Netanyahu see’s a ‘walk out’ as he speaks at the UN…..
Israel boradcasts his speach across Gaza….
New plan to freeze out the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas with a government led by Tony Blair?
That with Netanyahu saying NO Palestine State?
Gaza Op continues as Israel tries to ‘flatten’ Gaza….
Israel contiunes to become MORE isolated across the globe…..
Netanyahu worries about getting arrested for ‘war crimes’…..
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Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to “finish the job” in Gaza and said that the recognition of a Palestinian state was “insane” as delegations walked out of his address to the United Nations. Just days after the UK, France, Canada, Australia, and other countries broke with the United States to recognise an independent Palestinian state, Netanyahu called a two-state solution “sheer madness. It’s insane, and we won’t do it.”
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More than 100 diplomats from more than 50 countries walked out as Netanyahu entered the hall, according to a tally by the Washington Post.Netanyahu gave the speech the morning after Donald Trump said he would restrain Netanyahu from annexing territories in the West Bank in retaliation for the expressions of support for Palestinian statehood. “I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank … It’s not going to happen,” Trump said.
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Israeli military loudspeaker systems have broadcast Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the UN into Gaza in an unprecedented operation that immediately prompted controversy and outrage. In a statement on Friday, an Israeli government spokesperson said: “As part of the public diplomacy effort, the prime minister’s office has directed civilian elements, in cooperation with the [Israel Defense Forces], to place loudspeakers on the backs of trucks on the Israeli side of the Gaza border so that prime minister Netanyahu’s historic UN general assembly speech will be heard in the Gaza Strip.”
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In an “unprecedented operation”, Netanyahu’s office said the Israeli army would take over the mobile phones of Gaza residents and Hamas operatives and his speech would be broadcast live through the mobile devices. It was not immediately clear if this happened, or to what extent, Reuters reported.
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The world must not allow Iran to rebuild its nuclear and military programmes, Netanyahu said on Friday, a day before the United Nations is set to reimpose sanctions on Tehran. All UN sanctions on Iran are due to be reimposed at 8pm EDT on Saturday after European powers, known as the E3, triggered a 30-day process accusing Tehran of violating a 2015 deal meant to prevent it from developing a nuclear weapon, Reuters reported.
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The United Nations on Friday released a long-awaited update of its database of companies with activities in Israeli settlements, listing 158 firms from 11 countries, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). Big firms such as Airbnb, Booking.com, Motorola Solutions and Trip Advisorremained on the list, while several companies including Alstom and Opodo were removed, the non-exhaustive database showed, according to AFP.
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The European Broadcasting Union has confirmed it will hold an online vote in November that could see the Israeli broadcaster Kan expelled from next year’s Eurovision song contest. In a letter sent to participating broadcasters on Thursday, the EBU president, Delphine Ernotte Cunci, wrote there was an “unprecedented diversity of views” on Israel’s participation in Eurovision, and the issue required “a broader democratic basis”.
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Israel, which has imposed a naval blockade on Gaza, said the “Global Sumud Flotilla” will not pass and that the project will only assist Hamas. The flotilla has blamed Israel for a drone attack it had said it experienced this week. According to Reuters, Israel’s foreign ministry did not respond directly to the accusation, but invited the flotilla to drop humanitarian aid for Israel to take to Gaza, or face consequences.
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Civilians in Gaza have sustained injuries of a type and on a scale more usually seen among professional soldiers involved in intense combat operations, research has found. A study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) found that some types of wounds – such as burns or injuries to legs – were more common among civilians in Gaza than among USsoldiers fighting in recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Israel’s air force carried out airstrikes on Friday on eastern Lebanon, the Lebanese state-run news agency reported without giving any word on casualties. The Israeli military said it struck a site used for manufacturing precision missiles, reports the Associated Press (AP). The airstrikes took place near the Lebanese village of Saraain in the Bekaa valley region, according to the National news agency. They are the latest strikes since the 14-month Israel-Hezbollah war ended with a US-brokered ceasefire in November.
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The White House is backing a plan that would see Tony Blair head a temporary administration of the Gaza Strip – initially without the direct involvement of the Palestinian Authority (PA), according to Israeli media reports. Under the proposal, Blair would lead a body called the GazaInternational Transitional Authority (Gita) that would have a mandate to be Gaza’s “supreme political and legal authority” for as long as five years.
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Uefa could decide as early as next week whether to suspend Israel from its competitions, with the governing body facing growing pressure from inside and outside the game. Reports on Thursday, initially in the Times, suggested a vote that would determine Israel’s participation in World Cup qualifying and that of Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Europa League could be held by Uefa’s executive committee before the international break begins on 6 October.
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A final Russian attempt to defer the snapback of large-scale UN sanctions on Iran is expected to fail at the UN security council on Friday after European countries rejected last-minute Iranian offers to give UN weapons inspectors limited access to its bombed nuclear sites.