F. M. O'Donnell

As Avi Shlaim and others observed, deliberate ultra-Zionist fanning the flames of anti-semitism, including by false-flag attacks on Jews abroad, has long served the goal of pushing aliyah immigration into Israel. What next?

Very true, not just in America, but also for Serbia and Israel

Uncertainty continues to prevail on coalition formation alternative to Netayahu in Israel, as UTJ vacillates on Haredi law issue; but will @gadi_eisenkot get mandate today from Irish émigré descendant @Isaac_Herzog? jpost.com/israel-election-20…

Diversity and inclusion. Polylogue à la Barletta Declaration. Wisdom wins.

More precisely, the causal factors are: *Patriarchal norms and power structures excluding women from decision-making. *Armed groups treating negotiations as elite deals among fighters *Structural constraints limiting broader participation. *Weak political will, both nationally and internationally. *Chronic underfunding of national action plans. *Difficulty enforcing soft norms amid active wars. *Uneven, inadequate or degraded institutional capacity. *Democratic backsliding and gender-equality setbacks in many countries. *Online harassment of women activists.

Strong statement from Ireland’s PMUN to UN Security Council, supporting WPS. The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda is a global policy framework established by the United Nations Security Council resolution (UNSCR) 1325, adopted unanimously on October 31, 2000. Implementation has failed so far due to repeated dominance of abrasive male warlords, the decline of democracy and human rights, and the growth of male-dominated autocracy, including through digital plutocratic broligarchy in cyberspace, a major new negative force acting against women. ireland.ie/en/un/newyork/new… @IrishMissionUN @RMcGreevy1301 @ShonaMurray_

Поколение Z берет слово - Generation Z has its say on the streets of Europe (my latest interview with Baku-based Jeyhun Najafov for HAQQIN media). haqqin.az/newsarchive/396944

Here's an interesting insight, culled from the "Official Names of the United Nations Membership" (English language version): Only 25 of the 193 UN members states call themselves simply by the country's geographic name. The rest have the name embellished (an arbitrary choice of word by me!) by descriptors such as the type of country: Commonwealth, Confederation, Co-operative, Duchy, Federation, Kingdom, Principality, Republic, State/s,  Sultanate, Union, with or without other adjectives such as Federative, Hashemite, Hellenic, Islamic, Oriental, People’s Democratic, Plurinational, Socialist, United. Here are the uncomplicated ones: 1.    Antigua and Barbuda 2.   Barbados 3.   Bosnia and Hercegovina 4.   Burkina Faso 5.   Canada 6.   Georgia 7.   Grenada 8.   Hungary 9.   Iceland 10.  Ireland 11.  Jamaica 12.  Japan 13.  Malaysia 14.  Mongolia 15.  Montenegro 16.  Nepal 17.  New Zealand 18.  Romania 19.  Saint Kitts and Nevis 20.  Saint Lucia 21.  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 22.  Solomon Islands 23.  Turkmenistan 24.  Tuvalu 25.  Ukraine Oddly enough, not a single one of the 193 UN members describes itself as a dictatorship, autocracy or kleptocracy (or notorious combination of all three), yet the number of these is growing, exceeding democracies in the past few years. Democratic backsliding now affects several long-established Western democracies, including the United States, which is losing its long-term status as a liberal democracy for the first time in 50 years. Globally, there is a continuing shift towards autocracy, and the principal areas of deterioration are in freedom of expression and the rule of law, with a weakening of institutional checks and balances. And for the first time since 2000, when a majority of 120 out of 190 countries prevailed as democracies, in contrast, autocracies now outnumber democracies. Call it by its name or Γνῶθι σεαυτόν? @TheElders @ClubdeMadrid @CWWLeaders @NizamiGanjaviIC @B_S_C_org @Ireland2026eu @IrelandOSCE @IrishMissionUN @ClancyReports @ShonaMurray_ @RMcGreevy1301 @ELuttwak un.org/dgacm/sites/www.un.or…

As they rightly say, "You can't build a democracy by boycotting Arabs"...

The initial numbers may seem small, but this is a very important development, ethically, and socially - and hopefully politically. @gadi_eisenkot go for it...

@B_S_C_org @CorD_Magazine @unaserbia @BelSecForum @bbclysedoucet @BalkanInsight Today, Serbia seems the MOST democratic country in Europe: the student list movement has changed the entire political landscape of the country, the Balkans, and the potential of democracy across Europe and much of the world. By engaging in direct democracy, spread across every community in the entire country, listening, hearing, engaging with people, young and old, with local civic assemblies, across all municipalities and neighbourhoods, demanding thorough political accountability. Could this be a "New Democracy Wave"? But what about the rest of the world, increasingly autocratic? As I did for the UN immediately after 5th October 2000, I will return now privately in the coming days to learn more about Serbia's latest experiment with direct democracy and to see what lessons, and replicability, it can have for the world. This will help us in the UN Advocacy Community to finalise our proposals for the priority agenda of the next UN Secretary-General. See & listen how, here: youtube.com/watch?v=QBoEPrEH… @Sindidun @RMcGreevy1301 @_DaniloTurk @rosaliaarteaga @I_Serageldin @Rza_Aliyev_ @BarryAndrewsMEP

Today, Serbia seems the MOST democratic country in Europe: the student list movement has changed the entire political landscape of the country, the Balkans, and the potential of democracy across Europe and much of the world. By engaging in direct democracy, spread across every community in the entire country, listening, hearing, engaging with people, young and old, horizontally with local civic assemblies, across all municipalities and neighbourhoods, demanding thorough political accountability. Could this be a "New Democracy Wave"? @d_pavlovic @IVejvoda @BIRNSrbija But what about the rest of the world, increasingly autocratic? Here are some thoughts: youtube.com/watch?v=QBoEPrEH…

And Palestine, sharply deteriorating, and dwindling, under the expansionist ethnic cleansing and worse, at the expense of Israel and its violations of UN Security Council resolutions, ICJ advisories, international humanitarian law and in defiance of its own democratic secular and religious opposition, as per the Berkovits letter of protest against the Netanyahu régime (17 June 2026). Even Israel's high level of HDI has begun to decline, presumably after the Netanyahu -induced devastation following the outrageous Hamas terrorist attacks of 7 October. The new government that an electoral defeat can inflict on the Netanyahu régime and its extremists, must work to repair the region, heal humanity on all sides, and heal the world in the process. @RGrynspan @Lana_Nusseibeh @rafaelmgrossi @UN_PGA @DDiallo_ardn @AminaJMohammed @IrishMissionUN @HMcEntee @HelenClarkNZ @Haaretz @jaredkushner @SEPeaceMissions @UNDPPA @UNSCO_MEPP @DeCrooAlexander @UNDP

And the RUBS: Belarus, Ukraine, Russia and Serbia

See the impact on human development index (HDI) on your country of interest, the historic trend, the generally downward dip after the Covid19 pandemic, and the slowing down globally, and in some cases, declining indices. See the global median, and compare to your country. Here's a few examples; Ireland, stable; China, progressing; USA stagnant. (Source: UNDP) hdr.undp.org/data-center/hum…

Another dictator down! Serbia’s corrupt autocrat #Vuciċ concedes defeat. At long last, a prospect of return to liberty, human rights, real reform, and accelerated integration to EU! A better Balkans! An old cartoon by the late Serbian cartoonist Corax, animated. 🇷🇸🙏🎶🥂🙏 @OnlineDanas @n1srbija @novars @RMcGreevy1301 @pass_blue @ClancyReports @vangelofreebird @anneapplebaum @TimothyDSnyder @inna_berezkina

Never has the future of humanity held such promise – nor such risk, at this precise epochal moment of the Anthropocene, when we have finally achieved a truly world civilisation. We've made huge progress - but exhausting our planetary ecosystems, and putting our peoples in existential peril. In brief, almost a third of the world’ s countries are in conflict, affecting nearly half of humanity. Hear about why we need to ACT NOW. youtube.com/watch?v=OXKzPKCu…

Marking UN Day, 24 October 2026: @secgen @Fillipo_Grandi @Villepin @ClaudeMalhuret @FareedZakaria @ShonaMurray_ @amanpour Never has the future of humanity held such promise – nor such risk, at this precise epochal moment of the Anthropocene, when we have finally achieved a truly world civilisation. We've made huge progress - but exhausting our planetary ecosystems, and putting our peoples in existential peril. In brief, almost a third of the world’ s countries are in conflict, affecting nearly half of humanity. Hear about why we need to ACT NOW. youtube.com/watch?v=OXKzPKCu… @NizamiGanjaviIC @Independent_ie @IrishMissionUN @IrishTimes @Pontifex @_WAAS_ @ClubdeMadrid @InterActCouncil @wef @CWWLeaders @washingtonpost @nytimes @PatKennyNT @rtenews @HMcEntee @iiea @davidmcw @RMcGreevy1301

81 years on, we mark tomorrow UN Day, 24 October: Time to revamp the UN with a new SecGen: unadvocacy.net

Excellent letter to the P5 veto-wielding permanent members of the UN Security Council by two colleagues, both distinguished former Under-Secretaries-General and Special Representatives of the Secretary-General, Victor ANGELO (Portugal @vangelofreebird ) and Sukehiro HASEGAWA (Japan), participants in the UN Advocacy Community, which launches its "Blue Book" recommendations to re-vitalise the UN, for the consideration and hopeful implementation of the next UN Secretary-General, whoever s/he may be, this Saturday, UN Day 24 Oct. 2026. We call for an existential transformational shift to a people-centred United Nations. But first, the P5 must agree wisely on the best candidate for the world, for all of us, and our future generations, as these two authors urge. victorangelo1.substack.com/p…? @TheEconomist @FT @NewstalkFM @guardian @RMcGreevy1301 @ShonaMurray_ @EavanMurray @ClancyReports @FareedZakaria @amanpour @FoxNews @rtenews @TheElders @NizamiGanjaviIC @InterActCouncil @CWWLeaders @Jerusalem_Post @haaretzcom