The Trump administration’s refusal to participate in the UN’s Universal Periodic Review is a crushing blow to human rights accountability globally. Combined with Trump’s withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council, this decision undermines US credibility and sends a signal to authoritarian governments that they, too, can ignore accountability.
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Israel was created as a sanctuary for any Jew who wishes to live in peace and security. This millennium-old dream however, cannot be realized, as time has shown, as long as the Palestinians are denied a state of their own. The Israelis need to overcome their anxieties and misguided beliefs by finding meaning and self-affirmation, which does not hinge on denying the Palestinians their own state. They should step away from the deeply rooted, misguided fear that a Palestinian state indeed poses an existential threat, because without it, Israel renders itself permanently insecure, as time has shown.
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Iran has unleashed a terrifying wave of repression because of the June 2025 conflict with Israel. Authorities have arrested over 20,000 people, and security forces have killed civilians at checkpoints. Parliament is fast-tracking laws to expand the death penalty. The world must confront Iran’s escalating brutality before it deepens into an irreversible human rights catastrophe.
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Trump, under the pretext of making America Great Again, has taken many bewildering, horrific domestic and foreign measures, stunning Americans and foreigners alike. He violated the Constitution, attacked judicial independence, and the rule of law. He polarized the American public and tore its social fabric. He intensified the crackdown on immigration, attempted to revoke birthright citizenship, manipulated free and fair elections, and curtailed domestic and foreign aid. He consistently tried to enfeeble the judiciary and pardoned hard-core criminals who attacked the Capitol. He targeted journalists and independent media and undermined academic freedom. In short, he is dismantling America’s democracy brick by brick.
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The Israelis need to come to terms with the fact that accepting what cannot be changed and embracing it with understanding and even compassion would ultimately serve their own interests. In essence, Israelis must use their collective power to create the conditions that produce mutual political, economic, and security gains, which is the only way to coexist peacefully. Israelis must ask what the alternative to peaceful coexistence is. Has anyone come up with a viable and mutually acceptable alternative whereby both can live in peace, short of a two-state solution? Click here for more: alonben-meir.com/writing/the-inescapable-reality-the-israelis-must-face/
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The Trump administration’s refusal to participate in the UN’s Universal Periodic Review is a crushing blow to human rights accountability globally. Combined with Trump’s withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council, this decision undermines US credibility and sends a signal to authoritarian governments that they, too, can ignore accountability.
#HumanRights #UnitedStates #UnitedNations #Trump
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The US must get out of the commie UN
Li’lDick’tater has NO INTEREST in ANY “accountability.” Like a two year old, he wants to do what he wants to do, whenever he wants to do it, and if YOU call him to account YOU ARE EVIL. He sees himself as singularly above … and beyond … any outside “guidance.”
The Palestinians will recover from the catastrophe they have endured, rebuild their lives, and coalesce around a renewed effort, with the mounting support of the international community, to realize their aspiration for statehood. Israel, however, has sustained a far greater catastrophe by forsaking Jewish values. It will take a generation (or more) before Israel can regain a measure of moral standing, and that is only if it ends the conflict with the Palestinians in a fair and just way based on a two-state solution. Read more here: alonben-meir.com/writing/the-inescapable-reality-the-israelis-must-face/
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The irony is that while Netanyahu spent decades trying to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, his devastating onslaught on the Palestinians has only produced precisely the opposite. It has rallied the international community to support an independent Palestinian state like never before. Israel can annex all the West Bank and Gaza, assuming that it could live with international isolation, sanctions, expulsion from various international organizations, etc., but where will the Palestinians go? For how long can seven million Israeli Jews suppress seven million Palestinians living in their midst and around them? How many Palestinians can they kill, displace, or starve to death? What choice would the Palestinians be left with other than armed struggle? Click here for more: alonben-meir.com/writing/the-inescapable-reality-the-israelis-must-face/
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