Netanyaya is a fucking criminal , and his wife is a klepto. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
so you believe ukraine has no right to defend itself and be free? do you believe ukraine should be part of russia?
you know - as long as i am alive - the conflict in and around israel goes on and on. i believe it is a minority on both sides that is responsible for it. maybe religion is the root for this - maybe something else. what do you think - what would be a longterm solution for the conflict? (btw. - i believe regime change in iran is part of the solution.)
US-Israel panel to look into civilian harm in Gaza is set for first meeting next month By MATTHEW LEE November 20, 2024 https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-humanitarian-aid-76220814c1772a3f021a5fe596498795 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says a U.S.-Israel panel to look into reports of civilian harm from the war in Gaza will meet for the first time in early December, missing by more than a month a U.S. call for the channel to be set up by the end of October. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Tuesday that the upcoming meeting had been agreed to after much discussion between U.S. and Israeli officials on specific incidents and reports of civilian casualties involving American-made or -supplied weapons.
Pretty obvious to blind freddy the US and more specifically Biden has no intention on doing anything. I'm lost for words how pathetic these 'governing' wankers are.
Opinion Vladimir Putin Putin is waiting for Washington to go silent The Russian leader sees an opportunity to re-establish a sphere of influence in Europe Gideon Rachman https://www.ft.com/content/03562c36-a394-47ab-9581-f2f06fc190a7 © James Ferguson Vladimir Putin was in East Germany, working for the KGB, when the Berlin Wall fell. In his memoir First Person, published in 2000, Putin recalls asking a nearby Red Army unit to protect the KGB headquarters in Dresden. The answer he received shocked him: “We cannot do anything without orders from Moscow. And Moscow is silent.” Putin later said: “I got the feeling then that the country no longer existed. That it had disappeared.” Searing experiences like that are formative. The lesson that Putin seems to have drawn from 1989 is that great empires can collapse because of internal political disarray. Having seen Moscow fall silent, Putin may now hope to see Washington fall silent and the “American empire” collapse in its turn. Viewed from Moscow, the possibilities must look tantalising. The election of Donald Trump to a second term as US president would place the western alliance under unprecedented strain. Policy changes that could be initiated by Trump — such as a complete withdrawal of support for Ukraine or an American pullout from Nato — are just one potential route to the achievement of Russia’s goals. A second, less discussed route does not depend on conscious changes in policy from the White House. In this scenario, the aftermath of a Trump election would see American government and society fall into disarray. Preoccupied by their own internal conflicts, the American elite would lose the will or the ability to project power around the world. That period of disarray might not have to last long to have world-shaking consequences. As Putin later recalled: “We lost confidence for only one moment. But it was enough to disrupt the balance of forces in the world.” A period of “lost confidence” caused by post-election turmoil in the US seems very plausible. If Trump wins, he has made it clear that he intends to seek vengeance against his political enemies. He has encouraged talk of putting prominent Democrats and even former officials in his own administration on trial for treason or corruption. The targets include Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Mark Milley, who was America’s most senior military officer under Trump. Plans are being drawn up in pro-Trump think-tanks to purge the senior ranks of the US government. Officials in the Pentagon worry that Trump regards the top levels of the US military as disloyal because they resisted his demands to deploy troops on the streets of America. They fear that Trump will appoint real authoritarians to the top jobs in the intelligence services and the military — and might also seek to turn Maga-supporting lower ranks of the military against the top brass. Even if Trump loses to Biden, there is a strong chance of political turmoil in the US. Who can believe that Trump or his supporters would accept defeat? A replay of the insurrection of January 6 2021 — only this time with added support from politicians and courts at the state level — seems quite likely. All of this would be a recipe for turmoil in the US and for what Putin called, in the Soviet context, “the paralysis of power”. A paralysed Washington would then spell opportunity for Moscow and Beijing. What form this opportunity would take cannot be known in advance. The unravelling of the Soviet empire in 1989 was characterised largely by unforeseen events and improvisation. But for Putin the prospect of reversing the humiliation of 1989 and re-establishing some kind of Russian sphere of influence in Europe must feel tantalisingly close. However, Putin’s view of what happened in 1989 — and therefore his ambitions for 2025 — suffer from a major blind spot. The causes of the collapse of the Soviet empire were not simply confusion and a failure of will in Moscow. The more profound reason was that Soviet rule was reviled in eastern Europe. The USSR had sent tanks into Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968 to suppress dissent. Mikhail Gorbachev’s decision not to crush eastern European aspirations for a third time was a moral choice — not a moment of weakness as Putin sees it. It was the old brutal Soviet model of domination that Putin was reaching for in 2022, when he launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine. But the world had changed in ways that he did not understand. The Ukrainians fought back and the west supplied them with weapons — unlike in 1956 and 1968, when the US and its allies had stood aside and failed to oppose Moscow’s intervention. America’s alliance system in Europe — unlike the Soviet bloc in 1989 — rests on consent. It is an “empire by invitation”, in the phrase of the political scientist Geir Lundestad. While the Poles and Czechs longed for Soviet troops to withdraw in 1989, EU nations would be appalled if American troops pulled back today. A great deal has changed since 1989, in Moscow, Washington, Berlin and Warsaw. But one thing that remains constant is the determination of Europeans to resist Russian domination. The EU nations are painfully aware of how dependent they have become on US military power. But they are determined to do something about it. It is possible that Washington will fall silent in the coming year. But that does not mean that Moscow will be able to turn Europe’s clock back to 1988.
All the signs are there of an American collapse, a corrupt American government run by incompetents and unable/not prepared to make intelligent decisions.
US vetoes UN Security Council resolution on Gaza ceasefire By David Brunnstrom and Simon Lewis November 21, 2024 https://www.reuters.com/world/middl...on-gaza-war-its-current-form-says-2024-11-20/ Summary US veto criticized by UN members, including Malta and France US says ceasefire must include release of hostages held by Hamas China and Russia accused of influencing resolution stance Nov 20 (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza, drawing criticism of the Biden administration for once again blocking international action aimed at halting Israel's war with Hamas. The 15-member council voted on a resolution put forward by 10 non-permanent members that called for an "immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire" in the 13-month conflict and separately demanded the release of hostages. Only the U.S. voted against, using its veto as a permanent council member to block the resolution. Robert Wood, deputy U.S. ambassador to the U.N., said Washington had made clear it would only support a resolution that explicitly calls for the immediate release of hostages as part of a ceasefire. "A durable end to the war must come with the release of the hostages. These two urgent goals are inextricably linked. This resolution abandoned that necessity, and for that reason, the United States could not support it," he said. Wood said the U.S. had sought compromise, but the text of the proposed resolution would have sent a "dangerous message" to Palestinian militant group Hamas that "there's no need to come back to the negotiating table." Israel's campaign in Gaza has killed nearly 44,000 people and displaced nearly all the enclave's population at least once. It was launched in response to an attack by Hamas-led fighters who killed 1,200 people and captured more than 250 hostages in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Members roundly criticized the U.S. for blocking the resolution put forward by the council's 10 elected members: Algeria, Ecuador, Guyana, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, South Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia and Switzerland. "It is deeply regretted that due to the use of the veto this council has once again failed to uphold its responsibility to maintain international peace and security," Malta's U.N. Ambassador Vanessa Frazier said after the vote failed, adding that the text of the resolution "was by no means a maximalist one." "It represented the bare minimum of what is needed to begin to address the desperate situation on the ground," she said. Food security experts have warned that famine is imminent among Gaza's 2.3 million people. U.S. President Joe Biden, who leaves office on Jan. 20, has offered Israel strong diplomatic backing and continued to provide arms for the war, while trying unsuccessfully to broker a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas that would see hostages released in exchange for Palestinians held by Israel. After blocking earlier resolutions on Gaza, Washington in March abstained from a vote that allowed a resolution to pass demanding an immediate ceasefire. A senior U.S. official, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity ahead of Wednesday's vote, said Britain had put forward new language that the U.S. would have supported as a compromise, but that was rejected by the elected members. Some members were more interested in bringing about a U.S. veto than compromising on the resolution, the official said, accusing U.S. adversaries Russia and China of encouraging those members. 'GREEN LIGHT' France's ambassador Nicolas de Riviere said the resolution rejected by the U.S. "very firmly" required the release of hostages. "France still has two hostages in Gaza, and we deeply regret that the Security Council was not able to formulate this demand," he said. China's U.N. ambassador, Fu Cong, said each time the United States had exercised its veto to protect Israel, the number of people killed in Gaza had steadily risen. "How many more people have to die before they wake up from their pretend slumber?" he asked. "Insistence on setting a precondition for ceasefire is tantamount to giving the green light to continue the war and condoning the continued killing." Israel's U.N. ambassador Danny Danon said ahead of the vote the text was not a resolution for peace but was "a resolution for appeasement" of Hamas. "History will remember who stood with the hostages and who abandoned them," Danon said.
America (pretends it) wants peace. America will look into Israel attrocities 'next month' (LMFAO) America keeps piling aid and weapons, unabated, into Israel. America vetos Gaza ceasefire. What a circus!