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Agnostic Pessimist

@scandired.bsky.social
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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.

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Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Macron says France has agreed with Saudi Arabia to dispatch French “soldiers, radars, defensive systems” to protect the Yanbu oil terminal on the Saudi Red Sea coast, which was recently hit by Iran-allied groups. www.tf1info.fr/politique/cr...
tf1info.fr
Crise des carburants : Macron mobilise des "moyens militaires" pour "protéger" un site clé en Arabie saoudite | TF1 Info
[VIDÉO] Emmanuel Macron a annoncé, jeudi 24 septembre, l'envoi de "moyens militaires" pour "protéger" le site stratégique de Yanbu, en Arabie saoudite. Le chef de l'État a dit vouloir "protéger" ce ma...
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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The far right in Europe and the US very much depends on people seeing the superiority of our civilisation over the formerly colonialised peoples as permanent rather than a product of particular factors. Its anti-educational and anti-science attitudes are also likely to hasten our relative decline.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Canada, France, Italy and Greece allow Netanyahu’s overflight despite ICC warrant - www.middleeasteye.net/news/canada-f…
middleeasteye.net
Canada, France, Italy and Greece allow Netanyahu’s overflight despite ICC warrant
Israeli PM’s route via four ICC member states prompts fresh scrutiny over their alleged breach of international law
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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
newarab.com
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.
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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is a truly evil Administration
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Israel's Institute for National Security Studies has issued a rare warning that institutions are at risk of collapse due to surging settler terrorism:
newarab.com
’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
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Israeli settlers attack CNN crew and independent journalists in the occupied West Bank
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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:
newarab.com
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.
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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:
newarab.com
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.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
If this was a synagogue it would accurately be described as fascist and make national headlines. It’s the same thing. bsky.app/profile/dup-...
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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Egypt 3 Argentina 2, Argentina to progress
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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 04/07/2026
🚨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...
🚨URGENT: Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s life is in immediate danger, Physicians for Human Rights Israel and his lawyer warned Saturday, after a prison visit revealed the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital bearing fresh, severe injuries to his head, eyes, ears, and neck, so disfigured his own attorney initially struggled to recognize him.

🔹Attorney Nasser Odeh, who saw Abu Safiya Thursday at the underground Rakefet interrogation facility in Nitzan Prison, said he arrived shackled hand and foot, escorted by masked guards, struggling to breathe and speak, unable to sit upright, and repeatedly on the verge of losing consciousness. 

🔹Abu Safiya told him that after his Supreme Court appeal was heard June 10, four or five guards entered his solitary cell at Ganot Prison and beat him with a hammer and batons, and that since his June 24 transfer to Rakefet he has been beaten daily, losing consciousness several times without receiving medical treatment.

🔹“This is the last time you will see me,” he told his lawyer. “They brought me here to kill me. I don’t see myself surviving. This is the end.”

🔹PHRI notes the escalation in torture began directly after Abu Safiya challenged his detention in court. He has been held without charge since December 27, 2024, under Israel’s Unlawful Combatants Law. 

🔹The group has appealed to Israel’s attorney general and prison service demanding his immediate transfer, an independent medical examination, and an urgent judicial visit “before it is too late.”

Photo: Amnesty International
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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
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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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 21/04/2026
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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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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...
ynetnews.com
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
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Agnostic Pessimist @scandired.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Beyond being the Rhodesia of our time, Isrsel also appears to host the Sednaya of the 2020s
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Bassam Khawaja @khawaja.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
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...
i24news.tv
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
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Local Observer 🇮🇶🇵🇸🍉 @observer46664.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
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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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
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
forgive me for the AI usage
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
“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.
Trey Yingst @TreyYingst
X.com
EXCLUSIVE: While the airman rescue was going on, CENTCOM commander Admiral Brad Cooper directed a strike on an IRGC headquarters in an underground facility near Tehran. It was done with B2 bombers, using MOPs, the same weapon used in Midnight Hammer, high-level U.S. sources told
Fox News.
• TEL AVIV, ISRAEL LIVE I 6:34 PM
BREAKING NEWS
SOURCES: CENTCOM ORDERED STRIKE ON IRGC HQ
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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
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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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
"Best paragraph explaining why the Iron Dome does not actually save lives".-- @katewillett.bsky.social jewishcurrents.org/iron-dome-is...
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Politico @politico.com · 31/03/2026
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.
politico.com
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.
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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
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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
EU officials rightly worry that the Greenland risk may actually increase after Trump’s failure in Iran, as Greenland would, militarily if not politically, be an easier win and show of force for a president seeking to recover damaged credibility 1/2
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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Thinking about when I was a refugee caseworker and nice liberal folks would call us asking if they could host a Ukrainian family. When told there weren't any available for rent, but they could host a Congolese or Afghan family instead, we never heard from them again. This happened a lot! Like, A LOT
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Comfort Ero @comfortero.crisisgroup.org · 27/03/2026
Brilliant piece: “America does not know how to exist in a world it does not control. Since its inception, America has assured itself it was simply too big, too far away and too richly endowed to suffer any serious consequences for its actions. But there will be no escaping the cataclysm in Iran.”
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
And the only place Blinken should be answering questions from is The Hague for his role in the Gaza genocide Ukraine deserves better allies than these criminals
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
NATO is being undermined by its biggest military power, the US, which literally threatened to invade another member. Turkey, its 2nd biggest, is threatened by politicians from Israel, the country allied to most NATO countries. You don’t need Putin when you got Trump and Netanyahu.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Today Israel has made it legal to hang Palestinians who are found Guilty in Israel and who have a 99.74% conviction rate in their courts For Israelis who have a 1.9% conviction rate for crimes against Palestinians the death penalty is still illegal This is yet another War Crime
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Agnostic Pessimist @scandired.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
"Without moral strength, we have no right to exist" is quite the soundbite from a bunch of ex-MOSSAD/Shin Bet heads. Not sure about the historical prevalence of the aforementioned moral strength though.
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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Socotra Island is, last I checked, near the mouth of the Gulf of Aden, is part of Yemen, and nowhere near anything happening in Iran.
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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Dying empire embroiled in a quagmire of its own making attempts outlandish conquest to restore faith
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The White House *
@WhiteHouse
The goal is not just to reach the Moon, but to stay.
AMERICA WILL NEVER
GIVE UP THE MOON AGAIN.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Let me translate this: 90% chance we see a US ground invasion of some sort by next week
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
There is evidence that Israeli soldiers tortured a 21 months old child in Gaza. Obvious content warning for the video www.instagram.com/reel/DWQ9UUV...
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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
This is precisely how a government sets up the framework to install a backdoor, create a firewall, and switch off the internet when it's convenient for them.
The FCC has banned all new foreign-made routers unless they get an exemption from the Pentagon or DHS
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 23/03/2026
At least 1,243 people have been killed by drone strikes in Haiti as of January 21. Drone strikes. In Haiti. www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...
hrw.org
Haiti: Drone Strikes Put Residents at Risk
Haitian security forces and private contractors working with them have conducted extensive and apparently unlawful lethal drone strikes.
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Israeli soldiers extinguished cigarettes on 18-month-old Karim Abu Nassar, pricked him, and forced metal nails into his skin, according to a report. The boy was then handed over to his family by the Red Cross at the Al-Maghazi market in central Gaza. A medical report confirmed his injuries.
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
With world distracted by the wars in Iran and Lebanon: Israeli Settlers Prepare for a Large-scale West Bank Rampage as Palestinians Report Attacks and Arson www.haaretz.com/west-bank/20...
haaretz.com
Settlers prepare for a large-scale rampage as Palestinians report attacks
Settlers Launched a Renewed Wave of Violence on Sunday Afternoon for the Second Consecutive Day, Wounding at Least 10 Palestinians Throughout the Evening, Including One Man Who Was Shot in the Leg. Th...
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Michael Hanna @mwhanna.crisisgroup.org · 22/03/2026
Whether this represents genuine belief or the kinds of wishful thinking that have been at the heart of Israeli thinking about normalization, it’s misguided. Arab public opinion also figures here.
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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
You can only do this kind of perverse mental gymnastics if you don’t think the people you’ve been bombing and shooting for decades aren’t human beings. Or, I guess, and this isn’t unrelated, it’s also possible if you think they’re people but you’re just a soulless villain.
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Mira Al Hussein @miraalhussein.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Turns out the Bahraini activists who questioned the mainstream narrative were possibly right.
reuters.com
Patriot missile involved in Bahrain blast likely US-operated, analysis finds
An American-operated Patriot air defense battery likely fired the interceptor missile involved in a pre-dawn explosion that injured dozens of civilians and tore through homes in U.S.-ally Bahrain 10 d...
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full slack @fullslack.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
What the US is purposefully doing to Cuba should be considered genocide.
James
@GoodVibePolitik
X.com
A friend in Cuba just notified me that every single patient in that hospital that was on ventilators died tonight. I don't have words.
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@GoodVibePolitik•4h
There's something supremely saddening and enraging about seeing a hospital running on bare minimum power. Thinking about dialysis patients, babies in NICU, and others tonight in Cuba. This is a blockade of death.
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