[SUDANTRIBUNE] The Sovereign Council of Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... announced on Friday that its leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan informed United Arab Emirates (UAE) President Mohammed bin Zayed of Abu Dhabi’s alleged support for the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The paramilitary group has been engaged in a conflict with the Sudanese army for over a year.
The official Emirates News Agency (WAM) reported on Thursday evening that bin Zayed received a phone call from al-Burhan, during which they discussed the strong relations between their countries and the recent developments in Sudan.
However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... a statement from the Sovereign Council on Friday clarified that during this call, the Emirati President expressed a desire to help end the ongoing war in Sudan.
According to the statement, al-Burhan told bin Zayed, "Abu Dhabi is accused by the Sudanese, with extensive evidence and testimonies proving the UAE’s support for the rebels and those who kill and destroy their country and displace them."
He urged the Emirati leader to cease these actions.
This phone call sparked widespread reactions and controversy on social media, marking the first direct communication between the two leaders after months of tension and media exchanges.
Sudan claims that the UAE has been financing the RSF and supplying them with weapons and military equipment via Chad and Central Africa, significantly impacting the military battles since April 15, 2023.
Relations between Sudan and the UAE have been strained due to these accusations, with Sudanese military leaders openly criticizing the Emirati leadership.
The tension escalated further when representatives from both countries exchanged heated words at a United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Security Council (UNSC) session last month, leading to the expulsion of diplomats from each other’s countries.
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[IsraelTimes] Waterway is a crucial source of foreign currency for Cairo, but shipping firms have been taking alternative routes since Iran-backed rebels started attacks in solidarity with Hamas.
I would feel more sympathy if they hadn’t been shipping, or allowing the smuggling of, weapons to Hamas, et al in Gaza in support of the war against Israel.
The Suez Canal’s annual revenue dropped by almost a quarter in its latest financial year as some shippers switched to alternative routes to avoid attacks by the Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
Osama Rabie, the head of the Egyptian canal’s authority said on Thursday revenues fell to $7.2 billion in its 2023-24 financial year from $9.4 billion the year before.
Since November, the Houthis have been attacking commercial vessels in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean to show support for Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... in the war with Israel started by the Paleostinian terror group’s October 7 onslaught.
The attacks have forced many major shipping firms to suspend passage through the Red Sea, which usually carries about 10 percent of global trade, and divert their vessels thousands of miles around Africa.
Rabie said the number of ships using the canal fell to 20,148 in 2023-24 from 25,911 the year before. The financial year in Egypt runs from the beginning of July to the end of June of the following year.
The Suez Canal is a key source of foreign currency for Egypt, and authorities have been trying to boost its revenues in recent years, including via an expansion in 2015.
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So, Nasser used to drop oil drums filled with mustard gas on the grandfathers' of the Houthis - nowadays Egypt has weapons a 1000 times more sophisticated.
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I read, although I can't find the source, the Egyptians won't defend their access to the canal because the EU, led by France, is compensating them for losses due to the Houthi.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] A South Sudanese rebel leader has denied reports that a meeting took place with the leader of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), pledging his commitment to the Kenya-mediated peace talks.
Media reports, citing unidentified sources, claimed that The South Sudan People’s Movement/Army (SSPM/A) under the leadership of Chairman and Commander-in-Chief Gen. Stephen Buoy Rolnyang recently traveled to United Arab Emirates, and met with RSF leader Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo.
The group, in a statement, described as false claims that Gen. Buoy was paid USD 10 million for helping the RSF defeat and eject the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) from several of their bases in the ongoing war in Sudan.
"The assertion that the leader of the SSPM/A, in conjunction with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), convened in Abu Dhabi and subsequently traveled to Khartoum to strategize an offensive aimed at South Sudan’s oilfields is entirely false. Furthermore, Sixty 4 Tribes claimed that a sum of USD 10 million was transferred to the SSPM/A following their purported capture of significant territories in Sudan, namely Sennar, Blue Nile, and South Kordofan States," the statement reads.
"These allegations are baseless and lack any credibility. It is imperative to clarify that the SSPM/A has not engaged in any agreements, nor has it involved itself in the conflict within Sudan."
"Contrary to the reports, our leader did not engage with the RSF leadership or participate in any joint initiatives but departed Nairobi earlier this week for undisclosed security measures and the urgent medical care of a close relative facing severe health concerns."
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[IsraelTimes] White House said working to dissuade Putin from renewed push to transfer missiles to Iran-backed rebels, as CENTCOM chief says strikes in Yemen ‘failing’ to prevent Red Sea chaos
Stand down, everybody! The Biden administration is on it.
United States intelligence agencies say Russia could send advanced anti-ship missiles to Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... Continued on Page 49
[GEO.TV] Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday strongly condemned the dastardly terrorist attack on a mosque in the Wadi Kabir district of Muscat on July 16 and offered Pakistain’s support to Oman in the elimination of terrorism in all of its forms. Pakistain isn't Greek, but I still had an anomalous thought, something about Greeks bearing gifts? I wonder why that was?
The ambassador of the Sultanate of Oman, Fahad Sulaiman Khalaf Al Kharusi, paid a courtesy call on PM Shehbaz earlier today. Pakistain is rolling in dough. They can easily afford to send an expeditionary force to Oman.
Especially if Oman is paying…
The premier appreciated Oman’s swift response and cooperation with the Pakistain mission in the repatriation of the bodies of the dear departed and treatment of the injured. First thing that's happened in Oman in years, which should imply they could give lessons to Pak in how to maintain order.
The attack claimed the lives of six people, including four Pak nationals, and left over 30 injured, nearly all of whom were Paks.
PM Shehbaz said Pakistain had itself been the victim of terrorism for the past several decades. Shot itself in the foot multiple times, didn't it?
During the meeting, the prime minister conveyed his best wishes for Sultan Haitham bin Tariq while recalling his telephonic conversations with the Sultan on Eidul Adha and Eidul Fitr earlier in the year.
The premier also reiterated his invitation to the Sultan of Oman for an official visit to Pakistain at his earliest convenience.
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This is a bad joke. Pakistan can't even pacify its border region with Afghanistan. Because Pakistan itself is a mendicant nation, money must be involved somehow.
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[FoxNews] The president of Panama says the ongoing migrant crisis in the Western Hemisphere is a "United States problem," adding deportation flights that are partly funded by the U.S. are only voluntary.
"This is a United States problem that we are managing," newly-elected President Jose Raul Mulino said Thursday. "People don’t want to live here in Panama. They want to go to the United States."
Panama is a key crossing area for migrants moving north as many move through the Darien Gap, a massive jungle crossing Panama and Colombia that serves as a pathway through Central America and toward the U.S.
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[KavkazUzel] The state prosecutor at the Armavir City Court hearing on the case of the riots at the Makhachkala airport asked to sentence five defendants to terms of seven to 10 years. Several more cases will soon be submitted to the courts of Kuban and Stavropol, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office reported.
As reported by "Kavkazsky Uzel", the Armavir City Court twice postponed the start of the hearing of the case on the riots at the Makhachkala airport in relation to five defendants - Anvarbek Atayev, Islam Ibragimov, Magomed Omaraskhabov, Rabadan Radzhabov and Salik Ramazanov. The arrest of the accused was extended until December 30. Criminal cases on acute issues are better transferred to other regions, said the head of the Human Rights Council Valery Fadeyev, commenting on the trial in Armavir on the case of riots at the Makhachkala airport.
On February 17, relatives of the participants in the riots at the Makhachkala airport appealed to Putin with a request for leniency. They stated that their detained relatives were victims of a provocation and made a mistake.
The provocation being that a mob of local Moslems decided to hunt down arriving Israeli tourists following the Hamas atrocities on 10/7 — but when they didn’t find any of their chosen victims, they rioted instead.
The authors of the appeal noted that some families do not have the opportunity to travel to court hearings in Krasnodar Krai, where the case of five defendants has been transferred. Lawyers noted that the transfer of the case to Kuban can be appealed, but success is unlikely .
The Armavir City Court of Krasnodar Krai held a court hearing for five residents of Dagestan who were charged in a criminal case regarding the riots at the Makhachkala airport (five people are accused of participating in mass riots (Part 2 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), and one of the defendants is also accused of threatening to use violence against a government official (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation)). The state prosecutor proposed sentencing the defendants to imprisonment for a term of seven to 10 years, the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia reported today.
According to the prosecution, on October 29, 2023, the accused "at the Uytash airport in Makhachkala, on the basis of national and religious hatred and enmity towards Israeli citizens, refusing to comply with the legal demands of law enforcement officers, took part in mass riots accompanied by violence and destruction of property."
"The airport's property was destroyed and damaged to the amount of more than 24 million rubles, the requirements of transport and aviation security were violated, which led to a complete blocking of the airport's operations, the delay and cancellation of regular flights, and their redirection to other airports. Illegal actions were committed against 29 government officials, 23 of whom suffered bodily injuries of varying severity," the department's website said.
The report emphasizes that soon courts in the Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories will begin hearing other criminal cases on the riots at the Makhachkala airport. "In particular, on July 23, the Ust-Labinsk District Court of the Krasnodar Territory will consider the issue of extending the preventive measure for eight residents of the Republic of Dagestan who have been charged with participating in the riots," the department added.
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[KavkazUzel] Security forces planted evidence during a search of the home of builder Zaur Magomedov, who is accused of involvement in militant attacks in Derbent and Makhachkala, his relatives said. The conclusion of a visit to Magomedov in a pretrial detention center, during which he spoke about torture, was sent to the prosecutor's office, the chairman of the Public Monitoring Commission of Dagestan said. As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, Zaur Magomedov, who was arrested in connection with the militant attack in Derbent and Makhachkala, stated that he had been tortured and said that he had nothing to do with what happened, the head of the Public Monitoring Commission of Dagestan reported. On June 27, a court in Makhachkala arrested a member of a group created by Osman Omarov under the article on a terrorist act. According to the investigation, the accused helped organize the attack in Derbent, but did not participate in it. On July 4, it became known that residents of Sergokala and Makhachkala Magomed, Khalid and Zaur Magomedov had been arrested for two months on charges of preparing terrorist acts and illegally trafficking weapons and explosives.
The Chairman of the Public Monitoring Commission of Dagestan, Shamil Khadulaev, sent to the prosecutor's office a conclusion based on the results of his visit to the Makhachkala pretrial detention center No. 1 of Zaur Magomedov, who was arrested in connection with the case of the militant attack in Derbent and Makhachkala.
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[Regnum] The court extended the investigation period in the case of the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall near Moscow until September 22. This is stated in official documents.
“The preliminary investigation period has been extended... until September 22, 2024,” RIA Novosti reports.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on July 16, the head of Rosfinmonitoring, Yuri Chikhanchin, reported that the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall was organized by an international team with representatives from different countries. He specified that some Russian citizens also became members of this group.
On July 17, Russian Health Minister Assistant Alexei Kuznetsov said that three people injured in the terrorist attack remain in hospitals in moderate condition.
The terrorist attack in Crocus took place on March 22. The attackers burst into the hall, started shooting at people, and then set the auditorium on fire. As a result of the incident, 145 people died, including six children, and more than 500 people were injured. According to FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov, the goal of the customers was to damage Russia's relations with the CIS countries through religious and national factors.
The perpetrators of the March 23 terrorist attack were detained in the Bryansk region; they were heading towards the border with Ukraine. The terrorists' connection with Ukrainian nationalists was proven. The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested 18 defendants in the case of the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall. The court extended the arrest period for all of them until August 22.
President Vladimir Putin emphasized that Russia will get everyone involved in the terrorist attack in the Moscow region concert hall, not only the direct perpetrators, but also those who ordered it.
[IsraelTimes] Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... warned that countries holding American hostages will pay "a very big price" if they are not released, as he accepted the GOP presidential nomination on Thursday at the Republican National Convention.
"To the entire world, I tell you this: We want our hostages back, and they better be back before I assume office, or you will be paying a very big price," Trump warned in his speech.
Trump did not specify which hostages he was referring to.
There are more than 60 Americans being held hostage or wrongly detained around the world, including eight Americans being held by Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , who were among the 251 taken during the terror group’s October 7 massacre, when 1,200 people were murdered in southern Israel.
The parents of an American-Israeli hostage taken in the onslaught addressed the RNC on Wednesday evening.
The Thursday speech, Trump’s first since the attempt on his life last weekend at a rally in Pennsylvania, was among the longest convention speeches in modern history at just under 93 minutes.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] … detest both Biden AND Trump ahead of election.
Oh no! Anyway…
A city labeled 'America's jihad capital' by the Wall Street Journal has become fiercely divided over the war in Gaza - as residents refuse to vote for either candidate in the presidential election.
Dearborn, a small city near Detroit, Michigan, is home to America's largest Arab American community.
The mood amongst locals has significantly switched as the death toll in Gaza continues to mount - with little indication of a political solution in the near future.
Residents of Dearborn believe America's political leaders are playing a major role in enabling the suffering caused by ongoing conflict in the Middle East. Their apathy towards the upcoming election is dwindling by the day.
Abu Bilal, owner of Oriental Fashion - a clothing store on Dearborn's Warren Avenue, demanded to know 'where is the humanity' as he discussed the killings of 90 Palestinian civilians with The Guardian.
[IsraelTimes] The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) said Thursday that it had postponed its decision on a Palestinian proposal to suspend Israel from international soccer over the country’s ongoing war against the Hamas terror group.
FIFA’s postponement cleared the way for the Israeli men’s national team to play at the Gay Paree Olympics.
Soccer’s world governing body had been set to make a decision Saturday at an extraordinary council meeting after asking for an independent legal assessment of the Paleostinian proposal two months ago.
That decision would have come just four days before the start of the Olympic soccer tournament, where Israel has been drawn in a group with Japan, Mali and Paraguay, and is set to play Mali on July 24.
FIFA said it pushed back the timeline because "more time is needed to conclude this process with due care and completeness" — meaning a decision is now set to come after the Olympics have finished.
FIFA said both parties have made requests for extensions "to submit their respective positions" and that the independent assessment will now be shared with FIFA by August 31 at the latest.
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South Africans are on record as saying of all the sanctions placed on them until they stopped apartheid, the ban on international sport hurt the most.
All the neighborhood kids declaring at once that they won't play soccer with you because you're a bad kid is something you never live down.
This antisemitism must not stand.
[IsraelTimes] ICJ says Israel’s actions in West Bank amount to de facto annexation, calls for end of Israeli control; PM slams decision: ‘The Jewish people are not occupiers in their own land’
In a conclusive and unambiguous decision, the International Court of Justice declared in a non-binding ruling
…another one of those? How annoyingly trite…
Friday that Israel’s 56-year long rule in "the Paleostinian territory occupied since 1967" is "illegal," and that it is obligated to bring its presence in that territory to an end "as rapidly as possible."
Ya don’t say.
In its decision, the ICJ said it determined Israel’s policy of settlement in the West Bank violates international law,
…which particular law might that be, pray tell?
and that Israel had effectively annexed large parts of the West Bank — along with East Jerusalem, which was formally annexed in1980 — due to some of the apparently permanent aspects of Israeli rule there.
The entire Moslem world plus a bunch of Jew-hating mooks like you lot weren’t able to drive them out, is what that means — neither by force of arms nor by boycotts and shunning.
The legal consequences of its findings, the court ruled, were that Israel must end its control of these areas, cease new settlement activity, "repeal all legislation and measures creating or maintaining the unlawful situation" — including those which it said "discriminate against the Paleostinian people in the Occupied Paleostinian Territory" — and provide reparations for any damage caused by its "wrongful acts."
“Must.” Bless your black little hearts.
In addition, the court said that all UN member states are obligated not to recognize changes to the status of the territory, and that all states are obligated not to aid or assist Israel’s rule of the territories, and ensure that any impediment "to the exercise of the Paleostinian people of its right to self-determination is brought to an end."
The court also said that despite the complete civilian and military withdrawal from the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip in 2005, Israel has "remained capable of exercising, and continued to exercise, certain key elements of authority" there. It added "this is even more so" since the Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... -led October 7 attack that started the ongoing Gaza war.
The ICJ’s decision is an advisory opinion and has no direct legal consequences on Israel or other UN member states, but it could be another blow to the Jewish state’s international standing and add political pressure over its devastating nine-month-old war against Paleostinian terror group Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Israel did not take part in the hearings, instead submitting a written contribution that described the questions the court had been asked as "prejudicial" and "tendentious."
NETANYAHU: FALSE AND DISTORTED DECISION
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, numerous cabinet ministers as well as settler leaders roundly denounced the ruling, with some calling for the immediate formal annexation of the West Bank in response.
*Snicker*
"The Jewish people are not occupiers in their own land — not in our eternal capital Jerusalem, not in the land of our ancestors in Judea and Samaria," Netanyahu said, using the biblical names for the West Bank. "No false decision in The Hague will distort this historical truth, just as the legality of Israeli settlement in all the territories of our homeland cannot be contested."
Some opposition politicians also denounced the decision, with National Unity party leader Benny Gantz denouncing the opinion as "external interference."
"We vow to both continue defending ourselves in the face of those seeking our destruction and to protect the one and only Jewish State," he said.
Members of left-wing opposition parties insisted, however, that Israeli policy was at fault, with Labor MK Gilad Kariv stating that the government’s "de facto annexation" of the West Bank, "theft of land" and refusal to conduct negotiations with the Paleostinians meant that it would by definition be unable to preserve "Israel’s status as an accepted democratic country."
Way to reduce your party’s winnings in the next election, dude. Maybe you should run for the Egyptian parliament instead.
PA’S ABBAS: COMPEL ISRAEL TO IMPLEMENT RULING
The Paleostinian Authority, which lobbied for the UN General Assembly to request the advisory opinion, hailed the court’s opinion.
In other words, a petty tyrant petitions one powerless talk shop to /get agreement from another powerless talk shop. But who will bell the Israeli cat, eh?
"[PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....> ] considers it a historic decision and demands that Israel be compelled to implement it," said a statement from his office on official Paleostinian news agency Wafa.
Abbas’s office added that it considers "the court’s decision a victory for justice, as it confirmed that the Israeli occupation is illegitimate."
Hamas also praised the ruling, with a statement from the terror organization saying it puts "the international system before the imperative of immediate action to end the occupation."
SETTLEMENTS ARE ’NOT TEMPORARY IN CHARACTER’
The request for the advisory opinion was filed with the court by the UN General Assembly in January 2023 and sought a ruling as to the legal consequences arising, it said, "from the ongoing violation by Israel of the right of the Paleostinian people to self-determination, [and] from its prolonged occupation, settlement and annexation of the Paleostinian territory occupied since 1967."
It also sought the ICJ position on how Israel’s "policies and practices" in the territories "affect the legal status of the occupation."
The court notably cited Israeli decisions and legislation regarding its rule in the West Bank, including quoting from the basic principles document of the current government which states that "the Jewish people have an exclusive and inalienable right to all parts of the Land of Israel," and that the government will "promote and develop the settlement" of all parts of the land, including "Judea and Samaria."
It also quoted from Israel’s 2018 Nation State Basic Law, which has quasi-constitutional status, which said that "Jewish settlement" was a "national value." The relevant clause in the law does not specify where the state should promote settlement and employs a Hebrew word that can be used generally for settling land and has no geographic connotations.
Along with Gaza, Israel captured the West Bank and East Jerusalem during the 1967 Six Day War. The former was ruled by Egypt, which had a military administration in the enclave, while the latter were controlled and annexed by Jordan.
The court dealt methodically with the parameters of the UN General Assembly’s request, including Israel’s policy of building and expanding Israeli neighborhoods in East Jerusalem and settlements in the West Bank.
In particular, it said "the expansion of settlements is based on the confiscation or requisition of large areas of land," and that since this benefits the settler population "to the detriment of local [Paleostinian] population," Israel’s settlements policy violated The Hague Regulations, founding documents of international law.
It also said the settlements "are not temporary in character," thus violating the Fourth Geneva Convention and accepted principles of international law that "belligerent occupations" are supposed to be temporary.
Critically, the ICJ asserted that Israel has annexed large parts of the West Bank, along with its formal annexation of East Jerusalem.
"Israel’s extension of its domestic law to the West Bank, notably to the settlements and over settlers, as well as its assumption of broad regulatory powers by virtue of the prolonged character of the occupation, entrenches its control of the occupied territory," the court determined.
"The court comes to the conclusion that Israel’s policies and practices, including maintenance and expansion of settlements, the construction of associated infrastructure and the [security] wall, the exploitation of natural resources, the proclamation of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the comprehensive application of Israeli domestic law in East Jerusalem and its extensive application in the West Bank, entrench Israeli control of the occupied Paleostinians territories, notably of East Jerusalem and Area C of the West Bank," it continued.
Crucially, it said that these practices "are designed to remain in place indefinitely and to create irreversible effects on the ground."
As such, the ICJ charged that Israel’s 56-year rule in the Paleostinian territories was illegal.
"The sustained abuse by Israel of its position as an occupying power through its annexation and assertion of permanent control over occupied Paleostinian territory, and its continued frustration of the right of the Paleostinian people to self determination violates fundamental principles of international law, and renders Israel’s presence in the occupied Paleostinian territory unlawful," the court determined.
"This illegality relates to the entirety of Paleostinian territory occupied by Israel in 1967. This is the territorial unit across which Israel has imposed policies and practices to fragment and frustrate the ability of the Paleostinian people to exercise its right to self-determination, and over large swaths of which it has extended Israeli illusory sovereignty in violation of international law."
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They lost the '67 war. Right by conquest which predated the ICJ by several thousands of years. You do not want to get into trying to untangle that Gordian Knot that effects all boundaries across the globe.
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Notice Alexander used the sword. The same one he would swing that would 'readjust' borders and result in his Successor states 'occupying' lands for hundreds of years.
Who? Oh, right — he was Hillary Clinton’s running mate for the 2016 campaign. He wasn’t as helpful to the ticket as she’s hoped…
called for the US to recognize Palestine on Friday due to the Knesset vote on Wednesday to reject the establishment of a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River.
In a statement posted to his webpage, Senator Kaine said that due to the Knesset's decision to deny the establishment of a Palestinian state, " the US should no longer condition recognition on Israeli assent, but instead upon Palestinian willingness to peacefully coexist with its neighbors." Taqqiya
The statement was followed by several attempts to highlight Senator Kaine's support for Israel’s right to defend itself as well as his support for humanitarian aid.
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Silentbrick: that includes Gaza and the West Bank, plus as much of Syria and Lebanon as is needed to protect Israeli lives. The Sinai would only be re-occupied if Egypt gets feisty.
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the US should no longer condition recognition on Israeli assent, but instead upon Palestinian willingness to peacefully coexist with its neighbors."
Sure. That could happen. Wouldn't hold my breath, tho.
I actually laughed out loud when I read that.
[GEO.TV] Special rapporteurs of the United Nations are demanding unseating of Israel as a member of the UN over its bombing UN structures and violation of human rights in Palestine.
After Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Francesca Albanese also demanded unseating Israel from the UN. She said, “Time to #UNseatIsrael from the UN.”
This she wrote reposing Rajagopal’s tweet, wherein he wrote, “Israel’s criminal attack on the UN continues without any consequences. High time to take action against Israel including through unseating from the UN, as was done with apartheid South Africa.”
This they said after Israel completely destroyed UNRWA headquarters in Gaza.
“The UN facilities are not a target and must be protected at all times. This is fundamental to international humanitarian law and to our ability to do our lifesaving work,” the UNRWA had said in a statement earlier.
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Somebody should do something about this bitch, Albanese.
[GEO.TV] Hamas called for "immediate" international action on Friday to end Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories after the top UN court ruled it was illegal.
A statement from the militant group, which has been fighting Israel in Gaza since the October 7 attacks, welcomed the ruling from the International Court of Justice, saying it puts "the international system before the imperative of immediate action to end the occupation"
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[JPost] "Ohhhh, yeah. We forgot them!" The two leaders will meet in Washington next week, where Netanyahu will also address the US Congress.
President Joe Biden will focus his energy in his meeting next week with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on securing the ceasefire and hostage deal, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said on Friday afternoon during an interview at the Aspen Security Forum.
"Several weeks ago, the president went out and said to the world, there is a blueprint, a pathway to get the hostages home, a ceasefire in place, humanitarian assistance in Gaza," he said. "We believe there is an opportunity to get it done. Let's use next week to try to clear through those obstacles and get a deal."
President Biden said these are going to be difficult talks requiring a lot of give and take and back and forth, according to Sullivan,
According to Sullivan, while the initial phase is six weeks, Biden said one of the terms of this framework is that if the parties are at the table with the mediators and continuing to make progress, that first phase could be extended until they reach an agreement and move into phase two.
"Most of that is understood by both Israel and Hamas. There are some technical details to be worked out about the phase one to phase two sequence," Sullivan said. "That's one of the issues that we have to work through in the end game, and it's one of the things that President Biden and I will have the chance to talk to the prime minister about."
The White House has not yet seen a copy of the speech Netanyahu will deliver next Wednesday before Congress.
Sullivan said the White House expects his speech to be different from the one he delivered in 2015 and should reflect today's circumstances, which are how the US and Israel are trying to "face down the terrorist threat, to coordinate together on the regional challenges that both of our countries are facing, and how we're continuing to work towards the ceasefire and hostage deal."
Sullivan said he expects to have "productive conversations" with the Israeli government in the days before Netanyahu's address.
Earlier in the day, during another interview at the conference, Secretary of State Antony Blinken described the ceasefire negotiations as "inside the 10-yard line and driving toward the goal line."
"We often know the last 10 yards are often the hardest," he added, noting the question now is finishing negotiating some critical details.
Blinken dodged the question about reports of Netanyahu deliberately sabotaging the ceasefire negotiations and carefully answered how he deals with the prime minister.
"I'm not focused on personalities; I'm focused on policies," Blinken said, which led to some laughter from the audience. "And we want to make sure as we go forward with anyone, whether it's our Israeli allies or anyone else, that we reach agreements on the concrete steps to be taken to move whatever it is we're trying to move forward."
Blinken said what he's hearing across Israeli society is a strong desire to "get this done" and to get a ceasefire and the hostages home.
A NEED FOR TWO STATES
When asked if the future of a two-state solution was dead, Blinken replied, "Not only is it not that, it can't be."
Though he said there are fundamental realities that can't be escaped, that between Gaza and the West Bank, there are over five million Palestinians. There are about seven million Israeli Jews.
"Neither is going anywhere," he said. "Palestinians are not going anywhere. The Jews are not going anywhere."
There has to be an accommodation that brings lasting peace and lasting security to Israelis who so desperately want it and need it and fulfills the right to self-determination of the Palestinians, Blinken said.
On Iran, he said, "where we are now is not a good place," as they're likely weeks away from developing the breakout capacity of producing fissile material for a nuclear weapon, though Iran has not developed a nuclear weapon itself.
We need to see if Iran is serious about actually pulling back, he said, adding the Biden administration has "been maximizing pressure on Iran across the board."
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[IsraelTimes] Top diplomat stresses Tehran has not yet produced a nuke, which would take longer; urges Iran to ‘pull back on work it’s been doing,’ says US ‘maximizing pressure across the board’
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm... on Friday warned Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... can now produce the necessary fissile material for an atomic bomb in as little as a week or two, but has yet to take steps to assemble a weapon.
Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum, Blinken indicated he was not optimistic about the chances for reform in Iran despite the recent election of a relatively more moderate candidate, as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...> is still the one who "calls the shots."
Ya think?? The man’s a genius!
"When this administration came in, we tried to pursue again, nuclear diplomacy with Iran, because if you could at least take one problem off the board, which is Iran potentially with a nuclear weapon, that’s inherently a good thing," he said.
*Insert really, really rude comment here, using words I still don’t know*
Blinken blasted Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... ’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, which the former president defended in his speech to the Republican National Convention Thursday night, saying Tehran "was broke" when he was in office but is now "very close to having a nuclear weapon." Blinken, however, seemed to argue it was Trump’s approach that led to Iran being on the cusp of nuclear breakout capabilities.
That’s a really large load of really stinky fecal matter.
"Instead of being at least a year away from having the breakout capacity of producing fissile material for a nuclear weapon, it is now probably one or two weeks away from doing that," he said, clarifying that Iran has not yet produced a weapon itself, which would take far more time.
They already have the missiles to carry the warheads, so it won’t be as long as all that, especially given they have North Korean and Russian help.
Blinken reiterated that the US would not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon, adding the administration still prefers a diplomatic route to preventing this scenario.
"What we need to see, if Iran is serious about engaging, is actually pulling back on the work that it’s been doing on his program."
Why would you imagine such a thing is even possible?
"Second, we have been maximizing pressure on Iran across the board. We’ve imposed more than 600 sanctions on Iranian persons and entities. We haven’t lifted a single sanction," he asserted.
But first you gave them billions and removed all the old sanctions.
Since the collapse of the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers following the US’s unilateral withdrawal from the accord in 2018, Iran has pursued nuclear enrichment just below weapons-grade levels. Western powers say there is no credible civilian reason for that. Iran says its aims are entirely peaceful, but officials have recently said the Islamic republic could change its "nuclear doctrine" if it is attacked or its existence is seen as threatened by Israel. That has prompted alarm at the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency and in Western capitals.
Reports last month before the presidential election indicated Iran’s leadership was considering whether to go ahead with producing a nuclear weapon. Iranian president-elect Masoud Pezeshkian, who Blinken referred to Friday, has called for "constructive relations" with Western countries to "get Iran out of its isolation" and favors reviving the 2015 deal.
…a “deal” — a word to provide cover for a treaty negotiated between the Mad Mullahs and the Obama administration that they had no intention of submitting to the Senate for the legally required validation — designed by the Obama administration to give Iran cover while they secretly worked toward nuclear weapons.
Amid recent concerns, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was said to reestablish a series of working groups last month to deal with Iran’s nuclear program.
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STFU, Blinken, you clown. Just the same old rubbish we've been hearing for about 40 year.
#2
USA was advised - by both PM of Israel and king of Saudia - to replace Saddam with a reasonable (good memory & sense of self-preservation) Sunni general. Instead, the super brains went for "Nation building" and turned Iraq from Iran's only natural enemy into Iranian province.
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'has'='had'
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Blinken is Jewish and a dual citizen. he is so trusted by Israel that he is allowed to sit in on Cabinet meetings, something astounding for any foreigner to do.
He does not represent American interests first.
A war with Iran does not, in any way, serve the American people. It only serves Israel.
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#5 - I hold no love for Blinken. I can find no evidence of him regularly or even occasionally sitting in on Israeli Cabinet meetings or having dual citizenship. If you can't provide some, I'll just assume you're a lying troll. Bless your heart.
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Ref #5
So we should ignore the widespread chants of "Death to America" as just joking around? Do a better con job moron, I have a horse that make more reasoned arguments!
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Blinken is Jewish and a dual citizen.
Where do you find your Jew-hating nonsense, Vortigern Borgia1150? Secretary Blinken is indeed Jewish, but his connection is to Paris, where he grew up, not Jerusalem. He was born in Yonkers, and has never been anything other than American.
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