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Personal tweets from Jim Lobe, Contributing Editor @RStatecraft, director @LobeLog.com (2007-19), DC bureau chief, Inter Press Service (1980-85, 1989-2016).
Seattle, WA
Joined December 2011
Israel's gratuitous destruction of Gaza City's apartment towers is an effort to "erase Gaza's urban space" -- part of the genocidal effort to drive two million Palestinians out of their homeland.
In the past week, Israel bombed and demolished several landmark towers in Gaza City. These attacks, alongside bombardments killing dozens of civilians every day, are part of a broader campaign to erase Gaza’s urban space. This operation reflects repeated statements by senior
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The Gulf Arab states thought they had an understanding that the United States wouod provide defense protection, but evidently there is an unstated exception to that defense if the attack comes from Israel.
nytimes.com
The brazen attempt to kill the political leaders of Hamas in Doha could upend the foundations of an American-led order in the Middle East.
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IDF's top lawyer warned the population transfer was legally indefensible without a full analysis of the humanitarian conditions for one million people in southern Gaza. However, the army chief ignored her and issued the order.
haaretz.com
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How to Avoid Another Syrian Civil War Good advice for US policy makers By Steven Simon and @AdamNoahWho for @QuincyInst
#Syria
https://t.co/YeRqJ4GGQf via @ForeignAffairs
foreignaffairs.com
Start with embracing federalism.
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Read all of this and then remember that in the US today, if a Palestinian student dares to suggest that being on campus with students who served in the IDF, or students wearing IDF t-shirts, makes them feel unsafe, THEY are attacked and punished for “antisemitism”.
An Israeli sniper from Chicago, after killing a 19-year-old and then shooting his brother for trying to retrieve the body: "What was so important about that corpse?” Those were 2 of the 4 members of the same family killed by Israeli snipers on a single day in Gaza, Nov 2023.
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NEW: Israel brazenly bombs Qatar, U.S. ‘partner’ and host of 10000 American troops https://t.co/u2agjD6J9Q
responsiblestatecraft.org
The attack could throw a wrench into U.S. relations with Gulf states, experts say
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The Supreme Court's decision allowing ICE to resume "roving stops" in Los Angeles is likely to go down in history as one of its most shameful, @NoahRFeldman writes
bloomberg.com
The conservative majority essentially decided it’s OK to use racial profiling in immigration enforcement.
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Israel's communications minister threatens to cut public broadcaster Kan's funding if it airs a documentary on Israeli atrocities during the 1948 Nakba expelling 700+K Palestinians. What does that mean for any broadcast on Israel's genocide in Gaza today?
haaretz.com
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Israel's own Supreme Court determines that the Israeli government is depriving Palestinian detainees - thousands of whom are held without charges - of even a minimum subsistence diet.
apnews.com
Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled that the government failed to feed Palestinian security prisoners properly and ordered authorities to improve their nutrition.
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Israel is destroying Gaza's remaining high-rise apartments. The unproven clains of Hamas activity don’t justify the hughly disproportionate effect on civilian life, part of Netanyahu's plan to render Gaza unlivable as a prelude to mass forced deportation.
nytimes.com
The Israeli military issued evacuation orders for residents in the high-rise towers and urged Palestinians to move to the south of Gaza, as it intensifies its offensive on the city.
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The Israeli government is backing off threats to annex the occupied West Bank because the United Arab Emirates, an Abraham Accord partner, objects. Now why doesn't the UAE object to the genocide in Gaza?
washingtonpost.com
The Emiratis, who signed a peace deal with Israel in 2020, have warned publicly and privately that annexing the Palestinian territory would cross a red line.
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Not from the Onion 👇🏻
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La Force intérimaire de l'ONU au Liban (Finul) a dénoncé mercredi une « grave » attaque de drones israéliens contre des Casques bleus, survenue la veille alors que les soldats de la paix déblayaient une route près de Marwahine, au Liban-Sud.
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Even if every genocide scholar on earth says Israel is committing G E N O C I D E in Gaza, the NYT will keep writing like this until the very end.
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כצפוי, ההחלטה הזאת נדחקה לשולי השוליים בחדשות בישראל, ובערוצי הטלוויזיה אין לה זכר. זאת למרות שלא תהיה הכרעה מבוססת יותר, בת-סמכא יותר, בדבר רצח העם בעזה. יחליט בית המשפט בהאג מה שיחליט, בעתיד הלא ידוע; "רצח עם" הוא מושג שאינו מצטמצם להגדרתו המשפטית. אין קהילה שמבינה אותו יותר
האיגוד הבינלאומי של חוקרי ג'נוסייד, הגוף האקדמי המוביל בתחום, קיבל החלטה שישראל מבצעת רצח עם בעזה. 86% מ-500 החברים הצביעו בעד קבלת ההחלטה. [בינתיים, בתיבת התהודה של בן דרור ימיני ושות': צרחות] https://t.co/lTljTSTVeL
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עשרות עיתונים בעולם השחירו את העמוד הראשון שלהם היום במחאה על הרג העיתונאים בעזה. בישראל חתמנו יותר מ-130 עיתונאים על עצומה הקוראת להפסקת המלחמה (למטה).
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Belgium is the latest state to announce that it plans to recognize Palestine at the upcoming UNGA session and will impose "firm sanctions" on the Israeli government, its foreign minister says.
🇧🇪🇵🇸🚨La Palestine sera reconnue par la Belgique lors de la session de l’ONU ! Et des sanctions fermes sont prises à l’égard du gouvernement israélien. Tout antisémitisme ou glorification du terrorisme par les partisans du Hamas sera aussi plus fortement dénoncé. 🔸Au vu du
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Pretty sure this violates the legal definition of antisemitism that both parties forced into law
Evening excerpt from my interview with Trump: The president acknowledged to me that Israel is losing its control of Congress as war in the Middle East wages on. "Israel was the strongest lobby I've ever seen. They had total control over Congress, and now they don't, you know,
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You’re a pro-genocide idiot who doesn’t want to remember or acknowledge that some of the worst massacres of Palestinians (Jabalia!) and most genocidal statements from Israeli leaders (Gallant et al) came in October 2023. But of course Palestinian life doesn’t matter to you.
There is no genocide today. But the fact that you would brag about falsely accusing Israel of genocide as it was still counting its dead, less than a month after suffering a pogrom, is a confession of sorts.
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they are planning to bury the evidence of their genocide and ethnic cleansing under a bunch of hotels and malls
Exclusive: President Trump and international partners are discussing plans to build a “Riviera of the Middle East” on the rubble of Gaza. One plan would establish U.S. control and pay all of Gaza’s more than 2 million population to leave.
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