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A political diary: For a democratic secular masterless and borderless world; for individual and social autonomy*; for lifelong democratic civic education with democratic aim, the creation of participatory democratic citizenry. (Castoriadis*) #glykoreads
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Man jailed in UK for sending antisemitic abuse to Jewish lawmaker: Kevin Smith, 61, sent roughly 300 texts and three voicemails to the office of Labour MP Alex Sobel, who said the messages were deeply disturbing and left him fearing for his and his family's safety. www.reuters.com/world/uk/man...
Man jailed in UK for sending antisemitic abuse to Jewish lawmaker
A man who sent hundreds of abusive messages to a Jewish lawmaker in Britain, including references to "killing Jews," has been jailed for eight weeks, prosecutors said on Thursday.
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December 6, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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After Spanish police and Europol’s counter-terrorism section arrested three suspected members of the Base – a globally proscribed neo-Nazi terrorist group – in Castellón province, its American leader living in Russia was defiant and signaled further actions. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The group's presence on the Iberian peninsula underlines how its American brand of extremism, glorifying hyper-violence and modeling itself on an armed insurgency against the state, continues to popularize and be exported abroad. Nazzaro and the Base are also suspected of harboring links to Kremlin spy agencies and aiding their broader sabotage efforts. Experts were shocked at the level of organization and the arsenal of weaponry the cell was able to achieve inside of Europe.
December 6, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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#HongKong: Young activists suffer in silence.
Five years after a Beijing-imposed national security law reshaped Hong Kong, two young ex-prisoners discover a freedom defined by an unsettling silence. www.dw.com/en/hong-kong... #communism #authoritarianism
In 2025, as the government marked five years since the national security law's introduction, arrests slowed but control deepened. New education initiatives monitor students' online speech, while candidates for district-council elections must pass loyalty reviews, and former prisoners — though technically free — describe living under unseen surveillance. Meanwhile, earlier this month, the government announced plans to install tens of thousands of Al-equipped cameras across the city by 2028 — part of a "SmartView" network officials say will enhance public safety. For many Hong Kongers, it feels like an extension of the same system, Kelly said.
December 6, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Assad’s archive of death: Photographs of more than 10,000 regime victims capture a campaign of torture and mass murder in haunting, meticulous detail. www.icij.org/investigatio... By Nicole Sadek and @karriekehoe.bsky.social #Baathism #TheDamascusDossier
The Damascus Dossier photographs are a harrowing sequel to a cache of images depicting prisoners killed between 2011 and 2013, which were smuggled out of Syria more than a decade ago by a military defector codenamed Caesar. The Caesar photos set off a series of international prosecutions and sanctions against the Syrian government, serving as evidence in the first-ever torture trial against the Assad regime, in Germany, in 2020. That case resulted in the life imprisonment of Anwar Raslan, a former Syrian colonel, who was linked to at least 4,000 cases of state-led torture, and the 4½/2-year prison sentence of Eyad al-Gharib, a former officer, for aiding and abetting crimes against humanity. The photos also inspired a U.S. law known as the Caesar Act, which levied sanctions against Assad and the Syrian government and authorized the State Department to collect evidence on and prosecute perpetrators of war crimes in Syria. In 2014, Caesar, who earlier this year revealed himself as Farid al-Madhan, the former head of the forensic evidence department with the military police in Damascus, offered background on the photos to a team of international prosecutors. He told them that military officers were tasked with photographing bodies to prove that orders of murder had been carried out. The photos were also used to produce death certificates, without the families having to see their loved ones bodies, he said. In most cases, those government-issued death certificates falsely listed the inmates causes of death as "cardiac arrest" or "cardiorespiratory arrest." Despite all the evidence, Assad's government denied the validity of the Caesar photos.
December 6, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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“The protocols of the elders of anti-Zion” is the 2.0 version of the conspiratorial antisemitic original. docemetproductions.com/protocols-of... By Andrew Pessin #HistoricalPoliticalMemory #antisemitism #conspiracism
The irony, of course, is that all the attention paid to the Protocols-believed by tens of millions, to this very day, to be factual-obscures the increasingly apparent fact that there actually does exist a global conspiracy, albeit in precisely the opposite direction. Sometimes working together, sometimes working in parallel, sometimes centrally directed, sometimes dispersed, sometimes secretly, sometimes very much in the open, collectively there is an enormous body of individuals, organisations look, and governments who have all been working toward the same inglorious end for well over a century now. It's not that the dastardly Jews are conspiring to subjugate or eliminate the peoples of the world. It's that the peoples of the world (or at least enormously large constituents thereof) are actively conspiring to subjugate and (in all too many cases) to outright eliminate the Jews.
December 6, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Hillary Clinton isn’t wrong about the role that TikTok and other social media play in the spread of anti-Israel propaganda, but it’s clear now that there is something worse than brain-melting short-form agitprop: the elite celebrities of the arts. www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/...
Margaret Atwood, Ian McKellen, Richard Branson, Sting, Brian Eno, and of course Mark Ruffalo and Sally Rooney-among many others-have announced their support for a campaign to free arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti from the Israeli prison in which he is serving consecutive life sentences for the murder of innocents. I have written before about why freeing Barghouti is a silly idea supported by silly people, but it is now clear that this campaign is still growing in popularity and will continue to do so. Indeed, the campaign has specifically chosen to appropriate Nelson Mandela's name in a transparent attempt to launder Barghouti's legacy of evil. "History shows us that cultural voices can shift the course of politics," says Eno. "Just as global solidarity helped free Nelson Mandela, we all have the power to accelerate the day that Marwan Barghouti walks free. His release would mark a turning point in this long struggle and bring much-needed hope to all of us." Well that's just about the worst thing a person can say about Nelson Mandela, and I don't know what the man did to deserve the insult. Anyone in the public who might have taken this crew's previous nonsense seriously might want to reconsider now that these "cultural voices" have explicitly equated Mandela with an unrepentant terrorist convicted for organizing the drive-by shooting of a Greek Orthodox monk. That's just one of the civilian deaths for which Barghouti is behind bars.
December 6, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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We like to outsource in #Ireland. For decades, we’ve outsourced our health and housing problems to “charities”. Very rarely has this outsourcing worked. For longer still, we’ve outsourced our security to the UK, USA & NATO. www.irishpoliticsnewsletter.ie/p/ireland-ne... #RussiaUkraineWar #defense
Ireland likes to think of itself as a small, heroic little Republic in a dangerous world, a plucky emerald bauble bobbing bravely against the choppy seas of transatlantic geopolitics, humming ballads about defeating imperialism. At the same time, the hundreds of Russian ghost ships glide past the fibre-optic cables that pulse under the waves like the nervous system of some enormous, comatose digital god. In hard geopolitical security terms, Ireland is closer to a pampered child at the end of a well-policed cul-de-sac. The big houses in the local neighbourhood pay for the private security, the floodlights, the patrols that keep the wolves from the manicured lawns. The neighbours also keep installing new locks, new cameras, new alarms, while Ireland props the front door open with a copy of its non-existent neutrality proclamation and grandly calls it a principle. Naively thinking that hostile fascist powers respect principles. The miracle here is that the Irish child is rich. Not just "grand, can afford the round" rich, but a statistical hallucination of prosperity, GDP per head swollen by corporate tech and pharma behemoths taking advantage of our favourable tax laws. Multinational money is sluicing through the country like rainwater off a tin roof. On paper, this is one of the wealthiest corners of the globe; in practice, when you look for the instruments by which serious states insist on their continued existence, you find a handful of ships, some overstretched soldiers and sailors, and a nonexistent ability to defend ourselves. The richest family on the street, no locks on the door, but very strong opinions about the ethics of locksmithing. Every cul-de-sac has one of these families. They vaguely understand that an underlying danger exists; they have seen the footage from Ukraine, the shards of tower blocks, the sudden hot light of artillery in the distance, but they cannot permit the thought that any of this belongs to the same world as their own. For them, war is not a material process but a sort of moral failing, something that happens in regrettable countries to people who did not read the right poetry. The Irish version is called neutrality. It pads around the house in its socks, murmuring about the triple locks and the UN, telling anyone who will listen that it does not "do" sides, while its internet traffic crosses cables that are explicitly defended by other countries' navies and its skies protected by its former colonial masters in the UK. An Irish solution to an Irish problem.
December 6, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Whatever we might make of what Witkoff, Trump, Dmitriev & Kushner have been up to, at least let’s avoid the indecency of calling it a “peace” plan: In exchange for betraying Kyiv, the U.S. would gain preferential access to Russia’s frozen sovereign wealth fund nationalpost.com/opinion/trum...
For good reason, historians do not refer to the Nazi-Soviet protocol of Aug. 24, 1939, as a German "peace plan." Also negotiated in secret, and named after Adolf Hitler's foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and his Soviet counterpart, Vyacheslav Molotov, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact - formally titled the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics — cleared the way for the Third Reich to invade Poland, with Moscow's collaboration. The upshot is that the "peace plan" Trump ordered Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll to deliver to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was almost entirely a Russian concoction. If Zelenskyy didn't sign it by American Thanksgiving, Trump said, he'd be on his own and he could "fight his little heart out." When the bombshell disclosures made it clear that the Witkoff-Dmitriev pact contained mostly Putin's terms for Ukraine's surrender, European leaders demanded a halt to Trump's sabotage. The "peace plan" required Ukraine's total capitulation — a surrender of Crimea and great swathes of Eastern Ukraine to Russia, a subjugation of NATO to Russian demands for Ukraine's permanent exclusion, a massive reduction in the size of Ukraine's military, the prohibition of any NATO troops on Ukrainian soil, a U.S.-enforced pardon for Putin for all his war crimes, a return of Moscow to the G7, and a lifting of all sanctions on Russia.
December 5, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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A man hired for a grenade attack got cold feet at the last minute when he realised the target was the Israeli embassy in Denmark, he told a Copenhagen court, with the bombs finally being lobbed into the yard of a neighbouring house. www.dawn.com/news/1957633 #terrorism
Swede says he got cold feet over attack on Israeli embassy
COPENHAGEN: A man hired for a grenade attack got cold feet at the last minute when he realised the target was the...
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December 5, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Hamas coerced Gaza aid groups by designating ‘guarantors’ inside them: Pro-Israel watchdog NGO Monitor says declassified documents it obtained show how terror group surveilled staff at international organizations, used administrators as liaisons www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-coerce... #Hamas #Gaza
Hamas surveilled the staff of foreign nonprofits in Gaza and designated local "guarantors" approved by the terrorist group to manipulate them, according to a report released on Wednesday. The report from the pro-Israel watchdog NGO Monitor showed how Hamas kept detailed notes on the staff of NGOs, or nongovernment organizations, in Gaza, including their finances, their family relationships, their piety level, and whether they were sympathetic or connected to the terror group. The report was based on internal Hamas documents from 2018 to 2022 — before the latest war in Gaza — which the IDF obtained in the Strip and declassified, NGO Monitor said.
December 5, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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United Nations paid $11M to Syrian security firm owned by Assad intelligence services, documents show: For over a decade, U.N. aid agencies poured millions into the company despite warnings from human rights advocates. www.icij.org/investigatio... #UN #Baathism #Shorouk
This is no ordinary security company. During Syria's civil war, the United Nations paid Shorouk at least $11 million to provide security services to protect U.N. offices, from its de facto headquarters at the Four Seasons Hotel in Damascus to regional hubs. Now, internal Shorouk documents reveal that the company was secretly owned by the intelligence services of former President Bashar Assad's regime. Even as the United Nations poured money into the firm, those intelligence services were engaged in a violent campaign to crush any opposition to Assad.
December 5, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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#India will pay about $2 billion to lease a nuclear-powered submarine from #Russia, according to people familiar with the matter, finalizing delivery of the vessel after roughly a decade of talks just as President Vladimir Putin makes a visit to New Delhi. archive.ph/IE06V
Modi has moved to boost ties with Russia and China in recent months, asserting India's strategic autonomy after US President Donald Trump hit the nation's goods with punitive tariff rates of 50%. Modi's government is currently negotiating a trade deal to reduce those duties, which were imposed as part of Trump's push to pressure India to stop buying Russian oil as he looks for leverage on Putin to end the fighting in Ukraine. Ahead of Putin's visit, India's Chief of Naval Staff Dinesh K. Tripathi told reporters this week that the commissioning of the attack submarine would be expected soon, without providing details. The submarine would be larger than the two already part of the navy's fleet.
December 5, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Vladimir Putin ordered the Salisbury poisoning to demonstrate Russian strength around the world, a public inquiry has concluded: Report finds it was unlikely ‘astonishingly reckless’ Novichok attack could have been avoided by additional security measures archive.ph/phd0p #putinism #GRU
Lord Hughes of Ombersley, the chairman of an inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess, a mother of three, said Russian spies carried out an "astonishingly reckless act" when they took a highly toxic nerve agent into a busy city in a botched attempt to assassinate the double agent Sergei Skripal in March 2018. Sturgess died after coming into contact with a liquid in a sample bottle of Nina Ricci perfume laced with Novichok, a deadly nerve agent. The Russian spies had used the bottle to hold the toxin and they discarded it after targeting Skripal. It had been given to the 44-year-old by her boyfriend Charlie Rowley, who had found it discarded four months after the attack on Colonel Skripal, a former Russian military intelligence officer.
December 5, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Israel is advancing a plan to develop a hospital on its territory to treat Jordanian patients as part of a joint Israeli-Jordanian industrial park along the border of the two countries, the Emek HaMaayanot regional council head tells The Times of Israel. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
"One of the ideas is that [the hospital] might be a center for cancer treatment, so that people from Jordan or further away could come and receive treatment," says Itamar Matiash, who heads the council in northern Israel that will house the Israeli side of the industrial park. The park, dubbed the "Jordan Gateway," will enable Israelis and Jordanians to cross between the sides to work on joint projects. An existing bridge, the Jordan River Crossing, already connects the two sides of the proposed Jordan Gateway zone, near the Israeli city of Beit She'an. Matiash adds that while the immediate purpose of the bridge and the two zones is to promote cooperation between Israel and Jordan, the site also sits on a key node in the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor, the US-backed vision to build a rail and shipping corridor linking those regions.
December 5, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Lebanon and Israel sent civilian representatives to the latest US-led meeting of the committee overseeing the ceasefire, aiming to break the stalemate between the two countries as Israel intensifies its attacks on Lebanon over its delay in disarming Hezbollah. www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...
Why it matters: Wednesday's meeting marks the first direct talks between Israel and Lebanese civilians in decades, signaling a major step toward normalization negotiations between the two sides. Until now, the committee's periodic meetings involved only military officials, who largely avoided direct contact with each other. The committee, known as the International Monitoring and Implementation Mechanism, was established under the ceasefire reached Nov. 27, 2024, with the task of monitoring the truce and ensuring compliance with its terms. It is headed by the US and France — both of which helped broker the ceasefire — and is made up of UNIFIL, French and Lebanese representatives. Lebanese and Israeli military officials had previously met face to face, including in March, when the two sides agreed to negotiate the demarcation of their shared land border. In October 2022, Lebanon and Israel also reached a US-brokered agreement| to demarcate their maritime borders. The negotiations were mediated by former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Schenker and attended by former Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Energy Udi Adiri and Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations of the Lebanese Army Brig. Gen. Bassam Yassin. However, officials in Lebanon — which remains technically at war with Israel — maintain that Wednesday's talks are technical and held under the auspices of mediators, stressing that there is no active diplomatic channel between the two sides. In 1983, the two countries signed a US-brokered agreement following Israel's invasion of Lebanon a year earlier, stipulating the withdrawal of Israeli forces and an end to cross-border attacks. The agreement also provided a framework for the normalization of bilateral ties, but it was never implemented. The appointment of Karam to participate in Wednesday's meeting comes after Aoun repeatedly expressed readiness to engage in negotiations with Israel to resolve outstanding issues, including the…
December 5, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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Russia accused of sending abducted Ukrainian children to North Korean camp: Russian forces abducted at least two Ukrainian children & transferred them to a camp in North Korea, according to testimony delivered before a U.S. congressional subcommittee. tvpworld.com/90367656/rus... #RussiaUkraineWar
Ukraine says more than 19,500 children have been illegally deported or forcibly displaced to Russia and Belarus, while a Yale University assessment places the figure closer to 35,000. About 1,600 children have been returned, according to Kyiv's Human Rights Commissioner Dmytro Lubinets. Moscow denies forcibly relocating children, insisting its troops assist civilians moving away from combat.
December 5, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Over 300 rabbis & Jewish leaders call for removal of UN official who denied Oct. 7 rapes: Reem Alsalem, the UN rapporteur on violence against women, claimed that “no independent investigation found that rape took place on the 7th of October” forward.com/fast-forward... #antisemitism
Over 300 Jewish leaders, including women's rights advocates and rabbis, urged the United Nations on Tuesday to remove Reem Alsalem, the U.N. rapporteur on violence against women and girls, for denying that rape occurred during Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel. The letter, which was addressed to U.N. secretary-general Antonio Guterres, came two weeks after Alsalem claimed in a post on X that "No independent investigation found that rape took place on the 7th of October."
December 5, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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proposed New York state law to protect synagogues from angry demonstrations with a 25-foot buffer zone signals a defeat for American Jewry. Indeed, the mere introduction of such legislation is an admission that incoming mayor Zohran Mamdani has already inaugurated bleaker times for the city…
One Jewish activist asked a protester why she was there, and the protester responded: "We are protesting in front of a site that holds genocide supporters, and they are trying to bring it to K-town." In other words, synagogues and the Jews inside them are fair game because Jews are "genocide supporters." Suddenly everyone's an "international law" enforcer. The Mamdani logic makes every Jew a valid target. I recently spent a week in Greece, and traveling to Jewish establishments in Europe is always eye-opening. The level of security required to, for example, eat in a kosher restaurant or pray in a synagogue is a reminder of Europe's dark past and the dark future many there seek to bring about. Mamdani is in the process of nudging New York City in that direction: Now, apparently, Jews seeking to worship in Gotham need a buffer zone. It should be noted that it is a violation of civil-rights law to prevent people from entering a house of worship. That is because such behavior is a direct assault on the First Amendment. Though Mamdani has exacerbated the problem, he did not create it. Even before his lies about "international law," the protest itself shattered civic norms. The result is a proposed law on top of a law. And that law might pass and it might make going to shul safer. But what kind of society needs such a law?
December 5, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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When it comes to financial security for Iran’s jittery public after the 12-day war with Israel, all that glitters is gold — and for many, it remains the most trusted hedge against inflation, sanctions and a weakening rial currency. apnews.com/article/iran... #Islamism #economy #Iran
Iran's broader economy remains under severe pressure from international sanctions that have cut off investment and limited access to global finance. Years of restrictions have weakened domestic industries and left key sectors struggling to modernize. And for those wanting to get money out abroad, hard currency and jewelry remains some of the only ways to do so. There's also another reason that Iranians remain reluctant to discuss — being able to have the money portable in case of another war. Tens of thousands of Iranians living in Tehran are believed to have fled the capital during the 12-day war, heading out into the countryside of Iran or north to the coast of the Caspian Sea.
December 5, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Defending Israel: Against Hamas and its radical Left enablers. By Alan Dershowitz #glykoreads
December 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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The EU is finally blacklisting Russia for money laundering: The move will oblige financial institutions to strengthen due diligence on all transactions. www.politico.eu/article/the-... #RussiaUkraineWar
The global watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF) suspended Russia as a member after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but failed to blacklist it, despite evidence presented by the Ukrainian government, because of opposition from countries in the BRICS group of emerging economies, which includes Brazil, India, China, and South Africa. EU lawmakers called on the Commission many times to do what FATF was not able to. The Commission committed to complete a review by the end of 2025 to get their support to remove the United Arab Emirates and Gibraltar from the list earlier this year.
December 4, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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#Sudan war has killed 25,000 children, medics say; 45 girls raped fleeing El Fasher…All 45 rape cases were reported in October and November as families trekked the 60 km (37 miles) from El Fasher to the town of Tawila after the RSF seized the city on October 26… sudantribune.com/article/307724
The doctors' group also documented 800 unaccompanied children who reached Tawila, some showing acute malnutrition and trauma after witnessing killings en route. "Communication blackouts and roadblocks make verification almost impossible, but the pattern matches earlier UN findings," al-Sayed said. The United Nations estimates 106,000 people have fled El Fasher; the fate of the remaining 154,000 residents is unknown. The RSF, which has previously denied targeting civilians, did not respond to a request for comment.
December 4, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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The world after Israel’s longest war: It turns out that personal and professional relationships built on paranoid #antisemitism and dependent on permanent war aren’t so solid. Let that be a lesson for all politicians in the U.S. and Europe. www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/... #YourParty
Israelis are looking forward, but that doesn't mean the recent past is forgotten. Quite the opposite: Here former hostages speak to reporters regularly to make clear the whole truth of the war and its toll. Nova festival survivors have banded together to heal as a community and to educate the rest of the country on what they have discovered about themselves in the process. Faces of Hamas's victims are still visible on walls and windows. The political and military echelons are daily facing calls for accountability, and steps in that direction have begun. But this is all in the service of looking forward. Israelis are deciding what shape their national future will take, who they will be as they emerge from their longest war. This country is always building, always clearing its own path ahead. You know who isn't moving on? Israel's enemies, specifically those who have made Gaza their personality. And I don't mean the people of Gaza, who are prevented from rebuilding by Hamas. I mean the Western politicians, activists, donors. and others who have nothing to motivate them to get out of bed in the morning without the hope of a Hamas resurgence and permanent war in Gaza. The best current example of this is the crackup of the British left. The Labour Party governs the country (for the moment) and yet is in a zombie-like state. Other parties to its left are gaining, and new parties are forming, none more perfectly Gaza-obsessed than former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's party, named Your Party. (The name was a placeholder but is now official. The jokes tell themselves.)
December 4, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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By Netanyahu’s own admission, at a time when Israel faced war on four fronts, its leader was preoccupied by his legal predicament. No country, let alone one facing existential threats during wartime, could be competently governed by someone so compromised... www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
"My personal interest was—and remains—to continue the process until its end, until full acquittal," Netanyahu declared in his video calling for a pardon. "But the security and political reality-the national interest—dictate otherwise." The truth is the reverse: Netanyahu's disastrous misrule since his return to office has demonstrated why he should have stepped aside long ago if he truly cares about the national interest. That he refuses to do so, and instead demands that the system bend to his whims, suggests that his patriotic appeals are a pretense. Netanyahu presents himself as paying a price for Israel, but in actuality, Israel's people are paying the price for his unwillingness to cede power.
December 4, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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The European Commission is proposing a reparations loan of €165 billion for Ukraine using the cash value of frozen Russia assets held in Belgium…The reparations loan is part of a wider financial package, worth up to €210 billion, to keep Kyiv’s finances afloat for the coming years.
Commission unveils €165B loan to Ukraine using Russian frozen assets
Belgium’s foreign minister has already expressed concerns over the plan.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:12 AM