Agnostic Pessimist
@scandired.bsky.social
Northern European with a recreational obsession with geopolitics. Esp. Oman/GCC/Arab Gulf/Yemen, Palestine-Israel, MENA, European rightward lurch, imperialism old and new, racism at home and abroad, in that order.
Medical student on the side.
Medical student on the side.
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Israel is demanding compensation from the US after being notified of its intention to sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, according to Israeli news outlet Walla
Israel demands ’compensation’ from US after Saudi F-35 sale
Israel is demanding access to new weapon types in return for allowing the sale of the advanced aircraft to Saudi Arabia, according to Israeli media.
www.newarab.com
September 21, 2026 at 8:56 AM
Israel is demanding compensation from the US after being notified of its intention to sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, according to Israeli news outlet Walla
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This is a truly evil Administration
The Trump administration is preparing to sanction the ICC as a whole and cut it off from everyday financial transactions, insurance providers and IT services and products, which would leave the court unable to operate, Reuters reports.
Trump administration prepares sanctions against International Criminal Court, sources say
President Donald Trump's administration has prepared sanctions against the entire International Criminal Court and plans to announce them soon, two sources familiar with the matter said, a move that ...
www.reuters.com
September 21, 2026 at 7:12 AM
This is a truly evil Administration
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Israel's Institute for National Security Studies has issued a rare warning that institutions are at risk of collapse due to surging settler terrorism:
’Jewish terrorism’ poses existential risk to Israel, INSS warns
Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies has issued a rare warning that institutions are at risk of collapse due to surging settler terrorism
www.newarab.com
September 17, 2026 at 8:28 AM
Israel's Institute for National Security Studies has issued a rare warning that institutions are at risk of collapse due to surging settler terrorism:
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Israeli settlers attack CNN crew and independent journalists in the occupied West Bank
July 13, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Israeli settlers attack CNN crew and independent journalists in the occupied West Bank
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A controversial German bill that could punish denial of Israel's right to exist with up to five years in prison has sparked debate over free speech:
German parliament backs bill criminalising denial of Israel
A controversial German bill that could punish denial of Israel’s right to exist with up to five years in prison has sparked debate over free speech.
www.newarab.com
July 13, 2026 at 8:50 AM
A controversial German bill that could punish denial of Israel's right to exist with up to five years in prison has sparked debate over free speech:
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Egypt's World Cup exit to Argentina has sparked allegations of refereeing bias, prompting the country's football federation to file a complaint with FIFA:
VAR and provocations: Inside Egypt’s World Cup exit to Argentina
Egypt’s World Cup exit to Argentina has sparked allegations of refereeing bias, prompting the country’s football federation to file a complaint with FIFA.
www.newarab.com
July 9, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Egypt's World Cup exit to Argentina has sparked allegations of refereeing bias, prompting the country's football federation to file a complaint with FIFA:
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If this was a synagogue it would accurately be described as fascist and make national headlines. It’s the same thing.
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The horrible bastards in Moygashel have unveiled this year's racist bonfire topper. The Arabic text at the top translates as "Islamic Fascism", which is ironic.
For context the Muslim population in NI is estimated to be 12,000 (according to Belfast Islamic Centre) - c. 1/200 or just 0.6%.
For context the Muslim population in NI is estimated to be 12,000 (according to Belfast Islamic Centre) - c. 1/200 or just 0.6%.
July 9, 2026 at 9:06 AM
If this was a synagogue it would accurately be described as fascist and make national headlines. It’s the same thing.
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Egypt 3 Argentina 2, Argentina to progress
July 7, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Egypt 3 Argentina 2, Argentina to progress
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UPDATE:
FLA claims to have repelled the Russian military convoy from Gao, in statement saying it has suffered major losess before withdrawing. If true, then JNIM and FLA will be aiming to massacre the Russians holed up in Anefis. Next hours key for Mali's future.
FLA claims to have repelled the Russian military convoy from Gao, in statement saying it has suffered major losess before withdrawing. If true, then JNIM and FLA will be aiming to massacre the Russians holed up in Anefis. Next hours key for Mali's future.
Two battles are ongoing, both of incredible but underestimated importance - first, with the FLA/JNIM coalition pushing to annihilate and finish off the Russian military camp in Anefis, the second, with a Gao convoy fhat has reportedly already lost several vehicles...
After the night, situation in northern Mali is clear - Anefis is in the hands of the rebel coalition, Russians and Malians are barricaded in the military camp. However, this time as opposed to April 25,gov side will stay and try to fight. On the way is a Russian convoy from Gao.
July 5, 2026 at 3:01 PM
UPDATE:
FLA claims to have repelled the Russian military convoy from Gao, in statement saying it has suffered major losess before withdrawing. If true, then JNIM and FLA will be aiming to massacre the Russians holed up in Anefis. Next hours key for Mali's future.
FLA claims to have repelled the Russian military convoy from Gao, in statement saying it has suffered major losess before withdrawing. If true, then JNIM and FLA will be aiming to massacre the Russians holed up in Anefis. Next hours key for Mali's future.
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🚨URGENT: Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s life is in immediate danger, Physicians for Human Rights Israel & his lawyer warned Saturday, after a prison visit revealed the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital bearing fresh, severe injuries to his head, eyes, ears & neck, so disfigured his own attorney initially...
July 4, 2026 at 6:24 PM
🚨URGENT: Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s life is in immediate danger, Physicians for Human Rights Israel & his lawyer warned Saturday, after a prison visit revealed the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital bearing fresh, severe injuries to his head, eyes, ears & neck, so disfigured his own attorney initially...
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Every time you think the UAE can't fall lower, it does. It's kind of echoing the deployment of US troops to Saudi Arabia being the ideological foundation for the formation of Al Qaeda
April 26, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Every time you think the UAE can't fall lower, it does. It's kind of echoing the deployment of US troops to Saudi Arabia being the ideological foundation for the formation of Al Qaeda
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Israel’s definition of victory is framed by a distorted reality shaped by a leadership promising that threats can and must be eliminated through invasion and occupation, and by a media that rarely provides insight into the human costs of their actions. www.crisisgroup.org/opd/middle-e...
April 21, 2026 at 8:51 AM
Israel’s definition of victory is framed by a distorted reality shaped by a leadership promising that threats can and must be eliminated through invasion and occupation, and by a media that rarely provides insight into the human costs of their actions. www.crisisgroup.org/opd/middle-e...
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Italy suspends its defense agreement with Israel
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says that given the 'current situation,' Rome has decided to suspend the automatic renewal of the defense agreement
www.ynetnews.com/article/hjg6...
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says that given the 'current situation,' Rome has decided to suspend the automatic renewal of the defense agreement
www.ynetnews.com/article/hjg6...
Italy suspends its defense agreement with Israel
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says that given the 'current situation,' Rome has decided to suspend the automatic renewal of the defense agreement
www.ynetnews.com
April 14, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Italy suspends its defense agreement with Israel
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says that given the 'current situation,' Rome has decided to suspend the automatic renewal of the defense agreement
www.ynetnews.com/article/hjg6...
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says that given the 'current situation,' Rome has decided to suspend the automatic renewal of the defense agreement
www.ynetnews.com/article/hjg6...
Beyond being the Rhodesia of our time, Isrsel also appears to host the Sednaya of the 2020s
The testimony here about sexual violence by Israel against Palestinian prisoners is so beyond the pale everyone must see it.
It is so bad I can’t in good conscience share a quote other than the headline, which somehow manages to understate the horror within.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/i-wishe...
It is so bad I can’t in good conscience share a quote other than the headline, which somehow manages to understate the horror within.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/i-wishe...
April 13, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Beyond being the Rhodesia of our time, Isrsel also appears to host the Sednaya of the 2020s
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The Israeli cabinet has quietly greenlit the construction of 34 new settlements across the West Bank— the largest single approval of outposts in a single step, nearly doubling the recent total from 69 to 103 www.i24news.tv/en/news/midd...
Israeli cabinet quietly authorizes 34 new settlements in swift move - i24NEWS
The decision, which brings the total number of outposts approved by the current government to 103, targets strategically sensitive areas including Palestinian enclaves
www.i24news.tv
April 9, 2026 at 12:38 PM
The Israeli cabinet has quietly greenlit the construction of 34 new settlements across the West Bank— the largest single approval of outposts in a single step, nearly doubling the recent total from 69 to 103 www.i24news.tv/en/news/midd...
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Iranians went out on the streets to protest the Iranian regime. Palestinians have been bravely resisting the Israeli occupation. I don't want to hear American excuses for not doing anything to stop your regime from genociding us.
Yeah that’s where you don’t get it, there’s absolutely nothing “we” can do about him. If you haven’t been paying attention, we are living in a fascist state where the thread holding our entirety is becoming increasingly worn thinner by the day.
April 7, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Iranians went out on the streets to protest the Iranian regime. Palestinians have been bravely resisting the Israeli occupation. I don't want to hear American excuses for not doing anything to stop your regime from genociding us.
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But they are the new norm, because the world failed to act when Israel blew up hospital after hospital in Gaza. And of course they were aided by our gutless mainstream media that hemmed and hawed and hedged until it was barely even news for babies incubators to be blown to smithereens.
"These acts cannot become the new norm," Tedros Ghebreyesus said of the deadly strikes.
WHO Chief Condemns Israeli Attacks Affecting Lebanon's Health Care System
WHO Chief Condemns Israeli Attacks Affecting Lebanon's Health Care System
www.huffpost.com
April 6, 2026 at 5:12 PM
But they are the new norm, because the world failed to act when Israel blew up hospital after hospital in Gaza. And of course they were aided by our gutless mainstream media that hemmed and hawed and hedged until it was barely even news for babies incubators to be blown to smithereens.
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Reminiscing about my time living in DC. If you've lived in DC or spent time there, especially in the Cap Hill area, let's look at some of the places you could be killed for being in range of the blast radius of a Mk 84 2000lb bomb dropped by the USAF or Israeli Air Force on a legitimate target
April 6, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Reminiscing about my time living in DC. If you've lived in DC or spent time there, especially in the Cap Hill area, let's look at some of the places you could be killed for being in range of the blast radius of a Mk 84 2000lb bomb dropped by the USAF or Israeli Air Force on a legitimate target
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“MOP” stands for Massive Ordnance Penetrator. Each bomb weighs approximately 30,000 pounds. They were dropped in or near Tehran, the major population center in Iran.
The IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv are also underground. Imagine the outcry if multiple 30,000 munitions were dropped by Iran there.
The IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv are also underground. Imagine the outcry if multiple 30,000 munitions were dropped by Iran there.
April 6, 2026 at 3:51 PM
“MOP” stands for Massive Ordnance Penetrator. Each bomb weighs approximately 30,000 pounds. They were dropped in or near Tehran, the major population center in Iran.
The IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv are also underground. Imagine the outcry if multiple 30,000 munitions were dropped by Iran there.
The IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv are also underground. Imagine the outcry if multiple 30,000 munitions were dropped by Iran there.
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I will not prescribe any particular way Americans should feel about their soldiers dying in an unjust war. I do however find it comical that they seem keen to berate non-Americans for not mourning them. Psychological russification speedrun complete.
April 6, 2026 at 4:08 PM
I will not prescribe any particular way Americans should feel about their soldiers dying in an unjust war. I do however find it comical that they seem keen to berate non-Americans for not mourning them. Psychological russification speedrun complete.
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"Best paragraph explaining why the Iron Dome does not actually save lives".-- @katewillett.bsky.social
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April 6, 2026 at 4:49 AM
"Best paragraph explaining why the Iron Dome does not actually save lives".-- @katewillett.bsky.social
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She spoke out about Gaza. Now she can't use a credit card.
The UN investigator for Palestinian territories is facing U.S. sanctions and accused of antisemitism by the State Department.
The UN investigator for Palestinian territories is facing U.S. sanctions and accused of antisemitism by the State Department.
She Spoke Out About Gaza. Now She Can’t Use a Credit Card.
After accusing governments and corporations of complicity in Gaza, the U.N. investigator for Palestine territories now finds herself in Washington’s crosshairs.
www.politico.com
March 31, 2026 at 10:38 PM
She spoke out about Gaza. Now she can't use a credit card.
The UN investigator for Palestinian territories is facing U.S. sanctions and accused of antisemitism by the State Department.
The UN investigator for Palestinian territories is facing U.S. sanctions and accused of antisemitism by the State Department.
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I am not sure what else one could do to demonstrate Israel is, as one writer put many years ago, “a Jim Crow country,” than have its leadership wear noose-pins and promote state sanctioned lynching of its racialized enemies
March 31, 2026 at 2:38 PM
I am not sure what else one could do to demonstrate Israel is, as one writer put many years ago, “a Jim Crow country,” than have its leadership wear noose-pins and promote state sanctioned lynching of its racialized enemies
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The fact European allies have restricted what the US could use their bases for—protecting allies in the Gulf, not striking Iran—has also infuriated Trump & could reinforce his belief that the US has to “own stuff” (in this case, Greenland) if it really wants to protect itself 2/2
March 30, 2026 at 12:48 PM
The fact European allies have restricted what the US could use their bases for—protecting allies in the Gulf, not striking Iran—has also infuriated Trump & could reinforce his belief that the US has to “own stuff” (in this case, Greenland) if it really wants to protect itself 2/2