Dean Buhrmann

Reports from Ukraine describe military recruiters targeting fathers at playgrounds for mobilization. In one documented case, a sole-parent father was conscripted and his child placed in state childcare.

Er gebeurt momenteel veel in het Midden-Oosten, maar ondertussen gaat de oorlog in Oekraïne onverminderd door. Zijn we ons nog voldoende bewust van wat daar speelt? D66-fractievoorzitter Jan Paternotte:

BREAKING: French President Macron 🇫🇷 has refused to allow US aircraft to fly through French airspace en route to Israel. In response, and given France’s continued inaction in supporting the Lebanese government against Hezbollah, Israel has suspended defense sales to France. Once again, France seems to be choosing terrorists over the only Jewish state in its fight against terrorist regimes in the Middle East. For context, Macron wields considerable influence in Lebanon, a country once under French mandate after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Yet he has never used that influence to curb Hezbollah’s power. On the contrary, he even met with Hezbollah officials after the 2020 Beirut port explosion, apparently to secure French control over the reconstruction project and benefit French companies. Make no mistake: Macron isn’t acting to promote peace. If he delayed labeling the IRGC as a terrorist organization for years, or recognizes only Hezbollah’s armed wing as terrorist, it is for his own political and economic interests, not for security or justice.