"excuse me, but I was looking to donate to a homeless who was good with money. skill issue."

Turkish goods shipped to Israel via Greece despite official ban

Statistics indicate Turkish companies use Greek ports to re-export goods to Israel following Ankara’s decision to halt trade

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TIM data indicate that Turkey’s exports to Greece surged to $375m in May, up 71 percent from $219m in the same month last year.

A second Turkish businessman explained that Turkish exports, although passing through Greece, are still recorded as imports from Turkey in Israeli statistics because they remain Turkish products.

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. But there seem to still be impacts on Israel because they are looking for alternative suppliers in Egypt, Spain, and Italy:

“This parallel trade might continue for a few more months, but Israeli companies are quickly aligning themselves with alternative suppliers in other countries like Egypt, Spain, and Italy,” the second businessman said.

Not to mention the exports surge to Greece doesn't come close to matching the total figure of exports to Israel: ~$4.788 billion:

The trade volume between the two countries was $6.3bn in 2023, with 76 percent being Turkish exports, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute. Turkey had been a key supplier of affordable products to Israel.

And there are of course porkies whining about muh free trade and all that

“Instead, we punished all the businesses trading with Israel without even a grace period. Some goods are stuck at customs, resulting in hundreds of thousands in losses for the companies.”

So am I crazy to think that the Turkish embargo is working as expected despite this seemingly bad news? I would go as far to say it's good news that there are attempts to circumvent the embargo because if there wasn't then it would be a sign that it isn't a very effective embargo. It could obviously be more effective if these companies were punished by Erdogan, or if other countries joined the embargo, but leaking $155 million out of $4.788 billion ain't so bad.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/gaza-aid-leader-melanie-ward-labour-party/287603/#

A CEO of a pro-Palestine charity Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is running for an election under the anti-Palestinian Labour party. This will leave the charity without leadership and volunteers are upset and are asking her to resign.

Melanie Ward, CEO of the Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) charity, faces major backlash from volunteers and workers after deciding to run as a Labour Party candidate in Scotland. Some 2,250 healthcare workers, medical volunteers, supporters, and donors signed a letter expressing concern.

On June 5, a protest letter was filed by workers and volunteers at MAP, expressing their dismay to the board over Ward’s candidacy with the UK Labour Party. To run for the position of MP in Scotland’s Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency, Ward has taken a leave of absence but has not stepped down from her position.

And you bet she hates

Ward also supported the anti-Semitism “witch hunt” during Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, which purged much of Labour’s pro-Palestinian base, including many Jewish anti-Zionists. She tweeted, “Farewell to Jeremy Corbyn, who really was a truly terrible Labour Party Leader. He will be missed not one little bit by those of us who want to see Labour in government again.”

In 2016, she signed a letter calling for Corbyn’s resignation, shared an article urging the public not to vote for him and tweeted the former Labour leader in 2015, “Corbyn unable to think of situation where he’d commit Forces to military action. Should think a bit harder if he wants to be PM,” in response to his anti-war stance.

I've always been worried about the leadership behind some of these charities since they take in a ton of money these days and they seem to be based in Western countries. Now my worries have been justified.

Edit: read more here: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-elections-2024-palestinian-charity-ceo-standing-labour-candidate-faces-calls-resign

One sentence takedown: "no one voted for hitler, he was appointed by his harm reduction opponent to the chancellory."

Oh the knotweed, I pull knotweed along a local walking path (I need to talk to the town about herbicide but there's a waterway nearby so probs a bad idea). I pulled enough this year to see a duck return to swim in the water, but those underground vines mean they'll always come back.

Irrelevant and unserious people says what?

These irrelevant asswipes again. I hope communism remains a dirty word in the US just so these chucklefucks have to wear it like a ball and chain when they try suck up to the libs the way they're doing. Maybe they'll switch names then, then I can return to ignoring them forever

There's no point in covering your true intentions when you believe you will never face the consequences of your actions.

it’s clear that the US has discredited its claim as the upholder of the “rules-based international order”.

I'm just interested in who the subject is in this article. Who arbitrates the holding of the title for the so-called "upholder of the rules-based international order"? The US made that title up and foisted it onto itself. And even if it didn't want that title anymore it could just make up another one.

"World power" is already a flimsily-made Top 5 fave-ass social status for a nation, and if you want to define things like the US hegemony as the US being "the world's only superpower" then that's kind of already been busted. There are vast swaths of the world right now that don't recognize US hegemony - most of Asia, the Sahel states now, parts South America and now even some parts of Europe. US had to blow the stomach out of the Fico guy in Slovakia to stop the bleeding. If friggin Slovakia doesn't care for your shit it's over, son. Somebody is going to fill those voids, and of course it doesn't have to be just one country.

US will be taking it's broken pier back for repairs.

It was totally still working after a big chunk of it floated off, that's just classic pier-teething problems, dummy. But we have to take the pier back now because it's slightly damaged and the starving Palestinians can probably wait longer it's fine.

EDIT: also AP: "after damage from rough seas" - pretty sure it just regular waves bud.

So ... the IOF calls for evacuations for this settlement that's literally a stone's toss away from the border with Lebanon, and these chucklefucks stick around. Then they get bombed and the bad decisions of the government are to blame, so they are going to fire the IOF and start a volunteer SS division to fight all of Hezbollah? Am I getting that right?

If so I wish the settlement the worst of luck!

The double standard there is a symptom of the greater problem: Westerners don't view Muslim people or really anyone over the bosphorus straight as human.