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1. Benjamin Balder Bach (benjaoming@social.data.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 22:34:53 JST Benjamin Balder Bach

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   Daniel Levy was on BBC on October 11th with this interview. So much time has passed since and yet the world (especially the Western part) has stood by watching.

   He appeared last week in a longer interview with Ash Sarkar about Israeli politics, "Former Israeli Advisor on Netanyahu, Qatar and Irreversible Damage In Gaza" - worth listening to! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a6O-ZeW5zQ

   • Benjamin Balder Bach (benjaoming@social.data.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 22:35:00 JST Benjamin Balder Bach

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     Tomorrow, Dec 9th, marks the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime.

     Yet today, Dec 8th, the US stood alone to veto another call for ceasefire in the UN Security Council.

     With their unwavering support for Israel's atrocities, the US is complicit in a genocide. Materially through their military aid and weapons exports and politically through their obstruction of international action.

   • Benjamin Balder Bach (benjaoming@social.data.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 22:35:07 JST Benjamin Balder Bach

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     I would also like to recommend this week's interview with the former ICC chief prosecutor.

     Not only does it illustrate the seriousness of Israel's crimes, but it also concludes that the world is on a very very dangerous discourse if no one will step up to prevent these crimes from happening.

     https://www.aljazeera.com/program/upfront/2023/12/1/former-icc-chief-prosecutor-israels-siege-of-gaza-is-a-genocide

   • Benjamin Balder Bach (benjaoming@social.data.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 22:35:14 JST Benjamin Balder Bach

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     Today's front page of CNN says a lot about the sort of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide that Israel is committing.

     They are committing these crimes in Gaza, an ICC territory. And in brought daylight.

     This includes criminalizing their own alliances (since they have signed conventions to prevent this).

     I hope that it will not be long until leaders of the Israeli government are in the same ICC prosecution list as Putin and Assad.

   • Benjamin Balder Bach (benjaoming@social.data.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 22:35:22 JST Benjamin Balder Bach

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     Western leaders are pressuring Israel by reminding them to obey the rules of war? A court ruling on war crimes generally takes years.

     This opens up an enormous room for speculation. Just call it war crimes (Macron sort of does), we can see the results already.

     Meanwhile, the message from Israel's Defense Minister is "interesting"?

     »What we can do in Gaza, we can do in Beirut«

     In this logic, is Beirut full of human shields or Gaza never was?
     https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-772795

   • Benjamin Balder Bach (benjaoming@social.data.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 22:35:29 JST Benjamin Balder Bach

     Israel almost definitely has an end-goal to annex Gaza, no?

     Forcing all residents to flea to Egypt will make the Palestinian refugees an issue of the international community.

     But if Israel annexes Gaza and forces 2.2 mio people into exile (on top of a genocide), the whole Western block would unite against them? 🤷

     The West would say "enough is enough" and end all support and alliance?

     Actually Israel's policy is based on the exact opposite...

     https://thewire.in/world/israeli-government-population-transfer-gaza-strip