Zakharova slams Germany for support for ‘Israel’ in ICJ genocide case

21 Jan 2024 

Source: News websites

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova gestures during Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s annual news conference in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, January 18, 2023. (AP)

By Al Mayadeen English

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova says unconditional support for the Israeli occupation is a prerequisite for partaking in Washington’s “rules-based international order” club. 

Commenting on Germany’s support for “Israel” against South Africa’s case in the ICJ, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Moscow is not surprised to see that Berlin is defending “Israel” in a genocide case.

Zakharova lashed out at Berlin, saying it has established itself as an expert in the mass extermination of people, highlighting the consistency between Berlin’s Nazi past and the Zionist present. 

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Zakharova also pointed out that such a stance is natural for Germany, as unconditional support for the Israeli occupation is a pre-requisite for partaking in Washington’s “rules-based international order” club. 

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What to do with the crimes against humanity committed by Germany against other peoples and nationalities during the Second World War?” she asked.

“History knows many examples when criminals who committed serious offenses took the path of correction, using their knowledge of illegal experience, they helped prevent similar atrocities,” Zakharova noted, adding “But this was always possible only in the presence of active repentance and unconditional recognition of one’s own guilt without the slight hint of attempts to justify one’s own crimes, much less repeat them.”

‘Israel’ seeks ethnic cleansing under US cover, Russia says

Earlier this month, the Russian representative to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, attacked Western members of the United Nations Security Council, accusing them of “wasting the council’s time in sessions far from what is happening in the Middle East, especially Gaza.”

Nebenzia, speaking in an open debate, stated that “Israel” was seeking the “ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people in Gaza with American cover from top to bottom.”

The Israeli occupation has been facing accusations of genocide and ethnic cleansing ever since the start of its brutal bombing campaigns and subsequent invasion of Gaza, with numerous international figures condemning its actions as such.

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US to delay Wagner sanctions for fear of siding with Putin: WSJ

24 Jun 2023

Source: The Wall Street Journal

Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen on monitors on Saturday, June 24, 2023, after he addresses Yevgeni Prigozhin (AP)

By Al Mayadeen English

The State Department was expected to reveal additional sanctions on Wagner’s alleged gold business in Africa on Tuesday.

The US is reportedly planning to delay new sanctions on the Wagner group after its leader Yevgeni Prigozhin announced on his Telegram channel storming the Rostov region and taking over the military headquarters in response to what he claims was a Russian attack on his troops earlier under the orders of the Defense Ministry.

According to individuals close to the matter, the US is wary of appearing to be on the Russian President’s side, The Wall Street Journal reported.

“Washington does not want to appear to be taking sides in this,” WSJ cited a close source as saying.

According to these sources, the State Department was expected to disclose additional sanctions on Wagner’s gold business in Africa on Tuesday, including an alleged mining operation set up by the firm in the Central African Republic.

Washington had previously sanctioned the group for its alleged role in misinformation efforts, particularly during the 2016 US presidential election, which was never proven, as well as its involvement in the Ukrainian war, but the Biden administration planned to tighten the screws on its international commercial empire.

Cameron Hudson, a former chief of staff to the US special envoy for Sudan, stated that Washington had a strategy to “target, isolate, and weaken Wagner’s growth in Africa,” adding that by maintaining that approach, Washington is now potentially assisting Putin.

The Russian Foreign Ministry released a statement on Saturday as a warning to the West against any attempts to use the ongoing armed mutiny situation in Russia for their own purposes.

The Ministry stressed that Russian society has rejected the armed mutiny with “the adventurist efforts of the conspirators essentially aimed at destabilizing the situation in Russia, undermining its unity and efforts to ensure international security.”

The Foreign Ministry continued to express confidence that a resolution is near, maintaining that the objectives of the military operation in Ukraine will not be affected and will be achieved.

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