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Ukraine has seen nearly one-fifth of its Internet space come under Russian control or sold to Internet address brokers since February 2022, a new study finds. The analysis indicates large chunks of Ukrainian Internet address space are now in the hands of shadowy proxy and anonymity services that are nested at some of America’s largest Internet service providers (ISPs).
The findings come in a report that examines how the Russian invasion has affected Ukraine’s domestic supply of Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) addresses. Researchers at Kentik, a company that measures the performance of Internet networks, found that while a majority of ISPs in Ukraine haven’t changed their infrastructure much since the war began in 2022, others have resorted to selling swathes of their valuable IPv4 address space just to keep the lights on.
For example, Ukraine’s incumbent ISP Ukrtelecom is now routing just 29 percent of the IPv4 address ranges that the company controlled at the start of the war, Kentik found. Although much of that former IP space remains dormant, Ukrtelecom told Kentik’s Doug Madory they were forced to sell many of their address blocks “to secure financial stability and continue delivering essential services.”
“Leasing out a portion of our IPv4 resources allowed us to mitigate some of the extraordinary challenges we have been facing since the full-scale invasion began,” Ukrtelecom told Madory.
Madory found much of the IPv4 space previously allocated to Ukrtelecom is now scattered to more than 100 providers globally, particularly at three large American ISPs — Amazon (AS16509), AT&T (AS7018), and Cogent (AS174).
Another Ukrainian Internet provider — LVS (AS43310) — in 2022 was routing approximately 6,000 IPv4 addresses across the nation. Kentik learned that by November 2022, much of that address space had been parceled out to over a dozen different locations, with the bulk of it being announced at AT&T.
IP addresses routed over time by Ukrainian provider LVS (AS43310) shows a large chunk of it being routed by AT&T (AS7018). Image: Kentik.
Ditto for the Ukrainian ISP TVCOM, which currently routes nearly 15,000 fewer IPv4 addresses than it did at the start of the war. Madory said most of those addresses have been scattered to 37 other networks outside of Eastern Europe, including Amazon, AT&T, and Microsoft.
The Ukrainian ISP Trinity (AS43554) went offline in early March 2022 during the bloody siege of Mariupol, but its address space eventually began showing up in more than 50 different networks worldwide. Madory found more than 1,000 of Trinity’s IPv4 addresses suddenly appeared on AT&T’s network.
Why are all these former Ukrainian IP addresses being routed by U.S.-based networks like AT&T? According to spur.us, a company that tracks VPN and proxy services, nearly all of the address ranges identified by Kentik now map to commercial proxy services that allow customers to anonymously route their Internet traffic through someone else’s computer.
From a website’s perspective, the traffic from a proxy network user appears to originate from the rented IP address, not from the proxy service customer. These services can be used for several business purposes, such as price comparisons, sales intelligence, web crawlers and content-scraping bots. However, proxy services also are massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they can make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source.
IPv4 address ranges are always in high demand, which means they are also quite valuable. There are now multiple companies that will pay ISPs to lease out their unwanted or unused IPv4 address space. Madory said these IPv4 brokers will pay between $100-$500 per month to lease a block of 256 IPv4 addresses, and very often the entities most willing to pay those rental rates are proxy and VPN providers.
A cursory review of all Internet address blocks currently routed through AT&T — as seen in public records maintained by the Internet backbone provider Hurricane Electric — shows a preponderance of country flags other than the United States, including networks originating in Hungary, Lithuania, Moldova, Mauritius, Palestine, Seychelles, Slovenia, and Ukraine.
AT&T’s IPv4 address space seems to be routing a great deal of proxy traffic, including a large number of IP address ranges that were until recently routed by ISPs in Ukraine.
Asked about the apparent high incidence of proxy services routing foreign address blocks through AT&T, the telecommunications giant said it recently changed its policy about originating routes for network blocks that are not owned and managed by AT&T. That new policy, spelled out in a February 2025 update to AT&T’s terms of service, gives those customers until Sept. 1, 2025 to originate their own IP space from their own autonomous system number (ASN), a unique number assigned to each ISP (AT&T’s is AS7018).
“To ensure our customers receive the best quality of service, we changed our terms for dedicated internet in February 2025,” an AT&T spokesperson said in an emailed reply. “We no longer permit static routes with IP addresses that we have not provided. We have been in the process of identifying and notifying affected customers that they have 90 days to transition to Border Gateway Protocol routing using their own autonomous system number.”
Ironically, the co-mingling of Ukrainian IP address space with proxy providers has resulted in many of these addresses being used in cyberattacks against Ukraine and other enemies of Russia. Earlier this month, the European Union sanctioned Stark Industries Solutions Inc., an ISP that surfaced two weeks before the Russian invasion and quickly became the source of large-scale DDoS attacks and spear-phishing attempts by Russian state-sponsored hacking groups. A deep dive into Stark’s considerable address space showed some of it was sourced from Ukrainian ISPs, and most of it was connected to Russia-based proxy and anonymity services.
According to Spur, the proxy service IPRoyal is the current beneficiary of IP address blocks from several Ukrainian ISPs profiled in Kentik’s report. Customers can chose proxies by specifying the city and country they would to proxy their traffic through. Image: Trend Micro.
Spur’s Chief Technology Officer **Riley Kilmer **said AT&T’s policy change will likely force many proxy services to migrate to other U.S. providers that have less stringent policies.
“AT&T is the first one of the big ISPs that seems to be actually doing something about this,” Kilmer said. “We track several services that explicitly sell AT&T IP addresses, and it will be very interesting to see what happens to those services come September.”
Still, Kilmer said, there are several other large U.S. ISPs that continue to make it easy for proxy services to bring their own IP addresses and host them in ranges that give the appearance of residential customers. For example, Kentik’s report identified former Ukrainian IP ranges showing up as proxy services routed by Cogent **Communications **(AS174), a tier-one Internet backbone provider based in Washington, D.C.
Kilmer said Cogent has become an attractive home base for proxy services because it is relatively easy to get Cogent to route an address block.
“In fairness, they transit a lot of traffic,” Kilmer said of Cogent. “But there’s a reason a lot of this proxy stuff shows up as Cogent: Because it’s super easy to get something routed there.”
Cogent declined a request to comment on Kentik’s findings. posted by pod_feeder
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It's matte black, made entirely out of aluminium, and it houses a 15.3 inches display. In terms of dimensions, we're talking 34cm of width, 2.2 cm in height at its highest point, and 24.5 cm in depth, for a total weight of 2.1kilos.
As usual, the branding is very light on Tuxedo computers, you have the usual Tuxedo logo laser etched on the lid, although you can have whatever logo engraved here.
As per the build quality, the laptop is the usual fare for aluminium: it feels really good when resting your palms on it, it feels solid, it doesn't bend, it has very little flex, apart from the middle of the keyboard, it's a really solidly built computer.
So, this thing packs either an AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS, or an Intel core i7 14650HX. I have the AMD model here, so that's what I'll be testing. Do note that the Intel model can also have an i9 14900HX.
So, in Geekbench 6, that AMD CPU reached 2614 in single core, and 12686 in multi core.
This is coupled with an Nvidia GPU, not matter if you decide to go the Intel or AMD route, you get an Nvidia RTX 4060, or a 4070 if you prefer that.
For Shadow of the tomb raider, at the maximum settings, the game reached 94 FPS n average. Lowering details down to medium, it reached 106 FPS. And finally, for Horizon, on Ultra settings, then game reached 53 FPS on average, and on medium details , it went up to 71 FPS.
As per battery life, this Stellaris Slim 15 has a 99Wh battery, meaning it's rated for up to 13h of battery life. In my testing, on hybrid mode, meaning the integrated GPu was used mostly, I could get up to a tiny bit under 7H30 of looped video playback on youtube, at mid brightness, over wifi.
This laptop offers on the left side: one USB A 3.2 Gen 1 port, and one USB C 3.2 Gen 1, plus an audio jack. On the right side, you get an SD card slot, and 2 USB A 3.2 gen 1 ports. And on the back, you have a minidisplay port 1.4, which is hardwired to the dedicated Nvidia GPU, and supports GSync, you have a USB C 3.2 gen 2 port, hardwired to the integrated GPU, it also supports charging the laptop. There's also an HDMI 2.1 port, that connects to the Nvidia GPU and also supports G Sync, plus a 2.5 gig ethernet port and the usual barrel charger.
As per the display, it's a 16:10, 15.3 inches display, at a resolution of 2560 by 1600. It supports 240Hz or 60hz, and it's an LED display. It supports adaptive sync, it has a brightness of 500 nits, and a contrast ratio of 1000 to 1, and it supports 100% of SRGB.
The bezel around the display are minimal, and you have the usual webcams, a full HD 1080p one, that an record at 30FPS. It's not too potato quality, but it's also not great.
The speakers, though, aren't bad, they have some amount of bass, they do not peak or vibrate the chassis of the Stellaris Slim 15, and they sound pretty crisp to me, they're really solid.
And to conclude, we have the keyboard. Most of the keyboard is full sized, with small function keys, but functional normal keys even though this here is a german layout that I just can't get used to. The numpad is cramped and compressed, and it makes it hard to use for me.
As per the touchpad, it's glass, it's extremely smooth, and while it's still a diveboard mechanism, so you need to press at the bottom half of the thing to click, it's really, really good. Gestures on Wayland and Plasma feel awesome, the click feels solid, the sound of the click is good as well, it's a great touchpad for any laptop.
The base AMD model with 16 gigs of RAM, the RTX 4060 and 500 gigs of PCIe 3 SSD comes at a bit less than 1700 euros, including the usual 20% european VAT, so it's like 1400 euros without taxes. You also get Wifi 6 and bluetooth 5.3 with that.
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00:00 Intro 00:28 Sponsor: 10% off your first website with Squarespace 01:22 What is Tuxedo OS? 02:24 Better hardware support and drivers 04:06 Semi-Rolling: the best of both worlds 05:03 Tuxedo Control Center 06:32 Other changes 07:49 Is it any good? 08:49 Stellaris 16: Linux gaming laptop 13:56 Tuxedo OS on a Tuxedo PC
Tuxedo OS is a semi-rolling release Linux distro that Tuxedo makes, and is freely available to download on any computer.
Tuxedo OS comes with KDE plasma, it gets rid of snaps, they have their own repos for additional drivers and apps, they have a hybrid rolling release model for the desktop and drivers, they have their own custom kernel with better hardware support, and a few very useful utilities.
The repos contain their custom kernel, which include patches that they tested and implemented before the mainline kernel, so newer hardware works better. The fixes they develop themselves are also mainlined of course.
The Tuxedo OS repos include more up to date drivers, they have firmware for their own devices, they have packages for web browsers that Ubuntu only provides as Snaps, and for a few up to date apps that aren't in the Ubuntu repos, or are outdated.
While the base system and base packages are from Ubuntu, they ship drivers, a linux kernel, and the KDE plasma desktop on a rolling release model, which means you're always getting the latest versions of your KDE apps and desktop, and a recent kernel version, and the associated drivers.
Tuxedo OS also embarks the Tuxedo Control center. It's an open source graphical app that lets you set your power profile, between a few presets, like extreme powersave, high performance, quiet, and more. You can also change the battery charging options to improve the battery's lifespan.
Tuxedo OS enables os-prober. In the boot options, you'll find a web based reinstall option as well.
The Stellaris 16 is the latest entry in the Stellaris line. It comes with a 16:10 2560 x 1600 panel, that has very vivid colors, 350 nits of brightness, and perfect viewing angles. It can also refresh at 240hz.
You also get a core i9 13900HX, which is a 16 core, 32 threads CPU, that can go up to 5.4Ghz. browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/1…
You can pair that with an RTX 4060 Mobile, or up to a 4090,.
RAM options go from 16 GB of 4800Mhz DDR5 to 64 gigs of 5600mhz DDR5, and for storage, you can get up to 2 4terabytes PCIE 4 SSDs.
In terms of ports, you get 2 USB A 3.2gen 2 ports, one USB A 3.2 gen 1, a full size SD card slot, a headphone jack,, the ports for the Aquaris cooling sytem, HDMI 2.1, 2.5 gigs ethernet, and Thunderbolt 4.
The keyboard is really excellent, with good key travel, and a quiet sound. You can also get it with a mechanical keyboard.
THe touchpad isn't glass, but it's very smooth, even though it's really small for this form factor.
Speakers are decent, with a good amount of bass, but they'll start saturating at max volume. They're bottom firing so if you place the laptop on a soft surface, you'll muffle them easily.
And the mic and webcam are potato quality as is unfortunately too often the case.
As per battery life, you get a 99Wh battery, on the powersave mode, using the integrated GPU, it lasted for 7 hours with youtube videos playing in a loop over wifi in Firefox, with the display at 240hz.
So, on a Tuxedo computer, you get a few cool things on top of the default Tuxedo experience.
You can control the color and brightness of the keyboard backlight, you can control the webcam, and its resolution, framerate, brightness, contrast, exposure, dynamic range, color balance.
TOMTE automatically recognizes the model you're using, and it checks for the drivers and packages that will give you the best experience.
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.
00:00 Intro 00:22 Unboxing 02:04 Design & Build Quality: solid and beautiful 03:49 Specs & Configuration Options: make it your own 06:17 Display: good panel, not a fan of the resolution 07:28 Keyboard & Touchpad: excellent 08:27 Webcam, Mic & Speakers: decent 09:36 Performance & battery life: all day workstation 11:36 This is the template for all Linux laptops 13:14 Support the channel
The chassis is a magnesium / aliminium alloy. It's really sturdy, but also really lightweight. My review unit came in black, and retains no fingerprints. You can also get it in silver if you prefer. In both cases, it's 1.7cm thick, and 1.3kg.
The laptop can be opened, and upgraded, you can switch out the RAM and the SDD as you like, with dual channel RAM slots, and an m.2 slot that supports PCIe4 drives.
My review unit came with a french azerty keyboard, but they have a lot of different layouts, and you can even send them your own to be laser etched, or have a blank keyboard. The super key has a cartoony tux logo, but you can ask for you own super key as well.
You can add an Nvidia RTX 3050ti to turn the laptop into a real workstation. In terms of ports, on the left side, you get the usual kensington lock, a USB C 3.2 Gen 2 port, which supports display port 1.4 and power delivery, a USB A 3.2 Gen 1 port, a full size SD card reader, and a 2 in 1 audio jack.
On the right, you have the barrel charging port, an HDMI 2.0b port, a USB 3.2 Gen 1 port, and a thunderbolt 4 port, which also supports display port 1.4 and power delivery.
The display is a 3K panel, at 2880 by 1800, in a 16:10 aspect ratio. It's 14 inch, and has an anti reflective coating.
It covers 99% of sRGB, 74.7% of AdobeRGB, and 81.1% of DCI-P3. It goes up to 400 nits, the contrast ratio is 1500:1, and it runs at 90hz.
The keyboard feels really good. It's a chiclet style keyboard, with black keys, whether you have the black, or the silver variant. It's backlit, and has a tux super key that you can customize, as I said before.
The touchpad feels awesome, it's super smooth, covered in glass, and it's a joy to use with gestures, it's precise and responsive, and it clicks well.
The webcam goes up to 1080p30, and while it will need some amount of light to not be too grainy, it's far from the worse I've seen.
The microphone is a bit better. You'll need to lower the default gain, but the voice is clear, and you can't really hear fan noise, although it will pick up on touchpad clicks and keyboard presses. It's really not bad for a laptop mic.
As per the speakers, they're bottom firing, and they're also decent. They're not tinny, they don't distort at high volumes, and they get loud enough. Nothing fancy, but they do the trick perfectly for a youtube video or a movie.
The 12700H is a very powerful CPU, with 14 cores, and 20 threads, and a max frequency of 4.7Ghz. On geekbench 5, it gets 1781 in single core, and 8388 in multi core, which means it beats my desktop 5800H in single core, and gets extremely close in multi core.
It's cooled with a dual fan system, with 2 fans and 2 heatpipes, and uses liquid metal, which means temps never got high, staying at around 40 degrees Celsius at idle, and about 80°C under heavy load.
In terms of battery life, I got around 7 and a half hours of youtube video playback in a loop over wifi, at 50% brightness with bluetooth on. With a more regular workload of web browsing, listening to music, writing this script, and watching the occasional video or running a test or 2 on the laptop, I got 9h.
Review of the 16 inch model (the equivalent model from SLimbook):
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@wannabemystiker The fact that most of the people who responded to my post are Germans seems to indicate that this is a problem specific to German breweries.
It's a good thing that you folks don't have to bother with this kind of sexist crap.
@wannabemystiker plenty of sexist US breweries making terrible puns with blonde or red ale beer names, or calling strong beers gross things like 'panty dropper' etc.
I feel like it has gotten better in the past few years at least.
Persnickety fan post: The great new novel Picks and Shovels by @pluralistic refers several times to the Bell System’s hardware manufacturer as Western Digital, which is wrong. It was Western Electric in the U.S. and Northern Electric where @pluralistic is from. Western Digital is an unrelated company.
Harriet Tubman probably didn’t exist. I don’t mean the person. There was a Harriet Tubman, and she was a former slave – but she was also likely mentally handicapped from being hit on the head with a weight when she was 12. No, I’m not talking about whether a person existed. I’m talking about the entire mythos surrounding her supposed life; her “hagiography” in the Leftie cultural slop milieu that gets forced down the throats of every schoolchild starting in elementary grades.
There are, quite literally, no primary sources for her fabled exploits. Not a single one.
No historian can corroborate any of her supposed quotes, or any stories from her life. Which seems… odd, right? Considering how many she supposedly helped to free? Surely there’d be a record of someone, somewhere, whom she helped.
But there’s not. Why?
Turns out it all comes from one guy, quite literally an #anti-White #journalist who was named #EarlCohen. He wrote a couple books in the 1940’s – in which he only cites his earlier articles. It’s an #absurd #fiction that has been pushed on, quite literally, schoolchildren – to get them to #hate their own #people and #history.
If they say it’s true, it isn’t. And it really doesn’t take much to expose their lies. It doesn’t matter what the supposed historical event was, if they said it happened, it probably didn’t, and at the very least, it didn’t happen in the way, or to the extent, they falsely claim it did.
If Clown World says it’s true, it is definitely fake and quite possibly gay. Forget the obvious frauds of The Ghost of Kiev, global warming, and Anne Frank, now the fake history of Harriet Tubman has been conclusively exposed to be completely fraudul…
>Did we just psyop the Dems into demanding the release of the Epstein files? MAGA cope is the strongest stuff around. The strongest stuff. Just the best.
But people get tired of the bullshit, and it's not always the people you're paying attention to. MAGA had the same cope over the trade wars, about all the 4d chess victories that Trump gained by acting insane and abruptly ripping up deals that he himself had signed during his first term. But while that happened, shipping stopped, US bonds got absolutely destroyed, countries did the math and chose China over the US, and the US even lost the Japanese.
This cope is like something a scammer tells himself after he cheats a customer. You cheated that customer, but other other people observed it, and the customer can tell people about it, and life actually goes on and you have future interactions including with that same customer which will now not go as well for you. You gained some hard currency while losing other social currencies that you were not aware that you were spending.
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"Denny, what are you doing? You should be asleep by now, not reading. Didn't you think I would hear it, you're reading out loud?" "But, mum. There's a monster under the bed and one in the closet." "There is no such thing as monsters. Give me that book, and go to sleep." "But, mum, I promised. Please, just to finish the chapter?" "Promised?" "Guys, tell her!" "Sorry, mrs Denny's mum. Could Denny please read some more to us? He promised." "..." "I think she fainted. Read, Denny." #MicroFiction
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The high court unanimously dismissed the case under U.S. laws that largely protect firearm manufacturers from liability when their guns are used in crimes.
Wonder what made him snap? Maybe losing his position at the White House felt like a betrayal to him? He was camping out on Trump's sofa for a long time after all....
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You know how ever since 2016 we have been waiting for the BIG ONE to go off?
This is the BIG ONE.
Wrapped up in this little spat between Trump and Elon are a number of issues, like reforming the H1B atrocity, but the Epstein Files thing is the biggie.
Do you see what is about to happen? (I think)
Elon is going to whip this into a frenzy and the LEFT, especially the media, are going to froth with demands to release the Epstein files!
Sink Trump, prune the kleptocracy of those unfortunately on the list too, and get back to business as usual. The temptation for such an outcome will be too great to resist.
Everyone on the lists will scream in protest, as will their agents, spouses, maids, etc., but everyone else who just wants Trump out of power will shout themselves hoarse.
I think Elon just flicked the first domino in a large cascade.
This public Donald/Elon spat is too perfectly timed to be entirely genuine.
I wonder if this was planned step-by-step? 1) Trump wants to remove EV subsidies 2) Elon disses the BeauteousBill 3) Trump says Elon is nutz 4) Elon insinuates that Trump's in the EpsteinFiles
We all knew how 'close' Epstein allowed Trump to get. Is anyone surprised? Musk is like a bitter 1st wife dishing the dirt. Pathetic but hardly unknown. A bit like the BBC protecting Savile. At first.
'“We refused to pay for our own misery. We won’t pay one dime in back-rent, and we won’t pay with our lives ever again,” tenant-leader Anna Heetmann told The Defender in the press release announcing the deal.'
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QG : Benjamin Netanyahu est totalement insensible aux alertes de ses alliés, aux menaces de sanctions. Que cherche-t-il ?
Il faut souligner à quel point la situation est terrible. Il suffit de voir ces gens déplacés une dizaine de fois: les conséquences humaines sont incalculables. Et pourtant, il n’y a pas de plan israélien clair. La presse israélienne elle-même le dit : on a l’impression que Netanyahou mène cette guerre parce qu’il ne peut pas l’arrêter. S’il l’interrompt, il devra faire face à une commission d’enquête sur ce qui s’est passé le 7 octobre, sur la manière dont il a géré la crise, et il risquerait de faire éclater sa coalition. Alors il poursuit cette guerre, qui dépasse largement Gaza : elle s’étend à la Cisjordanie, au Liban, en Syrie, au Yémen. Ce que beaucoup ne réalisent pas, c’est que c’est désormais la guerre la plus longue de l’histoire d’Israël — plus longue encore que celle de 1948-1949 qui a vu la naissance de l’État d’Israël. On est pris dans un engrenage, sans voir de finalité.
QG : Quelles issues possibles à cet engrenage infernal pour la population palestinienne ?
Lors du cessez-le-feu de janvier dernier, des centaines de milliers de Palestiniens sont retournés chez eux — chez eux, c’est-à-dire dans des maisons détruites. Cela montre un attachement profond à la terre, et une conscience que s’ils partent, ils ne reviendront jamais. À l’inverse, les Israéliens qui ont fui le nord du pays ont mis des mois, une fois les combats terminés, à revenir — et seulement la moitié d’entre eux sont rentrés. Il y a quelque chose de très particulier dans ce lien des Palestiniens à leur terre. Et pourtant, au sens propre, on ne peut pas y vivre : il n’y a plus de nourriture. Israël mise sur ce blocus pour forcer les gens à partir. Mais partir où ? L’Égypte reste extrêmement ferme malgré les pressions américaines, tout comme la Jordanie. Installer 500.000 Palestiniens dans le Sinaï serait un facteur majeur de déstabilisation — et, de toute façon, il n’y a pas les moyens logistiques pour le faire. En Jordanie, où la majorité de la population est déjà d’origine palestinienne, ce serait une menace directe pour la stabilité du régime et du trône. On peine à voir quelle issue est envisageable. Selon les organisations internationales, des milliers d’enfants risquent de mourir de faim dans les jours à venir. La situation est insupportable et elle varie selon les zones, selon les villes. L’offensive principale se concentre pour l’instant dans le nord de Gaza, une zone qu’Israël veut annexer. Tous les témoignages des humanitaires sont clairs : ils n’ont jamais vu une situation pareille. On parle, au sens propre, d’un camp de concentration — les gens sont enfermés, sans possibilité de sortir, avec en plus une volonté d’extermination. Cette dernière, aussi délibérée, n’existait pas dans les autres expériences historiques de camps, comme celle menée par les Britanniques en Afrique australe. À l’exception évidemment de l’Allemagne nazie.
QG : Quelles sont les responsabilités de l’Europe dans ce massacre à Gaza ? Le fléchissement dans le soutien à Israël, que l’on ressent publiquement, n’intervient-il pas trop tard ?
Le problème, c’est qu’on en est à 18 mois de soutien quasi inconditionnel de la France et des pays européens à la politique d’extermination menée à Gaza. Il faut le dire clairement : cette politique n’aurait pas été possible sans cet aval. Si la France et l’Europe avaient pris des mesures concrètes contre Israël, cela ne se serait sans doute pas produit. Netanyahou en a conscience. La parole de la France continue d’avoir un certain poids — même si, autrefois, elle jouait un rôle d’avant-garde en Europe. Mais le fait que la France, comme d’autres pays européens, bascule vers une critique plus radicale de la politique israélienne inquiète le gouvernement de Netanyahou. La décision de l’Union Européenne de réévaluer l’accord d’association avec Israël est un signal, même si l’on sait que cet accord ne peut être annulé qu’avec l’unanimité des 27 États membres. Cela laisse entrevoir, malgré tout, la possibilité de sanctions. On entend souvent dire qu’Israël ne cède pas aux pressions, mais la vérité, c’est qu’il n’y en a pas. Il faut une vraie pression — une pression qui vient aussi de nos sociétés. La guerre du Vietnam a été arrêtée aux États-Unis quand la population s’est massivement opposée. La guerre d’Algérie a été gagnée en France quand en 1961, le FLN avait perdu militairement. Emmanuel Macron n’a pris aucune sanction envers Israël, refuse toujours de reconnaître un Etat palestinien et renvoie aux historiens le soin de parler de « génocide ». La France a également livré du matériel militaire à Israël, à plusieurs reprises depuis la réplique au 7 octobre octobre 2023
QG : La critique de la politique israélienne est-elle en train d’être acceptée dans les médias ou par nos politiques ?
Je rappelle à nouveau que depuis 18 mois, le soutien à Israël reste très fort, mais aussi que la répression contre le mouvement de solidarité avec les Palestiniens se poursuit — notamment à travers des accusations d’apologie du terrorisme. En France, comparé au Royaume-Uni, les manifestations ont été relativement limitées, en grande partie parce que les gens ont peur, et en particulier les Français musulmans. J’ai rencontré beaucoup de Français musulmans qui me disent : « Ce que vous dites, nous, on ne peut pas le dire. » Ils ne risquent pas forcément de perdre leur nationalité, mais ils peuvent perdre leur emploi — qu’ils soient musulmans ou non — ou être mis à l’écart au sein de leur environnement social ou professionnel. Il y a une peur très présente, encore aujourd’hui. En revanche, on observe un basculement dans l’opinion. Les images d’enfants, de famine, de bombardements — tout cela a un impact. Je me réjouis de voir que certaines personnes changent de position, qu’elles découvrent, 18 mois après, qu’il y a un génocide en cours ou, au minimum, des massacres à grande échelle. Mais, en même temps, elles ne vont pas toujours jusqu’au bout de leur réflexion ou de leur engagement.
QG : Peut-on aujourd’hui militer pour une « solution à deux Etats » ou celle-ci a-t-elle perdu toute réalité?
Aujourd’hui, la priorité est d’arrêter le génocide et de stopper l’occupation en frappant toutes ces colonies. Il faut être très clair : on ne peut pas accepter la poursuite de la colonisation — que la Cour International de Justice a jugée totalement illégale. Et cela nécessite des sanctions, non seulement en réponse à la guerre à Gaza, mais aussi face à l’extension continue des colonies en Cisjordanie et à Jérusalem-Est. Cela dit, la solution à un État n’est pas non plus une perspective réaliste à échéance humaine. Les combats prioritaires aujourd’hui, au-delà de l’occupation et de la colonisation, sont ceux pour l’égalité. Sur le territoire de la Palestine, 7,5 millions de Juifs et 7,5 millions de Palestiniens vivent ensemble. La revendication fondamentale, c’est l’égalité de traitement pour tous. D’ailleurs, Amnesty International a qualifié la situation d’apartheid, ce qui souligne bien l’urgence de cette exigence. Mais à ce stade, se focaliser sur une solution politique en termes étatiques semble éloigné des enjeux immédiats. Et puis, je l’ai toujours dit : c’est aux Palestiniens et aux Israéliens de décider de leur avenir.
QG : Que penser du tabou qui règne autour du mot « génocide », chargé de sens pour Israël notamment ?
Il est très difficile de définir un génocide mais on peut tout à fait en discuter. Il y a tout de même la Cour Internationale de Justice, présidée par une juge américaine, qui a reconnu qu’il existait un risque plausible de génocide. Pourtant, dès qu’on prononce ce mot, cela déclenche un tollé. Comme s’il était inconcevable que des Juifs, ayant subi un génocide, puissent en commettre un. Par ailleurs, je remets en cause l’idée selon laquelle Israël serait l’héritier des Juifs, y compris de ceux qui ont été tués pendant la Shoah. Par exemple, le Rwanda, qui a été victime d’un génocide, mène aujourd’hui des politiques particulièrement violentes au Congo. Il n’existe aucune loi historique selon laquelle avoir été opprimé empêcherait d’être un oppresseur. L’histoire démontre plutôt l’inverse. L’historien israélien Tom Segev rappelait qu’on pouvait tirer deux leçons de l’histoire du génocide des Juifs : 1) considérer que ce que l’on a subi est tellement exceptionnel que quoi qu’on fasse, on est pardonné ; 2) considérer que ce que l’on a subi est tellement exceptionnel qu’il ne faut en aucun cas que cela se reproduise. Bien sûr, cela ne se reproduit jamais de manière identique. D’une certaine manière, on ne peut pas comparer les génocides arménien, tutsi ou juif. Mais on peut les définir. Il existe une définition précise du génocide. Pourtant, on ne verra jamais à la radio ou à la télévision un débat posant la question : “Est-ce que ce qui se passe à Gaza remplit les critères du génocide ?” Certains disent même : “L’armée israélienne n’a tué que 50.000 personnes, donc ce n’est pas un génocide.” Mais c’est une logique que l’on retrouve aussi chez une partie des négationnistes d’extrême droite qui affirmaient : “Il y a encore des millions de Juifs dans le monde, donc il n’y a pas eu de génocide.” Selon l’ONU, plus de 15.000 enfants ont été tués à Gaza, 497.000 personnes sont confrontés à la famine. Entre le 18 mars et le 9 avril 2025, 36 frappes israéliennes ont fait des victimes, qui étaient uniquement des femmes et des enfants
QG : Les mandats d’arrêts émis par la Cour Pénale Internationale à l’égard de Benjamin Netanyahu et Yoav Gallant (ancien ministre de la défense) ont été reçus avec beaucoup de prudence en Occident, si ce n’est avec virulence. Assiste-t-on à la fin du droit international ?
Oui, ce qui se joue avec la Cour Pénale Internationale (CPI) est très important, parce que ce qui se passe à Gaza dépasse de loin cette seule situation. Il s’agit en réalité de l’avenir du droit international — et c’est, à mes yeux, une question fondamentale. Ce qui est en train de mourir à Gaza, c’est justement ce droit international. On a souvent comparé la situation en Ukraine à celle de la Palestine, et la différence de traitement est flagrante. On a vu la frilosité avec laquelle la France a traité la question des mandats émis par la CPI, ainsi que les mensonges d’Emmanuel Macron, qui affirme : “On n’est pas sûr de pouvoir arrêter Benjamin Netanyahou, s’il le faut”. Ce discours a pourtant été démenti par de nombreux juristes. Plus largement, c’est tout le cadre international qui est aujourd’hui remis en cause. Les Nations unies ne sont plus respectées, et l’ordre international né de la Seconde Guerre mondiale est en train de s’effondrer. La seule chose qui pourrait le refonder, c’est précisément le droit international. Mais ce que promeuvent aujourd’hui Trump et Netanyahou est un ordre mondial gouverné par la force. Un système dans lequel on négocie peut-être avec moins d’hypocrisie qu’en Europe, mais où chaque État agit selon ses intérêts, sans cadre contraignant. Par ailleurs, il y a eu récemment une campagne — très peu relayée en France — contre la CPI et son procureur, Karim Khan, qui a reçu des menaces, y compris contre sa famille. Et cela, personne n’en parle, ce qui est tout de même extraordinaire. Plus généralement, le droit international est aujourd’hui non seulement rejeté sur le plan politique, mais aussi très mal compris. Et les médias qui en parlent le font souvent avec une ignorance préoccupante.
QG : Israël est-il finalement encore soumis au droit international ?
Non, cela fait longtemps qu’Israël est au-dessus du droit international. Marx disait : “Un peuple qui en opprime un autre ne saurait être libre.” On voit bien, en Israël, que la poursuite de l’occupation mène à une érosion progressive des aspects démocratiques de l’État. Il suffit d’imaginer que la France ait gagné la guerre d’Algérie et continue, encore aujourd’hui, à occuper l’Algérie, 60 ans plus tard. Elle ne serait plus une démocratie. Il y a aussi un problème dans la manière dont les pays occidentaux concentrent toutes les critiques sur Benjamin Netanyahou, sans reconnaître qu’en réalité, près de 80 % de la population juive israélienne soutient la politique de ce gouvernement — pas forcément tout ce qu’il fait, car Netanyahou est un politicien manipulateur et menteur, mais ils adhèrent à sa politique d’extermination à Gaza. Même ceux qui demandent l’arrêt des bombardements le font avant tout pour obtenir la libération des otages, et non en raison des massacres subis par les Palestiniens. Il faut être clair : si Netanyahou tombe demain, la politique ne changera pas. Il ne faut pas laisser croire aux gens que cette politique va évoluer dans la situation actuelle puisqu’elle fait consensus. Il faut rappeler que toutes les décisions de la Cour suprême israélienne concernant les Palestiniens ont été prises en faveur du droit d’Israël à coloniser leurs territoires. Cette cour peut être garante des libertés, mais uniquement pour les citoyens juifs. Il ne faut pas se faire d’illusions, ni réduire la responsabilité à la seule personne de Netanyahou. Il n’est pas le seul responsable.
Propos recueillis par Thibaut Combe
Alain Gresh est directeur des journaux Orient XXI et Afrique XXI et a été rédacteur en chef au Monde Diplomatique pendant près de 10 ans. Il est un expert du Proche-Orient et de la situation israélo-palestinienne. Il également publié De quoi la Palestine est-elle le nom ? (Les Liens qui libèrent, 2010), Palestine 47, un partage avorté, avec Dominique Vidal (Éditions Complexe, 1994) ou L’Islam, la République et le Monde (Fayard, 2004)
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Everyone can see how absurd this question is, right? It’s not just me who can see it?
No idea if the spat between Trump and Musk is real or kayfabe. If it's a scam, then Trump is trying to distract us from something, and Musk is likely trying to salvage his stock prices.
Interesting that Musk would bring up the Epstein files. Last time those were in the news a GOP kid and some Trump supporters got killed.
Regardless, they are both manipulative assholes, and I've sworn off being manipulated by assholes. Off to game...
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"The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
-- H.L.Mencken
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