Palestinians claim the IDF is "blocking their way to school".
Whatโs missing:
this is Umm al-Khair in Masafer Yatta - and below are examples of attacks linked to these villages, a result of the same "education" they complain about.
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2/ ๐ป January 17, 2016 โ Murder of Dafna Meir (Otniel)
A 15-year-old terrorist from Yatta stabbed Dafna Meir to death at her doorstep, in front of her children.
๐ timesofisrael.com/dafna-meir-fouโฆ
3/ ๐ป June 8, 2016 โ Sarona Market Massacre (Tel Aviv) Two terrorists, cousins from Yatta, disguised in suits and ties, opened fire at a restaurant in Tel Aviv. 4 civilians murdered, 21 wounded. israelhayom.co.il/article/394775
Swedish company helps Russian elite bypass EU sanctions to vacation in Europe - French Alps among top destinations
Public broadcaster SVT can reveal how the Swedish tech company Avinode is being used by the Russian elite to circumvent sanctions. Representatives of the company have recommended that Russian client companies establish subsidiaries in third countries. Avinode declines to participate in an interview but states that measures have been taken, SVT reports.
Story by SVT's Maria Georgieva 23 April 2026 at 06:03 CET
Despite Russian private jets being banned in the EU following the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, SVTโs investigation shows that Avinode is being used by the Russian eliteโincluding oligarchs and individuals subject to sanctionsโto continue flying internationally.
Avinode connects flight operators with aircraft brokers for private jet bookings.
However, several independent sources report that Avinode staff recommended Russian customers to re-register their companies in other countries when the sanctions were introduced.
SVTโs investigation reveals that Russian aircraft brokers have opened offices in countries such as Turkey, Cyprus, and the United Arab Emirates. In this way, they can conceal Russian connections and retain access to the European market despite the sanctions.
By posing as a representative of a sanctioned Russian citizen, SVT was offered trips by Russian brokers who confirmed that they use Avinode.
โThe key issue is the extent to which the Swedish company Avinode knew that they were providing services to Russian customers, or to customers acting on behalf of Russians. If they knew this was the case, then in my view it would constitute a violation of the EU sanctions,โ says sanctions lawyer Alexandre Prezanti.
CEO refuses interview
SVT has contacted Avinodeโs CEO Oliver King and founder Per Marthinsson. The company has declined a recorded interview and has responded via email to some of SVTโs questions.
Avinode states that it has strengthened its customer due diligence since the invasion of Ukraine and has terminated cooperation with some of the companies featured in SVTโs investigation. The company admits shortcomings in its routines, but claims these were the result of actions by a single employee.
The company says it lacks sufficient documentation to terminate cooperation with some of the re-registered companies that SVT has identified.
โWe still have no knowledge of any connection between these entities and persons or organizations subject to sanctions.โ
The company further states that it does not have access to individual passengersโ personal data and is not responsible for checking it.
โThe platform enables operators and brokers to be connected, but the final agreement for each individual flight is made between the operator and the broker and does not take place on Avinodeโs platform.โ
Facts about Avinode:
Avinode is a leading digital marketplace for private jet and business jet charter bookings, and controls approximately 80 percent of the world market, according to the company itself.
Avinode was founded in 2001 in Gothenburg by three Chalmers University students. The company is headquartered in Gothenburg.
Since 2024, Avinode has been owned by the American company CAMP Systems International (part of the Hearst Group), but it remains a Swedish company in terms of origin, registration, and operations in Sweden.
The system handles approximately 8 million searches and 13 million travel requests annually.
Oliver King is CEO of the European operations and legally responsible for Avinode AB. One of the founders, Per Marthinsson, is still the revenue director.
๐งต THREAD: You've heard the phrase "OUR DEMOCRACY" a million times. But what exactly is "OUR DEMOCRACY"? ๐ค
When they say "democracy," they don't mean a republic. They don't mean consent of the governed. They don't mean your right to choose your own leaders.
They mean a system where "institutions" - NGOs, multilaterals, the permanent bureaucracy - advance a set of values they consider settled: equality, social justice, cosmopolitanism, global governance. These values aren't proposals to be voted on. They're treated as moral prerequisites that must be true *before* your vote counts.
Despite what they say, they aren't for checks and balances. Checks and balances limit what government can do to you. This limits what you can do to *them*. The brakes are on accountability, not power. The institutions that set the boundaries of acceptable policy have put themselves beyond the reach of the electorate, and they call that arrangement "democracy."
Trump has been an existential threat to this system since the moment he said "drain the swamp" ... because the swamp IS the system. When he threatened those institutions, he didn't threaten the republic. He threatened their immunity from it.
And they said so. On camera. At their own events. In their own words.
As always, patience as I pull together the thread.๐
Robert Kagan:
"I would say there is an argument for saying give me some smoke filled rooms... they weeded out the Donald Trumps of this world."
Backroom deals instead of primaries. Because primaries are how you got Trump... and the old gatekeepers would have stopped him.
Think Kagan's an outlier? Here's Brookings senior fellow William Galston at the National Endowment for Democracy's (NED) most prestigious annual lecture.
He explains that "liberal democracy" requires "some abridgement of majoritarianism."
Translation: democracy means limiting what the majority can do.
The U.S. State Department published its legal defense of the war against Iran on Tuesday.
A few observations ๐งต
1. As a matter of public diplomacy, it's notable that collective self-defense of Israel comes first, individual self-defense of the United States comes second.
2. The statement concedes that the U.S. and Israel were *not* responding to an actual or imminent armed attack by Iran on Feb. 28.
Instead, they were already in an armed conflict with Iran, and were therefore free to attack Iran, any time, at will.
โถ๏ธ US-Regierung plant Einladung Putins zu G-20-Gipfel
International ist der russische Prรคsident weitgehend isoliert.
Die neue US-Regierung versucht das zu รคndern - zunรคchst in Alaska bei einem Treffen Trumps mit Putin. n-tv.de/politik/US-Regโฆ
"Alle G20-Mitglieder werden eingeladen, an den Ministertreffen und dem Gipfel der Staats- und Regierungschefs teilzunehmen", erklรคrte ein ranghoher Vertreter der US-Regierung am Donnerstag. US-Prรคsident Donald Trump รคuรerte spรคter jedoch Zweifel an einer Teilnahme des Kreml-Chefs
Von einem Journalisten darauf angesprochen, schien Trump รผber eine mรถgliche Einladung an Putin im Unklaren.
"Ich weiร nicht, ob er kommt", sagte Trump und fรผgte hinzu: "Um ehrlich zu sein, bezweifle ich, dass er kommen wรผrde."
@AhmedabadPolice Your kind attention sir, this woman @queperill is involved in inappropriate activities to make money. People have shared her details in WhatsApp and DM pls take action