🇮🇱🏳️‍🌈❌🇮🇱 — 📰 Times of Israel: Former police commissioner and Former IDF General Roni Alsheich, addressing the protesters in Tel Aviv, strongly denounced the proposals being advanced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition to shake up the judiciary.

— “The proposal amounts to a coup d’etat, no less than that,” Alsheich said. “As an observant [Jew], I must say that there is also nothing Jewish in what is being proposed.”

“Restraining power is a basic and deep Jewish value that must not be abandoned,” he added.

“I feel ashamed, as a believing and observant Jew, by the behavior of the politicians. I hear repeated claims that the religious community has become the ‘shield of public corruption.’”, the Former General said

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🇨🇳❌🇺🇸❗️ — 🇨🇳🎙 Mainland China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Statement: China expresses officially its “strong dissatisfaction and protest” against the US shooting down of its spy balloon, saying the US was “overreacting” and “seriously violating international practice,”

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🇨🇴🇨🇳🎈❗️— 📰 VG: The Colombian Air Force confirms that a suspected Mainland China balloon was in the country's airspace on February 3, 2023

🇨🇳❌🇵🇭❗️ — 📰 Bloomberg: Two Chinese People's Liberation Army - Navy coast guard ships and two militia vessels tailed a Philippine warship on February 1st near Mischief Reef in the South China Sea

— The Philippines navy’s BRP Andres Bonifacio was conducting a patrol and search mission on Feb. 1 when it was monitored and tailed by the Chinese vessels near the reef, which is within the Philippines’ 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone, said Armand Balilo, a spokesman for the coast guard. The militia boats “even conducted an intercept course,” he added.

Tensions between Manila and Beijing have risen recently as China increases its presence in the South China Sea, with more vessels appearing off the Philippines’ west coast. Chinese ships have regularly been seen trailing Philippine fishing vessels, often intercepting them and forcing them to divert from contested areas.

The Philippines will not concede its territorial claims, President Ferdinand Marcos said in a January interview.

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https://archive.is/qWHSs