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geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto World News@lemmy.ml•Hamas Says Witkoff Personally Promised to Lift Gaza Blockade in Exchange for Edan Alexander5·13 hours agoThat’s true. Little to lose on a deal with the American captive which became a big propaganda boon for Israel.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto FediLore + Fedidrama@lemmy.ca•!europe@feddit.org to comply with German censorship laws vis à vis Palestine/Israel31·16 hours agoHe’s probably talking about the international arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant I believe. Those people the German government loves taking pictures with.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto World News@lemmy.ml•Hamas Says Witkoff Personally Promised to Lift Gaza Blockade in Exchange for Edan Alexander10·17 hours agoAfter Israel violated the previous deal Hamas decides to trust Witkoff a second time?
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPto World News@lemmy.ml•Israel Admits It Bombed A Hospital To Kill A Journalist For Doing Journalism21·17 hours agoIt sure seems to love selling American military secrets to Russia though.
Apartheid South Africa did have a massive lobby in these countries, but nowhere near as massive as Israel.
American politicians literally have a AIPAC handlers.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPto World News@lemmy.ml•Israel Admits It Bombed A Hospital To Kill A Journalist For Doing Journalism3·18 hours agoYes but quantity is key here. So far Ukraine has barely received any of its promised F16’s. There are more modern F16’s in Europe. But Ukraine is barely getting any of their promised planes to begin with. Europe is offloading their old trash that much is true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-16_training_coalition
Europe has newer stuff. Even F35’s. Also Eurofighters and Gripens. There is a way, but there is no will from Europe either to help Ukraine win.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPto World News@lemmy.ml•Israel Admits It Bombed A Hospital To Kill A Journalist For Doing Journalism4·18 hours agoEurope has plenty of weapons. Most of them are high tech such as the F16’s. at the start of the war these would have been plenty to destroy the Russian arsenal. It took a lot of time for Russia to scale up their production to current levels.
Even now we are seeing Europe occasionally send a few Storm Shadow missiles to finally strike deeper within Russia. Something they claimed to be a red line at the beginning. The F16’s also took ages.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPto World News@lemmy.ml•Israel Admits It Bombed A Hospital To Kill A Journalist For Doing Journalism21·19 hours agoThe Gulf States have unlimited American military bases on them. There is one place which does not allow American military bases.
USS Liberty.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPto World News@lemmy.ml•Israel Admits It Bombed A Hospital To Kill A Journalist For Doing Journalism81·21 hours agoThey should but they won’t. Because their actions contradict their words. And Trump says the quiet part out loud.
There was a ceasefire deal which Ukraine almost accepted. Then Boris Johnson intervened and said Europe and America would 100% super duper most definitely support Ukraine to win the war pinky promise no cap on a stack fr fr.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPto World News@lemmy.ml•Israel Admits It Bombed A Hospital To Kill A Journalist For Doing Journalism151·21 hours agoEurope was very clear that they did not want Ukraine to win. They could have sent Ukraine all the weapons if needed to win the war at the very start. Yet they refused to do so, because Russia has nuclear weapons, and they “feared for an escalation”. However, now that Ukraine is starting to lose, they are sending the weapons, which they said they would not send before.
If Ukraine is not allowed to win for “fear of escalation”, then I do not see any other option than a stalemate or a loss for Ukraine. In this case that means the goal is throwing Ukrainians into the meatgrinder to weaken Russia.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto World News@lemmy.world•Qatar's gift to Trump is unsold plane it's been trying to dump for yearsEnglish12·1 day agoTo meet Air Force One standards, the plane would need extensive modifications, including secure communications, nuclear blast shielding and missile defense systems.
Nuclear blast shielding?
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPto World News@lemmy.ml•Israel Admits It Bombed A Hospital To Kill A Journalist For Doing Journalism475·1 day agoYou’re partially correct but they do not care about Ukraine either. Ukraine is not being defended it’s being used and extorted.
Europe and America refused to send Ukraine actual weapons at the start of the war because of “fears that Putin could see it as an escalation”. This all but confirmed: Ukraine could not win no matter what.
They wanted to throw as many Ukrainian men as possible into the meat grinder to weaken Russia and get Ukraine into debt. All of that military “aid” suddenly turns out to be a loan. Now that Ukraine is too far into the sunk cost fallacy they start openly blackmailing Ukraine for control over its natural resources.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto World News@lemmy.ml•Even Once Reluctant Scholars Now Agree on Israel's Gaza Assault: It's a Genocide | Common Dreams2·1 day agoOkay now where are the sanctions?
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPto UK Politics@feddit.uk•Approved UK arms exports to Israel skyrocketed under Labour, data shows2·1 day agoIt’s shocking because the UK said they banned these exports and lied about it.
It does represent the dichotomy of Democrats complaining about 2a when they are in control but people realizing its importance when the repression they commit abroad comes home.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPto UK Politics@feddit.uk•Approved UK arms exports to Israel skyrocketed under Labour, data shows7·1 day agoThey were but a bunch of pro Israel politicians staged a party coup and kicked out Jeremy Corbyn for being anti Israel.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPto Technology@lemmy.ml•British ICC chief prosecutor lost access to email and has bank accounts frozen after Trump sanctions on top court14·2 days agoTurns out that the CCP isn’t the only one who has full control over tech companies based in their country.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPto World News@lemmy.ml•Israeli army fire hits UN south Lebanon base for first time since ceasefire5·2 days agoThe Lebansese president was basically appointed by America so no surprise.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPto World News@lemmy.world•The Media Calls Israeli Captives “Hostages” and Palestinians “Prisoners”English22·2 days agoOf course, Hamas also took non-combatants hostage
Which is why the non combatants can reasonably called hostages. But not the armed IDF soldiers.
Israel is kidnapping Palestinians to surpress them and steal their houses. They are they peak of taking hostages.
366 meters doesn’t sound nice and round.
How about 3 football fields?