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Keir Starmer – a hypocrite to the core
Compare Keir Starmer's statements on the siege of Gaza with his arguments at the International Court of Justice in 2014, where he argued that the Serb siege of Vukovar was a case of genocide.
A thread on Starmer, international law and Gaza. pic.twitter.com/lu0X6sgXfB— Nicholas McGeehan (@NcGeehan) November 28, 2023
Some information on different Jewish ethnic groups:
Sephardic, Ashkenazic, Mizrahi and Ethiopian Jews
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It would seem that some Jewish folk have a rather racist attitude towards other Jews. Would that be antisemitic?
https://www.trtworld.com/opinion/racism-in-israel-some-jews-are-more-equal-than-others-28109
It seems that there was a chance that this whole pointless bloody war could have been avoided but for the intervention of the Western powers and in particular the person of Boris Johnson who reputedly urged the Kiev regime not to sign anything with Russia that would have prevented war According to this report, Johnson said: “we will not sign anything with them at all, let’s just fight.” If this is true, then this individual has blood on his hands
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“We already know that Ukraine, in early April 2022, rejected to make peace with Russia. We know this from talks by the former prime minister of Israel Naftali Bennet, from the former Turkish foreign minister, from former chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schroeder as well as from reporting from Ukraine.But only now do we hear the same story from a Ukrainian official:
Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo – 21:45 UTC · Nov 24, 2023
🇺🇦🇷🇺🚨‼️ BOMBSHELL: Ukraine admits that Russia only wanted neutrality from them!Russia wanted Ukraine to be neutral like Finnland was! But Ukraine was not sure if they can trust it and then Boris Johnson came and said:
-> “We will not sign anything, let’s do war!”I knew it!
videoThe video in the tweet above has English subtitles. It is part of a Ukrainian TV interview with the leader of the Servant of the People parliament faction David Arakhamia by the journalist Natalia Moseychuk. In March and April 2022 Arkhamia had led the Ukrainian delegation at peace talks with the Russians in Belarus and Turkey.”
So what will your little band of bruvvers (and two sistahs) do to retain your recruits, assuming you make any in the first place?
Offer them a share of the £2.6 million which they can hopefully spend before it’s too late?
__________________Moderator, do we have to put up with endless crap? I don’t know what this troll is doing on the forum, anyway, given her views on where she imagines the SPGB is heading…
The lurch to, not just the right, but the far right (if these terms have any meaning anymore) continues – not just in Spain but elsewhere in Europe. Geert Wilders has won the election in the Netherlands. The disease of nationalism has well and truly taken hold of the body politic. We are living in grim times.
“Hungary’s nationalist prime minister on Wednesday congratulated Mr Wilders, saying the “winds of change are here”.
“Congratulations to Geerts Wilders and the PVV for their spectacular performance in the legislative elections which confirms the growing attachment to the defence of national identities,” said French far-right leader Marine Le Pen.
“It is because there are people who refuse to see the national torch extinguished that the hope for change remains alive in Europe,” she added.
Spain’s far-right politician, Santiago Abascal, added: “More and more Europeans demand in the streets and at the polls that their nations, their borders and their rights be defended.”
Matteo Salvini, the deputy prime minister of Italy, said, “a new Europe is possible”.
More on Milei in my feed today
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At least it seems there wont be a Falklands War mark 2 ….
Much much more interesting, an interview with Milei in the Economist (no firewall):https://www.printfriendly.com/p/g/yqYUdj
________________________________An interesting interview indeed. You sense he is already preparing his excuses for any future developments that will not have turned out the way he might have wished for. Easy to dream up a wishlist of (supposedly) desirable reforms, much harder to put them into practice.
I find the whole thing bizarre – an anarchocapitalist who defines the state as a criminal organisation and yet has just been elected to head this criminal organisation. Assuming he is sincere this has to be a first surely?
Does anybody know anything about this? I realise the so-called Labour Party will stoop to anything but even this seems a step too far ….
It’s a bit dated mind you – Dec 2022 – but I came across it on Twitter
“BREAKING: Free school meal eligibility should be performance-based according to a leaked Labour policy document. “We need to incentivise children from disadvantaged backgrounds to perform in school rather than reward poor results.” https://t.co/LWpMte0Paf”
I see the utter nutter won. Now let’s see how successful he is in introducing anarcho-capitalism in Argentina
_____________________The anarcho-capitalists are gonna be sorely disappointed. This could well be the death knell of anarcho-capitalism as a cult. Ancaps used to gleefully point to Somalia as a practical example of Ancapistan working – a land of warlords, internecine conflict, al-Qaeda-linked or Isis-linked groups, and a thriving piracy sector. You dont hear much reference to Somalia from them these days
In the case of Argentina, it will just be business as usual. Still, there is something deliciously surreal and ironic about an anarcho-capitalist (so-called) being in charge of the state machine when anarcho-capitalism is supposed to renounce statism altogether. I wouldn’t mind betting this guy will end up using the repressive powers of the state as forcefully as any of his predecessors and maybe even more so
Once again we see yet more examples of the inexorable creep towards an authoritarian Big Brother state in the case of Britain. A deluded supporter of Hamas makes a speech a day after that organisation breaks through the Israel security fence on a murderous mission to kill Israelis and she describes this as an act of resistance. All this woman did was voice an opinion and however much you might disagree with the opinion, she did not murder anyone.
Should she have the right to voice her opinion? Of course, she should. Just as one should equally have the right to oppose her. Any kind of censorship whether from the left or the right demonstrates an underlying contempt for the ability of working people to come to a conclusion themselves about what is being stated, the inference being that they need to be condescendingly protected from hearing such opinions by others, superior to them
I would still like to know if, since the British state is going to arrest people who support a murderous organisation like Hamas, it is also going to arrest people who support the actions of the murderous Israeli state that has led to the mass murder of at least 4500 completely innocent children in Gaza so far. Perhaps the British state can start by rounding up culpable individuals like Messrs Sunak and Starmer and arraigning them before a judge in Westminster?
The murder of children is happening not just in Gaza but in the West Bank too. It is absolutely sickening
Alistair Crooke´s assessment of the situation:
“Israeli popular sentiment — even amongst former liberals — is moving toward a Greater Nakba. Gaza is under Nakba pressures. So is the West Bank, as settler violence against Palestinians surges. Even a ‘liberal’ such as former opposition leader Lapid now agrees that ‘settlers’ in the occupied West Bank are not ‘settlers’ at all, since the land is but the ‘Biblical land of Israel’.
Nakba ‘ambitions’ are widening to South Lebanon (up to the Litani River) too. The radical members of Netanyahu’s government say Israelis will never return to the kibbutz adjacent to Lebanon, without Hezbollah’s removal from the border area.So, the call is heard for “Israel” to ‘take’ Lebanon up to the Litani (a key water source) — and ‘serendipitously’ the Israeli air force has begun operating up to 40 kms inside Lebanon. Cabinet members now openly speak of the IOF needing to turn its attention to Hezbollah once Hamas has been ‘obliterated’.
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Plainly, the White House is struggling to avoid the slide towards full regional war, as both the Lebanese front and the Iraqi front heats up: On Sunday, Iraqi movements again fired missiles at the American base in Shaddadi.“Israel” is sensing the present crisis to be both an existential risk, but an ‘opportunity’ too – an opportunity to establish “Israel” across ‘its Biblical lands’ over the long term. There is no mistaking it — this is the direction of travel of Israeli popular sentiment, from both Left and Right wings, to bloody eschatology.”
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/-israel-s—nakba-doctrine
Yes by all means we can call Hamas a “terrorist” organisation. But is the carpet bombing of Gaza not also a tactic of terror and is not the organisation behind it – the Israeli state – no less, therefore, a “terrorist organisation”? In the Big Brother state called Britain a teenager gets arrested by the Thought Police merely for posting something on social media in support of Hamas. Deluded though he may be all he is doing is expressing an opinion. Is the British regime now going to be consistent and arrest anyone who supports Israel’s actions in Gaza that have already led to the murder of 11,000 human beings including 4500 thousand children? I suspect not.
And what about the deluded nationalists who support either Ukraine or Russia in that other war we hear about? Britain supports the authoritarian far-right Zelensky regime. Why does it not also proscribe the authoritarian far-right Putin regime as a terrorist organisation like Hamas? It makes you wonder….
