Do not expect this to be front page news : Israeli official says government cannot confirm babies were beheaded in #Hamas attack

Or Biden taking back his lie about seeing the picture of beheaded children.

But I'm sure the lie will keep on being used by friends of Israel and the xenophobes trying to demonize Hamas and by it all the Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims.

The Israeli government has not confirmed the specific claim that Hamas attackers cut off the heads of babies during their shock attack on Saturday, an Israeli official told #CNN, contradicting a previous public statement by the Prime Minister’s office.

“There have been cases of #Hamas militants carrying out beheadings and other ISIS-style atrocities. However, we cannot confirm if the victims were men or women, soldiers or civilians, adults or children,” the official said.

Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu indicated that people had been beheaded by Hamas in an appearance beside Secretary of State Antony #Blinken on Thursday, but did not specify if they were children.

The way they play with words is truly amazing, they keep on lying about the beheading by Hamas (as far as I know, there hasn't been any such actions against Israelis in the last),and making it sound like it might have happened during the recent attacks, but they are not going to say it's true or not.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/12/middleeast/israel-hamas-beheading-claims-intl/index.html

#SaveGaza #StopTheLies #Biden #IDF
#palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow

Israeli official says government cannot confirm babies were beheaded in Hamas attack | CNN

#Turkey says it will not bow to threats after #US downs its drone in #Syria

• Top Turkish official calls US partnership with PKK offshoot “tremendous stupidity”

• Turkish Foreign Ministry says the #drone was downed due to technical disagreements with US

⚡️ Turkish FM Fidan talks to #Blinken, and “strongly” tells his American counterpart that #Washington should stop working with YPG in Syria.

• Fidan also tells Blinken that Turkey will decisively continue its counter terror operations in Iraq and Syria

• Fidan and Blinken, regarding the downed Turkish drone, agreed that the de-confliction mechanism between the two #Nato allies should work without disrupting #Ankara’s counter terror operations
#Politics
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-us-syria-bow-threats-downs-drone

Turkey says it will not bow to threats after US downs its drone in Syria

Erdogan's spokesman insists strikes on Kurdish targets will continue despite confrontation between two Nato allies

Azeri president #Aliyev told US State secretary Blinken that military operation in kabarakh will be stopped after Armenian fighters “lay down weapons”

President Aliyev assured US Secretary of State Antony #Blinken that Azerbaijan will indeed stop its Anti-Terrorism military operation in Karabakh, under only 1 condition: If the Armenians surrender all their weapons and accept that Karabakh is Azerbaijan Territory

• Russian peacekeepers evacuate more than 2,000 civilians from Karabakh

• Karabakh Armenians agree to Azerbaijani demand to stop fighting and disarm

• The city of Martakert is being evacuated according to Artsakh journalist Marat Ekanyan.

• According to her, Russian #peacekeepers tried to evacuate women and children from Artsakh through the Lachin corridor, but Azerbaijanis began shooting at the peacekeepers' vehicles.

دستیابی به توافق آتش‌بس در قره‌باغ
- An agreement have been reached in Karabakh

🔸رسانه‌های ارمنی در منطقه قره‌باغ که شاهد عملیات موسوم به عملیات ضد تروریستی آذربایجان هستند، مدعی شدند که طرفین درگیر با نظارت نیروهای حافظ صلح روسیه در این منطقه به توقف این عملیات راضی شده‌اند.
🔸قرار است عملیات و درگیری‌ها از ساعت 13 به وقت ایروان اجرا شود

• the fighting have seems to have stopped in accordance to the agreement between Azeri forces and Artsakh armed groups from 1pm local time.

تخلیه روستاهای آرتساخ و انتقال مردم به کمپ‌های نیروهای حافظ صلح روسی
گویا پاشینیان از خیر آرتساخ گذشته و می‌خواهد تقدیم ج‌باکو
- many villages in the Artsakh region are being evacuated with the help of Russian peace keepers, #Pashinian the Armenian president seems to have inofficially agreed to hand over #Artsakh to Azerbaijan ( in exchange for Aliyev not attacking Armenia )
لغو تمامی پروازها از ایران به مقصد ارمنستان و آذربایجان

🔺رئیس سازمان هواپیمایی کشوری: با هدف حفظ ایمنی مسافران تمام پروازهای بین ایران و دو کشور ارمنستان و آذربایجان تا ا
- Iranian aviation have canceled all flights to #Azerbaijan and #Armenia
خبرگزاری رویترز انگلیس به نقل از منابع ارمنی گزارش داد که سران منطقه قره باغ با شروط آذربایجان برای توقف عملیات نظامی در این منطقه موافقت کرده‌اند

• Reuters reports from Armenian sources that leaders of Karabakh have accepted the demands of the Azeri government and surrendered their weapons.

PS. Image from video showing group of Azeris in Baku celebrating "victory" in #Karabakh.

#Blinken #kuleba

Blinken:

The United States is committed to empowering Ukraine to write its own future. In the crucible of President Putin’s brutal and ongoing war, the United States and Ukraine have forged a partnership that is stronger than ever and growing every day. We will continue to stand by Ukraine’s side, and today we’re announcing new assistance totaling more than $1 billion in this common effort. That includes $665.5 million in new military and civilian security assistance. In total we committed over $43 billion in security assistance since the beginning of the Russian aggression.

Now, since I was last here almost exactly one year ago, Ukrainian forces have taken back more than 50 percent of the territory seized by Russian forces since February of 2022. In the ongoing counteroffensive, progress has accelerated in the past few weeks. This new assistance will help sustain it and build further momentum.

Comment:

Someone needs to teach Tony how to read a map of Ukraine and how to count.

In addition to the $1 billion in aid for Ukraine that the United States announced yesterday, today they have again announced new aid valued at $600 million.

As #Blinken said in Kiev the other day "what ever #Ukraine wants, they get".

During an ongoing visit to Kyiv/Kiev, US Secretary of State Antony #Blinken announces additional $1 billion in new aid for #Ukraine

Australian Prime Minister Says Government Stands Firm Against US Prosecution Of Julian Assange

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/australian-prime-minister-says-government-stands-firm-against-us-prosecution-julian-assange
https://assangedefense.org/press-release/lawmakers-around-the-world-call-on-ag-merrick-garland-to-drop-charges-against-julian-assange/

"This has gone on for too long. Enough is enough." #AnthonyAlbanese #quote

#julianassange #australia #us #prosecution #blinken #wikileaks #politics #freeassange #journalismisnotacrime #weareallassange

Australian prime minister says government stands firm against US prosecution of Julian Assange

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Tuesday he is standing firm against the U.S. over its continued prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

(what a surprise) US Secretary of State Antony #Blinken declares that US supports the #ECOWAS summit decision to reinstate the Niger President #Bazoum into power by any means necessary

🇺🇸 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on #Twitter:
— "I strongly welcome and support the leadership of ECOWAS Heads of State and Governments to defend constitutional order in Niger.

The legitimate, democratically-elected government must be reinstated immediately."

PS. Remember when US backed the coup by Sisi in Egypt? They didn't care much about the legitimacy and the rule of law!
#US #Niger #Africa #Hypocrisy #Imperialism #NeoColonialism

Australia Agrees To Build US Missiles; US Dismisses Australian Concerns About Assange

#CaitlinJohnstone

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/australia-agrees-to-build-us-missiles

#audio #timfoley #julianassange #antonyblinken #blinken #us #australia #missile #manufacturing #freeassange #wikileaks #weareallassange

Australia Agrees To Build US Missiles; US Dismisses Australian Concerns About Assange

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Two different news stories about US-Australian relations have broken at around the same time, and together they sum up the story of US-Australian relations as a whole. In one we learn...

US rejects Australian plea to drop Assange case

https://www.australiannews.net/news/273914834/us-rejects-australian-plea-to-drop-assange-case

Responding to #Blinken’s comments on Saturday, Assange’s brother, #GabrielShipton, said that it is now up to #PrimeMinister #Albanese to make a #public #appeal for #Assange’s #freedom, during his upcoming visit to the #US.

#julianassange #antonyblinken #wikileaks #australia #firstamendment #freeassange #noextradition #weareallassange

US rejects Australian plea to drop Assange case

Secretary of State Antony Blinken insisted that the WikiLeaks founder caused ?serious harm? to US national security US Secretary of State

This is not a joke: #Blinken Says #Ukraine Would Be ‘Defenseless’ Without #ClusterBombs

But of course people praise him for standing up for the "right".

Next will be nerve gas and Anthrax.

Nato-Gipfel in Litauen

Selenskyi baut Druck auf

Von Tanja Tricarico

Vor Gipfelbeginn fordert Ukraines Präsident einen Zeitplan für den Beitritt. Die Nato will indes über Hilfen beraten, die Bundesregierung macht neue Zusagen.

Schwerpunkt: Krieg in der Ukraine

#taz #tageszeitung #Nato #Antony #Blinken #Olaf #Scholz #Boris #Pistorius #Wolodimir #Selenski

Nato-Gipfel in Litauen: Selenskyi baut Druck auf

Vor Gipfelbeginn fordert Ukraines Präsident einen Zeitplan für den Beitritt. Die Nato will indes über Hilfen beraten, die Bundesregierung macht neue Zusagen.

Biden Blows Up Blinken’s Diplomatic Mission to China
#China #Blinken #Biden #USA
21 June 2023 by Larry Johnson

Biden Blows Up Blinken's Diplomatic Mission to China - A Son of the New American Revolution

Dementia Joe does it again. Less than 24 hours after Secretary of State Blinken genuflected before the Chinese, assuring them that the United States really, really, really is sincere in...

Biden Undoes Blinken China Visit and Then Some by Calling Xi a Dictator
Posted on June 21, 2023 by Yves Smith

The Chinese were right to remain skeptical after the Blinken visit to Beijing. The short version:

Literally took 24 hours for insults to start again 🙄

What's the point of sending Blinken to Beijing to cool things down if you're going to insult Xi literally the day after? That's frankly beyond me… 🤷‍♂️ https://t.co/bLCsK8qt5D

— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) June 21, 2023

#China #Blinken #Biden #USA

US-Außenminister besucht China

Immerhin reden sie miteinander

Von Fabian Kretschmer

Inmitten von Spannungen zwischen den USA und China reist US-Außenminister Blinken nach Peking. Die Chancen auf einen Durchbruch sind gering.

#taz #tageszeitung #USA #China #Antony #Blinken #Taiwan #Diplomatie

US-Außenminister besucht China: Immerhin reden sie miteinander

Inmitten von Spannungen zwischen den USA und China reist US-Außenminister Blinken nach Peking. Die Chancen auf einen Durchbruch sind gering.

just read it and think how f-ed our world is : #Iraq gets #US green light to pay $2.76bn gas bill to #Iran | The release of the funds comes amid reports that #Washington and #Tehran have held indirect talks in #Oman to 'deescalate tensions' | June 10 2023:

"The Iran-Iraq Joint Chamber of Commerce Chairman, Yahya Al-e Eshaq, announced on 10 June that Iraq has released $2.76 billion worth of Iranian funds in gas export money owed by #Baghdad.

#Iraq received a #sanctions waiver from the #US to make the payment.

According to an unnamed foreign ministry official that spoke with #Reuters, Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein got the clearance to make the payment from US State Secretary Antony #Blinken on the sidelines of the #Riyadh Conference on Thursday."

Julian Assange

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aL1GW8M_460svav1.mp4
31 sec video w/sound

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/5/4/headlines/protesters_confront_blinken_over_julian_assange_extradition_and_killing_of_shireen_abu_akleh
#wapo #blinken #assange

De Taliban, Matiullah Wesa en zijn brommer-bibliotheek

NRC

De Afghaanse vrouwen worden uitgewist. Carolien Roelants denkt dat het de wereld niets kan schelen.

Om maar met de deur in huis te vallen, de wereld interesseert het geen ene zier dat de Afghaanse vrouwen gewoon worden uitgewist. Een stuk of twintig miljoen. Weggegumd. (...)

(Tekst loopt door onder de foto.)

Carolien Roelants

De tweede internationale Top over Democratie sloot zojuist af vastbesloten democratie te bevorderen en de mensenrechten veilig te stellen. De Amerikaanse minister Blinken toonde zich solidair met de vrouwen in Afghanistan en Iran. Maar hebt u van enige regeringszijde gehoord van actie tegen de Taliban en hun inspanning om vrouwen thuis op te sluiten? (...)

De belangrijkste reden voor dit stukje is de arrestatie van Matiullah Wesa (30), die met zijn NGO Pen Path onvermoeibaar actie voert voor het recht op onderwijs van vrouwen. Ik zag zo’n aardige foto van hem, met zijn mobiele brommer-bibliotheek voor een groep vrouwen en meisjes die ergens buiten op de grond aandachtig naar hem zitten te luisteren. Twee weken geleden werd hij opgepakt. Vlak voor zijn arrestatie twitterde hij: „Mannen, vrouwen, bejaarden, jongeren, in elke hoek van het land vraagt iedereen om het islamitisch recht op onderwijs voor hun dochters.” (...)

Een door vrouwen gerund radiostation werd uit de lucht gehaald omdat het muziek zou hebben uitgezonden tijdens de ramadan. De VN kregen te horen dat ze hun Afghaanse werkneemsters naar huis moesten sturen. Omdat ze ongehoofddoekt zouden rondlopen. (...) VN-organisaties hebben in alle vormen geprotesteerd, niet alleen omdat opnieuw vrouwen worden aangevallen maar ook omdat het steeds onmogelijker wordt de noodlijdende bevolking van hulp te voorzien. Van de 40 miljoen Afghanen hebben meer dan 28 miljoen die hulp nodig.

Nog even terug naar de interesse van de wereld. Tot dusverre heeft hij 5 procent van de benodigde 4,6 miljard dollar toegezegd.

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Tags: #nederlands #taliban #afghanistan #onderwijs #vrouwen #top_over_democratie #blinken #matiullah_wesa #pen_path #discriminatie #seksisme

Online sources reporting from #Armenia say that #Azeei forces have started moving into #Nakhjavabn and already taken control of the strategic Lachin path that connects Iran to Armenia.

#Azeebaijan dictator who received blessings from #US state department #Blinken last week has now officially started the feared military action against #Nakkhjavan in order to "liberate" it from #Armenian occupiers ".

Freaking #Biddn is forcing a war against Armenia knowing they can not win against the much stronger Turkey/Israeli backed Azerbaijan.

This is really depressing.

#Aliyef #Politics #Russia #Israel #Turkey

CODEPINK: Women For Peace : Yesterday in Congress ✌️

#CodePink #Blinken