Christine Binzel

A water desalination plant is presumptively a civilian object & it is an object indispensable to survival.

Targeting a civilian object is a war crime.

Targeting an object indispensable to survival can implicate the starvation war crime.

NB: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

Trump threatens ‘very hard’ expanded strikes; Iran vows never to surrender The US-Israeli war against Iran has entered its second week with no signs of slowing down.

War crime, over war crime, over war crime.

Iran says US attacks desalination plant on Qeshm Island, disrupting water supply for 30 villages.

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

“The Unwillingness to Call This Illegal Is a Terrible Mistake”

Five Questions to Oona A. Hathaway

Read it in English here:

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And in German here:

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“This coalition of forces allows us to do what I have yearned to do for 40 years,” Netanyahu said as the war began, thanking “the United States, my friend, US President Donald Trump, and the US military.”

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Iran-Krieg: Wie gefährdet ist Deutschland wegen der US-Airbase Ramstein? Ohne die Airbase Ramstein wäre der US-Krieg gegen den Iran kaum vorstellbar. Wird der deutsche Stützpunkt nun zum Ziel für Vergeltung? Was sagt das Völkerrecht?

What responsibility under international law does Germany bear when such a war is coordinated through a base on German soil?
There are moral, political, but also legal arguments for why Spain refused to allow the US to use its bases for attacks against Iran.

www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gese...

Since Israel wants a failed state, it doesn't really matter if there's an uprising or not. From Israel's perspective no uprising is actually better, that way they can take another leaf our of the Gaza handbook and use the lack of uprising as argument that Iranian society needs destroying.

The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

Amos Goldberg, Professor of Genocide Studies at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem "Yes, it is genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. Jewish history will henceforth be stained"

Is there anyone more qualified and unbiased?

More than 400 desalination plants are in the Gulf. More attacks on such plants would be devastating--one of the many worries running through my mind over the last few days as this war widens. 90% of Kuwait's drinking water, for ex, comes from desalination. Low's piece below is a good refresher.

Photos of all the school children killed by a US strike in Minab, Ireland

The United States killed all these children last Saturday.

170 of them.

Every. Single. One.

Over 1000 civilians dead, and we're letting Trump use UK bases to further his war.

Britain should stand firm against Trump's illegal warmongering, and stop these bombers landing on UK soil.

YouTube video by Owen Jones Expert: Iran War Just Killed the “Rules-Based Order”

I sat down with @owenjones.bsky.social to explain the Int’l law on the use of force applicable to the Iran War.

We discussed how the media fails to report not just the facts but the law and what can we do with an int’l law that seems unable to constrain rogue action

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Zumindest ein Medium hat es hinbekommen, das US-israelische Kriegsverbrechen an 150 unschuldigen Kindern auf die Titelseite zu setzen.

For years, Israel used the “Dahiya doctrine” in Gaza. Now it’s using the “Gaza doctrine” in Dahiya — and Tehran.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog, who is still welcome in Germany, on Oct 12, 2023: “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible.”

mondoweiss.net/2026/03/isra...

Der Düsseldorfer OB, Stephan Keller, ruft zusammen mit der Jüdischen Gemeinde Düsseldorf, dem Antisemitismusbeauftragten u. A. unsere Rektorin Rücktritt auf. Ihr wird vorgeworfen, aktiv eine Diskursverschiebung zugunsten der (vermeintlich Hamas freundlichen) Position Basma Al-Sharifs zu betreiben.

It is wild that European countries want to join a war that was started illegally by and for a man who is wanted for war crimes and genocide by their *own* institutions.

Iran school and nearby military base struck multiple times, satellite image reveals Iranian authorities say the attack, which took place on Saturday, killed 168 people.

Again the cost of the war the US & Israel are wagging isn’t autocracy or oppression, but the lives of children.

Satellite imagery analysis reveals multiple strikes & burn marks around a primary school in Iran, suggesting it was hit more than once: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Now available for all to read, open access and free, at JiC.

To understand Genocide in Gaza and elsewhere, we need to talk about it as a process not an event: justiceinconflict.org/2025/08/02/t...

The US Navy literally just torpedoed and sunk an Iranian frigate in the Indian Ocean, off the *coast of Sri Lanka,* killing 80+

Der Zentralrat der Juden beschränkt sich nicht darauf, die Interessen seiner Mitglieder zu vertreten, sondern agiert zunehmend wie die zweite Botschaft von Israel. Dabei äußert er sich regelmäßig zu Themen, die nicht zu seinem Auftrag als öffentliche Körperschaft gehören. Beispiele aus einem Jahr.

It is kind of ironic that Iran, a religious regime, has been more rational and predictable in its foreign policy than the US, which claims to be a secular state but is clearly run by unhinged religious lunatics.

Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base

So the NYT can investigate if it wants.

#Gaza #Genocide

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

Iran fires missiles at Gulf nations, as US and Israel continue bombing US and Israel bombard Iran as Israeli forces hammer Lebanon and the widening conflict causes energy prices to spike.

The Iranian Red Crescent Society says it has recorded 1,332 attacks by US and Israeli forces in Iran since Saturday, including at least 105 civilian sites.

These include 14 medical facilities and seven Red Crescent buildings, at least 174 cities have been hit.

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Only yesterday, the Israeli military called for the evacuation of the entire area south of the Litani River, approximately 8% of Lebanon’s territory and home to hundreds of thousands of people.

Today, they issued displacement orders for all residents of the southern suburbs of Beirut.

Fördergeld-Affäre: Israels Botschaft war offenbar in die Vergabe involviert Wie wurden die Fördermittel für Projekte gegen Antisemitismus in Berlin vergeben? Chats legen eine Einmischung nahe.

Apropos versuchte wie erfolgte staatliche Einflussnahme:

Die gibt es faktual betrachtet nicht nur durch inländische Akteure - Berlinale, Buchhandlungen sowie eine Barrage an Förder- und Veranstaltungsabsagen.

Sondern wie hier zu sehen ebenfalls durch ausländische Akteure:

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WHO says it has verified 13 attacks on health sites in Iran The World Health Organization chief said on Thursday that it ‌has verified 13 attacks on health infrastructure in Iran amid a U.S.-Israeli campaign and it was checking reports that four healthcare workers were killed and 25 ​others injured.

WHO says it has verified 13 attacks on health sites in Iran reut.rs/4rP5zlx

Wut.

Gaza, Lebanon, Iran,..