Chris Osieck
@chrisosieck.bsky.social
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Chris Osieck
@chrisosieck.bsky.social
· Sep 30
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
newlinesmag.com
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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Booking biedt Palestijnen 15 procent korting op verblijf in eigen woning
Booking biedt Palestijnen 15 procent korting op verblijf in eigen woning
Flinke meevaller voor Palestijnen op de Westelijke Jordaanoever. Booking.com biedt sinds kort 15% korting aan de oorspronkelijke bewoners van een verblijf.
speld.nl
November 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Booking biedt Palestijnen 15 procent korting op verblijf in eigen woning
“Just like we did in Gaza,” says Steve Witkoff while he later continues, “I have the deepest respect for President Putin.” As mentioned before, both of these ‘plans’ give legitimacy to colonialism and it’s the double standards who have emboldened them to be able to do so.
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukra...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:43 AM
“Just like we did in Gaza,” says Steve Witkoff while he later continues, “I have the deepest respect for President Putin.” As mentioned before, both of these ‘plans’ give legitimacy to colonialism and it’s the double standards who have emboldened them to be able to do so.
You sit opposite of her at the table at a restaurant. Taking a sip from the wine as you laugh and enjoy eachother’s presence. She’s the apple of your eye. Taking her to your place, you open the door and show her where you’re geolocating and analyzing satellite imagery from.
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
You sit opposite of her at the table at a restaurant. Taking a sip from the wine as you laugh and enjoy eachother’s presence. She’s the apple of your eye. Taking her to your place, you open the door and show her where you’re geolocating and analyzing satellite imagery from.
Reposted by Chris Osieck
About 90,000 people living near larger chemical plants face an unacceptable risk of developing cancer, the EPA says.
New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.
But Trump has halted those efforts.
New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.
But Trump has halted those efforts.
Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated
The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla...
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
About 90,000 people living near larger chemical plants face an unacceptable risk of developing cancer, the EPA says.
New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.
But Trump has halted those efforts.
New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.
But Trump has halted those efforts.
Reposted by Chris Osieck
Gaza after the ceasefire is defined by the ‘yellow line’ — drawn by Israel, and dividing the strip in two.
Our evidence suggests that Israel seeks to make the line permanent, as ‘reconstruction’ plans normalise this new stage of Israel’s occupation: frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/ceasefire
Our evidence suggests that Israel seeks to make the line permanent, as ‘reconstruction’ plans normalise this new stage of Israel’s occupation: frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/ceasefire
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Gaza after the ceasefire is defined by the ‘yellow line’ — drawn by Israel, and dividing the strip in two.
Our evidence suggests that Israel seeks to make the line permanent, as ‘reconstruction’ plans normalise this new stage of Israel’s occupation: frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/ceasefire
Our evidence suggests that Israel seeks to make the line permanent, as ‘reconstruction’ plans normalise this new stage of Israel’s occupation: frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/ceasefire
"Beneath is a system devoid of legitimacy, incapable of improving the lives of its citizens and trapped in a collapsed peace process that does not offer national liberation; only the entrenchment of Israeli occupation."
Averting West Bank collapse: How to revive Palestinian politics
Hollowed out by violent Israeli control and Mahmoud Abbas’s personal rule, the Palestinian Authority is losing its grip on the West Bank. European and Arab states must intervene to rebuild legitimate…
ecfr.eu
November 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
"Beneath is a system devoid of legitimacy, incapable of improving the lives of its citizens and trapped in a collapsed peace process that does not offer national liberation; only the entrenchment of Israeli occupation."
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Germany uses the excuse of the ’ceasefire’ which Israel routinely violates to sell weapons to Israel again. Israel is being rewarded for committing genocide by the country that pretends to have learned from the holocaust.
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Germany uses the excuse of the ’ceasefire’ which Israel routinely violates to sell weapons to Israel again. Israel is being rewarded for committing genocide by the country that pretends to have learned from the holocaust.
It should have been as clear as day some time ago that Europe should stop catering to the US and instead learn to stand firmly on it’s own feet. Ukraine deserves most respect for having continuously resisted the Russian occupier despite all this.
Trump’s ‘peace’ ultimatum leaves Europe and Ukraine with just one choice
Trump’s America is falling into autocracy and advocates for Russian victory in Ukraine – it’s time the West saw this and dealt with it. Sam Kiley, world affairs editor, explains how
www.independent.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:29 AM
It should have been as clear as day some time ago that Europe should stop catering to the US and instead learn to stand firmly on it’s own feet. Ukraine deserves most respect for having continuously resisted the Russian occupier despite all this.
Laat duidelijk wezen dat de afgelopen twee jaar veel genocide ontkenning heeft plaatsgevonden door diplomaten, analytici, en zelfs journalisten die nog geregeld hun zegje kunnen doen in de krant of televisie. Wat overigens gepaard ging met een hoog gehalte aan orientalisme.
Het was een grote ‘als’.
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Laat duidelijk wezen dat de afgelopen twee jaar veel genocide ontkenning heeft plaatsgevonden door diplomaten, analytici, en zelfs journalisten die nog geregeld hun zegje kunnen doen in de krant of televisie. Wat overigens gepaard ging met een hoog gehalte aan orientalisme.
Reposted by Chris Osieck
"Winning justice for Palestinians—and the enduring security that Jewish Israelis claim to want—will require reckoning with this entrenched national ethos of denial. Until we are finally willing to remember the horrors we’ve already wrought, there will surely be more to come."
"The past two years of continuous violence made Gaza impossible to ignore, requiring more active modes of forgetting—and now a concerted effort to solidify a whitewashed national narrative that exonerates Israel of wrongdoing."
jewishcurrents.org/israels-coll...
jewishcurrents.org/israels-coll...
Israel’s Collective Amnesia
Even as Israel continues killing Gazans, its liberals are ready to forget the genocide.
jewishcurrents.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
"Winning justice for Palestinians—and the enduring security that Jewish Israelis claim to want—will require reckoning with this entrenched national ethos of denial. Until we are finally willing to remember the horrors we’ve already wrought, there will surely be more to come."
Given the German arms that have fueled the Israeli apartheid regime’s genocide in Gaza, as well as the group of Deutsche who continue to deny it, the truth is that vergangenheitsbewältigung has never really succeeded.
Kriegstote im Gazastreifen: Mehr als 100.000 Tote im Gazakrieg
Über die Zahl der toten Palästinenser im Gazakrieg wird heftig gestritten. Der ZEIT liegen Daten vor, wonach deutlich mehr Menschen gestorben sein könnten als bekannt.
trib.al
November 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Given the German arms that have fueled the Israeli apartheid regime’s genocide in Gaza, as well as the group of Deutsche who continue to deny it, the truth is that vergangenheitsbewältigung has never really succeeded.
I Left My Sorrows in the Laundry Basin by Haidar Al-Ghazali, a Palestinian poet from Gaza. Translated from Arabic by Omar Berrada in @equatormag.bsky.social.
www.equator.org/articles/i-l...
www.equator.org/articles/i-l...
November 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I Left My Sorrows in the Laundry Basin by Haidar Al-Ghazali, a Palestinian poet from Gaza. Translated from Arabic by Omar Berrada in @equatormag.bsky.social.
www.equator.org/articles/i-l...
www.equator.org/articles/i-l...
I remember being a teenager and it would rain outside. My father would advise to pull on a raincoat. Only because one was a dumbass and said it did not look cool, I’d go without, ending up walking around soaking wet the entire day. Blessed be the wisdom one gains when older.
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I remember being a teenager and it would rain outside. My father would advise to pull on a raincoat. Only because one was a dumbass and said it did not look cool, I’d go without, ending up walking around soaking wet the entire day. Blessed be the wisdom one gains when older.
Yellow concrete block placed on Mustaha Street, approximately 247 meters distance from the IDF-communicated yellow line, in Al-Jadida, northern Shejaiya, 31.503681, 34.472211.
November 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Yellow concrete block placed on Mustaha Street, approximately 247 meters distance from the IDF-communicated yellow line, in Al-Jadida, northern Shejaiya, 31.503681, 34.472211.
Israeli airstrike on a building, geolocated on Al-Arid Street, Haret Hreik, in Beirut's southern suburbs, 33.852033, 35.510159.
Earlier I posted the one opposite from here as that was where most footage was first seen. Excuse moi.
Earlier I posted the one opposite from here as that was where most footage was first seen. Excuse moi.
November 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Israeli airstrike on a building, geolocated on Al-Arid Street, Haret Hreik, in Beirut's southern suburbs, 33.852033, 35.510159.
Earlier I posted the one opposite from here as that was where most footage was first seen. Excuse moi.
Earlier I posted the one opposite from here as that was where most footage was first seen. Excuse moi.
An interesting finding by @obretix.bsky.social who came across my name on a hill nearby Jbab in Syria. The question is now who did this and what was their message for me since 2017 - 33.127000, 36.279778.
November 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
An interesting finding by @obretix.bsky.social who came across my name on a hill nearby Jbab in Syria. The question is now who did this and what was their message for me since 2017 - 33.127000, 36.279778.
Building in Nuseirat refugee camp belonging to the Abu Shawish family targeted by an Israeli airstrike yesterday ~ 31.440389, 34.382472.
November 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Building in Nuseirat refugee camp belonging to the Abu Shawish family targeted by an Israeli airstrike yesterday ~ 31.440389, 34.382472.
Aftermath of the Israeli airstrike on the Abed family residence near Bilal bin Rabah Mosque in Deir al-Balah, 31.422967, 34.350925.
November 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Aftermath of the Israeli airstrike on the Abed family residence near Bilal bin Rabah Mosque in Deir al-Balah, 31.422967, 34.350925.
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“We will deal with it if it happens. All the [Lebanese Shia] villages around us, they are destroyed and basically uninhabitable. If you ask what is our victory, it is that we have been rebuilding for a year and they haven’t put a single pipe back in the ground.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Tense calm in far north as Israel prepares to ‘finish the job’ against Hezbollah
On the border with Lebanon, communities have started to return and rebuild – even though some are in no hurry to return
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
“We will deal with it if it happens. All the [Lebanese Shia] villages around us, they are destroyed and basically uninhabitable. If you ask what is our victory, it is that we have been rebuilding for a year and they haven’t put a single pipe back in the ground.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israeli airstrike on a building that was previously significantly damaged on al-Lababidi street, 31.527694, 34.455161.
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Israeli airstrike on a building that was previously significantly damaged on al-Lababidi street, 31.527694, 34.455161.
Geolocation of an Israeli airstrike on the Abu Amouna family residence, nearby Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat refugee camp, 31.451905, 34.388733.
November 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Geolocation of an Israeli airstrike on the Abu Amouna family residence, nearby Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat refugee camp, 31.451905, 34.388733.
Israeli airstrike on a vehicle, geolocated on Abu Baker al-Razi Street, near al-Abbas junction in northern Rimal, 31.523144, 34.440525.
November 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Israeli airstrike on a vehicle, geolocated on Abu Baker al-Razi Street, near al-Abbas junction in northern Rimal, 31.523144, 34.440525.
Israel’s “yellow line” in 2025 isn’t new. As Salman Abu Sitta reminds us, Gaza has been repeatedly compressed: from 555 km² in 1950 to 365 km² under a “temporary” line that became permanent. Every new buffer zone continues the incremental erasure of Gaza’s already tiny land area.
November 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Israel’s “yellow line” in 2025 isn’t new. As Salman Abu Sitta reminds us, Gaza has been repeatedly compressed: from 555 km² in 1950 to 365 km² under a “temporary” line that became permanent. Every new buffer zone continues the incremental erasure of Gaza’s already tiny land area.
‘You cease, I fire.’
(Reuters) - Since Wednesday, medical staff in northern and southern Gaza have treated women and children with open fractures and gunshot wounds to their limbs and heads, according to Medecins Sans Frontieres.
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
(Reuters) - Since Wednesday, medical staff in northern and southern Gaza have treated women and children with open fractures and gunshot wounds to their limbs and heads, according to Medecins Sans Frontieres.
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
www.reuters.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
‘You cease, I fire.’
(Reuters) - Since Wednesday, medical staff in northern and southern Gaza have treated women and children with open fractures and gunshot wounds to their limbs and heads, according to Medecins Sans Frontieres.
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
(Reuters) - Since Wednesday, medical staff in northern and southern Gaza have treated women and children with open fractures and gunshot wounds to their limbs and heads, according to Medecins Sans Frontieres.
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
As if those settlers were thinking about going on vacation in Singapore.
Singapore imposes sanctions, entry bans on four Israeli West Bank settlers reut.rs/4iiQx3O
Singapore imposes sanctions, entry bans on four Israeli West Bank settlers
Singapore will impose financial sanctions on four Israelis and bar them from entering the city-state, its foreign affairs ministry announced on Friday, accusing them of "egregious acts of extreme violence" against Palestinians in the West Bank.
reut.rs
November 21, 2025 at 11:06 PM
As if those settlers were thinking about going on vacation in Singapore.