Manufacturing in the UK!

Headline news! UK economy grows by 0.7%!

As much as that? So, I guess we're beginning to reap the benefits of all those closed libraries, all those cuts to social services, schools, closure of all those accessible sporting facilities, cuts for disabled people, cuts to benefits and food more generally for children, military-styled deportations of British citizens to wholly unfamiliar locations, full on austerity- >300,000 excess deaths attributable to Ed Ball's mate George Osborne- as imposed by both Tory and current Alt-Labour Governments alike! A vote for change! How to celebrate? Do we gather pots and pans and spend five minutes making a noise, 19:00 every Wednesday? Maybe we should chant our eternal thanks to former Head of the Crown Prosecution Service, Sir Keir Rodney Starmer and his current cabal? Although, really, it's far more like a scene from 'The Wicker Man! (1973)' after Edward Woodwood realises, too late, that he's fatally misjudged these people.

Whatever! It's most unlikely that the vast majority of citizens will notice, nor will they already have registered any significant boost to life in the UK. But, manufacturing is definitely up! The nation voted for change; this is what we got!

Early morning on the 2nd May a Freedom Flotilla vessel, the 'Conscience,' carrying vital-and-months-overdue-aid to the Gaza Strip, was drone attacked whilst sailing upon Maltese waters and under Maltese air space. The ship was holed below the water line, halting the aid delivery in its tracks. There were 16 people on board with 40 further humanitarians planning to board from Malta. A heroic move of epic proportions! Sailing into waters being heavily terrorised by the trigger-happy Israeli Offence Force. Tragically, the 'Conscience' never got that far!

Maltese air space! Being used by a third party, to attack a humanitarian vessel planning to deliver aid to starving children and to protest against Israel's ongoing Genocide upon the Palestinian population in the Strip. Horror upon horror! Imagine the outrage that such an attack would have provoked had the attack upon the vessel been proven to be of Russian provenance! Or Iranian? Or Chinese? Upon a vessel bound for somewhere other than Gaza?

This was serious, what would the West's response be? Well, acting in advance of the missile strike, Palau had already revoked its national flag from the vessel, then Malta (closest to hand!), Greece and Turkey threatened to confiscate the ship should it struggle to port in either country! Lammy and Starmer sat compliently upon their bloodied mits!

Solidarity! Or, rather, not! Shame, writ large, more like. Begs the question, 'quite what did these countries already know about this drone attack, an incident that, still, 2 weeks later, is being described as 'via an unknown actor.' Curious! Through omission alone, it tells us a great deal more than that; we know, for example, that the attack was definitely not undertaken by a Russian, Iranian or Chinese drone. The West wasn't interested in unearthing the culprit, although everybody already knew, far better to shut down the story and deflect. Last thing the majority of the UK's MSM wanted was for the actual culprit to be unearthed. UK's MSM into overdrive, ensuring the (not)journalism in which it is so well-practiced!

The Nord Stream II Pipeline, that was almost certainly severed via a US or US ally, was (pointedly) named as a Russian operation by a great many UK media outlets, almost whilst the attack was still being undertaken, to be followed up swiftly by the vast majority of the remainder of UK MSM falling neatly into line. There is significant satellite imagery of supporting evidence, giving weight to the contention that it was a US operation- at least two Scandinavian driven investigations into the 'attack' have been prematurely curtailed. Why? At whose behest? Why not more questions from the BBC?

Likely, getting too close to unveiling the perpetrator. Anyone who has followed the incident, beyond its cursory headline-only coverage, will have drawn the most obvious conclusion- including several pseudo-journalists who have ashamedly elected to remain silent about the whole sordid affair, as so often befits the invertebrate lobby journalists.

As with the 'Nord Stream II' attack, most who have given the 'Maltese-air-space' drone attack (an Act of War) much thought know, with 99% certainty' who was responsible. Wikipedia, better that most, cites the cause as 'some sources suggest Israeli involvement; not officially confirmed.' Of course, 'other actors' would still have us believe that Israel is not starving children inside Gaza as part of its ongoing Genocide. Through the Looking Glass- too much of the Western World now finds itself with its citizens knowing full well that Israel is a dangerous, Genocidal, Rogue Nation, whilst routinely being fed the line that Israel 'just might' be defending itself, which very few in possession of fully-functional minds can possibly believe. Only to be expected, given the licence that the West has given the Rogue State, that Israel would feel itself at liberty to invade international air space in order to attack any third party. Over many decades, they have the form! Cloaked in the cape of 'anti-Semitism-blood-libel-numerous-tropes-the-wrong-sort-of-imoji' Israel acts like a Genocidal Emperor in new clothes, whilst the West pretends not to see the body parts! Which nation, hand on heart, can say with conviction that its citizens are completely safe from Israeli missile strike?

Think Israel isn't founded upon terrorism, as and when, spend some time reading up upon its founding. Start with the bombing of the King David Hotel in 1946; investigate quite how peacefully Israel set about putting up those first flags. Not so good for many of the British soldiers killed around that time, some of whose bodies were then used as booby traps. Worked a treat for Menachem Begin, Israel's first PM, though. That would be Menachem Begin, head of the militant Irgun Zionists. Have a bit of a read on the subject...

Manufacturing inside the UK's MSM is up considerably, more so than is the UK economy.

The mighty BBC is currently in the process of asking "audiences to have their say about the future of the organisation, by launching the biggest public engagement exercise the Corporation has ever undertaken." Bit late, maybe! For those who have followed its political slant on 'the anti-Semitism in the Labour Party smear,' 'the European refugee and asylum-seeker crisis'- no they are not 'illegal' asylum-seekers!- or, more recently 'the ongoing Genocide inside the Occupied Palestinian Territories,' the current lack of accountability may well have seriously undermined the public's will to bother. As more and more higher profile individuals, very much too late, have been 'saying,' or implying, why not, Mr or Ms BBC, merely, a 'far greater honesty from its political journalism?' Gary Lineker makes the point very well in his recent discussion with Amol Rajan. And, off he is cast! Coffin duly provide via the BBC's stitch-up, 'When it Hits the Fan' (Wednesday 23rd) Anyone noticing what's really been happening? Or shall we just carry on pretending the UK's not funding Ethnic Cleansing? Doctor Who may be travelling throughout the Universe, saving races that the Earth has yet to encounter- not going to be helping Palestine any time in the near future, is 'he'? Maybe 'he's' afraid of announcing 'his' intent via the wrong sort of imoji?

It was in 1948 that the State of Israel was 'created,' when one Occupying Force (United Kingdom) handed over the already fully inhabited State of Palestine to the next Occupying Force. 'A Land without People for a People without Land!' So the utilitarian lie would have us believe, and, shamefully, for many that lie perpetuated. Still those such as UK PM Sir Keir Rodney Starmer, former Head of the Crown Prosecution Service, would have this lie substitute for the shameful truth! Not so for the Ethnically Cleansed Palestinians, nor their descendants, nor the Occupied Palestinians, nor, beyond the enclave, anyone remotely-adequately informed. None of those who have lived under the violent oppression of Occupying Israel, or whose ancestors were violently Ethnically Cleansed from their homelands in 1948, or have been murdered, tortured or stomped upon since and right up to the present date. Turns out Israel as some sort of democratic romantic idyll, a star above the Middle East, is anything but!

A few years after this 'handing over,' starting in the 1950s, the UK- colonial overlords looking to rewrite history to their advantage- set about Operation Legacy. Who wouldn't like the idea of leaving behind the warm glow of a fond memory for future generations? Except to note, if the Empire's past was such a rosy historical period, why the need to incinerate quite so many tens of thousands of documents with such up-to-the-minute evidence of that same regime? I have heard it claimed- more than one source- that, back in the 19th Century, slavery was an 'acceptable' practice. The sort of people, some of them family, I would fully imagine, who would very much prefer to adhere to a more rosy and romantic notion of British Empire. 'Land of Hope and Glory!' anyone? Belt it out, drown the screams!

Manufacturing was very much up then, as now.

Nor is it so curious that many of those who seem most deaf and blind to the ongoing Genocide in wider Palestine are former and current colonial powers. The US of A has conducted its Genocide upon native populations (Trail of Tears), as has Australia upon Aboriginal populations. Neither country shows much interest in paying proper reparations or even fully acknowledging the extent of those acts. Whilst Germany currently seems absolutely determined to work itself round to the wrong side of two major Genocides, both of which happened, just about, in living memory. As if turning a blind eye to the persecution and annihilation of Palestinians at the hands of Israelis somehow rectifies Germany's Genocide upon many of the ancestors of those now conducting the current Genocide. Not all, mind! Definitely not all! And, many of those 'not all' Jewish individuals now find themselves being persecuted for vociferously objecting to the current Genocide. What a tangled web we weave! When it's all written up, at some indeterminate time in the future, which side will each of us have been on? Or will everybody always have known that this is a Genocide? What thinks Sir Keir or his sidekick Lammy, as they're definitely both fully culpable?

I'm sure that there is some sort of scientific analogy to be painted here. But I am going with a 'sepsis' that urgently requires the most serious of interventions!' Because, just like that deadly infection would, Israeli violence has intensified to such a point that the 'nation, if one can park a second nation upon the one already there- surely, not with any legitimacy- has escalated its violent-infection to the point where even its historically-racist allies are becoming increasingly nervous! With undeniable good cause, although still, still, there are those who are prepared to speak as if worked or owned by the devil! Daily being platformed within the UK, presenters and the guests!

Manufacturing up significantly! More notably, in very specific quarters!

Tuesday, 13th May, the Right Honourable Angela Eagle, Minister for Border Security (no less!), future Dame Eagle (no doubt), with no apparent grasp of international events what-so-ever, hauled herself over to the British Museum in order to address 'celebrations' of Rogue Israeli State's 77th Anniversary. Most definitely Eagle did not deign to mention 77 years of violent oppression of the Palestinian people! That would be (Dame) Eagle, she of the 'Smashed Window Threat to Life!' 'fame,' that one. Jimmy Carr was there- there's footage of him scuttling off, afterwards, head down and at quite the pace- steadfastly refusing to speak to anyone with a better conscience. That would be almost everyone else in the neighbourhood. Wonder what the jokes were like? Wonder whether it'll affect the vast array of TV contracts he gets? No tropes, anti-Semitic hiccups, blood libels, nor offensive references at all! Clap now, everyone, on behalf of the Genocidal nation!

Meanwhile, Jewish protesters- some of them holocaust survivors- may be unceremonially bundled into the back of a police van, for daring to step on the wrong section of pavement, or in the wrong direction in the wrong neighbourhood, on the wrong day! Wonder if the Force required any extra muscle whilst dealing with the threat from any of these octogenarians? Police Force or Mercenaries for Hire, what thinks the concerned citizenship?

Eagle spoke passionately, tip-toeing righteously around the subject of Genocide, or Ethnic Cleansing, or starving children, vowing eternal support for Israel's right to commit whatever War Crime it wishes, without ever referencing the horrific reality, or honesty, or the Geneva Convention. Wow! Threading the needle, Angela! "Israel knows how to party," wrote journalist Jonny Gould in the caption of a photo he posted of himself at the event. I think the BBC may have unofficially saluted as and when, unofficially of course.

Manufacturing again! Seems a shame that the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, cannot milk this one! It was Rach and her Government that's been, in major part, responsible, after all! Praise where it's due, Ms Rachel.

I doubt we can fully appreciate quite the vast scale of the manufacturing involved! Imagine the dinner conversations that might be undertaken in this proud nation, where its institutions are to be heralded as example to other, less democratic and lesser nations! More so, after perhaps viewing the broadcast of BBC's Panorama, 'Special Forces: I Saw War Crimes.' One might be given to wonder where some of those very Special Forces are operating now. Will the the ICC, or the ICJ need to make notes?

Then, we can watch as the same channel shows a short recruitment clip of the jolly honourable work that the UK's Forces undertake whilst overseas- at the behest of who precisely? Not General Gwyn Jenkins, KCB, OBE, ADC, First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff, we can only hope! "Anyone watch 'Britain's Got Talent,' on Saturday?" And, we're there, safely through to the other side of that looking glass. Turn up the volume, drown the screams!

Not really such a huge surprise to discover that the UK's uninvited Army is currently being afforded licence to pick-and-mix through all those cumbersome international rules and obligations drawn up after WWII, in order to ensure that individuals fleeing persecution should never again be left without nations within which to plead refugee status and protection. Bold! And just! If only it were true.

One wonders whether, even at the very outset, there were nation representatives, or military upper-echelons thinking, 'but only for those with the right colour credentials, right?' 'Refugee status for our sorts, right?' On the other hand 'Jolly Strict Rules that we might administer to them?' A sort of invisible continuation of the white colonial hierarchy mentality.

When the Mighty Corporation itself dares to break the shackles (strictly selective subject matter, even so, don't you think Amol?) and demonstrate to the world what real solid journalism looks like, then reverts instantly back to type, we really must be looking to settle permanently on the wrong side of that looking glass! Seven years spent investigating Britain's Special Forces inside Iraq and Afghanistan! Bang, top quality journalism, right there! Proof, if it were needed- and it has been for some considerable time now- that the BBC is still capable. Now! Where's 'Part Two: Secret Flights over Gaza, from Akrotiri during the Genocide'?

We learn that there is yet another BBC report being suppressed, this one about Israeli treatment of medical staff inside Gaza. Wonder which trope, or anti-Semitic, or blood libel, or wrong imoji is being cited? Must be jolly serious if grounds have been found- more likely manufactured- to 'justify' suppression of this report.

Go on Rach, 'manufacturing's up! Sing out the good news!

Had we ever pondered why it was that so few Afghanistani nationals who'd worked for and with the SAS, during its time in Afghanistan, were being granted refugee status in the UK? Why so many of those people had been cut adrift to face torture and or death? Turns out General Gwyn Jenkins, KCB, OBE, ADC, First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff- must be one of the good ones, right?- might be our man? He knows! Care of BBC Panorama, exposed one minute as an 'alleged War Criminal,' via seven years of investigative journalism, appointed Head of the Royal Navy the very next. Perhaps, we might go on to conclude, the exposed misconduct helped butter his route. Sir Keir Starmer, former Head of the Crown Prosecution Service, would know the answers. But then, he's so well practiced at lying, or omitting truth, to the nation, likelihood is that he's incapable anymore of uttering the truth!

The premise ('BBC Panorama, 'Special Forces: I Saw War Crimes') is an easy one, so long as the Afghanistani personnel can be left to torture and murder, outside of the UK, they cannot be compelled to give evidence when the SAS and several of its top generals are investigated via a public inquiry. "Emails and evidence from within the MoD, obtained by Panorama, suggest that Gen. Jenkins appointed a senior officer to oversee civil servants working on the Afghan resettlement scheme, giving them instructions to reject Triples applications," Stop the War Coalition informs.

Promoted one day after 'Panorama' was aired! Why, it's almost as if Sir Keir Starmer, former Head of the Crown Prosecution Service, son of a toolmaker, is demonstrating to everyone prepared to challenge, 'Think you can hold me accountable, then watch this!' Maybe a middle digit will feature! Keep that seat in the Lords warm! Perhaps carefully consider the fabric- something that can be readily wiped clean of blood!

Manufacturing's up! For those still wearing the obligatory blinkers! "In the heat of the battle..." and all that guff. "General Gwyn Jenkins, KCB, OBE, ADC, First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff served 'his' nation," certain tomes will duly record. 'History,' as written by the victors, most definitely not by the scholars!

Turns out not all manufacturing's to be boasted about!

As of yesterday, we are led to believe that the UK Government has relented and decided, enough is enough! 'No more Genocide!,' although being most careful not to use that specific term. Our proud Foreign Secretary spoke in the House, to sombre murmurings of approval. Briefly the man raised his buttocks, one further time, to spinelessly admonish Zara Sultans for having noticed that Lammy was lying, yet again, and again, even at this late juncture. Talks on economic ties (horribly anti-Semitically!) suspended- Israeli outrage afforded platform via our wonderful BBC- but, unspoken, children's-limb-severing and body-atomising munitions to continue to flow!

One can only assume that, highly reminiscent of Project Legacy, British Government is looking to cover its bloody backside! Whilst that bloody backside sloshes ever onward like the very worst Pit Bull Beast at play, edge of the lake! Said anolagical lake is not one of water! Manufacturing is going to have to do one hell of a lot of heavy lifting!

* Updated in light of David Lammy's (Foreign Secretary) statement on Israeli atrocities to the Commons.

One Thousand Places to Die Before You're Seen!

Such a trite concept; the idea that we should each have compiled a list of places to visit before we might die. Mega-high altitude- although not 'outer space' as is currently being termed (some pundits)- being but another of those tourist destinations. 'A thousand places to see before you die!'

We may well be living in a time of Genocide but let's all make sure to do our bit for the mighty age of consumerism! Don't look at that abomination, visit this beauty spot! Life made simple, if one has the funds!

'Democracy' Washes Death across the Middle East?
Another delegation of medical staff- fifteen this time!- mown down and murdered by Israel, the only 'democracy' in the Middle East!' 'Democracy?' Who voted for this? Well, much of the Israeli population although, if you rely on British MSM, you might well be unaware quite how alarmingly reactionary has become Starmer's 'greatest ally in the Middle East.

Initially Israel blustered that the vehicles were approaching suspiciously and without lights! In the heat of war, mistakes occur, of course they do! Except, this is all so old hat now- Israel murdering then lying to the world press. One might readily assume that Israel these days lies more easily than they speak truth. Assisted so admirably by the likes of the BBC, with its hot line to the IDF. Or else the Starmer Government, with fingers armpit deep in consequent body parts?

Evidence, following hot on the heels of truth, informs us that Israel has murdered yet more medical workers, to tally alongside the journalists it routinely targets, the children, entire sleeping families! Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, dontcha know!

The list of journalists killed in the line of their duty is now in the region of 220 and climbing! But, it's not just journalists, is it? It's whole extended families, brothers, sisters, cousins, uncles ,aunts! Curiously, during much of this time, the BBC has claimed that footage from inside Gaza has been difficult, at times 'impossible' to obtain. As more and more and more floods out British MSM has reverted, instead, to 'difficult to verify'- that's you, Clive Myrie, you and your flagship BBC Verify. The Corporation, with its host of obedient client journalists, for reasons inexplicable, often tends to regard itself as party to a higher cause. Which cause, might that be? No wonder the Corporation was reluctant to properly report upon the hours and hours and hours of footage and testimony used by the ICJ to prosecute Israel for 'plausible' Genocide! The World Health Organisation has verified over 650 attacks on healthcare facilities inside Gaza, with over 1,300 deaths of Medical Staff! Which, I believe, is more than WW1, WW2, the Korean and the Vietnam Wars combined. But, don't worry about all that, listen instead to Clive Myrie, banging on about his reason for getting up in the morning- we might laugh if we could just stem the tears! A shout out to the Middle East's only democracy!

It transpired that the vehicles were fully lit- like a Christmas tree to the slaughter! What now from the murdering IDF? Seemed likely that there had been some sort of 'honest mistake.' Time to let those who committed the murders investigate? What thought the Foreign Secretary, the Right Honourable David Lammy? Any Idea if British supplied parts were involved, Dave? And, don't forget to wipe your nose!

Then, evidence that the murderers had tried to bury the evidence in a shallow grave. Were any of the medical staff unearthed with hands tied behind their backs? If so, it most certainly wouldn't be the first time, would it? If one dared to speak these truths from within the Labour Party would Sir Keir Starmer, former Head of the Crown Prosecution Service, let us not forget, be more inclined to express outrage at the actions of rogue state Israel, or to remove the whip from the outraged MPs? What are the chances of Mr Lammy perhaps fashioning a spine from the broken bodies of the thousands of murdered children and standing to address the House? What's his record like thus far? Man's very keen on spouting some sort of human rights myth. Still, he did look lovely in that shot with fan of the Genocide, Tzipi Hotovely- wet patch perfectly photo-shopped away.

Another hospital reduced to rubble on Israel's free pass on the world stage of inhuman indecency!


Spending on defence to be increased to 3% GDP by the next parliament! It's a dangerous world, dontcha know? No lifting of the two child benefit cap! Removal of the winter fuel allowance for a great many pensioners, in a cost of living crisis! Exactly what will be left that's worth defending with this increase in defence spending? Not really 'defence spending, is it Sir Keir? Tell it as it is... Offense Spending to be increased to 3% by the next parliament!

Terrorism through the looking glass!
Hamas aims to challenge its designated 'terrorist' label. Whilst they're doing so what do we think the chances are that their lawyers will be safe from Israeli drone targeting? It's a serious question; whatever the likely answer, still it should be asked. Israel routinely shuns respect for international borders should it's government take a disliking to particular individuals or groups. The US of A- leaders of the free world, dontcha know!- routinely hands out the free passes and the UK routinely ends up having to wipe its nose. So, who's really the greater terrorist threat to stability in the Middle East and beyond?

If Hamas is designated as a terrorist organisation, not just the military wing, the entirety, then, scale of the international crimes being duly considered, why not Israel? Why not the IDF, or the IOF (Israeli Occupation Force) as they are often labelled? Only one side in this 'conflict'- really it's a slaughter- is on trial at the ICJ for plausible Genocide! If justice is to be even-handed then those who supplied the arms might, justly, be regarded as being responsible for an increase in the scale of murder, War Crimes and ultimately Genocide? Just a well considered thought! That would implicate 'free world' USA, Germany and the UK. In the context of an ongoing plausible Genocide, this does raise serious questions on the subject of the terrorist label and who best deserves it, doesn't one think?

Jewish Holocaust Survivor perceived as a threat to good ol' British values!
Stephen Kapos, an 87 year old Holocaust survivor, is to be questioned by MET Police because he dared to lay flowers at Trafalgar Square 18th January 2025, in silent protest at the slaughter of the tens of thousands of Palestinian children by the rogue state of Israel. Large sections of the UK's media would have it that this act somehow may have caused Jewish persons in the region to feel threatened. 'Then they came for those who dared to be appalled at the slaughter of children, but I did not protest because I was not concerned about the slaughter of innocent children,' Martin Niemöller might have added to his famous poetic warning! If, as seems most unlikely, perhaps dishonest, anyone should find the silent laying of flowers in any way threatening then I am going to suggest that they have never spent 18 months starved of food and water, eking out something far short of what is internationally recognised as minimal human rights, watching friends, family, neighbours being atomised on an hourly basis. And, they, most certainly, will not have done so!

Police have cited Public Order Act conditions, moving more widely to seriously curtail the (former) right to protest. The MET working to keep public order on our streets and to bring about a wider sense of security for the 'whole' population? Can't have 87 year old pensioners intimidating communities can we? And, if we need reminding what genuine intimidation looks like we can do no better than to remind ourselves how peacefully the Sarah Everard vigil was MET Policed! Can't have women gathering to mark the murder of one young woman at the hands of one of the MET's own, can we? Write it as it is, journalists, 'anti-terror legislation being used to 'terrorise' critics of UK Government, hence often Genocide!

Protecting British Jews from the harm of living under the shadow of Genocide?
In particular, by attempting to pretend that the State of Israel is not currently in the act of Ethnically Cleansing Gaza, the West Bank, the Golan Heights- all illegally occupied territories- daily raining down Western-supplied weapons of death, thus the constituent parts of an ongoing Genocide.

The British Board of Deputies' record on this Genocide is a truly shameful one! Even by British MSM standards (pitifully low!) the BOD, self-appointed voice of the entire British Jewish population- although not really, as Stephen Kapos would testify- has pretty much applauded Israeli War Crimes from the sidelines throughout. The UK's worst offending 'media' outlet, the Jewish Chronicle would know; their record in legal payouts is unparalleled- perhaps more a damnation of OFCOM than the JC or the BOD, both the latter already widely recognised to be flushed beyond the gutter! So, in the light of the shameful record of both BoD and JC, it should be known that the Palestinian bloodshed is now such that, first, JC and now Bod have ceased being able to stifle the weeping ghost of guilty conscience within the ranks.

First the Jewish Chronicle rag immersed itself so deeply into the spilt blood of Palestinian children that even the likes of Jonathan Freedland felt unable to stomach any more, eternal victim David Baddiel wept that he could no longer allow his 'good' name to be tainted by association. Then, even some amongst the sorry ranks of the hermetic BoD felt driven to go so far as to pen a short letter to the Financial Times, stating that their blind eye can no longer be turned upon Gaza. Tight in support of continued infanticide the BoD immediately sought to suspend its vice chairperson, Harriett Goldberg, along with 35 further members. One would have to wonder quite what further War Crime might have pushed the 36 to lift that heavy pen! Or, for that matter, BBC's Jonathan Freedland or 'I Don't Count's' David Baddiel. Heavens, if such 'highly principled' peoples as these can have spotted one severed child limb too many then surely it must be time for Human Rights experts like Sir Keir Starmer, former Head of the Crown Prosecution Service and the Right Honourable David Lammy, future Lord Lammy, to act...
... but no! Apparently not quite yet! Too few deaths or something? What hope for humanity?

Not content with instantly relaying Israel's and US President Biden's falsehood that 40 babies were beheaded and that rape was widely perpetrated on 7th October 2023- wonder what Mr Myrie's 'Pursuit of Truth' has to say on the matter- the UK's Government wishes to continue to fund the nation's share in the Genocide. Apparently even journalist par excellence, Fiona Bruce, has nailed her name to the mast! I think a few inches of the timbers may still be visible above the waves, Fiona. Or not? When Sports Presenter Gary Lineker is able to make such short work of BBC Political Journalist Amol Rajan one really must start to ask a few questions, beyond those being framed by Bruce/Myrie/Rajan/Freedland/Tim Davie/Robbie Gibb et al! If we did but know it the Corporation is bustling with staff who are far from happy with its efforts. When the US ans UK supplied missiles fall silent and the US and UK enabled bulldozers move in to attempt to bury and curtail the body-part counting, who amongst us really wants to have our name associated with Genocide, or as cover for the act, no matter in what minor part? So, Bruce/Myrie/Rajan/Freedland/Tim Davie/Robbie Gibb et al, what sort of legacy are you seeking to furnish?

Free dining and Drinks!
Why not Cheer on the Ethnic Cleansing whilst holidaying at Disney? Former possible fan of the Nazis, now via his ghost, continues to pledge its full support for the ongoing Genocide, from across the Waves, both Atlantic and Mediterranean. But, do beware! Should one choose to take the family, do be careful to read the Ts-and-Cs if you subscribe to the TV Channel. Should you or any member of your group happen to sustain any sort of life changing or life ending mishap whilst holidaying at the resort you'll likely have signed away any legal means to compensation care of an 'infinite arbitration clause.' Other mega-corporations, like also Israeli super fan, Airbnb, DirectTV and Walmart are following Disney's 'happy' lead. Can't have Israeli arms monies being frittered away upon the misfortunes of others can we? No matter whoever might be culpable!

On the issue of whether Walt Disney was really a fully fledged fan of the Nazis imagine the might of the Disney Empire, imagine its huge wealth and political clout! Imagine also quite how much work may have gone into denying the claim that Disney and certain Nazis were ever on very chummy terms! Yet still there is much, and on a far smaller budget, to suggest that things may well have been otherwise. Either way, today's resultant empire seems to have found one heck of a best fit modern day ogre to keep on cheering from the sidelines! As with 21st Century Germany, it is possible to have been very much on the wrong side of both Genocides. History's more thorough academics are likely to record it as such!

As Israel now quite openly weaponises starvation and disease through an absolute blockade of all food, fuel and water (not) entering Gaza, still those such as the Right Honourable David Lammy, future Member of the House of Lords, wrangles events such that the UK may continue to fund arms to Israel, to supply military reconnaissance via Akrotiri in Cyprus. We all watched Sir Keir Starmer, former Head of the Crown Prosecution Service, give a nod to Israel's initial push to starve Palestinian children, women and non-combatant men, first time round. Has anyone seen him condemning Israeli attempts at weaponising starvation and disease this time? Thought not!

Nothing in the manner of aid has entered Gaza since early March, the number of documented deaths through starvation of infants continues to climb! Should Palestinian fishermen attempt to fish the waters- their own seashores- Israeli gunships will target and obliterate them. Already the desalination plants have been shelled inoperable- perhaps another Israeli investigation will fall by the wayside? Anyone keeping score? Ben Gavir, Israeli Security Minister, wants to bomb the remaining stores still distributing food within the Gaza Strip, vociferously supported in this aim by several US Republicans. Those who have been paying attention will likely have deduced that it is unlikely that the UK will do much to intervene on the part of humanity.

There are undoubtedly a thousand ways to die before you're properly seen by the bigger corporations or the more reactionary governments of present day neoliberalism!

Paint a picture,
bear with me here! Science Fiction stabs at this sort of thing all the while. Charlie Brooker's 'Black Mirror' does it better than most. We watch the short film or offering, a situation somewhat outside of the current reach of whatever institution, corporation, nation, concept, whatever. But, invariably, the best efforts are those that closest reference something of today's globe and value system, although not actually named, which might invoke heavy litigation. We watch and we instinctively know which corporations, which national systems and processes, perhaps even which specific individuals are being 'paralleled.' Most Sci Fi might best be described as something of 'a jolly good romp!' Perhaps it'll be scary, involve some sort of alien being or alien concept; it may fall well short as an allegorical effort.

Even so a significant minority of Science Fictionesque offerings go somewhat beyond in their ability to speculate upon possible or credible futures. One of my long-time favourites is 'Silent Running' (1972). The globe has not yet seen its former forests bottled up and sent out into space, lest they might come in useful at some later stage, but we have sat back and permitted lobbied MPs and Lords to wave through the increased monetisation of forests and the lands thus encompassed. Sir Keir Starmer's, former Head of the Crown Prosecution Service, not Labour Government has just done this again. Slight of hand should we not have noticed, tweaks in the heavy favour of developers over nature this time round. Britain! The most nature depleted nation in Western (maybe the entirety of) Europe! And counting! Vote Labour, why not? What was it we hoped for?

Still painting- imagine it's oils if you like, takes longer to dry. If we've been paying attention we'll have observed Israel being handed pretty much a free pass at bombing and invading, in addition to the Occupied Palestinian Territories, also Libya, Syria, Yemen, Iran, ably assisted by good ol' Uncle Sam! When the BBC routinely joined in with the condemnation of Corbyn's visit to Hammam Chott in Tunisia, it should more accurately have been reported that he was there to commemorate the international crime of Israel's killing of 68 people, injuring over 100, in 1985. It wasn't reported as such, in major part, because the BBC had relinquished the integrity of its political journalism, Clive. Israel invaded Tunisian airspace and bombed Hammam Chott, murdering those 68 people. Then the pilots flew home in time for tea and no consequences! No champers, though, as Arafat wasn't there! Still, it's another 68 chalked up to the murderous regime of the Israeli Colony. Easy enough to check! Only Democracy in the Middle East, dontcha know!

So, this picture, if we may! Imagine, your beautiful niece is enjoying a day out! Where shall we imagine her? Maybe Southend-on-Sea, it suits the picture and the narrative. Candyfloss! Chips along the seafront! At some point she opts for the pier, her and her happy party of, shall we say, eight. It's a twenty-first birthday outing, the weather's perfect! Beautiful!

In this picture, however, she fails to make it home! Along with her eight close friends and, let's imagine, sixteen other visitors to the pier. Perfect weather, end of the pier, consider the numbers! Twenty-five fatalities; how many should we 'paint' as injuries? It's only fiction! Turns out, false 'intelligence,' that the Imaelian Occupation Force believed that a particular doctor who once saved the life of a child of a non-compliant administrator might also have been present on the pier. Intelligence from Artoki, let's imagine. Targeted missile strike! Picture's turned a bit Hieronymus Bosch!

Naturally, in order for this 'painted picture' to work, we might have to run Imael, Artoki and the IOF through the legal department. 'Any similarity is purely coincidental,' kinda thing! But viewers would know! It's only a fictitious 'picture!' So what, in this fictitious imagery should we have the Right Honourable Kid Starver PM, former Human Rights Lawyer, do and say? What about his Foreign Secretary, Lord Lamb-Slaughter(er), also former, Human Rights Lawyer? It sure as hell wouldn't ring true if the UK immediately ceased trading with the Apartheid State of Imael.

Bit of imagination and what have you got? Aside from a great deal of lobbying from certain quarters. Project forward, say another half-dozen years- will the fictitious painting appear in any way a tad more prophetic? Imagine!

So, as we casually wander along the aisle labelled, 'British Democracy' reflect upon what's been happening in the manner of 'change' under the government of Sir Keir Starmer, former Head of the Crown Prosecution Service, son of a Toolmaker (apparently), what do we observe?

Democracy! We can always vote in another lot. Replace this lot! As we did with Thangam Debbonaire and Jonathan Ashworth. Doubt PM Starmer would interfere! Doubt we'll see either soon in the House of Lords. What thinks Baroness Debbonaire, upstanding in the interests of democracy? The United Kingdom, the only democracy within the shores of the United Kingdom, dontcha know!

One Thousand Places to Die Before you're Seen!
And counting!

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!

Human Rights and Wrongs.

Christmas, it's a busy time. Family and stuff 'n' all that. All those formerly empty slots fill up with various commitments. Some of them enjoyable, others less so, more dutiful. It's frequently said, loudest by the most disingenuous, that this is the season of goodwill to our fellow human beings. And, with that thought in mind...

I have not properly opened a book for several days, already eaten way too many mince pies, watched rather more TV than is usual. Although I have managed mostly not to drink alcohol- keeps me from falling asleep at inopportune moments. Key amongst any stumbling blocks towards the goal of 'goodwill etc. etc. there is, of course, a Genocide being undertaken, to which we in the UK are culpable. Not 'you' and 'me' specifically; you and me 'collectively,' by virtue of our Government. A Genocide, now that's going to keep many of us awake at night, especially if we care about humanity, children, their futures, the development of the planet in so far as human interactions are concerned. That means also 'interactions' with other species, dependencies etc. so mighty significant!

In amongst the minutiae of Christmas domesticity there is this Genocide which refuses to cease, not for seasonal niceties- no goodwill on earth where Genocide is concerned! Focuses the mind does a Genocide! Especially when one cannot ever shake the thing from one's consciousness. So, one of the few seemingly helplessly small things that I have done is to write to the nation's Foreign Secretary, one Right Honourable David Lammy- twice, with a third letter in likely tow. The two thus far have elicited nothing from the 'great' man, not a whisper. Not so much as an automatic reply acknowledgement. Nothing!

We expect he is far too busy to bother with such a thing as a Genocide. Probably too busy cosying up to Saudi Arabia, what with another sportswashed World Cup looming (ish- 203?). We just cannot wait for all those sparkling info-adverts to grace the screens. Wonder if Beckham will be taking the Saudi coin this time around? Integrity, what? Haven't listened to the official FIFA statement yet... might not bother. Wonder if Israel will qualify? Sincerely hope not! Almost certainly won't bother, too many red flags already!

Anyway: the letter!

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Dear Mr David Lammy
I write to you with a most sincere urgency yet, sadly, with very little in terms of expectation. I am a 66-year-old grandparent and never before have I experienced such a hopeless sense of urgency, not on this scale. The sense of dread seems almost never to depart for more than the briefest of moments. I find that I am truly haunted! Haunted with the knowledge that not a day passes when the dire needs of Palestinians will not have deteriorated yet further into a hell upon this earth! Thousands of Gazans continue to experience the ever-present terrors of injury, loss of family, malnutrition, amputation, disease, torture and/or death, all manufactured care of Israeli Government, and more besides. For the Palestinians hope is barely a memory. So to listen to the nation's Labour Party Foreign Secretary make time to caution against the use of the term 'Genocide,' horrifies and astounds me beyond reason. For you, we are to believe, it is a numbers game- have you not even read the relevant documentation?- how is it possible that I feel better informed? If only this were the case.

I am not hoping to learn quite what your definition of the international crime of Genocide might be. I do not wish to see the jumbled mathematics that enables you to still express doubt as to the intentions of Israel or its IDF. I am not asking you to differentiate for me between Russia's unjust invasion and land-grab in Ukraine and Israel's occupation and absolute annihilation of the Palestinian populations. I do not need to learn that a death toll climbing into (what now seems inevitable) the hundreds of thousands may still be ring-fenced by some as 'self defence.' All this I have already heard, repeatedly and repeatedly.

The great worry I harbour, Mr Lammy, is that your reluctance to intervene will see Northern Gaza, eventually also the West Bank and more, its children and parents, its hospitals, universities, mosques and churches, homes, olive groves and communities all wiped from the face of the globe. Should this happen it will be impossible then to deny that Ethnic Cleansing and a Genocide has occurred. No amount of obfuscation will be able to reanimate those lost children, women and non-combatant Palestinian men, nor pretend that Israel has merely peacefully expanded into unoccupied lands. Nor will it be able to shield those who have enabled this Genocide.

Whichever way we look at it, it becomes daily clearer that Israel has become a rogue state. Maybe, their government is beyond reason- it certainly seems so. Maybe the never-accountable USA will continue to arm Israel, right up until the death of Gaza's last child and baby. But maybe, also, it is past time that the UK repositioned itself, over to the right side of history!

Maybe, in some minds, the UK feels too weak to stand up to the US but we both know US provided 2,000 pound bombs are incapable of executing 'targeted strikes' upon civilian populations, especially so in a field of tents! It may be eternally repeated that Western journalists are forbidden to enter Gaza without the IDF's insincere messaging and ‘protection,’ that our 'truth' driven BBC insists that the most horrific Palestinian phone footage escaping Gaza remains unverified. Maybe, maybe and maybe. But, not really! Both you and I have learned more than enough about what is really happening. You know and you know that I know you know!

All we need do is listen to the words and the intentions of Israeli government ministers and spokespeople. We do not need to continually circumnavigate the veracity of Palestinian claims and other evidence because, unchecked, Israel has grown outrageously boastful of its intentions and it widely shares video evidence amongst its citizens of what it has done and what it hopes to continue to do; what it expects certain Western nations to provide cover for. Pretending that our UK PM did not say Israel has UK support in 'cutting off water, cutting off everything,' even though we all watched him utter the words, merely further shames our nation. Israeli actions every day echo his thoughts and words, much as his inaction in opposing Israel’s War Crimes better enables its ongoing acts of Genocide. Whatever has happened in Occupied Palestine or adjacent to, Israel confects the lie (no matter how abhorrent), MSM and certain figures echo the noise. The echo circles the globe ‘before the truth has got its boots on, far too late in correcting that the President of the USA did not see those images. Too late, the lie has taken root! What do you believe really happened, Mr Lammy, were there really pictures? Much of Israel thinks not!

We can readily view the 'celebratory' images of IDF troops filming themselves levelling hospitals, whole villages, smashing homes and possessions, often set to music. We can watch Israeli crowds dancing wildly to the chant, "May your village burn!" In recent days I watched footage of IDF troops humming, ‘The Final Countdown,’ as they annihilated yet more civilians- filmed and shared by the perpetrators! And, in this context there remains the stance and obfuscation of the UK's Foreign Secretary. The evidence continues to accumulate, hour after hour, image upon image, action after action, international crime upon international crime! So much so that it has become impossible to believe that the UK cannot, does not, know, that it knows yet more and yet worse! How can it not? As Foreign Secretary your name becomes daily more firmly affixed to those crimes.

I no longer recognise the man you formerly claimed to be; I once witnessed you stand and rage against the withholding of reparations for the UK's part in the slave trade, before you changed sides- I watched it first time round- I watched your updated and modified rage levelled, more recently, against Russia- some very tricky manoeuvres there- and have listened to you jump through alternate hoops whilst blindfold, in continuing to stand alongside Israeli Genocide and I increasingly sense that the UK's long, long wait for a more just and honest country has been in vain all along.

Historical evidence surely highlights for the world that Israel has recognised the globe's most colonial nations, that it understands their historical crimes, their consequent manoeuvrings, that it has now elected to bite the bullet- perhaps there will be just a few that have not been snipered into the skulls and necks of Palestinian children- and opted to embrace years of global outrage and condemnation in the hope that nations such as the US and the UK have retained just enough guilt to feign a blind eye on behalf of the latest pariah state. When Israel has completed its live-streamed Genocide and Ethnically Cleansed the Gaza Strip, likely also the West Bank and the Golan Heights, when it has ceased targeting also doctors, international aid workers, journalists, when the bombs and the bullets have ceased shredding children's bodies, Britain will be standing alongside a minority of former and current colonial nations, very much on the wrong side of history. Far too late to mumble confected misgivings whilst others are scrabbling through the dust, rubble, skin and bone! Perhaps, even then, assisting Israel with its planned real estate along The Gaza Strip. One day perhaps hoping to more openly sup with the orchestrators, perpetrators and the generals?

Perhaps it will be said that British arms- if our role in gathering reconnaissance (via Akrotiri on Cyprus) for the bombing of the innocents can be suitably suppressed- did not play such a major role, as did those of Dodgy Uncle Sam. Perhaps numbers will not be crunched, such that specific nation's £millions provided can be made to equate to a specific child death toll. Perhaps ministers and others will be sent forth to argue that the UK's role was a minimal one- numbers not attributed. Perhaps our Government will be able to argue that Israel's claims to be 'investigating' the most widely shared atrocities was taken at face value, that Britain's ministers and journalists actually believed the word 'targeted' to mean targeted, although never convincingly so. Not really, not to those who were paying attention.

When I witnessed Israeli Maccabi football ‘fans’ in Amsterdam, tearing down flags, chanting “Fuck all Arabs!” on their storm-troop to the match, then watched them interrupt a minute’s silence for those killed in Spanish floods, with chants of “There are no schools in Gaza ‘cos we killed all the kids!” I wondered quite how you and your captain would spin it. I did not really consider that you would have the integrity to speak truth to power- you now represent so much more of the latter than the former. Even so, to compare Sky’s two contrasting and contradictory reports, then to listen to the UK’s new government as if the former had not even happened, was a marvel to behold. Did you not first hear the racism, Mr Lammy? Did your ears pick up only on the silence and not the celebrating of Infanticide from the Israeli fans, many who were former and current IDF troops? Shame on you, Mr Lammy!

I recognise you as a ‘busy’ man, Mr Lammy, Foreign Secretary- the United Nations’ Francesca Albenese would wish you less so- yet I have still taken the trouble to provide several links for you to pretend to sneer at. Sneer as you may, or may not, all these sites continue to post. The sites are not like those of the Daily Mail, the Jewish Chronicle, the Telegraph, the Spectator, as I am confident you understand, they are more meticulous regarding veracity of information, they need to be. On these sites, we can watch hooded and armed Maccabi fans hunting for locals to beat up in Amsterdam, then compare the evidence that news channels, truth-seeking BBC included, reverse or misrepresent, confections that see your captain and yourself trigger-happy to re-invoke the ‘threat’ of anti-Semitism and other emotive terminology. We can listen to the words of the reporters who actually filmed events and had their footage misappropriated. How is it that you can be so slow to acknowledge what is actually happening, yet lightning quick to provide the cover! The truth will out but MSM will have moved on, as is routinely the drill. More compliant with the UK’s project Legacy, an issue which you appear to have studied from either side.

https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/a-deep-dive-into-media-misreporting-from-amsterdam/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_source_platform=mailpoet&utm_campaign=today-on-the-jvl-blog-newsletter-total-articles-for-you_1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=pTFovHpft5M https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2024/11/13/ynet-maccabi-tel-aviv/ https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/more-media-misreporting-from-amsterdam/

Maybe even you- likely future Lord Lammy- will be able to pretend that your role was of a different nature to the one you are actually enacting and living. It is said is it not, that history is written by the victors? But, not all history, not actual lived history. Perhaps your stance upon the veracity of statues of former slavers will continue to morph? Perhaps and perhaps and perhaps. But still hundreds of thousands will have been murdered, many care of UK monies and actions, many of them on your watch. From the wrong side, you cannot ever be certain that the words you chose to use, the actions you chose to take, did not make a difference, perhaps a significant one. But, from which side? As a grandparent I fear that I may never again be able to watch children play, listen to them talk and to laugh, without dredging up feelings of dread and immense sadness that I was not able to do more, that it happened in my lifetime, under the watch of a government I may have helped to elect. If you possess a tiny fraction of the integrity you would hope to have sprayed onto the pages of any future biography, more likely autobiography, if nature is just, then you will hold your share in that dread.

In so far as Israel's democratic pretentions stand, going forward, I find that I am no longer able to live with the guilt of pretending the history I am watching did not happen. I find myself shackled with sorting through daily shopping lest I should accidentally, in any small measure, tie myself to the Genocide. I cannot watch that nation play football nor partake in any other international sporting or other events. I have not shunned them, they have shunned all decency and me alongside. I will continue to endeavour to argue from the right side of history and worry less that this finds my memories diverging from the story the United Kingdom increasingly wishes to fabricate. On both sides this is a choice and, in a better world, choices can be differently chosen. Your choices also, Mr Lammy!

Yours in perpetual sadness,
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Don't suppose he'll give it much (any) consideration. The Right Honourable David Lammy is far too grand an individual! But, he should. Only the other day the Right Honourable David Lammy was able to select another international tyrant to condemn, from the David Lammy 'Pick and Mix' selection of global tyrants. So, safe to assume he recognises War Crimes when he sees them. Today, I saw a short film of a child- perhaps four-years-old- moving about rubble and dust, by virtue of a set of wheels attached to where his right hand should have been. He had no legs, just stumps, just his left hand remained. I wondered whether the amputations had been undertaken with or without anaesthetic. At least he was alive; all other children and babies in the film were dead, one possibly scorched unrecognisable by white phosphorus- certainly Israel has used this chemical upon the civilians trapped inside Gaza.

Both Sir Keir Rodney Starmer and the Right Honourable David Lammy seem to like to bathe in the warm faux halo of 'human rights.' I think, though I am not prepared to waste time searching, Lammy has even described himself as a 'human rights' lawyer. I know that Big Cheese Starmer has boasted of his time 'defending people's human rights.' We would laugh if not for the bloodshed! Check the record of his time in office... an awful lot that's not actual human righty stuff.

Here's the thing. Human Rights are only ever really 'human rights' if they're afforded to all humans, otherwise they're being relegated to a far lower category. If they're only afforded to the select few then they're nothing to do with 'humanity.' If they're only there for those who can pay then they're not even 'rights.' They become something far more to do with wealth- a world in which wealth is right, or worse, where might is right? Imagine that! Where would we be? Might might well conquer weaker opposition, doesn't make it right.

What both Sir Keir Rodney Starmer and the Right Honourable David Lammy have elected to do, in so far as Israel's Genocide upon Palestine (and growing) is concerned, is to pick a side. They haven't picked a side according to suffering, or death-toll, or the size of (say) the infanticide. Rather, like the worst kind of playground bully, they've picked the side of (a country they 'think' might be) an ally. They've picked 'might!' They haven't investigated where the divide between human rights and brutality lies. They haven't searched for truth, as opposed to (Israeli) lies, instead they've given platform to the side (Israel) conducting this Genocide, chosen a side (and further armed them) who are not only murdering thousands upon thousands of babies, children, women and non-combatant men- doctors, teachers, journalists, aid-workers, nurses, farmers, proffessors- they are also trashing the entire concept of international law and justice. If there is no international sense of right here then why should we expect it to exist anywhere?

Many around the world may/should be recognising, if they haven't already done so, that any idea of international law- maybe the refugee convention- it now appears, was drawn up with the idea that certain Western Nations would always be right, that the ICC and the ICJ were only ever intended to exist as tools with which to keep 'those others' in check. 'Those others?'

Sir Keir Rodney Starmer and the Right Honourable David Lammy have picked a side. All the horror we've seen, they've likely seen worse, still they've picked a side! And they've picked the wrong side, the side of Genocide, over that of humanity! The UK has, thus, further enabled the trashing of international law, in favour of picking a side. This time, the wrong one! It seems, they've picked 'culpable in the Genocide' over 'Human Rights.'

A jolly ugly legacy for the UK to bear! One Christmas wish of mine is that those culpable in this Genocide will be held to account.

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?"