#Gaza / Egyptian source: U.S. “has accepted” Israel's plan for a military operation in Rafah as part of a deal to avoid a wider attack on Iran
According to an Egyptian source, Egypt is preparing militarily along the Gaza border in anticipation of a potential Israeli military operation in #Rafah, Palestine. The source claims the U.S. “has accepted Israel's” plan for a military operation in Rafah as part of a deal to avoid a wider attack on #Iran. Egypt is diplomatically working to delay or cancel the Israeli operation, focusing on protecting civilians and ensuring aid can continue to flow. Egypt is also increasing the capacity of displacement camps in Khan Younis and coordinating with both sides to manage the expected influx of displaced people.
@oatmeal : whether the Biden administration did or did not agree upon such an insane "deal": let's be patient until an official USA source officially confirms or officially denies it.
This conflict is becoming much bigger if it leads to #WW3. It is in Putin's interest to have WW3 (no more weapons to #Ukraine), and he may help achieve WW3 by exactly stating the OPPOSITE in fake news. Russian trolls are all over the place.
At the very least, he benefits from confusion.
And as I said before, more regimes may benefit from WW3, or from the opposite (keeping the conflict localized). It is hard to know who to believe.
Which is why I wrote in my profile that you should not (blindly) trust me. Even if Erik van Straten is my real name (which it is, but anyone can claim that): I'm not the only person called "Erik van Straten".
Looking at reputation usually helps a lot, but even then you may be deceived.
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Nothing is more annoying than influencers giving themselves permission to dehumanize Palestinians. Here are two examples, but I've seen many more. These are definitely two of the most defensive, lol.
Maybe it says more about the pitfalls of influencer culture (than the individuals), the need to be seen by millions as "authentic," ...
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the need to build a brand on empathy, scatter a little so that you can receive it back a million fold from adoring fans, the craving to be at the top of the parasocial relationship. We all present different faces or code switch irl, so discussing authenticity (that the influencers seem fake) gets complicated. Maybe the online version of it is still new enough and just lends itself to more (unwarranted?) microscopic evaluation. Idk why I'm annoyed. #palestine#influencer#authenticity
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In contrast, it's comforting to see celebrities support justice for Palestinians without qualifying it with their statement against terrorism and solidarity with Jewish people. Neither of these things have anything to do with justice for Palestinians (unless you reflexively think all Palestinians are terrorists and you want us to celebrate your good work of trying to overcome that personal deep seated bias as some grand act of charity-see below).
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This isn't about the Jewish people, Hamas or what a celebrity believes is terrorism. The people that love to discuss those things can't seem to talk about reparations, right of return, right not to live under occupation and apartheid (or the fact that the result of a ceasefire is always a status quo of daily Zionist violence against Palestinians).