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@Heidi__Matthews Good point. Also shows the ignorance of being opposed to ‘violent resistance’. As if anyone demands of self-defense to be non-violent.

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@MartinKonecny Interesting, definitely said with the domestic court case against the Netherlands’ failure to protect ICC officials from Israeli interference and harassment in mind

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@kevinjonheller Dutch media are completely quiet on this matter

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@kevinjonheller Unlikely. The former director of the Dutch intelligence service is set to become PM of the new (far) right government. The country is sick of waiting for new gov, so any involvement during his tenure will prob be downplayed

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@ytirawi Thank you for your work. How do you find which unit they worked in?

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@AdHaque110 Quibbles with Quigley

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Can we stop calling what’s happening in Gaza a “situation.” A situation is when a baby poops at an inconvenient time, not when war crimes are being committed.

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

Great post, as expected. My own take is that high political stakes reinforce the Court's formalist instincts, and deter rethinking its prior cases.

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

We now know that the document used to suspend funding for UNRWA “provides no evidence.” A scandal that should lead to wide resignations from officials in the US, UK, Germany and elsewhere
https://t.co/BzYKCbRXG9

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Can we stop calling what’s happening in Gaza a “situation.” A situation is when a baby poops at an inconvenient time, not when war crimes are being committed.

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@DrMelOB @AdHaque110 Thanks! Does this have implications for the interim measures?

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"The first genocide in history where its victims are broadcasting their own destruction in real time in the desperate, so far vain hope that the world might do something."

Blinne Ni Ghralaigh at the ICJ in the Hague

[UN News @UN_News_Centre]

South Africa legal team's Adila Hassim @CIJ_ICJ: “Genocides are never declared in advance, but this court has the benefit of the past 13 weeks of evidence that shows incontrovertibly a pattern of conduct & related intention that justifies a plausible claim of genocidal acts.”

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11/ cc @hrw @AgnesCallamard @FranceskAlbs @MustafaBarghou1 @hzomlot @AliAbunimah @4noura @asadabukhalil @antloewenstein @tparsi @ggreenwald @mehdirhasan @mattduss @briebriejoy @RaniaKhalek @OwenJones84 @yanisvaroufakis @btselem @trtworld @IntlCrimCourt

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4/ On November 7, Israel submitted a procurement request for 200 Switchblade 600s. In a response, U.S. Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh stated: “We don’t put conditions on assistance given to Israel.”
https://t.co/uH20i8buPC

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1/The Kite Runner: How an Afghan refugee became one of the leading war drone providers for the U.S. Military

Wahid Nawabi, who was born in Afghanistan and fled to the U.S. at 15, is now the CEO of a leading war drone manufacturer. Nawabi calls his story “the American dream.”

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

“My political career is a means, not an ed. It has no importance in itself.”

— Israeli Knesset member Ofer Cassif, responding to the claim that he has destroyed his political career by endorsing South Africa’s genocide charges before the International Court of Justice.