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☆ Israel name-checked a notorious WWII attack to justify sinking Syria's navy
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-15 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

During WWII, the Royal Navy attacked the fleet of its former ally to keep it from Nazi control. Though Netanyahu's history was faulty — it was the Royal Navy rather than the RAF that struck the French fleet — his analogy was revealing. The Kriegsmarine — the German Navy — was a fraction of the size of the Royal Navy, and thus too small to escort vulnerable troop transports. Vichy France would be allowed a meager army, and the French Navy would be confined to its home ports. This was no repeat of the Battle of Trafalgar, when the Royal Navy smashed a Franco-Spanish fleet off Spain in 1805.

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“The museum gives an opportunity to works of art that, for whatever reason, at some point had been banned, attacked, censored, or canceled, because there are so many,” Rodrigo told The Associated Press. Political Cartoons View All 1256 ImagesFive years later, Benet's idea became the Museum of Forbidden Art, which opened its doors in October. As more works come under attack, people like art critic and curator Gabriel Luciani say the exhibit is essential. “(But) it is true that most of the works on display are from the years 2010 to 2020. Rodrigo said her museum hopes it won't see any attacks because visitors should come prepared to be shocked.

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☆ In Nahel M., a Stranger Killed by Police, French Protesters See Friend and Kin
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Catherine Porter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

They called him their son, their brother, their friend, and they came by the thousands to grieve, to vent and to revolt. Most of the marchers who gathered for a vigil on Thursday for a 17-year-old from the Paris suburbs who was shot and killed by a police officer earlier this week had not known him. It just felt as if they had. In the life and death of Nahel M. — the only name by which the young man has been identified publicly — they saw their own plight as French Algerians, French Moroccans, French Muslims and Black French people living in minority-dominated enclaves in a majority-white country that professes not to see differences in color.

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