More to the point, the US does not consider Israel’s recent assassinations as providing either Hizballah or Iran with a justification to respond, but will consider any Lebanese or Iranian retaliation an illegitimate attack that justifies whatever Israel chooses to do next.

Große Leseempfehlung von Caspar Shaller in Jacobin zu queerer Solidarität mit Palästina. "Queers wissen wie es ist, Ausschluss und Gewalt zu erleben, wenn die Mehrheitsgesellschaft entschliesst, dass das eigene Leid nicht wert ist, betrauert zu werden."

Bemerkenswert an Potters lächerlichem Kommentar ist auch, dass seine Kritik gegen zwei zitierte taz-Autoren schießt. Die Anti-D-Fraktion der taz ist mit Potter nicht nur gewachsen, sondern wird weiter Druck auf abweichende redaktionelle Positionen machen.

I started negotiating with Hamas a week after the abduction of Gilad Schalit in June 2006. Two and a half months later, after two visits to Hamas in Gaza, I was able to produce a letter in Schalit's handwriting - a sign of life and proof that there is a channel that leads to

Nova & the kibbutzim that Hamas attacked on Oct 7 were home to many anti-occupation, pro-peace Israelis. Those victims, like Hersh, wanted a better world. But they’ve been perversely dehumanised by Hamas apologists & given up for dead by Netanyahu. Please see them. Grieve them.

The current debate in Germany about deportations is losing all sense of proportion. Paving the way for deportations to #Syria or #Afghanistan undermines democracy and the rule of law in #Germany. My text at QantaraEN qantara.de/en/article/dep…

Meine Rezension zur deutschen Übersetzung von Nathan Thrall's Ein Tag im Leben von Abed Salama für QantaraDE. Eine große Leseempfehlung qantara.de/artikel/nathan…

An AUB doctor told me he hasn’t seen anything like this since the 2020 port explosion. “It’s chaos inside. It isn’t just men. Women and children too. A woman has had her whole face disfigured”.

What you allow Israel to do to other people will set a precedent of what can be done to you. Remember that.

We've reached a point where it takes people who should know better less than minute to defend or even celebrate the mass maiming of people through booby traps, including civilians - as long as it's the antagonists. IHL was created precisely to avoid the indiscriminate.. 1/2

On Oct 7 I read deep condemnation of the terrorist attack,also among those journalists who were critical of Israel. Today I see how journalists are celebrating the attack in Lebanon. Civilians were among the dead. German media is completely brutalized and barbaric at this point.

Bericht eines Reportes des Guardian aus Beirut vs Volker Beck/ Vorsitzender der Deutsch-Israelische Gesellschaft der offensichtlich das Leid auch von Zivilisten bejubelt -seems we have lost morality. Neben des Eskalationspotentials für die Region stellen sich hier grundsätzliche Fragen von IHL!

Wie kann man so wenig von Konflikt- und Eskalationsdynamiken verstehen - oder sie verstehen und feiern? Wie kann man sich am rassistischen Abfeiern von Massenangriffen ergötzen, die nicht zwischen Zivilist:innen und Kombatant:innen unterscheiden?

Jonathan Cook Agreed. This was an indiscriminate attack on civilians and combatants alike - and potential combatants who were hors de combat at the time of the killing. This is a war crime. This makes it extraordinary.

Wer sind die unzivilisierten Barbaren?

Wisst ihr noch, wie El Hotzo seinen RBB-Job verloren hat, weil er über den Anschlagsversuch auf einen Faschisten gescherzt hatte, und Bundestagsvizepräsident Kubicki darauf hinwies, dass die öffentliche Billigung einer Straftat nach Paragraph 140 StGB selbst strafbar ist?

Schockierend wie sehr sich der deutsche Diskurs zu Israel von den Werten des Rechtsstaats, des internationalen Rechts, der basalen Menschlichkeit verabschiedet hat. Ein Diskurs der die, die sich gegen Kriegsverbrechen stark machen als Symphatisanten des Terrors diffamiert. 1/

I did another round of phone calls today to check on family and friends across Beirut and the dahiyeh. On almost every call, I could hear ambulance sirens wailing in the background. This is the terror being inflicted on Lebanese civilians by Israel.

People with no connection to Lebanon ought to understand that the Israeli terrorist attacks didn’t just kill 26 people (so far) and wound 3,000+, they also have terrorized so many others who are now afraid of everyday objects and public spaces. And that that was part of the point

Had the terrorist attack witnessed in Lebanon in the past 48hrs occurred in Europe, western media would be following victims, telling the story of a boy who lost an eye, a girl who lost her life... but these are only brown people, so they celebrate Israel's ingenuity. Repulsive.