LurkerJ said:
SvennoJ, reveal your Russian ties please. For real though, the Dems starting their Russian blame game a bit early this time around. You dumb blood-thirsty cunt, this war is only hurting Biden and helping the republicans, how is it a Putin's message? |
Well Andrei Tarkovski's 1972 Solaris >>>> Steven Soderberg's 2002 Solaris!
The ICJ ruling has already completely been buried over this new well timed attack on UNWRA, attacks which have been ongoing for a long time: Abbas accused Israel of acting out of animus for the UN agency, saying: "Officials in the Israeli government openly expressed that there would be no role for UNRWA, revealing the true motive behind this campaign." Foreign Minister Israel Katz suggested Friday that the Israeli government will seek to stop the UN agency from operating in post-war Gaza.
Meanwhile CNN now completely changed focus on the attack on a US base in Jordan by a Hamas-Iran-Russian backed drone.
This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows a military base known as Tower 22 in northeastern Jordan on October 12
What is it even doing there in the desert?
Meanwhile Jordan claims the base is in Syria...
Jordan says base where US service members were killed is outside its border
Jordan TV, the kingdom’s public broadcaster, cites a government spokesperson as saying that the attack that killed three US service members targeted al-Tanf base in Syria. “The base is outside our border,” the Jordanian spokesperson says.
Iran’s position is that it is not involved in attacks by its allies
As of now, there has been no reaction from the Iranian side yet. However, just to give context here, Iran’s position regarding such attacks is quite clear. They say these attacks are not conducted or planned by Iran. Iran is not involved in these attacks that are being carried out by groups across the region. They say that Iran has allies across the region, however these allies – or so-called “axis of the resistance” – make decisions based on their own assessments.
It says that the US is complicit in the atrocities conducted by Israel, and the “axis of the resistance” is just reacting to Israeli atrocities in Gaza. This is Iran’s official position as of now.
Joe Biden, Justin Trudeau, Rishi Sunak, Olaf Scholz, Anthony Albanese, Mark Rutte, Gabriel Attal, Viola Amherd, Giorgia Meloni and Petteri Orpo can now all be tried at the ICC for going against the ICJ ruling, actively making the situation worse while continuing to supply more weapons to be used for genocide.
And add Trump as well, the source of the escalation with his 'peace plan' for Netanyahu in 2020.
Trump says attack on US forces is result of ‘Biden’s weakness’
The former US president and current presidential candidate has hit out at his likely opponent in the general elections in November over the attack that killed three American service members. “This brazen attack on the United States is yet another horrific and tragic consequence of Joe Biden’s weakness and surrender,” Trump wrote in a social media post.
He added that today’s incident, Hamas’s October 7 attack and the Russian invasion of Ukraine would not have happened if he had still been in power. “Instead, we are on the brink of World War 3,” Trump wrote.
US senator suggests retaliating directly against Iran
Tom Cotton, a hawkish Republican, calls for a forceful response against the killing of three US service members, which Biden has blamed on Iran-backed groups. “The only answer to these attacks must be devastating military retaliation against Iran’s terrorist forces, both in Iran and across the Middle East. Anything less will confirm Joe Biden as a coward unworthy of being commander in chief,” Cotton said in a statement.
My statement following the Iran-backed attacks in Jordan that killed three U.S. service members and injured 25: pic.twitter.com/L8ckks5ch4
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) January 28, 2024
UNRWA fund cuts ‘sickening’: Amnesty
Agnes Callamard, the secretary general of Amnesty International, has called the cuts a “heartless decision” by some of the world’s richest countries “to punish the most vulnerable population on earth because of the alleged crimes of 12 people”.
“Right after the ICJ ruling finding risk of genocide. Sickening.”
While Western nations, including the US, rushed to suspend UNRWA’s funding after allegations that members from the agency participated in the October 7 attack, the same countries have failed to formally revise their ties to Israel despite mounting reports of abuse by Israeli forces.
Sickening heartless decision of the richest countries in the world to punish the most vulnerable population on earth because of the alleged crimes of 12 people. Right after the ICJ ruling finding risk of genocide. Sickening. https://t.co/ARrPqUdyHA
— Agnes Callamard (@AgnesCallamard) January 28, 2024
The reason why Israel wants UNWRA out:
Israelis call for resettling post-war Gaza
The “Return to Gaza Conference” in Jerusalem – attended by Israeli cabinet ministers and members of parliament – has laid out a plan for the re-establishment of 15 Israeli settlements and the addition of six new ones, on where recently destroyed Palestinian communities stood.
An Israeli humanitarian lawyer said the fact that Israeli officials would convene a high level meeting to plan what he called an act of aggression – the acquisition of occupied territory and its colonisation – is an early indication of intent to breach the provisional measures order by the International Court of Justice.
#Israeli Ministers (including #Smotrich and #BenGvir) dancing at the conference would form part of the compelling evidence of noncompliance with the #ICJ order. pic.twitter.com/TQWDxWe0lu
— Itay Epshtain (@EpshtainItay) January 28, 2024
Got to keep the western media biased beyond doubt
Israeli MK urges Sky News to fire journalist over interview
Danny Danon has said that he sent a letter requesting the immediate termination of anchor Belle Donati. Danon said that in an interview on Friday, Donati made a comparison between war in Gaza and the Holocaust. He accused Donati of propagating anti-Semitism and drawing “inappropriate parallels between the democratic state of Israel and the Nazis”. Some observers criticised his actions, saying they were in retaliation for the anchor challenging him.
An Israeli MK is demanding a foreign media outlet fire a journalist for the crime of asking a question that he didn’t like - following the IHRA definition playbook: When you can’t win the argument/interview about Israel based on facts, call the argument/interviewer antisemitic! pic.twitter.com/kPzobgAoZI
— Lara Friedman (@LaraFriedmanDC) January 28, 2024
Meanwhile in Gaza
More waves of evacuees reaching Rafah, last remaining place for Palestinians
The situation for people fleeing from Khan Younis to Rafah is completely chaotic. Israeli forces are encircling entire neighbourhoods in Khan Younis city, where they are forcing people to flee from their houses.
They gather them at certain places and they are forced to go through checkpoints that have been militarily established in Khan Younis. They are making different groups of people raise their ID cards as they pass through these military checkpoints. In many cases, Palestinian men have been abducted and arrested by the Israeli military and others have been taken for investigations.
For those who manage to get to Rafah, they have found no place to stay and they have chosen to set their makeshift tents out in the open as they have no other shelter to remain inside amid these harsh weather conditions.
Until now, the bombardment of Khan Younis continues and also evacuation orders for residents there who are trapped in the city amid the fighting. More waves of evacuees are reaching Rafah, which is the last remaining place for Palestinians … they are going to be trapped there.