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[Iran Observer @IranObserver0]

⚡️JUST IN: Yemeni Tribes in Houthi Areas are Mass Mobilizing to confront Pro-Saudi Forces

80% of Yemenis live under the Ansarullah controlled Areas

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

The UK has announced sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements and says Palestinians face ‘ethnic cleansing’ in parts of the occupied West Bank. UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese calls it a ‘seismic shift’ after years of UK ‘complicity’, but says it is only the beginning.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

You’re literally still selling arms and providing intelligence to Israel.

Stop gaslighting us.

[IRIB (Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting) @iribnews_irib]

🚨 Update on foreign force (US Army) aggression and Iran's response:

The US struck 5 Iranian oil tankers last night. In response, Iran struck the following targets:
* 2 American vessels
* 8 oil tankers
* 10 US-backed violating vessels
* The American air base in Jordan

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

Mohammad Hijab destroys former IDF spokesman Jonathan Conricus

You want Americans to die for your war.

Name one Israeli who died for an American war?

You want their blood, money, and politicians, none of the risk. No reciprocity.

[Middle East Observer @ME_Observer_]

⚡️⭕️ An Israeli Air Force reserve officer to "Haaretz":
I asked the intelligence officer to input targets into the computer, and he told me: "You have 2 million targets in Gaza," meaning that anyone in the Gaza Strip is a target.
I directly participated in killing 54 people before October 7.
I watched soldiers shoot at paramedics in Tel al-Sultan in Rafah, despite it being clear that they were rescue teams.
I understood that any soldier could kill whomever they wished in Gaza, and as much as they wished, without accountability.

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

Israel lobby-backed candidate Maura Sullivan has been defeated in the #NH01 Democratic Primary.

Being pro-genocide is bad policy and bad politics!

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

Boycott Adidas till they go bust!!!

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Iran's devastating and disproportionate response to the Trump regime's aggression makes it clear that Iran is fully prepared to go all the way.
https://t.co/3NKShFGmJ8

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

In recent weeks I expressed some pretty harsh criticism of China and its extremely weak stance on Palestine. I called China out for its lack of moral leadership, and also said that I think such reluctance to engage in moral discourse on the world stage could very well be the result of an inferiority complex, and the residue of Western colonialism in China.

Now look what happened today: 11 Western countries, led by the UK - a former colonizer of China - spoke clearly and took some limited but meaningful action against Israel's erasure of Palestine.

Where does this leave China, the biggest and strongest Global South country? In the back and in the shade. Not a global leader, but a global laggard.

Now, if China even mentions Palestine, it will sound not only hypocritical, but also like it is trying to catch up with Western countries. And it is worse if they ignore it.

The UK does more for Palestine than China. Crazy and revolting as this sentence may sound, especially in light of Britain's duplicity and Zionist addition.

I am far from being a hater of China. But what Britain did today puts China to shame, and is a painful reminder that China, despite all its strength, is not a leader, and not an inspiration. It is a soft-spoken, timid and embarrassed international actor lacking both the conviction and the confidence to show the way to a better world. A powerless power inviting other players to fill the vacuum left by its nonparticipation.

And I think this is a terrible shame, and a tragically, tragically missed opportunity.

Russia and China still freely trade with Israel's most repugnant entities. The UK, Canada and other, do not.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

It's going to take a lot more than that to right the wrongs of the Balfour Declaration

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

Do Not Let Europe Wash Its Hands of Gaza by Blaming Netanyahu

Suddenly, Europe and friends have discovered their outrage.

After years of destruction in Gaza, mass displacement, starvation, demolished hospitals, dead journalists and children pulled from beneath concrete, governments that armed Israel, traded with Israel and provided it diplomatic protection now want the world to believe they have finally found their moral compass.

Britain, France and others are announcing measures against illegal Israeli settlements. European politicians increasingly condemn Benjamin Netanyahu and members of his government and the language is becoming harsher. The distance between European capitals and Jerusalem is becoming more conspicuous.

Do not mistake this for absolution, European governments cannot erase the material and political support they provided while Gaza was being destroyed. The European Union remained Israel’s largest trading partner.

Even after the EU’s own review found indications that Israel was violating the human-rights provisions of its Association Agreement, Europe could not bring itself to impose the kind of sweeping economic measures it has demonstrated elsewhere that it is perfectly capable of imposing.

Now we are expected to applaud because settlement dates and wine may disappear from European shelves.

This creates a convenient political escape hatch: make Netanyahu the story.

Netanyahu deserves accountability for the policies carried out under his government. So do the ministers who have openly advocated displacement and collective punishment.

But reducing what happened to Gaza to the personality of Benjamin Netanyahu is an extraordinarily convenient fiction.

Israel’s assault was not conducted by Netanyahu personally. It was conducted by state institutions, an enormous military apparatus and a government that initially included figures from Netanyahu’s political opposition. Nor did European support begin with Netanyahu or depend entirely upon him.

If Netanyahu loses Israel’s coming election and is replaced by a leader who speaks more politely in European capitals while maintaining occupation, settlement expansion and Palestinian subjugation, Europe must not be permitted to declare the crisis solved.

A different prime minister does not resurrect the dead.

A different coalition does not rebuild Gaza.

A different face does not absolve the governments that supplied weapons, maintained economic relations and offered diplomatic cover while Palestinians were being killed.

This is why today’s European outrage deserves scrutiny rather than applause.

Perhaps some countries have genuinely changed their position. If so, they can demonstrate it through policy: suspend military assistance, impose meaningful restrictions on trade connected to violations of international law, demand accountability regardless of who governs Israel, and support the same legal standards for allies that they demand for adversaries.

But if their objective is merely to isolate Netanyahu, wait for an Israeli election and then embrace a more presentable government pursuing substantially the same policies, this is not accountability.

It is reputation management.

Palestinians do not need Europe to find a more palatable administrator of their dispossession.

They need the policies that enabled it to end.

And Europe should not be allowed to rewrite the last several years as though it spent them standing helplessly on the sidelines.

It did not. It was there.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Israel has announced that it’s shutting down the UK Consulate in occupied East Jerusalem after the UK, France, and Canada announced a ban on goods from illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

A Zio spots a man in a Palestine shirt pushing a baby stroller and starts harassing him.

The father Replied “D€ath D€ath to the IDF.”

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

Iran is in the driver's seat 🔥

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

JUST IN: IRAN FM ARAGHCHI HELD A TELEPHONE CALL WITH JAPAN FM

In the call Araghchi told the Japanese Foreign Minister:

“The solution is simple. The return and adherence of the American side to its commitments and signature in the Islamabad Memorandum will pave the way for a return to normalcy.”

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

I welcome the stance taken by the UK government on Israel’s occupation and its illegality. A much-needed beginning, even if it does not yet reverse all policies undermining Palestinian self-determination.
May the UK government and people hold firm. The pressure will be fierce.

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

Iran is now in control of the escalation ladder, it seems.

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

Finally, the beginning of a moral stance on Zionism (of which there is, and only had been, only 1 version).

This will not change reality at the speed of Iran's supersonic missiles. But it is a clear sign that the West, with the exception of the utterly insane US, can stand with Israel fully no more.

I am happy, and also very angry. What took them so long? Why be so slow and stupid? Why continue intelligence gathering for Israel?

Let us all raise the banner of a Palestine higher; we have to do all we can to save the Palestinians from the Jews

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

Conservative MP Sir Edward Leigh has backed Ed Miliband’s decision to ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, describing the violence against Palestinians there as “ethnic cleansing”.