M. ANIS SALEM

Coordinator, UN Group, Egyptian Council for F. Affairs; X-UNICEF Rep. Syria; Served in UK, M.East, Gulf, Sudan, S. Asia.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The World Cup begins tomorrow, and many will watch the matches. Soccer reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off on our own, but a path we learn to walk together. Anyone who does not know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, has not yet understood the game. Anyone who does not know how to live with and for others has not yet understood life. #ApostolicJourney

[Amre Moussa @amremoussa]

Dear President Donald J. Trump,
At this moment in time where your leadership is taking humanity through a great civilizational leap with a new unprecedented landing on the moon. At this moment of historic achievement, I appeal to you as the president of the great USA to steer away from ending a civilization, that is not becoming of this historic moment.
History will honour those who choose restraint, save lives, and restore hope in humanity, those who build civilizations.
President Trump, in these detrimental moments, let the voice of peace within you be stronger than anything else. Let us give peace another chance with diplomacy and wisdom.
Amr Moussa
Egyptian Citizen
@realDonaldTrump

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[UN News @UN_News_Centre]

#BREAKING

UN General Assembly ADOPTS resolution that demands an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in the war in #Gaza.

In favor: 149
Against: 12
Abstain: 19

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New Report Assesses Damages, Losses and Needs in Gaza and the West Bank https://t.co/L6j3J4vsoi via @WorldBank

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‘He just won the election’: Hill Republicans predict Trump rally shooting will ease path to White House - POLITICO https://t.co/lxhVQVWpvH

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What a disaster! #Gaza #palestine https://t.co/vuzIUHa65R

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From Nobel peace prize to civil war: how Ethiopia’s leader beguiled the world | Ethiopia | The Guardian https://t.co/QwgzlHPhhT

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So little said about international affairs. #UnitedKingdom #UK #Labour https://t.co/boqXMI3R7J

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Terrible news. #gaza #UN https://t.co/YdPJ6iYhj9

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‘Keep working with us to build a better world,’ Guterres says, as major UN civil society forum closes in Kenya | UN News https://t.co/S6raPk2qjH

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State of Palestine Appeal | UNICEF https://t.co/Zq5Eeiz9Xv

[David Miliband @DMiliband]

IRC grieves with @WCKitchen at the senseless loss of 7 aid workers. Their protection is a legal and moral right for civilians and the aid workers there to help them. The war in Gaza has cost too many lives. We call not just for safety and aid flows but for a sustained ceasefire.

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Majority in U.S. Now Disapprove of Israeli Action in #Gaza https://t.co/cn7OdZ1odu

[UN Human Rights Council @UN_HRC]

“Following nearly 6 months of unrelenting Israeli assault on occupied #Gaza, it is my solemn duty to report on the worst of what humanity is capable of & to present my findings: 'the Anatomy of a Genocide'.”

— Special Rapporteur @FranceskAlbs at @UN Human Rights Council.

#HRC55

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Acute malnutrition has doubled in one month in the north of Gaza strip: UNICEF. https://t.co/U8iKFHtNMx

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Israel-Gaza war: David Cameron says BBC report into Nasser hospital raid 'very disturbing' https://t.co/dNG5fmosIT

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We are the children?#Gaza https://t.co/ekqpfYZOip

[Patrick Wintour @patrickwintour]

Chatham House is one of the most prestigious international relations think tanks so when its director @bronwenmaddox gives her annual lecture, it is an occasion.
Last night she said “Israel has always had objectives that are difficult to reconcile - one is getting hostages back and the other is the pursuit of Hamas. I am unconvinced, as are a lot of other people, that the technique they have chosen which is bombarding Gaza and flattening it, is going to achieve either of those things”.
She said “The US and Europe should make clear to Israel that while its wish to eradicate Hamas is justifiable, it is pursuing a military course unlikely to achieve that goal and the level of civilian casualties is intolerable. What is more it has fallen into a trap that Hamas has set by reacting in a way that loses the world’s support”.
She called for the West to do more to pursue Israel to accept a two state solution.

She added it was also legitimate to claim “western countries, above all the US, allowed the Israeli Palestinian conflict to fester and for Israel to abuse its power to expand its settlements on the West Bank in land earmarked for a future Palestinian state”.

She framed her criticism of the West’s stance towards Israel in a broader context of its mounting impact on the claims in the Global South that the West exhibits double standards.

She said “The consent of many countries for supporting the old order is unravelling and that is partly because of the accusation from many countries that those that wrote the rules 70 years ago wrote them in their own favour and respect them only when it suits them”.

Although she said this accusation is not novel, “it needs to be answered if support for international law and institutions is to continue”.

She said “There are not many countries that initially denied Israel a right to respond to the deliberate slaughter by Hamas on October 7, but Israel's bombardment and constraint on humanitarian aid has lost it much of the world support, and there is cause for that.

“It is entirely possible to condemn Hamas and now to criticise Israel for its response and for the casualties that it has caused. Even in the US and the UK some of Israel’s warmest supporters have begun to say so”.

She said the "white hot" criticism of the West for months has been that “it cares about Ukrainian suffering and not Palestinian, that it defends international law in Ukraine, but not the West Bank and Gaza or Iraq. If countries that support Ukraine and are working for peace in the middle east do not realise how powerful this charge has become, or answer it, they will fail to help solve either conflict or other such as in Sudan”.

She added "they will also fail to understand how this charge is a challenge to the waning respect for the old principles of world order and the contest that is going on about new ones".

Kudos to her for addressing head-on the difficult accusations of western double standards. Right to say western countries have national interests so degree of inconsistency inevitable, but West has left its principles open to being weaponised by luminous hypocrites such as Russia. She said unsure either UK front bench prepared to voice the concerns of Britain's younger generation about UK foreign policy

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Israel and Egypt face crisis in relations over Israeli plan to control border https://t.co/fXflUNZ0Ca