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13.09.2024 - 14:47 [ Jerusalem Post ]

The Palestinian Authority‘s diplomatic war continues – editorial

Ever since then-PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, infamously carrying a pistol, spoke at the UN in 1974, the Palestinian situation has not significantly changed. In fact, as the situation in Gaza attests, it has only gotten worse – despite the PA winning vote after vote in the UN General Assembly.

If the Palestinians had spent the same energy over the past half-century building up the areas under their control in the West Bank and Gaza rather than demonizing Israel on the world stage, their situation today would be markedly different and much better.

04.09.2024 - 15:06 [ Times of Israel ]

Biden, Harris to huddle with US negotiators for Gaza deal push after hostage killings

(2 September 2024)

US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were scheduled to hold a meeting Monday with hostage negotiators, …

18.04.2024 - 17:35 [ Wahlrecht.de ]

Forsa: Wenn am nächsten Sonntag Bundestagswahl wäre …

16.04.2024
CDU 31 %
SPD 16 %
Grüne 12 %
FDP 5 %
Linke –
AfD 17 %
FW –
BSW 5 %
Sonstige 14 %
Nichtwähler/ Unentschl. 23 %

01.03.2024 - 21:24 [ Yahoo.com ]

Rishi Sunak calls George Galloway win ‚very alarming‘ in Downing Street statement

“What started as protests on our streets have descended into intimidation, threats and planned acts of violence.

“Jewish children fearful to wear their school uniform lest it reveals their identity. Muslim women abused in the street for the actions of a terrorist group they have no connection with.

“Now our democracy itself is a target. Council meetings and local events have been stormed. MPs do not feel safe in their homes. Long-standing parliamentary conventions have been upended because of safety concerns.

“And it’s beyond alarming that last night, the Rochdale by-election …

01.03.2024 - 21:00 [ Associated Press ]

Veteran British left-wing disruptor George Galloway wins a special election dominated by war in Gaza

George Galloway’s victory was described as “beyond alarming” by Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who used a Friday evening address to the nation to warn that British democracy was being targeted by extremists.

Galloway, 69, swept to victory in Thursday’s contest, winning almost 40% of the vote in the parliamentary seat of Rochdale.

21.02.2024 - 14:58 [ WHEC.com ]

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.”

09.02.2024 - 00:05 [ Washington Post ]

Democrats sound alarm, take action against Biden’s third-party threats

A recent five-way national poll by Quinnipiac University that named Biden, former president Donald Trump, attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr., scholar Cornel West and activist Jill Stein showed the combined third-party candidates drawing nearly 1 in 5 voters.

05.02.2024 - 13:12 [ PoliticalWire.com ]

Trump Says RFK Jr. Is Most Radical Left Person Running

(31.01.2024)

Donald Trump called Robert F. Kennedy Jr. the “most radical left person running for office” in a late-night Truth Social post.

05.02.2024 - 12:00 [ theHill.com ]

Democratic and Republican elites fear RFK Jr.’s growing path to victory

As noted on the Archives website: “The House of Representatives elects the President from the three (3) Presidential candidates who received the most electoral votes …”

Now, we come back to that magic number: 34.

If Kennedy were to get 34 percent of the vote, there would be a great deal of pressure on the House of Representatives to “do the right thing.”

“Impossible” yet again?

I give you Donald J. Trump being elected our 45th president in 2016 as evidence as to why such a scenario is entirely possible.

09.01.2024 - 16:30 [ BR.de ]

Lokführerstreik ab heute – Eilantrag der Bahn abgelehnt

Das Gericht hat einen Eilantrag der Bahn auf einstweilige Verfügung in erster Instanz abgelehnt, wie es am Montagabend mitteilte. „Die GDL ist nicht offenkundig tarifunfähig“, sagte die Vorsitzende Richterin zur Begründung. Die Deutsche Bahn AG zweifelt das an, hat aber in der Vergangenheit zahlreiche Verträge mit der GDL abgeschlossen.

01.01.2024 - 17:07 [ Times of Israel ]

Shas set to push law allowing High Court to delay reasonableness ruling

Lawmakers from the Shas coalition party are reportedly seeking to advance a bill that would temporarily extend the time in which High Court justices can publish rulings on petitions, allowing the bench to postpone a decision that is widely expected to strike down a piece of the government’s judicial overhaul.

In an unprecedented leak, a draft ruling published last week previewed the court’s intention to strike down, by an 8-7 vote, a law limiting the court’s ability to reverse government and ministerial decisions based on the doctrine of reasonableness.

09.12.2023 - 12:50 [ Vanity Fair ]

A Batshit Number of Young Swing State Voters Think RFK Jr. Should Be President

As you’ve probably heard by now, a very scary poll released on Sunday shows Joe Biden losing the 2024 election to the four-time indicted insurrection enthusiast Donald Trump in five out of six major battleground states. That’s obviously a wildly disturbing prospect; it would be like asking someone if they’d like to catch a movie after work or have a rusty crowbar shoved up their ass, and then seeing them choosing the latter. But possibly even more surprising? How popular anti-vaxxer candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is among voters.

22.08.2023 - 18:00 [ Times of Israel ]

High Court rejects government request to delay hearing on ‘reasonableness’ law

Religious Zionism MK Simcha Rothman, chair of the Knesset’s Consitution, Law and Justice Committee and a key architect of the judicial overhaul, said the court’s refusal to grant an extension was another example of why its powers need to be curbed.

“The High Court has no limits,” he tweeted. “I wanted with all my heart to believe the High Court is not deliberately striving to create a constitutional crisis as part of its war to preserve its excessive power, and at the cost of dragging the State of Israel into dysfunction.”

29.07.2023 - 22:46 [ Times of Israel ]

Likud denies any ‘rebellion’ in its ranks over judicial overhaul

Netanyahu has since said he will seek to build consensus before approving further changes to the judicial system, but also pledged the coalition will move forward alone if no deal is reached.

“There is no rebellion in Likud. We all want to reach agreements and need to make the maximum effort to do so, but we will not give the other side a veto,” the ruling party said in a statement.

25.07.2023 - 22:12 [ Times of Isarel ]

IDF says battle-readiness weeks from being impacted as reservists decamp en masse

Thousands of reservists have threatened to end their volunteer reserve duty in protest of the overhaul in recent weeks, sparking alarm from defense brass, including IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, who issued a rare video statement Tuesday calling for unity within the military.

The IDF has said that the “cohesion,” or unity of the IDF has already been harmed amid the protests against the judicial overhaul, and it will take time to fix.

21.06.2023 - 05:13 [ DailyMail.co.uk ]

Rishi Sunak declares Boris Johnson Partygate furore ‚closed‘ and ex-PM calls ceasefire in bitter Tory feuding – with ministers pleading for unity amid polls showing Labour lead hitting 20 POINTS ahead of crucial by-elections

Mr Sunak joined many Conservatives in swerving the debate, instead attending a Jewish Care event.

10.06.2023 - 19:15 [ Times of Israel ]

Indictment says Trump took nuclear docs and revealed a Pentagon attack plan

(9 June 2023)

“The classified documents Trump stored in the boxes included information regarding defense and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign countries,” the indictment said.

31.05.2023 - 22:49 [ Wall Street Journal ]

Biden Has a Kennedy Problem

Voters seem to have a higher opinion of the challenger than of the president.

27.03.2023 - 17:42 [ Fox News ]

Netanyahu tells Piers Morgan democracy is safe in Israel despite his moves to wrest control of ‘too powerful’

n a world exclusive interview with me for my show „Piers Morgan Uncensored“ (airing on Fox Nation tomorrow, Monday) Netanyahu said: „There is one other thing that characterizes the judiciary in Israel and that is that the judges veto the appointment of judges, they effectively select themselves and that doesn’t exist in any democracy. The reform that we’re dealing with right now corrects that.“

12.03.2023 - 15:21 [ Haaretz ]

Netanyahu: Judicial Overhaul ‚Just an Excuse‘, Opposition Wants to Topple the Government

Later in the meeting, Netanyahu seemed to comment on the friction between National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Israel Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai, following the dismissal of Tel Aviv‘s police chief and the subsequent reversal of the decision.

„The elected government is in charge of the army, the police and all other security organizations… No one else will decide who is in charge of those organizations,“ Netanyahu said.

02.01.2023 - 09:58 [ Times of Israel ]

UN asks world court to weigh in on Israeli ‘occupation’ and ‘annexation’

The resolution is titled “Israeli practices and settlement activities affecting the rights of the Palestinian people and other Arabs of the occupied territories” and calls on the Hague-based ICJ to “render urgently an advisory opinion” on Israel’s “prolonged occupation, settlement and annexation of Palestinian territory.”

It also calls for an investigation into Israeli measures “aimed at altering the demographic composition, character and status of the Holy City of Jerusalem” and says Israel has adopted “discriminatory legislation and measures.”

02.01.2023 - 09:56 [ Haaretz ]

Why Won‘t Netanyahu and His Far-right Allies Own the Occupation?

The United Nations on Friday gave the Israeli right a golden opportunity and the ideal international podium in which to stand up and unequivocally declare with clarity and resolve what they claim to believe: that something the world calls “occupation” is not temporary but permanent. Instead, true to character, they whine, lament and moan. Instead of owning it, they cry foul.

28.11.2022 - 22:44 [ Fortune.com ]

Amid protests over lockdowns, Goldman Sachs warns that China’s exit from COVID-zero may be ‘forced and disorderly’

China’s climbing COVID caseload and expanding lockdown measures, which prompted rare public protests over the weekend, highlight the risk of an unplanned and chaotic exit from the country’s tough COVID-zero policies, predicts Goldman Sachs.

29.09.2022 - 09:23 [ Tagesspiegel Checkpoint / Nitter ]

Guten Morgen! Ein Gericht rechnet ab: #Berlin droht die komplette #Wahlwiederholung. Auch #Landeswahlleiter Bröchler glaubt, dass eine Neuauflage der Stimmabgabe ansteht. Und die Ampel im #Bund prüft, ob zudem die Parlamentswahl neu erfolgen muss.

19.09.2022 - 15:57 [ ZDF ]

Präsident Biden: Corona-Pandemie ist vorbei

„Wie Sie sehen, trägt hier niemand eine Maske. Alle scheinen in ziemlich guter Verfassung zu sein. Ich glaube also, dass sich die Situation ändert, und ich denke, dies ist ein perfektes Beispiel dafür“, sagte der US-Präsident weiter.

Bidens Äußerungen könnten innerhalb seiner eigenen Regierung für einigen Wirbel sorgen.

19.09.2022 - 15:21 [ theGuardian.com ]

US supreme court blocks Biden’s workplace vaccine-or-test rules

(13.01.2022)

The court’s conservative majority concluded the administration overstepped its authority by seeking to impose the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (Osha) vaccine-or-test rule on US businesses with at least 100 employees. More than 80 million people would have been affected.

“Osha has never before imposed such a mandate. Nor has Congress. Indeed, although Congress has enacted significant legislation addressing the Covid-19 pandemic, it has declined to enact any measure similar to what Osha has promulgated here,” the conservatives wrote in an unsigned opinion.

In dissent, the court’s three liberals argued that it was the court that was overreaching by substituting its judgment for that of health experts.

14.09.2022 - 15:37 [ theHill.com ]

Congress prepares to act on rail strike amid fears of ‘economic catastrophe’

More than 115,000 rail workers will be legally allowed to strike on Friday.

20.08.2022 - 06:04 [ Jerusalem Post ]

The JCPOA Nuclear Deal 2.0 is coming any day now – opinion

The “new” deal will maintain the original JCPOA’s rotten sunset clauses; will whitewash all of Iran’s nuclear program violations to-date (like enriching uranium to the 60% level); allow Iran to keep its nuclear enrichment infrastructure and other military weaponization projects; will not guarantee “anytime and anywhere” inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of Iranian nuclear installations; and will not allow for the “snapback” of Western sanctions.

20.06.2022 - 11:41 [ Juergen Wirtz / Nittter.net ]

Macrons Debakel – eine Niederlage für Deutschland

https://www.welt.de/debatte/article239456427/Macrons-Debakel-eine-Niederlage-fuer-Deutschland.html

19.06.2022 - 16:03 [ Bild / Nitter.net ]

Heute Wahl-Entscheidung in Frankreich – Wie mächtig wird der linke Deutschland-Hasser?

19.06.2022 - 04:58 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Abschied von der absoluten Mehrheit?

Dass es überhaupt so weit kommen könnte, ist dem links-außen Politiker Jean-Luc Mélenchon geschuldet. Mit dem links-grünen Wahlbündnis Nupes aus seiner Partei La France Insoumise, den Grünen, Sozialisten und Kommunisten hat er ein Gegengewicht zu Macrons Mitte geschaffen und einen extrem linken Gegenentwurf zur sozialliberalen Politik des Präsidenten präsentiert.

13.06.2022 - 02:23 [ Euractiv.com ]

French EU minister: Mélenchon’s real objective is ‘to crush the left’

Beaune believes that Mélenchon’s real intention is not to become a prime minister – as he has declared – in the next legislative election but to “crush the left and kill the Socialist Party and the Greens for the benefit of Jean-Luc Mélenchon alone”.

12.06.2022 - 20:22 [ France24.com ]

As France returns to the polls, can Mélenchon’s left deprive Macron of a majority?

“Jean-Luc Mélenchon pulled off an extraordinary PR coup,” said Pascal Perrineau, a professor of political science at Sciences-Po Paris. “Asking the French to elect him prime minister might sound absurd, but it was an extremely shrewd strategy. It allowed him to both supplant Le Pen as Macron’s chief opponent and cast himself as the pillar of a revamped left.”

The PR stunt was soon followed by another tour de force, which even critics have hailed as a masterstroke. In the days following Macron’s re-election, Mélenchon and his team engineered what many had come to see as an impossible feat: a broad alliance of France’s deeply fractured left, united around a common policy platform and fielding a single candidate in each of France’s 577 constituencies.

12.04.2022 - 17:57 [ Times of Israel ]

Hearings in submarine affair probe to be open to public, despite state’s request

(15 March 2022)

The state commission of inquiry, approved by the cabinet in January, will consist of five panelists headed by former Supreme Court president Asher Grunis.

It is tasked with examining a murky $2 billion deal to purchase submarines from the German shipbuilder Thyssenkrupp. More specifically, it will attempt to evaluate the procedures and decision-making employed by the political echelon related to the sensitive procurement, conducted under the government of former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

27.03.2022 - 14:02 [ theHill.com ]

Blinken tries to calm allies ahead of Iran nuke deal

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday tried to soothe the fears of Israel and its Gulf Arab allies ahead of the possible renewal of global powers’ international nuclear deal with Iran.

Blinken made the comments shortly before joining his counterparts from Israel and four Arab countries at a special gathering where the Iranian nuclear deal was expected to top the agenda.

19.02.2022 - 06:55 [ nd.Aktuell / Twitter ]

Die #Ampel-Koalition streitet über eine Nachfolgeregelung für das aktuelle #Infektionsschutzgesetz. Maskenpflicht, Hygienekonzepte, 2G/3G: Warum nun der komplette Maßnahmenkatalog auf dem Spiel steht.

15.02.2022 - 08:33 [ Textstelle.news ]

„Die Herrschenden fühlen sich bedroht“ – Die Corona-Krise als Mittel der Macht

Der international anerkannte niederländische Politikwissenschaftler Kees van der Pijl beschreibt und analysiert in seinem neuesten Buch „Die belagerte Welt“. „Nach jahrelanger Vorbereitung hat die herrschende Oligarchie, die heute weltweit die Macht ausübt, den Ausbruch der Sars-Cov-2 zugeschriebenen Atemwegserkrankung Covid-19 zum Anlass genommen, Anfang 2020 einen globalen Ausnahmezustand auszurufen“, schreibt er im Vorwort. „ViER.“ hat beim Autor nachgefragt, wie er das begründet.
(Das Interview ist in der Ausgabe 1-22 das Magazins „ViER.“ erschienen, das seit 7. Februar im gut sortierten Zeitschriften- und Buchhandel zu finden ist.)

15.02.2022 - 04:44 [ CBC.ca ]

Federal government invokes Emergencies Act for first time ever in response to protests, blockades

The Emergencies Act, which replaced the War Measures Act in the 1980s, defines a national emergency as a temporary „urgent and critical situation“ that „seriously endangers the lives, health or safety of Canadians and is of such proportions or nature as to exceed the capacity or authority of a province to deal with it.“

The act gives special powers to respond to emergency scenarios affecting public welfare (natural disasters, disease outbreaks), public order (civil unrest), international emergencies or war emergencies.

11.02.2022 - 03:25 [ NationalObserver,com ]

Ontario and most other provinces stick with gradual approach to COVID reopening

„Just because one province is doing something doesn‘t mean we‘re necessarily going to do that,“ said Dr. Jazz Atwal, Manitoba‘s deputy chief public health officer.

Manitoba is hoping to lift all restrictions by spring, but Atwal said the plan will be dictated by science — not the decisions of other jurisdictions or demands from protesters.

08.02.2022 - 08:02 [ ZDF ]

Impfpflicht-Stopp in Bayern – Söders Alleingang: Populär, nicht konsistent

Lange konnte sich Bayerns Ministerpräsident in der Anführerrolle des selbsternannten „Teams Vorsicht“ gefallen, eine Mehrheit in der Bevölkerung stützte den Kurs von Lockdowns und rigiden Maßnahmen. Söder profitierte hier vom langen Windschatten Angela Merkels und reifte in ihm fast zum Kanzlerkandidaten.

07.02.2022 - 19:51 [ New York Times ]

Canada Live Updates: Ottawa Declares a State of Emergency Amid Trucker Protests

Canadians awoke on Monday with their capital, Ottawa, under a state of emergency, as protesting truckers continued to occupy the country’s center of political power and calls were growing in some quarters for the government to take more drastic action to end the crisis.

With demonstrations snarling traffic and disrupting business and residential neighborhoods, Ottawa’s City Council was to meet Monday to try and find a way out of the upheaval.

07.02.2022 - 15:41 [ stern / Twitter ]

Kanada: „Situation völlig außer Kontrolle“: Hauptstadt Ottawa ruft Notstand wegen Corona-Demonstrationen aus

07.02.2022 - 05:29 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Corona-Maßnahmen: Israel schafft Grünen Pass weitgehend ab

Die Lage in Israel ist also angespannt. Dennoch hat die Regierung beschlossen, den sogenannten Grünen Pass in vielen Bereichen abzuschaffen. Der war bislang so etwas wie die Eintrittskarte ins öffentliche Leben. Für Museen, Konzerte und Restaurants. Vergeben wurde der digitale Ausweis an Geimpfte, Genesene und Getestete – mit unterschiedlichen Ablauffristen.

06.02.2022 - 05:45 [ CTVNews.ca ]

Demonstrators descend on Ottawa as ‚freedom convoy‘ protests spread beyond capital

A second weekend of protests by the so-called „freedom convoy“ is taking place in the country‘s capital of Ottawa, with as many as 300 to 400 trucks expected to try and enter the downtown core, according to police estimates, along with up to 2,000 people on foot and another 1,000 counter-protesters.

Protests in Toronto, Quebec City, Fredericton, Winnipeg, Regina and Victoria have started, are underway or expected near their respective provincial legislatures.

30.01.2022 - 18:41 [ derStandard.at ]

Verfassungsgerichtshof prüft Coronamaßnahmen

(heute)

Die Frage: „Der Verfassungsgerichtshof ersucht daher um Auskunft, ob die in den Verordnungsakten angegebenen Hospitalisierungs- bzw. Verstorbenenzahlen alle mit SARS-CoV-2 infizierten Personen, die in Spitälern auf Normal- oder Intensivstationen untergebracht sind bzw. die ‚an oder mit‘ SARSCoV-2 verstorben sind, umfassen? Wenn ja, warum wird diese Zählweise gewählt?“

In dieser Tonart geht es weiter.

25.01.2022 - 16:16 [ Haaretz ]

In Netanyahu Corruption Case, the ‚System‘ Is Also Trying to Sidestep Trial

In nearly every discussion these days about a possible plea bargain with the defendant Benjamin Netanyahu, supporters of a compromise repeat the same main argument: The deal with the former prime minister is necessary in order to undermine his attack on the justice system. This argument was made most prominently by former Supreme Court President Aharon Barak, who explained that he supported the deal because it would “take the sting out of the demolition of the court system.”

17.01.2022 - 04:14 [ NPR.org ]

Netanyahu in talks to reach plea bargain in corruption trial

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit is set to retire at the end of January. With with no permanent successor yet determined, it‘s unclear if a new attorney general would offer the same deal if Netanyahu does not accept it within the next two weeks.

Mandelblit could see a plea bargain as favorable to end Netanyahu‘s attacks on the justice system.

14.01.2022 - 22:01 [ Fox News ]

MSNBC‘s Joy Reid rants against Supreme Court for striking down Biden vaccine mandate: ‚Right-wing ideologues‘

MSNBC host Joy Reid was infuriated Thursday over the Supreme Court‘s decision to block President Biden‘s coronavirus vaccine mandate, launching a rant against what she called „right-wing ideologues“ occupying six of the court‘s nine seats.

During a segment of her show „The ReidOut,“ Reid declared she no longer had faith in the court, calling it a „Christian nationalist version“ of what it used to be, and suggested the justices should each have their own „right-wing talk radio shows.“

12.01.2022 - 14:29 [ Newsweek ]

Jake Tapper Rails Against ‚Misleading‘ CDC COVID Hospitalization Numbers

Tapper said: „We‘re two years into this and we need the clearest picture possible if somebody is in the hospital with a broken leg and they also have asymptomatic COVID. That should not be counted as hospitalized with COVID, clearly.“

09.01.2022 - 12:00 [ New York Times ]

Supreme Court’s Conservative Majority Appears Skeptical of Biden’s Virus Plan

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed to be leaning on Friday toward blocking one of the White House’s main pandemic-fighting strategies, expressing skepticism that the Biden administration has the legal power to mandate that large employers require workers to be vaccinated or to undergo frequent testing.