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EU chief accuses Israel of using ‘starvation as a war arm’ in Gaza

EU chief accuses Israel of using ‘starvation as a war arm’ in Gaza

The Times of Israel reports: The European Union’s foreign policy chief accuses Israel of using starvation as a weapon of war and of blocking overland routes that are the best way to get food to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians facing famine in the Gaza Strip. Josep Borrell tells the UN Security Council that humanitarian assistance must get into Gaza where there is no natural disaster, flood or earthquake. “This is a man-made crisis,” Borrell says. “And when we look…

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In Israel’s war on children, more have been killed in four months than have died in four years of conflict around the world

In Israel’s war on children, more have been killed in four months than have died in four years of conflict around the world

Staggering. The number of children reported killed in just over 4 months in #Gaza is higher than the number of children killed in 4 years of wars around the world combined. This war is a war on children. It is a war on their childhood and their future.#ceasefireNow for the… pic.twitter.com/tYwSNHecpy — Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) March 12, 2024

U.S. intelligence report states Netanyahu’s viability to lead Israel is in jeopardy

U.S. intelligence report states Netanyahu’s viability to lead Israel is in jeopardy

CNN reports: The US intelligence community assesses Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “viability as a leader” to be “in jeopardy,” according to its annual report on the national security threats facing the United States that was presented to Congress on Monday. “Distrust of Netanyahu’s ability to rule has deepened and broadened across the public from its already high levels before the war, and we expect large protests demanding his resignation and new elections,” according to the report. “A different, more…

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Israeli human rights groups accuse country of failing to abide by ICJ’s Gaza aid ruling

Israeli human rights groups accuse country of failing to abide by ICJ’s Gaza aid ruling

The Guardian reports: Twelve of Israel’s most prominent human rights organisations have signed an open letter accusing the country of failing to comply with the international court of justice’s (ICJ) provisional ruling that it should facilitate access of humanitarian aid into Gaza. The court in The Hague made a number of legal requirements of Israel when it issued a provisional ruling in late January in response to South Africa’s complaint accusing the state of committing genocide in its military campaign…

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Biden’s Armageddon moment: When nuclear detonation seemed possible in Ukraine

Biden’s Armageddon moment: When nuclear detonation seemed possible in Ukraine

The New York Times reports: President Biden was standing in an Upper East Side townhouse owned by the businessman James Murdoch, the rebellious scion of the media empire, surrounded by liberal New York Democrats who had paid handsomely to come hear optimistic talk about the Biden agenda for the next few years. It was Oct. 6, 2022, but what they heard instead that evening was a disturbing message that — though Mr. Biden didn’t say so — came straight from…

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Donald Trump won’t give ‘a penny’ to Ukraine if elected, Orbán says

Donald Trump won’t give ‘a penny’ to Ukraine if elected, Orbán says

Politico reports: Donald Trump will totally stop funding Ukraine if he wins the U.S. election in November, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said following a meeting between the right-wing figureheads. “He will not give a penny in the Ukraine-Russia war,” Orbán told Hungarian state media Sunday. “Therefore, the war will end, because it is obvious that Ukraine can not stand on its own feet.” The longtime allies met last Friday at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, a summit which was…

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Netanyahu vows to defy Biden’s ‘red line’ and invade Rafah. He also denies Palestinians are starving

Netanyahu vows to defy Biden’s ‘red line’ and invade Rafah. He also denies Palestinians are starving

Politico reports: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he intends to press ahead with an invasion of the city of Rafah on the southern border of the Gaza Strip in defiance of U.S. President Joe Biden, who has warned such an offensive would be a “red line.” Amid signs of increasing frustration with Netanyahu, the U.S. president told MSNBC on Saturday that he opposed an escalation of the conflict into Rafah, and that he could not accept “30,000 more Palestinians…

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Israeli rabbi calls for killing all Palestinians in Gaza

Israeli rabbi calls for killing all Palestinians in Gaza

  He’s not just head of a yeshiva; he’s head of a hesder yeshiva. Many yeshiva students do not serve in the military, but hesder yeshivas combine Torah study with military service. So young military recruits are being taught that genocide is a religious duty. https://t.co/gpzBny5pkv — Barnett R. Rubin (@BRRubin) March 10, 2024 They are proud to murder a 73-year-old deaf man. That's the type of savagery we are facing in Gaza https://t.co/VRxeW1DYTh — Khalil Sayegh (@KhalilJeries) March 9,…

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Chief Sephardic rabbi says ultra-Orthodox will leave Israel if forced into army

Chief Sephardic rabbi says ultra-Orthodox will leave Israel if forced into army

The Times of Israel reports: Chief Sephardic Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef warned Saturday that ultra-Orthodox Jews will leave Israel en masse if the government ends exemptions of mandatory military enlistment enjoyed by the community. “If they force us to go to the army, we’ll all move abroad,” Yosef said during a weekly lecture. “We’ll buy a ticket… We’ll go there.” “The [biblical] tribe of Levi was exempted from the army,” he noted by way of comparison, referring to the biblical tribe…

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Should either of these people have the power to end the world?

Should either of these people have the power to end the world?

W.J. Hennigan writes: Forty-five feet underground in a command center near Omaha, there’s an encrypted communications line that goes directly to the American president. To get to it, you need to pass through a guarded turnstile, two reinforced steel doors and a twisting hallway that leads to an ultra-secure room called The Battle Deck. It’s here, below the headquarters of the U.S. Strategic Command, or Stratcom, where military personnel stand by 24 hours a day awaiting a call the world…

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Inside the Qatar hospital treating some of Gaza’s most severely wounded children

Inside the Qatar hospital treating some of Gaza’s most severely wounded children

  We hear Abdullah a few moments before we see him. His distant screams are echoing down the corridor at the Turkish hospital in downtown Doha. “I am in pain” he shouts, in Arabic from afar. “I need painkillers.” We travelled with him to Qatar from Egypt’s border with Gaza four days earlier. It’s hard to comprehend the deaths of 12,800 children. We put up figures of children on our studio walls – one for each child killed in Gaza…

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U.S. prepared ‘rigorously’ for potential Russian nuclear strike in Ukraine in late 2022, officials say

U.S. prepared ‘rigorously’ for potential Russian nuclear strike in Ukraine in late 2022, officials say

CNN’s Jim Sciutto reports: In late 2022, the US began “preparing rigorously” for Russia potentially striking Ukraine with a nuclear weapon, in what would have been the first nuclear attack in war since the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki nearly eighty years before, two senior administration officials told CNN. The Biden administration was specifically concerned Russia might use a tactical or battlefield nuclear weapon, the officials said. I first reported US officials were worried about Russia using…

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Don’t be fooled by Biden’s latest humanitarian initiative for Gaza

Don’t be fooled by Biden’s latest humanitarian initiative for Gaza

In his State of the Union speech, President Biden presented a plan to deliver aid by sea to the starving population in Gaza as a demonstration of American leadership: Tonight, I’m directing the U.S. military to lead an emergency mission to establish a temporary pier in the Mediterranean on the Gaza coast that can receive large ships carrying food, water, medicine and temporary shelters. No U.S. boots will be on the ground. This temporary pier would enable a massive increase…

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Senator Chris Van Hollen explains why the U.S. is legally required to suspend military aid to Israel

Senator Chris Van Hollen explains why the U.S. is legally required to suspend military aid to Israel

Isaac Chotiner interviewed Senator Chris Van Hollen: Am I correct that there is a law on the books in America which says that “funds appropriated or otherwise made available for United States assistance may not be made available for any country whose government prohibits or otherwise restricts, directly or indirectly, the transport or delivery of United States humanitarian assistance?” You cited that exactly right, and the President, just within the last couple of days, said, and I’m quoting, “We’re going…

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Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton wants to crackdown on the next ‘Hamas sympathiser Aaron Bushnell’

Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton wants to crackdown on the next ‘Hamas sympathiser Aaron Bushnell’

The New Arab reports: US Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) has unveiled two new pieces of legislation aimed at restricting security clearances and demonstration rights for pro-Palestinian government workers and contractors, following the self-immolation of US airman Aaron Bushnell outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. on February 25th. The announcement was made on Thursday in a statement posted to Cotton’s website, in which he suggested the actions of Bushnell and others who rallied in his memory as sympathetic with ‘terrorists’…

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White House considering imposing restrictions on how Israel uses weapons supplied by U.S.

White House considering imposing restrictions on how Israel uses weapons supplied by U.S.

David Ignatius writes: The Biden administration, worried about a new humanitarian catastrophe, appears to be considering ways to prevent Israel from using U.S. weapons if it attacks the densely populated area around the city of Rafah. President Biden and senior advisers haven’t made any decision about imposing “conditionality” on U.S. weapons. But the very fact that officials seem to be debating this extreme step shows the administration’s growing concern about the crisis in Gaza — and its sharp disagreement with…

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