Lammy to the Slaughter!

To pin it down to specifics, 'Lammy to the source of the slaughter!'

There has not yet happened a moment when I have considered the Right Honourable David Lammy, Foreign Secretary, and thought any bar 'befitting excellence' to have struggled above...

Profound disappointment!

Under the Stalinist-modelled rule of Leader Sir Keir Rodney Starmer, former Head of the Crown Prosecution Service, Lammy's appointment to Foreign Secretary, seems unlikely to see that aforementioned bar soon venture any higher. One will have to have undergone serious mental trauma still to harbour hopes of anything greater. The signs have been made clear! Members of Starmer's inner circle sit there for one of two reasons: either they have never held any more egalitarian hopes of national and international ambition, or else they have long since buried any such dreams. Meanwhile, should any of the Party minions yearn for greater justice and fewer deaths, Starmer has 'entrusted' to former Israeli spy, Assaf Kaplan, the task of sifting through the membership's social media. Increasingly, Kaplan's role has concerned itself with a deal more than merely buried dreams!

Foreign Secretary! That's one mighty brief! All that is foreign remains a deal greater than all that is not. Even whilst under the former global shadow of the 'Grrrreat' British Colonial Empire that part remaining outside significantly outweighed that part that fell within. Even when 'the sun was unable to set upon the British Empire!' Even then! But that was then, and now is now.

The 'fact' that the UK's former colonies may, ultimately, consider time under the yoke to have been detrimental still tends to stick in the craw of far too many pseudo-historians. 'Pseudo,' in that they continue to view the former British Empire through a deal of self-censorship. 'Pseudo,' in that they select their 'perspective' subject to an act of meticulous filtration. Yet still, they cannot deny that most of those former colonies- USA included- have since elected to shed the shackles. Barbados is but the latest, and we wish her well!

When all is considered it seems quite likely that the Right Honourable David Lammy's Foreign Secretary role may yet encompass the greatest landmass of potential trouble spots since the advent of World Wars I or II. Has the international dabbling of consecutive British Governments ushered that eventuality more distant, or brought that eventuality closer to bear? Discuss! It should be noted that former colonies, having undergone colonisation, are likely to harbour negative conceptions that may otherwise not have existed. Kenya being a case in point. Britain's covert Project Legacy would be another towering case in point! Should anyone wish to contest that Project Legacy is anything other than covert then they would do well to address the given fact that rounding up thousands upon thousands of documents and setting fire to those same documents is an act designed to leave significantly fewer incriminating details, significantly weaker insight! In this instance, 'covert' bringing about the 'unknowable!'

One wonders what the Right Honourable David Lammy thinks?

Who 'better' to steer the UK through the shadowy underworld with which we have been foisted than any uber obedient footman of Former Head of the Crown Prosecution Service, Sir Keir Rodney Starmer? In this instance the Right Honourable David Lammy. One wonders whether the idea of 'adapting' the nation's title might ever have occurred to the Generals, perhaps, to 'Democratic' Greater Britain'?

Although Israel performatively feigned apoplectic outrage when the Right Honourable David Lammy announced, via the House of Commons, that the UK would be suspending around 30 military arms licences to Israel, Israel likely far better understands the United Kingdom's actions than does much of the its own citizenship. In blatant disregard for the actual victims of Israel's slaughter of the innocents, Lammy suspended fewer than one tenth of complicit licences, those usually routinely waved through by the UK. "It is with regret that I inform the House today, the assessment I have received finds that, for certain UK arms exports to Israel, there exists a clear risk that they might be used to commit or facilitate a serious violation of International Humanitarian Law," Lammy 'shared.' "The UK continues to support Israel’s right to self-defence in accordance with international law," he reverted to type. Lest we might have missed one small yet remarkable detail of the statement, the Right Honourable David Lammy was observed to rise from the bench unaided. Quite the feat when all is considered!

One wonders what Baroness Margaret Hodge of Barking thinks?

Israel understands! Behind the pretence, the US also better understands the fuller implications of Britain's actions. Ultimately, it's not inconceivable that the US (via Israel) first agreed the move. Under these circumstances, maybe 'Sheepy' would better describe the current UK Foreign Secretary?

One detail that was neither volunteered by, nor requested of, Lammy was that Britain's arms to Israel are not key to Israel's Ongoing Genocide. Complicit Military Arms, care of Germany and the US of A, both dwarf those handed over by the UK. The UK's role in the Genocide is not as supplier of military arms; more, it is as supplier of military information. Germany has demonstrated that picking a cause is not one of its strengths!

Via the UK's overseas base of Akrotiri on Cyprus the UK has undertaken a great many spy flights over the rubble of Gaza. The government may have sought to obfuscate but it is known that British spy flights were operating over The Strip during to systematic seeking, targeting and assasinations of seven World Central Kitchen staff. Yet another 'mishap' the US's Genocide Joe is happy to hand over to the IDF to investigate. One wonders what they'll find! The unwanted colonial outpost of Akrotiri, 'conveniently' operating on the doorstep of the Middle East and Palestine, offers also a collaborative staging-post for the US of A. The UK 'does not comment upon the military manoeuvres and actions of its allies!' The tonnage of Weapons of the Genocide travelling through the base may be regarded as both 'offensive' (adj) and 'offensive' (n); to the islanders who would rather see the colony gone!

One wonders what Baron Walney, John Woodcock, thinks?

With the Commons still echoing to the faux-outrage of both Labour Friends of the Genocide and Opposition MPs, Israel, true to form, was soon observed to atomise yet another approximately twenty innocent children, women and men residing in the designated safe zone tent encampment of al-Mawasi. Infinitely more honest and reliable than Israeli figures in such matters, Hamas has named no Commanders buried in the debris. Of note, Hamas regards fighters thus killed as martyrs, so would see no mileage in denial. The resultant crater was 16m deep! So, deploying one of the USA's 2,000 pounders in a safe zone of tightly packed tents, the 'Globe's Most Moral Army' has atomised yet more innocent children and women, creating a 16m crater! Likely, the flight stopped off at Akrotiri- the UK Government 'could not comment upon the military movements of its allies.' Are we still at liberty to wonder if the UK supplied parts for that specific F35, or if UK-spy-plane-gathered data was here deployed?' Question to the Right Honourable Mr David Lammy? 'A serious violation of International Humanitarian Law,' does the Right Honourable Gentleman consider? Any thoughts, Dave? If so, who else could rightly be numbered complicit in the Ongoing Genocide?

The following day the 'Globe's Most Moral Army' murdered more than 70 further innocent civilians when it used (likely) US supplied missiles to obliterate yet another school (the al-Taba'een School) inside Gaza. It is unclear whether the UK played its part by providing yet more F35 items that might be used to commit or facilitate 'a serious violation of International Humanitarian Law,' or else by supplying spy-plane-gathered surveillance data. That's school number 477 that the IDF has targeted! That's a considerable weight of Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing amongst which other states may be cited as complicit, perhaps more so those that have endorsed the 'cutting off of water to civilian populations!' Any thoughts, Dave?

One wonders what helicoptered-in Right Honourable Luke Akehurst thinks, the Common's most honourable helicoptered-in MP?

Coughing away the dust, the US's Genocide Joe will parrot calls for the 'Two State Solution,' although he will refrain from elaborating upon quite how the Palestinian State might be carved out within that fast and Internationally Illegally depleted landmass. Go on, Joe, suggest that the US supplied missiles ricocheted off the ground! "It was a mistake! We continue to recognise Israel's right to defend itself!" Go on BBC, provide the platform! Sit, Dave!

One wonders what Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, thinks, the country's he most honourable Chief Rabbi?

Then, on 17th September, the most moral terrorist spy network in the world (Mossad) allegedly unleashed yet further waves of terror, upon the unsuspecting civilians of Lebanon and Syria this time. As many as two Hezbollah fighters were named amongst the dozens of fatalities and the thousands of casualties, health workers, children, funeral goers, shop-keepers, bystanders! Facial injuries, mostly to eyes and ears, amputated hands, serious burns, many to children, spread through the respective populations. The most moral army in the world has, thus far, been treading the line between smug and cagey. Anthony Blinken, the world's second most moral Secretary of State, was allegedly given no forewarning of the attacks; he allegedly did not fore-condone them. He made some noises about 'working towards a ceasefire in Occupied Palestine' and 'called for a de-escalation.' The BBC delivered the news in suitably compliant tones, ensuring to remind the UK listeners that Hezbollah has been designated a 'terrorist' group. They have, thus far, refrained from suggesting that any group capable of undertaking such an act of 'terrorism' also be designated a terrorist group. 'Minds,' such as that of US President Biden, may currently be speculating as to whether the world's most moral coloniser is now positioning itself to illegally annex also regions of Lebanon and Syria.

One wonders what the man aspiring to be the world's third most moral Foreign Secretary thinks?

The Right Honourable David 'Lammy'? 'Sheepy'? It makes no odds!
'A Wolf in Sheep's clothing!'
'The Sharks are circling,' or 'the Vultures,' 'Better a day as a Lion than a lifetime as a Jackal,' 'Hyenas,' 'Crocodile tears'?
Once one has observed any of these creatures, at liberty to act within its own environment, one invariably comes away with the given truth that they're all differently quite exquisitely perfect! That would necessarily include the majority of Humankind! But, the worst? When attempting to select a suitable mammalian idiom for many of humankind's greater perpetrators I repeatedly find myself coming full circle back to Humankind. Everything else slots neatly into its own respective ecosystem. Whereas the worst of Humankind invariably seeks to ride roughshod over the lot!

So, in the context of the Ongoing Genocide on Palestine, maybe...
'Complicit!' best serves.
We'll just have to wait and see what the ICC thinks.
Here's hoping!

Eternal thanks must go out to sites such as Declassified. Concerned with actual journalism rather than that of the 'client' sort, Declassified has laboured to unearth details of the multiple Israeli assisting flights passing through Akrotiri in Cyprus. Declassified undertaking real journalism over and above the UK MSM's deferance to Government D Notices.

Tea on the Grass, with Sandwiches and Genocide.

It has been said that the Israeli Zionist project is a Genocidal 19th Century crime foisted upon a 21st Century world. I've heard it uttered, from various sources, shamefully, fearfully, tearfully, angrily, desperately, many ways, none of them with a semblance of pride! So, how is one honestly expected to speak of Crimes of such towering immensity?

When Israel's hateful plan is 'complete,' as 'envisaged' by the the Israeli State, should the very worst come to pass, how will the wider world then be expected to regard the perpetrators? Will the globe, once again, be permitted to regard the map and see for itself that, well, who could have known, Israel's actually situated in Asia? Will 'our' MSM finally relent and unearth the truth of those countless War Crimes? Which nations and individuals will be charged with the rebuilding? Who will deal with the bodies? Where will those who have escaped the Genocide be expected to live? Where will the thousands upon thousands of wounded citizens reside? Will the spoken numbers reflect actual fatalities or will these need to be 'modified' to sit more comfortably in the lap of 'the globe's most moral army?' Will the tales of War Criminals be listened to with polite nodding? Will international Human Rights once again be reanimated, once more become internationally pertinent- not to be vetoed by the USA? Will that questionable nation (Israel) finally 'settle down' and stop bombing and killing and torturing its 'neighbours' and hope to begin chatting 'amiably, as if the Genocide may so casually be swept under the carpet? As if the whole Genocidal affair never actually happened?

When the tea is poured, and the cucumber sandwiches distributed amongst the guests, what might be said? How will the conversation go? What will the globe hear? Will hands, those not murdered, those not atomised beneath a weight of Mediterranean rubble, be warmly shook, niceties exchanged? Will we all smile and pretend that Israel is no longer a nation capable of [cheering on] Genocide, guilty of celebrating War Crimes, guilty of the Torture of Minors, guilty of using Human Beings as Sniper Practice, guilty of tying human beings to the fronts of tanks (Human Shields) then driven into and over other people's lands and properties, conceivably guilty of Infanticide on horrific scale, guilty of Ethnic Cleansing, guilty of Weaponising Famine and Disease? Will we pretend that Israel is a nation we can trust not to bomb (conceivably) even our own shores, should it so wish? "Warm today, isn't it?" "Looking forward to the World Cup?"
Best not to mention the goalkeeper's time in the IDF!

What could be said in the wake of the Genocide?
How might we normalise Ethnic Cleansing?
Pretend we're all once again at peace?
"How do we, in the 'civilized' world, think we should deal with the threat of China?"
"Record on human rights leaves a lot to be desired, don't yuh know?"
"One's inclined to think Putin's a bit of a concern."


Should we be glib. Light-hearted, off-hand, dismissive? Will we be able to select our own speakers, or will these continue to be vetted and handed down? Pray, please God, that there will not be children to watch!

For those sitting up and paying attention...
... via the various news outlets, the UK has learned much about itself of late:
That faith in Main Stream Media has fallen to an all-time low.
That acceptance of the BBC's narrative is at its most jaded.
That pride in the UK's international history is at its weakest.
That the nation is at its most unequal in people's living memory.
That the integrity of the UK's politicians has never before been held in such contempt. Still, way too highly, some might contest.


All in all, the nation has reaped what it has sown. It's about where any reasonably attentive citizen might expect it to be.

See, the flip side to [Israel's] Settler-Colonial Genocide is going to come at a cost! Mostly now, the globe appears to recognise that the act of colonialism has poorly served its various populations, but still that acceptance has yet to have been responsibly 'owned,' particularly in correlation to each individual nation's culpability! The reckoning is ongoing!

Nation's have responded variably to their years of Cultural Vandalism, Human Displacements and conceivable Genocidal Behaviours. Certain Australian citizens have responded with open aggression- how dare outsiders (or insiders) tell them how 'their' lands should be divvied-up! Not all but significant numbers. Of course, Australia has its own shameful past! An enforced program of attempting to completely Assimilate the Aborigine population out of existence, Forcible Displacement of its native citizens.

With its greater landmass the US of A finds itself with superior swathes of fertile lands, so poorly and jealously measured out to its native populations whose lands it stole and Colonised. Yet, even this is as nothing compared to its Colonial Ambitions without, mostly covert. In terms of imagery the US is almost spoilt for choice. Perhaps a storm-damaged 'Hollywood' boarding best represents the nation, risen like so much unsightly and unburied refuse upon the hillside. Significant regions of the globe may still rightly regard the US as, 'over-paid, over ________ and over here!' Those expansive ambitions remain far too unsustainable for just the single planet. "We will coup whoever we want,” Elon Musk once wrote, “deal with it." With goals such as those of the US of A, we shouldn't be that surprised to see that it remains, way and above, the most tolerant of Israeli Ethnic Cleansing and Expansionism. Scholars of the US would do well to obtain a copy of 'How to Hide an Empire,' by Daniel Immerwahr, something of an eye opener!

'Rule Britannia...' and all that. It was once claimed that, 'the sun never set upon the British Empire.' Respondents have parried with, 'that's because God would be unwise to trust the Brits in the dark.' Several nations have dabbled with their various empirical ambitions; the UK has not been the first. It is, however, a very strong contender for having 'recently' ruled over the most expansive empire in modern history- modern enough that the remnants are still shaking off the yoke of their former oppressor! Modern enough that 'pride in the empire' has become a highly disputed subject in the national curriculum. Yet far enough in the past that the UK's covert masters have acted to steal a march upon the historians. 'Operation Legacy'- hatched and undertaken still in living memory- has been a shameful effort to overwrite aspects of the nation's more unsavoury past, to locate and destroy thousands of files documenting crimes committed in the name of empire, incidents recognised as 'unsuitable' for the proud history books! Unsavoury actions carried out in over 20 former and (then) current colonies. Something of an admission of guilt! Something of a recognition that Empire Building is a highly questionable exercise!

Israel, by every measure, finds itself well behind each and every one of these curves! Yet, it seems inevitable, at some point in the 'near' future, that the nation will expect/demand (AIPAC, Labour Friends of Israel, CAA) to be afforded continuation of their 'exceptionalist' status. Afforded access to international sporting events, afforded the cloak of European convenience, as and when deemed 'desireable.' Civilization will be hoping and praying the Israeli nation's fondness for selective War Crimes, as defined by the ICC, the ICJ, Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, B'tSalem and a growing host of others, will have run its abhorrent course whilst there still survives a human population in Gaza, the West Bank, the Golan Heights.

Israel's IDF currently displays scant evidence of due regard for human life. Likelihood of any change in direction remains uncertain at best. If one enables the mass murderer whilst entrusting that same character to a) cease killing at some vague time in the future, and then b) adjudge whether all further murders are actually murder, or else the result of any other vague cause under the sun, what, do we imagine, will be the likelihood that the murdering will stop? If Israel is able to target and shoot citizens also of Europe and the USA, in the absolute knowledge that the USA and Europe will continue to hand out free passes, what are the chances that Israel will stop murdering people/anyone? 'Exceptionalism' writ large! An exceptional contempt for human life!

But, here's the thing. There's no such thing as 'exceptionalism.' If there were, it could hardly be expected to apply solely to the two most Genocidal nations currently upon the Earth! Should one ever doubt this truth, watch the children. When you're next out, with time to sit and ponder, watch the children! Watch the children! Listen to them laugh. Listen to them chattering to their parents; conversations between parent and child. Then look up the latest figures on child mortality inside Occupied Palestine. Not the figures from the IDF! Not their respective relayers! Instead, consider the figures from the humanitarians.

11th May 2022: Murder of Shireen Abu Akleh, shot by member of IDF in the Occupied West Bank.
1st April 2024: 7 World Central Kitchen staff targeted, tracked and systematically murdered inside Gaza Strip via IDF drone strike (x3).
7th September 2024: Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, shot by member of IDF in the Occupied West Bank.
The number of Journalists targeted and murdered by the IDF inside Gaza continues to climb beyond 130.
The number of Aid Workers, Doctors, Nurses murdered by the IDF is currently incalculable.
The USA continues to permit the IDF to investigate all killings inside the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Israel routinely denies culpability, downplays the immense number of fatalities and wounded.
Israel routinely applies the label of 'Terrorist' to anyone murdered, killed, living or dead, inside the Occupied Palestinian Territories, as and when suits the Israeli narrative.
Western MSM continues to air the latest propaganda from Israel and the IDF, such that each and every Israeli excuse, lie and obfuscation may be permitted to perpetuate the Israeli/US/Western narrative.
The USA continues to veto every ruling and move undertaken by the International Courts who are attempting to hold Israel to account.
USA, Germany and the UK continue to arm Israel and the IDF, whilst pretending distress at the scale of the murder. Check their smiles in the publicity shots, taken during their tours of Israel.


Presumably, all of these details will be 'off the table' when the Victoria Sponge is sliced.

"Champers, anyone?"