“Erik Prince, the founder of the military contractor Blackwater and younger brother of Betsy DeVos, invited around 650 of his contacts to join a secret, private group chat. And now it has leaked.”
🧵Ich halte den Haftbefehl gegen Netanjahu und die Spitze der Hamas in vielen Punkten für problematisch.
Während Netanjahu in einem demokratischen Prozess gewählt wurde, hat sich die Hamas 2007 im Gaza an die Macht geputscht.
Während die Hamas am 7. Oktober Israel überfiel, 1200 Menschen ermordete, 200 verschleppte und in ihrer Agenda klar formuliert, den Staat Israel auslöschen zu wollen. Reagierte die israelische Armee damit die Hamas zu schwächen bzw. Zu zerstören. Nicht nicht Gaza. (1)
Terrororganisation wie die #Houthis oder die #Hamas sind keine Staaten. Sollen sie deshalb für #Kriegsverbrechen nicht beim ICC angelegt werden können?
Und noch ein letzter Aspekt: vor dem Gesetz sind alle Menschen gleich.
Besteht ein ausreichender Anfangsverdacht, dann kann jeder angeklagt werden. Das ist Teil des Rechtsstaatsprinzips. Eine Anklage ist keine Verurteilung. Zudem gaben Prominente oft größere Geldmittel und damit Zugriff auf bessere Anwälte.
Tara Kangarlou, global affairs journalist, author of "The Hearthbeat of Iran" and adjunct professor at Georgetown University speaks to France24's Mark Owen. She says that the Islamic regime in #Iran is a system in which presidents and officials are replaceable. She adds that the deaths of president Ebrahim #Raisi and foreign minister Hossein #Amirabdollahian will not deter Iran from pursuing its goals in the region. #Israel#Hamas#Houthis#Gaza#Hezbollah
US gives #Saudis green light to try to revive peace deal with #Houthis (this headline! Why is it up to the US? Supposedly because KSA agrees with the US to normalize with ISR. But KSA doesn’t …) @saudi@yemen
#FarhanHaq, a #UN spokesperson, said the new smaller numbers reflected those bodies which had been fully identified. The bigger figures included corpses for whom identification has so far not been completed.
"If we're shooting down a $50,000 one-way #drone with a $3 million #missile, that's not a good cost equation," Bill LaPlante, the #Pentagon's chief weapons buyer, told a Senate appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday. #RedSea#Houthis#Israel#Gaza
One clear sign of how ignorant and immature the college protesters are is how they all don't seem to want to be held accountable for the crimes they committed.
I wish that our U.S. campuses would at least still assign students to read MLK's Letter from a Birmingham jail, and Thoreau's essay on Civil Disobedience.
I think these protesters have failed the guidelines of: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and effective direct action.
The only thing we can do is to act based on the high moral principles that were the basis for many Western democracies and the founding principles of the League of Nations and the United Nations from NOW on.
Nations or terrorists organizations that defy these principles must me brought to heel, however.
"Then there’s Netanyahu, whose political career should have ended in disgrace seven months ago when he failed to foresee and prevent the devastating Oct. 7 attack on Israel."
"Netanyahu also faces a probable conviction on corruption charges and even possible jail time if he loses office, not to mention an official inquiry into his pre-war actions that would destroy what remains of his reputation. This is not a man who will act in the higher interests of the nation" - Dyer
Saudi opposition figure Ali Hashem, who recently emerged in Sanaa pledging allegiance to the #Houthis & expressing a goal to overthrow the Saudi regime, posts a map of the "Great #Yemen Republic" highlighted in green color. @yemen@saudi
"Centcom: 5,000 small arms, 500,000 rounds confiscated over 2 years handed to Kyiv to help ‘defend against Russian invasion’ and ‘stop Iran’s destabilizing activities’ in Red Sea"
Centcom: 5,000 small arms, 500,000 rounds confiscated over 2 years handed to Kyiv to help ‘defend against Russian invasion’ and ‘stop Iran’s destabilizing activities’ in Red Sea
Following is a thread of quotes from #TheGlobalJigsaw latest episode on the #IRGC, #Quds force, #Basij militias - and th ideological blueprint for #Iran so called Axis of Resistance. Whole episode here:
The #Houthis are definitely backed by #Iran . We've also seen reports that #IRGC advisers are in #Yemen . But again in terms of the extent to which they take orders or not from Iran is not quite clear.
It quickly gets very complicated because here we're talking about literally dozens of entities. they've entrenched themselves within #Iraqi society. It's a very dangerous situation going forwards where the army does not have the monopoly on the use of force.
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A lot of the western navies participating in the naval actions against the Houthis drones/missiles in the Red Sea and pirates from Somalia have been getting their first real combat shakedown and it hasn't always been going well. The French forces seem to be performing admirably and the Indian navy seems ready for gutsy actions, including airdropping troops into the water to conduct naval boarding operations against dozens of armed pirates!
The ship's targeting radar also malfunctioned, apparently severely enough that they were not able to launch missiles for a half hour. That is a half hour of vulnerability in which the ship's primary weapons system (missiles) were down.
It's enough to cause them to leave the theater prematurely, probably on the assumption that there is a realistic chance that they'd not be able to defend the ship...and they fired their defense chief.
US gives Ukraine weapons it seized from Iran en route to Houthis (www.timesofisrael.com)
Centcom: 5,000 small arms, 500,000 rounds confiscated over 2 years handed to Kyiv to help ‘defend against Russian invasion’ and ‘stop Iran’s destabilizing activities’ in Red Sea