A BBC journalist describes being detained and held at gunpoint with five other journalists and a cameraman by the Israel Defense Forces in Syria on May 9 (Feras Kilani/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4grldkeyv5o
In a week when the Canadian federal government strongly condemned Israel withholding aid and called human suffering in Gaza "intolerable".
City councillor Shelley Caroll of Don Valley North decided that it was the right week to publicly show her support to.. Walk with Israel. She thinks Israel is the country to support and must walk to support)
(Also present, Mike Colle, Brad Bradford, Rachel Chernos Lin, James Pasternak)
[former top exec at well-known human-rights org] noted the frustration inherent in trying to draw evenhanded distinctions that were once elementary in the human-rights world. “Hamas has an obligation under international law not to use human shields and to distinguish between military and civilian targets,” this person, who asked not to be identified to avoid further alienating former colleagues, said. “But if you bring this up internally, it’s framed as a distraction, an Israeli talking poin…
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🎵 Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 846 (Book 1, The Well-Tempered Clavier)
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