Palestine is ‘moral compass of our time’: Turkish foreign minister
Hakan Fidan has said Palestine is also “the ultimate test of whether the Muslim world can translate shared values into collective action”.
“This means repelling Israeli aggression and addressing the issue of Israeli expansionism,” the Turkish foreign minister said in a speech at the Al Sharq Youth Conference in Istanbul.
Fidan also addressed the Gaza ceasefire, saying that it is not peace because peace requires justice – and justice requires a sovereign, free and viable Palestinian state.
PNC Chairman Fattouh condemns remarks by US’ Israel envoy on settlements
The Palestinian National Council (PNC) has denounced the comments made by Mike Huckabee in support of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The US ambassador to Israel had said there is no need to react to Israel’s approval of 19 new settlements on occupied Palestinian territory since it is “neither an annexation nor a declaration of sovereignty”.
Rouhi Fattouh, the chairman of the legislative body of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), called the remarks “a flagrant violation of international law and international legitimacy resolutions” and “a dangerous political position that provides political cover for illegal settlement activity”.
Fattouh stressed that “no party in the world is authorised to grant legitimacy to the occupation or its colonial policies, and that the only legitimacy that must be respected is the legitimacy of international law, United Nations resolutions, and the international consensus that rejected settlement activity and considered it a major obstacle to peace.”
Israel is basically a US colony now, supported by the large Christian Zionist base in the USA. Mike Huckabee being one of them.
Israel hails joining US-led AI initiative, Pax Silica
Netanyahu’s office says joining the Trump administration’s AI initiative is “a badge of honor for the State of Israel and the Israeli high-tech industry”.
Dubbed Pax Silica, the initiative aims to bolster “cooperation on AI and supply chain security” between the US and its allies, the State Department said in a factsheet this week.
Representatives from eight countries took part in a summit yesterday in Washington, DC: Japan, Korea, Singapore, the Netherlands, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and Australia.
Israel’s move to join Pax Silica comes as countries are under growing international pressure to cut economic ties with Israel over its genocidal war on Gaza.
Rights advocates have long accused the Israeli government of using the country’s tech sector to whitewash human rights violations against Palestinians, and Israeli firms have faced longstanding calls for a boycott.
Let the AI bubble burst, US deserves a recession. The US economy crashing seems the only hope now for Palestine... US empire needs to go.
