Tagesspiegel:

„Die Ukraine ist meilenweit davon entfernt, die politischen und ökonomischen Kriterien der Europäischen Union zu erfüllen“, erklärten die Bundestags­abgeordneten Andrej Hunko und Alexander Ulrich, die mit der früheren Linken-Politikerin Sahra Wagenknecht eine Partei gründen wollen.

„Ein Beitritt in diesem Jahrzehnt ist völlig unrealistisch“, sagten sie am Donnerstag.

Jeremy Corbyn:

The Israeli army has dropped 25,000 tonnes of bombs onto a tiny strip of land, populated by 2.3 million people. There is no meaningful sense whatsoever that they are trying to avoid civilian deaths. More than 9,900 people in Gaza have been killed, including more than 4,800 children.

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On November 2, seven UN Special Rapporteurs said they “remain convinced that the Palestinian people are at grave risk of genocide”. This followed the resignation of Craig Mokhiber, the Director of the UN’s office in New York, who characterised the horrors in Gaza as a “textbook case of genocide” aimed toward “the expedited destruction of the last remnants of indigenous life in Palestine”.

In his resignation letter, he referenced the “wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people…based entirely upon their status as Arabs”, as well as the continuing seizure of homes in the West Bank.

Smithsonian:

NATO troops from a battalion based in Fort Hood, Texas, train in Germany in September 1983, two months before the Able Archer 83 drill. Photo by John van Hasselt / Sygma