🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇮🇱 U.S. imposes visa ban on Israeli settlers who attacked Palestinians

🔶️ It is the first time the U.S. is sanctioning extremist settlers since the Clinton administration, the officials said.

🔶️ The U.S. has "consistently opposed actions that undermine stability in the West Bank, including attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians, and Palestinian attacks against Israelis," Blinken said.

🔶️ "We have underscored to the Israeli government the need to do more to hold accountable extremist settlers who have committed violent attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank," he added.

🔶️ U.S. officials said the administration decided to impose sanctions against Israeli settlers because it concluded that the current Israeli government is not seriously attempting to stop and prevent the attacks against Palestinians.

https://www.axios.com/2023/12/05/us-israeli-settler-west-bank-visa-ban-plan

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🇺🇳🇮🇱🇵🇸❗️ — For the first time ever, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres invokes the Article 99 of the UN Charter, which means that the UN SG wants to bring attention of the Security Council an urgent matter which in his opinion threatens the maintenance of international peace and security!

🇺🇳📰 UN WEB TV on Twitter/X:

— Consequences of humanitarian collapse in Gaza could have irreversible impact on Palestinians and the whole peace & security of the region warned António Guterres, invoking Article 99 of the UN Charter for the first time in office said UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric

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🇷🇺❌🌐 — 📰 The Independent: Poland warns Nato has three years to prepare for attack by Russia

➡️ New fears of Russian escalation across Europe have emerged after a German think tank said Western countries must prepare for a direct attack from Russia.

In a statement the German Council on Foreign Relations wrote:

— “With its imperial ambitions, Russia represents the greatest and most ­urgent threat to Nato countries.

“Once intensive fighting will have ended in Ukraine, the regime in Moscow may need as little as six to ten years to reconstitute its armed forces.

“Within that timeframe, Germany and NATO must enable their armed forces to deter and, if necessary, fight against Russia. Only then will they be in a position to reduce the risk of another war breaking out in Europe.”

➡️ But, the head of Poland’s national security agency estimated that Russia could attack Nato countries within three years in an interview with Nasz Dziennik.

➡️ Jacek Siewiera suggested that an attack could come from Nato’s eastern flank which includes countries such as Poland, Estonia, Romania and Lithuania. He estimated they had three years to prepare for a confrontation.

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https://archive.is/n2Itn