Chris Osieck

More than just a Squid Game: Gaza’s aid trap Palestinians and members of the Israeli military describe the GHF's "killing fields" as people are

“Amid this arrangement, Israeli soldiers have turned indiscriminate killing into something of a sport. And Palestinians have been left to play a rigged game with no chance of winning.”

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The Fix: Genocide Denial in the NYT A New York Times writer dabbled in genocide denial. It did not go well.

In my latest, I examine Bret Stephens’s silly attempt to deny Israel’s genocide. More revealing than the incompetence and bad faith on display is his motive for writing it in the first place—a motive he does not divulge lest he trash his own credibility in the process. 🧵

If your anti-imperialism requires denying atrocities, attacking victims, and shielding dictators, it’s not anti-imperialism. It’s just inversion, reactive, predictable, and morally bankrupt.

Opinion | The Death of Gaza in Slow Motion

Our op-ed following the report launched yesterday, on the medical aspect of the genocide prohibition under Article II(c) of the Genocide Convention.

The Death of Gaza in Slow Motion www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

It is clear that the vergangenheitsbewältigung has not been a success.

This Is How You Conduct Genocide by the Regulations The bureaucracy Israel implemented decades ago to control the population of Gaza has been weaponized to regulate and facilitate its destruction

“The seeming orderliness of a bureaucracy whose function was to limit and block lifesaving aid may make it easier for the military officers and soldiers working within it to rationalize starving a civilian population.” writes @saribashi.bsky.social.

The headquarters of the four churches headquartered in Syria - all in Bab Touma/Bab Sharqi

St. George Cathedral (Syriac Orthodox)
Mariamite Cathedral (Rum Orthodox)
St. Paul Cathedral (Syriac Catholic)
Our Lady of the Dormition Cathedral (Melkite Catholic)

..result in the circular firing squad repeating itself and lead to no concrete resolution for all the people involved.

..one does not have to justify, they can try to understand. Understanding is after all different then justifying. Abu Mazen’s authoritarianism is often forgotten but is in essence part of the occupation. Which would already give one an answer to why the PA is unfit for governance and would only..

The answer is: yes. Ehud Barak, the former Israeli PM, once told Gideon Levy in 1998 that “if I were a Palestinian at the right age, I would have joined one of the armed groups at a certain stage.” Precisely what the international community has not gotten through their thick skull and while one..

And that led to Abu Mazen, who was supported by Bush, to start the feud between Fatah and Hamas, which ideally fit Israel’s policy of divide-and-conquer. Now if we look at recent years, has Abu Mazen himself improved? Nope. Do young men still take up arms in the occupied Palestinian territories?

..even collaborated with the criminal who committed the crime. Basic necessities, such as social welfare, also weren’t arranged properly by the PA, and guess what, this resulted in Hamas winning the elections in 2006, which as expected, was not received well by Western states.

Ultimately, this led to people taking matters in their own hands, especially if an occupying army detained and humiliated their father, robbed their younger sister of her life, and took away their friends, while the same authority who was supposed to represent you, does nothing, and..

..played a huge role, who in the end, lost more then that they won. There was no sense of dignity, especially after the PA, also entered into a cooperation that prioritized Israeli security over the end of the occupation and providing any form of safety for the Palestinian.

This was in line with a broader trend throughout the Middle East in which secularists, largely supported by the West, showed to have been no good towards the people in their countries, which paved the way for islamism to come forward. In the Palestinian context, the mistakes made by the PLO..

Politician and Arab leaders who press on governance of Gaza to be handed over to Abu Mazen’s PA either suffer to amnesia or lack historical knowledge as it was the same corrupt authority, with a prominent role of Mohammed Dahlan, that played a role in the rise of Hamas.

The latest IDF evacuation order (July 27) doesn't cover the area south of Deir al-Balah from last week—but does advance the reoccupation of the Netzarim Corridor, from about half of it to 3/4, leaving just a 1-mile strip for people to leave Gaza City.

Evac order (red) now covers 76 percent of Gaza.

Great example of local news explaining how government actually works - and the people who make it work. Thanks @maustermuhle.bsky.social @51st.news !

YouTube video by Al-Haq "I'm scared they'll burn us again": Israeli Settler Violence against the Palestinian town of Huwwara

We also had the honor to collaborate with one of the oldest Palestinian human rights organizations in Al-Haq on a short film on the settler attack that happened in Huwara in the occupied West Bank. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz-h...

Israel’s military called the settler attack on this Palestinian town a ‘pogrom.’ Videos show soldiers did little to stop it | CNN When hundreds of Israeli settlers rampaged through Huwara and surrounding Palestinian towns in the occupied West Bank on February 26, leaving at least one Palestinian man dead and hundreds of others i...

See here the investigation on the Huwara pogrom that @gaborfriesen.bsky.social and myself have contributed to:

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With West Bank annexation in the air, settlers revel in their impunity Israeli settlers have rampaged through Palestinian towns and rioted at a military base in recent weeks, knowing officials have their backs.

What was known as the Huwara pogrom in early 2023, happens now daily. Settler-colonial violence burns Palestinians their properties, destroys their belongings, steals their land, restricts their freedom of movement and kills their loved ones in the West Bank.

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‘New York Times’ Issues Apology For Reporting Palestinian Deaths NEW YORK—Claiming that the humanizing of occupied peoples is not what the newspaper stands for, The New York Times issued an apology Tuesday for reporting on Palestinian deaths. “Our thoughtful and ac...

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Nothing says “Palestinian statehood is an inalienable right” like “We will continue to alienate Palestinian sovereignty to their genocidaires if they just tone down the killing a bit.”

The starvation of Gaza is shameful. Crippling sanctions on Israel are needed | Letters Letter: Thirty-one Israeli signatories express their shame, rage and agony over the plight of Palestinians and call for action from the international community

Thirty-one Israeli signatories express their shame, rage and agony over the plight of Palestinians and call for action from the international community in the form of crippling sanctions.

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Palestine in the Claws of Colonialism Selections from Ahmed Sadeq Saad’s “Palestine in the Claws of Colonialism” (1947)

Selections from Palestine in the Claws of Colonialism (1947) by Ahmed Sadeq Saad (1919-1988), the leftist Egyptian thinker of Jewish origin, presented by Mada Masr.

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This is @gmandreou.bsky.social speaking in 2024 about the Honor Frost Foundation funded #GAZAMAP archaeology capacity building initiative active between 2022 - 2023 youtu.be/PkrZefr1xqo?...

Along side urbicide, cultural heritage, including museums, have now been destroyed.

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Awdah Hathaleen was a father of three and they now have to grow up without their dad because ‘sanctions’ don’t do sh*t. Israel either faces real consequences for its daily violations of international law or this will continue to happen.

Edinburgh University’s ‘skull room’ highlights its complicated history with racist science Skulls were collected from all over the world because of some academics’ fascination with the discredited belief that skull shape denoted intelligence

Edinburgh University’s ‘skull room’ highlights its history with the racist science of phrenology – the discredited belief that skull shape denoted intelligence and character.

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remains of a tank destroyed between 27 and 29 Oct 2017 on the side of the road halfway between Damascus and Palmyra www.google.com/maps?ll=33.9...

En dat vergt dat men gaat kijken naar de straffeloosheid dat ervoor heeft gezorgd dat dit überhaupt ooit mogelijk is geweest, en dus ook haar eigen rol hierin erkend, gevolgd door de financiën/investeringen die het in stand houden.