I share this because it provides a genuinely intelligent analysis of what is happening in UK politics right now.
I should warn that there are disturbing images at one point in the video.
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Politics is quite dramatic just now, isn’t it? Mr Galloway, for all his faults, has metaphorically punched the political establishment (that includes you, Keir) on the nose.Based on public (not just Moslem) revulsion against the Gaza slaughter. And they are now going to throw a ton of mud at him. Cue Sunak sent out on a cold night to a podium in Downing Street, trying to sound portentous and dramatic. Pontificating about “divisiveness”, but conveniently forgetting about the inflammatory remarks of Anderson and Braverman (whom he dare not cross). Priceless.
For anyone who hasn’t seen Sky’s Sam Coates’s “Stupid boy!” moment, as he attempts to patronise and smear Galloway in an interview, here it is:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7p7CAyxHgg
Remarkably, ITN’s main bulletin last night contained several minutes of well-documented reports of another IDF atrocity on top of the others. Is the tide turning against the establishment support for Israel?
It has been suggested that we can expect a false-flag incident, swallowed by the media, at a peaceful Gaza demonstration soon. Not far-fetched?
Thanks for posting this, Richard. It was extremely informative. I don’t always agree with Oborne, but in this case, I think he hit the nail directly on the head. It was a truly disturbing narrative, but one we should not shy away from.
In case , like me, you don’t have the sound when watching this really great DDN presentation within this blog, here is a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrE2LeJqJHk
Peter Oborne ia spot on in his analysis of Tory/Labour complicity in supporting Israel’s gencide in Gaza as he was when he wrote a book chronicling th lying of Boris Johnson. If ever there is lying going on now by Tory and Labour it is now, especially Starmer trying to deny he put pressure on the Speaker to ban the SNP vote on a cease-fire in Gaza.
Thanks for sharing, Richard. As with Larry, I’ve often disagreed with Oborne (or perhaps that’s just because he writes for the Telegraph) but his analysis is spot on and as such deeply worrying. Truly Starmer is going to be a disaster as PM.
I admit I quite like Obsorne as a man. I have always enjoyed talking to him whenever we have met.
As numerous cases and reports about decades of systematic sabotage of any mildly centrist or left-wing organisation by undercover policemen have detailed you should always be very wary of hard-line Marxists who suddenly become hard-line Thatcherites.
So I find it difficult when a journey in the opposite direction appears to produce a transformation from Tory to Social Democrat.
On the subject of Cricket I respect and enjoy Peter Oborne’s writing, but when it comes to his politics suspicion will always remain.
He is an old school liberal
One should always be suspicious of relatively new, hard line, activists. At least one of those in 80s activism in Nottingham, pushing for dramatic action, turned out to be an undercover copper.
there is a two second clip of a large building being blown up (near the start of the video).
It was a University. One used for training medics, I read.
One can tell from the explosions that they were pre-laid charges, not bombs or shells used in an assault.
To lay the charges, the building would have been cleared of enemy combatants. It was in Israeli hands.
The destruction of it was, in my view, a deliberate destruction of vital infrastructure for the strip.
The amount of destruction generally will make the area uninhabitable and this seems to be the strategic aim of the Israeli state.
Is that genocide? Does the definition matter? We are seeing the destruction of a 2.3 million community asa viable entity.
“The amount of destruction generally will make the area uninhabitable and this seems to be the strategic aim of the Israeli state.
Is that genocide? ”
From “Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Article 8, War Crimes”:
b. v. Attacking or bombarding, by whatever means, towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended and which are not military objectives;
b. ix. Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected, provided they are not military objectives;
https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/war-crimes.shtml
Thank you Ian
They are certainly war crimes but proving genocide is very difficult.
Israel will claim Hamas build military structures and used it to hide weapons and so on.
They will have to claim almost all of Gaza was a military camp to justify the scale of destruction. The case at the ICJ, we are told could take years.
To repeat myself, I think they are aiming to make living in Gaza almost impossible.
However, I can’t see how they could claim to have fulfilled the ICJ’s requirements issued at the end of January.
And we are supposed to back up the ICJ.
It was a long time ago, but I can remember when I paid scant regard for Oborne; whom I associated with a mildewed, Pavlovian-Tory (not Conservative) attachment to a nostalgic, Thomas Hardy, ghostly ruralised vision of Britain; that was a risible representative of the crude reality, even in Hardy’s nineteenth century venture into literary escapism.
I should not be surprised that I find my views in harmony with Oborne so often now. The fact that i find so much common ground with him is a demonstration that all ideology is always, in the end found to be the enemy of evidence, facts and truth. Ideology, in attempting to explain everything, explains nothing at all. Human beings do not and cannot agree on everything or even on consistency of belief, because eventually that too will fail us; but it is sufficient only to seek and to find common ground where we can, for solutions we can only find by settlement of our differences, in one way or another; if we are to avoid the solutions of Clausewitz. Our only real, permanent enemy is ideology, in all its manifestations of left and right.
At least Oborne seems to have had his own damascene conversion – one does not hear much from Max Hastings these days – the great enabler of Johnson – when he was generating palpable trash when in Bruxelles in the later 1980s/early 1990s (& Hastings was letting it through!).
I find it interesting that, Oborne/Hastings etc recant. Which begs the questions: were they somehow or other blind to what was happening at the time. Both were in the final analysis Thatchers little helpers & we now live with the consequences of that………pernicious ideology.