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Imperialism’s Shell Game While every possible form of pressure should be brought to bear on the Biden administration to cut off the flow of arms to Israel, the prevailing law and policy debate tends to obscure some key…

As Nas once narrated a bullet, so too does @abubanda.bsky.social narrate the 155mm artillery shell.
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Tectonic Shifts | Dylan Saba Colonization and imperialism had been exerting pressure within a relatively stable set of relationships. All that changed in the earthquake of Hamas’s October 7 attack.

Last week, several members of Dylan Saba’s extended family were killed in the bombing of the Saint Porphyrius Church of Gaza. He spoke with Darryl Li about grief and the tectonic shifts underway in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

plus far fewer sources on the ground

Yeah it’s weird. Everything that makes the other place so terrible is also what makes it harder to leave especially in times like this

yeah so that whole migrating to this app thing isn’t really working for me

standing with colonizers is a reflex so deep it’s the muscle memory of the west

Haddad: “This begs the question of whether apartheid is just a temporary solution before a push toward ethnic cleansing is eventually attempted again.”

a lot of useful background and insight in this interview with toufic haddad, including the chilling observation that for the zentity apartheid is just a holding pattern for worse things to come

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Gallant commanded Israeli forces in Gaza in the 1990s and was the architect of the 2008-2009 onslaught. Gunning to be a three-time loser here.

seeing the video of the abominable erez crossing in the hands of the colonized reminded me of all the times i walked through there marveling at how empty it seemed, like dude where are the soldiers at.

of course politics is about making the inconceivable suddenly seem obvious.

we can't rule out the possibility -- and the zentity surely hasn't -- that there are other cadres who crossed the fence but remain hidden and will only strike later. which is to say the feeling of unsettlement will continue to haunt.

this holding of space disrupts any clear sense of inside/outside, front/rear. it is also likely complicating any planning for an invasion of gaza's populated areas, rendering the staging areas for such an operation insecure and buying crucial time

it's been 48 hours and they _still_ haven't reasserted control over the area. unforeseen because inconceivable in the arrogant mindset of colonialism.

what happened now was no mere 'infiltration,' sneaking through the fence to disrupt. by holding space, they actively un-settled the colonial state's sense of territorialized normality.

this builds on the achievements and sacrifices of the freedom march, which turned the fence into a site of mass protest and confrontation at immense human cost and did much to puncture its aura of invincibility

the achievement this week was for the colonized to make the fence permeable to themselves too, to reverse ever so slightly the logic of the frontier

mass confinement meant armed resistance was limited to projectiles or infiltration. the former had to deal with challenges of range and accuracy, the latter was extremely difficult and dangerous. the area around the fence was depopulated, razed, and turned into a kill zone.

this is why almost immediately after the disengagement in 2005, the army was back inside the gaza strip a few days later and it was a non-event. it wasn't a 're-invasion' or a 'return' because they never really left, just moved their barracks a few kilometers away

a key precept of zionist doctrine is that there is no *border* with the gaza strip. a border means you relinquish authority over the other side. the fence is a frontier -- a line with no permanence, one that only the colonizer can traverse.

still processing the significance of how palestinians managed to invert the spatial terms of the occupation this week like never before (to my knowledge)

wish i could be walking through erez with my friends right now

thoughts and prayers

finally put my canary mission page to good use

going to that place is truly taking one for the team

sigh the cycle of abuse continues.

today i became that person who asked a colleague to email something after forgetting that i already had it.

The IISG (Amsterdam) has just digitized the papers of Mahdi Amel & made them available online. Mahdi Amel was an influential Marxist thinker and prominent member of the Lebanese Communist Party.
#menasky #polisky

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Yeah but didn’t mean to bring the “google it” energy because googling it doesn’t really clarify anything! It’s all vibes!!

can’t explain you just have to look it up and try to make sense of it like i did 🤣

Lawsuit against Shotspotter in Chicago clears first major hurdle first-defense.org/s/183-Memora...

*zaddy

you are like the third person to send this my way already ... i am so honored that every time someone rips him a new one people think of me, it's the best thing to come out of him trashing my book lol