West Bank Wall graffiti art in Bethlehem: Handala and Liberty as "Pietà".
An iconic symbol of Palestinian identity and defiance. The character has been described as "portraying war, resistance, and the Palestinian identity with astounding clarity".
Employees install the painting "La Liberte guidant le peuple, 1830" (Liberty Leading the People) by Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) after six months of restoration work, at the Louvre museum in Paris, France. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier
I'm done trying to reason with the #GenocideJoe crowd now after they're still on their anti-USA bandwagon after Russia and China rejected our #Ceasefire resolution at the UN.
It seems clear that to them it's just always been about:
Today 10 years ago Aaron Swartz committed suicide, after being arrested by MIT police and prosecuted by the then U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Carmen Ortiz for massively downloading academic journal articles from JSTOR. He was charged $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison. He was 26 years old.
He believed that, above anything else, information should be free.