Archiv: extraordinarily good questions / außerordentlich gute Fragen


26.11.2025 - 17:57 [ Elissa Slotkin, U.S. Senator for Michigan ]

Slotkin Demands Declassification and Public Release of Information on the Trump Administration’s Lethal Airstrikes

Nov 24, 2025 | Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) joined members of the Senate Armed Services Committee in writing to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth requesting the declassification and public release of the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) written opinion on the Trump Administration’s lethal airstrikes in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean.

“Few decisions are more consequential for a democracy than the use of lethal force. We therefore believe that the declassification and public release of this important document would enhance transparency in the use of deadly force by our Nation’s military and is necessary to ensure Congress and the American people are fully informed of the legal justification supporting these strikes,” the Senators wrote.

20.11.2025 - 16:40 [ Times of Israel ]

High Court orders government to explain why it’s not launching Oct. 7 state inquiry

The court demanded to know why the government is not exercising its authority to establish such a commission, which could “examine in an independent, professional, and impartial manner” the events surrounding the October 7 attacks.

Preliminary orders switch the burden of proof from the petitioner, in this case several liberal watchdog groups, to the respondent — the government — and indicate that the court is taking the petitions very seriously.

The government has until January 4 to respond.

17.11.2025 - 17:27 [ CNN ]

Marjorie Taylor Greene says feud with Trump „has all come down to the Epstein files“

(November 16, 2025)

The Georgia lawmaker said she doesn’t understand why the president is fighting against the files being released, as she doesn’t believe he has been implicated in anything illegal by any of Epstein’s victims.

“That is the question everyone is asking, is why fight this so hard?”

23.09.2025 - 19:40 [ +972 Magazine ]

Israel is waging a holocaust in Gaza. Denazification is our only remedy

What Israel is doing in Gaza City is not the tragic byproduct of chaotic events on the ground, but a well-calculated act of annihilation, executed in cold blood by “the people’s army” — that is, the fathers, sons, brothers, and neighbors of us Israelis.

How is it that, despite the mounting testimonies from Gaza’s concentration and extermination camps, no mass refusal movement has taken root in Israel? That after two years of this carnage barely a handful of conscientious objectors sit in prison is truly inconceivable. Even the so-called “gray refusers” — reserve soldiers who do not oppose the war on ideological grounds but are simply exhausted and questioning its purpose — remain far too few to slow the killing machine, let alone bring it to a halt.

Who are these obedient souls who keep this system running? How can a society so deeply fractured — between the religious and the secular, settlers and liberals, kibbutzniks and urbanites, veteran immigrants and new arrivals — unite only in its willingness to slaughter Palestinians without a moment’s hesitation?

10.09.2025 - 19:56 [ Freitag.de ]

Wen greift Israel als Nächsten an? Ägypten? Jordanien? Wieder Katar?

Der Angriff auf Doha ist ein Beispiel dafür, wie Kriege entgrenzen und eine kriegsführende Macht die Kontrolle über die Folgen verliert. Man erlebt eine Steigerung dessen, was in den vergangenen zwei Jahren nicht mehr steigerbar erschien

29.08.2025 - 19:30 [ Communist Party of Israel ]

MK Cassif: More of Us in Israel are Saying No to this Endless War

(August 27, 2025)

As the descendant of a Jewish family from Poland, the words “never again” have significant meaning for me. In the aftermath of the Second World War, humankind vowed to never again allow such atrocities to occur. The Holocaust, the mass extermination of the Jewish people, plumbed the very depths of tyrannical evil. Precisely because of this heritage, I view “never again” as a universal imperative.

In 1948, the international community adopted the universal declaration of human rights and the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide. In the decades since, we have failed globally many times to safeguard this invaluable truth: that people must not perish in flames, and such heinous crimes must not be perpetrated while outsiders stand idly by. But never in recent times have people around the world started into the abyss of annihilation as we are doing today in Gaza. As such, “never again” is not merely a moral reminder but an ethical decree to act.

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me, as the saying goes. It seems that Netanyahu manages to fool western leaders time and time again. On Friday, in response to the IPC declaration of famine, the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, said it was an “utterly horrifying and wholly preventable man-made catastrophe”. May I ask Lammy and the rest of the British cabinet – are you among the people responsible for this catastrophe?

06.08.2025 - 07:39 [ Middle East Eye ]

Gaza extermination: What is your last thought when you‘re starving to death?

(July 21, 2025)

I have an idea of what runs through a person’s mind as they are about to be killed in an air strike. Most people in Gaza do. We have had those thoughts so often that they are embedded in our nervous system; they will never fully leave, even decades after this genocide ends.

I also understand the type of thoughts that consume people dying due to the lack of medical care. I lived that moment with someone very close to me. I looked into their eyes as they took their final breaths. I could almost hear their thoughts.

But starvation is different. I picture someone lying on a bed, dying in total silence – a silence so powerful it can kill bones, muscles, flesh and blood. A silence stronger than the 125,000 tonnes of explosives that have been dropped on Gaza over the past 21 months. A silence that keeps borders sealed and food blocked from entry.

What do they feel, knowing that they have survived thousands of air strikes, artillery shells, field executions, epidemics and the collapse of the health system, only to die because they could not get the bare minimum calories a human needs to stay alive?

Do they feel betrayed by humanity?

03.08.2025 - 12:41 [ +972 Magazine ]

Germany’s angel of history is screaming

How can a country that professes to be a gatekeeper of international law staunchly defend a state that so flagrantly violates it? How does a country that has spent 80 years cultivating a culture of remembrance, responsibility, and moral accountability show ironclad commitment to arresting one international war criminal, while warmly welcoming another? And how can a country that utilizes the image of the ruins of Dresden to teach its schoolchildren about the dangers of dehumanization and fascism be so blind to its own complicity in an unfolding catastrophe?

27.07.2025 - 22:45 [ Fullerton Oberver ]

US Congress Can Stop Genocide – Why Won’t They?

It is not just Israelis committing these horrors – *US contractors are guilty of this atrocity, too. In addition, our government pays for the bullets, bombs, military equipment, and surveillance technology – we sent more than *$17 billion to Israel in 2024. This genocide is our tax dollars at work.

Our legislators –and our president – have the power to end our complicity in this horror. They are able to pressure Israel into reversing course by introducing a bill tomorrow to end all military – and other – aid to Israel unless the blockade is lifted, humanitarian relief is allowed into Gaza, and the human rights violation and war crimes cease.

We have to ask: if the United States has the power to stop a genocide, why won’t we?

10.07.2025 - 02:10 [ Freitag.de ]

Alle Palästinenser in ein Lager sperren, wie nennt ihr das?

(July 8, 2025)

Es ist der Dienstagmorgen des 8. Juli 2025, Israel hat gerade angekündigt, ein Lager in Rafah zu errichten, in das es sämtliche Bewohner des Gazastreifens „aufnehmen“ will – um sie dann nicht mehr herauszulassen. Zuerst 600.000, dann alle Palästinenser. Das berichtete die israelische Zeitung Haaretz am Montagabend. Und was titeln die Leitmedien in Deutschland am Dienstag?

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24.05.2025 - 18:48 [ Nachdenkseiten ]

Wieso stimmte Bundesregierung gegen Überprüfung von Menschenrechtsverstößen Israels durch die EU?

Deutschland findet sich immer mehr in einer Minderheitenposition in der EU wieder. Diese Woche am 20. Mai stimmte Berlin gegen die überwiegende Mehrheit der EU-Länder, die einem niederländischen Vorschlag gefolgt waren, eine Prüfung einzuleiten, ob Israel mit dem Vorgehen in Gaza gegen seine Menschenrechtsverpflichtungen gemäß Artikel 2 des Assoziierungsabkommens zwischen der EU und Israel verstoßen hat. Die NachDenkSeiten wollten wissen, mit welcher Begründung sich Deutschland gegen eine solche Überprüfung ausgesprochen hat.

26.04.2025 - 06:59 [ theWire.in ]

Pahalgam Attack a ‘Lapse’, Says Govt in All-Party Meet as Oppn Questions PM’s Absence, Hate Campaign

(April 24, 2025)

Sources said that during the meeting, party leaders were informed that the area where the incident took place – in Pahalgam’s Baisaran valley – is usually opened to tourists around June and local authorities are required to be informed when tourists are taken there – which was not done, and small batches of tourists were sent to the area from April 20 without informing local authorities.

“You are saying that it is a sensitive place and only opens during the Amarnath Yatra when there is a lot of security,” said Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Sanjay Singh after the meeting to The Wire.

“So how was it opened on April 20 without anyone knowing? Is this a joke? How did 500-1,000 people reach there without anyone’s knowledge? If terrorists knew that it had opened on the 20th, how did our government not know?

23.03.2025 - 18:35 [ CircleID.com ]

Is Your Router Spying on You?

(January 7, 2025)

What’s probably the most interesting aspect of the sudden focus on WiFi routers is that security experts have been complaining for years that most routers on the market have shoddy security measures and are easy to hack. Perhaps one outcome of the sudden focus on routers will be new government rules demanding better security for all devices.

It’s always a little hard to distinguish politics from reality. Politicians are suddenly lining up to dump on the Chinese, which is easy to do for an issue with no domestic political backlash.

20.03.2025 - 22:59 [ Jerusalem Post ]

Ousting Shin Bet chief: Netanyahu‘s maneuver to avoid scrutiny over October 7 – analysis

The real issues are: Who is to blame for failing to prevent Hamas’s October 7 invasion, will the failures be fixed, and will the Shin Bet be turned into a loyalty agency that looks the other way when Jewish extremists perpetrate violence against West Bank Palestinians, as many observers say happened to the police under National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, which is to say under Netanyahu.

20.01.2025 - 07:03 [ Al Jazeera ]

‘My children, my children’: The Gaza family killed minutes before ceasefire

“Hasn’t the Israeli army had enough of our blood and the atrocities they committed for 15 months?” Hanan asked.

Then, she thought of her future. With her husband and two of her children ripped away from her, and with tears coming down her face, she asked: “What’s left?”

16.01.2025 - 21:51 [ Nachdenkseiten ]

„Räuberpistolen“ – Annullierung der Präsidentschaftswahl in Rumänien als Blaupause für die anstehende Bundestagswahl?

(January 14, 2025)

Im Dezember 2024 hatte das Verfassungsgericht die Präsidentschaftswahlen in Rumänien mit Verweis auf eine angeblich russische Beeinflussungskampagne auf TikTok annulliert. Jetzt haben Recherchen ans Licht gebracht, dass in Wirklichkeit nicht „russische Agenten“, sondern die NATO-freundliche Präsidenten- und Regierungspartei PNL höchstselbst die Kampagne initiiert und bezahlt hatte. Mutmaßlich, um ein Instrument zu haben, im Falle einer für sie schlecht laufenden Wahl diese rückgängig machen zu können. Völlig unbeeindruckt von diesen Erkenntnissen fordert derweil der EU-Kommissar a.D. Thierry Breton, „falls nötig“, auch die Bundestagswahl nach rumänischem Vorbild zu annullieren. Die NachDenkSeiten fragten nach der Bewertung der Bundesregierung. Diese sieht in den neuen Erkenntnissen nur „Räuberpistolen“.

09.01.2025 - 02:51 [ Middle East Eye ]

Jeremy Corbyn demands answers from UK government on arms exports to Israe1

Corbyn also demanded answers on whether or not the UK would suspend the licences of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel.

„I remain astounded by your government‘s admission that it is making an exception to the UK‘s legal obligations. The Foreign Secretary has accepted the fact that F-35 jets are being used in violation of international humanitarian law. By justifying the continued licencing of F-35 jet parts, your government is admitting its complicity in war crimes,“ the letter said.

01.01.2025 - 09:45 [ Louise Wateridge / United Nations ]

UN News Champion: ‘Are you keeping up with the death?’ The grinding toll of war in Gaza

(December 24, 2024)

If you have read this far, then you will know why I am here in Gaza. You will understand why my life has been on hold, to do what I can to spend time with my friends, and report on the continued horrors that have engulfed their lives. Report on the families who scream at us in despair, desperate for information on loved ones who have been detained for months. Report on the bodies we see of people around checkpoints, left to be eaten by packs of dogs. Report on toddlers in hospitals with missing limbs after strikes in “humanitarian zones”. Mona’s brother, killed. Hussein’s daughter, killed. Rajaa’s cousin, killed. Are you keeping up with the death? Because we’re not. Here, you’re considered lucky if you actually know if your family are alive.

The journalists on the ground – risking life and limb every day to show the world the horrors consuming their friends, their families, their neighbours. Is the world still looking?

20.11.2024 - 16:26 [ Consortium News ]

RAY McGOVERN: Will Gabbard Be Able to Direct the Intelligence ‘Community’?

On July 22, 2004, immediately after the 9/11 Commission report was released, I found myself with 9/11 commissioner (and former senator from Washington) Slade Gorton in the BBC blue room in Washington. I had the temerity to remind him that it was far from the case that “no one was in charge” of the intelligence community; that Tenet had all the authority he needed.

Gorton turned to me, smiled and said: “Of course we know all that; but we in the Commission and in Congress just had to do something so the American people would see that we were doing something.”

Yuck.

The national intelligence director, and the newly created bureaucracy, is what it is. Maybe Tulsi Gabbard can take the reins and make the community work. It will take a miracle; let’s hope for one.

10.11.2024 - 13:35 [ New York Times ]

When Did Liberals Become So Comfortable With War?

First, history has shown that governments and bureaucracies tend to become addicted to a war footing, with failure sucking them in further — think of America’s war on terror, or Vietnam. War encourages a perverse cycle of escalation in which huge financial and political gains accrue for governments and the military-industrial complex while the costs tend to be borne by weaker parties — before they start to come home in some shape or form.

We’ve called this bipartisan pattern “wreckonomics” and have found it especially present in wars or conflicts with costs that Western politicians can largely outsource — from fighting terrorism, drugs and smugglers to quasi-colonial interventions during the Cold War.

05.11.2024 - 15:14 [ UN Palestinian Rights Committee / Youtube ]

Is it possible that after 42,000 people killed, you cannot empathize with the Palestinians?

(October 30, 2024)

In her address to the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese expressed frustration, saying, „I always experience a sense of shock and delusion when I come to this room because many of you recite the same script you had last year.“ She acknowledged the condemnation of Hamas‘s attack, the solidarity shown to Israeli victims, and calls for the release of hostages but questioned the lack of empathy toward Palestinians, stating, „Is it possible that after 42,000 people killed, you cannot empathize with the Palestinians?“ Albanese criticized those who had ignored the crisis in Gaza, saying, „Empathy has evaporated from this room, and empathy is the glue that makes us stand united as humanity.“

06.10.2024 - 21:12 [ Aure Free Press / mstdn.social / Mastodon ]

Aure Free Press NOW! The Dahieh in Beirut: An Israeli Air attack, in an area dense with residential buildings – without an evacuation alert to its residents! How many died needlessly in THIS strike?

#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Israel #gaza #Hamas #iran #hezbollah #Lebanon #Beirut

14.09.2024 - 18:35 [ docs.google.com ]

Should the British government let Ukraine use UK missiles for direct attacks on Russia?

Should the British government let Ukraine use UK missiles for direct attacks on Russia?

Yes
No
Don‘t know

14.09.2024 - 17:34 [ LabourList.org ]

Keir Starmer in Washington: Should the UK back Ukrainian strikes into Russia?

However, supporters of Ukraine argue the nation needs the ability to hit targets inside Russia to be able to stage an effective resistance – and point to Russia’s use of foreign-sourced munitions against cities in Ukraine.

07.09.2024 - 16:12 [ theIntercept.com ]

Israel Just Killed Another American in the West Bank. Will the U.S. Ever Respond?

Earlier this year, two 17-year-old Palestinian Americans were killed in the West Bank: Tawfic Abdel Jabbar, a Louisiana native who was shot in January by an off-duty Israeli officer and a settler, and Mohammad Khdour, a high school senior from Florida who was shot in the head by an Israeli gunman several weeks later. In both cases, the U.S. government decried the killings but have yet to launch investigations.

05.05.2024 - 12:00 [ Spencer Ackerman / New York Times ]

Where Is America’s ‘Rules-Based Order’ Now?

(10.04.2024)

U.N. resolutions that are written without enforcement measures obviously cannot force Israel to stop what its leadership insists is a justified war necessary to remove Hamas and prevent another Oct. 7 massacre. But it’s just as obvious what entity can make Israel stop and isn’t doing so: the United States.

Whatever the Biden administration might have thought it was doing by permitting the resolution to pass and then undermining it, the maneuver exposed the continuing damage Israel’s war in Gaza is doing to the United States’ longstanding justification for being a superpower: guaranteeing what U.S. administrations like to call the international rules-based order.

24.04.2024 - 03:55 [ theHill.com ]

When will the US finally act to hold Israel accountable?

While the U.S. has waged war in the name of spreading democracy, it blatantly refuses to hold Israel accountable for its deeply undemocratic actions and violations of international law in Gaza and the West Bank, including its treatment of prisoners like my cousin. There are many days when I wake up and I feel like I’m in the twilight zone.

07.03.2024 - 18:10 [ Nachdenkseiten ]

Leserbriefe zu „Nach Frage zu Taurus: Kanzler-Sprecher hinterfragt Status der NachDenkSeiten als deutsches Medium“

Florian Warweg weist hier auf seine Frage hin, „ob Taurus tatsächlich ohne direkte Beteiligung von Bundeswehrsoldaten durch die Ukraine vollumfänglich nutzbar wäre“. Ehemalige und aktive Angehörige der Bundeswehr hätten erklärt, dass der Marschflugkörper Taurus, insbesondere sein Gelände-Referenz-Navigationssystem, nicht ohne direkte Beteiligung von Bundeswehrsoldaten betrieben werden könne. Das Verteidigungsministerium verweigerte eine Antwort, während Regierungssprecher Hebestreit einen Diffamierungsversuch gegen die NachDenkSeiten unternahm. Wir danken für die zahlreichen und interessanten Leserbriefe.

04.02.2024 - 12:17 [ nitter.catsarch.com ]

which countries opened their airspace for US / UK airstrikes in West Asia (Iraq / Syria / Yemen / more to come)?

27.01.2024 - 22:20 [ Humayun Hussain / Twitter ]

So now Britain, Italy, Netherlands and Finland have pulled out today – joining the already Canada, the US and Australia who had backed out of donating to @UNRWA. What the fuck is this – a ploy just to starve any remaining #Palestinians in #Gaza to death?

26.01.2024 - 15:50 [ Olive / Twitter ]

okay @MfaEgypt @EgyptPRNewYork since we should follow the icj and act according to genocide convention, isn‘t it time to make all the aid enter through Rafah and ignore israel?

22.01.2024 - 08:43 [ United Nations ]

Carnage in Gaza: ‘How much is enough?’ asks UN Assembly President

(19.01.2024)

Addressing the 19th Non-Aligned Summit in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, President Dennis Francis urged the bloc of 120 nations to exert its influence to bring an end to the “carnage” in the war-ravaged enclave.

“That situation behooves us to ask: how much is enough? And does the very concept of enough even exist in this setting?” he said. “I renew the demand for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire and for the release of all hostages. This stands as the only credible course of action to authentically address – let alone resolve – this conflict.”

19.01.2024 - 09:42 [ Tashi Sammi / Twitter ]

Anybody heard from the ICJ ? #Palestine #ICJGazaGenocide #SouthAfricavsIsrael