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