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Condolences for Palestine’s ambassador amid fears that Israel is preparing worse atrocities

This Writer had no idea, when preparing my earlier article about the death of Sidra Hassouna, that she was one of the relatives mentioned by Palestine’s ambassador to the UK, Husam Zomlot, in the video clip of him that I used.

Here is his message confirming what happened:

And here is the video clip. In it, he states, “Israel has massacred from 60 to 100 – we don’t know the exact number because, still, people are under rubble including the family of my own – of my wife: her aunt, the husband, all the children, all the grandchildren are gone.”

Now we know they are gone forever – victims of the so-called Superbowl Massacre, in which Israel bombed a refugee camp in Rafah to provide fake cover for a fake rescue operation, to be able to say two hostages had been rescued (who had in fact been rescued days before).

This Site can only offer deepest sympathies to Mr Zomlot. Nobody should ever have to see the children of their family in the way he has been forced to see them, due to Israel’s brutal genocide – an atrocity that is made worse by the clear delight that the Israeli military forces take in killing civilian children, women and men (see my previous article).

I think of the children in my own family, and the younger friends I have, and I consider how I would feel if such savagery was inflicted on them. To understand the horror of what is happening in Rafah, you should do the same. And remember: there is no need for this to happen. There were always better ways of responding to the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel.

No: Israeli forces are murdering children and dismembering their bodies because they want to.

What else should we expect when their political leaders are encouraging them?

Such killings of female and child non-combatants are now routine, with white flags ignored by the IDF, as this Sky News report makes clear. Note also how the IDF refuses to comment on its atrocities when confronted with the facts:

Others have also offered condolences to Mr Zomlot – both public figures and members of the public:

Yes. Isn’t it strange that the UK’s prime minister, Rishi Sunak, has had nothing to say about this?

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In fairness, Foreign Secretary David Cameron has pointed out that, as the occupying power that controls everything going into and out of Gaza, Israel has a duty to civilians there:

But neither Cameron nor anybody else in the UK government is lifting a finger to stop the slaughter – instead we provide funds and weapons to Israel, and as such the UK is aiding and abetting genocide.

The public is speaking, though: there is a petition calling on the government to revoke all arms export licences to Israel. Please sign. This Writer has no doubt that the government will ignore it (money talks) but it may demonstrate the strength of public feeling if it gains a significant number of signatures:

It seems more – and worse – is on the way. With 1.5 million people now trapped in Rafah and Israeli forces closing in for a ground assault – on civilian children, women and men, remember – they have no way out.

Attacks on Rafah are already taking place, as we have seen, and the Israeli forces are also taking time to murder civilians who remain in other parts of Gaza. If anybody – especially our UK politicians – remains under any illusion that the IDF is under orders to protect civilians, you should unburden yourself of that illusion now.

For example: remember Nasser Hospital, which is a protected site under the Geneva Convention; it is a war crime to attack anybody there?

I already reported on the way a child was shot in front of the hospital, by snipers who then targeted anybody who tried to reach him.

It seems the IDF then sent a handcuffed Palestinian prisoner into the hospital to order everybody there to evacuate – and then they murdered him when he returned:

Meanwhile – apparently for fun – Israel bombed the hospital:

And now – faced with no choice – patients and civilians have left the hospital, under the waiting guns of the Israeli butchers. I fear that Mark Seddon’s words, below, may be prophetic:

The IDF’s actions have been condemned by Medicins sans Frontieres, who wrote:

Since the war in Gaza began, our medical teams and patients have been forced to evacuate nine different health care facilities in the Gaza Strip, after coming under fire from tanks, artillery, fighter jets, snipers and ground troops, or being subject to an evacuation order. Medical staff and patients have been arrested, abused and killed. Provision of healthcare and scaling up lifesaving assistance is being made impossible by the intensity of Israel’s bombings and shelling, as well as intense fighting.

Warring parties must always respect and allow unhindered access to medical facilities and their surroundings and protect medical staff and patients.

MSF reiterates its call for an immediate ceasefire that will spare the lives of civilians, allow adequate and vital access to food and other basic commodities, and re-establish the healthcare system on which the survival of the people of Gaza depends.

After This Site showed video of Israelis partying in the street in order to prevent aid from getting to Gaza, it seems others are moving to prevent it from entering by other routes:

Here in the UK, those of us who are of good conscience are still trying to make our own will clear, and push our leaders into doing the right thing.

So we boycott Israeli goods in our shops:

If you’ve got a mobile phone (who hasn’t, these days?) but don’t yet have the No Thanks app that tells you whether an item was produced by Israel and should be boycotted, get it from the Google Play store or other appropriate app store now.

And the Scottish National Party is forcing another ceasefire vote in Parliament, likely to happen as an Opposition Day motion next Wednesday (February 21).

Here’s Stephen Flynn, leader of the SNP in the House of Commons:

“History will judge all of us by our actions,” he says in the clip.

This Site’s actions are clear to all. Will you take action too?


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Public opinion turns further against Israel after Rafah slaughter. So what?

Now we have a name for the little girl whose body, hanging from a window with its legs shredded and absent below the knee, has become synonymous with Israel’s so-called Superbowl Massacre:

Here’s video of Sidra while she was still among the living:

This was Sidra on February 12, and I make no apology for the graphic nature of what follows; Israel should apologise:

We’re told that the Superbowl Massacre was set up under the pretence that it was cover for a raid on Hamas to rescue two Israeli hostages; Israel ran an advert during the Superbowl with the tagline “Bring back our dads”, and then magically produced two such “dads”.

But it has been claimed that these “dads” had actually been rescued on February 2, and there was no raid to rescue anybody; this was simply an excuse for the massacre.

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You can see the wider-scale impact of it in the post below:

This is not the limit of the “pure evil” that Israel has been visiting on the people of Palestine, though. Here are a few more examples:

 

Alongside the murders – looting:

And lies. Israel is apparently claiming that it is helping send aid into Gaza, but the clip being used as evidence of this is from two years ago:

In fact, it seems Israelis are blocking aid from entering Gaza:

Looking at the evidence, some of us have been working backwards to find out what Israel has actually been doing. Here’s what they found:

It’s certainly true that the United States, courtesy of President ‘Genocide Joe’ Biden, has sent huge amounts of money to Israel. enabling that country to buy more weapons and ammunition to use on Palestinians:

And the US government has been roundly criticised for it.

But this is not solely a war on Gaza:

Yes it is ethnic cleansing. Yes it is genocide. Yes it is a holocaust.

And, being perpetrated by Jewish people from Israel, it means that the leaders of that country have learned nothing at all from the Holocaust inflicted on them by Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler.

It is, therefore, understandable for people to have become more than a little upset at this turn of events:

Yes that is correct – the UK’s government wholeheartedly supports what happened to Sidra Hassouna. On your behalf, it is saying that you wanted her to be blown to pieces by what’s most likely to have been an American bomb, triggered by an Israeli grunt. The UK and the US are drenched in the blood of Gazan children:

Also covered in blood are the Labour MPs who supported this. One of them, Rachel Reeves, was confronted by a member of the public – and ignored her:

Backtracking a little, remember the claim that Israel had persuaded the UK and the US to de-fund the only organisation capable of preventing a famine in Gaza – refugee care organisation UNRWA – with lies?

Here’s Israel’s liar-in-chief, Eylon Levy, failing to provide any evidence that UNRWA workers were involved in the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel:

And this satirical post highlights the differences between what journalists have been told and what they know to be factually accurate:

You may be asking, what’s the situation now?

Here are a few reports:

Palestine’s ambassador to the UK, Husam Zomlot, has been consistently excellent in putting forward the case for his people to receive help from the UK, rather than hostility:

But perhaps if your heart is too hard for you to listen to these adults, it will soften at the words of these Palestinian youngsters:

They want help, so they will be able to go home again. This may be difficult if their homes are now rubble. And the UK’s government remains hell-bent on supporting Israel.

But the tide of public opinion has turned further against our government – not just here in the UK but across the world, wherever Israel is receiving indiscriminate support for its genocide.

Ordinary people are refusing to accept it – here in the UK:

In the Netherlands:

In Japan:

And, yes, in the United States:

So far, our pleas for our governments to stop fuelling genocide have fallen on deaf ears.

It seems they will not heed the plight of children like Sidra Hassouna, and will instead continue funding Israel so Benjamin Netanyahu can continue buying the bombs and bullets that blew her apart.

But with public opposition growing, the tide will turn. How long will it be before we have a government that demands justice for Sidra; justice for Gaza?


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Israel supporters hold demonstration – on much smaller scale than pro-Palestine marchers

This is revealing.

Supporters of Israel and its genocide in Gaza held a demonstration in London – and the pictures tell the full story of how well it went in comparison to that held by supporters of Palestine.

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Here’s the Israel demo. Notice the low camera angle to disguise the numbers. A better shot follows immediately below:

And now here’s the pro-Palestine demo:


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Shaun Bailey doubles down on Carol Vorderman. Here’s more about HIM

Shaun Bailey: instead of shutting up, he has doubled down. At least it’s entertaining for the rest of us.

Some people don’t know when to shut up.

This Writer has said it before and no doubt I’ll have to say it again – especially about Tories.

The case in point is that of Shaun Bailey, the “Partygate Peer” (ennobled for failing to win the election to be London’s mayor, despite having been caught taking part in one of the infamous Tory “lockdown parties”) who attacked Carol Vorderman for having political views while (he claimed) posting revealing photos of herself on Instagram.

He’s been back on the box, doubling down on his claim and adding that he thinks her political views make Ms Vorderman a bully.

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Here’s what he said. Take note of Dr Louise Raw’s comment that prefaces the clip here, and let’s come back to it after you’ve been through all the evidence.

The appearance has attracted more adverse publicity for Bailey from Ms Vorderman’s supporters:

And here’s a nine-minute rundown of Tory misogyny, including that alleged of Bailey himself, that is well worth watching:

Did you notice the part in which Ms Vorderman’s Instagram is examined and the images had nary a bum or boob in sight?

I mention this because Bailey does also have his supporters, like Julia Hartley-Brewer, who insisted that “it’s all bum and boobs”, in the fact of the evidence.

And one of her guests still came out in support of Ms Vorderman! Watch:

Put it all together and the image of Shaun Bailey that has been presented to the public – by people on both sides of the argument – is of an unsavoury individual who is supported by people of similar unsavoury characteristics.

So, going back to Dr Louise Raw’s comment: if you are a parent of a school-age child, would you want this man visiting their school and polluting their mind?

Perhaps the last word for now should go to Florence, below, who refers to a Conservative Women event attended by both Bailey and “Rohypnol Jimmy” – the current Home Secretary, James Cleverly.

Her post refers to both Cleverly’s self-expressed (although he claimed it was humorous) interest in spiking women’s drinks with a date-rape drug and Bailey’s attitude to women’s clothing:

Rishi Sunak should be going frantic. With an election only months away, these men are the poorest advert for the Conservative Party that there could be.


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Support for Labour among Muslims falls by more than a quarter

Forsaken: for clarity, the polling shows that Muslims in general are turning away from the Labour Party, rather than Labour members who happen to be Muslims. But what shows discontent with a party better than a cut-up membership card?

Note: this is polling carried out before a majority of Labour MPs voted against a ceasefire in Gaza.

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Protesters have their say on Israel/Palestine – and it’s not what we’ve been told

Groundswell: a through-the-window view of Westminster Bridge during the pro-Palestine demonstration.

Props to Not The Andrew Marr Show for putting together video clips of the enormous march in support of Palestine on Saturday (October 28, 2023), and interview footage of the participants.

This Writer saw a post on the social media in which a commentator suggested that one person calling for – it was either Jihad, or the dissolution of Israel – was speaking for all the other participants in the march; around half a million people.

Of course that person wasn’t speaking for the majority. It was a lone voice that the mass media chose to use, because it tarred everybody there with a socially-unacceptable demand.

Well, here’s the other side.

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The information supplied to me with the clip stated: “This footage has been put together to show the views of the clear majority of the population who are not being heard on mainstream media.

“Following Israel’s siege and bombardment of Gaza, over half a million people attended a demonstration in London calling for an immediate ceasefire. This was by far the largest demonstration in support of Palestine.

“It features interviews with protestors as well as speakers including Husam Zomlot, Ismail Patel, Mick Lynch, Matt Wrack, Diane Abbott MP, Richard Burgon MP, Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP, Zarah Sultana MP, Apsana Begum MP, John Finucane MP, Dr Hosnieh Djafari-Marbini and Jeremy Corbyn MP.”

It’s fairly long – 34 minutes or so – and I would suggest that it is well worth your time; it shows you the real views of people who have been de-humanised, alienated and ‘othered’ by the right-wing pro-Israel press.

Footage from Platform Films (producers of Oh Jeremy Corbyn: The Big Lie and Carlos Soto). Commissioned by Crispin Flintoff.


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Is public opinion finally turning as Israel’s lies and atrocities come to light?

Rishi Sunak: “Netanyahu’s poodle” digs his heels in, during a Parliamentary debate. But how long can he ignore growing public opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza?

Rishi Sunak offered Israel unequivocal support in its “defence” against the Hamas attack of October 7 – a “defence” that has already been more than three times more deadly than the attack itself, while doing nothing to end any threat Hamas poses to that country.

He said he spoke for the British people. But there is growing evidence that, once again, he is speaking only for himself.

Here’s Peter Oborne to explain some of it:

Here’s SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn to explain that, in supporting Israeli war crimes, Sunak can only be speaking for himself. At the end of the clip, Sunak rises to repeat the falsehood that Israel is only defending itself. We can see that this is not true:

It seems the people of the UK are tired of hearing that Israel has a right to defend itself when the numbers coming out of Palestine are so horrific:

We want a ceasefire and we want efforts to resolve this crisis peacefully – and it seems clear that feeling for this is growing among our politicians:

The message isn’t getting through to Israel’s representatives, though. Tzipi Hotovely, that country’s far-right-wing Ambassador to the UK, told Piers Morgan that the UK was happy to bomb civilians in order to defeat Nazis, as if that justifies her country’s actions now.

She’s wrong, by the way. The bombing of Dresden was hugely controversial at the time and became more so after World War II. And morality in the UK has changed in the decades since, to the point where we would not do such a thing again.

We, as a nation, have grown. Why has Israel not?

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The apologists are still out in force, with Israel supporter Andrew Neil giving full-throated support to the latest reel of video clips to come from Tel Aviv, purportedly showing Hamas atrocities committed on October 7:

This Writer actually responded to his post, pointing out that it’s hard to believe a post like this when it starts with a lie. If these people were killed by Hamas, it wasn’t because they were Jewish but because they were Israeli settlers who had stolen Palestinian property (as that group would have seen it).

If this footage was taken on October 7, why was it not released immediately it was taken from the Hamas bodies? Israel was desperate to justify itself in the early days after the attack but resorted to lies instead. Even if it is real, the footage is hard to believe in this context.

Finally – and also on context – I asked: can we see some footage from IDF bodycams of what they’ve been doing to kill – what is it? – 250 Palestinians in the year up to October 7? Or has that all gone missing?

I wasn’t the only one asking the last question – although others were able to add more detail to it:

Here’s another response on similar lines:

We must remember, also, that Israeli propaganda about the way Hamas has treated Israeli citizens is being disproved with every hostage released by that organisation:

So we come back to the possibilities for the future. Jeremy Corbyn stood up in the House of Commons, demanded to know why the UK’s representative in the United Nations had been instructed to abstain on a call for a humanitarian ceasefire, and called for positive steps toward peace – but his words fell on deaf ears. Here are a couple of possible explanations for that:

Let us not forget that violence begets violence. What Israel is doing now will not bring an end to hostilities between that country and Palestinians – it will only make them worse. Israeli politicians know this, and are devastating the area anyway.

Meanwhile, in other countries, Israel’s aggression and accusations are more obviously untrue:

Control of the narrative is slipping away from Israel – and also from its supporters like Rishi Sunak.

If he doesn’t speak for the United Kingdom, then for whom is he speaking?

And isn’t it past time he was made to do what we want?


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Why is Keir ‘I hate tree-huggers’ Starmer gaining points over global warming?

Crete wildfires: unless action is taken, these fires will spread. Crops will fail and the UK will be unable to afford to buy supplies in from countries that will also be struggling. Your leaders know this and are doing nothing. You need different leaders.

UK opinion pollsters are recording an unlikely boost for Keir Starmer’s STP (Substitute Tory Part – formerly Labour) over climate change.

Despite the fact that he says he hates “tree-huggers” and wants the London ULEZ (Ultra-Low Emissions Zone) scrapped after he blamed it and not his own poor leadership on his party’s failure to win the Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election, the i‘s Editor’s Choice newsletter tells me his party is enjoying a “bounce” of support over the issue:

Our poll results … show a Labour bounce after days of Conservative backtracking over net zero pledges. Sir Keir Starmer is now on 44% support, compared to the Tories’ 27%. If replicated at a general election would hand Sir Keir Starmer a ­landslide majority on a scale not seen since 1997.

Note that, like This Writer, the i can apparently no longer bring itself to refer to Starmer’s party as Labour!

But it isn’t all roses for the party that colours itself red. While

only 15 per cent trust Rishi Sunak to deal with this crucial issue. Sir Keir Starmer fares slightly better (21 per cent) but nearly half of those polled placed no trust in either of them – a stat that is hugely worrying.

As if the “era of global warming” wasn’t a serious enough threat, this week, the UN secretary-general declared that we had entered “the era of global boiling” after scientists confirmed that July was on track to be the world’s hottest month on record.

Our exclusive poll shows that three out of four people want action taken now – a figure that understandably ramps up among those aged 24 and under. It is their planet to take on, after all.

We all have our part to play in the climate fight but there is only so much we can do without governments around the world stepping up to the challenge. And that needs to start at home. Now.

And it’s not happening.

Instead – and for example – the Starmer party’s shadow Climate Change secretary, Ed Miliband, appeared on TV to push a false claim about its current policy:

Reeves recently withdrew her promise to spend £28 billion a year on tackling the climate crisis.

Her – and Miliband’s – party’s current policy on climate change is to do nothing. There’s a vague offer to spend some money on it after being in office for an unspecified number of years.

Let’s remember (again) that Starmer himself – their party’s leader – used the ULEZ (Ultra-Low Emissions Zone) in London as the reason his party couldn’t win Uxbridge and South Ruislip in the recent by-election there and has tried to pressurise London Mayor Sadiq Khan to scrap it (in fact it seems that discontent with his own leadership had more to do with the failure to win that seat).

It is his stance that has encouraged Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak to water down his own policies on climate change. So perhaps it is poetic justice that Sunak’s own poll ratings have plummeted as a result.

But none of this does anything to stop the “global boiling” that is happening as I type these words. Our home is burning to a cinder and the men and women in suits are squabbling about money as though it matters.

They seem to have forgotten that money is made by using the natural resources produced by our planet and its eco-system. Destroy that system and those resources – in the way that these people have been doing (and yes, I mean Keir Starmer, Ed Miliband, Rachel Reeves, Rishi Sunak and all the shadowy businesspeople who employ them) – and not only will there not be any more money, but whatever they have will not be worth anything.

While they argue over whether cleaning the planet is cost-effective – like the imbeciles they are – some of us have been pointing out the obvious flaw in their thinking:

If Sunak, Starmer and the other stuffed suits can’t get their policies in line with that, then we need to fill Parliament with people who can.

I mean, it’s only a matter of survival. Ask your non-political friends how their non-voting – or even tactical voting – philosophy measures up to that.


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TV panellists clash over Labour offer to voters

“Britons to be priority on council house lists” thundered the headline in The Times, announcing a Tory government plan to make people who migrate into the UK second-class citizens as far as housing allocation is concerned.

It’s a red herring: people with UK citizenship are already advantaged on housing lists because immigrants have to wait two years before they can be considered for social housing – they have to build up a history as taxpayers and so on.

The policy proposal is most likely an attempt to distract the public from the fact that the UK’s Conservative government has failed to meet its target for house building – if it even tried. Tories are motivated by profit and if fewer houses are available, demand goes up and people pay more.

This was all aired on the BBC’s Politics Live. Then American commentator Dr Frank Luntz spoke up. He took a wider view than the other panellists, considering the issue as an election strategy, and suggested that the Labour Party was perceived as prioritising people its leaders expected to vote for it, over those in greatest need – incensing Labour representative Barry Gardiner.

Here’s the exchange.


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Poll shows most of us want to get rid of the Tories. Duh!

This should come as no surprise:

A majority of British people say the Conservative Party has made their lives worse, according to an exclusive new poll revealing huge public dissatisfaction with how the UK has been governed over the past 13 years.

The wake-up call comes a little further down this article, but let’s go through the figures first:

Asked by pollsters Omnisis whether the Conservative-led Government has made their lives better or worse since 2010, 55% said they have made it worse, with just 14% saying they have made it better.

This negative view of the Conservative Party’s handling of the last 13 years was shared across all age groups and regions of the UK, with little difference found between Brexit and Remain voters.

Our poll found little enthusiasm for the prospect of another Conservative-led Government.

Just 13% said they believed another victory for Sunak’s party would make their lives better, compared to 42% who said it would make it worse.

This compared to 35% who said a Labour government would improve their lives and 23% who said it would make it worse.

So most of us want a change from neoliberal Conservatism to a left-wing government. That would be the democratic choice. Right?

Isn’t it sad that Conservatives want to frustrate democracy, however they can – as the first few seconds of this speech by Tory Lord Cruddas demonstrate:

He was saying that younger voters would oppose Conservatives and should be denied the vote; voter ID denies the vote to people who should have it; and proportional representation would allow voters to have a government that reflects the will of the people as a whole, rather than a small minority.

So, he was saying, Tories should prevent these things from happening at all costs.

I’d say that’s another reason to vote them out. Wouldn’t you?

Source: The Conservatives Have Made Our Lives Worse, Say Voters


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