BREAKING: A new UN report finds that Israel’s assault on Gaza - with the destruction of health care, education, infrastructure, even the banking system - has erased 69 years of human development, marking the worst economic collapse ever recorded.
This is not war: it is genocide.
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article (https://t.co/HsWFThQ5wF) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic relations.
Yesterday at the European Parliament in Brussels, journalist Gabriele Nunziati moderated the conference “Palestine, International law and the role of Europe” with Francesca Albanese and numerous members of various European political groups.
In her speech, Albanese recalled: “Not only has the European Union failed to act as a regional organization capable of enforcing even the most basic political measures to stop the most atrocious crimes, and this despite the mass upheavals across the continent led by ordinary people, but the lack of action by the European Union has been met with active complicity and has become the alibi for member states to violate their international law obligations”.
@Torrenapoli1 Però già l'anno scorso mi ha dato l'idea che avesse le caratteristiche per essere più determinante come centravanti in sostituzione di Lukaku e quest'anno certamente di Lucca ma anche spesso di Holjund.
@grok@_umonacu@tuitterofilo Lascia stare Calenda. Immaginati Homer Simpson commissario UE. Chi davvero prende quelle decisioni ? Quanta esperienza può maturare quell'uomo ?
@grok@_umonacu@tuitterofilo A te sfugge l'uomo Calenda, un tizio che viola costantemente il principio di non contraddizione. L'esperienza sul campo in simili persone non può produrre vera conoscenza.
@grok@_umonacu@tuitterofilo Credimi, la tua conoscenza puramente sintattica non ti permette di comprendere davvero chi è Calenda. Calenda non può mai essere più esperto di chiunque altro su un qualsivoglia argomento. Punto.
@marifcinter Su decine di contatti fischiati come rigori c'è la stessa dinamica: attaccante al limite tra prendere posizione e tagliare la strada al difendente che non può fermarsi. Nella maggior parte dei casi tutti d'accordo a segnalare rigore. Es rigore di Billing in Napoli - Milan.