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Nov 18 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
BREAKING: Biden administration suggests immunity for MBS in DAWN & Cengiz lawsuit for murder of #JamalKhashoggi:

breaking promise for accountability, Biden guarantees MBS impunity.
Remarkable act of weakness by the Biden admin to offer up a voluntary concession to MBS in face of insults and betrayals. It's also wrong as a matter of law, because King is head of state and head of government in Saudi's absolute monarchy.
Caving into MBS' immunity ploy -- when silence was an option for the administration -- not only rewards MBS for his intransigence, including continued attacks on activists in the US -- but signals GO to tyrants around the world. Have oil & $? You're safe whatever your crimes.

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Apr 27
On #Israel #Palestine- important updates:
1) 6 months on, @StateDept is still "reviewing" non-existent "evidence" Israel provided re designation of 6 Palestinian civil society orgs as "terrorist" - but US has not agreed to so designate
state.gov/briefings/depa…
2) Israel is now implementing new regulations requiring foreigners to get *military* approval to travel to the West Bank -- this is the Gazaification of the West Bank, designed to cut Palestinians off from the world, banning Palestinians from leaving and foreigners from coming in
And apropos of this: "Six months since Israel's politicized designation of leading civil society groups as 'terrorist', Israel has not offered a shred of evidence to support its deliberate slander of these groups, and not one goverment in the world has supported Israel's findings
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Mar 1
Lightning fast decision of the ICC to open an investigation into Ukraine. Cites earlier grants of authority circa 2014 by Ukraine government
Prosecutor must seek approval from the Pre trial chamber to proceed but seems to urgent ICC State Parties to do so as a faster route.
It took *years* to get the ICC prosecutor to first agree to examine and then years more to agree to investigate the war crimes in Palestine - including Israeli settlements. The investigation is still…….. ongoing….. as baton was passed to new prosecutor.
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Jan 7
U.S.: Sanction #Egypt Officials Implicated in Spying on U.S.-based Critics of Egyptian Government dawnmena.org/u-s-sanction-e…
"In the wake of the #Saudi murder of Jamal Khashoggi and other attacks on U.S. based critics of Middle Eastern governments, we need to recognize that #Egypt's targeted spying on critics here in the U.S. puts them in grave danger of violence and harm
"That #Egypt has breached our government's trust is the least of it; this is a direct effort to threaten, harass, and intimidate the people of our country, including thousands of Egyptians who have sought asylum from persecution by al-Sisi."
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Jan 6
“The @PGA stars who assemble in #Saudi Arabia —currently includes ⁦@PhilMickelson⁩ ⁦@DJohnsonPGA⁩ , ⁦@b_dechambeau⁩ & ⁦@TheSergioGarcia⁩ García — are doing so for the paychecks. There’s no disguising the fact that it’s blood money. washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/01…
“The notion that the PIF is some independent financial authority that isn’t used to carry out murders & assassinations at the beck & call of MBS is just patently untrue.He does &has been using the PIF as a fig leaf between his face on things and Saudi Arabia’s face on things.”
“What they’re doing is taking millions of dollars from a regime that has kept alive an inexplicable civil war in #Yemen for nearly seven years with as Whitson said, “no military strategy or military gains, achieving only the starvation and destruction of a neighboring country.”
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Sep 13, 2021
We expect @POTUS administration to lift $300m block on #Egypt military aid tomorrow despite Egypt’s total failure to meet any of Congress” “human rights conditions”.

That’s all ya need to know that our fight isn’t just against the government of Egypt but its enablers in the US.
All those folks in @biden admin who’ve whispered in our ears telling us the waiver is imminent - and struggled alongside us against Egypt’s abuses when they were outside the government - are they just whispering in Sisi’s ears now too?
The real farce of all this is orchestrated show to give @SecBlinken excuses for a waiver: thanking Sisi for his “essential” mediation w Hamas (bullshit), Sisi releasing a few detainees (of 50,000), Egypt releasing a “national human rights strategy (double bullshit).

Why bother?
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Sep 10, 2021
.@DAWNmenaorg to U.S.: Declassified Materials Should Include All Information Concerning #Saudi Government's Possible Role in 9/11 Attacks dawnmena.org/u-s-declassifi…
“Without guarantees that these declassified documents will not shield Saudi Arabia and Saudi officials from information about their role in the attacks, U.S. officials will again fail to provide the truth to those most directly affected by this event.”
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