Mohamed ElBaradei

Husband, Father, Grandfather
DG Emeritus @IAEAorg
Nobel Peace Laureate

[Mohamed ElBaradei @ElBaradei]

القمع لم ولن يكون الحل. كما أقول دوماً: الأوطان تبنى بالحرية لا بالبطش، وبالعلم لا بالجهل،وبالشفافية لا بالتدليس،وبالشراكة لا بالإقصاء،وبالأمل لا بالخوف،وبالمؤسسات لا بالأفراد.العدل والتوافق المجتمعى ونبذ العنف مدخلنا الوحيد وغير ذلك إنتحار جماعى. من أين نبدأ ؟

[Moulin Emmanuel 🟣 @MoulinEmmanuel3]

Tout à fait d’accord avec la Nobel autrichienne Elfriede Jelinek, dont le père juif a survécu au nazisme, lorsqu’elle dénonce le « mensonge » du discours occidental sur une solution à deux États.

La prix Nobel de littérature Elfriede Jelinek estime que le discours occidental sur une solution à deux États au Proche-Orient relève désormais du « mensonge ». Selon elle, la colonisation et l’accaparement des terres palestiniennes rendent impossible, dans les conditions actuelles, l’émergence d’un État palestinien. Son texte a été publié vendredi 28 août sur son site internet.

Dans ce texte intitulé In einem ausgelobten Land («en terre promise»), l’écrivaine autrichienne de 79 ans regrette que les dirigeants européens continuent d’évoquer un Etat palestinien «en feignant d’ignorer qu’il n’y en aura jamais, au train où vont les choses».

Elle critique également les « faits accomplis » créés par l’expansion des colonies et appelle notamment à des sanctions européennes contre l’accaparement des terres et les violences commises contre les Palestiniens.

Source :
https://t.co/tvBf8DZzkN

[Mohamed ElBaradei @ElBaradei]

When one man upends the entire world economy …

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: A global sell-off in government bonds intensified on Tuesday, pushing up borrowing costs and rattling investors. https://t.co/zn5nVjABp6

[Mohamed ElBaradei @ElBaradei]

One people, one army, one land
cleansed of Arabs
أرجو ان يكون لدي الإعلام العربي المصداقية والضمير لترجمة هذا المقال الكاشف بقلم الكاتبة الاسرائيلية المعروفة أميرة هاس لتدرك شعوبنا حقيقة ماتخطط له وتفعله اسرائيل حاليا "لتفريغ" كل فلسطين من الفلسطينيين
تطهير عرقي غير مسبوق وتواطؤ وخنوع إجرامي من قبل الجميع

[Ami Dar @AmiDar]

This piece by the great Amira Hass, published in Haaretz today, is too urgent and important to be behind a paywall, so I've copied the whole thing here. Please read and share.

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Israel Isn't Debating a Palestinian State. It's Preparing for Expulsion.

Gadi Eisenkot's position on Palestinian statehood is beside the point. Across Gaza, the West Bank and Israel itself, the machinery for making Palestinian life impossible is already operating, laying the groundwork for mass expulsion

Gadi Eisenkot, the election frontrunner and leader of the Yashar party, has a stance on a Palestinian state that is ultimately irrelevant. What is at stake today is not a "diplomatic solution," but the very existence of the Palestinian people between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. The Israeli forces striving to "erase" them recognize no limits or restraints. Their supporters are too numerous for us to rely solely on the steadfastness and resilience of a people that has already endured expulsion plans carried out by Israel.

The world stands by. The left is tiny, weak and hoarse from sounding too many warnings. The anti-Bibi opposition oscillates among downplaying the danger, remaining indifferent to it and outright supporting expulsion. The sporadic condemnations, prompted mainly by something the U.S. ambassador posted on X, are about as useful as a sieve in a rainstorm. The Jewish Phalangists attack constantly and everywhere, not only in Qusra.

The debate over one state, two states or a federation is more theoretical than ever. Any agreed-upon solution requires first acknowledging the problem and agreeing on what it is. Too many Jews in Israel have been conditioned to believe that the problem is the very presence in this land of a Palestinian people with roots, historical and economic continuity, cultural capital and material assets, a rich agricultural heritage and a profound love of homeland.

"Erasure" is the nightmare solution being written into reality every day. Knesset laws, politicians' declarations, military orders, school textbooks and the holy real estate battalions operating in Gaza, the West Bank and the Negev all work, together and separately, to advance this "solution" diligently and without fear of international condemnation.

Israeli policy is directed toward making life unbearable for Palestinians wherever they live, so that their emigration can be described as an act of free will. Within Israel itself, the authorities give Arab crime organizations free rein to arm themselves and kill Palestinian citizens in their homes. In the West Bank, those same Israeli authorities give "God's battalions" free rein to arm themselves, kill and expel, while the official army continues its raids day and night. In devastated and thirsty Gaza, the government and the army cultivate armed militias of criminal collaborators, while Israeli pilots continue to launch missiles of revenge and retribution that claim the lives of still more children. All these testosterone-fueled displays are interconnected.

At the same time, Israel is destroying or severely restricting Palestinians' ability to earn a living. In Gaza, that mission has been completed. A "living dead" population of aid recipients, two million people carrying the weight of some 74,000 fresh graves, families and memories, talents and professions, and evaporated savings, is crammed into roughly 150 square kilometers of scorched earth. Creativity, resourcefulness and mutual aid are dwarfed by the scale of the destruction and by Israel's prohibition on rebuilding and recovery.

In the West Bank, the Finance Ministry's financial noose is tightening around the necks of approximately three million people and the Palestinian Authority. The systematic theft of revenues is compounded by the army's campaigns of destruction in cities and refugee camps, as well as by the other methods used to prevent Palestinians from cultivating and developing their land: checkpoints, bureaucratic prohibitions, fences and Israeli-Jewish shepherds.

Within Israel itself, the "Judaization of the Galilee and Negev" was and remains code for stealing land and resources from Palestinian citizens of Israel. Discrimination against them in allocations, subsidies and employment, along with building prohibitions and demolitions, has always featured prominently in official policy within the Green Line.

Let me reiterate: The very existence of the Palestinian people between the sea and the river is now in danger. Too many active forces are creating that danger: Israel's military might and capabilities; the cult of military service under all conditions and under every government; obedience as a value; weapons and military attacks as the default modus operandi; the normalization of PTSD among soldiers and of soldiers dying by suicide; the attractions of a military career and the doors it opens; the lure of an affordable villa in a Galilee exclusionary community or a settler suburb in Samaria; the falsehoods of official and unofficial propaganda; indifference to the hell on earth Israel has created in the Gaza Strip; denial of 60 years of occupation and forced rule; the Pavlovian response, "But October 7"; the synergy among the army, the government, the rabbis and the kippa-wearing militias in the West Bank; equanimity in the face of Lebanon's destruction; disregard for the occupation of more parts of Syria; the normalization of expulsion discourse; justice and education systems tainted by secular and religious racism; and the army of jailers who abuse thousands of Palestinian prisoners, both under orders and by choice.

Together, these and similar forces are creating the material, ideological and psychological infrastructure within Israeli-Jewish society for another mass expulsion of Palestinians and for what might accompany it: mass slaughter.

The heroes of the settler militias openly declare that expulsion is their goal. They clearly recognize the readiness of large segments of Israeli-Jewish society to participate in carrying it out, actively or passively, directly or indirectly. Through their daily provocations and crimes, committed in broad daylight and made possible only by institutional support, the Phalangists constantly seek to provoke a Palestinian act of rage and revenge that "succeeds," so that it can be exploited as the match that ignites a new holy war.

The Jewish Phalangists and the right-wing organizations that fuel them are counting on broad mobilization, including from the leaders, voters and supporters of Yashar and the liberal Democrats party, for a war that could already be given the slogan: "One people, one army, one land cleansed of Arabs."

[Mohamed ElBaradei @ElBaradei]

كل الشكر والتقدير لجنوب أفريقيا @GovernmentZA على الشجاعة والقيادة في دعم سيادة القانون والقيم الإنسانية دفاعا عن الشعب الفلسطيني في وقتٍ تخاذل فيه الكثيرون وانكمشوا في زاوية ...

[The Palestine Chronicle @PalestineChron]

South Africa has officially submitted a substantial dossier to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), detailing Israel’s continued non-compliance with legally binding provisional measures.

The submission, formally handed over on 25 August 2026, serves to assist an ICJ committee of judges tasked with monitoring the implementation of the court’s orders in Gaza.

According to the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO), Israel’s non-compliance directly undermines the protective functions of international justice.

Hence, the submission is a vital milestone in the struggle for global accountability. By formally documenting Israel’s refusal to adhere to the court’s binding provisional measures, Pretoria is doing far more than advocating for Palestinian survival.

Read the latest commentary by Iqbal Jassat.

https://t.co/u2cdsJcmVr

[Mohamed ElBaradei @ElBaradei]

Thank you South Africa @GovernmentZA for your courage and leadership in upholding the rule of law and the basic human values at a time when many others cowered in the corner…

[The Palestine Chronicle @PalestineChron]

South Africa has officially submitted a substantial dossier to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), detailing Israel’s continued non-compliance with legally binding provisional measures.

The submission, formally handed over on 25 August 2026, serves to assist an ICJ committee of judges tasked with monitoring the implementation of the court’s orders in Gaza.

According to the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO), Israel’s non-compliance directly undermines the protective functions of international justice.

Hence, the submission is a vital milestone in the struggle for global accountability. By formally documenting Israel’s refusal to adhere to the court’s binding provisional measures, Pretoria is doing far more than advocating for Palestinian survival.

Read the latest commentary by Iqbal Jassat.

https://t.co/u2cdsJcmVr

[Mohamed ElBaradei @ElBaradei]

استمرارا للوضع الغير إنساني فى غزة والضفة الغربية من قتل وتدمير وتجويع تعاني منظمة الأونروا - شريان الحياه للاجئين الفلسطينين فى كافة المجالات الإنسانية من غذاء وصحة وتعليم - من وضعاً مالياً يقترب بها من حافة الانهيار نتيجة توقف بعض المانحين الرئيسيين عن التمويل وفى مقدمتهم الولايات المتحدة ( عجزاً نقدياً فورياً في ميزانية هذا العام يبلغ ١٠٠ مليون دولار وفجوة فى الميزانية تقدر ب ٢٧٥ مليون دولارً ، اما الفجوة الإجمالية بين الاحتياجات الإنسانية الفعلية والتمويل المتاح فحدث ولا حرج !)

هذا بالإضافة إلى منع دولة الاحتلال @UNRWA من ممارسة عملها فى غزة بالرغم من المساعدات المكدسة بالخارج….

يبدو أننا في حقيقة الأمر قررنا أن نكتفي بمشاهدة عملية ممنهجة للقضاء على ماتبقى من أهل فلسطين وسط الحديث المضحك المبكي عن ضرورة قيام دولة فلسطينية بينما يستمر "مجلس السلام" البائس في التعامل مع غزة كمشروع تطوير عقاري لبناء منتجعات سياحية فاخرة…

ومازلنا نتكلم عن تأييد الشعب الفلسطيني …
رحم الله جورج ارول !

[Mohamed ElBaradei @ElBaradei]

It’s essential that any national or international institution including @UN remains lean and focused on its mission.

However, to cut one fifth of the UŃ’s workforce mostly in the fields of human rights, conflict prevention and peace building, where it is needed the most, forced primarily by #US non payment of its dues, is not only illegal and contrary to the principles of democracy and shared responsibility enshrined in the UN Charter, but is more akin to ransom…

What is equally distressing is the silence from the rest of the membership and the absence of any readiness to come to the rescue!

The trajectory is bleak…

[Mohamed ElBaradei @ElBaradei]

To all the psychopaths out there :
It’s not the lack of money ; it’s the inhumane mindset…

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.”

— Tony Benn

[Mohamed ElBaradei @ElBaradei]

@GordonBrown on #Gaza “Board of Peace” !

[temudjin @iamgasoliine]

Its founding document, Brown argues, is closer “to an international property developer under the guise of making peace”. I begin a question and he interrupts: “I know what you’re going to ask.” What? “About Tony Blair. I don’t want to talk about Tony Blair.”

[Mohamed ElBaradei @ElBaradei]

Nuclear weapons are the most horrible existential threat we are living with…

A ban on nuclear testing is a key step towards getting rid of nuclear weapons…

A Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty @CTBTO was opened for signature thirty years ago…

Today only two (France and UK) out of the nine nuclear weapon states are party to the treaty …

On the #International_day_against_Nuclear_test
Let us acknowledge our dismal failure so far to move towards nuclear disarmament!

A new global security structure that does not rely on nuclear weapons is a matter of survival !

[Mohamed ElBaradei @ElBaradei]

“He has long admitted he made a “mistake” with Iraq. He felt “misled” when he learned, through a document he saw after he left government, that the US knew Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction in 2002”
A man with integrity and vision… https://t.co/tGCVONPkaD

[CNN بالعربية @cnnarabic]

"ثمة خلل فادح في الأمر".. البرادعي يقارن ميزانيات منظمات الأمم المتحدة بالإنفاق العسكري العالمي: ننفق على التسلح أكثر من 40 ضعفًا https://t.co/GBOftsm9WP

[Mohamed ElBaradei @ElBaradei]

Some key figures to reflect on:

1- UN budget for 2026 : $3.45 billion

2- UN peace keeping 2025- 26
$5.38 billion

3- Rest of UN system of organizations: $58 billion

Entire UN system per year : $67 billion

Global military expenditure 2025 :
$2.887 trillion

We spend over 40 times on armaments compared to what we spend on multinational cooperation for a better world…

Something is terribly WRONG !

[Mohamed ElBaradei @ElBaradei]

I join the people of Norway in mourning the passing of King Harald V. I had the honor of meeting him some years ago and remember vividly his remarkable warmth and humanity. He embodied the dignity of a principled monarch while never losing the humility of a deeply humane man. My heartfelt condolences to the Royal Family and to the people and pgovernment of Norway.
#KingHaraldV

[Mohamed ElBaradei @ElBaradei]

An accurate description of the inhumane conditions in #Gaza under the jurisdiction of the failing Board of Peace. This is the outcome of an irresponsible and unprecedented decision by the Security Council to “outsource” its core mandate of “maintaining international peace and security” !

[Robert Malley @Rob_Malley]

An implacable, clinical takedown of the Board of Peace’s record in Gaza:

[Financial Times @FT]

Opinion: The pretence that America’s leader is a grand strategist will not survive the Iran fiasco. https://t.co/zM7B5NJlz8

[Mohamed ElBaradei @ElBaradei]

@mahmoudnour2020 ربنا يكرمك يامحمود ويوفقك دايما

[Mohamed ElBaradei @ElBaradei]

صدق او لاتصدق: اليوم هو #اليوم_العالمي_للعمل_الإنساني

[World Food Programme @WFP]

Conflict drives hunger. Hunger fuels instability. And the cycle is accelerating.

From Somalia to crises worldwide, conflict is taking away people’s homes, livelihoods and access to food, leaving families with impossible choices.

Acting @WFPChief Carl Skau urges the UN Security Council to turn recognition into action and help break the conflict-hunger cycle.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

“Being hated by idiots is the price you pay for not being one of them.”

- Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau’s sharp observation captures the social cost of thinking independently. When you refuse to follow the crowd, criticism and resistance often come with the territory, serving less as proof that you are wrong and more as evidence that you are willing to think for yourself.

People who never look beyond the surface may reject ideas they cannot understand, meaning disapproval from narrow-minded people can sometimes reinforce your intellectual freedom. Trying to gain everyone’s approval can force you to compromise your own beliefs, making opposition a natural price of living authentically.

[Karim Emile Bitar @karimbitar]

In 1993, Zbigniew Brzezinski warned that US hubris could help create an “Alliance of the Aggrieved”: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea etc

Funny to see Trump’s madness creating a second, very different coalition of the aggrieved: Canada, the EU, Switzerland, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Mexico and, increasingly, India.

It took the author of ‘The Art of the Deal’ to produce not one but two alliances of the aggrieved, one composed of America’s old adversaries and the other of its erstwhile friends!