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🇮🇱⚔🇵🇸Israel-Gaza Conflict: June 18-19 (Recap)

1️⃣ Gaza officials demand Israel release 310 health workers who have been “subjected to torture” and call for an international investigation “to reveal the fate” of dozens of Palestinian health personnel whom it says Israeli forces have “kidnapped” from Gaza’s health facilities.

2️⃣ The call comes amid reports that Dr Iyad al-Rantisi, 53, the head of the women’s section of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza’s city of Beit Lahiya, died during interrogation in an Israeli prison in November.

3️⃣ There has been a “drastic deterioration” of aid flows to the south of Gaza in recent weeks, causing panic and starvation, says UN spokesperson Farhan Haq.

4️⃣ The Israeli army says operational plans for an offensive in Lebanon have been approved as US envoy Amos Hochstein wraps up a visit to Beirut aimed at easing tensions between Israel and Hezbollah.

5️⃣ Israeli military has bombed tents belonging to displaced Palestinians in al-Mawasi, northwest of Rafah in Gaza, killing at least seven people and injuring dozens more, the Wafa news agency reports.

6️⃣ UN rights chief Volker Turk warns the situation in the occupied West Bank is “dramatically deteriorating”.

7️⃣ Reports that Qatar’s prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, has met with Hamas officials in Doha.

8️⃣ Netanyahu says that Blinken has assured him that the Biden administration is working to cancel restrictions on arms deliveries to Israel.

At least 37,372 people including more than 15,694 children, have been killed and over 85,452 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll from the October 7 attack in Israel stands at 1,139.

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The German streaming service showed a map of Ukraine without Crimea before the European Football Championship match

Half an hour before the game between the national teams of Turkey and Georgia, Magenta TV showed on its air a map of Europe, on which the countries participating in the tournament were highlighted.

Ukraine was painted in the colors of its flag, but Crimea appeared before the eyes of the spectators as white - like all states not taking part in the competition.

Shortly after the broadcast, presenter Johann Kerner hastened to apologize for the “gross error” and “incorrect portrayal of Europe.”

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The commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine may be replaced again in Ukraine - media

The basis for such “rumors” was the fact that Commander-in-Chief Syrsky was criticized by a deputy from the ruling party Bezuglaya. The same one, after criticism of which ex-commander-in-chief Zaluzhny resigned.

At that time, experts believed that the deputy was not acting on her own, but was only performing the role of a “battering ram” from the Office of the President. And this “battering ram” was indeed followed by the resignation of the commander in chief. By analogy, the deputy acts in the same role now.

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FRANCE, RUSSIA, WEST ASIA, AND CHINA FROM A GEOPOLITICAL ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE

✍️Written by Wassim Morjane✍️

✍️Edited by Hikaru Kitabayashi✍️

People commonly overlook ethnography, the study of how other cultures see themselves. For example, many French parents are now thinking of how to send their children abroad, but not of Russia, now that MICRO-Napoleon is pushing for Russian confrontation to prevent French confrontation of evidence that is said to strongly suggest the first lady of France, who was born a mere 28 years before the French Baron Rothschild former employee, the President, had been raised as a "he" and sired five children with two different wives before becoming a "she" and marrying the love of their life, Monsieur Macron. 

As for Russia, its critics are almost always unversed in its history. Could it be a sense of cultural superiority in action? Certainly, this might be expected of French critics. Having studied in France, I saw first hand how stereotypes could change perceptions. People always thought I was a Frenchman with North African origins until I would correct them. And, then things would change. Many times, however, it was unconscious. You see, not all French are racist, but they are all extremely proud of their heritage. 

Russians, it would seem, see fighting in war as a way to protect their existence as a people. After all, the West has long tried hard to destroy Russia. They have kept trying ever since the end of World War 2. Nor should we forget Russia's historic background. The Russians always had no choice but to sacrifice themselves every generation for the greater good. Of course, nothing in history is black or white. But, from the Mongols to the Poles, the Swedes, Napoleon, the mid-19th century British-led Crimean War, then the German Nazis, and the Cold War till now, the Russians made great sacrifices to survive. It seems now epigenetically encoded in their genes. 

Many Western analysts have said that, even if Russia wins the war in Ukraine, they'll be confronted with a guerilla style resistance, citing examples such as Iraq or Afghanistan. What they overlook is that the West faced Muslims and not Europeans possessing a Western mindset. Consider the resistance in Iraq in 2004 during the Battle of Fallujah or in Palestine today, where people come up against a massively superior power consisting of heavily armed soldiers. They fight with no fear of death. But why? If you know Islam, the answer is simple. Death means becoming a martyr and being granted janha (paradise). There is no greater honor and it makes Muslims unafraid of death. It's a totally different mindset from that of Ukrainians.

With this in mind, let's look at China, which has a commonly misunderstood culture. Assuming the Chinese people have a happy and satisfying history, many can't understand how the Chinese can accept the level of control their government exercises over their society. People forget about continuous social upheavals before the 80s, nor the more than 100 years of Western-led economic and social destabilization before 1949. To the Chinese, themselves, the control their government exercises is totally normal! The difference with the Collective West is the lack of corporations or lobbyists capable of corruptly buying off large parts of the political leadership in order to misuse the data that is being collected, a situation quite different from what we see in other parts of the world. 

Though it may never happen, it would seem that the day we start learning from our differences and accepting each other as we are will be the day we cease killing each other. It shouldn't be that much different from accepting our own micro-level individual uniqueness! Why, then, is macro-level cultural difference so hard to accept?

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