Giving Israel the green light

 

My mind goes back to Azhar Ali who got thrown out of the Labour Party for saying, just after Oct 7
" .....that massacre, that gives them the green light to do whatever they bloody want."

Two years later .... “Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds”.

That was what “they” wanted.  Netanyahu et al made it plain at the outset, their only solution was to be the Final Solution.  They’d had 70+ years of trying to drive the Palestinians from their land and repressing the ones who remained.
It was a summation of two generations of vengeance on the natives for being there.

As the IDF spokesman said at the time, “we’re focused on what causes maximum damage” The intention was to raze the place and all within it.


This has had the approval of the population.   A video emerged of Israeli soldiers sexually torturing a Palestinian prisoner.   The torturers were arraigned and imprisoned pending trial.  A mob stormed the jail and released them.  The authorities dropped the charges.  The offenders were celebrated in appearances on tv shows.

I’ve seen videos of Israelis bussed in to border crossings where they set up a road block in front of relief convoys trying to enter Gaza.  They hold parties and barbecues across the road as the IDF treat them sociably and they stop food going in to the starving.

Trips around the bay are held, so citizens can have the entertainment of watching the firework show of death and destruction being wrought on Gaza from a boat.

Israel as a nation has gone kill crazy.  It has ceased to be a civilised nation.

I’ve talked to soldiers who’ve been in combat.  I’ve read memoirs of soldiers who’ve been on the front line,  back to the first world war.  All talk with respect about their adversaries, their courage.
 I see vids of Ukrainian soldiers talking about the Russians and their respect for them as soldiers.  Likewise vids of Russians talking about the Ukrainians they faced.

These are all men with a profound common experience.  Kill or be killed.
Respect for their enemy is part of valour to them.

I see vids of IDF soldiers.  They are “fighting” a defenceless enemy.  There is no valour for them.
Here they’re having a sing song.

They’re keeping morale up by singing they’re going to wipe everyone out. "There are no uninvolved civilians."
It’s a debasement of humanity.


Israel never had  much balance.  e.g. Norman Finkelstein, some years ago, pointing this out

Recently Israel attacked six countries in six days.  This endless spree of killing, on which it has embarked, has to be stopped.
If it completes its genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza, it will make such a hole in humanity the world will not recover.

The only solution to this kind of popular view

has to be that Israel is reduced to the state of Germany in 1945. The survivors can have a think about where their madness led them.

 The only country capable of doing that is Iran.  I don’t know if it has the ordnance but .....
It will have to be done so quickly that the USA,  Israel’s sponsor in materiel and economic support, will not have time to respond and will be faced with nothing left to support.  It may rethink its response to Iran.

Iran is going to get flattened in the near future if it doesn’t act before.  As soon as Israel feels it’s sorted Gaza, it will attack Iran. The US will go with it.  It’s no secret.

 

UN declare it’s a genocide.  https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-committed-genocide-gaza-strip-un-commission-finds

 

 

Demo on Cup Final Day

i went down Tott Ct Rd on my way to the Demo today.  It was full of City fans.  

Holborn was for Palace.

I'd arranged to meet my old chum Pete for the Demo.  He was coming from out of Town and was going to do it from the start line.  I was going to meet him half way round.
He txt'd me that it was an hour late starting off, so I adjusted my schedule accordingly.

I erred in my planning and found myself east of where I expected the march to come back across the river.

Seeing the crowds crossing a bridge behind me I did hie my way there.  Where the bridge made landfall there was a total barrier, in the centre of the road, up to the crossroads.  Standing at the crossroads was a counter (Israel flagged) demo so I mounted the barrier and found some cyclist digging sandwiches out of the back of his bike.  

We exchanged pleasantries and he told me I shouldn't have worred about the counter demo.  There was hardly anyone there.

We agreed that the world had gone to hell and I left him to enjoy his picnic.  A rare event, to enjoy a sandwich in the middle of the road with a view of the Thames and no traffic.

Joining the throng into the Strand, I got a txt from Pete that he was at Trafalgar Sq and watching the clog dancing.  It's a culturally rich life he leads.  He started his London day with the Victor Hugo exhiibition at the R.A.  followed by an anti genocide march, and then clog dancing.

He found me easily.  I was probably the only one in Traf Sq  who appeared to be looking for someone.

The march had only taken an hour.  We rejoined it for the stroll down Whitehall and made our way as far as the gates of Downing St, where we could see the speakers on the stage.

The first one turned out to be Jez  :)
I remarked that I minded a time when there were no gates on Downing St and you could walk down it ahd have your picture taken next to the policeman outside No 10.  (Never occurred to us things could be different.)

We listened to a few speakers, did a minutes silence for the dead, and then stayed to hear Lindsey German.  More out of respect for all she's done for the anti-war movement than hearing the same thing again.  

Then made our way out, to Pete's parked, electric, push bike outside the Supreme Court building.  And made our seperate ways.

I got back  in time to see the goal.  An exciting game belying the score line.  I found the VAR interventions helpful in being long enough to mix another screwdriver. 

Disappointed to see Bernardo carded for a professional foul.  Confused by names, do City really have a player named Sudoko ??  Then again, I'm confused by names when I read of a game with two players called Onana.  Is  this what Starmer meant when he spoke of "an island of strangers" ??
  Surprised to see the Nip didn't kick the shit out of everyone, like he did in the semis.  He had a good game.

Onwards with the footer fiesta for the Europa Finals when two mediocre teams from the Premier League battle it out for a shot at the Champions League next season.
I'll have to followi that one via the Telegraph's Live Updates.  Al hum dilly la.

"we have a video of the murder, but the murderer wants you to know that the deceased is lying about the incident"
Richard Medhurst

Kemi waves from the bridge

 

 Another great institution slips below the waves.  Almost 200 years old.
And with it the name of it's predecessor, by which heritage of another 50 yrs we still refer to it.

The Conservative Party membership has elected Kemi Badenoch as their leader.

Kemi proudly asserts she is a first gen immigrant.  She has her citizenship by birth tourism, and first set foot on Brit soil when she was sixteen.

Who do they think they're gonna appeal to ??

Conservatism, as a Party, was rooted in what were considered conservative values.  They were basically christian with a variable dash of xenophobia, heredity principle, property, individual liberty and conservation of all of the above.  (make yr own list. lol)

Birth tourism runs against this, see later legislation.  We can't blame Kemi but she is an example of how badly it can go wrong.

Immigration was an issue at the last election.  Reform pulled a lot of votes from the Tories, so they can't be doing it to draw them back .

Shire Tories are surely going to shudder at a Colonial leading them.  A judgement from my outa town excursions.

The Tory Party has been incompetently led since Thatcher.  Since then, their schism over Europe has widened instead of being narrowed.  This ended up with a chunk of them peeling off to UKIP.

The membership has been presented with an array of dopey characters for leadership elections.  Mrs May ended up getting it unopposed.
God knows what the members were thinking when they voted for Truss.  Either they were telling the Con establishment that they were mad as hell and weren't going to take it any more.
Or else they were mad.

They ended up with Rishi, by appointment.


They are now so detached they've got in a leader who meets one of the eligibility requirements through a nationality scam. Her background is no foundation for loyalty to the UK.

It's as though they've called Uber for a new driver.  And the driver is so unversed in our ways, they don't realise it's a one way journey.

Parade

I had to take the Victoria Line from Victoria Station the other day.  After the down escalator there’s a long walk through a subway.  The walls of the subway are lined with a parade of posters, loads of them, of people talking about their “Pride”.

I’ll stop at two.  You get the picture.

WTF ??  WTAF ??  Who’s paying for this, who’s organising it and why ??  I notice it’s endorsed by TfL and has the imprimatur of the Mayor, so Sadiq must be getting something for it.

In London, the percentage LGBTQ +  is just over 4%.  In England and Wales combined it’s just over 3%. 
( Census 2021)

It’s a niche.  Why are they putting themselves out in the public arena ??  It’s considered antisocial to talk about your sex life in public.  It’s a lack of respect about your private life.
No one gives a damn what you get up to behind closed doors.  Keep it to yourself.

As Mrs Patrick Campbell put it .... “Does it really matter what these affectionate people do — so long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.”


I don't want it in my face.  It doesn't encourage acceptance.

 

The week in pictures

 Week ending 28 Sept

Zelensky addresses UN





Liverpool






History repeats itself first as tragedy then as BRICS






My people

Immigrants






Hounds