"International law", like all the other institutions of the imperialist liberal order from the UN to the IMF, is simply a smokescreen which the united states and its running dogs use in order to justify any and all attacks, blockades, sanctions, genocides, etc., etc.. Violations of international law, so long as it is carried out by the west and its allies, are entirely ignored and thus it carries no weight nor consideration for the west. However, for everyone else, it is a way to confine and contain them; to leave them vulnerable to western imperialism.
Membro da Frente Popular pela Libertação da Palestina (PLFP) segura seu rifle vestindo uma camiseta do Che Guevara durante manifestação em comemoração ao cessar-fogo entre Israel e o Hamas mediado pelo Egito.
Gaza, Palestina, 2 de Setembro de 2014 /// Foto por Ahmed Hjazy
The United States is making a bipartisan bid for one of the most aggressive displays of censorship we ever seen and I’m pretty sure a mega corporation just murdered a whistleblower while the Congressmen they have in their back pocket look the other way
SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!!! ISRAEL WANTS TO KILL EVERY SINGLE PALESTINIAN IN GAZA!!! STOP SAYING THEYRE DEFENDING THEMSELVES!!! DEFENDING THEMSELVES FROM WHAT! FROM WHAT!!! SHUT UP YOU FUCKING GENOCIDAL CUNTS!!!!!!!!!!!
No, but, I don't think younger people understand, Lieberman is like *the* reason things didn't get fixed under Obama.
When Democrats had the supermajority in the Senate and could pass whatever they wanted, from enshrining Roe v Wade or getting rid of the Bush-era tax cuts for billionaires and corporations, he's the guy that stopped them.
He's the guy that killed the public option. He's the reason we got a Republican healthcare plan passed under a Democratic President.
This man was one of the driving forces behind the Iraq War, he's the one that spread the lies around WMDs in Iraq which led to millions of deaths. He stuck to that lie as late as 2011. When even Bush people had turned tail years before that.
In addition to that, he was a staunch Zionist to the bitter end, and praised Biden for not "caving" to pressure from the left about the IDF's continuing war crimes in Palestine.
This is the man that put forward legislation that created the Department of Homeland Security.
There is no people’s liberation without trans liberation; no workers’ struggle that is somehow above, beyond, or divorced from the struggle for real social equality.
Solidarity now and always with our trans comrades on #TransDayOfVisibility.
"This is for the kids who die,
Black and white,
For kids will die certainly.
The old and rich will live on awhile,
As always,
Eating blood and gold,
Letting kids die.
Kids will die in the swamps of Mississippi
Organizing sharecroppers
Kids will die in the streets of Chicago
Organizing workers
Kids will die in the orange groves of California
Telling others to get together
Whites and Filipinos,
Negroes and Mexicans,
All kinds of kids will die
Who don't believe in lies, and bribes, and contentment
And a lousy peace.
Of course, the wise and the learned
Who pen editorials in the papers,
And the gentlemen with Dr. in front of their names
White and black,
Who make surveys and write books
Will live on weaving words to smother the kids who die,
And the sleazy courts,
And the bribe-reaching police,
And the blood-loving generals,
And the money-loving preachers
Will all raise their hands against the kids who die,
Beating them with laws and clubs and bayonets and bullets
To frighten the people—
For the kids who die are like iron in the blood of the people—
And the old and rich don't want the people
To taste the iron of the kids who die,
Don't want the people to get wise to their own power,
To believe an Angelo Herndon, or even get together
Listen, kids who die—
Maybe, now, there will be no monument for you
Except in our hearts
Maybe your bodies'll be lost in a swamp
Or a prison grave, or the potter's field,
Or the rivers where you're drowned like Leibknecht
But the day will come—
You are sure yourselves that it is coming—
When the marching feet of the masses
Will raise for you a living monument of love,
And joy, and laughter,
And black hands and white hands clasped as one,
And a song that reaches the sky—
The song of the life triumphant
Through the kids who die."
Even after October 7th, Spain has sold more than 1 million € of weapons to Israel. Norway and Finland make it possible.
El Gobierno asegura que la operación estaba autorizada antes del 7 de octubre y que el material es para “pruebas o demostraciones" y no es "
In January, Spain made headlines word-wide when the government's Minister of Exteriors, José Manuel Albares (PSOE), claimed in Congress and later again in a radio interview that Spain had stopped selling weapons to Israel ever since October 7th. Israel's intensification of violence in Gaza following October 7th meant that, on top of decades of apartheid and ethnic cleansing, between October 7th and January 23rd Israel had already killed 28,000 people and forced 2 million out of their home. In this context, many people were demanding their governments stop arming and funding the genocide of the Palestinian people, and here on Tumblr and other social media sites like Twitter I think we all saw the many posts praising the Spanish government for this.
Well, it turns out it was a lie.
According to Albares, "Since October 7th there are no more weapons exportations [from Spain] to Israel". But in November alone, Spain exported weapons to Israel for 987,000€, as was published on the Spanish Government's official website dedicated to exterior commerce (Comex). A researcher from Centre Delàs (an independent centre for peace studies) found it and published it, and it has also been verified by newspapers such as elDiario.es.
This 987,000€ worth of weapons in November was not the only ammunition that Spain has sent to Israel in 2023. In 2023, Spain exported a total of 1.48 million € in war material to Israel.
All of the weapons sent in November come from the factory of Nammo Palencia (Castilla y León), a corporation that is 50% property of the Government of Norway and 50% owned by a public Finnish business. However, even if the owners are foreigners, the ammunition was sent from Spain and thus it had to be authorized by the an organism of the Spanish Government named Junta Interministerial de Defensa y Doble Uso, whose deliberations on whether a weapons exportation is accepted or denied are kept secret. The only cases where they have denied exporting weapons to Israel have been when they thought that Israel would re-sell these weapons to the Philippines.
Spain has had a close relation with Israel for years. As published by the Spanish Government, Spain has sold 20 million € of weapons to Israel between 2012 and 2022. Spain also buys weapons and military software from Israel (for example, the Spanish Intelligence Service has been using the Israeli software Pegasus to illegally spy on Catalan activists, journalists, politicians and civil society members and their relatives to attack the Catalan independence movement), and Spain has continued buying from Israel and allocating defense contracts to Israel even after the October 7th attacks. It is very difficult to track the concessions of public contracts such as buying weapons, but some contracts have been known. For example, on November 24th 2023, Spain bought 287.5 million € of missiles from Israel. This is not unusual: between 2011 and 2021, it is publicly known that Spain bought war material from Israel for at least 268 million €, but experts say that the real number could be two or three times as much.
Spain has also continued allocating concessions to Israel. For example, on December 15th 2023 Spain allocated a contract worth over 576 million € to Israel for a rocket launcher programme. On November 22nd, Spain allocated another another Israeli company to provide missiles for 237 million € at the same time as the Spanish army bought Israeli inhibitors for 1.4 million €. The very next day, November 23rd, Spain signed another military allocation to Israel for 82,600€. The following week, Spain signed yet another allocation with a different Israeli military corporation for 3.7 million €.
Spain also allows Israeli weapon manufacturing companies to produce weapons through their branches located in Spain. This way, Israeli weapons make their way to markets with which Israel doesn't have diplomatic ties but Spain does, like Saudi Arabia. And since Spain is a member of NATO, Israeli weapons produced in Spain are approved according to NATO standards and access it easily. In the same way, these Israeli weapons manufacturers also access European Union defense funds through their branches in Spain. (source).
As I said, I saw a lot of positive posts around when Albares said Spain was going to embargo, but I haven't seen any post about how they didn't do it. I also (personally) haven't seen anything on international media, and barely anything on Spanish media, which is already busy with the PSOE covid material corruption scandal. So I share this in the hope of helping put pressure on Spain to cut all ties with Israel immediately.
SHAME ON EVERYONE WHO GIVES ISRAEL THE MATERIAL AND MONEY THAT WILL BE USED TO MASSACRE THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE. SHAME ON SPAIN, NORWAY, AND FINLAND.
While people on social media keep reblogging, retweeting, and retooting posts congratulating Spain for stopping arm trades with Israel (which it hasn't done, and in fact just this week the Spanish Congress voted that it would not do so), this week (on March 20th 2024) Spain's government announced that it's buying missiles "tried in combat" from Israel for 207 MILLION €.
How well has the Spanish Government's lie worked as a PR move.
Hold the Spanish Government and all complicit governments accountable for their role in allowing the Palestinian genocide.
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