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European settlers coming to a foreign land, settling there, and either committing genocide against or expelling the indigenous people. The Zionists have not invented anything new in this respect.

-Noam Chomsky

World reaction to Trump’s ‘take over’ and ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza

© Aljazeera
February 5, 2025

United States President Donald Trump has unveiled a shocking plan to take over the Gaza Strip after Palestinians are forcibly moved out of the besieged enclave, spurring fears he would back an ethnic-cleansing campaign.

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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

-Victor Hugo

El Athletic responde al comunicado del Madrid: “Carvajal le rompió el peroné a Yuri…”

JUANMA VELASCO © Marca.com
February 5, 2025

Las duras manifestaciones del Real Madrid al estamento arbitral tras el partido del pasado fin de semana frente al Espanyol han salpicado la rueda de prensa que ha ofrecido este mediodía de miércoles en San Mamés el presidente Uriarte. El dirigente rojiblanco se mostró crítico con las quejas descarnadas hacia los árbitros. No citó expresamente los términos del comunicado del Real Madrid, pero sus explicaciones fueron claras y tajantes.

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Trump’s lies are dragging down democracy, journalism and the climate

By Sammy Roth © Los Angeles Times
February 4, 2025

A single social media post illuminates the precarious state of the American democratic experiment.

When President Trump said last week that the military had “just entered the Great State of California and, under Emergency Powers, TURNED ON THE WATER flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest, and beyond,” he was lying. As The Times’ Clara Harter and Ian James reported, there was no military invasion. The federal government simply restarted some Northern California pumps that had been down for maintenance for three days.

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We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into slavery. Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns.

-Bertrand De Jouvenel

Trump says Palestinians should leave Gaza permanently and US will ‘take over’ strip

By Kevin Liptak, © CNN
February 4, 2025

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the US “will take over” the Gaza Strip, after saying earlier that he doesn’t think there is a permanent future for Palestinians in Gaza.

“The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too,” Trump said during a joint press conference alongside his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu. “We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings.”

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Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

-Annie Lennox