Bacon: “A bad day for America’s foreign policy. Ukraine wants independence, free markets and rule of law. It wants to be part of the West. Russia hates us and our Western values. We should be clear that we stand for freedom.” https://t.co/U1M23nMtJz
“La 🇫🇷 doit revenir à la raison !
Apres l’annexion légitime de l’Alsace/Lorraine, nous devons nous résoudre à nous contenter de la zone libre !
La ligne de démarcation, garante de la paix, est ainsi le simple rempart nécessaire et offrant des garanties de sécurité à l’🇩🇪”
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Rapports accablants de la brigade financière.
👮🏽♀️ 7 dirigeants et ex-dirigeants CGT seront jugés à Bobigny pour avoir touché des enveloppes de cash.
On entendra peut-être loins la CGT donner des leçons d’éthique… https://t.co/wrs5DD0wGl
La #CGT perd enfin le contrôle du comité d’entreprise d’#EdF après 77 ans de domination 🍾🥂
Bravo à la #CFECGC… et à #AmélieHenri qui a révélé les pratiques #mafieuses passées du CE (Financements occultes, emplois fictifs... digne d’un roman)
https://t.co/2aZqbEYiaB
500 000 vues pour ce tweet vidéo du discours - désormais culte - d'Abnousse Shalmani lors du #PrixDeLaLaïcité 2023 à la Mairie de Paris. Universalistes, partageons-le, partageons-le pour faire entendre une voix humaniste forte et claire. cc @tfsalomon@prixlaiciteCLR #AbnousseShalmani
Ukraine's counter-offensive has been panned as a failure
The truth is more complex
Some thoughts on the successes and failures of Ukraine's counter-offensive /1
“Les convictions obtuses, nées d’une idéologie mortifère qu’est l’islamisme, mariées au pire de la gauche accouchent d’un aveuglement qui condamne les démocraties à la disparition au nom des peuples oppressés.”
Courageuse et juste #abnousseshalmani dans @LEXPRESS
Head of Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas:
“Hamas leaders were the first to flee from Gaza to Sinai hiding in ambulances, leaving their people to be slaughtered”
Abbas’ Fatah movement were thrown out from Gaza in 2007 by Hamas. Will they take power?
A woman in Gaza tells reporters that all the sons of Hamas leaders drive around in SUVs and live great lives while the children of Gaza live in poverty and unemployment https://t.co/Op9UaoEvWH
Hamas leaders lead luxurious lives of billionaires - BILD.
More than 2 million people live in the Gaza strip, 39% of whom have no jobs. Yet among them are several hundred dollar millionaires. These are Hamas leaders who live in luxury villas, brag on social media about limousines and stay in the most expensive hotels.
“Hamas has generated vast sums of revenue through its secret investment portfolio while destabilising Gaza, which is facing harsh living and economic conditions,” - Elizabeth Rosenberg, a US Treasury official.
Here are the main members of the Hamas elite:
🔻 Ismail Haniyeh, 61. Hamas leader and head of Gaza's government has been living abroad since 2019. The father of 13 children runs militias from luxury hotels in Qatar and Turkey. He travels between Tehran, Istanbul, Moscow and Cairo in a private jet. His son Maaz is a major real estate owner in Gaza, where he is called "the father of houses." In Turkey, he is often seen with women and alcohol, which is against the laws of Islam. The Haniyeh family's estimated fortune is $2.5 billion.
🔻Khaled Mashal, 67. Former Hamas political bureau chief fled Damascus for Qatar in 2012 with $1.5 billion. He now controls the real estate and financial operations of the grouping from Doha.
🔻Mousa Abu Marzouk, 72. The second most important Hamas leader in charge of international relations. He lived for 14 years in the US, where his six children were born. His fortune is estimated at $2 billion.
🔻Yunis Kafisheh, 67. Responsible for Hamas finances, lives in Istanbul. Turkish president issued him a Turkish passport under the name Hashemet Aslan. There is a construction firm working on behalf of Hamas there, which made about 2 million euros in 2022.
Palestinians in Gaza are hostages of Hamas which does not care about ordinary people. They are interested in their suffering, and it is on their suffering that they make money and strengthen their power.
The poorer and more destitute the population is, the more it is exposed to propaganda and intimidation, and the easier it is to control.
We see a similar situation in other dictatorships, where wealth, power, and security forces are concentrated in a small group that controls a completely disempowered and submissive population.
How can this situation be changed? And will the long path of evolution, education, and economic stabilization help? These are extremely difficult questions.
But undoubtedly, the main thing is to stop the killing of civilians everywhere.
What do you think about all this?
Israeli PM Netanyahu, a political creature with a dark soul and twisted thinking, is preparing to blame the military for the massive failure of October 2023, Yossi Verter writes
https://t.co/56fiodEXpM
#Hamas is in violation of all known Palestinian, Arab, and International (UN) laws.
- In 2007, Hamas massacred 450 Fatah Palestinians, ejected Palestinian Authority (PA) and took over Gaza Strip in a coup. PA has boycotted Hamas since.
- The Arab League endorsed in 1982, 2002, 2023 by consensus (with its 22 members states including Palestine voting yes) the land-for-peace initiative with Israel. Hamas refuses the Arab League plan, its charter says violence is only way to liberate Palestine from River to Sea.
- The Arab League in 1964, Organization of Islamic States in 1970, the UN General Assembly in 1974, Israel in 1993, all recognized the PLO as the “sole and legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.” Hamas is not member of PLO, and doesn’t endorse PLO charter for peace (as amended in 1988). Hamas doesn’t represent Palestinians.
- Arab League, PLO, and UN Security Council in its resolutions 1397 and 1515 all endorsed the two state solution. Hamas accepts none of these resolutions and insists on annihilating #Israel.
Hamas is an outlaw organization. It massacred Palestinians in 2007, Israelis in 2023. Its existence causes isolation of Gaza by Palestinian Authority, Egypt and Israel.
For the sake of Gazans and the Palestinian people, and for Israelis to live in peace, Hamas must be dismantled.