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People who act confused by Hamas' desire to free Barghoti are bizarre to me, Hamas wants him out even though he isn't Hamas affiliated because they believe he is one of the few, or maybe even the only, individuals who can unite the whole of Palestinian factions under the PLO

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And also important to remember that Hamas has agreed in principle to the restoration of PNA rule in Gaza subject to reforms within the PLO.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 10h

This also makes more abundance of sense once one also seriously examines what the political bureau of Hamas has repeated vis a vis disarmament, they wish to disarm only in the context of a Palestinian state being established with an army and police force. They think Barghouti would facilitate this.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 10h

And in fact the PNA very much does not want him out because the PNA is headed by an autocrat who has rendered twenty + years of his "service" to the liberation struggle as nothing more than a quisling and knows his time is expriing.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 10h

People who act confused by Hamas' desire to free Barghoti are bizarre to me, Hamas wants him out even though he isn't Hamas affiliated because they believe he is one of the few, or maybe even the only, individuals who can unite the whole of Palestinian factions under the PLO

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 11h

This is so uncontroversial of a fact at this point that you can find it in even the revised books of the most vitriolic and racist of the New Historian authors, Benny Morris.

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No Mods, No Masters @julieofthespirits.bsky.social · 14h

Every English-language article about the Nobel: "Well-deserved win by brave freedom fighter!"
Every Spanish-language article about the Nobel: "Lmao remember the time she asked Netanyahu to invade Venezuela"

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 11h

The amount of times that I have had to repeat, over and over and over to people, that en masse expulsion of Palestinians did not begin in May 1948 but in fact in the fall of 1947, more than half a year prior to what's known as the "first Arab-Israeli war", is frankly astonishing.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 11h

Second time this week I have come across someone who is seemingly completely unaware of basic historical chronology as it pertains to 1947-48.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 11h

context?

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 15h

You know I really appreciate that this post acknowledges this is, highly disturbingly, a pan-human feature

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 16h

At least we no longer have to hear about freedom being in Americans' DNA or whatever. Turns out we love to eat shit and bow to some bloated halfwit like any other people throughout history

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15h

an experience I think about a lot: I was visiting a class in DC Jail shortly after Kim Kardashian visited and had brought in her camera team. I relayed critiques of her "performative", "virtue signalling" acts I had heard on the outside. the response was somewhere between a shrug and an eye roll

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 1d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 20h

stop retweeting this stupid fake shit onto my goddamn feed

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 16h

"Oh government, oh government, what do you even want with us? You don't need us anyway, take us to Palestine to fight the Zionists"

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 17h

Even at the Gen Z protests in Morocco, what do they chant?

"ya dawla ya dawla, wesh tdiro bina, hizouna Ifalasteen, nharbou alsahayena"

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 17h

Being mad at Ms Rachel is a pretty good tell that you're just mad that people care about Palestine at all— many such cases actually but in that context these people will die mad because people will always care

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 1d

it’s incredible to suggest Ms Rachel is doing this as a “substitute for a personality” — she’s been making wholesome and helpful videos for children long before Oct 2023.

(If she’d never said a word about Palestine, I’d still be grateful for how her potty-training songs helped my little girl)

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 1d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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bob barker 🍸 @insortediaboli.bsky.social · 22h

“Virtue signaling”

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 17h

the inability to view any stand you personally disagree with as motivated by anything except clout chasing is a true disease of the soul and the fact the sufferers walk around like asymptomatic carriers openly saying things like this and thinking they have been insightful is part of the pathology

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 1d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 17h

Even at the Gen Z protests in Morocco, what do they chant?

"ya dawla ya dawla, wesh tdiro bina, hizouna Ifalasteen, nharbou alsahayena"

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 17h

Being mad at Ms Rachel is a pretty good tell that you're just mad that people care about Palestine at all— many such cases actually but in that context these people will die mad because people will always care

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 17h

The global Palestine solidarity movement is in fact as large as ever and has been going strong for a long time. Young people care at a higher clip than ever and so do nonwhite people. Turns out those angry will die mad.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 17h

Being mad at Ms Rachel is a pretty good tell that you're just mad that people care about Palestine at all— many such cases actually but in that context these people will die mad because people will always care

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 17h

Israel was bombing Gaza within 4 hours on Oct 7th lol

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??

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