This is edition 2025/188 of the Ten@10 newsletter.
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This is the Ten@10, where I collate and summarise ten news items you generally won't see in the mainstream media.
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1. A ceasefire of silence ...
Simon O'Connor
- ✌️ Ceasefire agreement: After two years of violence, Hamas has agreed to release Israeli hostages, though it took far too long and many lives were lost.
- 🕊️ Trump's peace deal: Despite its fragility and lack of direct involvement from Israel or Hamas, it remains a key part of the current discussions.
- 🤐 Pro-Hamas silence: Pro-Hamas groups, including New Zealand's Green Party, are eerily quiet, offering no relief or celebration of the ceasefire, leading to suspicions of ulterior motives.
- ⚰️ Hamas' brutal actions: Even as hostages are released, Hamas is reverting to violent tactics, executing its own people in Gaza.
- 🕵️♂️ Fragility of peace plan: Hamas struggles to release hostages' bodies and continues to manipulate the narrative of casualty counts.
- 🤝 Progressive groups’ alignment with Hamas: Many progressive groups, like ‘Queers for Palestine,’ support Hamas, unaware of its genocidal stance against their own communities.
- 🎭 Protest mercenaries: Left-wing protest groups align with the cause du jour, using Palestine to further their anti-Western, revolutionary agenda.
- 🌍 Shared disdain for the West: Hamas and some protestors share a deep-seated hatred for Western values, aiming to overturn structures like free speech and the nuclear family.
- 🔮 Uncertain future: If the ceasefire holds, protestors may move on to the next cause, continuing their revolt against society.
- 💖 Personal connection: The author remains emotionally connected to Hostage Square, wearing a dog tag in solidarity with the families of the hostages.
