🇺🇸 Mr. Ambassador @BillWhiteUSA,
I urge you to exercise greater restraint and to view your role in its proper context. It is inappropriate to publicly criticize a country and tarnish its image simply because you disagree with judicial proceedings. I have already told you this. Would you consider it acceptable for our Ambassador in Washington to do the same?
In Belgium, the judiciary is independent and makes its decisions—whether one agrees with them or not—free from any political influence.
I recall that the proceedings in question were initiated by representatives of the Jewish community themselves. To portray those as a country’s desire to undermine the religious freedom of Jews is defamatory. This freedom has never been called into question and never will be in our country. Our Constitution protects it.
And it is not for an ambassador to dictate the government’s agenda.
@BelgiumMFA@StateSEAS@SecRubio@DeputySecState
🇮🇱 Enough with these caricatures, Minister @gidonsaar.
In Belgium, the judiciary is independent and makes its decisions —whether one agrees with them or not— free from any political influence. I recall that the proceedings in question were initiated by representatives of the Jewish community themselves. To portray those as a country’s desire to undermine the religious freedom of Jews is defamatory. This freedom has never been called into question and never will be in our country. Our Constitution protects it.
Since you yourself recently urged against conducting diplomacy via Twitter, I suggest that we discuss all these issues during a meeting in Israel at a time that suits you best, in order to put an end to any misinterpretations.
@BelgiumMFA
Israel has granted a perpetrator of war crimes in Gaza the honor of lighting a ceremonial torch on Independence Day. By choosing Rabbi Avraham Zarbiv to represent “the spirit of the nation,” Israel is making genocide part of its official national ethos.
“There’s nothing for them to go back to in Rafah and Jabalya… Tens of thousands of families have no documents, childhood photos, ID cards, homes. Nothing.” This boast was made by Rabbi Avraham Zarbiv, an Israeli Rabbi who perpetrated war crimes who has been chosen to light a torch at Israel’s Independence Day ceremony, today, April 21. This is one of the highest accolades in the country, granted to “exemplary citizens” who represent “the spirit of the nation.”
Rabbi Zarbiv served about 500 days as a military reservist in Gaza over the last two and a half years. As a bulldozer operator during the genocide, he carried out war crimes of which he has openly boasted in videos he filmed, media interviews and public talks.
Bestowing one of the highest civilian honors in Israel on a citizen who committed war crimes illustrates how deeply the dehumanization of Palestinians has taken root in the Israeli mainstream. It is yet another terrifying signal that genocide has officially become part of the national ethos. Rabbi Avraham Zarbiv is a regional rabbinical court judge for the settlement of Ariel, and head the pre-military academy in the settlement of Beit El that educates hundreds of Israeli youth. Choosing him as an “exemplary citizen” represents a state-level endorsement of the complete de-humanization of Palestinians, systematic destruction of Palestinian life and the governing logic of annihilation and ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Zarbiv is not ashamed of his actions, neither, clearly is the State of Israel. We’vecompiled some documentation here to mark the occasion.
Minister lekt beelden naar een krant. Zogezegd een grote gevaarlijke drone. In werkelijkheid: een politiehelicopter. Stapt dramatisch op uit een TV programma, om vervolgens te graaien in de bak met legeraankopen. Wat volgt is een miljoenenbestelling zonder aanbesteding…
@groen heeft gelijk. Dit moet tot op het bot worden uitgezocht. Niet alleen door Pano, maar boven alles door het parlement.
House of Cards is er niks tegen ♦️
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As of March 2026, some 9,446 Palestinians are held in Israeli prisons; 4,691 of them are under administrative detention, imprisoned without charge, trial, or the ability to defend themselves.
Even during the illegal and deadly Israeli-American attack on Iran, Israel continues to operate a network of torture camps for Palestinian prisoners from north to south, where they are subjected to systematic abuse, including physical and psychological violence, inhuman conditions, starvation and denial of medical treatment.
84 identified Palestinians, including one minor, have died in Israeli torture camps over the last two years, and there is grave concern that the real number is higher.
This policy persists with the full support of Israel’s political establishment, judicial system, prison authorities and media. The Israel Prison Service and the Minister for National Security have publicly bragged about the harsh conditions imposed on Palestinian prisoners.
These torture camps are part of the planned, extensive assault Israel is waging against Palestinian society, intended to break down and destroy Palestinians as a group.
Link to our report “Living Hell” >> https://t.co/vHSdH4GFsG
Israel exposes its new "security" doctrine, grounded in international crimes.
To avoid being dragged into a guerrilla war, "this time it seizes territory and removes the population, thereby ensuring full freedom of action", explains Prof Y Levy openly.
https://t.co/dQfdhpTf8W
Do yourself a favor and watch this brilliant and succinct lecture by Walid Khalidi on the Nakba, the British Mandate, and the 1947 UN resolution to partition #Palestine and establish a settler colonial state. There is no better review. https://t.co/HRej6wz1uh
Meanwhile in Gaza, Israel tightened the siege, closed the crossings, and threatens to plunge 2 million people into a new hunger crisis.
Yet, humanitarian organisations warned incessantly that essential goods are in short supply despite the "ceasefire".
https://t.co/3b1Oswool3