alt-text: there’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop. I have to eat better and also avoid a plague. my rent went up $150. I’ll need to pick up more shifts. Twenty people died in Rafah this morning and every major news outlet is stretching the limits of passive voice to suggest whole families may have leaped up through the air at missiles that otherwise had the right of way. I just got a notification that my student loan payments are starting up again and my phone isn’t charged. My cousin got COVID for a fourth time and can no longer work or walk or even feed himself. The person across from me on the L train seems to fashion themself a punk rock revolutionary, but they’re not wearing a face mask, and that’s the kind of cognitive dissonance that makes me want to steal batteries. Fascists keep winning primaries for both parties, and I think I gained a few pounds. The CDC just announced there are no more speed limits on highways, and I think this Ativan is finally hitting. The NYPD farmer’s market only sells bad apples, have you heard that one? Listen it’s warm today, too warm for March. But I don’t have time to think through the implications because there’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop.

  • icydefiance@lemm.ee
    49·
    10 months ago

    Turns out my source was also counting other countries, so fair enough.

    This month, the US, British and French governments placed sanctions on more than 30 Israeli settlers for acts of violence and incitement against Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/04/israel-settler-violence-sanctions

    Still, a ceasefire agreement has been proposed, and Hamas is the reason it hasn’t happened yet.

    Also keep in mind that sanctions need to be ramped up gradually. That gives people time to change their behavior instead of immediately being punished by brand new policies, and it makes the sanctions relevant for a much longer period of time. If you go straight to 100% and your targets just get used to it, then you can’t use that card anymore.

      • icydefiance@lemm.ee
        38·
        10 months ago

        Hamas doesn’t get to say “we don’t know where any of the hostages are” and then follow that by saying “the ball is in Israel’s court”. That’s fucked.

          • icydefiance@lemm.ee
            37·
            10 months ago

            It’s the single most important thing for Hamas to know. When they say they don’t know, it just means they tortured, raped and killed all of the hostages, but they don’t want to admit to it.

              • icydefiance@lemm.ee
                37·
                10 months ago

                The 23-page report said the team also found “clear and convincing information” that some of the women and children taken back to Gaza that day by Hamas as hostages were subjected to “rape and sexualized torture and sexualized cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.” There were “reasonable grounds to believe,” it said, “that this violence may be ongoing.”

                https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/04/hamas-rape-un-report-hostages/

                  • icydefiance@lemm.ee
                    43·
                    10 months ago

                    Back that up.

                    I just did.

                    Palestinian women and girls have been subjected to sexual assaults

                    I haven’t said a single word to defend Israel’s actions, and I’m not going to. That’s also fucked up.

                    That’s why it’s a good thing that Biden has started to change US policy toward Israel.