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molecular biologist. mobile genes, life, arts, reality. quiet personal semi-anon. algorithm sceptic. likes & bookmarks in waters beyond the goldfish bowl
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usually not here. mostly as a window or diary.
bookmarks, & shades of grey.
& dormant at fediscience.org/@Csharp_yaff…
martin-pêcheur retweeted
Mamdani’s willingness to work Trump on NYers’ behalf—& his ability to maintain pitch-perfect tone in all his interactions w/ & abt Trump (respectful but not chummy, laser-focused w/ zero kiss uppery) is stunning.
It takes rare self-control & focus: stellar qualities in a leader.
Fresh from his meeting with President Trump, @NYCMayor Zohran Mamdani tells me they share a “love of New York City,” and that in their conversations, he tries to focus on making life better for New Yorkers, while also raising objections to policies he disagrees with.
martin-pêcheur retweeted
Ich bin überzeugt:
Ein anderes Berlin ist möglich.
Ein Zuhause, in dem wir uns unterhaken, das Leben für alle bezahlbar ist und nicht große Immobilienkonzerne darüber entscheiden, wie sich unsere Stadt entwickelt. Dafür trete ich an und danke meiner Partei für das Vertrauen.
Elif Eralp ist die beste Kandidatin für Berlin. Mutig, entschlossen und Anwältin all derer, die den Laden hier am Laufen halten. Mit @ElifEralpBerlin nehmen wir den Kampf um diese Stadt auf. Wir kämpfen dafür, dass Alle ein sicheres Zuhause haben und Berlin wieder bezahlbar wird.
martin-pêcheur retweeted
She looks like she's having so much fun you wouldn't notice this is a world-tier performance. What impresses me is not the "speed" but the excellent timing and dynamics, she really feels this piece.
Just practice will never bring you there, this comes from the heart.
❤️𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐡𝐧'𝐬 𝐆 𝐦𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐨
Mocha (Mokha) Yemen. historic port for coffee.
JS Bach: Coffee Cantata
youtu.be/s4PpNlO_ZCs?si=IY4k… via @YouTube
martin-pêcheur retweeted
ラベック姉妹がクインシー・ジョーンズの前で『ペトルーシュカからの3楽章』を弾いたとき。フランスのドキュメンタリー "I Love Quincy"(1984) からの映像。パリ時代のクインシーは師のナディア・ブーランジェから紹介されてストラヴィンスキーに会ったりしていたようです
martin-pêcheur retweeted
Timely poll on the attitude in the UK towards a trade ban on illegal Israeli settlements. Interestingly, more people support rather than oppose a ban throughout the political spectrum, including among conservatives and Reform voters.
ecfr.eu/article/britons-back…
martin-pêcheur retweeted
It’s not just Britain. Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden are all taking action against trade from settlements.
geographically, a 2-state (or 2-canton) scenario would now be very difficult & challenging.
status quo is clearly not politically sustainable.
Jewish terrorism in the West Bank is not a scattered phenomenon. It has a geography.
This map should be placed on the desks of the Minister of Defense, the IDF Chief of Staff, the commander of Central Command, the commander of the Judea and Samaria Police District, and the head of the Shin Bet. It shows something very simple: the main friction points are not randomly spread across the West Bank. They are concentrated in several clear and well-known areas.
The main concentrations can be seen around Nablus and the area east of it, along the routes leading toward the Jordan Valley; around Ramallah and eastern Binyamin; south of Jerusalem and around Bethlehem; and especially in the large cluster of friction points in the South Hebron Hills. Other areas also show clear clusters of medium- and high-level friction points.
And this is exactly the point: anyone who claims that it is difficult to deal with the phenomenon because it is too widespread, spontaneous, or unpredictable should simply look at the map.
There is no need to place a police officer and a soldier next to every house in the West Bank. What is needed is to concentrate intelligence, forces, and law enforcement in the known hotspots, increase the security presence where incidents repeatedly occur, monitor movement to and from these areas, and enforce the law against those who leave them in order to attack Palestinians and their property.
When the pattern of incidents repeats again and again in the same areas, it is no longer enough to respond after the event. This map makes it possible to move from reaction to prevention.
Fighting Jewish terrorism does not require inventing a new system. It requires using the tools that already exist in the places where the data show they are most needed.
The problem is not that the state does not know where to focus. The problem is whether it has truly decided to focus.
martin-pêcheur retweeted
Twenty-three illegal outposts have been established in Areas A and B—territories in which the interim agreements vested the Palestinian Authority with civil and administrative powers. This is not merely illegal construction. It is a systematic violation of agreements signed by Israel and a deliberate intrusion into territory transferred to Palestinian civil responsibility.
The state knows where these outposts are. The military knows them, the Civil Administration knows them, and the police know who operates them. Yet they remain in place, continue to expand, and effectively receive protection—and sometimes infrastructure and funding as well. When such outposts and farms serve as launching points for incursions into fields, road blockades, property destruction, attacks on shepherds, and the displacement of Palestinian communities from their land, this can no longer be dismissed as the work of “a handful of extremists.” It is a system that enables lawlessness to achieve a political objective: seizing territory and removing Palestinians from it.
Violence is not a by-product of these outposts; it is one of the tools through which they expand their sphere of control. The settler threatens, the military restricts the Palestinian, and the state refuses to remove the intruder. This is how private violence becomes a policy of annexation under public sponsorship.
When a Palestinian builds without a permit, the state responds with orders, confiscations, and bulldozers. When an Israeli outpost is built illegally, the state displays endless patience—and often immediately begins seeking ways to legalize it. This is not an enforcement failure but discriminatory enforcement that dismantles the rule of law and makes clear that the law is applied according to the offender’s national identity.
The message to Palestinians is unmistakable: your land, property, and personal safety are abandoned whenever the offenders serve the settlement enterprise and the current government’s vision of annexation.
A government that abandons Palestinians to violence while protecting illegal outposts makes a mockery of its commitments, the law, and its security responsibilities. The 23 red dots on this map are not merely geographical markings. They are the signs of a state knowingly sacrificing the rule of law to advance annexation through lawlessness and violence.
martin-pêcheur retweeted
Legally, he can’t shut down the British consulate in Jerusalem which is not accredited to the state of Israel. The UK like France and the quasi-unanimity of the international community doesn’t recognize the Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem.
I'm with J Malkovich on culture (& sci) links:
"Generally speaking, I believe that we need more culture and more beauty in more places, not less.."
"only playwrights, novelists and screenwriters can put words in my mouth, and even then, only in the service of storytelling.."
When you've lost the actor who wanted to "shoot" Robert Fisk and George Galloway for their criticism of Israel...
hollywoodreporter.com/lifest…
martin-pêcheur retweeted
Listen to the speech - one of the most interesting and important political speeches in years - and read the comments. We are descending into a very strange world indeed where calling out wrong is not tolerated
Watch my parliamentary statement on Israel and Palestine in full:
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