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No, Zelensky did not publicly accuse India the way he just did Israel. Ukraine has issued broad diplomatic warnings to many countries (including via its embassy in New Delhi) about Russian exports that may include grain stolen from occupied Ukrainian territories. India imports large volumes of Russian grain overall, but unlike the specific Israel case or recent Bangladesh sanctions push, there's no record of Zelensky naming India directly in public statements on this. The "same accusations last summer" appear overstated.
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@ZelenskyyUa Removed the Ukrainian flag from my profile. Until Ukraine gets better leaders, it does not deserve the place in leading the world.
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In any normal country, purchasing stolen goods is an act that entails legal liability. This applies, in particular, to grain stolen by Russia. Another vessel carrying such grain has arrived at a port in Israel and is preparing to unload. This is not โ and cannot be โ legitimate business. The Israeli authorities cannot be unaware of which ships are arriving at the countryโs ports and what cargo they are carrying.
Russia is systematically seizing grain on temporarily occupied Ukrainian land and organizing its export through individuals linked to the occupiers. Such schemes violate the laws of the State of Israel itself. Ukraine has taken all necessary steps through diplomatic channels to prevent such incidents. However, we see that yet another such vessel has not been stopped. I have instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine to inform all partners of our state about the situation.
Based on information from our intelligence services, Ukraine is preparing a relevant sanctions package that will cover both those directly transporting this grain and the individuals and legal entities attempting to profit from this criminal scheme. We will also coordinate with European partners to ensure that the relevant individuals are included in European sanctions regimes.
Ukraine counts on partnership and mutual respect with every state. We are genuinely working to enhance security, particularly in the Middle East region. We expect that the Israeli authorities will respect Ukraine and refrain from actions that undermine our bilateral relations.
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@DanBurmawy How many Christians actually left in Lebanon?
How many of them below age 40?
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Bullshit. The majority of Christians in Lebanon, a very small minority of Muslims in Lebanon, and Israel are on one side. But on the other side, itโs not only Hezbollah, itโs Hezbollah, a minority of Christians, and the absolute majority of Muslims, both Sunnis and Shia.
Israel Foreign Ministry@IsraelMFA
A message lighting up Times Square: Neighboring nations deserve better than what stands between them. ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ง
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Nope, they were not.
He singled out a single country (out of 70+).
For all the critic Trump administration got after the famous Zelensky "talk to the hand" moment in a white house, in retrospect, Zelensky was treated exactly as he deserves.
Smart politician would use private and formal channels to communicate political needs - not unfairly throw one of the strongest potential allies under the international political "bus"
Jorge Ramos@JorgeRa31675206
@ChiefHasbara @EVKontorovich @DanLinnaeus Dude India was hit by these same accusations last summer
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@JorgeRa31675206 @EVKontorovich @DanLinnaeus @grok is this true? Was India accused by Zelensky publicly for importing grain from Russia?
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Zelensky's beef is wrong as a matter of international law. In cases of territorial disputes, or even clear belligerent occupation, there is no requirement on third countries to boycott goods from the occupied territory. Thus the EU imports tomatoes from Western Sahara & cheese from Northern Cyprus. Many countries have imported phosphates from W.Sahara. Israel certainly has no duty to make inquiries into the political status of goods imported in its ports.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy / ะะพะปะพะดะธะผะธั ะะตะปะตะฝััะบะธะน@ZelenskyyUa
In any normal country, purchasing stolen goods is an act that entails legal liability. This applies, in particular, to grain stolen by Russia. Another vessel carrying such grain has arrived at a port in Israel and is preparing to unload. This is not โ and cannot be โ legitimate business. The Israeli authorities cannot be unaware of which ships are arriving at the countryโs ports and what cargo they are carrying. Russia is systematically seizing grain on temporarily occupied Ukrainian land and organizing its export through individuals linked to the occupiers. Such schemes violate the laws of the State of Israel itself. Ukraine has taken all necessary steps through diplomatic channels to prevent such incidents. However, we see that yet another such vessel has not been stopped. I have instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine to inform all partners of our state about the situation. Based on information from our intelligence services, Ukraine is preparing a relevant sanctions package that will cover both those directly transporting this grain and the individuals and legal entities attempting to profit from this criminal scheme. We will also coordinate with European partners to ensure that the relevant individuals are included in European sanctions regimes. Ukraine counts on partnership and mutual respect with every state. We are genuinely working to enhance security, particularly in the Middle East region. We expect that the Israeli authorities will respect Ukraine and refrain from actions that undermine our bilateral relations.
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@EVKontorovich @DanLinnaeus "Singled out"
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@EVKontorovich @DanLinnaeus Why is Israel signed out from 70+ countries? Why does Zelensky not mention India, for example.
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@gothburz People working in press today are truly some of the worst people in our society.
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I am a senior coordinating producer for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. I have worked eleven of these. I was backstage at the Washington Hilton when the shots were fired.
The first thing I heard was not the gunfire. It was glass.
A champagne flute hit the floor of the International Ballroom at approximately 9:47 PM. Then a second. Then the sound that I have since been told was a 12-gauge shotgun, which from inside the ballroom sounded like a heavy door slamming in a parking garage. Then the Secret Service moved. They moved the President, the Vice President, the First Lady through the east corridor in under ninety seconds, which is protocol, which is practiced, which is the one part of the evening that worked exactly as it was designed.
Everything else was improvised.
I know this because I ordered the wine. 94 tables. Two bottles per table. 188 bottles of a Willamette Valley pinot noir that the Association selected in February after a tasting committee spent three meetings debating between Oregon and Burgundy. Oregon won. The budget was $14,200. I signed the invoice. I can tell you the vintage. I can tell you the distributor. I can tell you the per-bottle cost because I negotiated it down from $89 to $76.
What I cannot tell you is how 147 of those bottles left the building during an active shooter evacuation.
I can tell you what I saw. A correspondent from a network I will not name picked up two bottles on her way to the east exit. Full bottles. One in each hand. She was wearing heels and she did not spill. A man in a tuxedo tucked one inside his jacket the way you'd shoplift a paperback at an airport bookstore. A woman picked up a bottle, looked at the label, put it back, and took a different one.
She checked the vintage. During an evacuation. That's editorial judgment under pressure.
The theme of the dinner was "A Free Press for a Free People." The banners were still hanging when the evacuation began. I know because I hung them. Twenty-three banners, navy blue, gold serif lettering, $11,400 for the set. They were still hanging when 2,600 guests were directed to the exits by Secret Service agents, one of whom had just taken a shotgun round in his ballistic vest and walked to the ambulance on his own feet.
The agent's vest costs approximately $800. The wine that left the building was worth $11,172 at Association cost. At restaurant markup, roughly $29,000. The guests saved more in wine than the vest that saved the agent.
That's priority.
The video went viral by 10:15 PM. Not the video of the evacuation. Not the Secret Service response. The wine. Three guests in formalwear grabbing bottles off white tablecloths while being told to move toward the exits, while a man with a shotgun stood in the same motor entrance where John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan 45 years ago.
A woman near the service entrance was crying. She said "I just wanna go home." She was not holding wine. She was holding her phone. She was the only person I saw that night who looked afraid rather than inconvenienced.
That's the distinction. The rest of the ballroom did not look afraid. They looked interrupted. An active shooter at the WHCD is a logistical problem. The dinner was disrupted. The timeline was off. The after-party at the French Ambassador's residence would need to be rescheduled. These are contingency matters. Contingency matters have solutions. Fear is for people who attend events without security details.
I have produced eleven of these dinners. I have managed seating charts that require diplomatic-grade negotiations. I have handled comedians, cabinet secretaries, network anchors, and the editor of a major newspaper who once threatened to leave because his table was behind a column.
I have never, in eleven years, seen a guest leave a $76 bottle on the table during an evacuation. I have also never seen a guest check the label first. Both observations are consistent. The bottle is worth taking. The evacuation is worth surviving. The instinct is to do both simultaneously.
188 bottles placed. 41 recovered. 147 unaccounted for. One agent shot. Zero guests injured. Zero bottles broken.
A free press for a free people. The press is free. The wine was $76 a bottle. They took it anyway.
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Over 90 countries, including Turkey, Iran, Syria, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, and Vietnam have purchased stolen Ukrainian grain sold by Russia. Russia sells it to countries worldwide. But Zelenskyy has only called out Israel in a post like this.
Some of those countries are consistent purchasers of such grain, in fact. Israel has bought it only a couple of times, it seems. Thatโs the part that piques my interest here.
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Ukraine has voted against Israel in almost every UN resolution, even after October 7th, when youโd think they might understand Israel a bit more. So no, Ukraine and Israel are not allies.
Israel is under pressure from half the world and has been at war for three years, so yes, they can and should get supplies from wherever they can.
But hereโs what stands out. Over a dozen countries are buying from Russia, including Egypt and Turkey, in far higher volumes than Israel, yet the backlash is nowhere near the same. I donโt even think Zelensky has said a word about them. Makes you wonder if itโs because people are losing interest in his war, and he knows anti-Israel content gets attention.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy / ะะพะปะพะดะธะผะธั ะะตะปะตะฝััะบะธะน@ZelenskyyUa
In any normal country, purchasing stolen goods is an act that entails legal liability. This applies, in particular, to grain stolen by Russia. Another vessel carrying such grain has arrived at a port in Israel and is preparing to unload. This is not โ and cannot be โ legitimate business. The Israeli authorities cannot be unaware of which ships are arriving at the countryโs ports and what cargo they are carrying. Russia is systematically seizing grain on temporarily occupied Ukrainian land and organizing its export through individuals linked to the occupiers. Such schemes violate the laws of the State of Israel itself. Ukraine has taken all necessary steps through diplomatic channels to prevent such incidents. However, we see that yet another such vessel has not been stopped. I have instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine to inform all partners of our state about the situation. Based on information from our intelligence services, Ukraine is preparing a relevant sanctions package that will cover both those directly transporting this grain and the individuals and legal entities attempting to profit from this criminal scheme. We will also coordinate with European partners to ensure that the relevant individuals are included in European sanctions regimes. Ukraine counts on partnership and mutual respect with every state. We are genuinely working to enhance security, particularly in the Middle East region. We expect that the Israeli authorities will respect Ukraine and refrain from actions that undermine our bilateral relations.
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@ZelenskyyUa To be clear, you took your evidence from an anti-israeli Qatar-backed leftist Haaretz (that even liberal Israelis don't bother reading) and then singled out Israel from 70 countries.
If you still wonder why Israel is not fully behind Ukraine, this is why.
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Because it is not. Not in a special way that Zelensky makes it out to be.
He is selectively using Israel, that is why.
@grok what evidence exists other than Zelensky's words that Israel is buying Russian grain acquired from the Ukrainian territories? Is there more evidence against Israel than against other countries such as India, or UAE (for example)? What other countries can the same arguments be applied to?
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For 3 years said nothing about Europe buying Russian gas, Russian everything, but has the guts to blame Israel for something that probably effects hundreds of countries - from India and Turkey to Israel and UAE.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy / ะะพะปะพะดะธะผะธั ะะตะปะตะฝััะบะธะน@ZelenskyyUa
In any normal country, purchasing stolen goods is an act that entails legal liability. This applies, in particular, to grain stolen by Russia. Another vessel carrying such grain has arrived at a port in Israel and is preparing to unload. This is not โ and cannot be โ legitimate business. The Israeli authorities cannot be unaware of which ships are arriving at the countryโs ports and what cargo they are carrying. Russia is systematically seizing grain on temporarily occupied Ukrainian land and organizing its export through individuals linked to the occupiers. Such schemes violate the laws of the State of Israel itself. Ukraine has taken all necessary steps through diplomatic channels to prevent such incidents. However, we see that yet another such vessel has not been stopped. I have instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine to inform all partners of our state about the situation. Based on information from our intelligence services, Ukraine is preparing a relevant sanctions package that will cover both those directly transporting this grain and the individuals and legal entities attempting to profit from this criminal scheme. We will also coordinate with European partners to ensure that the relevant individuals are included in European sanctions regimes. Ukraine counts on partnership and mutual respect with every state. We are genuinely working to enhance security, particularly in the Middle East region. We expect that the Israeli authorities will respect Ukraine and refrain from actions that undermine our bilateral relations.
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@AdamRFisher @Nichtsistgut I live here.
What has Bibi done bad, from your point of view, that did not arise from liberals pushing him away into the hands of the right?
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For what itโs worth: I would happily defend Bibi Netanyahu ๐ฎ๐ฑ every day of the week.
Adam Fisher@AdamRFisher
I will never forgive those who force me to defend Netanyahu, but the ICC arrest warrant was born in sin and midwived by Qatar. wsj.com/opinion/karim-โฆ
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@elonmusk You should attack YCombinator.
If Sam and OpenAI are the head, YC is the legs.
Go after YC. Kill the scam network. Make all of Sam's and Greg's side deals disappear.
Do to OpenAI, what Trump is doing to Iran.
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Scam Altman and Greg Stockman stole a charity. Full stop.
Greg got tens of billions of stock for himself and Scam got dozens of OpenAI side deals with a piece of the action for himself, Y Combinator style. After this lawsuit, Scam will also be awarded tens of billions in stock directly.
The fundamental question is simply this:
Do you want to set legal precedent in the United States that it is ok to loot a charity? If so, you undermine all charitable giving in the United States forever.
I could have started OpenAI as a for-profit corporation. Instead, I started it, funded it, recruited critical talent and taught them everything I know about how to make a startup successful FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD.
Then they stole the charity.
X Freeze@XFreeze
Interesting how it works Elon puts up his own money, rounds up the absolute best AI talent on the planet, leverages every connection he has to secure serious resources, and launches OpenAI in 2015 as a pure non-profit explicitly created to develop AI for the benefit of humanity, with zero profit motive and open research Then the โteamโ decides they want the bag They push Elon out, take control, and quietly flip the entire thing into a for-profit machine All while preaching the same sanctimonious lines on repeat: โWeโre still mission-driven!โ โAI for the good of humanity!โ โWeโd never abandon our principles!โ The ultimate betrayal: Elon got zero equity. Not a single share. He funded it. He built the foundation. He got nothing while they turned his non-profit into their personal cash cow This is the level of betrayal and hypocrisy weโre dealing with And for the record.... this lawsuit doesnโt put a single penny in Elonโs pocket. Any win goes straight back to the non-profit to restore the exact mission he founded
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@Osint613 thanks, but I can hear it from my window ๐
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WATCH: Dramatic footage shows IDF fighters downing a Hezbollah bomb laden drone as wounded IDF soldiers are being evacuated from the village of Al-Tayyiba in southern Lebanon.
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@brianoflondon @streetwize Bennet just lost votes with this alliance.
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@streetwize Lapid is still an idiot and he and Bennet are the dream team who gave everything to Hezbollah for a peace that never came.
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That is why when my Jewish dad grew up in USSR he picked up boxing, and then sent all of kids (me included) to Judo. The western Jews will need to toughen up. L
Josh Howie@joshxhowie
Just been sent this very disturbing video. This isnโt terrorism, this is the normalisation of Jew hate in the UK.
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Translation: China just tried to ship NUCLEAR bomb to Iran, and most Media is still treating this war as USA bullying Iran - completely ignoring the role of China and Russia in all this.
I guess it is easier to live in ignorance.
Eduardo Menoni@eduardomenoni
๐จ El presidente Trump insinรบa que China intentรณ contrabandear bienes ilรญcitos a Irรกn, encontrados a bordo del barco Touska incautado. โAyer interceptamos un barco que llevaba algunas cosas a bordo, que no eran muy agradables. Un โREGALOโ de China, tal vez. Me sorprendiรณ un poco, porque tengo una muy buena relaciรณn y pensรฉ que tenรญa un entendimiento con el presidente Xi, pero estรก bien. Asรญ es como va la guerra, ยฟverdad?โ.
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