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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 14:25:36 JST Evan Prodromou

   Don't take a job where the previous employee was fired for speaking out against the ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 15:17:06 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Paul Jacobson

     @paul fuck you, you gaslighting piece of shit.

     1.9M people are internally displaced in Gaza. The Palestinian population has been forcibly evacuated into a tiny sliver of land by the Egyptian border. They have been denied food, water, shelter, and medical supplies. Over half of residential units have been destroyed, along with most civil infrastructure like schools, hospitals, mosques, churches, and government buildings. 19,000 have been killed, and 50,000 are injured.

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     Paul Jacobson (paul@digitalstuntfactory.com)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 15:17:07 JST Paul Jacobson

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     @evan oh my goodness. "Ethnic cleansing in Gaza". Come on, Evan. That's not even remotely true.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 15:20:08 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Paul Jacobson

     @paul Cabinet ministers like Ben-Gvir, Smotrich, Dichter, and Eliyahu have said that Nakba is the goal. Gamliel published a plan to push Palestinians into the Sinai in the Jerusalem Post. Netanyahu promised to murder every man, woman, child and domestic animal of the "Amalek".

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 15:28:37 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @paul@digitalstuntfactory.com it's ethnic cleansing. Intentional, preplanned, and explicit.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 23:00:47 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Alon

     @Alon every time a US official comes to Israel to scold them, there's an announcement that they're going to slow the extermination rate, and when he gets back on the plane home the destruction intensifies. It's a play so the US politicians can pretend they don't know what's going on.

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     Alon (alon@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 23:00:48 JST Alon

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     @evan Yes, and those 1.9 million are about to be let back in; Israel recently announced that civilians will be permitted to return to the northern Gaza Strip gradually as combat intensity falls, which Israel wants to happen by late January and the US by the end of this year. (And Israeli ministers speaking out of turn go both ways, like when Eli Cohen, who is far more important than glorified minister without portfolio Gila Gamliel, said Israel was on a three week timer around three weeks ago.)

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 23:10:02 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Alon

     @Alon and, yes, I realize that the far-right Netanyahu government extends across the spectrum from dead-eyed occupation technocrats to sneering racist eradicationists. They even brought General Benny Gantz to the war cabinet. He only wants permanent apartheid, not even expulsion! What a rainbow coalition.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 23:13:48 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Alon

     @Alon I'd be very happy to see the last steps of this ethnic cleansing -- the "humanitarian evacuations" into the Sinai, followed by refugee airlifts to Scotland, Canada, and the US -- aborted. I think there are factions in the government that know that it is too far. I hope, as it sounds like you do, that they prevail. But that does not excuse the current level of destruction.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2023 03:19:53 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Alon

     @Alon the point is to immiserate the population and make Gaza unliveable so expulsions are more attractive. "There's nowhere to go back to, but there is hot soup and blankets and penicillin outside the gate." Roaming death squads that terrorise the population don't need to kill everyone; just make them leave.

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     Alon (alon@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2023 03:19:54 JST Alon

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     @evan The level of physical destruction is disproportionate to the death toll. The IDF warns people to evacuate before destroying a building, to limit civilian casualties (the Hamas targets who are why they were going to bomb the building in the first place can get away too, but military intelligence is a contradiction in terms). So the buildings look like total devastation and then the death toll is like 0.3% of the Palestinian population (Iraq: 2% of Iraq's 2003 population).