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So, let me flag a few things, traitor.
1. "European security architecture" is a phrase the Kremlin uses. We already have one: it's called NATO.
2. You conflate (as you always do) the victim of this war with the aggressor. The aggressor is Russia.
3. "Root causes" is Russian for "do it our way" and you know it.
4. Nothing a word about Russian withdrawal, the occupied territories, POWs or deported children. Weird.
5. Lavrov wrote this for you.
6. Fuck Putin, fuck Russia, and fuck you.
President Trump today advanced an important discussion with several European leaders about the need for a broader European security architecture that can help establish the conditions for lasting peace.
Building on his leadership and the substantive work undertaken this week in Brussels with Ukraine, NATO, and our European partners, @SEPeaceMissions and I wanted to share some of the objectives guiding our ongoing discussions.
For more than 30 years, Europe and Russia have struggled to establish a sustainable security framework. Decades of mistrust, competing security concerns, and the devastating consequences of this war make this an extraordinarily difficult challenge, but one that is essential to lasting peace.
Our objective is to develop practical arrangements that address the security concerns of all sides, reduce the risk of future conflict, and create a more stable and predictable security environment.
We are exploring five principal goals: permanent security consultations, reliable crisis communications, greater military transparency, reciprocal measures to reduce escalation risks, and an enduring framework for long-term European security and stability.
Any arrangements must fully respect the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and independent decision-making of every nation. Each country will retain authority over its own security and alliances, and no country would have a veto over another’s sovereign choices. NATO will remain central to European collective defense, and this initiative would build upon existing institutions and commitments.
We will continue consultations through the Shell Bay format with Ukraine, NATO, the EU, and our European partners, expanding engagement to ensure that all relevant perspectives and ideas are considered. We will also engage Russia as part of the peace negotiations.
Next week in Abu Dhabi, the United States will convene the first trilateral peace discussions with Ukraine and Russia since February. All parties remain intensely engaged in preparing for substantive and productive negotiations. We will consult closely with our European partners on the sidelines and, if progress is made, aim to move toward a broader multilateral format with their direct participation.
These ideas continue to evolve, and we welcome thoughtful input. Creating the right structure will be critical to ending this war and transitioning from conflict toward conditions that make possible a durable peace.
This is difficult, detailed work. There are no easy solutions. But the opportunity to help end this devastating war and build a foundation for a more peaceful, secure, and prosperous Europe for generations to come makes it a challenge well worth undertaking.
We will see how these discussions develop and continue working intensively with all parties toward President Trump’s objective of a comprehensive and lasting peace.
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.@BBCNews @BBCr4today @BBCNewsnight - if an interviewee says Israel has committed GENOCIDE, always say that Israel denies it (but they would, wouldn’t they?)
BBC NEVER says that the consensus of Genocide scholars and all Human Rights NGOs and two UN committees say the evidence of GENOCIDE is conclusive
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Sorry, but the first two things Blinken lists — “alienate allies” and “appease autocrats” — were non-issues in the election. By contrast, U.S. support for Israel was front and center, and Blinken doesn’t even mention it.
The midterm results send a clear message: How we show up in the world affects our lives at home, and Americans understand that. When we alienate allies, appease autocrats, impose arbitrary tariffs, and drive needless conflict, American families pay the price. The Administration’s actions over the last two years have had real consequences for our security, our economy, and our everyday lives. Americans have spoken loud and clear. We should act on the message they're sending. A good place to start: a diplomatic resolution to President Trump's war of choice with Iran.
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"We were driving through Colorado [and] we had the radio on and eight of the Top Ten songs were Beatles songs. In Colorado! 'I Want to Hold Your Hand,' all those early ones.
"They were doing things nobody was doing. Their chords were outrageous, just outrageous, and their harmonies made it all valid . . . but I kept it to myself that I really dug them. Everybody else thought they were for the teenyboppers, that they were gonna pass right away. But it was obvious to me that they had staying power. I knew they were pointing the direction where music had to go.
"In my head, the Beatles were it. It seemed to me a definite line was being drawn. This was something that never happened before . . .
"They were fantastic singers. To this day, it's hard to find a singer better than Lennon was, or than McCartney was and still is. I'm in awe of McCartney. He's about the only one that I'm in awe of. He can do it all. And he's never let up. He's got the gift for melody, he's got the gift for rhythm, he can play any instrument. He can scream and shout as good as anyone, and he can sing a ballad as good as anyone. And his melodies are effortless, that's what you have to be in awe of . . . he's just so damn effortless. I just wish he'd quit [laughs]. Everything that comes out of his mouth is just framed in melody.
"As for Lennon . . . John has taken poetics pretty far in popular music. A lot of his work is overlooked, but if you examine it, you’ll find key expressions that have never been said before to push across his point of view. Things that are symbolic of some inner reality and probably will never be said again.
"America should put statues up to the Beatles. They helped give this country’s pride back to it. I think they're the best."
--#BobDylan
#Dylan #Songwriter #Author #Icon #Influence #Pulitzer #NobelPrize #Oscars #HallOfFame #Beatles #TheBeatles #Impact #Singers #GOATs
Sources: Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock 'n' Roll; Rolling Stone magazine, 2007; Playboy, 1978; Down The Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan, Howard Sounes
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Give Iran is a big factor in Trump’s electoral humiliation it’s worth recalling that K Badenoch- the leader much of the UK media is elevating to the status of a titan-was an unqualified supporter. If she had been PM UK would be trapped in the conflict with Trump and Nethanyahu.
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This week in London, another event will promote an Israeli agency involved in building illegal settlements on occupied land.
In September the Government rightly announced plans to ban advertising of illegal Israeli settlements.
This event should be the first where it's stopped.
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'...nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine...'
How did that go?
On this day 109 years ago today British foreign secretary Arthur Balfour sent a letter to Lord Rothschild, a leading member of the UK's Jewish community, expressing the British government's support for the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Israel.
It laid the foundation for the eventual end of the British Mandate of Palestine and the establishment of the State of Israel.
This article from the declaration's centenary explains how the Labour party already supported its aims months before it was written:
labourlist.org/2017/10/why-l…
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I advised Ben as a “war game” PM. If I was Streeting, I would listen hard to him
Despite a direction from me when Defence Secretary that the Skynet 6A , £2bn contract was too important to the UK space industry to offshore to Lockheed Martin it looks as if Wes is preparing to place the contract overseas. The damage it would do to Stevenage and the UK satellite industry would be irreversible and it was always assessed it could mean the end of the sector. Lockheed’s promises of factories in Newcastle were skin deep. The differences between types on offer were marginal. No.10 could, and should stop this. @AirbusDefence @wesstreeting @larisamlbrown @kevinbonavia @haynesdeborah
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UN Commissioner Chris Sidoti:
"Children were deliberately targeted by the Israeli military. Intentionally killed. Not accidentally killed. Not consequentially killed. Not collatorally killed. But intentionally killed."
The Genocide in Gaza and Israel’s Deliberate Targeting of Children
One of the most difficult events @SOAS that I have organised in the last 2 years: Powerful interventions by Commissioner Chris Sidoti, Nick Mynard @maynard_nick & Michelle Staggs
youtube.com/watch?v=RLNraZFh…
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In the pro-Netanyahu demonstration today, one of his supporters threatens left-wing Jews: "We’ll beat you. You’re the first enemies we’ll send far, far away, to Birkenau, to Auschwitz, and we’ll rebuild Sobibor for you!" Israel 2026. The Jewish state.
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Lucy White has managed to get Britain’s ethnicity, religion and cultural history wrong in three paragraphs. Let’s examine the evidence.
1. “We have always been White.”
False.
African soldiers served in Roman Britain, including along Hadrian’s Wall. John Blanke, a Black trumpeter, served both Henry VII and Henry VIII.
Neither Roman Britain nor Tudor England was exclusively White.
Historic England:
historicengland.org.uk/advic…
National Archives:
nationalarchives.gov.uk/expl…
2. “We have always been Christian.”
Historically impossible.
People in Britain practised religions long before Christianity arrived. Roman Britain had numerous religious traditions. Medieval England had established Jewish communities, until Edward I expelled them in 1290.
English Heritage:
english-heritage.org.uk/lear…
National Archives:
nationalarchives.gov.uk/educ…
3. “We have always been culturally homogeneous.”
Britons. Romans. Angles. Saxons. Vikings. Normans.
Britain’s languages, institutions, traditions and identities developed through centuries of migration, conquest and cultural exchange.
Even England’s language is heavily influenced by Scandinavian and Norman French.
English Heritage:
english-heritage.org.uk/visi…
4. And what does modern Britain actually look like?
According to the 2021 Census, England and Wales were:
• 81.7% White.
• 46.2% Christian.
Neither figure is 100%.
ONS ethnicity:
ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationa…
ONS religion:
ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationa…
And here’s the fundamental problem with your argument, Lucy.
Being historically majority White is not the same as being exclusively White.
Having a Christian heritage is not the same as having an exclusively Christian population.
Having distinct national traditions is not evidence of cultural homogeneity.
You’re confusing historical majorities with racial and religious ownership.
You are perfectly entitled to celebrate Britain’s heritage. You are not entitled to rewrite its history without being challenged.
Patriotism means understanding your country’s history, not erasing everyone who doesn’t fit your preferred version of it.
The Union Jack belongs to British citizens of every race and religion.
That’s Britain. Not the imaginary ethnically exclusive nation you’ve constructed.
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‘Threatening to arrest people for providing "logistical support" to peaceful demonstrators is the kind of threatening statement we are used to getting from the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship in Nicaragua. This is not what I expect from PM Andy Burnham’s Government’ says @BiancaJagger
👉🏿 I was born under a dictatorship and have spent a great deal of my adult life denouncing authoritarian regimes. I am deeply shocked to read the threatening statement issued by the Met Police UK. Threatening to arrest people for providing "logistical support" to peaceful demonstrators is the kind of threatening statement we are used to getting from the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship in Nicaragua. This is not what I expect from PM Andy Burnham’s Government. The UK is supposed to be a democracy, where freedom of speech is a pillar of society. Churchill’s words remind us that a true civilisation relies entirely on these liberties to maintain democratic accountability. Criminalising and proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation is a shameful authoritarian overreach.
@metpoliceuk @TheBJHRF #FreedomOfSpeech #FreedomOfPress #HumanRights @DefendOurJuries #StopGenocideInGaza #DeproscribePalestineAction
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Israel was promised to a Mesopotamian (Abraham) by a god I don’t believe in. Seems a fair way to do politics in 20th and 21st centuries. Where next?
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This is precisely why I found the @BBC's reporting from a Jewish school in the UK, as part of its coverage of antisemitism in schools, so troubling.
The school's own curriculum explicitly refers to nurturing children to become "positive advocates of Israel".
There's a fundamental difference between teaching children about Jewish faith, history and identity, and encouraging them to be fierce advocates for a particular state.
Religious education should never become political indoctrination.
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And therefore his presence evidently “not conducive to the public good”.
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A bit bizarre that only two weeks after piling up on the Greens for saying zionism is racism every mainstream commentator is lamenting that the only thing preventing a Netanyahu defeat is the unfortunate fact that … zionism is racism
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Pure ignorance: no serious Israeli historian or archaeologist believes this & DNA studies completely disprove it. Read the work for eg of Gideon Avni or Yossi Rappoport: languages & religions changed, people remained
Recovering the lost history of Gaza share.google/5LwquF4LW6j0TbO…
The Jews are the only extant indigenous people of the land of Israel. The people who colonised it were Romans, Christians, Arabs and Muslims. Zionism is the ultimate decolonisation movement. The genocidal child-murderers are Hamas-led Palestinian Arabs and the Iranian regime. Get something above your own neck other than ignorance and knuckle-dragging bigotry.
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Congratulations, you’ve just discovered what apartheid looks like: two populations living in the same territory, one with full rights and protection, while the other is denied both.
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On this Israeli election day, I’d recommend reading this extraordinary @haaretzcom interview with billionaire Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress and once one of Benjamin Netanyahu’s closest confidants.
One of Lauder’s most striking conclusions: “I realized at the end of the day that Israel really didn't want peace, but they wanted dominance.”
This is coming from someone who helped launch Netanyahu’s political career, introduced him to powerful figures in American politics and media, and secretly negotiated with Hafez al-Assad and Rafik Hariri on his behalf in the late 1990s.
In one of the interview’s biggest revelations, Lauder says Netanyahu agreed to a comprehensive peace deal with Syria and Lebanon, including withdrawal from the Golan Heights, but ultimately refused to sign it for political reasons.
“He chose politics over peace. He put his political future before the deal.”
Now 82, Lauder describes his profound disillusionment with Israel’s direction. After decades of supporting Israeli and Jewish institutions, he has sold his Tel Aviv apartment, given away his Be’er Sheva property, and says he has no intention of returning to Israel.
He warns that Netanyahu’s dependence on figures like Ben-Gvir and Smotrich is damaging Israel, alienating diaspora Jews and eroding support in Washington.
The interview is also full of fascinating details about Lauder’s role in Netanyahu’s political rise. The two became close friends in the 1980s, when Netanyahu was Israel’s ambassador to the UN, speaking almost daily at times.
Lauder says he introduced Netanyahu to speech coach Lilyan Wilder to improve his public speaking and, crucially, to Republican strategist Arthur Finkelstein, who would become instrumental in Netanyahu’s electoral success.
When Netanyahu left New York to pursue a political career in Israel, Lauder threw him a farewell party attended by some of the most influential figures in American media and politics, including Rupert Murdoch and the head of the New York Times.
Lauder recalls opening doors for Netanyahu and helping him cultivate the relationships that would underpin his rise to power.
What makes this interview so revealing is that Lauder is no longtime critic of Israel. He had been a committed Zionist, a Republican power broker, and a man who spent decades financing Jewish institutions, cultivating relationships with Arab leaders, and pursuing diplomatic openings on Israel’s behalf.
A fascinating read 👇
haaretz.com/israel-news/elec…
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Why is Trump making so many concessions to Russia now?
I think it's three things.
#HighStakes