Joe Noonan

Merz joins Trump

Germany allies itself with US

'Germany must not provide any support for actions that violate international law. Therefore should Ramstein [US air base] be involved in the current war, Germany would have to protest against it, at least. This also follows from the Basic Law, which makes international law a part of national law.'

Suleiman is just two years old.

Thanks to UNRWA, he has access to physiotherapy care in #Gaza to support his development.

Since Oct 2023, UNRWA has delivered over 172,000 physiotherapy sessions, reaching nearly 24,000 people — including more than 4,300 with war-related injuries.

#UNRWAworks

Is the government closer to Berlin than Barcelona?

Germany says people in Iran can be killed as outlaws.

Also Merz

Germany joins US.

Trump with German Chancellor Merz next to him: "My father was born -- he knows all about my father -- my father was born there. These are places you automatically feel warmly about."

Merz on Trump: "I told him Spain is a member of the European Union and as such, we will only negotiate a customs agreement with the USA jointly or not at all. And there is no way to treat Spain particularly badly here; if anything, we will all come to a common result, and that includes Spain."

Welcome. It is a litmus test moment I think.

US strikes on Iran ‘outside international law,’ says Macron Macron joins Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez in calling the legality of the strikes into question.

After four days of hesitating, the president of France has joined the prime minister of Spain in saying that the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack on Iran is a violation of international law.

But they are still the only 2 EU leaders to have done so. Will others join?

CNN: More than 1,000 civilians killed in Iran since war began, rights group reports By Helen Regan More than 1,000 people, including children, have been killed in Iran since the war began on Saturday, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). The rights group said as of Tuesday afternoon ET, at least 1,097 civilians had been killed, including 181 children. More than 5,400 civilians, including 100 children, have been injured, HRANA reported. The group said its report is preliminary and is veritying hundreds more reported deaths.

At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.

Asked why he did not publicly stand by Spain as its government was attacked by Trump, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said: "Spain is a member of the European Union, and as such we conduct negotiations on a tariff agreement with the US only together or not at all."

This report suggests Merz spoke up. bsky.app/profile/hhes...

We are solidly back to the days of "WE are the civilized, makers and beneficiaries of the rules, and THEY are the uncivilized, entitled to no protections"

That mindset never really went away, some of just pretended it did. No denying it anymore

Trump says US Navy prepared to escort oil tankers in Gulf President promises to provide insurance for vessels transiting the region as Iran conflict disrupts energy flows

Trump says US Navy prepared to escort oil tankers in Gulf ft.trib.al/bd1xUBs

Images shared by Iranian media and verified by @nytimes.com
showed around 100 graves being dug at a cemetery on Monday and heartbreaking scenes of relatives mourning children killed during U.S. and Israeli strikes on Manib on Saturday.

Here's two maps illustrating @leahmcelrath.bsky.social's point.

In the first map, red is Sunni Islam, blue is Shia Islam.

In the second, red is gas fields and black is oil fields. The largest oil field in the world - al-Ghawar field - can be see as an elongated black line west of Qatar.

Rosen is now in a tense exchange with Judge Bryan about the number of cases at issue originally, before this order to show cause. I have never heard a judge say "I can sit here and count" and "I know the number is 42"

A thread 🧵 where I will use maps to try and explain the War on Iran. Hopefully this helps.

Our first map is a true size map from truesizeof.com

It shows the United States compared to the region. Notice how #Iran is much larger than #Iraq and #Afghanistan and its central location.

1/n

Government urged to ban US military from using Shannon Airport as a stopover Shannonwatch, which tracks US military stopovers through the airport, said there were a number of such flights over the weekend

Senator Patricia Stephenson, the Social Democrats foreign affairs spokeswoman, cited Spain’s decision to ban US military operations in Spanish territory.

“The government must make it clear that we will not support such a campaign.

www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

So both Macron and Carney have made a u-turn and now called the attacks on Iran unlawful and a breach of international law and norms. Lets see how long it takes Starmer to do a u-turn if he dares or Merz for that matter.

Deal

Merz stays quiet

Irish Times: Trump threatens Spain during Merz meeting.

Genau!

Israeli settlers
with costumes
Invaded a Palestinian land
and started dancing with weapons
What the hell is wrong with them.

Trump: "Spain has been terrible. I told Scott to cut off all dealings with Spain. They said we can't use their bases. We could use their bases if we want. We could just fly in and use it. Nobody is gonna tell us not to use it."