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Jam is mashed, preserves have chunks of fruit. With some fruits it’s hard to leave large china during processing (like raspberries, which break easily when properly ripe), at which point raspberry preserves might have less sugar then raspberry jam.

The New York Times did an article on it last fall. Here’s a non-paywalled copy of the article or, if you prefer audio, here’s the episode of The Daily where they discuss it.

I went to a party that lasted all weekend. We weren’t drinking or anything else, so I want to emphasize I did all this to myself, completely sober:

We were tossing lightsticks back and forth in the dark; I was barefoot. I leaped up to catch a lightstick; when I came down, my right foot landed fully on some kind of spiny, prickly, thorny plant, and I got a bunch of the pointy spiny bits embedded into the sole of my foot. This was particularly ironic, as I had made a point of pointing out the plant to everyone else earlier and telling them to avoid it.

The toilet backed up and I had to clear it with a plunger that had a broken handle. I cleared the toilet, and also managed to flay about a fifth of the skin off the palm of my right hand.

I slipped on the stairs and wrenched my back pretty badly. The dog ran underfoot and I sprained my left ankle. Something else happened, I don’t even remember what, and I injured my right hip.

The worst part was that I had driven myself and a group of friends to this party, which meant I had to be the one who drove us back: my car had a manual transmission and no one else knew how to drive stick. So envision this:

My right foot, with the spikes still in it, was used for the gas and the brake. My left foot, with the sprained ankle, had to delicately balance the clutch as we drove up and down these narrow back hills. There was no way to balance my weight on my injured right hip, so every movement on the gas or clutch put some torque on the hip - as well as twisting my injured back. And I had to shift with my right hand wrapped like a mummy’s, but the shifting pressure was still on the part of my hand with the flap of skin. And the roads just kept jostling every single injury I had.

It was an incredibly, insanely painful drive home. And it was still one of the best parties I’ve ever been to.

Are they looking meaningfully at you while they’re doing it?

The US has been Hamas ever since they said they were holding back bombs that might be used in Rafah.

Of course. And Israel has already said that they need a one kilometer “security zone” between Israel and Gaza, and that they’re not going to put the security zone on [current] Israeli territory.

Gaza’s border with Israel is about 32 miles long. The amount of land taken for the demilitarized zone would be about 20 square miles. Gaza is about 6 miles wide; aside from the incredible disruption the “security road” will cause to Palestinian life, a demilitarized zone on either side of that road would be another land grab of about 6 square miles, meaning Israel is planning to steal (yet another) 26 square miles of Palestinian land. Considering that Gaza is only 141 square miles in the first place, they’re planning on taking 18% of all Gazan land.

Israel itself is 8,550 square miles, and the demilitarized zone would be less than one-third of one percent of Israeli land, and the Israelis say they want it to feel “safe”, so once again all the benefit is to Israel and all the detriment to Gaza.

As a final note, you know they’re going to “hold up” [deny] traffic between the halves, just like they’re holding up [denying] humanitarian aid trucks. Israel has also said that they expect the international community to do the rebuilding of Gaza, and that they won’t allow shipments into Gaza from Israel. That means that everything going into Gaza will either be from Egypt’s land border, or from a port. But it means that there will likely need to be two entirely separate supply lines, which will make logistics, humanitarian aid, and rebuilding supplies significantly more complex.

Which is the whole point, of course. Israel wants the Gazans miserable enough to leave voluntarily, and they certainly don’t care how many die to make that happen -either way, they “win”. And when some part of Gaza hasn’t been rebuilt within a given amount of time, when Palestinians haven’t been able to set up support and supply lines to every corner of Gaza (because Israel is deliberately kneecapping then), well then, Israel will have yet another excuse to justify taking even more “unused land” that doesn’t belong to them.

Fuck Israel.