Isaac Scicluna

A long time ago, I used to support Israel, but it has, over time, been turning increasingly extremist. Now it is just another oppressive MENA shithole with no rule of law... Israel deserves to be treated like Russia, or the Apartheid-era South Africa...

Граждане России! Кто ещё не покинул Крым, самое время это сделать. В ближайшие недели обстановка в Крыму будет ухудшаться с впечатляющей скоростью. У нас, к счастью, очень талантливый тамада, поэтому конкурсы будут становиться всё интереснее.

This (not the first such meeting) should raise alarm bells in the EU. Israeli leadership’s interests are diametrically opposed to EU’s interest in stability not just in the Middle East but in its own Balkans backyard.

La paix avec l'Iran 🇮🇷 est une sortie honorable pour les États-Unis 🇺🇸 dans une guerre qu'ils n'ont pas gagné. Trump a réussi l'exploit de monter une opération qui n'avait ni buts ni contours et surtout, aucun plan B. L'Iran a gagné la guerre dans le sens où le régime est resté en place, la position sur le détroit d'Ormuz s'est renforcée et la capacité défensive iranienne a été démontrée. Pour Téhéran, la victoire n'est pas non plus aussi belle que celle à laquelle on voudrait croire. Le programme de missiles, le programme nucléaire, l'industrie militaire, l'aviation, la marine et les gardiens de la révolution ont été lourdement affaiblis. L'Iran peut toujours compter sur ses lanceurs de missiles et drones enterrés, mais il n'est pas certain qu'il puisse produire de nouveaux vecteurs. Toute la région a massivement subi cette guerre, en particulier les États du Golfe qui sont les grands perdants de ce caprice israélo-américain. L'Arabie saoudite, puissance régionale, a vu son statut remis en question. Oman, État neutre, s'est vu attaqué. Les Émirats, le Qatar, le Koweït et le Bahreïn ont eux subi un déchaînement de frappes, contre les bases américaines et leurs infrastructures d'hydrocarbures. Si on observe bien, le conflit n'a pas montré une faiblesse militaire israélienne ou américaine. Il a au contraire montré une incroyable planification, des opérations aériennes d'une précision millimétrée et une supériorité aérienne presque jamais mise en danger. Seul point négatif sur le plan militaire ? La défense des bases militaires et de la région, avec un manque de prise en compte de la menace des drones et le manque de dispersion/camouflage des radars, systèmes de défense aérienne et avions. Côté iranien, les frappes de riposte ont montré leur efficacité, notamment pour frapper toute la région. Mais elles n'ont pas, à elles seules, pu faire flancher la position américaine. Ce qui manquait aux États-Unis, c'était avant tout la planification et la désignation d'objectifs par les politiques. Cette guerre était en elle-même une folie, poussée par Israël qui mène sans relâche une guerre régionale offensive, particulièrement au Liban. Si l'accord de cessez-le-feu reste contesté, c'est à cause de la continuation de la guerre d'Israël au Liban, pour laquelle le Hezbollah et Israël sont responsables. Tant que l'impunité d'Israël et le soutien américain se poursuit, l'état hébreu gardera les cartes en mains pour poursuivre ses guerres et l'instabilité régionale persistera. Pour Washington, les conséquences de cette erreur stratégique se poursuivront encore longtemps.

My latest interview for @CNN about the mid-range strikes an the Russian 🇷🇺 logistical situation : cnn.com/2026/06/20/eur…

Le ministre de la sécurité israélien.

They raped a man. They gang-raped him. They raped him so brutally that he had to be hospitalized. Doctors documented the injuries. The video of the assault was leaked. Now the rapists are free. This is not just unlawful and immoral. It is sick! #ThisIsIsrael

And for those suffering from very selective amnesia, let me remind you once again that Russia has been carrying out regular and systematic mass missile and drone strikes against Ukraine — including power plants and heating infrastructure, hospitals, schools, apartment buildings, supermarkets, as well as historical landmarks and national heritage sites — since 4 a.m. on February 24, the very first day of its full-scale invasion. At that point Ukraine could not even dream of striking any targets inside Russia, let alone Moscow, and remained practically powerless to do so for many months, if not years, of the war. So you can go to hell with your “now Russia will strike back.”

Moskau heute und morgen. Offenbar ist das der Preis, den Putin bereit ist, für irgendein kleines, zerstörtes ukrainisches Dorf zu zahlen. Der Mann ist ein strategisches Genie …

It is raining oil, pitch and dust on Moscow in Russia A monument of Russia‘s failure of not only being a failed aggressor but also failed state. Instead of making the people and the state rich, it only made few rich while literally now pissing oil on the rest.

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Palestinians say Israeli settlers tried to burn them alive in a nighttime attack on a mosque east of Ramallah. Settlers rampaged through two villages, setting fire to cars, farm land and places of worship.

While the EU Commission still wavers over whether to curb imports from Israel’s illegal settlements…

Israel behaves just like (and often worse than) apartheid-era South Africa. Until it drastically changes its behavior, Israel should be treated the same way apartheid-era South Africa was treated.

A surveillance camera caught a brutal assault by an Israeli soldier and settlers on two young Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Video shows the victims being thrown to the ground and repeatedly beaten, including with a wooden plank, leaving them motionless.

Genocid nad Palestinci ni ustavljen in ljudje v Gazi in na Zahodnem bregu ne živijo v miru in dostojanstvu. Danes izobešena zastava Palestine na pročelju Predsedniške palače, ki bo tu ostala en teden, potem pa bo, kot opomin vsem, ki obiščejo moj urad, stala v notranjih prostorih, pa pomeni še mnogo več. Je simbol grobih kršitev mednarodnega humanitarnega prava in človekovih pravic ne samo v Palestini, pač pa tudi drugod po svetu. Je preprost klic k spoštovanju temeljnega civilizacijskega načela: človekovega dostojanstva - za vse.

Zelenskyy: let’s meet and end the war. Putin: no reason to meet.

No, you’re not sending “more money to Ukraine,” and you never have. You used to send American money to American arms manufacturers so that American workers and engineers could have more contracts, jobs, salaries, and tax revenue while producing American weapons in America for Ukraine or replacing old equipment from U.S. stockpiles. That allowed the Ukrainian military to keep saving their country, while your top-tier geopolitical enemy, a KGB dictatorship obsessed with hatred toward you, could be defeated in its war of aggression in Europe and critically weakened for decades to come -- without a single American soldier firing a single shot. But then you decided to start pretending that night is day.

Israel was meant to fully withdraw its troops from Gaza under the ceasefire signed in October. Instead of pulling back, Israeli forces are expanding and entrenching heavily fortified positions across the enclave. 🔗: aje.news/5chyt8

Daily Ukraine map thread for Sunday 31st May 2026 Five months into 2026, and it's going better for Ukraine than anyone could possibly have hoped. With Russian forces pushed mostly out of the Kupiansk area, and Ukrainian reinforcements being brought in on the Hulyaipole / Dnipropetrovsk front to push back, things have very much stabilised across the front. Few areas of contention - Russian forces do appear to be grinding through Kostyantynivka, but that's all it is - grinding through superior numbers and deaths. Russian forces have lost positions in the Dnipropetrovsk / W Donetsk area, as well as west Zaporizhia, and near Lyman. There's a few other areas that Ukraine has taken territory back too and secured positions, such as in the Luhansk direction north of Lyman, or near Zelenyi Hai in west Donetsk, but they're being good on OpSec so it's only if you are looking at the areas you'll see what's happened or who is involved. The deep strike campaign has a massive impact on Russia - once again, you only see the big explosions from the oil going up, you do not really see the impact that destroying AVT units at refineries has to the processing or bottom line. Russia are hiding this well, but the damage doesn't lie. Feodosia was struck again, as well as Saratov refinery, oil tanks in Matveev Kurgan, and also two huge tanks at the pumping station at Lazarevo causing shocks across the area. The past three months of the deep and newer mid strike campaign have been fantastic - especially during May where the strike campaign well into the occupied territories really started to pay off. The short answer is that's it's not big or flashy destroying trucks and impacting logistics, but it certainly has a massive impact. Things you can expect from Russia as this continues: - large pushes in directions whilst they still have plenty of supply - disguising trucks as civilian trucks - rushing new interceptor drones to the supply routes - a massive clamp down on footage from Russian drivers in the occupied territories in order so we can't see the losses as clearly as currently we get a lot from Russian social media - attempts to protect routes with netting - threatening Kyiv with the joke Oreshnik, as is standard. You can always tell the bot accounts, for they thrive on it. Let's hope June is just as successful. We calculate if even just 20 more trucks are destroyed a day, so 600 a month, it'll have a marked impact as long as the strike campaign keeps up with it's strikes on trains and other logistic points. It's a marathon, not a sprint here - though Ukraine certainly picked up the pace this month!