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Colombian president orders opening of embassy in the West Bank.

This comes after the country broke diplomatic ties with Israel

Praying for an end to settlement and anti-semitism. The world will never be free of that prejudice until Israel ceases to exist and colonize in its name.

“Not only do we live in fear of displacement at the hands of a colonialism that professes itself as Jewish, not only are our people bombarded by an army that marches under what it claims is the Jewish flag, and not only do Israeli politicians over enunciate the Jewishness of their operations, we are told to disregard the Star of David soaring on their flag—the Star of David they carve into our skin.”

-Mohammed El-Kurd

https://mondoweiss.net/2023/09/jewish-settlers-stole-my-house-its-not-my-fault-theyre-jewish/

The Biden campaign is spending $200 million on ads in rural counties where Trump won landslide victories in order to lower his margins.

Super cool how we are getting a window into this brand new, bold strategy that has definitely never been tried before. I’m really glad the Biden campaign is letting idiots like us, who don’t think that Biden will win, know that if Biden gets Trump supporters to vote for Biden instead, he will win!

you know who doesn like arrest warrents against war Criminals ?

Whether or not anything comes from the International Criminal Court or International Court of Justice remains to be seen, but what has been done with these institutions is destigmatize the act of leveling criticism against the state of Israel, criticizing Israeli society; Israel's rampage being livestreamed and frequently archived has permanently tarnished its reputation within the West. The act of enabling genocide has denigrated the legitimacy of the US and its allies.

The state of Israel has severely diminished its credibility as self-appointed papacy of the Jewish faith and aegis of the Jewish people.

What this horror has proved is how direct action by activists impacts policy decisions in the private sector and challenges the state for good or ill to take action. Repression and capitulation by state and capital - and not through electoral politics - sheds light to myth that elections and electioneering - abdication of power through delegation - is a farce; this exposition radicalizes the young and heritors of society.

Though I can't cite when or where Ilan Pappe said this, but he noted that Israel is approaching or in the next stage of BDS. Divestment.

What I think all of this would amount to is further castration of liberalism's capacity to manage social and class antagonisms; the state will lean into further escalation of force with greater frequency.

Our democracy, already an extant rotating dictatorship, will punish dissidents across the mainstream with closing parity as it has with internally colonized and preexisting second-class citizens.

China seems to be escalating it's Taiwan policy Essentially, if you're chill we're chill, but if you keep escalating we'll keep escalating "until reunification."

A few years ago, I would've called anyone suggesting a hot war over Taiwan to be insane. These days... it still seems pretty crazy, but it'll depend on how much Taiwan lets America run their politics. Surely they don't want to be the next Ukraine?

"On the basis of evidence collected and examined by my Office, I have reasonable grounds to believe that Benjamin NETANYAHU, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Yoav GALLANT, the Minister of Defence of Israel, bear criminal responsibility for the following war crimes and crimes against humanity committed on the territory of the State of Palestine (in the Gaza strip) from at least 8 October 2023:

• Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(b)(xxv) of the Statute;
• Wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health contrary to article 8(2)(a)(iii), or cruel treatment as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(c)(i);
• Wilful killing contrary to article 8(2)(a)(i), or Murder as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(c)(i);
• Intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population as a war crime contrary to articles 8(2)(b)(i), or 8(2)(e)(i);
• Extermination and/or murder contrary to articles 7(1)(b) and 7(1)(a), including in the context of deaths caused by starvation, as a crime against humanity;
• Persecution as a crime against humanity contrary to article 7(1)(h);
• Other inhumane acts as crimes against humanity contrary to article 7(1)(k).

My Office submits that the war crimes alleged in these applications were committed in the context of an international armed conflict between Israel and Palestine, and a non-international armed conflict between Israel and Hamas (together with other Palestinian Armed Groups) running in parallel. We submit that the crimes against humanity charged were committed as part of a widespread and systematic attack against the Palestinian civilian population pursuant to State policy. These crimes, in our assessment, continue to this day.

My Office submits that the evidence we have collected, including interviews with survivors and eyewitnesses, authenticated video, photo and audio material, satellite imagery and statements from the alleged perpetrator group, shows that Israel has intentionally and systematically deprived the civilian population in all parts of Gaza of objects indispensable to human survival.

This occurred through the imposition of a total siege over Gaza that involved completely closing the three border crossing points, Rafah, Kerem Shalom and Erez, from 8 October 2023 for extended periods and then by arbitrarily restricting the transfer of essential supplies – including food and medicine – through the border crossings after they were reopened. The siege also included cutting off cross-border water pipelines from Israel to Gaza – Gazans’ principal source of clean water – for a prolonged period beginning 9 October 2023, and cutting off and hindering electricity supplies from at least 8 October 2023 until today. This took place alongside other attacks on civilians, including those queuing for food; obstruction of aid delivery by humanitarian agencies; and attacks on and killing of aid workers, which forced many agencies to cease or limit their operations in Gaza.

My Office submits that these acts were committed as part of a common plan to use starvation as a method of war and other acts of violence against the Gazan civilian population as a means to (i) eliminate Hamas; (ii) secure the return of the hostages which Hamas has abducted, and (iii) collectively punish the civilian population of Gaza, whom they perceived as a threat to Israel.

The effects of the use of starvation as a method of warfare, together with other attacks and collective punishment against the civilian population of Gaza are acute, visible and widely known, and have been confirmed by multiple witnesses interviewed by my Office, including local and international medical doctors. They include malnutrition, dehydration, profound suffering and an increasing number of deaths among the Palestinian population, including babies, other children, and women.

Famine is present in some areas of Gaza and is imminent in other areas. As UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned more than two months ago, “1.1 million people in Gaza are facing catastrophic hunger – the highest number of people ever recorded – anywhere, anytime” as a result of an “entirely manmade disaster”. Today, my Office seeks to charge two of those most responsible, NETANYAHU and GALLANT, both as co-perpetrators and as superiors pursuant to Articles 25 and 28 of the Rome Statute.

Israel, like all States, has a right to take action to defend its population. That right, however, does not absolve Israel or any State of its obligation to comply with international humanitarian law. Notwithstanding any military goals they may have, the means Israel chose to achieve them in Gaza – namely, intentionally causing death, starvation, great suffering, and serious injury to body or health of the civilian population – are criminal.

Since last year, in Ramallah, in Cairo, in Israel and in Rafah, I have consistently emphasised that international humanitarian law demands that Israel take urgent action to immediately allow access to humanitarian aid in Gaza at scale. I specifically underlined that starvation as a method of war and the denial of humanitarian relief constitute Rome Statute offences. I could not have been clearer.

As I also repeatedly underlined in my public statements, those who do not comply with the law should not complain later when my Office takes action. That day has come."

This was posted an hour ago.

Only 30 minutes of fuel remain at Al-Aqsa Hospital

[The Gaza Health Ministry] just updated us that the hospital is going to run out of fuel in the next 30 minutes. Unfortunately, we are talking about hundreds of patients that are daily doing dialysis, and most of these patients were transferred from Rafah, from the hospitals there.

We are also talking about babies connected to incubators, and we’re also talking about people who were injured by Israeli forces and are undergoing surgeries every single hour.

All these people completely rely on electricity, and Deir el-Balah’s Al-Aqsa Hospital is one of the only hospitals still functioning across the Gaza Strip

We’re still waiting, and they still have hope that someone can bring them more fuel, but unfortunately, they’re saying that 30 minutes is all the fuel they have left.

https://x.com/prem_thakker/status/1793006351058186622

such bipartisanship is a rare sight in these divided times 🤩

Its real fucking scary how unhinged america behaves, just toss netanyahu to the wolves mates, its an easy out, next israel will behave.

The Zionist entity resorting to Unit 731 shit:
https://twitter.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1794314820717629633
https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/israel-torture-chambers-message-directed-us-palestinians

There they lie day after day, night after night, in a state of utter sensory deprivation, with nothing to distract from their wounds and pain. In the midst of this, Israeli medical interns can use their exposed, vulnerable flesh as a canvas for experimentation.

According to one whistleblower, the detention centre has quickly gained a reputation for being “a paradise for interns”.

There, they are allowed to use Palestinians as little more than lab rats and encouraged to carry out medical procedures they are not qualified to perform.

A whistleblower told CNN: “I was asked to learn how to do things on the patients, performing minor medical procedures that are totally outside my expertise.”

Such procedures were frequently done without anaesthesia. Unlike doctors in Gaza, Israeli doctors have ready access to painkillers. It is a choice not to use them.

Eagerly awaiting germans meltdown with icc

Imagine if arrests Bibi. Still can't believe France is Hamas.

Yemen announced a missile attack on an Israeli ship, the Essex, in the Mediterranean earlier today. Western state propaganda is doing the usual and denying anything has happened. Also further attacks in the Red Sea on Western companies trying to violate sanctions on Israel.

It's worth noting that the US itself has admitted that Ansarallah has this capability. An article in Bloomberg puts it:

The Houthi militants in Yemen have weapons that can reach as far as the Mediterranean Sea, according to a senior defense official, lending some credence to the group’s threats that it can expand its attacks on shipping beyond its immediate borders. The US government is concerned that the Iran-backed group has the capability to extend strikes on shipping beyond the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden to the Mediterranean, said the official, who asked for anonymity to discuss private talks. The official said Houthis have access to advanced weaponry and that their deployment of anti-ship ballistic missiles is virtually unprecedented. The group has also used drones in its attacks.

The rest of the article is basically repeating the comforting myth that Iran's strike was successfully repelled, and so surely they could probably do the same for Yemen; I assume the fact that the Red Sea blockade is still ongoing despite this "supremacy" in defense is something they would rather like to forget.

Anyone have any idea of the true death toll in Gaza given the genocidal famine conditions? I've seen estimates that around 200 000 people have already been killed by these conditions enforced on Gaza by Israel, and that the world may be looking at over half a million deaths by the end of 2024. If such is true, it is downright irresponsible to keep using the official death toll. With all the hospitals being bombed by Israel, there is no way to accurately track how many people have been killed. This is honestly tragic in ways that cannot be described...

I think it's cute that Ken Klippenstein has such a reaction to the statement that came out of the Iranians post Soleimani's assassination, that the west has no heroes, only cartoon characters. He cannot help but compare the dead Iranian president to Wily [sic] Coyote. Of course they're wrong, we have sports champions and movie stars as well. And when they die in a helicopter or car crash it is absolutely not like Wily [sic] Coyote, no matter their personal statements or beliefs.

UC Strike update. This week grad students at UC Santa Cruz started striking. As this is organized as a standup strike, campuses are getting called in over time. There was some concern about high leadership excessively slow-rolling it, but they announced that UCLA and UC Davis are going to start striking on Tuesday, as Monday is a holiday.

The UC admin filed an injunction to PERB, the Public Employee Relations Board, which is the regulatory body for our union, saying the strike was illegal and should be shut down. This goes with their letter full of lies claiming the same. This injunction however was denied! Despite their repeated claims, the strike is absolutely not legal, and they can't use the regulatory body to stop it.

I'm ready to see what's happening next week. While I won't full dox myself, I will be striking next week, which I am so ready for. There's a lot of people trying to push this to something meaningful.

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan has announced that he is pursuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and three Hamas leaders, Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh.

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/5/20/icc-arrest-warrants-sought-for-israeli-and-hamas-leaders

Yeah nevermind who started all this, gotta target both sides to say fair 🤓

The European Union will deprive Georgia of its membership candidate status if the country's authorities do not abandon the law on foreign agents - Foreign Policy magazine

Two birds, one stone. Liquidate their little structures, embrace Lukashenko thought

This whole helicopter in a fog thing seemed pretty legit, but now Isntreal has said that they didnt do it and suddenly i am not convinced it was an accident anymore

Even is tired of Israel

Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich threatens to create one new settlement in the West Bank for every country that recognizes Palestine as a state.

Between this and the USA threatening to starve the world if Palestine becomes a full member of the UN, the two countries are really competing for who can be the biggest supervillain, huh?

Imagine how popping hexbear and the news mega would be if 9/11 happened today

The failed Congo coup leader had links to the Israeli military

Video footage has emerged showing Christian Malanga, the leader of the failed coup in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, visiting Israeli occupation forces in Palestine.

https://t.me/mintpress_news/5999

I can't stop thinking about how isntreal's genocide of Palestinians is covered in the media, specifically how CBC was using a graph to illustrate ongoing Palestinian deaths vs isntreali deaths on October 7. I remember thinking when they started it that there was no way they would keep it up as the genocide continued and I was right.

This is the last time they used it that I could find, from October 31. Since then there has been 25000+ confirmed deaths and god only knows how many people have been murdered that haven't been counted.

Death to and every single one of their lapdogs

milei is known for doing stupid shit right, like first being born and second choosing anarchocapitalism and nazism and his guide through life. Okay now I spoke yesterday of milei's latest enemy: """Communist Spain""". You know, he went there on an official visit, did not meet with the First Minister of the Soviet Spanish Republics and the King of the Soviets, breaking diplomatic protocol. Instead, he went to a VOX rally, spoke about the dangers of socialism, 150million dead bla bla. And while there he also insulted the PM's wife.

Spain didn't like it of course and decided to recall it's ambassador and stuff. Now, I will make it clear that I don't believe Spain is going to break diplomatic relations with Argentina, because we have a lot of deep and important matters that links us with Spain, it's just not that easy. HOWEVER, we're living in ancap wonderland and this utter imbecile is indeed capable of almost anything, especially now that he identified Spain as "Socialist" and he made it clear months ago that he will not deal with "Communist countries" (Back then it was China and Brasil).

Now why I'm a bit worried about this? Because I applied for spanish citizenship a few months ago and I still haven't received it (I'm fully eligible). This process takes quite some time. I understand this process is not done by the Embassy but by the Consulate, different diplomatic institution, and this one continues to function. However, if both countries break relations, doesn't that mean that both the Embassy and the Consulate are closed? What will then happen to my application? Is it sucked into the void never to be seen again?

And I kinda need that citizenship, first due to family reasons and second because it is my ticket out of this hole if everything goes down like really bad, plus I'd like to go to Spain on vacations one day and perhaps visit other parts of that wretched glorified peninsula known as "Europe". But I swear if this motherfucker, moronic piece of insecure ancap shit kills it I will dedicate my entire life to wage a Protracted People's War against this pro-zionist pro-USA fascist regime.

fucking incredible

After 9/11, President George W. Bush and his team argued that a nonstate actor like al-Qaeda could not have pulled off the attacks alone, and that some country must have been behind it all. That state, they insisted, was Iraq—and the United States invaded Iraq. In a savage irony, they may have been right after all about state support, but flat wrong about the state. Should we now invade Saudi Arabia? ..(of course not)

They posted this, problem is that the person in the pic is another person named Mohammed Shabana, who is an Egyptian sports commentator.

So in light of the recent situation in Goma where a third Congo War might be kicking off, I decided to start reading a book about the first and second Congo Wars, the latter of which is the 21st century's deadliest war (5+ million dead) that myself and seemingly nobody else knows fuck all about. The book is called Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe by Gérard Prunier, a French scholar of the African Great Lakes region. I wish I could find a book by an African scholar, but doesn't seem like there's much out there in English.

Anyway, outside of some weird colonial European habits (he has extensive footnotes for why he claims that the Rwandan people are raised to heavily respect and obey authority) it's pretty good. He spends much of the book decrying how the so-called international community didn't give a shit about any of this because it wouldn't make them any money, and how in general Africa is just ignored. I'm only a hundred pages in, and we've just covered the background of post-genocide Rwanda and holy shit, I cannot emphasize enough how much of a nightmare it was. Insane reprisal killings of mostly innocents whilst the actual Interahamwe (the militias who carried out the genocide) fled to Zaire and started raising an army again in UN run refugee camps to reconquer Rwanda. No international Nuremberg style courts at all. An exile Tutsi population that came back to Rwanda and subsequently condemned the Tutsi who survived the genocide as "collaborators" because they didn't die. UN troops watching as RPF troops slaughtered thousands of civilians en masse. People accusing other people of genocidal acts so they could steal their house, corpses littered on the side of the road rotting for weeks. A pervasive societal numbness to violence and atrocity that very clearly leads directly into what kicks off the Congo Wars. Reading this book is difficult because after like ten pages I'm exhausted with the depravity and the failure of our demonic world to care.

Another school encampment has given in. McMaster University this time. Exactly the same 'deal' as the others; a meeting to "discuss" divestment in October. There's a Twitter thread here.

Obviously these universities are co-ordinating. I do wonder exactly what pressure the institutions are using in these meetings, although I don't discount the idea that some were simply never in it for thr long haul.

Abu Obeida announced that they got more prisoners of war

edit: speculation that they're from Shayetet 13, equivelent to the Navy seals or someshit, point is that the gun they're using is a Scorpion evo 3

God i missed the only good news place on the internet

Daily death to the occupiers post

ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas leaders

Never get in a helicopter or old light aircraft. Honestly gliders (planes with no engines) are probably safer than helicopters.

O Allah, please make Abdel-Fattah Al Sisi crash a helicopter

Americans cry about Moloch then post shit like this