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Biden is ready to go to war with Iran
US commitment to Israel’s security against Iran, proxies is ‘iron clad’: Biden
US President Joe Biden says during a press conference that he has discussed developments in the Middle East with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who is on a state visit to the US.
Biden said those discussions included their “shared support” for a ceasefire, a deal to release captives and “urgent efforts” to deal with the humanitarian crisis that exists in Gaza.
He added that they also wanted to address the “Iranian threat”, which included launching a “significant attack on Israel”.
“As I told [Israeli] Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu, our commitment to Israel’s security against these threats from Iran and its proxies is ironclad”, Biden said.
Yemen’s Houthis claim fresh attacks on Israeli, US ships
Yemen’s Houthi rebels say they have carried out “four military operations” against two ships they claim are Israeli, as well as two US ships, in the Red Sea.
The two Israeli vessels were the MSC Darwin, and the MSC Gina – both of which were targeted in the Gulf of Aden, a spokesperson for the group said in a video statement.
The two US ships that were targeted were also in the Gulf of Aden. These were a US-registered Maersk vessel, and another “American warship” that was targeted with a number of drones, the spokesperson said.
“The ships were targeted with a number of naval missiles and drones,” he said. “The Yemeni armed forces will continue to carry out their moral and humanitarian duties towards the Palestinian people,” the spokesperson continued. The attacks, he said, will “continue until the enemy [Israel] lifts the siege it imposed on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip”.
More from bizarro Europe, Israel isn't even part of Europe...
Protesters in Swedish Eurovision host city call for boycott of Israel
Protesters waving Palestinian flags and banners on Wednesday called for a boycott of Israel at the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest in the Swedish city of Malmo, which will host the event next month. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) organises Eurovision and bills the song contest as a non-political event.
However, in 2022, the EBU banned Russia from Eurovision after several European public broadcasters called for the country to be expelled following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The union said it suspended Russian broadcasters over “persistent breaches of membership obligations and the violation of public service values”.
The organisers’ decision to include Israeli broadcaster KAN has sparked protests from artists and ministers, but the EBU said in January that Eurovision was not a contest between governments and that KAN met all competition rules.
In February, more than a thousand Swedish music artists signed a petition calling for Israel to be excluded from this year’s contest.
How about focus on boycotting weapon sales.... Eurovision was total cringe already when I still lived in Europe, can't believe it's still going tbh.
These kids get it right
Activists paint British MoD red in protest against arming Israel
Video shared on X by the group Youth Demand, which advocates a “two-way arms embargo on Israel” shows young people vaulting an iron fence and spraying the UK’s Ministry of Defence headquarters with red paint.
“The ministry does not defend, it murders”, the group wrote on X. “We no longer accept the continuation of this death project as the UK allows the funding of arms to Israel”.
Additional video shared by the group shows a number of the activists being arrested after their protest action. Yesterday, the UK’s foreign secretary, David Cameron, said that the country would not be changing its policy on exporting arms to Israel, meaning its shipments would continue.
Grant Schapps, the UK’s minister of defence, responded to this protest on X, saying “The Armed Forces can’t and won’t be intimidated. Those inside the [defence ministry] stand up to dictators & terrorists every day – patriots, many of whom put their lives at risk to protect us all. Those targeting us today are the opposite, cowardly criminals who I’m glad to see arrested”.
