we all promised not to do again this time.

Agreeing to the Egyptian deal is a humiliating surrender, and it grants victory to the Nazis on the backs of the hundreds of heroic IDF soldiers who fell in battle, it imposes a death sentence on the abductees who are not included in the deal, and above all - it poses an immediate existential danger to the State of Israel.

If you decide to raise a white flag and cancel the order to occupy Rafah immediately for the purpose of completing the task of destroying Hamas, and restoring security to the residents of the south and the citizens of Israel, and returning ALL our abducted brothers and sisters to their homes - the government headed by you will have no right to exist.

This is a fateful moment for the people of Israel. The decision is yours.

שאב כוח וגבורה מיציאת מצרים ומההיסטוריה היהודית. ממשה רבנו ומנחשון בן עמינדב שהלילה, כן הלילה לפני 3,336 שנה עמדו על הים, התגברו על חולשות של חלקים מהעם וקבעו את ההיסטוריה של העם היהודי.

‏דבר אל בני ישראל ויסעו לרפיח עכשיו, בכל הכח. ומי יודע אם לעת כזאת הגעת למלכות."

UCLA calls police as campus clashes escalate

Police stormed the Columbia University building late Tuesday after the university asked for help, a spokesman said in a statement. A tent camp on campus was cleared, as was Hamilton Hall, where a stream of police used a ladder to climb through a second-floor window.

Protesters calling for the Ivy League university to stop collaborating with Israel or companies that support the Gaza war took over the hall about 20 hours ago. The school said:

“After the University learned overnight that Hamilton Hall had been occupied, vandalised, and blockaded, we were left with no choice. The decision to reach out to the NYPD was in response to the actions of the protesters, not the cause they are championing. We have made it clear that the life of campus cannot be endlessly interrupted by protesters who violate the rules and the law.”

The arrests came after protesters refused to honour an earlier ultimatum to leave the camp on Monday or be suspended, and after other universities stepped up efforts to end the demonstrations inspired by Columbia University.

Fabien Lugo, a first-year accounting student who said he did not participate in the protests, said he disagreed with the university’s decision to call the police. He said:

“This is too intense. It feels like more of an escalation than a de-escalation.”

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Even with all the blood and gunsmoke, just remember…

My OG post on twit:

https://x.com/silver__sora/status/1751744297282707565?s=46&t=nOCgwafCQouudAOe3NjSmg

People declaring the Pope should excommunicate Joe Biden for genocide has me like??? Bro...what do you think the Catholic Church was built on...

yeah I’m never going to forgive any of the protestors for not choosing this moment to march on Washington with a massive CEASEFIRE NOW movement

This is Hamas' response to the proposal the Israeli occupation government sent them

In other words, Hamas made a counter offer the other Resistance factions are happy with. The terms that must be met before a prisoner exchange are:

Permanent ceasefire

the complete withdrawal of the IDF from Gaza

Lifting the blockade and allowing aid to enter the strip

Reconstruction of Gaza

The Palestinian resistance has the upper hand. Remember the last time Hamas sent a proposal in November that included a pause in the fighting, Israel immediately dismissed it before crawling back and accepting. This time they are willing to consider it from the start. In fact Netanyahu has gone from saying the war will last a year to just months

I trust that all the conditions for the prisoner exchange will be met.

Let me tell you what it’s like living in Israel alongside such barbaric neighbors. 

I don’t know how your last 24 hours have been but let me tell you how mine have been. 

Like you, I’ve read up about the hostage agreement with Hamas. 

One small difference between us. 

All I could do in these last 24 hours is hope and pray that my brother Ari’s murderer won’t be part of this deal. 

The thought of that monster who destroyed my family walking freely not only terrifies and triggers me, but it also takes me to a very dark and sad place. 

Thankfully I didn’t see him on the list but hundreds of other family’s who lost a loved one weren’t so fortunate and will have to face the reality of their monster walking freely. 

Welcome to the Middle East when radical Islam has its way. 

I don’t wish the emotions I’ve felt these last 24 hours on anyone but if I’m being honest, if Israel doesn’t defeat Hamas in this war, many more families in the west will have to deal with what I’m dealing with. 

Wake up before it’s too late. 

This is one of the last photos Ari and I took together.

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ISRAELI POLICE ASSAULT DEMONSTRATORS

📹 Footage from demonstrations against Israeli occupation Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, where Israeli police get violent with protesters in Haifa, in the occupied Palestinian territories.

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Ok more touching grass. I’m blocking people because I don’t intend to belabour this point with newbie activists but this is for the rest of you, for future reference.

We are all typing on phones and computers that are directly complicit in the genocide in the Congo. On an internet funded and infiltrated by US and Israeli spyware. Your lack of “silence” on either matter doesn’t erase your complicity.

When you mature your politic, you will come to realise that the true wickedness of this system is we are all put in ethical gridlocks and stalemates, which make doing the 100% pure thing, dangerous.

If you can get on here and not get fired for saying Free Palestine, especially anonymously, or under the cover of a lack of major influence, understand that is a privilege EARNED for you by generations of activists, who learned how to manage the risk of taking on this system by using nuance.

You think a man that marched against the Iraq War is complicit in this genocide because he is, IN YOUR DEFINITION, “silent” on it?

This is what I mean about a) controlling other people’s behaviour, and b) creating a false dichotomy of action that is antithetical to how the very system works. “Silence” was never meant to be a colloquial term when used with “complicity” - it is a systemic term. The silence of those with institutional power is complicity. Not miss ma’am at the coffee shop.

And THIS IS WHERE I REMIND YOU ONCE AGAIN - “celebrities” are Gig workers in an industry primarily funded and run by religious conservatives. Just because the industry says they’re liberals, doesn’t mean they are.

Movements work on consistency, and there are many ways to act. Demanding one way of action, and not providing any institutional power to back that demand other than “your disappointment” is reckless. This is not the stuff of movements that last. How are you planning to potentially support performers who’ve spoken on behalf of Palestinians, when all this is over and you’re back to drinking Starbucks? Will you care? Will you, once again, use your “lack of silence” (only one part of activism) to proclaim that you want to support them, or will you have tangible means to do so? I fucking doubt it. We don’t, even collectively, currently rival the support structure of the entertainment industry, that is run by religious conservatives - anyone that speaks out, is calculating their risk against their action.

Allow people to do their own fucking math, and if they haven’t been openly and brazenly fucking Zionist on main, give them the fucking benefit of the doubt. That’s what the adults/seasoned activists are doing. We have to see through the liberation of everyone, and that doesn’t happen by burning through everyone’s support systems at once.

This ain’t dick riding. This is me telling you to stop centering your “disappointment” on the internet, and keeping score about things that only move the needle by increments. This man, and his words, and your “disappointment” in him, in this moment, DOES NOT MATTER TO THE CAUSE. AT ALL. Get on the fucking phone and out on the streets like the rest of us. There are lives at stake and his part of his math, so he still has a voice to use in the long term, does not affect you at all if you’re truly here for the systemic change.

Tldr; His voice would be nice, but not at the cost of having his voice in the future. You dig?

There's a lot of people pointing at how the Israel-Palestine ceasefire has ended and fighting has resumed as some sort of "gotcha"

It took 6 weeks to broker this ceasefire (and hamas didn't even really keep to it, surprise surprise, they still kept firing rockets at Israel), 5 days is not much time to broker an extension and/or longer ceasefire

This is the real world people, a ceasefire doesn't just happen by declaring/calling for it, they take time and negotiations and dealings and compromises

And as long as hamas keeps Israeli citizens (and non Israeli citizens) hostage while firing rockets at them, Israel has no reason to keep a ceasefire with hamas

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