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Repairs to a skate park?
at the moment hes rebuilding his house , the skatepark is now being used for tents!
these guys are also worth a follow
https://www.instagram.com/skateistan?igsh=MXU2NTJuODRubncxbQ==
Instagram and meta are actively restricting/deleting pro Palestinian accounts from Gaza, another company that crawls up the arse of the zionist regime.
An interesting article by an Israeli professor of international law
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/4/10/why-i-dont-cheer-for-israels-pro-democracy-movement
The whole article is worth reading imo but the conclusions are the most relevant
Finally, on March 27, more than year after the rights organisations had filed the petition, the court issued a verdict. Chief Justice Yitzhak Amit and Justices Noam Sohlberg and David Mintz unanimously ruled that it lacked merit. Justice David Mintz interlaced his response with Jewish religious texts, characterising Israel’s attacks as a war of divine duty
Israel’s Supreme Court – both in the way it handled the judicial process and in its ruling – has ignored Israel’s legal obligation to refrain from depriving a civilian population of objects indispensable to their survival, including by wilfully impeding relief supplies. In effect, the court legitimised the use of starvation as a weapon of war.
This is the court that hundreds of thousands of Israelis are trying to save. Its March 27 ruling – and almost all other rulings involving Palestinians – reveal that the Supreme Court of Israel is a colonial court – one that protects the rights of the settler population, while legitimising the dispossession, displacement and horrific violence perpetrated against the Indigenous Palestinians. And while the Supreme Court might not reflect the values of the existing government – particularly on issues relating to political corruption – it undoubtedly reflects and has always reflected he values of the colonial regime.
Hence, the liberal Zionists who fill Tel Aviv’s streets every weekend are not demonstrating against a judicial overhaul that endangers democracy, but against an overhaul that endangers Jewish democracy. Few of these protesters have any real qualms about the court’s horrific ruling on humanitarian aid, or, for that matter, on how the court has consistently upheld Israeli apartheid and colonial pillars. The regime, in other words, can continue to eliminate Palestinians unhindered as long as the rights of Israel’s Jewish citizenry are secured.
A harsh reality check for those who desperately want to believe that Israel can transformed into a law abiding democracy by simply defeating Netanyahu and his far-right allies.
An account of what life is like for a Gazan family
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Hello friends, I think you will probably recognize me - I am Mohammed Al-Batniji, from Gaza. Today, I will tell you how we left our home for a second time after the war resumed following six weeks of ceasefire. If you remember, when the ceasefire came, my family returned to northern Gaza from the south where we were staying in a tent. My family was among the many thousands of people that poured back to northern Gaza when the Netzarim Corridor was opened to us. But now, after only two months, our home and neighborhood of Shujaiya became threatened by the Israeli military and we had to leave in a hurry.
On 23 March, Israel broke the ceasefire and the war returned, the destruction returned and everything went back to how it was before the truce. There were people who were displaced immediately, and other people who held out. We were among the people who held out, but not for many days. We began to suffer from lack of water and food. It was difficult to leave our tent. We really suffered in the morning from the lack of water and also, since this was Ramadan, we suffered due to fasting in the tense and difficult atmosphere. At night, we were afraid as we tried to sleep with the constant noise of aircraft and continuous bombing.
We always said the Shahada before sleeping, and when morning came, we thanked God. We checked on our neighbours every morning, fearing that we would lose one of our loved ones and relatives. Ramadan ended and Eid came. It was a sad and boring Eid, even though we bought new clothes with money donated to us, but we have lost many people and we visited the graves of friends and loved ones. After Eid, our lives returned to how they were. We wake up and eat if there is breakfast, and I go to classes and then come home to eat, collect water, study and browse the internet on my phone.
This was my day every day. At night, I slept alone in our destroyed apartment while my family slept in the tent we had built outside. I had reclaimed a room to study in and I slept there every day. On one night, something unexpected happened. It was very dark when an Apache helicopter came and it fired its bullets at our house and at my uncle’s house. My neighbours and I looked out the window (you might not believe it) and we saw part of the horrors and fire. I thought I was really in an action movie. As the bombing was continuing, I went down to the basement. Then I sneaked out of the building, moving carefully for fear that a quadcopter that I could hear overhead would see me and shoot me.
I went down to my grandma and grandpa who were both awake. I told them that the attack was in our house and my uncle Ibrahim's house. I was panting with stress. It was a very hard experience - I thought I was really going to die. The smell of gunpowder was everywhere and my family was in the tent and I was afraid for them. When the morning came I woke up to see where they were bombing and it turned out that they were hitting every house that had a solar energy panel because Ben Gvir had ordered to cut off electricity to the entire Gaza Strip. I filmed a clip of the attack on my phone but it is not very clear, and I discovered pieces of shrapnel on the ground from when the helicopter was shooting.
It disgusts me the way Western leaders talk about he war in Ukraine in that Russia is breaking international and humanitarian law in a way that almost convinces you that they believe the words they say, but as ever, or a token gesture mutter a few words about this genocide in the State of Palestine.
There has always been a very significant Jewish presence, both in terms of Jewish organisations and individual Jews, at all the national pro-palestine demos of the last 18 months, as there undoubtedly will be on this Saturday's demo.
But I never thought that I would see the day when members of the staunchly Zionist Board of Deputies of British Jews would start to turn against Israel.
And not least at a time when Israel is supposedly "at war", if you can call the genocidal turkey shoot which is currently taking place in Gaza that.
Asked for his response to the horrendous scenes in Gaza, including the “number of children who have been killed or harmed” Goldenberg said: “It’s awful and it’s a total breach of Jewish ethical values".
How long before members of the Board of Deputies are accused of being anti-semitic and apologists for Hamas just like anyone else who dares to criticise Israel?
self hating jew is the phrase i have seen deployed against jews or israelis that oppose the genocide
Yup, the suggestion is that any Jew who is opposed to Palestinians being driven off their lands and slaughtered has some sort of psychological issue.
The white supremacists during the apartheid era in South Africa missed a trick by not accusing those who supported the rights of black people of being self-hating whites.
Labour Friends of Genocide up to their tricks again - Lammy secret meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister, covered up by the BBC. I was going to say it is unbelievable. Sadly it's not. Outrageous, disgusting, contemptible. But not unbelievable.
. I was going to say it is unbelievable. Sadly it's not.
Well I am seriously struggling to believe just how far the current Labour leadership is prepared to go to protect a far-right neo-fascist genocidal regime who has murdered tens of thousands of innocent men, women, and children, in the last 18 months.
I find it incomprehensible.
Guardian article on the same visit https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/16/israeli-foreign-minister-david-lammy-uk-foreign-office
What does that actually mean - "private visit"? He came to see his tailor and just happened to bump into Lammy in Fortnum & Mason's ?? How stupid do they think we are ??
From the very obviously pro-Israeli Times of Israel :
While unauthorized outposts are illegal under Israeli law, it is common for them to receive support and funding from state bodies tied to the settler movement.
“In an operation that appears to have been planned in advance, the army is once again collaborating with settlers to establish illegal farm outposts, which are used to violently expel Palestinians under the auspices of the state,” Yesh Din says in a statement.
So not only does the IDF and the Israeli government continue to blatantly ignore the Geneva Convention and international law with regards to using Israeli civilians as instruments of conquest, but they also brazenly ignore Israeli law.
They really are a lawless terrorist state.
So it turns out that executing emergency workers and burying their vehicles was just a simple innocent mistake. So grateful to the IDF for their thorough and impartial investigation, quickly clearing up this question. Just what we expect from the world’s most moral army.
So it turns out that executing emergency workers and burying their vehicles was just a simple innocent mistake. So grateful to the IDF for their thorough and impartial investigation, quickly clearing up this question. Just what we expect from the world’s most moral army.
Did we really expect anything else from those lying bastards?, every single utterance from their lips is a lie.
Yeah I found the whole it was "a mistake" nauseating.
Murdering in cold blood 15 very clearly identifiable first responders, and then burying them with their equally very identifiable vehicles, was very obviously not "a mistake".
But, as I said earlier, not checking the corpses for mobile phones with incriminating evidence very clearly was a mistake.
And it is for making that mistake that the deputy commander of the brigade responsible has been dismissed. That should emphasis to IDF officers the need to cover-up mass murder crimes more effectively in the future.
Although at least one extreme right-wing Israeli cabinet minister is outraged that anyone at all should have had their wrists slapped.
Israel’s extreme-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, called the army chief’s decision to dismiss the responsible deputy commander “a grave mistake”.
So it turns out that executing emergency workers and burying their vehicles was just a simple innocent mistake. So grateful to the IDF for their thorough and impartial investigation, quickly clearing up this question. Just what we expect from the world’s most moral army.
I can't share the WhatsApp group discussion I'm in, but needless to say we've just listed the ways we'd be professionally and legally cooked. From low level drills all the way to LOAC stuff.
Commander couldn't PID targets? ID'ed a fire truck as a regular truck? Couldn't get confirmation or PID from air assets? Still went ahead and called the engagement. JFC.
As for the UAV, I know for a fact the lights would have shown on IR sensors, rotating or flashing beacons have a distinct signature, worst case you flick to day-TV and you can see them.
Those troops have NVG, sighting systems, all the toys that are provided to assist with PID and indicating targets between assets.
Even If you're being naively generous then that is a monumental level of incompetence for 'professional' reece elements and their commanders. The clue is in the name, seems they need some remedial training and some eye tests.
That's even before we even start to discuss the absolutely ruthless attempt at hiding the crime.
No matter the chain of events, or engagement process, somebody (non-IDF) was dying in that kill zone that night.
This is a very good discussion with Ilan Pappé
This is the most concise and yet thorough appraisal of current United States policies with regards to the Middle East I have yet seen
And Jeffrey Sachs is of course Jewish, if that matters.
Unfortunately, Professor Sachs is known for as many errors of judgement as good calls and he has an unshakeable belief in his own credibility. He's primarily an economist
His theme of several years is that US foreign policy caused Russia to invade Ukraine. He's suggested that the US was responsible for breaching the Nord Stream pipelines and that Covid-19 originated in US labs and he's been a guest on a RFKjr podcast
A Jewish anti-israeli conspiracy theorist no doubt
Edit : Btw I actually think the fact that he is an economist adds to his creditability, he has no obvious axe to grind.
We all know what settlers are, the 700,00+ settlers should be kicked out of stolen lands.
I don't think the average person in the UK really understands what sort people the colonial settlers in Occupied Palestine are.
And I am certainly a very long way from knowing everything about Israeli apartheid, it is a totally unique system anywhere in the world.
The more the world learns about it the more world will see how totally unacceptable it is.
I don't think the average person in the UK really understands what sort people the colonial settlers in Occupied Palestine are.
And I am certainly a very long way from knowing everything about Israeli apartheid, it is a totally unique system anywhere in the world.
The more the world learns about it the more world will see how totally unacceptable it is.
I remember getting a months long ban way back in 2004 for what I wrote on this forum regarding Israeli settlers and my opinion of them and their supporters.
At the time I had just read "Joe Sacco - Palestine" and I then went on a reading spree of other books regarding Israel and the Palestinians so I was rather outspoken and not as "careful" with my words/phrases as I am today.
A mate that works in diplomacy/relations/communication for Halo Trust (just up the road from me) has been back in the country for easter so he's coming to see me this week, he knows Rob Holden - WHO Emergency Coordinator and has sort've mentioned what he has been told by Rob regarding what the IDF have doing and the utter sheer barbarity of their actions on the ground - it's just horrific, I don't understand why it is not stopped as our politicians must have the evidence and be fully aware of what is happening.
As an aside this is a good interview/grilling/discussion with the excellent Sangita Myska and Mehdi Hussain
I don't understand why it is not stopped as our politicians must have the evidence and be fully aware of what is happening.
I don't think it is really anything much complicated than the fact that Israel is seen as a vital ally in a region perceived to be important to Western interest.
The West is perfectly prepared to prop up and support the most brutal of regimes if politicians feel it serves their interests.
I am not sure what will happen as Israel's plan to starve over 2 million Palestinians in Gaza gathers pace though. That could be prove tricky for Western governments.....2 million deaths through deliberate starvation.
The UK government did oversee the starvation of 3 million Indians during the totally avoidable and unnecessary Bengal Famine of 1943, and got away with it. But that was before the age of the internet and videos, and settler-colonialism is also now so last century.
Kneecap have released a statement in response to the concocted moral outrage over their recent performance at Cochella,
https://twitter.com/KNEECAPCEOL/status/1916982746708381731
Statement below
Their full statement:
They want you to believe words are more harmful than genocide.
Establishment figures, desperate to silence us, have combed through hundreds of hours of footage and interviews, extracting a handful of words from months or years ago to manufacture moral hysteria.
Let us be unequivocal: we do not, and have never, supported Hamas or Hezbollah. We condemn all attacks on civilians, always. It is never okay. We know this more than anyone, given our nation's history.
We also reject any suggestion that we would seek to incite violence against any MP or individual. Ever. An extract of footage, deliberately taken out of all context, is now being exploited and weaponised, as if it were a call to action.
This distortion is not only absurd - it is a transparent effort to derail the real conversation.
All two million Palestinian people in Gaza are currently being starved to death by Israel.
At least 20,000 children in Gaza have been killed. The British government continues to supply arms to Israel, even after scores of NHS doctors warned Keir Starmer in August that children were being systematically executed with sniper shots to the head.
Instead of defending innocent people or the principles of international law, the powerful in Britain have abetted slaughter and famine.
This is where real anger and outrage should be directed towards.
To the Amess and Cox families, we send our heartfelt apologies, we never intended to cause you hurt.
Kneecap’s message has always been — and remains — one of love, inclusion, and hope. This is why our music resonates across generations, countries, classes and cultures and has brought hundreds of thousands of people to our gigs.
No smear campaign will change that.
Suddenly, days after calling out the US administration at Coachella to applause and solidarity, there is an avalanche of outrage and condemnation by the political classes of Britain.
The real crimes are not in our performances; the real crimes are the silence and complicity of those in power.
Shame on them.
In addition to Ernies comment its also the weaponisation of the term antisemitic. Any criticism of Israel leads to loud cries of antsemite. As labour used this to attack the left they are now hoist by their own petard and dare not criticise Israel.
In addition to Ernies comment its also the weaponisation of the term antisemitic. Any criticism of Israel leads to loud cries of antsemite. As labour used this to attack the left they are now hoist by their own petard and dare not criticise Israel.
I have a couple of Palestinian flags with the wording “stop the genocide, end the apartheid, free Palestine” on the rear window of my car for the past 18 months and have had the antisemite slur shouted at me, once, briefly at Dumfries hospital whilst in the car park and recently at Dumfries Aldi car park waiting on mum to get shopping where he said he was calling the police and then launched into a semi screaming match but I just laughed and shouted back “crack on ya …………..”
If they throw it around then eventually it’ll lose all meaning, call me whatever you want, it’s utterly meaningless
Louis Theroux "The Settlers" is on tonight.
With the BBC now desperately scared of being accused of anti-semitism the Louis Theroux programme was in fact far better than I had feared would be the case.
The colonial settlers and the IDF really didn't come across as very nice people. And there was something quite sinister about Daniella Weiss's whole demeanour, Theroux made some comment at the end about her being an extremist with a smile.
And the important thing to know about Daniela Weiss is that she isn't just some nutter on the fringes who believes that Israel should stretch fom the Euphrates to the River Nile, she has very direct links with members of the Israeli Cabinet.
Louis Theroux "The Settlers" is on tonight.
With the BBC now desperately scared of being accused of anti-semitism the Louis Theroux programme was in fact far better than I had feared would be the case.
The colonial settlers and the IDF really didn't come across as very nice people. And there was something quite sinister about Daniella Weiss's whole demeanour, Theroux made some comment at the end about her being an extremist with a smile.
I/we met enough of them in Anjuna, Goa back in 2001 to very rapidly form a valid opinion of the IDF, we spent 7/8 weeks in Goa to relax after our 4 odd months touring around on the Enfield and whilst there were a few very cool chilled Israelis hiding out to avoid military service unfortunately they were treated like shit by the IDF goons, the same way the IDF Israelis treated the locals was ****g disgusting.
They took over the semi open Baskin Robbins ice cream parlour on the corner of mapusa rd/starco junction heading down to the beach and treated the staff to slaps, kicks, stuff thrown at them, shoving them around, smoking chillums at all times of the day and dealing large amounts of pills, coke, weed and hash in front of customers/tourists over the few weeks we stayed in Anjuna, but one night that all turned very very sour for them as a large mob of Indians who we later learned were “mob” from Mumbai turned up and absolutely laid into them with machetes, bats, bars etc.
We watched all this happening from the rooftop bar 50ft down/across the road and thought “let’s get out here before the police turn up” so we headed down to Palolem beach south Goa for a few weeks and read about it/watched reports on the bar TV’s.
Made all the Indian press at the time and a few were left with very serious life long injuries, can’t say I was fussed in the slightest.
Starmer has used similar language, with the British government keen not to get too far ahead of the US.
Why on earth would a Labour government not be keen to get far ahead of a neo-fascist administration?
@fenderextender:
What constitutes 'terrorist machinery' now in any case? A school that has pupils who might go on to be terrorists? A hospital that houses people who might be angered enough by life-changing injuries to pick up a suicide vest?
And what about the hundreds of thousands of new recruits that Israeli actions have created? Kill them all?
Kill them all?
Err yes, haven't you been paying attention?
(With apologies for the formatting. )
Crystal ball available for hire.
It is really hard to believe just low supporters of Israel are prepared to stoop. They really are shameless and lacking the most basic decency and humanity.
The Lancet found life expectancy in Gaza decreased by 34.9 years during the first 12 months of the war, about half (-46.3%) the prewar level of 75.5 years.
Ben Jamal, the director of the PSC, said: “As children in the Gaza Strip face the growing risk of starvation, illness and death, the suggestion by the head of UK Lawyers for Israel that they might benefit from weight loss is utterly sickening. These repulsive comments illustrate exactly what it means to be ‘for Israel’ and how low its apologists are prepared to sink in their attempts to justify genocide in Gaza.”
Presumably UK lawyers for Israel would argue that the Lancet is anti-semitic. And they have had remarkable success in the past with their racist claims that being supportive of Palestinians by definition means being anti-jewish. According to the article :
A complaint by UKLFI led Chelsea and Westminster hospital in London to remove a display of artwork by Palestinian children in 2023 after the group claimed that it made Jewish patients feel “vulnerable, harassed and victimised”.
Saw that posted a few days ago by Francesca Albanese 😡
Uk lawyers for utter genocidal ****s would be a more fitting description, they deserve everything coming their way for such bullshit
The scholar and writer Hamza Yusuf said on X that the outrage over everything depicted in The Settlers “says a lot about how well the media has shielded the public from the brutal reality of Israel’s occupation”.
As proud as I am of the film, I know that our documentary could never capture the full impact of what is unfolding in the West Bank. The reality of the displacement and harassment is often in interactions that are more extreme than those I saw.
Countries such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates — all of which Trump is visiting this week — are offering to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in the U.S., let their affiliated companies ink deals with Trump family businesses and purchase mind-boggling amounts of American weapons. On Tuesday, Saudi Arabia alone pledged to invest $600 billion in the U.S., including $142 billion in arms sales.
Israel, on the other hand, relies on billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars every year to help it buy weapons — and it must soon renegotiate a major deal involving that military aid. It is not a petrostate, a main reason it lacks the riches of the Gulf Arab countries. Israel also is mired in an expensive war in the Gaza Strip that has cost tens of thousands of lives and that Trump wants to see end.
This is just one reason why the apartheid regime's days are numbered, it is becoming less and less useful to the United States and it can only survive if propped up by the United States.
The IDF are now using advanced modern weapons to kill refugees in tents, not content with just starving them.
The only difference between the IDF and any other terrorist organisation is the sheer amount of weapons at the IDF's disposal
Yama Wolamsal interview with an utterly vile arrogant prick called Boaz Bismuth of Likud Party , he shows himself for exactly who they are.
I saw this today :
A kid threw a stone at me today (and missed) so I climbed into a fighter jet and blew up his entire street with an air-to-surface missile. I'm sure you will agree I acted in self-defence.
FFS
This isn't the result of a natural disaster, it the result of a deliberate government policy with clear and very easily predetermined consequences
Israeli society really is in an unprecedented crisis when the former IDF deputy chief of staff says :
Israel ‘killing babies as a hobby’ in Gaza
He is of course accused of "blood libel" anti-semitism, you would have thought that during his 38 years in the IDF someone might have noticed that he was an anti-Semite, and Netanyahu repeats the claim that the IDF is the most moral army in the world.
If you read the rhetoric of Israeli politicians with regards to the "heroic" IDF in that article it is the sort which you might associate with North Korea or Nazi Germany.
53,500 Palestinians dead vs 1,700 Israelis.
Self defence my arse.
This isn't the result of a natural disaster, it the result of a deliberate government policy with clear and very easily predetermined consequences
That ^^ was in reference to something that was on a live feed, I notice that the headline has now changed. This is the story as covered by the Independent :
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/gaza-strip-babies-aid-israel-b2754287.html
There’s just been a Tory MP (shadow minister and whip) Greg Smith - on the MPs panel on Five Live this morning and when asked about Gaza, his reply could have been written by Netenyahu himself.
He parroted the bullshit Israeli government lines in their entirely, in that Israel is simply defending itself against terrorists and is entirely justified in its present actions. That Hamas is stealing all aid, so aid should remain blocked. Apparently David Lammy’s (hopelessly belated) statement yesterday was endorsing terrorism. What Israel is doing is definitely not genocide or ethnic cleansing, it is merely self defence, according to him
I’d say it was unbelievable for someone, seeing what we’re seeing, to voice that opinion, but it’s entirely believable. In fact it’s totally unsurprising. The Tommy Robinsonisation of the Tory party continues at pace
There’s just been a Tory MP (shadow minister and whip) Greg Smith - on the MPs panel on Five Live this morning and when asked about Gaza, his reply could have been written by Netenyahu himself.
I’d say it was unbelievable for someone, seeing what we’re seeing, to voice that opinion, but it’s entirely believable. In fact it’s totally unsurprising. The Tommy Robinsonisation of the Tory party continues at pace
Member of Conservative friends of Israel who support the settler movement..........he's bought/paid for by a zionist terrorist regime and has been on numerous "fact finding" missions/junkets/paid for holidays to explore the region, the Likud government and the settler movement deserves the same treatment we hold for groups such as isis.
I’d say it was unbelievable for someone, seeing what we’re seeing, to voice that opinion, but it’s entirely believable.
Well a couple of hours after Lammy's statement. another RAF recon plane left Akrotiri to fly over Gaza, so the collaboration continues uninterrupted. In that context the statements of the MP you mention are just saying the quiet part out loud.
As I've said elsewhere, Israel is nuclear armed, a US client and the US president is an asshole.
Everybody else's positioning is carefully calibrated to reach supposed breaking point just as the last Palestinian leaves Gaza - on foot or in a body bag.
What we have here is a genocide, plain and simple. Say what you like about the UN in the 90s/00s but at least the UN got around to bombing the Serbs by the time of the Kosovo conflict. No one is going to launch an airstrike against the IDF. So they'll carry on.
And, as is in very sharp focus right now, the UN is only the sum of its parts and it needs to contain the US. American troops get torn up in Mogadishu in the autumn of 1993, the US get scared of intervention - then along comes Rwanda. No US, no UN.
another RAF recon plane left Akrotiri to fly over Gaza
sorry for the tangent, but thats the third time ive heard that comment today, whats the basis for your info?
Ehud Olmert has just been on the radio yet again and he’s been on channel 4 news loads of times.
He seems to be the most outspoken critic of the present regime and totally despairing about where his country has arrived at with these far right, genocidal lunatics at the helm
sorry for the tangent, but thats the third time ive heard that comment today, whats the basis for your info?
Luke Lakehurst MP mentions the flights in this quote from a Parliament debate. It's from 18th March, but puts some context on the levels of activity.
In addition to the 400 the hon. Member mentions, we have seen close to 50,000 Palestinians killed, the majority of whom have been women and children. In addition to the manufacture and supply of F-35 parts, it appears that RAF Marham in Norfolk has been used at least seven times to send spare parts directly to Israel. Since declaring a so-called suspension of arms exports, the UK has issued 34 new licences, including those for essential aircraft components. I ask the Minister directly: which licences were suspended in September 2024, which licences remain suspended, and why have the Government refused to publish details of arms exports between July and September 2024?
Our military co-operation extends beyond arms sales; it is operational, especially when it comes to using our airbase in Akrotiri, Cyprus. In one year alone, from December 2023 to November 2024, the UK conducted 645 surveillance and recon missions, which amounts to almost two flights a day. Interestingly, during the same period, the US moved heavy transport aircraft carrying military equipment to Akrotiri, and the RAF subsequently conducted daily cargo flights from Akrotiri to Tel Aviv. We have been told that those flights were for surveillance and hostage rescue, but if that is the case, we must ask why we used RAF Atlas C1 aircraft, which are large enough to transport military vehicles and helicopters.
thanks both, will dig into that this evening as the IG link is blocked.
the accusation i heard on the radio earlier was along the lines that UK spy aircraft are being used to inform Isreal and enable their actions in Gaza.... somewhat different to the parliament quote suggesting that military 'parts' are being moved/sold from UK to Isreal (im not saying thats ok, or better, just different)
I read the logistics part of that quote as in addition, not the same flights. So from that text...
Arms supplies through F35
Recon surveillance flights
Logistics of US arms into Israel
All separate activities.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0521/1514213-kneecap-liam-ohanna/
And the IDF cementing their reputation with the EU
https://www.rte.ie/news/middle-east/2025/0521/1514153-jenin-diplomats-israel/
It's time to remove Netanyahu's genocidal government and hold every single IDF soldier culpable for war crimes, I don't care how it's done, hold every single supporter of this genocide to the same level that the Nazi's were held to
It's time to remove Netanyahu's genocidal government and hold every single IDF soldier culpable for war crimes, I don't care how it's done, hold every single supporter of this genocide to the same level that the Nazi's were held to
Absolutely this.
And the IDF cementing their reputation with the EU
It wasn't just EU diplomats that the IDF fired warning shots at, the visiting diplomats represented about 30 countries including Turkey, Canada, Egypt, the UK, and Jordan.
It is hard to believe that a country which is currently facing mounting international isolation due its relentless killing of innocent men, women, and children, and the growing global revulsion that its policy of deliberately starving children is causing, should do something so unbelievably dumb as firing warning shots at a diverse group of diplomats.
It seems almost as if Israel is determined by it's actions to secure the label of pariah state. I reckon that the primary explanation for this totally irrational and obviously self-damaging behaviour is that Israel is facing a vast and unprecedented crisis well beyond its control. It is in a state of absolute panic as Israeli society disintegrates from within and it faces an enemy it cannot defeat. Never in its entire existence has Israel's future looked less certain.
And as pointed out by Israeli historian Ilan Pappe when a brutal regime sees itself collapsing its behaviour is at its very worse.
Ilan Pappe explains it himself
It seems almost as if Israel is determined by it's actions to secure the label of pariah state. I reckon that the primary explanation for this totally irrational and obviously self-damaging behaviour is that Israel is facing a vast and unprecedented crisis well beyond its control. It
I wouldn’t say it as “Israel”, more Netanyahu’s coalition government is desperate to secure the label of pariah state as he then stays in power blaming everything as antisemitism and can do whatever he likes, against whomever he likes. And the IDF have been carefully moulded to his advantage in this, they seem to treat it as a sick sport, just look at the tik-toks of IDF soldiers making jolly videos saying they’re going vermin hunting today and if it moves, it’s getting shot.
Any UK citizen who has volunteered for the IDF needs treated as a potential war criminal and should be subjected to the rule of law when they return to the uk.
Every single settler should be sanctioned, no excuses at all.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0521/1514213-kneecap-liam-ohanna/
And the IDF cementing their reputation with the EU
https://www.rte.ie/news/middle-east/2025/0521/1514153-jenin-diplomats-israel/
What a crock of shit…..
It's time to remove Netanyahu's genocidal government and hold every single IDF soldier culpable for war crimes, I don't care how it's done, hold every single supporter of this genocide to the same level that the Nazi's were held to
In an ideal world this would happen. But who is going to do that? If the US weren't led by a total horrible **** and backed the UN, it might be a possibility. But they are, and they don't.
Netanyahu isn't going to stop for the simple reason that no one is going to stop him.
Let's be clear about this. Netanyahu is going to ethnically cleanse Gaza. No Israeli is ever going to be in the dock at the Hague.
Nuclear armed states weren't ever supposed to act like this. But then, acceptable norms don't seem to be a thing any more. Not in UK politics, US politics or global events. Welcome to the world where being a total shit is acceptable.
Let's be clear about this. Netanyahu is going to ethnically cleanse Gaza. No Israeli is ever going to be in the dock at the Hague.
If that’s the case then I hope they are named, shamed and followed around or harassed wherever they go, or preferably sanctioned to the maximum extent
Let's be clear about this. Netanyahu is going to ethnically cleanse Gaza.
He isn't. Because firstly the Palestinians in Gaza have nowhere else to go to, neither Egypt nor Jordan will accept them, and secondly despite the IDF relentlessly killing them with everything at their disposal for the best part of two years there are still over two million Palestinians in Gaza.
Despite the Israelis now starving Palestinian babies in Gaza there is no feasible way to kill over 2 million people within a reasonable timeframe, it would take many years if not decades.
Ethically cleansing vast areas of Palestine during the Nakba in 1947 was reasonably easy because there were surrounding countries which the Palestinians trying to escape zionist terrorism could flee to, plus of course Gaza - that is why Gaza has the highest population density in the world, but conditions now in 2025 are very different.
Worth 3 mins of your time, not what you expect
The Israelis are very good at "hasbara" aren't they? And to be fair it is a skill which they have been honing for decades and which they pump a lot of money into.
All of which makes the latest incident of firing warning shots at a group of unarmed international diplomats even more ridiculous. And suggests that their actions are now increasingly driven by a sense of panic rather than careful strategy.
Eventually the Gazan Palestinians* will end up in Egypt. Just like they ended up in Lebanon 40-50 years ago. With the same enhanced regional instability in a more dangerous world.
*The ones who are still alive.
Edit: Not suggesting that it was Gazan Palestinians in the main that were pushed north into Lebanon.
Very apt post from sangita who was sacked from her position at LBC after a combative interview with an Israeli government gobshite, despite her show gaining the most new listeners.
James O’Brien (the acceptable choice of hand wringers) has repeatedly mentioned the absurd notion that “presenters have been pushed out/sacked” as conspiracy nonsense and on one occasion blamed sangita directly for not explaining why she left (she has a slapp/nda against her so can’t speak out) and he said she was let go for poor viewing figures (a lie, she increased the listening figures substantially for her weekend slot).
Sangita was replaced by the Zionist apologist gobshite that is known as Vanessa Feltz……..says it all.
https://twitter.com/SangitaMyska/status/1924926790306271350
And with reference to that bullshit outrage over kneecap….
Good article in the MEE by Jonathan Cook on the sudden condemnation of Israel by the Labour front bench
Slightly OT but mention of Sangita always reminds me of this beauty
According the the Israeli government the shooting of two Israeli staff in America is Keir Starmers fault due to his ‘blood libel’.
They seem oblivious to just how ridiculous they look, spouting this kind of bollocks, when everyone is watching their continued genocide on the news every night
Slightly OT but mention of Sangita always reminds me of this beauty
Thats brilliant, I’ve not seen that before.
And I do not miss the faux outrage nor the “I’m unsure about my stance on this subject, inform me” bullshit of James O’Brien
(I’ve purposely avoided all global broadcasts/podcasts)
And after watching that marsh family video on YouTube I read a few comments where it was mentioned that James (huffy) O’Brien had blocked them for this video, so I went to google and it appears he did……what a ****ing huffy prick 🤣
https://twitter.com/MarshSongs/status/1789753339564986767
According the the Israeli government the shooting of two Israeli staff in America is Keir Starmers fault due to his ‘blood libel’.
They seem oblivious to just how ridiculous they look, spouting this kind of bollocks, when everyone is watching their continued genocide on the news every night
That’s all they can now do, spouting utter bollocks…….exposing themselves for what they are, butchers of innocents
The Marsh Family have had a lot of fun in the last few years ripping the piss out of a lot of stupid situations.
Horrific reporting on the current situation at the Palestine Red Crescent Hospital in Khan Younis by plastic surgeon Dr Tom Potokar, he describes Gaza as a slaughterhouse.
He talks of operating on a young man with a missing left arm, his right leg was gone/missing hip joint, his left leg was so damaged and crawling with maggots that he was going to lose it below the knee amongst other blast injuries.