I have never seen Trump act more servile towards anyone than when he pulled a chair out for Netanyahu.

Ask Ron DeSantis, he might now.

Not included is that they fucking blew up the buildings.

Mohammed was subjected to simulated drowning, or “waterboarding”, 183 times while held in secret CIA prisons following his arrest in 2003. Other so-called “advanced interrogation techniques” included sleep deprivation and forced nudity.

Sounds totally legit and he should definitely be executed on that information despite the guilty plea he signed after 20 years of being tortured.

Very funny how the article keeps mentioning “spyware vendors” generally when it’s basically just the Israeli ones involved.

Could you explain what you mean?

Terrorism straight up just means “violence but offensive to the particular sensitivities of the elite.” Always has. Go back to the Paris Commune and it’s the same shit.

Almost like it has less to do with security and more to do with securitization of economic competition.

I wish they had come armed. I wish Jan 6 happened to Bush. So many children’s lives could have been spared across the years and borders.

That’s your only response?

Nothing we can do. Everyone in the Levant lives at the mercy of Israeli and US bombardment. The US will scrap the ICC, UNRWA and maybe even the ICJ itself to wipe Palestine off the map. Europe is a silent partner. The next 4 years are going to see a genocide in the West Bank too.

Meanwhile in response to Israel stealing more Syrian land, the US urged all parties to respect the 1974 Golan Heights Disengagement Agreement… despite being the only nation on earth to recognize Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights, which effectively voided the agreement entirely.

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As a true centrisy, for every “Six Days in Fallujah” I want one “Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque”. Fuck the ADL.

Bloodshed in the Middle East

Dang, I hate how various parties in the Middle East are killing aid workers. I hate all the many varied parties who keep doing that.

Hamas leaders face ICC charges, but that does not justify sanctions against Palestine.

The EU does not recognize Hamas as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian Territories. It defines it as a non-state actor and a terror group, so what you said is also a terrible analogy. I don’t know why you keep using the word “justify”. Do you mean legally or morally? Sanctions would be targetted at specific individuals, firms and military/government components, not the state of Israel as such.

Sanctions against Russia couldn’t cite the ICC charges, because they began long before Putin was charged by the ICC.

Packages 11-14 were all issued after the ICC judgement. European Commission’s statements on the ICC warrant speak quite clearly about Russian culpability, not just Putin’s culpability.

I couldn’t think of a more absurd analogy. If Osama Bin Laden was Saudi Arabia’s head of state, and 9/11 was carried out by the Saudi military, and Saudi was party to the Rome Statute, then maybe you make such an analogy. As it actually stands, Netanyahu’s crimes were carried out by the state of Israel and that certainly has legal bearing inside the EU’s courts, with very recent precedent - sanctions on Russia citing the ICC arrest warrant for Putin. And Russia is not even party to the Rome Statute - the state of Israel is, and would be violating by not giving Netanyahu up.

The saddest thing is that if they do take action, it will be the lowest bar possible of accountability. They’ll for example ban products from illegal settlements and then let Israel redurect them anyways.

The name of the game is sanctions. Russian can sustain itself under “nuclear” sanctions. Sanction Israel, and the comfortable lifestyle of illegal Lebensraum settlers will start to look rather unattractive.

These warrants absolutely matter in terms of being a trumo card in several legal issues relating to EU-Israel relations.