F*** both these clowns

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Speaking at the WEF summit, Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, said only the US could stop Israel attacking Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza, where more than 1 million people are sheltering. Abbas added that he expected an assault on the city in the next days. “We call on the United States of America to ask Israel to not carry on the Rafah attack. America is the only country able to prevent Israel from committing this crime,” he was quoted as saying. “What will happen in the coming few days is what Israel will do with attacking Rafah because all the Palestinians from Gaza are gathered there,” Abbas said. He added that only a “small strike” on Rafah would force the Palestinian population to flee the Gaza Strip. “The biggest catastrophe in the Palestinian people’s history would then happen,” Abbas warned.

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White House national security spokesperson John Kirby later said that Israel had agreed to listen to US concerns and thoughts before it launches an invasion of Rafah. “They’ve assured us that they won’t go into Rafah until we’ve had a chance to really share our perspectives and our concerns with them,” Kirby told ABC. “What we’re hoping is that after six weeks of a temporary ceasefire, we can maybe get something more enduring in place,” Kirby said. “The Israelis have started to meet the commitments that (US) President (Joe) Biden asked them to meet,” he said. Biden has previously said that Israel should not go into Rafah without credible plans to protect civilians.

• via The Guardian

America has agreed to consultation for the invasion” is ridiculous

Way to deflect from the fact that you support Genocide Joe

It’s obviously f*** Fatah but this is interesting. From a broader geopolitical point of view, China has really been taking the initiative in diplomacy where the west refuses to (Iran and KSA, Myanmar iirc)

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Representatives of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) Fatah party met recently in Beijing and held talks on reconciliation, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on 30 April.

“Representatives of the Palestine National Liberation Movement and the Islamic Resistance Movement recently came to Beijing,” China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said.

“The two sides fully expressed their political will to achieve reconciliation through dialogue and consultation, discussed many specific issues, and made positive progress,” he added. The spokesman did not clarify exactly what day the meeting took place.

China, Hamas, and Fatah confirmed on 26 April, that intra-Palestinian talks would be held in the Chinese capital.

“They agreed to continue the course of talks to achieve the realization of Palestinian solidarity and unity at an early date,” Jian went on to say, adding that the two sides thanked China for efforts to “promote Palestinian internal unity and reached an agreement on further dialogue”

• via The Cradle

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Tuesday to launch an incursion into a Gaza city sheltering hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.

Netanyahu said Israel would enter Rafah to destroy Hamas’ battalions there “with or without a deal.” Israel and Hamas are negotiating a cease-fire agreement meant to free hostages and bring some relief to the nearly 7-month-long war.

Netanyahu has vowed to achieve “total victory” in the war and has faced pressure from his nationalist governing partners to launch an offensive in Rafah, which Israel says is Hamas’ last major stronghold.

A bipartisan group of US lawmakers has threatened the International Criminal Court (ICC) with “retaliation” if international arrest warrants are issued against senior Israeli officials for war crimes committed in Gaza.

According to officials who spoke with Axios, “legislation to that effect is already in the works.”

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul told the US publication that the legislation would call for sanctions against ICC officials “involved in investigating the US and its allies.“

Representative Brad Sherman is quoted as saying that Washington should “think of whether we stay a signatory“ to the Rome Statute — the treaty that established the ICC and established four core international crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.

Neither Washington nor Tel Aviv are among the 124 states that remain signatories of the ICC Rome Statute of 1998.
“We have to think about talking to some of the countries that have ratified the treaty as to whether they want to support the organization,“ he added.

“If unchallenged by the Biden administration, the ICC could create and assume unprecedented power to issue arrest warrants against American political leaders, American diplomats, and American military personnel,“ House Speaker Mike Johnson said in a statement issued on 29 April.

KTT users hold facility workers hostage at Columbia University as protests spread across campus

columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/30/dozens-occupy-hamilton-hall-as-pro-palestinian-protests-spread-across-campus

f*** off weirdo

Salutes to the students

Y'all did your thing man I'm just here sharing a news article written by Columbia students themselves

people dont see it but this s*** is insidious. really just trying to get hamas to liquidate its position.

I fear this as well

wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/30/rdsm-a30.html

sellouts

I’ve been very clear about Joe and Trump. I don’t support this but I don’t support Trump more

Bruh

these protests getting an insane amount of coverage in the U.S. MSM.

truly haunting s*** god bless these kids

Lol.

zionist occupied america, and every other western nation.

Abuse of power comes as no surprise

It surely can't be a coincidence that they've held off bombing Rafah until there's a "distraction"? And now they have one. As these protest continue to grow, I feel like there's an invasion around the corner.

providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2024/04/30/brown-university-protesters-will-clear-pro-palestine-encampment-heres-the-deal/73510478007

another university encampment sellout deal for basically nothing, a divestment vote in 5 months. the only way these protests are going to work is if they escalate and integrate larger sectors of the masses beyond students, otherwise get ready to see a lot more of this.

The US really out here trying to criminalize the idea of comparing the actions of Israel to that of the Nazis

F*** this country man

How many kids is worth the wait