Shouting Power into the Face of Truth!

I find these days, I rarely enjoy posting articles. I regard it as shouting into the face of the hurricane. It gets in the way of more enjoyable stuff. More than once or twice I have abandoned this site, intending never to return.

It seems that few read it; there are far more informative sites. Although, I would suggest, where Palestine is concerned, the BBC is not one of those. When the fabricated anti-Semitism 'crisis' brought about the undermining of one of the UK's more democratic political parties it was the BBC and the Guardian newspaper that may have done most damage to the Labour Party, thus also UK's democracy. Think, the public, some of them, knew what to expect from the Daily Mail, the Telegraph, the Spectator, but many still sought a more honest refuge within the pages of the Guardian, the late night politics of the BBC.

I would contest that the BBC's 'BBC Verify' site, as repeatedly endorsed by Clive Myrie, may well have been launched, at least in part, with the aim of undermining bodies seeking to question the Corporation's claim at 'impartial reporting.' After all, if the world's largest news corporation doesn't even bother to report upon an incident then, it might be contested, that there is nothing upon which to adjudge- as with B'Tselem's finding (Israel's largest Human Rights Organisation) that Israel was already operating as an Apartheid state, that its current actions in Gaza are likely to constitute Genocide, as with Amnesty International's finding, after months of heartbreaking research and review, that Israel is committing Genocide. The BBC would likely contest that Amnesty's findings 'were' reported upon- upon B'Tselem's ruling seems less likely. But the BBC is a huge institution- the pertinent question here might be, 'where was the news 'buried?' Not only is Genocide the worst crime that may be committed by nation upon nation, it's also, therefore, headline news! So might be a Human Right's ruling that one of the UK's (so termed) allies operates as an Apartheid State. For many/most who rely upon the BBC, maybe, awareness of Amnesty's report was effectively omitted, B'Tselem's ruling rubbed out!

This is not Gaza, the destruction in Gaza is immeasurably worse!

Now that Israel's Genocide upon Occupied Palestine is fifteen months ongoing the BBC and the Guardian are finally beginning to poke around at the edges of suggesting that it is Genocide. Too late! Too late, BBC! Too late and counting Sir Keir Starmer, former Head of the Crown Prosecution Service (toolmaker's son), Genocide enabler. Too late David Lammy, Foreign Secretary, future Member of the House of Lords, Genocide apologist.

I have made the effort to keep abreast of the ongoing War Crimes. The pain that has taken up residence in my chest is now 'a permanence,' so much so that sometimes I can barely stomach to look beyond the first paragraph or image of Israel's latest atrocity- how history repeats itself! But, I do look and read, because I have to. My pain is as if nothing!

* I have seen footage of IDF personnel posing as universities are detonated.
* I have seen female IDF personnel similarly posing amongst the ruins they have recently brought about, as if for some sort of monstrous calendar- one may well exist for all I know.
* ... watched Israeli fans chanting "Fuck the Arabs!" and "There are no schools in Palestine because we've bombed them!" later to see Starmer and Lammy misrepresenting footage as 'anti-Semitic pogrom.' It is unbelievable that either did not know.
* I have watched the US President Biden categorically state that he looked at photographic evidence that 40 babies were beheaded, others burned in ovens, women raped, false news that BBC amongst others helped to spread worldwide. Evidence has shown that no babies were thus killed, no evidence of rape yet exists- the BBC has not headlined this!
* ... watched male IDF personnel trying of women's underclothes, smashing various items.
* ... seen x-rays of IDF sniper bullets in the skulls and necks of dead Palestinian children.
* ... listened to a Palestinian girl screaming under gunfire, as she attempts to direct ambulance staff to where she shares a car with her recently shot family, until her voice ceased after a hail of machinegun fire.
* ... seen craters created by 2,000 pound US supplied bombs, in the midst of a camp of flimsy tents.
* ... seen footage of Palestinians burning alive, in consequence of sustained missile attack- our's?- on tented populations.
* ... watched Israeli civilians, including young boys, throw flour supplies from a truck and trample upon the burst contents, whilst armed IDF personnel watch and do nothing.
* ... watched unarmed, wounded civilians approaching along rubble streets, to be picked off as sniper practice.
* ... read about mass graves being discovered, hospital staff and patients, some with cannulas still in place.
* ... read reports of Palestinians being rounded up- doctors, patients, civilians- cuffed with cable ties and (I think the term is) 'disappeared.'
* ... seen images of amputations caused through use of cable ties.
* ... read so many thoroughly documented reports of torture being carried out in Israeli 'prisons.'
* ... watched and read statements and calls by Knesset members and prominent Israeli figures, for War Crimes to continue upon Palestinians.
* There is growing evidence that Israel has been testing ever more inhuman weaponry- 'Field Tested'- weaponry which is likely to further contravene international laws of conflict. Accounts are leaking through the 'Terror Dome,' of detonations capable of atomising victims to mist, reducing concrete to dust. Who worse than the IDF to possess such weaponry? Let's pray the reports are not true! Israeli use of white phosphorus against unarmed civilians has been filmed.

This is not Gaza, the destruction in Gaza is immeasurably worse!

The silence coming from current members of the 'Labour' Cabinet/Government rings in the air so loudly that it risks causing tinnitus. The Party has many more honourable members, Councillors and a few MPs, but 'Labour' in Government now seems to serve more as disguise than label. Like thousands of others I left (or was expelled/suspended) during the manufactured ant-Semitism 'crisis.'

I offer these few names as examples of Labour's updated depletion of any true values. Expect little during its time in office, which may well turn out to be a single term.
* Sir Keir Starmer, former Head of the Crown Prosecution Service (toolmaker's son)- consider the promises, pledges, whatever he has undertaken. Consider the statement he made after Labour's 2019 Election defeat, consider the values he pretended to espouse when he stood for election as the Head of the Party. Well Keir, they did 'cut off water and fuel and food and humanitarian aid! Rest now, your Legacy is written!
* Right Honourable David Lammy, likely future Member of the House of Lords- consider his many deflections of the term Genocide in Palestine, when judged against his statements on Russia, his past statements on Windrush (note 'past')
* Right Honourable Luke Akehurst- consider, as Secretary of right-wing faction Labour First, appointed to Labour NEC, from which position he nominated himself as Labour Candidate, hundreds of miles away, in North Durham, where the standing candidate was deselected not by members but from Labour Headquarters where Akehurst was an NEC member. An individual who would be difficult to describe without recourse to profanity.
* David Mencer- consider, Mencer was former Director of Labour Friends of Israel at the time of the fabricated anti-Semitism 'crisis,' who moved seamlessly to Israeli spokesperson for whom no act of Genocide by Israel cannot be excused. Another character difficult to describe without reverting to profanity.
* Baroness Margaret Hodge of Barking, Government Anti-Corruption Champion- consider, someone who actually screamed 'anti-Semitism!' during the fabricated 'crisis. She cited several former Labour members yet, curiously, never reported any as 'guilty of hate-crime.' During the ongoing Genocide she has travelled to Israel and posed for pictures with members of the Israeli War Cabinet.
* Baron Peter Benjamin Mandelson- consider, quoted as saying he 'worked tirelessly for the downfall of his own political Party during the 2019 Election Campaign. Mandelson said, in response to 'evidence' he phoned Jeffrey Epstein- serving time for child sex trafficking, friend of Prince Andrew- that he "didn't recall" phoning Epstein whilst he was in prison, lawyerly speak or not? Still he was appointed Ambassador to the United States of America by Starmer.
* President of the USA, Joe Biden- obviously not a Labour Party member yet directly and indirectly responsible for the immense damage there inflicted, via AIPAC and other Israeli lobbyists. Arming the ongoing Genocide will have him remembered as a monster! No doubt some are already lining him up for the Peace Prize.
* Baron Walney, John Woodcock, formerly Labour, now 'Cross-bench peer, former Conservative 'Adviser on Political Violence and Disruption- consider Woodcock fled Labour under (discontinued) complaint of sexual harassment. Still given peerage by PM Johnson, subsequently appointed 'Adviser' role. Accused by many of suppressing Palestinian voices. He unashamedly poses alongside Baroness Hodge and members of the Israeli War Cabinet


I have not linked most of this. I have done so many times before. But there is a sort of footnote below, linked:

* There is a very informative film now available on YouTube: 'Israelism.' Created by two young American Jews- Simone Zimmerman and Eitan (?) who have sought to uncover why numbers of (certain) Americans behave in a manner which has enabled Genocide.
* Mention of prohibited weapons' being used by Israel in Gaza.
* Article investigating misreporting of Amsterdam riots.
* Article that investigates BBC claims of impartiality. Names and instances are cited in the article:
BBC Director General Tim Davie
BBC CEO Deborah Turness
BBC Director of News Content Richard Burgess
Head of BBC online Raffi Berg
Sir Robbie Gibb, BBC's Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee.
Chairman Arts Council Nicholas Serota
BBC Chair Samir Shah
Laura Kuenssbeg
Panorama 'Is Labour Anti-Semitic?'
* Article that investigates OFCOM's role


All of the articles linked are far more worthy of a read. Often it seems we are experiencing the death of proper journalism in the West- consider the role and the power of the Editor to dictate what we are allowed to read, listen to or watch! Many of those who continue to report on Gaza and other considered controversial issues face increasing harassment and threat from disingenuous actors. Is the UK Police Force now far more 'Mercenaries for 'hire'' than 'Safe-Guarders' of anything worth safeguarding?

When the Israeli Genocide ceases- surely they cannot smear their hatred across the entire Middle East- what will the UK want to report? Will BBC verify challenge the death toll as unverifiable? Will former Head of the Crown Prosecution Service, Keir Starmer? Who will be left to name the thousands of dead children, women and men (non-combatants and fighters)? As any survivors scatter, will culpable Governments, even then, dare to say, 'We did not know?' Will they callously pretend they knew less than we did? Will the guilty parties shout power into the face of truth? They often do but, this time it's Genocide!

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?"

Theatre of Death

In a precision military operation four Palestinian child-hostages have been liberated from IDF cells, in the process of which two-hundred and seventy-four Israelis were killed. Multiple IDF terrorists were eliminated during the exercise. How would the UK's editorial gatekeepers have this hypothetical information relayed to a wider public?

What might be the 'message'- which with absolute certainty would be broadcast via the BBC- delivered by IDF Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari?

The instance never happened. Terrorised Palestinians never possessed the US weaponry with which to undertake such an operation, nor the military might, nor adequate US or UK drone footage, nor military supremacy over Israeli territory. Quite the reverse.

But, if such an incident had transpired, what would the wider population learn of the 'event' via its news media? What would the day's headlines be? US President Joe Biden would be dusted down and wheeled to the podium. What would be his message for Western ears?

Safe to assume, the evening news's imagery would not revolve around the smiling faces of the rescued children, in the grateful arms of their loving families. Reasonable to expect references to the likely unnamed 'four children' to frequently be prefixed by, 'merely,' 'just,' 'as few as,' 'only' or similarly diminutive adverbs or adverbial phrases. Little doubt that the imagery would be about as graphic as deemed editorially 'acceptable.' Each headlining repeat might well be preceded by a warning about the exceptionally graphic nature of the story. The imagery would be pushing at the boundaries of what currently passes for respectability. Licence to once again spread the disproven myth of beheaded babies would reignite.

The headline figure would far more likely be that of '274 Israeli victims.' Perhaps, the majority of news updates might not get so far as to even mention 'rescued children,' electing instead to concentrate upon the death toll and the unduly graphic imagery. Should 'rescued child-hostages' ever be permitted to squeak in the term 'hostages' will have been gleaned, the subject of their 'torture' would not be broached.

Britain's, and the US's ties with the State of Israel would benefit considerably! In a manner out of all proportion to the preceding eight month's Genocidal onslaught. Disproportionate segments of the day's news would be given over to the spokespeople of Israeli Government and the IDF. Daniel Hagari, or another such militia-man, would be afforded significant spotlight, under which to peddle the Israeli myth of, 'the most moral military on the planet.' The term 'Anti-semitism' would once again find itself widely sprayed upon the doubters, the non-lobby journalists, the marchers. Ministerial visits and photo-opportunities would ensue. Flights back and forth from the UK Cypriot base of Akrotiri would multiply. The desire to keep Akrotiri out of MSM headlines would be relaxed, maybe celebrated.

Parliamentary calls to ban Pro-Palestinian and Anti-Genocide marches would intensify! Demands that the language and certain phrases deployed amongst the marchers be legislated against would multiply. British Police Forces would be strongly urged to clamp down upon and further restrict events. Lord Walney, Lord Mann and Margaret Hodge would be booked to appear on TV and radio with increased frequency. Sir Keir Rodney Starmer- who's father was a tool-maker- might, once again, get away with stating that 'cutting off food, water, electricity was acceptable. ** Front bench droids would once again have their bigotry highlighted, unleashed!

Israel 'defending itself' would again be given the green light. Western arms would again flow with open endorsement. The death-toll would again accelerate, be more openly egged (cheered) on in both Houses, the Commons and the Lords.

* But, this did not happen! Instead two-hundred and seventy-four slaughtered Palestinians were routinely displaced by the four rescued Israeli hostages. Viewers were not shown footage of some of the in excess of 700 Israeli casualties being rushed into well-appointed Israeli hospitals, into the care of fully staffed and spotlessly clean wards and theatres, which did not anyway happen. Instead, in the absence of news camera-team footage- denied access by the IDF- imagery was substituted by phone images of sagging ceilings, shattered walls, smashed and trampled equipment, exhausted surgical teams operating upon the victims, ever wary of the next Israeli missile strike, bloodied child victims spread across the floors! David Lammy dons blinkers, once again unrestained!

News of two-hundred and seventy-four, and counting, Palestinian murders will swiftly be usurped with news of the General Election. Your chance to participate in the country's democracy. Which of two captured parties will prove victorious?

The 'game' of Israeli Genocide continues unchecked.

* The Guardian's Kenneth Roth questions the means by which the latest bout of Israeli slaughter was brought about.
** Novara's Polly Smythe has done some digging with regards to Labour's values under Sir Keir Starmer's new look party.

Biden dips a toe into Apartheid.

It has been said that the ICC was created 'to deal with African tin-pot dictators and those like Putin, never to bite the hand that created it.' I paraphrase. So, when the Courts finally ruled that arrest warrants are being sought for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant the rest-of-the-world, behind time, sat up and rubbed at its rheumy eyes. Why, the ICC cannot be there to judge also the Exceptionalist West! The UK Commons was soon blown full of indignation; characters, parodies, who would sit better with Trump's Republicans... or too many of Biden's Democrats. How very dare they!

While deaths pile high!


Hope as it might the US Nation is scarce able to disguise that 'dipped toe.' So instead, its dusty old figurehead defaults to gaslighting, full-blown apartheid... elsewhere, which sort of makes the nation also culpable. Has the ol' dodder missed his footing upon the bank and fully immersed himself? Colonialists, by nature, are best practised at exploiting international borders; so the US has form.

And deaths pile ever higher!


Apartheid was and is dependant upon the premise of racial 'superiority' and segregation. The former nation of South Africa honed and embedded an openly extreme model, reliant, then, upon Western allies in order to operate and to survive. Boldest amongst apartheid's friends was the nation of Israel. When international pressure prevailed and 'friends' fell away, emboldening the country's repressed majority, South African Apartheid's days became numbered. The globe witnessed its eventual demise in the early 1990s. Apartheid's former allies set about realignment and the pretence that they'd never actually endorsed and befriended the racism in the first place, flags were duly waved! Still the system left a stain upon the surface of the planet, or rather the stain, which had always been there, 'for a while' hardened about the African nation. Today the stain has wandered further afield- much like damage from a long-neglected leak, its more widespread contouring tidal marks may not always be immediately evident. But there are also sites of sustained damage, darkening borders, perhaps rust and other decay, perhaps jagged breaks, perhaps festering holes where societal structure has begun to fracture!

Nowhere is that societal fracture more evident than within the rogue state of Israel and being imposed upon the Palestinian Occupied Nation. Much as with former Apartheid South Africa, Israel is heavily dependent upon Western 'allies,' chief amongst these being the good ol' US of A. Yet, the globe is no longer that of the 1990s, it has become far more international; far more reliant upon sales pitch.

And deaths pile ever higher!


The US 'functions' hierarchically, even more so than does the UK: education, health, housing meted out accordingly; whether it be via 'ethnicity,' gender, 'school,' employment, wealth or that curiously amorphous creature, status. Yet Apartheid wields a particularly high (or low) bar! So instead, there substitutes an unspoken premium, a power premium!

Still the deaths pile ever higher!


When the momentous ICC announcement was delivered those lining up to rebuff and to pedal the Apartheid State's lie showed discouragingly bountiful! Yet, internationally respected giants such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B'Tselem, United Nations, African National Congress, Yesh Din, and International Federation for Human Rights, had long since investigated and adjudged Israel to have crossed the Apartheid threshold. Two of those listed operate as Israeli Human Rights organisations, based within Israel's current borders. Two opposing narratives battle for supremacy, one true, one false and enabling Genocide!

Individuals endowed with a power premium slip freely through society, relatively unhindered, whilst the majority citizenship must observe from afar, oft not even be permitted to peek behind the screens, likely blissfully unaware of the widening inequality. When Sunak's time is up he will likely demonstrate his true allegiance to nation, deploying his wealth premium in order to swiftly morph from UK resident to that of US. Much as the more extreme politics of Natalie Cecelia Elphic (OBE) are no barrier to her seamless 'transition' and assimilation within Sir Keir Rodney Starmer's (KCB KC) 'Labour Party.' Much as Luke Akehurst of Labour's NEC may decide to parachute himself into the safe seat of North Durham, where he is currently unknown. Not so much serving democracy as trampling all over and discarding it! Much as David Mencer's transition to Israeli spokesperson sees him so easily jettisoning that same Labour Party. Such individuals pseudo represent us, they pseudo speak upon our behalf, flirting as democrats as and when opportunity best self-serves. Lest we should doubt their integrity the likes of John Zak Woodcock, Baron Walney, crossbench peer and Government’s Independent Adviser on Political Violence and Disruption, is appointed to ensure that only the 'correct' slant of political discourse prevails. Alongside Labour's Margaret Hodge, the former Chair of Labour Friends of Israel, funded by that same nation, last managed to squeak a visit there in January 2024. The lobby group has deeply infiltrated the 'democratic' British Labour Party yet remains most cagey about from whence the funding comes.

Whilst the deaths continued to pile ever higher!


They may not always present well- honesty catches and burns in their throats- yet their premium sees them slip from role to role. Formerly 'committed' Labour man and Head of Labour friends of Israel, glides across continents, a new platform awaits. A parody of even himself, Mencer presents to the globe as the worst kind of apologist. One moment the man 'embraces' British Labour the next it is full-blown Israeli Apartheid. He makes entirely the same noises as he always has.

Whilst Palestinian deaths pile ever higher!


Mencer has adopted the role of useful idiot across continents. His petulant narration runs counter purpose. Even so he has played but a tiny part in the West's gradual conversion. So when University Campuses burst forth with peace encampments, much like spring flowers- Camps for Palestine blossoming across the West.- those who steer the West's MSM are not best pleased. Israeli, British and US bombs must continue to boost the infant death-tolls, the Zionists froth.

When masked mobs attacked the UCLA Peace Camp US Police stepped back and left the Zionists and other thugs to it for two hours before belatedly intervening. The attack, far in excess of any non-violent student actions, featured sticks and bats, and fireworks deployed as small munitions. Why, it was almost as if orders had been received prior to the first blow. US Police, notoriously hands on, simply stood back to observe, not quite yet reflecting the far more extreme IDF, standing back and permitting Israeli Colonists to attack and destroy long overdue supplies entering Gaza. Weaponising and enabling famine and disease!

Behind the curve, the link is to the BBC site. It has inexplicably taken months and tens of thousands of innocent deaths for the Corporation to finally start to dig into the live-streamed Genocide! This is the same BBC that so swiftly and obediently fell into line with '40 beheaded babies,' then, opted for silence over any form of retraction and correction, when it transpired, once and once again, that the IDF were lying.

Whilst Infant deaths pile ever higher!


When the ICC and ICJ were founded the UK assisted in laying the first stones, and yet... and yet... and yet... It seems evident that, at their infancy, the nation could not have anticipated that the Courts should ever be turned against one of the founding fathers. As colonialists, fast coming to recognise the global worth of legacy, both the ICJ and ICC were initially laid as means to not only order the globe but also, more covertly, as a means to organise and to discipline those other nations.

It had mattered not that Balfour's gift of a homeland had been fully occupied for centuries. The colonial nation's role was surely to order and to organise the lesser nations. Read my rules and know that the world is now better by my decree! But, for heaven's sake, do not think to interpret and deploy those same rules in any wider context! Do not compel the globe's great bully recourse to the humiliation of a full-blown hissy fit!

"Were there not an Israel, the US would have to invent an Israel to protect our interests in the region," a younger Biden once boasted! He might well have added, 'and continue to arm it to the teeth!' And, 'to seek to always draw a veil over the worst of its transgressions!' Then, 'to establish a hierarchy of racism!' Then, 'to establish a hierarchy of life-worthiness!' 'To the tune of countless thousands of innocents, children, infants!' 'Them and us!' Wrong-footed, eye off the ball, Biden thought to dip a toe, stumbled and grabbed at the nearest idiot. A NATO chain reaction ensued!

Whilst Infant deaths continue to pile!


It transpires that Israel has been hacking and threatening the ICC, ICJ and its members for nearly a decade. Little surprise that Israel is no friend to the ICC and ICJ. Thus far the US and UK have increasingly shown themselves stanchly unprepared to seek the moral higher ground, where toes are more easily kept dry.

If rulings from the International Courts are not respected and safeguarded at this juncture how will their authority serve when the welly is on the other foot?

Which Hoop Next, Please?

When Israel, yet, yet and yet again, targeted aid workers- it could as readily have been medics, teachers, children, pregnant mothers, journalists, innocent civilians of many hues- the BBC was almost beside itself with... (?) Completing the sentence proves quite a challenge. 'Topographagnosia' might almost fit the bill, yet topographagnosia implies that there might be a suitable route from this quagmire. Perhaps 'inadequacy,' again, almost works? But, in truth, nothing quite does.

The BBC is but one amongst many to have backed itself into a corner. The flag behind which it has elected to operate has been torn asunder and the corporation lies now butt naked before the nation, and the wider globe! The Conservatives are exactly where one would expect, no change there! The Guardian, formerly a paper of 'certain' values, has thoroughly defecated the nest! The Labour Party has, many believe, shamed itself and betrayed its membership and its values, to an even greater degree. Sir Keir Rodney Starmer, former Head of the Crown Prosecution Service, would almost be able to continue on as before, almost. It is merely his given inability to commit to something- to anything- that rather now finds (most of) the Parliamentary Labour Party in its very own category, 'without label.' Other MSM outlets range somewhere betwixt the BBC's 'inadequacy,' and that of the nation's more reactionary sites. That being, without platform to comment.

Topographagnosia is the inability to recognise salient environmental stimuli. One can observe that it does not quite fit the Corporation, rather it (almost) fits the current face of the BBC, as of Wednesday 3rd April, two days after the Israeli targeting of three separate World Central Kitchen vehicles. The 'current face' being that which the BBC wishes to hide behind, if the nation continues to permit it so to do.

Reeves, of Starmer's Labour, has said the Tory Government should publish any legal advice it has received regarding the selling of (yet more) military arms to (the rogue nation of) Israel. Sir Alan Duncan has 'strongly condemned Israel's killing of seven (more) aid workers. Channel Four's Krishnan Guru-Murthy has made easily one of the better shows, amongst a shamefully poor media reaction, when he almost lost his cool in conversation with Israel's (for the present) David Mencer- the list of Israeli monsters who are prepared to sell what once may have resembled a soul seems almost endless. Mencer, for those who have not yet recognised the face, was formerly head of Labour (UK) Friends of Israel. He has gone straight from Labour (UK) to a position of more blatant Israeli lobbying but, to point this out, would likely be labelled as anti-Semitic, even though it is fact. Feinberg, White House National Security Spokesman, has ventured so very far as to describe the targeted attack upon WCK as a "possible mistake." Wow! Even forensic Starmer, himself, has not gone quite so far as to re-state, 'I do think that Israel has that right.'

In the same time frame Israel has also targeted the Iranian Embassy in Syria. The rogue nation's imagined license to lay siege to a widening range of targets grows more assumed by the day. How far the globe now finds itself from having to re-imagine an attack upon any Western site seems ever more slender! Three of the latest Gazan casualties are British; is the globe any longer so very far from Israel presuming license now to eliminate anyone with whom it disagrees, anywhere! Except, maybe, the mighty US of A. Perhaps, we are fast approaching the state of play whereupon we could (almost) guarantee that an Israeli 'act' upon 'British' soil would find a couple of apologists within UK government? Perhaps?

But, back to the BBC. 3rd April saw the Corporation tying itself into ugly knots, with an insultingly misleading, contention, 'how could Israel have made such a mistake?' The indignant Krishnan Guru-Murthy proved unprepared to countenance such blatant naivety. Truth is, it's all rather too late! The rogue state has too often been given license and cover for its Genocidal acts! Pedalling back from here now seems almost impossible. Whatever route the UK (and other enabling states) elects for the move it's bound to present as ugly!

As of 9th April the BBC seemed to be going with the line, 'how could such a mistake have been allowed to happen?' The 'news' item that I caught preceded a very lengthy and almost uninterrupted monologue by yet another IDF spokesperson. Enabling. Of one detail we can be sure: the action was not a mistake!

As even self-proclaimed Israeli apologists have recently been heard to utter, 'It now seems likely/possible that three British aid workers have just been killed with UK produced/armed missiles.'

* Added on 11th: Upon an obliquely related issue, the UK is also failing to meet its global climate obligations, as of COP 28 (30 November to 12 December 2023). So, with a clear mind as where the political UK stands with regards to integrity, honesty, humanity and all that is half-decent, I have written to Lord Cameron to make a suggestion that his government doubles up on its military flights to Palestine/Israel by packing both arms and aid onto the same aircraft. I hope he recognises irony when he encounters it- he doesn't seem to recognise Genocide!

Blood Language, the Abuse Thereof?

There is currently a confluence of contrasting currents, one more angry and dangerous, another niggling away at the former. Meanwhile the ocean rages, threatening to subsume an entire nation! Where to look? What to say?

Genocide rages over Gaza! A Genocidal current that narrative dictates we may not yet observe for what it plainly is. Genocide! Journalists, doctors, farmers, bakers, grandmothers, mothers, newborn babies, men, women and children wiped from the land! Buried under rubble, torn apart, atomised by UK enabled missiles, ruptured, frozen, dehydrated, starved, consumed by disease! But, do watch what you dare to observe or to say, lest you should make another 'uncomfortable!'

The road to understanding is paved with narrative that we might better grasp the world within which we reside. Tread carefully lest you should misstep! Circumvent those deep pools of anti-Semitic Trope. Careful, MSM determines from which angle one is permitted to observe. Or, at least, the manner in which one may speak of one's observations. Such is the ragged curtain behind which nations seek to hide an ongoing Genocide!

Recent Christmas saw Marks and Spencer swiftly remove one of its seasonal adverts. To the 'innocent' potential consumer the image simply disappeared- one day it was there, the next 'poof!' to be replaced by another. To the curious, not only was it removed, its removal was followed by a carefully penned apology to the 'Jewish community.' Turned about-face the mere targeting of any apology to a homogenous , quote, 'Jewish community' might, in and of itself, wrench forth yet another bended-knee apology. But, it wasn't and it didn't. The fireside image with the 'offensive' flame was swiftly esponged and Marks and Spencer penned its obedient apology and jumped back into line.

The cited 'offense' was that the candle flame borrowed 'shamefully' from the Palestinian flag, thus potentially threatening the shop's Jewish customers, making some of them feel 'unsafe,' allegedly. Or not? Likely, not! The offending flame might, instead, have born too close a resemblance to the Indian flag, thus threatening the store's Pakistani customers, but no! No such complaint was levelled. Most of MSM chose to let the news slip under its radar. Thankfully, no such blue flame upon white background was removed otherwise Hell might have rained down upon the store!

An anti-Semitic moment averted. Except, it wasn't for two very clear reasons. Firstly, the flame wasn't based upon the Palestinian flag. Secondly, the Palestinian flag is a nation's flag and not an anti-Semitic symbol! But Marks and Spencer complied anyway.

Post Christmas witnessed University of East Anglia's campus quietly grubbing out all of its Red Robin bushy evergreen shrubs. Although no injuries had been recorded the Vice Chancellor's office allegedly reported that 'students' had been tripping over the shrubs- not any other shrubs, just those very specific ones. Quickly, they were removed and no more was said. As far as I'm aware, no instances of anti-Semitic planting were cited- as far as I'm aware.

One could argue that the act of removing all of UEA's Red Robin bushy evergreen shrubs remains entirely outside of the anti-Semitism topic of debate; one could. Except the university- ideally, a seat of rigorous and wholesome debate, upon a whole wealth of topics- has form. That is to observe that it's senior management team do. On 12th March 'Concrete,' the University's 'official student newspaper,' offered this story on page 3: "Deep concern" expressed over UEA antisemitism statement." The opening paragraphs rather echo the sentiment of the headline. Vice Chancellor David Maguire was quoted, "In recent days we have sadly witnessed a rise in instances of antisemitism across our community, including graffiti on our campus walls, comments made during a university event, and inappropriate comment made on social media. This is unacceptable and we are taking action to ensure that perpetrators are dealt with swiftly." The VC goes on to explain that there could be a, "police investigation," laying out that, "The comments made do not reflect the views of the University and do not meet our values." If one reads to the end of the whole page article there is more balance but it is not until the seventh paragraph that use of the label 'antisemitism' is, in any way, challenged. In fairness to the Senior News Writer, Jamie Bryson, the article does go on to cite various counter arguments, including an elaboration upon 'From the river to the sea.' But not until seven paragraphs in do we break away from the thrust of the VC, the "intimidatory" and "antisemitic" thrust from the senior team.

There is a photograph, '29,000 Gazans Killed.'
Other instances of graffiti are listed:
'Zionism = Colonialism'
'Judaism opposes Zionism'
'End Apartheid; 26 journalists killed in Gaza'
'(UEA) Banks with Barclays- finances genocide of the Palestinian people'
'Macron, Sunak and Trudeau war criminals'
And a quote from the late Nelson Mandela:
"Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians."


None of which appears as anti-Semitic. One might take issue with the number of Gazans and journalists killed, both statements significantly understating the death toll. Barclays does fund the genocide, through multiple ties with culpable arms manufactures. One merely has to listen to any from a list of significant political figures from inside Israel to understand that the Zionist colonial project continues at haste! The cited Presidents and PM have all argued for the continued funding of Israel and the IDF, despite those nations' massive demonstrations against further funding of the Genocide. If anyone who has observed even a tiny fraction of what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank is not moved, perhaps to anger, then one could readily question their humanity. We could debate but would any such conversation also need to comply with the values of senior management and the VC?

A week past, two Conservative apologies and two Conservative payouts made the small-time news. Firstly, during one round of University Challenge, Christ Church- Oxford's Ms Gorgianeh was wrongly accused of displaying the colours of the Palestinian flag alongside one of the most anti-Semitic tropes, the 'evil' blue octopus, except she wasn't doing either! The accusing Tory peer, Baroness Jacqueline Foster, paid £15,000 in damages and carefully penned her apology. Thing is, she didn't just make the accusation, Baroness Foster also demanded that Ms Gorgianeh be immediately expelled for supporting Hamas, and that she be arrested! Secondly, Science, Innovation and Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan accused Professor Kate Sang, Herriot-Watt University, of expressing sympathy for Hamas. Donelen's unfounded allegations went further in demanding UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) cut its ties to the academic as well as to colleague Dr Kamma Patel. Suspensions were immediate, as the Institute 'carried out' its investigations. MP Donelan has apologised and agreed to pay an undisclosed sum via the taxpayer, that's you and me! UK academic society, riddled with anti-Semitism! Except, it isn't!

Any coincidence with which both wrong accusations were levelled, following so very hot on the heels of statement(s) made by Policy Exchange, should lead the observer to conclude that either Government Ministers respond to the directions of Policy Exchange with trigger-happy abandon, or else they may be responding to 'other obligations.' Careful, anti-Semitism trap lies in wait!

From his GB News temple of 'truth' and 'dignity,' Nigel Farage has accused Jeremy Corbyn of subscribing to an antisemitic conspiracy theory... There is a pattern emerging here!

Not only are Israel and the IDF armed to the teeth- weapons care of the UK and US, via Cyprus- narrative will now readily and shamelessly deploy the whole deck. Blood Libel has been levelled! Used by the Times of Israel to debunk the internationally accepted belief that Israel intentionally targeted a Gazan Hospital. Which, of course, Israel did! Since the claim of the targeted attack Israel and the IDF, or the Times of Israel, whoever, rarely refers back to the initial strike! Swiftly moving on, Israel next spoke of huge Hamas infrastructure needing to be targeted. Hastening onward, when this also proved unfounded. Now, no hospitals are left that have not been targeted by Israeli fire. Now the IDF are involved in the torture of hospital staff. Where might this 'accusation' fall? There is already footage circulating. Another accusation of anti-Semitism in the barrel! What unGodly depravities remain in the IDF arsenals? Will these also transpire to be US and UK enabled? Anti-Semitic Tropes cited! Right there!

Curiously, there is a full Israeli-narrative-complient Team to conduct the BBC et al through an entire lexicon. Which member of the IDF shall we ask, which member of the Israeli Government? Or, in tight reserve, the Telegraph's political correspondent, the Spectator's Katy Balls, the Sun's Harry Cole? One of many from a number, signatories of the October Declaration! Where's cuddly Mel? And, lest you should consider voicing your absolute horror at any of these multiple Crimes of Genocide there's always Government Adviser on Political Violence, Lord Walney. Or Baron Mann, of Holbeck Moor, Government Advisor on Anti-Semitism. Or Baron Austin of Dudley. Careful! Blood Libel! Right there!

Amidst weaponised disease, amidst weaponised starvation US President Biden is planning to build a port on the coast of Gaza, wholly compliant to Israeli President Netanyahu's very precise stipulations. What will the tide wash in? Should be ready in about two months. As certain Americans do so love to tell the globe, 'You do the math!'

Politicians And Their Lies.

Anyone able to stomach viewing the evidence compiled on the Israeli orchestrated Genocide upon the citizens and international workers in Gaza- nobly compiled on the part of South Africa- will not have been surprised to learn that the ICJ has ruled Israel immediately take steps to protect innocent civilians inside Gaza. Nor will they have been surprised to learn that there is a 'plausible risk' of Acts of Genocide occurring. Filmed footage presented cannot have failed to illicit a sense of absolute dread! Likely also physical revulsion, a sense of terror, something beyond anger at the actions of both Government and Opposition Parties and, perhaps also, tears of deep, deep sorrow!

Anyone who has taken a fearful interest in the multiple acts of violence conducted by Israel State and the IDF over the years, even here, must have been shocked at the hateful disregard for life orchestrated by both members of Israeli political class and militia. Demonstrably, here in the UK, certain individuals have not been permitted to speak this truth but, as a more noble retelling of history must and will eventually record, Israel is now conducting itself far too closely to those 'unmentionable' acts it repeatedly pretends to warn the globe not to repeat. Is there not a curious twist to UK parliament that, whilst one may utter such musings within the UK's more ultra-right political party, one may not make similar observations within the British Labour Party?

Be asurred, or rather do not, the UK has taken up arms in a conflict it has not the courage (or honesty) to represent to its citizens.

I have titled this five part work, 'May we please now call it Genocide?'

In 2018, when MP Jeremy Corbyn was roundly condemned for commemorating the loss of around 70 Palestinian and Tunisian lives- approximately 100 also wounded- in Hamman Chott, Tunisia, 2014, none could have predicted where we might have found ourselves just six short years later. The Israeli airstrike upon a third party sovereign state was roundly condemned at the time by the UN. Calculatedly, the USA abstained.

The United Nations, charged with maintaining international law, has never been friend to Israel. For historical reference, during the years of Apartheid in South Africa, Israel was supportive of the South African Government, thus apartheid. The nation routinely and freely morphs between vociferously favouring State Oppression to that of an Adopted State of Victimhood, ably assisted by the US and other colonists riding the slipstream. But it is unlikely that the UN would then have imagined quite the extent to which Israel truly held international law in utter contempt, a contempt which has yet further morphed into one which might yet light the touch paper to an international conflagration, the like of which few of us are old enough to recall. Approaching the wick the flickering light in Israeli hand has seldom been a shy one; should things worsen and follow their current trajectory history's more honest scribes will have much evidence from which to conclude the early signs.

In 1939 the US elected to stand apart and to observe. In the UK the Daily Mail and Oswald Mosley numbered amongst the avant guarde of Hitler's most vociferous admirers. History, we are so often told, does so like to repeat itself. Disingenuous governments very much tend to hide their intentions behind clever quotes and pseudo-compassionate words. But strip away the glitter and judge the actions and the consequences and superficial prettiness is frequently observed to dissolve, revealing the greater, overriding ugliness within!

Even so, it must have come as something of a shock, on the morning after the ICJ's ruling, not to have witnessed a greater respect for international law within the UK's MSM. An almost entire population displaced, in excess of as many as 40'000 slaughtered civilians, although the sheer scale is forever being massaged downwards, with untold numbers buried under rubble, tens of thousands injured, children undergoing multiple amputations without anaesthetic, all at the behest of a culpable political class cheering from the sidelines, culpable militia routinely downloading footage seeking to glorify the death and destruction of a people and its infrastructure, and there is 'plausible' Ethnic Cleansing, 'plausible' Genocide? However bad you think Israel is, it's worse! Labour duly suspended MP Kate Osamor for drawing undue attention to the ruling. Had she been in the Conservative ranks she would likely have been afforded greater freedom to highlight the 'plausible' Genocide!

Instead, the UK chose to sit on the 'plausible' expanding Genocide and muse until the following day, when its citizens were expected to properly sit up and pay attention. Israel, ever the reliable conveyor of truth to the watching world, had a different tale to tell, it's own particular spin! 'Allegedly,' not 'plausibly,' 'hearsay,' not 'extensively documented,' 'Israeli spokesperson claims' not 'the Globe witnesses,' '12 members of staff,' not an 'entire national militia and political class,' one questionable dossier seeks to pretend links to 7th October, yet to be seen outside of IDF circles. Israel barks "Jump!" and the West springs forth! And the 'plausible' Genocide is duly further enabled!

The dossier containing beheaded babies on 7th October never did materialise, although Biden dreamt he'd seen it- an awake member of his staff later clarified, 'he hadn't!' The observer would do well to consider Israel's historical distain for the truth before raising any expectations of another dodgy dossier ever seeing the light of day. It does not exist! Yet the US of A and poodle UK have opted to suspend funds to UNWRA's 13,000 staff, thus further seeding and enabling weaponised disease to spread amongst thousands of victims of 'plausible' Genocide. Consider: does this action make certain Western nations also culpable? Enabling 'plausible' Genocide!

Fortunately all nations are not so gullible, or culpable as is the UK, as to swallow the Israeli narrative, with its decades long record of proven falsehood and distain for international law. Belgium did not immediately suspend funding for UNWRA. Within hours the Belgian Aid Office inside Gaza was flattened under the US and UK enabled Israeli blitz. Yet further evidence for the honest history scholar- the record of Israeli Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza grows clearer by the day.

The UK (and USA) already continues to send £$millions in arms to the Rogue State, arms enabling a 'plausible' Genocide. When 'plausible' Genocide is promoted to actual Genocide will the evidence be so particular as to statistically differentiate which weapons garnered most deaths. Will historians be able to break down 'slaughtered via UK supplied arms,' as opposed to 'succumbed to (say) cholera due to withheld UK funds,' or 'died in agony in surgery due to withheld UK aid'? Sanitised history and glorious empire- that which is permissibly taught in schools- will wish to follow the 'Operation Legacy' route but the unedited version will speak the fuller truth. On the pathway to a purer form of Educide the UK still has much to learn from it’s non-European and covert partner. Still, the truth will be so much louder this time! The images will be clearer! There cannot be a bonfire of files, not these ones, not the hours of footage of Israeli War Crimes, Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide, the footage exists in the aether, in the minds and the memories of millions, in the records of Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, B'Tselem, the United Nations and multiple other groups and organisations.

If the enablers have no respect for those lives overseas what price your's?

As international law and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG), or the Genocide Convention, contests, a recognised Genocide does not necessarily only regard the actors (the killers, the murderers) as culpable but also the enablers (the USAs, the UKs), those who assisted from the sidelines. The actual Genocide may have taken place overseas but the war-footing of the UK and the USA has never been neutral.

Dame Margaret Hodge, smiling in the dark shadow of 'plausible' War Criminal Israeli PM Isac Herzog, posing, without need for any Daily Mail edited message. Something for her other face to get truly angry about! Here she is! Go on Sir Keir Rodney Starmer, former Head of the Crown Prosecution Service, strike with your sword of truth! Or are we at war? To which side are you committed, Sir Keir, upon our behalf? Sky News's Belle Donati makes the obvious comparison, the one that's screaming to be heard from invariably just out of camera shot, in an angry exchange with Israeli spokesperson Danny Danon, daring to question the stated Israeli drive to Ethnic Cleansing. Overdue, Sky dares to observe that 'voluntary emigration' at the point of a gun is essentially Ethnic Cleansing, that those fleeing UK and US enabled carpet bombing are not fleeing 'voluntarily,' that similar 'choices' have been made in 'the past.' Never have those mass migrations of people, at the point of any gun, been classed as 'voluntary.' Until now, apparently- Sky, not Israel, withdrew. Retreated! Just as in a war. 'Voluntary Emigration' or Ethnic Cleansing, decided upon your behalf.

Are we to honestly accept the premise that Israel will invariably be given a free pass to commit it's own particular War Crimes; 'mowing the grass' such actions are termed by the IDF? Yet equating Palestinian lives to blades of grass is somehow okay, thankfully not labelled anti-Semitic or anti-Muslim? Vociferous supporter of Israel, former MP Mike Freer, freely adopts the victim role yet never does he seem to quite comprehend the complete picture. Violence invariably reaps more violence! Acts of 'plausible' Genocide cannot occur in some sort of hermetically sealed protective bubble. Sometimes, cloaked within BBC's selectivity, it is easy to forget that there are still real journalists out there, individuals such as Craig Murray. The story, fake as it transpired, of Palestinian supporters chanting "Gas the Jews!" is shocking. Yet, more shocking is the speed and credence with which the original non-story spread, when viewed alongside the sluggishness and obstructiveness with which any effort at correction, retraction and equal air-time apology is met. Efficiently enabled and then actively defended as a known falsehood. Such is the power of certain (Australian Jewish Association) MSM! Enabling 'plausible' Genocide!

Another beyond elderly Statesperson didn't quite let slip that the US has placed us all on a war footing at the behest of the Rogue State. "I don't even call it aid!" Ms Pelosi beamed, "our co-operation- with Israel." Be under no illusions, "That's who we are." 'We'? Did she say, 'We'? Pelosi might not be pushing the actual buttons- if there's a list her name's on it- but she's all for naming the targets, named, implied or imagined. Watch her in her fatigues, "Russia!" "China!" anyone at all that Israel names in the Middle East. "Putin's message! Putin's message!" the woman frothed, jabbing her finger at the interviewer At the Rogue State Independence Day 'celebrations'- not everyone was celebrating, even then- Biden made clear, "Were there no Israel, America would have to invent one." He concluded, "You protect our interests like we protect yours!"

Meanwhile Israeli Military, not content with having bombed and flattened schools, mosques, refugee compounds, hospitals, families, communities, murdered and maimed thousands of children, the Rogue State is now in the process of excavating Palestinian Graveyards. 'Best not film there,' 'best not even view with your eyes,' 'best believe the IDF.' with their proven record of impeccable honesty. Repeatedly, MSM in the UK conveys the Israeli narrative, the one that curiously never seems to have the evidence to back up outrageous claims. "I'm not going to be able to show you any evidence here," 'clarified' another government mouthpiece, yet enough to justify further enablement of the war. The footage just keeps on coming yet never does it seem to lessen the ICJ's 'plausible' Genocide ruling. '30 bodies discovered, dumped in school yard,' in black plastic bags, legs and arms tied, blindfolded, 'plausibly' Executed! So as not to lower ourselves to the depths of Israeli (dare we say) 'propaganda it should be stated that it is (not yet) proof. But, consider, if the discovery was anything else other than evidence of more Israeli War Crimes, Israel would already be referencing the discovery on national TV. Already and uncharacteristically there is evidence of sorts- the smart money's on further proof of 'plausible' Genocide. There is footage of members of the IDF, dressed as hospital staff, entering a Jenin Hospital in the West Bank in order to summarily execute 3 targeted individuals. Perfidy! More War Crimes? How will the incident be packaged by Western Media? Terrorism?

Although in no way can the slaughter inside Gaza be described (accurately) as any sort of war, make no mistake Israel is on a war footing, essentially 'at war.' The US of A - "You protect our interests as we protect yours,"- almost exists upon a war footing, covert dabbling, regime changes, Middle East, Central America, Asia, conducts the bloodshed from afar! The UK arms and enables- flights from Akrotiri in Cyprus pending- covertly, the nation may have already committed troops to the slaughter. Rulings from the ICJ do not yet seem to have dinted its cause, the flagging economy may yet intervene. Arming others in Ukraine, Britain much prefers to commit via the troops of others. The Chinese Front thankfully remains a Trussian wet dream! On some sort of power-feedback overload, the fleeting PM (Cheesy Liz) in her time at the helm, seemed to imply that the West is already at war with Russia.

War, actual war, costs! It imposes financial costs, it imposes human costs and it imposes moral and reputational costs! Hence the UK's covert investment in projects like 'Operation Legacy.' Another, often unspoken cost of War- as invisible as Government is able to make it- comes in the loss of integrity certain Governmental figures and players undergo. Likely, it matters not to their financial worth, quite possibly those individuals reap rewards (or blood monies) for the misinformation they sew. Check out Blair's Institute for Global Change (TBI). 'Global change,' in such context absolutely chills the blood! No longer the inconvenience and time constraints of waiting upon the next election for TB. The seeds bloom like the 'weeds' and grasses pushing up through the cracks in our pavements, they are evident everywhere. And, like those pavement adornments, they have become so immured in UK infrastructure that we almost no longer notice; they waft about our heads and our minds much like autumnal breezes. Where they make contact we may not even surmise the connection. Everywhere war imposes its costs!

Incrementally, covertly or semi-covertly War may spread! Incrementally, through false messaging and disingenuous spokespeople (that may title themselves 'journalists') disinformation spreads and truth withers on the vine. In keeping with the formula the UK has opted to follow the US narrative that it is the Houthis who risk fanning the flames of war, the same UK and US that continues to fund the 'plausible' Genocide in Gaza, whilst continuing to liberally shower the wider region under a blitzkrieg of sprayed missile strikes, threats to terror, and a well honed narrative of assumed dominion! Increasingly though, the globe observes that it is USA and certain factions of the West who would fan the 'flames' and fuel the 'fires' that public audience is neither invited nor encouraged to observe. And yet we do! US and its poodle sprays 85 approximate targets in Syria and Iraq- the same Iraq within which the US et al imposed yet another of its many overseas regime changes (2003- 2011). Absolutely, we are fed, 'it is the Houthis who are risking a regional conflict.' Absolutely, the narrative follows, do not draw any connection with 'plausible' Genocide in Gaza! Listen to our spokespeople upon your mighty BBC! "We have Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari of the IDF on the line... " The ever available "Katy Balls from the Spectator Magazine, what should we in the UK be making of all this?" 'Carpet-bombed Yemini Houthis, targeting solely Israeli related trade, in support of Palestinians,' or 'further US (plus poodle UK) carpet bombing of the whole region, pretending that a 'plausible' Gazan Genocide isn't happening, or being funded, or even related?' It's becoming daily more implausible to even imply that the US argument is worthy of the air time it is so often afforded. "A final word from Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari... ?"

Intermittently, I listen to 'Any Answers' on BBC Radio 4. Too often, the panel on 'Any Questions,' I find to be wholly 'of a kind.' During a recent broadcast, I think it was Saturday 27th January, one caller concluded with, "If the IDF had just killed my daughter I think I'd join Hamas." I don't think any of the callers was still wishing to be openly associated with the line "Israel has the right to defend itself."

There's the US/Israeli/UK derived narrative and then there's the truth! So, now we know who are the Mad Dogs who accompany the Englishmen. It seems the UK is at war but, as yet, not officially, in defence of St George, the Neoliberal Economy and Israel's right to commit 'plausible' Genocide!