DPM Richard Marles announces the 103rd Victoria Cross has been awarded to Private Richard Norton for efforts at Fire Support Base Coral in 1968. The medal was handed over at a ceremony this morning on the day of AUKMIN talks in London.
The expert responses in this ABC story are absolutely scathing of the Coalition's nuclear suggestion. Not one kind word.
The U.S. State Dept. would disagree about your claim of them being “well cared for”:
“We have seen the video, and reports of sexual abuse of detainees are horrific,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said.
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“All hell to pay” for Middle-Eastern hostage takers says Trump. Funnily he doesn’t delineate between those taken by Hamas or those in Israeli jails, but I can’t imagine Israel perceives this as a threat.
France backflips on its commitment to arrest Netanyahu under the ICC warrant.
You can’t help but wonder what Israel is leveraging against Macron. First he announced he’d stop exporting weapons to Israel before reversing course. Now this.
BREAKING: Israel’s cabinet has approved a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah. Deal was brokered by the US and France. President Biden to speak in an hour.
Quite remarkable, the EU’s Foreign Affairs chief Josep Borrell says all European Union member states must honour the ICJ arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant.
France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Ireland have all publicly committed to doing so.
If it’s not too late for Democrat post-mortems:
“This kind of liberalism is ultimately no more than the negative freedom of individuals to define themselves, allowing the right to co-opt it by deploying its own ‘positive’ mythologies: from xenophobia to misogyny.” newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Two teenage Aussies left for Ukraine in February to fight in the foreign legion. Ridiculed over their age by their fellow recruits they’ve now been hailed as heroes by Ukraine’s Ambassador to Australia following their efforts in Zaporizhzhia’s trenches. youtu.be/9o-P76m9g_U?...
