Jamie Osborne / is on Nostr

How can the UK be a liberal ‘democracy’, when the govt seeks to remove people’s rights and is mostly unaccountable? When it represents the few, over the needs and interests of the many.

⚠️ Warning: often uses too many commas, and is fond of semicolons; I’m working on the former.

“𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘦’𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘸𝘢𝘺” – 𝘈𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘛𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘬𝘰𝘷𝘴𝘬𝘺 (𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺)

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Last Notes

2024-06-07 22:03:30

— ‘Israel is reducing its international standing by the day. Spain said on Thursday that it would ask to join South Africa’s international court of justice case alleging genocide. A growing number of countries are recognising a Palestinian state; Britain may become one of them, …
But Israel’s actions are also dragging down its ally and chief armourer, the US. … Yet, again, the US president has failed to follow words with deeds.’
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/07/the-guardian-view-on-gazas-unending-war-a-deal-is-as-distant-as-ever-but-more-essential

2024-06-06 20:06:14

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That’s what I’m wondering… unfortunately, while this looks like Biden called Netanyahu’s bluff, we’ll now get to see if Biden is himself bluffing and will merely backtrack to “gentle diplomacy”.

2024-06-06 19:50:00

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The main thing is that Biden has realised this.
— ‘When Biden spoke last Friday about a permanent ceasefire, it was the first time he has done so in a public, clear and unequivocal way. The diplomatic cost exacted on the US and the political cost to him have become too high to sustain. This was premised on a belated recognition that Netanyahu, who has launched a war with no coherent, defined and attainable political goals, has been prolonging it for political reasons.’
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/06/biden-end-gaza-war-netanyahu-months-israel

2024-05-31 21:29:02

That Biden is presenting this in such a fashion, suggests it’s a serious attempt and he’s probably not willing to put up with Netanyahu’s can-kicking any longer (or the reputational, electoral, and international damage).
Let’s hope it succeeds. For all.
— ‘Biden warned the Israeli people to "not lose this moment … in pursuit of an unidentified notion of total victory, draining the economic, military, and human resources and furthering Israel's isolation in the world.‘
https://archive.ph/newest/www.haaretz.com/world-news/2024-05-31/ty-article/.premium/biden-urges-hamas-to-accept-comprehensive-new-israeli-cease-fire-proposal/0000018f-cfcd-d5bc-a1bf-dffd47550000

2024-05-30 17:12:14

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Haaretz had part of the story on Israel’s ‘war’ on the ICC two years ago, but the journalist was threatened by security services. Now they’ve published another, redactions included.
#FreedomOfThePress (or not)
— ‘Amid growing concern over Israel’s censorship regime, enforced by the military censor’s office and by gag orders issued by the courts, Haaretz published an article on Wednesday with blacked out words and sentences to demonstrate the scale of redactions.’
https://archive.ph/20240530093145/https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024-05-29/ty-article-opinion/.premium/reason-for-detention/0000018f-c0d3-dade-adef-ecfb884f0000
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/530/679/175/563/485/original/214438ce32cc8b18.jpeg

2024-05-30 16:39:52

#NotADemocracy
— ‘The conversation began with the words, ‘We understand you know about the prosecutor.’”
Megiddo said it was “explained that if I published the story I would suffer the consequences and get to know the interrogation rooms of the Israeli security authorities from the inside”.
“In the end, it was made clear to me that even sharing the information ‘with my friends abroad’, referring to foreign media outlets, would lead to the same results.”’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/30/journalist-threatened-over-reporting-on-spy-chief-and-icc-israeli-newspaper-says