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SvennoJ on 13 May 2024
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Netanyahu is losing it. I can't not fault Israelis either as they did vote this psychopath back into power again. (23% of them, mostly Haredim)

https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-netanyahu-and-his-allies-won-by-a-knockout-the-data/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/haredim-are-fastest-growing-population-will-be-16-of-israelis-by-decades-end/

‘We will not stop’: Israel’s Netanyahu promises revenge for October 7 attacks

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has signalled there will be no stopping the Israeli military’s latest incursions into the Gaza Strip during a state ceremony for remembering “victims of terrorism” on October 7.

“We do not forget the hostages, not for one second,” he said, promising to return all still held in Gaza, alive or dead.

But Netanyahu said the pounding of the besieged enclave will continue, as “the murders and their supporters” are now “suffering our wrath across the Gaza Strip”.

“We will not stop until we bring about the collapse of the Hamas terror regime. We will exact revenge from those who perpetrated the attack, till the very last one of them. We will sever their arms so that they can no longer raise them against Israel.”

Maldives to join South Africa’s ICJ genocide case against Israel

The government of Maldives has said it will formally join the lawsuit filed by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which accuses Israel of violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention in the Gaza Strip.

In a statement by the president’s office, the government of Maldives said the move comes due to “genocidal acts perpetrated by Israeli occupying forces under the guise of security concerns [which] have resulted in mass displacement, acute starvation, and blockage of humanitarian aid”.

The government also said that demands made by Israel for the immediate evacuation of thousands of Palestinian civilians seeking refuge in eastern Rafah “are a testament to its failure to adhere to the provisional measures ordered by the ICJ”.


Defence intelligence officer resigns in protest of US policy on Gaza war

US Army Major Harrison Mann, who works for the Defense Intelligence Agency, has announced his resignation, which he submitted on April 16, saying he “cannot justify staying silent any longer”.

In his letter, which he published on his public LinkedIn profile, Mann, who says he is a descendant of European Jews, wrote that the US “nearly unqualified support for the government of Israel … has enabled and empowered the killing and starvation of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians”.

“As we were recently reminded, this unconditional support also encourages reckless escalation that risks wider war.”

The Biden administration faces growing internal dissent against its policies in the Middle East, most recently marked by the resignation of US Department of State Arabic language spokeswoman, Hala Rharrit.

Rharrit is the first career diplomat to resign publicly, protesting the government’s response to Israel’s war on Gaza.

Josh Paul is the highest-ranking Biden administration official to resign over its approach to the war in Gaza, and Tariq Habash, a policy adviser at the US Department of Education, also resigned from his post in recent weeks.

‘We need to see an end to indiscriminate killing of children’: UNICEF

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been forced to flee Rafah in southern Gaza as the Israeli military attacks from ground and air. More Palestinians, many of them children, are being killed every day.

“As somebody who was on the ground and has spent a lot of time in hospitals in Gaza, including in Rafah, I saw the impact of this fighting on children’s bodies and it is horrific,” said UNICEF spokesperson Tess Ingram in Gaza in an interview with US broadcaster ABC.

“I saw a nine-year-old girl who was clinging to life on a hospital bed in Rafah with major blast wounds down one side of her body, and when I met her, she had been that way 16 days because the medical ability in Gaza to repair those wounds was non-existent.”

“We need to see an end to the fighting and the indiscriminate killing of civilians, especially children.”