In a statement during an emergency cabinet session, Mikati urged the Lebanese people to demonstrate national responsibility in such a way as to preserve national unity and solidarity, explaining that Lebanon’s unity has been its strongest weapon in face of the Israeli enemy’s criminal schemes and attempts to spread division.
Archiv: boundlessly hypocritical excuses for traitors and failures / grenzenlos heuchlerische Ausreden für Verräter und Versager
Netanyahu says security in Gaza is critical to stop Hamas smuggling hostages into Iran: ‚lost forever‘
According to Netanyahu, the best way to prevent these Hamas hostage smuggling efforts is through maintaining the contested Philadelphi Route – a security corridor that runs between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.
Netanyahu plans for Israel to stay in Gaza for 10 years
(06.03.2024)
Israel needs to start getting used to the number 10. That’s the number of years Israel will probably stay in the Gaza Strip, according to the current thinking emanating from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office.
The estimates are that it will take one or two years for the first stage of the war — eradicating Hamas — to be complete, and another eight years for an alternate government to stabilize, if it does at all.
Gantz: War against Hamas could last an entire generation, hostages must remain top priority
(28.01.2024)
War cabinet minister Benny Gantz tells residents of the evacuated southern communities that the war against Hamas could last “a year, a decade, or even an entire generation,” and acknowledges the urgent need to ensure the release of the hostages still held in Gaza, Channel 12 reports.
US says Israel is complying with international law. ‚Complete nonsense’, experts say
„Your – your question presumes, at this very early hour, that it was a deliberate strike, that they knew exactly what they were hitting, that they were hitting aid workers and did it on purpose. And there’s no evidence of that,“ Kirby told the reporter.
„I would also remind you, sir, that we continue to look at incidents as they occur. The State Department has a process in place. And to date, as you and I are speaking, they have not found any incidents where the Israelis have violated international humanitarian law.“
Thousands of trucks waiting in North Sinai to enter Gaza, says Sinai governor
North Sinai‘s governor, Mohamed Shousha, said 7,000 aid trucks are waiting to deliver aid into Gaza.
Shousha said in a statement that Israel‘s inspection rules had delayed the flow of aid into Gaza.
Palestinian Authority Could Seek Full UN Membership This Year
(09.01.2024)
Mansour said the Palestinian Authority, with the backing of Arab states, would start mobilizing support to go to the U.N. Security Council, which holds the key to membership because it must back a request before it can go to the General Assembly for a final decision. That means at least nine council members must vote in favor of the move, and none of the permanent five members can veto it.
UN top court shouldn’t urge Israel to immediately withdraw from Palestinian-claimed lands, US says
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United States said Wednesday the United Nations’ top court should not issue an advisory opinion that says Israel should “immediately and unconditionally withdraw” from territories sought for a Palestinian state.
Acting State Department legal adviser Richard Visek said the 15-judge panel at the International Court of Justice should not seek to resolve the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict “through an advisory opinion addressed to questions focusing on the acts of only one party.”
Public sitting held on Monday 19 February 2024, at 10 a.m., at the Peace Palace
33. The only State besides Fiji to defend Israel is the United States. This is not surprising. Whatever offences against international law Israel commits, the United States comes forward to shield it from accountability. Here, the United States attempts to defend Israel, not by arguing that the occupation is lawful, but that it is neither lawful nor unlawful. To reach this conclusion, the United States argues that belligerent occupation is governed exclusively by international humanitarian law and not by the United Nations Charter or general international law. In its own words: “Although international humanitarian law imposes obligations on belligerents in their conduct of an occupation, it does not provide for the legal status of an occupation to be lawful or unlawful.“
Reichler says that only Fiji and the US have argued in favour of the occupation.
WHICH WE COULD KNOW FOR OURSELVES IF WE HAD THE WRITTEN STATEMENTS.
Kein Antrag auf U.N.-Vollmitgliedschaft: Abbas verrät Palästina erneut
(20.Februar 2018)
In unserem Artikel vom 4. Februar warnten wir:
“Erfahrungsgemäß muss bis zum schriftlichen Einbringen der Vollmitgliedschaft in der Generalversammlung der Vereinten Nationen jede Sekunde damit gerechnet werden, dass P.L.O., Fatah, die “Autonomiebehörde”, ihr Chefdiplomat Saeb Erekat und Präsident Mahmud Abbas, entgegen all ihrer Beschlüsse, Ankündigungen, Versprechen, etc, die Sache Palästinas wieder verraten.”
Genau so kam es heute. Weder kündigte Abbas in seiner Rede den Antrag auf Vollmitgliedschaft im Sicherheitsrat an, noch einen Antrag in der entscheidenden Generalversammlung. In den Bedingungen für eine irgendwann Mitte 2018 vorgeschlagene “Friedenskonferenz” taucht die U.N. Vollmitgliedschaft Palästinas nicht auf. Stattdessen bot Abbas Israel, allen palästinensischen Beschlüssen zum Trotz, auch noch an, während irgendwelcher neuen “Verhandlungen” keinen internationalen Organisationen “beizuwohnen” (“joining”). Das bedeutet effektiv auch den Verzicht darauf, die Besatzungsmacht endlich wegen Bruch des Völkerrechts vor dem Internationalen Strafgerichtshof zu verklagen.
Im Gipfel der Erbärmlichkeit warf sich Abbas in seiner Rede am Ende auch noch dem Sicherheitsrat zu Füßen und bezeichnet den Sicherheitsrat mit seinen Atommächten als “höchstes Gremium..der Völker der Welt”:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates // Any political initiative that does not begin with the full membership of the State of Palestine in the United Nations and keeps it hostage to the #Israeli position is doomed to failure.
The Ministry calls for the imposition of international and American #sanctions on Smotrich and Ben Gvir, as a threat to international peace
Where Is Hamas Getting Its Weapons? Increasingly, From Israel.
But recent intelligence has shown the extent to which Hamas has been able to build many of its rockets and anti-tank weaponry out of the thousands of munitions that failed to detonate when Israel lobbed them into Gaza, according to weapons experts and Israeli and Western intelligence officials. Hamas is also arming its fighters with weapons stolen from Israeli military bases.
Intelligence gathered during months of fighting revealed that, just as the Israeli authorities misjudged Hamas’s intentions before Oct. 7, they also underestimated its ability to obtain arms.
Shin Bet Source in Gaza Reportedly Warned of Major Hamas Attack on Israel Set for Early October
According to the Channel 12 report, the handler of the source passed the information further, estimating that if Hamas‘ plan „indeed nears execution, additional information will reach us.“ However, the specific information was eventually halted at a lower level and did not reach higher-ranking authorities.
The alert received in the summer was revisited as part of the Shin Bet‘s investigations into the intelligence failure. Shin Bet sources claimed that no additional information supporting that specific intelligence was found during the examinations
Report: Shin Bet dismissed Gaza source’s tip on plans, timing of major Hamas attack
The network cited unnamed Shin Bet sources saying that the lack of corroborating intelligence, and the fact that the source had only started speaking to the Shin Bet a relatively short while before — had contributed to the tip not being taken seriously, though they have since admitted that the source is highly reliable.
Even though Bar, the agency’s chief, hadn’t heard about the information, Channel 12 cited multiple sources as saying the Shin Bet won’t blame lower-ranking officers, and admitting the service failed to prevent the assault.
How Israel’s Feared Security Services Failed to Stop Hamas’s Attack
Hamas took advantage of that weakness by sending aerial drones to attack the cellular towers that transmitted signals to and from the surveillance system, according to the officials and also drone footage circulated by Hamas on Saturday and analyzed by The New York Times. (…)
The second operational failure was the clustering of leaders from the army’s Gaza division in a single location along the border. Once the base was overrun, most of the senior officers were killed, injured or taken hostage, according to two of the Israeli officials.
Sorry, Donald: Here are the real takeaways from The Twitter Files
(December 4, 2022)
Hand it to ex-President Donald Trump to present exactly the wrong takeaway to The Twitter Files: “A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” he posted Friday night.
No, it doesn’t. In fact, the Constitution was written with full awareness of humanity’s imperfections, including election cheating (which is as old as democracy itself). The Electoral College count is the final word, no matter how messy the process that leads to it.
Trump Reacts To Hunter Biden ‘Twitter Files’: This ‘Allows For The Termination Of All Rules, Regulations, And Articles, Even … In The Constitution’
(Dec 3, 2022)
Former President Donald Trump reacted to the release of “The Twitter Files” on Saturday by saying, “A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.”
Russia-Ukraine War: NATO and Poland Say Deadly Blast Was Likely Unintentional
Poland’s president said on Wednesday that a Ukrainian air defense missile had most likely caused a deadly explosion in his country a day earlier, calling it an “unfortunate accident” and easing fears that his country and its NATO allies could be drawn into a direct conflict with Russia.
President Andrzej Duda said early indications suggested that Ukrainian efforts to counter a barrage of roughly 100 Russian missiles had been the cause of the blast on Tuesday — not a direct attack on his country.
Palästinensischer Präsident will mit Netanyahu verhandeln
Der palästinensische Präsident Mahmud Abbas ist bereit, mit dem israelischen Wahlsieger Benjamin Netanyahu über eine Lösung des Nahost-Konflikts zu verhandeln. „Ich kenne Netanyahu seit langem, seit den 1990er-Jahren“, sagte Abbas im palästinensischen Fernsehen gestern. „Er ist ein Mann, der nicht an den Frieden glaubt, aber ich habe keine andere Wahl, als mit ihm zu verhandeln.“
Palestine calls for full UN membership and a plan to end the occupation
He called for the UN Secretary-General to elaborate an international plan….
Pläne der Kommission: Wie die Chatkontrolle EU-weit Wellen schlägt
So nahm etwa die niederländische Regierung dazu am 17. Juni in einem Positionspapier ausführlich Stellung. Ihre Kritik fällt – auch wenn sie sich laut internen Dokumenten auf EU-Ebene grundsätzlich für das Scannen von Nachrichten ausspricht – hart aus.
Zwar begrüßt die Regierung laut ihrer offiziellen Position,…
Ganz ähnlich klingt die Einschätzung aus Warschau. Denn auch die polnische Regierung hat sich kritisch zum Entwurf geäußert. Zwar unterstützt auch sie die Bemühungen der Kommission,…
Die tschechische Regierung äußerte sich etwas zurückhaltender. Auch sie begrüßt Initiativen zur Bekämpfung…
Libyen-Krieg: Neue Sitzung der Schwachmächte im UNO-Sicherheitsrat
(22. März 2011)
Am 19.März, dem Tag des Angriffs von Frankreich, Großbritannien, Kanada, Italien und den USA auf Libyen, wurde in Moskau eine der erbärmlichsten Erklärungen in der russischen Geschichte veröffentlicht (Angriffskrieg gegen Libyen beginnt: Ticker). Das russische Außenministerium von Sergei Lawrow:
“In Moskau bedauern wir diese bewaffnete Intervention im Rahmen der UN Resolution 1973, die hastig beschlossen wurde.”
Die Weltöffentlichkeit konstatiert: Russlands Staatsführung ist ein Haufen Tölpel, dem – wenn er schon nicht lesen kann und deshalb nicht weiss was vor sich geht – selbst das Wort „Veto“ mit einem einfachen Armhochhalten schon zu viel ist. Das Gleiche gilt für die Atomschwachmacht China, deren leseunkundige kommunistische Staatspartei immerhin 1.3 Milliarden Menschen herumkommandiert. In der Parteizeitung „People´s Daily“ redete man sich heute nun selbst in ein Gewissen, was man nicht hat (1):
„Die blutgetränkten Gewitter, denen Irak seit acht Jahren unterzogen wurde und das unaussprechliche Leiden seines Volkes sind ein Spiegel und eine Warnung. Die militärischen Attacken auf Libyen, folgend den Kriegen in Afghanisten und Irak, sind das das dritte Mal, dass einige Länder bewaffnete Aktionen gegen souveräne Staaten gestartet haben. Es sollte augenscheinlich sein, dass jedes Mal, wenn militärische Mittel benutzt werden um Krisen zu begegnen, dies ein Schlag gegen die Charta der Vereinten Nationen und die Regeln der internationalen Beziehungen sind.“
Die Weltöffentlichkeit versteht: früher hiess es in China „Bombardiert das Hauptquartier“, letzten Freitag hiess es „Bombardiert Libyen“ und heute wieder anders herum. Mal sehen, zu was sich Chinas Staatsführung am Donnerstag entscheidet. Vielleicht der Einfachheit halber zu „Bombardiert irgendwas“.
Security Council Approves ‘No-Fly Zone’ over Libya, Authorizing ‘All Necessary Measures’ to Protect Civilians, by Vote of 10 in Favour with 5 Abstentions
(17 March 2011)
Adopting resolution 1973 (2011) by a vote of 10 in favour to none against, with 5 abstentions (Brazil, China, Germany, India, Russian Federation), the Council authorized Member States, acting nationally or through regional organizations or arrangements, to take all necessary measures to protect civilians under threat of attack in the country, including Benghazi, while excluding a foreign occupation force of any form on any part of Libyan territory — requesting them to immediately inform the Secretary-General of such measures.
Israeli studies find Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine reduces transmission
(19.02.2021)
Findings of the pre-published study, not yet peer-reviewed, but based on a national database that is one of the world’s most advanced, were first reported by the Israeli news site Ynet late on Thursday and were obtained by Reuters on Friday.
Pfizer declined to comment and the Israeli Health Ministry did not respond to a request for comment.
So you got the vaccine. Can you still infect people? Pfizer is trying to find out.
(02.02.2021)
Whether or not the vaccines stop “onward transmission” of the virus is likely to be a critical variable in determining how the pandemic plays out and how soon life goes back to normal. Right now, researchers say, their best guess is that vaccines will reduce transmission but may not prevent it entirely.
Feinstein to step aside as top Democrat on Senate Judiciary Committee
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein announced on Monday that she would step down from the top Democratic spot on the Senate Judiciary Committee next year, following sharp criticism from liberal activists over her handling of the hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett.
Feinstein, 87, said she would „increase“ her „attention“ on the wildfire and drought crisis in California …