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UN Security Council rejects ceasefire proposal in Gaza Strip

Israeli ambassador shreds UN charter, May 10, 2024

Almost everytime I hear Ryad H. Mansour giving a speech, I can't help but be moved by the pure emotion in his voice. Especially when compared to Gilad Erdan

Nikki Haley, former US Ambassador to the UN, signs Israeli bombs intended for use in Gaza and Lebanon with the words "FINISH THEM," signaling support for their use in targeting civilians.

JUST IMAGINE SHE WAS NOT AN AMERICAN AND THESE WERE NOT ISRAELI BOMBS!

Ambassador Zomlot on Palestine, Israel's occupation, global politics and the history of the creation of this situation, misrepresentation of the media, the hypocrisy and lack of accountability of the West at large, the poor international management of this situation

Please educate yourselves about the historical context of all of this

It is imperative we all know how it began, to understand what is happening, the lack of accountability of those in the global community who actually created this conflict, and their unwillingness to hold perpetrators accountable with the international law that was created for these exact purposes.

We must understand and acknowledge how this began, to properly understand how to stop and resolve this situation for good. To properly understand how to practically implement solutions for long term resolution.

Innocent civilians cannot pay the price for the hypocrisy and hesitancy of the global community any longer. They should never have had to.

Ambassador Zomlot spoke eloquently and incredibly effectively despite the condescending gotcha journalism approach of his interviewer.

He is concerned about actually stopping and resolving this issue.

British people never like being held accountable for their own role in international conflicts, invasions etc but it is crucial to acknowledge how this began, how this situation was created so it can be effectively resolved.

The big hesitancy block here, of course, is the international community taking responsibility for their actions and holding themselves accountable for what they created, acknowledging what it is that they created, and working to help resolve the situation properly, practically, immediately.

Gilad Erdan's being a 90's anime villain again because Israel didn't get emphatic encouragement to murder 2.3million people

Unfortunately Gilad Erdan was frog marched out of the UN general assembly for holding up a protest sign.

Love to live in a country with a president who still has a hint of humanity. Love to see the international backlash against him pretty much saying "I don't think soldiers killing women and children is something I'd call a war". Actually I think if a country with a history of diplomatic neutrality says a situation is fucked up that means more (and more powerful) countries should've been saying this already

You can’t make this shit up you click on an article about how hamas hostages were treated (for the sake of checking yourself on bias and with the intention to verify it with multiple sources) and the headline will be « return from the horrors of hamas » and then the text is actually « they treated me rather well just didn’t have much food and i was in danger due to Israeli airstrikes” You know the shit the government claims necessary to rescue them. This world is bullshit

Quotes from Ambassador Gilad Erdan in today's UN Security Council meeting on proposed ceasefire:

"The UN still has not condemned the child murdering rapists that began this war"

"Israel disengaged and withdrew from Gaza 18 years ago"

"The Palestinian Representative here is lying through his teeth when he says his people want to live side by side with Israel by the way, he does not represent Hamas, he does not represent the Gazin people, they did not choose him to speak for them"

"The Palestinian people elected Hamas, a terrorist organisation, they elected a terrorist organisation, Hamas converted every inch of Gaza into a terror war machine right under the UNs noses "

(Will be updated when I have time and rewatch Israels entire speech, but here's the speech uploaded by the ambassador himself so anyone claiming fake video can suck my dick)

Israel recalls ambassadors amid recognition of Palestinian statehood

After Ireland, Norway, and Spain recognised Palestinian statehood, Israel announced that it would withdraw its ambassadors.

According to Euractiv, Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez stated that his country would recognise a Palestinian state on May 28.

It is the right thing to do.

Sánchez defined the territory of a Palestinian state as “Gaza, the West Bank, with East Jerusalem as its capital.” Slovenia has also signalled that it will follow suit by June 13, once its parliament votes on the issue.

Shortly after Sánchez’s statement, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz stated on Wednesday, May 22, that he had “instructed the immediate recall of Israel’s ambassadors to Ireland and Norway for consultations in light of these countries’ decisions to recognise a Palestinian state.” He also argued that recognition would hurt efforts to return the 128 hostages still held in Gaza.

If Spain follows through on its intention to recognise a Palestinian state, a similar step will be taken against it.

The recognition of Palestinian statehood comes after a growing number of European leaders and officials have indicated they would support a two-state solution in the Middle East.

Read more HERE

In addition to the clown car in the House of Representatives, certain Senate Republicans like Ted "Cancún" Cruz and Tommy Tuberville are creating bottlenecks for appointments related to national security and foreign relations. One of the appointments caught in that bottleneck is former Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew who has been nominated as ambassador to Israel.

Senate Democrats are pushing aggressively for quick confirmation of Jack Lew as ambassador to Israel after the attack by Hamas on Saturday. Lew was nominated in early September. But the attack, widely condemned by both parties and across the ideological spectrum, will kick the effort into high gear. It will jump start a broader debate over aid to Israel in an already chaotic fall. [ ... ] Lawmakers are also trying to supply aid to Ukraine after leaving it out of the last spending bill. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that ”failure to support friends under attack — in Kyiv or Tel Aviv — will only embolden the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism and fellow authoritarians.” [ ... ] Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has previously put holds on some Biden administration nominees for posts related to the Middle East, raising questions about how quickly Lew could move through the Senate. A spokesperson on Saturday said Cruz has not yet met with Lew but indicated deep concerns about administration nominees related to Israel. [ ... ] Biden administration officials also are eager to see Lew confirmed in light of the Saturday’s attacks in Israel. In a conference call Saturday, one senior official noted that he has yet to be confirmed. “Obviously it would be great to have him on the ground in Israel,” the official said. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) is preventing many military promotions from a quick vote in protest over the Pentagon’s abortion travel policy. “This is serious business. If he wants to change healthcare policy at DOD, he can introduce a bill. But he cannot undermine our ability to help our allies and partners,” Schatz said on Saturday.

Tommy Tuberville is a nitwit trying to impress anti-abortion extremists back in Alabama by preventing Senate confirmation for officers in the US Armed Forces. Lyin' Ted Cruz is up for re-election in 2024 and is eager to display his hardline anti-Biden credentials in Texas by preventing the US embassy in Israel from having an ambassador at a crucial time.

If you live in Alabama or Texas, contact Tuberville or Cruz and tell them to quit making life easy for America's enemies and international terrorists.

U.S. Senate: Contacting U.S. Senators

YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT WE ARE

NOW DRAG ISRAEL THE FUCK OUT OF PALESTINE

AND STOP THE FUCKING GENOCIDE

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Source: @IrishTimes on Twitter

Susie Gelman is absolutely the wrong candidate for U.S. Ambassador to Israel.

Ambassador to the Palestinian Authority maybe, but not to Israel.

In her role as chair of the Israel Policy Forum (someone will have to explain to me how she ever got that position) Gelman professed to love Israel as she works tirelessly against the best interests of Israel.

Israel Policy Forum, like JStreet, attempts to impose left wing radical policies on Israel.Susie Gelman embodies their unacceptable ideas.

She has worked to undermine the current Bibi government which she views as “extremist.”

Gelman has called Israel’s Independence Day as “Nakba Day.”

How can someone who wrote in 2018 that the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem was “the highest level of brazen partisanship in U.S.-Israel relations since Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech to a joint session of Congress in 2015 in which he expressed his opposition to the Iran nuclear deal,” even agree to accept the position and sit in that embassy as the U.S. Ambassador to Israel?

That would be the height of personal and political hypocrisy by Susie Gelman.

It would also indicate to Israel that we have an American enemy sitting in our capital.In her role as Ambassador to Israel she is likely to implement the Biden administration’s intention to “provide 5,000 Palestinians with commando training in Jordan and then deploy them to northern Samaria, and perhaps the South Hebron Hills.”

I live in Netanya very close to the Mediterranean Sea and I look at those South Hebron Hills from my living room and from my study, the place where I wrote this report. If I can see them, American-trained Palestinian gunmen can see me and my hometown.

Netanya is a town that has a tragic history of foolish American policies imposed on Israel and, as one of the founders of the Netanya Terror Victims organization, I say never again.

Our antennas are hot wired into identifying who is good for us and who is against us, and Gelman does not fit into the good for us category.

Wealthy Gelman and her husband have established a foundation that funds anti-Israel leftist causes. Her money has gotten her positions of influence and power within the Democrat party hierarchy.

As David Greenfield, researcher, and respected journalist, summarized, Gelman, sitting in her role in Jerusalem, would be in a position to wage diplomatic war against Israel.

If Biden or Blinken nominate Gelman to this role it will be perceived as a provocative act against the elected government of Israel.

Susie Gelman is absolutely the wrong candidate to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Israel.