The world is now seeing how we are manipulated to see what they want us to see. Who THEY decide are the “enemy” and who isn’t. When most of the world is watching, and not agreeing, they highlight themselves. #hypocrisy#warcrimes#humanrights
The #US House speaker, Mike Johnson, says that the House may vote on sanctions against the International Criminal Court for seeking an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu.
"Congress is reviewing all options, including sanctions, to punish the #ICC and ensure its leadership faces consequences if they proceed," he said in a statement.
Britain's defense minister challenges the international court: Arrest warrant requests against Netanyahu and Gallant will not affect our continued arms exports to Israel.
Isn't they just lovely people? They are for law and order
Despite the announcement of the suspension of Turkish trade with Israel, a large number of ships continue to import and export daily between Israeli and Turkish ports.
Celebrity blockade is working, one by one they are acting like they care for Gaza! After losing millions of followers, many celebrities posting lame and desperate call for "peace" and "ceasefire".
It's amazing that less than a week after the call for boycott, we're suddenly seeing these people act like they just woke up to the ongoing catastrophe that has been going on for 7 months.
All the red lines, all the warnings, all the empty talks about Rafah is once again showing to be nothing but, well, hot air.
Israel is bombing Rafah, it is bombing palestinians fleeing Rafah, it is bombing medics helping the injured in Rafah and it is doing it with full view of the so called "world community", the British FM was brave enough to say "we do not support the attack against Rafah", as if the weapons they sent to Israel are magically have stopped exploding when they are dropped over civilian targets in over crowded city.
Biden have stopped sending bombs to Israel, after almost 3000 shipment of weapons that no one seems to care about, one single shipment was "delayed" and the propaganda media, the loonies at the congress and Bidensitas are all talking about it as if it is an unbelievable act of bravery and show of moral grounds.
Germany is quiet, and instead stepping up it's attacks against pro-palestinian activists and using their power to block the entry of Palestinian activists outside EU to enter Schengen,
Sweden, busy with celebrating their 12 points support of the Israeli song and attacking pro-palestinian protesters is preparing their fighter jets to receive the new Israeli weapons tested to be efficient against people of Gaza to be attached to it's fighter jets and hand over some $500M to genocidal regime of Israel.
The rest of Europe is also sitting and quietly watching the atrocities in Gaza to go on, some speak and talk about recognizing Palestinian state (like they have done in the past 6 months) and stopped selling the shipment of weapons to Israel (directly, but replacing the weapons US, UK and Germany are sending to Israel without any hesitations).
The stench of hypocrisy surrounding the Eurovision this year was just astounding.
While Israel was performing at #Eurovision, their troops were murdering displaced Palestinians in Rafah, bombing UNDP building and invading parts of Gaza they had declared "safe" for refugees.
And then this POS hypocrite who was so strongly supporting the ban on Russia 2 years ago is now acting like "music and entertainment is not politics".
Where the hell are the "international observers" who were queuing to visit the "mass graves" in Ukraine? Where is EU? Where are US state department? Where is UN?
What does it take for the world to (at least) investigate these allegations?
Axios reports that members of the US #Congress in both parties warned the ICC that arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials will be met with US retaliation, and legislation to that effect is already in the works.
House Speaker Mike Johnson had issued a statement on Monday calling the reported warrants "disgraceful" and "lawless."
Not to forget UK and Germany increasing weapons sale and suppression of protests against the ongoing genocide in Gaza and daily terror attacks by illegal settlers (with IDF backing) against Palestinians all over occupied West Bank.
As the Columbia University Gaza Solidarity Encampment enters its sixth day, organizers have called on the entire student body to walk out of class to ramp up pressure on the administration to divest from Israel. Breakthrough News will be covering the action LIVE from inside the encampment April 22, 12pm ET
FFS you couldn't make it up... at the very same time that Rishi Sunak is looking to restrict eligibility for benefits for the disabled & long-term sick as an 'incentive' to get them 'back to work'.... the Work & Health Programme, that actually does that very thing has lost funding & will close in the next six months!
So with one hand he takes away financial support & tells people to do more to get into work, and then with other removes services that will help them do exactly that.
@parismarx
Self-proclaimed free speech absolutist Musk only complies with government requests when they enable fascism, not when they combat it.
From May 2023: "Twitter's compliance silenced accounts that had been critical of the Turkish government...It also prompted a wave of criticism directed at Twitter CEO Elon Musk, who seemingly once again abandoned his free speech principles to comply with the Turkish government order."
"Some troubled Twitter users suggested that authoritarian governments could see this response as a signal that Twitter will help them silence opponents any time that they threaten to ban the platform regionally."
Some 52 years ago, when I was in 4th grade of primary school, I found a book "who put glasses on the kid's eyes" in a small book shop in open bazaar of my hometown Ahvaz in khuzestan province of Iran.
A few days later, we had to bring a book to school and read it in front of the class. Happy as I was to have found a great book, I took it to school and read it in front of the class.
I couldn't understand why my teacher was acting so scared and stopped me before I had finished the book and sent me to the principals office.
I was nervous, didn't know what I had done wrong and our principal, who was a really nice man, and went to the same university as my oldest sister took the book and asked me where I had bought it. I knew something was wrong, so I said I bought it at the book store of our local mosque, to protect the guy who was my source of cheap and lovely books and would buy back my old ones to help me afford buying new ones.
In the evening my father came home, agitated and clearly upset. Asked me what I have done and I explained the situation, including the fact that I lied about wher I had bought the book. Told him the highlight of the book about a happy child who was living in a town with happy people who were all wearing glasses.
He was seeing flowers, colorful houses. Nice people and happy children all around him, birds flying in the sky and everyone were so friendly to him.
Until one day he fell of and his glasses broke. He couldn't believe his eyes, the flowers, colorful houses and happy people were all gone. All he could see was a run down city, with piles of garbage everywhere, people wearing worn out clothes, looking hungry and sick.
He was nece happy after that, he couldn't believe that everyone were walking around with glasses and we're happy all the time. But he was sad and miserable, because he had seen his town without those glasses.
Anyway. My father took me to a building close to the main police station on the other side of the Karun river, he spent almost entire day in a room where I could people screaming at him and a few times someone his the table very hard. But couldn't hear what they were saying.
My dad came out. Pulled my hand without saying a word, we walked for an hour to get home, didn't take taxi as we used to do.
He didn't say a word during the whole day and told me to go over my books and bring all the books I had bought from that shop, he through them in a metal bucket and poured some fuel over it, set them on fire and waited until they were completely burned, mixed the ashes to turn them into dust, filled the bucket with water and through it in the toilet.
He told me to never go back to that shop and be careful to take any books to school from now on.
That' was my first interaction with the notorious Savak police of Shah of Iran. In the next days, all the 4 book stores in our town were raided. Books confiscated and doors locked. Never heard about any of them again.
Reading the comments of pro Israeli accounts on mastodon reminded me of that book and that experience that changed my life when I was only 8 years old.
This post specially triggered those memories. Unlike the kid in my book and the people living in the town, these people know very well tat what they are posting is not true, they have seen the horror of the past 76 years of occupation, they have seen the 66 times they were subject to UNSC charges, and 45 that were vetoed by the US..
But they don't care, they see themselves as victims. They don't see the millions of starving palestinians, or the millions living in refuge camps around the world as worthy of their empathy or cause of why Palestinians and some of the world is fed up with their out of control criminal behavior
They don't have glasses on their eyes, they have chosen to be selective and above the laws of the world.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Just to sum up. You support #Trump for pres even if he's convicted in classified docs case. You support him for pres even though you believe he contributed to an insurrection. You support him for pres even though you believe he's lying about the last election. You support him for pres even if he's convicted in Manhattan case. I just want to say, the answer to that is yes, correct?
West will condemn Iran’s attack, but largely ignore ‘Israeli provocations’
We spoke to Nader Hashemi, associate professor of Middle East and Islamic politics at Georgetown University, about the potential reaction around the world to Iran’s attack on Israel last night.
Hashemi said Iran will be widely condemned for its attack, unlike the series of Israeli provocations and attacks both within Iran and throughout the Middle East that have killed senior Iranian military officials and targeted key Iranian economic and nuclear sites, condemnations of which have been more muted.
“President Biden is rallying the G7 who will issue a condemnatory statement of Iran along these lines,” Hashemi said.
“In the Global South the response will be more measured” he said, adding “there will be calls for restraint, de-escalation and diplomacy without directly blaming Iran or Israel”.
“Arab and Muslim public opinion will note how many Arab states deployed military resources to protect Israel while doing the opposite in the context of the mass starvation and genocide in Gaza,” Hashemi concluded.
PSA: Since Threads apparently will be federating replies soon, I thought I should post this again, because there's still a lot of people that don't know.
When a normal user uses "block this domain" it's LITERALLY just a MUTE. The blocked server can still see, interact, and reply to your posts, you just won't be able to see them.
It's kinda like sitting in a room with hungry bears while wearing a blindfold. If you're scared of hungry bears, your best bet is to get out of the room, not put a blindfold on. And by this, I simply mean to migrate to an instance where the blocks are up to your standard on the "instance" level.
Stay informed and make informed decisions, no matter what you choose to do with your Fediverse presence.
The main reason other AP implementations have added it (or in the case of #Misskey, made signing objects enabled by default which was a reluctant decision) as well despite Authorized Fetch / #SecureMode not being documented in the spec is that plenty of big #MastoAdmins have enabled it for their instances thinking it will prevent harassment from instances they've blocked (despite the fact that AF is purely #securitytheater), forcing the rest of the #fediverse to adopt it to remain compatible. Even at the cost of performance (no more caching).
This is plain ol' #EmbraceExtendExtinguish or #EEE for short against AP and the fedi by the Mastodon monopoly, and nobody wants to talk about it because it undermines the narrative a lot of Mastodon admins are putting out to justify their fediblocking of #Threads. Would've been fine if they focused on the (real) harms #Facebook did to Burma for example, that's a totally fine reason to block FB. But screaming EEE just makes me roll my eyes on their #hypocrisy. :seija_coffee:
What happened to "civilized west'" support of law and order and enforcing the demands of #UN Security Council and #ICJ?
7 days have passed, Israel not only ignored the ruling, it has escalated their war crimes in both #Gaza and occupied West Bank.
They haven't allowed humanitarian aid, but murdered western volunteers feeding the starving palestinians.
#US hasn't pushed for ceasefire and release of the hostages, instead they have given billions of dollars worth of 2000 pound bombs and F-35 fighter jets to Israel.
#Canada hasn't stopped selling weapons to Israel despite them laying about it and ignoring the parliament ruling.
I guess the heroic action of western nations dropping 15g of food and water per person, per day, wasn't enough to keep this child alive.
A 10-year-old Palestinian boy, Karam Mohammad Qadada, has died as a result of dehydration ans malnutrition at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza as a result of the ongoing Israeli war of starvation on the region, according to local and media sources.
US Senator Bernie #Sanders criticized the #Biden administration after reports emerged of the #US providing Israel with more bombs that were responsible for killing thousands of innocent Palestinians in #Gaza.