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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 38m

@lrb.co.uk has a great interview with Robert Malley on Israel-Palestine

www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

Podcast: Adam Shatz and Robert Malley · Lessons from the Peace Process

www.lrb.co.uk

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Ylenia Gostoli @yleniagostoli.bsky.social · 1h

Environmental journalist and documentarist #HakanTosun has died as a result of an attack carried out by two assailants in #Istanbul. He had been reporting on land grabbing and profiteering after the Hatay earthquake
bianet.org/haber/hakan-...

Hakan Tosun kimdir?

Yoğun bakımda tedavisi süren ekolojist ve gazeteci Hakan Tosun’un beyin ölümü gerçekleşti.

bianet.org

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 1h

This is the toxic, totalising logic of "there are no innocents there". When I think of the victims, I think: it could have been me, it could have been my family. If I were in the wrong place, if I was born on the wrong side, I would not have been spared.

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Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com · 2h

@natachadanon.bsky.social on cycle of displacement and sectarian reprisal in rural Hama: newlinesmag.com/spotlight/st...

Stalled Reconciliation Leaves Hama’s Alawites in Limbo

As Syria’s sectarian wounds reopen in the wake of Assad’s fall, displaced families find themselves unable to return

newlinesmag.com

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 2h

In a scenario where the Israeli Right can't pursue its maximalist goals then it may opt instead to permanently destabilise Palestinian territories in ways that make it impossible for them to generate revenue and develop state institutions that can challenge Israel's hegemony.

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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 2h

It's like the greatest hits of 2007

medyascope @medyascope.tv · 2h

Bahçeli'den Alevi açılımı: "Cemevinin ibadethane olması için engeller kaldırılmalı"

Bahçeli’den Alevi açılımı: “Cemevinin ibadethane olması için engeller kaldırılmalı”

MHP lideri Devlet Bahçeli, Alevilerin ibadethane yerlerinin cemevi olduğunu kabul etti ve bir an önce adım atılması gerektiğini söyledi.

medyascope.tv

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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration is suggesting that Jewish groups critical of its foreign policy vis a vis Israel are engaging in terrorism.

This is appalling politicization of the term and gross executive overreach.

Trump’s war on the left: Inside the plan to investigate liberal groups

The threatened crackdown is a multi-agency effort with Stephen Miller playing a central role.

www.reuters.com

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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 21h

I don't think this is quite true. Yes, the Biden Administration was an utter failure.

That said, I don't think we can understate the relative power of Trump in this: a lock grip over his own party, an opposition that was trending increasingly against Israel. He had close to unprecedented freedom

Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 21h

Worth emphasizing that Trump's singular trick for facilitating a deal in Israel was just...being publicly frustrated with Netanyahu and threatening to walk. That's not a unique talent, it's just a thing Biden personally and ideologically was unwilling to do. Lowest bar cleared to great relief.

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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 21h

MEI Panel

Palestinian Politics, Publics and Paths forward Post October 7

with Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen, @tahanimustafa.bsky.social, and Wasim Almasri

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9ok...

Palestinian Politics, Publics and Paths forward Post October 7

YouTube video by Middle East Institute

www.youtube.com

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Nicholas Danforth @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social · 16h

I will continue to vigorously condemn Biden's handling of Gaza, but analytically I don't think this weekend's agreement proves Biden could have done the same if he'd just applied more pressure...

politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 17h

I can already tell that "Trump may have been evil but he stopped a genocide Biden wouldn't!" is going to become an article of faith for the worst leftists alive for the next 70 fucking years or so, so I'm going to be clear. If you believe this, show yourself now so you can be blocked in advance.

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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 22h

This is a boffo piece from @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com at @liberalcurrents.com

"The Civil Rights Movement is worth studying not just because they were right, but because they won."

www.liberalcurrents.com/how-to-win-a...

How to Win a Rigged Game

The Civil Rights Movement is worth studying not just because they were right, but because they won.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Rida Abu Rass @aburass.bsky.social · 20h

Israeli forces detained 14 Palestinians in the West Bank town of Deir Istiya early this morning, the day of the Israel-Hamas hostage-detainee swap.

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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 21h

I say this as someone who, well, doesn't praise Trump with any great frequency or enthusiasm.

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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 21h

This freedom of action is probably unprecedented since.... maybe Reagan? Maybe Nixon? And is all the more impressive because under Nixon and Reagan the special relationship was relatively new. Trump has done something truly remarkable here and I'm not sure any other president could have done it.

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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 21h

I don't think this is quite true. Yes, the Biden Administration was an utter failure.

That said, I don't think we can understate the relative power of Trump in this: a lock grip over his own party, an opposition that was trending increasingly against Israel. He had close to unprecedented freedom

Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 21h

Worth emphasizing that Trump's singular trick for facilitating a deal in Israel was just...being publicly frustrated with Netanyahu and threatening to walk. That's not a unique talent, it's just a thing Biden personally and ideologically was unwilling to do. Lowest bar cleared to great relief.

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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 21h

MEI Panel

Palestinian Politics, Publics and Paths forward Post October 7

with Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen, @tahanimustafa.bsky.social, and Wasim Almasri

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9ok...

Palestinian Politics, Publics and Paths forward Post October 7

YouTube video by Middle East Institute

www.youtube.com

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Dalia Dassa Kaye @dassakaye.bsky.social · 22h

Hard not to see Trump’s continued embrace of Netanyahu as a political boost that likely outweighed his reservations about the deal, especially if he doesn’t think a serious peace process with the Palestinians will go anywhere.

The Jerusalem Post @thejerusalempost.bsky.social · 22h

US President Donald Trump, during his Monday address to the Knesset in Jerusalem, called on President Isaac Herzog to issue Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a pardon, resulting in widespread applause and chants of "Bibi" throughout the Knesset plenum.

www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

Trump calls on Herzog to pardon PM Netanyahu during Knesset speech

"Cigars and champagne, who the hell cares about that?" the US leader added. "Alright, enough controversy for the day, I don't think it's that controversial."

www.jpost.com

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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 22h

This is a boffo piece from @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com at @liberalcurrents.com

"The Civil Rights Movement is worth studying not just because they were right, but because they won."

www.liberalcurrents.com/how-to-win-a...

How to Win a Rigged Game

The Civil Rights Movement is worth studying not just because they were right, but because they won.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 23h

there's a certain class of poaster who thinks that we're about to have a successful violent resistance movement and the more you approach that the more leftist you are

these people lose every time and only get prouder of it: ignore them

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 23h

what's actually happening is in the first instance a war for narrative control, not physical control. blinding a troop with a laser, to use a technical term, "looks bad" to normies. being normal and peaceful at masked thugs "looks good" to normies.

www.liberalcurrents.com/how-to-win-a...

How to Win a Rigged Game

The Civil Rights Movement is worth studying not just because they were right, but because they won.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 23h

Heartiest of congratulations, Sam!

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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations to Samuel J. Hirst, winner of the Marshall Shulman Book Prize for Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939 with Oxford University Press.
#ASEEESPrizes
See all winners: buff.ly/rh9Tt7b

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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 5d

Two years after October 7, Palestine has become a graveyard of failed strategies

Read the analysis by Muhammad Shehada

www.972mag.com/october-7-pa...

Two years after Oct. 7, Palestine is a graveyard of failed strategies

Even if Trump ends the war, Palestinians will face a deep, enduring void: of language, hope, and politics that proved futile in the face of genocide.

www.972mag.com

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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 3d

Now, thousands of displaced Palestinians - most of them on foot - are returning to northern Gaza after Israeli troops withdrew to an agreed redeployment line. The Israeli army said the first phase of the ceasefire deal took effect at noon.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

No institutional design can overcome a lawbreaking president, a Congress defending lawbreaking and forfeiting its own power, a Supreme Court that pretends legal text doesn’t count to facilitate lawbreaking, and a citizenry that votes for all that.
Need at least one that wants rule of law. Maybe two.

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