Häuser abbrennen? Zivilisten töten? Soldaten, die nach dem 7. Oktober überzeugt gegen den Terror der Hamas gekämpft haben, verweigern nun den Dienst. Sie erheben harte Vorwürfe. Vier von ihnen erzählen. Mit @petraramsauer.bsky.social und @forrestrogers.bsky.social www.nzz.ch/internationa...

"The closer Israel gets to total triumph, the closer it will be to complete uncertainty, to perils unleashed by pent-up humiliation, anger, and fury. That sort of victory is not a safe place." www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/peril...

Am Mittwoch rede ich mit Kristina Meyer (Willy-Brandt-Stiftung), Wolfgang Petritsch und @petraramsauer.bsky.social im @kreiskyforum.bsky.social über "Willy Brandt, Bruno Kreisky und der Nahen Osten". Gibt wohl keinen passenderen Ort für das Thema! www.kreisky-forum.org/category/eve...

die zentrale Frage

au point

This is an incredible document in which #Trump claims ICE protests “constitute a form of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States” and authorizes Pete Hegseth to deploy “regular Armed Forces” against protesters—anywhere in the US. (Notably, CA isn’t mentioned anywhere.)

Jeremy Bowen spells out the problem for Israel trying to deny war crimes: its own ministers have admitted to them www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

8 June 1943 | A transport of 880 Jews deported from the ghetto from Thessaloniki in German-occupied Greece arrived at #Auschwitz. After the arrival selection 220 men and 88 women were registered in the camp The remaining 572 people were murdered in a gas chamber.

Israeli lawmaker Avigdor Lieberman alleged Netanyahu is now supporting a new ISIS-affiliated militia to counter Hamas. Sources told Haaretz last week that an armed group tied to Yasser Abu Shabab has recently begun operating in southern Gaza.

Explosions rocked Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, before dawn on Friday as air defense crews raced to combat a large-scale Russian bombardment.

Friday’s NY Post cover is pure gold

auch das. responsiblestatecraft.org/jamal-khasho...

Very concerning announcements coming out of Austria: www.politico.eu/article/aust...

das erzählt alles

excellent point. "It’s incredibly dangerous to live in a society that treats health like a luxury product." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/s...

Israel greift erstmals Gebiete nahe des syrischen Präsidentenpalastes an, man misstraue dem neuen syrischen Machthaber. Wer ist Ahmed al-Schara’a? Ein geläuterter Dschihadist? Oder Vorbereiter der nächsten Extremisten-Diktatur? (+) › 📝 @petraramsauer.bsky.social

au point www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBfl...

+ Haus im Grün – @edithmeinhart.bsky.social schreibt von der Sehnsucht uns die Zukunft zu verbauen; Das Chamäleon – @petraramsauer.bsky.social beschreibt den neuen syrischen Machthaber; Plötzlich Ärztin – Anastasia Saparinjuk erklärt, wie es ist, für Leben und Überleben verantwortlich zu sein.

The dismantling of USAID represents more than just a retreat in foreign assistance. It threatens infrastructure built over decades that has served as a means of mitigating the most brutal effects of conflict. www.crisisgroup.org/united-state...

Großartige und so hilfreiche Geschichte. www.wsj.com/health/welln...

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

Habe nun mit mehreren WissenschaftlerInnen gesprochen, die Fachkonferenzen in den USA lieber auslassen, weil die Lage so unklar ist. Die, die doch hinfahren, besorgen dafür eigens neue Laptops und Handys. Surreal. Die breite Öffentlichkeit realisiert noch immer zu wenig, wie ernst die Lage ist.

Slowly, Ukrainian Women Are Beginning to Talk About Sexual Assault in the War www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/w...

Hi All, I released the first part of my weekend update early (it’s all free) because what we are seeing is so extreme it needs to be said now. The USA is now openly admitting to helping Russia kill Ukrainians. Indeed, Trump seems to be enjoying it. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

+ Schwarze Kammer: @istdaswichtig.at über die Macht der Wirtschaftslobby. Das Schlüsselland: @petraramsauer.bsky.social hat den Gaza-Streifen porträtiert. Auf den Barrikaden: @luciasteinwender.bsky.social war auf den Massenprotesten in Serbien. Unterstützt unsere Arbeit mit einem Abo! › datum.at/abo

Faszinierend. The report, Lost Boys, highlights how a generation of young men are facing far worse outcomes than young women in education and beyond, falling further behind by virtually every yardstick, while changing social attitudes leave them feeling isolated. www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...

With everything else happening, one might have missed that Austria has a new government coalition - and it’s not with the far right after all! More on what the three (😬) parties agreed on, with regard to EU matters, by Paul Schmidt 👇

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Im Nordwesten Dänemarks sind Wissenschaftler bei Bauarbeiten auf eine historische Grabstätte gestoßen. Sie hat von der Anordnung her verblüffende Ähnlichkeit mit der englischen Kultstätte Stonehenge, besteht aber aus Holzpfählen.

This was just posted on President Trump’s Truth Social account.

“At present, every hacker in the world knows there are a small number of people new to federal service who hold the keys to access all US government payments, contracts, civil servant personal info, and more ... DOGE is one romance scam away from a national security emergency.”

The definitions in this proposed Israeli law are so broad that "any journalist publishing an investigation that suggests a crime committed by IDF forces would also be at risk of imprisonment if the bill is passed." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

@MiddleEastEye: The International Committee of the Red Cross has urged respect and dignity ahead of the expected handover of captives' bodies from Gaza. "We must be clear: any degrading treatment during release operations is unacceptable"

"Most cases are in school-age kids, and 13 have been hospitalized..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Exclusive: An Elon Musk-led investor group is making an unsolicited $97 billion bid for control of OpenAI

LIVE UPDATES: Hamas tells mediators U.S. guarantees for truce no longer valid given Trump's transfer plan, sparking fears of deal breakdown, Egyptian security sources say

Wertvolle Hinweise dabei (freebie link):

"A world without mutually binding trade agreements and security alliances among democratic partners is a world with few rules at all." www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

@reuters.com: Trump administration has ordered WFP to stop work on dozens of U.S.-funded grants that ostensibly should benefit from Rubio exemptions for food assistance and other life-saving aid: www.reuters.com/world/un-foo...

What a historical moment. Today, the world learned the identity of Caesar, the defector who smuggled 53,275 photos of detainees tortured & killed by the Syrian regime: Farid al-Mathhan, formerly of the Forensic Evidence Dept of the Damascus Military Police. He is originally from Daraa.

"Citizenship by birth is an unequivocal Constitutional right. It is one of the precious principles that makes the United States the great nation that it is. The President cannot change, limit, or qualify this Constitutional right via an executive order." Full ruling here https://buff.ly/42Qibzr

soeben erhalten. 🤩 - Praxis gibt es schon, eine Website mit allen Daten demnächst. - Der Beginn eines neuen Lebens. Bin nun halb Journalistin Schwerpunkt Nahost und halb Psychotherapeutin in Ausbildung unter Supervision in freier Praxis und zur Gänze grad sehr glücklich

"Inside the U.S. government, there had been no meetings with the State Department or Pentagon The Defense Department had produced no estimates of the troop numbers required, or cost estimates, or even an outline of how it might work." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...

Former President John F. Kennedy faced deep criticism of US foreign assistance in 1961, the yr he est'd USAID. In a message to Congress, he asked “Is a foreign aid program really necessary? Why should we not lay down this burden which our nation has now carried for some fifteen years?." His answer:

Trump’s revenge agenda has shocked officials who ‘didn’t think it was going to be this bad’, insiders say www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Department of Transportation orders all personnel to "identify and eliminate" every order, directive, rule, regulation, policy, notice, guidance document, funding arrangement, or program that even mentions climate change, diversity, or environmental justice www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go...