Israel yesterday kidnapped four women. Two are footballers in the Palestinian National Team.
Their names are: Natali Abu Dia and Rand Halwani.
Is it normal to kidnap footballers, @FIFAcom? Where are sports media organisations? This story should be the headline everywhere.
However dumb you think the process for destroying USAID was, it was dumber.
This is from Nicholas Enrich's new book Into the Wood Chipper, describing a meeting with Trump-appointed USAID leadership *after* they had largely gutted the agency
I'm surprised more hasn't been made of this. The ICC chairman, who is supposed to be neutral, not only stayed with the India team for the trophy lift, he actually lifted the trophy alongside Suryakumar Yadav!
Absolutely insane, I guess we've all become desensitised to this shit.
In Fatima Sana, Pakistan have found a leader who not only walks the talk, but also backs/ trusts her players to find their best under pressure. She’s a captain you’d run through a brick wall for. One who will lead by example and words - saying and doing all the right things.
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.
🚩My new report is out.
With their actions and omissions, third states have enabled the oppression of the Palestinian people and their genocide.
Those states have an obligation to stop their complicity and deliver justice.
And We The People, have to make it happen.
This really happened. In July 2015 Israeli settlers firebombed the West Bank home of 18 month old Ali Dawabsheh. Baby Ali was burned alive in his crib and his parents died days later from their injuries.
5 months later, a video from a Jewish wedding in Jerusalem surfaced showing the wedding guests taking turns throwing knives at a picture of baby Ali.
These psychos literally incorporated taunting a murdered toddler into their “wedding celebration.”
And guess who was a guest at this wedding? Israel’s current Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir.