It was not immediately clear when aid would enter Gaza, or how. The Israeli military body in charge of overseeing aid did not comment

So yeah… I’ll believe it when it actually happens rather than trust the word of the government that has been blatantly lying about it and related topics since its inception nearly 80 years ago.

They’ve been doing it for decades.

The likely reason why there’s been a dearth of protesting lately is that the UK government (under both conservative and Labour leadership) has been criminalizing it to the point that you risk being thrown in jail for causing any inconvenience in the process of decrying the most heinous crimes against humanity.

To quote the great Suzy Eddie Izzard: I was dead at the time!

In their defence, there is no defined point

Where something is considered genocide? That’s simply not true.

any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

• (a) Killing members of the group;

• (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
• © Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
• (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
• (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

— Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article 2

I like you Pete

Why, though? He’s a Neoliberal proponent of Reaganomics Lite and McKinsey grad (but I repeat myself) who keeps failing upwards.

Like rain on your wedding day?

Would have been a much better choice for president, in spite of his lack of qualifications (not that Trump was ever qualified) and interest in getting the job.

Some even argue that the latter should be a requirement…

Like water, in fact 😁

#JustColonialThings

The three MPs will not receive their salaries during the suspension and will not be present during next week’s annual budget debate.

There we have it. They’re making sure that Maori people won’t have representation when taking away their rights is debated again.

Yeah, I completely agree. Doesn’t stop publicly celebrating something being “surprisingly okay-ish” from being hilarious to me as a concept, though 😁

I think you’re replying to the wrong comment lol

Unlike the person I replied to, I knew that the NYT is called The Gray Lady already, though admittedly I didn’t know WHY, so I looked that up.

I’m 42 and would put good money on most other people familiar with the nickname being a generation or two older than me, making it a pretty niche reference to casually expect the wider readership to understand without having to stop reading to look it up…

Agreed.

That’s a nickname for the NYT. Supposedly a reference to how old fashioned and circumspect it is, but as a compliment?

The white minority that used to own everything there now only owns almost everything.

That’s it. That’s what the fascists from both countries are calling persecution and genocide.

It won’t. When the US sneezes, Europe catches a cold.

Some European countries are FINALLY starting to divest from dependence on the US, but way too late to avoid major consequences of what the fascist kakistocracy is doing.

Maybe They’re Kostman’s customers? 🤷

When it comes to blatantly deceptive quoting, removing “in this one thing” and then talking about other things is so on the nose that’s there’s no doubt left to give you the benefit of.

Be better.