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Inside the Democratic rebellion against Biden over the Gaza war

Inside the Democratic rebellion against Biden over the Gaza war

Reuters reports: The depth of Democratic Party anger over President Joe Biden’s handling of the Gaza war has caught his campaign off guard and could depress support in November’s election, according to Reuters interviews with more than a dozen senior party and campaign officials and five dozen voters and activists. The White House had expected Democratic unrest over Gaza to fade as Biden picked up his campaigning against presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, the officials said. Nine months before the…

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Israeli director receives death threats after officials call Berlin film festival ‘antisemitic’

Israeli director receives death threats after officials call Berlin film festival ‘antisemitic’

Our film “No Other Land” on occupied Masafer Yatta’s brutal expulsion won best documentary in Berlinale. Israel’s channel 11 aired this 30 second segment from my speech, insanely called it “anti semitic” – and I’ve been receiving death threats since. I stand behind every word. pic.twitter.com/2burPfZeKO — Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם (@yuval_abraham) February 25, 2024 The Guardian reports: An Israeli film-maker who won one of the top prizes at the Berlin film festival has said German officials’ description of the…

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Yellen urges world leaders to ‘unlock’ frozen Russian Central Bank assets and send them to Ukraine

Yellen urges world leaders to ‘unlock’ frozen Russian Central Bank assets and send them to Ukraine

The Associated Press reports: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday offered her strongest public support yet for the idea of liquidating roughly $300 billion in frozen Russian Central Bank assets and using them for Ukraine’s long-term reconstruction. “It is necessary and urgent for our coalition to find a way to unlock the value of these immobilized assets to support Ukraine’s continued resistance and long-term reconstruction,” Yellen said in remarks in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where Group of 20 finance ministers and…

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‘What would I do if my country was committing genocide? The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now’

‘What would I do if my country was committing genocide? The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now’

US serviceman Aaron Bushnell, who set fire to himself outside the Israeli embassy in Washington DC saying he was protesting against the genocide of Palestinians, has died in hospital from his injuries ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/oGXEjDVdB9 — Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) February 26, 2024 I can't believing I'm saying this, but Aaron Bushnell's last words were just read live on CNN. pic.twitter.com/wdbbBsTHgW — Read Let This Radicalize You (@JoshuaPHilll) February 26, 2024 Aaron Bushnell. We see you. We know your name. We…

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The trauma experienced in Gaza is beyond PTSD

The trauma experienced in Gaza is beyond PTSD

Yara M. Asi writes: “We will die. All of us. Hopefully soon enough to stop the suffering that we are living through every single second.” Those words were sent in a text last week by a physician working for Doctors Without Borders in the southern Gaza Strip. And it is far from an uncommon feeling shared by those struggling to survive and care for one another in Gaza these days. What would we call this feeling from the perspective of…

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Western troops on the ground in Ukraine is not ‘ruled out’ in the future, Macron says

Western troops on the ground in Ukraine is not ‘ruled out’ in the future, Macron says

The Associated Press reports: French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that sending Western troops on the ground in Ukraine is not “ruled out” in the future after the issue was debated at a gathering of European leaders in Paris, as Russia’s full-scale invasion grinds into a third year. The French leader said that “we will do everything needed so Russia cannot win the war” after the meeting of over 20 European heads of state and government and other Western officials….

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Blow to Putin as Europe breaks free of Russian oil for good

Blow to Putin as Europe breaks free of Russian oil for good

The Telegraph reports: Western Europe has broken free of direct Russian oil imports for good in a blow to Vladimir Putin, research by the European energy consultancy Rystad suggests. Analysts found that the UK and much of Europe have reversed a years-long rise in reliance on Russian oil and gas before the Ukraine conflict, shifting instead to other suppliers such as the US and Canada. Jorge Leon, Rystad’s senior vice president for oil markets, said: “I think people underestimated how…

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Biden can end the bombing of Gaza right now. Here’s how

Biden can end the bombing of Gaza right now. Here’s how

Mehdi Hasan writes: Picture the scene. An Israeli prime minister launches airstrikes on an Arab population. Civilians are killed in their thousands. An American president, stunned and shocked by the scenes of carnage on his TV screen, makes a call to his Israeli counterpart. And … within minutes … the bombing is over. Sound crazy? Or maybe simplistic? Perhaps naive, even? Yet, the year was 1982. What was supposed to have been a limited incursion into southern Lebanon by the…

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In shameless displays of social depravity, Israeli soldiers are looting Gaza homes en masse

In shameless displays of social depravity, Israeli soldiers are looting Gaza homes en masse

Oren Ziv reports: Israeli soldiers fighting in Gaza have not been shy about posting videos on social media gleefully documenting their wanton destruction of buildings and humiliation of Palestinian detainees. Some of these clips were even exhibited in South Africa’s presentation at the International Court of Justice last month as evidence of genocide. But there is another war crime being readily documented by Israeli soldiers that has garnered less attention and condemnation despite its prevalence: looting. In November, the Palestinian…

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Doctors Without Borders slams U.S. on Gaza at UN, says children as young as 5 want to die

Doctors Without Borders slams U.S. on Gaza at UN, says children as young as 5 want to die

Reuters reports: The head of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that medical teams in the Gaza Strip have come up with a new acronym: WCNSF – wounded child, no surviving family. “Children who do survive this war will not only bear the visible wounds of traumatic injuries, but the invisible ones too,” MSF International Secretary General Christopher Lockyear told the 15-member council. “There is a repeated displacement, constant fear and witnessing…

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Russia’s war machine runs on Western parts

Russia’s war machine runs on Western parts

Amy Mackinnon reports: Shortly before noon on Aug. 19, 2023, a Russian cruise missile sliced past the golden onion domes and squat apartment blocks of the Chernihiv skyline in northern Ukraine. The Iskander-K missile slammed into its target: the city’s drama theater, which was hosting a meeting of drone manufacturers at the time of the attack. More than 140 people were injured and seven killed. The youngest, 6-year-old Sofia Golynska, had been playing in a nearby park. Fragments of the…

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Warren Buffett’s son Howard has given $500M to Ukraine — he warns the U.S. is making a historic mistake by pulling its support

Warren Buffett’s son Howard has given $500M to Ukraine — he warns the U.S. is making a historic mistake by pulling its support

Business Insider reports: Two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the embattled nation needs its friends more than ever. Russia celebrated a landmark victory when it captured the eastern town of Avdiivka last week, and it is running low on artillery ammunition. Meanwhile, a $60 billion military aid package is snarled up in Congress due to opposition from some Republican Party lawmakers. But Howard Buffett, the elder son of Warren, the billionaire investor and Berkshire Hathaway CEO, has no…

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Lessons on genocide from Xinjiang and Gaza

Lessons on genocide from Xinjiang and Gaza

Nader Hashemi and James A. Millward write: Days before the International Court of Justice’s initial ruling late last month that found there was a plausible risk of genocide being committed by Israel in Gaza, the United Nations Human Rights Council conducted its “universal periodic review” of China’s human rights record. China’s abusive treatment of Uyghur and other Turkic minorities in Xinjiang province—which many governments around the world, including both U.S. administrations under Donald Trump and Joe Biden, have officially called…

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I’m the mayor of Dearborn, Mich., and my city feels betrayed

I’m the mayor of Dearborn, Mich., and my city feels betrayed

Abdullah H. Hammoud writes: “Dearborn doesn’t sleep,” I recently told an out-of-state visitor to my hometown. It was a reference to the celebratory time of Ramadan, when our city breaks bread together for iftar at sunset and suhoor, before sunrise, each day. For a month, Dearborn is bustling around the clock: Business districts buzz during the day, and residents and visitors flock to break the fast together every night, gathering over hot, heaping plates filled with some of the best…

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By share of GDP, East European and Scandinavian countries are giving the most to Ukraine

By share of GDP, East European and Scandinavian countries are giving the most to Ukraine

Council on Foreign Relations reports: Every year, the United States sends billions of dollars in aid—and much more than any other country—to beneficiaries around the world in pursuit of its security, economic, and humanitarian interests. Since Russia’s invasion in February 2022, Ukraine has become far and away the top recipient of U.S. foreign aid. This marks the first time that a European country has held the top spot since the Harry S. Truman administration directed vast sums into rebuilding the…

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