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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 17h

Indeed we typically do

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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 23h

Can we hope that when (if?) the war in Gaza in over the world, and especially the West will finally turn their attention to this mass murder. The violence is bankrolled by the West's closest allies/partners, it's not like there is no leverage and it is just a local fight. Or am I just too naive?

Sacha de Wijs @sachadewijs.bsky.social · 23h

El-Fasher, Sudan — besieged by the RSF since May 2024 — has become “an open-air morgue” for starving civilians. The world’s silence is shocking. Since 2023 Sudan has seen 150k civilians killed, 15 million displaced & 25 million people facing acute hunger www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

RSF attack on hospital in Sudan’s el-Fasher kills 12, medics say

The attack by the paramilitary on the hospital wounded 17 others, and is the second such attack in 24 hours.

www.aljazeera.com

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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 23h

I am also old enough to remember the times when college students in the US and Europe used to care deeply about violence in that part of the world, so why not now

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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 23h

Can we hope that when (if?) the war in Gaza in over the world, and especially the West will finally turn their attention to this mass murder. The violence is bankrolled by the West's closest allies/partners, it's not like there is no leverage and it is just a local fight. Or am I just too naive?

Sacha de Wijs @sachadewijs.bsky.social · 23h

El-Fasher, Sudan — besieged by the RSF since May 2024 — has become “an open-air morgue” for starving civilians. The world’s silence is shocking. Since 2023 Sudan has seen 150k civilians killed, 15 million displaced & 25 million people facing acute hunger www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

RSF attack on hospital in Sudan’s el-Fasher kills 12, medics say

The attack by the paramilitary on the hospital wounded 17 others, and is the second such attack in 24 hours.

www.aljazeera.com

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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 1d

The Gaza war feels like it lasted forever, our entire lifetime, past, present, and future. That is, until you remember that Russia's invasion started a year and a half before Gaza and has no sign of ever ending.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 1d

This time I was serious, though. Won't happen again.

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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 1d

The first, maybe the only time in my life when I look forward to reading something on Truth Social.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 1d

Are we there yet?

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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 3d

I have no idea who you might be talking about but my guess is that this person is still in office

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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 3d

All rational choice decision making models I can think of suggest that it is rather hard to make people resign when their staying out of jail depends on not resigning

Yair Rosenberg @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social · 3d

Yet another poll finding the same thing polls have found for months: 66% of Israelis want to end the war, 69% think Netanyahu should resign either now or after the war. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 10d

I wish I knew

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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 10d

The plan that Netanyahu just agreed to is Exhibit 19765 for how squeezable Bibi is when push really comes to shove. Which is something folks with knowledge of Israeli politics all know but it somehow took almost two years for the US to discover that they just need to demand, not beg

Donald Trump's Gaza plan revealed: Read the Full Text

Trump's proposal calls for Gaza demilitarization, aid, hostage release, and transitional governance toward eventual Palestinian control.

www.newsweek.com

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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 10d

It's not who I am

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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 10d

Of course he does, with so many people around him being on the Qatari payroll and such

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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 10d

My bombing was taken out of context, and I apologize for any inconvenience it might have caused

Michael Horowitz @michaelhorowitz.bsky.social · 10d

PM Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to his Qatari counterpart for #Israel’s attack on #Qatar’s capital Doha during a telephone call from the White House, a source close to Netanyahu told Reuters

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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 11d

No Vis Stalin but Via Stalingrado is here alright

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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 11d

Close enough, but not RE. Bologna

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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 11d

I have gotten used to living in a city that has a Viale Uljanov Lenin, Via Carlo Marx, Via Massimo Gorki etc. but I just drove on Via Ho Chi Minh and I have questions

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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 13d

They have [expletive] lost their [expletive] minds

IDF ordered to broadcast Netanyahu’s UN speech to residents of Gaza Strip

PMO asserts loudspeakers will only be along border, but IDF confirms they were placed inside Strip; hostage families note captives may hear PM: 'Don't shatter their hope'

www.timesofisrael.com

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