This tweet is staggering:
We are used to crises, conflicts, wars and their consequences. I wish that were not the case, but they have happened throughout my life, and maybe they always will.
However, Gaza is nothing like the others. This is genocide by a member of the military industrial complex against a population almost entirely without support, and the result is literally deadly.
Let's not pretend that what the Israeli government is doing isn't an assault on human life itself.
We should all be hurting with the people of Gaza.
We should all be condemning Israel.
We should all demand an end to this onslaught, genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Meanwhile, our government is still actively supporting the Israeli government.
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Let’s face it – we’re not exactly witnessing a typical war are we? I’ve not seen many (any) Palestinian tanks or fighter aircraft about, nor Palestinians in uniform filling their hospitals – it’s all everyday people to me, so your post sits well with me.
Ironically, the Warsaw Ghetto might be the comparison you’re seeking PSR.
Israel won’t let them have a navy, either, even though Gaza is on the Mediterranean.
When the troops invaded North America to let settlers take over the native American land, the first thing they did was kill off all the buffalo so the natives would starve.
Not just shooting them with their superior weapons, as we are shown in films, but starving them to death and corralling them in certain areas that were not very good for growing crops.
Gaza is Israel’s modern day equivalent, with those countries with better weapons being complicit.
Agreed. I suppose we could argue that ‘we support those opposing Palestine inaction’ without incurring the wrath of the obnoxious Yvette Cooper or falling foul of her legally questionable recent proscription decision.
There are two quite chilling figures I have seen.
Firstly Gaza needs about 62000 tons of basic foodstuffs a month, if it isnt getting that and ithe figures are nowhere close then the people are starving.
While it looks spectacular the total delivered by air drops over the whole conflict is only a few days worth.
Secondly in the Ukraine children represent about 0.3% of those killed in the conflict. In Gaza they are about 37% of those killed
So you would have to get 300 Ukranian dead before you had a child death, in Gaza its just over 1 in 3
I am married to someone who is sympathetic to your view and also that of the Irish President that military intervention in Gaza is needed by the West. And without questioning this tweet, I think we should. But how to do that without risking our children being shot at by both sides. That is the question. And I like my husband’s suggestion of just air dropping arms on Gazans so they can defend themselves. They already have a well regulated militia, so why not give them Second Amendment rights to bear arms. If Americans can have that then so should Gazans.
Would Israel really attack a combined European defence force?
Yes.
The Israeli gov’ implements the genocide and & the Israeli population support it. The recent big demo in Tel Aviv was about freeing Israeli hostages – whilst ignoring both the on-going genocide & the fact that the Israeli gov holds many thousands of Palestinian hostages (& has done so for many years).
Arguably, it should be the nation of Israel in the dock @ the ICJ because it is the nation of Israel that is responsible for the genocide. All israeli citizens know what is going on. ALL.
Totally agree. But your 4th paragraph, should it be “Let’s not pretend that what the Israeli government is doing is NOT an assault on human life itself.”?
Corrected.
Thanks.
“Let’s not pretend that what the Israeli government is doing is an assault on human life itself.” – I think you probably mean isn’t Richard?
In the face of that horror, my country and its institutions are:
1. Suppressing anti-genocide protest.
2. Arresting and charging anti-genocide protesters as terrorists.
3. Trading with a genocidal government.
4. Arming a genocidal government and making a profit out of it.
5. Threatening and sanctioning academic institutions where anti-genocide protest occurs.
6. Accepting political donations from genocide supporters.
7. Threatening journalists and editors who report truthfully report on genocide.
8. Ignoring or actively obstructing international institutions that are seeking to publicise and prosecute genocide.
9. Actively providing UK military support to those conducting genocide on the ground (special forces + RAF Akrotiri) and in the air (RAF surveillance planes or chartered planes).
10. Providing military training to military personnel of a nation engaged in genocide, at UK military colleges.
11. Actively conducting a propaganda war in which those who oppose genocide through protest or via BDS or the international legal system are labelled as antisemitic and/or terrorist.
I think that will do, but I’m sure I could write more.
My country, my government, my shame.
Cutting off all military , trade, diplomatic, cultural and sporting links with the perpetrators would be a start.
Organising a coalition of the willing to get other countries to apply sanctions and see how a food convoy could be got into Gaza would be a good move.
And replacing the BBC’s ‘impartiality’ towards man made famine, including the senior managers responsible , would help. Even this morning, the last comment on the southern blockade of Gaza was to the effect ‘Israel blames Hamas’.
Yesterday on the Crispin Flintoff show, he managed to have a live interview with a journalist in Gaza City. At the same time Jeremy Corbyn was on the line from Japan where he’d been at a commemoration for Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
The journalist was going to be called Brother on the show, but he was brave enough to put his name on, Motasem Dalloul. All his family have been killed. Lots of people were in tears, listening to him. But he is still going to carry on doing what he is doing to show the world what is happening.
Both of them are going to get together and see what they can do to tell those in government what is really happening. Corbyn has a meeting the first week in parliament about Gaza and is going to show what Motasem says to those present.
I note that Yvette Cooper is facing contempt of court proceedings over her article in the Observer about Palestine.
The best statement I saw recently was that if the west stopped arming Israel overtly or covertly, there would be no need for Palestine Action.
Hi Jen, I kept hearing Flintoff’s name recently, and just subscribed to his channel on YouTube, but can see nothing for yesterday.
If RJM happy, would you be able to put a link in a reply please? Many thanks.
https://thecrispinflintoffshow.co.uk/
Thanks, Richard.
Crispin hasn’t put it on youtube yet. There is mention of it on his Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/crispin.flintoff
where he talks about how difficult it was to organise.
In short, it’s worse than we can imagine. On Gaza, not helped by the BBC.
Where hope for Palestinians might come from?
1_ Were a much higher profile given to the likely scale of death in Gaza. Given last year’s Lancet article; work by Ralph Nader, and recent work by Matthew Cockerill, see link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMsgkq6WB70
Total death toll realistic figure due to Israel’s genocidal blitzkrieg IS between 200,000 and 300,000. Let that sink in. How it would better galvanise public opinion were the BBC, for example, to do investigative journalism.
2_ Perhaps a significant probability that Netanyahu may relaunch a war with Iran, based on several experts I listen to and how, before December, timing would look ‘it’s now or never’ because of several factors:
https://quincyinst.org/2025/08/11/the-next-israel-iran-war-is-coming/
In that scenario, Iran would devastate Israel & its extreme right so vastly improving prospects for a cease-fire.
3_ For Trump, the Epstein smell is NOT going away. It will be renewed in congress from early September. Many of his MAGA base resent not just the war in Ukraine but also the money pumped into Israel while their Medicare is cut, while details of the genocide spread into their kind of social media. Appeasing his support base by stopping the Gaza genocide might even outweigh pressure from his financing clique of Zionists; also a double whammy for the Nobel Peace Prize?
4_September’s annual UNGA will bring together al the non-Western countries who increasingly angered by this slaughter. So, perhaps some initiative. Indonesia has indicated a readiness to give troops for a peace-keeping force. A petition has just been launched if interested here: https://www.change.org/p/un-general-assembly-deploy-an-emergency-armed-multinational-protection-force-to-gaza
As for the majority of our politicians, such as the 385 who voted to proscribe Palestinian Action, what the ‘never to be forgotten’ Aaron Bushnell said applies to them.
Thank you
Could you post link to tweet please? I don’t have Twitter account and can’t find it. Thank you
I will look for it
Many thanks JenW and RJM for links.