Cory Satter

Genocides often accelerate as the perpetrators feel they are running out of time. As pressure mounts on Israel, the West continues supplying it with arms. Such is Western policy coherence.

Another reason they should have taken more principled stands

One of the scariest ideas is that Israel may accelerate its genocide to create a fait accompli in September, when the UK and other countries say they will recognize a Palestinian state if nothing changes - already far, far overdue.

I hope the University of Florida will now condemn this genocide, and sever all ties with Israel following the publications of two Israel human rights NGOs, one of which I spent time with in 2017, attesting that Israel is indeed committing genocide in the Gaza Strip. All other unis should follow.

Claire Shipman. Remember that name.

Columbia University suspends, expels nearly 80 students over Gaza protests Some students also had their degrees revoked for participating in antiwar protests, including the 2024 Gaza encampments.

Over a dozen starvation deaths today in Gaza, and Columbia expels and revokes degrees of those who protest against this 21st-century genocide

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/...

I think Biden brought it to a new level with his genocide-with-smiling-face policy

Final proposal before the final solution?

"Art of the ceasefire:

U.S. pretends to obliterate Iran's nuclear sites
Iran pretends to retaliate
Israel pretends to have won"
- @stephenwertheim.bsky.social

Given Iran’s pathetic inability to do anything to defend itself, I would assume they are seriously reconsidering that fatwa on nuclear weapons

Some of these attacks look intended to facilitate regime change. I’m going to assume that is now the goal, or always was

Israel attacking Iran with full-force in the hopes Iran targets US troops?

Another blow for realism, it seems. States do not prioritize their survival above all else, or seek to maximize power. Maybe they *should*, but the idea that they *do* isn’t the same. Clearly, cultural worldviews and even self-esteem are more important.

Palestine Action to be banned after RAF base break in The home secretary will move to proscribe the Palestine Action group in the coming weeks, the BBC understands.

“Terrorism” has become such a meaningless word

www.bbc.com/news/article... Palestine Action to be banned after RAF base break in - BBC News

Protracted war, but no boots on the ground

Trump seems to make major decisions right around the time Wall Street closes for the weekend. Eyes should also be kept on Iran’s talks with European leaders (Iran says it is merely “listening”)

He didn’t technically give the day and time. Just that he’d make a decision

Three thoughts on possibilities of Trump's 2 week deadline:
1) Trump is trying to find an off-ramp
2) It's a ploy
3) Trump wants Israel to wear Iran down a bit more, before the US engages directly

More projection, instrumentalisation of the Holocaust

Some really weird psychological projection going on in Israel. This could inform research for decades.

Trump is looking as if he's wavering. Which way will he fall?

Many Israelis now seem to be against strikes on hospitals… after theirs was hit. Yet any sympathy they might have enjoyed instead is met with Schadenfreude and derision in the face of such blatant hypocrisy.

A world without international law and basic human rights norms is a very dangerous world.

Trump says “nobody what I’m going to do.” I don’t even know if Trump knows what Trump is going to do.

How does Germany end up on the wrong side of history every damn time? Old habits die hard, I suppose.

If you know anything about Iran, if you've read the Shahnameh - the essence of Iranian identity - then you'll know that Iran will never surrender.

This seems to be an even more direct reference…

When seen in context with ordering all of Tehran (10 million people) to evacuate, then saying no ceasefire, and promising something "much bigger" in the opposite direction, Trump's post seems to border on nuclear blackmail.

If national epics capture the soul and essence of a nation, the Shahnameh might lend us to believe that Iran will fight on regardless of the costs - as a matter of honor and pride

Seems pretty clear Israel is pursuing its Hezbollah strategy against Iran. I think the idea is to sufficiently weaken the regime in the hopes that an uprising might do the rest. Even if that occurs, they might be left disillusioned.

Israel is going to become associated by a broad swathe and perhaps even majority of the American public with all that is the rot of the bipartisan US governing system. This will be Israel’s long term undoing.