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10.11.2025 - 21:28 [ Ori Goldberg / +972 Magazine ]

Both sides of the Sde Teiman leak debate reflect Israel’s moral decay

(November 7, 2025)

Over the past two years, Maj. Gen. Tomer-Yerushalmi — the official responsible for all internal investigations and legal enforcement in the Israeli army — has almost entirely refrained from probing the countless, well-documented allegations against its soldiers. The Sde Teiman guards’ crime, however, as captured in the leaked video, was apparently so blatant and grotesque that authorities had no choice but to issue indictments.

When Israeli military police arrived at Sde Teiman to arrest the suspects, however, they were met by right-wing rioters and soldiers, including several members of Knesset hiding behind their immunity. Attempting to block the arrests, they insisted that the perpetrators did nothing wrong and that their actions were merely part of the Israeli war effort.

Tomer-Yerushalmi leaked the video of the rape soon after, and it quickly spread online. Protests by right-wing Israelis in support of the abusers grew in turn. But while many around the world were aghast at what could only be described as “right to rape” protests, the discussion in Israel quickly faded in favor of daily news of “successes” on the Gazan front. The case was largely forgotten for months, until the investigation into the video’s leak was announced last week.

18.10.2025 - 18:59 [ theStandard.com.hk ]

UK sees lessons from Northern Ireland that could aid the fragile Gaza ceasefire process

The Irish Republican Army eventually agreed to put its arsenal “beyond use” by way of a secret process supervised by an international commission. Disarmament ran in parallel to efforts to resolve political disputes at the heart of the conflict, something that more than three decades of U.S.-led peace efforts in the Middle East have failed to accomplish.

It was slow going: The first batch of IRA weapons was decommissioned in 2001 and the last in 2005, seven years after the Good Friday Agreement. Several other British loyalist and Irish republican militant groups also disarmed as part of the process.

“The British might be able to counsel patience and pragmatism,” said Niall O Dochartaigh, a professor of political science at the University of Galway. “The IRA leadership had to be helped in various ways to make that argument (for disarmament) within the organization.

“Ultimately, decommissioning only happened in the Irish case once the IRA was satisfied that there was a political settlement bedded down,” he added.

18.10.2025 - 18:16 [ Haitian Times ]

Haiti, allies rally behind new gang suppression force despite concerns

(October 2, 2025)

Civil society groups also cautiously welcomed the vote. The Center for Analysis and Research in Human Rights (CARDH) and other signatories of the December 21 Accord emphasized that the mission’s success will depend on coordination between Haitian institutions, international backers and watchdog mechanisms.

18.10.2025 - 18:08 [ United Nations ]

Fighting back against the gangs: What is Haiti’s new UN-backed force?

(October 1, 2025)

The Gang Suppression Force (GSF) in Haiti is a newly authorized multinational mission by the UN Security Council.

With a 12-month mandate, the 5,550-strong force will work alongside Haitian authorities to neutralize gangs, secure infrastructure, and support humanitarian access.

Its main aim is to protect vulnerable populations from escalating violence and prevent the displacement that inevitably causes.

16.10.2025 - 14:23 [ Junge Welt ]

»Es gibt einen beängstigenden Opportunismus«

Sehen Sie Deutschland, Europa und die Vereinigten Staaten auf dem Weg zum Totalitarismus oder Faschismus?

Es gibt den Begriff des umgekehrten Totalitarismus, und ich glaube, das trifft es in Europa eher. Die Institutionen bleiben formal bestehen, wir gehen wählen, aber das Meinungsspektrum wird immer weiter eingeschränkt, Berufswege von Menschen, die widersprechen, werden zerstört. Die Repression nimmt zu. Das kann natürlich auch in offenen Totalitarismus kippen, wie wir das in den USA bereits sehen.

01.10.2025 - 22:54 [ Norbert Häring ]

Kameras zur Echtzeit-Gesichtserkennung und -Verhaltenskontrolle werden zur Norm

(August 24, 2025)

Die Kontinentaleuropäer sollten sehr genau in die USA und nach Großbritannien schauen, wenn nicht gleich nach China, um zu sehen, wohin dieser Weg unweigerlich führt: In ein System, in dem der gesamte öffentliche Raum und alles was wir darin tun, fast ebenso umfassend digital überwacht und kontrolliert wird wie der digitale. Das macht die Regierungen und Konzerne übermäßig mächtig und ermöglicht totalitäres Regieren. Es macht uns noch abhängiger und erpressbarer von den USA, bei deren Geheimdiensten und IT-Konzernen die Daten aus aller Welt zusammenlaufen. Wenn wir das nicht wollen, müssen wir uns gegen jeden der – für sich genommen einigermaßen harmlos erscheinenden – Trippelschritte auf diesem Weg wehren.

21.09.2025 - 13:00 [ Van Jones / CNN ]

Charlie Kirk DM’d me before he was murdered. Here’s what he said

Things were seriously heading off the rails.

Then — in the middle of all this — Charlie Kirk reached out.

He invited me to come on his show to talk with him. He wrote:

“Hey, Van, I mean it, I’d love to have you on my show to have a respectful conversation about crime and race. I would be a gentleman as I know you would be as well. We can disagree about the issues agreeably.”

Unfortunately, before I could even respond, Charlie Kirk was killed — seemingly assassinated for the words he’s spoken, though the killer’s exact motives are still being investigated.

13.09.2025 - 22:30 [ Saudi Gazette ]

Saudi Arabia, US, UAE and Egypt underscore restoration of peace and ending suffering of people in Sudan

The meeting was convened at the invitation of the United States. The ministers have engaged in extensive consultations on the conflict in Sudan, recalling that it has provoked the world’s worst humanitarian crisis and poses grave risks to regional peace and security.

The ministers committed to the shared set of principles with regard to ending the conflict in Sudan:

13.09.2025 - 22:22 [ Egypt Today ]

Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, US call for 3-month truce in Sudan, followed by 9-month transitional period to end ongoing civil war

The conflicting parties of Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia have committed war crimes and atrocities since mid-April 2023. On September 9, 2025, the UN Human Right Council submitted a report documenting that dozens of detainees have reportedly killed due to torture and the systematic deprivation of food and medical treatment since June.

It has been estimated that the war claimed the lives of 150,000 people by June 2024. As of July 2025, 12 million people had been forced to flee their homes, including 7.7 million internally displaced persons (IDPs)—more than half of whom are children, said Migration Policy Institute on July 17, 2025.

Here is the full text of the joint statement:

04.09.2025 - 18:09 [ Lush.com ]

In Solidarity with Gaza

(September 3, 2025)

Whilst Lush is losing a day of takings, this also means that the UK Government is losing a day of tax contributions from Lush and our customers. We hope they too hear the message our closure sends, with more Government action needed to bring an immediate stop to the death and destruction, including an end to arms sales from the UK.

In Peace and Solidarity,

LUSH

NB: Lush trades in over 50 countries, but was originally founded in the UK. With this in mind it feels important that we lift our voice first from here in the UK, however we know that sentiment across the international Lush business is strong and we expect similar actions may follow as other Lush countries seek ways to express their solidarity.

04.09.2025 - 18:08 [ Daily Mail ]

Cosmetics chain Lush closes ALL of its stores and shuts down its website in protest over Palestine

(September 3, 2025)

High street cosmetics firm Lush has shut down its website and closed all its UK stores in what the company says is a pro-Palestine statement of solidarity.

The firm shared an image declaring ‚Stop starving Gaza‘ as it also closed its factories in a one-day gesture.

Lush said in a statement today: ‚Across the Lush business we share the anguish that millions of people feel seeing the images of starving people in Gaza, Palestine.

26.08.2025 - 00:49 [ Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of @UNRWA / X ]

#Gaza: more journalists killed today. Silencing the last remaining voices reporting about children dying silently and #famine with The world’s indifference & inaction is shocking. Like Hannah Arendt said: “The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.“ This cannot be our future new norm.

Compassion must prevail.

Let us undo this manmade famine by:
– opening the gates without restrictions
– ⁠protecting journalists & humanitarian + health workers

Time for political will.

Not tomorrow, now

20.08.2025 - 16:43 [ Hosny Mohammad / Middle East Eye ]

How Gaza‘s aid sites have morphed into Israel‘s cruellest form of psychological torture

We are witnessing a reshaping of the individual, of society, of the market, and of the social fabric that binds people together. What remains of meaningful human agency is being dissolved, with Palestinians left to face uncertain fates.

In this open-air theatre, Israel is carrying out a systematic policy of dismantling individuals and structures alike, paving the way for a final phase – one of collective submission, of psychological dependence on the oppressor, and of collapsed trust in society itself.

This, in turn, paves the way for a new order in which people attach their hopes to whoever appears stronger, more capable, more able to feed them. We will by then have become pliable clay, to be shaped by Israel at will or discarded, left as broken human wreckage under the control of warlords and looters.

15.08.2025 - 20:29 [ Multipolar Magazin ]

Auf Autopilot

(August 11, 2025)

Manchmal sind es Alltagsdetails, die mehr über den Zustand des Landes verraten als jede Statistik. Die Postfiliale, die plötzlich nur noch halbtags geöffnet hat, und in deren langer Warteschlange man kurz vor Schließung um 12 Uhr Mittags mit anhört, wie eine Mitarbeiterin einem IT-Fachmann, der gerade im laufenden Kundenbetrieb eine Panne am Computersystem der Filiale zu beheben versucht, zur Erklärung für Schließung und Warteschlange zutuschelt: „Wir haben drei Dauerkranke“, worauf der IT-Mann mit abgeklärter Miene und leiser Stimme antwortet: „Die haben wir auch.“ Die Gesichter der Wartenden spiegeln eine Mischung aus Frustration und Ergebenheit. Niemand spricht miteinander.

12.08.2025 - 11:28 [ Middle East Eye ]

Five Palestinians starve to death in Gaza in a day

Gaza’s health ministry said five people died „due to famine and malnutrition over the past 24 hours, including two children”.

A total number of 227 people, including 103 children, died due to hunger since 7 October, 2023, the ministry said.

09.08.2025 - 11:56 [ Communist Party of Israel - Maki.org.il ]

Hadash Slams Cabinet Approval of Gaza City Takeover, Protests Nationwide

On Thursday evening, outside the cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, thousands of protesters rallied against the move to expand the occupation The protesters called for a deal to end the war and the release of all the hostages. In Tel-Aviv, police arrested 10 protesters as thousands gathered in front of the Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv and blocked Ayalon Highway to demand a hostage deal and the end of the war. Protest groups said two of the protesters were minors. Demonstrations against war take place across Israel in Herzliya, Haifa, Karkur junction, Hod Hasharon, Rosh HaAyin, Kfar Sava, Beer Sheva, Raanana, Naveh Ilan, Ha’ogen junction, Gome junction, Yesod Hama’ala, Rosh Pina, Beit Hashita, Horfish, Tzemach, Yannai junction and other localities

Around 300 architects and planners have signed on Friday petition titled “Stop the Destruction – Yes to Rebuilding Gaza”. “We express deep shock at the acts of destruction, killing, starvation and mass deportation from cities and civilian areas in the Gaza Strip,” they wrote. “We cannot forget Hamas’ horrific crimes on October 7 – acts of massacre, destruction and the abduction of civilians from border communities. But those atrocities do not justify indiscriminate harming of civilians, women and children or the near-total destruction of the Gaza Strip.”

On Thursday, Israeli cultural organizations issued a statement condemning “attacks on the very idea of free culture” after some 1,000 Israeli artists and authors were criticized for signing a petition called “Stop the Horror in Gaza.” The petition called for an end to the war and the safe return of hostages. It also accused Israel of causing starvation and urged soldiers not to follow illegal orders or commit war crimes. Signed by organizations including the Association of Museums and ICOM Israel, the Israeli Directors’ Guild, and the Israeli Actors’ Association, the statement said, “In recent weeks, we have witnessed a troubling wave of threats and attacks against creators, cultural organizations, and Israeli artworks.”

09.08.2025 - 10:31 [ Middle East Eye ]

Number of starved Palestinians in Gaza rises to 201

8 August 2025 23:34 BST

The number of Palestinians who have starved to death as a result of Israel‘s siege on Gaza has risen to 201, with most being children, Dr. Muneer Alboursh, director general of the Gaza health ministry, told Aljazeera on Friday.

09.08.2025 - 10:29 [ Washington Post ]

Starvation is spreading in Gaza — and treating it won’t be easy

Updated August 8, 2025 at 10:12 a.m. EDT
(…)

In late July, the world’s leading hunger monitor declared what many had already feared: Famine is unfolding across Gaza, it said, with “a rise in hunger-related deaths” driven by “widespread starvation, malnutrition, and disease.”

Nearly 200 people have died of starvation in the enclave, according to the Gaza Health Ministry — a number experts believe is an undercount, both because malnutrition leaves patients more vulnerable to other infections and conditions that are listed as the cause of death, as well as the difficulty of recording deaths that take place outside hospitals.

03.07.2025 - 16:41 [ theGuardian.com ]

‘Gaza must be eliminated’: Israel’s airwaves are filled with pro-genocide propaganda

(June 27, 2025)

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– “Regarding what Boaz mentioned, in the first day or two, we should have killed 100,000 Gazans […] Only a few are possibly human there. Only a few are possibly human there. Over 90% are terrorists and are involved! Not uninvolved, there’s no such thing as uninvolved,” political commentator Danny Neuman said on journalist Boaz Golan’s show on 6 May 2024.

– “The destruction in Gaza gives me a good feeling. Gaza is in a state of annihilation. Many buildings no longer exist in the landscape. The destruction machine must keep working so it’s clear they have nowhere to return to. Despair as a work plan,” Yinon Magal said on the show The Patriots reading a tweet by a reservist soldier named Dvir Luger on 3 August 2024.

– “Gaza deserves death. The 2.6 million terrorists in Gaza deserve death! … Men, women, and children – in every way possible, we must simply carry out a Holocaust on them – yes, read that again – H-O-L-O-C-A-U-S-T! For me, gas chambers. Train cars. And other cruel forms of death for these Nazis. Without fear, without hesitation – simply crush, eradicate, slaughter, flatten, dismantle, smash, shatter …. Gaza deserves death. Let there be a Holocaust in Gaza,” said Elad Barashi, a TV producer affiliated with Channel 14, on 27 February 2025. in a post on X which was later deleted.

26.06.2025 - 05:33 [ Nachdenkseiten ]

Neutralität statt Vasallentreue: Wieso und wie Deutschland aus der NATO austreten sollte

Anlässlich des NATO-Gipfels in Den Haag diskutieren der Schweizer Historiker Daniele Ganser, BSW-Außenpolitikerin Sevim Dagdelen und NachDenkSeiten-Redakteur Florian Warweg über die Zukunft des selbsternannten „Verteidigungs“-Bündnisses. Wo steht die NATO derzeit zwischen „gehirntot“ und weiterer Ausdehnung? Welche Rolle spielt die EU in diesem Rahmen? Wie steht die Bevölkerung zu den massiv steigenden Militärausgaben zu Lasten wirtschaftlicher und sozialer Investitionen? Welche Möglichkeiten gäbe es für Deutschland, aus dem immer aggressiver auftretenden Militärbündnis auszusteigen, ähnlich wie Frankreich unter de Gaulle in den 1960er-Jahren?

26.06.2025 - 05:01 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Künftig fünf Prozent: NATO beschließt Erhöhung der Verteidigungsausgaben

Die Alliierten legten sich in der Abschlusserklärung ihres Gipfels in Den Haag auf das neue Ziel fest, spätestens von 2035 an jährlich fünf Prozent des Bruttoinlandsprodukts in Verteidigung und Sicherheit zu investieren – so viel wie seit dem Kalten Krieg nicht mehr.

Bisher lag das Ziel bei zwei Prozent.

23.06.2025 - 19:04 [ BR.de ]

Reaktor Garching darf mit hochangereichertem Uran weiterlaufen

(Juni 21, 2024)

Im Garchinger Forschungsreaktor werden normalerweise wissenschaftliche Experimente – etwa im Bereich Quantentechnologie oder Archäologie – durchgeführt. Daneben produzieren Kunden aus der Industrie zum Beispiel Radioisotope und Radiopharmaka für die Krebsdiagnostik und -behandlung. Die TUM verweist aber etwa auch darauf, dass Forschende des späteren Corona-Impfstoffherstellers „Biontech“ in der Garchinger Neutronenquelle mRNA-Partikel untersucht hätten.

18.06.2025 - 21:05 [ Deadline.com ]

Trump Will Go To Supreme Court If Newsom Wins Fight Over LA Troops Deployment Again; Appeals Court Considers Temporary Restraining Order

Thousands of heavily armed Guard troops, as well as 700 U.S. Marines have been deployed in the city’s downtown core for over a week in response to protests over ongoing ICE raids and abductions of the undocumented (and in some cases, the documented).

15.06.2025 - 18:09 [ Welt.de ]

Evolution: Das ist der Grund, wieso die Gehirne der Menschen schrumpfen

(16.11.2021)

Dass unser Gehirn langsam etwas an Masse verloren hat, ist jedoch nicht ganz so lange her: Erst vor rund 3.000 Jahren begann es zu schrumpfen.

(…)

Die Art und Weise, wie sich Individuen in einem Ameisenstaat organisieren, ähnelt unseren modernen Gesellschaftsstrukturen. Die Insekten haben, verglichen mit ihrer Körpergröße, ein Mini-Gehirn. Es ist etwa eine Million Mal kleiner als das eines Menschen – sie können aber Großes leisten. Das Prinzip dahinter ist eine Art kollektive Intelligenz. Nicht jeder muss alles können oder wissen, es gibt eine klare Aufgabenteilung.

15.06.2025 - 18:08 [ frontiersin.org ]

When and Why Did Human Brains Decrease in Size? A New Change-Point Analysis and Insights From Brain Evolution in Ants

(22 October 2021)

But we also find that human brain size reduction was surprisingly recent, occurring in the last 3,000 years. Our dating does not support hypotheses concerning brain size reduction as a by-product of body size reduction, a result of a shift to an agricultural diet, or a consequence of self-domestication. We suggest our analysis supports the hypothesis that the recent decrease in brain size may instead result from the externalization of knowledge and advantages of group-level decision-making due in part to the advent of social systems of distributed cognition and the storage and sharing of information. Humans live in social groups in which multiple brains contribute to the emergence of collective intelligence. Although difficult to study in the deep history of Homo, the impacts of group size, social organization, collective intelligence and other potential selective forces on brain evolution can be elucidated using ants as models.

15.06.2025 - 17:28 [ Krankenkassen.de ]

Forschungsreaktor darf mit hochangereichertem Uran weiterlaufen

(Juni 2024)

Der Forschungsreaktor war im Jahr 2004 als eine der wichtigsten
Neutronenquellen Europas für Forschung, Medizin und Industrie in
Betrieb gegangen. Der Betrieb mit bis zu 93 Prozent angereichertem
Uran war bis Ende 2010 genehmigt, dann sollte auf maximal 50 Prozent
umgestellt werden. Mangels dieses Brennstoffs wurde der Betrieb bis
jetzt aber von den Behörden weiter genehmigt.

«Es geht hier um extrem wichtige Forschungsinfrastruktur für Bayern,
Deutschland und Europa», betonte Minister Blume. Die in Garching
gewonnene kerntechnische Expertise sei beispielsweise entscheidend
für medizinischen Fortschritt.

15.06.2025 - 17:23 [ BR.de ]

Reaktor Garching darf mit hochangereichertem Uran weiterlaufen

(Juni 21, 2024)

Im Garchinger Forschungsreaktor werden normalerweise wissenschaftliche Experimente – etwa im Bereich Quantentechnologie oder Archäologie – durchgeführt. Daneben produzieren Kunden aus der Industrie zum Beispiel Radioisotope und Radiopharmaka für die Krebsdiagnostik und -behandlung. Die TUM verweist aber etwa auch darauf, dass Forschende des späteren Corona-Impfstoffherstellers „Biontech“ in der Garchinger Neutronenquelle mRNA-Partikel untersucht hätten.

15.06.2025 - 17:09 [ Tehran Times ]

Iran reaffirms commitment to peaceful nuclear development despite attacks

In a post on its official account on the social platform X, the AEOI declared: „Iran stands firm… Relying on the determination of our nuclear scientists, we will continue the path of developing peaceful nuclear technology with strength and resolve. The cowardly attacks by enemies are no match for the will of this nation.“

11.06.2025 - 22:49 [ Reuters ]

Troops in LA can detain individuals, military official says, as protests spread across US

In addition to protecting government buildings and personnel, the Pentagon has said the troops will safeguard Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers during raids.
ICE posted photos online on Tuesday of National Guard troops standing guard with weapons in hand as ICE officers handcuffed apparent migrants against the side of a car in Los Angeles.
An 1878 law, the Posse Comitatus Act, generally forbids the U.S. military, including the National Guard, from taking part in civilian law enforcement.

11.06.2025 - 19:43 [ Luxemburger Wort ]

Bundestag: Union, SPD und Grüne drücken Verfassungsänderung durch

(March 18, 2025)

Niemals zuvor hat der Bundestag eine solche Verschuldung beschlossen, niemals zuvor in so kurzer Zeit und so knapp vor dem Ende seiner Zuständigkeit so weitreichende Entscheidungen gefasst. Aber, das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat es gegen alle Behauptungen von AfD und BSW, von Linken und FDP bestätigt: Dies ist keine Revolution, auch kein Putsch gegen die Demokratie. Dies ist legal.

11.06.2025 - 18:06 [ CNN ]

National Guard protecting law enforcement, DHS says as photos appear to show them at ICE operations

Images shared by ICE on X show authorities arresting individuals, as troops stand by, appearing to guard the area around the operation – in other words, serving as a security perimeter. The caption read: “Photos from today’s ICE Los Angeles immigration enforcement operation.”

Former senior ICE officials who spoke to CNN couldn’t recall any time the National Guard had been involved in an ICE interior operation.

“Even if lawful, however, the idea of the National Guard supplementing ICE officers on interior enforcement is almost certainly a first,” John Sandweg, former acting ICE director during the Obama administration, said.

17.05.2025 - 00:39 [ Nachdenkseiten ]

Die Umfaller von den LINKEN stimmen im Bundesrat für die Kriegskredite

(March 21, 2025)

Das Schuldenpaket ist durch den Bundesrat gegangen. Die Zweidrittelmehrheit im Bundesrat für die Verfassungsänderungen hatte laut Medien lange als unsicher gegolten, weil unklar war, wie die Landesregierungen abstimmen würden, in denen Linkspartei, FDP, Freie Wähler und BSW mitregieren. Am Montag hatte allerdings Bayern ein Ja angekündigt.

Am Morgen teilten dann auch Mecklenburg-Vorpommern und Bremen mit, dass sie zustimmen werden. In beiden Ländern gibt es Regierungen aus SPD und LINKE.

17.05.2025 - 00:31 [ Nachdenkseiten ]

Wadephul lässt Katze aus dem Sack: Hälfte des Bundeshaushalts für Aufrüstung

Diese Position ist durch nichts zu rechtfertigen. Sie basiert auf einer Politik, die den Bruch mit der Realität vollendet.