Someday this War's gonna End

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Weller said: “I’ve always spoken out against injustice, whether it’s apartheid, ethnic cleansing, or genocide. What’s happening to the Palestinian people in Gaza is a humanitarian catastrophe. “I believe they have the right to self-determination, dignity, and protection under international law, and I believe Israel is committing genocide against them. That must be called out."

“Silencing those who speak this truth is not just censorship – it’s complicity."

 

[blup]

Not sure he’ll succeed, no restrictions on who you hire or fire in a business to business transaction

 

[fillyboy]

“Everyone is entitled to their own views, but you are alleging such anti-Israel views that we as a firm with Jewish roots and many Jewish partners are not prepared to work with someone who holds these views.”
“Silencing those who speak this truth is not just censorship – it’s complicity."

The firm aren't silencing him, they're just saying he's not the type of person they wish to represent, as is their right.

 

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Most Americans believe that all countries should recognise Palestine as a state, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll suggests, as public support for Israel in the United States continues to plunge amid the atrocities in Gaza. A majority of respondents – 59 percent – also said that Israel’s military response in Gaza has been excessive.

Is the 'two-state' solution dead or have the West forgotten all about it?
Most folk in here certainly have.

 

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Hundreds of business leaders in the United Kingdom – including a former adviser to the king and a sustainability consultant descended from Holocaust survivors – are calling on the government to take action against Israel as the crisis in Gaza worsens.

As of Thursday morning, 762 people had signed a statement calling on Britain to cease all arms trade with Israel, sanction those accused of violating international law – ostensibly including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he is wanted for arrest by International Criminal Court, invest in screening to stop the UK financing “complicit” companies, and enforce the United Nations’ principles on business and human rights across the UK’s economic systems. Al Jazeera

“Business cannot succeed in societies that are falling apart, It is time for business leaders to show courage, speak out, and use our influence to uphold international law.”

 

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No justice.

No peace.

 

[Vinty]

The Palestinians just have to be patient.
The cracks are starting to show.
The obsession with Israel is increasingly being confined to the so called "West".
It has been over 70 years since the creation of Israel, yet it suffered its worst terrorist attack in its history on October the 7th, so, Israel is no more secure today that it was at its founding.
Americans are starting to ask themselves, what do we ordinary Americans get out of this relationship.
Billions sent to Israel, while America falls apart economically and a World that hates them.

https://www.axios.com/2025/07/31/gaza-starvation-israel-maga-republicans-trump

 

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The Palestinians just have to be patient.
The cracks are starting to show.

“If there’s anything that Israel has learned over the last 23 months, it’s that it can pretty much do whatever it wants and get away with it,” Mohamed elMasry told Al Jazeera, referencing attacks targeting and killed paramedics, aid workers and journalists.

The obsession with Israel is increasingly being confined to the so called "West".
It has been over 70 years since the creation of Israel, yet it suffered its worst terrorist attack in its history on October the 7th, so, Israel is no more secure today that it was at its founding.

A question Netanyahu keeps avoiding by maintaining the assault on Gaza is how did Hamas manage to plan and execute such an attack under the nose of one of the most advanced security networks in the world. He will have to account for this one day.

Americans are starting to ask themselves, what do we ordinary Americans get out of this relationship.
Billions sent to Israel, while America falls apart economically and a World that hates them.

https://www.axios.com/2025/07/31/gaza-starvation-israel-maga-republicans-trump

Polls indicate waning support for Israel while they continue to attack civilians in Gaza which can only help Palestine when this war finally comes to an end. This is why i started to look into how a Palestinian state could be established and develop its economy. Such a state would be of benefit to Israel. considering the links business' has with the BoP and security could be provided by oil-rich states like Qatar and SA who could also provide a bulwark against further infiltration by Iran.

 

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Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has accused Western governments of trying to impose a “political siege” on Israel by backing a Palestinian state. “This effort is being led by left-wing governments in various countries, including France, Britain, Canada and Australia. They are trying to create momentum,” Saar told The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organisations in New York, according to Israel’s Arutz Sheva media.

But “this ‘solution’ is suicidal from Israel’s perspective. Israel cannot agree to it,” he said.

“If there is a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria (West Bank), all of our population centres will live under threat,” Saar continued, using the Israeli government’s name for the occupied West Bank. “West of the Jordan there cannot be any foreign sovereignty or any foreign military presence.”

 

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A Microsoft spokesperson says the workers were terminated following “serious breaches of company policies and our code of conduct” after they took part in a sit-in at the office of the firm’s president protesting against the organisation’s ties to Israel. Anna Hattle and Riki Fameli received voicemails informing them that they were fired, the protest group No Azure for Apartheid said in a statement.

They were among seven protesters who were arrested on Tuesday after occupying the office of company President Brad Smith. The other five were former Microsoft workers and people from outside the company. “We are here because Microsoft continues to provide Israel with the tools it needs to commit genocide while gaslighting and misdirecting its own workers about this reality,” Hattle said in a statement on Wednesday.

No Azure for Apartheid, whose name references Microsoft’s Azure software, has demanded that the company cut its ties to Israel and pay reparations to Palestinians. A joint media investigation has said an Israeli military surveillance agency was making use of Azure software to store countless recordings of mobile phone calls made by Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.

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In a healthy democracy you have the right to express an opinion - so long as it subscribes to one endorsed by the Corporation.

 

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Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said his country has completely severed economic and trade ties with Israel and has closed its airspace to its aircraft, in protest over the war in Gaza. Speaking at an extraordinary session of the Turkish parliament on Gaza on Friday, Fidan said Israel has been “committing genocide in Gaza for the past two years, ignoring basic humanitarian values right before the world’s eyes”.

“It’s not only about the humanitarian crisis that’s unfolding in Gaza; Turkiye gradually is perceiving Israel as a national security threat,” Serdar explained, noting that Israel’s expansionism and attacks across the wider Middle East have been cause for concern. In Syria particularly, Ankara has accused Israel of wilfully undermining the country’s recovery efforts after the devastation of a 14-year civil war and the removal of longtime leader Bashar al-Assad last December by a lightning rebel offensive.

“Diplomats in Ankara are seeing that if Israel is not stopped, eventually there might be a direct military confrontation between these two countries,” he said.

Turkiye’s latest move is making “more and more Israelis feel the disadvantages of this kind of war that has no deadline”, said Akiva Eldar, an Israeli political analyst. “Turkiye is not just another country that is deciding to cut its relationship with Israel. Turkiye has been an ally of Israel for many years, a very important market to Israeli goods,” Eldar told Al Jazeera, speaking from Kiryat Shmona, adding that it was also a favourite summer destination for many Israelis.

“We feel more and more … Israelis are feeling isolated and [like] pariahs. More and more countries and companies have decided to stop their business with Israel.”

Allahu Akhbar@Al Jazeera

[Britain has made a token gesture by banning] Israeli officials from attending a major London arms fair next month, as tensions between the two allies escalate over Israel’s war on Gaza.

“We can confirm that no Israeli government delegation will be invited to attend DSEI UK 2025,” the Ministry of Defence said in a statement reported by the AFP news agency on Friday. [Although] Israeli defence companies will still be permitted to take part in the event, but without an official government presence or pavilion.

 

[fillyboy]

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said his country has completely severed economic and trade ties with Israel and has closed its airspace to its aircraft, in protest over the war in Gaza. Speaking at an extraordinary session of the Turkish parliament on Gaza on Friday, Fidan said Israel has been “committing genocide in Gaza for the past two years, ignoring basic humanitarian values right before the world’s eyes”.

“It’s not only about the humanitarian crisis that’s unfolding in Gaza; Turkiye gradually is perceiving Israel as a national security threat,” Serdar explained, noting that Israel’s expansionism and attacks across the wider Middle East have been cause for concern. In Syria particularly, Ankara has accused Israel of wilfully undermining the country’s recovery efforts after the devastation of a 14-year civil war and the removal of longtime leader Bashar al-Assad last December by a lightning rebel offensive.

“Diplomats in Ankara are seeing that if Israel is not stopped, eventually there might be a direct military confrontation between these two countries,” he said.

Turkiye’s latest move is making “more and more Israelis feel the disadvantages of this kind of war that has no deadline”, said Akiva Eldar, an Israeli political analyst. “Turkiye is not just another country that is deciding to cut its relationship with Israel. Turkiye has been an ally of Israel for many years, a very important market to Israeli goods,” Eldar told Al Jazeera, speaking from Kiryat Shmona, adding that it was also a favourite summer destination for many Israelis.

“We feel more and more … Israelis are feeling isolated and [like] pariahs. More and more countries and companies have decided to stop their business with Israel.”

Allahu Akhbar@Al Jazeera

[Britain has made a token gesture by banning] Israeli officials from attending a major London arms fair next month, as tensions between the two allies escalate over Israel’s war on Gaza.

“We can confirm that no Israeli government delegation will be invited to attend DSEI UK 2025,” the Ministry of Defence said in a statement reported by the AFP news agency on Friday. [Although] Israeli defence companies will still be permitted to take part in the event, but without an official government presence or pavilion.

Alans snack bar.

 

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I don't know what ^that^ means.

 

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The Irish government is not just passively useless in the face of genocide; it aids and abets the perpetrators. US military planes potentially carrying arms to Israel routinely pass through Ireland’s Shannon airport without inspection. A 2018 Occupied Territories bill originally intended to ban all trade with illegal Israeli settlements is now in its seventh year of legislative limbo, with endless dithering as to whether it should include services. By Israel’s choice, Ireland’s central bank is, since Brexit, the sole regulating authority in the EU that approves for trading Israel’s explicitly marketed war bonds for sale across the bloc. Selling bonds allows Israel to raise cash internationally that it is openly using to fund its campaign in Gaza. In June, the Irish government defeated a motion to end the central bank’s facilitation of the sale of these bonds.

Domestically, Irish campaigning on Palestine is now focused on a 2 September deadline to renew the central bank’s approval of Israeli bonds. The bank already renewed their approval last September, nearly a year into the genocide. The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) group holds weekly protests on the issue, usually outside the central bank. Another coalition of demonstrators has committed to “civil disobedience” every week for the foreseeable future, with its first actions consisting of stopping traffic in central Dublin.

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has just divested from five Israeli banks and from Caterpillar, the US construction equipment manufacturer that supplies Israel with bulldozers to destroy Palestinian property in Gaza and the West Bank. The fund held stakes in 38 Israeli companies as of 14 August, and has not promised to divest in all cases, only to review potential human rights violations. The Spanish government is aiming to pass a full arms embargo against Israel, with Pedro Sánchez, the prime minister, under pressure to recall the country’s ambassador in Tel Aviv. These moves are progressive compared with other EU governments, but lag years behind public opinion.

Naoise Dolan @ the Guardian

 

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Belgium will recognise the State of Palestine at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) later this month, Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxime Prevot has announced. Israel will face 12 sanctions from Belgium, Prevot said, including a ban on the import of products from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and “a review of public procurement policies with Israeli companies”.
The foreign minister also said that recognition would only be formalised once the last captive has been released from Gaza and “Hamas no longer has any role in managing Palestine”.

But Avigdor Lieberman, the leader of Israel’s opposition Yisrael Beiteinu party, says Belgium’s decision is a “direct result” of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “political failure”. “Due to Netanyahu’s inability to manage the political arena, a Palestinian state is being established before our eyes,” Lieberman said in a post on X. “Belgium’s decision to join the recognition and sanctions move is another direct result of his political failure,” he added. As more European countries continue to recognise Palestine, “this is going to put more pressure on Luxembourg and Italy in particular” to follow suit.

France and Saudi Arabia will co-host the meeting on Palestinian recognition during the UNGA on September 22. Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom have also said they plan to recognise Palestine this month, also with conditions.

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Keep the war going Benny, you're doing more for Palestinian statehood than Hamas ever could.