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The UK, France, Germany and Italy have condemned as "unacceptable" the Israeli government's decision to publish tenders to build a settlement that could kill off any two-state solution.
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband called it a "destructive act" and summoned Israel's top diplomat in the UK.
The E1 settlement project would cut the occupied West Bank off from East Jerusalem, which Palestinians consider the capital of their future state.
“Do You Support Israel’s Right to Exist?” Mehdi Hasan FIRES BACK
Mehdi Hasan: I've been debating hardcore Zionists, Israeli supporters of Israel, for years. And the conversation always comes back to one talking point:
“Do you, or do you not support Israel’s right to exist?”
If you don't, you're an extremist, you're an anti-Semite, you want to wipe Israel and millions of Israeli Jews off the map.
But you don't have to concede on this point. It's a bullshit argument.
Number one: Right to exist where?
Israel is the only country in the world that refuses to define its borders.
So if you want me to recognize Israel's right to exist, does that extend into Gaza, the West Bank, the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem all considered illegally occupied territory under international law?
So, right to exist where?
Number two: What is this right to exist? Where does it come from?
States don't have a right to exist. People, individuals have a right to exist. Human beings have that right. Not states, not countries.
The USSR broke up into Russia and 14 other states. Yugoslavia broke up. Czechoslovakia split into Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
What happened to their “right to exist”?
People have rights, not states.
And number three: If there is a right to exist, does Palestine have a right to exist?
Israel exists. It's a country with sovereignty, it's on the map.
The idea that in a world where Israel is genociding the Palestinians in Gaza, ethnically cleansing them in the West Bank, and blocking their legal right to return the idea that Israel's right to exist is the one we should be concerned about, and not Palestine's, is both ridiculous and, let's be honest, racist.
A fuel truck exploded in China with such force that it left behind a 15-foot crater. 😳💥
The kind of blast that makes you realize just how much energy is packed into everyday industrial vehicles.
Absolutely terrifying footage.
'WE WILL NEVER FORGET' — PM Takaichi HONORS Imperial Japanese soldiers amid standoff with Russia over Kuril Islands
'Those who fell on the battlefield' and 'in distant lands...'
'Some of their remains have yet to be returned, we will devote EVERY EFFORT to bringing them back'
auth bringing stumbling blockade to dev & involvement in fin emblezment at local lvl. It become more interested to power & auth, establishing their hegemony on ppl they were suppose to serve. Hence, new provinces r a need/neccessity to prosperous, integreted & soveriegn Pakistan
Its not restd to good governance alone, it couple, Recognition, Ident, Equality & Justice to diff caste & creed living in silence within ambit of Pakistan natl. For decades 4 enjoyed all recognition, auth/power, governance & previlages achieving nothing except hegemony to rule.
Editorial: "Pakistan’s problem is less a shortage of provinces than excessive centralisation of every kind of power. Without empowered LGs and devolved resources, creating new provinces will not improve governance. The more immediate task should be to make LGs genuinely functional."
https://t.co/1bcsjGmM3g
stagnancy. LG's are yet another blockade to dev & prosperity but an anxiety. During Musharaf regime, LGs were empowered with a view to close interaction with ppl & quick resolution of problems facing ppl & dev but those instead smooth func & dev resorted to rift with provincial
"Did you know that all those Iranian threats against Trump’s life that we’ve been hearing about recently come from… Israeli intelligence? And did you know that they aren’t considered all that credible by the U.S. intelligence community?
SURPRISE!"
Me:
https://t.co/EIgSICqqJm
Pakistan just cannot delay structural reforms anymore. Governance must be measured in outcomes, not process. My analysis on the debate over new provinces
While enjoying perk n privilages when on board, one tend to oversight & forget his role as Judge meant to be citizen shield, contrary, work as a mole to keep secure posn & statusquo, felling to Yes Sir, syndrome. When lost uselessness & ruined,nothing at stakes, resorts to Op-Ed
Op-Ed: "The gravest damage was done not by generals or bureaucrats but by judges. The judiciary was meant to be the citizen’s shield — the one institution whose purpose is to say no to power on the authority of law. But it too was a colonial inheritance, and carried the reflex in its bones: under the Raj it had served the sovereign, not the subject, and at independence it transferred that loyalty from the departed Crown to the new establishment, not the people. So when the tanks rolled, the courts, again and again, said yes."
https://t.co/UnifCddHCH
Former dictator Bashar al-Assad has been sentenced to death by a Syrian court.
He is accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during Syria's 14-year conflict that killed half a million people.
Assad is no longer in Syria after fleeing to Moscow with his family when his regime was overthrown nearly two years ago, ending the Assads' nearly 50 years of Syrian rule.
Syria's new rulers have asked Russia to hand the Assads over.
#News #Channel4News #C4News #Syria #alAssad
SHOCKING: A man from Sudan confronted Dubai's ruler Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum in London over the UAE's support and backing of the genocidal RSF terrorists.
The Dubai ruler's entourage responds with: “F*ck you and f*ck your people. Motherf*cker, Black b*tch.”
"جمعہ کے دن مکہ مکرمہ میں سعودی عرب، پاکستان اور ترکیہ کے درمیان ایک دفاعی معاہدہ سائن کیا گیا، جس میں ولی عہد محمد بن سلمان، ترکیہ کے صدر جناب رجب طیب اردوان اور میں نے پاکستان کی جانب سے اس معاہدے پر دستخط کیے۔
اس کا مقصد خطے میں امن، ترقی اور خوشحالی کو فروغ دینا ہے۔ اس کا مقصد قطعاً یہ نہیں کہ کوئی جارحیت ہو، یہ مکمل دفاع، خطے میں امن اور ترقی کے لیے ہے، ناصرف ان تین ممالک کے درمیان بلکہ پوری مسلم امہ کے لیے یہ معاہدہ انتہائی باعثِ تقویت ہے۔"
وزیراعظم محمد شہباز شریف کی کابینہ اجلاس سے گفتگو
🚨 BREAKING:
It was confirmed that Israel attacked Saudi Arabia’s largest refinery and Britain’s base in Cyprus to make Iran appear responsible. The false information is now being spread directly on social media.
@emmanuelnavon@IsraelinJapan Dear aparthied Ambassdor of the aparthied state of illegal Israel, you wont be able to befool the world by laying wreath on the memorial of Japan victims of WW-II, potentially equating it to Jews killings due to Jews disloyalty/dishonesty to Germany & its defense during WW-II.