by Oui
Mon Nov 25th, 2024 at 12:53:18 PM EST
Wanted: ICC The Hague Issues Arrest Warrants
Both Netanyahu, defense minister Gallant, president Herzog and terror settler ministers Smotrich and Ben Gvir (Kahane lives) caught in act with smoking gun. Even Hasbara denialism will not save this fascist war cabinet from the scourges of history.
Grace O'Sullivan Irish MEP appealed by one-sided position EU leader Ursula Von der Leyen
'A complete mess': Irish MEPs mostly critical of von der Leyen's response to Israel-Hamas war | Irish Journal - 16 Oct 2023 |
Independent MEP Luke Ming Flanagan said he was "appalled" by her actions and said "she needs to go" - a position backed by fellow independent MEPs Clare Daly and Mick Wallace.
"She has made the EU look both disjointed and cruel. It's only this time last year that the Commission President was rightly calling out Russia's for `cutting off men, women, children of water, electricity and heating with winter coming' as 'acts of pure terror'," Flanagan said.
"So what's changed in the meantime with our much-vaunted `European values'?"
Fianna Fáil MEP Billy Kelleher said von der Leyen "clearly overstepped in terms of her comments on the Israeli-Hamas war" and that "her position will become untenable" if she continues to do so.
"Sadly, her comments have clearly given cover for Israel to ignore their responsibilities under the Geneva Convention and international humanitarian law. This is something no EU leader should be doing," Kelleher said.
Sinn Féin MEP Chris MacManus said the actions of Von der Leyen and Metsola were "contrary to the European Union's stated aims and values".
He added that their failure to call for restraint or to call for Israel to abide by international law during their visit was "completely unacceptable".
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Irish MEPs criticise von der Leyen as she leaves debate without taking questions | The Irish Times - 18 Oct 2023 |
Cross-party selection of Irish MEPs call for resignation of Hungarian commissioner Oliver Varhelyi
Irish MEPs from various parties expressed sharp criticism of European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen as she left a European Parliament debate on the Israel-Hamas conflict without responding to questions.
During her opening remarks to the parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday, Dr von der Leyen defended last week's trip to Tel Aviv after she was criticised for expressing unqualified support for Israel's response to the Hamas attack.
"Only if we acknowledge Israel's pain and its right to defend itself will we have the credibility to say that Israel should react as a democracy in line with international humanitarian law," she told the chamber.
The "essential starting point" of the response needed to be that "Europe stands with Israel in this dark moment", she said.
"After only 10 minutes into this debate, von der Leyen left the chamber!" Fianna Fáil MEP Barry Andrews wrote on social media.
"This is shameful and disrespectful," to the parliament, he continued, accusing her of having done "irrevocable damage" to the EU's credibility by "failing to call out Israel for war crimes".
"She should leave her job as well," commented Left independent Mick Wallace, while fellow Left independent Clare Daly has also called on the EC president to resign.
Green MEP Grace O'Sullivan objected that Dr von der Leyen had not called for a ceasefire and said leadership from the top of the EU had been "severely lacking".
At the end of her address she announced she was leaving the debate to return to Brussels for an event commemorating the victims of this week's
shooting of two Swedish football fans by an Islamic militant.
This meant she would not hear the contributions of MEPs or give a response, as is usual in such debates.
Which event was VDL really preparing for ...
Speech by President von der Leyen at the Hudson Institute | EU Commission - 18 Oct 2023 |
Thank you very much, Mr Walters, dear John, for the invitation.
And thank you for the outstanding job you do here at Hudson. In the twenty years since Hudson moved to DC, you have become an incredibly authoritative source of ideas and analysis. Not only here on Pennsylvania Avenue but also for us, on the other side of the Atlantic.
Your positions, from the support to Israel, to keeping Ukraine on the path to victory, from artificial intelligence to China, constantly reach European capitals and influence our own conversations.
Your track record of mapping out unbiased solutions to the world's most complex challenges is in the image of your founders. And I want to start in particular by paying tribute to the late Max Singer.
Intellectuals, then as now, tended to cluster in neat ideological categories. Conservatives seemed to be cranky McCarthyites, while liberals were elegant Kennedyites.
Hudson was too iconoclastic - and future-oriented - to be conservative or liberal. Kahn became famous with his 1960 book On Thermonuclear War. Singer helped Kahn write a 1962 follow-up, Thinking About the Unthinkable.
The vision he outlined in his great work, entitled `History of the Future', is one that Europe and the United States have been fighting for the last seven decades. It is a vision of a modern world in which democracy and freedom, security and opportunity, education and wealth, all become universal. The events of the last weeks in the Middle East, and of the last years in Eastern Europe, epitomise that this fight has never gone away. In fact, it is more acute than ever. What is at stake here dwarfs what is in front of us in these difficult days. We are shaping the history of our future. And I believe Europe and the United States have a duty to mould that future together.
There is one old memory that I would like to share with you. It was 1987 and I lived in West Germany. Back then, it was unthinkable for most people to imagine that the Berlin Wall could fall. But not for a visionary leader like President Reagan. I remember vividly when he came to Berlin, and said: `Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall' - he touched all hearts in Germany. And Reagan never stopped working for exactly that dream. He believed that `the Atlantic community is the house of democracy'. And for him this meant that we must `shelter [democracy] from all the winds that blow'.
Former Soviet bloc satellite states repeating the BS NATO war narrative ...
see Mark Rutte's personal friend from VVD house, a Dutch foreign minister lasted a fortnight due to the same LIES and PROPAGANDA, making Russia a pariah state.
My diary always fits the puzzle of detecting lies and propaganda...
The World According to Dutch FM Halbe Zijlstra | 12 Feb 2018 |
Dutch PM Mark Rutte has been on the roll with accusations of Russian disinformation about the MH-17 crash, election meddling and fake news through RT. It took awhile to form a new cabinet after last year's general election, his party nominated its chairman for the task of Foreign Minister. Someone with no experience in diplomacy and foreign affairs. Except of course his meeting with Russia's president Putin in his dacha. Well more or less ...
VVD member Halbe Zijlstra is stepping down as Minister of Foreign Affairs. His position proved untenable after he had to admit that he had lied about his attendance at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2006.
European rightwing advocates are welcome guests at the Hudson Institute in Washington DC.
Minister Lipavsky at the Hudson Institute - ,,Restoration of Ukraine's sovereignty over Crimea is the only way to cure Russia from its sick imperialistic dreams"
Dear Peter, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen,
Thank you for your kind introduction and thank you for inviting me here today.
The topics we are going to discuss today are the most important foreign and security policy issues of our times. The Russian aggression against Ukraine, and the rise of China and challenges or even threats that it poses to the world system are the two issues on everyone's mind. The answers we find to deal with those challenges, as the transatlantic community will, to a large extent, determine what the world will look like in the 21st century.
Let me start with Ukraine as the most pressing task we face today. We must remain focused on Ukraine's military and defence needs, increase pressure on Russia through sanctions, and continue to conduct active multilateral diplomacy.
In a nutshell, we must do whatever it takes to support Ukraine and help it to win this war - for the sake of Ukraine and its brave people, but above all for the sake of our ability to continue our fight for a safer and stable world. Russia portrays this war as a conflict with the "West", and whatever we might say, many countries will continue to see it this way. If Ukraine loses, our credibility will suffer greatly, among our friends just as much as among our enemies.
What does it mean: "Winning the war"? It means that we help Ukraine to restore its territorial integrity, including Crimea. This is crucial for two reasons.
First, it will demonstrate that in the 21st century, you do not change borders by force and that international law is not just empty talk.
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Czech Republic is a signatory to the Rome Statute ...
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský has expressed his strong disapproval of the International Criminal Court's (ICC) decision to issue an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel.
FM Lipavský criticized the ICC's actions, stating, "To put a terrorist and someone who defends his country on the same level, in my opinion, is a wrong decision. This lowers the credibility of the court that issued such arrest warrants."
He emphasized that the Czech Republic will continue to "uphold" international law but rejected the ICC's position in this particular case.
Israel is painting the ICC decision as "the first time the ICC has ever issued arrest warrants against leaders of a democratic country". However, although Israel describes itself as a democratic country, it is a settler-colonial enterprise founded upon ethnic cleansing and sustained by genocide.
UCL students protested the visit of Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky due to his country's contradictory stance, expressing solidarity with Ukraine while simultaneously supporting Israel during its assault on Gaza.
Wilders zet FM Caspar Veldkamp (NSC) voor lul met bezoek aan Netanyahu: 'Wie is hier de echte minister?'
Old Europe hurting as New Europe is supported by U.S. military power
Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen said "we need a strong Germany to build a strong Europe
Germany's political instability hurting Europe, EU leaders say
European Union leaders sound alarm over weak governments in Germany and France
Europe in turmoil, democratic elections are good for populism today ... democratically sending the incumbent leadership home. 💪🏽 💪🏽 💪🏽
Germany's political instability hurting Europe! This is Democracy! Luxembourg PM Frieden | EU Debate |
After Joe Biden's Blitzkrieg across the Western world in 2021 ... today we see the consequences in Europe from its creator who once again met his Waterloo in the last election cycle,
A quad whammy hitting the German economy ... 2009 financial crisis - 2017 Trump's MAGA - 2020 Corona pandemic - 2022 Biden's Super MAGA proxy war and blowing-up German ties to Russia.
Irish Election
Fianna Fáil MEPs to back Ursula von der Leyen's European Commission in upcoming vote ...
