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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Unruly mind – Silent Songs of Sonsnow

“A source of trouble is our unruly minds. We can counter that by developing a warm heart. We need to effect an inner transformation, to understand that love and affection are a real source of joy.”

His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama Source: Unruly mind – Silent Songs of Sonsnow

Antisemites supporting Israel is weird. Jewish support of them is even weirder | Sam Wolfson | The Guardian

Perhaps the most bizarre spectacle of the past month has been watching some of the world’s most wretched antisemites lining up to give their unalloyed support to Israel. Even more jarring has been their embrace by those who are supposed to advocate for Jewish safety.

These people include the radical US pastor John Hagee, who previously claimed that Adolf Hitler had been born from a lineage of “accursed, genocidally murderous half-breed Jews” and sent by God to help the Jews reach the promised land. (He apologized in 2008 for some of his remarks.) He was invited to speak last Tuesday to an audience of thousands at the March for Israel in Washington, organised by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, to help “condemn the rising trend of antisemitic violence”…

Source: Antisemites supporting Israel is weird. Jewish support of them is even weirder | Sam Wolfson | The Guardian

Israel And Hamas Agree To A 2-Day Extension Of The Truce In Gaza | LAist

Men with brown skin tone face the camera and gesture. They are on a bus.

People gesture from a Red Cross bus carrying Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli jails in exchange for hostages released by Hamas from the Gaza Strip, in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, on Sunday.
(Fadel Senna
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AFP via Getty Images)

Source: Israel And Hamas Agree To A 2-Day Extension Of The Truce In Gaza | LAist