WEEK 31: Following reports of "secret" meetings between US senators and the ICC prosecutors, the ICC issues a very strong statement on the arrest warrants.
Seriously? If they’re held accountable for their #warCrimes israel is going to throw a tantrum at another government? And the US getting involved, possibly threatening the ICC if they do the right thing?
"However, [Patel] added that “remediation” at four of the units has now put Israel in compliance with US law prohibiting military assistance to security units that commit abuses and have not been brought to justice."
Another barnstormer from Clare Daly at the European Parliament yesterday 🔥 🔥✊
"I have to say, of all the insane discussions that we've had in here, this one absolutely has to take the biscuit. 'Iran's unprecedented attack on Israel', as if Iran woke up one day and decided to strike Israel out of the blue. As if Israel's targeted attack on the Iranian Embassy in Syria, which killed 16 people, a flagrant violation of the Vienna Convention, had never happened ... "
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"Everybody outside this room knows the cause of the escalation is Israel. Everybody knows that Israel has been trying to broaden the conflict in the region to detract from their genocidal war in Gaza. And everybody knows that the EU, who for seven months of the most proportionally destructive war in history have failed to condemn and sanction Israel, have immediately and unanimously sanctioned Iran for a disciplined retaliations which killed nobody ... "
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"The only conclusion we can reach is that the international system is collapsing."
Head of Amnesty International Agnès Callamard speaks to Democracy Now! about the flagrant disregard for Israel's genocide in the West.
What now? Some more strongly worded statements from Biden, Cameron and VdL? 🤬
Aljazeera: "The eastern part of Rafah is under constant artillery shelling as a senior Israeli official says the military is “moving ahead” with its planned ground invasion, ignoring a growing chorus of international warnings to call it off."
"What has been seen cannot be unseen and the world can now see exactly what European values really are. 200 days of Israel systematically wiping Gaza from the earth. 505 bombs a day. 21 an hour. Doctors executed, mass graves in hospitals, journalists murdered. And all the while with not just the silence but the active complicity of the European Union. The European Union who flew the flag of the oppressor from day one ...
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@jann
You understand that this is a response to Israel’s illegal and unprovoked terrorist attack on Iran’s diplomatic mission in Syria, right?
Iran has a right to defend itself.
Now, Israel needs to stop using human shields by hiding its military bases in civilian areas. #IsraeliWarCrimes#israeliterrorism
Despite hundreds of arrests, Jordanian protesters keep coming out to demonstrate in front of the Israeli embassy in Amman. They are calling for an end to Jordan's 1994 peace treaty with Israel in response to the genocide in Gaza.