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Former Austrian President Heinz Fischer in an Interview with the Austrian Press Agency on 7 May 2025:
“I am outraged to see the way in which [Israeli] Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu and his so-called War Cabinet of extreme right-wing members of the government … are waging war against the people of the Gaza Strip” … “People in Gaza should not be forced to flee after between 40 000 and 50 000, including many women and children, have already been killed”.
He also acknowledged the suffering that the Jewish people had endured in the 20th century, as well as the Holocaust. “But none of this justifies the way people, women and children are being treated now, as is the case there… Israel is not only disregarding human rights, but also international law.” Fischer added: Netanyahu’s actions “do not reduce anti-Semitism, but rather increase and strengthen it.”
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Ambassador Jan Braathu OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Torokul Doorov Director of Kazakh Service at Radio Free Liberty, Edith Meinhart “Die Dunkelkammer”, Scott Griffin IPI and Sebastian Rosenauer Ö3 discussed safeguarding journalism in the age of AI.
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This latest barrage of bombs … and the denial of humanitarian assistance underline that there appears to be a push for a permanent demographic shift in Gaza that is in defiance of international law and is tantamount to ethnic cleansing.
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Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (16 May 2025)
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Poem of the Week
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend’s were.
Each man’s death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
For Whom the Bell Tools by John Donne (1572 – 1631)
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