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  Lui, Benjamin Netanyahu lo conosce bene, di certo meglio di qualsiasi altro avversario del premier più longevo nella storia d’Israele. L’ultima sconfitta diretta di Netanyahu nelle elezioni data 1999. E a batterlo fu il soldato più decorato nella storia d’Israele:  Ehud Barak.  Lo fece sfidando “Bibi” sul suo stesso terreno: quello della sicurezza, ricordandogli in ogni dibattito televisivo, in ogni intervista o spot elettorale, che nell’esercito Netanyahu è stato suo subalterno, e dunque non ci provasse nemmeno a spiegare a lui come si combattono i nemici d’Israele. Ed oggi, per Barak il primo “nemico” d’Israele è colui che lo governa. Come definirebbe oggi, la situazione d’Israele? La guerra più lunga della nostra storia sembra essere finita – e, se così non fosse, tra poche settimane ci ritroveremo invischiati in una situazione ancora più complicata. Israele si trova ora a un bivio critico. Ha ottenuto grandi risultati e ha l’opportunità di aprire una finestra verso ...

  Spokesperson Maria Zakharova © Alexander Shcherbak/TASS MOSCOW, May 2. /TASS/. Disenfranchisement, legal arbitrariness and total corruption have led to the transformation of the word "justice" into an oxymoron in modern Ukraine, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. "The current regime, despite earlier promises to complete the investigation of the Odessa tragedy and punish the perpetrators, is clearly not up to justice today. However, the very word ‘justice’ has become an oxymoron in the context of legal arbitrariness, disenfranchisement and total corruption in modern Ukraine," she said, commenting on the twelfth anniversary of the tragedy in Odessa on May 2, 2014. Zakharova added that disenfranchisement, legal arbitrariness and total corruption have no effect on the financial and moral aid to Ukraine from modern Europe, where "the encouragement of Nazism and the financing of terrorism has become a tradition. As the Western masterminds of...

  The United States military says it will pull about 5,000 troops out of Germany amid   ongoing tensions   with the key European ally concerning the US war against Iran. The Pentagon announced the decision on Friday, days after German Chancellor  Friedrich Merz  said Iran was humiliating the US during the negotiations aimed at ending the war. “We expect the withdrawal to be completed over the next six to twelve months,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement. “This decision follows a thorough review of the Department’s force posture in Europe and is in recognition of theater requirements and conditions on the ground,” Parnell added. Play Video 0:51 US President  Donald Trump  has lashed out at European allies for not doing more to assist the US-Israel war on Iran, and had stated on Wednesday that he was thinking of  pulling troops  out of European countries deemed insufficiently supportive. The US outlet Politico reported earlier...

  The Cuban government has firmly rejected new sanctions levied by United States President Donald Trump, calling them “unilateral coercive measures” intended to impose “collective punishment on the Cuban people”. In a post on social media on Friday, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said that “these measures are extraterritorial in nature and violate the United Nations Charter”, while further asserting that the US “has no right whatsoever to impose measures against Cuba or against third countries or entities”. “While the US government represses its own people in the streets, it seeks to punish ours, who are heroically resisting the US imperialism’s attacks,” the foreign minister said. The Cuban minister’s remarks came hours after the White House signalled a further hardening of its policy towards the Caribbean island. Earlier on Friday, Trump issued an executive order to expand sanctions on the Cuban government, according to two White House officials who spoke to the Reuters n...

Low-cost US carrier Spirit Airlines has said that all of its flights have been cancelled as it started an “orderly wind-down of operations,” after a potential White House bailout fell through. “Spirit Aviation Holdings, Inc., parent company of Spirit Airlines … today regretfully announced that the Company has started an orderly wind-down of operations, effective immediately. All Spirit flights have been cancelled, and Spirit Guests should not go to the airport,” the airline said in a  statement  in the early hours of Saturday. Spirit had 4,119 domestic flights scheduled between May 1 and May 15, offering 809,638 seats, according to the latest data from Cirium. The collapse of the carrier due to a doubling in jet fuel prices during the  two-month-old Iran war  will cost thousands of jobs. It is also a blow to US President Donald Trump, who had proposed $500m to save Spirit despite opposition from some of his closest advisers and many Republicans in Congress. Spirit ha...

  British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says some pro-Palestine marches could be banned and people who use the phrase “globalise the Intifada” could be prosecuted. In an interview broadcast by the BBC on Saturday, Starmer advocated for tighter language restrictions at pro-Palestine marches, adding that in some cases, rallies could be prohibited altogether. “I’m a big defender of freedom of expression, peaceful protests,” he told the BBC. “But when there are chants like ‘globalise the Intifada’, that’s completely off limits.” “Clearly, there should be tougher action in relation to that,” he added. Discussions had been taking place with the police for some time about what further action could be taken, he added. Asked whether he sought to completely bar some rallies, Starmer said he thought that would be appropriate in some cases. Play Video 16:54 ‘Likely to be arrested’ Starmer’s comments come after he earlier this week called the chant “globalise the Intifada” a case of “extreme raci...