Open Thread – December 2023

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  1. kaysee kaysee says:

    More Covidy stories?
    These are facts.

    Pfizer Shares Dropped to Their Lowest Level in Over 10 Years
    —Here’s Why

    • Pfizer gave 2024 profit and revenue guidance below estimates as demand declines for its COVID-19 products.

    • The drug maker projects 2024 COVID-19 vaccines and treatments will generate sales of $8 billon, compared to $12.5 billion this year.

    • Pfizer shares tumbled to their lowest level since 2013.

    That’s why we need to have a new Covid virus and reminders to take the killer jabs. After the jab boom of 2020-2022, Pfffffzzzzer’s sales have dropped in 2023.

    Japan
    .

    Canada
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  2. kaysee kaysee says:

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    Usman Khawaja

    All Lives are Equal. Freedom is a Human right. I’m raising my voice for human rights. For a humanitarian appeal. If you see it any other way. That’s on you…

    Cricketer Usman Khawaja was born in Pakistan and moved to Australia as a young boy.

    Now, if All lives are equal, if Freedom is a human right, has he told the people in his home country that Christian lives have equal importance to Muslim lives? That Christians should be allowed to live in freedom and practise their religion with without fear and persecution?

    Has he told his Muslim brothers in Pakistan and around the world that women are equal to men? Has he told them not to throw Lgbtxyz off buildings because All lives are equal?

    From the safe perch in a Western country where they are able to live and work freely, they enjoy the best of both worlds. And then, they believe they are entitled to take a stand for freedom, equality and human rights.

    Usman, if you want to do something more than just playing cricket, go to Pakistan, take Mehreen Faruqi and anyone else with you and protest about the lack of freedom, equality and human rights in your country of birth, first.


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  3. kaysee kaysee says:

    2/
    Then we have some performers from the STC (Sydney Theatre Company) who think that people pay for their tickets to watch a show and then have a political message rammed down their throats. As a surprise performance without permission from the event organisers.

    Yes, the murder of the innocent civilians is a tragedy. The freedom of the Palestinian people is important. But if you want to protest, why not go to Israel or its embassy? Or join Hamas?

    As for the STC, it reminds the protestors that the company gets funded by subscribers and donors who were upset with the protest. So the donors are not pleased with any protests? Any protests that disrupt the show and the viewing pleasure of the audience?

    Or is it just the kind of protests that don’t fit in with the subscriber/donors preferences?

    In 2017, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra declared it would “remain neutral” in Australia’s same-sex marriage debate. It copped a backlash and did a backflip with the board declaring the SSO was now strongly in support of same-sex marriage.

    If a similar stunt had been pulled at an STC show by a group of Lgbtqxyz waving Pride flags or a pro-Zionist group with Israeli flags, would the subscribers/donors still be upset?


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  4. kaysee kaysee says:

    If you are part of the unofficial Awake and Resist group and want to do whatever you can, even if it may seem useless, here is a reminder on the COVID-19 INQUIRY. Submissions deadline – tomorrow 15 December.

    This is Rebekah Barnett’s submission.
    It is in three parts – starting here.


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  5. kaysee kaysee says:

    Malcolm Roberts says

    The PMC inquiry is a toothless tiger and will be a whitewash.

    Consider submitting to my Senate Inquiry that is considering draft terms of reference for a fully empowered Royal Commission with teeth to compel witnesses and subpoena documents:

    COVID-19 Royal Commission

    It needs a Royal Commission but will it get the green light?
    Submissions close 12 January 2024.

    It may be better to do both. The one tomorrow even if it is not good enough at short notice, and then a better one over the next four weeks. Those who suffered side-effects or lost loved ones, those who lost jobs or faced other negatives can write detailed submissions for the Royal Commission inquiry.

    I have my begging bowl for another cause, but I’ll hold it off for a few days.

    It may all come to nothing but better to try and (maybe) fail , than (definitely) fail because we didn’t bother to try.


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  6. mh says:

    If you hate Hamas, then Israel is doing everything wrong

    Israel’s Gaza bombardment ‘one of most intense civilian punishment campaigns in history’

    Al Jazeera English
    12.4M subscribers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r7SRenIORU


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  7. mh says:

    George Galloway

    Just back from the West Bank, Dan Kovalik reports on the increased repression and the deaths of 300 Palestinians since October 7 and the increase in settler violence

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGLCZ8CYfsg


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  8. mh says:

    The Age

    ‘Focused on our region’: Government wary of US Red Sea warship request

    Defence Minister Richard Marles has stressed that the federal government is focused on promoting freedom of navigation in the Indo-Pacific region as it weighs up a request from the United States to send a warship to dangerous waters in the Middle East.

    The United States Navy requested that Australia send a ship to the Red Sea to respond to Iranian-backed Houthi rebels attacking ships passing through the sea lane. The Houthis claimed responsibility this week for attacking a Norwegian-flagged oil tanker off the coast of Yemen, claiming it was heading to Israel. …

    … As Israel’s war against Hamas grinds into its 12th week, the government appears sceptical about taking its military involvement in the Middle East to a new and riskier level.

    Marles said the US had made a request at an operational level through the Combined Maritime Forces in Bahrain for Australia to join an international coalition in the Red Sea.

    “We will consider this request in due course, but I would note that the focus of our naval efforts right now is on our immediate region,” he told reporters in Darwin.

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    What Marles wanted to say


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  9. mh says:

    Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: UN Security Council’s Ceasefire Call: US Isolation

    Judge Napolitano – Judging Freedom
    250K subscribers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB9javHUadc


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  10. mh says:

    Peter Oborne Investigates Israeli Settlers Terrorising Palestinians

    Declassified UK

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH8JrDGZD2k


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  11. mh says:

    Disclose.tv
    @disclosetv
    NEW – Brazilian gospel singer Pedro Henrique, 30, collapses and dies during a live performance — Daily Mail

    https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1735342819810713665?s=20


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  12. mh says:

    James discusses the Israeli Ambassador to the UK’s comments that they will never agree to a two-state solution

    James O’Brien explores Joe Biden’s ‘shift’ on Israel’s bombing of Gaza | LBC

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjCV4qFhgFE


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  13. mh says:

    Officially announced in the land of Balfour

    Israeli official says no statehood for Palestinians | Al Jazeera Newsfeed

    Al Jazeera English
    12.4M subscribers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxNGMaDA_Xo


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  14. mh says:

    Oops

    Israel-Hamas War Day 70 | IDF: Three Hostages Mistakenly Shot Dead by Israeli Army Force in Northern Gaza


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  15. kaysee kaysee says:

    Those “Covid Inquiry” Submissions

    It was just by chance that – on Wednesday – I came across a post from someone on twitter about this inquiry. A bit of digging provided details and info, and I posted the links on this thread.. I did wonder if it makes sense to spend my time taking part in this government “Covid inquiry” that may end up in no significant result.

    But I decided it was worth it because, if there are thousands around the country doing the same, it will send a message to the government. They can try to fool some of the people, and they can try to push through a sham investigation without giving the public enough time, and do it at the end of the year when most are getting ready for holidays. But they can’t fool All of the people. There are the Awake and Aware citizens who are watching them.

    I spent an hour yesterday on my submission re the Covid Inquiry – start to finish. It could have been done a bit quicker, but I got distracted in the process. My submission was one document comprising one page. Just a few paras – nothing out of the ordinary. But what was important was taking part to support others who have passed the message and their submissions, that they probably worked on at short notice, overnight, so that we unite and together resist the tyrants.

    The closing date is listed as 15 December, but it appears to be still open. So if there is any one who wants to add their submission, they could check it out.


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  16. kaysee kaysee says:

    Trust the experts.

    1/
    WHO Dr Tedros
    warns about the dangers of fossil fools.

    WHO: Climate action – together, we can make a difference
    .

    2/
    Extinction Clock

    Welcome to the Extinction Clock, the Internet’s authoritative source for end of world climate and extinction predictions.

    All predictions have been made by notable individuals, academics, politicians, institutes, and the press.


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  17. kaysee kaysee says:

    Italy and Immigration

    1/
    Migrant
    Enhamel El Mehdi, a migrant from Morocco, who broke crucifixes at two Catholic Churches in Italy has been deported from the country.

    According to ANSA, during identification at the police station, he threatened police officers and the Christian population.

    2/
    Election Promises
    Meloni : Sorry, did I say if you elect me, I’ll curb immigration? What I meant to say was I’ll ramp it right up.


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  18. kaysee kaysee says:

    Q Anon

    1/
    Q-Anon-1

    Sorry to burst the “Q” bubble, but there are no “white hat” saviours, coming to rescue you from the baddies while you sit around doing nothing.

    It’s a psyop, designed to lull millions of “awake” people into inaction, so the “elite” can march forward with their agenda while you wait around for an imaginary saviour that’s never going to come.

    If you’re looking for a saviour, look in the mirror. Then start taking action.

    .

    2/
    Q-Anon-2
    .

    3/
    Q-Anon-3
    .


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  19. kaysee kaysee says:

    The Atlantic

    The Most Consequential Act of Sabotage in Modern Times

    The destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline curtailed Europe’s reliance on Russian gas. But who was responsible?

    At 2:03 a.m. on Monday, September 26, 2022, at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, an explosion tore open one of the four massive underwater conduits that make up the Nord Stream pipeline. The pipe, made of thick, concrete-encased steel, lay at a depth of 260 feet. It was filled with highly compressed methane gas……


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  20. Old bloke says:

    The Atlantic

    The Most Consequential Act of Sabotage in Modern Times

    I tried to read that article but when it started quoting Anne Applebaum and the wickedness of Donald Trump, and how Joe Biden would never authorise this sabotage because he’s such a good and decent human, then I couldn’t read anymore.

    Anne Applebaum is married to Radoslaw Sikorski, the Polish Foreign Minister, who famously sent a Twitter message of thanks to the USA when they bombed the pipelines.


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  21. kaysee kaysee says:

    🎕 ┈┈┈┈ 🎕 ┈┈┈┈ 🎕

    If you have never read the entire Bible but have been planning to do it, the New Year may be a good time to begin. A few minutes reading it each day will enable you to read the whole book by the end of the year.

    Need more info?

    Here is a Bible plan – Read the Bible in a year.
    Print it out and follow the readings for each day.

    Don’t have your own copy of the Bible? Give yourself a Christmas gift.
    Which version of the Bible?
    Here’s one option .

    Another route, if you want to gain a better understanding of the Bible:
    The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
    In The Bible in a Year podcast, Fr. Mike Schmitz walks you through the entire Bible in 365 episodes, providing commentary, reflection, and prayer along the way.

    If you do take up the reading, don’t give up because some parts, especially in the Old Testament, are hard to understand. Just read. It gets a bit easier, in the following years.


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  22. kaysee kaysee says:

    I tried to read that article but when it started quoting Anne Applebaum and the wickedness of Donald Trump, and how Joe Biden would never authorise this sabotage because he’s such a good and decent human, then I couldn’t read anymore.

    Sometimes, I have debates with myself: Should I post this or not?
    This was one of those times. I thought it was too detailed and long.

    Then I decided that there may be some who may be interested in the article. It was also published under another title:
    The Mystery That No One Wants Solved

    The final paragraphs of the article focus on various angles that may prevent the solving of the mystery. The last para:

    Whatever the official findings, there is a good chance in the end that no one is ever likely to be brought to account for the attack. This is no small thing. A $20 billion engineering feat, built over decades by thousands of skilled workers—a wonder of the modern world—might well rest forever, inert and flooded, at the bottom of the sea.


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  23. kaysee kaysee says:

    A question for those who are regular readers/posters on this blog.
    – mh, Old bloke, any others …

    Is there any Aussie blog – a small one – that is similar to what we have here? I don’t want to use the “Conservative blog” label because it no longer seems to have much meaning.

    It needs to be a blog which has posts/articles as well as Open Threads. One that has a respectful sharing of comments, opinions, rants, news and information with links to videos, articles, tweets. A site that can be visited daily, or as time permits, to catch up on news stories and related content from around Australia and the world.

    It is a serious question.

    I’ll leave it open for a few days.


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  24. mh says:

    I tried to read that article but when it started quoting Anne Applebaum and the wickedness of Donald Trump, and how Joe Biden would never authorise this sabotage because he’s such a good and decent human, then I couldn’t read anymore.

    lol, Biden said he would blow up the pipeline while he was stood next to German Chancellor Scholz.


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  25. mh says:

    Stew Peters joined Alex Jones on his Infowars show and it was very awkward according to comments by Infowarriors and Stew Peters fans.

    Stew has posted the interview and the comments are fairly one way. Jones is not an honest actor when it comes to the issue of Zionism.

    https://rumble.com/v41gwy7-stew-peters-interview-with-alex-jones-goes-viral-internet-breaks-as-israeli.html


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  26. Eyrie says:

    The USA had the means, motive and opportunity to bomb Nordstream. Why is there any debate?


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  27. mh says:

    News dot com

    Luton captain Tom Lockyer suffered a cardiac arrest that forced the abandonment of his team’s Premier League match at Bournemouth on Sunday morning (AEDT).
    Luton’s game was halted midway through the second half with the score at 1-1 after defender Lockyer collapsed on the pitch.

    The Wales international was removed from the field of play on a stretcher surrounded by a medical team to a standing ovation from the crowd.

    In a distressing scene Luton manager Rob Edwards sprinted onto the pitch to tell players to move away from their teammate as medical staff rushed to attend to him.

    The Premier League confirmed the match had been abandoned and Luton later said he was in a stable condition in hospital.


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  28. kaysee kaysee says:

    From a recent study published in Nature

    The study showcases a groundbreaking, inhalable COVID vaccine

    This new study implies that the initial vaccine was never designed to stop the virus’s spread. This raises a critical question: why on earth did governments around the world push so strongly for everyone to get vaccinated?

    1/
    Vaccines-1

    Intramuscular vaccines *CANNOT* INDUCE MUCOSAL IMMUNITY IN AIRWAYS (the site of SARS2 entry)

    This is why they did not stop the spread of Covid. Nor do much to prevent Longcovid.

    So let’s put that fable to rest & focus on blocking infection already

    2/
    Vaccines-2

    There’s a scandal of epic proportions brewing here. A new study in Nature now asserts that mRNA “vaccines” were by their very nature never able to stop the spread. Impossible in theory and practice. Yet that was the excuse used to force everyone to get injected with this stuff.


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  29. kaysee kaysee says:

    The Gaza War – The Good Guys

    1/
    The hunt is on to destroy Hamas. You see, they – the good guys – are going to completely wipe out Hamas. That is why there cannot be a cease-fire because it will allow that enemy, Hamas, to regroup. And so, the allies nod and say, yep, okay, continue with the war. We’ll keep sending the weapons.

    Never mind the innocent civilians being killed. They killed their own on October 7 but claimed it was all by Hamas. They have been killing innocent Palestinian civilians – men, women and children since October 7. But it is okay because they will be getting rid of Hamas.

    Then they kill Israeli hostages. By mistake, of course.
    I’ve read comments where their supporters in the West say it’s sad, but these things happen in war …. and anyway, it the fault of Hamas.


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  30. kaysee kaysee says:

    2/

    For the pro-Israeli western allies and supporters, the war, of course, is between Palestinians (assume Muslims) and Israelis (assume Jews).

    a/
    Last weekend
    HOLY LAND: Gaza Catholic church damaged by airstrike
    Gaza’s only Catholic church was damaged in an attack over the weekend.
    .
    b/
    This weekend
    This letter
    from the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem


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  31. kaysee kaysee says:

    3/
    I read this article and was trying to work out where I fit in.
    It provides three worldviews and I find that I am in none of the categories.

    There are three worldviews operating side by side when it comes to Israel. Only one is morally and strategically sound. You will find that in Israel, among many Jews outside of Israel and, among the goyim, those of a Christian-conservative turn of mind. Then there are those in Islamic nations who, driven by their baleful so-called ‘Abrahamic religion’, see Israel as an odious blot on the landscape of the Middle East. In their more extreme manifestation, these people are called “innocent” Palestinians who give comfort to a number of terrorist organisations bent on killing Jews. Finally, there are those fair-weather allies and friends of Israel who have daggers concealed; at the ready to plunge into Israel’s heart whenever the going gets tough. The kind of friends who you don’t want by your side in a dark alley. In many ways they are more morally bankrupt than Israel’s avowed enemies.

    I’m probably morally bankrupt.

    Voting for ceasefire is voting for Israeli men, women, children, infants and babies to be under constant threat of horrific harm. Excuse me, but that is the Devil’s cause…..

    The Australian Labor government has crossed the line. In my eyes, it has become an illegitimate government. It has failed the test of morality……

    Scratch my above comment. I am most definitely morally bankrupt.
    I want a ceasefire because I don’t want ANY innocent civilians (Jews, Muslims, Christians, Anyone) to be wounded, harmed, killed or suffer as a result of this war. So I have failed the test – whatever that is.

    A quick check through the comments found one morally bankrupt commenter who said:

    Calling Mr Bowen’s support for a ceasefire immoral just beggars belief. I’m sure there are strategic reasons why it might be undesirable for the IDF but the humanitarian grounds for it are hard to argue against.


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  32. kaysee kaysee says:

    Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Top-Secret Hawaii Compound

    Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is building a sprawling, $100 million compound in Hawaii—complete with plans for a huge underground bunker. A WIRED investigation reveals the true scale of the project—and its impact on the local community.


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  33. mh says:

    I read this article and was trying to work out where I fit in.

    Peter Smith is a moron.

    This is a former IDF soldier with way more of a clue

    Israel-Hamas war: Ex-Israeli soldier says ‘this government can’t defeat Hamas’

    Sky News

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fPtN4hVlFA


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  34. mh says:

    Haaretz
    6:05 AM
    IDF: Two Israeli reserve soldiers killed in Gaza combat on Saturday

    I wonder if the IDF is releasing the correct figures.

    Colonel McGregor in a recent interview said he had evidence of way more Israeli soldiers being killed.


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  35. kaysee kaysee says:

    Neil Oliver

    ‘Either go to the dark place, or stand up against those who take from us’

    ‘How many more have to die before we say enough is enough? The excess deaths from Covid (whatever Covid was) keeps cycling upwards.’

    ‘Soon, when the reality lands at our feet we will have a choice… either to blindly stumble towards a dark place, or to stop and take a stand against those who seek to take from the world, and not to give.’


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  36. kaysee kaysee says:

    This is a former IDF soldier with way more of a clue

    Israel-Hamas war: Ex-Israeli soldier says ‘this government can’t defeat Hamas’

    The Hamas leaders who were safely sitting in Qatar hotels have upped and vanished to parts unknown. They will continue to direct operations and it won’t be difficult to find recruits.

    If Hamas was in the past confined to a local area, this war has changed it. The anger is going to propel the followers of that religion, globally, to take action. Already, there are disruptions to Christmas celebrations and attacks on churches in Europe and the US because the west is seen as supporting the war.

    Christians will be targets from both sides: In the west from Islamists, and in the Israel/Gaza region from the IDF. And Christians won’t retaliate.

    This is from last month.
    Christian homes and a Catholic school among buildings destroyed in Gaza


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  37. mh says:

    Times of Israel

    Since October 7, more than 10,580 Israelis have been wounded in the war with Hamas in Gaza, attacks by Hezbollah along the Lebanon border, and terrorist attacks in the West Bank, according to the Health Ministry.

    The latest figures provided by the Defense Ministry indicate that 6,125 of the wounded are IDF soldiers and members of the Israel Police and other security forces. Of these, 2,005 have already been recognized as permanently disabled.

    The number of physically and emotionally injured will only grow as the war continues, and many will require intensive and long-term rehabilitation …


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  38. kaysee kaysee says:

    🎕 ┈┈┈┈ 🎕 ┈┈┈┈ 🎕

    👼 Advent: Third Sunday 👼

    Third Candle

    .

    Luke 1:
    My Soul Rejoices in My God


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  39. mh says:

    Piers pissing his pants over Nick Fuentes

    Piers Morgan Uncensored
    @PiersUncensored
    “Freedom of speech specifically exists to protect views, and people espousing views that you disagree with.”

    Zuby tells Piers Morgan he thinks white supremacist Nick Fuentes should be allowed back on X.

    https://x.com/PiersUncensored/status/1734686685261185171?s=20

    ***

    Nick Fuentes has a popular show on Rumble, and also built his own online platform, Cozy TV.

    There is no reason anyone here should know Fuentes, but if you want to get an idea of his show, here is a recent episode

    https://cozy.tv/nick/replays/2023-12-09


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  40. mh says:

    It’s also a war on Christians

    Israeli sniper ‘shot in cold blood’ mother and daughter in Gaza church

    Al Jazeera English
    12.5M subscribers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otw-1JQsP2g


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  41. mh says:

    Pope Francis deplores the death of two women in Gaza Catholic parish | AFP

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjZTCaFbZ7g


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