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  • Supreme Court ordered all telecom providers in the country to shut down X

    If Starlink refuses to comply or hinders others to comply, they are in contempt to the Supreme Court orders.
    As long as this order is within the law, it shouldn’t matter if Starlink and X are connected or not.

    And even if they are in orbit “above” the law, the ruling is only about their operating in brazil not about the satellite itself. And their operations within the country of Brazil do have to comply with Brazilian law and courts.









  • When you are traveling on the common backpacker routes, you’ll met a lot of young Israelis who recently finished their military service.

    My expierience with them is, that those who are open minded and look at the world, are very much against what the narrow minded fundamentalists are doing at home and in Palestine.

    We have to stop to condem big groups of people on the actions of a few. This just makes us xenophobic, racist and hostile to everything different.

    Not all Israelis are violent fundamentalists. Judge the government and official forces, not the people.
    Not all Palestinians are Hamas terrorists.
    Not all Muslims are Islamists.
    Not all Americans are white supremacists or suport immigrant children in cages.
    Not all Germans are or were Nazis.
    Not all mexicans are cartel gangsters.


  • I’m not surprised. That’s what Israeli settlers are doing for decades, not just since October.

    Tell me how people should not get radicalized, when your home and existence and that of your family is constantly threatened.

    I’m not condoning the actions of Hamas, they are brutal and wrong. But Israel created that beast themselves and left Palestinians with no other options.

    If you want a more human focused instead of politics I would recommend to read Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation

    Jewish author Michael Chabon and Israeli born author Ayelet Waldman asked writers, journalists, authors of both sides and not involved at all, to visit the occupied territories and write an essay about their expierience. It shows a heartbreakingly personal point of view of the situation before the current war.


  • The article includes the initial Oct. 7 atrack, which is fair imo and checks somewhat out. Though they rounded down some.

    Since October 7, when Hamas forces killed 1,139 Israelis and foreigners, including roughly 700 Israeli civilians, almost zero Israeli civilians have been killed by Palestinian forces. Since then, a few dozen Israeli hostages have been killed.

    Israel has killed over 40,000 Palestinians since October. Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor estimates that at least 92 percent of those killed are civilians, meaning that at least 38,000 of those whose deaths have been reported to officials are civilians.

    The true death toll is likely far, far higher, experts have said.

    If we believe these numbers

    • 700 + ‘a few dozen’ Israeli civilians
    • 38.000 Palestinian civilians

    I come out at closer to 1:50.
    But math never was my strength.