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Co-founding editor of Eftertryk Magazine. Devotee of fine cigars. Father of two extraordinary daughters. Palestine on my mind. Off the clock thoughts (=LinkedIn for professional networking)

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The search for Gaza's missing Over 11,000 Palestinians have disappeared since Oct. 7. Relatives don’t know if they’re dead or alive, under rubble or in prison.

Over 11,000 people, mostly women and children, are missing in Gaza. The vast majority of them are likely dead. That puts the total number of Palestinians killed directly in Gaza at over 80,000.

www.972mag.com/search-gaza-...

12.11.2025 21:19 — 👍 66    🔁 41    💬 2    📌 1
Wafaa Hamad survived an Israeli airstrike that killed her entire family in Gaza last year. She lost her leg and slipped into a coma. After a year of suffering without treatment, because Israel blocks almost all medical evacuations and keeps the Rafah crossing sealed, she has died.

The World Health Organization says over 16,000 Palestinians urgently need evacuation for lifesaving care. Yet Washington has joined the blockade. After far-right activist Laura Loomer recently posted videos of wounded children from Gaza arriving in the U.S. and called their medical visas a “national security threat,” the State Department suspended all visitor visas from Gaza, including medical-humanitarian cases.

Children like Wafaa are suffering excruciating pain for extended lengths of time and dying as a result of deliberate U.S. and Israeli policy.

Wafaa Hamad survived an Israeli airstrike that killed her entire family in Gaza last year. She lost her leg and slipped into a coma. After a year of suffering without treatment, because Israel blocks almost all medical evacuations and keeps the Rafah crossing sealed, she has died. The World Health Organization says over 16,000 Palestinians urgently need evacuation for lifesaving care. Yet Washington has joined the blockade. After far-right activist Laura Loomer recently posted videos of wounded children from Gaza arriving in the U.S. and called their medical visas a “national security threat,” the State Department suspended all visitor visas from Gaza, including medical-humanitarian cases. Children like Wafaa are suffering excruciating pain for extended lengths of time and dying as a result of deliberate U.S. and Israeli policy.

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Wafaa Hamad, a Palestinian girl who lost her entire family in an Israeli air strike on their home in western Gaza on September 3, 2024, has died after a year of suffering due to the lack of medicine and care under Israel’s blockade. 

She lost her right leg and suffered severe injuries and internal damage that led to a coma

TRT World @trtworld Wafaa Hamad, a Palestinian girl who lost her entire family in an Israeli air strike on their home in western Gaza on September 3, 2024, has died after a year of suffering due to the lack of medicine and care under Israel’s blockade. She lost her right leg and suffered severe injuries and internal damage that led to a coma

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Wafaa Hamad survived an Israeli airstrike that killed her entire family in Gaza last year. She lost her leg and slipped into a coma. After a year of suffering without treatment, because Israel blocks almost all medical evacuations and keeps the Rafah crossing sealed, she has died.

The World...

11.11.2025 17:21 — 👍 38    🔁 31    💬 0    📌 4
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Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...

One of many costs to US murder (sorry, no better word for it) in Caribbean:

"United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."

11.11.2025 16:02 — 👍 2165    🔁 732    💬 57    📌 68
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Uddrag fra dagens Gâzâ Brîef, som nu har flere end tusind tilmeldte. 🙏

Tilmeld dig (gratis) her og få det daglige overblik sendt til din indbakke. 🫵

www.foljeton.dk/gazabrief

11.11.2025 13:53 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Uddrag fra dagens Gâzâ Brîef, som nu har flere end tusind tilmeldte. 🙏

Tilmeld dig (gratis) her og få det daglige overblik sendt til din indbakke. 🫵

www.foljeton.dk/gazabrief

11.11.2025 13:53 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The financial side of capital avoids low-yield, long-horizon assets like green infrastructure unless the state subsantively socializes risk. A GND could raise profits, but only with massive public guarantees. Otherwise capital stays in the fossil economy, with faster, higher-turnover returns.

10.11.2025 16:46 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
09.11.2025 12:24 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Looking forward to both of these...

09.11.2025 10:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Biden administration was fully complicit in genocide, and anyone who served in it should be held accountable.

08.11.2025 10:09 — 👍 483    🔁 139    💬 10    📌 4
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An NPR reporter's journey into Gaza, for the first time since the war began NPR's Israel correspondent Daniel Estrin has entered the Gaza Strip for the first time since the war began, but Israeli still requires a military escort.

The embedded experience:

"Israel only allows select journalists into Gaza for brief visits escorted by soldiers. We were restricted in who we could interview or film among the soldiers. We did not see Palestinians."

www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...

07.11.2025 11:16 — 👍 17    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 1
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Rabin was an ethnic cleanser in ’48, a lifelong anti-Palestinian zealot who never sought peace and openly said so. He delayed talks to keep settlements growing. Those who mythologize him live in a cozy (and easily debunked) fantasy of their own making.

07.11.2025 09:06 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Gâzâ Brîef - Føljeton

Gør som 951 andre, og tilmeld dig gratis Gâzâ Brîef.

Daglig nyhedsbriefing, sendt direkte til din indbakke, der samler dagens dækning af Gaza fra både international og lokal presse.

Et dugfriskt overblik over udviklingen, skrevet og redigeret med blik for sammenhængene.

www.foljeton.dk/gazabrief

06.11.2025 14:01 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

"Israel attacked first."

This admission undercuts the Trump administration's collective self-defense justification for joining Israel's military campaign against Iran over the summer.

06.11.2025 19:16 — 👍 444    🔁 123    💬 18    📌 2
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Gâzâ Brîef - Føljeton

Gør som 951 andre, og tilmeld dig gratis Gâzâ Brîef.

Daglig nyhedsbriefing, sendt direkte til din indbakke, der samler dagens dækning af Gaza fra både international og lokal presse.

Et dugfriskt overblik over udviklingen, skrevet og redigeret med blik for sammenhængene.

www.foljeton.dk/gazabrief

06.11.2025 14:01 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Meget enig! @ppkzd.bsky.social er fremragende (også) som klummeskribent.

"Det er en slags ro, man kan have, når det er andre, der skal bære konsekvensen."

06.11.2025 06:47 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Remigration er et tydeligt eksempel på, hvordan ’vibes’ bliver til politik I remigrationsdebatten ser man den særlige blanding af sentimentalitet og forfaldsfornemmelser, som opstår, når et flertal forestiller sig selv som truede. En hel affektiv økonomi af moralsk panik, ut...

Virkelig god tekst af @ppkzd.bsky.social der er blevet ansat som klummeskribent hos Information.

Pâkzâd er i mine øjne en af de stærkeste samfundskritikere i Danmark. Kudos til @information.dk for ansættelsen.

www.information.dk/debat/2025/1...

05.11.2025 19:03 — 👍 29    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1
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#Palestine36 is performing well at the box office (for a small independent film). Thanks to all of you who have already seen it. Given the interest in the film it is showing at even more cinemas across the U.K. and Ireland next week. Please see the listings here:

05.11.2025 09:26 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 2

fårk, forfærdelige smerter, hun har været igennem, hvis hun har skulle holde nervetrykket ud så længe :(((

04.11.2025 21:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ryggen går det fremad med, dvs. lænden, efter operationen. Nakken volder mig store problemer. Men er smertedækket. Ser ind i et genoptræningsforløb, der varer et sted mellem 6-12 mdr.

04.11.2025 21:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Hep. Det går løs på nettet i morgen og i printavisen torsdag. Jeg er begyndt som klummeskribent på Information. Det er jeg rigtig glad for, hvis jeg skal være ærlig.

04.11.2025 21:15 — 👍 62    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0
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Var lige et smut forbi fødselsdagpåminderen aka Facebook, og faldt, heldigvis, over @ppkzd.bsky.social's fine opslag :-)

01.11.2025 13:24 — 👍 41    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0
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In Shift in Relationship With Netanyahu, Trump Says ‘I Will Decide’ What Is Right for Israel

“A survey by Israeli’s public broadcaster on Sunday found that 48 percent of Israelis believed Israel had become a “U.S. protectorate.” Only 29 percent disagreed.”

In Shift in Relationship With Netanyahu, Trump Says ‘I Will Decide’ What Is Right for Israel - NYT

29.10.2025 02:22 — 👍 84    🔁 20    💬 3    📌 3
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“My findings were beyond reasonable doubt that this was an intentional killing of Shireen Abu Akleh.”

Retired Army Colonel Steve Gabavics tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social that the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, was intentional according to his findings.

Watch the episode:
zeteo.com/p/breaking-a...

27.10.2025 14:44 — 👍 494    🔁 171    💬 9    📌 27

My position on "from the river to the sea" is that if you consider this a racist or even genocidal slogan, I expect you to demand the expulsion of Israel's ambassadors - given that this is Israel's official position, not just rhetorically but also put in action on a daily manner.

25.10.2025 19:14 — 👍 108    🔁 22    💬 2    📌 0
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Fears Gaza ‘temporary’ ceasefire line could become permanent new border Yellow markers installed by IDF entrench divide that cuts strip in two, as hopes of moving to next phase of truce fade

“What is becoming clear is an ever-sharper partition of Gaza, with most of the surviving 2.1 million population crammed into half the territory, amid the ruins left by two years of Israeli bombardment.”

26.10.2025 14:19 — 👍 65    🔁 38    💬 2    📌 1
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For lidt siden udkom dagens Gâzâ Brîef på Føljeton.

Skynd dig at abonnnere. Det er gratis. Så får du dagens briefing på mail: foljeton.dk/gazabrief

Nåede du det ikke i dag, så kan du tilgå dagens nyhedsbrief her: wp.foljeton.dk/252079/24-ok...

(Vi nærmer os 1.000 abonnenter. ☺️)

24.10.2025 13:45 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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For lidt siden udkom dagens Gâzâ Brîef på Føljeton.

Skynd dig at abonnnere. Det er gratis. Så får du dagens briefing på mail: foljeton.dk/gazabrief

Nåede du det ikke i dag, så kan du tilgå dagens nyhedsbrief her: wp.foljeton.dk/252079/24-ok...

(Vi nærmer os 1.000 abonnenter. ☺️)

24.10.2025 13:45 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Weapons, warlords, and wasteland: Israel’s new strategy for Gaza In post-war Gaza, Israel is supporting four main criminal militias in order to provoke internal chaos, collect intelligence, and enforce control

In post-war Gaza, Israel is supporting criminal militias to provoke internal chaos, collect intelligence, and enforce control ⬇️

23.10.2025 16:11 — 👍 4    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Int'l Court of Justice Finds Israelis Broke Law by Starving Palestinians of Gaza Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The International Court of Justice, established by the UN to adjudicate issues among nations, issued an advisory opinion on Wednesday branding the Israeli blockade on fo...

23 Oct: "International Court of Justice, established by the UN to adjudicate issues among nations, issued an advisory opinion on Wednesday branding the Israeli blockade on food and medical aid into the occupied Gaza Strip illegal." ~ @jricole.bsky.social www.juancole.com/2025/10/isra... #journo #law

23.10.2025 15:20 — 👍 0    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Fredsaftalen fra Egypten er ikke fred. »Det er et nyt kapitel i et gammelt manuskript« Sharm el-Sheikh-erklæringen er en ende på Gaza-krigen, som vi har kendt den i to år. Men betyder den også fred? Ikke ifølge iagttagere, der kalder den for tom snak

»Statsledere, der har muliggjort folkedrab i Gaza, mødes nu og gratulerer sig selv for at have stoppet det. Der er ikke noget nyt i den. Det er en erklæring, hvor Trump får Mellemøstens parter til at erklære opbakning til det, han allerede har meldt ud.« www.information.dk/udland/2025/...

14.10.2025 17:57 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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