The Biden admin looks to be responding as Matt Duss feared: buying the Israeli line that the operation is limited, fueling debate in DC over whether that's true.

For people on the ground fleeing blindly amid 🔼 bombardment + loss of their only escape route, the question is moot.

The 'humanitarian camouflage' that I denounced in my last report #AnatomyofGenocide - i.e. Israel's using IHL jargon to justify its otherwise unlawful military conduct - continues unabated.

BREAKING: The White House halted a large shipment of offensive weapons to Israel last week, as the IDF ramped up for a ground invasion of Rafah, according to two senior administration officials familiar with the decision.

This is important data, as is your analysis of it. There are so many great women, including two of our current ICJ justices! I'm honored to find myself so high on the list, given that I stopped writing in international law 15 years ago. But what is also odd is that neither Cass…

On the money&very sharp from ⁦David Rothkopf⁩
As for this paragraph: “U.S. officials with whom I have spoken say the Biden administration is “beyond frustrated” with [Netanyahu]”. What have they done about it?

Benjamin Netanyahu Is America’s Worst Ally thedailybeast.com/benjamin-netan…

India Gave Over 90 pc Subsidy To Sugarcane Farmers: US and Australia Allege At WTO

#India #US #Australia #WTO #TardeDisputes #SugarcaneFarmers #MSP #Farmers #Subsidy #FarmSubsidy

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Bahamas announces recognition of Palestine as a State.

144th nation to do so. And so the trend continues.

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Xi loves EU, yeah, yeah, yeah?

Macron has a plan for the EU to establish economic sovereignty & escape dependence on China.

Problems: 1. it’s hard to get Germany on board. 2. France isn’t the best country to make the case anyway. Today’s Trade Secrets:

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Israeli Professor on Rafah: “We Are Witnessing an Unfolding Genocide” open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/is…

Wonderful exchange today re #transitional justice at war with Profs Valentina Gentile and Seth Jaffe and their @UniLuiss students New York Law School

Had great day yesterday Luiss Guido Carli in Rome, engaging w colleagues, researchers, students on transatlantic relations-main talk on transatlantic differences re future of the #WTO . Many thanks to S. N. Jaffe for putting this together-& enjoyed far-reaching conversation w raffaele marchetti

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.Ruti Teitel using Syria example explores role of civil society in documentation & evidence gathering on atrocity crimes, obviously relevant to #Gaza also.

Now ⁦Luiss Guido Carli⁩, ⁦Ruti Teitel⁩ presents on importance of judicial records to transitional justice, accountability. ⁦NYU Center for Human Rights & Global Justice⁩ ⁦Margaret Satterthwaite⁩ ⁦NYU Program in International Relations⁩

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Israeli extremists harrasing and shouting “Dea*h to Arabs” in the face of a Palestinian reporter Dana Abo Shamsia correspondent for [القاهرة الإخبارية - AlQahera News]

#India plans to capitalize on #South #Africa ’s #WTO case to advocate for easing #EU food safety standards.

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Seems if Israel had wanted to know what was being discussed, they would have sent a team to Cairo? But they find it easier to blame US, as usual

Aaron Maté From historical perspective, these solidarity protests of students-next generation elite could become a deeper lasting movement for radical change once it is joined by the middle class workers.

I am a huge fan of former New York University colleague Zadie Smith. But this essay lacks her usual clarity & logic-the otherwise salutary message “everyone mind your language” here represents a failure to fathom the moral precipice that is Gaza.