Netanyahu says the war will be long. Israeli army’s chief of staff says it won’t be only comprised of victories and that the Iranian response will be unprecedented. The far right coalition in Israel didn’t collapse and secured itself another six months of unchallenged rule.

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Before he passed away, Scholte taught a Swedish cutter named Peter Gustav Anderson, then co-founded Anderson & Sheppard in 1906. Anderson & Sheppard dressed some of the most stylish men of the 20th cent: Fred Astaire, Gary Cooper, and Noël Coward among them.

This is epic. The former head of the IAEA schools the German FMG on the basics of international law after Germany's disgraceful statement on Israel's illegal attack on Iran. Germany was once the standard-bearer of international law. Now it specializes in justifying war crimes.

A reminder that JUST TWO WEEKS AGO, the same Macron who wrote this 👇, gave the keynote address at the Shangri-la dialogue in Singapore in which he repeated no less than 12 TIMES that the West shouldn't have "double standards" (the speech: iiss.org/globalassets/m…) Worse still,

Well, after Iraq and Afghanistan, the US is now involved in two massive proxy wars with potentially disastrous outcomes for the world and for itself.

No words remain.

Seyed Mohammad Marandi I could listen to Seyed Mohammad Marandi rip Sky News a new one all day every day.

Interesting graphic in today’s Observer.

The EU political elites are very sad. They are the people who have learned nothing in the past 30y and believe that they can continue lecturing the world the way they lecture lesser countries. But the world has changed. Moreover, their need to create an alternative reality so

This was Onion’s take on the Israeli attack, but then came German and French reaction and the margin between life and satire was suddenly very blurred. Here is Eldar Mamedov’s take on these Orwellian statements. responsiblestatecraft.org/europe-reactio…

Told Isa Soares that there was no need for pressure to get the Iranians to negotiate. The Iranians were at the negotiating table. Talks were scheduled for Saturday. The problem is that the Israelis blew up the negotiating table.

So Israel can be the fourth largest nuclear power in the world (without signing the Non-Proliferation Treaty) and this is not regionally destabilizing but nobody else may acquire nuclear weapons because it is regionally destabilizing.

“At least 45 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning while waiting for UN and commercial trucks to enter the territory with desperately needed food.” trib.al/5POOa0U

The reality is that Netanyahu 🇮🇱 attacked Iran 🇮🇷 not primarily to prevent a nuclear weapon but to prevent a nuclear agreement between 🇺🇸 and 🇮🇷. He was key in driving Trump to leave the original 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 JCPOA deal, and now wanted to prevent a new one. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Very good thread.

What progressives have done is expand on the idea of aesthetics and capital. Instead of our dress habits being solely defined by those with financial and political capital, it can also be shaped by those with *cultural* capital: musicians, artists, rebels, etc.

The new charter of international relations. Rule No. 1. There are no rules.

TT As someone who was forced to leave Russia that’s becoming greater and greater (according to Putin), I treat everyone who dreams of making their countries great as idiots. I want all countries to be simply countries with no shitty greatness which only creates problems for

“I don’t agree with that assessment at all.” Responding to Al Jazeera’s James Bays, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte denied that the military alliance is acting hypocritically by not criticising the US for its actions in the Middle East.