(May 7, 2025)
Kurz nachdem Friedrich Merz im ersten Wahlgang gescheitert ist, erhĂ€lt die ehemalige Chefin der Linkspartei Janine Wissler einen Anruf. Alexander Dobrindt ist am Apparat, bis vor kurzem CSU-Landesgruppenchef. Das sei jetzt kein „Pocket Call“, also kein Taschenanruf aus Versehen, gibt er Wissler zu verstehen, er mĂŒsse dringend mit ihr sprechen……
Hundreds of people have been arrested as the Defend our Juries group protested against the governmentâs âproscriptionâ (terrorism ban) on anti-genocide group Palestine Action. While al-Qaeda subsidiary HTS in Syria has been de-proscribed and whitewashed by the UK and US, Palestine Action remains banned. The Crown Prosecution Service and judiciary continue to collude to try to ensure the longest and harshest possible sentences.
More than 3,000 people, mostly pensioners and disabled people, have been arrested for âterrorâ offences for opposing the proscription. That total is climbing rapidly.
„I certainly have solutions. I think we need to go to war in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank). To do there what we did in Gaza. To dismantle the Palestinian Authority, which is a terror authority,“ he said.
Asked what war would mean, Smotrich pointed to earlier Israeli operations in West Bank refugee camps.
„We already did it. There are three refugee camps there that are empty, that we evacuated the population from for its protection and cleansed of all the terror. I want to kill all the terrorists and collect all the weapons,“ he said.
Religious Zionist Party leader calls for dismantling Palestinian Authority and eliminating terror infrastructure; accepts âcollective responsibilityâ for Oct. 7, defends governmentâs wartime record and vows crackdown on illegal weapons and crime
We live at a dangerous moment.
But our future is not predetermined.
War is a choice.
Peace is also a choice.
And sometimes â
the greater courage, lies, not in starting a war â
but in preventing one.
Pakistan has made its choice.
We have chosen dialogue over confrontation.
We have chosen cooperation over coercion.
We have chosen peace over war.
Let this eighty-first General Assembly make it unanimous choice.
For ourselves.
For our children.
And for generations yet unborn.
Let us restore trust. Let us preserve peace.
And let us prove that even in a divided world â
humanity can still choose to stand together.
I thank you.
Transcript & summary
After denouncing what he called Israelâs âgenocidal agendaâ in Palestine, Sharif also condemned âIsraeli aggression against Lebanon and Syriaâ.
âThis, too, must stop immediately,â he said.
Susan Sarandon was taken into police custody during a demonstration near the United Nations in New York.
The actress was among protesters calling for the United States to stop supplying arms to Israel.
The demonstration was organised by Jewish Voice for Peace as international leaders met for the UN General Assembly.
In July, a YouGov poll found that 49% of Americans believed the US government should arrest Netanyahu under the warrant, 27% said it should not, and 23% were unsure.
President Donald Trump stated earlier this summer that Netanyahu âwill not be arrested, in any way, shape, or formâ while visiting the US. His administrationâs position, as stated in a February 2025 executive order, is that Netanyahu canât be arrested. The ICC, it says, âhas no jurisdiction over the United States or Israelâ because, unlike most other nations, neither is a party to the Rome Statute, which created the court.
Since 2023, the sharpest decline in support for Israel â down at least 20 points â comes from women, Hispanic voters, voters under age 45, voters with a college degree and Democrats. Republican support has fallen 10 points during the same time.
Around 48 percent of voters said they sided more with Israelis in the conflict, compared with 38 percent who said they sided with Palestinians.
The figure marks a decline from 54 percent in June and from a high of 68 percent recorded at the outset of the conflict in October 2023, when 18 percent said they sided more with Palestinians.
netzpolitik.org: Wie sieht die zugrundeliegende technische Infrastruktur aus und wer stellt sie bereit?
Rainer Rehak: Der gesamte Datensatz zu Gaza umfasst schĂ€tzungsweise 13,6 Petabyte, also umgerechnet 13.600 Terabyte. Diese Datenmenge ist nicht einfach zu handhaben, besonders wenn man damit statistische Modelle trainieren möchte oder gar groĂe Sprachmodelle, die ebenfalls erstellt werden. Die digitale Infrastruktur wird von Google und Amazon unter dem Projektnamen Nimbus bereitgestellt und kostet 1,2 Milliarden US-Dollar.
Die Integration der heterogenen Datenquellen macht Palantir. Microsoft, Cisco, Dell und Red Hat/IBM bieten zusĂ€tzliche IT-Dienstleistungen rund um die âkill-chainâ an. Dies zeigt die enorme Rolle, die der private Sektor bei der Integration und Nutzung von KI-Systemen in bewaffneten Konflikten spielt.
The titles of two new books about Israelâs genocide in Gaza succinctly state their shared argument: Corporate, mainstream media have been complicit in the horrific violence the Zionist state has inflicted and continues to inflict on Palestinians in Gaza. Print and online media, as well as cable news, have sold the genocide to their readers and audiences, turning reality on its head by portraying the Israeli perpetrators as victims of bloodthirsty terrorists and their Palestinian victims as bloodthirsty terrorists, terrorist sympathizers, or terrorists-to-be. As Deputy Speaker of the Knesset Nissim Vaturi said in a televised 2025 interview, âany childâ born in Gaza is âalready a terrorist from the moment of his birth.â
Adam Johnson, a media analyst and co-host of the podcast Citations Needed, and Robin Andersen, professor emerita of media studies at New Yorkâs Fordham University and contributor to various independent media, have meticulously documented how U.S. media enable Israelâs mass killings. Their reviews of print, online, and cable coverage illustrate how media have acted as virtual mouthpieces for Israelâs government and its military as well as for the U.S. State Department.
Deutschland hat sogenannte „preliminary objections“ erhoben, also vorlĂ€ufige EinwĂ€nde gegen die ZustĂ€ndigkeit des IGH und die ZulĂ€ssigkeit der Klage. Im Kern geht es um drei Punkte: Erstens bestreitet Deutschland, dass ĂŒberhaupt eine Streitigkeit mit Nicaragua vorliegt, ĂŒber die der IGH entscheiden könnte. Zweitens bezögen sich einige VorwĂŒrfe auf Geschehnisse vor dem 30. April 2008 â dem Tag, an dem Deutschland sich der Gerichtsbarkeit des IGH unterworfen hat. Deshalb könne der Gerichtshof in diesen FĂ€llen seine Gerichtsbarkeit nicht ausĂŒben. Und drittens könne der IGH nicht ĂŒber eine mögliche Beihilfe Deutschlands zu einem Völkermord entscheiden, ohne dass Israel an dem Verfahren beteiligt sei.
Germany told the United Nationsâ top court on Monday that a genocide case over weapons sales to Israel was improperly filed by Nicaragua and should be thrown out.
The Central American country accuses Berlin of violating the Genocide Convention and international humanitarian law by âfacilitatingâ acts of genocide in Gaza by providing arms and other military support to Israel.
(May 11, 2026)
Millions of people around the world are demanding that their leaders act to stop Israelâs violations. Humanity must win.
Dear Chairmen Wicker and Rogers and Ranking Members Reed and Smith,
As you enter into conference to resolve the differences between the House-passed version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2027 (H.R.8800) and the pending Senate bill (S.4784), We, the undersigned U.S. organizations, strongly urge you to reject the entrenchment of U.S. and Israeli defense collaboration, which goes against U.S. national interests and values, and would expand the risk of U.S. complicity in, and exposure to, human rights violations, war crimes, and genocide.
Specifically, we are deeply concerned by Section 219 in the House NDAA and Section 1217 in the Senate version, which establish a new U.S. Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative aimed at accelerating joint research, development, and integration of Israeli-origin and jointly developed defense technologies into U.S. military systems and programs of record. This would expand U.S-Israeli military integration across some of the most sensitive domains of emerging technology, including quantum computing, AI and autonomous systems, cyber and electronic warfare, directed energy, and defense industrial base co-production, while expediting pathways from R&D into procurement.
The European Commission, in fact, avoided commenting on the substance of the matter on Tuesday and referred to the work of the European External Action Service (EEAS) on foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI).
EU spokesperson Paula Pinho explained that the issue falls under the purview of the EEAS and stated that the Commission has no information of its own on this matter.
He said research by the European External Action Service (EEAS), the European Union‘s diplomatic service, indicated links with Israeli and Russian networks, but he gave no further details.
„It is evident that if Russia gets involved in spreading disinformation on this issue, or Israel also spreads disinformation on this issue, criticizing the Spanish government, it will not be because they are concerned about migration in Spain or Europe, but precisely because of the political positions we are taking â courageous ones, I believe â regarding the genocide in Gaza or Putin‘s invasion of Ukraine,“ SĂĄnchez said.
The EEAS did not immediately respond to a CBS News request for comment on the research cited by SĂĄnchez.
The Proposal
That the General Assembly will put forward an immediate motion to vote for the expulsion of Israel from the United Nations.
(June 23, 2026)
On Monday, several Chilean organizations delivered more than 80,000 signatures to the United Nations Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres, demanding Israelâs expulsion from the organization for war crimes committed in the Gaza Strip.
The collection was led by the Lawyers for Palestine association and the Sign for Palestine campaign, with collection points in various countries. The signatures were presented at the United Nations headquarters in Santiago, Chile.
But let me be clear: Peacekeeping operations should only be deployed when a peace agreement or at least a robust ceasefire is in place. We cannot keep peace when there is no peace to keep.
Vom 7. bis 10. September richten sich die Augen der Weltöffentlichkeit auf den Internationalen Gerichtshof, der im Fall âNicaragua vs. Deutschlandâ verhandelt â eine juristische Auseinandersetzung, die Deutschlands Waffenlieferungen und UnterstĂŒtzung fĂŒr Israel sowie die Aussetzung der UNRWA-Finanzierung in den Fokus der internationalen Verantwortung rĂŒckt. âNicaragua gegen Deutschlandâ könnte den Beginn markieren, um auch andere Staaten, die Israel wĂ€hrend des Genozids in Gaza unterstĂŒtzt haben, zur Rechenschaft zu ziehen.
The social media account of Drop Site News accused Rubio of attacking the court solely to protect Netanyahu from war crimes prosecution, pointing out that âthere is currently not a single American citizen under indictment, investigation, or facing an arrest warrantâ from the ICC.
The sanctions earned the praise of the Israeli American Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which accused the ICC of conducting âpolitically motivated investigations and prosecutions targeting America and Israel.â
Rutgers Law School professor Adil Haque said the ICC sanctions showed the US was acting like a ârogue governmentâ and engaged in âderanged behavior.â
From Merzâs conservatives to Alternative for Germany and the Left, condemnation cut across the Bundestagâs political spectrum.
Die allgemeinen Regeln des Völkerrechtes sind Bestandteil des Bundesrechtes. Sie gehen den Gesetzen vor und erzeugen Rechte und Pflichten unmittelbar fĂŒr die Bewohner des Bundesgebietes.
(May 7, 2025)
Kurz nachdem Friedrich Merz im ersten Wahlgang gescheitert ist, erhĂ€lt die ehemalige Chefin der Linkspartei Janine Wissler einen Anruf. Alexander Dobrindt ist am Apparat, bis vor kurzem CSU-Landesgruppenchef. Das sei jetzt kein „Pocket Call“, also kein Taschenanruf aus Versehen, gibt er Wissler zu verstehen, er mĂŒsse dringend mit ihr sprechen……
Xavier Abu Eid, a political analyst and former adviser to the Palestinian negotiations team, says the Board of Peace and Resolution 2803 of the UN Security Council were accepted late last year because it was argued at that time that they were the only way to end the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
âBut it was very clear from the very beginning that the 20-point plan of President Trump and the 15-point disarmament and implementation plan that followed were more about meeting Israeli interests than the Palestinian right to self-determination,â he said.
âDeep in my heart I do believe, Gaza will be free someday,â sang protesters, as another group sitting in a peaceful and silent demonstration outside Bristol Prison were arrested for holding signs in support of Palestine Action.
14 protesters were carted into police vans on Thursday morning for holding signs in support of the pro-Palestinian group, which remains a proscribed organisation in the UK, meaning showing support for it is illegal.
„On the day he was killed, he was restless in the afternoon and wanted to go outside. I told his sisters how much I wished I could take him out, but there are no places left for children to play.“
„He spent his whole life indoors. Even his cousins had been killed in Israeli air strikes, so he had no one to play with.“