Recognition of the army’s atrocities in Gaza has moved into mainstream Israeli discourse. This alone cannot end the war — but it‘s a profound shift.
Daily Archives: 29. Mai 2025
Spanish parliament fast-tracks Israel arms embargo bill
(May 27, 2025)
The Sumar, Podemos, Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC), Basque EH Bildu and the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) parties submitted a petition to the Congressional Bureau demanding the urgent procession of the bill, said the El Mundo newspaper, News.Az reports.
The request, also supported by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialist Party, was approved, halving the timeline and accelerating the process.
Spain proposes imposing sanctions on Israel to force end to Gaza war
(May 26, 2025)
Representatives from European countries, including France, Britain, Germany and Italy, joined envoys from Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Morocco, the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
Norway, Iceland, Ireland and Slovenia, who like Spain have already recognized a Palestinian state, also took part, alongside Brazil.
Israeli foreign minister says arms embargoes will lead to ‚second Holocaust‘ and end of Israel
(today)
Israel’s foreign minister has said that an arms embargo on his country would lead to the elimination of the Israeli state and “a second Holocaust”.
Gideon Saar was speaking on Tuesday at an international conference on antisemitism in Jerusalem.
„If, God forbid, the calls and actions of countries and politicians for an arms embargo on Israel succeed, the result will be the destruction of Israel and a second Holocaust,“ he said.
Israel intensifies efforts to stop Germany from ‚even hinting‘ at arms embargo: Report
(May 28, 2025)
The Israeli government is conducting an “intensive” diplomatic campaign to prevent Germany from imposing “or even suggesting” a potential ban on arms exports to Israel, as reported by Israeli public broadcaster KAN 11 on 27 May.
Tel Aviv is specifically looking to influence the office of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and the German Foreign Ministry by claiming that the US-Israeli aid distribution mechanism in southern Gaza represents a “dramatic and fundamental shift” from the total blockade imposed since March.
Gaza death toll nears 54,100 as Israel’s genocidal war enters 600th day
(May 28, 2025)
At least 54,084 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s genocidal war since October 2023 as the onslaught entered its 600th day, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday.
At least 70 Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes across Gaza
The death toll from Israeli strikes on Gaza has risen to 70 on Thursday, according to Gaza‘s health ministry.
Israel is continuing to pummel the enclave, which is on the brink of starvation.
Israel faces growing condemnation as Gaza aid distribution devolves into chaos
Geolocated video on Thursday also showed crowds looting a street market in Zeitoun, northern Gaza, an area where even less aid is arriving than in the south.
Controversial U.S.-backed Gaza aid group breaching rules for foundations registered in Switzerland, Swiss authorities say
The controversial U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), whose operations got off to a chaotic start this week in the war-torn Palestinian territory, says it is winding down its Swiss operation after three months. The move comes as Swiss authorities said GHF was breaching rules for foundations registered in that country. GHF told CBS News that moving forward, its only operations would be based out of the United States.
Constitution of the United States: Article II
Section 2
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.
Judge slams ‘perverse reading’ of Constitution by Trump admin fighting lawsuit challenging DOGE, but puts one less case on the president’s docket
“Defendants appear to sanction unlimited Executive power, free from checks and balances, but the Constitution prohibits unilateral control over ‘official appointments’ by ‘dividing the power to appoint the principal federal offices … between the Executive and Legislative Branches,‘” Chutkan added.
The judge further dispatched the defendants’ argument that a court cannot review the president’s actions in this case.
“The fact that President Trump purports to create a position and assign it powers by Executive Order does not preclude review under the Appointments Clause,” she wrote.
“No branch may aggrandize its own appointment power at the expense of another and no branch may abdicate its Appointments Clause duties,” Chutkan added. “And the Judiciary has a duty to maintain ‘the constitutional plan of separation of powers.’ Consequently, the court will reject Defendants’ perverse reading of the Appointments Clause.”
Judge Says Musk Must Face Lawsuit Over His Role In DOGE
A federal judge in D.C. Tuesday greenlit lawsuits challenging Elon Musk’s position in the federal government and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as unconstitutional.
Judge Tanya Chutkan, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, said 14 states and a group of advocacy organizations plausibly argued that Musk and DOGE’s efforts to slash the government violate the Appointments Clause of the Constitution.
Judge allows 14 states‘ lawsuit against Elon Musk and DOGE to proceed
Driving the news: U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan denied a motion to dismiss the case.
She wrote in a 42-page order: „The Constitution does not permit the Executive to commandeer the entire appointments power by unilaterally creating a federal agency pursuant to Executive Order and insulating its principal officer from the Constitution as an ‚advisor‘ in name only,“ the judge wrote. „This is precisely what Plaintiffs claim the Executive has done.“
Musk officially steps down from DOGE after wrapping work streamlining government
He was officially hired as a „special government employee,“ which is a role Congress created in 1962 that allows the executive or legislative branch to hire temporary employees for specific short-term initiatives.
Special government employees are permitted to work for the federal government for „no more than 130 days in a 365-day period,“ according to data from the Office of Government Ethics. Musk‘s 130-day timeframe, beginning on Inauguration Day, was set to run dry on May 30.
Trump temporarily backs down on Harvard student ban as judge sides with college
A Boston federal judge said at a hearing May 29 that she planned to issue a preliminary injunction that blocks the Department of Homeland Security from revoking Harvard‘s ability to enroll foreign exchange students.
The comments from U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs came as the Trump administration attempted to walk back its May 22 directive that immediately revoked Harvard‘s participation in a federal exchange student program.
Second court blocks Trump tariffs as ‚unlawful‘
In an opinion on Wednesday, the three-judge panel struck down Trump‘s global tariffs as „contrary to law.“
The judges found that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act — which Trump used to enact his tariffs — does not give him the „unlimited“ power to levy tariffs like the president has in recent months.