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🇬🇧 ✍ ‣ Senior Fellow @RUSI_org ‣ Scholar @CarnegieEndow ‣ ex- @BrookingsInst @AtlanticCouncil ‣ MENA ◘ Europe ◘ SE-Asia ‣ security studies ◘ politics ‣ 8 books
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This has nothing to do with fighting Hamas - this is simply aimed at ensuring the residents of these homes do not return.
And so it begins…footage reportedly showing IDF demolishing Palestinian homes in northern Gaza.
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Haaretz's rather explosive expose on how Netanyahu has intervened to foil negotiations multiple times since last year. One has to wonder what else happened that has not been reported.
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Let's be clear; both Jordan (especially) and Egypt host scores of refugees presently. This is not about rejecting the notion of refugees from Gaza as refugees. Rather, the (legitimate) concern is that this would be a permanent resettlement, as Israel would not let them back.
Jordanian King Abdullah II says that neither his country nor Egypt will accept Palestinian refugees, declaring it a “red line.”...“There will be no refugees in Jordan and no refugees in Egypt.”
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I was the deputy convenor of HMG's taskforce on tackling radicalisation, before the Conservatives came in.
It was shocking they redirected attention *away* from the far-right, when it was clear this was the fastest growing threat.
Many of us said so.
We were ignored.
A reminder that the last Conservative Government published a review just last year claiming that there had been "too much focus" on tackling threats from the far-right.
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"Israel has illegally occupied sovereign Palestinian territory. Netanyahu is not in any position to dictate to Palestinians what they must do to bring about a peace." - no-one in the US administration, despite that occupation (which DC recognises as such) entering its 58th year.
"Putin has illegally occupied sovereign Ukrainian territory. He is not in any position to dictate to Ukraine what they must do to bring about a peace." - U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III
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Oh, no: what happened to hummus is now happening to the bisht...
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In the years to come, we will come to regret answering questions about universal rights and international law like this. Because they will be used as evidence that such rights are not universal, and that it isn't law, but a hobby.
“Do you think cutting off food, water and electricity is within international law?”
Labour’s shadow attorney general
@EmilyThornberry
is asked on
#newsnight
. Her answer;
“I think that Israel has an absolute right to defend itself against terrorists”
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If any similar statement was issued calling on 'people of Jewish origin' to 'clearly distance themselves' from 'Islamophobia' and 'literally anything that Israel does', it would be rightly and roundly denounced as anti-semitism. This is an appalling statement.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has called on people of Arab origin in Germany to clearly distance themselves from antisemitism and the militant group Hamas that runs the Gaza Strip.
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Personally, the last place I will stop wearing a mask will be on flights. Not just for COVID, but for all sorts of viruses. Safer for everyone all around.
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This is frankly extraordinary. If US leverage over Israel cannot ever be used, because it would 'conflate the Israeli government with the Israeli people', then the US should never use any leverage with any state. The US has used this aid as leverage before, and should do so now.
💥CBS: "Are the Israelis at risk of losing US aid if this continues?"
VP KAMALA HARRIS: "I think its important for us to distinguish or at least not conflate the Israeli government with the Israeli people."
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This is a deeply bigoted interview. Shameful. Just shameful.
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This is utterly ridiculous. The book is an academic text book. Students worldwide read it. I have a book coming out entitled "Extremism" - it's also not a how-to book. What kind of absurd universe have we entered, simply to justify these crackdowns?
Dep. Commissioner Daughtry says he found "a book on terrorism" at Columbia. (The book is not a how-to book, but a history written by a renowned British historian.)
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If we saw similar comments about a Jewish BBC presenter, it would be correctly condemned. Blatant and unrepentant anti-Muslim bigotry/Islamophobia (from the former editor of the Sun) here, but he is often invited onto mainstream British TV talk-shows. Shameful.
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If this were the case anywhere else, we'd probably hear condemnation from the US State Department
JUST IN: NBC News reports that nearly 3,000 arrests have been made across the US in recent university protests
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It is good the quiet part is being spoken out loud. Israel's allies in DC, London and Europe need to take all this into account: we have a far-right government in Israel that rejects any scenario other than Palestinians being ethnically cleansed, or being subjected to apartheid.
BREAKING: Israeli ambassador
@TzipiHotovely
rejects the idea of a two-state solution
"The answer is absolutely no", she says.
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This is extraordinary. The US State Department just declared Israel has the right to engage in extra judicial killings, without even the pretence of due process? (This wasn't a counter-terrorism operation, and the video shows as such, as does the statements of Israeli officials.)
Asked if an Israeli operation—where forces wore disguises and entered a West Bank hospital to carry out killings/executions—is the appropriate conduct for a state, StateSpox Miller says:
“We think it is appropriate that they have the ability to bring members of Hamas to justice”
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The UK Defence Secretary says it's feasible & acceptable for 1.1 million people to move from the north of Gaza to the south within 24 hours. These statements will be used every time the UK exhorts the world to follow international law, as evidence that we not uphold it ourselves.
Palestinians have been ordered to move to the south of Gaza in the next 24 hours by Israel's military.
'Is that a feasible, acceptable thing to ask?', Sky's
@markaustintv
asks Defence Secretary
@grantshapps
MP.
Report ➡️
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This is an Israeli senior minister of state speaking about Palestinians with Israeli citizenship. With this sort of rhetoric from the highest levels of state, what are we to think is going to happen next?
“You’re here by mistake, it’s a mistake that Ben-Gurion didn’t finish the job and didn’t throw you out in 1948.”
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European far right rally, with Israeli ministerial representation. Couldn't make this up
Vox's huge far-right rally is beginning in Madrid this morning with chants of "Viva España! Viva Israel!"
Guests include Le Pen 🇫🇷, Ventura 🇵🇹, Orbán 🇭🇺, but the star of the show will be Javier Milei 🇦🇷. Also Israel's minister to combat anti-semitism is due to speak to a room
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The peculiarity of this is not that Melanie Phillips says these kinds of things - she has made many problematic statements to say the least in the past - rather, it is that institutions like the Times or the BBC continue to give her a platform, instead of querying her bigotry.
Melanie Phillips of
@thetimes
and the Jewish News Syndicate says it's a "fiction" that there are "good" Palestinians
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World Health Organization: "Evacuation orders by Israel to hospitals in northern Gaza are a death sentence for the sick and injured".
Let that sink in.
Evacuation orders by Israel to hospitals in northern Gaza are a death sentence for the sick and injured
As the
@UN
's agency responsible for public health, the World Health Organization (WHO) strongly condemns Israel's repeated orders for the evacuation of 22 hospitals treating
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This needs to be repeated again and again:
Netanyahu made it clear that the Israeli military will enter Rafah **even** if a hostage deal is reached with Hamas.
There is no Israeli partner to work with here. DC needs to come to terms with that, and engage accordingly.
BREAKING: Netanyahu says Israeli military will enter Rafah even if a hostage deal is reached with Hamas
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The Israeli press confirming what so many of us have been saying: Netanyahu is the main obstacle, to the point he overrode his **own** war cabinet that rejected the Rafah offensive. His priorities are not the hostages, but his political survival.
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If British weapons are being used in ways that are contrary to international law, then the UK is obliged to stop the transfer of arms. All of this nonsensical talk about political messages and so forth is immaterial.
'Our position is influential... so why would we not announce a ban on selling arms to Israel?'
Foreign Sec
@David_Cameron
tells Sky's
@TrevorPTweets
that announcement would 'strengthen Hamas and weaken Israel'
#TrevorPhillips
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"How Joe Biden Sabotaged the ‘Rules-Based Order’" - my latest in
@ForeignPolicy
.
"By denying that Israel has violated international humanitarian law in Gaza, Washington is discrediting itself and the order that it claims to uphold."
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We have come to the point where international human rights organisations are having to issue statements on freedom to protest... In the United States
Peaceful protest is a human right.
Freedom of speech is a human right.
Freedom of expression is a human right.
Universities should respect the right to protest.
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The status of Gaza as an occupied territory, with Israel designated as the occupier, happens to be the official stance of the UN, the US, the UK, the EU, and pretty much every international rights organisation. It's only Israel that insists on Gaza being somehow 'non-occupied'.
If you are occupying an area but you pull out your troops to the border, start a blockade and build a fence around it, trapping the population to fend for themselves, you are not lifting the occupation, you are just breaching your obligations as an occupier and thus violating IHL
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Repugnant example of how anti-Palestinian racism and anti-Muslim bigotry has infested large swathes of the left in French society: Liberation magazine publishing a cartoon mocking starving Palestinians looking for food during Ramadan
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Literally every single thing that Melanie Phillips says in this clip is incorrect. But for some reason,
#bbcqt
BBC Question Time persists in bringing her on. It does nothing for improvement to our national discussion to platform someone who is this ignorant (or worse).
A deranged rant from proud Islamophobe Melanie Phillips in which she claims Gazans aren't being starved because she's seen videos of stocked shelves on YouTube
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I daresay the Palestine protests in American universities of 2024 will go down in history as comparable to those protesting the Vietnam war and support for the anti-apartheid movement. And a lot of people will eventually be very embarrassed to say they demonised those protests.
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"Irresponsible," say the Dutch. "Unhelpful," say the Germans. With such meek language, are the Israelis wrong to think that their plans for ethnic cleansing will be met with little more than 'tsk, tsk' from certain European nations?
Recent remarks by Israeli ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir regarding Palestinian resettlement from Gaza are irresponsible. The Netherlands rejects any calls for Palestinian displacement from Gaza or reduction of Palestinian territory. 1/2
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Ahead of today's vote, a group of foreign policy and military experts, including a former chief of the UK Armed Forces, are calling on
@David_Cameron
to support an immediate ceasefire at the UN Security Council. Not doing so will equal an abdication of political and moral duty.
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The ICJ last week considered the accusation of genocide as 'plausible'.
Subsequently, a dozen Israeli government ministers participated in events calling for policies the ICJ explicitly rejected.
Reaction from DC, London, & others who pulled UNRWA funding for far less?
Crickets.
Speaking at a conference in Jerusalem on Sunday, Ben-Gvir articulated the need for a dual approach: promoting the departure of Gaza's current inhabitants while simultaneously encouraging the influx of Israeli settlers into the area.
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This is ridiculous. The word "intifada" is not 'dangerous hate speech'. It means 'uprising'.
A new statement from the White House in response to the news of Columbia protestors taking over a campus building.
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Over the course of a little more than 48 hours, Israel's government has given a full response to the ICJ ruling.
If Israel's allies (particularly in DC, Berlin, and London) do not support the response, they must recognise their responsibility in empowering that same
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This is ridiculous. If synagogues and Jews were being targeted in these 'protests' (they're riots and worse) aimed at mosques and Muslims, they'd be described, rightly, as antisemitic. When we refuse to describe these events as they are, we simply ensure they'll happen again.
This is unacceptable & deeply uncomfortable viewing. An entire white panel questioning a brown woman like a suspect. Ed Balls and Kate have left their homes this morning with no fear. Zarah and every other brown/black person left knowing they are a target
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The open anti-Palestinian racism is so mainstream in US political discourse, the very identity of 'Palestinian' becomes a smear.
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Ali Velshi introducing Naftali Bennett before Bennett comes on to his MSNBC show is a sight to behold
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The goal posts in the Israeli narrative over al-Shifa hospital have changed drastically over the last 36 hours & against the backdrop of embarrassments (including the finding a 'hostage document with names' which was a calendar with the 'names' being days of the week).
#Thread
So, after Israeli and U.S. officials told us that a Hamas command center was under Al-Shifa Hospital, suddenly that talking point has gone stone dead, after Israeli troops spent a day, in a “precise and targeted operation,” finding nothing. Admire the precision.
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Important to note: Rafah is *not* the only way out of Gaza.
There are 7 land crossings for Gaza (occupied by Israel since 1967). One is partially controlled by Egypt.
The other 6 are wholly controlled by Israel, which rejects opening them at all for Palestinians to flee.
A Sky News investigation has revealed that Egyptian company Hala is charging Palestinians $5,000 per person to leave Gaza, and could be making as much as $1m a day.
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What is extraordinary is that a lot of western media is putting the blame on Hamas, while Israelis negotiators THEMSELVES are blaming Netanyahu.
Inside-the-room reporting from
@BarakRavid
:
-Netanyahu's negotiating team told him Sunday a deal was possible but they needed wiggle room.
-Bibi wouldn't budge, scolded them for "caving."
-Israeli officials baffled Blinken praised Bibi as ready to deal
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Something that seems to be going undiscussed in many of our discussions at present: that Gaza is not Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory. Short (maybe)
#thread
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The rightwing:
"The far-right is not a serious threat, the far-right is not a serious threat, the far-right is not a serious threat"
Meanwhile: far-right plans a coup in Germany
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@mehdirhasan
they're not - it's directed at you and me in the West, not to Palestinians. (Otherwise, for one thing, it would be in Arabic...)
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This is false. It was not found that UNRWA employees were involved in the 7/10 attack. It was alleged by Israel, and the allegations were not proven, following which funding was restored.
The last gov’t withdrew funding from UNRWA after it was found UNRWA employees were involved in the 7/10 attack. So as the PM announced taxpayers' money is being restored to UNRWA, I asked what conditionality he has put in to prevent our money being spent on Hamas terror activity.
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It is striking that Ireland is one of the few EU and Western countries that is clear on international law on this point around civilian casualties. When history is written about this time, readers will wonder: why wasn't everyone else, and how many lives could have been saved.
Taoiseach says Israeli actions in Gaza 'not acceptable'
Speaking to
@MiriamOCal
, Mr Varadkar said "Israel is under threat. They do have a right to defend themselves, but they don't have the right to breach international humanitarian law."
READ:
#rtept
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It would be appropriate for Egypt to open up the border for any Palestinian that wishes to flee. But Similar calls for providing temporary hosting of Palestinian refugees are not being made of Israel itself, which is actually legally responsible for Gaza as the occupying power.
🔴 Breaking: Egypt places concrete barriers in front of its Rafah border crossing gate
Egypt closed the road linking the Egyptian and Palestinian terminals at the Rafah border crossing on Friday night, placing concrete barriers in front of the gate to the Egyptian terminal,
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This is what 'effective control' of Gaza looks like. Israel controls who will leave Gaza --- on the sole *Egyptian* crossing, as well as every other border crossing (Israel is in direct control of all of them). But we still have people denying that Israel occupies Gaza.
Irish citizens not included in list of foreign nationals allowed to leave Gaza, says DFA
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Horrendous and repugnant message, but wholly unsurprising. But the reality is that this kind of discourse is being tolerated across the right-wing of British politics. Shameful, and this kind of discourse should be roundly rejected.
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At a later time, I will write about my father; his early life in the anti-apartheid movement and Palestinian solidarity; his role as a cultural historian & archaeologist of the Emirates and surrounding region; but this is a kind tribute from the National.
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"they are no less than Arabs" - when will we start treating Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism with the disdain it warrants, similar to antisemitism?
💪 Putin, a dark conservative religious fanatic, must be stopped ASAP, and the West should even provide Ukraine with nuclear weapons if necessary, believes Slovenian leftist philosopher Slavoj Žižek.
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"A rules-based order... but rules for whom?" That's the title of a talk I intend to give very soon. The Biden administration is doing untold damage by statements like these.
JUST IN: US spokesperson John Kirby says UN Security Council resolution is a 'a non-binding resolution, so there’s no impact at all on Israel’s ability to continue to go after Hamas'
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"Blinken tries to cajole wary Arabs on support for post-conflict Gaza" - I don't think colleagues in London or DC really understand why there is so little goodwill on *exactly* this point in the region, when it comes from DC. Just a few points:
#thread
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I have been asked by various media multiple times this past week about why Egypt is so reluctant to open the border to receive Palestinian refugees from Gaza. It's pretty simple; Cairo very reasonably suspects that it would make Egypt complicit in Israeli ethnic cleansing.
A policy paper from Misgav thinktank - headed by Netanyahu's former national security advisor: Israel now has an "rare and exceptional opportunity to remove all Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt"
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This is not a televised address to the people of Iran. Iranians do not speak English, and this isn't subtitled in Farsi. This is a televised address to Americans & Brits, among whom Netanyahu is trying to buttress support. As for Iranians, they're inconsequential except as props.
In a televised address to the people of Iran, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says there is 'nowhere in the Middle East Israel cannot reach'.
Israel-Hezbollah latest:
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Israeli authorities are legally obliged to let this aid through, and to enforce that against these settlers or anyone else. Of course, they're also obliged to stop these settlers from breaking international law in the establishment of the settlements in the first place, but...
Now in Ashdod port: Israeli settlers check trucks, only the ones that don’t carry aid to Gaza are allowed to pass
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This is a bad photo-op. The amount of aid that could have been provided via already existing crossings from Israel, using the $320 million that this 'pier' cost, would have been life-saving to the people of Gaza. Instead, photo-op, plus the use of 1000 US troops. Absurd.
Today we began delivery of aid from the temporary pier on to the beach of Gaza for further distribution to the people by our partners. This unique logistics capability facilitates the delivery of lifesaving humanitarian aid enabling a shared service for the international
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Let's be clear: the prime minister of a major American ally has been issued a warrant for war crimes. If DC refuses to take it seriously, then it cannot expect anyone else to take international law seriously. There is too much at stake here for DC to ignore. (It will anyway.)
CNN EXCLUSIVE: ICC seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes over October 7 attack and Gaza war
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There is a lot of sophistry deployed by many on this question of killing almost 300 Palestinians to rescue 4 Israelis. It evaporates when it becomes a theoretical 300 Israelis to rescue 4 Palestinians.
Me: "Is killing 274 Palestinians an acceptable price to pay for the freeing of 4 Israeli hostages?"
Congressman Dean Phillips: "It's an unacceptable price but a price that has to be paid."
Me: Wow"
Watch the full
#MehdiUnfiltered
interview/show:
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.
@aliciakearns
claims the UK government's own lawyers have found Israel in breach of international law. If so, London would be obliged to stop arms sales immediately. (Something I and others wrote to government about, last week: )
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Groundhog Day.
- The Biden administration insists it wants a ceasefire deal
- Netanyahu changes the goalposts or sabotages the deal
- DC refuses to use leverage to force Israel to keep the established parameters
- DC then blames Hamas for not accepting.
And we go on repeat🧵
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"Don’t Let Politicians Normalize the Dehumanization of Palestinians"... There’s a straight line between calling people “animals” in Gaza and an Islamophobic murder of a six-year-old boy in Illinois. My latest for
@thedailybeast
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International humanitarian law does not stipulate that if you tell civilians to move away from certain zones, you are no longer responsible for ensuring their safety. It's almost insulting for Herzog to show these in front of Blinken; everyone knows the warnings change nothing.
"We've carried out six million text messages and four million phone calls to the citizens of Gaza, according to the rules of international law."
Israeli president Isaac Herzog speaks in Tel Aviv.
Warning: this video contains flash photography
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"Activist, historian and archaeologist of the West and Arab world: my father, Peter Hellyer". My thoughts on my father's life.
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This is a misleading headline. As much as there is reason to be critical of Russia and China, the US resolution is *conditional* - it does not call for an 'immediate' ceasefire, and the 'imperative' nature is subjected to the conditions, which are all about Israeli demands.
BREAKING: Russia and China vetoed a US-sponsored UN resolution declaring that an immediate cease-fire in Gaza is "imperative."
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This is quite useful in laying out what Israel's plans are for Gaza. Note how much of Gaza in this is consigned to be a buffer zone (so, a substantial reduction of Gazan territory, in defiance of the Biden administration's 'redlines'). But there is more to watch for.
#Thread
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This is incredible, especially widespread understanding in Whitehall (including within the FCDO) that UNRWA *should* be funded (which Cameron no doubt knows), and the stance of most of the UK's allies. Even Germany has walked back this terrible decision.
Cameron confirms the govt won't restore funding to UNRWA & repeats the Israeli claim that UNRWA workers were involved in Oct7th. Except Israel has provided no evidence for those claims, which were made to distract attention from the ICJ ruling of plausible genocide
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The Arab League meeting yesterday was one of the more interesting, analytically speaking, in the last couple of decades. Mostly due to host Saudi Arabia's use of it for messaging on the West, Israel, Syria, and, by virtue of that, its own geopolitical pole position.
#thread
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The United Nations' former Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, senior French diplomat, and previously CEO of the International Crisis Group. His note on Western soft power should be taken very seriously.
The moral standing of the West, which was part of its soft power, is irreparably damaged.
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Pay close attention to this, because it is a long-running trend, not a bug in the system. Israel's government *supports* the far-right in the West, because the far-right is pro-Israel.
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I've been asked by an outlet to be interviewed about a "possible ground incursion by Israel" into Lebanon.
Let's not be sanguine about this. It's not a 'ground incursion': it's an invasion.
The Israelis themselves are calling it as such. It should not be sanitised like this.
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It's peculiar how the framing of this is that Dawkins' comments are being 'branded' as Islamophobic. If Dawkins had said the precise same thing about Judaism, we wouldn't say his comments were being 'branded' as antisemitic. We'd simply and rightly call them antisemitic.
"If he had gone on the radio and said, 'Christianity's a decent religion and Judaism is not.' I think you would have seen a bigger backlash."
Branding Richard Dawkins’ comments ‘islamophobic’, ＠mehdirhasan tells ＠AnushkaAsthana that bigotry towards Islam has been 'normalised'.
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I don't think DC realises how much damage it is doing to its proclaimed goal of pursuing and upholding a rules-based order when it says stuff like this. Ridiculous
Watch Matt Lee push StateSpox on why it’s taking so long to make a determination on Israel’s bombing of Iran’s consulate.
Lee: You were pretty quick to condemn the invasion of the Mexican embassy
Miller: That was clear
Lee: No one died in that
Miller: That’s not the question
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The level of dehumanisation of Palestinians now so common in much of DC discourse - exemplarily evident in this: "GOP Congressman (Brian Mast) Says Dead Palestinian Babies Aren’t All That Innocent". Massive consequences for US policy.
#Thread
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@jamesrbuk
Israel's anti-semitism envoy (Noa Tishby) proudly and often displays a symbol that says the same, except it goes beyond and includes the Golan Heights (). Is that acceptable?
Noa Tishby can wear this necklace but when Palestinians use the same shape they’re accused of antisemitism and wanting to destroy Israel
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There is little doubt Rafah will be the scene of a massive casualty event if the Israelis go in for a full scale attack, irrespective of whether or not a 'plan' is implemented to evacuate civilians. DC, and London, have to pull out all the stops to halt this before it happens.
So the IDF will soon attack Rafah.
Innocent women and children will be killed.
Some Hamas forces will fight & die. Most will move to safety or merge into the population.
The hostages won’t be recovered and Hamas won’t be eliminated.
Pointless. Utterly pointless.
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Riots in more than half a dozen British cities and towns in a few days, aimed at a specific religious/ethnic minority, with deadly violence intended & performed.
These are attempted modern pogroms, and we should identify them as such.
History is clear and we should be too. 🧵
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It's extraordinary that a foreign official should feel entitled to direct that if American university choose not to invest in **another** country, that university should not receive American state or federal aid. Incredible.
Several universities have reportedly buckled to anti-Israel protestors’ demands and will consider divesting from Israeli companies. If they do, none should receive further state or federal aid and not a dime from their alumni.
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These sorts of interviews are being widely viewed worldwide, and the answers of the administration will challenge perceptions of the US as committed to international law.
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asks US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin about Israel using US weapons to bomb designated safe zones & schools sheltering displaced families in Gaza. “How can you say that is in accordance with international humanitarian law?”
Sec. Austin defends Israel’s
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Iran's attempt to change the demography of Syria is quite extraordinary. "Even regime loyalists, who in the past saw Iran's presence as strategic, now call it "occupation"."
@bbc
journalist
@BBCLinaSinjab
's piece on returning to Syria after a decade.
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Everyone should note:
1. East Jerusalem, West Bank, and Golan Heights are shown as part of Israel --- all occupied territories according to the International Court of Justice and nearly all countries globally
2. Netanyahu's 'need' contravenes existing peace agreements with Egypt
Israeli PM Netanyahu is giving a speech to the nation: explaining the need for Israel to stay in Philadelphi corridor
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It's extraordinary that
@andersoncooper
could allow such claims around civilians pass without any challenge. This is the same argument that al-Qaeda and other terrorists use for denying the distinction between combatants and civilian Americans ('they voted for their government').
Anderson Cooper's guest tonight, former Israeli intelligence chief:
"The noncombatant population in the Gaza strip is really a nonexistent term because all of the Gazans voted for Hamas, and as we have seen on 7th of October most of the population in the Gaza strip are Hamas."
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It's striking how much Israel expects the international community to suspend international law when it comes to Gaza. Occupation? Not occupation. Responsibility to reconstruct? No responsibility. Responsibility to the civilian population? No responsibility. Such exceptionalism.
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Saudi authorities have spent years trying to prepare their population for normalisation with Israel, but a survey released by the pro-Israeli Washington Institute found 96% of Saudis thought Arab countries should sever all ties with Israel. (Economist)
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Some are expressing outrage, declaring this means that Israel will be the occupying power of Gaza.
Ladies and gentlemen: it already *is*. It has been since 1967. Absolutely no difference between the West Bank and Gaza in international law. Even DC formally recognises this fact.
Israel will have "overall security responsibility" in Gaza for "indefinite period" after war, Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu says in interview
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@BenzionSanders
Gaza was (and still is) under occupation. A border crossing to work for the occupier (because there was nowhere else to go) is hardly a symbol for 'hope and coexistence'.
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There should be no reporting of this rescue without describing the Palestinian civilian casualties that happened as a result of how the IDF rescued these hostages. Israeli lives and Palestinian lives should be treated with equal dignity.
BREAKING 4 Israeli hostages - Noa Argamani, Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov and Shlomi Ziv - have been rescued from Gaza. They were all all kidnapped at the Nova music festival on October 7.
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Against the backdrop of so much misinformation going around, it's easy to forget that Gaza is defined by the United Nations and international law as an occupied (and blockaded) territory, and that responsibility for safeguarding it lies with the occupying power, i.e., Israel.
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Let's be clear: the Camp David accords, cornerstone of MENA regional security architecture for decades, specifically forbids Israeli troops of this nature on the border with Egypt.
Netanyahu insists on changing that with this 'ceasefire proposal'.
Of course Egypt rejected it.
Israeli, Egyptian and U.S. officials met in Cairo on Sunday and Monday to discuss the Phildelphi corridor. On Netanyahu's orders, the Israeli side presented a map that showed Israel reducing some of its forces but still deploying them all along the corridor, the Israeli officials
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"Gaza Reduced to 42 Million Tonnes of Rubble. What Will It Take to Rebuild?" Bloomberg tackles one of the key questions. Note: Israel has already made it clear that it will not even contribute to the reconstruction effort, despite causing the destruction.
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Extraordinary this is not a consensus position within the EU. How do these member states expect the EU to promote itself as standing for 'values', when they would cause an aid organisation of 30,000 ppl to collapse, due to concerns about 8 ppl, during a humanitarian crisis?
Spain will not suspend funding for UNRWA
Foreign Minister
@jmalbares
emphasizes that this concerns "10 workers out of a total of 30,000”.
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Extraordinary scene. Background note: there is virtually no appetite in Israel for an actual ceasefire. Rather, the difference of opinion is whether to continue bombing while the hostages are still in Gaza. Once the hostages are no longer in the equation, disagreement absent.
💥Sickening disgrace at Knesset, where NatSecMin Itamar Ben Gvir, a smirking racial supremacist & ex terrorist (& his minions) are screaming at families of Israeli hostages "You don't have a monopoly on pain!" and worse.
@KarivGilad
tries &fails to calm it
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'Unhelpful' - what a word to use in response to a call for ethnic cleansing, against the backdrop of a massive bombardment that has resulted in tens of thousands of civilian casualties.
Spokesperson
@GermanyDiplo
: We reject in all clarity unhelpful remarks by Israeli government ministers proposing Palestinians should leave Gaza in large numbers. Our position is clear: there must neither be any expulsions nor any territorial reduction of the Gaza Strip.
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@hebagowayed
@farahkanaan
What will also be interesting is if they then replace 'Muslim' with 'Christian'. Because while we often see 'Muslim' as a descriptor where it's not particularly relevant, we almost never see the same with 'Christian'.
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The conversation on Israel is quite different in London as compared to DC. Suspending arms sales to Israel is now a mainstream position in the security establishment in London. (Lord Ricketts is a stalwart in that establishment).
‘It points to a systemic problem with the Israelis doing their targeting and not taking sufficient care to avoid civilian targets.’
@LordRickettsP
speaks to
@TrevorPTweets
about the strike that killed aid workers in Gaza.
#PoliticsHub
🔗
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It's incredible to still be asked by media questions like,'What more can the US do in order to convince Israel to stop the war in Gaza?'
The US hasn't used any of its leverage on Israel at all. UN political cover; financial support; military aid; all of that untouched.
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"The aggressor cannot dictate the conditions for ceasefire."
As someone who supports Ukraine's struggle, but also focuses a lot on MENA, I can't help but think that this line will be heard in MENA and the question will be asked:
what about Israel and the Palestinians?
Russia’s continued aggression against Ukraine shows no real interest in peace.
Putin's unacceptable demands aim to legitimise the invasion and undermine peace efforts, while Russia rearms & prepares for a long war.
The aggressor cannot dictate the conditions for ceasefire.
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