Jim Apple

In democracies, do residents potentially subject to state violence also elect those who control that violence? What percent of adults in areas under state control, including arrests, orders-at-gunpoint, shootings, and demolitions by the IDF or Shin Bet, have the right to vote in Knesset elections?

In democracies, do residents potentially subject to state violence also elect those who control that violence? What percent of adults in areas under state control, including arrests, orders-at-gunpoint, shootings, and demolitions by the IDF or Shin Bet, have the right to vote in Knesset elections?

Public Opinion Survey Marking a Year of the “Iron Swords” War A public opinion survey marking the first anniversary of the October 7th attacks and one year into the

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83% of Israeli Jews rated the IDF’s ethical conduct during the war as 4 or better on a 5-point scale. Only 34.5% support even INVESTIGATING allegations of prisoner abuse, and most of those supporters only support it “somewhat“.

Public Opinion Survey Marking a Year of the “Iron Swords” War A public opinion survey marking the first anniversary of the October 7th attacks and one year into the

en.idi.org.il/articles/56081

83% of Israeli Jews rated the IDF’s ethical conduct during the war as 4 or better on a 5-point scale. Only 34.5% support even INVESTIGATING allegations of prisoner abuse, and most of those supporters only support it “somewhat“.

You said that the “public were widely hostile to those crimes”. Are you aware of any opinion polls that asked about “those crimes” and showed “wide hostility” to them among the Israeli public?

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🧵47% of Israeli Jews said that Israel should not "obey international laws and maintain ethical values is war". 48% of Israeli Jews said that all Arabs should be expelled from Israel. 69% of Israelis said that Israel should not (or mostly not) consider Gaza civilian suffering in their war actions.

@karaswisher.bsky.social on @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social's show:

"They gave power to their employees. Now they're talking back. What did you think they were going to do? You indulge children for long enough and give them sugar all day long, they're going to become terrible people."

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"nationalism in Palestine, as we have seen, is at least as intense a force as it is anywhere else in the world. We believe that Partition, once effected, might ultimately moderate and appease it as nothing else could."

🧵The Palestine Royal Commission Report is available at unispal.un.org/pdfs/Cmd5479.... Chapter XXII covers, in part, population exchange. It discusses a risk that the existing occupants of what is to become the Jewish state will become a landless proletariat. Additionally, it notes that:

Marco Rubio's new acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, ladies and gentlemen.

According to the USDA, 42% of "hired crop farmworkers" did not have work authorization in 2020-2022: www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-...

In 2023, FIDE, the international chess governing body, prohibited trans women from participating in women's events because they were AMAB, but they also stripped trans men of any titles they won before they transitioned, even though they were AFAB:

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the Mossad interviewees about whether they considered those children to be terrorists.

Finally, the interviewer and interviewees mention "proof of our superiority" and "sense of superiority" as positive effects of the operation, from Mossad's perspective.

that, "if we push the button, the only one that will get injured is the terrorist himself". However, he also acknowledged that the pagers exploded whether or not anyone touched any buttons on it. The CBS interviewer mentioned the two children killed by the exploding pagers, but did not ask

of apparently harmless portable objects which are specifically designed and constructed to contain explosive material."

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The 60 Minutes report used the word "booby-trapped", but mentioned nothing about international law.

Additionally, the Mossad interviewee stated

On October 30, 2000, Israel became a party to the amended "Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices", which states in article 7, paragraph 2, that "It is prohibited to use booby-traps or other devices in the form 🧵

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From a link in the below ProPublica story, I learned that (globally) governments spend $7 trillion on oil subsidies yearly but only $4.2 trillion on education.

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now, no one will recall climate change either, and for the same reason. The apocalypse has become a political racket!"

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Please note that a massive nuclear war did not happen between 1980 and his tweet, though I have been unable to find a citation to that effect.

🧵Nuclear winter is the predicted global cooling caused by particulate matter resulting from a massive nuclear war. In 2019, Dinesh D'Souza tweeted

"Remember nuclear winter? Of course you don’t. That’s because it didn’t happen. Yet it was all the rage on the Left in the 1980s. A generation from

The Trump administration began (but did not complete) withdrawal from the WHO in 2020, and Reuters is reporting that they want to start the process again on January 20.

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Children are freezing to death in Gaza On December 26, Gaza’s health ministry confirmed the fourth case of an infant freezing to death in 72 hours. A day later, a 28-year-old doctor also died due to hypothermia. There was one common…

On December 26, Gaza's health ministry confirmed the fourth case of an infant freezing to death in 72 hours. A day later, a 28-year-old doctor also died due to hypothermia.

“was a normal aspect of their relationship”. (6/6)

otherwise uninvolved stranger confirmed hearing a message on the victim’s phone weeks after the breakup saying, “you better call me back, if you know what’s good for you.”

7. After they broke up, Catanzara admitted continuing to call her after she asked him not to, explaining that this (5/X)

restraining order, he entered her house between 4 and 5am while she was asleep, saying to OPS that she “had authorized him entry in the past”.

5. After they broke up, he left a gift on her porch of a bikini and two hamburgers. She declined, and he demanded it back “or 97 dollars”.

6. An (4/X)

his ex in any way.

3. She saved his voicemails from during the course of the restraining order. In them, he says things like “I’m not fucking with you. You better answer the phone next time I call or you’ll never want to leave the house again.”

4. After they broke up, but before the (3/X)

OPS asked about it, he denied making any calls until he was confronted with recordings. He then stated that these type of calls were regular behavior throughout their relationship.

2. After the department was informed of the restraining order, it instructed Catanzara not to contact (2/X)

The union president, John Catanzara, was suspended by the department for 30 days for violating a restraining order against his ex. The report by the Office of Professional Standards states that:

1. He “continually harassed” and “intimidated” his ex by phone. When (1/X, 🧵)

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The union that represents Chicago police officers has printed a column advising members that their spouse might "sneak into court" to get a restraining order by "presenting enough evidence to convince the judge that the petitioner was abused". web.archive.org/web/20241221... or archive.ph/XpJgY

broken out somewhere?

Again, thanks to you and your colleagues for doing the work!

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