Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

Who is responsible for the “man-made famine”?

This! I cannot stress enough how dramatic this loss of reputation in third states is. The EU chances of stopping the war were always low, but signals, symbolic action, and sanctions would have been extremely important. It will be haunted by the consequences for decades.

Es ist mir ein Rätsel, warum es nicht mindestens e i n Gesprächsformat mit dem Fokus #internationale Politik gibt. Diese rein nationalen Diskurse sind völlig an unserer Wirklichkeit vorbei. Lasst doch wenigstens Sonntags #Miosga die Gegenwart in internationaler Perspektive verhandeln #ÖRR #getreal

After 20 months of field research, I recognise several officers who regularly show extremely aggressive behaviour. I'm sure they're also known within their own districts. That they keep getting sent to protests creates the impression that these violations are strategically deployed as a deterrent.

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Ich muss bei der katastrophalen momentanen Berichterstattung des ÖRR immer wieder an das Zitat von Gary Lineker denken, als er sagte, dass die BBC „versucht, die Menschen zu beschwichtigen, die die BBC hassen [..] anstatt sich um die Menschen zu kümmern, die die BBC lieben.“

Many comments on Germany‘s restrictions of arms exports to Israel miss one crucial part: international reputation. These restrictions will not stop the war, but they will be noticed in third states. We shouldn’t downplay the importance of „symbolic policies“ in IR.

Das darf einfach keine offizielle Nachricht sein. Medien arbeiten an der Konstruktion der Realität. Übernehmt endlich Verantwortung.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Mo Salah is asking the right questions

"Diese Idee ist nett für den Wahlkampf oder um damit punkten zu wollen, den Menschen selbst hilft sie aber nicht" www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...

Germany has finally decided to stop its arms exports to Israel. However, I am sceptical that this marks a turning point as the article argues. Most likely, this decision will be used to justify non-action on all other ends, such as EU sanctions.

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New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

All talk of human rights and international law is meaningless and will be remembered as completely hollow if we - in Europe, the West - don’t do everything in our power now to stop the killing in Gaza.

German armed forces see 28% surge in recruits in NATO defence boost www.reuters.com/business/aer...

I can’t get over the fact that there are still people who argue that there wouldn’t be a famine in Gaza. If you don’t believe the massive evidence, maybe journalists and NGO employees should be allowed to enter and report. Instead, they can’t, and those who are inside got killed or face starvation.

Apokalyptische Bilder aus Kyjiw. Russische Luftangriffe töten Menschen im Schlaf. Putin setzt voll auf Terror und Vertreibung. Eine Rakete schlug direkt in einem Wohnhaus mit neun Stockwerken ein. Kriegsverbrechen.

Putins Reaktion auf Ultimaten: mehr Zerstörung, mehr Tod. In Kyjiw wurden mindestens 6 Menschen getötet – darunter ein 6-jähriger Junge. Es gibt viele Verletzte. Ohne echten Druck – wirtschaftlich, militärisch, politisch – wird Russland seinen Vernichtungskrieg nicht beenden.

“Diese Arbeit mag humanitär nur einen kleinen Beitrag leisten. Aber sie ist ein wichtiges Signal.” Merz denkt wirklich, dass dieses Signal, und nicht alle anderen Signale der nahezu bedingungslosen Unterstützung Israels, im Ausland wahrgenommen werden. Das ist so fernab der Realität.

The FT View: The longer it has continued, the more it has borne the hallmarks of a vengeful assault by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government to destroy the very fabric of Palestinian society. https://on.ft.com/3UBv3Us

Wadephul in der aktuellen Zeit: “In prominenten deutschen Medien konnte man gleichzeitig lesen, dass ich zu kritisch mit Israel sei. Und unter meinen europäischen Kolleginnen und Kollegen gelte ich wiederum als zu proisraelisch. In der Summe liege ich offensichtlich nicht ganz falsch”

At a time when a whole popn is being starved and civilians shot on a daily basis when seeking food, DE still cannot find moral clarity, still cannot find language to condemn Israel's abuses or take serious action with partners to force a stop to the barbarity www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/aktu...

It’s going full circle again: Merz, Macron, and Starmer meet in an urgency meeting, publish some statement in which they “urge” Israel to stop something and then nothing follows. What kind of foreign policy strategy is this? It gets more and more pathetic. European leadership as it shouldn’t be.

The Romanian portion of the Holocaust killed half the country's 600,000 Jews. No gas chambers; some sporadic massacres. Mostly the Antonescu govt evicted the Jews into abandoned areas of Ukraine with no food. They starved, froze and died of disease. Curious who would argue it wasn't genocide.

Andry José Hernández Romero after hugging his best friend, who had been relentless in pleading for his cause. I’ll stop posting these some day. But not today.

Wir wäre es damit, zu fordern, ALLE vor dem Hungertod zu bewahren? @djv.de

I don’t think most people (cc. German government) understand how brutal famine is

Do not look away.

Once again absent in this statement signed by many of its most established allies: the German government.

"Palestinians trying to secure food were shot and killed in the Gaza Strip in two separate episodes over the weekend when Israeli forces opened fire on crowds" www.nytimes.com/article/isra...

Israeli soldiers opened fire near a food distribution site in southern Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 32 people, Gazan health authorities said. The UN said this past week that more than 670 Palestinians had been killed in similar episodes near aid sites.

Gestern war der 30. Gedenktag an den Genozid an den Bosniak:innen & der erste internationale Gedenktag. Zu dem Anlass waren ich & ein weiterer Genozidüberlebender, sowie einige bosnische Diplomat:innen im deutschen Bundestag eingeladen. Was folgte war extrem traumatisierend.

Also eigentlich müsste X jetzt in Deutschland verboten werden

this is even by today’s X standards complete insanity

And just to be clear: If the German government condemns this in words but once again fails to use any of its leverage – weapons deliveries, recognition, the EU association agreement – then that condemnation is meaningless. What Germany will be doing, in effect, is supporting this.

„Der IGH geht davon aus, dass die Gefahr eines Genozids im Gazastreifen besteht (…) Wir dürfen auf keinen Fall Waffen liefern, die im Krieg gegen die palästinensische Bevölkerung benutzt werden können!“ Bemerkenswertes Interview mit Christoph Heusgen. www.freitag.de/autoren/dori...

This is a crucial yet underrepresented aspect when debating Germany’s arms exports to Israel. Even the risk of using those materials in human right violations forbids the export under several treaties GE signed, inter alia the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). And we are not even talking about genocide here.

What I wish public commentary about the killing of civilians near #aid distribution cites in #Gaza understood: short 🧵

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It’s still happening. Every day!

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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? The average citizen really does not care about foreign policy and knows next to nothing about what’s going on in the world

BREAKING: At least 45 Palestinians were killed in Gaza while waiting for U.N. and commercial trucks to bring desperately needed food, Gaza’s Health Ministry and a local hospital said. The circumstances of the killings were not immediately clear.

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