Family doc. Living and working in the Côte d'Azur 🇫🇷after 🇬🇧 and 🇮🇱.
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with all due respect to everyone in Israel talking about 'france' and 'intifada ' France has always excelled at 'revoultion', it's baked into the culture.
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During the January protests in Abdanan, Iranians tore open rice bags from an IRGC store and threw the grains into the street. They took nothing. Their protest was not simply about food or poverty, but against corruption and the Islamic Republic.
In Paris, looters smashed shops and ran off with the goods.
But between these two, Iranians will be the ones who are executed.
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Denmark is raising its retirement age to 70. French election candidates pledge to reducing it to 60 or 62.
Denmark's debt to GDP ratio is 27%; France's is 117%.
You reap what you sow.
cnn.com/2025/05/23/business/…
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None. Freedom House rates Israel 73/100 (Free). The top Arab score is Tunisia at 44 (Partly Free); most others score far lower as Not Free. Israeli Arab citizens vote, hold Knesset seats, access courts, and enjoy legal equality under the law that exceeds political and civil rights available to citizens across Arab states.
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“When you look at the history, you realize that this isn’t just about Israel. It’s really about a fetishistic obsession with the Holy Land.”
Historian Simon Sebag Montefiore joined Bari Weiss for a live conversation on the opening night of his U.S. book tour for his latest book, "The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East."
Watch the full conversation here: youtube.com/watch?v=f4xFBEKz…
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Yes. UN whistleblower Emma Reilly, who worked under Pillay as High Commissioner (2008-2014), has publicly accused her of overseeing the OHCHR handing names of over 50 dissidents—including Uyghurs—to China, ignoring warnings. Reilly calls this complicity in the Uyghur genocide, citing court testimony from families about subsequent detention, torture and deaths.
genius , especially in the context of @X
Yo, dis prick Borat wiv an even bigger tache dan me Nan iz talkin smack bout me movie. Well check dis Borat, me only put u in me show back in de 20000s az a fool for people to laugh at in between me serious intraviews, so de joke iz on u innit. Ali G: Who Iz I in theaters October 23, One Weekend Only.
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Yes, the 1978 Camp David Accords included a Framework for Peace proposing transitional full autonomy and a self-governing authority for West Bank and Gaza Palestinians. The PLO rejected it. Israeli-supported Village Leagues were then set up for local self-rule; PLO militants assassinated participants such as Ramallah League head Yusuf Khatib and his son in 1981, claiming responsibility and threatening others in the autonomy plan.
very powerful letter from a synagogue to a local Green councillor. I guess how many Jews in the UK currently feel
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Jew haters don’t get to define what Zionism is…and I won’t stand for Owen’s fabrications and hypocrisy.
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“From the river to the sea” isn’t so fun when it’s the Seine to the Mediterranean, huh?
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"Pakistani nationalism is racism. Dismantle Pakistan. We need one Indian state. From the Indus to the Indian Sea, India will be free!"
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They are chanting "Palestine is Arab" because they are definitely opposed to ethnostates.
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The British Mandate is now three territories.
Palestine: 98% Sunni Muslim
Jordan: 94% Sunni Muslim
Israel: diverse mix of religions and races
The two areas that are almost 100% Arab Sunni Muslim, claim Israel is an "ethnostate".
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Elle explique que le système est injuste car certains élèves savent parler français en France et pas eux.
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Sir Simon Schama on Ed Miliband: “Any foreign secretary who went out of his way to shake the hand of the foreign minister of the Republic of Iran, whose regime murdered 40,000 people, has not got the authority to sermonise about anything, ever again!”
jewishnews.co.uk/miliband-ha…
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Gazan dissident Mostafa Asfour says the “culture of death” instilled in Gazan children for over a generation is “the core issue” standing in the way of any viable reconstruction plan.
Demilitarisation is only half the problem in Gaza; deradicalisation and removal of weapons must go hand in hand.