Thanks! So basically trying to go back to the stone age so they could control the flow of information.

Is there a reason for the ban? A security measure? Or just “fuck it, let’s go back to ancient times”? It doesn’t mention in the article.

I know you say you’re sure, but that’s more of an assumption really.

We know from her own words that she wouldn’t do anything differently than Biden. Keeping in mind that Biden silenced and censored the USAID for calling out Israeli atrocities before Trump fully dismantled it.

And here is a report that says that Israel and the US did joint bombing drills to attack Iran under Biden (in the end, the decision by Trump to attack took only a week, there definitely were drills before that).

https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-israeli-militaries-jointly-drilled-iran-strike-during-biden-administration-report/

So there were plans to attack Iran. And we haven’t seen Kamala’s actual record on militarism, but she supported the US’s involvement in international security matters and constantly affirmed “Israel’s right to defend itself”. She never said “no” to war.

We can’t say that the US would have never attacked Iran under Kamala, but we can definitely say it wouldn’t be as big of a shit show and news spectacle as it is now.

There’s additional internal pressure too - Israelis just love ethnic cleansing and they want the war on Lebanon and Iran to continue.

Even the “moderate” opposition, Lapid, is calling for the continuation of the war because 1- he’d lose on votes + support if he doesn’t 2- he wants more dead children as well

Because drumpf can’t reign in a rabid dog that is supposedly the US’s closest ally.

Not enough genocide for their liking.

Ah, UK courts deciding to label people as terrorists even when that wasn’t the initial charge, and without a jury present (i.e. after they’ve already decided on criminal charges).

Edit: nevermind, he’s a shit poster

Germany and Czech are some of the biggest arms suppliers and buyers to/from Israel

What is incredibly stupid is that, sure, the topic is brought up at the EU council, but then why don’t the individual states also apply sanctions?

Here is the full report and definitely worth the read because the article cherrypicks what to report on

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/coiopt/2606092E.pdf

What the article from Le Monde doesn’t mention is that the report is about both Israeli (state and settler) violence and crimes, Hamas and affiliates harm to civilians, and reinforces that Israel has perpetrated genocide.

Another thing that Le Monde mentions in the article while completely excluding Israeli crimes is that the refer to Israel for more info on Hamas.

The International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel gave a detailed account of violence perpetrated over the past two years by Hamas against Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

LoL if you think Turkey and Russia are friends, then your read on global politics is very misdirected.

Who do you think Russia has been fighting in Syria all these years?

Why even ask the IDF as if they’re not performing a genocide and ethnic cleansing.

“Uh…excuse me…Mr Hitler! Could you please explain what you meant by “the final solution”? We see that people are being shipped off on trains never to be seen, can you please expand more on that? We need your side of the story.”

The amount of opinion pieces and fear mongering on Chinese EV cars stealing data I’ve seen - doesn’t look like eyes shut, but actually a lot more sinophobia and more scrutiny than I’ve seen applied to anything else.

US funding separatists in Alberta - opinion piece saying we need stronger ties with the US

Israel spyware known to track car systems and their phone hacking software used by RCMP - MPs drafting documents to diminish EV (specifically) data collection

The US abusing it’s extradition treaty to imprison Huawei CFO - opinion piece about how we need to watch out for Chinese influence and their international policing

And I’m not saying that these protections aren’t important, just that now it’s a big issue and harms our sovereignty all of a sudden.

I wonder who gains the most when we put up these barriers but to only one country instead of all others…

I think you mean the Gestapo

If we’ve been paying attention, then the US is a vassal state of Israel and likes to support authoritarians globally (like Russia).

You’d be surprised that it’s Russian anarchists and leftists that are actually doing this.

I’m not sure what your argument is.

We can talk about the marginalization of the Shia and also their forced migration from central parts of Lebanon to the South all day long. Yes, it happened. I’m not denying that. But the primary reason that Hezbollah exists is as a resistance group, otherwise they wouldn’t need their weapons.

You’ll also notice that even in the article you quoted, issa mentions that the South was also unstable with the influx of refugees and skirmishes between them and Israel, AND the marginalization of the Shia.

The problem was not simply poverty, according to Issa, but government abandonment under the conditions of permanent threat.

So what’s your argument exactly?

Israel pulled their occupation out of Lebanon in 2000, the Syrian occupation lasted until 2005 (post Prime Minister assassination). Then 2006 war, then 2008 clashes where Hezbollah attacked Lebanese because their communication system was threatened.

So to say that the South was neglected as if it was purposefully done by the central government and not that the central government was in disarray is heavily misunderstanding the political landscape.

Not to mention that Hezbollah and allies have had a majority of seats in parliament for most of that period. So the question is, why didn’t Hezbollah provide more support to the South through the central government rather than their own networks?

The past few years there was a great “purge” of journalists that were publicly against the genocide with the excuse that the news outlets needed to stay independent (this was at Reuters and AP news). Because being against genocide is equated with supporting Hamas.

But while those who protested the genocide were fired, those supporting the genocide were simply supporting a country against terrorism, and so they remained.

And you can see how apparent that is in the language used by most media outlets.

Since its founding in the 1980s, Hezbollah has gone to war with Israel multiple times.

CNN should probably mention the conditions that led to Hezbollah’s founding.

Admittedly, Hezbollah hasn’t been great to Lebanese either, but Israel never let up the pressure and aggression that only continued to justify Hezbollah’s argument to exist. And a fractured neighbor is much better than a unified neighbor.