At any other time in Palestinian history, the West Bank’s resistance to Israel’s lethal military raids and colonial encroachments would earn the title of a third intifada. | Since 7 October, Israel’s military has intensified its raids into occupied West Bank cities, towns and refugee camps. These military operations, which often involve special units and an array of armored vehicles and bulldozers, have wrought widespread devastation, severely damaging electricity networks, water and sewage infrastructure, uprooting roads and destroying homes. ● In the West Bank, Israel has been killing Palestinians by various means. Israeli forces shoot Palestinians at protests, during military incursions or even by carrying out extrajudicial executions. ● Now, even aerial attacks in the occupied West Bank is not an unusual occurrence, after the practice was dormant since the second intifada until last summer. Since 7 October, Israel has conducted dozens of airstrikes in the occupied West Bank, killing at least 86 Palestinians, including 14 children, according to records kept by UN monitoring group OCHA.

■ As the world [the media] focuses on Gaza, Israel is annexing the West Bank (Arab News)

The European Commission offered 𝕏 an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us.

The other platforms accepted that deal.

𝕏 did not. https://t.co/4lKsaRsYoA

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 12, 2024

■ Musk: EU Wanted "Illegal Secret Deal" to "Quietly Censor Speech" (Pirate Wires)(X)
■ New E.U. landmark law targets Big Tech firms over hate speech, disinformation (NBC News)
■ EU offered X secret censorship deal – Musk (RT.com)

The NATO declaration following the summit in Washington is nothing more than a document of "covetous and contemptuous global war" that Russia and China should pay close attention to, veteran Defense Department analyst and retired US Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski told Sputnik. | On Wednesday, NATO members released a joint Washington Summit Declaration, which outlines the alliance's efforts to isolate Russia further, bolster the alliance's security on its eastern flank, increase security assistance for Ukraine, and claim Ukraine is on an "irreversible path" into NATO, among other initiatives. ● The declaration called on China "to cease all material and political support to Russia’s war effort," which allegedly includes "the transfer of dual-use materials, such as weapons components, equipment, and raw materials that serve as inputs for Russia’s defense sector." The Chinese Mission to the European Union reacted sharply, saying the declaration was "filled with Cold War mentality and belligerent rhetoric." Chinese officials said that unlike the US, China has not provided lethal weapons to any party to the conflict.

💬 "They [Russia and China] should read it carefully, and expose some of its hypocrisy. It is fundamentally a document of covetous and contemptuous global war, made by a shallow alliance that hasn’t won any war it has engaged in, and several of which it directly started, since its inception," Kwiatkowski said in an interview. ● "It is a bureaucratic document more suited to solicitations for a US arms manufacturers pyramid scheme than a functional guide to the future of NATO," Kwiatkowski said in an interview.

At the same time, the document serves as a warning to the rest of the world that the military alliance sees no limit to its territorial ambitions and with the current level of funding will pose a threat to peace and security, and trade in the Black Sea and the Pacific regions, Kwiatkowski added. ● According to Kwiatkowski, the major part of the declaration contradicts any defensive intent of the military bloc as NATO now seeks specific war and prewar efforts against Russia and China across multiple regions.

Several major Democratic Party donors have begun financing Democratic congress members urging the current US President Joe Biden to withdraw from the upcoming election, Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources. | According to the report, Michael Novogratz, founder of financial company Galaxy Digital, and film director Andrew Jarecki, have donated $2 million to Democrats in the US House of Representatives who were among the first to call for Biden to exit the presidential race publicly. ● The agency also reported that a significant number of donors stopped funding Biden's campaign after his poor performance in the televised debate with former President Donald Trump on June 27. Many influential sponsors, including Hollywood actor George Clooney, have urged Biden to make way for a younger candidate.

■ Major donors blackmailing US Democrats over Biden – NYT (RT.com)

Прежняя версия заканчивалась переизбранием Владимира Путина на новый президентский срок в 2018 году | МОСКВА, 13 июля. /ТАСС/. Официальный сайт Кремля впервые с 2018 года обновил страницу с биографией президента РФ Владимира Путина. В нее включены главы о чемпионате мира по футболу в РФ, пандемии коронавируса, принятии поправок к Конституции РФ, спецоперации на Украине и других событиях последних шести лет. ● Прежняя версия заканчивалась переизбранием Путина на новый президентский срок в 2018 году. Уже после новых выборов - 2024 года - пресс-секретарь президента РФ Дмитрий Песков говорил ТАСС, что страница с биографией президента будет дополняться.