How can we possibly manufacture consent unless we seize the means of information distribution. Also, TikTok hurts meta and Xitter financially so really it should be nationalized (sold to another US backed corporation). Let the free market decide etcetera
Back in my day the Internet was better, no video, we had to connect with 56k moderns, the hardware cost a fortune, most people were in AOL, we had to upload both ways in the snow, had to wait for titty pics to load one line at a time, and we liked it that way… You kids today with your tikky Tok and your faces-book don’t understand
Amsterdammer Gerrie Ruijmgaart is overleden. Hij werd begin deze eeuw bekend als pa Tokkie, door zijn verschijning in een documentaire en een realityserie. Ruijmgaart was 73 jaar. De familie Ruijmgaart-Tokkie maakt zijn overlijden bekend in een video op TikTok. "Wij zijn van de Tokkies en willen […]
Okay, I have been obsessing over this Tiktok for over an hour. When they say that Zionists do everything to prove to the world that every single anti-Semitic stereotype is true, they really do fucking mean it. Behold the Tiktok in question: https://www.tiktok.com/@elongilad/video/7405549775493401873 Seriously absorb what he’s saying. I literally thought he was just some anti-Semitic crank until I searched for him online and it turns out he writes for Zionist newspapers. And it’s not just him that describes this concept since I’ve found newspaper articles as well. From this dude and other articles I’ve read, Zionist society apparently exalts the cheater and liar while being an honorable person invites only contempt and makes you a mark that will be exploited by others. They try to tone it down by saying that it’s only applicable to stuff like cheating on your taxes or cutting in line, but that shit 100% goes way deeper especially when we’re talking about a genocidal settler colony. This is also a clue into why the Zionists actually thought it was a good idea to release the video of Sinwar’s martyrdom. If we take this concept of frayer seriously, then from the warped perspective of Zionists, Sinwar was the ultimate frayer: a man who gave his life for the sake of others. In their eyes, he’s the ultimate sucker and the video of his final moments on Earth as the ultimate sucker who could’ve send a bunch of low level Hamas grunts to die in his place should’ve invited universal mockery and contempt.
StealTok: 130.000 utenti spiati da 12 estensioni browser mascherate da downloader TikTok @informatica La campagna StealTok, scoperta da LayerX Security, ha utilizzato dodici estensioni browser su Chrome e Edge che fingevano di scaricare video TikTok. Dopo 6-12 mesi di comportamento legittimo, le estensioni attivavano un modulo spyware per RE: insicurezzadigitale.com/?p=838…
Fuck. Gen Z should not “lean slightly toward Harris”, Gen Z should be an overwhelming progressive and inclusive force. Fuck Twitter and TikTok that fried men’s brains with shit like Andrew Tate and similar things.
(This takes 5⅓ minutes to read.) Eric von Rosen had made himself known as a pioneer in Swedish aeronautics after his crossing the Baltic Sea during the Finnish War of Freedom in 1918. Later on he sometimes used aeroplanes for transports in Sweden and abroad. This was the case the 21st of February 1920, when he had been in Stockholm and needed urgently to go to Rockelstad. The trains were all cancelled due to bad weather, so the Count went to the small airfield in Stockholm. The Swedish pilots were unwilling to head out in the snowstorm that late, but a German former fighter-pilot, Hermann Göring, was available. Eric and Göring flew through the snow-storm towards Rockelstad; they flew low along the railway until they reached Sparreholm, where they turned south across the lake and landed on the ice below Rockelstad. They tied the plane to the steamboat jetty and the two freezing men went in to heat up in front of the fireplace in the Hall. Countess Mary’s sister, Carin von Kantzow, was visiting this weekend, and when she came down the stairs Göring immediately fell in love. When Carin and Göring started seeing each other in Stockholm it caused a scandal in the high-society, for Carin was married and had a young child. The pair moved to Germany later that year, where Göring soon leaned about a group of revolutionaries in Munich; Hitler and his henchmen, who had started with demonstrations on the streets. Göring soon travelled to Hitler, who welcomed the national war hero into the party. Göring became a trophy that the [Fascists] could use to gain popularity with the masses. His noble background and social talent also made him the perfect ambassador for the [Fascists] among the upper classes. Carin and Göring’s romantic love-story was soon exploited by Goebbels massive machinery of propaganda, and the couple was toured around the nation to boost popularity. Carin, who became the First Lady of the [German Fascists], was especially celebrated. But she did not live to see the atrocities committed in the [nineteen thirties], for she died of a weak heart in 1931, before Hitler gained power. But even after death she remained a mascot of the [Fascists], who had a booklet printed to commemorate their Swedish Saint, in a gigantic edition. Göring even had a room in his Berlin flat arranged as a shrine to Carin. During the thirties Göring maintained close connections with his Swedish relatives, and the Count and Countess often went on visits to Germany. Eric became something of an unofficial diplomat in the relationship between the Reich and Sweden. When the Swedish government out of a fear for diplomatic complications could not receive a high-ranking [German Fascist], they asked von Rosen to be the host. In Sweden the Count’s pro-German opinion was well known, but he did not actively spread [Fascist] propaganda in the country, nor did he have a rôle in any of the national [fascist] parties. After Hitler’s invasion of Denmark and Norway, Eric von Rosen wrote in the press to calm the Swedish people. He maintained that Göring’s strong love for the country was a guarantee that it would not be invaded. But privately Eric could not accept that the brother-peoples had been attacked, and when Hitler started his crusade against the Soviet Union, he understood that Hitler was a megalomaniac, and that Germany was to lose the war. Towards the end of the war he renounced Hitler and Göring altogether. About the Swastika Eric von Rosen found swastikas on a Viking rune-stone on Gotland, where he went through high-school. This seemed to him a typical Viking symbol, and as such it held great appeal to the nationalistic young Count. The Vikings used the swastika as a symbol of light and happiness. When Eric was preparing for his first expedition, the one to South America in 1901, he had swastikas painted on his crates and luggage, to separate them from those of the other participants. This way of choosing for oneself a personal emblem or token of luck, was common and fashionable at that time. During his travels among the descendants of the Inca in Bolivia, he was surprised to see how often their textiles were adorned with swastikas, and realised that this was a universal symbol that had been used by many cultures all over the world. When he started rebuilding at Rockelstad the next year, he used the symbol as a decorative element everywhere in the house. They are easily spotted in the ceiling of the Great Hall, where they are painted green on a red background. The Hall was finished in 1903. When he planned his spectacular hunting-lodge in 1910, the architect Tengbom was commissioned to design a group of furniture in Old Nordic style, decorated with carved swastikas. The aeroplane that von Rosen bought in 1918, to support the Finnish fight for independence was painted with large blue and white swastikas on its wings before it was delivered to General Mannerheim. The symbol then became the emblem of the Finnish Air Force and remained so until sometime during World War II. It seems like a strange coincidence that Hermann Göring came to Rockelstad before he met Hitler or even heard of the Nazi movement. Could Göring, who apparently took a great deal of interest in Eric’s personal symbol of luck, have brought the swastika from Rockelstad to the movement in Munich? We are not of that opinion. The background of the [Fascist] cross is probably a different one, where some sources claim that it emanated from DAP (Deutsche Arbeiter Partei) and later NSDAP — With all the distastefulness it thereafter is associated with. Several individuals who have researched in Hitler’s notes claim to have found sketches of swastikas from as early as 1919. And besides, swastikas were quite abundant in Germany from the late 19th century on; it had been used by the nationalistic Volkes-movement as well as a logo for several companies, e.g. ASEA. There are also several differences between the von Rosen sign and the [Third Reich’s] swastika. Von Rosen usually placed his sun-crosses in a circle, so that the arms of the cross are curved and it forms a circle itself. The [Third Reich’s] swastika is tilted so that it stands diagonally, and it has straight arms even when it is confined by a circular field. I would exercise caution concerning the claim that Eric von Rosen already predicted in the summer of 1941 that the Third Reich was to lose the war — a prediction that few Westerners shared that year. Quoting Thomas Lundén’s ‘Swedish geography and the time spirit 1933–45 — Resistance, subordination, or tergiversation?’: Ymer 1941, 301–303, includes the speech by Count E. v. Rosen to Field Marshal C.G. Mannerheim of Finland on Vega day, April 24, 1941, on the awarding of the Hedin medal for his scientific production: It is a speech strictly related to Mannerheim’s anthropological findings. von Rosen’s speech is remarkable in concentrating on Mannerheim’s fairly insignificant research. There is only a short reference to Mannerheim’s political rôle defending “that the Scandinavian and Finnish tribes are not… thrown under foreign rule.” It should be unsurprising that this bourgeois fascist indulged in antisemitism as early as the 1920s. From Henrik Rosengren’s “‘A Wagner for the Jews’: Moses Pergament, Richard Wagner and anti-Semitism in Swedish cultural life in the interwar period”: Sv. Dagbl. [Svenska Dagbladet] […] did not hesitate to print an anti-Semitic and race-scientific essay written by the ethnographer and explorer Eric von Rosen, published on 28 January 1929. Von Rosen dwelt on the supposed dangers of Jewish influence, and claimed that regardless of a Jew’s intelligence, he could almost never understand the ‘Germanic spirit’.⁵⁰ The professedly scientific approach adopted by von Rosen apparently entitled him to publication in SvD. His article was based on the same type of anti-Semitic opinion held by Wagner and his followers.
Reminds me of a minor drama that happened on the internet one of these days because a brazilian moved to the US and since she’s a beautician she discovered that americans not only don’t shower every day but don’t wash their butts. Meaning that every time someone came in asking for a brazilian wax she’d have to tell them to wash themselves in the bathroom because even their underwear was dirty with poop. Then an american doctor made a video response to her, saying that the tiktok was unprofessional and embarrassing. And that the correct thing to do was for the beautician to wash people’s asses. There’s a case to be made that if you live in a cold place you can avoid using shampoo and other products every day. But there’s no reason not to clean yourself of your own dirty skin.
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Those hoping to stand as a candidate for Reform UK must submit identity documents, a CV and a £125 application fee, and answer questions such as: “Do you have a Facebook/X/Instagram/TikTok/YouTube/LinkedIn account? You must always be honest in your answer, as we will check this information.” Candidates must also declare if they have been part of any organisations “proscribed by the Reform UK board”. Among them are extreme right groups like National Action, Homeland and Patriotic Action, plus, conversely, Antifa. The party’s vetting process for Wales is “a centrally-controlled process that favours insiders, parachuted candidates and personal connections over local knowledge and competence”, according to a whistleblower. Reform leader Nigel Farage has claimed his party gets more scrutiny than any other and shrugged off allegations that the party’s vetting isn’t up to scratch, saying “sometimes people lie”. Despite the party’s attempts at vetting, they always seem to attract a certain kind of candidate and this year’s local elections are no different. Without further ado, here is an non-exhaustive list of Reform’s brightest and best candidates. The Wayne Hennessy impersonator. Former Tory special advisor Corey Edwards quit the race for the Welsh Senedd two days after his Reform candidacy was announced. In the brief window that he was standing, a picture of him emerged appearing to show him performing a Nazi salute. A Reform spokesperson announced Edwards had stepped down on 27 March, “citing issues with his mental health”. Mr Edwards apologised for the image, and seemed to compare himself to the Fawlty Towers character Basil Fawlty and former Wales goalkeeper Wayne Hennessy, who pleaded ignorance when he was accused of performing a Nazi salute. Edwards told journalists: “A photo from many years ago has been shared that I recognise looks bad and could be misinterpreted. “There is a clear distinction between ordinary use of the appalling gesture, compared with me imitating a Welsh footballer’s use of it, or indeed Basil Fawlty’s walk.” The one who thinks nurses eat too much. James Bembridge is Reform’s candidate for the West End ward of Westminster, encompassing the entertainment district of Soho and glamorous Mayfair. He also has a bit of a thing about the NHS. During the Covid pandemic, a X/Twitter account allegedly linked to Bembridge – @TheBembridge – posted: “The rancour that the pro-NHS folk have against me will never match the visceral hatred that I have for the NHS. I don’t want reform – I want to see it torn down to the ground.” In 2021, the same account posted: “I’m not sure why applause is so readily given to NHS nurses who claim to be driven to using food banks when, looking at them, they are presumably eating them out of business.” Reform says it’s investigating the allegations. These posts seem to have disappeared, but Sean Walsh, who edits Country Squire magazine reposted screengrabs of the posts, saying: “The suggestion that @TheBembridge is a morally compromised bounder is untrue. He is far worse than that. He wouldn’t be my friend otherwise.” The X-verified @TheBembridge account retweeted this. Plenty of other similar posts are still live, including the @TheBembridge account posting: “I’m an NHS blasphemer and proud.” Bembridge is the deputy editor of Country Squire, which aims to “reflect the vision, the dreams and the narrative of those who have already chosen green fields over high rises, narrow lanes over the fast lane” and “platform for voices from the overlooked Great British Countryside”. Just the man for a council seat in bucolic Soho. ‘I don’t stand by it… except Enoch Powell.’ It may not surprise you to learn that a number of Reform candidates have made unfortunate comments about Muslims on social media. Among them, Daniel Devaney, 70, is Reform’s candidate in the Bradford ward of Clayton and Fairweather Green. Writing on Facebook in September 2024, he said he wanted to “blast [Muslims] all of the face of the earth [sic]”. According to Hope Not Hate, Devaney also described Muslims as “pure scum”, adding: “We’re being invaded by potential terrorists day in day out.” He also shared a video of Enoch Powell saying, “there will be the whip hand over the white man held by the immigrant”, Devaney wrote: “Never a more truer word said [sic].” Contacted by the Mirror about the allegations, he said: “I don’t stand by with what I put except Enoch Powell. The things I wrote was mainly mouthing off and not really thinking about what I put but really to wind people up and it’s very easy to do.” Devaney added: “I apologise for what I said in the posts and some of them I should have worded it better. I’m not racist as I have said before as I help my Asian neighbours. I just want to do something for my community.” Reform UK said it “was looking into the allegations”. Meanwhile, Terrance David Reynolds, Reform’s candidate for the Queens Park ward of Swindon, has called for “mass destructions” – possibly a typo meaning “deportation” – on Facebook, illustrated with a picture of people in Middle Eastern clothing. Another post shared by Reynolds said “We Want Muslims Gone”, while a third post said US citizens have been advised to leave the UK “because it is a shithole”. Another post said: “Be honest… would you back a total ban on immigration from Islamic nations in the UK. Like and share if you agree.” These posts were all made in April or March of this year, while Reynolds was preparing to become a Reform candidate. He told a Local Democracy Reporting Service reporter, “I do stand by what I posted,” and then also said he would represent all residents regardless of their religion. In the outer London borough of Bexley, Reform candidate Caroline Panetta retweeted a comment saying Sadiq Khan, the London mayor, wanted to turn the capital into “Londonstan”. In her own post, she reportedly called Islam “the religion of rape, incest and paedophilia”. Reform did not respond to the Guardian’s request for comment. Sticks and stones. Alan Stay, who is running in the Hunnyhill and Parkhurst ward for the Isle of Wight council, also appears to have spent too much time on Facebook over the last decade. In one post, Stay shared a BBC story headlined “DJ loses job over N-word in song”. He stated the slur three times and said: “cos its only words, not sticks and stones that brake your bones, just words that never hurt you.” [sic.] He also shared a post of darts sticking in a wall having missed the board, implying it was women who had thrown them. Reform told the Isle of Wight County Press that it was investigating. Fluffy McSpankins. Enough depressing Facebook boomerisms. How about something a little more zeitgeisty and yet niche – a little bit 2.0 meets the 1800s? We now turn to Arnold Tabor, the party’s candidate for South Elmsall and South Kirkby on Wakefield borough council. According to Hope Not Hate, Tabor has a YouTube account with the name Fluffy McSpankins, which he uses to post comments about the Lotus Eaters – a far-right podcast. He has used this platform to call for a “huge walled workhouse city” for migrants with “no pay only a roof over their head and 2 meals a day”. He has also joked about navy destroyers performing fire drills in the Channel that “sink migrants boats that cross a line saying ‘they got in the way’”. In another post, Tabor wrote: “We need a Mosely/Enoch Powell in the UK.” Reform told the Independent that it was investigating the allegations. Barnet’s king of outsourcing. Some Reform candidates have alleged track records of more than just dodgy YouTube posts. Dan Thomas, Reform’s leader in Wales, who is hoping to become first minister, was in senior roles at Barnet council in north London for two decades. As Thomas served as a Tory councillor, deputy council leader, and then as leader from 2019 to 2022, Barnet became a radical experiment in council outsourcing. One council contract with outsourcing giant Capita ended up costing £229m more than initially planned, and jobs were transferred to the private sector, according to a report by Unison. Barnet branch secretary of the Unison trade union John Burgess said: “I watched Dan Thomas operate for the best part of two decades in Barnet. He is adversarial, arrogant and hostile to anyone who challenges him. When residents tried to ask questions, he shut down public scrutiny at council meetings. “People in Wales need to understand what he did when he had power. He championed contracts that cost the council £229m more than planned, left basic financial controls in tatters and saw Barnet become the first local authority fined by the pensions regulator.” Reform did not respond to a request for comment from Nation Cymru earlier this month. From Novara Media via This RSS Feed.
Der Mist kursiert schon seit mehreren Jahren auf TikTok. Ich hoffe ehrlich, dass keiner so dumm ist darauf reinzufallen (und so gestört).
Opvallend veel Tiktokkers verbazen zich de laatste weken over de lage prijzen bij supermarkt Aldi. Ben je daar nu echt zo goedkoop uit?
Fed rate cut remains the best predictor of China cutting a deal with the US (no pun intended). I don’t know what other news mega heads think, but I am starting to believe that there is a lot of truths in my hypothesis. Let’s recap. Back in January when Biden wanted to ban TikTok, I wrote this: Just last month, Fed’s Powell released more mixed signals, citing uncertainty in inflation and said that the Fed may only cut once or twice in 2025. Of course, interest rate has very little to do with inflation in the US, but it should be seen as an imperialist tool that controls foreign economies. So Trump has a lot of leverage here: if he can get the Fed to cut more rates this year, then the PBOC can also cut their rates, this will then allow the local governments to borrow at an even lower interest to pay back their outstanding debt, and thus bringing huge relief to their current budgetary situations. Here, you can see how the Fed’s interest rate directly impacts China’s local government finances. This is just one weapon the US can use. Tariffs, sanctions, interest rates are all “threats” that can be negotiated down if China gives in to what the US wants. What we will have to wait and see is how Trump and Xi deal with these issues in their ensuing negotiations. On September 15th, China sold TikTok. The following day, the Federal Reserve cut its key rate for the first time of the year. Last month, when China imposed rare earth export restrictions, I wrote this: The US has no choice but to negotiate. China showed just how difficult it is for Trump to decouple from itself. The is a lesson that Trump will continue to have to learn until he concedes the point. However, China also cannot keep going with this because it cannot afford to see inflation going up in the US. This is because China has huge local government debt that desperately needs the Fed to lower its interests, way more than what was done last month. On October 29th, the Federal Reserve cut its key rate for the second time of the year. Simultaneously, Trump and Xi agreed on a deal after nearly an entire year and at least five rounds of negotiations. That’s two Fed rate cuts for two biggest US-China deals of the year, happening within 24 hours of one another. It is becoming clear that China’s maneuvers are centered on lessening the burden on the local government debt level, which must have been taking a heavier toll on the economy than expected. I’m actually surprised nobody picked up on this, that the Fed rate is an imperialist weapon. Too many people (both mainstream and alt media) focus on the trade war aspect between US and China and fail to see that this is actually a financial war in disguise, and the primary target isn’t even China, but Europe and the rest of the Global South exporter countries. Remember that when Trump first launched the global tariffs back in April, the narrative of the pro-BRICS alt media circle was all about the US is shooting itself on the foot and the rest of the world will just trade with one another without the US. Well, the exact opposite has happened - that Europe doubled down on its anti-China policy while many Asian exporter countries are scrambling to sign new trade deals with Trump, including South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Cambodia in the last few days. I had warned back then that this whole decoupling from the US cannot happen without China transitioning into a domestic consumption economy. BRICS has failed to offer any alternative because they all want to run trade surpluses against each other, which is mathematically impossible. As a result, the US consumer market still dictates what happens. Thankfully, it seems that the Chinese leadership is finally admitting that consumption growth is going to be the priority of the next Five-Year Plan Reuters: The five-year plan recommendations reaffirmed last week’s official remarks that China will increase the proportion of government investment for people’s livelihoods and raise the percentage of household consumption of GDP “significantly” over the next five years. “The allocation of resources will shift more towards consumption, as large-scale expansion of traditional industries and infrastructure has reached its limit,” said a policy adviser who spoke on condition of anonymity. “Future investment will focus on high-tech industries and new infrastructure.” China may aim to increase the household consumption rate by about 5 percentage points over the next five years, but policy advisers say it is unclear whether the government will set a specific target in the upcoming five-year plan. Attempts to boost consumption and related reforms over the past decade have been slow to take root in the real economy. Consumer confidence has remained low because of inadequate social welfare, slowing income growth and a property crisis that has eroded household wealth. The services sector has also taken time to develop. Whether this can be achieved without the central government running up the deficit, I have my doubts. It will be very difficult to have a meaningful shift towards consumption without resolving the massive wealth inequality problem in the country, which will require the government to run a very high deficit i.e. spends way more than it taxes back. But at least it is going in the right direction.
TikTok has been urging its users — many of whom are young — to call their representatives, even providing an easy link to the phone numbers. Egads! The horror of people being organised politically! How nefarious!
They’ll merge it with yt shorts, then rename yt short to tiktok (new) then separate the two again and then shut down tiktok and 1 year later yt shorts as well.
Lihat kiriman asli pada platform media sosial terkait.
They just went from we love you guys to we don’t even give a fuck bend over boy in like 6 months. Twitter has also shifted into a dystopian QQ wannabe. Meta has been a dumpster fire for a decade now. Tik Tok. heavy sigh This kinda seems like end of times.
Given this is the top comment it should be pointed out that while Proton was incorrect about this being Meta there is research out about TikTok doing this very thing. The way you’ve worded your comment makes it seem like this either can’t happen or isn’t happening and that simply isn’t the case.
An Israeli soldier, in full uniform, wearing a helmet and sunglasses, waves a sledgehammer in the face of a crucified wooden Jesus lying on the ground. The photo was taken in the Lebanese town of Debel and posted on X (formerly known as Twitter) by Palestinian journalist Younis Tirawi on Sunday. On Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces announced that the soldier who carried out the act, as well as the one who photographed it, were removed from combat duty and sentenced to 30 days of military detention. Israeli leaders were quick to condemn the incident, likely reflecting heightened international scrutiny of the government’s relationship with Christians following an episode in which the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem was barred from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for one of Catholicism’s most important ceremonies on Palm Sunday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter) that he was “stunned and saddened” after learning about the incident on Monday, while the country was getting ready for Memorial Day honoring soldiers killed in combat. “I condemn the act in the strongest terms,” Netanyahu wrote. Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar called the soldier’s conduct “grave and disgraceful.” In his own post on X (formerly known as Twitter), he added that “this shameful action is completely contrary to our values.” Since October 7, however, those values seem to have grown flexible, as past cases of alleged misconduct by soldiers have not always struck Israeli leaders as disgraceful. During the war in Gaza, soldiers frequently took photos and videos of themselves and posted them on TikTok, Instagram and Telegram. The clips showed soldiers inside Gaza homes, trying on residents’ underwear; celebrating bombings; and posing beside revenge graffiti or next to the bodies of dead Palestinians. The IDF spoke out against such posts, saying they violate its orders and values, driven in part by concern for the image of “the most moral army in the world,” as Israeli leaders often describe it. But strong condemnations from those leaders did not follow. No condemnations were issued after a video showed soldiers abusing a Palestinian detainee in a military prison. To the contrary: Netanyahu called the leaked video a “propaganda attack against Israel” and a “terrible libel” against the soldiers involved. When the Bani Odeh family was killed by Border Police officers on March 15, the Justice Ministry unit responsible for investigating police misconduct didn’t even question the officers. In the West Bank, misconduct by Israeli security forces only draws serious consideration when it’s directed against American Journalists — not against Palestinians. Even in his most recent statement condemning the soldier for smashing the Jesus statue, Netanyahu echoed the same pattern of deflection. After emphasizing “the Jewish values of tolerance and mutual respect between Jews and worshippers of all faiths,” he immediately pivoted to his biggest external adversary, saying: “While Christians are being slaughtered in Syria and Lebanon by Muslims, the Christian population in Israel thrives, unlike elsewhere in the Middle East.” Netanyahu’s politics — and he has this in common with autocrats around the world and throughout history — rely on outside enemies for blind domestic support. Israeli leaders this week scrutinized behavior by a soldier that they themselves helped shape, conduct that would go unpunished if directed at the “right enemies”. Those “enemies” — flesh and blood, victims of abuse — receive less empathy than a piece of wood.