Luca Cinciripini from IAI addresses the EU's role in restructuring global governance after the Covid-19 crisis and the Russian invasion of Ukraine and formulates policy recommendations for the #EU.
⭕️Numerous military offensives in recent weeks have led to recurrent mass casualty influxes at #MSF-supported medical facilities in Rafah and the Middle Area of Gaza.
⭕️How can the killing of more than 800 people in a single week, including small #children, plus the maiming of hundreds more, be considered a military operation adhering to international #humanitarian law?,
⭕️ Israel repeatedly bombed so-called safe zones, #refugee camps, a school and multiple humanitarian warehouses, which were formally registered as ‘deconflicted’ by Israeli forces.
⭕️We call on Israel’s allies, including the #US, $UK, and #EU member states, to do everything in their power to influence Israel to stop attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure in Gaza.
"We are going through some weird stuff right now. But we have gone through weird stuff before, and I do think that we can learn from it, and that we urgently need to."
I'm an #Irish citizen now (still holding on to my #US citizenship and voting #Democrat though). Yesterday=first time I voted using this system.
Better-designed system, imho. Sharing so fellow #American#voters can get a sense of how this works. I wish it were everywhere in #USA. Apparently, it's only shown up in limited areas.
#Slovenia raises the Palestinian flag today alongside its own flag and the flag of the European Union on the government building in the capital, Ljubljana, following its official recognition of the State of Palestine as an independent state.
#EU / We Condemn the Israeli Lawmaker Calling for a Second 'Nakba'
"Right now: one goal: Nakba! A Nakba that will overshadow the Nakba of 48. Nakba in Gaza and Nakba to anyone who dares to join" —— MK Ariel Kallner, head for the Knesset delegation for relations with the European Parliament [October 7, 2023]
[…] We would like to remind MK Kallner of the EU's firm and steady position that all settlements in Palestinian territory are illegal under international law and the EU will not recognise any changes to the pre-1967 borders, including in Jerusalem, other than those agreed by both sides.
[…] We remind MK Kallner and all Israeli officials of their obligations under international law, including the protection of civilians in armed conflict. We also would like to remind MK Kallner that the indiscriminate use of force and the targeting of civilian infrastructure in Gaza are clear violations of these legal obligations, and any attempts to justify or condone such actions are unacceptable.
[…] This is why we ask the Knesset leadership to appoint a new head of the Knesset delegation for the relations with the European Parliament, unless MK Kallner apologizes for these comments and deletes his despicable tweets.
#EU / Spain, Ireland to recognise Palestinian state on May 21 - EU's Borrell
[...] Asked on local Spanish radio station RNE if May 21 was when Spain, Ireland and other EU countries would recognise a Palestinian state, Borrell said yes, mentioning #Slovenia as well.
"This is a symbolic act of a political nature. More than a state, it recognises the will for that state to exist," he said, adding that #Belgium and other countries would probably follow.
"The ultimate goal, I suggest, was a translatio imperii; the establishment of an imperial monarchy in the west that could rival the Habsburg empire, and which in time, perhaps, might even come to imitate the universal glory of the Roman imperium. Not the American Atlantic seaboard, but rather the continent of Europe, with its arms, its learning, and its treasure, was the goal of Bacon’s early imperial vision."
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