Israel declara persona non grata a @kajakallas por supuesta actitud antisemita y al día siguiente su colega la comisaria @dubravkasuica se planta en Tel Aviv e intercambia sonrisas y ningún reproche con el ministro @gidonsaar menuda muestra de "solidaridad y coordinación" en UE
Spotted at EU Commission HQ today.
EU hosting a "high-level" meeting on antisemitism with a government committing atrocities that has used this term as a slur to attack EU's own member govts incl. Spain & Ireland, as well as UN & ICC, thus completely distorting its meaning.
While the EU still wavers over whether it should stop trading with Israel’s settlements or just keep issuing statements on their illegality, Israel rams through EU’s red lines on settlement expansion and displacement of Palestinians
🧵Thread on EU trade with Israel's illegal settlements. It's been reported that the EU Commission is stalling member state calls to restrict import of settlement products by claiming that the volume is "too small". This is an absurd claim for a number of reasons:
Israel quadruples its budget for international propaganda to $730m.
That’s around the same as the entire EU Commission humanitarian aid to Gaza since Oct 2023, the largest donor of such aid (~€650m). https://t.co/5LszxdfxHU
UNICEF is outraged by the killing of two drivers of trucks contracted by UNICEF to provide clean water to families in the Gaza Strip.
The victims were killed by Israeli fire in an incident that took place early this morning at the Mansoura water filling point in northern Gaza. UNICEF extends our condolences to the families of the men killed.
Full statement: https://t.co/gFQLWpCcaP
On two occasions today, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers rammed UNIFIL vehicles with a Merkava tank, in one case causing significant damage. The soldiers had blocked a road in Bayada that is used to access UNIFIL positions.
*Belgian Minister of Defense* shares Rubio's 2015 fearmongering speech about the JCPOA as some kind of an act of providence. Can anyone update him that Trump ripped up the deal in 2018 and what followed is a consequence of that?
BREAKING! Amid widespread bombing across Arab regions, Israel approves its largest-ever colonial expansion. Under the "fog of war'', what I warned on 14 Oct 2023 is unfolding: the largest ethnic cleansing/land grab in Palestine, since the Nakba. It’s happening. Under our watch.
🚨Ein abgehörtes Telefonat entlarvt Moskaus Anti-Sanktions-Agenten (die ungarische Regierung).
➡️Ungarn & die Slowakei verraten Europa an Russland. Niemand braucht solche Länder in der Europäischen Union, solange sie von Marionetten Moskau regiert werden.
Two UNIFIL peacekeepers were tragically killed in south Lebanon today, when an explosion of unknown origin destroyed their vehicle near Bani Hayyan. A third peacekeeper was severely injured, and a fourth was also hurt.
Are European politicians who backed the Iran war starting to pay a political price?
In Belgium, the leading party @de_NVA quietly softened an initial cheerleading statement by its Defence Minister @FranckenTheo on its website - but it didn’t go unnoticed.
With translation:
If EU countries want to prevent this, they should activate the proposal to partially suspend the Association Agreement w/ Israel, prepared last year over Gaza.
More likely to have impact at the outset than after Lebanon is devastated and Israel entrenched in a maximalist course.
The far-right preach free speech, but the opposite is true. #Orwell
Vooruit Leader @conner_rousseau is the latest target of MAGA repression reaching into Europe.
#Belgium#België#Europe
https://t.co/alUvcIXSr5
@JorenVermeersc1 Eerst mag Francken zich excuseren voor zijn schadelijk geroeptoeter. Wat een diplomatiek brokkenparcours laat die man in zijn spoor na. Dat er daar geen woordvoerder ingrijpt (of eens naleest), krijg je niemand uitgelegd.
@BillWhiteUSA Irony at its best: The Great War did not involve Nazi Germany. It's something we teach our 10 YO's. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black