u/Lost_Paladin89

Figured for Shavuot that this would be good watch.

Palestinian citizens of Israel make up about a fifth of the country’s population, yet accounted for over 80% of all homicide victims last year. More than 100 Palestinian citizens have been killed since January alone, significantly outpacing the rate of previous years… To understand the conditions that have given rise to this spike in violence, I spoke to As’ad Ghanem, a political scientist at the University of Haifa, who, together with sociologist Nohad ‘Ali, published Violence and Crime among the Palestinian Minority in Israel: The Shattering of the Indigenous earlier this year. Building on Ghanem’s previous work on the structural exclusion of Palestinian citizens, this new book traces the history of Israel’s systematic weakening of the institutional, civic, and social infrastructure of Palestinian communities inside Israel.

Ghanem and ‘Ali also bring a structural analysis to their historical account of the state’s erosion of Palestinian civic life. Drawing on the settler-colonial theory of Patrick Wolfe, they argue that the explosion of violence in Palestinian communities in Israel since 2000 is not the incidental byproduct of governmental neglect but rather a decades-long strategic effort to undermine Palestinian collective organization and future self-determination. In light of this, an ostensible Israeli “policy failure” to protect its Arab citizens is actually the successful implementation of settler-colonial governance. 

Well, it looks like Season 10 is going to be announced soon. https://www.reddit.com/r/Stellaris/comments/1sx7v65/stellaris\_season\_10\_announcement\_scheduled\_for/

I’d love to hear everyone’s guesses, but first, some ground rules. Based on previous seasons we should expect a

One Expansion change the game considerably; introducing new and improved gameplay mechanics as well as many kinds of flavor and various balance tweaks (included in the accompanying free patch).

Two Content packs; expansions of a smaller scale. Unlike regular expansions which focus on adding new gameplay mechanics, content packs' main focal point is on adding more flavor to the game (in addition to the accompanying free patch). These also include: Story packs that focus on adding new unique discoveries to the galaxy. And Species packs focused on adding new or enhancing existing phenotypes in the game.

My Guess for Season 10

Expansion: I’ll edit this in a bit with quotes from the dev diaries. But they are experimenting with complex factions and have wanted to make a Culture and Internal Politics DLC.

Content/Story Pack: I genuinely think that Season 10 will a place to build on changes they have, based on community reactions to Astral Rifts and Cosmic Storms, and since population changes are a key focus, I think (and hope) this Story Pack will focus on Colonization and Terraforming events.

Species Pack: My wild card. We could get the cold version of Thermophiles. But I’m going to guess that we will have the Plantoids 2 that they’ve had in mind. With a new organic ship set.