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Chris Osieck

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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 13d

When my grandfather died in 2004, I was 11. At his home in Nijmegen I found a battered briefcase, unopened for years. Inside: photos, consular forms and letters — a history of falling empire, colonial decoupling and rising nationalism that marked those who lived it.

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Caught Between States as an Empire Dissolved

A Dutch-Indonesian family’s documents from the mid-20th century reveal a painful story of separation and an administrative nightmare that prefigures today’s xenophobic politics

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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 9h

It’s perception of security, prosperity, freedom, etc, is conditioned upon the dispossesion and violence against the Palestinian. In order for their home to be built, another home needs to be destroyed. Which is why there’s no difference between the opposition and current Kahanist regime figures.

Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 9h

It is evidence that the violence of the Israeli occupation cannot be blamed on one man such as Netanyahu. Doing so would make Ariel Sharon likely laugh while rotting in Hell. It is the regime, with it’s Zionist foundation, which is inherently exclusionary and racist, that is the core problem.

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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 9h

Another was an MDT David passing by a mosque in Nablus city to which the occupation forces would burst out firing to, resulting in civilian casualties, during a raid as they claimed to be targeting one Palestinian fighter. The media, at the time, already reported that as the deadliest year.

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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 9h

One man and his family in Jenin refugee camp, I remember clearly, how his house was occupied and used as a military base. He would be tied together with his hands and legs while having been shoved a tennis ball in his mouth only to lay in a room for days until the soldiers left.

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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 9h

I remember covering military raids in the occupied West Bank under the Bennett-Lapid coalition, with Benny Gantz as DefMin, in places like Jenin and Nablus. These were brutal and at many times included pressure cooker procedures as the amount of martyrs would pile up.

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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 10h

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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 10h

I applaud this as a form that falls within the maximum pressure policy that needs to endlessly be put on the regime as a retribution for it’s crimes.

Keep pushing.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Boycotting Israel has gone mainstream: ‘We’ve never seen such traction before’

After decades of being dismissed as fringe, the boycott call has been taken up by leading figures across arts, sports and politics

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 13h

Wrote about the temptation to put Gaza on the back burner now that the ceasefire is solidifying—and why we can't let that happen. Gaza still needs you, and me, and everyone to fight until real Palestinian liberation is won. www.discourseblog.com/p/gaza-still...

Gaza Still Needs You

This fight is not over.

www.discourseblog.com

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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 14h

JENIN, October 10, 2025 (WAFA) – A young Palestinian man was killed and a teenager was injured by Israeli forces’ gunfire on Friday night in the city of Jenin, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS).

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UPDATE: Israeli forces shoot, kill Palestinian youth in Jenin

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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 14h

CCTV footage of the shooting taking place in Jenin.

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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 14h

Israeli sniper shooting Mohammad Adnan Salameh, geolocated near the Cinema Roundabout in Jenin city in the occupied West Bank, 32.461758, 35.296580.

StreetView by Mapillary in Jenin in the occupied West Bank.

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Hafsa Halawa @hafsahalawa.bsky.social · 20h

The only thing worth reading today as leaders gather in Sharm el Sheikh:

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland - @nesrinemalik.bsky.social

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While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 18h

Al Jazeera asked former Israeli minister, Yossi Beilin, what he thought Trump will say in his speech. Beilin responded: “I never know.” Which is the right answer given the US president’s unpredictability.

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Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi @ajaltamimi.bsky.social · 20h

New post: an in-depth look at a recent case of arrests carried out by Israeli forces in the Yarmouk Basin region of Deraa province near the border with the Golan Heights, adding some context that is missing in social media coverage www.aymennaltamimi.com/p/israeli-ar...

Israeli Arrests in Southern Syria: A Recent Case in the Yarmouk Basin

As part of their incursions into southern Syria since the fall of the Assad regime, Israeli forces have sometimes arrested individuals for reasons that are not always made clear by the Israelis.

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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 20h

Warning: the following links lead to the footage in which this happened. This may be distressing or graphic for viewers.

Source links:
1) www.instagram.com/eye.on.pales...
2) www.instagram.com/translating_...

‎🇵🇸 عين على فلسطين | Eye on Palestine‎ on Instagram‎: "Injuries reported among family members after an explosion caused by remnants of the occupation in Gaza City. اصابات بين افراد احد العائلات بعد ا...

54K likes, 1,971 comments - eye.on.palestine on October 13, 2025‎: "Injuries reported among family members after an explosion caused by remnants of the occupation in Gaza City. اصابات بين افراد احد ا...

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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 20h

Civil Defense - Gaza Strip | Press Release:

“Today, 3 children were injured with varying degrees of wounds due to the explosion of a suspicious object from the remnants of the Israeli occupation near Al-Shifa Hospital, west of Gaza City.”

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 21h

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 21h

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 20h

As children were playing this morning in the Al-Nasr neighbourhood nearby Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, an object exploded in their hands. Geolocation: 31.522083, 34.445194.

A geolocation drawing that matches geographical objects visible in the footage to what is seen on satellite imagery from above via Google Earth Pro.

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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 20h

As others have prev said, many are relieved to see a brim of light shine through the darkness and hope that this will now lead to a concrete resolution rather then a ceasefire among many ceasefires. However, caution and skepticism remain as long as there are enough uncertainties.

President Trump keeps insisting over and over that "the war is over."

But people l've been speaking to in Israel's security establishment are skeptical that the second phase of the deal will ever be completed.

The remaining issues are too thorny and the distrust too deep.

- Matt Bradley, foreign correspondent, NBC News.

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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine having an Airbnb only to discover that you share it with a six feet long boa constrictor.

Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 1d

De enige respons die het fascisme hoort te krijgen, inderdaad.

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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Eyal Weizman from @forensicarchi.bsky.social: “this aerial image from the 1960s shows that the 'yellow line' of 🇮🇱 redeployment in Gaza is roughly matching with the border of the area's coastal sand dune, leaving Gaza without the majority of its agricultural areas on the fertile soils in the east”.

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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 1d

Belangrijk stuk dit.

www.groene.nl/artikel/gewo...

Oorlogsmisdadigers en genocideplegers zijn de helden in hun eigen verhaal

Dagelijks komen in de media beelden voorbij van geweld, terreur, onderdrukking of zelfs bewuste uithongering van een volledige bevolkingsgroep. Het menselijk lijden grijpt je naar de keel. Welke mense...

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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 2d

“Even as key Arab states condemned the war in the Gaza Strip, they quietly expanded security cooperation with the Israeli military, leaked U.S. documents reveal.”

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Arab states expanded cooperation with Israeli military during Gaza war, files show

Documents from U.S. Central Command show a series of meetings over the past three years between Israeli and Arab military officials to coordinate on regional threats.

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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 2d

PVV voert campagne met nepfoto’s - ‘Maak haar blond, onschuldig en knap’

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Vanuit de PVV-fractie worden in het geheim met AI racistische ideeën gepromoot

Op sociale media delen PVV-fanaccounts levensechte AI-beelden, veelal van knappe, blonde vrouwen die worden bedreigd door migranten. Deze pagina’s blijken te worden beheerd door minstens twee PVV-Kame...