Erdogan to Germany: Does Berlin not see Israeli genocide in Gaza?
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has slammed Germany over what he said was its ignorance of Israel’s “genocide”, famine and attacks in Gaza, at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Ankara.
Erdogan said Israel had nuclear and other weapons with which it was using and threatening Gaza, adding that Hamas had none of those.
He also spoke of Israeli violations of the ceasefire in recent days.
“Does Germany not see these?” he said, adding it was Turkiye, Germany and other countries’ humanitarian duty to end the famine and massacres in Gaza.
French FM announces civilian, military team dispatched to Israel
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot announced that a team of military and civilian personnel has been sent to Israel to take part in planning the post-ceasefire phase in Gaza.
During an interview with the French LCI television, Barrot said France had joined other countries contributing to the US-led coordination centre.
While he confirmed that French personnel were already stationed at the coordination centre, he did not share numbers.
Barrot added that France and the US are working to push for a UN resolution to deploy an International Stabilisation Force in Gaza once the ceasefire is fully secured.
As I concluded a couple pages back, that international stabilization force will have to have some neutrality for it to pass. If it's mostly (ex) colonial countries friendly to in bed with Israel contributing (Turkey is already blocked by Israel, as well as their rescue team) then the vote will likely fail.
"We could have US, UK, France, Panama, Korea, Denmark and Greece voting yes to a colonial power based 'stabilization' force.
And Russia, China, Algeria, Pakistan, Somalia, Guyana, Sierra Leone and Slovenia voting no.
8-7 against with possible veto from Russia. I'm sure there is already a lot of 'lobbying' going on from the US and Israel to secure a majority yes vote."
US and France are lobbying. Not a good track record as they are also the guarantors of the Lebanon 'ceasefire'.
Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama and Somalia are the non permanent members until December 31st 2025.
The veto holders, USA, UK, France, China and Russia are the permanent members, Korea, China, Algeria, Guyana and Sierra Leone are until Dec 32 2026.
Bahrain, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Latvia, and Liberia were elected on Jan 1st this year to become the next non permanent members for a 2 year period from Jan 1st 2026.
Bahrain, DRC (moving embassy to Jerusalem), Latvia will likely vote with US interests, Colombia likely no, Liberia can go either way.
So next year that vote could be 7-7 with Liberia the deciding vote.
UNSC mandate is important for international law, otherwise it's simply another occupation force.
Dragging phase 1 out until next year is becoming more likely. Winter will kill a lot of people, Netanyahu doesn't want to move to phase 2 at all, UNSC vote will be more favorable especially after a harsh winter (no other choice if the world doesn't step up).
However Trump wants that Arab money and has his sights set on his November 18 meeting with MBS at the White House to get the Abraham accords signed.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/trump-saudi-arabias-mohammed-bin-salman-to-meet-nov-18-says-cbs/articleshow/124723042.cms
Can the remaining captive bodies be found before then while Netanyahu will do everything to prevent that from happening? Trump already caved in to this new condition (return of bodies never had a set deadline, only the living captives) and has his hands tied now. Yet MBS also has his hands tied the more the 'peace' plan looks like its going nowhere.
