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question for the news heads: do you have any book recommendations on the history of palestine prior to 1947? im currently reading a history of the late ottomon empire and it's really interesting, but i'd love something more focused on palestine specifically, if that exists. i'm mostly curious to know how the allies were able to carve "israel" out of palestine, which means i want to know what the conditions were like leading up to that decision.

also, while I'm at it, has anyone here read finkel's history of the ottoman empire? if so, is it good, i.e., sufficiently materialist in its analysis to be worth reading for a marxist?

if this isn't appropriate for this thread i'll delete but i figured i'd post here instead of c/literature because we have a lot of middle east expertise in the news mega

Yemen launched another ballistic missile towards Israel.

The first part of this video on xcancel, twitter link here shows a high altitude interception of the missile. I think I count at least 4 interceptors fired, the three chasing the missile, and the one launched at the beginning of the video.

This video on xcancel, twitter link here, shows an interceptor jettisoning a booster stage shortly after launch.

Freedom flotilla made a weird turn. Hope they're alright.

https://freedomflotilla.org/ffc-tracker/

Lakshya Jain at the Democratic Third Way & Abundance conference: "The base will vote for you anyway. Don’t worry about liberal defections.”

Apparently the war in Ukraine has seen the use of drones controlled via a fiber optic tether instead of wirelessly to prevent jamming. Which is 1) easily defeated with a pair of scissors or even the propellers of another drone and 2) littering the land with fiber optic wires.

https://hexbear.net/post/5178741

Live ukronazis, get em while they're hot!

Edit: https://hexbear.net/post/5186105/6221032 two for one special

Activity spotted around a support pillar of Kerch bridge on June 1 by Sentinel 2 satellite imagery

It's not a Photoshop, you can view it for yourself here

Co ordinates for the small image are incorrect, instead they should be: 45.3079, 36.5070. The image should be this:

Now the Kerch bridge has reopened and the attack appears unsuccessful. But what the hell is going on with Russia's internal security? How can this be observable two days before on Sentinel 2 and Russia is seemingly unaware? Maybe they were aware of it, I don't know. But still.

Following the closing of polls, leaders of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), including party president Luisa María Alcalde Luján and Senate President Gerardo Fernández Noroña, described the election as a historic success, emphasizing that it marked the first time the Mexican public had directly elected members of the judiciary.

Fernández Noroña downplayed concerns about turnout, stating that the significance lay not in the number of people who voted but in the fact that citizens had the opportunity to elect members of the judiciary. President Claudia Sheinbaum called the election "a complete success," adding that "Mexico is the most democratic country in the world." Later that evening, the INE announced that turnout at the election was at 13%.

Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas, president of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and Jorge Romero Herrera, president of the National Action Party (PAN), denounced the presence of voting guides and cheat sheets at polling stations and pointed to low turnout, describing the election as a simulation designed to benefit Morena.

Romero Herrara announced that the PAN would seek to reverse the judicial reform to prevent the 2027 judicial elections, investigate the elected judges for possible ties to organized crime or Morena, and report alleged irregularities to international organizations.

This is the substance that the IOF sprayed on the Madleen using drones before boarding. Looks like a luminescent substance? Glow in the dark? Maybe a measure they take just in case anyone tries to escape the boat? They'd glow up in the water if covered in this stuff by the looks of it.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenly-deported-kilmar-abrego-garcia-back-us-face/story?id=121333122 Kilmar Abrego Garcia back in US to face charges of helping traffic 'thousands' of migrants

Trump said the country's authorities would conduct an assessment of government contracts that were awarded to billionaire Elon Musk's companies.

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I thought the title said "Geopolitics and chill"

Is Russia unhappy with India's foreign policy? Of course, Lavrov uses very diplomatic language.

Here's the full speech

At that juncture, we engaged in discussions with our Indian counterparts, who emphasised that their interest in joining this “Quad” was confined exclusively to trade, economic, and other peaceful domains of collaboration. In practice, however, the QUAD nations are already endeavouring – and with notable persistence – to organise naval exercises, albeit not under the QUAD’s banner, yet, as the saying goes, “all together – the four of them.”

I am confident that our Indian friends perceive this provocation with perfect clarity. Regarding India and NATO’s anti-China initiatives in Eastern Eurasia, I wish to reaffirm our earnest interest in promptly resuming the work of the RIC trilateral format – Russia, India, and China – which was instituted many years ago on the initiative of Yevgeny Primakov and has since convened over twenty ministerial meetings, not only at the level of foreign ministers but also involving the leaders of economic, trade, and financial institutions from the three nations. Now that India and the People’s Republic of China are reaching an understanding on de-escalating tensions along their shared border, the moment has arrived to revitalise RIC.

I don't follow international affairs stuff much closely and I'm for sure not a tactics and battles type of nerd. I don't really get the whole concept.

On the mainstream news I am always hearing that Russia has killed 10 or 20 people by bombing Ukraine.

I don't mean to sound heartless about deaths of anyone but is that the best they can do? Or are they slow walking the whole situation? Why haven't they decisively won yet, or else given up? Can't they capture or kill the top guys or take their families ransom or something?

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