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Area C, which has a land area of around 3,300-3,500 square kilometers, makes up 60% of the West Bank. Asked why the West is focused on a conflict involving the small strip, Lippman claimed it was because it was yet another disagreement involving Jews.

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“It hands a victory to Israel's enemies and makes the Gulf nations less interested to work with Israel. So there are those people who argue that this is not in Israel's best interest, that Israel is only digging itself in a deeper hole and is once again acting in a way that is self-destructive to Israel.”

However, Lippman acknowledged that on the flip side, many would happily accept “diplomatic isolation” in exchange for physical safety, returning to his earlier point that there is a feeling that Jerusalem will be criticized and marginalized regardless.

“I think Bibi (Netanyahu) would have been much better served if he spoke about compassion for the Palestinians. So getting up there with the Israeli flags on either side and looking militaristic, that speaks to the insecurity of Israel, the Jewish people who want to be tough. And there's value in that,” he analyzed, adding that while strength was something respected in the region, compassion and vulnerability were read better by the West.

I am pretty sure any Rabbi worth their salt would tell you compassion and vulnerability are what we do to save our own souls, not win diplomatic favor...

The report said there was a pervasive climate of impunity for serious violations of international law by the Israeli authorities in the Palestinian territories.

“Impunity is not abstract — it kills. Accountability is indispensable. It is the prerequisite for a just and durable peace in Palestine and Israel,” Turk said in a statement.

The Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition — Nintendo Switch 2 Edition game is available now on Nintendo eShop. The physical version launches April 16, 2026, only on the Nintendo Switch 2 system.

Join up with BLADE to explore the planet Mira and help bring humanity back from the edge of extinction, now with a faster frame rate (up to 60 fps) and enhanced resolution (up to 4K).

Nintendo Switch 2 players who already have Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition on Nintendo Switch can upgrade to the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition of the game by purchasing the upgrade pack.

How will I smell my comrades now

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/29819894

In short:

Police have seized five posters depicting world leaders in Nazi-like uniforms from the window of a Canberra bar.

The bar was declared a crime scene and was forced to close, while the artist says the works are "clearly satirical".

What's next?

The bar owner says the images are "demonstrably anti-fascist" and that he has no regrets about displaying them.

A dog delighted sports fans Wednesday when he was an unexpected competitor at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

It happened during the team sprint qualification in women’s cross-country skiing, when a dog dashed onto the course and followed two skiers across the finish line.

NBC's coverage explained that he had "zoomed with two skiers across the finish line. The good boy's sprint was caught by the photo finish camera."

P.S. Had no idea where to put this, but I had to share.

This is how you start World War 3...

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/Epsteinfiles/p/884895/andrew-mountbatten-windsor-arrested-on-suspicion-of-misconduct-in-public-office-live

• > Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office by police investigating the former prince’s dealings with the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. >
• Photographs of unmarked police cars and plainclothes officers at Wood Farm on the Sandringham estate just after 8am were published on Thursday. >
• A statement from Thames Valley police said: “We have today (19/2) arrested a man in his 60s from Norfolk on suspicion of misconduct in public office and are carrying out searches at addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk. The man remains in police custody at this time.” >
• The arrest came as Mountbatten-Windsor celebrated his 66th birthday at home. >
• Police had been assessing allegations that Mountbatten-Windsor – formerly known as Prince Andrew – shared sensitive information with the billionaire child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein when he was a UK trade envoy. >
• Oliver Wright, Thames Valley Police’s assistant chief constable, said: “Following a thorough assessment, we have now opened an investigation into this allegation of misconduct in public office.” >

“Teleporting quantum information is now a practical reality,” asserts Deutsche Telekom. The firm’s T‑Labs used commercially available Qunnect hardware to demo quantum teleportation over 30km of live, commercial Berlin fiber, running alongside classical internet traffic. In an email to Tom’s Hardware, Deutsche Telekom’s PR folks said that Cisco also ran the same hardware and demo process to connect data centers in NYC.

Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk’s platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users’ feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X’s algorithm has persistent effects on users’ current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

Ramadan Mubarak to all the Believers in the chat.

Sayed Abdul-Malik Badr al Din al Houthi gave some great advice this year (as he always does.)

Fully translated speech from the Leader of the Yemeni Revolution on 29 Shaban 1447.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/43392244

Feb. 18, 2026

Barak Ravid reported for Axios on Wednesday that, with a deal between the US and Iran appearing increasingly out of sight, “the Trump administration is closer to a major war in the Middle East than most Americans realize” and “It could begin very soon.”

Sources told the outlet that “A US military operation in Iran would likely be a massive, weeks-long campaign that would look more like full-fledged war than last month’s pinpoint operation in Venezuela.”