Roger Bertozzi
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@BertozziRoger
Studied philosophy. Career in European public affairs and multilateral organisations and negotiations. Arts, literature, science, technology and geopolitics.
The pro-Israel lobby AIPAC and affiliated groups have spent ~$30 million backing Senate candidate Haley Stevens — their largest investment ever in a single race — as they seek to defeat progressive favorite Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan's Aug. 4 primary. trib.al/c7MU79B
🚨 An urgent message to the States Parties of the Rome Statute ahead of the vote on 24 July from the Prosecutor’s legal team. We act for Karim A. A. Khan KC, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. On Friday, at a Special Session of the Assembly of States Parties, your delegations will vote in person and by secret ballot on whether the Prosecutor should be removed from office under Article 46 of the Rome Statute, in respect of allegations he has consistently denied. Before that vote is cast, you are entitled to know how this process has been conducted. The President of the Assembly has closed every formal channel through which Mr Khan’s legal team might make representations to you and has written to all States Parties suggesting that you should not meet with us. Mr Khan KC and his legal representatives were refused accreditation to attend the session on 24 July. The right under the rules to address you on the substantive decision of misconduct has been flatly denied to us. Consider what that means. You are the decision-makers. You alone will determine whether the Prosecutor is removed. Yet the man whose removal you are considering has been told that his representatives may not address you, may not answer before you the case put against him, and may not correct errors, of which there are many, in the material placed in front of you. We know of no court or tribunal in any proper and fair legal system that bars a person facing the gravest professional sanction from being heard. So we write openly, though restricted by confidentiality obligations, because no other route has been left to us. These are the facts. 🧵👇
Nearly half of Israel’s government joins march vowing Gaza settlements Thousands of right-wing activists walked through a closed military zone to the Gaza fence, singing genocidal anthems as soldiers handed out bottled water. @OrenZiv_ reports. @mekomit 972mag.com/gaza-settlemen…
After the horrors of the October 7th attack, no one in the Biden Administration questioned Israel’s right to retaliate. Nor did anyone question the imperative for U.S. military backing. But the White House disagreed with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about how best to crush Hamas. President Biden and some of his top advisers worried privately that the scale of Israel’s retaliation could put U.S. forces at risk, complicate negotiations to release the hostages, and undermine the region’s long-term stability. But they publicly backed Netanyahu. “We repeatedly raised and discussed options for withholding weapons,” Jake Sullivan, Biden’s former national-security adviser, told David D. Kirkpatrick. But the President “always deferred on that decision, because we kept thinking that we were close to getting a deal” for a hostage release and a ceasefire. Sullivan said, “When you look back at it in the cold light of day, the trap in that kind of thinking is easier to recognize.” He added, “I will say straightforwardly—we should have put more pressure on Israel to take a different approach.” Several senior U.S. officials told Kirkpatrick that virtually everyone involved in Gaza policy thought that Israel was killing more Palestinians than was necessary to achieve any legitimate objective. Nevertheless, the Administration gradually came to believe that it could not persuade Israel to alter its approach in Gaza. Kirkpatrick reports on how Biden enabled Israel’s aggression toward Gaza—and Iran: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/LnrmrB
