However, the United Nations has warned that the ‘spectre of death’ looms over Gaza as hundreds of thousands continue fleeing from the expected Israeli invasion.
Supplies of food, water, fuel and medicines are running dangerously low after Israel imposed blockades on the Palestinian territory.“
[Daily Mail]
[Gaza: a young girl carries her cat as they try to escape]
Israel already carries a very heavy karmic burden of evil; the present slaughter and distress being visited on civilian victims in Gaza (half of the population is under-18, and about a quarter are babies or children under 12) can only increase that.
“Cartoonist Steve Bell claims he has been ‘sacked’ by The Guardian over accusations that some of his work is anti-Semitic.
The veteran artist, who has worked for the newspaper for more than 40 years, said it was no longer willing to publish his artwork after he submitted a controversial cartoon of Benjamin Netanyahu.
In the image the president of Israel was seen wearing boxing gloves and holding a scalpel over his own exposed belly, readying a cut in the shape of Gaza while the caption reads: ‘Residents of Gaza, get out now’. “
[Daily Mail]
[the supposedly “offensive” cartoon of Netanyahu]
A sign of the times.
In 2023, the proper word for the UK is “occupied”…
I do not have much time for any sort of Arabs as a group, any more than I have much time for Israelis or Jews generally (i.e. as a group). Both groups have their positive and negative points. However, both what the Israeli state is doing to the civilians in Gaza, and how the Jews elsewhere in the world are justifying that, is just evil and, in a word, inhuman.
I am reminded of someone I knew slightly in the early 1980s, about 1984-1985, when I belonged to the (now long-defunct, I believe) Kensington Rifle and Pistol Club. I suppose that he was about 55-60. I cannot recall his name.
Born in Gaza (I think) and an odd (?) mixture, half-Palestinian Arab, half-Russian, he was a pretty good pistol shot, and worked as a civil servant. I remember that, one evening, at the Club bar, he invited me to go, on some unspecified future day, to meet his (I think English) wife, but he died unexpectedly not long after, and in an unusual way.
The individual of which I speak worked at a government office very close to Lambeth North Underground Station. Co-incidentally, I myself was also there quite often, because I took part-time (a couple of evenings per week) Russian and German at nearby Morley College in Westminster Bridge Road.
There are or were no escalators at that station, only a large and ancient lift. I sometimes ran up the (about 90-100) stairs to the top, for exercise. It seems that the Russian-Palestinian fellow had no choice but to climb the stairs one day when the lift was out of operation. He got to the top, but suffered a heart attack and died there. The Evening Standard had a small story about it. I regretted being unable to offer his wife my condolences, not knowing her address or telephone number, and never having met her.
That Russian-Palestinian man had told me over a drink at the Club bar about how, in the Palestinian refugee camps of the day (1980s), sanitation and water supply were very basic, probably more so even than today (until a week or two ago, anyway), and how if a child lived to age 2, he or she was almost invulnerable to disease caused via bacteria, because the immunity was so strong. He himself cannot have been born in such a camp, though, because he must have been born in the 1920s, maybe early 1930s, before the Nakba (the late 1940s ethnic cleansing carried out by the Jews).
Just a stray memory or two…
🇵🇸🇮🇱 Israeli man releases a video teasing those in Gaza for not having water or electricity. pic.twitter.com/EKhK2y20yF
Bombing cheered on by Jew-Zionists, in the UK and elsewhere, who claim that they feel “terrified” at (almost non-existent) “antisemitism” in their safe suburbs etc…
🔵 Liz Truss is to challenge Rishi Sunak’s government with a so-called alternative budget
👀 It will come a year after Truss delivered the “mini-budget” which preceded her downfall as prime ministerhttps://t.co/hMg0DJW43i
I have no idea whether Liz Truss has some kind of deluded “plan” in doing this. Does she not understand that she and Woollyhead Trussbanger (Kwasi Kwarteng) lost what little credibility they ever had a year ago?
Actually, why is she doing this? Can it be that she thinks that after the quite likely wipeout this Government is probably going to experience in 2024, whatever is left of the Parliamentary Conservative Party (maybe as few as 50 MPs, maybe 100 or so) will turn to her?
That’s the Union Flag or “Jack”, not the Israeli flag. Anyone confusing the two (stand up Suella Braverman, Rishi Sunak, Starmer, Farage etc) should go to Specsavers (or, better still, get lost).
Kay Burley: "Whats the view on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza this morning?"
The Israeli ambassador to the UK: "There is no humanitarian crisis…"
As someone once said, “the simulacrum of the human“. There may soon be robots with more humanity than her. That Israeli bitch cannot interact (even with someone, Kay Burley, who is quite pro-Jewish) in anything approaching a civilized manner, let alone a diplomatic manner. Why is she polluting our English air?
The Jerusalem Post confirms our assumption that the delay in the start of the IDF ground operation in Gaza is due precisely to the uncertainty of the Lebanese Hezbollah’s goals. Tel Aviv fears that as soon as the IDF gets involved in fighting in Gaza, a Hezbollah attack from the… pic.twitter.com/BmMSUVDitn
“The Jerusalem Post confirms our assumption that the delay in the start of the IDF ground operation in Gaza is due precisely to the uncertainty of the Lebanese Hezbollah’s goals. Tel Aviv fears that as soon as the IDF gets involved in fighting in Gaza, a Hezbollah attack from the north will follow.”
Ukraine survives only thanks to American help – recognition of the head of the US Treasury pic.twitter.com/etk2izXvif
On the wider point, people in the UK, USA etc should be aware of the open hatred those shown above (even those brought up in the USA) have displayed toward their host population and against those of white Northern European ethnicity generally.
Not all Jews have the above-displayed genocidal enmity against white Northern Europeans, but many do. I myself have seen it.
War crime is not the befitting word for whatever Israel is doing to the people of Gaza in #Palestine. Israel is committing a genocide and is supported by the super power countries while they know the truth. Where's humanity? What has the world come to? pic.twitter.com/G4rzGeqyl2
It is now an ethical duty for those who have any kind of public platform, even one as relatively little-seen as my blog, to stand up against the Israeli war machine and repression apparat.
If the intention of the Israeli government is to seize about half of the already-crowded Gaza Strip, and to force the 2 million inhabitants (half of whom are under-18) to exist somehow in the remaining half —or even third— that would create social and living conditions far far worse than those seen even in the much-publicized Warsaw Ghetto of the early 1940s.
More than 2,200 Palestinians, including 700 children, have been killed in Israel's war of extermination in Gaza, backed by the US and EU. Three hundred people were killed on Saturday alone. Others are still missing under the rubble.https://t.co/oiu0e638Lt
What “Westerners” are up against here is the mindset of a tribal people whose designated ancient history, and religious celebrations right up to the present-day, are largely about ethnic supremacism, ethnic cleansing, wars against other peoples etc. Look at the Old Testament.
Those who, like most white Northern Europeans, think by default as post-Enlightenment liberals, do not understand much of the Israeli mindset, which somehow bypasses those liberalistic Enlightenment values, just as Hebrew, a dead language in the 19th Century, was deliberately resurrected for use in the 20th/21st centuries.
I’m asking Chief Constable @SYPLPoultney why her force allowed a pro-Hamas checkpoint to operate for at least 2 hours in Sheffield, so that Jews like us had to drive through, not knowing what might happen. https://t.co/8hJDN5xCpO
Jew-Zionist loony and troublemaker complains to the Sheffield police, and somehow contrives to make himself and his wife “victims”, even though nothing happened to them, no threats were made, and they simply drove through a pro-Palestinian demonstration in a matter of a few seconds. Typical…
Dear John Simpson, Nelson Mandela didn't behead babies, rape women to death and then parade the bodies of innocents through then streets of South Africa. A world where the people who did these things become 'global heroes and icons' is not a world most of your viewers will want… pic.twitter.com/rbpoCvtJvP
Thick part-Jew trustafarian Zac Goldsmith seems unaware that Mandela was tried, convicted, and imprisoned not for his simplistic and stupid political views, but for conspiring to start a terror campaign and race war in South Africa: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivonia_Trial.
At that trial, the defendants were all Africans or Jews, and the defence lawyers were almost all Jewish. One defendant was acquitted at the direction of the trial judge.
Incidentally, Mandela was allowed to give a three-hour-long speech from the dock. Try doing that in the UK of 2023!
“At the beginning of the defence’s proceedings, Nelson Mandela gave a three-hour speech from the defendant’s dock, in which he explained and defended the ANC’s key political positions.
He justified the movement’s decision, in view of the increasing restrictions on permitted political activity on the part of non-White Africans, to go beyond its earlier use of constitutional methods and Gandhian non-violent opposition to the state, embracing a campaign of sabotage against property (designed to minimize risks of injury and death), while also starting to train a military wing for possible future use.” [Wikipedia].
Iran doesn't hate Jews, but in fact Iran is home to REAL Middle Eastern Jews who have lived in the region for thousands of years, and they didn't suddenly come from New York to colonise the land pic.twitter.com/WT9qNCiDxR
The IDF requested the US to send all their Tamir missiles, which are used by the Iron Dome defense system.
The US sent all they had, amounting to only 312 rockets. This clear signal indicates that Israel is suffering from a shortage of these missiles. pic.twitter.com/rGEC7DOfch
I have no idea whether either the facts stated, or the conclusion. are correct. Interesting, though.
A Senior Israeli Official has announced that Intelligence has been received which indicates Iran is attempting to move “Strategic Weapons” into Syria in order to Open another Front against Israel. pic.twitter.com/RxVPlFjAnh
Maureen Lipman, the Jewish actress, has “threatened”, a number of times over the years, to leave the UK by reason of supposed “antisemitism”. Strangely, though, it never seems to happen.
I'd list the antisemitic incidents – small & large – I've suffered in my 53 years in England, but would anyone really care?
They've convinced me that, no matter how "civilised" or "compassionate" this country claims to be, if it really came down to it, we Jews are on our own.
Why does @ChtyCommission allow Zionist groups to ‘police’ UK citizens using tactics synonymous with The Cheka police. How long before ‘volunteers’ claim leather coats on expenses? Make no mistake #Chekism is alive and well just watch Joe Glasman’s video. https://t.co/zZvuGe5HWg
A few years old, but worth seeing again as the (tiny but very well-funded) Jew-Zionist “Campaign Against Antisemitism” ramp up their attacks on free speech in the UK.
#BBCLauraK Lammy just said, live on BBC, The Labour MPs & Counsellors must NOT attend a Pro-Palestinian rally.
When asked " Can they attend a Pro-Israel rally" he said "Right of protest is very important".
Lammy is as thick as two short planks. As with “Boris”-idiot, Liz Truss, Shapps etc, the fact that such useless wastes of space can now climb to the upper levels of our political life says something not very positive about our society.
At least for Jews we can always go to Israel. The others are stuck in this cesspit.
According to Malcolm Rifkind the Israeli government is not ordering civilians in Gaza to move south. It is simply a suggestion. A matter of common sense. We would appear to be in the ugly Tory moral territory of Rees-Mogg on the people who died in the Grenfell Tower fire.
Malcolm Rifkind currently arguing on Kuenssberg that Hamas having hostages wholly justifies 2.2million civilians being made to die of thirst, starvation or lack of sanitation. This country is unhinged.
So tweets the wannabee “victim” loony and troublemaker referred to earlier.
My attitude to the present Israel/Palestine situation can probably be summed-up by the cartoon below:
Threatening people with police action for expressing their (albeit misguided and hateful) opinions is not a productive or ethical solution. While it's understandable to feel outraged and disgusted by these abhorrent views, the answer isn't to criminalize them, but rather to…
What about the UK-based Jew-Zionists applauding the slaughter of civilians (many of them children) in Gaza, whether or not those Jews usually say, in effect, “oh dear, how sad, never mind” (and place the blame with the Gazans for not surrendering every last vestige of human rights to the Israeli ethnostate)?
Suella Braverman is Priti Patel Mark 2: plenty of tough words about the cross-Channel migrant-invaders, but little action, little plausible policy, and completely in the pocket of the Jewish/Israel lobby. Another waste of space.
So Israel should right the wrongs that they can. Don't expect a people to peacefully accept dispossession and life in a concentration camp.
This is what the dried-up Kakhovskoe reservoir in the Nikopol area looks like now. The bushes there are already under 4 meters. A couple more years and no one will remember that there was once water there pic.twitter.com/1XJcOFeigT
“Israel’s deadly strikes on Gaza have led to an “unprecedented human catastrophe”, announced the UN agency for supporting Palestinian refugees UNRVA.
The general secretary of this agency, Filip Lazarini, told reporters that “not a drop of water, not a grain of wheat, not a liter of fuel has been allowed in the Gaza Strip for the last eight days”.
“Gaza is suffocating and it seems to me that the war has just lost its humanity,” he said.”
As the number of resistance rockets fired increases, the Israeli Iron Dome is forced to prioritize and attack a target that is on its way to hitting the city.
According to Israeli media reports, Iron Dome was forced to do so the night before in Tel Aviv, which shows the… pic.twitter.com/C03J1RNz5M
“As the number of resistance rockets fired increases, the Israeli Iron Dome is forced to prioritize and attack a target that is on its way to hitting the city.
According to Israeli media reports, Iron Dome was forced to do so the night before in Tel Aviv, which shows the seriousness of Hamas’ rocket operations.“
There is nothing much that the Palestinian Arabs can do to counter the massive Israeli military force in the field. They do not have jet fighters, tanks etc. However, in the close confines of Gaza, especially Gaza City, it may be a different story, one more akin to some of the battles seen over the past year in Ukraine; or at Stalingrad 80/81 years ago.
Well, not so good this week: 4/10, though that was still enough for me to beat, yet again, political journalist John Rentoul (who scored 3/10). I knew the answers to questions 1, 6, 7, and 9.
The NWO/ZOG conspiracy has been exposed —yet again— in the past week. The masks really have come off. Von der Leyen, Macron, Nigel Farage etc, as well as more obvious puppets of Israel and the Jewish lobby such as Starmer, Sunak, and the “tail wags dog” American government and msm.
Tommy Robinson [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Robinson_(activist)] gives his opinion. He claims, with reasonable plausibility, that he is not getting money directly from Israel (though that leaves in the air the question of from where he does get the money upon which he lives in his Spanish exile).
I slightly sympathize with “Robinson’s'” dislike of Hamas and even Fatah, but he seems unaware or uncaring about the strategic “big picture” that has unfolded since 1948 in Israel/Palestine.
I should be interested to see a similar graphic, I suppose it would have to be an ordinary graph, showing the amount and/or proportion of the UK economy controlled by Jewish interests in 1890, 1923, 1956, 1989, and this year.
“Robinson” might care to factor-in to his future comments the question of which group or groups control the political and msm narrative(s) in the UK, and in the West more generally. Not Hamas or Fatah, and not —most of the time— the Muslim community or communities, but mainly the Jewish lobby and/or Israel lobby.
If the Palestinians supporting Hamas (etc) are monstrous, they have been made monstrous— by Israel.
“Counter terror police in Sussex have arrested a woman on suspicion of supporting a proscribed terror organisation following a pro-Hamas protest in the city.
The woman is believed to have made a speech at the event.
Superintendent Petra Lazar from Sussex Police said: “After reviewing footage from the protest event held in Brighton on Sunday October 8, the matter was investigated by Counter Terrorism Policing South East. We will continue to support them as they conduct their investigation.“
[Jewish Chronicle]
Wait a minute….what was that name again? Superintendent Petra Lazar?!
Did you hear the statement by the Israeli Minister who openly called for the "erasure" of the city of Hawara from existence, which is a strange statement that clearly incites ethnic cleansing in Gaza#طوفان_الاقصى_#Gazagenocide#غزة_الآن
My name is Elin. I’m no longer alive although I loved life. 🇵🇸 Israel bombed my family, I heard screams, then nothing. I was not used as a human shield, actually I was in the area they told us to evacuate to.
I’ll be totally honest: I never expected large scale ‘population transfers’ of more than a million people gleefully given green light by Western governments in the 21st C
It’ll take months but beneficiaries are Russia & China. The West has just jettisoned any moral authority.
That is probably the first time I have ever agreed completely with anything tweeted by Aaron Bastani. Perhaps I should have it framed.
The West has lost moral authority. That is what happens when your governments are corrupted by Jew-Zionism not only in the Middle East but also in our own countries; in the UK, USA, France, Germany etc.
I should date the loss of American moral authority specifically (despite all that has happened since 1776) mainly to the events that happened in Iraq and Afghanistan a couple of decades ago, and what flowed from those invasions. The terrible Abu Ghraib, Bagram and other torture programmes, including so-called “extraordinary rendition”; also including the concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay.
'The emptiness of Keir Starmer'
Ralph Schoellhammer, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the Labour Party’s drab, technocratic vision for the UK. pic.twitter.com/X7YANMCyTc
Saw many tweets etc against the Jew Shapps; a few in his favour, too. What strikes me as incredible is that many discuss his words as if the fact that he is a Jew (indeed a fanatical Zionist Jew) is not really relevant! “After all, he has a UK passport“, “he was born in the UK, in Hertfordshire” etc…
At least with the Israeli Jews in positions of political authority, you know that almost all of them have been in uniform, and quite a few have seen action (i.e. what you see is more or less what you get) but in Britain we now have the Shapps type, who really know nothing about defence or anything else. Not only Jews, incidentally— look at, to name only one other, Gavin Williamson. I blogged about him 4+ years ago: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/05/02/deadhead-mps-an-occasional-series-the-gavin-williamson-story/.
Actually, Britain cannot “go to war” anyway. For that, you need a functioning Army, Navy, and Air Force. Our very-reduced armed forces are now almost powerless, and indeed almost useless. In fact, I begin to wonder what is the point of even having them. Our very borders are open to any who wish to cross the Channel in a rubber boat. Migration invasion.
Grant Shapps, transport secretary who failed to keep HS2 costs under control. Rewarded as defence Secretary. This is what we live in.
Needless to say, Matthew Parris fails to note that Shapps is a Jewish Zionist. I suppose that Parris wants to keep his job; anyone even noting en passant whether someone, even someone as incompetent and dishonest as Shapps, is a Jew, faces loss of job, loss of money, etc, maybe even prosecution…in fact, the Zionists rely on that kind of intimidation (in Europe, where the Jews have no Israeli Defence Force or secret police with which to frighten people).
Since the recent Gaza events, I have seen several tweets by well-known Jews in the UK effectively threatening to report to police, presumably to those police playing at “counter-terrorism”, anyone criticizing the Israeli actions.
Typical.
Incidentally, I have today seen tweets by Jews in the UK who support the Israeli actions, one saying that “In 2008, during [Operation] Cast Lead, Hamas had rockets that could only go a few kilometers. Now they can go 250 km. In 2008, Hamas didn’t have drones, amphibious assault teams, anti-tank missiles, anti-aircraft missiles. Now they do.“
I agree with that. The operational capabilities of Israel’s enemies, both in Palestine and elsewhere, have grown greatly. The population of Tel Aviv will, sooner or later, be protected from air attack little more than is, now, the unfortunate population of Gaza.
In the old proverb, “old sins cast long shadows“…
More tweets seen
The Crimean Bridge was completely restored 18 days ahead of schedule and traffic was opened on all four lanes – Russian Deputy Prime Minister Khusnullin pic.twitter.com/nJwhLll9nL
Very English (to remove the flag, rather than… well, ’nuff said…).
The virtue-signallers have moved on. “Ukraine” (Kiev regime) is no longer flavour of the month. Now it is Israel (oddly; after all, a vast mechanized war machine is attacking a largely-unarmed civilian population, half of which is under18 years of age).
The whole of Avdeevka is burning, heavy fighting is taking place, the Russians are advancing for 4 days.
The head of the local administration, Barabash, commented on the 4th day of massive shelling and assault by the Russian Armed Forces pic.twitter.com/Jj6XfgrsJY
Russia will eventually triumph in Eastern Ukraine (Ukraine east of the Dnieper). The Kiev regime is living on borrowed time.
US sends warplanes to Middle East to contain Iran
The purpose of the transfer of equipment is to “contain Iran and regional groups” from interfering in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This was reported by the Air Force Times, citing a source in the Pentagon. pic.twitter.com/iP5IKuw9Wu
In other words, the Americans (US Govt, not ordinary Americans) are going to allow the Israeli Jews a “free hit” on the population of Gaza, half of whom are under 18, and at least quarter of whom are young or very young (0-12) in age.
It's incredibly rare in our modern politics for someone to rise above Party tribalism and act purely on their principles. Whether you agree with him or not, that is what Crispin Blunt is doing here.#IsraelPalestineConflicthttps://t.co/zNLVhqkl6X
We’re into the eighth day of Israel’s assault on Gaza now and so far they have killed about 700 children. That’s an average of 100 PALESTINIAN CHILDREN KILLED EVERY DAY!!!
Genocide doesn’t even go far enough to express this reality.
While “technically” perhaps not genocide, this is at least quasi-genocide.
Again it strikes me that, while the Israeli Jews kill tens of thousands (which may eventually be hundreds of thousands) in Gaza, the most vocal-on-social-media Jews in England are whining (and lying) about how they and their neighbours etc are “fearful” or “afraid“, or even “terrified” of (very limited, mostly “defensive” and only very rarely physically-manifested) “antisemitism” in the UK.
Most probably she's injured and permanently deaf now. Animals, the most innocent casualties of war.
“These animals can no longer live”. 95-year-old Israeli army reservist Ezra Yachin was filmed calling on Israeli troops to kill families and children along with Hamas fighters in Gaza.”
[Al-Jazeera]
What a horrible old bastard. He even says that Jews in Israel who have any Arab neighbours should go to those neighbours and kill them.
Ingrained psychosis.
Late tweets seen
The Israeli army continues to delay the start of the ground military operation in the Gaza Strip.
Now the IDF command has announced that the army will launch a ground operation after assessing the number of residents remaining in the enclave.
“The Israeli army continues to delay the start of the ground military operation in the Gaza Strip.
Now the IDF command has announced that the army will launch a ground operation after assessing the number of residents remaining in the enclave. The ID command had not previously mentioned such a condition. But the world community’s reaction to the events in the Gaza Strip could not but affect Netanyahu and his entourage.
Therefore, for the time being, the decision was made to achieve the evacuation of only the majority of the population from the enclave.
According to numerous Arabic TV channels, more than 800 thousand people have now left the northern Gaza Strip. However, a significant number of civilians still remain in the enclave. If Israel launches a military operation while there are hundreds of thousands of civilians in the Gaza Strip, it will lead to tragic consequences for the population.
In addition, the Israeli authorities fear the risks associated with the start of a ground operation, involving new participants in the conflict, after which the IDF will have to fight on two, and even three or four fronts. In addition, there is a high probability that the US will not become directly involved in an armed conflict.
Therefore, Israel seems to be delaying the start of the operation not to estimate the number of civilian population in Gaza, towards which the Israeli authorities have long shown indifference, but to assess the real prospects and risks of an invasion.”
Many of the “foreign citizens” are in fact Jews. They flee, panic-stricken.
Vladimir Putin, at a meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the CIS, stated the need to create an independent Palestine with its capital in East Jerusalem . pic.twitter.com/EDnG5JAY49
Zelenskiy's former aide calls for the formation of a new government in Ukraine
Kiev has failed to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia and needs a change of leadership, Alexey Arestovich wrote on Telegram pic.twitter.com/BirHIjvew6
The Scottish police, prosecutors and courts seem to be every bit as (((infested))) as one would have expected. The malign influence of (((the usual suspects))), of course.
Tweets seen
They lie a lot to find justification for their crimes committed against the Palestinian people
Stray thought about Gaza, Israeli “military action”, and social media
What strikes me most about the UK Jew-Zionist outpourings on Twitter/”X” is the sheer sadism and hatred many of the Jew-Zionists are putting out. Many of them are gloating about how the civilians of Gaza are about to be crushed, subjected to pain and devastation etc.
Many Jew-Zionists are effectively or actually saying that the Gazan population (half of whom are under 18, and at least a quarter of whom are young or very young children) deserve to be wiped out or, more euphemistically, “taught a lesson they will never forget“.
What makes their comments even more contemptible is that the said Jew-Zionists are sitting in comfort in places such as North-West London, or in other suburban enclaves. They cannot wait for the poor, repressed, and helpless population of Gaza to be killed or injured; they themselves are in no danger, yet they are now already pretending to be “victims” and/or “fearful” that they will somehow be subjected to a pogrom in the UK!
It seems to be an ingrained psychological disorder.
Needless to say, the “holocaust” narrative is wheeled out in support….
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[SS-Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler at the Berghof]
[Germany 1945— “We are fighting for the future of our children!”]
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The most comprehensive polling to date shows large numbers of British Muslims, about a third, endorse anti-Semitic tropes like "Jews have too much power". A large majority say they'd sacrifice free speech to defend Islam. Only a minority think the Holocaust happened. A quarter… https://t.co/XpKwzxmKP0
You only have to look at entitled Blairite hogs such as Emily Thornberry…
Under other circumstances, at other times, I should discount Labour’s 2024 General Election chances as overblown, but in 2023 it is just palpable how utterly incompetent is the present Conservative Party government. “Clueless” scarcely covers it. In those circumstances, can Labour “lose”? I cannot see how right now.
Britain is increasingly in the hands of a Luxury Belief Class – a new elite who push ideas like mass migration, open borders & gender ideology which bring them status from other elites and few costs but impose high costs on everybody else My latest in today's Mail… pic.twitter.com/oBNOAXyyI2
Israel's military issued an evacuation order to Palestinians in Gaza, in its strongest hint yet that it prepares to launch a ground offensive almost a week after Hamas's surprise assault.
– ‘We have nowhere to go’: Gaza reacts to 24-hour warning to evacuate – US defence secretary arrives in Israel – Israel has right to ‘go after’ Hamas, says Shapps
Israel ordered the evacuation of more than a million civilians from the entire northern half of Gaza. The UN said the order would lead to “devastating humanitarian consequences,” and Gazan officials told Palestinians not to comply.
Russian and Ukrainian forces were locked in fierce fighting around the eastern frontline town of Avdiivka for a fourth straight day on Friday, in one of Moscow’s biggest military offensives in months.https://t.co/PplfWOFbAw
Last year, that would have been 24/7 news, but this year Israel is the priority; everything else, everywhere else, is secondary. That shows the core of the post-1945 (arguably, post-1956) “Western” world order.
The University of Exeter in England will offer a postgraduate degree in magic and the occult. Coursework will include the study of Western dragons in lore, literature and art; the depiction of women in the Middle Ages; and the philosophy of psychedelics.https://t.co/naz0k1auSy
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict distracts the West from Ukraine – expert
It was no coincidence that the Hamas attack on Israel occurred on Vladimir Putin’s birthday, German expert Thomas Jaeger said in an interview with N-TV. According to him, Russia is benefiting greatly from… pic.twitter.com/hgQXVtWhuq
“The Israeli-Palestinian conflict distracts the West from Ukraine – expert It was no coincidence that the Hamas attack on Israel occurred on Vladimir Putin’s birthday, German expert Thomas Jaeger said in an interview with N-TV.
According to him, Russia is benefiting greatly from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Moscow hopes that Western attention and, accordingly, military forces will now be redirected from Ukraine to the Middle East. As a result, support for Kyiv will weaken, and this, in turn, will open the way to victory for the Kremlin.
At the same time, the main events are now unfolding in the United States, where Congress cannot agree on a budget containing financial assistance for Ukraine. The results of this political chaos will predetermine the further development of events.”
YouGov Scottish Westminster Voting Intention:
SNP 33% (-5) Lab 32% (+5) C 20% (+4) LD 5% (-2) Green 5% (-1) Reform 2% (-2)
Fed into Electoral Calculus, the result of such a general election would be: Labour on 504 seats, Conservatives on 64 seats, LibDems on 27, SNP 32, Green 1 (plus a few Welsh and Northern Irish). Overall Labour majority of 358.
That would be a complete elected dictatorship, and one brought about not because voters really like Labour, but because the new multicoloured fake “Conservative” Party is not so much hated as despised (as useless). A Labour Party elected dictatorship by default.
The Conservative Party reduced to 64 seats. Existential peril?
This woman and her children were released by Hamas. Her experience runs counter to everything mainstream media are saying. How odd. https://t.co/hiTYPoCWIU
The Jew-Zionists making up atrocity stories, while themselves carrying out real atrocities. Makes one muse anew about all those fake “holocaust” stories and hoaxes. There are thousands of them.
The Met Police says there has been a 650% increase in reports of anti-Semitism over the last two weeks compared to the same period last year.
Imagine the level of entitlement it takes for Jew-Zionists to sit in the UK, cheerleading the Gaza devastation and slaughter, and at the same time imagining themselves to be somehow “victims”, and demanding the sympathy of the population, police, and courts.
israel is boming the 1 million people in gaza they told to evacuate. the whole evacuation message was only a play to appear humane to media outlets!!! fight this evil propaganda #TheRealImage#Gazagenocidepic.twitter.com/l7hFfVF5IS
🚨BREAKING: Palestinian Paramedics “We were transporting people from the North to the South of Gaza, the Israeli air strike hit the truck and cars transporting the people evacuating! They struck us while evacuating and fleeing!” #GazaGenocide#StopGazaNakbapic.twitter.com/cq3X7EfZsK
At midnight, the Internet will be cut off in the Gaza Strip, following the electricity, so that the number of videos from the region will be reduced to a minimum.
The Ukrainian counteroffensive is over; the Russian Armed Forces have already switched to active combat operations on almost the entire front several days ago. This was stated by Russia's permanent representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya.
“The Ukrainian counteroffensive is over; the Russian Armed Forces have already switched to active combat operations on almost the entire front several days ago.
This was stated by Russia’s permanent representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya. “For several days now, Russian troops have switched to active combat operations along almost the entire front line. Thus, the so-called Ukrainian counter-offensive can already be formally considered completed,” the permanent representative said at the Security Council meeting.
According to Nebenzi, this cost Kyiv tens of thousands of mobilized recruits, most of whom did not want to take part in the fighting.“
“Rapists could be spared jail from next week as prisons reach breaking point, it was reported last night.
Sex offenders and burglars could be let out on bail rather than handed an immediate custodial sentence, according to guidance issued to judges.
The most dangerous criminals will reportedly have to be held in magistrates’ court cells if they are remanded in custody.
Prisons in England and Wales are on the brink of maximum capacity, with 88,016 inmates last Friday – leaving just 650 spaces spare.
The senior presiding judge for England and Wales, Lord Edis, ordered that sentencing hearings will have to be postponed from Monday, The Times reported.”
[Daily Mail].
There has been a sentencing crisis for years. While many crimes of drunken violence, acquisitive crime etc attract, quite often, non-custodial sentences, other crimes, often very minor, not only result in prison time but in very considerable time.
Look at the political realm. Harmless teenage fantasists who have downloaded online material such as the notorious Anarchist’s Cookbook (which was sold openly in London bookshops in the 1970s, and without the State imploding) have been sentenced to terms of 4, 5, even 7 years, incredibly. Anything (political or otherwise) involving illicit possession of a weapon (even a WW2 revolver) has attracted sentencing as severe, or more severe.
Likewise, there have been sentenced to prison people such as Alison Chabloz (sentenced to a number of months for posting “antisemitic” satirical songs and cartoons online), Jez Turner (a year, for having suggested in a brief speech in Whitehall that Jews should be driven out from England as they were under Edward I in the 14th Century), and “Sven Longshanks” (James Allchurch, sentenced to a very harsh 2.5 years for having posted “antisemitic” material on an internet radio station).
The alert reader will have noted the common factor in the immediately-above three Draconian sentences, but what do you expect when 10 Downing Street has the Israeli flag projected onto its facade? Or when Keir Starmer, posing as Labour Party leader, thinks that the Israeli ethnostate has every right to cut off water, food, and electricity (and everything else) from the 2 million inhabitants of Gaza.
As far as non-political crimes are concerned, one often sees newspaper reports these days about various types of criminal sentenced to, say, terms of 4, 5, or 6 years in prison, when a far shorter term of, say, a couple of years would really suffice. Likewise, people are sometimes —in fact, often— sentenced to a year or more in circumstances where, even retaining a custodial element, a few months would be more than enough.
At the present time, the crisis of available space would easily be solved if judges were to work out carefully, as they are supposed to do, the proper sentence in every case, but then, after all that, cut off a percentage, as an emergency administrative-judicial measure. Say 20%, so that a headline sentence of 5 years becomes one of 4 years, or one of 2.5 years becomes one of 2 years. That would scarcely impact anything other than space in prisons and, within a few months, would start to solve the present problem.
“Captain Sir Tom Moore‘s daughter has confessed to pocketing £800,000 from books written by the NHS fundraising war veteran.
In a tearful interview, Hannah Ingram-Moore revealed how the family received the money thanks to her father – whose lockdown walks raised £39million for the nation’s health service.
Mrs Ingram-Moore said her father wanted them to keep the profits from his three books: Captain Tom’s Life Lessons, One Hundred Steps and his autobiography Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day.
The family is also adamant that people buying the books were never told their money was going to charity.
However, the prologue of his autobiography calls this claim into question and suggests the veteran thought his books were just another way for him to raise cash.
The extract read: ‘Astonishingly at my age, with the offer to write this memoir I have also been given the chance to raise even more money for the charitable foundation now established in my name.’“
[Daily Mail].
I was in the minority of sceptics when the old ex-officer (he spent 6 years in uniform during WW2) started his “crusade”. While arguably wrongheaded, one had to respect the grit of the old fellow, yet the whole thing played into the “scamdemic” propaganda of the time, and even the £30M raised probably did little to help the maladministered NHS.
I could see that the daughter and her husband were basically a pair of freeloaders, if not outright frauds, but people so badly (and rightly) want to believe. In something. In anything. You only have to look at the well-known online “grifters” and frauds around. “Jack Monroe”, “Supertanskiii”, “Man Behaving Dadly” etc. There are dozens, probably hundreds, of them. They destroy trust in society, as do some of the family of the late Captain Moore.
Apparently, the Israeli regime is preparing for a big war.
In the Israeli territories, an underground parking lot is being converted into a hospital with several hundred beds and medical equipment. pic.twitter.com/wCHothy1C8
#Updates: #Gaza Renewed Israeli air strikes on al-Karama neighbourhood in Gaza Wednesday morning UN says Gaza has food and water for 12 days, after Israel cut all electricity, fuel, food and water to the besieged enclave
The Captain Tom debacle is a prime example of how the media can get people to believe anything and of how dissenting voices are silenced by accusations of being unpatriotic
I think that I may start including a random historical note from Wikipedia etc in all my blog posts. It is quite shocking how few British people know their own history, even in outline.
[little boy and his dead cat, following Israeli air attack on Gaza]
Were the atrocities not so terrible, it would be funny to see the UK Jewish/Israel lobby all both pushing out (identical) Israeli propaganda and —at the same time— saying, when asked about the quasi-genocidal Israeli Gaza siege, and mass murder of Gazan civilians, “oh, no, that has nothing to do with us; we bear no responsibility” and “we are just opposed to antisemitism, the actions of Israel are nothing to do with our campaigning in the UK...”.
Etc.
Typical.
Incidentally, I have never seen political fraud and con-man Nigel Farage so pumped-up as when parroting the current Israeli propaganda line in the past few days.
“In the wake of the merciless assault by Hamas, Israel seems to be planning the same approach.
All the signs are that its government is preparing to retaliate on a massive scale, mobilising the country’s formidable armed forces against Gaza, which is controlled by Hamas.
Yet just as Iraq turned out to be a calamitous error, fuelling a lasting cycle of violence, so I fear that – however understandable – any attempt by Israel to exact its vengeance with a savage display of military might could be just as disastrous.”
“…a full invasion, such as Israel’s generals are surely discussing today, would be a bloody quagmire. For Jerusalem, it would mean a conveyor belt of tired soldiers fighting day and night, resupplying with food, water and military hardware, rotating and evacuating casualties, for months on end.
It would chew up thousands of troops for little or no benefit, and poison the Arab world, and to a certain extent the international community, against the Jewish state.
Alas, it looks like Israel is set to take precisely this route.
Already the country has launched a barrage of air strikes, causing heavy civilian casualties – unsurprising given that more than two million people are living in a strip the size of the Isle of Wight.” [in fact, smaller than the Isle of Wight— 141 sq. miles as against 148].
“This bombardment has been buttressed by a siege designed to weaken the morale of the citizenry by cutting off their water and electricity.
Yet what is the ultimate objective? What does ‘victory’ for Israel even look like?”
[Gaza City, already devastated by Israeli air attack]
It would be even more interesting were Israel to face attack or, even more so, invasion from the directions of Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan, and perhaps even (though even less likely) from Egypt, and if the Palestinian Arabs of the West Bank were also to join in the fight.
The immediately-above scenario is unlikely, true, but the Americans must have some reason to have moved one of their fleets closer to the region.
If such a concerted invasion and uprising were to happen, though, Israel could be destroyed, its population fleeing in panic.
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There is such a disconnect between the stories and videos coming out of gaza and what the politicians and most of the media try telling us and I reckon most of the public recognise that no matter how much Margaret hodge talks over owen Jones about it being an obsessive hobby https://t.co/2stCAcLPZo
— any other leader would be 20 points ahead (@anyotherleader) October 12, 2023
I face trial late next month on 5 counts of contravening the notorious s.127 of the Communications Act 2003 (recommended for repeal by the Law Commission). Behind that prosecution, a pack of Jew-Zionists.
I cannot write about all that prior to trial, for reasons of potential contempt of court etc, but one aspect of the case is that I am alleged to have claimed that, in the UK, most of the TV and Press is effectively in the hands of Jew-Zionists (as Rupert Murdoch said years ago— and he is 100% pro-Israel…).
What do you think, blog readers?
be taken to the Gazza strip to see what the Palestinians are having to deal with, each and every day of their lives. We have, in recent years been too sympathetic to Israel, which, I believe we now have an out of control far right Israeli government. I am not, however, /
Margaret Hodge is just another Jew-Zionist liar and hypocrite.
It is now immaterial. It was used by Western media outlets to whip up hatred against the Palestinian people and rally support for Israel's attack on Gaza. This is a method the UK media always employ. I'm an old woman and I've seen it all my life.
— Mairead #HerdImmunityKills#RealSocialistsWearMasks (@imelda_mairead) October 11, 2023
[Nayirah al-Sabah, the lying Kuwaiti bitch at the centre of the faked 1990 Kuwait atrocity story]
I was in New York at the time, in 1990. Those lies (blown up hugely by the Jew-Zionist mass media) were quite effective in moulding the TV narratives and the political conversation etc.
Food, fuel, medicine and water have all been cut off into the Gaza Strip, while the land itself comes under heavy bombardment.
Water cut off, food cut off, electricity and gas cut off; all other supplies cut off, and area bombing and rocketing of civilian areas, in a “ghetto” occupied by 2 million inhabitants, 600,000 of whom live in Gaza City.
Of the 2 million Palestinian Arabs in the Gaza Strip, about 1 million are under-18, and most of that million are young children.
If there was ever a war crime amounting to at least quasi-genocide, this surely must be it.
“Without water, a person can die after 3 days, and usually no one can survive for more than 5-6 days.” [medical website].
Russian President Vladimir Putin was asked if he would step in to mediate between Israel and Hamas if asked.
There goes the very last scrap of respect I still held for Emily Thornberry 🤮🤦🏻♀️ https://t.co/YeCW6nFhUE
— Iris Ex Labour 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇱🇧 #StarmerOut! (@iris_mansi) October 12, 2023
Emily Thornberry, entitled “Labour” hog, with a part-Jew husband and a dozen buy-to-let properties. In fact, the only reason she ever joined Labour was because her well-paid lawyer/journalist/diplomat father abandoned her mother, and the mother had to move to a council property (in Surrey). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Thornberry; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedric_Thornberry.
“She was called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn and practised as a barrister specialising in human rights law from 1985 to 2005 under Michael Mansfield at Tooks Chambers.”
[Wikipedia]
“Human rights” expert; you couldn’t make it up…
As I mentioned yesterday, the “human rights” lawyers (often Jewish, though she herself is not) seem to have gone AWOL now that Israel is involved…
[Emily Thornberry, some years ago, with (in centre) Mark Regev, then Israeli Ambassador, at a Zionist dinner in London]
If, as voter, you vote Labour now, you get moneygrubbing tools of Israel such as Emily Thornberry (and Rachel Reeves, and Yvette Cooper, and Keir Starmer). Why bother?
Emily Thornberry, “human rights” lawyer (etc), who thinks it justifiable for Israel to cut off water and food (etc) from 2 million people, almost all of whom (about 96%) are non-combatants, half of whom are under-18, and hundreds of thousands of whom are young or very young children.
Douglas Murray says the celebration of the Hamas attacks shows there are "simple supporters of genocide” in the UK.
I used to wonder what Israeli Intelligence had on Murray to make him the unashamed propagandist for Israel and the Jew-Zionist lobby that he is. Now, I tend to think that he is just deeply psychologically damaged.
As for Julia Hartley-Brewer, I think (am unsure) that she is part-Jewish. She is certainly rather ignorant; I had to correct her on a couple of legal points when I still had a Twitter account (a pack of Jews managed to have me expelled in 2018). Instead of thanking me for schooling her, she tried to obfuscate, and then blocked me.
Murray is right with his “flare” metaphor, though. These events have shown what group really pulls the strings of our “democratic” political parties, and System politicians. With a tiny number of honourable exceptions, all puppets of Israel and the Jew-Zionist lobby. From Sunak to Starmer, and from Emily Thornberry to that fraudulent bastard Nigel Farage.
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Consequences of the Russian attack on the train station in Oceretin near Avdejevka. pic.twitter.com/D8N3vY83RV
The war in Ukraine continues, but the Kiev regime now has to play second fiddle to the Israeli regime.
Support for Ukraine is not "unlimited" – White House
"And in Ukraine, as far as financing Ukraine is concerned, we are approaching the end of the rope." Today we announced $200 million and we will continue that assistance as long as we can, but it will not be infinite." pic.twitter.com/QvWakLN9Dg
Lavrov said that Zelensky’s words about the final stage of the conflict with the Russian Federation should be considered a recognition of hopelessness pic.twitter.com/eisjB8lPUa
As often seen in the past, Israel getting its “defence” in first…
Apparently it wasn’t enough for Israel to nonstop bomb Palestine, they’ve also just bombed Aleppo and Damascus airports in Syria. But they’re the victims here according to the US & West. pic.twitter.com/kVrXqsxQ1Q
“BREAKING: Israel bombed the international airports of Aleppo and Damascus in Syria, forcing them out of service. Bombing civilian airports in Syria. Massacring entire families in Gaza. Dropping white phosphorus on Lebanon and Gaza. This is the Israel that Western media tells you is a “victim”…”
If you don’t understand why Dresden was such a big deal, read this book. It might just give you a new perspective on the whole war. pic.twitter.com/LjmxTZjXMo
Zelensky is worried because the help of Western allies is weakening
The Ukrainian authorities want to get a new series of weapons in order to attack Russian positions after the unsuccessful summer counter-offensive, "ABC" writes. "Ukraine is desperate for more weapons to help… pic.twitter.com/WmLWessaIp
“Zelensky is worried because the help of Western allies is weakening The Ukrainian authorities want to get a new series of weapons in order to attack Russian positions after the unsuccessful summer counter-offensive, “ABC” writes. “Ukraine is desperate for more weapons to help its troops take over the positions of Russian units before the ground on the front turns muddy,” the newspaper said. According to the media, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, as Kiev is becoming worried about the weakening of aid from the West, which until recently provided constant support to the Ukrainian armed forces.”
Stormy statements of former US intelligence officer about Israel's irreparable failure; Is it time to end the threat of Israel?
Scott Ritter, former US intelligence officer: Israel's ground entry into Gaza means more casualties and damage than Yom Kippur; Hezbollah's missiles… pic.twitter.com/L3JKhcvaq2
…and imagine if some non-Jew said it, mutatis mutandis, about Jews! The “poundland KGB” British police of 2023 would go mad trying to please the Jewish-Zionist lobby by arresting the speaker.
“The war has threatened to draw in surrounding territories after shells were fired from Syria and Lebanon into Israel and Israel shelled the only land exit from Gaza into Egypt – shortly after an Israeli military spokesperson told civilians to flee through it.
Rescue officials in Gaza said ‘large numbers’ of people were still trapped under the remnants of leveled buildings, with rescue equipment and ambulances unable to reach the area.
In a new tactic, Israel is warning civilians to evacuate neighborhood after neighborhood, and then inflicting devastation, in what could be a prelude to a ground offensive.
Israeli Prime Minister Mr Netanyahu has warned Israel’s military campaign following Saturday’s onslaught is only the start of a sustained war to destroy Hamas and ‘change the Middle East’.
Entire districts in Gaza were ‘razed‘ in airstrikes today as Israel continues its response to an ongoing incursion launched by Hamas on Saturday.
Israel announced yesterday it would put the region under ‘complete siege’, making the Rafah crossing into Egypt the sole route out of the Gaza Strip by land.“
[Daily Mail]
[Israeli attack on Gaza]
If there were an invasion from the North (Lebanese/Syrian territory), that would place the Israeli army under great strain; even more so were Jordan to attack Jerusalem from the East. Neither is likely, though. So far, not even the West Bank Arabs have joined in, not in any substantial way.
For me, as observer, it seems that the importance of these events has been psychological and not military, as such.
The repressed Palestinian Arabs must now realize what may be possible, and the Israeli Jews must also realize what may one day happen (maybe not so far down the line). The Arabs must be feeling emboldened (despite the effectively genocidal Israeli siege and pounding of Gaza), but the Israeli Jews must be feeling fear that all their military might may, one day soon, not be enough to save them. Many must be keeping their second or third passports to hand, in case they decide to flee.
Obviously, from a strict military point of view, the Israeli Army, with its 2,000 or more tanks, and the Israeli Air Force, with hundreds of strike planes, fighters, attack helicopters, and now also drones, cannot be defeated by the poorly-equipped militia of the Palestinian factions. The Israeli Goliath looms over the Palestinian David.
That may, though, in the end, not be the whole picture.
Sven Longshanks
Many British readers of the blog, perhaps some overseas ones too, will be aware that Sven Longshanks, aka James Allchurch, was sentenced to a very harsh 2.5 years in prison (so, in practical terms, 1 year and 13 weeks) earlier this year. The sentence was handed down on 15 May 2023, so he should be released in (or before) mid-August 2024.
In the meantime, “Sven” needs money while in prison, to make the time less unpleasant. Equally importantly, to help him get back on his feet after release: see https://www.givesendgo.com/SupportSven.
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🥀 "I'm frightened of what could happen with a Labour government"
Forget con-man Farage, Talk TV, GB News etc. “Paper tigers”. However, that man may be right re. a future (real) social-national government. God mote it be!
🇸🇰💪🏻🇸🇰💪🏻🇸🇰💪🏻🇸🇰💪🏻🇸🇰💪🏻🇸🇰 After the parliamentary elections, Slovakia will probably not follow the path of progressive liberalism.
In the parliamentary elections on September 30, the socialist party Smer won, which in Slovakia has a rather more conservative and pro-national… pic.twitter.com/0eQuAdJyLi
If a parliamentary system stops working for the people, and stops providing for the people, the people will eventually abandon such a system. Truths that the Westminster monkeyhouse may have to learn sooner than its denizens imagine.
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[The Second Goetheanum, Dornach, near Basel, Switzerland]
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The kitten takes good care of the chick. Kittens are qualified chick mothers. Cute and Funny Animal (1) 🐈🐈🐤🐤 pic.twitter.com/QcsGmnuGnq
Source: S.L. Kanthan Israel bombed 7 hospitals in Gaza over the last three days. And then cut off electricity, fuel and food. Now more Palestinian children will die in the remaining hospitals. Heinous acts done openly because of US/EU support. pic.twitter.com/L3hW5AfOfp
Of course, I was one of the first to realize what a useless lump of nothing “Boris” Johnson was/is. About 20 years ago. Everyone else, pretty much, was willing to swallow the line that “Boris” was brilliant, principled, strong, interesting, a Poundland Churchill for our times. The Jews liked him because he is part-Jew, the Muslims liked that he is part-Levantine, the petit bourgeois Daily Mail readers liked the fact that he had been to Eton and Oxford.
In fact, Johnson was only ever a “cosplay”, as people now say; an am-dram “Churchill”, or a matrioshka with nothing inside. A mainly faked “British upper class” persona, a persona with which the part-Jew, part-Levantine chancer was able to fool the plebs.
Of course, put to the test in political office, it all fell to pieces. He proved himself again and again a liar, unprincipled (and not even in an intelligent way), not any kind of “intellectual”, useless, incapable of either ideology or religion, disloyal, and without a real idea in his muddled head.
Johnson was also as weak as a kitten, incapable of being a Prime Minister.
Max Hastings… Max HASTINGS, the former editor of the Telegraph and Mail columnist, is voting Labour. He calls Rishi Sunak’s government “dreadful” and led by a “loser”, Suella Braverman’s policies “grotesque”; Brexit a “disaster”. It’s over. https://t.co/L4YBuUJMmx
The sick thing is that Labour, especially under Starmer, has so very little to offer the British people.
Labour only looks —sort-of— good, or —almost— acceptable to many because, in a more or less rigged binary system, it stands alongside the Conservative Party, which is now exposed as totally useless and pointless.
I do think that, after the last few years especially, the Conservative Party has probably reached the end of the road. That may result, once Starmer has really angered people, in the first real and sustained upsurge for social nationalism in my lifetime.
Judges told not to jail rapists as prisons are full > Just extraordinary from @thetimes.
Convicted rapists and burglars will be temporarily spared jail from next week after judges were told that the country’s prisons are full > Qs to answer. https://t.co/qiH1LKy5Rt
I recently blogged about the upcoming by-elections: Tamworth, Mid-Bedfordshire. They will be a test of the depth of disillusion with the Conservative Party.
I can see the 2024 General Election being a strange triumph for Labour, largely by default, and because former Conservative Party voters will just refuse to vote for the present confused, useless rabble. Some will vote Labour, but more will protest-vote or simply abstain.
Currently, families in Gaza are without water, electricity and communication Two million people under siege without living conditions pic.twitter.com/gnjI1JhAzL
I notice that the usual well-paid “human rights” lawyers in the UK (mostly Jews) are very quiet about Israel subjecting 2 million people in Gaza to life without water, food, electricity or communications. This, unless stopped right now, is actual genocide, imposed by Jews on non-Jews.
🇬🇧 “Israel “has the right” to deprive the citizens of Gaza of electricity and water” – UK parliamentary opposition leader Starmer
Jewish-lobby puppet Starmer. You can almost see the strings being pulled. What a disgusting little man he is,.
America must attack Iran if Hezbollah attacks Israel – 19FortyFive
According to geopolitical analyst Brandon Weichert, Israel will not stand up to Hamas and Hezbollah, so the United States will join the war in the Middle East to “protect its interests in the region.”
“Gaza has constant power cuts, dismal public services, dirty water and a crushing lack of jobs.
Most of its energy comes from Israel – but even the small contributions from Gaza’s single power plant, like all private generators, rely on imported diesel.
Much of the struggling health services depend on the United Nations and charities. Patients in need of more serious treatment require permission from Palestinian and Israeli officials to travel outside the Strip, which is ringed with 20ft fences, motion sensors, radar and cameras.
But the most critical shortage here is of hope. This is one of the world’s most densely populated places and has one of the youngest populations – yet more than two-thirds of young adults are unemployed, while eight in ten residents rely on external aid.
Although tens of thousands of Palestinians used to leave Gaza to work in Israel, the border was sealed after the Hamas takeover, so an entire generation has grown up never able to leave the Strip and never having met an Israeli.
This all makes it fertile ground for Hamas to find ‘martyrs’ for its twisted cause, especially amid the trauma of living under frequent attack and bombardment.
It is little wonder that past polls have found half of Gazans want to leave this blighted place – and no surprise that it was the source of the latest explosion of hatred to stain this turbulent region.“
[Daily Mail].
A 2018 account from Conservative Party-supporting journalist Ian Birrell (he wrote some speeches for David Cameron-Levita c.2012), but interesting, and worth reading the full version.
Gaza has been called “an open prison” but it is is probably more accurate to call it a large-scale guarded ghetto. In fact, to me it resembles from a distance— I have never been there, nor (obviously) Israel— the Warsaw Ghetto of the early 1940s: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto.
That Wikipedia account has been subject to the (((usual))) bias, but gives the overall background.
The state of the police and the Crown Prosecution Service! Read that Daily Mail report.
All commonsense seems to have fled from both police and CPS. Real crime goes unpunished or not even investigated, while the police wet themselves over trivial incidents and/or people posting “wrong” thoughts online.
Of course, casualties in Gaza will be given less prominence than those in Israel, because the Western mass media is —mostly— controlled, or at least heavily influenced, by Jew-Zionists.
A Palestinian father gives his daughter a final hug after she was killed in an lsraeli airstrike.https://t.co/K3yyOuOwzk
Do you understand Israel cut communications in Gaza to carpet bomb it without warning (as a bare minimum requirement of human rights) and then making sure they can’t call for help or check on each other.
Self defense my arse.
— Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي (@MariamBarghouti) October 9, 2023
Israel sending warnings to its citizens to have food, water, light, batteries, canned foods, that would last for at least 72 hours, and back up batteries for cell-phones, medical kits, certificates, IDs, cash, radios.
Israel is going to slaughter Palestinians in a blackout.
— Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي (@MariamBarghouti) October 9, 2023
Israel is not even informing civilians about the residential buildings to be targeted to be able to evacuate. This is direct evidence of intent, after verbal intent by Liberman and Netanyahu earlier, that they're literally on a mass slaughter campaign.
— Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي (@MariamBarghouti) October 9, 2023
Look at the Jewish religious festivals. Most, if not all, are effectively celebrations of ethnic supremacism from ancient history. We are talking about 2,500-3,000 years of historical development.
Israeli war Minister Yoav Gallant says he will deliberately starve to death 2 millions in Gaza.
"I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly."
If you said half or a tenth as much about Jews, the msm “claque” would be screaming and (in the UK) the “poundland KGB” police would probably be making a nuisance of themselves…
Israel possesses the most accurate and precise technology in the world, and every Palestinian civilian and non-combatant killed is an intentional targeted kill.
Israel has also taken every Palestinian prisoner of war to an unknown location hours ago.
— Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي (@MariamBarghouti) October 9, 2023
Israel told Palestinians to leave Gaza, then now pursued to bomb the only exit from Gaza (Rafah crossing), then bombed the telecommunications towers, and is still going with the massacres.
— Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي (@MariamBarghouti) October 9, 2023
In 2014, Israelis camped out, clapping and cheering as bombs wiped out entire Palestinian families and as the Israeli military slaughter thousands of innocent Palestinians.
#SkyNews Why people have stopped watching Sky News. Beth Rigby & Kay Burley. If them two don’t stop you watching it nothing will. Great years ago horrendous now in 2023. pic.twitter.com/E5sO4LAICI
I caught a few minutes of Kay Burley on Sky News this morning. Complete pro-Israel bias. Not surprising. After all, the job pays well, and enough to dine at the Chiltern Firehouse, with bottles of wine at £400 apiece.
To be fair to Kay Burley, she did apparently put ludicrous “Foreign Secretary” James Cleverly on the spot, also today:
Kay: What support does the British Govt offer to the people of Gaza?
Foreign Sec @JamesCleverly : We are trying to minimise the risk of escalation.
Having someone like Cleverly as Foreign Secretary is just embarrassing.
World’s largest offshore windfarm project starts powering UK grid
"each rotation of the 107-metre-long blades on Dogger Bank’s first turbine could produce enough energy to power an average British home for two days" 🤯🤯https://t.co/F7Bow68mnI
The events in Israel/Palestine have resulted in an outpouring of System virtue-signalling.
Sunak, Starmer, and many others all falling over each other to pledge allegiance to Israel. Political con-man, and “controlled opposition” kingpin Nigel Farage, too. In a way, it is a good thing that those who are under that control have identified themselves.
On a different note, I wonder whether the “answer” to the otherwise intractable Gaza problem might be to establish a programme whereby Gazans can relocate to new towns across the Middle East, with co-operation of governments within the region. Instead of one very crowded city of 2 million inhabitants, 19-20 towns, each with 100,000 inhabitants. Gaza itself to be reduced to 100,000, or perhaps to be returned to sparsely-populated farmland.
The above “solution” might be acceptable both to the Gazans themselves (giving them greater freedom and better living conditions) and to the Israeli government (reducing the “security threat” to near-zero), if it could be organized.
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A little more about Zeta who is comforting Beau.
She came from a rescue who could no longer keep her. Standing 15.2 HH she was formerly a good polo pony but after injury could no longer play. She is a dream to handle and groom, our vet is still assessing her injured knee 💜 pic.twitter.com/o0Gfo0BAv3
— Woodfield Animal Sanctuary (@AnimalWoodfield) October 10, 2023
A look at what the Israeli army have done in the Gaza Strip in a very short time pic.twitter.com/VPdaPaYDsN
Anti-Russian sanctions not only failed, but also crippled the EU economy, says American economist
It is clear that Western restrictions designed to undermine the Russian economy have failed. Moreover, they hit Washington’s allies, American economist Richard Wolf said in an… pic.twitter.com/bSV0rmOpga
Labour’s “plan” to build on the Green Belt, to build unpleasant shacks or flats by the million— to whom will they be given? Migrant-invaders? I think so.
Stop the flow. Reverse the flow. Eliminate the flow.
Kirsty Wark is utterly depraved. A heartless monster. This is absolutely disgusting. https://t.co/76hhRFKQnk
This poor man has been doing the rounds for days now with the same inane questions being thrown at him in the hope of a gotcha moment. Kirsty Wark is a respected journalist but it’s clear she was under instruction to toe one line only pro Israel or else
A biased (in its tone) piece by a Jewish scribbler; nonetheless worth reading.
“An emboldened Iran will extend the export of its missile and drone technology, which is already playing an important role for Russia in its campaign against Ukraine.
Indeed Moscow, though it has had good relations with Israel, has much to gain from a new Middle Eastern conflict.
The U.S. is likely to feel pressure to strengthen Israel’s defences against Hamas rockets with weapons like the highly effective Patriot surface-to-air anti-missile system.
America does not have a big stockpile of these Patriots, and Israel will receive priority, meaning there will be far fewer for President Zelensky’s government.“
168 buildings, including 1,009 residential units, were completely destroyed, while 12,600 were partially damaged, according to the Palestinian Authority.
“Scale of destruction in the Gaza Strip 168 buildings, including 1,009 residential units, were completely destroyed, while 12,600 were partially damaged, according to the Palestinian Authority. It is also reported that 10 health facilities, 48 schools, 23 government buildings and 12 ambulances were affected.”
Israel is moving to a “full-fledged offensive” – Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant pic.twitter.com/3J4BArr4V4
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry accused the Israeli army of using white phosphorus ammunition prohibited by international conventions – statement pic.twitter.com/pN9jFCFD5Q
“Ukraine is forgotten: the largest American media after the start of the war in Israel closed their “online” coverage of events in Ukraine All major American media have curtailed their coverage of events in Ukraine in live short news mode. CNN, which reported “online” in Ukraine almost non-stop, stopped updating it on October 6. Since then, the link to the Ukrainian “online” has disappeared from the European version of the publication’s main page and has not appeared on it again. Almost simultaneously, The New York Times stopped online coverage of Ukraine. Its main page, like CNN’s, now covers events in Israel online.“
Ha.
Late thought
The stories coming out of Gaza and Southern Israel are more than merely unpleasant; terrible. As far as the Palestinian combatants are concerned, if they are sometimes monstrous, it is because they have been made monstrous, and made so mainly by the behaviour of the Israeli Jews.
“Norman Brennan is an anti-knife crime campaigner and a former Met police officer.
He told MailOnline: ‘Croydon is one of the most dangerous areas in Britain. We have lawless streets that nobody controls apart from the criminal element. There are many gangs in Croydon. Lots of their members carry knives, some won’t be in school.
‘These people have no values and no idea of the value of life.“
[Daily Mail]
…and none dare mention “blacks“…(certainly not the “controlled opposition” Daily Mail).
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Western brainwashed people are currently installing new software in their heads . pic.twitter.com/lkWieYvkC8
Yesterday Saturday we very sadly lost our beloved mare Poppy. She was 29 & had v serious neurological problems that were causing her pain. No amount of treatment could save her & we were advised to put her to sleep. Everyone here was in tears😢💜https://t.co/uPCKhhDKhFpic.twitter.com/mHlBClPvEX
— Woodfield Animal Sanctuary (@AnimalWoodfield) October 8, 2023
— Merseyside Pensioners Association (@MerseyPensioner) October 8, 2023
All that, and the bastard will probably also take to wearing a skyblue-and-white tie soon…
My guess is they’re trying to link up Gaza with the West Bank and cut off southern Israel. Combine Gaza, southern Israel and the West Bank into a Palestinian state. With pressure from Hezbollah from the north and anyone else who joins in they might pull it off.
That compares to about 157 immediately-available tanks in the British order of battle (though Britain does have over 3,000 of all types of armoured vehicle). Germany has about 2,500 main battle tanks, the USA up to 9,000, China about 9,000, and Russia as many as 23,000.
The importance of the large-scale incursion from the Gaza “open prison” into Israel lies in its psychological effect on the Israelis. I predicted on the blog, several years ago, that something like this would probably happen eventually. The Palestinian Arabs would break free of their confinement and start to kill Israeli combatants and civilians.
Once combat is taking place in urban and suburban areas, weapons such as heavy tanks, jet fighter aircraft, bomber aircraft and nuclear weapons become less effective. In such situations, infantry come into their own and, in infantry combat, the Israelis may not have a huge person-to-person advantage over ad hoc or militia forces.
This is a war crime: Israeli forces are using internationally prohibited white phosphorus on heavily populated districts in the north of Gaza. pic.twitter.com/7VnteZsiFj
BREAKING| Israeli military forces use poisonous white phosphorus weaponry on heavily populated districts in the north of Gaza. pic.twitter.com/M08LluXoSr
If you fund/support Israel this is what you support: Retired Israeli soldiers talk about their experience: -“One of the soldiers r*ped a 16-year-girl *laugh*” -“If I saw school children with their hands raised, I killed them.” “I fired and killed everyone” -“Soldiers chased… pic.twitter.com/oQ6yU2zlq5
A wealthy-by-inheritance, well-educated, and well-connected idiot, basically (“Boris” Johnson, David Cameron-Levita etc: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Kruger).
Elected in 2019 at age 44; now 48. At least he (half-heartedly) opposed the facemask nonsense during the scamdemic/panicdemic. Otherwise useless.
Well, there it is. UK-based Jew wants Gaza to be levelled, and all its inhabitants killed, by Israeli nuclear attack.
Were I (or anyone) to tweet, or write on a blog, that Jews should all be killed, the police would soon be knocking at my (or their) door (in fact, though I have never been arrested or questioned about the matter, I myself am facing trial in late November for having allegedly posted a few far more mild socio-political comments on this blog).
If however, a wealthy Jew-Zionist urges or incites nuclear attack against Palestinian Arabs, then “nothing to see here; move along“… it seems.
Forman owns a family smoked salmon business, and his product is rather good, but I shall certainly not be paying out for it now.
Incidentally, Forman was a leading light in the fake “nationalist” UKIP, or Brexit Party; maybe both.
It occurs to me that Forman says that “we [Israelis/Jews] cannot ever make peace with people who do this”; that “we” obviously meaning that he sees himself as Jew and/or Israeli first. He may (I do not know) hold dual nationality. Many, perhaps most, of “them” do. In the UK, “strangers in a strange land“…
As I blogged a day or two ago, there seems to be a preponderance of white and grey hair there, but it cannot be denied that Labour’s conference is a startling contrast to that of the Conservative Party.
I have been slightly uncertain over the past few years as to which System party will implode first; looks like it will be Sunak’s crew…
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She is the image of Poppy and has the same sweet nature. When we introduced them Zeta walked over to him and started rubbing his shoulder as of she sensed his sadness. They are even sharing their food bowls 2/
One of the people Jewish smoked-salmon strategist Lance Forman wants to kill using nuclear weapons…
Netanyahu is deeply corrupt and deeply evil. A psychopath who now (as if he didn't have already because the US has vetoed every attempt to try them for war crimes in the past) has carte blanch to bomb and kill at will. Hamas have handed him the public support to take the lives… https://t.co/7ybwMFSuZs
Gaza is effectively an open prison. A loose comparison, but fairly accurate. At a push of a button, the Israelis, i.e. Jews, can cut off water, food, electricity, medical supplies etc, and have done so now.
In the short term, militarily, the Palestinian Arabs cannot win, but in the longer term, looking at demographics etc, they can scarcely lose. As for the Israeli Jews, they have now seen, on a limited scale, their likely future, which may come to pass in 5 years, 10 years, 20 years, or the day after tomorrow.
Terrifying scenes in central London….full of hate against Israel, under guise of “Free Palestine”
Multiculturalism in UK exposed in all its failings
Thick fake British “nationalist” Richard Tice fails to see that Jews are not only part of the UK’s so-called “multicultural society” but are the architects of much of it (not in Israel, of course, but in UK, USA, France, Germany, Sweden etc).
Paul Merton, a prime example of someone of very limited ability but who gets millions because, and only because, he parrots System propaganda in the guise of contrived “comedy”. Soviet style with finance-capitalist content.
A Christian teacher faces a fitness practice hearing for refusing to teach "extreme LGBTQI ideology" at a Church of England (CofE) secondary school
“There will come a time, very soon, when Christians will have to homeschool their children to avoid hellish indoctrination,”…
This was stated in a written statement by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.
It is noted that as a result of Israeli attacks on Gaza, 687 people were killed, including 140 children and 105 women, and 3,726 people were injured. pic.twitter.com/F6ZEB93R2p
Tamworth constituency has a fairly ancient history (on various different boundaries and names), going back to the 13th Century. Its most famous MP was Sir Robert Peel, who represented the town from 1830-1850 (he was MP for three other places from 1809-1830), and who was Prime Minister 1834-1835 and 1841-1846: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Peel.
The most recent MP, the appropriately-named Chris Pincher, was rather less distinguished, having been finally forced to resign in 2023 after several years of having been accused, then eventually adjudged guilty, of having sexually molested men, including MPs, in bars.
Looking at his Wikipedia entry, it seems that Pincher only became an MP in 2010, at age 41, and had done nothing very interesting prior to that (though Wikipedia is not infallible). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Pincher.
Tamworth, on its present boundaries, was held by Labour from 1997 (when the present seat was brought into being) until 2010; Pincher failed to secure the seat in 2005, but took it in 2010 with a vote-share of 45.8%. Thereafter, his percentage vote increased at every election, peaking in 2019 at 66.3%.
At that 2019 election, Labour Co-op came in second, but poorly, on 23.7%. The other 4 candidates were very much also-rans, only the LibDems retaining their deposit (with 5.3%).
The by-election will be held on 19 October 2023, and has attracted 9 candidates: Conservative, Labour, LibDem, Green, UKIP, Reform (the latest Farage vehicle), Britain First, Monster Raving Loony, and an independent. See https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-66864806 for candidates’ details.
The Government is obviously deeply unpopular, and also seen as useless. However, Labour is not much liked either. There may be protest vote possibilities, but the main object may be to send a message to the Government, and I suppose that a vote for Labour is most likely to cause the Government pain, if it results in the by-election ending with a Labour win.
Hard for me to call. I have only once even driven through the town, and that was long ago. Not an area I know. Overall, it seems to me that the LibDems are too marginal here to have much chance, so it is between Con and Lab. To elect the Labour candidate would require a huge swing, but I think that it must be possible, as public feeling now stands.
If Labour can pull it off at Tamworth, the 2024 General Election will look sealed. The over-used word “seismic” comes to mind.
So we turn to Mid-Bedfordshire.
Nadine Dorries had to be almost forced out of the seat she had held since 2005, and which had provided her with a good income; both salary and very inflated expenses. She was lucky to have avoided prosecution. A very stupid, entirely uneducated, but withal cunning woman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine_Dorries.
The by-election, to be held on 19 October 2023, the same day as that at Tamworth, has attracted no less than 13 candidates, mostly minor or crank.
Nadine Dorries scored 59.8% at the 2019 General Election (Labour 21.7%, LibDems 12.6%).
Mid-Bedfordshire has been a Conservative Party seat since the 1920s.
This would normally be a shoo-in for the Conservative Party candidate, but several factors make that less than likely. Anger at the freeloading and fraudulent behaviour of Nadine Dorries. The general anger at the present Government. Perhaps also the fact that the Con candidate is a careerist black: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festus_Akinbusoye.
The Conservative Party candidate is presently Police and Crime Commissioner for Bedfordshire, only came to the UK at 13 from his native Nigeria, and is a Mormon.
The opinion polls have Con and Lab neck and neck, with the LibDems not far behind. Tactical voting may play the decisive role, but does that mean anti-Con voters voting Labour, or voting LibDem?
Reform, the Farage vehicle, is polling around 7%, as is county council chairman Gareth Mackey, standing as Independent.
Very hard to call, but Labour may just have the edge.
I suppose that the other point is that Sunak may be pressured to stand down as Con Party leader if one contest is lost (or only if both are lost?).
[Update, 22 January 2024: in the end, Labour won both by-elections.
— Woodfield Animal Sanctuary (@AnimalWoodfield) October 7, 2023
What a difference a week makes. It is standing room only for Angela Rayner at 11.50am today at the Labour Party Conference. This is in stark contrast with the half-empty hall at last week’s Conservative Party conference. pic.twitter.com/lRIMio2BNX
Whatever may be said of Labour or Angela Rayner, that tweet is surely correct. The 2024 General Election is Labour’s to lose. The Conservative Party is just dissolving. I notice that evil sociopath Chris Grayling is now not going to stand for re-election.
Having said that, I see many white-haired and grey-haired people at that Labour show. All System parties are dying, and have few young people supporting them.
This is something that in any other period in history would've made me look towards Labour at the next GE.
But I know that no matter how much cheap housing they build, I'm never going to be a priority to get one.
Exactly. A million a year coming in, and only a few hundred thousand people (mostly real Brits) leaving (for Australia, New Zealand etc) each year. Result— misery.
Actually, many of the replies to the above tweet show how unthinking the self-describing “Left” pseudo-socialists are. They really think that importing millions of backward persons has no effect on housing provision etc; either that, or they do not care. They really should be regarded and treated as outright traitors.
The only survivor of her family. Tala Abu Daqqa, 11 years old, lived her whole life under a brutal siege. Survived 5 devastating wars on besieged Gaza and lost her entire family today after their house was targeted by an israeli airstrike.#GazaUnderAttack#IsraeliCrimespic.twitter.com/cfJDoVrlqA
Israeli warplanes carry out a series of airstrikes targeting civilian homes in the town of Beit Hanoun, north of the Gaza Strip.#GazaUnderAttackpic.twitter.com/0AsDqtek8q
“He must be desperate or in an awful state to go to such pains to try to come into the country that way.“
Or not able to enter legitimately, having no right to enter.
Brainwashed.
Bengal cat Tilly was well known in Gosport and became an honorary police officer – and now £2,700 has been raised to build a statue in her memory https://t.co/RxZ28ZS0vc
Well, looking at Downing Street this evening, does anyone now doubt what embedded group is pulling the strings of both the “Conservative” and “Labour” parties?
According to the Turkish sources, due to dwindling stocks of Iron Dome missiles, the Israeli army is not supplying ammunition to some units armed with the complex, with the exception of three batteries in Tel Aviv, one battery in Jerusalem and one battery in Netivot in southern… pic.twitter.com/E8957ykGAJ
“According to the Turkish sources, due to dwindling stocks of Iron Dome missiles, the Israeli army is not supplying ammunition to some units armed with the complex, with the exception of three batteries in Tel Aviv, one battery in Jerusalem and one battery in Netivot in southern Israel.
The seven batteries do not supply any ammunition or fire, and they only have a limited number of anti-aircraft guided missiles in case Palestinian missiles fly towards critical targets. This explains the fact that launches on Ashkelon, Ashdod and Sderot cause virtually no opposition.”
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah are sending reinforcements to the Golan Heights. The Syrian army and air defense have also increased their level of combat readiness. In turn, the Pentagon is also increasing the level of combat readiness throughout the Middle… pic.twitter.com/Uk6G8bpx54
In the situation of escalation around the Gaza Strip, Russia is advocating for a ceasefire and the holding of essential negotiations, said the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Vasiliy Nebenzya after the UN Security Council meeting on the situation… pic.twitter.com/mDaYxxIPTr
Well, this week I beat political journalist John Rentoul again. He scored 4 and two-thirds out of 10; I scored 6 and two-thirds. I suspect we both knew only (the same) two out of the three jazzmen in question 5. I did not know the answers to questions 4, 6, and 8 (though I came close on question 8).
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Within a 50 second clip we see gaslighting, projection & unhinged totalitarianism. The trifecta! https://t.co/cFcXnOWuTr
At first, the rockets sent by the Palestinian resistance were little more than fireworks, but over the years and decades the technology has improved. It seems that now at least some of those rockets are quite powerful.
Israel, for all its military might, and for all its money, and its control/influence in other countries, is doomed in the long run. Demographics alone, in the region as a whole, would seem to indicate that.
Israel may have powerful weapons, including nuclear ones, but those weapons may not be enough to save it, in the end.
These are Hamas militants entering an Israeli neighbourhood. Unprecedented images from Israel right now. The attack is ongoing. pic.twitter.com/yoh0pFLL5Y
Perhaps a foretaste of what will eventually happen on a far bigger scale.
This is guerrilla warfare on the streets of southern Israel. The images are chilling. Many dead, and many hostages taken. Israel seems to have been taken completely off guard. It is a full fledge war. #Israel#Gazapic.twitter.com/FP3tw9tld5
Salah al-Arouri, one of the leaders of Hamas in Lebanon: we are holding a large number of hostages, among them high-ranking Israeli officers. International intermediaries have already contacted us.
Cleverly, with all the erudition and wisdom of his “McDegree” in Hospitality Management, explains that firing rockets etc at civilian habitations is “terrorism”. Unless, of course, the shooters are British or American (or Israeli), and the civilians Palestinian Arabs, Iraqis, Afghans, Serbs or (in WW2) Germans etc…
There is a high probability that the invasion from the Gaza Strip is just a diversionary maneuver, and a much more powerful invasion will follow from the north, by Hezbollah forces – Senior Lieutenant of the Israeli Defense Forces Yigal Levin.
I have to admit that I would never have guessed that the Arabs would be able both to co-ordinate such attacks and also keep the date and time of them secret. Presumably, the Israelis were also not expecting this.
Israel's military leadership unanimously agreed that the only proportionate response was a full-scale ground operation in the Gaza Strip – Israeli media
Again, quelle surprise— Israel almost always hits civilian targets.
Hamas commander Al-Arouri: We had information that Israel was planning a military operation against the West Bank and Gaza Strip after the Jewish holidays.
Possible/plausible “conspiracy theory”: the Israeli ruling circles knew of the Hamas plan, but allowed it to happen, “throwing under a bus” their own Jewish inhabitants, in order to be able invade Gaza as a form of “self-defence”. That is what, mutatis mutandis, Roosevelt did before and after Pearl Harbor.
Lebanese Hezbollah has gone into “standby mode” and UNIFIL forces (the UN peacekeeping contingent in South Lebanon) have moved to its bases, Israeli Channel 12 reported, citing sources.
If the term “war criminal” means anything, here it is. Untermensch.
Look at the Old Testament. They started ethnic cleansing that long ago.
Hundreds of thousands of Israelis are being drafted into the army. Israel is preparing for the possibility of conflict on several fronts at once, reports a Fox News special correspondent in Jerusalem.
The Israeli media is spreading criticism of the authorities for the situation with the unexpected Hamas invasion.
The Haaretz newspaper, citing sources, writes that Israeli intelligence services concluded on the eve of the war that the Palestinians do not want it. pic.twitter.com/Q6vrJakcak
What is important about the events of the past 24 hours is not the statistical rate of attrition, not the damage done, and not even which side eventually “wins” in the short term (bearing in mind Israel’s huge military superiority, that can hardly be in doubt), but the fact that an incursion like that seen has happened at all.
Hamas has broken something now— the sense of effortless Israeli military might, and the idea that any invasions or incursions into Israeli territory will be slight, only in one area, and easily repulsed.
In the longer term (i.e. after 2023), that may prove to be the most significant fact about these events. The Palestinian Arabs now know what is or might be possible, no matter what Israeli/Jewish repression follows the current events.
This may just be the beginning of the end for Israel.
Ian Robert Millard 