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DON’T LOOK AWAY: Horror as Israel attacks Rafah [GRAPHIC IMAGES]

Israel has launched a heavy air assault on Rafah, the last part of Gaza that Israeli authorities had declared a “safe zone” – where 1.5 million Palestinians are said to have fled – and the evidence shows that the result has been a bloodbath.

Strangely, it seems to be going unreported in countries like the UK, where the government supports Israel’s genocide with aid, weapons and ammunition. Instead, the news agenda seems to be dominated by reports of a raid in which two hostages were rescued – who would probably have been freed anyway if Hamas’s offer to free its hostages had been accepted by Israel.

This seems to be Israel’s endgame – a point at which all pretence of conducting itself in a responsible, humanitarian way towards civilians has been dropped and the genuine intention – to murder everybody left in Gaza in the most brutal, painful and graphic way possible – has been exposed.

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Some of the UK’s political class have spoken out about this slaughter – but they are a vanishingly small proportion of the total.

Images of the carnage have been emerging – and are having a shattering effect on those who have seen them.

Hopefully this article has run far enough down the screen that anybody who clicked on it by mistake will have left, having realised that it’s going to contain some horrifying imagery. I know the headline says “don’t look away” – and I hope you can bear to see what follows – but I also know that some of you may not be able to stomach it.

Here it comes. Note that the first post is a response to an Israel apologist who tries to justify that country’s bloodlust by equating it with all Jews across the world, applauding its ability to “fight back”.

Yes indeed.

It must make Israelis feel strong indeed, knowing they can fight back against defenceless children, mutilating their bodies and forever scarring their minds.

If you didn’t click on the image above, you may not have grasped the full horror of what you were looking at. Here’s a verbal description:

In the video clip below, people try to clean up children’s body parts.

The comment draws attention to the contribution of world powers to this slaughter – including both the UK and USA:

As Matt Kennard points out below, people here in the UK have responsibility for this, alongside those in Israel.

So if you are planning to vote for either a Labour or Conservative candidate in the forthcoming UK general election, remember that those parties fully supported Israel in everything it has done to Gaza – and ignored all the evidence of genocide.

Not only that, but the UK’s government, supported by Labour, intervened to stop Yemen’s Houthis from disrupting Israel’s genocide by attacking trade on the Red Sea. Apparently Rishi Sunak would not brook interference with Israel’s profitability.

The people under attack here are mostly refugees, and Israel’s attack is sponsored by the UK government, so it is appropriate to remember the words of the late, great Tony Benn.

He said: “The way a Government treats refugees is very instructive because it shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it.”

So if you support the Conservatives, or Labour, at this year’s general election, you will be saying that you yourself fully condone what Israel has done to the children of Gaza and you would also support it if your government did the same to your children, if you have them.

Look again at that image of the child hanging from a hook, her legs a bloody ruin.

Do you really want a government that could do that to your own children – or to you – for the sake of a bit of money?


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Labour’s Rochdale by-election double-bind: hypocrites or election-throwers?

Azhar Ali: unsafe whatever he does.

Labour has put itself in a double-bind after its candidate in the Rochdale by-election apologised for voicing a well-known claim about the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.

The party is rumoured to be about to suspend its candidate, Azhar Ali, after he accused Israel of complicity in the raid that killed 1,200 people and led to 250 being taken hostage.

It seems he not only posted about it on the social media but also passed comments on it in a community meeting.

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The BBC reported:

In the recording, which has not been heard by the BBC, Mr Ali is alleged to have said: “The Egyptians are saying that they warned Israel 10 days earlier… Americans warned them a day before [that] there’s something happening… They deliberately took the security off, they allowed… that massacre that gives them the green light to do whatever they bloody want.”

Egypt has indeed said that it warned Israel in advance of the raid. Still, Ali has had to make a grovelling apology to Israel’s supporters after his words were quoted by a hostile UK mainstream press.

Is that enough to save him from suspension, which would effectively end Labour’s Rochdale campaign?

Many think not. Skwawkbox is reporting that

suspending Ali would effectively end Labour’s campaign in the by-election, with no possibility to stand another candidate less than three weeks before polling day. Cynics have pointed out that the political fallout from exiting the election would be less damaging than Galloway beating Ali in a fair fight and accused the party of engineering the default.

But if Ali is allowed to continue, he would still face obstacles:

His willingness to stand for a party led by Keir Starmer, who has supported Israel’s ‘right’ to commit its war crimes against the Palestinians has already seen videos posted of him being ordered to leave doorsteps during his attempts to campaign. Such has been the contrast with the reception given to Workers Party GB leader George Galloway, a firm supporter of the Palestinians, that Galloway’s odds to win the by-election have been slashed from 16-1 to 2-1.

Not only that, but if Ali isn’t suspended, then Labour is endorsing a candidate who has admitted contradicting the party’s line on the Israel/Gaza conflict – and the inferred hypocrisy could be enough to cost it the forthcoming general election.

It seems Azhar Ali is set to lose, no matter what happens.

Source: Labour ‘set to suspend’ Rochdale candidate despite grovelling apology to Israel supporters – SKWAWKBOX


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Israel has attacked targets in neighbouring countries. Isn’t that terrorism?

Israel is a repeat offender against Syria: this missile attack took place on July 19, 2023.

I was going to do an in-depth article on this, but then I realised that I don’t have to.

If someone sets off a bomb, triggers a firearm or commits another act of violence, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims, we describe that as an act of terrorism. It doesn’t matter if the perpetrator is an individual or a foreign government.

The government of Israel has attacked targets in Lebanon, Syria and Iran for political reasons.

That is terrorism. Israel is now a terrorist genocidal state.

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Here’s the information you need:

In Iran, Israel’s bombs killed 84 people:

Oh, and here’s one more point:

The question of whether there really were no civilian casualties has yet to be answered (see above), but even if the claim is true, that simply means Israel’s slaughter of the innocents in Gaza is deliberate.


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If you see any posts attacking Good Law Project soon – bear THIS in mind

Don’t feed the trolls: it seems that a worthy organisation of legal experts are about to face a storm of abuse on the social media – funded by a Tory contractor.

It looks like this plan is about to go south in a big way:

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Already this propaganda scheme is attracting the kind of attention it deserves:

This might help you work out your own position on this matter:

Meanwhile, the Good Law Project continues to provide useful information (with a view to court action) on government misdeeds like the following:

Well, the cat’s out of the bag, so let’s see what happens now.

This Writer’s hope is that nothing happens and Topham Guerin (and Palantir) make big noises about never having wanted to smear Good Law’s good name.

Otherwise, we can all have fun finding out where the money for this little wheeze has come from.

Shall we do that instead, guys?

But here’s a serious question: if this little wheeze has been discovered now, how many other such wheezes have been carried out – successfully – in the past?


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Israeli attack on maternity unit is latest hospital atrocity

The Al Ahli Hospital was the first to be struck by a missile during the conflict; at first, Israel claimed it was a Hamas missile that flew off-course, but very few people believe that now.

The video evidence speaks for itself. Israel has shelled the maternity ward of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza.

There can be no military advantage in trying to murder mothers and their infant children; this is a war crime:

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This is the latest in a series of attacks on Gazan hospitals. An ‘X’ user using the handle ‘Walnut2016’ posted: “Anybody remember the Baptist Hospital, 1st to be bombed? That was how Israel broke the world’s ice with targeting hospitals. Where’s Anderson Cooper & CNNs horse manure of misfired Khamas rocket? What about the 20 other hospitals Israel aren’t denying they bombed?”

Israel also attacked Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza:

And while Israel starves Gazans of food and water, it is also starving them of resources; a hospital ship is said to be waiting offshore – but has been refused permission to land and offer help:

Again we see the true face of genocidal Israel: hospitals are not valid wartime targets and Israel’s excuse – that they are fronts for Hamas bases – has been shown to be unfounded (so far).

In any case, there is no reason to deny access to a ship offering vital medical help.

The only likely possibility is that Israel does not want Palestinian civilians to receive any relief from the horrifying injuries being inflicted on them every day.


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Israel has a history of attacking itself and accusing others. See for yourself

Eylon Levy: how many atrocities, committed by Israel, has that country’s liar-in-chief tried to pin on Palestinians?

This is the icing on a very nasty, incendiary cake, really – we already know about the Hannibal Directive that orders Israeli troops to kill their fellow Israelis in a potential hostage situation.

But here we have it from the lips of some of the hostages taken by Hamas on October 7, who were subsequently released:

The Israeli government tried to claim that the casualties created in this way were the fault of Hamas terrorists, when it was Israel’s own military that carried out the killings – in order to turn public opinion against Hamas and Gaza.

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Now we learn that this tactic – attacking its own people and blaming someone else – has been employed by Israel, not just for a few years but for decades – certainly as far back as 1994:

So next time you hear a representative of the Israeli government – or one of their social media shills – declaring an atrocity has happened against Israel, just remember that the most likely perpetrator is Israel itself.


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Israel/Gaza: Forgotten festival families organise to demand investigation into deaths

Families of the Israelis who died at the Nova Music Festival on October 7 have formed an organisation to demand an official state ‘Commission of Inquiry’ into what happened.

This Writer’s big question is: why has this hardly been reported?

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Here’s a post on ‘X’ that I happened to find by luck:

And here‘s a partial translation of an article on Israeli media:

The families of those killed in the “Nova” and “Psydak” nature parties gathered yesterday (Monday) for the first time to establish a headquarters that will be called “The Flowers of the Parties”.

The families explained that the background for establishing the headquarters is the state’s ignoring them and seeing them as “transparent”.

Erez Sarfati, the father of the late Ron Sarfati, who was murdered at the Nova party, told the participants: “On the seventh of October, over 350 party goers who went to celebrate life were murdered, since then no official has contacted us.

“It is clear to us that the country is in an ongoing war, we are clear that the abductees need to be taken care of and everyone returned now, but we are not ready to be transparent in the eyes of the state’s captains.

“We all watch every night and are shocked by the headlines of the leaders, what kind of victory is this? We all lost and no one looks us in the eye and apologizes for this abominable failure.

“We will not allow the continuation of the cover-up of what happened to our dear ones.”

The implication is that Israeli military personnel did indeed fire at festival attendees, and did indeed kill some of them – a claim that has been hotly contested by the Israeli government and its military ever since.

I wonder whether the international media are ignoring this story in the hope that it will go away.

Then they’ll be able to carry on spouting the official line from liars like Eylon Levy.


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The facts about the Israeli attack on al-Shifa hospital are out – and DAMNING

Useless: the incubators at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza are now without power, due to the Israeli assault – and babies are dying. The IDF invaders don’t care a jot.

Israel’s excuse for attacking and shutting down the largest and most important provider of medical care for the population of Gaza has been shredded into tatters, leaving that country guilty of a flagrant – unforgivable – war crime. Or so it seems to This Writer.

Let’s look at the evidence, starting with a bit of context. This is from Consortium News – to which I was pointed by award-winning (and impeccably-credentialed) UK journalist John Pilger:

The Israeli claim that Shifa hospital was providing such a cover for an Hamas military presence there is in fact the longest running theme in Israeli war propaganda on Gaza, dating back nearly 15 years to the first days of the Gaza war of January 2009.

That was when Yuval Diskin, the head of Israel’s domestic intelligence service Shin Bet, told Amos Harel of Haaretz newspaper that “many” senior Hamas officials were “believed” to be hiding in the “basements” of Shifa hospital, and that the Israelis knew all about those underground levels of the hospital, because they had originally been been built by the Egyptians before 1967 and extensively refurbished by the Israelis themselves in the mid-1980s.

Diskin also explained to Harel that Hamas was confident that it wouldn’t be attacked, because of the patients on the upper floors.

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Apart from the fact that Israel’s intelligence service had admitted that it only suspected Hamas’ military presence under the hospital rather than having actual knowledge, Harel was, however, honest enough to report that his Palestinian contacts were telling him senior Hamas leaders never stayed in the same location but constantly moved from one location to another — a revelation that obviously made far more sense than the claim that those same senior Hamas officials were hanging out in a basement that was obviously well known to the Israelis.

But Hamas’ tunnels outside Shifa could obviously be used for the same function of command of military operations without having to bother with Shifa hospital.

So the drumbeat of Israeli concern about the alleged Hamas command bunker underneath Shifa appears to have been a phony issue from the start, aimed merely at bringing pressure to bear on the medical system, namely to close down Shifa as the largest, most modern and most effective hospitals in Gaza to create the maximum amount of suffering to the people of Gaza.

The article also states:

An attack on a hospital is normally considered a clear violation of the rules of war. The Israeli Defense Forces is justifying it by claiming that Shifa has long served as civilian medical  cover for the command center of the entire Hamas war operations and weapons storage.

That IDF claim has been cited constantly in Israeli propaganda as an argument that Shifa — and other hospitals in Gaza — should not be accorded the normal legal hospital immunity from attack.

Right. So: if no Hamas command centre and weapons store was discovered at the hospital, Israel’s attack on it must be a war crime.

What’s the situation there now?

The following refers to the Biden administration in the United States giving its support to the Israeli al-Shifa invasion – reported in Consortium News as follows:

CNN reported Monday night that “the Biden administration has now signaled that it supports the Israeli position, as National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan declared on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday: ‘You can see even from open-source reporting that Hamas does use hospitals, along with a lot of other civilian facilities, for command-and-control, for storing weapons, for housing its fighters.’”

Those Sullivan remarks were an obvious green light for the IDF to press on for complete evacuation of the hospital.

The problem with that “open source reporting” is that it is never anything more than unsupported claims based on mere supposition.

If you’re not convinced by any of the above, then the BBC’s Verify team has examined the evidence – and has also found Israel’s evidence wanting:

The verdict seems clear: there is no evidence that al-Shifa was ever used as a base for terrorist operations by Hamas and any equipment that has been used by Israeli forces to indicate the same was brought there by them.

Where are Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak to tell us Israel has the right to defend itself by depriving Gazan citizens of medical care and, ultimately, their lives?


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Israel’s latest Gazan targets are civilian. Have any been military?

Between bombardments: this is northern Gaza. If you would not want to live in a place like this, how can you stand by and watch while others are forced to?

Israel’s genocide of the Gaza Strip continues, with hardly even a comment from the international press or political establishment.

Here are the latest atrocities:

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Is THIS what Hamas hoped to gain from the October 7 incursion into Israel?

It seems The Spectator has been speculating on what Hamas hoped to achieve by breaking into Israel, attacking Israeli Defence Force positions and kidnapping civilians, who were taken as hostages into Gaza.

Israel was bound to strike back, and under current prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, that response was always going to be extremely forceful; genocidal.

So, why do it?

Here are my thoughts; let’s see if they coincide with those of that other magazine.

Well, sadly it seems this organisation has been playing with the lives of Gazan citizens in the same way one might play chess; sometimes, sacrifices have to be made in order to win.

Most of the analyses This Writer has seen suggest that Hamas in Gaza works in isolation, but this could not be further from the truth. Hamas is an international organisation – meaning Israel’s stated intention to destroy that organisation altogether is nonsense; part of its leadership is always based in other countries.

Hamas has allies in the governments of Qatar and Turkey. It used to be allied with Hezbollah in Lebanon, with Syria and with Iran but those relationships have been strained recently.

How, then, could Hamas bring all of these countries together to oppose Israel and its persecution of Palestinian people?

Isn’t it possible that the answer, for the organisation’s leaders, was to sacrifice thousands of Gazan citizens – in order to turn international public opinion against Israel?

So on October 7, Hamas breaks out of Gaza and acts according to stated intentions: eliminating the Israeli Defence Force’s Gaza Battalion and taking hostages to be traded with Palestinians the organisation claims have been jailed by Israel for no reason at all.

The operatives taking part in the operation stick rigidly to that plan; there are no atrocities – no beheaded babies, no rapes of girls or young women, and the hostages are all treated humanely. Israeli propaganda claiming otherwise then backfires, making that country’s government and military look like liars.

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Israel then retaliates – not with a surgical strike intended to recover the hostages and remove the Hamas threat in Gaza, as should have been possible after years of espionage, but with a genocidal show of strength intended to act as a warning of what will happen to anyone challenging Israeli power.

This is in accordance with the so-called “Hannibal Directive” demanding that IDF troops kill Israelis rather than allow them to stay in the hands of an enemy.

This provokes Hezbollah to strike Israel from Lebanon in an act of solidarity. Yemen, said to be part of a so-called ‘Axis of Resistance’ against Israel alongside Hezbollah and Hamas, has also struck at Israel from the south.

What happens next?

That is a matter for Israel.

Will it turn its formidable arsenal – most of which is still idle, despite the constant and extreme bombardment of Gaza – onto Lebanon and Yemen?

If so, will that prompt Iran to turn its own considerable firepower on Israel, to defend its allies?

You see, the countries/organisations that have stepped in already have been able to claim a legitimate interest in defending the defenceless; and if they are attacked, any countries that step in to defend them will be able to claim a legitimate interest in defending their allies.

The logical choice is for Netanyahu to respond to Hezbollah and Houthi (Yemeni) attacks only in defence – for the time being.

But he is still losing the propaganda war, because his forces are murdering hundreds of Gazans every day.

And the fact of those deaths is likely to stir many more members of the Muslim world – Palestinians, Lebanese, Yemeni, Iranians, Qataris, Turks or whoever – into taking up arms against Israel.

So, whatever Israel does, it loses. And this is partly because of the unacceptably violent decisions of that country’s leaders.

All it will have cost Hamas is a few thousand Gazan lives.

Let’s remember: there are no “good” sides in this conflict. As This Writer wrote in another article, weeks ago, “there are only murderers in this room”.

That’s why I’m willing to believe that this is exactly the way the leaders of Hamas have planned it.


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