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Tut das Unnütze, singt die Lieder, die man aus eurem Mund nicht erwartet! Seid unbequem, seid Sand, nicht das Öl im Getriebe der Welt!

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

GAZA. The so called peace plan is allowing Israel to "finish the job": 450 killed; 2,500 structures destroyed; lifesaving aid blocked.
The human rights movement will not allow those responsible to run away from justice. It is not matter of if. It's matter of when.
@ICC
@CIJ_ICJ

[Clare Daly @ClareDalyIRL]

Sanaa, Tehran, now Caracus..This is Donald Trump's America -attack civilian capitals of countries that haven't attacked you!!! Unthinkable a few years ago, now normalised! These are WAR CRIMES, enabled by the 'rest of the west'. .It must stop. Viva Venezuela 🇻🇪

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Trump Keeps Admitting That He Is Bought And Owned By The World’s Richest Israeli

It’s bizarre how little mainstream attention is given to the fact that the president of the United States has repeatedly confessed to being bought and owned by the world’s richest Israeli, especially given how intensely fixated his political opposition was on the possibility that he was compromised by a foreign government during his first term.

During a speech before the Israeli parliament on Monday, President Trump once again publicly admitted that he has implemented Israel-friendly policies at the behest of Israeli-American billionaire Miriam Adelson and her late husband Sheldon, this time adding that he believes Adelson favors Israel over the United States.

Here’s a transcript of Trump’s remarks:

“As president, I terminated the disastrous Iran nuclear deal, and ultimately, I terminated Iran’s nuclear program with things called B2 bombers. It was swift and it was accurate, and it was a military beauty. I authorized the spending of billions of dollars, which went to Israel’s defense, as you know. And after years of broken promises from many other American presidents — you know that they kept promising — I never understood it until I got there. There was a lot of pressure put on these presidents. It was put on me, too, but I didn’t yield to the pressure. But every president for decades said, ‘We’re going to do it.’ The difference is I kept my promise and officially recognized the capital of Israel and moved the American Embassy to Jerusalem.

“Isn’t that right Miriam? Look at Miriam. She’s back there. Stand up. Miriam and Sheldon [Adelson] would come into the office and call me. They’d call me — I think they had more trips to the White House than anybody else, I guess. Look at her sitting there so innocently — got $60 billion in the bank, $60 billion. And she loves, and she, I think she said, ‘No, more.’ And she loves Israel, but she loves it. And they would come in. And her husband was a very aggressive man, but I loved him. It was a very aggressive, very supportive of me. And he’d call up, ‘Can I come over and see you? I’d say ‘Sheldon, I’m the president of the United States. It doesn’t work that way.’ He’d come in. But they were very responsible for so much, including getting me thinking about Golan Heights, which is probably one of the greatest things ever happened. Miriam, stand up, please. She really is, I mean, she loves this country. She loves this country. Her and her husband are so incredible. We miss him so dearly. But I actually asked her, I’m going to get her in trouble with this. But I actually asked her once, I said, ‘So Miriam, I know you love Israel. What do you love more? The United States or Israel?’ She refused to answer. That means — that might mean Israel, I must say, we love you. Thank you, darling, for being here. That’s a great honor. Great honor. She’s a wonderful woman. She is a great woman.”

Sheldon Adelson reportedly gave Trump and the Republicans over $424 million in campaign funding from 2016 up until his death in 2021. His widow Miriam continued her husband’s legacy and poured a further $100 million into Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.

On the 2024 campaign trail Trump also admitted to being controlled by Adelson cash. Here’s a transcript of those remarks:

“Just as I promised, I recognize Israel’s eternal capital and opened the American embassy in Jerusalem. Jerusalem became the capital. I also recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.

“You know, Miriam and Sheldon would come into the White House probably almost more than anybody outside of people that work there. And they were always after — and as soon as I’d give them something — always for Israel. As soon as I’d give them something, they’d want something else. I’d say, ‘Give me a couple of weeks, will you, please?’ But I gave them the Golan Heights, and they never even asked for it.

“You know, for 72 years they’ve been trying to do the Golan Heights, right? And even Sheldon didn’t have the nerve. But I said, ‘You know what?’ I said to David Friedman, ‘Give me a quick lesson, like five minutes or less on the Golan Heights.’ And he did. And I said, ‘Let’s do it.’ We got it done in about 15 minutes, right?”

Legitimizing Israel’s illegal annexation of the Golan Heights and moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem were two of the most controversial moves Trump made in Israel’s favor during his first term, which have now been eclipsed by his backing the genocide in Gaza and his bombings of Iran and Yemen.

And here is his, openly admitting that his billionaire Zionist megadonors have been using the access their donations bought them to push him to take drastic action in favor of Israel.

Just imagine for a second if someone had leaked documents to the press proving that Trump and received extensive financial backing from a Russian oligarch to whom he doled out favors of immense geopolitical consequence. It would be the biggest scandal in the history of American politics, bar none. But because it’s an Israeli oligarch, he can admit to it openly and repeatedly without anyone batting an eye.

During Trump’s first term his political rivals spent years pushing a bogus conspiracy theory that he was controlled by Vladimir Putin, despite his having spent that entire term aggressively ramping up cold war hostilities against Russia. Entire political punditry careers were birthed trying to create a scandal out of a narrative that could be plainly seen as false just by looking at the movements of the US war machine and Washington’s actions against Moscow.

But here’s Trump openly admitting to bending over backwards to give an Israeli oligarch whatever she wants because she gave his campaign huge sums of money, while pouring weapons into Israel to facilitate its mass atrocities and engaging in acts of war on Israel’s behalf. And it barely makes a blip in mainstream western politics or media.

This is because mainstream western politics and media understand that we are living in an unofficial oligarchic empire to which both the US and Israel belong. They never acknowledge it, they never talk about it, but all high-level politicians, pundits and operatives in the western world understand that they serve a globe-spanning power structure run by a loose alliance of plutocrats and empire managers. They understand that states like Israel are a part of said power structure, while states like Russia, China and Iran are not. So they spend their time normalizing the corruption and abuses of imperial member states while facilitating the empire’s efforts to attack and undermine the states which have successfully resisted being absorbed into the imperial power umbrella.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the only thing I like about Donald Trump is his infantile tendency to say the quiet part out loud. He advances the same kinds of abuses as his predecessors who were no less corrupt and controlled, but he exposes the underlying mechanics of those abuses in ways that more refined presidents never would.

Reading by Tim Foley:

[Rubi @Rummani79]

Israel tötete heute LIVE Rettungskräfte, die dabei waren einen Journalisten zu bergen. LIVE! Teilt es bitte damit jeder es sieht. Es sind noch viel zu wenige Menschen.

[Visualizing Palestine @visualizingpal]

Israel's genocide in Gaza has relied on a surge in deliveries of jet fuel from U.S. providers. In our latest visual, we expose the companies and states behind it, and the grassroots actions disrupting it.
#NoHarbourForGenocide

[Eren Güvercin @erenguevercin]

Seit 3 Monaten sitzt der wichtigste Oppositionspolitiker der Türkei #Imamoglu im Gefängnis. Vor zwei Tagen wurde sein Anwalt verhaftet. Und heute wurde einer der wichtigsten #AKP-kritischen Journalisten der #Türkei, Fatih Altayli, verhaftet. Bekommt das irgendjemand in Europa/Deutschland mit? Oder ist #Erdogan als 'Partner' so wichtig, dass man das Ganze ausblendet?

[Martin Sonneborn @MartinSonneborn]

Gerade erst am Freitag waren 3 EU-Außenminister, deren „Deeskalationsstrategien“ und Namen man sich ihrer Bedeutungslosigkeit wegen gar nicht erst merken muss, auf eigenes Betreiben mit dem iranischen Außenminister zu Verhandlungen zusammengekommen.

Keine 48 h später lässt dieser bombastische US-Friedenspräsident mit US-Bombern uranisch... Pardon: iranische Nuklearanlagen bombardieren & demonstriert damit nicht nur seinen eigenen Wählern, was er von ihnen hält („PEACE!“), sondern führt einmal mehr die qualitativ ohnedies unterirdische polit. Klasse der EU mitsamt ihrer immer lächerlicheren Positionierungs- & Verhandlungsversuche in der ihnen zu Recht zugefallenen Irrelevanz vor.

Man muss sich einmal vorstellen, dass einer solchermaßen gedemütigten EU-„Diplomatie“ in dieser Lage tatsächlich nichts Besseres einfällt, als den (mit Verlaub durch & durch behinderten) Weltkriegslegitimierungsschlachtruf des depravierten Psychopathen im Weißen Haus ein weiteres Mal papageienhaft zu repetieren (K. Kallas: „Iran must not be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon!“) – anstatt den völkerrechtswidrigen Angriff der USA auf den Iran zu konstatieren.

Wir konstatieren daher wie folgt: Da die außenpolitischen Instanzen in der EU ohnehin nichts tun, als die Slogans von Neocon-Kriegsgeigen in ihre jeweiligen Landessprachen zu übersetzen, können wir uns das Geld, das für ihre Gehälter draufgeht, eigentlich EU-weit sparen. Das macht jedes doofe Übersetzungsprogramm umsonst. Und übrigens sogar mein Hamster!

PS: Dass die USA dazu übergegangen sind, Scheinverhandlungen & Scheindiplomatie („fake negotiations“) offen als integralen Bestandteil ihrer Kriegsvorbereitung & -führung einzusetzen, ist in Wahrheit vor allem Eines: ein Vernichtungsschlag gegen die Demokratie, das Völkerrecht und die europäische Erfindung der modernen Diplomatie.

Bild: Die Außenbeauftragte K. Kallas, das diplomatische Gehirn der EU, verteidigt Frieden, Stabilität und die internationale Rechtsordnung. (Abb. ähnlich)

[🔴 Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung @rosaluxstiftung]

Das BIP scheint Teil eines religiösen Glaubenssystems, das Wachstum der Fetisch auf dem Altar. Aber was ist überhaupt Wachstum und wie konnte das BIP zur «mächtigsten Zahl der Menschheitsgeschichte» werden? Jetzt die neue Folge von Armutszeugnis hören 👉 https://t.co/WLlO8K73Tv

[Eli Valley @elivalley]

2014

[Jan-Mike Singer @Optimist1966]

Tod fürs Vaterland, das spricht sich so hin.
Welch‘ furchtbare Tragödie, welch‘ Triumph der Hölle
verbirgt sich hinter der glatten Maske dieser Worte.

(Käthe Kollwitz
in ihrem Tagebuch, nachdem ihr Sohn Peter mit 18 Jahren am 23. Oktober 1914 gefallen war.)

[Mohamed ElBaradei @ElBaradei]

Did anyone tell you sir that “ targeted strikes against nuclear facilities” are prohibited under article 56 of the additional protocol to the Geneva Conventions to which Germany is a party, and that the use of force in international relations is generally prohibited in article 2(4) of the @UN Charter with the exception of the right of self defense in the case of armed attack or upon authorization by the Security Council in the case of collective security action.

You might want to familiarize yourself with the basic tenets of international law…
#Israel
#Iran

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

What an Orwellian world we live in. Israel launches a clearly illegal and unprovoked attack on Iran, in violation of the U.N. charter, and with no imminent Iran attack in sight, or any Iranian nukes developed, and its western allies come out to say they reaffirm *Israel’s* right to defend itself, not Iran’s. The aggressor’s, not the victim of the illegal attack.
This, I guess, is the west’s ’rules-based international order.’

[Fabian Goldmann @goldi]

Hier das Drehbuch für die nächsten Tage: Appelle zur Mäßigung an "beide Seiten", Rechtfertigung von Israels Angriffskrieg, Dämonisierung des Iran, Fokus auf israelische Opfer, Sanktionen gegen Iran, völliges Desinteresse an noch größeren Massakern in Gaza, Solidarität mit Israel.

[Florian Warweg @FWarweg]

Ob @bundeskanzler #Merz und sein @AussenMinDE bei Ihren heutigen Stellungnahmen, konsequent wie sie für das Völkerrecht einstehen, jetzt auch vom “unprovozierten 🇮🇱Angriffskrieg gegen den Iran” sprechen werden? 🤔

[Reiner Keller @ReinerKeller]

#Israel ist eine Terror- und Apartheidstaat, der völkerrechtswidrig Angriffskriege führt.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

At the top: food distribution during the Holocaust.

At the bottom: food distribution during the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

[أ. د. مَكرم خُوري-مَخّوُل Dr Makram Khoury-Machool @ProfMKM]

Grand/children of #Europe’s #Holocaust survivors #IsraeliOccupation #Netenyahu have been for 15 months perpetrating in #Gaza_Strip #Palestine 2 crimes: Genocide & Ethnic Cleansing coined as #Cleansocide. The world is appalled by their crimes but failed to stop them. #Israel 🇵🇸

[duisblog @duisblog]

Es gibt genügend Gründe, warum man einen #bundeskanzler #Merz nicht wählt, aber dann bleibt man dabei. Der Rest ist heiße Luft.
#Blamage

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

Researcher Molly White says President Trump's memecoin and his other crypto ventures have opened up an easy path for buying influence. "He is really allowing for bribery and the types of corruption that we've never seen in the American presidency," says @molly0xFFF.