Excursus: Israel/AEB (gehi EB plus Pentagonoa eta NATO) versus Palestina (16)

Scott Ritter, a former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer, commented on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech at the country’s emergency Security Council meeting

The analyst said that while Russia has made it clear that “it’s right to be angry with the Israeli government, this anger cannot manifest itself into anti-Semitism and into blanket condemnation of Jewish people, as well the Jewish religion and Jewish faith.”

Ritter stressed that Russia “has always maintained a neutral stance when it comes to Israel and Palestine” and that Moscow “hopes to maintain that neutrality.”

Late last week, mass riots broke out at an airport in the city of Makhachkala, the capital of the Russian republic of Dagestan, after a passenger plane from Tel Aviv landed on October 29. Subscribe to @geopolitics_live

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SCOTT RITTER LIVE : WHAT ARE THE MILITARY TARGETS IN GAZA?

#scottritter #militaryexpert #russia #ukraine #palestine #israel #military #politicsThank you for s

Bideoa: https://youtu.be/0MhiVUYh55w

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@RealScottRitter

erabiltzaileari erantzuten

Issues pertaining to collateral damage do not negate the positive identification step, as the failure to obtain positive identification is tantamount to murder. Void of a positive identification of the Hamas leader, Israel, in bombing the Jabalia camp, committed mass murder.

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@RealScottRitter

erabiltzaileari erantzuten

The principle of distinction is separate from the balancing of potential collateral damage against military advantage, determining whether the target is directly participating in hostilities, and whose killing furthers a definite military advantage.

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Israel claims that a senior Hamas leader was in the Jabalia Refugee Camp when it was struck by Israeli bombs. Israel claims that the deaths of Palestinian refugees in the camp are collateral damage permitted under the law of war. Israel is wrong.

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(https://consortiumnews.com/2023/10/31/scott-ritter-john-kirby-versus-russian-military/)

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SCOTT RITTER: John Kirby v. Russian Military

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SCOTT RITTER: John Kirby v. Russian Military

October 31, 2023

Something is happening between Ukraine and Russia that has the U.S. National Security Council spokesperson desperately trying to prepare the U.S. audience for significant developments.

Russia’s National Defense Management Center headquarters in Moscow. (Mil.ru, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0)

By Scott Ritter
Special to Consortium News

The Biden administration has a lot to cope with now when it comes to Russia.

As the 2023 War in Gaza has drawn attention away from a losing effort in Ukraine, a disastrous NATO-sponsored, Ukrainian counter offensive has run out of steam, with close to 100 percent casualties among the men and equipment participating.

(NATO trained a force of 90,000 Ukrainian soldiers for this effort, and supplied them with approximately 300 tanks; Russia has published figures that put the Ukrainian casualties since the start of the counteroffensive at some 90,000 killed and wounded, with some 300 tanks destroyed.)

Russia has assumed an offensive posture; the initial reading from the battlefield is that it is enjoying greater success in the first few weeks of its attacks than Ukraine had for its five-month-long counteroffensive.

To add insult to injury, U.S. News and World Report just published the rankings of the world’s most powerful militaries and Russia edged out the United States for the No. 1 spot.

In times like these, the White House turns to its spin doctors to manipulate the narrative, and there is no finer practitioner of the art of spinning in the White House stable than the spokesperson for the National Security Council, John Kirby.

“I do want to, if — if you’ll allow me to, just to take a couple of minutes,” Kirby told the press on Oct. 26, “to update you on the battlefield situation in Ukraine.”

Russia, it seemed, was on the attack, having, Kirby noted, launched a renewed offensive in eastern Ukraine “across multiple lines,” including around Avdiivka, Lyman and Kupiansk. This offensive, Kirby said,

“was not a surprise. We’ve been watching this build and come. And we’ve warned that President Putin still aims to conquer Ukraine and we’ve been working to ensure that Ukraine has the equipment it needs to defend its territory.”

Kirby’s tune was different back in June 2022. Then Kirby stated:

“They [Ukraine] are getting as much as we can send as fast as we can send it. … We’re going to be committed to helping Ukraine’s armed forces defend themselves and try to take back the territory, particularly in the east, in the south, that they’re trying to take back now.”

John Kirby during a press event in 2021. (DoD, Lisa Ferdinando)

Now, there is no more talk about Ukraine taking back territory. Instead, Kirby emphasized that a new support package, which focused on air defense and anti-tank missiles, as well as artillery munitions, was enabling Ukraine “to hold on and hold the — on the defense against this offensive, successfully repelling Russian tank columns that have been advancing on Avdiivka.”

The Russians, Kirby was quick to point out, had “suffered significant losses in this offensive attempt of theirs, including at least 125 armored vehicles around Avdiivka and more than a battalion’s worth of equipment.

Saint Michael Church in Avdiivka in the Donetsk region on April 1, during the battle for the city. (National Police of Ukraine, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0)

Despite this setback — for which Kirby offered no proof, Russia was expected to continue to attack the Ukrainian lines. “This is a dynamic conflict,” Kirby said, “and we need to remember that Russia still maintains some offensive capability and may be able to achieve some tactical gains in the coming months.”

The difference between “Ukraine is going to recapture lost territory” and “Russia is on the offensive and may achieve some tactical gains” is of an order of magnitude that cannot simply be dismissed.

Something is happening on the ground between Ukraine and Russia which has Kirby desperately trying to prepare the American audience for some significant developments on the battlefield that exclusively favor Russia.

Following a Failed Counteroffensive

Trying to minimize these gains as “tactical” in nature doesn’t alter the fact that they are taking place in the aftermath of a failed counteroffensive which had been backed by the collective military and economic might of the U.S., NATO and the European Union.

The transition from a major counteroffensive designed to recapture most, if not all, of the territory annexed by Russia, to a defensive posture where Russia is expected to capture even more territory, cannot be written off as “tactical” in nature. This is a strategic shift in fortune which may very well represent the final trajectory for both sides to the conflict.

Vladimir Trukhan is a reserve colonel in the Russian Army affiliated with the Central Military District of Russia who has recently returned from the frontlines of the Special Military Operation. He says the situation on the battlefield is far worse than what has been portrayed by Kirby.

In a wide-ranging interview on my “Ask the Inspector” podcast earlier this month, Trukhan noted that in Avdiika the Russians aren’t seeking “tactical gains,” but rather operational control of the battlefield designed to create a semi-cauldron to replicate the “meatgrinder” scenario that transpired in and around Bakhmut earlier this year.

Surrounding Avdiika, Trukhan said, is not the objective. The Russian goal is to put the Ukrainian command in a dilemma, where abandoning Avdiika could lead to the collapse of morale among the Ukrainian defenders and staying could lead to a massive loss of life due to the difficulties associated with reinforcing the garrison.

In Bakhmut, the Russians were able to kill, wound, or capture more than 70,000 Ukrainian soldiers, representing roughly the number of troops that had been gathered and trained by NATO to carry out the counteroffensive.

Trying to hold on to Avdiika could prove fatal to the entire Ukrainian defensive effort, as the Ukrainian reserves have been depleted and Ukraine is forced to take troops from elsewhere on the line of contact, creating additional offensive opportunities for the Russian soldiers.

Western Bakhmut during battle on April 5. (Dpsu.gov.ua, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0)

Kirby made mention of Kupiansk as another area where Russia could achieve some “tactical” success on the battlefield. The Kupiansk battle represents the manifestation of the Russian operational art, an example where Russia was able to exploit a lack of frontline manpower on the part of Ukraine by initiating offensive operations in areas of the battlefield where Ukrainian forces had been thinned out to provide additional manpower to the special military operation.

Another Semi-Cauldron

In Kupiansk, Russia is seeking to produce another semi-cauldron, a new Bakhmut-like “meat grinder,” which will compel Ukraine to either retreat or commit troops it doesn’t have, exposing another location on the front to Russian offensive operations.

Aftermath of Russian shelling of Kupiansk, Jan. 25. (Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Kharkiv Oblast, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0)

And thus, the cycle repeats, until there is a general collapse along the Ukrainian line of contact.

But this isn’t the most important aspect of what is going on in Kupiansk. Unlike the defeat of the Ukrainian counteroffensive in Zaporizhia, and the semi-cauldron battles of Bakhmut and Avdiika — all of which were fought on territory claimed by Russia and, as such, fulfilling President Vladimir Putin’s stated objective of liberating all Russian land — Kupiansk is unequivocally on Ukrainian soil, part of the Kharkov Oblast.

While Russia had maintained a military presence in the Kharkov Oblast following its withdrawal in the fall of 2022, this presence was designed to secure the northern territory of the Lugansk Republic more than it was to serve as a springboard for Russian offensive operations.

Had Ukraine sought a negotiated settlement to the conflict, Trukhan notes, Russia would have withdrawn from the territory of Ukraine. Because Ukraine opted to continue fighting, Russia has gone on the offensive on the territory of Ukraine.

This represents a signal by Moscow that Russia — to secure the safety and security of the ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine — would initiate operations that could result in Ukraine losing five more oblasts to Russian control.

This is a new, critical inflection point in the conflict which is of strategic significance.

John Kirby can try to dismiss the Russian offensive in Kupiansk as little more than a “tactical” success. It is, instead, a game changing moment in the conflict.

Top Military Ranking

By focusing on the Special Military Operation, Kirby misses the forest for the trees. U.S. News and World Report, however, has not.

Somehow Russia — whose military, according to western media and Kirby, has been suffering horrendous casualties that have resulted in operational paralysis due to poor morale, ineffective leadership and insufficient logistics — has surpassed the United States as the world’s most powerful military.

This ranking not only belies the notion of Russian incompetence in its conflict against Ukraine, but also reflects the reality — largely ignored in the West — that at the same time Russia is successfully prosecuting its Special Military Operation, it is also expanding its active-duty military force structure from 900,000 to 1.5 million soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines.

Putin, second from right, during an inspection of military equipment in January 2018. (Kremlin.ru, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0)

This effort requires not just a massive recruiting effort — at the same time as the fighting in Ukraine — but also a huge effort on the part of the Russian military industrial complex, which is tasked not only with supplying weapons to the Russian forces engaged against Ukraine, but also equipping and logistically supporting an additional force of 600,000 men.

All those new men in uniform, on top of the 300,000 mobilized reservists and 300,000 volunteers for the Special Military Operation — that’s an increase of 1.2 million men under arms at a time the NATO collective struggles to form up a 300,000 rapid reaction force and the United States finds itself some 15,000 recruits shy of a 60,000-recruiting goal.

The Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States has just published a final report that finds that the United States needs to dramatically increase the size of its conventional military force.

The question of how this will be done beyond allocating money is not addressed. But even a modest increase of 150,000 men at a time when the U.S. Army is unable to recruit sufficient manpower to sustain the current force structure seems like a mission impossible.

Beyond the lop-sided comparisons of competency when it comes to recruiting and sustaining large numbers of new military formations, the real significance of what Russia is doing was alluded to by Colonel Trukhan, who pointed out that the expansion of Russian military capacity takes a higher priority than the conduct of military operations in the SMO theater of operations.

What this means is that at a time when the collective West — the U.S., NATO and European Union — is struggling to find how to sustain the Ukrainian war effort, Russia has seized the strategic initiative in the SMO even while relegating the SMO to second-tier status.

Russia’s primary focus is building a military capable of standing up to and defeating the combined forces of the West. Russia’s effort involves the creation of new units, equipped with modern equipment and sustained by the output of the Russian defense industry.

The West, meanwhile, struggles to transform a military that exists largely on paper or in the imagination of its leaders, into something capable of taking the field in a large-scale ground war in Europe.

The Russian Army today is combat-hardened, combat-tested and incorporates the myriad of tactical and operational lessons it has learned the hard way over the course of more than 600 days of fighting.

The armies of the collective West, meanwhile, have difficulty getting out of the barracks, are organized and equipped using pre-SMO legacy standards and can sustain themselves for barely two-weeks in the case of large-scale combat.

John Kirby can spin information all day long, but he can never untangle this reality — Russia is winning the war in Ukraine and dominating the U.S. and NATO in terms of overall military strength. Thanks to Vladimir Trukhan, we can get some meaningful insight into the reality of the Russian military, insight that helps sustain the findings of U.S. News and World Report that Russia, not the United States, has the most powerful military in the world.

Scott Ritter is a former U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer who served in the former Soviet Union implementing arms control treaties, in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm and in Iraq overseeing the disarmament of WMD. His most recent book is Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika, published by Clarity Press.

The views expressed are solely those of the author and may or may not reflect those of Consortium News.

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tobararbulu # mmt @tobararbulu

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https://twitter.com/RealScottRitter/status/1719880590025982336

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Ben Shapiro@benshapiro

22 h

Destroying a Hamas command center after warning all civilians in the area to get out is correct. Hamas hides behind civilians. Should this grant them immunity? If so, you have created a massive incentive for them to hide behind civilians. Many MORE civilians will die over time. twitter.com/piersmorgan/st…

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Palestina Hoy @HoyPalestina

14 h

Angelina Jolie en Instagram: “Este es el bombardeo deliberado de una población atrapada que no tiene adónde huir. Gaza ha sido una prisión al aire libre durante casi dos décadas y rápidamente se está convirtiendo en una fosa común. El 40% de los asesinados son niños inocentes. Familias enteras están siendo asesinadas. Mientras el mundo observa y con el apoyo activo de muchos gobiernos, millones de civiles palestinos (niños, mujeres, familias) están siendo castigados y deshumanizados colectivamente, mientras se les priva de alimentos, medicinas y ayuda humanitaria en contravención del derecho internacional. Al negarse a exigir un alto el fuego humanitario e impedir que el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU lo imponga a ambas partes, los líderes mundiales son cómplices de estos crímenes”.

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Clare Daly @ClareDalyMEP

12 h

While it’s hard to think of anything other than the siege of Gaza by the murderous apartheid state of Israel, also remembering tonight those under siege in Cuba for decades as UN vote to condemn US illegal blockade approaches. Free Free

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Jake Shields @jakeshieldsajj

7 h

Video shows the heartwarming moment a Palestinian father reunites with children after surviving Israeli air raids in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip. #GazaGenocide

Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1719907893300904416

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16 h

The hospital are out of room so children are being treated on the floor

Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1719771356752167392

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Ahmed Alnaouq @AlnaouqA

Dr. Abusalama @ShahdAbusalama

I didn’t “lose” 21 family members. Israel KILLED 21 members of my family, including my father, two brothers, 3 sisters, and 14 of my nieces and nephews.

Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1719637340056858921

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Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal

@ShahdAbusalama

erabiltzaileari erantzuten

With English subtitles, I edited my cousin’s filming of the immediate aftermath of the massacre that Israel committed at my birthplace Jabalia Refugee Camp, northern Gaza. This is not a war. It’s a genocide targeting a particular group because of their identity: Palestinians.

Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1719435392905007526

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Palestinian kids, still covered in their blankets, rescued from under the rubble after their refugee camp was bombed.

Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1719965985845731373

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Mick Wallace @wallacemick

20 h

What does it say about the #US #EU #UK + Allies that they have given their unconditional support to the #Israeli Zionist Project…? How dare they ever lecture anyone about Human Rights again…

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Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis@DrLoupis

aza. 1

True face of Zionists. You’ll never see racism like this again.

Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1719500463320469988

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Jackson Hinkle @jacksonhinklle

8 h

Senator Van Hollen EXPOSES the fact that ISRAEL has KILLED 6 times more children in Gaza in 3 weeks, than have been killed in the ENTIRE UKRAINE WAR! Van Hollen also admits that someone he knows well in Gaza just had FOUR CHILDREN KILLED!

Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1719896889368219722

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Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom

The director of the UN’s human rights office has resigned because “the UN has surrendered to the power of the US and the Israeli lobby” and is failing to properly address the Palestine crisis. If the @UN can’t stop the war-criminal genocide against Palestinians what’s the point?

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Dan Cohen @dancohen3000

18 h

Zionist forces brutally assault Orthodox Jews in the streets of Jerusalem for opposing genocide in Gaza. Haven’t seen this kind of state violence against Jews since Nazi Germany. Images like this destroy the myth that the State of Israel is Jewish.

Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1719752311684071469

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Russian Embassy, UK @RussianEmbassy

Death toll from Israeli bloodshed in Gaza rises to 8,800, more than 22,000 injured #GazaGenocide

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Vassily #Nebenzia: The blockade of #GazaStrip has become essentially all encompassing. The enclave has been disconnected from Internet & cell phone service. Such a blockade sows panic among civilians & undermines work of paramedics and rescuers.

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@tobararbulu # mmt @tobararbulu

3 h

https://twitter.com/RealScottRitter/status/1719882325939380679

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Ben Shapiro@benshapiro

23 h

Israel is literally bombing tunnels right now despite the fact that Hamas could be hiding Jewish babies in there. Military necessity is the question. Question for you, Mohammed, since we’re here: this would end if Hamas surrendered. Why aren’t you calling on them to do so? twitter.com/mohammed_hijab…

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DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics

5 h

Gaza’s only cancer hospital shuts down due to lack of fuel amid relentless Israeli bombardment #GazaGenocide

Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1719955948779765952

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11 h

This is absolutely terrifying.

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Max Blumenthal@MaxBlumenthal

15 h

Here’s member of Knesset – and former Israeli Minister of Information – Gal Distel calling for fellow citizens to unite and commit genocide in Gaza and the West Bank

Many replies from Israelis accuse her of hurting propaganda efforts, but take no issue with her sentiments

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Jackson Hinkle @jacksonhinklle

18 h

New York City STANDS WITH PALESTINE!

Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1719763142413103419

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Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal

A Palestinian man thanking Orthodox-Jews for their calls to end the war We need more people like this on both sides

Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1719926870093778995

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Angelo Giuliano @Angelo4justice3

10 h

Happened On French TV: There are no innocent civilians in Gaza Normalised racism

Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1719875613459390926

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Mick Wallace@wallacemick

With over 3,000 children killed in #Gaza the Apartheid State of #Israel has “waged a War on #Palestinan Children” – And it has done so with the support of the #US #EU #UK + Allies…

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Arwa Damon@IamArwaDamon

urr. 31

From Dr @GhassanAbuSitt1 ’s perspective this war looks like just one thing; a war on children. He just sent me this video.

Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1719326914748231860

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Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo

6 h

How would you react if the military would take your kid? Sad …

Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1719933350272483486

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MilitaryPOV @MilitaryPOV

14 h

A little child sheds tears whilst receiving medical care of wounds sustained by Israeli bombardment in Gaza. #حزب_الله #غزه_مقبرة_الغزاة #غزة_تنتصر #ابو_عبيدة #مجزرة_جباليا #NZvsSA #GazaGenocide #Palestine #Ciaran #Halloween #Ciaran #Palestine #حزب

Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1719820591383900659

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Dimitri Lascaris @dimitrilascaris

4 h

Gazan rescuers search for victims after Israeli airstrikes in Jabalia in Gaza #GazaGenocide

Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1719976305016308150

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12 h

If anything constitutes “horrid terrorism”, it’s Israel’s massacre of over 3,600 Palestinian children. In the face of such barbarism, how can Justin Trudeau continue to ignore the right of Palestinians to defend themselves? #Gaza #GenocideJustin

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Chris Williamson @DerbyChrisW

12 h

Zionists object when I say that Israel has forfeited any right to exist. But no one, absolutely no one, with an ounce of humanity would argue that this brutal, genocidal entity should not be systematically dismantled. #FreePalestine

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هيروديكوس@xivzz_

15 h

Let’s talk about a woman’s story.

As you can see in the photo, these armed men with many guns are standing above this civilian woman, stripping her nude and dragging her through the streets.

This photo belongs to a Palestinian woman called Esraa Jaabis, she is a prisoner in

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Russian Embassy, UK @RussianEmbassy

19 h

Vladimir #Putin: We remember how the current phase of the #MiddleEast crisis began: it was a terrorist attack against Israeli civilians.<…>

Instead of punishing criminals & terrorists, has started to retaliate according to the principle of collective responsibility.

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https://t.me/MFARussia/18115

15 h

On November 1, FM Sergey Lavrov met with heads of the diplomatic missions of Arab states & a representative of the #ArabLeague

Ambassadors unanimously supported the principled position that there is no alternative to a negotiated two-state solution

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Russia in South Africa @EmbassyofRussia

S.L. Kanthan @Kanthan2030

President #Putin: Today Russia is not just an active participant in the process of creating a more just multi-polar world for all countries & civilisations

Russia is fighting for its future, for principles of a just world order, for freedom of nations & peoples on battlefield

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@zei_squirrel

21 h

former senior CIA agent John Stockwell: “We pumped dozens of stories about Cuban atrocities, Cuban rapists. We ran fake photographs that made every paper in the country. It was pure raw false propaganda to create the illusion of Communists eating babies for breakfast.”

Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1719700058583482770

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“Israel has no right to self-defense in the current conflict because it is an occupying state” — based Russia. Russian envoy to the UN cites logic and International Court of Justice. #GazaGenocide

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn

15 h

I have written to the Prime Minister to express my growing distress over his continued refusal to call for a ceasefire.

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@tobararbulu # mmt @tobararbulu

2 h

https://twitter.com/RealScottRitter/status/1719877133248463040

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Ben Shapiro@benshapiro

23 h

If you say that you don’t understand the moral difference between: (1) Hamas murdering babies, raping women and killing them, beheading men, and kidnapping hundreds; and (2) Israel telling civilians to leave, killing Hamas members, and hitting civilians because Hamas keeps them there…

I don’t believe you. You understand the difference. You’re lying.

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https://t.me/MFARussia/18107

22 h

FM Sergey #Lavrov during the meeting with Russia’s young diplomats – university graduates:

We maintain extensive diplomatic engagement with the Global South. Our ties with Africa are on the rise.

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Russia in South Africa @EmbassyofRussia·

Aza. 1

President #Putin: The primary goal is to stop bloodshed and violence. Further escalation of the crisis poses the risk of severe & highly dangerous consequences not just for the Middle Eastern region. It can spill far beyond the borders of the #MiddleEast.

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COMBATE |@upholdreality

Robin Monotti @robinmonotti

PUTIN: “The choice of a real man, a true warrior, is to take up arms and stand in line with his brothers, to be there where the fate of Russia and, indeed, of the whole world, including the future of the Palestinian people, is being decided.”

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20 h

The UN tried to silence human rights critiques:

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Democracy Now!@democracynow

22 h

Until recently, @CraigMokhiber was a top U.N. official working on human rights. He just left his post with a scathing resignation letter blasting U.N. and Western complicity in Israeli abuses. Mokhiber joins Democracy Now! to talk about the current war in Gaza and more.

Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1719698008684548151

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The Sirius Report @thesiriusreport

8 h

Russia condemns Israel at the UNGA: According to Nebenzya, Israel has no right to defend itself as an occupying power: The only thing they can muster is continued pronouncements about Israel’s supposed right to self defence, although as an occupying power, it does not have that as confirmed by the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice handed down in 2004.

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Russian Embassy, UK @RussianEmbassy

16 h

FM Sergey #Lavrov: We are deeply worried by the continuing attempts by the Western neo-liberal elites to force alien “values” on other nations. The results of this irresponsible “social engineering” are evident in the #MiddeEast & North Africa. https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_pol

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FM Sergey #Lavrov in an interview with the Belarusian Telegraph Agency:

We consistently express our disapproval of terrorism and the unacceptability of responding to terrorism in a way that inflicts harm on innocent civilians.

Interview in full: https://t.me/MFARussia/18103

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