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Irish MEP Clare Daly has called European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen “Frau Genocide” over the EU’s stance on Israel’s military operation in Gaza. She went on to claim that contrary to its professed adherence to democracy, the bloc tramples on the will of the people when it runs counter to its own agenda.

Daly, a left-wing politician representing Ireland’s Independents 4 Change political party, said from the European Parliament podium on Sunday that von der Leyen was “elevated to power without a single vote from the citizens.” She went on to accuse the EU Commission president of “swooping in and overriding the foreign policies of elected governments” in recent months, while cheerleading a “brutal apartheid regime that she calls a ‘vibrant democracy.’”

The lawmaker concluded: “With defenders of democracy like that, I think I speak for many, many citizens of Europe, when I say: ‘Nein, danke! No, thanks, Frau Genocide!’”

Earlier, Spanish Social Rights Minister Ione Belarra accused Brussels of inaction in the face of what she called “genocide” in Gaza. Media reports also indicate that hundreds of EU staffers slammed von der Leyen for unconditionally supporting Israel. 
In a speech marking the 75th anniversary of Israel’s founding in late April, von der Leyen praised the country as a “vibrant democracy in the heart of the Middle East.”

Following the deadly incursion by Hamas on October 7, Israel launched a massive military operation against the Palestinian Islamist group based in Gaza. Soon after the hostilities broke out, von der Leyen had the Israeli flag projected onto the European Commission building in Brussels as a gesture of solidarity. She reiterated her support when meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Also in October, the Irish Times reported that at least 842 EU staffers had signed a letter denouncing the commission’s stance on Israel. The document reportedly accused von der Leyen of giving a “free hand to the acceleration and legitimacy of a war crime in the Gaza Strip.”

According to the Palestinian health authorities, at least 20,000 people have been killed in Gaza since early October, more than half of them children and women. The Hamas raid, which set the spiral of violence in motion, claimed 1,200 lives. The militants attacked, among other places, an open-air music festival, gunning down and abducting participants. The total number of people, both Israeli and foreign nationals, that the radicals took hostage that day was originally around 240, with dozens released since as part of multiple swaps with Israel.

https://www.rt.com/news/589639-mep-calls-von-der-leyen-frau-genocide-israel/

 

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genocide it is.....

Israel is killing children at a historic rate, is killing an unprecedented number of journalists, and is starving half a million civilians while raining military explosives on a giant concentration camp. No part of this is complicated. No part of this is two-sided.

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On Tuesday Israel killed a Palestinian baby girl who was born during the IDF bombing campaign on Gaza. They’ve been killing children so aggressively for so long now that they’re starting to kill children who were born after the child-killing began.

Seventeen days. Al-Amira Aisha got seventeen days on this planet before being crushed to death by an Israeli airstrike on her home in Rafah, alongside her two year-old brother Ahmed and 25 others who’d been living in the same apartment building. She never knew a day of peace.

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A Washington Post investigative report into Israel’s attack on al-Shifa Hospital has found that “the evidence presented by the Israeli government falls short of showing that Hamas had been using the hospital as a command and control center.” The Post reports it came to this conclusion after “analysis of open-source visuals, satellite imagery and all of the publicly released IDF materials.”

At this point the default assumption of any thinking person should be that all claims made by Israel are lies until proven otherwise by mountains of rock-solid evidence.

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The belief that Israel is trying to avoid civilian casualties is based on literally nothing. It has no evidentiary basis whatsoever. People believe it because they want to. Because believing it is more emotionally comfortable than facing the obvious reality.

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There are two aspects to the war on journalism over Gaza. The first is a highly concentrated assault in Gaza itself where journalists are actively being assassinated, and the second is a worldwide assault where journalists who don’t follow the official line are being purged.

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It’s so weird watching western rightists babble about how barbaric they think Muslims and their culture are while western culture amasses a mountain of ten thousand child corpses in Gaza.

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When you see how effective the Houthis have been at using Yemen’s critical location to shut down Red Sea traffic, you understand why the US spent years backing a horrific genocidal military campaign trying to get rid of them.

 

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https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2023/12/23/at-this-point-we-have-to-always-assume-israel-is-lying-until-proven-otherwise/

 

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sinking europe....

US President Joe Biden spoke with his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sanchez on 22 December to discuss bilateral relations and the “dramatic situation” in Gaza.

The NATO partners “stressed the importance of ensuring the conflict does not expand in the region, to include condemning ongoing [Yemeni] attacks against commercial vessels in the Red Sea,” the White House readout of the call highlights.

However, the official readouts do not mention Spain's role in the recently announced Operation Prosperity Guardian, as reports in Spanish media have revealed that Sanchez's office ordered Madrid's mission in Brussels to veto the participation of EU naval forces in the anti-Yemen coalition.

During an urgent meeting by the EU Working Group of Foreign Relations Advisors on Thursday – held at the request of EU High Commissioner Josep Borrell to discuss supporting “maritime security in the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea” – Madrid voted against the proposal in what was described by sources in the know as a “harsh and political” no to Borrell.

According to Madrid-based news outlet El Confidencial, the Spanish president “found out” about Spain's involvement in the US-led Red Sea coalition on Wednesday via social media posts from Borrell and Spanish Vice Admiral Ignacio Villanueva Serrano, who is the current commander of "Operation Atalanta” – the new name for the EU Naval Force (EU NAVFOR) Somalia, a counter-piracy military operation off the Horn of Africa and in the Western Indian Ocean.

Upon discovering that Brussels and Washington included Madrid as part of this new “coalition of the willing,” Sanchez ordered that Spain's envoys to the EU veto the bloc's participation “as soon as possible.”

“The reversal given in Brussels is equivalent to a disavowal by [Madrid] of the decisions taken by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense," El Confidencial said, as Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles had earlier “insisted that Spain would not participate unilaterally in the US plan, but could do so through NATO or the EU.”

"The Atalanta umbrella was the solution to the Spanish demand,” the neoconservative daily highlights.

Madrid's sudden turnaround was reportedly also linked to discontent within the Congress of Deputies – led by Sanchez's Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) – about the announcement of Prosperity Guardian by US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.

“Operation Prosperity Guardian is bringing together multiple countries to include the United Kingdom, Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles, and Spain, to jointly address security challenges in the southern Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden,” reads a statement by the US war chief released on 18 December.

According to informed sources who spoke with El Mundo, the Spanish veto on Thursday “surprised” EU officials, as the official position of Spain seemingly seesawed multiple times this week. “The argument for the veto is that ‘Spain has changed its mind’ because [the PSOE-led congress] does not feel comfortable with an operation led by the United States,” El Mundo reported on Friday.

“Atalanta would not be part of the [Prosperity Guardian], but, naturally, both missions will pursue a similar objective, which would benefit everyone,” EU sources told Europa Press on Thursday, in seeming confirmation that Brussels will go ahead in its pursuit to join the US-led coalition in support of Israel.

On Thursday, the Pentagon claimed “over 20 nations” had agreed to join Operation Prosperity Guardian, which seeks to counter attacks by the Yemeni armed forces on Israeli-linked ships in the Red Sea in support of Gaza.

https://new.thecradle.co/articles/biden-tries-to-rein-in-spain-after-sanchez-vetoes-eu-entry-in-anti-yemen-taskforce

 

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