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Israel has lost support in 42 of 43 countries polled, with an 18.5% drop in favorability worldwide, as it wages a brutal war on Gaza and faces charges of genocide at the International Court of Justice. Ben Norton discusses the findings.

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Topics 0:00 Israel is unpopular worldwide 8:19 Myth of West's 'rules-based order' 13:19 Gaza death toll 17:00 Latin America backs ICJ genocide case 19:06 Israel says Hague won't stop it 20:17 Global South rebels 22:39 Outro

Throughout the genocide, IDF soldiers have looted the homes and belongings of Palestinians. There are videos online of soldiers rummaging through boxes of clothing and jewelry in destroyed homes. In a Facebook group, an Israeli woman posted a photo of a plastic bag full of makeup, with a caption asking what she should do with the “gifts from Gaza” that her husband, an IDF soldier, brought back for her.

Eyeshadow palettes and underwear: these objects have intimate relationships with their wearers, and that’s what makes it insidiously violative to loot as a “gift” or “trophy.” This perverse practice of stealing Palestinian women’s personal objects—objects that touch a skin, a body—and treating them as “souvenirs” of conquest to gift to their wives is a form of sexual violence. The production and circulation of these images among the Israeli military is a tactic to perpetuate violence against Palestinian bodies, beyond and without physical contact.

Let's say Coates did discuss Black Ethiopian Israelis — including the fact that as recently 2010 Israel was sterilizing Ethiopian Jewish women against their will because the state didn't want too many Black people. Wouldn't this fact paint an ever harsher picture of Israel? — Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet)

In response to criticism from Carly Pildis: "What is fascinating and troubling about Ta-Nehisi Coates analysis of the conflict in Israel is his wholesale erasure of Black and Brown Israelis. There are over 160,000 Black Ethiopian Israelis in Israel. Yet their voices, struggles and existence are missing from his analysis."

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Most of the MDMA trafficked in the 1990s came through the IDF, and with recent investment using MDMA to treat PTSD; the "rave inside of a combat zone" seems to be how the IDF deals with the long term psychological stress on IDF soldiers of committing war crimes and atrocities. — jønny ⦿⃤🔻 🇵🇸 فلسطين حرة! (@jonnysocialism)

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/mdma-drug-trial-for-ptsd