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"We still have the rage. We sent the package to Germany's finance minister as part of the second act of Nemesis Plan," Conspiracy of Fire Cells said in a statement posted on a radical anti-establishment website. "Nothing is over, everything continues."
The parcel was mailed from an Athens post office to German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble. He took a hardline stance during Greece's financial crisis, insisting on the implementation of austerity measures.
The parcel was intercepted by the finance ministry's mail department. It did not explode, but police confirmed it contained explosives.
"[I]nhuman acts...committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial groups or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime."While neither Jews [n]or Palestinians are racial groups, the report stated, the apartheid standard was met because ESCWA found a "racial character" to the policies of the Israeli government enacted toward both Jews and Palestinians. This is expressed inside of Israel through separate categories for a citizen's "nationality" (Jewish or Arab) and in the occupied territories by the absence of citizenship for Palestinians.
The report is a "detailed analysis of Israeli legislation, policies and practices" that highlights how Israel "operates an apartheid regime", including through "demographic engineering".As well as urging governments to back BDS, the report recommends that the UN and its member states should "revive the Special Committee against Apartheid, and the United Nations Centre Against Apartheid (1976-1991)", which would then "report authoritatively on Israeli practices and policies relating to the crime of apartheid".
- Palestinian citizens of Israel are described as "subjected to oppression on the basis of not being Jewish", it said.
- Palestinians in East Jerusalem similarly experience "discrimination in access to education, healthcare, employment, residency and building rights", as well as "expulsions and home demolitions".
- Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are governed by "military law" alongside Jewish settlers "governed by Israeli civil law", the report said.
- Palestinian refugees and exiles are "prohibited from returning to their homes in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory" on the basis that they "constitute a 'demographic threat' and that their return would alter the demographic character of Israel".
The report could contribute to an already deteriorating relationship between the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the United Nations.
Israel's UN envoy Danny Danon issued a statement condemning the report late on Wednesday. "The attempt to smear and falsely label the only true democracy in the Middle East by creating a false analogy is despicable and constitutes a blatant lie," he said.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric, when asked about the report, said it was published without any prior consultations with the UN Secretariat and its views do not reflect those of the secretary-general.
"We are going to fix our inner cities and rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals.... And we will put millions of our people to work as we rebuild it."Donald Trump's $1 trillion infrastructure plan is not an infrastructure plan and it won't put $1 trillion of fiscal stimulus into the economy. It's basically a scheme for handing over public assets to private corporations that will extract maximum profits via user fees and tolls. Because the plan is essentially a boondoggle, it will not lift the economy out of the doldrums, increase activity or boost growth. Quite the contrary. When the details of how the program is going to be implemented are announced, public confidence in the Trump administration is going to wither and stock prices are going to plunge. This scenario cannot be avoided because the penny-pinching conservatives in the House and Senate have already said that they won't support any plan that is not "revenue neutral" which means that any real $1 trillion spending package is a dead letter. Thus, it's only a matter of time before the Trump's plan is exposed as a fraud and the sh** hits the fan.
— President Donald Trump
The coalition's "plans to storm Yemen's biggest port of Hudaydah give rise to serious concerns," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement published on the ministry's official website.
She added that battles in this area "would not only inevitably lead to a mass exodus of the [local] population but would also de facto cut the [Yemeni] capital of Sanaa from... food and humanitarian aid supplies."
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