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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 4, 2021, 10:21 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZcitAPLsOw
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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 15, 2021, 1:55 am
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/latin-american-countries-endorse-hamas-211943336.html
[quote]The governments of Cuba, Venezuela, Argentina and St.
Vincent — a small country, but one that occupies a seat on the
U.N. Security Council — as well as Bolivia’s behind-the-scenes
ruler Evo Morales have tacitly or explicitly supported the
Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group.
...
Cuba’s foreign minister tweeted that his country “strongly
condemns the indiscriminate bombardments against the Palestinian
population in Gaza.” Venezuela’s foreign minister tweeted that,
“The world must demand the end of this new phase of Zionist
violence against the Palestinian people.”
Most surprising was the reaction from Argentina, whose chaotic
populist government until recently showed some moderation in
foreign affairs. Argentina condemned the “disproportionate use
of force” by Israel, without an equally strong condemnation of
Hamas’ rocket attacks.[/quote]
Now would be a good time for Argentina to join Cuba and
Venezuela in not recognizing Israel at all.
Bolivia should also resume its former position (held until as
recently as 2019) of not recognizing Israel:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/bolivia/
As for St. Vincent, it should first stop recognizing Elizabeth
Windsor as its own head of state.
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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 15, 2021, 10:14 pm
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Iran and Turkey show the way (as usual)!
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/iranian-minister-cancels-austrian-visit-105058647.html
[quote]ZURICH (Reuters) -Iran's foreign minister cancelled a
visit with his Austrian counterpart to show displeasure that
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz's government had flown the Israeli
flag in Vienna in a show of solidarity, the Austrian foreign
ministry said on Saturday.
...
"Vienna is the seat of (nuclear watchdog) IAEA & UN, and
(Austria) so far been a great host for negotiations," Araqchi
wrote on Twitter. "Shocking & painful to see flag of the
occupying regime, that brutally killed tens of innocent
civilians, inc many children in just few days, over govt offices
in Vienna. We stand with Palestine."[/quote]
HTML https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-officials-condemn-austria-for-hoisting-israeli-flag-164744
[quote]Turkey's presidential spokesman on May 14 criticized
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz for hoisting the Israeli flag
on the roof of the chancellery building in Vienna amid attacks
on Palestine by the Jewish state.
“This is what encourages Israel to continue its attacks on
Palestinian people,” İbrahim Kalın said in a tweet. “I
hope those Austrians and Europeans with a sense of reason and
morality will reject these disgraceful politics.”
Kurz had tweeted a photo with a caption that read: "Today the
Israeli flag was hoisted on the roof of the Federal Chancellery
as a sign of solidarity with #Israel ... Together we stand by
Israel's side."
Turkey's Vice President Fuat Oktay reacted to Kurz's recent
attitude concerning the Israeli flag hoisted on the chancellery
building.
"With this attitude, the Austrian chancellor has put his
signature under Israel's massacre in Gaza," he said in a
statement on Twitter.
...
Ömer Çelik, spokesman of the ruling AKP, also censured Kurz and
said: "This person [Kurz] is the symbol of Islamophobia,
hostility towards Turks and [President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan in
Europe."
"It is only a dream to expect him to side with those oppressed.
His siding with the oppressor is his political compass," he
added.[/quote]
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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 16, 2021, 1:42 pm
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Sellouts must be called out:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/islamic-nations-hold-emergency-summit-101548798.html
[quote]“The massacre of Palestinian children today follows the
purported normalization,” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad
Javad Zarif said. “This criminal and genocidal regime has once
again proven that friendly gestures only aggravate its
atrocities.”
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the videoconference meeting saw some delegates instead turn
their fire toward countries like Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan and the
United Arab Emirates, Muslim nations which reached normalization
deals last year to recognize Israel.
...
“There are a few who have lost their moral compass and voiced
support for Israel,” he said. “If there are half-hearted
statements within our own family, how could we criticize others?
Who will take our words seriously?”
Zarif also accused Israel of “genocide and crimes against
humanity.”
“Make no mistake: Israel only understand the language of
resistance and the people of Palestine are fully entitled to
their right to defend themselves,” Zarif said.[/quote]
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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 19, 2021, 1:43 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/israel-accuses-chinese-state-tv-043240445.html
[quote]BEIJING (AP) — Israel’s Embassy in China is protesting
what it describes as “blatant antisemitism” on a program run by
the overseas channel of state broadcaster CCTV discussing the
ongoing violence in Gaza and elsewhere.
In a tweet, the embassy said “we have hoped that the times of
the ‘Jew’s controlling the world’ conspiracy theories were over,
unfortunately antisemitism has shown its ugly face again.”
“We are appalled to see blatant antisemitism expressed in an
official Chinese media outlet," the tweet said.
On the Tuesday CGTN broadcast, host Zheng Junfeng questioned
whether U.S. support for Israel was truly based on shared
democratic values, saying “some people believe that U.S.
pro-Israeli policy is traceable to the influence of wealthy Jews
in the U.S. and the Jewish lobby on U.S. foreign policy makers.”
“Jews dominate finance and and internet sectors,” Zheng says,
speaking in English. “So do they have the powerful lobbies some
say? Possible.”[/quote]
Yes, but Jewish domination in the US does not imply absence of
democratic values. If anything, it is in Jewish interests to
promote democracy, since Jews excel in herding, thus exert
political influence more easily under democracy than under
autocracy. Hence:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/freemasons-say-they're-needed-now-more-than-ever-so-why-are-their-ranks-dwindlin/
Another mistake:
[quote]Zheng then accused the U.S. — China’s top geopolitical
rival — of using Israel as a “beachhead” in the Middle East and
a as proxy in its campaign to defeat pan-Arabism.[/quote]
If China wishes to be constructively anti-Zionist, it should
portray the US as being used by Israel rather than the other way
round. Claiming that the US is using Israel allows Israel to
detach from the US one day (which it plans to do anyway) and
then blame the US for its own past bad behaviour (in line with
Duginism!). Claiming that Israel is using the US, in contrast,
encourages the US to redeem itself by becoming hostile to
Israel.
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Re: China and United States Relations
By: guest5 Date: May 19, 2021, 11:23 pm
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China slams U.S. over potential arms sale to Israel
[quote]#China has slammed the U.S. over a potential arms sale to
Israel. This comes as international calls grow for a stop to
hostilities. Here's a statement from the Chinese Foreign
Ministry.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h2MN07qI0E
[quote]catonpillow
1 day ago
The US has blocked the UN joint statement for ceasefire several
times already. And on top of that is selling $700M worth of
armament to Israel in the middle of the conflict. The empire
will never learn. [/quote]
#Post#: 6736--------------------------------------------------
Re: BDS
By: guest5 Date: May 26, 2021, 10:38 pm
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Ireland recognises Israel’s ‘de facto annexation’ of Palestine
[quote]Irish parliament supports motion declaring Israel’s ‘de
facto annexation’ of Palestinian land as sanctions amendment
fails to pass.[/quote]
[quote]The Irish parliament has passed a parliamentary motion
condemning the “de facto annexation” of Palestinian land by
Israeli authorities.
The motion, tabled by the opposition Sinn Fein party, passed on
Wednesday after receiving cross-party support.[/quote]
[quote]It is the first European Union country to use the phrase
in relation to Israel’s actions in the occupied Palestinian
territories.
Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said on Tuesday that the
motion “is a clear signal of the depth of feeling across
Ireland”.
“The scale, pace and strategic nature of Israel’s actions on
settlement expansion and the intent behind it have brought us to
a point where we need to be honest about what is actually
happening on the ground. … It is de facto annexation,” Coveney,
of the centre-right Fine Gael party, told parliament.
“This is not something that I, or in my view this house, says
lightly. We are the first EU state to do so. But it reflects the
huge concern we have about the intent of the actions and of
course, their impact,” he said.[/quote]
[quote]Most countries view settlements Israel has built in
territory captured in the 1967 war as illegal and as an obstacle
to peace with the Palestinians.
Coveney, who has represented Ireland on the United Nations
Security Council in debates on Israel in recent weeks, had
insisted on adding a condemnation of recent rocket attacks on
Israel by the Palestinian group Hamas before he agreed to
government support for the motion.
After the vote, the Sinn Fein party leader Mary Lou MacDonald
said on Twitter that the motion “must mark new assertive,
consistent confrontation of Israeli crimes against
Palestine”[/quote]
[quote]An amendment to the motion that sought to impose
sanctions on Israel and expel the Israeli ambassador failed to
pass.
The motion came days after a ceasefire ended 11 days of the
worst fighting between Israel and Palestinian armed groups in
years.
The violence sparked large pro-Palestinian protests in Dublin.
At least 254 Palestinians were killed, including 66 children,
according to Gaza’s health ministry, while about 2,000 were
injured. At least 12 people were killed in Israel.
Some social media users welcomed Ireland’s move.
“Ireland has become the first EU state to recognise Israel’s de
facto annexation of Palestine in contravention of international
law,” tweeted Ronan Burtenshaw, editor of the UK’s socialist
Tribune Magazine. “A landmark on the road to isolating an
apartheid state as we did in the 1980s. Next stop: Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions.”[/quote]
HTML https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/26/ireland-recognises-israels-de-facto-annexation-of-palestine
Ireland to vote on amendment that’s likely to slap sanctions on
Israel
[quote]Ireland has called out Israel’s “de facto annexation of
Palestine” and will vote on a motion to impose economic,
political and cultural sanctions on Israel.
#Ireland #sanctions #Israel[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-CUaltiyhA
[quote]Ted Maloof
6 hours ago
The only European country with balls. Not surprising that they
stood up to 600yrs of British oppression. [/quote]
[quote]N K
6 hours ago
You will never beat the Irish and Palestine
🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇮&
#127466;🇮🇪🇮🇪👏
[/quote]
[quote]Neshreen
6 hours ago
Ireland is doing more than all other countries combined.
[/quote]
#Post#: 6750--------------------------------------------------
Re: China and United States Relations
By: acc9 Date: May 27, 2021, 8:05 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfdoVhhYhYI
[quote]New Zealand, don't let Australia bully or brainwash you!
[/quote]
Daniel Dumbrill: "In this episode I talk about the inevitable
ever increasing propaganda campaign that Australia and America
will push on New Zealand in an attempt to brainwash your
population into supporting their racist attack against China."
Don't miss the last bit!!
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Re: Israel
By: guest5 Date: May 30, 2021, 11:05 pm
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Israel does not recognise ‘the new Irish position’ - Israeli
ambassador to Ireland
[quote]"We think this Irish position is not constructive for the
peace process." [WHAT A SICK JOKE THAT STATEMENT IS!!!]
- The Israeli ambassador to Ireland spoke to Kieran Cuddihy on
The Hard Shoulder.
He also claimed efforts to get him expelled were motivated by
hate.
A motion was approved in the Dáil on Wednesday, recognising
Israeli settlements on Palestinian land as 'de facto
annexation'.
Ireland is the first European Union country to formally use
these terms.
However a Solidarity-People Before Profit amendment to expel
Ambassador Kariv was voted down.
Ambassador Kariv told The Hard Shoulder his country does not
recognise "the new Irish position".
"We don't accept it, we think this Irish position is not
constructive for the peace process.
"It touches upon one of the main issues that are supposed to be
dealt with in final status negotiations with the Palestinians -
and that is the future of the Israeli communities in Judea and
Samaria - what is called the West Bank.
"This kind of a resolution, or an agreement on then future of
these communities, can be reached only on direct negotiations
between the two sides and in no other way.
"So we believe this motion, and this new Irish position, takes
us away from direct negotiations.
"This statement that the existence of those Jewish communities
or Israeli communities constitute what is called here 'de facto
annexation' is new - and it's not positive and does not
contribute anything to the peace process."
Asked why what is happening in the West Bank is not de facto
annexation, he said: "The situation in the West Bank is a
temporary [one], it's not the final status of the land.
"This is still disputed, and the future of this part of the land
is disputed, and this is why we have to renew negotiations with
the Palestinians - which unfortunately, they have been refusing
to do so for many years."
Asked if this meant that the settlements could be dismantled, he
said: "I don't know what, when and where, if at all.
"But if we look at the past, which is what we can draw on, you
could see that whenever real peace, and a real chance of peace
was on the agenda, Israel knew how to make very painful
concessions.
"And also uproot Jewish communities - and we saw it happening in
the Sinai, in the framework of our peace agreement with Egypt,
and we saw it in Gaza in 2005."[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCGos8oacR4
[quote]Noreen Jawad
18 hours ago
Doesn't matter that isreali accept it or not , facts are facts
and everyone knows them. [/quote]
See also:
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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 22, 2021, 11:23 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/scoop-u-pressure-israel-joins-194933902.html
[quote]Israel supported a statement criticizing China at the UN
Human Rights Council after being pressured to do so by the Biden
administration, U.S. and Israeli officials tell me.
...
Last October, 38 countries criticized China and 45 defended
China. Israel was on neither list.[/quote]
Now, will China have the courage to become more hostile to
Israel in return? If not now, when?
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