Since April I have said that if Trump is faced with two paths, a lesser defeat and a greater defeat, he will pick the one that allows him to "punish" Iran most. Not just him, but the Israel-first political and military cadre that most support him.
Looks like tanker strikes are finally really making things uncomfortable for Emiratis to the pt they are now paying Iranians for transits. Physical oil is going way up. Gas px in great plains up bigly due to refinery issues.
It looks like Trump is getting ready to go in. It's bw
I've spent much of my life in and around the @UN. What stays with me most is its people: colleagues who, in the world's hardest places, deliver food and medicine, protect civilians and help parties take the first steps towards peace.
The UN was never meant to agree with the
@alialsalim@ZiadMDaoud Qatar makes money buying US LNG and shipping it to Asia ay a premium with its very specialised LNG fleet. The US company gets tosign a veeery long-term sale contract with Qatar.
When Lana Nusseibeh visited a refugee camp in eastern Chad in an attempt to polish her country's image by handing out aid a number of Sudanese refugees refused it outright.
They stated they didn't want sacks of flour but for the UAE to stop funding the RSF genocidaires.
I am standing to be Secretary-General because I believe this is a moment to act with greater urgency: to act earlier, bring people together across difference, and drive the work forward until it produces concrete results. That is how we rebuild trust in the United Nations and
1) Targeting occupation soldiers on occupied land is not terrorism by any definition
2) In response, Israel is destroying homes of completely unrelated people, a war crime according to international law
Terror => Homeless.
Israel is finally charging a real price from the Palestinians. Following this morning’s attack, in which two soldiers were killed, Israel has begun demolishing illegal structures and will evacuate the entire Hebron neighborhood from which the terrorists came.
In the Myanmar genocide case currently before the ICJ, Britain, France, Denmark, Germany, Canada and the Netherlands said that targeting children was indicative of genocidal intent. None of them have commented on Israel’s targeting of children, on which the UN commission reported. But the issue will come back to bite them.
ffs… he *is* applying the only reasonable inference test… this is what Britain, France, Denmark, Germany, Canada and the Netherlands said on targeting children and ORI intent.
This is why they are terrified of the Myanmar case. They already said this… can’t take it back
This is not impartiality. This is anti-Palestinian racism:
"The Department for Education has previously flown the Ukrainian flag and encouraged pupils to do so"
Palestine? "Education Secretary Lucy Powell: "Schools are a place to be impartial." middleeasteye.net/news/uk-says-s…
DON'T: read another weepy conversation w/ Michael Walzer where he belatedly admits to being wrong while also doubling down on being wrong
DO: Read this piece by me & @shaabiranks from 2023 where we critique Walzer/Just War Theory & the law of war re: Gaza
nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…
I’m grieving the deaths of the two Israeli soldiers killed in Hebron today, and praying for the full & speedy recovery of those who were injured.
I’ve spoken out loudly this week against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, which imposes violence on a daily basis, and I will
On Wednesday, New York politician Brad Lander called Israel's occupation a crime. On Friday, he described the killing of two Israeli soldiers in the illegally occupied West Bank a "criminal act."
The two soldiers were killed at an illegal Israeli military checkpoint near Hebron, in territory where the International Court of Justice ruled in 2024 that Israel’s continued presence is unlawful.
Under international humanitarian law, military personnel are generally legitimate targets, and attacking them is not in itself a war crime, unlike deliberately targeting civilians.
The act of armed resistance is “criminal,” however, under Israeli military law, which Israel unlawfully imposes on Palestinians in the illegally occupied West Bank.
The UN General Assembly has repeatedly affirmed "the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples" against "foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle," most notably in Resolution 37/43 in 1982.
No civilians were reported killed in Friday's operation.
I’m grieving the deaths of the two Israeli soldiers killed in Hebron today, and praying for the full & speedy recovery of those who were injured.
I’ve spoken out loudly this week against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, which imposes violence on a daily basis, and I will
I’m grieving the deaths of the two Israeli soldiers killed in Hebron today, and praying for the full & speedy recovery of those who were injured.
I’ve spoken out loudly this week against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, which imposes violence on a daily basis, and I will
I’m grieving the deaths of the two Israeli soldiers killed in Hebron today, and praying for the full & speedy recovery of those who were injured.
I’ve spoken out loudly this week against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, which imposes violence on a daily basis, and I will
The US correctly labeled Myanmar’s actions against the Rohingya a genocide in 2022. Today, it’s preemptively fighting a similar ICJ finding - afraid that exact legal analysis will conclude Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
ICJ ad hoc "judge" Navi Pillay is tipping the scales on the ICJ’s current proceedings on Myanmar, intending to lower the legal threshold for proving genocide so that weakened and false standard can later be weaponized against American and allied soldiers whenever they raise a
Wait, so now the U.S. is weighing in against a finding of genocide of the Rohingya in Myanmar not on its own merits, but simply because such a finding could set a precedent that would apply to Israel too?
ICJ ad hoc "judge" Navi Pillay is tipping the scales on the ICJ’s current proceedings on Myanmar, intending to lower the legal threshold for proving genocide so that weakened and false standard can later be weaponized against American and allied soldiers whenever they raise a
ICJ ad hoc "judge" Navi Pillay is tipping the scales on the ICJ’s current proceedings on Myanmar, intending to lower the legal threshold for proving genocide so that weakened and false standard can later be weaponized against American and allied soldiers whenever they raise a
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