Middle East crisis

Gaza war
Threatens to strike back – if EU imposes sanctions

If the EU restricts trade with Israel and imposes sanctions on ministers, this will be responded to with the same means, says Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar. This is reported by the Times of Israel.

“We hope this will not be necessary,” he writes in a statement.

He also writes that measures aimed at Israel “will harm Europe’s own interests” and calls the EU proposal “morally and politically distorted.”

On Wednesday, the European Commission’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas presented a proposal to restrict trade with Israel and impose sanctions on two Israeli ministers.

Genocide issue
Bernie Sanders becomes first senator to accuse Israel of genocide

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. This is what US Senator Bernie Sanders says, who thus becomes the first senator to describe the warfare in Gaza in that way.

– The intention is clear. The conclusion is inescapable: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, Sanders said on Wednesday, the day after an independent UN investigation concluded the same thing.

Sanders, an independent senator who is considered to be far left in American politics, has previously been a harsh critic of Israel's Gaza policy. However, he has not previously used the word genocide.

Sanders is demanding, among other things, that the United States immediately cease all arms sales to Israel.

Three members of the House of Representatives, the second chamber of Congress, have previously described Israel's actions in Gaza as genocide.

The Genocide Question
UN Expert: Israel's Response is Boring – Seems Written by AI


Israel strongly opposes the conclusions of the UN-appointed investigation that concluded that the nation bears responsibility for a genocide in Gaza. Among other things, the three human rights experts who wrote the report were accused of “Hamas propaganda”, which prompted one of the authors to react.

Chris Sidoti says that the Israeli answers have become “so boring”, writes Sky News.

– They say the same thing every time. They produce answers with ChatGPT these days. And they spend so much money on propaganda in the State Department that you would think they would manage to come up with something of their own, says Sidoti.

He sees it as a sign that Israel has not read the material and says that he wishes Israel had seen the evidence.