I started noting down some thoughts and current interests as a software investor - site is up and just added first couple posts. Posts will come every now and then and cover all things software, finance, strategy and cloud infrastructure :) #SaaS crossingthepond.co.uk/

Here's some two-tier policing for you. Yesterday, the police were protecting the illegal sale of stolen Palestinian land at an Israeli property show held inside a synagogue. Today, they were arresting and carting off pensioners holding signs under terrorism laws.

I stayed in the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem for several weeks in 1994, while writing From the Holy Mountain. I regularly used to hear armed Settlers shouting "Death to the Arab," as they passed along the outer walls, smashing windows and breaking into shops. Now the Settlers have seized a chunk of the Patriachate that has been Armenian land since the 4th century. The Patriach writes that the Christian presence is under "existential threat."

Which EU leaders think Ben Gvir is a nice chap?

There's a Genocide happening in Gaza. Our Government is arresting pensioners for holding cardboard signs that say "I support Palestine Action." And Andy Burnham - labours apparent last hope - won't even acknowledge what's really happening.

Feel like I need to hear more about Haotong’s internal battle with bad Haotong

TUCKER CARLSON: "Is there a sense within Israel of what's happening in Gaza?" GIDEON LEVY: "No sense and no interest… I can assure you, Tucker, that any TV viewer in Omaha, Nebraska, saw so much more of Gaza than a Tel Avivian who lives next to me"

British artist David Hockney has died aged 88, his publicist has said bbc.in/4xqwEP4

New Amnesty International report on how Israel is annexing 60% of the West Bank through a campaign of state sponsored mass expulsion.

I suspect either a tray table was down, or one of the window blinds was still half open.

I’m at the bottom of a multi-layer SPV and am looking forward to the SpaceX IPO in much the same way a golden retriever looks forward to a car ride: - thrilled to be involved - no clue how cars work - unsure if going to the park or getting neutered

New footage has emerged in the killing of seven-month-old Palestinian Sam Abu Haikal in the occupied West Bank. The video appears to show the family's car slowing to a stop before an Israeli soldier opens fire. Sky's @AdamParsons reports ⬇️ Latest: trib.al/4JxPta8

This is an astonishing turnaround in public opinion, one of the legacies of Bibi Netanyahu. And because it is most evident among younger Americans, it is not yet fully felt in the political system.

“A lot of doctors have taken formula feed because they knew there was such a shortage. None has been allowed in by the Israelis. They are very specifically confiscating baby formula. They confiscated every single carton of formula feed.” —Dr Nick Maynard

Promising

Israel responds to Iran's retaliatory strikes by cutting off all aid to Gaza. This is a state which routinely collectively punishes civilians as a tactic of war. This is monstrous, and it is also a grave war crime.

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write. This is the article: volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2…

Soldiers removed formula baby food from overseas doctors’ bags

It's nuts (and cool) that this is all finally going public now x.com/i/trending/20630144829…

Another top growth investor held up the palm pre (which he had backed) and said this is the future and if youre games arent on this we wont be investing. I just stared down at my shoe wondering how such mis guided people are allowed to manage so much money.

A junior partner at a top vc told me he was worried i wasnt coachable. I said, i dont see what you can teach me given youve never founded or run a successful company.