Ibn Ayuba Fuseini

#Hasbunallahu wa ni mal wakil#

[Ibn Ayuba Fuseini @mofiaibn]

Pool party!

[GTV Ghana @GTV_Ghana]

“The blood of 5-year-old Hind Rajab and more than 20,000 children who have been killed in this brutal conflict cries out to the conscience of the world.”

—President @JDMahama speaks on the war in Gaza at the 81st UN General Assembly.

#gbcnews
#UNGA81

[Joyce Bawah Mogtari @joyce_bawah]

Empowered women have spoken, often and eloquently, about becoming. Becoming more, becoming better, becoming all that we are capable of being. It has become a powerful chorus that resonates deeply with women everywhere.

Yesterday, on the floor of the United Nations, President John Mahama spoke to the community of nations about something equally fundamental: belonging.

Belonging, in its widest and deepest sense, is about the recognition of our shared humanity. That every human being black or white, male or female is equal in dignity and worth. That no person, no nation and certainly no institution should consider itself superior to another.

He spoke candidly about the inequalities that persist in our international system: inequalities in debt negotiations, in representation on the Security Council, in global trade and health financing, and in the manner in which conflicts and serious matters between states are addressed.

He also reminded the world of the enduring pain of the transatlantic slave trade and slavery. The recognition last year that slavery constitutes the gravest crime against humanity was an important step in confronting that history and reaffirming a simple truth: human beings must never be trafficked, sold for profit, used as collateral or reduced to mere chattels.

In the words of Prime Minister Mia Mottley, perhaps we must learn to live and let live to create a world in which every human being, irrespective of race or circumstance, can truly belong.

President Mahama also drew attention to the imbalances in global trade, health financing and the financial conditions imposed on developing countries. He called for greater equity, transparency and accountability in the international system, and for more representative global institutions.

But importantly, he also turned the mirror towards Africa.

African leaders, he reminded us, have a responsibility to do right by their own people to ensure that national resources are distributed fairly and that citizens receive the full benefit of the opportunities and resources available to their countries. Fairness and equity must not only be demanded from the world; they must also be practised at home.

He referenced countries such as Cuba, whose people continue to bear the consequences of sanctions, and called on the United Nations to be more proactive in addressing measures that cause hardship and suffering to ordinary citizens.

The speech was warmly received, and perhaps its most enduring message is one that extends beyond the walls of the United Nations.

We may not transform the world overnight through the speeches we deliver in this august Assembly. But we can choose the truths we speak, the injustices we confront, and the responsibilities we accept.

And as citizens, we too have a role to play.

Let us be more patriotic. More nationalistic. More modest in our expectations and more generous in our contribution. Let us demand more of ourselves and deliver more for our nations and our people.

Because belonging is not only about having a place at the table. It is also about ensuring that others have a place there too.

As President Mahama so poignantly reminded the world:

“The world may not transform overnight because of the speeches we deliver in this august assembly, but history will faithfully recall the truths we chose to speak and the silences we chose to keep.”

President John Mahama, 81st United Nations General Assembly
#UNGA

[mustafa yazıcı @myzccc]

İtalya Başbakanı Meloni:

"İsrail'i kırmızı çizgiyi aşmakla suçluyorum, Filistinli sivillerin katliamını kınıyorum ve İtalya'nın İsrail'e karşı Avrupa yaptırımlarını destekleyeceğini açıklıyorum."

[#TV3GH @tv3_ghana]

81st UN General Assembly: ​“We must stop using diplomatic euphemisms to veil the human carnage taking place in Gaza. How many more innocent lives must be lost before the world acts with decisive moral authority?”

- President John Dramani Mahama

#3NewsGH #TV3GH

[Joyce Bawah Mogtari @joyce_bawah]

“They did not vanish. They were hunted, they were captured, they were trafficked, they were bought, they were sold, they were exploited and exchanged for profit. They were ripped from their families and communities they belonged to. Their unpaid labour built the cities, industries, banking institutions and empires of the modern Western world.”

President John Dramani Mahama @JDMahama #UNGA

[Joyce Bawah Mogtari @joyce_bawah]

“No race is superior.
No nation is inferior.
No child’s life is worth less because of the language they speak, the faith they profess,
the colour of their skin, or the land of their birth. This is the unyielding moral foundation upon which the United Nations must
stand. I will return to this issue of belonging at the end of my speech.”
@JDMahama speaks at
#UNGA

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

Dentro de unos años, las generaciones futuras mirarán hacia atrás, estudiarán esta década, y nos preguntarán qué papel jugamos cada uno de nosotros.

Queremos poder decirles que no dejamos de luchar.

[Mia Amor Mottley @miaamormottley]

Every human being has equal value. Every single one.

At the United Nations General Assembly, I challenged a world that still decides whose lives deserve protection and whose suffering can be ignored.

No race is superior. No people are disposable. Until we honour that truth, "everywhere is war" remains a warning we have failed to heed.

What the world needs now is love, with the courage to confront injustice and defend our shared humanity.

Love and a little kindness. For everyone.

[Iran Screenshot @iranscreenshot]

The man who quietly served Imam Khamenei for 44 years, until his final moments.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🍽️ Mbappé: “My dream dinner? Cristiano Ronaldo, my idol who now I consider as a friend”.

“Michael Jordan, he’s an inspiration, I’d love to talk to him again about his career”.

[Iran Observer @IranObserver0]

⚡️BREAKING: Iranian State TV Confirmed that a Direct Meeting took place between Araghchi and Withkoff in New York

The meeting lasted Three Hours

Iran presented its Demands regarding the Opening of the Strait of Hormuz:

- The immediate lifting of the Naval Blockade
- The immediate release of all of Iran's Frozen a
Assets
- End to the war across All Fronts

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.

How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.

Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.

An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.

For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.

It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.

By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.

So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.

How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.

At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.

It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.

[Ibn Ayuba Fuseini @mofiaibn]

@Rusia_HD Yes

[Iran International English @IranIntl_En]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran had not fired at Israel over the past month because it knew Israel could strike hard enough to deter it.

Speaking to historian Gadi Taub’s Shomer Saf podcast, Netanyahu said Iran had been hit hard but retained capabilities.

He warned that Iran would face “a very severe blow” if it attacked Israel.

[Ibn Ayuba Fuseini @mofiaibn]

https://t.co/VrfUmmHbgW

[Ibn Ayuba Fuseini @mofiaibn]

@KimIversenShow I’m 99.99% sure Iran has nukes

[Ibn Ayuba Fuseini @mofiaibn]

@StefanParker44 @pati_marins64 You’re idiotic to think that way