Apologies for break am very tied up with a legal case we are bringing I will tell you about in a day or two.
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Best wishes for the case, Craig. We don’t mind you taking an occasional break!
Hello Craig, always good to hear from you.
Good to hear. All the best, even though I might well entirely disagree with the aims of your legal case, whatever it is.
I wish you success with the case, though frankly I don’t think it’s worthwhile to bring cases before British courts.
In cases with any political dimension at all, I don’t trust the impartiality of British judges.
Good luck Craig, it’s old blokes like you that give old blokes a good name. ;O)
If its what i think it is…very best of luck.
These people whoever they are are insufferable. All the best from Germany where things are not good either.
p.s. in case see German Nachdenkseiten and how the German government sidelines a journalist´s rights. It´s one man but the warning signal to all is out and has been received
“Scandal in the BPK: Federal government defames German journalist Hüseyin Doğru as a “disinformation agent””
Things are becoming more authoritarian and defamatory in this republic. A particularly blatant example of this trend was the recent government press conference. When asked by NachDenkSeiten whether the German government considered it justified that Hüseyin Doğru, a German journalist and citizen sanctioned by the EU on the basis of highly questionable “evidence,” should be subjected to a general work ban in addition to having his account frozen and leaving the country, the Foreign Office responded in a highly manipulative manner. It denied his colleague journalist status, moreover based on allegedly false factual allegations, thereby justifying severe infringements on his fundamental rights.
By Florian Warweg .
https://archive.is/xMlk9
original German version
https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=139878
This I listened to yesterday:
the late novelist Hilary Mantel with LRB discussing Cromwell and Henry VIIIth:
“Hilary Mantel, David Runciman and Helen Thompson: ‘Exercising Power’”
92 min.
Oct. 26th 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbRz6y4BBko
At TC 38:50 it comes apparent that these elites, may they be even leftists in some sense, do not get things
(Or I am reading too much into it?)
Be it as it is, they basically threw Corbyn and Cameron and Johnson etc. all into the same ugly basket, as ghosts who are still haunting us even when they are not in power any more.
Apart from that some good thought. But as I often said: artists, historians and critics are not good with current affairs.
In fact both worlds appear to be completely at odds with each other. The effects to Western society or its elites rather are shocking to see…
Which is why I have invented a new term “essayism” as a form of high-profile elite propaganda not aware of itself because its manipulative nature is inherent in the way it works and is being created.
Keep on going Craig,
Once over 60 anyone who establishes say their own brand needs to find a younger person to closely work with. Good example being Bernie Sanders who could be appearing always with such a person and together both would have much more effect.
As one expected, the spaniards, italians and turks – that sent some naval “support” to the Sumud Flotilla, did in the end do not dare to do anything against israel. While israel humiliated and arrested EU citizens, Spain/Italy/Turkey, placed themselves to the side, as the audience of the brutalization, a pitiable move that will embolden israel even more, especially against the EU itself.
The Sumud crew all threw their phones into the sea when illegally detained by the Zionists, they also wrote their lawyers phone numbers on their arms – I still have my suspicions about Greta Thunberg the WEF’s face on Climate Change, you can see online on social media, she was treated with kid-gloves on her illegal detainment by the Zionists or maybe I’m just a cynical old git.
Meanwhile the Aussie are sneaking F-35 fighter jet parts into Israel using commercial jets.
https://declassifiedaus.org/2025/10/01/secret-cargo-f35-parts-pipeline/
Erdogan of Turkey sent a ship to Haifa – that was disguised as coming from another nation – Merz of Germany isn’t even trying to disguise the fact – he’s selling billions of Euro’s worth of weapons to Israel openly.
“she was treated with kid-gloves on her illegal detainment by the Zionists or maybe I’m just a cynical old git.”
That may be just because she’s a sleb.
R of S …. So you’ve seen footage of Greta T’s entire detainment, have you? Thought not. What exactly have you done to help the Palestinians?
Incredible – Unite are still funding the Labour party, even though it is aiding and abetting in genocide – meanwhile Italy’s largest union, goes on strike over the handling of the Sumud Flotilla.
Yes, incredible. Corbyn has crowned himself king of ‘Your Party’ without identifying what role Zara Sultana will hold. This may all be propaganda from dark forces but Corbyn has to speak out and clarify what’s happening. It doesn’t look good.
Stevie Boy.
She was delighted when Assads regime fell – and the head chopping terrorists (HTS) took power, now we find out that the Zionists were /are strong backers of the head choppers, who have committed war crimes in Syria.
I wouldn’t be slightest bit surprised – if Sultana fell into the category below – a infiltrator, there to keep and eye on things and act against Corbyn, when the time is right.
Arya – آریا (@AryJeay): “Catherine Shakdam, the Israeli infiltrator spy who worked for: Tehran Times, Tasnim, IRIB, Press TV, Mehr News, Mintpress, RT, etc… Has been seen posing next to Yossi Cohen, former Mossad chief. Sometimes you see some dumb stuff on Iranian media, and makes you think, right?” | nitter.poast.org
https://nitter.poast.org/AryJeay/status/1973436528215933271#m
Yes, you could be right. My point is that Corbyn is shooting himself in the foot, again, by not speaking out as to what is happening with ‘Your Party’. Silence is not always golden …
Stevie Boy
I agree with that – we all saw him being undermined from within the Labour party – yet he appeared to be like a rabbit caught in the glare of headlights, unable to act decisively – could this be happening again with Your Party?
The abortive launch suggests to me, that sadly, they aren’t serious.
Both Zarah and Jeremy made the fundamental error of taking their grievances public. For a party that if it is to thrive, will have to do so by leveraging and creating a buzz on social media – as the MSM will deny them coverage – a war or words like that in a nascent party, was incredibly self-indulgent from the pair of them.
Labour really know how to party.
‘ “Last night, LFI held a reception inside the party conference, with a keynote speech from chancellor Rachel Reeves. A former vice-chair of the group, Reeves told LFI: “I know as well in the last couple of years, in the last 15 months, you haven’t always been pleased with the decisions of this government.” She pledged to always “stand up for Israel”, adding: “I’ll always be a friend of Israel”. ‘
There you have it, the genocide party, bowing down to their funders.
https://www.declassifieduk.org/i-just-do-as-im-told-labour-mp-breaks-silence-on-israel-trip
Is Mr Murray becoming a secret DJ?
It’s My Party by Lesley Gore,
I’m Still Standing by Elton John
What next? Follow, Follow by Alexander Murray Smith and the Back O Town Syncopaters
“It’s My Party by Lesley Gore,
I’m Still Standing by Elton John
What next? “
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Possibly “The Party’s Over” by Judy Holliday.
Enough of the earworms already!
Well, I may be putting two and two together and getting five – George Galloway indicated that he was suing – so if Craig Murray and George Galloway are getting together, then all the very best to you both!
That would make sense but for one thing: the cases of protestors accused of supporting Palestine Action are going on, and Craig might be trying to help them. But I guess we’ll find out soon enough.
Reply to Jimmy:
I don’t know what legal case our host is bringing, but, along with at least three other British alternative media journalists (George Galloway, Richard Medhurst and Kit Klarenberg), he has good reason to be taking legal action against a regime that has, with no justification, arbitrarily detained each of them for questioning for an hour or more on arrival at British airports, and after a series of pointless and irrelevant questions, confiscated their electronic devices and let them go.
I condemn today’s terror attack completely. No justification for violence against civilians anywhere, ever.
But in light of today’s events, is it really wise for the Board of Deputies to deliberately blur the distinction between British Jews, who they claim to speak for, and the opinions of the very extreme RW Israeli govt of Netanyahu & co? Some of their lobbying of the UK govt – like their opposition to Palestinian recognition – seems to directly reflect the views of the Israeli govt. Doesn’t that lack of separation, risk raising the terror threat here from those who perceive them to be supportive of genocide?
It’s a legitimate question. Muslim community and religious leaders, were told they were obligated to condemn Hamas and the October 7 attacks. But there seems to be no similar obligation demanded of the Jewish community leaders; to condemn the slaughter and starvation in Gaza?
Typical double standards.
That lack of separation serves Israel perfectly. The Murder of, alleged, innocent Jews by a Syrian will be used to promote the genocide and fan the threat of British antisemitism. Stand by for outlandish statements by zionists and possible more restrictions on the public.
Wonder if the security services are involved in this attack ?
Stevie Boy
I saw Lord Walney (John Woodcock) on the news, basically rehashing his demand that marches for Gaza(Palestinian flags?) be banned on public security grounds.
Woodcock, like Lords’ Mann and Austin, were rewarded by Boris Johnson for doing a dirty on Corbyn before 2019’s general election. The House of Lords really is a rancid den of cronyism & villainy, isn’t it.
We’ve also had the ruling regarding Covid-19 PPE awards, involving Michelle Mone. How can anyone respect the unelected HoL?
Or for that matter the elected HoC, which has confidence in the government that
hands out such contracts as these.
Goose
October 2, 2025 at 21:32
Jihad Al-Shamie == religious warrior from Syria?
Not a given name but an adopted one following “radicalisation”/indoctrination?
What this idiot thought he could achieve by murdering a few random people at a church is hard to understand.
If anything he will have increased sympathy for Israel in England.
You’re right. I mean what has poor old Israel and their British Jewish supporters ever done against Syria. Why would a Syrian hold grievances, it doesn’t make sense.
After all, his adopted homeland, the UK, has poured so much money and support into Syria to turn it into a democratic paradise. These Syrians are just so ungrateful.
JK redux
“If anything he will have increased sympathy for Israel in England.”
That was the plan, wasn’t it? Israel is so desperate these days that its approval in the West is dropping like a stone, that something had to be done. A new trick was needed, one that could be put up with little preparation (unlike the exploding pagers), as most of their long-preparation-time tricks have been used up.
Losing a member of one of their own security forces probably wasn’t in the plan though.
We can be almost certain that the CST was called first, not the host country police. This is if the CST wasn’t already present, which they may well have been. The Ascendancy has better intelligence on threats to its own events and its own people than the host country security forces possess. Why? Because they know ~everything the host country’s security knows that concerns them, PLUS what they know and don’t tell the host country. There are probably major ramifications of this event that aren’t being made public. The wasting of the goon by the cop won’t be considered a minor snafu. Payment will be exacted.
“If anything he will have increased sympathy for Israel in England.”
That looks like the plan.
Two of the dead and one of the wounded were shot by police. Only one of the dead was Al-Shamie, who, unfortunately, had forgotten to bring a firearm along. The police had shot Al-Shamie within seven minutes of being notified of the incident. That’s seven minutes to find some armed officers,get in their cars, drive to the scene,identify the attacker and shoot him dead. Do you not think that they were waiting for the call and they knew which one was Al-Shamie already?
The CST would have got there first (if they weren’t already there).
Who called the host country police?
If the CST weren’t already present, there is absolutely no way the host country police would be called before the CST.
The Board of Deputies is a zionist front; they will do anything to poison the atmosphere and get the genocide and the relief flotilla of the telly and the front pages.
The vermin that run Bronzefield prison in England, working for Sodexo, have banned keffiyehs.
Sodexo is part of the Sodex Group alongside Sodexo Israel.
Sodexo Israel supply the Occupation’s “Ministry of Defence”:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/stocks/BOIL-CN/pressreleases/33683779/sodexo-israel-a-leader-in-catering-and-facility-management-for-organizations-and-companies-is-rolling-out-beyond-oils-patented-solution-at-its-premier-catering-sites/
Manchester in the news again. At the start of the Labour Party conference it was Andy Burnham and at the end of the Labour conference stabbings at a synagogue. We have to believe it is a coincidence but this country has had many incidents of apparent random violence at politically heated times this century. The election campaign of 2017 was the most obvious example.
MI6/Mossad.
I have a feeling the Manchester synagogue attack yesterday was a false flag, intended to ramp up sympathy for Israel in preparation for the new attack on Iran. It is of course historically 100% proven that Israel has used this tactic of bombing their own community in the past (see Avi Shlaim on Baghdad 1950). There has been a tsunami of orchestrated publicity on British national media this morning. The Israeli problem has been that approval of Israel in the West has been dropping like a stone over Gaza, and Israel is getting really desperate. A new trick is needed after the exploding pagers. Israel is in existential danger, the deaths of a couple of security guys outside a synagogue doesn’t matter very much. and the attacker is conveniently dead (I do wonder how armed police were conveniently on hand, ready to do the deed).
Not an outlandish suggestion. Virtually all domestic terror incidents after 9/11 were FBI productions, with the groomed attackers being followed and shot at the scene. Here too, the 7/7 and Ariane Grande attackers allegedly had security-state connections. Anyone who thinks they would never stoop so low should look at the British role in Gaza and Damascus.
Yes.
We found out last month that there were more than 200 FBI agents actively involved in the ‘storming’ of the white house on January 6th.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fbi-bombshell-274-agents-sent-to-capitol-for-j6-many-later-complained-they-were-political-pawns/ar-AA1Nkyhx
We find out that the UK was actively supplying and training ISIS elementa attacking Iraq and Syria.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/made-america-isis-conquest-mosul/5901622
We cannot rule out state involvement and even if it’s just blowback then that’s down to state actions as well.
And as to increasing sympathy for israel, the sums don’t add up. 2 vs 200,000+. Go figure, the people know.
It won’t increase sympathy, anymore than the embassy shooting in Washington did. People are not as stupid as the state would like them to be.
” I have a feeling the Manchester synagogue attack yesterday was a false flag ”
Well of course you do. It’s the default position around here and look at the perpetrator’s, sorry ‘patsy’s’, name ‘Jihad’ and where he lived; White House Avenue!
Whilst it might garner some sympathy for British Jews I doubt it’ll soften attitudes towards Israel. Important not to conflate the two.
Pears Morgaine
Important not to conflate the two.
Fine. But in that case why is the govt, and the Home Secretary, so brazenly conflating Palestinian flags with causing upset the British Jewish community? As if, said community, are all no only Israelis, but in support of Israel’s hideous campaign of carnage in Gaza?
They can’t have it both ways.
And, there are many from the Jewish community, especially those assuming leadership positions. as you’ll know , who are in lockstep with Israeli govt positions; echoing them online virtually word for word. If someone were amplifying the Russian govt’s talking points and positions online all day, I assume you’d be the first to conclude some association between that individual and the Russian govt? Yet that same assumption, isn’t allowed vis-à-vis Israel?
Unfortunately, the majority of, but not all, Jews have allowed the conflation with Israel. Consider:
“In December 2023, Technion UK launched a campaign for the Jewish community in Britain to write to Israeli soldiers on the front line. A postcard campaign entitled “Message a Hero” was conducted in all Jewish schools in the UK and the wider Jewish community and resulted in thousands of postcards being sent to Israel as well as Gaza and the West Bank. Alan Aziz, Technion UK’s chief executive, said he wanted the campaign to provide “a little morale” to Israeli soldiers on the frontline. Actress Maureen Lipman was one of those who wrote to an Israeli soldier.”
https://www.declassifieduk.org/raf-museum-hosts-fundraiser-for-israeli-soldiers-emotional-support
The choice for Jews is simple: honesty or complicity.
How can you scorn Laguerre’s suggestion given the depths you know the British state has plumbed in Gaza and Syria?
And as regards conflating British Jews with Israel, everybody sees the political-media class clamouring to associate yesterday’s attack with anti-Genocide protests.
“Whilst it might garner some sympathy for British Jews I doubt it’ll soften attitudes towards Israel.”
A large proportion of those who are expressing political opinions in Britain right now don’t give a f*** about the Occupation – they just want to get rid of the “P***s”, whom they see as people who shouldn’t be here. This is how populist political propaganda works. Give people an ostensible reason for justifying their hatred. The reason could be anything – it could be the weather or EU membership or whatever.
It’s been reported than one of the dead and at least one of the wounded were hit by police gunfire.
These guys are supposed to be crack shots…
Pears Morgaine
Two people, other than than the assailant, were shot by police. One killed, one badly injured. Which seems bizarre, given the wide open area and broad daylight visibility.
Please get this correct: two of the casualties are said to have been shot dead by police – one on each side.
I wouldn’t assume this means they were both shot by the host country’s police. I wouldn’t assume the host country’s police were the first armed unit to arrive on the scene either.
Interestingly the Community Security Trust have personnel in uniform [*] now. It’s not just the Shomrim.
According to the Manchester Evening News, one of the wounded people in hospital is a CST goon.
Look at the statement by Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Rabbi Daniel Walker: “We are profoundly grateful to our security team, to CST (Community Security Trust) and to the emergency services“.
Sounds like he’s from a group that follows its own law. Imagine if a Hell’s Angels leader said after a shootout, “We’re grateful to our security squad and to the emergency services.”
Note
*) See the photo of the CST goon in uniform in that article? It’s credited to the CST. That means the BBC bought the rights from the CST. The state broadcasting agency is paying an ethnic security force for photos of its goons in uniform.
Pears Morgaine
Jihad al Shamie, give me a f*ckin break, they might as well have named him Isis Al- Qaeda, I’ll say one thing for the boys and girls at Thames House – they have a wicked sense of humour – of course innocent people do die in false flag events such as in the Manchester Arena bombing and 7/7.
The timing for this farcical false flag was impeccable, around – the or just after the Zionists illegally attacked the Sumud Flottila, and it was all to turn heads and change minds.
I wonder why Starmer’s Jewish wife, Victoria, is accompanying him visiting the scene?
Highly unusual for a spouse of a PM to do that; unless they are trying to imply she can only feel empathy for those of her own religion?
And the comments of local Jewish residents : “Never Again Means Never Again” The problem is, ‘never again’ – a perfectly reasonable wish, has been warped by the Israeli govt to mean : do whatever the hell you like anywhere, and to anybody. And the norms of expected international rules of conduct, uniquely, don’t seem to apply to Israel.
It’s my impression that Victoria Starmer has been seen ‘standing by her man’ more often since the events of May this year.
Starmer is supposedly openly atheist, his lack of any faith, was widely reported in religious publications before the GE. Yet now he’s sporting a kippah, and there are claims online(unverified) he claimed that both his parents were Jewish? Which if true, it’s strange how he never brought it up during Labour’s MSM-manufactured antisemitism scandal or the leadership election.
Just imagine how the tabloids would react if, for example, he came out as a practising Muslim.
“Israel” was founded on doing it again. They have no right to say never again.
Goose
They have no genuine concern for Jews. Look at Starmer’s mass expulsion of anti-zionist Jews from the Labour Party and the silent approval it received from the ‘antisemitism’ brigade (aka the political-media class).
Or the media treatment of Zack Polanski – a Manchester Jew – who had the temerity to say the synagogue attack should not be weaponised to silence protests against the Genocide.
The only concern of Starmer and our political-media class is to ensure that Israel exploits maximum advantage from these murders.
Consider the reaction of the ‘antisemitism’ brigade if a leftwinger were to depict a Jewish public figure in this manner.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-15059329/party-egotistical-new-leader.html
Genocide Starmer is a member of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in St John’s Wood, and he attends services there.
Among other things, this means that Starmer’s personal protection guys (reminder: yes, this is the British prime minister) will have had a lot of contact with Jewish “community” security guys in London whether in the CST or otherwise. And if the 7 July 2005 London bombings are anything to go by, it will be the latter, not the Brits, who have the best intelligence regarding security threats.
Pears
I don’t confuse the two myself (anti-semitism and anti-zionism), but the attacker may have done so, either through ignorance or a deliberate act, having been groomed by MOSSAD or similar, the confusion of the two being standard policy of Israel.
“” I have a feeling the Manchester synagogue attack yesterday was a false flag ” Well of course you do.”
The police had shot Al-Shamie within seven minutes of being notified of the incident. That’s seven minutes to find some armed officers,get in their cars, drive to the scene,identify the attacker and shoot him dead. Do you not find that just a teeny bit suspicious?
I too was wondering about that Bayard. Assuming it wasn’t a set-up, the only explanation I can come up with is that the cops have dedicated SWAT teams on call 24/7 in Jewish areas in case something happens. Anyway, rather than shouting at our cerebrally-challenged new deputy PM when he’s trying to reassure them, why don’t Manchester’s Jews light some tea-lights and sing Don’t Look Back in Anger*? If it was good enough for 22 concert-goers (the majority of them young women and girls), it’s good enough for a couple of Jewish guys for whom the best half of their lives would almost certainly have been behind them.
* ‘I can assure you I will look back in anger till the day I die’ – Morrissey, Bonfire of Teenagers (still unreleased):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKe8Ij3lM2U
“the only explanation I can come up with is that the cops have dedicated SWAT teams on call 24/7 in Jewish areas in case something happens. ”
Even so, it would take two minutes for the despatcher to take the call, the guys to put on their coats and get to their vehicle, then another two once they had got there to get out of the van, identify the attacker, take aim and shoot him dead. So that leaves three minutes to drive through Manchester’s busy streets. Unless the van was waiting round the corner, that’s well-nigh impossible. Even if it was the case, WTF are the citizens of Manchester paying to have dedicated SWAT teams on call 24/7 in Jewish areas just in case something happens to a Jew? Your first premise does look by far the most likely – it was a set-up. (as well as being a cock-up. Armed police aren’t usually that trigger-happy which suggests they were expecting the attacker to be armed with a firearm.)
Thanks for your reply Bayard. The cops could have been waiting in their panda car fully togged up. The Jewish community in Manchester is centred on a small area, and its suburban streets probably wouldn’t have been that busy at around 9:30am (just after rush hour). The terrorist guy who stabbed two people outside Steatham library five years ago was apparently being followed 24/7 by three armed police, having been let out of jail half-way through his sentence*. I wonder what that cost the taxpayer.
* I took an interest in the case as I was in Streatham library myself a couple weeks prior.
“The terrorist guy who stabbed two people outside Steatham library five years ago was apparently being followed 24/7 by three armed police, having been let out of jail half-way through his sentence*. I wonder what that cost the taxpayer.”
Don’t you wonder also why he was let out of jail half way through his sentence and then followed him 24/7? Does this not sound a teeny bit like, “let’s wind him up, let him go and see how a big an anti-Islamic news story we can get out of him when he murders somebody.” Can you think of any other reason why the authorities would act so? Ditto Manchester.
A couple of comments.
1. The audio of the guy saying “He’s got a bomb on him” etc. Does it sound realistic? Sure. It probably isn’t, though. More likely, it was recorded and added later. Otherwise the guy could have been something other than a “member of the public”.
2. See also the timing. Next Tuesday is the second anniversary of the camp breakout operation against the Occupation.
It won’t surprise me if it will be like poppy day where the British regime is concerned.
“You raised Union and St George’s flags to show your love of our country? Well wear a yellow ribbon (or is it blue and white?) for holy Israel and the poor scared Jews today. And we’re keeping records of anyone who is violently opposed. Either you’re with Israel or you’re with terrorist dark-skinned stabbers whose families managed to get in this country when this country was weak, and who shouldn’t be here. Saying “Gaza” when poor Jews are being attacked is un-British and it’s an attack on us all, on decency, humanity, and everything that’s white.”
The British authorities, through e.g. Reform, other political parties, BBC, and Genocide Starmer’s office, are likely to push the message that lefties and non-whites and people who go on about Gaza deserve to receive what on military websites would be called “good news”.
Members of the royal family in yellow ribbons for the Occupation? Can we imagine it?
Does seem almost too perfectly fitting the ‘Islamic fanatic’ narrative, when the assailant’s first name is literally Jihad al-Shamie, and he lived on White House Avenue, and he attacked on the holiest day of the year for Jews, ensuring maximum global media interest.
This could all be just random chance of course.
If you wrote this scenario, with these emotive names, in a fictional novel, it’d be rejected as too contrived and therefore implausible.
Of course, the police’s actions in spraying bullets everywhere has ensured we will never know the facts, as well as killing and injuring others. A case for arming the Police, I think not.
Is ‘Jihad’ a common name in the Muslim community?
You’d think it’d cause problems at school when they shout your name out.
Is it any worse than some of the stupid, made up names the non Muslim community use ?
According to Grok, it’s very uncommon :
The name Jihad is uncommon in the UK. It’s an Arabic name meaning “struggle” or “striving.” UK statistics list it as a unique baby name in Scotland in 2023 (given to one boy)
The Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, speaking on LBC, said she’d never encountered anyone called Jihad, among the Muslim community.
Goose
‘Jihad’ is not an uncommon name among Muslims, meaning one who strives or acts voluntarily for the faith. Though in this case it might turn out to be made up. Jihad the Syrian doesn’t look like a name that would have been borne by his parents who came from Syria. you don’t have people called ‘the Syrian’ in Syria.
I don’t think the Manchester terrorist attack was a false flag operation, because it seems to me that agents of a racist regime wouldn’t attack members of the ruling race. Observe how the white members of Gaza flotillas have been treated comparatively mildly and returned via Europe, while Chris Smalls, a black American was roughed up and returned via Jordan the way Arabs would be (I’m sure his wearing a keffiyeh didn’t help him).
I’m not a historian, but as I understand there’s some dispute about Avi Shlaim’s theory of terrorism against Iraqi Jews by Israeli agents to make them emigrate, since the majority of the bomb attacks happened well after most of the community had already registered to migrate. It could well have been Arab antisemitism following the establishment of the Jewish state that pressured Iraqi Jews to emigrate in the first place.
“because it seems to me that agents of a racist regime wouldn’t attack members of the ruling race.”
Quite wrong. There are specific antecedents, namely the bombs in Baghdad in 1950 . Yes of course those events are questioned by the hasbara; it’s in their political interest to do so. That’s all you’re saying. You’re saying that a really excellent historian is wrong, although he himself participated in the events in question, because you prefer to believe political interests who are out to smear him, because what he says doesn’t suit them.. I think by the way he has the documentation, if you want to contact him.
Oh yeah, and there was another event in Cairo at about the same time, but I forget the details.
I meant the Lavon affair in 1954, much the same intent as Manchester.
I would say that your antecedents are wrong because they refer to oriental Jews, not Western ones. You haven’t answered the fact that some of the bombings occurred after the deadline for emigration registration, making them inconsequential. If I wanted to support the argument for “false flag” in Iraq I would not speculate about my motivations, but point out that, as I understand, Ilan Pappé supports the theory, and that the false flag op could be a catalyst or accelerator, though not the sole cause to the exclusion of Arab anti-semitism.
The operation in Cairo happened in 1954. As I understand, Shlaim has claimed it to be parallel to the bombings in Iraq in 1950 with the same motive. However the argument against this is that the objective was to undermine Anglo-Egyptian relations and prevent Britain withdrawing from the Suez Canal. This theory, I believe is supported by Pappé.
Like I said, there’s some dispute about Shlaim’s theories.
I also don’t think that the Syrian-born attacker in Manchester was an unwitting agent of Mossad, but I can think of one reason in theory why someone might believe it: the possibility that the October 7 Hamas operation in Gaza was instigated by Zionists to give them an excuse for genocide by way of revenge. But I am not aware of any evidence for such an Israeli government conspiracy.
I can’t see your argument, other than that you think it’s fine to use politically motivated objections in historical interpretation, in order to smear a fine historian. What is this point about a difference between Oriental Jews and Western Jews? The bombings in Baghdad were ordered from Israel, therefore by Ashkenazis. The bombings were ordered after the law of emigration was voted, because the Iraqi Jews were not leaving as anticipated. No. there isn’t a dispute about Shlaim’s interpretations, only politically motivated objections.
I don’t know enough about the Lavon affair motivations, but the methodology was similar. i.e. false flag attacks were a legitimate tactic, and could be reused in the future, as here in Manchester.
All you are saying in effect is that you don’t want it to be true.
No problem about MOSSAD or another convincing a suitable local candidate to carry out an attack: they’ve just done the same in the 12 day war in Iran.
Argument based on speculation about motive is baseless. You don’t understand the significance of the difference between oriental and Western Jews? It’s called colour discrimination. That difference, amplified is what caused Chris Smalls to be given special rough treatment.
I don’t think that Manchester was a false flag operation. I think it was a terrorist attack. Case closed.
“I don’t think that Manchester was a false flag operation. I think it was a terrorist attack. Case closed.”
Explain to me how armed police got there and shot the attacker dead within seven minutes of being notified and I might agree with you.
No explanation? Didn’t think there would be one. Not so much “case closed” as “mind closed”, then.
I agree Laguerre the timing of events raises eyebrows. The crime ticks all the boxes. The man with the knife had been charged with rape. His father is a surgeon in Syria who has treated people wounded by Israel. He came as a child and ibtained British citizenship. The armed police arrived within seconds of the car crashing into civilians, and the man beside the car being stabbed, and then the security guard who kept the attacker out was shot dead by police along with his colleague who survived. Blanket coverage of antisemitism in Britain and no mention of the Sumud flotilla, as if either atrocity has parity with the other.
We outright condemn terrorism. We wholly support peaceful activism intended to halt ongoing war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The last boat to be apprehended was boarded today. The next flotilla has now set sail. Protests all around the world have taken place today. Ending the sale of arms to Israel is proving difficult because procurement and production are enmeshed throughout Europe but more countries are now acting to end their complicity in war crimes and genocide..
None of our newspapers carried the news about the Freedom Flotilla’s humanitarian mission being halted in international waters. This was peaceful direct action by people from more than 140 countries, around 500 of whom have been kidnapped by Israel.
‘This was not a symbolic gesture. It was a coordinated disruption, a refusal to accept silence, and a direct challenge to the systems that seek to keep Palestinians cut off. By spreading across waters worldwide, the flotilla underlined that steadfastness – sumud – is not passive endurance but active resistance.
In scope and coordination, the Global Sumud Flotilla marked a new chapter in international solidarity. It showed how grassroots networks can operate with global precision, turning distance into unity and isolation into collective strength.
Yesterday 20 Israeli navy boats aggressively seized the flotilla. As usual the Israeli influenced MSM used linguistic sanitisation to make the attack seem somehow legal and ethical. No, the flotilla wasn’t “intercepted”. It was hijacked. It wasn’t a “raid”. It was an act of piracy. It is illegal to kidnap people operating boats flying international flags and sailing in international waters.
Let’s call it what it really was: not an arrest, a kidnapping. lt was a high-seas snatch, ignoring international law, humanitarian rights, and every shred of decency. Freedom of navigation? Humanitarian aid? All tossed aside. This wasn’t policing – it was abuse.
The assault on the Global Sumud Flotilla shows that Israels’ genocidal and militarist policies extend beyond Palestinians. A state that sends 20 warships to hijack boats carrying milk powder and baby formula doesn’t fear the cargo. It fears the courage.
Approx 500 activists have been kidnapped, and could be held at Ketziot Prison in southern Israel. Ketziot is a high-security facility. It is known for its harsh conditions. We must demand protection and safety for the global sumud flotilla’s crew from our governments. And let’s finish the flotilla’s mission: end the blockade, and end the horrific genocide in Gaza.
The sumud flotilla is not a trend. It’s part of a revolution. Gaza is the compass. Israel blocked the boats, because they cannot block the awakening that is happening regarding the true character of the empire that is controlling much of the world.
The campaign to free Assange was also about awarness, and was similarly inspiring, unprecedented and massive in scale. Thousands (or perhaps millions) of people contributed their talents, time, energy and voices to create massive pressure on the government responsible and blew the lid off the corruption of the five eyes alliance like a pressure cooker. It took many years but ultimately Assange’s life was saved and he was freed.
In big campaign like this, information is key. Information leads to awareness. Awareness leads to understanding. Understanding leads to awakening. Awakening leads to action.’
Best wishes,
Kym Staton
Writer and Director
THE TRUST FALL: JULIAN ASSANGE Documentary
Unfortunately, although Assange was thankfully freed, he was also muzzled by the authorities as part of the conditions of his release.
The lesson from the Assange case is that TPTB can and will imprison, torture and silence you if you speak out.
It continues a pace and slowly is getting worse.
A clear example how infantile the situation have become (check the video below):
So a pro-palestinian protester claim, for arguments sake, that he support israeli war crimes, israeli genocide = no reaction by the police
but if you protest against israeli war crimes and israeli genocide you are considered a terrorist and will be arrested
Video:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Palestine/comments/1nvwmfz/well_done_video_highlighting_the_hypocrisy_of/
In other news one see israeli minister Ben-Gvir mocking the kidnapped Sumud Flotilla participants, taunting them, sluring them. These are european citizens but EU governments are completely silent!? Imagine if Russia kidnapped EU citizens like this, kidnapping them on international water, mocking them. Imagine the outrage right. But now when Israel actually commit these nasty acts, there is silence from the same Kaja Kallas, Ursula Von DerLeyen.
We have a political class, media class that could not care less about their own citizens, they pick a foreign power above their own citizens.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pwvIY1Pgas8
There must be psychological/psychiatric scientific studies carried out regarding the israelis after the genocide is over, I have never seen such a sadistic population, that love to taunt and humiliate defenseless human beings like this. Where does this hatred and sickness come from? Why are they so evil?
Ben Gvir calling someone who isn’t himself a terrorist. Talk about taking the piss. The man is a walking lump of terrorism. Terrorism is his whole being, his whole essence. If half a day passes when he doesn’t participate in, advocate, or defend terrorism, he’d probably feel faint and need to lie down. He’s Terrorism Terrorism-Face. His hero is Baruch Goldstein (and he has said so).
The correct response to such Nazi-style terrorist murderers is not “I’m afraid I must disagree with you on your attribution of that label in this instance, old boy.”
Most here won’t need a reminder of who Baruch Goldstein was, but in case anyone doesn’t know: he brought a submachine gun into a mosque and shot people in the back when they were kneeling in prayer, killing ~30 and wounding more than 100. This is the guy that Itamar Ben-Gvir admires so much – a terrorist coward.
They are heavily conditioned and propagandised. And much of it comes from the US financing of extremist political parties in that country. For some reason, very rich US Jews fund/ support the most RW and fanatical, occupationally aggressive voices in Israel. The US is where an articulate(in English) Netanyahu made a name for himself; being frequently interviewed on US TV networks. More dovish parties; those supporting compromise, have virtually been eliminated from the Israeli political system.
It was the same when the IRA were active. Often the most fanatical ‘no surrender!’ people, those urging the most extreme resistance and military struggle against the UK ,were often those Irish Americans safely ensconced thousands of miles away from the troubles.
Were any of the Jewish community security guys in Manchester, whether already present at the event or “responding to incident”, armed?
Before answering, recall that one of the fatal casualties was a CST squaddist shot by British police. I wouldn’t assume this was because the shooter couldn’t shoot straight or stay calm. He’s going to have to be VERY careful when he says anything. Otherwise he could finish up like one of the four cops at the US Capitol who got “suicided” after 6 Jan 2021. In fact he may do anyway.
Oh and is the Pope Catholic?
The Jewish security force will be expanding their role and basically their “sovereignty” vis-a-vis the Home Office and host-country security, I should have thought. They’re not going to like it at all that one of their goons got wasted. They’ll blame the Brits and payment will be exacted and paid – shake of hands, “yes we’ll adopt the arrangements you suggest”, etc.
The conditioning starts at school, in Israel and in Jewish schools around the world. Fact. And, it’s the Synagogues and the Israeli government that determine the contents of lessons and the appropriate books. Another reason all religious schools should be banned, IMO. Other religion’s schools also suffer the same propaganda inputs. Whilst UK state schools brainwash children with the idealogy of Trans and other sexual perversions. “Give me the child and I’ll give you the man”.
Speaking on that, one wonder what they say and preach in the synagogues, not atleast about the Genocide – I bet there are some quite controversial sermons. The western media/politicians are for example very keen och focused to find any controversial statement by imams in the mosques etc, but when it comes to synagogues the same journalists/politicians are suddenly not interested what is being preached.
Maybe the BBC will go undercover … yeah right. /S
I actually felt sympathy for some those police in the Panorama programme. Some of those officers were filmed off-duty, and we don’t know what was said prior. It seemed too close to entrapment.
For background: some Jewish religious schools in England including in London are illegal (maximum penalty: 12 months in jail) but the authorities turn a blind eye. They go all quiet and they forget “safeguarding” all of a sudden. About 1500 Orthodox boys attend such schools in the London Borough of Hackney alone, often with Yiddish as the only allowed language.
Curiously the Daily Mail, Sun, Telegraph, Reform party, etc. don’t have a problem with this.
Imagine if there were illegal Salafist schools with Arabic as the only allowed language, with 1500 pupils in one London borough.
There’s no legal wiggle room here. Such schools are illegal under s96 of the Education and Skills Act 2008:
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/25/section/96
Ofsted has been talking about “doing something” for at least 10 years. Yeah, right.
Meanwhile the Humanists have been saying there should be a change in the law. Actually what’s on or not on the statute book isn’t the problem. It’s the corruption of the authorities in blatantly condoning the breaking of the law by certain people.
Surprised that the only language allowed, you say, is Yiddish and not Hebrew.
Religious Jews would go for Hebrew, as would Zionists (Zionists didn’t/don’t like Yiddish).
But perhaps I’m misinformed.
What’s happened in Israeli politics with the help of US billionaires’ money, is analogous to British football, incidentally Manchester City; a middling club that lived in the shadow of its more illustrious city rival, Man Utd. Bought by Qataris and transformed with Qatari money into the dominant football club in England; winning league titles and outperforming its more famous rival. The Likudization of Israel, has US money origins; Rupert Murdoch worked closely with Netanyahu and Likud, and we know what a pernicious influence he’s had in our country. The US, has shaped Israel into the belligerent bully it is today.
The Occupation has always been a belligerent terrorist entity, and they have always sought to have what they achieved before the present day accepted as the base level, the “facts on the ground” (a very loaded expression), with possible room allowed for argument only on which direction things should move in, once everybody has accepted their “right” to keep what they stole.
There was no liberal age of left wing or centrist or soft-racist Occupation in Palestine. Not for the Palestinians there wasn’t.
Examples include the 1948 land seizures (Arabs living under military rule until shortly before the Six Day War), the terrorist expulsions, the acquisition of nuclear weapons, and the existence of the Occupation regime itself. Zionism has only had one dynamic since the 1890s: settlement, terrorism, expulsion, theft, dehumanisation, leading to more of the same.
Everybody in the Middle East and the Arab world knows this.
Abbas the Puppet even quacks that “October 7th” was so bad bad bad – as if he would ever have been offered buildings in London and Paris etc. with “embassy” written on their brass plates if it hadn’t been for that day’s heroic and totally justified action by Hamas and allies. If he wasn’t such a corrupt POS and SOB he’d say Palestine is at war with the Occupiers – I would have some respect for him if he did – but of course there would be no sitdowns in the White House and the Elysée and Number 10 for the creep then. Palestine that is at war with the Occupation will never be “recognised”. Two million Palestinians have had their homes destroyed. There really is only one word for guys like Abbas: traitor.
Man City FC is roughly four-fifths owned Abu Dhabi United Group (based in the UAE), Goose, and one-fifth by Silver Lake Technology Management LLC (based in the US) – with a tiny sliver owned by a Chinese company.
You are right – this extreme hatred does need to be recognised and studied, and yes it is a severe mental illness. The rest of humanity are not seen as humans at all. Some may get a pat on the head if BOTH of two conditions are met: 1. they kowtow, and 2. it’s expedient.
There are many many examples of groups of Jews literally dancing in the streets when Arabs have been murdered, villages burnt, etc. The mentality is more extreme than that of the most extreme supporters of the French occupation in Algeria or the USA war in Vietnam.
I don’t think anyone could contest that part of my analysis above, because it’s not a theory, it’s self evident. There are no mainstream moderate voices in Israel. The country has moved dramatically to the extreme right.
And Netanyahu is feted and treated as a hero in the US, among much of the wealthy elite who are also of the Jewish faith, and the political establishment. The standing ovations from both sides in Congress are testimony to this.
In the first video the police seem to have arrested people for the second clause on placards they carried, which said “I am against Genocide. I support Palestine Action”. Let’s see how the courts judge. Perhaps the defense will have something to say about quotation out of context (the latter including both the first clause, and the whole situation).
Gaza, like other atrocities shows us what human nature is capable of, when humans abuse their free will. But others of course can try to be part of the solution. Even in Israel there are a number of courageous young people going to jail for refusing to take part in the genocide. That is not to deny the horrible attacks on Palestinian detainees like Adnan al-Bursh, Head of Orthopaedics at Al-Shifa Hospital, beaten, raped and murdered in Sde Teiman camp, with his body still withheld by the Israeli authorities. He should not be forgotten, and the people responsible not allowed to go free.
“young people going to jail for refusing to take part in the genocide”. The fact is though that they are not protesting the apartheid nature of Israel or the continual oppression of Palestinians. They just don’t want to be seen participating in what’s needed to continue the Israeli agenda and maintain their cushy lives.
Here are two examples who each spent over 3 months in prison.
One refuser mentions apartheid here:
https://www.refuser.org/refuser-updates/shahar-and-evyatar
Another one does so here (mentions genocide as well)
https://www.refuser.org/refuser-updates/2024/11/2/one-year-into-israels-genocide-we-honor-the-dead-through-resistance
Good journalism right here. Jess Philips, Labour MP, gets called out on why she support the crack down against “Palestine Action”.
Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phCU2qABWGE
One can tell she is totally clueless about the subject. “intelligence” seems to be the only word she knows, sigh.
Note the smirking, giggling and her inability to speak clearly – apparently so shocked when she are approached with a simple question, well,, that is the defense mechanism setting in you when you know you are in the wrong I guess.
Excellent that people are mentioning the suffragettes.
This is disgraceful from Rowley.
“People have been debating for the last two years whether pro-Palestinian protests are simply a call for peace, or have an implicit intention to stir up antisemitism,” said Rowley. “Continuing such protests within hours of Thursday’s awful terrorist murder of British Jews, when communities are most fearful, will likely create further tensions and some might say lacks sensitivity.”
Who’s been debating? As far as I can tell, it’s limited to people on the right and far right; people who think Israel can do no wrong and wish to whitewash Israel’s genocidal campaign to eradicate Palestinians, as if some sort of cruel necessity.
Implicit , ‘some may say’ and ‘likely’ are doing lots of heavy lifting. All are a way of avoiding making direct assertions.
Continuing the protests was within hours of Israel’s declaration that anyone who has not left Gaza city today will be killed. 800,000 have walked away from their homes into winter and starvation. 200,000 remain in the city awaiting death in their homes. The timing of the terrorist attack in Manchester, in which a man wielding a knife stabbed a passerby to death, and tried to enter a synagogue where people were worshipping, before being shot dead, seems too unfortunate to be occurring on the same day coincidentally. Was the man who was stabbed Jewish? Or just the security guards who were shot by police? The terrorist killed one person, with a knife. Israel declared the same day it intends to kill 200,000 in Gaza city. It calls the activists terrorist though they are unarmed humanitarians. Which event gets blanket press coverage? Is one called antisemitism and the other called genocide?
People from more than 140 countries were taken off that first flotilla, including the sons and daughters of MEPs, the son of Nelson Mandela, and a couple of girls from Wales. The protests around the world are against genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. They are our protests against our governments’ complicity in these crimes.
The next flotilla has set sail and is on its way. Shame on you, is the protest call. Shame. On the Day of Atonement. Jewish protesters have been out on the streets protesting the crimes being committed by the rogue state of Israel, saying it is not in their name that these horrific crimes are being committed.
The movement for peace will not be expedited by the abdication of the elected Hamas government, if past duplicity is anything to go by. The defenceless civilians of Gaza and the West Bank can only pray that peace will happen and Israel will pull out before they all die. The siege has not been lifted. The two state solution has not given Gaza to the Palestinians once it has been flattened by the bulldozers and rebuilt as real estate.
Humanitarianism is a snag, they say. The world is watching.
Ha, Ha. ‘Thursday’s awful terrorist murder of British Jews”. AFAIK, only one Jew was murdered (stabbed) by the Syrian chappie. The other Jew was shot dead by the police. So, is Rowley referring to the Syrian or the police ?
Let’s not forget that Israeli Jews have murdered in excess of 200,000 Palestinians over the last two years and are still murdering at least 50 a day, every day.
Starmer too:
“How can you protest my role in the mass slaughter of hundreds of thousands of people after two people died?”
Echoed throughout the British media.
This ought to be interesting.
“An Israeli flotilla of approximately 200 small vessels are attempting to sail to Gaza, demanding the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas”
Just three thoughts on the “Community Security Trust”:
1. I wonder if they could be considered as a kind of private army. If so, they would be illegal, since private armies have been illegal in the UK since the Blackshirt marches in the East End of London in the 1930s
2. I wonder if there is any equivalent on the Muslim side. If not, perhaps there should be, since there are certainly many more Islamophobic incidents in the UK every year than there are anti-Jewish ones (and increasing).
3. Does the CST receive government funding and if so, why.
The CST is a state organisation – of the Jewish state, which is bigger than “Israel”.
But to answer what I think is your question, yes it does receive British state funding:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/community-security-trust-jewish-rishi-sunak-hamas-british-b2504331.html
No, there are no equivalents for other religions or ethnic groups.
You may find it worthwhile to look at the Shomrim too.
I am curious as to where the “Jihadi” bit of the attacker’s name comes from. Is it on his birth certificate, how he described himself or something that has been appended? We now hear that he was on bail on a rape charge. Fishy stuff.
Was reporting regularly to a police station a condition of his bail, given the seriousness of the offence of rape? How has his reporting been going, if so?Probably less than 1% of MSM journalists who’ve put their names to articles including a “He was awaiting trial for rape” statement have even wondered about that. It’s not “protect whites”-y enough for them.
Deleted – it seems it was police bail, not court bail.
Crispa
repeating my earlier:
‘Jihad’ is not an uncommon name among Muslims, meaning one who strives or acts voluntarily for the faith (not necessarily by violence). Though in this case it might turn out to be made up. Jihad the Syrian doesn’t look like a name that would have been borne by his parents who came from Syria. you don’t have people called ‘the Syrian’ in Syria.
Thank you. Very helpful.
I believe he was not born with that name. He adopted it ‘recently’.
Laguerre.
This guy nails the Manchester Event.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeYbZiVu9oo
On the subject of international law : Hegseth says four killed in US strike on alleged drug boat off Venezuelan coast
That’s also the fourth such strike along Venezuela’s coast. I wonder how the US would react to Venezuela similarly blowing boats up, off Florida’s or California’s coast? This is the country that preaches about how they uphold some sacred, rules-based international order.
Tommy Robinson has been invited to Occupied Palestine. This is fitting, given that his one-time main funder was a guy called Robert Shillman, a former board member of the Friends of the IDF.
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/us-cash-turned-tommy-robinson-into-the-poster-boy-of-uk-far-right
Robinson is the English equivalent of Eric Zemmour – a tool to help boost the Reform vote, just as Zemmour is a tool to help boost the National Rally vote. (No surprise that Zemmour spoke by video link to the recent far-right demo in London.) Given that Britain doesn’t have a two-round electoral system, I’ll be surprised if Advance UK runs candidates against Reform anywhere that it matters. They could run candidates in local by-elections now, but they’re not doing it, are they?
And whaddayaknow, Reform party leader Nigel Farage himself has recently spoken with the Occupation’s foreign minister:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/saar-speaks-with-reform-uk-leader-farage-after-countrys-recognition-of-palestinian-state/
Britain with its economy built on funny money could collapse at any time, but this doesn’t mean it’s not being destabilised by a foreign power with its little helper compradores doing what they can to assist.
So Hamas accepted the ultimatum after all. This is a horribly black day for the palestinians. Agreeing to 20 points of more or less total capitulation. Netanyahu (and Trump) got all he wanted and could cynically even pose himself as some peace maker. Palestinians or rather the horrible arab world that helped Trump and Netanyahu craft this “20 points” did not bother coming up with a single point that could have benefitted the palestinians themselves. The israelis could walk free after this deal, total impunity.
“Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan in full”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70155nked7o
So whole of Gaza destroyed, some 70000 palestinians dead for what? Nothing in the end. Hamas itself will be leaving power to the traitors in the Palestinan Authority (which itself will not even be allowed to rule initally until they “reform” and become even more treasonous see #9 in the link), Trump and Tony Blair which will colonialize the area, bring in american companies to build up Gaza to another western puppet state.
Another sad thing is that the important anti-israel momumentum world have seen will be stopped short, the protest movement, the effort to boycott, the Genocide-case-effort at the ICJ, everything will soon go back to normal and the genocide and palestinians themselves will be forgotten.
On top of it, the Abraham Accords where more arab regimes will sell out to israel will resume and who knows maybe Netanyahu, Trump, Blair will receive the Nobel Peace Prize after all, what a nasty world we live in. ‘Peace in our time’ I guess.
“So Hamas accepted the ultimatum after all.”
accepted subject to settlement of certain conditions, which won’t be accepted by Netanyahu. so effectively refusing it, without saying so.
‘the group will “hand over weapons to the coming Palestinian state, and whoever governs Gaza will have weapons in their hands.” ‘
https://www.rt.com/news/625882-hamas-hostages-israeli-release/
Thanks for your excellent comments on Al Jazeera, Craig, pointing to the illegalities of the flotilla interception and the breaches to human rights, well delivered and factually presented.
Much appreciated and, sadly, in very short supply these days.
Julian Assange was right when he pointed to the peril independent journalists will face in future.
We only have to look at the actions of Starmers Zionist induced arrests and harrassment of late, its outrageous!
Good to hear that you’re still there.
Good news from the Electronic Intifada, about a sea change in American public opinion regarding Israel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fesZCqUzf_M