Peter Raleigh

For Long Library this week, I wrote about Man of the West, Ride the High Country, and the dark heart of the "classic western." Link in bio and below

Read this very carefully: *One quarter* of all the people who have died of starvation in Gaza over the past 22 months have died in the past *3 days*

Pete writing about westerns? What more could you want tbh

Buddy perhaps see how your first clause (mindless as it is) may be related to the second clause. Namely that “Israel’s right to defend itself” is a slogan that—despite not involving a spooky Arabic word—has followed 1000X more killing and maiming than any evocation of “intifada”

Hot damn we got a new Peter essay drop let’s fuckin gooooooooo

This is fantastic, of course, as Peter's right always is, and I hope it encourages people to watch more "classic" era Westerns. One of the richest and most cinematically enthralling classical film genres

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$235 received, thank you… just a reminder that conditions in Gaza compound to produce illness, the starvation and stress and (bombing-induced) physical wounds and unserviced, horribly unhygienic living quarters all exacerbate infection and common conditions like heart arrhythmia

For the evening crowd: I went long on some westerns

A real treat to read Peter on two hard-edged counterpoints to the colloquial notion of the "revisionist western" - a slippery proposition as a denomination for theme that attempts to assign temporal specificity to ruminations nearly as old as the genre itself.

After rejecting Hamas’s proposals, these very terms have been added into the negotiations by Israel for several months now, in fact.

this opens with a graf solely about what a ceasefire would mean for israel. palestinians who are suffering from genocide and starvation get no mention. they might as well not exist. a pretty good summation of how the nyt views this situation.

Peter writing about oaters y’all better tap in

The process is nearing its conclusion. The US has finally put an end to the charade of these peace negotiations, and the situation is so grim that it is finally time for the mainstream press to describe Gaza accurately. We’re just about at everyone always having been against it.

Ghislaine Maxwell Can’t Help But Notice Interview Room Covered In Plastic Sheeting theonion.com/ghislaine-maxw…

Breaking News: President Emmanuel Macron said France would recognize the state of Palestine, making it the first of the G7 nations to do so. nyti.ms/3GVjhkQ

It is true that Hamas can get aid into Gaza by agreeing to a ceasefire. Which is exactly what Hamas did in January, an agreement Netanyahu violated, and since then has been trying to force Hamas into a different agreement, which he will later violate. The US can end this farce.