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Abu Aardvark’s Ghost @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 10d

“Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's plan for running the Gaza Strip after the war proposes a multilayered, hierarchical structure in which senior international diplomats and businesspeople are on top and the Palestinians running things on the ground are at the bottom.”

Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 10d

A century removed from Western colonial powers casually drawing Middle Eastern borders with a ruler while disregarding the will of local populations, the region gets Tony Blair to dream up schemes of governing Gaza with little say by its people.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Draft of Tony Blair's Gaza plan: Remote governance, little Palestinian representation

Haaretz Reveals the Full Document Proposed by the Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for a Postwar Gaza Strip: A Regime Run by Affluent Foreigners With Palestinian Executives at the Bottom

www.haaretz.com

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Elham Fakhro @elhamfakhro.bsky.social · 11d

"Hezbollah's effort to blunt international pressure on Lebanon to disarm the group by appealing to Saudi Arabia last week was the result of back-channel diplomacy by Iran, sources said"

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.bsky.social · 12d

There are caveats, as always. But indeed surprisingly many people in the Finnish upper middle class and even in the 1 % support the Nordic model of organizing societies.

Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 12d

Only in Finland: the single biggest taxpayer criticises government for cutting taxes

Miki Kuusi: Hallituksen leikkaukset ovat vieneet suomalaisten uskon tulevaisuuteen

Suomen kovin veronmaksaja, Woltin toimitusjohtaja Miki Kuusi sanoo, että Suomi on jumiutunut menneisiin menestyksiin ja lamauttavaan leikkauskierteeseen.

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AGSI @gulfstatesinst.bsky.social · 12d

Iran’s Messaging After Israel’s Qatar Strike @giorgiocafiero.bsky.social agsi.org/analysis/ira...

Iran’s Messaging After Israel’s Qatar Strike - Arab Gulf States Institute

Iran has moved quickly to try to capitalize on cracks in U.S.-Gulf relations after Israel’s unprecedented attack on Hamas officials in Qatar.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 13d

“We are facing a planetary emergency. The breach of the Ocean Acidification boundary is a stark scientific warning and a moral call to action. Without healthy oceans, peace, prosperity & stability are at risk everywhere. We must act now...to safeguard this life-support system for future generations"

Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone

24.09.2025 - A new report from the Planetary Boundaries Science Lab at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) reveals that 7 of the 9 critical Earth system boundaries have now been b...

www.pik-potsdam.de

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Axios @axios.com · 12d

JUST IN: Netanyahu faces mass walk out protest at UN speech

Netanyahu faces mass walk out protest at UN speech

Israel is deeply isolated internationally as it presses on with the war in Gaza.

www.axios.com

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Elham Fakhro @elhamfakhro.bsky.social · 13d

The Hind Rajab Foundation is "gravely concerned about a serious and imminent security threat against our Chairman, Mr. Dyab Abou Jahjah, and his family"
www.hindrajabfoundation.org/news/officia...

Official HRF Statement: Serious and Imminent Security Threat Against Chairman Abou Jahjah

The Hind Rajab Foundation is gravely concerned about a serious and imminent security threat against our Chairman, Mr. Dyab Abou Jahjah, and his family. Credible information indicates that individuals....

www.hindrajabfoundation.org

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chercat208.bsky.social @chercat208.bsky.social · 14d

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Dev Dās 🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇵🇸 @devadasa.bsky.social · 14d

The very countries that constantly lecture everyone else about human rights, peace, diplomacy, and democracy... are the same countries that export the weapons that destroy all of the above.

A chart my statistica showing percentages of global weapons export. USA 41.7%, France 10.9%, Russia 10.5%, China 5.8%, germany 5.6%, Italy 4.3%, United Kingdom 3.7%, Spain 2.7%.

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Elham Fakhro @elhamfakhro.bsky.social · 14d

The US will have to consider itself on notice that the Gulf states are now formally moving on and that, while none of them are interested in breaking ties with Washington, the idea that they can rely on the US for defense is, for the time being, practically discarded
www.google.com/url?q=https:...

Israel’s Attack on Qatar Forces a Gulf Strategic Realignment - Arab Gulf States Institute

The GCC states now consider an attack on one to be an attack on all, and Saudi Arabia may be covered by a Pakistani rather than U.S. military umbrella.

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 14d

Good short article about derailment risk that @laurielaybourn.bsky.social and I have been working on. www.garp.org/risk-intelli...

The Missing Climate Risk: Derailment Explained for Risk Professionals

Our capacity to act on climate change and nature loss can itself be eroded by increasing physical and transition risks, possibly derailing the sustainable transition. This article explains what risk p...

www.garp.org

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Elham Fakhro @elhamfakhro.bsky.social · 14d

Every word of this extraordinary trainwreck of an interview is worth reading. The self-serving, moral bankruptcy of a celebrated liberal (and legal) scholar, in his own words

www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Can Liberalism Be Saved?

The legal scholar Cass Sunstein argues for a more expansive definition of an ideology under threat.

www.newyorker.com

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Elham Fakhro @elhamfakhro.bsky.social · 14d

www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250923-car...

Carrefour exits Bahrain and Kuwait after boycott pressure, BDS says

The Palestinian National Committee for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement said Monday that French retail giant Carrefour has fully withdrawn from Bahrain and Kuwait under pressure…

www.middleeastmonitor.com

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Elham Fakhro @elhamfakhro.bsky.social · 15d

In case you missed it -
www.businessinsider.com/david-petrae...

David Petraeus May Have Committed Much Worse Crimes In Afghanistan

New allegations suggest David Petraeus may have committed serious offenses during his time in Afghanistan, complicating his legacy.

www.businessinsider.com

Elham Fakhro @elhamfakhro.bsky.social · 15d

Both these men belong in the Hague

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 16d

Sharaa jokes to Petraeus, “my mission in Syria is more difficult than yours in Iraq was—you had the choice to leave”

Credit @simnasr.bsky.social

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 15d

To reiterate: a senior member of the US government with a portfolio in MENA said outright that Hezbollah has absolutely no reason to disarm

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 15d

Everyone is riffing on Tom Barrack's comments about submission but they're by far the least interesting part of the interview. He outright says that the US wants to exacerbate sectarian tensions in Lebanon, that US funding for the Lebanese army is to suppress its own people, and that Hezb is right.

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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 16d

علاء علي الاسفلت!!!!

Alaa is HOME and FREE!!!

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 16d

Consistent with what I heard from others in the Biden White House.

He couldn’t recognize Palestinians as human beings on par with Israelis.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 16d

"I had pleaded with Joe [...] to extend the same empathy he showed to the suffering of Ukrainians to the suffering of innocent Gazan civilians"

"But he couldn't do it: While he could passionately state, 'I am a Zionist,' his remarks about innocent Palestinians came off as inadequate and forced."

Biden response to Gaza was "inadequate," Harris says in book

It's part of Harris' larger effort in the book to distance herself from Biden after not doing so during last year's campaign.

www.axios.com

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 17d

Just In | War-crimes fugitive Netanyahu threatens retaliation after UK, Australia, and Canada recognize Palestine:

“There will be no Palestinian state west of the Jordan,” Israeli PM Netanyahu declared, accusing the three governments of “granting a huge reward to terrorism” by recognizing...

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 17d

🔴 Breaking: Israel has struck a car carrying a family of six and an accompanying motorcycle in Bint Jbeil, south Lebanon, murdering four — including three children. Two survivors - the mother and eldest daughter - were both wounded.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 17d

In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit.

So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services

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Abu Aardvark’s Ghost @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 18d

Israel bombed a Houthi-aligned newspaper office in Yemen, killing at least 31 journalists in the second largest targeted killing of media workers CPJ has ever recorded. One more expansion of Israel’s claimed right to bomb anyone, anywhere, any time with impunity.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Israel attack on Yemeni newspaper was second deadliest on journalists ever recorded

Press freedom group says ‘brutal and unjustified attack’ is deadliest since 2009 Maguindanao massacre in Philippines

www.theguardian.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 18d

According to French daily Le Figaro, President Emmanuel Macron and his government are considering closing the Israeli consulate in Paris, expelling members of Israel's intelligence services from France, and opening up a French embassy in Ramallah in response to any Israeli action against France.

Avertissements, menaces, le bras de fer s’intensifie entre Israël et la France avant une reconnaissance de la Palestine

L’État hébreu envisage de fermer le consulat général de France à Jérusalem, qui a en charge les relations avec l’Autorité palestinienne. Paris soupèse une riposte.

www.lefigaro.fr

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Berrak @berrak.bsky.social · 18d

via

www.instagram.com/p/DOBPQL-DNIG/

a comic in four panels

- What's life like in Germany?
- I can't complain.
- That's nice.
- No I mean I can't complain. I could get arrested for it.

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Elham Fakhro @elhamfakhro.bsky.social · 19d

Disappointing to see the leaders of Britain's new left-wing party fall out before their movement could even be properly launched
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Corbyn and Sultana clash over new party membership

MP Zarah Sultana says she is a victim of a "sexist boys' club" in row over setting up new left wing party.

www.bbc.com

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