Israel has killed in 6 months 3 times more Palestinians than the Russians have in 2 years in Ukraine, 70% of which were women and children.
I see no reason why Russia should be ban from the Paris 2024 Olympics and Israel wouldn't...beside the usual double-standard "get out of any situation creepy as it might" free card.
It’s also apparent in most #MSM, including the “impartial” #BBC here in the UK, that the victims of the October 7 attack are described as being a result of the “Hamas attack” - thereby concealing the fact that the #Israeli
military initiated their #Hannibal#Directive, albeit informally as I understand it, in a panicked response to the surprise attack and, as a consequence, killed large numbers of their own people - whether military or civilian - in the resulting firefights!
Of the 1,200 people killed on October 7, I’ve watched a Prof Norman #Finkelstein interview where he suggests that 800 were probably the victims of three waves of Palestinian attack following the Hamas “jail break”!
Firstly the trained Hamas militia; secondly the fighters from other Gaza-based militia groups; and thirdly, ordinary Gazans who may have opportunistically sought to loot and/ or otherwise “vent their fury” at their Israeli jailers - including by killing rave event participants.
This new @cdteurope posts analyzes the agreement & provides recs to #EU Member States on how to improve the minimum standards set, how to better align the #Directive w/ existing international human rights standards, & also assesses the Directive’s potential global impact.