Israel/Palestine Thread

The US is warning UN countries to support its Gaza plan or else …

The United States has called on the United Nations Security Council to officially back its draft resolution aimed at bolstering President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, warning that Palestinians could suffer “grave consequences” if it does not.

Seems to be plenty of opposition to the Trump / Blair administration plan in the security council as well as many other points they want. After blocking the whole process for two years the US do seem very keen to push this through quickly. A vote is planned for next week.

Plenty of details on what it all involves below

How inept can the EU be?

As evidence piles up of Israel’s flouting of international law and humanitarian norms, Europe engages in a kind of ritual rhetoric, without taking action. The refrain — “We are reviewing our trade relations with Israel and may contemplate suspension of our trade agreements” — is a diplomatic cliché devoid of urgency or consequence.

Not only is Europe’s posture ineffective, but it also reflects a deeper moral failure. Invariably, economic interests, historical guilt, and strategic alliances override the principles Europe proclaims.The European Commission recently suggested the suspension of trade concessions and the sanctioning of extremist Israeli ministers on account of breaches of human rights obligations under the EU-Israel Association Agreement. Yet, even this was partial and conditional. The EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, acknowledged: “We will contact Israel to present our findings and look at how we can improve the situation on the ground”—a statement that epitomizes delay and deflection.

As i understand, if passed as is, could basically null and void all previous resolutions on the Palestinian question because it takes away UN jurisdiction and passes authority over to the Trump / Blair administration, which could be renewed every couple of years if the transition does not happen.

Anyway, looks like Monday is set for the two votes. Possibly both get voted down then who knows what happens.

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2025/11/15/un-security-council-to-vote-on-trump-s-gaza-plan

Dozens of Palestinian prisoners are being held indefinitely in an underground Israeli detention facility, deprived of sunlight and subjected to extreme violence, Palestinian lawyers say, as more reports of abuse emerge from the devastation of Israel’s war on Gaza.

Lawyers for Palestinians held at Rakevet, an underground wing of the Ramla (Nitzan) prison complex in central Israel, said their clients have been assaulted, starved, and denied medical care despite serious injuries.

National security threat averted in Canada, citizens can sleep soundly after 95 year old interrogated. He can consider himself lucky if he was not raped by a maple broom stick or a rusty iron bar

15 Nov 2025

Montreal, Canada – A former United Nations special rapporteur who investigated Israeli abuses against Palestinians says he was interrogated by Canadian authorities on “national security” grounds as he travelled to Canada this week to attend a Gaza-related event.

Richard Falk, an international law expert from the United States, told Al Jazeera that he was questioned at Toronto Pearson international airport on Thursday alongside his wife, fellow legal scholar Hilal Elver.

“A security person came and said, ‘We’ve detained you both because we’re concerned that you pose a national security threat to Canada,'” Falk, 95, said on Saturday in an interview from Ottawa, the Canadian capital. “It was my first experience of this sort – ever – in my life.”

Falk and Elver – both US citizens – were travelling to Ottawa to take part in the Palestine Tribunal on Canadian Responsibility when they were held for questioning.

The tribunal brought together international human rights and legal experts on Friday and Saturday to examine the Canadian government’s role in Israel’s two-year bombardment of the Gaza Strip, which a UN inquiry and numerous rights groups have described as a genocide.

Falk said he and his wife were held for questioning for more than four hours and asked about their work on Israel and Gaza, and on issues of genocide in general. “[There was] nothing particularly aggressive about his questioning,” he said. “It felt sort of random and disorganised.”

But Falk said he believes the interrogation is part of a global push to “punish those who endeavour to tell the truth about what is happening” in the world, including in Gaza.

Why is there a Palestinian flag at a Climate Action rally in Dublin today ?

Deadly.