Israel ponders ceasefire in Gaza as world protests continue
Israel is considering a ceasefire after promising talks with Palestinian representatives in Paris, it seems. Perhaps the fiasco of the ceasefire debate in the UK’s Parliament was worthwhile after all.
Or perhaps the protests against the ongoing genocide in Gaza have finally started to wear down its Israeli architects? This seems less likely but should not be discounted.
That is especially true when the protests are taking place in Tel Aviv, despite Israeli government attempts to discourage them:
Somehow the corporate news missed this… AGAIN!#BREAKING: TEL AVIV IN CHAOS as protests against far right Netanyahu government intensify… pic.twitter.com/BH6jI5L3fr
— General Strike 🍀(Terrence Daniels) (@Terrence_STR) February 25, 2024
Here’s a protest in Bath, that took place on Saturday (February 24, 2024):
Powerful scenes from #Bath’s #FreePalestine protest today.
Hundreds attending a memorial procession, holding up placards saying 'remember their names' to honour the 13,000 innocent children slaughtered by Israel’s collective punishment of Palestinians in Gaza.
Please honour them… pic.twitter.com/um7sgISb8I— Nicola James (@NAJ562) February 24, 2024
A few highlights from Marie Duffy’s superb speech at #Bath’s #FreePalestine rally today:
"A million and a half traumatised families and children have been forced into a refugee camp the size of Heathrow Airport, where water, food, and medical aid are blocked from getting to… pic.twitter.com/AhbQzZxx2G
— Nicola James (@NAJ562) February 24, 2024
Here’s why protest at the popular level is important:
Zionists have been committing genocide in Palestine for 75 years. Since October 7, more than 30 thousand people, half of them children, have been killed, and the genocide still continues before the eyes of the world.
This 75-year genocide is the Holocaust of the Palestinian… pic.twitter.com/UnqeNanxpB
— Torah Judaism (@TorahJudaism) February 25, 2024
Meanwhile, in the Middle East:
The fishing boats & nets in Gaza🇵🇸have been intentionally destroyed by Israel 🇮🇱
Here is a makeshift effort to fish in a desperate attempt to get food.
And an Israeli 🇮🇱 war ship tries to bomb you to oblivion.
You can feel the pure unfiltered hatred.
— Howard Beckett (@BeckettUnite) February 25, 2024
Here in the UK, fallout from the farcical mess that Keir Starmer and Commons Speaker Lyndsay Hoyle made of the SNP’s Opposition Day debate on a ceasefire in Gaza is still happening:
Senior Assistant General Secretary of @RMTunion Eddie Dempsey says he will not vote Labour as his MP refused to support an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/eWvUEeATHW
— Taj Ali (@Taj_Ali1) February 24, 2024
UN WARNING
“State officials involved in arms exports may be individually criminally liable for aiding and abetting any … acts of genocide"
That could include the lawyers and judges prosecuting @Pal_action for taking measures to prevent genocide.https://t.co/soWaRN99mH
— Plan B Earth (@PlanB_earth) February 25, 2024
So the Israeli government is having a change of heart because the people of that country are turning against it, but the agony is still going on at the moment. In the UK, Labour is losing votes because Keir Starmer sabotaged a vote for a ceasefire, and organisations in the UK that are helping Israel’s genocide are in danger of prosecution.
Does that just about cover it? More to follow.
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