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Singing in a football stadium is far safer and cheaper than singing at the border. Egyptians need to allow foreign aid workers in and help to force aid into Gaza, we aren't asking them to fight but at least facilitate.
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They should have said she is criminally negligent and has the blood of Palestinian children on her hands. Fire her now!
Alice Wairimu Nderitu (born 9 January 1968 in Nairobi) is a Kenyan national serving since November 2020 as the United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres.
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Human rights organizations accuse UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Alice Wairimu Nderitu of dereliction of duty for ignoring Israel’s mass atrocities in Gaza.
Luiz RampelottoZUMA Press Wire
The UN secretary-general’s special adviser on preventing genocide has finally broken her months-long silence about Israel’s ongoing campaign of extermination and destruction in Gaza.
But the belated response from Alice Wairimu Nderitu has done little to satisfy Palestinian human rights defenders who have called on her boss, Secretary-General António Guterres, to launch an investigation into the “dereliction of her duties and responsibilities demanded by her mandate.”
Nderitu last week issued her first statement on the situation in Gaza since one in October that was sharply criticized for its strong pro-Israel bias.
In her release on 9 February, Nderitu “reiterates” her pro-Israel statement from October, but in addition says she “echoes” a statement from Guterres’ office last month “taking note” of the International Court of Justice ruling ordering Israel to halt what the judges plausibly found to be a genocide.
But Nderitu’s response is being described as too little too late.
“This statement underscores the failure of the special adviser on the prevention of genocide to meaningfully fulfill her mandate without biases or double standards,” the Gaza-based Palestinian human rights group Al Mezan said.
“It also disregards 100,000 Palestinians killed, injured or missing under rubble in Gaza over the past four months.”
Al-Mezan is one of more than a dozen Palestinian rights groups that last week wrote to Guterres to demand action over Nderitu’s failure to fulfill her mandate from the UN Security Council to investigate and warn about situations where there is a credible risk of genocide.
The groups note that she has issued warnings and statements about various conflicts around the world while ignoring the bloodbath perpetrated by Israel.
“The glaring absence of any action in response to the sustained mass atrocities endured by Palestinians in Gaza raises significant concerns about [Nderitu’s] capability to execute her mandate with due effectiveness and impartiality,” the groups wrote on 7 February.
“This absence is particularly glaring given the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) acknowledgment of the plausibility of genocide being committed by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza, placing them at risk of irreparable harm.”
Nderitu has ignored all efforts by Palestinian rights organizations to engage with her.
“Regrettably, our repeated efforts to establish contact and schedule a meeting with the special adviser or the office on genocide prevention have been unsuccessful,” the groups state.
Their public criticism, however, may have prompted Nderitu to issue her latest statement, perhaps in an effort to retain a modicum of credibility. Her office also ignored repeated requests for comment from The Electronic Intifada for a previous story.
“The Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect must be staffed with reputable persons of good standing who are vigilant to atrocity crimes and unmotivated by political bias,” the Palestinian rights groups said, adding that, “those who fail to satisfy these criteria must be swiftly replaced by competent professionals capable of executing the mandate impartially and without biases.”
In December, Mokhiber told The Electronic Intifada livestream that Nderitu’s silence reflected the policy of Guterres himself.
Mokhiber explained that in the original conception, the genocide office was intended to be independent, but instead ended up under the political control of the secretary-general.
“By design, it is a weak, non-independent, politically controlled office,” Mokhiber told The Electronic Intifada.
Even Nderitu’s resignation “would not fix the problem,” Mokhiber said. “The problem is the politicization of human rights questions by the secretary-general in New York.”
“I think that office should be dismantled,” Mokhiber added. He said the mandate to monitor and warn about potential genocides needs to be moved into the UN’s independent human rights institutions, “where you have special rapporteurs [and] commissions of inquiry, people who can actually act with principle without being controlled by the secretary-general or the political office.”
Mokhiber made global headlines in October when he resigned from his role as director of the UN’s human rights office in New York, citing the world body’s inaction over the unfolding genocide in Gaza.
Alice Wairimu Nderitu (born 9 January 1968 in Nairobi) is a Kenyan national serving since November 2020 as the United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres.
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Too little, too late: UN genocide office breaks silence on Gaza
Palestinian rights groups urge investigation of Alice Wairimu Nderitu's dereliction of duty.
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Too little, too late: UN genocide office breaks silence on Gaza
Palestinian rights groups urge investigation of Alice Wairimu Nderitu's dereliction of duty.
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Too little, too late: UN genocide office breaks silence on Gaza
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Human rights organizations accuse UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Alice Wairimu Nderitu of dereliction of duty for ignoring Israel’s mass atrocities in Gaza.
Luiz RampelottoZUMA Press Wire
The UN secretary-general’s special adviser on preventing genocide has finally broken her months-long silence about Israel’s ongoing campaign of extermination and destruction in Gaza.
But the belated response from Alice Wairimu Nderitu has done little to satisfy Palestinian human rights defenders who have called on her boss, Secretary-General António Guterres, to launch an investigation into the “dereliction of her duties and responsibilities demanded by her mandate.”
Nderitu last week issued her first statement on the situation in Gaza since one in October that was sharply criticized for its strong pro-Israel bias.
In her release on 9 February, Nderitu “reiterates” her pro-Israel statement from October, but in addition says she “echoes” a statement from Guterres’ office last month “taking note” of the International Court of Justice ruling ordering Israel to halt what the judges plausibly found to be a genocide.
But Nderitu’s response is being described as too little too late.
“This statement underscores the failure of the special adviser on the prevention of genocide to meaningfully fulfill her mandate without biases or double standards,” the Gaza-based Palestinian human rights group Al Mezan said.
“It also disregards 100,000 Palestinians killed, injured or missing under rubble in Gaza over the past four months.”
Al-Mezan is one of more than a dozen Palestinian rights groups that last week wrote to Guterres to demand action over Nderitu’s failure to fulfill her mandate from the UN Security Council to investigate and warn about situations where there is a credible risk of genocide.
The groups note that she has issued warnings and statements about various conflicts around the world while ignoring the bloodbath perpetrated by Israel.
“The glaring absence of any action in response to the sustained mass atrocities endured by Palestinians in Gaza raises significant concerns about [Nderitu’s] capability to execute her mandate with due effectiveness and impartiality,” the groups wrote on 7 February.
“This absence is particularly glaring given the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) acknowledgment of the plausibility of genocide being committed by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza, placing them at risk of irreparable harm.”
Ignoring Palestinians
The rights groups urged Guterres to investigate why Nderitu had also kept her silence in the face of mounting warnings from numerous independent UN experts and human rights organizations about the unfolding genocide.Nderitu has ignored all efforts by Palestinian rights organizations to engage with her.
“Regrettably, our repeated efforts to establish contact and schedule a meeting with the special adviser or the office on genocide prevention have been unsuccessful,” the groups state.
Their public criticism, however, may have prompted Nderitu to issue her latest statement, perhaps in an effort to retain a modicum of credibility. Her office also ignored repeated requests for comment from The Electronic Intifada for a previous story.
“The Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect must be staffed with reputable persons of good standing who are vigilant to atrocity crimes and unmotivated by political bias,” the Palestinian rights groups said, adding that, “those who fail to satisfy these criteria must be swiftly replaced by competent professionals capable of executing the mandate impartially and without biases.”
No independence
But Craig Mokhiber, a former UN official who helped establish the UN’s genocide office, has called for it to be disbanded.In December, Mokhiber told The Electronic Intifada livestream that Nderitu’s silence reflected the policy of Guterres himself.
Mokhiber explained that in the original conception, the genocide office was intended to be independent, but instead ended up under the political control of the secretary-general.
“By design, it is a weak, non-independent, politically controlled office,” Mokhiber told The Electronic Intifada.
Even Nderitu’s resignation “would not fix the problem,” Mokhiber said. “The problem is the politicization of human rights questions by the secretary-general in New York.”
“I think that office should be dismantled,” Mokhiber added. He said the mandate to monitor and warn about potential genocides needs to be moved into the UN’s independent human rights institutions, “where you have special rapporteurs [and] commissions of inquiry, people who can actually act with principle without being controlled by the secretary-general or the political office.”
Mokhiber made global headlines in October when he resigned from his role as director of the UN’s human rights office in New York, citing the world body’s inaction over the unfolding genocide in Gaza.
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Britain is well experienced in starving civilians from its colonial past, hence their help to starve Palestinians with their evil Israeli partners:-
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Was that a freudian slip when the King said " We must ignore the situation in the West bank" but then he corrected himself to say we mustnt ignore.
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Israel bans entry of UN special rapporteur for Palestinians | Middle East
Israel accuses Francesca Albanese of justifying Hamas attack on Oct. 7
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UN Special Rapporteur for Palestinians Francesca Albanese
Israel on Monday banned the entry of UN Special Rapporteur for Palestinians Francesca Albanese.
"The era of Jews being silent is over," Foreign Minister Israel Katz and Interior Minister Moshe Arbel said in a joint statement.
"If the UN wants to return to being a relevant body, its leaders must publicly disavow the anti-Semitic words of the 'Special Envoy' – and fire her permanently," they said.
Israeli officials accuse the UN rapporteur of justifying an Oct. 7 cross-border attack by Palestinian group Hamas after writing a post on X.
"The victims of 7/10 were not killed because of their Judaism, but in response to Israel's oppression," she wrote in response to a Le Monde post reporting on French President Emmanuel Macron honoring Israelis killed in the Hamas attack.
"The 'greatest anti-Semitic massacre of our century'? No, Mr. Emmanuel Macron. The victims of 7/10 were not killed because of their Judaism, but in response to Israel's oppression. France & the international community did nothing to prevent it. My respects to the victims," she added.
Israel's ban on Albanese follows an earlier decision in December 2023 to revoke the residence visa of UN Humanitarian Coordinator Lynn Hastings.
It also comes as Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, killing at least 28,340 people and injuring 67,984 others, while nearly 1,200 Israelis are believed to have been killed in the Hamas attack.
The Israeli onslaught has left 85% of Gaza's population internally displaced amid acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine, while 60% of the enclave's infrastructure was damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.
In late 2023, South Africa filed a case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing Israel of failing to uphold its commitments under the 1948 Genocide Convention.
In its interim ruling in January, the UN court ruled that South Africa's claims are plausible. It ordered provisional measures for Israel's government to desist from genocidal acts, and take measures to guarantee that humanitarian assistance is provided to civilians in Gaza.
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Israel's population closing in on 10 million in 2024 demographic update
Israel holds nearly half the world's Jewish population, with 47% of all Jews living in Israel.
By JERUSALEM POST STAFFFEBRUARY 11, 2024 07:20Updated: FEBRUARY 11, 2024 10:28
An Israeli tank at a staging area near the Israeli border with Syria, in the Golan Heights, northern Israel, on January 9, 2024(photo credit: MICHAEL GILADI/FLASH90)
An update last week from the online encyclopedia Jewish Virtual Library (JVL) showed that Israel's population stood at about 9,842,000.
The JVL update stated that the Israeli population grew by 1.9% throughout 2023 - a decrease from the previous year due to lower immigration. Furthermore, the update states that the overall population will reach 10 million by the end of 2024.
Regarding the Jewish and Arab populations, the former at the end of last year was 7.2 million, or 73.2% of the overall population. The Arab population constitutes 21.1% of the entire population and comes up to nearly 2.1 million. The population by religion saw that 18% of the country was Muslim, 2% Christian, and 2% Druze.
Approximately 213,000 people in Israel are foreign workers. Not including the foreign workers and migrants in Israel, the Jewish state is the 100th most populous country in the world.
Holding nearly half the world's Jewish population
Furthermore, Israel holds nearly half the world's Jewish population, with 47% of all Jews living in Israel. Within this Jewish population, among those over the age of 20, 44% of Jews self-identify as secular, 33% traditional, 12% religious, and 11% ultra-Orthodox.
Israeli soldiers sit inside a military vehicle near the Israel-Gaza border, in southern Israel, December 31, 2023 (credit: FLASH90)
Nearly 148 thousand Holocaust survivors are living in Israel as of the end of last year. 60% of them are women, the youngest survivors being 76 years old, and the majority of the older survivors over the age of 90. More than 100 Israeli Holocaust survivors passed the age of 100.
However, one in three survivors lives under the poverty line, according to the JVL.
Israel welcomed 45,000 new immigrants, the JVL update said, most of them coming from Russia and Ukraine, whereas 2,500 Israelis emigrated to other countries.
Israel's population closing in on 10 million in 2024 demographic update | The Jerusalem Post
Israel holds nearly half the world's Jewish population, with 47% of all Jews living in Israel.www.jpost.com
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Perhaps you'll live to see it unfold.
The level of vile and virulent extremism on display by the implant is devoid of all humanity... beholden to the devil a petulant machine soaked in blood and gore... a joker in its essence!
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‘Lessons not learned’ from historic genocides amid Gaza conflict, says Rwandan leader
LONDON: The world’s response to civilian deaths in the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza indicates it has not learned the lessons of previous genocides such as the one carried out in Rwanda, the African country’s president said Monday. “We always talk about ‘lessons learned,’ but I don’t see many in...
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- Paul Kagame tells World Governments Summit in Dubai that Africa ‘must decide its own future’
“We always talk about ‘lessons learned,’ but I don’t see many in the world learning lessons,” Paul Kagame said at the World Governments Summit in Dubai.
Drawing comparisons between the Rwandan genocide and alleged atrocities committed against Palestinians in Gaza by Israeli forces, Kagame added: “(In Rwanda) there wasn’t much mobilization to stop and prevent what was happening, but at least we were left with an opportunity to learn from it.
“We learned ourselves, the world needed to learn, but when you see what’s happening in the world, you question whether those lessons were learned.”
Kagame also said it was not just in Gaza where similar inactivity from those with power to stop such atrocities or offer quick resolutions was having an impact.
“The power and the influence some big countries have in their hands are not being put to good use, and that’s why we see conflicts, instability and loss of life to this extent,” he said.
“Countries, nations, international institutions should be there to ensure that there is a capacity to a actually prevent these things that consume people’s lives, that is not happening, so there are big question marks to those in whose hands lies so much power and resources to stop them from happening,” he added.
During his address, Kagame also said it is important that Africa decides its own future, that it is powerful enough to determine its own fate, and is able to resist outside influence.
However, a lack of leadership and governance across the continent is one of the main reasons for coups in Africa, he said, adding: “We need to look at the root cause.”
Referring to external influence in Africa from the US, China, Europe and Russia, he said: “This is a responsibility we carry; this is something that is urgent, to make sure we are not there to take a certain line or another because it has been decided so by someone else.
“Africa must be that powerful to make sure we do what has determined by ourselves to be important to us and our people.”
Kagame, who has been president of Rwanda since 2000 and is reportedly seeking reelection for a fourth presidential term in the July elections, added: “Elections are for the people to decide who is the most qualified, voting counts, and history counts.”
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This old man is senile, they need to put him in a nursing home.
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The world did learn: how to commit an act of genocide in a way you can get away with it and not be held accountable and how to brainwash the masses into accepting the genocide and oppress any opposition.‘Lessons not learned’ from historic genocides amid Gaza conflict, says Rwandan leader
LONDON: The world’s response to civilian deaths in the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza indicates it has not learned the lessons of previous genocides such as the one carried out in Rwanda, the African country’s president said Monday. “We always talk about ‘lessons learned,’ but I don’t see many in...
‘Lessons not learned’ from historic genocides amid Gaza conflict, says Rwandan leader
The world’s response to civilian deaths in the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza indicates it has not learned the lessons of previous genocides such as the one carried out in Rwanda, Paul Kagame said. (Screenshot/WGS)
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LONDON: The world’s response to civilian deaths in the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza indicates it has not learned the lessons of previous genocides such as the one carried out in Rwanda, the African country’s president said Monday.
- Paul Kagame tells World Governments Summit in Dubai that Africa ‘must decide its own future’
“We always talk about ‘lessons learned,’ but I don’t see many in the world learning lessons,” Paul Kagame said at the World Governments Summit in Dubai.
Drawing comparisons between the Rwandan genocide and alleged atrocities committed against Palestinians in Gaza by Israeli forces, Kagame added: “(In Rwanda) there wasn’t much mobilization to stop and prevent what was happening, but at least we were left with an opportunity to learn from it.
“We learned ourselves, the world needed to learn, but when you see what’s happening in the world, you question whether those lessons were learned.”
Kagame also said it was not just in Gaza where similar inactivity from those with power to stop such atrocities or offer quick resolutions was having an impact.
“The power and the influence some big countries have in their hands are not being put to good use, and that’s why we see conflicts, instability and loss of life to this extent,” he said.
“Countries, nations, international institutions should be there to ensure that there is a capacity to a actually prevent these things that consume people’s lives, that is not happening, so there are big question marks to those in whose hands lies so much power and resources to stop them from happening,” he added.
During his address, Kagame also said it is important that Africa decides its own future, that it is powerful enough to determine its own fate, and is able to resist outside influence.
However, a lack of leadership and governance across the continent is one of the main reasons for coups in Africa, he said, adding: “We need to look at the root cause.”
Referring to external influence in Africa from the US, China, Europe and Russia, he said: “This is a responsibility we carry; this is something that is urgent, to make sure we are not there to take a certain line or another because it has been decided so by someone else.
“Africa must be that powerful to make sure we do what has determined by ourselves to be important to us and our people.”
Kagame, who has been president of Rwanda since 2000 and is reportedly seeking reelection for a fourth presidential term in the July elections, added: “Elections are for the people to decide who is the most qualified, voting counts, and history counts.”
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