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Rodolfo Disi Pavlic
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Associate Professor UAI - PhD UT Government - Poli Sci Notre Dame - Adjunct Researcher COES - Personal opinions
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Having spent half my adult life in the US, earning my BA and PhD, and making so many friends, this essay captures much of how I see things unfolding there.
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I don't say all this in anger, but with profound sadness. For the first time in my lifetime, the United States has become a place where I neither want to be nor want to send my children to study. That a majority of voters in the United States chose and enabled this political project not once but twice and continue to endow it with a healthy level of support, gives me sorrow beyond measure. It is the sorrow the comes from knowing that we cannot unsee what we're seeing. Whateverhappens in the future, this stain will stay. And as Geoffrey Firmin, the aging drunken consul in John Huston's movie "Under the Volcano," had it, "Some things you can't apologize for"
February 13, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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February 12, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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Mi columna del viernes pasado en La Segunda
Bajando el cartel en Davos Rodolfo Disi Académico Escuela de Gobierno U. Adolfo Ibáñez In Davos, Suiza, el Primer Ministro H canadiense, Mark Carney, dio un / discurso que está dando que ha-blar. La clave es su sinceridad. Carney dice que no estamos en proceso de transi-ción, sino de ruptura: repetir la fórmula del orden internacional basado en reglas, como si operara igual que siempre, es como vivir dentro de una ficción en el mundo actual. El no es un outsider: es la voz de un país plenamente inserto globalmente y, en varios sentidos, gran beneficiario del orden internacional que lidera EE.UU., por lo que lo dice es muy revelador. Para nombrar esa ficción, recurre a Václav Havel, escritor y disidente checoslovaco que fue presidente de su país tras la caída del comunismo. En sus escritos describe a un almacenero que pone en su vitrina un cartel del Partido Comunista: no porque crea en él, sino para evitar problemas con el régimen. El sistema se sostiene no porque sea objetivamente poderoso, sino porque millones lo perciben como tal; basta con que algunos dejen de hacerlo para evidenciar su fragilidad. Lo llamativo es que esa metáfora, nacida para describir una sociedad detrás de la cortina de hierro, aparezca ahora en boca de un líder de la cúspide del sistema internacional vigente. Que el primer ministro de un país del G7 y de la OTAN hable así sugiere que el "cartel" dejó de servir incluso a quienes estaban más cómodos bajo él. Vale la pena, enton-ces, escuchar lo que propone Charney, quien aboga por un realismo basado en valores que opera como geometría variable: sostener principios como derechos humanos, soberanía e integridad territorial, pero armar coaliciones pragmáticas por problema. Cuando el comercio, la tecnología y las finanzas pueden usarse para presio-nar, la respuesta no es el "sálvese quien pueda". Fuera de las grandes potencias, la alternativa es compartir el costo de resistir coacciones y promover la cooperación selectiva. Chile no es una potencia…
January 29, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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Meanwhile, in Israel… www.aljazeera.com/features/201...
The youth's remains are said to be in Israel's infamous "cemeteries of numbers", along with hundreds of other Palestinians. In a recent report published last month, Palestinian rights groups estimated there are at least 249 Palestinians, including Shadi, buried in cemeteries across Israel in closed military zones, and nine others in freezers in Tel Aviv. The cemeteries are made up of mass graves marked with numbers rather than names, and some of the bodies have been there since the 1967 war.
January 27, 2026 at 3:37 AM
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Documents released during the judicial review showed that the decision on 11 March 2024 to grant refugee status referred to "substantial evidence of systematic discriminatory practices against Palestinians in Israel: apartheid, forced removal, restrictions of rights and exclusion from society".
January 16, 2026 at 11:36 AM
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I’ll take it they mean the Northern Hemisphere.
January 5, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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Four years ago, we were a unit of fewer than 20 people responsible for all of Judea and Samaria,” Freiman said. “Fewer researchers conducted research because they were afraid to reach sites in Judea and Samaria. In addition, almost no universities excavated with us. Today, there are extensive excavation partnerships in Judea and Samaria with Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv University, Ariel University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
December 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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The genocide is advancing rapidly in Gaza and in slow motion in the West Bank and Jerusalem
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Instagram story from Comunidad Palestina de Chile: panoramic photo of terraced hills and buildings near Beit Sahour. Over the image, yellow and white Spanish text reads: “Lo que pierde Beit Sahour: Para construir el asentamiento ‘Shdema’, Israel confiscó 100 dunams (10 hectáreas) de tierra municipal de Beit Sahour. Ese terreno estaba destinado a un hospital infantil, áreas verdes y espacios comunitarios. Hoy, esos proyectos quedaron cancelados y la ciudad perdió una de sus últimas zonas para crecer.” (English: “What Beit Sahour loses: To build the ‘Shdema’ settlement, Israel confiscated 100 dunams (10 hectares) of municipal land from Beit Sahour. That land had been designated for a children’s hospital, green areas, and community spaces. Today those projects have been canceled, and the city has lost one of its last areas for growth.”)
December 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Such peace. Very Nobel. Wow explosion www.thetimes.com/world/latin-...
October 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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October 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Pacific Palisades si trova in California non in Florida, però.
October 9, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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For the children
October 7, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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September 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Had to try it myself.
September 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Más medios chilenos se deben sumar a la iniciativa de @rsf.org por Gaza

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September 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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I hope Anne Applebaum realizes she played a role in the lead-up to this massacre.
August 14, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Anne Applebaum does seem to have a recurring theme about media ceasing to exist. It’s unclear whether this is always bad for her.
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SLATE Sufficiently Weird FOREIGNERS Kill the Messenger Why Palestine radio and TV studios are fair targets in the Palestine/Israeli war. BY ANNE APPLEBAUM JAN 21, 2002 • 1:49 PM
August 4, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Más personas ha muerto de hambre en lo últimos 11 días en Gaza que en los 21 meses anteriores. Esto es intencional
August 1, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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August 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Segal: There isn’t a single Israeli minister that wants to see babies die. You know how I know it? Because Israel has a nuclear weapon. If Israel really wanted to have a genocide, it would’ve done it already. I know it’s a waste of time to speak to a liberal news outlet in the United States about the numbers. You won’t find a single initiative by an Israeli cabinet minister that wants to kill babies on purpose. Chotiner: You know about Ben-Gvir and the wedding. Segal: Which one? Chotiner: Where there was dancing. Segal: Which one? Chotiner: Pretending to stab Palestinians. Segal: It was a disgusting event in which someone stabbed the picture of a baby. And it was disgusting. [In 2015, at a wedding that Ben-Gvir attended, dancing guests held up a photograph of a Palestinian baby who had been burned to death by right-wing Israeli extremists several months earlier, and one guest stabbed the picture with a knife. Ben-Gvir was the lead arsonist’s attorney. He later called the display at the wedding “stupidity.”] And there were indictments because Israel is a law-and-order state. Ben-Gvir didn’t do it. Maybe he participated. I wouldn’t have taken part in an event like this. Chotiner: That’s good to know.
July 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Segal: There are rumors that Israel is funding the G.H.F. I haven’t seen proof so far. But Israel is behind it. But I have to ask you something. You spoke about twenty children who died a year ago in Gaza from dehydration. If it happened, it’s a tragedy. I don’t think there is anyone who wants to see babies and children die. Chotiner: Maybe people in the Israeli cabinet, but beyond that.
July 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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At this point, I can’t imagine what Zionists think they’re achieving by going on the record with Isaac Chotiner.
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Segal: I see. I beg to differ with the New York Times because the New York Times bases its reports on Hamas sources. The New York Times relies heavily on stringers in Gaza that have two options: either report what Hamas wants or die, and I blame the New York Times for this. The head of the legal department of the New York Times told me, How can you blame us for writing what Hamas wants? Our journalists died because in the past they reported things that Hamas didn’t like. Chotiner: This person told you this on the record? Segal: They wanted to sue me when I claimed that they relied on stringers who collaborated with Hamas. Chotiner: So they told you this privately? Segal: Yeah. You can quote it. [David McCraw, the lead newsroom lawyer at the Times, was identified to me later by Segal as the person who allegedly said this. McCraw told The New Yorker, “I never said any of that. We never threatened to sue him. And our journalists have not been killed by Hamas.” In 2023, McCraw asked Segal to make corrections to some statements he had made on social media, including that the Times employed “ISIS-embedded stringers.”] So even if we take into account the fact that twenty children died of dehydration, which I doubt and which the I.D.F. doubts, there is no way to double-check it. [In the past several days, a number of news organizations have called on Israel to allow international reporters to enter Gaza, something that it has thus far largely restricted them from doing.] What can make hunger in Gaza is the unholy coalition between the U.N. and Hamas. Each and every organization in Gaza has to pay at least fifteen to twenty per cent of the humanitarian aid directly to the pockets of Hamas. Segal: Israel is behind this foundation, but the idea is noble and it is to keep humanitarian aid from becoming a weapon for the survival of Hamas. Now, here’s the question to you: Why is the U.N. obsessed with the G.H.F.? Chotiner: The hundreds of people who have been killed at G.H.F. sites? Segal: No. This is what Hamas claims and what the New York Times quotes. By the way, the vast majority of people killed in the G.H.F. were killed by Hamas. Hamas tried to kill and shoot people who came to take food from G.H.F. because the purpose is to save Hamas’s regime. [The vast majority of the deaths at or near G.H.F. sites have been attributed to the I.D.F.; Haaretz reported last month that the Army was deliberately firing at Palestinians seeking aid.] By the way, I’m not the only one to understand this. President Biden, in October of 2023, actually forced Israel to provide humanitarian aid, right? And then he said, and I quote, “If Hamas diverts or steals the assistance, they will have demonstrated once again that they have no concern for the welfare of the Palestinian people, and it will end. As a practical matter, it will—it will stop the international community from being able to provide this aid.”
July 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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