Looking at the past there is no reason to believe, that the D or R letter of the current US administration will make a substabtial difference for the safety of lives of people outside the US.

Jan. 16, 2025, 4:17 a.m. ET

Rawan Sheikh AhmadReporting from Haifa, Israel

After Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said Hamas had backed out of parts of the cease-fire agreement, a Hamas official said that wasn’t true. The official, Izzat al-Rishq, said Hamas remained committed to the deal announced by mediators.

Jan. 16, 2025, 4:00 a.m. ET

Aaron Boxerman Reporting from Jerusalem

The office of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said Israel would not convene its cabinet to vote on the cease-fire agreement for now, citing last-minute disputes with Hamas. The Palestinian group did not immediately comment. Aaron Boxerman Jan. 16, 2025, 4:05 a.m. ET

Aaron BoxermanReporting from Jerusalem

Netanyahu’s office said that Hamas had backed out of parts of the cease-fire deal, without saying what they were. It added that the cabinet would not meet to discuss the agreement until Israel had been notified that Hamas had accepted “all elements.” Aaron Boxerman Jan. 16, 2025, 4:06 a.m. ET

Aaron BoxermanReporting from Jerusalem

Negotiators continued to work on the final details of the agreement overnight, including the identities of which Palestinian prisoners would be released in exchange for hostages in Gaza. Aaron Boxerman Jan. 16, 2025, 4:08 a.m. ET

Aaron BoxermanReporting from Jerusalem

Some of Netanyahu’s hard-line coalition allies have said they opposed the cease-fire, calling it an effective surrender to Hamas. If they left the government in protest, that could weaken Netanyahu’s grip on power.

Looks to me like Israel is planning the old “Hamas didnt agree switcheroo” and hopes for the US to back them up. In a similar fashion Israel backed down from the “Biden deal” in June last minute and tried to blame Hamas for it, despite Hamas reconfirming that it is committed to the deal.

It remains to be seen, if Biden will use the last days in office to apply tangible pressure for once, or if he will surrender the US to the whims of the Israeli government again.

Every conflict is a political conflict. And in such a conflict it is possible for involved parties to break international criminal law or international law. By her logic no genocide can be subject to the ruling of the ICJ and the laws to prevent genocide are worthless, because genocide will always be an escalation of a political conflict.

The article doesnt mention a deal with Trump or 100m dollars. Did you mean to link a different article?

I guess on the one hand people are anxious about Trumps inaugeration and on the other hand this is a great opportunity for competitors or otherwise opposed people to launch an astroturfing campaign off of it.

When looking at posts titled has gone “full MAGA” for saying they feel Trump is more likely to enact antitrust rules against big tech than Democrats who let them down the past years, is just absurd.

It is the same line of reasoning like claiming the WHO to have been a chinese asset because they supported some of Chinas anti-Covid measures.

If you think Trump covers “nearly every horrible thing in our world”, what do you say about the world from since you can remember until 2017 and again from 2021 till now?

There was no ambition to reach a ceasefire on the Israeli side and multiple cases of last minute sabotage by Netanyahus government for the ceasefire negotiations while Biden was still in office.

It seems that the looming of Trumps presidency, who made strong remarks in this regard has pushed Israel to finally accept some sort of ceasefire, although they are already wiggling about it.

Biden hast taken every opportunity to lick Netanyahus boots and get humiliated publicly by him. So it really wasn’t that difficult for Trump to push some change. All he had to do was being slightly less of a bootlicker.

EDIT: Also it is basically the same deal that Hamas has accepted in July, but was tossed out last minute by Netanyahu. So Biden leaving office seams to be the defining factor. Again this is not some great win for Trump, as it was an easy one. It just shows how utterly despicable Biden was on supporting this genocide.

EDIT 2: AP reports an analyst stating exactly what i wrote:

https://apnews.com/live/israel-hamas-ceasefire-updates#00000194-6afd-dc66-a1bf-eafde8270000

Trump’s pressure on Israel and Hamas to finish the ceasefire deal appears to have worked, analyst says By ELLEN KNICKMEYER

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has hammered home warnings that there better be a Gaza hostage deal by his Jan. 20 inauguration or “all hell would break out.”

Hamas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu both seem to have been listening.

Netanyahu’s agreement to a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal Wednesday “ironically shows how effective actual pressure can be in changing Israeli government behavior,” said Nancy Okail, head of the U.S.-based Center for International Policy.

She accused Netanyahu of long stalling such a deal, and faulted Biden for not raising the stakes for Netanyahu in his continued objections to proposed terms.

Trump declared in a social media post last month “there will be ALL HELL TO PAY” if the hostages weren’t released before the U.S. Inauguration Day.

“It will not be good for Hamas and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone,” he told reporters this month, underscoring the deadline.

Which fewer deaths are you talking about? The millions murdered in Vietnam? The millions muredered in Iraq and Iran? Or the hundreds of thousands murdered by US installed fascist dictatorships in Central and South America?

Ok, so just because America invaded Iraq means it cant send weapons to Ukraine to protect itself against Russia? Or that Russia is justified in some way in invading Ukraine because America meddled in other countries?

Nowhere did i say that. But once again it shows how skewed the western perspective is. The west demands other nations not to care if they illegally invade other countries. It uses its (remaining) economic and soft power to threaten anyone who demands an end to western crimes. The US just showed this again with the house deciding to sanction the ICC for enforcing international law against Israel. And that one got strong bipartisan support.

So people that have been trained by the west not to care about wars in the world don’t care about this one either. In their perspective it is just another war. And the sooner it ends, the sooner trade relationships can be back to normal, irrespective of who wins.

I’d argue that the USA was establishing better foreign relations when Democrats were in charge than when Republicans are. Trying to take over territories from countries such as Panama or Denmark is, in fact, very arrogant and self centered. We don’t need or want even more belligerent countries in the world if we want to achieve some semblence of peace in the world.

I mostly agree. I see two reasons, why people prefer Trump. The first is that the hypocrisy is less. Trump acknowledges that the US is only in it for their own interests instead of peddling all these lies about “Democracy” or “Liberty”. The second reason is that Trump sees everything as a deal to be made. So if you know what Trump wants, you can make a deal. Compare that with Biden who whined about Netanyahu making him his little bitch but continued to support Israel with all means possible, because he is ideologically committed to Israeli and US imperialism.

So the Dems overall had made more diplomatic relationships, but less honest ones. With Trump it is fewer relationships but there is less pretense around them.

Brazil is not an authoritarian country.

Also Europe and the US consistently deluding themselves into being some pinnacle of ethics and civilization, while the rest of the world wants us to stop meddle in their affairs and bomb them to shreds if they dont comply, is a major reason why we got other countries to be happy about Trump.

Why would they care if the bombs killing them are made and sold under a Dem or Rep, a Green, Liberal, Social Dem or Conservative? Why would someone in South America, Africa or Asia who has been at the short end of US meddling, overthrowing democratically elected governments, propping up tyrants and fueling wars and civil wars care about another war somewhere in Europe?

The russian invasion of Ukraine is nothing different to the American invasion of Iraq, the US backed Iraqi invasion of Iran, the Vietnam invasion and countless others. The Democrats in the US and governments like in the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands and other Israeli allies have made it clear that they are in support of heinous war crimes, possibly genocide as well as illegal occupation, annexation and recently the invasion of Syria.

If we start to get off our high horse, we might actually get to be taken seriously again and we might be able to maintain and reestablish diplomatic ties and influence we are losing because of our arrogance and hipocricsy.

“if all goes well”

What is this? Here comes the internationally seeked for arrest suspect war criminal an genocider Neranyahu with a chair and 50,000 tonnes of US made and US tax payer funded bombs.

How do you price in externalities if the risk is still limited to the value at which someone bought his shares or the minimum capital of an LLC? While you can put a price tag on known pollutions it is difficult with pollutions of the past that manifest as damage, as well as putting a price tag risks people just doing it anyway if it gives more profit than the price is.

I agree that it is a general market failure, but pricing is only part of it, if the risk of punitive liabilty can be mitigated through a business form.

They also pump oil from ship to ship while at sea. It is said that this ship in particular also was involved in such maneuvers, which of course are highly dangerous and can easily result in oil spilled.

Those 200 could spearhead convictions of thousands of war criminals if they properly testify.

It is also showing time and time again, that the narratives spread by Israel, its allies and complicit media are lies and fabrications and they know exactly what they are committing.

You realize that a lot of Russian oil gets “laundered” and then imported to the EU? So you would likely blow up an EU port, which is like a double Christmas and birthday gift to Putin.

We need to fundamentally revise the shareholder system. All a shareholder can loose is the money he paid on the shares. If a company is causing a billion worth of environmental damage to generate a 100 worth if profit on his 20 share, the shareholder has an incentive to let them do that or even advocate for them to do that.

If large shareholders would be personally liable for all damages the company causes, factored by their ownership, the risks and rewards would be balanced.

Höckejugend, so the abbrevation is also historically on brand.

Sri Lanka rarely convicts Buddhist monks, but this marks the second time that Gnanasara, who has repeatedly been accused of hate crimes and anti-Muslim violence, has been jailed.

The sentence, handed down by the Colombo Magistrate’s Court, comes after a presidential pardon he received in 2019 for a six-year sentence related to intimidation and contempt of court.

Gnanasara was arrested in December for remarks he made during a 2016 media conference, where he made several derogatory remarks against Islam.

On Thursday, the court said that all citizens, regardless of religion, are entitled to the freedom of belief under the Constitution.

[…]

He was a trusted ally of former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who was forced to resign and flee abroad following mass protests over the island nation’s economic crisis in 2022.

During Rajapaksa’s presidency, Gnanasara, who also leads a Sinhalese Buddhist nationalist group, was appointed head of a presidential task force on legal reforms aimed at protecting religious harmony.

After Rajapaksa’s ouster, Gnanasara was jailed last year for a similar charge related to hate speech against the country’s Muslim minority but was granted bail while appealing his four-year sentence.

In 2018, he was sentenced to six years for contempt of court and intimidating the wife of a political cartoonist who is widely believed to have been disappeared. However, he only served nine months of that sentence because he received a pardon by Maithripala Sirisena who was the country’s president at the time.

Yeah, this is definitely much more than just “insulting” a religion.

He writes: “It is not for the west, let alone the UK, to determine who rules Iran. That is for the Iranian people. But we can make clear that the right choice will bring benefits just as the wrong one will bring more of the same.”

This is some Mafia level bullshit wording. Just say that you want to force a regime change from the outside. Looking at Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and many other examples this has always failed and mostly ended in the Western allies directly or indirectly massacring millions of people, but maybe this time it will work. Just keep trying USA and UK…

If the US Democrats are worth anything in regards to the rule of law and Democracy, now is the time to oust the people that have voted together with the fascists to attack international law.

Name them, shame them, throw them out. This is not a matter of political opinion. This is a matter of whether you are an enemy to Democracy or not.