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“Microsoft and Google have been working closely with the Israeli military’s Computer Services Directorate for years, in shadow of flashier military intelligence units
Despite U.S. reporting focusing on the actions of Israel’s Unit 8200, Microsoft and Google have supported the Israeli military’s Lotem technology unit for years.”https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/microsoft-and-google-have-been-working
Absolutely senseless these people:
Israel blackmailing ICC and US – Axios
The Jewish state has reportedly said it will punish Palestine if the court pursues Israeli leaders
According to Israeli and US officials who spoke to Axios reporter Barak Ravid, the Israeli government told the Biden administration that, if arrest warrants are issued, it will consider the Palestinian Authority responsible and will retaliate with strong action against it.
One possible measure could be to freeze the transfer of tax revenues that Israel collects for the Palestinian Authority, Axios has claimed. Without these funds, the Palestinian Authority would go bankrupt, it added.
https://swentr.site/news/596864-israel-blackmailing-icc-us/
It is not the first time either:
2009: Spy Cables: Abbas and Israel ally against 2009 UN probe
Analysis: Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas colluded with Israel to prevent war crimes charges, according to new leaks.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2015/2/23/spy-cables-abbas-and-israel-ally-against-2009-un-probe
2015: Abbas blocked ICC application: Why?
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/abbas-blocked-icc-application-why
For all talk about Palestinians hide behind civilian infrastructure etc, meanwhile in Israel:
Why is it that Israel’s military headquarters are located in the middle of civilian areas in Tel Aviv?
According to Israel own standards and actions in Gaza this will make everyone there “human shields” and legitimate targets…
More info, map: https://twitter.com/ricwe123/status/1779512225335529894
Another photo: https://imgur.com/a/ZDaxs3BTime and time again Israel actually use the tactics they accuse palestinians of using.
Not sure if ICC being sincere or just trying to portray themselves as being “tough” against US/Israel pressure:
ICC prosecutor slams ‘attempts to intimidate’ court over possible arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials
“The office seeks to engage constructively with all stakeholders whenever such dialogue is consistent with its mandate under the Rome Statute to act independently and impartially,” ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan says in a statement.“That independence and impartiality are undermined, however, when individuals threaten to retaliate… should the office, in fulfillment of its mandate, make decisions about investigations or cases falling within its jurisdiction,” he adds, demanding that “all attempts to impede, intimidate or improperly influence its officials cease immediately.”
The statement follows a report from the Axios news site earlier this morning that a group of Republican and Democratic senators held a virtual meeting with top ICC officials this week, in an attempt to dissuade the court from ordering arrest warrants against senior Israeli officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
AG
NGOs call on German government to stop arms exports to Israel
The groups, including peace movement Pax Christi, Oxfam Germany, and Amnesty International, sent an open letter on Thursday to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and asked the government to comply with its obligations under international law, and use its influence on the Israeli government.
Is stuff like this even reported by german media?
Israel/US/Arab leaders plan to occupy Gaza after the war(?)
Israel comes up with post-war solution for Gaza – NYT
A power-sharing deal could be agreed in exchange for a normalization of ties with Saudi Arabia, Israeli officials told the paper
Three Israeli officials, and five people who have discussed the proposal with the Israeli government, told the NYT that the Jewish state would offer to share oversight of Gaza with the US and three Arab countries – Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
According to the sources, Israel would do so in exchange for a normalization of ties with Saudi Arabia.
Under the plan, local leaders in Gaza, who would be tasked with rebuilding the territory, reforming its education system and maintaining order, would to be appointed by Israeli and the Arab nations in cooperation with Washington.Max Blumenthal has created a short video for The Grayzone, covering how “the most moral army in the world” carries on, and how the good citizens of Israel respond to the plight of their victims:
https://youtu.be/4vKuB1su43c
https://rumble.com/v443j0i-what-is-wrong-with-israelis.html
https://odysee.com/@TheGrayzone:c/what-is-wrong-with-israelis:fJACK
hardly any reports yesterday. Nothing any more today. It is disgusting to witness this time and again. With the february UN report about Abu Ghraib style torture of UNRWA employees it was the same – NOTHING reported. Plenty of news items with Israelis / Jews as victims of course. It´s so obvious that they are trying hard to FIND news among the incoming wires from the agencies which can spin on the Anti-UN / Palestine ideology. Just to not report on the atrocities. Its shameful to see this. Really. So most people have no clue what´s going on.
With the exception of honourable leftwing JUNGE WELT. But they are the smallest paper in Germany by far.
The Duran on the ICC – joke? tragedy? farce?
19 min.
https://theduran.com/icc-intl-criminal-court-is-finished/AG
Thanks for the reply, very sad, it is the same all over europe unfortunately, westerners do not know, they do not see the streams of videos, photos, testimonies coming out from Gaza. It is interesting that if 1 ukrainian is killed by Russia in Ukraine it is reported as the first news segment by the media, but if at the same time 50 palestinians been killed by the israelis it is not even reported!
And now EU, or rather Germany, have blocked entry for a palestininan doctor! How low could you get?
UK-Palestinian Surgeon & Rector Who Described Gaza ‘Nightmare’ Blocked From EU Entry
Professor Ghassan Abu-Sitta, a London plastic and reconstructive surgeon who spent 43 days in Gaza helping to treat those wounded in Palestine-Israel war, said he has been denied entry to France despite being scheduled to speak to the senate there later on Saturday.
Abu-Sitta arrived at Charles de Gaulle airport on Saturday morning after a flight from London, and was informed by French authorities that Germany had placed a Schengen-wide ban on his entry to EuropeWhere have humanity gone? Europeans fall into the same dehumanization mentality that their forefathers had in WW2.
While Iran tirelessly urge arab, muslim nations to cut ties and impose sanctions on Israel…
Iran Urges Muslim States to Boycott Israel
https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2024/05/05/3079886/iran-urges-muslim-states-to-boycott-israel
Saudi arabia (and other arab leaders?) are instead obsessed with reaching a normalizaiton deal with Israel – right during the acts of genocide being commited against their “brothers”, “sisters”. They do not even demand any more that a palestinian state is to be established before any deal with Israel!
The US and Saudi Arabia are reportedly getting closer to a major deal that would “reshape the Middle East” and add to the region’s security.
Riyadh, however, made it plain that it will not sign off on the deal unless there is calm in Gaza and a path to an independent Palestinian state, according to Miller.
JACK
This is e.g. German daily JUNGE WELT which I mentioned above:
short interview with film director Dayan who was attacked for his comments at German film festival “Berlinale”
“German Zionists indulge in philo-Semitic fetish”
From the exploitation of Jewish identities to the hunt. A conversation with Dror Dayan”short summary/comment of the interview
“German travesty
The wave of slander, harassment and repression against critical Jews as an alarm signal for an extremely dangerous development”https://archive.is/hxvRg#selection-7997.0-7997.586
last paragraph:
“”Germany wants to become a military power again, at any price,” explains Dror Dayan, explaining the escalating agitation. And he sheds light on the material basis under the ideological veil of alleged “fighting against anti-Semitism” that is increasingly targeting progressive Jews: from the nuclear weapons program in Dimona secretly financed by Adenauer from 1961 onwards to the import of the “Arrow 3” missile defense system for the proxy war against Russia in the Ukraine – Israel acts as a “bulwark” of German imperialism in the Middle East. “It’s about NATO, not about Auschwitz.””
A longer German text by the biggest alternative German site NACHDENKSEITEN, about Abu Sitta:
“Salman Abu Sitta – “An evil terrorist”?”
Abu Sitta is the devil because he doesn´t condemn HAMAS.
p.s. which is why I count myself among the most radically opinioned Germans as I would argue in favour of HAMAS. But that is verboten in the FRG. Even among the most pronounced critics along ICJ line NOBODY will do that.
So if you defend HAMAS you end up very lonely.
Of course on the psychological level, “intellectuals” fear that if you start to argue over this point you will reveal truth which forces them to admit you are right on some level. And that would cause the ENTIRE imperialistic, hypocratic structure to crumble.
It appears they almost demand a moral revenue for chastising themselves over Holocaust studies for decades, realizing that German scholarship and society somehow missed out on a few pretty important events and developments since 1945. They assume admitting that HAMAS had agency and legitimacy to an extent (only grown-ups can seriously argue over this, which you find none in Germany today) and actually the legal right as far as military units are concerned (according to the UN by, 1974 was it?) it´s impossible to carry on with a decent Holocaust scholarship or whatever. The simplicity of this mindset is horribly moronic – being unable to do both at the same time.
It´s either black or white. And armed resistance is only ok if it´s against genuine Nazis defined by German DIN norm.
And here is the conjunction between German racism and arrogance towards Russians and Arabs. Apparently too much clichéd talk about great fucking German culture has gotten to their heads.
This I just saw, not yet read, but share it right away as a good student should 😉
THE INTERCEPT roundtable with
Intercept´s Murtaza Hussain (not the most radical thinker) Judith Butler (who might turn into one later in her career may be, hopfully) and Jeremy Scahill (same as Hussain)
“Judith Butler Will Not Co-Sign Israel’s Alibi for Genocide
The famed scholar on why reducing Hamas to a terrorist label sanctions Israel’s war on Palestinians.”https://theintercept.com/2024/05/01/judith-butler-israel-hamas-freedom-speech/
…speaking of which: Ken Klippenstein has resigned from THE INTERCEPT
and started something on Substack with THIS piece:“Why I’m Resigning From The Intercept
…and starting something new
Ken Klippenstein
Apr 30, 2024”“(…)
I’m going after the journalistic priesthood, like Judith Miller’s editor for her bogus Iraq WMD stories, whose punishment was being made editor-in-chief of ProPublica (salary: $480,000) and chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board. And any public figure confused about what young people are so mad about or how people could be dissatisfied with an economy where most Americans can’t afford to own a home.
My decision to go independent was a long time coming, but the final, precipitating event was the corporatization of The Intercept over the past few months.
In my time at The Intercept, I’ve watched the newsroom increasingly become dominated by management and bureaucrats whose numbers continue to swell as the number of people who actually produce news dwindles. While the Intercept now has one poor copy editor for the entire website, it employs two staff attorneys, as well as a legal fellow, a chief strategy officer, a chief digital officer, a business coordinator, a senior director of development and an associate director of development, a product manager, a senior director of operations, a chief of staff, and a chief operating officer. And for the first time in The Intercept’s history, as of Monday, the new editor-in-chief now answers to the CEO.
The company’s org chart, pictured below, provides a sense of how top-heavy it has become with business hires (basically the entire left half).
(…)”the CHART, INTERCEPT structure:
UN accuses Israel of denying Gaza aid access as famine takes hold
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A top U.N. official on Sunday accused Israel of continuing to deny the United Nations humanitarian access in the Gaza Strip, where the U.N. food chief warned a “full-blown famine” has taken hold in the north of the enclave of 2.3 million people.While not a formal famine declaration, World Food Programme Executive Director Cindy McCain said – in an NBC News interview broadcast on Sunday – that based on the “horror” on the ground: “There is famine, full-blown famine, in the north, and it’s moving its way south.”
Watch the photo of the truck queue:
https://www.lapost.com/un-accuses-israel-of-denying-gaza-aid-access-as-famine-takes-hold
Such a blatant example of Collective punishment, a war crime under international law:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_punishmentWho are these people fooling?
Queen of Jordan Calls on World to Use ‘Leverage’ to End Israel’s Assault on Gaza
Is not Jordan part of this “world”? What have they done themselves these past 6 months? Nothing!
Just days after 7th october event, Jordan banned pro-palestinian protests:
Jordan bans pro-Palestinian protests in Jordan Valley and border areas amid Israeli airstrikes against Gaza
Amnesty:Jordan: Stop cracking down on pro-Gaza protests and release those charged for exercising their freedoms of assembly and expression
The people in charge cannot in their wildest fantasy understand why people protest against Israel, they must come up with the more absurd reasons after the other, if it is not blamed on antisemitism it is social media that show the unfiltrerd reality of what Israel is doing that is the problem.
Absolute psychopaths.Blinken and Mitt Romney blames TikTok and social media for disrupting Israel’s narrative of war in Gaza
Secretary of state said social media allows history context to ‘get lost’
“Why has Hamas disappeared in terms of public perception?” he continued. “An offer is on the table for a ceasefire and yet the world is screaming about Israel.”
https://www.tiktok.com/@yourfavoriteguy/video/7365742757987503402
JACOBIN:
The Colombian Left Has Every Reason to Condemn Israel
By Luca DeCola
05.05.2024This week, Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first left-wing president, severed diplomatic ties with Israel over Gaza. It’s a long time coming: Israeli mercenaries aided in the wholesale slaughter of Colombia’s insurgent leftist party, Patriotic Union, in the ’80s.
US resort to extortion against ICC, look how they openly threat ICC:
“Republican Senators Threaten ICC: ‘Target Israel and We Will Target You’”
The letter concludes: “The United States will not tolerate politicized attacks by the ICC on our allies. Target Israel and we will target you. If you move forward with the measures indicated in this report, we will move to end all American support for the ICC, sanction your employees and your associates, and bar you and your family from the United States. You have been warned.”Link to letter: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000018f-4e0e-d759-a9ff-ff4ee9420000
Now the Israelis have kicked out Al Jazeera, the Rafah invasion can begin in earnest. Expect to see very little slaughter on Western TV pro-Israel propaganda channels (all of our media basically).
Socialist worker tries its best –
Fat Jon
Exactly, the genocide won’t be televised.
And although many crimes by Israel have been recorded it is terrible that a whole lot of other crimes have not been possible to be reported because Israel have struck the electricity hubs etc resulting that people cannot charge their mobilphones/computers and therefore cannot photo, video record, type down the testimonies of the human rights abuses throughout Gaza.
As of yet, the phony “Reporters without borders”, have not put out any condemnation of Israel for the banning of Al Jazeera.
https://rsf.org/enThere are people that are humilitated and cannot do anything about it to stop, then there is people that apparently want to be humiliated. Al Sisi’s Egypt.
The way Israel play the egyptian leader is absurd to watch, the israelis must laugh their ass off daily when it comes to getting the arab leader to implicitly but also sometimes openly support in their war.How Egypt’s crackdown on Gaza protests shows the fragility of Sisi’s regime
Analysis: Even after a decade of unrivalled power, Sisi’s regime in Egypt is too fragile to allow any meaningful show of political free expression.
On 1 May, six Egyptians daring to raise a flag in support of Palestine were detained in Alexandria. On 23 April, 16 Egyptians were arrested for participating in a feminist solidarity act outside the UN Women’s offices in Cairo. Weeks earlier, meanwhile, 10 activists were arrested following peaceful pro-Palestine demonstrations outside the Cairo Journalists Syndicate.
“The escalation of the crisis in Gaza, and Egypt’s role as mediator, has allowed the regime to boost its image and to divert attention from the internal political and human rights crisis,” Boserup said.
Egypt’s position towards Israel and Palestine is ambiguous at best. For the past decade, Egypt has worked closely with Israel on security cooperation.
Today, the regime publicly claims to be a staunch defender of its brothers and sisters in Palestine, but it maintains relations with Israel and is chiefly concerned about the potential influx of Palestinian refugees into the Sinai Peninsula.
The IMF, World Bank, and the EU have all come to Egypt’s economic rescue in the past few months armed with multi-billion-dollar bailout packages. Before the agreements were inked, there was hope that the organisations would pressure Egypt to improve human rights conditions in exchange for much-needed financial aid.
“There was some hope that outside aid would be conditioned on political reform, but that has completely evaporated now,” Mandour said.
https://www.newarab.com/analysis/egypts-crackdown-gaza-protests-shows-regimes-fragility
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Apparently the egyptians laughed at Iran when they attacked Israel, meanwhile the egyptians themselves do not even dare to take any diplomatic action against Israel:Iran’s attack on Israel met with online ridicule from Egyptians
Some mockery has come from pro-government accounts, at a time when Cairo and Tehran have been working towards improving relations
Jack, I had reason to look at “reporters without borders” yesterday on account of them staging a protest against Xi Jinping’s visit to Paris. I wanted to see how consistent they were, for example, in regards to Julian Assange and Gaza.
Over a month ago they reported and condemned Israel’s legislation targeting AlJazeera: Al Jazeera to be banned soon in Israel in unprecedented censorship after months of persecution (2 Apr 2024). They also published a piece on the murdered journalists in Gaza: More than 100 journalists killed in six months in Gaza – where is the international community? (5 Apr 2024).I don’t know much about “reporters without borders” or their impartiality but those two pieces linked above couldn’t be considered as pro-Israeli. They also condemn Assange’s persecution by USA/UK, for what that’s worth. Perhaps others here have more information on their work.
ET
That is true they have put out comments on this, I should have looked into this a bit deeper, although I think generally this organization is very muted on western/pro-western-nations media crackdown.
Those are somewhat old(?) stats but in 2005 funding partly came from CIA fronts, Neocons- and anti-communist organisations:
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Reporters_Without_Borders#Funding_SourcesThere has been an ongoing protest over the last few days by students at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). TCD administration even closed off access to “The Book of Kells” even to those with pre-booked tickets. The students had set up encampments on campus and were demanding TCD divest all investment in Israeli companies and end all association and collaboration with Israeli universities and research, amongst other things. Trinity College Dublin have made some announcements today intending to divest from three Israeli companies on a UN blacklist and its intention to set up a taskforce to explore engagement with institutions in Israel Trinity College Dublin to divest from investments in Israeli companies that feature on UN ‘blacklist’.
They have also stated:
“In view of the disproportionate response we have seen at some institutions overseas, Trinity is committed to addressing the issue of the encampment as an internal process,” the university said in a statement issued on Monday evening. “We wish for a return to normal services for our students, staff, and the public as soon as possible.”
“We fully understand the driving force behind the encampment on our campus and we are in solidarity with the students in our horror at what is happening in Gaza,” the TCD statement went on. “We abhor and condemn all violence and war, including the atrocities of October 7th and the continuing ferocious and disproportionate onslaught in Gaza. The humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the dehumanisation of its people is obscene.”
