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@ericweinstein Oye we're back to Timothy Leary

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“Let the IDF win to Fuck the Arabs”

Maccabi Tel Aviv hooligans chant their genocidal song while being protected by the police in Amsterdam, this song they’re chanting has a part that says “there are no schools in Gaza because there are no children left”.

[Laurence (Larry) Boorstein @LarryBoorstein]

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) order in South Africa v Israel on genocide dated Jan 26 2024 states:
“The Court indicates the following provisional measures [Excerpted, votes omitted]
(1) The State of Israel shall, in accordance with its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, in relation to Palestinians in Gaza, take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of all acts within the scope of Article II of this Convention, in particular: (a) killing members of the group; (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; and (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(2) The State of Israel shall ensure with immediate effect that its military does not commit any acts described in point 1 above;
(3) The State of Israel shall take all measures within its power to prevent and punish the direct and public incitement to commit genocide in relation to members of the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip;
(4) The State of Israel shall take immediate and effective measures to enable the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance to address the adverse conditions of life faced by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
(5) The State of Israel shall take effective measures to prevent the destruction and ensure the preservation of evidence related to allegations of acts within the scope of Article II and Article III of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide against members of the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip;
(6) The State of Israel shall submit a report to the Court on all measures taken to give effect to this Order within one month as from the date of this Order.”

International Court of Justice orders have to be enforced by the United Nations Security Council. They could normally be enforced by sanctions and, if sanctions aren't effective, by armed force. The United States and UK, as permanent members of the Security Council, wield veto power which they have repeatedly abused to block ceasefires in Gaza. They could be expected to block enforcement of ICJ orders against "Israel." In addition, the Biden Harris Administration directly contravened the order of the Court to "Israel" to "enable ... basic services and humanitarian assistance" by cutting off funding to UNRWA. The US effectively blocks enforcement of ICJ orders and obstructs the role of the Security Council in enforcing the rule of international law.

[Abby Martin @AbbyMartin]

“Had international law been respected, the genocide would have been stopped by the security council after the first set of measures by the ICJ, before Rafah was invaded. But a small number of member states have enabled and nurtured Israel’s conduct, and their genocidal violence has only expanded. If left unpunished, it could encourage other states to carry out these acts.

Israel is not the only country to attack UN Rapporteurs. What’s striking in the case of Israel is there’s a cohort of states that echo and reverberate what Israel says and minions that produce fabrications with only one objective: to distract away from the genocide.”

UN Special Rapporteur for Occupied Palestine @FranceskAlbs after the release of her new report “Genocide as Colonial Erasure” https://t.co/vjwK1BadqH

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Noam Chomsky explained to us long ago how those in powerful positions reach those positions after a long process of ideological conditioning and careful selection via the education system. Only the very best – those most obedient to power – make it to the top. They are there to keep the system of power running smoothly.

But there is a fallback plan for when things go wrong, as they occasionally do. That happens when someone in high office steps out of line and acts in ways that threaten the power elite – when they serve the interests of humanity rather the interests of power. Then something must be done.

Such individuals are invariably dragged very publicly through the mud – as a warning to others in powerful positions to keep their consciences very much in check.

That is the context for understanding the latest "unspecified allegations of misconduct" against Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, from someone inside his office.

Khan has been requesting arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defence minister Yoav Gallant. Khan had little choice legally: both are clearly war criminals for using starvation as a weapon of war.

What is astonishing is that the judges who need to approve the arrest warrants have done nothing for six months, despite the overwhelming evidence and the obvious urgency of his request.

If you have been wondering why they have been dragging their feet for so long, well now you know. They do not want the same fate befalling them as is befalling Khan.

The power elite that rule over us have an infinite numbers of ways of destroying any individual who poses a threat to their interests.

Just look at the way they locked away Julian Assange for years on non-existent "espionage" charges.

Khan's struggles – he's being actively smeared as an antisemite too by Israel – are another teaching moment for those not already so beaten down by the system that it would never occur to them to do the right thing anyway.

The lesson they are meant to absorb is:

Don't take on power – because power will destroy you.

[Adam @AdameMedia]

NEW: 🇮🇱

Former senior Israeli government official and Netanyahu adviser, Jordana Cutler, is now the chief of Facebook's US censorship unit on Israel and Palestine.

Wow.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Israel’s Final Solution for Gaza was always clear to those of us who understood the essentially genocidal logic of Zionism. But now it should be obvious to all: the expulsion of residents of the north at gunpoint and replacement of their refugee camps with Jews-only settlements and military bases. The rest of the population will be ruthlessly pressured to accept exile or submission to a dystopian, high tech UAE-US-Israeli dictatorship, in which any expression of political protest is brutally punished. Proposals for the project are already online. Tony Blinken is reportedly pushing the Israeli-UAE “post-war plan,” undoubtedly salivating at the prospects of lavish contracts when he returns to the private sector. Netanyahu’s Likud Party is hosting conferences on settling Gaza. By pacifying Gaza, the cradle of resistance, a messianic, nuclearized and AI-adaptive settler colonial cult will have removed a key obstacle to regional domination. Though its success is far from certain, the plan is now apparent to anyone paying attention.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🚨🇮🇱🇱🇧 BREAKING: ISRAEL just BOMBED a civilian building in central Beirut, Lebanon.

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

Israeli public media is posting the Jabalia death march as the ultimate victory picture of Israel's genocide.

Children, men & women caged in a concentration camp, starved & bombed, then rounded up & forced to move to the next concentration camp to be caged, starved, & bombed!

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

My first encounter with Israelis was when I was backpacking through South America in my twenties, and I remember being shocked by how consistently awful they all were. I guess after their mandatory military service they tend to go traveling for a bit, and whenever I'd run into them they were reliably some of the nastiest people I'd ever encountered.

They weren't ever nasty to me, though. I am a white westerner, and I never had a problem with them. They were nasty to the impoverished brown-skinned people who were hosting us. They were obnoxious and bullying toward local guides, they'd leave the place in a mess, and they were always trying to screw over the locals for a better deal or extra meals or favors. One time they tricked a hostel into putting up a sign in Hebrew for other Israeli backpackers which said ugly things about our hosts (they told the hostel owner it was a great review), which I only know because they were laughing hysterically about it and told me. They consistently treated the people who were looking after us like they were much lesser than us. Their pushiness and entitlement were just unbelievable.

It was a very educational experience for me. I knew the Palestinians were being treated unfairly because my father had told me so, but I also had a great love of Jews and Jewish culture. I had visited Auschwitz and Dachau and Anne Frank's house in my travels, and I remember having some romantic ideas about kibbutzim. This was my first time directly encountering the reality that there is something unhealthy about Israeli society. Not Jews or Jewish culture, but Jewish Israelis.

Now I see evidence of this on my news feed every day, in the IDF soldiers prancing around in the undergarments of dead and displaced Palestinian women, in the AI translations of Hebrew tweets, in the polls which show widespread Israeli approval for the atrocities in Gaza, in Israeli TikTok videos mocking the suffering of the Palestinians, in the Israelis showing up in my comments justifying the worst things in the world in the most depraved ways imaginable.

My encounters with Israelis in South America were an early taste of ugly things to come. Everything I glimpsed then I've been seeing online over the past year. I keep thinking about those obnoxious pricks I met all those years ago, and about how they didn't know at the time that they were giving me very useful information for me to make use of in the future.

When Israel supporters tell you to shut up about Gaza until you've been to Israel and met Israelis, just ignore them. Don't go to Israel; you're a westerner, they'll be nice to you. Go to one of the tourist spots in the global south that Israelis like to visit, one with lots of brown-skinned people who've been colonized by the west, and watch how they treat people there. That will show you what Israelis are really like.

[Ami Dar @AmiDar]

It’s very rare for a celebrity to speak at length about a complicated situation in another country and get it right. Javier Bardem does it here, and I hope you have a few minutes to listen to this. The Spanish is beautiful and the translation is good.

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Far-right leaders gather in northern Italy for League Party rally https://t.co/R6kdUYZyQr

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⚡️BREAKING:

Russia has ordered its citizens to immediately leave Israel following Israeli airstrikes near Russia's Khmeimim base in Syria. The Russian ambassador in Tel Aviv urged citizens to consider leaving Israel "while such opportunities exist," due to the increasingly tense regional situation.

With around 1.5 million Russians living in Israel, the warning suggests a significant escalation may be imminent. Additionally, Russia has begun evacuating its citizens from Lebanon.

Source: @Megatron_ron

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

"Let us all commit to doing our part to ensure that the light of freedom never dims, that the pursuit of truth will live on, and the voices of the many are not silenced by the interests of the few" - Julian Assange today

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

On this day in 1948, UN mediator Count Bernadotte was murdered in Jerusalem by a Zionist militant organization. Count Bernadotte's presence in Palestine followed the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine and the subsequent unilateral Israeli Declaration of Independence.

[_🫥🫥🫥_ @BoycottDS]

@QudsNen The same day, 🇫🇷Colonel André Sérot, WWI combatant, resistance fighter and liberator, whose wife was deported, was also murdered by the Stern gang, at the same time as Count Bernadotte.

[If Americans Knew @ifamericansknew]

From Alison Weir's book: "On May 15th Zionists announced the creation of their new state. They decided to name it “Israel,” and chose not to set its boundaries or to write a Constitution (a situation that continues through today). Five Arab armies joined the fighting, but, contrary to general perceptions of this war, Zionist/Israeli forces outnumbered the combined Arab and Palestinian combatants.
The UN eventually managed to create a temporary and very partial ceasefire, during which Israel obtained even more armaments. A Swedish UN mediator, Count Folke Bernadotte, who had previously rescued thousands of Jews from the Nazis, was dispatched to negotiate an end to the violence. Israeli assassins killed him and Israel continued what it was to call its “war of independence...” https://t.co/aRPEP3HJnS

[Amer Amayreh @a_amayreh]

@Resist_05 (+) More about Bernadotte.

[LaMaga FreePalestine 🇵🇸 @Manishmenna]

@Resist_05 This is from 2012.

For those who are interested, here's the full interview. (Really worth watching, it's excellent!): 👇
https://t.co/qO0D9oqhUt