If you think that somehow the presence of some Hamas members justifies the killing of children in Rafah

Ask yourself:

If 2 Hamas members were hiding in a daycare in Israel or in the US, would you support bombing the daycare?

Why are Palestinian lives worth less?

Revealed: Israeli spy chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry theguardian.com/world/article/…

Hesen Jabr, a nurse at NYU-Langone Hospital, was given an award for her work with bereaved mothers on May 7th. At the awards ceremony, she briefly mentioned Palestine in her remarks. On May 22nd, Jabr's first day back at work following the ceremony, NYU-Langone fired her.

🇮🇱🇺🇸 Nikki Haley writes 'FINISH THEM' on an Israeli artillery shell.

There was ANOTHER air strike on a refugee tent camp. I am absolutely appalled by the inhumanity. We must stop supplying munitions for this slaughter.

“Talk to each other. Don’t let anyone divide you,” Spreading those simple words is an act of bravery in today’s India.
nytimes.com/2024/05/28/wor…

For months, I’ve thought that Israel’s blocking of anaesthesia into Gaza is, in itself, a crime that should disgust the world.

Just think of what this means. Your child, spouse, or your own body operated on w/o anaesthesia.

Now think of what this means in a war zone. Grotesque.

Is Israel committing humanitarian crimes in Gaza? The Israeli gov’t strenuously denies it.

Aryeh Neier, a giant in the world of human rights who escaped Nazi Germany and later cofounder Human Rights Watch, says the answer is yes.

Our conversation from today’s GPS:

A mistake? No it wasn’t, he repeatedly said he’d attack Rafah and he did.

When the IRA were murdering people in England, we didn’t drop 2000lb bombs on Belfast because the terrorists were living among civilians.

I kept reading that ChatGPT 4o had all these amazing magical powers, so I tried out the image upload feature.
I'm guessing it doesn't have the capacity to anything with exact images yet, but can produce more generic stuff.

“I am deeply disappointed by the intolerance for freedom of speech and the right to civil disobedience on campus.”

A student speaker at Harvard’s commencement went off-script to discuss the protestors who were not allowed to graduate:

We wrote up a simple fact:
The burden of hosting refugees falls disproportionately on communities that are themselves vulnerable and marginalized...poor countries, and poorer places within those countries.
aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

From the NYTimes:
'[The Internation Court of Justice] considers that in conformity with obligations under the Genocide Convention, Israel must immediately halt its military offensive'

One of the reasons why Japan has been banning tourism in certain places

I set up an auto-signature on my first Blackberry circa 2006:
'typed on phone, typos common'.
I saw my network copying versions of this, and soon after it took off more broadly.
It's of course possible that it was simultaneously invented independently by multiple people.

I wonder how many young, hardworking Filipinos would have migrated to South Korea for $270 billion.
And what does that tell us about Korean preferences?

Reading this, I feel a deep sense of sorrow and loss for a country I lived in.
The infiltration of Wahhabi Islam at the expense of Bengali culture has produced some analogous problems in Bangladesh.
The Delhi - Tamil Nadu contrast provides some faint hope
nytimes.com/2024/05/18/wor…