Anadolu:

The Spanish and Irish prime ministers discussed recognizing Palestinian statehood on Monday, as the Israeli military warned tens of thousands of people in the southern Gaza city of Rafah to evacuate.

Irish leader Simon Harris posted on X that both leaders are “eager to make progress on this very shortly” and “remain in close contact.”

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez emphasized on social media that a two-state solution is the “only way to achieve a future of peace, security and stability in the region.”

Sanchez later said he conversed with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani about the situation in Palestine.

"I shared my concern about a possible Israeli operation in Rafah with the emir," Sanchez posted on X, adding that he thanked the Qatari leader for the nation's mediating role between Hamas and Israel.

"Spain is committed to any work that aims at achieving a just and lasting peace in the region through the two-state solution and mutual recognition," he said.

Meanwhile, without referring directly to the evacuation of Palestinians in Rafah, Spain’s Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said he will meet his American counterpart Antony Blinken on Friday.

Speaking at a talk hosted by Europa Press and McKinsey, Albares said he will discuss the situation in Ukraine and Gaza with Blinken. “Because the government of Spain defends exactly the same principles in Ukraine as in the Middle East — we want a return to peace, but a peace that is just and that fits within the charter of the United Nations.”

I am glad he decided not to quit.

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Zeteo:

A group of influential Republican senators has sent a letter to International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan, warning him not to issue international arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, and threatening him with “severe sanctions” if he does so.

In a terse, one-page letter obtained exclusively by Zeteo, and signed by 12 GOP senators, including Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Florida’s Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz of Texas, Khan is informed that any attempt by the ICC to hold Netanyahu and his colleagues to account for their actions in Gaza will be interpreted “not only as a threat to Israel’s sovereignty but to the sovereignty of the United States.”

You would think thuggish letters like this one would have no room in politics…. The US is a rogue state.

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Yemeni Security Services released video confessions of the group of 18 spies (the so-called "Force 400") that was caught spying for America and "israel" in western Yemen.

The spies confessed to being recruited to carry out intelligence, sabotage, and surveillance tasks such as monitoring missile, drone, and ship launch sites so that they could be targeted by American-British warplanes, under the leadership of the wanted spy Ammar Afash.

Spy Mohammed Mahnish said that he would relay information about missiles, drones, tanks, and sites when Ansarallah was targeting "israeli" ships, using a coded language (i.e "bees" to refer to drones and "cows" for tanks). They were also asked to monitor the increase in the number of new fighters to the Yemeni Armed Forces and the people's acceptance of them.

The spies were recruited at various times, some as early as October and some in December, according to their confessions. Spy Yusser Wahban said that he was paid 300 Saudi Riyals ($80 USD) to sell out his people.

Lieutenant General Al-Ruwaishan confirmed that the enemy's targeting of the internal front will fail in the face of the people's awareness and cohesion with the Yemeni Armed Forces, stressing that they are still working to reach enemy cells, with more to be announced soon. He affirmed that Yemen's position towards Palestine is unaffected by these security conspiracies.

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The Nation:

Jerry Nadler, the most senior Jewish member of the US House of Representatives, who represents a New York City district with one of the largest Jewish populations in the United States, has for decades supported every effort to “genuinely counter the scourge of antisemitism.” But he did not support the bipartisan Antisemitism Awareness Act, which the House of Representatives passed Wednesday by a 320-91 vote.

Because, says the former chair of the House Judiciary Committee, “this legislation threatens freedom of speech, one of our most cherished values, while doing nothing to combat antisemitism.”

In particular, the House bill, adopts a definition of antisemitism that could be used to penalize criticism of Zionism, which many Jews oppose, and the actions of the state of Israel. Many Jews have condemned Israel’s policies, including independent US Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who on Thursday warned Congress against accepting an argument made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “that equated criticism of his government’s illegal and immoral war against the Palestinian people with antisemitism.” Sanders, who lost much of his family in the Holocaust, counseled against falling for claims that “if you are protesting, or disagree with what Netanyahu and his extremist government are doing in Gaza, you are an antisemite.”

“That is an outrageous statement from a leader who is clearly trying—and I have to tell you, he seems to be succeeding with the American media—trying to deflect attention away from the horrific policies that he is pursuing that created an unprecedented humanitarian disaster,” said the senator.

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CNN:

17 students at Princeton University in New Jersey announce a hunger strike until their demands are met.

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