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PhylliPretzel

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19. Ironic???

Reply to cbabe (Original post)

Thu Feb 19, 2026, 10:40 AM

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Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, has also been sanctioned for her work.
The USA and the EU (former colonial powers) are willing to dismantle the world order established after WWII (after learning of the Holocaust) in order to protect Israel's colonization and ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

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