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NETANYAHU COULD STOP THE WAR „For Netanyahu to change course, he would have to break from the far-right coalition partners who have allowed him to avoid the elections he fears by sustaining him in office – and who believe that now, when Hamas is down, is precisely the moment to kick it harder – and hand a Democratic administration the prize of a diplomatic breakthrough little more than a fortnight before an election he wants Kamala Harris to lose and Donald Trump to win. Does such a dramatic change on the prime minister’s part seem likely?“

THE GUARDIAN VIEW ON GAZA‘S FUTURE „The resumption and acceleration of aid flows are crucial but insufficient. People are not only hungry, malnourished and ailing but exhausted and traumatised. A ceasefire and hostage release deal is no less essential for its current unlikelihood. Pressure from European nations might encourage the US to do the right thing. They should include not only a halt to arms supplies but also the imposition of sanctions on Mr Netanyahu’s extremist coalition partners Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, who said it might be “just and moral” to starve Palestinians in Gaza until hostages were released. This opportunity must not be ignored.“

GLOBAL WATER CRISIS: FOOD PRODUCTION AT RISK OF FAILURE „More than half the world’s food production will be at risk of failure within the next 25 years as a rapidly accelerating water crisis grips the planet, unless urgent action is taken to conserve water resources and end the destruction of the ecosystems on which our fresh water depends, experts have warned in a landmark review.“

STOP BIODIVERSITY LOSS - 5 THINGS COUNTRIES CAN DO „Next week, at the 16th UN biodiversity conference (COP16), world leaders will put forth new national plans to tackle ongoing ecosystem destruction. Their task couldn’t be more urgent, with species disappearing at a shocking rate around the globe. Crystal Davis, Global Director of WRI’s Food, Land and Water program, outlines five things countries must accomplish at COP16 and beyond to halt the biodiversity crisis.“

PROOF THAT ISRAEL dOES NOT HAVE STARVATION POLICY IN NORTHERN GAZA „The US has demanded proof on the ground that Israel does not have a policy of starvation in northern Gaza as it turned up the pressure on the Netanyahu government to allow more aid into the territory.“

2024 STATE OF THE CLIMATE REPORT "We're already in the midst of abrupt climate upheaval, which jeopardizes the life on Earth like nothing humans have ever seen. More broadly, we are in ecological overshoot.“

WIR MÜSSEN UNSER UTOPISCHES DENKEN ÄNDERN Dystopien, die vor dem Schlimmsten warnen, haben Konjunktur, während Eutopien als positive Zukunftsvisionen selten geworden sind. Doch nur, wer beides zusammenbringt, schöpft das volle Potenzial des utopischen Denkens aus.

AGE OF EXTINCTION „Nearly two years ago, the world struck a once-in-a-decade deal in Montreal, Canada, that included targets to protect 30% of land and sea for nature, reform billions of dollars on environmentally harmful subsidies and slash pesticide usage. Countries committed to submit their plans for meeting the agreement before the biodiversity Cop16 in Cali, Colombia, which begins this month – but only 25 countries have done so.“

THE GUARDIAN VIEW ON UN AND ISRAEL „The United Nations is supposed to be above the fray – a forum for and facilitator of peaceful resolutions or, at the least, the minimisation of harms. Yet for the last year, Israel has treated it as an inconvenience at best and adversary at worst.“

NAHOST-KONFLIKT Rede von Eva Illouz zum Hamburger Aby-Warburg-Preis Der Nahostkonflikt sei nicht kompliziert, behaupten einige sonst differenzierte Geister. Ihre Schlüsse verkennen, dass gerade Komplexität die Bedingung für Wahrheit und Frieden ist. https://lnkd.in/eiTRtg-c