Daily Shaarli

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July 30, 2014

Contractor for Israel's apartheid wall wins US border contract | The Electronic Intifada
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"One of the two lead contractors for Israel’s apartheid wall in the occupied West Bank, Elbit Systems, has won a $145 million contract from the US Department of Homeland Security to provide similar systems on the Mexico-US border."

Ten years after world court ruling, widening the crack in Israel's wall | The Electronic Intifada
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"In the face of official inaction, dozens of Palestinian organizations recently issued a call for ordinary people around the world to mark ten years since the ICJ ruling by making July the month of action against the apartheid wall."

ISIS Destroys Jonah's Tomb In Mosul, Iraq, As Militant Violence Continues
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I might adopt "apostasy, not prayer" as a personal slogan.

After leveling Iraq’s Tomb of Jonah, the Islamic State could destroy ‘anything in the Bible’ - The Washington Post
  1. The headline is hilarious
  2. The author says the Islamic State is "ultraconservative" and that it has destroyed many cultural artifacts, in the same sentence.
  3. "If we didn't intervene when they were killing people, it would be kind of grotesque to intervene over a building"