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SvennoJ 12 hours ago

EU’s Borell proposes suspending political dialogue with Israel

Reuters news agency is reporting that the European Union’s top diplomat made the proposal ahead of a meeting of the bloc’s foreign ministers scheduled for next week.

In a letter, he pointed to “serious concerns about possible breaches of international humanitarian law in Gaza” adding that “thus far, these concerns have not been sufficiently addressed by Israel”.

“In light of the above considerations, I will be tabling a proposal that the EU should invoke the human rights clause to suspend the political dialogue with Israel,” Josep Borrell is reported to have written.

Political dialogue between the EU and Israel is enshrined in a broader agreement reached between the two parties in June 2000. The suspension likely faces steep odds, as it would require approval from all 27 EU countries. Reuters reported that several countries are in opposition to such a move. Still, the proposal is likely meant to send a strong message about how Israel continues to conduct the war.

Even though the UK threw themselves out of the EU in 2016, Germany would never approve.



Trump nominates staunch-pro Israel lawmaker Rubio as top diplomt

The announcement comes after days of speculation that Senator Marco Rubio would be Trump’s pick for Secretary of State.

Rubio has taken a hawkish foreign policy approach in the past, particularly towards Iran and in his support for Israel. He is considered one of Israel’s staunchest supporters within the Republican party.

While running for president in 2016, Rubio even accused Trump of not being a true ally to Israel.

Speaking to an activist in 2023, Rubio said that Hamas was “100 percent to blame” for the deaths of Palestinians in Gaza.


The rest of the world will have to step up to end the genocide. Trump will do nothing to stop Netanyahu, rather the opposite.

Boycott the USA as well as Israel.



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SvennoJ 12 hours ago

Israeli strike on Gaza ‘safe-zone’ damages MSF clinic

Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym, MSF, says an Israeli air attack that hit the Israeli-designated “safe zone” of al-Mawasi damaged the group’s medical clinic in the area.

“The blast was huge. We didn’t receive an official evacuation order from Israeli forces, we were notified by the residents,” Myriam, an MSF coordinator, said in a post on X.

“Both staff and patients fled the clinic. We later found the facility with equipment destroyed, and shrapnel damaged the desalination plant,” she added.

MSF condemned Israel’s use of heavy weapons in zones it had designed safe, saying the attack is “further proof of the blatant disregard for Palestinian lives and humanitarian law”.



Israeli bomb leaves large crater in Gaza’s al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’


Palestinians gather around a crater, formed following an Israeli attack on the al-Mawasi area, where thousands of Palestinians are living in makeshift tents, in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza on Wednesday


A number of Israeli attacks have been reported in the so-called safe zone in the past 48-hours, including an attack that killed eight people


Al Jazeera Arabic’s correspondent reported that people were injured in an attack on a tent, while Doctors Without Borders, or MSF, said its clinic in the encampment was damaged by a huge ‘blast’


Israeli forces killed 20 aid workers in Gaza in the past month

Israeli air attacks on Gaza have killed at least 20 aid workers in the period between October 10 and November 13, according to charity organisations working in the enclave.

“Staff were killed in their homes, in displacement camps and while delivering life-saving aid,” the groups said in a new report. “Many aid workers lost close family members and relatives.”

These include four engineers and workers with an Oxfam partner, who were killed on October 19 while on their way to repair water infrastructure in Khuza’a, east of Khan Younis. “Despite prior coordination with Israeli authorities, their clearly-marked vehicle was attacked,” the report said.

More than 300 aid workers have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched its war in October of last year. This is the highest number ever recorded in any single crisis in the world.



SvennoJ 12 hours ago

Main points for November 13th

  • At least 33 people were killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza on Wednesday, including five in a strike on the Maghazi camp in central Gaza and two in an attack on a tented camp west of Nuseirat.
  • The UN special rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri, said Israel’s military has used “starvation as a tool to kill people and to forcibly displace people” in north Gaza, which has been under a deadly weeks-long siege.
  • Israel’s military continued to bombard Beirut’s southern suburbs, where several residential buildings have been levelled over repeated attacks since Wednesday morning.
  • Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem promised to defeat Israel after the group claimed a drone attack, for the first time, on Israel’s military headquarters and the Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv.
  • White House special envoy Amos Hochstein said he thinks “there is a shot” at a truce in Lebanon soon, despite Israel’s new Defence Minister Israel Katz again ruling out a ceasefire.
  • EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, proposed the bloc suspend political dialogue with Israel, citing “serious concerns about possible breaches of international humanitarian law in Gaza”, Reuters reported.




SvennoJ 12 hours ago

Germans REVOLT Against Complicity In Israel's Genocide


Over 1,000 German academics, civil servants and intellectuals - and international figures - have condemned Germany for its complicity in genocide.


Why did Sky News delete factual Amsterdam report?


The Grayzone's Wyatt Reed and Max Blumenthal discuss Sky News' deletion of one of the few accurate reports on Israeli hooligans instigating violence in Amsterdam, and how it replaced it with a piece jam-packed with propaganda.

 

Surgeon breaks down in parliament explaining how IDF drones target children

Ex-NHS surgeon Nizam Mamode broke down as he told the international development committee what he witnessed when working as a surgeon in Gaza.



Beating a dead horse

Blinken caught lying, left red-faced by contradiction from own department | Janta Ka Reporter

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday healed more embarrassment on himself by blatantly lying on Israel. Little did he realise that his utterances were sharply contradicted by his own department.



SvennoJ 12 hours ago

Bernie Sanders announces vote to block US arms sales to Israel

The US senator said he plans to bring to the floor of the Senate next week a number of resolutions to “block certain offensive weapons sales to Israel”.

“There is no longer any doubt that Netanyahu’s extremist government is in clear violation of US and international law as it wages a barbaric war against the Palestinian people in Gaza,” Sanders said in a statement on X.

“This war has been conducted almost entirely with American weapons and $18 billion in US taxpayer dollars. Israel has dropped US-provided 2,000 pound bombs into crowded neighbourhoods, killed hundreds of civilians to take out a handful of Hamas fighters, and made little effort to distinguish between civilians and combatants. These actions are immoral and illegal, he wrote.

Hopefully Bernie can get something through, come Januari chances are zero. Biden also better hurry up getting Ukraine stocked up and remove restrictions so they can actually properly defend themselves.


For Januari it's looking very grim

Where do Trump’s picks stand on Israel?

The President-elect has been announcing the names of people he plans to nominate for key positions in his administration and cabinet.

Here’s a look at where some of them stand on Israel:

  • Marco Rubio, Trump’s pick for Secretary of State, has had a hawkish stance on Israel’s war on Gaza, telling an activist in 2023 that Hamas was “100 percent to blame” for the deaths of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
  • Trump’s nominee for US Ambassador to the United Nations, Elise Stefanik, told Israel’s parliament in May US military aid to Israel should be unrestricted and has threatened to cut university funding over anti-war protests.
  • Mike Huckabee, who Trump want as US ambassador to Israel, is an evangelical Christian who has called himself an “unapologetic, unreformed Zionist” and said “there’s really no such thing as a Palestinian.”
  • Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s choice for director of national intelligence, has long railed against what she terms “radical Islam” and been associated with right-wing Hindu groups and pro-Israeli positions.