The Onion:

WASHINGTON—Upon returning from his brief diplomatic trip to the Middle East, President Joe Biden urged the nation Thursday not to let dangerous online rhetoric humanize Palestinians. “As the war between Israel and Hamas rages on, I urge my fellow Americans to remain vigilant, and not fall for any false propaganda that claims people living in Gaza and the West Bank are worthy of human life,” said the 46th president, adding that since the war had begun, U.S. intelligence had discovered countless bad actors flooding the internet with reports that many Palestinians were mothers, fathers, and children who were not terrorists and did not deserve to be trapped without food, water, or fuel while being carpet-bombed into submission. “If you hear a Palestinian being described with terminology like ‘son,’ ‘daughter,’ or ‘in desperate need of medical attention,’ then you should be aware that what you are reading has been specifically designed to stoke empathy.” At press time, Biden added that Americans should also avoid dangerous propaganda that wrongly asserts the billions of dollars in military aid the United States has sent to Israel could be spent on things like healthcare, education, or alleviating poverty at home.

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Linkenpolitikerin Wagenknecht Foto: Sascha Fromm / IMAGO

Sahra Wagenknecht will eine neue Partei gründen. Wohl am Montag werde sie dies in der Bundespressekonferenz verkünden, haben mehrere Quellen aus ihrem Umfeld dem SPIEGEL bestätigt. Wagenknechts Büro wollte sich auf Anfrage dazu nicht äußern.

Amira Hass, Haaretz:

You Germans have long since betrayed your responsibility, the one “arising from the Holocaust” – that is, from the murder of my parents’ families, among others, and the suffering of the survivors. You betrayed it by your unreserved support for an Israel that occupies, colonizes, deprives people of water, steals land, imprisons two million Gazans in a crowded cage, demolishes homes, expels entire communities from their homes and encourages settler violence.

And all this has happened under the auspices of a so-called peace agreement that you and other Western leaders embraced.

France 24:

Both the US and the EU have increased humanitarian funding for Palestinians since the Israeli bombardments following the Hamas attack. The EU’s aid to the Palestinians is the “price of their guilty conscience about the disappearance of the prospect of the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel,” noted French journalist and writer Gilles Paris in Le Monde.

October 2023: The lily is plastic, but the other flowers are real, so recently tended.

Times of Israel:

The European Union will launch a humanitarian air corridor to Gaza through Egypt, with the first flights expected this week, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announces.

“Palestinians in Gaza are in need of humanitarian help and aid. That is why… we are launching an EU humanitarian air bridge to Gaza through Egypt. The first two flights will start this week,” von der Leyen tells a press conference in the Albanian capital Tirana, where she is attending a regional Balkan summit.

Mira Oklobdžija:

His [Franco “Bifo” Berardi] vision of the future is not bright; he does not accept the false hope of a “happy ending” or a successful continuation of the journey. What he stands for is internationalism and solidarity with the courage to analyse the contemporary world and face the inevitable. The policies of the great powers, war and capitalism in conjunction with a new type of fascism and climate change must be re-examined without superficial embellishment. He insists that the term ‘climate crisis’ does not correspond to the state of affairs; you can get out of the crisis. According to him, a more accurate term is ‘collapse’.

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When asked by the audience how new generations could feel better in hopeless times, he answered with the words from Antonio Machado’s poem, “Caminante, no hay camino”: “Traveler, your footprints are the path and nothing more; Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking”.