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Trump told Netanyahu he wants Gaza war over by time he enters office — sources
Former US president Donald Trump has told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he wants Israel to wrap up the war in Gaza by the time he returns to office if he wins the election, two sources familiar with the matter revealed to The Times of Israel this week.

The former US official stressed that Trump wasn’t specific in his appeal to Netanyahu and could well back “residual” IDF activity in Gaza, so long as Jerusalem has officially ended the war.
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https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump...za-war-over-by-time-he-enters-office-sources/
 

Palestinian student stripped of UK visa after Gaza remarks wins human rights appeal​

Home Office failed to show presence of Dana Abu Qamar ‘not conducive to public good’, according to tribunal ruling

https://www.theguardian.com/educati...-qamar-wins-back-visa-after-pro-gaza-comments

The Home Office failed to demonstrate that the presence of Dana Abu Qamar, 20, was “not conducive to public good” after the law student’s visa was revoked in December 2023, according to a tribunal ruling.


She came to the attention of authorities after statements made at a university demonstration on Gaza’s historical resistance to Israel’s “oppressive regime” and a subsequent interview with Sky News.

The dual Jordanian-Canadian citizen of Palestinian origin said: “For 16 years Gaza has been under blockade, and for the first time they are actively resisting, they are not on the defence, and this is truly a once in a lifetime experience.”

She also said: “And everyone is, we are both in fear, but also in fear of what, how Israel will retaliate and how we’ve seen it retaliate overnight, and the missiles that it’s launched and the attacks, but also we are full of pride. We are really, really full of joy of what happened.”

Abu Qamar, who led the Friends of Palestine society at the University of Manchester, said she was misinterpreted and that she was seeking to support Palestinian resistance to occupation and does not condone the use of violence against civilians, nor has she expressed support for Hamas.

The tribunal said the Home Office decision was a “disproportionate interference with her protected right to free speech” under the European convention on human rights. It found that her statements could not be taken as support for Hamas or the Hamas-led attacks on 7 October.

The judgment also said Abu Qamar was “not an extremist”, and said her references to Israel as an “apartheid” state were consistent with views expressed by human rights organisations. It added that her language of “actively resisting” and “broke free” would be recognised by informed observers as relating to lawful acts of Palestinian resistance.

“There is a clearly recognised and fundamental distinction between supporting the Palestinian cause and supporting Hamas and their actions,” the judgment said. “Nowhere does the appellant express support for Hamas specifically, or their actions.”
 
RedTiger said:
Not Tel Aviv but Jerusalem.
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There's another thing that's of course never talked about.

Trump officially recognized the illegally occuppied Syrian Golan Heights as part of Israel, in flagrant violation of international law. Biden never overturned this awful decision, nor decided to move the US embassy back to Tel-Aviv. The Dems as well as the Republicans are working hand in hand on the matter.

Yet the US cries about the annexation of Crimea by Russia. #doublestandards
 


The through-line between a lot of Zionist decisions recently, whether in Israel or abroad, is towards abolishing Palestinian as a category of person. The most direct way to do it is by killing them, which they are doing at a quick rate. The other is to reduce and make un-inhabitable the land identified as Palestinian, which they are also doing in a systemic way over decades, accelerated now. Finally, this part will be to force the survivors and refugees of the first two liquidations, to then self-liquidate, to go chasing another Arab passport, and to identify as any other nationality. It also explains the Zionist anger towards UNRWA since it maintains that they are refugees, thus raising the question of where they are refugees from, and where they would go back to.

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What is happening with UNRWA is disgusting. UN relief Is the only part of the UN that does some good. The rest of the organization should be burned down
 
4bars said:
What is happening with UNRWA is disgusting. UN relief Is the only part of the UN that does some good. The rest of the organization should be burned down
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No, it shouldn't and I find it appalling that more and more people advocate for its liquidation.

Reformed? Yes, absolutely, starting with the abolition of this unjust stupid veto right at the UNSC. But ending one of the few good things that came out of WWII which despite its profound flaws, maintained a semblance of order?

The world is truly going mad.
 
That_Bloke said:
No, it shouldn't and I find it appalling that more and more people advocate for its liquidation.

Reformed? Yes, absolutely, starting with the abolition of this unjust stupid veto right at the UNSC. But ending one of the few good things that came out of WWII which despite its profound flaws, maintained a semblance of order?

The world is truly going mad.
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Tbf I understand why someone would have that view after the absolute mockery the US and Israel have made of the UN for decades.
 
Idxomer said:
Tbf I understand why someone would have that view after the absolute mockery the US and Israel have made of the UN for decades.
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It doesn't lie in the UN but how the most powerful nations are defiling it.

The very same nations that founded it.
 
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That_Bloke said:
It doesn't lie in the UN but how the most powerful nations are defiling it.

The very same nation that founded it.
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Yes. Unfortunately, I don't see any realistic way of reforming it that doesn't lead to the US dismantling it completely.
 
Idxomer said:
Yes. Unfortunately, I don't see any realistic way of reforming it that doesn't lead to the US dismantling it completely.
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The UN is taking the same path as its predecessor, the Society of Nations, with people seemingly happy to bury it.

We'll see where the road ends this time.
 
“Oh God, I swear — she’s my mother! I didn’t know it was her!” Abed Bardini sobbed as he leaned over his mother, Samira, cradling her head in his arms. Fellow Red Crescent medics tried to console him.
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That_Bloke said:
No, it shouldn't and I find it appalling that more and more people advocate for its liquidation.

Reformed? Yes, absolutely, starting with the abolition of this unjust stupid veto right at the UNSC. But ending one of the few good things that came out of WWII which despite its profound flaws, maintained a semblance of order?

The world is truly going mad.
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It needs serious reformation. The victors of the old world order, post-WW2, retain a veto. But the G7 of which three of these nations are a apart represents now less than the BRICS of which the other two nations with a veto and perm membership on the security council sit.

I had an idea two years ago to call for a second economic forum. A second Bretton Woods. I wanted that to come from the West but it has, instead, come from the East and the South. The North/West are missing a trick by cathecting themselves from this summit. It ought to be the ground-basis for a new international ordering and the West/North ought to be highly involved.

As for the UN. Its laws are correct but when nations can veto the implications of those laws being enacted we are left with something more like the League of Nations which is absolutely disfunctional. It requires reform. India, Brazil, Japan, for starters, ought to be among the permanent 5. One of these is pro-Western and two of them are somewhere between the East/South and the West. Two Brics, one non-Brics. The 5 should be 10 and ought to be based on economic projections moving forward 30 or 40 years. Leaving two more spaces for maybe a Middle Eastern nation (a lot of grievances if it is any other than Egypt, Iran [a hard sell], or Turkey).
 
The occupation army is moving towards the schools of Tal al-Zaatar and Tal al-Rabi’ in Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip, and is calling on the displaced people via a quadcopter to evacuate the schools.

Beit Lahia is now being subjected to artillery shelling and fire belts by the Israeli occupation army.

Israeli occupation aircraft bombed the third floor of Kamal Adwan Hospital. Due to the bombing, the medicine warehouse burned down. Medical supplies were received 5 days ago from the World Health Organization.

Continuous artillery shelling and widespread destruction in the Beit Lahia Project Market, as a result of the continued aggression of the Israeli occupation forces on northern Gaza.

A new cleansing operation against the people of Beit Lahia and the displaced people there

A massacre after the Israeli occupation targeted a group of citizens near Al-Sahaba Junction in the center of Gaza City

The last strongholds in northern Gaza, Beit Lahia Project and Beit Lahia town have been turned into an open graveyard as a result of the continuous targeting by the Israeli occupation army.

From Anas Al-Sharif over the last few hours.
 
That_Bloke said:
No, it shouldn't and I find it appalling that more and more people advocate for its liquidation.

Reformed? Yes, absolutely, starting with the abolition of this unjust stupid veto right at the UNSC. But ending one of the few good things that came out of WWII which despite its profound flaws, maintained a semblance of order?

The world is truly going mad.
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I am not against supranational organizations that works and the UN doesn't work. I am talking to eliminate it because how it works and you are talking to reform one of the core and immoveable functionalities.

We are talking the same. Reset and start over you modification. And it steams that the UN is useless like the league of nations was useless to stop WWII, the UN is useless to stop Ukraine-Russia war, the Palestinian genocide by Israel, the cuban blockade, the Sudan 25 million crisis, the Yemen war and so on

Useless, utterly useless
 
Israeli government beefing with Haaretz newspaper.
Government officials called to terminate any ties with Haaretz newspaper after its publisher, Amos Schocken, called Palestinian terrorists "freedom fighters."

During a Haaretz conference in London, Schocken criticized the Israeli government, claiming "It dismisses the costs [to] both sides for defending the settlements while fighting the Palestinian freedom fighters that Israel calls 'terrorists.'" He further accused the Netanyahu government of “imposing a cruel apartheid regime” on the Palestinian Arab population and usurping lands supposedly designated for the establishment of a Palestinian state.
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https://www.ynetnews.com/article/syvgkxb11jx
 
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