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Arnaud Bertrand

@RnaudBertrand

6 months

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think it's the first time in history we're witnessing a state not only murder UN workers on such a scale but actually tell the UN they deserved it, and scold THEM for criticizing the killings. I simply have no words.

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

6 months

"Many @UNRWA workers in Gaza are themselves members of Hamas. The time has come to bust the myth of UN supplied facts" The Israeli representative at the United Nations launches a tirade against the UN, UN agencies, UN workers and UN officials

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Malaysia asks for the abolition of the veto of the 5 permanent UN Security Council members, especially in the case of "situations involving mass atrocity crimes such as genocide"

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6 months

There's something almost admirable about the consistency with which Germany always stands on the wrong side of history.

DW Politics

@dw_politics

6 months

"The accusations being made against Israel are absurd." German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Israel is acting in accordance with international law in defending itself against Hamas.

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Arnaud Bertrand

@RnaudBertrand

4 months

Yup, turns out bombing the Houthis was yet another fantastically stupid idea.

Megatron

@Megatron_ron

4 months

BREAKING: ⚡ 🇾🇪🇺🇸🇬🇧 As of today, the Houthis are blocking the Suez Canal for both US and UK commercial ships as well Member of the Supreme Political Council of Yemen Muhammad Al-Buhaiti: "Previously, we focused only on maritime shipping associated with the Zionist entity.…

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Arnaud Bertrand

@RnaudBertrand

3 months

Whatever your position is, just take a moment to reflect on just how dark this is. Just hours after the ICJ concluded that Israel was plausibly committing genocide and ordered it to dramatically step up humanitarian efforts, 7 Western countries sanctioned... not Israel but the…

Middle East Eye

@MiddleEastEye

3 months

The following 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 have suspended Unrwa funding based on Israeli claims that 12 of the agency's 30,000 employees took part in Hamas attacks: 🇺🇸 US 🇨🇦 Canada 🇬🇧 UK 🇫🇮 Finland 🇦🇺 Australia 🇮🇹 Italy 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇳🇴 Norway and 🇮🇪 Ireland said they would…

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3 months

Israel shot and killed a 17 year old American citizen - Tawfiq Ajaq - in the West Bank a mere 2 weeks ago... 🤷‍♂️

The Associated Press

@AP

3 months

BREAKING: President Biden warns, "If you harm an American, we will respond" after U.S. strikes Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria.

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Arnaud Bertrand

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4 months

Wonderful example of Streisand effect: because mainstream media in the West by and large egregiously did not to cover South Africa's arguments against Israel at the ICJ, you now have actors of the most popular show in the world reading it out in a viral video!

In Context

@incontextmedia

4 months

Game of Thrones stars and other actors read South Africa's case file charging Israel with genocide at the #ICJ

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Arnaud Bertrand

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4 months

You can only mine a university like this if it's not an active fighting zone, otherwise you'd bomb it. Meaning destroying the university wasn't done to hunt Hamas fighters there but instead as part of an effort to destroy Gazan civil society, presumably to prevent the eventual…

Nicola Perugini

@PeruginiNic

4 months

The Israeli military just blew up the University of Palestine in Gaza City with 315 mines. All the universities in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed. We need a full academic boycott.

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Arnaud Bertrand

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We have a saying in France (we know a fair bit about protests and strikes 😏) that when students massively rally around a protest movement, it's over: it's a sign it's going to be successful. Because students bring a level of energy, creativity and mobilisation that no other…

BreakThrough News

@BTnewsroom

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BREAKING: NYU students have begun their Gaza Solidarity Encampment

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Arnaud Bertrand

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3 months

Wow, Lula isn't mincing words. Here's the translation: "What's happening in Gaza isn't a war, it's a genocide. It's not a war of soldiers against soldiers. It's a war between a highly trained army and women and children. What's happening in Gaza and with…

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Arnaud Bertrand

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2 months

"This legislation, if signed into law, WILL lead to a ban of TikTok in the United States". Meaning they will not sell. Good! Never bow down to bullies, never yield to extortion, which is what this is.

TikTok Policy

@TikTokPolicy

2 months

Our CEO Shou Chew's response to the TikTok ban bill:

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@RnaudBertrand

2 years

8 years after this Onion article turns into an actual one in Foreign Policy magazine 🤣

Foreign Policy

@ForeignPolicy

2 years

China wants to avoid doing anything that would interrupt the process of U.S. decline.

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2 months

Extraordinary video of the Irish PM lecturing Biden to his face - Biden who loves reminding people he's Irish! - on why "the Irish people are deeply troubled about [Gaza]" and why "the Irish have such empathy for the Palestinian people". The Irish PM…

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Arnaud Bertrand

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4 months

It's the early 2,000s all over again: shameless islamophobia in the midst of a massacre of Muslims 🤢

Bill Maher

@billmaher

4 months

😉 #FashionFriday !

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Arnaud Bertrand

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4 months

Amazed that Yemen and South Africa are the only 2 countries in the world doing anything concrete to end an ongoing crime against humanity - which everyone with a moral compass recognizes as such. A clear sign we're in a new era, where claims of any moral high ground by the West…

Ryan Grim

@ryangrim

4 months

The de facto Yemeni government has announced they are fulfilling their obligations under Article 1 of the convention on the prevention of genocide. They say that the blockade of Israeli-bound ships in the Red Sea will end when the attempted genocide ends

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Arnaud Bertrand

@RnaudBertrand

3 months

And right after saying this he voted to cut funding for UNRWA and deliver more arms to Israel. True story, not the onion.

Senator Chris Van Hollen

@ChrisVanHollen

3 months

By all accounts, the situation in Gaza has gone from a nightmare to pure hell. I'm on the Senate floor NOW to discuss the urgent need for the Biden Admin to hold the Netanyahu government accountable & get critical humanitarian assistance into Gaza:

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Arnaud Bertrand

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3 months

Powerful words by 102 years old philosopher Edgar Morin, one of France's most revered intellectual figures, as well as a Jewish WW2 resistant who fought as a lieutenant in De Gaulle's France combattante. Here are his words on Gaza: "I am both astonished…

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Arnaud Bertrand

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3 months

I rarely praise the Guardian but this is a extraordinary visual investigation of the sheer level of destruction in Gaza: Absolutely crystal clear when you look through it that the objective is to render the place utterly inhabitable, and destroy…

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Arnaud Bertrand

@RnaudBertrand

5 months

And the massacre resumes 🤢 The world is completely failing the Palestinians.

The Spectator Index

@spectatorindex

5 months

BREAKING: Israeli jets are striking targets in Gaza

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Arnaud Bertrand

@RnaudBertrand

4 months

"They plunder, they slaughter, and they steal: this they falsely name Empire, and where they make a wasteland, they call it peace." Tacitus

Yam Peleg

@Yampeleg

4 months

Gaza City has fallen. It is over. Exactly 3 month after October 7.

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Arnaud Bertrand

@RnaudBertrand

2 months

This is an immensely satisfying must-watch: extraordinary rebuke of Scholtz by Malaysia's Prime Minister, while standing right next to him. "You cannot find a solution by being so one-sided, in terms of looking only at one particular issue and erase 60…

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Arnaud Bertrand

@RnaudBertrand

4 months

Nothing says "we respect international law" like forbidding access to the United Nations...

The Spectator Index

@spectatorindex

4 months

BREAKING: Israel will stop granting automatic visas to United Nations employees, says UN agencies have been 'complicit partners' in the tactics of Hamas.

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Arnaud Bertrand

@RnaudBertrand

4 months

"I want to make a few points absolutely clear: everything we've said and done since the beginning of this war is a figment of your imagination."

Prime Minister of Israel

@IsraeliPM

4 months

"I want to make a few points absolutely clear: Israel has no intention of permanently occupying Gaza or displacing its civilian population. Israel is fighting Hamas terrorists, not the Palestinian population, and we are doing so in full compliance with international law.

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Arnaud Bertrand

@RnaudBertrand

5 months

Just how bad is Gaza? A study just concluded the "civilian proportion of deaths is HIGHER THAN THAT IN ALL WORLD CONFLICTS IN 20TH CENTURY" And that's 20TH CENTURY, you know, the one with both world wars. The horror we're seeing is truly unprecedented.

Civilians make up 61% of Gaza deaths from airstrikes, Israeli study finds

Civilian proportion of deaths is higher than the average in all world conflicts in second half of 20th century, data suggests

www.theguardian.com

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Arnaud Bertrand

@RnaudBertrand

6 months

Come on, how much proof do you need the objective is ethnic cleansing here? They're literally saying it.

The Spectator Index

@spectatorindex

6 months

BREAKING: Israel's finance minister says the voluntary migration of the people of Gaza to the countries of the world is 'the humanitarian solution'

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Arnaud Bertrand

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3 months

As a father of two daughters that are about Hind Rajab's age, her story hit me particularly hard. I cannot begin to imagine the distress she went through in her last moments, highlighting the complete absence of humanity in what Israel inflicts on the Palestinians. At 6 years…

Al Jazeera English

@AJEnglish

3 months

The body of six-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab has been found decomposing in the car where her family were killed by Israeli gunfire in Gaza City. A few metres away, the ambulance sent to rescue Hind was burnt out with the remains of two medics inside ⤵️

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4 months

Israel: "Our aim is to literally get rid of the entire population in Gaza who are all human animals" South Africa: "Israel's aim is clearly genocide" The US: "South Africa's claim is completely without any basis in fact whatsoever"

Prem Thakker

@prem_thakker

4 months

White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby calls South Africa’s 84-page suit accusing Israel of genocide “meritless, counterproductive, and completely without any basis in fact whatsoever.”

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Arnaud Bertrand

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5 months

This is quite satisfying: the Israeli ambassador to the UN officially reprimanded by China (who assumes the rotating presidency of the UN security council) as he was going on a nasty tirade against UN women. "Please show some respect at least".

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Arnaud Bertrand

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3 months

We're at a stage where CNN is literally complaining that there is too much freedom of speech in China.

Chen Weihua （陈卫华）

@chenweihua

3 months

CNN reporter criticizes Chinese netizens for their strong criticism of Israeli military actions in Gaza, which killed 25,000 civilians including more than 10,000 children. Is this CNN’s official endorsement of the Gaza atrocities????? We know U.S. provided all the bombs dropped…

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16 days

"Our veto against Palestinian statehood does not reflect opposition to Palestinian statehood" When you go full Orwellian doublespeak.

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5 months

Anyone who knows the International Committee of the Red Cross knows that their official policy is to never speak out () Which is why such a statement by the ICRC president is so exceptional, and why you should listen. Here's what she says: "The things I…

Confidentiality Q&A

In a world of social media, is confidentiality even relevant today?

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Mirjana Spoljaric (Archive)

@ICRCPresident

5 months

My message from Gaza today:

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Arnaud Bertrand

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3 months

The most insane thing about TikTok - which most people do not realize - is that the way it works in the U.S. is entirely down to U.S. legislators, but they somehow prefer to blame China for not regulating the app in their own country, which is beyond absurd. China has their own…

Justin Baragona

@justinbaragona

3 months

Tom Cotton: "Have you ever been a member of the Chinese Communist Party?" TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew: "Senator, I'm Singaporean. No!" Cotton: "Have you ever been associated or affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party?" Chew: "No, Senator. Again, I'm Singaporean!"

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Arnaud Bertrand

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1 month

There is no overstating just how absolutely insane this is. There is no precedent - NONE - of a state deliberately bombing an embassy. It didn't even happen during WW1, WW2 or even the 19th century. Heck even during the medieval era and Roman empire, the protection of envoys and…

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Arnaud Bertrand

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5 months

You couldn't make it up: this guy harassing Muslim cart vendors and asking “Did you rape your daughter like Muhammad did?”, or saying that killing 4,000 Palestinian children “wasn’t enough”... is Stuart Seldowitz, a senior American diplomat. He was acting director for the…

Layla 🪬

@itslaylas

6 months

This man wearing a green jacket was berating and harassing a halal cart vendor off 83rd and 2nd Ave in NYC. Does anyone know who this man is? Planning to report to the authorities.

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Arnaud Bertrand

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3 months

Biden: those who "supply the weapons to the people who do it" should be "held responsible". Well, well! 🤔

CSPAN

@cspan

3 months

President Biden on Iran: "I do hold them responsible in a sense that they're supplying the weapons to the people who did it...I don't think we need a wider war in the Middle East. That's not what I'm looking for."

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5 months

It is absolutely extraordinary to me that the US would rather 1) completely obliterate whatever remained of its moral standing in the world, 2) risk a regional conflict and 3) cause economic pain to itself and the world... rather than use its leverage to tell a very tiny country…

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III

@SecDef

5 months

The United States will remain deeply committed to the security and self-defense of the State of Israel. Let me be clear: our support for Israel’s security remains unshakeable. And it always will be.

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3 months

I really wonder where's the media firestorm over this, this is a scandal of humongous proportions. Literally cutting humanitarian assistance to a people dying of hunger, whom the International Court of Justice just said are plausibly being genocided. If we become numb to our…

Quds News Network

@QudsNen

3 months

BREAKING| The European Commission says it will suspend funding to UNRWA until the end of February over Israel's allegations against the agency.

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WOW, this might be THE most important piece of journalism on the war on Gaza since it began, by Israeli newspaper @972mag : Essentially they confirm, with unimpeachable sourcing, that the killing of civilians was all calculated and intentional. Their…

‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza

Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an AI system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza.

www.972mag.com

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3 months

"We're not at war with the Houthis, we're just bombing them" 🤦‍♂️ It's getting worse and worse: every single American official seems to be in complete post-truth delirium.

Ken Klippenstein

@kenklippenstein

3 months

Pentagon Press Secretary today: "Our focus when it comes to striking Houthis targets is to disrupt and degrade their capabilities. We don't seek an escalation with the Houthis. We're not at war with the Houthis."

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This is quite extraordinary: This is Ma Xinmin, China's Foreign Ministry's legal adviser, speaking on behalf of China, saying at the ICJ today that Israel is a colonizer and that the Palestinians have a right to resistance under international law,…

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Arnaud Bertrand

@RnaudBertrand

3 months

Israel is fast approaching the stage where it'll say that hostages and their families are Hamas.

Barak Ravid

@BarakRavid

3 months

Netanyahu criticized today the families of the hostages and said their protest strengthens Hamas

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1 month

"We are shocked and saddened and solemnly ask the murderers to investigate themselves for any wrongdoing"

ITV News Politics

@ITVNewsPolitics

1 month

The PM is 'shocked and saddened' by the deaths of British aid workers in an apparent Israeli airstrike in Gaza He said the UK is asking Israel to investigate as 'there are questions that need to be answered' but stopped short of saying international humanitarian law was breached

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Arnaud Bertrand

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6 months

Absolutely masterful interview on Gaza of Dominique De Villepin, former Prime Minister of France, who famously led France's opposition to the Iraq war and who, IMHO is the best diplomat the West has produced in decades. This is so important, so incredibly well argued, that I…

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Arnaud Bertrand

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5 months

China couldn't have put it better in its response to the US veto at the UN: "Condoning the continuation of fighting while claiming to care about the lives and safety of people in Gaza is self-contradictory. Condoning the continuation of fighting while…

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Arnaud Bertrand

@RnaudBertrand

10 months

Something China can legitimately be very proud of. No-one at the time believed they'd manage to reduce pollution so dramatically and so fast.

Hua Chunying 华春莹

@SpokespersonCHN

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Arnaud Bertrand

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2 months

She didn't call for an immediate ceasefire, this should be community noted. She called for a 6 weeks pause of the genocide, which is essentially calling for it to continue. This is NOT a display of political courage, it's a display of immense cowardice.

MSNBC

@MSNBC

2 months

Vice President Kamala Harris calls for "an immediate ceasefire" in the Israel-Hamas war during a speech in Selma, Alabama.

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1 month

Unreal. The government she represents is currently sponsoring a genocide and she reacts like a bored Walmart employee handling a customer complaint when questioned about it...

Ryan Grim

@ryangrim

1 month

Still have not been able to process this on a political level, professional level, human level, any level

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16 days

One day that smirk will feature prominently in historical documentaries on the unique evils of our age

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5 months

This is a very telling sign that this operation IS NOT mainly about hunting Hamas. Because as Muhammad rightly points out, if the explosives were planted in person it means there was little security risk there: the soldiers felt safe enough to wonder around the buildings to place…

Muhammad Shehada

@muhammadshehad2

5 months

🚨Israel blows up the Medical Faculty of the IUG to the south of Gaza city. This was NOT an airstrike, but explosives that soldiers planted in person there; meaning the buildings constituted ZERO security risk! Israel has detained & killed several doctors since Oct 7 (1/2)

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Arnaud Bertrand

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Only 1 vote against Palestinian statehood at the UN Security Council: the United States. But the US has veto power, which means it doesn't pass. If that doesn't convince you of the extreme unfairness of the veto system, I don't know what will.

UN News

@UN_News_Centre

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#BREAKING United States vetoes Security Council resolution recommending observer State of Palestine be granted full United Nations membership Result of the vote: IN FAVOR: 12 AGAINST: 1 ABSTAIN: 2

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They don't know who blew up Nordstream after 1.5 years and they reply to all atrocity accusations towards Israel that an investigation must take place to understand who's guilty... ...but within less than 24h they know with absolute certainty who's "solely responsible" for this.

Sky News

@SkyNews

1 month

BREAKING: The US National Security Council says the Islamic State bears 'sole responsibility' for the attack on the Moscow concert hall and Ukraine had 'no involvement' Latest: 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

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Arnaud Bertrand

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People often say that China is not very good in soft power but this is an example of something that they unarguably do much better that the West: treating all countries, no matter how small (we're talking Micronesia here, about 100k inhabitants), the same when their leaders visit…

Chunyu 春雨

@Chunyu_China

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Xi Jinping held a ceremony to welcome the President of the Federated States of Micronesia to visit China. 习近平举行仪式欢迎密克罗尼西亚联邦总统访华。

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Looks like Saudi Arabia just signed the death warrant of the Biden administration's efforts to normalize their relations with Israel (which many say was a key cause behind Oct 7): "[We've] communicated [our] firm position to the US administration that there will be no diplomatic…

Foreign Ministry 🇸🇦

@KSAmofaEN

3 months

A Statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the discussions between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States of America on the Arab-Israeli peace process.

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Arnaud Bertrand

@RnaudBertrand

30 days

Which means they were in fact blocking aid...

Barak Ravid

@BarakRavid

30 days

BREAKING: The Israeli security cabinet approved the opening of the Erez crossing with the Gaza strip for the first time since October 7 in order to allow more humanitarian aid to go in, Israeli official said

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This sentence by Kirby will go down in history books: " [We] have not found [that] the Israelis have violated international humanitarian law". Probably exhibit 1 in the book "Demise of the American Empire", chapter "Gaslighting and Collapse of Morality".

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Arnaud Bertrand

@RnaudBertrand

5 months

"I cannot tell you the extent of popular anger, and resentment, and rage against the United States"

Christiane Amanpour

@amanpour

5 months

U.S. policymakers "don't have the guts and the moral courage" to stand up to the Israeli govt, says top Middle East watcher @FawazGerges . “I really have no trust in American foreign policy anymore,” he tells me.

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This takes gaslighting to a whole new level: thanking Christians for their support and "sharing our common values" whilst in the same breath spreading a message of hatred and quite literally massacring children in the land of Jesus (on Christmas night he killed another 70 people…

Prime Minister of Israel

@IsraeliPM

4 months

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: To our Christian friends around the world, Merry Christmas. Christmas is supposed to be a time of good will to all men & peace on Earth. Well, we don't have peace on Earth, not in our part anyway & we certainly don't see good will to all men.

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4 months

In just world this man should receive ALL of the world's journalism awards by default for the next decade.

Dima Khatib

@Dima_Khatib

4 months

His nickname in Arabic: the mountain (Al Jabal). Calm and strong, Wael Dahdouh, live from Gaza, after burying his eldest son, Hamza, killed in an Israeli strike. Wael had lost members of his family, including wife, 2 kids and grandchild earlier. He himself got injured too. Jabal

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Arnaud Bertrand

@RnaudBertrand

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There you go, Germany being sued in The Hague for complicity in genocide. The truly puzzling thing is how they just can't seem to learn. I've seen so many Germans on here write "we're Germans, we know a thing or two about genocides and Gaza ain't one." As if Germans were somehow…

CIJ_ICJ

@CIJ_ICJ

2 months

PRESS RELEASE: #Nicaragua institutes proceedings against #Germany and asks the #ICJ to indicate provisional measures

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Imagine starving a whole people and then demonizing them for rushing in despair towards rare food trucks coming in... How could the IDF release this and not see this is yet another clear proof of the complete inhumanity of what they're inflicting on Gazans?

i24NEWS English

@i24NEWS_EN

2 months

🔴 IDF released aerial footage showing how a Palestinian crowd in northern #Gaza attacked the trucks bringing humanitarian aid and as a result, dozens died from overcrowding, and trampling

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18 years old conscientious objector in Israel, who refuses to join the army and will go to prison because of this: "My refusal is an attempt to influence Israeli society, and is intended to avoid taking part in the occupation and the massacre happening in Gaza. I am trying to…

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@mekomit

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"הסירוב שלי מנסה להשפיע על החברה הישראלית, ונועד להימנע מלקחת חלק בכיבוש ובטבח שקורה בעזה. אני מנסה לומר שזה לא בשמי. אני לא מסכים שייהרגו אנשים בשמי. זה לא בשם הביטחון שלי". אורן זיו בראיון עם טל מיטניק, בן 18, שצפוי להיכנס לכלא בימים הקרובים.

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@RnaudBertrand

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Useful reminder to those complaining about refugees in Europe: if you want less refugees, your main enemy is the US Military Industrial Complex.

The Costs of War Project

@CostsOfWar

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The U.S. post-9/11 wars have displaced at least 38 million people. This exceeds those displaced by every war since 1900, except for World War II.

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This is undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary interviews of a former senior US government official on Gaza. This is Chas Freeman, former Assistant Secretary of Defense and former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Key points in the video: - He agrees that many of the victims…

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@RnaudBertrand

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The Guardian confirms @972mag investigation that the IDF uses AI to generate bombing targets in Gaza at an unprecedented rate, powering a “mass assassination factory” in which the “emphasis is on quantity and not on quality”. It's probably the most…

‘The Gospel’: how Israel uses AI to select bombing targets in Gaza

Concerns over data-driven ‘factory’ that significantly increases the number of targets for strikes in the Palestinian territory

www.theguardian.com

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@RnaudBertrand

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You've frankly got to marvel at the West's (utter lack of) strategy in the red sea. The US and the UK managed to get their ships banned from the red sea passage after their bombing campaign. Meanwhile China, unaffected by the ban, is quite logically redeploying its ships to…

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What a disgusting answer to those 5 babies left to rot (literally) in Al-Nasr hospital, fact which he doesn't dispute but justifies by saying that "Hamas should stop hiding its fighters in hospitals". And he says this with a smirk on his face 🤢 In this particular case that…

Said Arikat

@SMArikat

5 months

My exchange with State Department Spokesman concerning the question “Is pulling the plug on baby-incubators a war crime?”.

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You keep seeing videos like this by IDF soldiers. No other army does this, for obvious reasons: it makes the army look like a group of unprofessional thugs. This either means one of two things: 1) discipline has completely broken in the Israeli army, the leadership doesn't want…

Middle East Eye

@MiddleEastEye

4 months

British-born Israeli soldier Levi Simon recorded a video of him searching Gaza homes for supposed weapons, claiming to find money instead. He then proceeds to rummage through personal belongings making derogatory comments about drawers filled with lingerie and nightwear

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@RnaudBertrand

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When masked paramilitary police starts to arrest eminent university professors on campus ground for defending positions like "thou shalt not mass murder children", maybe you should start questioning a thing or two about what your society has become...

Patrick Quinn

@PatrickQuinnTV

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WATCH: Among those arrested today were Noelle McAfee, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Emory University. I’ve asked for a comment from Emory on this arrest, no word yet. This video provided to us by an #Emory PHD student. You can hear him in this video. @ATLNewsFirst

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@RnaudBertrand

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This is a picture of a society that has completely lost touch with morality (and probably reality). Terrifying stuff. Which should really be studied in depth because it can easily happen elsewhere too. When you start completely dehumanizing a given group of people and live in an…

Mouin Rabbani

@MouinRabbani

5 months

“57.5% of Israeli Jews said that they believed the IDF was using too little firepower in Gaza, 36.6% said the IDF was using an appropriate amount of firepower, while just 1.8% said they believed the IDF was using too much fire power”

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@RnaudBertrand

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My favorite Kissinger video was when he introduced his wife to Mao, who got his mind absolutely blown by the height difference 😅

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@RnaudBertrand

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This is huge: Top Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth confirms Israel used the "Hannibal directive" on Oct 7th, which calls to kill Israeli hostages along with their captors. This is the exact quote from the paper: "At midnight on October 7, the IDF…

ההוראה: למנוע ממחבלים לחזור לעזה "בכל מחיר", גם אם יש איתם חטופים

תחקיר הכאוס בשעות הראשונות של 7 באוקטובר: פקודות מבולבלות, טייסים שלא היה מי שינחה אותם לתקוף מחבלים, והוראה לירות בכל כלי הרכב שחוזרים לעזה – למרות החשש שיש בהם חטופים. התחקיר המלא, שמשרטט דקה אחר...

www.ynet.co.il

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Take a moment to pounder the unreal lack of self-awareness it takes to conclude this article 👇 with these words: "a powerful but troubled China is heading in a bad direction. It will take all the strength and sobriety the United States and its friends can muster to prevent a…

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Probably the most consequential effect of the current Israeli-Palestinian war is that it's making it crystal clear to the entire planet who between the West and the rest has more moral authority. And it ain't the West... It matters, A LOT. At the end of the day political…

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@sahouraxo

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Brazil’s President Lula da Silva on Gaza: “This is not a war. This is a genocide.”

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@RnaudBertrand

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Absolutely unreal. The US is begging China to bail them out of the mess they put themselves in with Yemen. Beijing's response (as per the article): that "the Red Sea tension is a 'spillover' from the Gaza conflict, which should be ended as soon as possible". Damn right! The…

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@RnaudBertrand

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Emmanuel Todd, widely recognized as one of the greatest living French intellectuals, says the best thing that could happen to Europe is "the disappearance of the US": "Once the United States agree to withdraw from their empire, from Eurasia and all these regions where they…

BFMTV

@BFMTV

4 months

Emmanuel Todd: "La meilleure chose qui pourrait arriver à l'Europe, c'est la disparition des États-Unis"

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@RnaudBertrand

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Belgium was one of the rare EU countries to unequivocally support international law and the ICJ, and that didn't cut UNRWA funding. Look what just happened to their building in Gaza...

Caroline Gennez

@carogennez

3 months

The office building of @Enabel , the Belgian Agency for Development Cooperation, in #Gaza has been bombed and is completely destroyed. Attacking civilian buildings is and remains totally unacceptable. Together with @hadjalahbib , I will summon the Israeli ambassador.

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Arnaud Bertrand

@RnaudBertrand

4 months

Today I learned there was a correct munition to drop on refugee camps 😏

Sky News

@SkyNews

4 months

"A mistake was made." Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy says an "incorrect munition" was used on a refugee camp in central Gaza which killed at least 68 Palestinians, including women and children. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233, YouTube

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@RnaudBertrand

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Almost 42% of children. Again: almost 42% of children!!! If that doesn't revulse you and convince you this has to stop NOW and forever, you have COMPLETELY lost the plot. It's unjustifiable and undefendable. Eternal shame on those who attempt to defend, enable or support this.

The Spectator Index

@spectatorindex

5 months

BREAKING: Gaza government office says death toll has risen to 14,854, including over 6,150 children.

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@RnaudBertrand

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This is extraordinary, the US-led world order is well and truly behind us... What did Blinken say just 2 days ago? "In 2023 the world looked to the US to lead and we did". Well even Europe is now "nope, no thank you!" When I said Israel was a weapon of mass destruction for the…

DD Geopolitics

@DD_Geopolitics

4 months

CONFIRMED: Operation Prosperity Guardian falls apart as France, Spain and Italy withdraw, refusing to put their warships under U.S. command

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@RnaudBertrand

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This is without a doubt one of the most important pieces of reporting on Gaza, and by far one of the most disturbing: All by Israeli journalist @yuval_abraham based on whistleblower accounts from within the IDF and intelligence agencies. Israel has…

‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza

The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local...

www.972mag.com

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@RnaudBertrand

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This is incredible. Rob Oliphant, whose job is to defend Canada's foreign policy in Parliament, got recorded in a private phone call admitting how disgusting Canada's de-funding of UNRWA is, and that he does believe Israel is committing genocide. Here…

Key Liberal MP rips his government's policy on Gaza war in private call with constituent | CBC News

A leaked recording of a phone call between a Liberal MP and a constituent reveals how deep the divisions run in the government caucus over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's handling of the war in Gaza,...

www.cbc.ca

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@RnaudBertrand

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That's actually a stunningly antisemitic statement because it literally means that Jews around the world are protected by Israel and not the country they're citizens of, perpetuating the notion that Jewish citizens ought to be more loyal to Israel than their own nation (this…

The Post Millennial

@TPostMillennial

5 months

Biden: "Were there no Israel, there wouldn't be a Jew in the world who was safe."

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@RnaudBertrand

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Incredible testimony from a former Israeli hostage in Gaza: "the first time we really felt like our lives were in danger" was from Israeli bombings, at which point "Hamas guards covered us with their bodies to protect us from our own forces’ shooting."

‘We were constantly in terror’: Israeli hostage tells of captivity in Gaza

Taken from her home on 7 October with three of her children, Chen Almog-Goldstein recalls being held captive by Hamas

www.theguardian.com

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@RnaudBertrand

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This will be interesting: China - one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - calls for full membership for Palestine at the UN. The question is: will the US, also one of the five, veto it? This will test their sincerity with regards to actually wanting a…

The Spectator Index

@spectatorindex

3 months

BREAKING: China's ambassador to the UN says it 'high time to implement the two-state solution with concrete steps' and calls for 'full membership for Palestine in the UN'

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@RnaudBertrand

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Such unabashed savagery, with the execution of an unarmed 51-year old man waving a white flag in front of his family and a British TV crew. He was trying to help his mother and brother evacuate from an area they were told to leave by the IDF. Literally no other army in the world…

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@RnaudBertrand

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Netanyahu: "For 30 years I've worked to prevent the 2-state solution, our goal with the war is an Israel from the river to the sea" Biden: "We can make it work, Netanyahu is not opposed to all 2-state solutions" Netanyahu: "No, really, Biden is wrong, not going to happen"

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Irony is well and truly dead. Israel accuses Iran of “a flagrant violation of international law”. Which is not even true by the way. Iran had a right of self defense following article 51 of the UN Charter after the Israeli strike on its consulate. They…

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@RnaudBertrand

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This is a speech for the ages by the Chinese UN ambassador, he's certainly not holding back: "As we speak the situation in the Middle-East is on the verge of extreme peril. Easing tensions and preventing the escalation of conflict are pressing tasks facing the international…

Decensored News

@decensorednews

3 months

NEW: China tells UN Security Council that the recent US airstrikes “constitute a grave violation of the sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity of Syria and Iraq.” 🇨🇳🇺🇳 “The situation in the Middle East is on the verge of extreme peril...” “Who is creating threats,…

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@RnaudBertrand

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This is what real political courage looks like: Israeli member of the Knesset Ofer Cassif joins the lawsuit against Israel at the ICJ in the Hague. Here is what he wrote to explain his decision: "My constitutional duty is to Israeli society and all its residents, not to a…

The Jerusalem Post

@Jerusalem_Post

4 months

MK Ofer Cassif joins lawsuit against Israel in the ICJ

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@RnaudBertrand

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France is simply not a serious country anymore. Our new Prime Minister - Gabriel Attal - is 34 years old. Here's his CV: - Went to one of the poshest high schools in Paris (École Alsacienne) - Graduated university (Sciences Po) in Paris in 2012 with a Master of Public Affairs -…

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@RnaudBertrand

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That's not quite true, the US has already changed its approach since the ICJ ruling: it's decided to make Palestinians suffer even more by cutting funding to UNWRA, one of their main lifeline 😓

Prem Thakker

@prem_thakker

3 months

John Kirby says "it's hard to see" the ICJ ruling changing US approach to Israel's war on Gaza. "The President believes the approach we have been taking has been getting results." The Biden administration has sent Israel $254 million of weapons. 26,000+ people have been killed.

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@RnaudBertrand

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This is IMMENSELY significant. And confirms Gaza could well prove to be the US's Suez crisis moment. To "formulate an international action to stop the war on Gaza", Arab-Islamic Foreign Ministers represented by Saudi Arabia say "the first stop will be China" 👇 In other words…

Foreign Ministry 🇸🇦

@KSAmofaEN

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Foreign Minister HH Prince @FaisalbinFarhan announces the start of the work of the ministerial committee in charge of the Arab-Islamic summit concerned with formulating an international action to stop the war on Gaza and the first stop is China.

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Unbelievable. Stéphane Séjourné, France's new minister of foreign affairs, essentially said that France wouldn't support the ICJ's decision if it rule against Israel because accusing them of genocide is "crossing a moral threshold" and is "exploiting the notion of genocide for…

LCP

@LCP

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"Accuser l'État juif de génocide, c'est franchir un seuil moral", répond @steph_sejourne à @Deputee_Obono . "Nous n'avons pas de leçons à recevoir de votre parti ; vous n'êtes pas au clair, ni sur le Hamas, ni sur Gaza." #DirectAN #QAG

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The Pope says "it is terrorism" when commenting on the IDF's murder of a mother and her daughter in a church in Gaza, and the shelling of an adjoining convent harboring disabled people.

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@RnaudBertrand

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This is one of Israel's leading playwright Motti Lerner: "I can't understand our indifference, our complacency. Do I want to be a citizen of a country that kills 11,000 children in my name? To protect me? Have we gone crazy?" More Israelis should follow…

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@RnaudBertrand

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For a benchmark, China installed highspeed rail in Indonesia, connecting Jakarta and Bandung (143km) at a speed of 350km/h, for a total cost of $7.3 billion. The line had 2 million passengers in the last 4 months. The American people are getting absolutely fleeced with this.…

kcranews

@kcranews

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California bullet train project needs another $100 billion to complete route from San Francisco to Los Angeles | Click on the image to read the full story

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@RnaudBertrand

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This is beyond disgusting and a blatantly obvious violation of the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners. And the worst is that they don't even hide it: degrading treatment and torture of prisoners on prime time TV 🤢

B.M.

@ireallyhateyou

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🧵More prisoner abuse, snuff-like propaganda, on Israeli TV, this time on mainstream Channel 13. Palestinian detainees in dark cells, with no mattresses, no clean clothes, cuffed legs, cuffed to each other 24/7, Hebrew music playing loud non-stop. Full piece in the thread below.

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@RnaudBertrand

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I dare anyone intellectually honest to find a single lie in this UN speech by Iran. I personally couldn't. By contrast you have countries like the US, UK, France and Germany calling their attack "unjustifiable and highly irresponsible" (in the German Chancellor's words), which…

COMBATE |🇵🇷

@upholdreality

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🇮🇷 Iran at the UN: "Iran has warned time and again about the consequences of the malicious activities of the regime on regional and international peace and security. Iran has exercised maximum restraint. Now it is time for the occupying regime to bear full responsibility for its…

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@RnaudBertrand

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France's spokesperson confirms that the French justice system is free to prosecute French nationals who went to fight for the IDF in Gaza if they were involved in war crimes. Reminder that France is the 2nd largest origin country for foreign IDF soldiers after the US.

Tema l'info👀

@Tema_Linfo

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🚨💥 #Gaza : Paris annonce que la justice française est compétente pour entamer des poursuites judiciaires contre des soldats 🇫🇷/🇮🇱 pouvant être impliqués dans des crimes de guerre. La question posée par @Meriem_Laribi à l'Elysée est ici reprise par @donmezumit au quai d'Orsay :

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Nordstream was unequivocally the largest act of war against the EU since its founding, with devastating consequences for its energy security and Europeans' prosperity. So naturally we choose to stay silent on who did it 🤦 It's obvious why. The perpetrator is almost certainly…

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