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Here is the latest episode of Jerusalem Unplugged with Michael Kinnamon and Philip Graubart discussing their novels and Jerusalem.

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Fiction and Jerusalem with Michael Kinnamon and Philip Graubart | Jerusalem Unplugged Podcast

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Dr Roberto Mazza @robbyref.bsky.social · 6d

I was asking myself the same question.

Dr Roberto Mazza @robbyref.bsky.social · 6d

The right wing (MAGA style) Salvini in Italy is suggesting to forbid the strike on Friday, but there is too much pressure on the government and it's no longer an issue right vs. left, many on the right are asking Meloni to be more active. You're right, it feels different.

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Dr Roberto Mazza @robbyref.bsky.social · 7d

Meloni is now suggesting that the flotilla may lead to the failure of the ceasefire, as if there was one in place. The reality is that she's under a lot of pressure, should something happen to the flotilla, she may have to (unwillingly) take action so much is the popular support for Gaza now.

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Dr Roberto Mazza @robbyref.bsky.social · 7d

*in the middle

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Dr Roberto Mazza @robbyref.bsky.social · 7d

So in the of the rubbles and destruction, they found documents, I mean paper and folders. If it was not in the middle of a genocide, it could be a good joke.

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 7d

The Israelis have started their usual disinfo campaign to smear the activists on the flotilla on their way to try and break the starvation siege of Gaza.

Israel Foreign Ministry
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EXPOSED: Official Hamas documents found in the Gaza Strip - now revealed for the first time - prove Hamas' direct involvement in the funding and execution of the "Sumud" flotilla to Gaza

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Dr Roberto Mazza @robbyref.bsky.social · 8d

I'm curious to see what happen to the flotilla, here in the US there is not much talk, but in Europe is front page, and an attack by Israel could bring more pressure, including the exclusion from UEFA (soccer is not mundane and almost more important to many Israelis than Gaza.)

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Dr Roberto Mazza @robbyref.bsky.social · 8d

Maybe there's even some good in the plan, yet it doesn't take into account the larger picture of the West Bank, Palestine, the future of the people under Israeli rule, utltimately it's whitewashing Israel. I hope peace for the people of Gaza and accountability for those who bear responsability

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Dr Roberto Mazza @robbyref.bsky.social · 8d

Tony Blair reminds me of Ronald Storrs, I think he really believes he has a role to play there: perhaps reincarnation is real.

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Dr Roberto Mazza @robbyref.bsky.social · 8d

Mixed with tropes and bad history

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Dr Roberto Mazza @robbyref.bsky.social · 8d

So far Trump has regurgitated tropes, like the conflict is tousands of years old, that Israel left Gaza to Hamas peacefully etc etc..he essentially stated no state for the Palestinians, and then, what is the plan?

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Dr Roberto Mazza @robbyref.bsky.social · 10d

Another @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode. I interviewed Elizabeth Imber discussing her latest book Uncertain Empire
Jews, Nationalism, and the Fate of British Imperialism published by @stanfordpress.bsky.social
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Elizabeth E. Imber, "Uncertain Empire: Jews, Nationalism, and the Fate of British Imperialism" (Stanford UP, 2025) - New Books Network

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Dr Roberto Mazza @robbyref.bsky.social · 12d

latest interview for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social with Paris Papamichos discussing his new book on Saloniki @stanfordpress.bsky.social

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Paris Papamichos Chronakis, "The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule" (Stanford UP, 2024) - New Books Network

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Dr Roberto Mazza @robbyref.bsky.social · 13d

The new episode of Jerusalem Unplugged with George Tsourous discussing boundaries within the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is now out
@gorgiaspress.bsky.social

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Orthodox Choreographies with Georgios Tsourous | Jerusalem Unplugged Podcast

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Dr Roberto Mazza @robbyref.bsky.social · 13d

It's defenitely more for search and rescue, today Meloni repeated several times: 'what should we do, declare war to Israel?'. She's under a lot of pressure from a clear majority of Italians, and she know how to ride a wave.

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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 18d

Some wise advice on your academia.edu account.

It's probably time to delete it.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 22d

The comparison of Israel to Sparta is literally what Hannah Arendt predicted would happen back in 1947.

Writing for Hannah Arendt:
"And even if the Jews were to win the war, its end would find the unique possibilities and the unique achievements of Zionism in Palestine destroyed. The land that would come into being would be something quite other than the dream of world Jewry, Zionist and non-Zionist. The “victorious” Jews would live surrounded by an entirely hostile Arab population, secluded inside ever-threatened borders, absorbed with physical self-defense to a degree that would submerge all other interests and activities. The growth of a Jewish culture would cease to be the concern of the whole people; social experiments would have to be discarded as impractical luxuries; political thought would center around military strategy; economic development would be determined exclusively by the needs of war. And all this would be the fate of a nation that—no matter how many immigrants it could still absorb and how far it extended its boundaries (the whole of Palestine and Transjordan is the insane Revisionist demand)—would still remain a very small people greatly outnumbered by hostile neighbors.

Under such circumstances (as Ernst Simon has pointed out) the Palestinian Jews would degenerate into one of those small warrior tribes about whose possibilities and importance history has amply informed us since the days of Sparta. Their relations with world Jewry would become problematical, since their defense interests might clash at any moment with those of other countries where large numbers of Jews lived. Palestine Jewry would eventually separate itself from the larger body of world Jewry and in its isolation develop into an entirely new people. Thus it becomes plain that at this moment and under present circumstances a Jewish state can only be erected at the price of the Jewish homeland."

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Dr Roberto Mazza @robbyref.bsky.social · 24d

Welcome to the club!!!

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