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José S. Vericat

@josevericat.bsky.social

Senior Analyst @RIElcano | Research Fellow, Middle East Institute, @Columbia | PhD @UniofOxford

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José S. Vericat@josevericat.bsky.social · 3mo ago

They clearly aren't doing a very good job if we are 2.5 years into a live-streamed genocide. MSM itself cannot stop the extermination, but it can exert enormous influence. There is little doubt that the Israeli genocidal regime is winning in its ability to intimidate the MSM into submission

Zeteo UK@zeteo.uk · 3mo ago

“It’s undeniable that the British media humanizes Israeli victims of violence more than Palestinian victims.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social explains the real problem behind British media’s bias towards Israel over Palestine under the pretense of balanced reporting. Subscribe to zeteonews.co.uk!

José S. Vericat@josevericat.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Israel has been continuously dropping all the bombs they have for 2.5 years on Gaza trying to erase palestinians there and make the place unlivable. Palestinians remain steadfast in that particular piece of Hell. Their resistance is nothing short of epic

ERROR 404 ▼@antyfaszysta.bsky.social · 3mo ago

⭕ #Islam_Hassan_Saleh a été tué par le bombardement de l'occupation #Israélienne à l'Ouest du camp de #Nuseirat, situé au Centre de la bande de #Gaza. #Qudsn

José S. Vericat@josevericat.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The investigation into Terje Larsen has prompted research into the finances of the "peace industry": organizations like IPI which are formally non-profit organizations but senior staff receive financial benefits equivalent to for-profit companies 🧵 www.vg.no/nyheter/i/zO...

«Han var aldri der»

Gjentatte røde flagg i 15 år stoppet ikke norsk pengestøtte til IPI og Terje Rød-Larsen. Mens de ansatte jobbet tett på FN med fred, var sjefen sjelden til stede.

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José S. Vericat@josevericat.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I worked at IPI from 2011-2016. Full-time at first and then, while I started studying for my PhD, part-time. After that I became a non-resident adviser there. In 2019, after the death of Jeffrey Epstein, news began to emerge of the close collaboration between him and Terje Larsen. 1/x

José S. Vericat@josevericat.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Khamenei was not hiding, he had prepared for his departure. The HZ example set the precedent. Nasrallah’s assassination delivered a massive blow to HZ. It is a mistake to apply the same logic to the IR, but Israel is following that template, I.e. the physical destruction of the organization-country

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 6mo ago

The Iranian government vowed on Sunday that it would retaliate for the attacks that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s longtime supreme leader and an implacable enemy of Israel and the United States, as attacks on the country entered a second day.

José S. Vericat@josevericat.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“I am not a ‘democrat’, if only because ‘humility’ and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them, with the result that we get not universal smallness or humility, but universal greatness and pride, till some Orc gets a ring of power” pp132-133

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José S. Vericat@josevericat.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I’d put it somewhat differently, but this basically nails the logical contradiction on the West’s approach towards Israel and why what Carlson is doing is remarkable

Return of the Cmonmacques@cmonmaque.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Watching the Tucker Carlson and Mike Huckabee interview and holy shit the fact that Tucker Carlson is a voice of reason on Israel because western media refuses to confront this weirdo fuck of an ethnostate is a straight up disaster

José S. Vericat@josevericat.bsky.social · 7mo ago

That humanity has reached this point, where a genocide is carried out and then villages and towns are erased to build on top of, literally, human bones such a dystopian urban nightmare is frightening. Palestinians, their history, their social interrelations have simply become disposable.

Hugh Lovatt@hlovatt.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Trump's BoP plan for Gaza will 👉permanently erase towns such Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun, central Jabaliya and Rafah 👉destroy agricultural lands, universities, hospitals, historical sites 👉fragment it into 7 disconnected & heavily surveilled communities 👉Reduce Gaza's size through sterile buffer zones

José S. Vericat@josevericat.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I can only imagine the bubbly atmosphere in the cafes and terraces of central Tel Aviv these days, the smiles everywhere you go, people slapping each other on the back as they unroll maps, splay over urban blueprints at Duvnov 8.

Drop Site@dropsitenews.com · 7mo ago

🎥 “The coastline alone $50 billion of value on a conservative basis” 📌 Financing Gaza’s Reconstruction | Board of Peace Marc Rowan, CEO of Apollo Global, one of the world’s largest alternative asset managers, outlined an economic overhaul plan to consolidate Gaza’s “productive assets” under a...

🎥 “The coastline alone $50 billion of value on a conservative basis” 📌 Financing Gaza’s Reconstruction | Board of Peace Marc Rowan, CEO of Apollo Global, one of the world’s largest alternative asset managers, outlined an economic overhaul plan to consolidate Gaza’s “productive assets” under a single unified structure, promising centralized, “conflict-free” management of resources. The rollout would begin in Rafah, where security is set to deploy first. The proposal calls for 100,000 homes for 500,000 residents in Rafah, backed by $5 billion in infrastructure, eventually scaling to 400,000 homes across Gaza and more than $30 billion in infrastructure investment. The coastline alone he said is worth $50 billion, with total housing and infrastructure assets estimated at over $115 billion. “It just needs to be unlocked and financed.” World Bank President Ajay Banga said a Gaza Reconstruction and Development Fund has been established at the World Bank following the UN Security Council resolution. The Bank will act as trustee, managing donor funds under the direction of the Board of Peace and disbursing them for approved projects. A financial controller has been seconded to ensure oversight.
José S. Vericat@josevericat.bsky.social · 8mo ago

"Then came Gaza: an unprecedented shock to scholars’ widespread belief that policymakers shared their values. Worse, instead of speaking out as other disciplines did, the field morally collapsed from within, by remaining overwhelmingly silent in the face of Western-backed mass killing in Gaza."

Wolfram Lacher@wlacher.bsky.social · 8mo ago

In the new @dissentmag.bsky.social issue, out today, @yguichaoua.bsky.social and I diagnose the crisis of conflict studies in a piece that is part intellectual history, part personal experience. What was conflict studies for? And what can its travails tell us about how wars have changed?

Middle East Eye (Unofficial)@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · last yr.

Egypt mobilises 40,000 troops in Sinai amid Gaza displacement fears, source says - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-mobilises-40000-troops-sinai-amid-gaza-displacement-fears-source-says

Egypt mobilises 40,000 troops in Sinai amid Gaza displacement fears, source says

Military official tells MEE Egyptian army is on ‘the highest state of alert we’ve seen in years’ as Israel prepares to occupy Gaza 

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial)@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · last yr.

Detained Gaza doctor Abu Safiya in critical condition, lawyer says - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/lawyer-says-detained-gaza-doctor-hussam-abu-safia-critical-condition

Detained Gaza doctor Abu Safiya in critical condition, lawyer says

<article data-history-node-id="425700" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/lawyer-says-detained-gaza-doctor-hussam-abu-safia-critical-condition" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/lawyer-says-detained-gaza-doctor-hussam-abu-safia-critical-condition" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Detained Gaza doctor Abu Safiya in critical condition, lawyer says</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="342" data-start="111">The health of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, has severely deteriorated in Israeli detention in Israel's infamous Ofer prison, his lawyer said in a statement on social media.</p> <p>Israeli forces arrested Abu Safia on 27 December from the hospital in Beit Lahia in north Gaza, which was left out of service following Israeli attacks.</p> <p>All medical staff, patients, and their relatives were taken out of the hospital at gunpoint, forced to strip down to their underwear.</p> <p data-end="897" data-start="564">Remaining&nbsp;in solitary confinement,&nbsp;Abu Safiya&nbsp;has lost more than 40kg (88 pounds) since his arrest and was reportedly beaten on 24 June, his lawyer said. He was denied medical care despite requesting treatment for injuries to his ribs, face and back, as well as for irregular cardiology test results.</p> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, who has been detained since 27 December, tells his lawyer of brutal torture and abuse in Israel-run detention centres (Instagram/dr.hussam73)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="ed4bce98-8237-4f76-8272-f0750ea74b7c" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/hussam-abu-safiya-israel-detention-prison-jail-torture-instagram.jpeg" width="1400" height="787" alt="Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, who has been detained since 27 December, tells his lawyer of brutal torture and abuse in Israel-run detention centres (Instagram/dr.hussam73)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Abu Safiya has been categorised as an "unlawful combatant" under Israel - despite him being a civilian doctor, which means there is no formal indictment against him. (Instagram/dr.hussam73)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background:rgba(220,220,220,0.5);background-image:url(https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png);display:none;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img alt height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

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José S. Vericat@josevericat.bsky.social · last yr.

I don’t like to throw around the word evil, I avoid using it. But there are layers to the evil in this prohibition, depths of cruelty, pointless, gratuitous cruelty, and blatant sadism that simply make it impossible to describe it any other way

Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · last yr.

In yet another act of collective punishment, Israel has now banned all access to the sea across the entire Gaza Strip—prohibiting both swimming and fishing for Palestinians.