#Collaborators

[autumnslance]

If we don't acknowledge the crimes of our kin in all their painful truth, then we do a disservice to their victims living and dead. But if we let people paint them as monsters who did monstrous things─things we believe we would never do─then we perpetuate a different but no less dangerous lie.

-Arenvald Lentinus, Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, "Laying the Past to Rest" (Healer Role Quests), on dehumanizing those who collaborated with the enemy and the range of victimization and sins that entails.

[originalleftist]

Hamas has admitted that its hostage guards were given new orders after the rescue back in June, and threatens the death of more hostages if Israel tries to rescue them. But we're supposed to believe that they didn't execute these ones?

Basically: "No, we totally didn't murder these people, but we will if you try to rescue any more, and we're basically admitting we planned this for months, but we totally didn't do it this time."

Its a lie so contemptibly transparent that it probably qualifies as performative- a lie not really mean to deceive, but simply to flaunt the liar's contempt for the truth and their ability to do so with impunity, as another form of abuse to the victims.

Except that it will undoubtably be readily believed by many Hamas apologists. Except that I don't really think that a lot of those people are fooled either. They know what Hamas did, and they're glad, because six more Israelis are dead, and their loved ones and community are grieving. Like many Holocaust deniers, they deny not because they believe it did not happen, but because they know it did, they're glad it did, and they want it to happen again.

Hamas and its allies, backers, apologists, and lapdogs deserve nothing but contemptuous laughter, and swift justice. That justice may have to be delayed, for the sake of saving innocent lives, both Israeli and Palestinian. It may have to be pursued by more subtle routes. But it will come for them in the end, I do not doubt.

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

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[amberaesthetic101]

The happiest when we’re together 🥹

[sailorgundam308]

I’m looking for creative collabs to create new Astarion x Karlach content ❤️‍🔥

Writers looking for illustrations for their stories, collabs for graphic novels/ short animations or art exchanges, all welcome :3

Hmu if you’re interested!

(If I’m left to my own devices I’ll just be drawing them drooling into each other’s mouths forever)

[good-old-gossip]

Meet the collaborators of Israel's Genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank!!!

Egyptian exports to Israel doubled in 2024 compared to the previous year despite Israel’s devastating war on Gaza since October, according to a new report by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics.

The data published on Thursday showed that Egyptian exports in May 2024 stood at $25m, double that of the same period in 2023.

Despite increasingly fraught relations, energy and security cooperation between the two countries has intensified since October, with Israeli natural gas exports to Egypt sharply increasing in the last year.

Meanwhile, exports from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to Israel also increased to $242m in May 2024, compared to $238.5m in May 2023, the report said. Jordanian exports to Israel also continued to rise in 2024, reaching $35.7m in May 2024 compared to $32.3m in the same period last year.

In contrast to Egypt, the UAE and Jordan, Israeli statistics found that Turkish exports to Israel dropped by over half in 2024 compared to the previous year amid the Turkish trade ministry’s restrictions on exports to the country over the war in Gaza.

In May 2023, Turkish exports to Israel amounted to $376.6m, a value that plummeted to $116.8m in May 2024.

Israel’s trade with Egypt grew by 56 percent in 2023 and was up 168 percent year-on-year in the fourth quarter, according to the Abraham Accords Peace Institute report.

In 2022, the two countries set a target for annual trade at around $700 million by 2025, up from about $300 million in 2021.

Trade between Turkey and Israel continues through third countries like Greece, despite Ankara’s decision to halt direct trade with Tel Aviv over the Rafah invasion in May, according to data released on Thursday.

Figures from Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) reveal that Israel imported $116m worth of goods from Turkey in May, marking a 69 percent decline from the $377m in the same month last year.

In contrast, the Turkish Exporters’ Assembly (TIM) recorded only $4m worth of goods exported to Israel in May, a drop of over 99 percent compared to the previous year.

However, two Turkish businesspeople facilitating trade between Turkey and Israel informed Middle East Eye that since early May, Turkish goods have been re-routed through Greece and other nearby countries to reach Israel.

This shift follows Ankara’s proclaimed imposition of a total trade ban on Israel until a permanent ceasefire in Gaza is established.

“The Israeli authorities don’t even ask Turkish companies to amend their certificate of origin to re-export the goods through Greece because it would increase the costs further, so they are Turkish products,” one Turkish businessman told MEE.

Businesses favour Greece due to its proximity to Turkey’s industrial base and its comparatively cheaper shipping options to Israel.

TIM data indicate that Turkey’s exports to Greece surged to $375m in May, up 71 percent from $219m in the same month last year.

Israeli data from May doesn’t show an increase in the quantity of imports from Greece, despite the Turkish re-exports. Murat Yapici, the general manager of My Advisor consultancy, told MEE that Israeli records more accurately reflect the bilateral trade since they are based on the origin of the goods, even if they come through third countries like Greece.

The trade volume between the two countries was $6.3bn in 2023, with 76 percent being Turkish exports, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute. Turkey had been a key supplier of affordable products to Israel.

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[thevisualvamp]

Art imitates life

[nando161mando]

This is not a politician.

This is a collaborator.

[mukky-world]

Small post of the collabs I did in 2022 with some awesome people :D

Play Concept - Collab I did with @nthercyte

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SYSTEM CORE - Collab I did with @ghostmemory2002

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Frutiger Metro - Collab I did with NoBonus

[madmensideblog]

Every Episode of Mad Men Collaborators — Season 6, Episode 3 dir. Jon Hamm

"As my mother used to say, your options were dishonor or war. You chose dishonor, you might still get war.” “That was Churchill.”

[indeedgoodman]

[originalleftist]

CNN made a deal with Trump not to fact-check the debate, and did not disclose this in advance.

Also, I 100% agree with this proposal.

I felt all along that there should be no debates, because Trump is an illegitimate candidate who should not even be on the ballot, much less normalized, and because giving him a platform, or putting him in a room with the President, is a national security risk.

After the first debate, I feared that Biden now had no choice but to debate Trump again as planned, as refusing would make it look like an admission that he couldn't handle it.

But this is perfect.

Simply require fact-checking as a condition of Biden's participation.

The host network can't reasonably refuse that- not without effectively admitting that they're partisans deliberately enabling Trump's lies and deception of the public.

At worst, we get a fact-checked debate.

At best, Trump refuses to participate, and then that's on him.

Edit: In that event, Biden could as an alternative hold town halls, taking questions directly from the public.

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

Two Palestinians were murdered in the city of Tulkarm and another was murdered in Jenin in the West Bank on Friday under suspicion of spying for Israel.

Many people had either participated or watched the event and took very graphic photos and videos documenting the murder, which can be seen on X, formerly known as Twitter.

The two that were murdered in Tulkarm are 31-year-old Hamza Mabarech and 29-year-old Azzam Joabra, according to N12.

A Palestinian mob can be seen in the videos abusing the bodies and hanging them on an electric pole as crowds surrounded the area, screaming "You traitors!" N12 reported.

Hamas's statement on the murders

Hamas's military wing in the West Bank published a hard document of the two Palestinians who were executed, which was later revealed to have been done by a firing squad, KAN reported.

[amberaesthetic101]

Loving my best life out in Cali rn🩵✈️

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[agentfascinateur]

The Israeli Fascism Contagion

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