Palestinians have the right to defend themselves too.

 'Israel has a right to defend itself': US President Joe Biden condemned for supporting Israel over Palestine (freepressjournal.in)

Joe Biden says 'Israel has right to defend itself' as US throws its support behind Jewish State.

Joe Biden says 'Israel has right to defend itself' as US throws its support behind Jewish State.

I am seething with anger at the never ending hypocrisy of western nations, particular the United States, in its attitude to the Palestinians.

Biden throws off the mask and commits America to again support aggression, ethnic cleansing and genocide by the Israeli state. He uses the cliched words so familiar over past decades about the right of Israel to defend itself. Words which have been echoed by countless western governments and pressure groups supporting Israel.

In the eyes of the western world, the Israeli' can do no wrong and the Palestinians are demonised and branded as terrorists or militants or worse.

The United Nations meet to discus the crisis. Western leaders call for restraint and seek to "bring the sides together". Empty rhetoric.

When it comes to ethnic cleansing, blatant aggression and genocide, Palestinians have the right to defend themselves!!!

Another act of barbaric aggression by a savage occupier

 Israel-Gaza violence: Death toll rises as UN envoy warns of 'heading to full-scale war' | World News | Sky News

Death toll rises as UN envoy warns of 'heading to full-scale war'

                                                   Children among 28 Palestinians killed in Israeli air raids on Gaza

How many more Palestinians will have to be murdered by the Israeli's, before the world throws off its collective guilty conscience and puts an end to this constant offensive against the people of Gaza and the occupied territories?

The present assault triggered in part by the unlawful forced eviction of Palestinians from their homes in Jerusalem to "make way for Israeli settlers", is but the latest act of barbaric aggression from successive Israeli governments recently aided by ultra right wing "Settler Groups" resolutely determined to drive the Palestinians out of their homes and into oblivion. The streets of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other towns in Israel are filled with hysterical banner carrying settlers and other ultra orthodox demonstrators, chanting "death to Arabs" and "Kill Palestinians" while at the same time Benjamin Netanyahu, Naftali Bennet and other Israeli "leaders" fuel the flames of hatred with comments like "Hamas should "pay a very heavy price for their belligerence" and reject international offers to mediate a ceasefire. 

Amongst this continuing and escalating violence, the "International Community" again trots out the now laughable clichés calling on both sides to exercise restraint or to step back from the brink and other meaningless phrases. Words are cheap, but actions are everything. The time for words is past. It is time for action. The continuing assault upon the Palestinian people will never end until the world including the United States, recognises the true objectives of Israel.

The disproportionate use of force by a heavily armed nuclear power against a people armed only with hand made missiles, no navy or air force, but with a rugged determination to survive will continue to shame the western powers. The time has come for the west to stop the Israeli's in their quest for regional domination and their evil intentions to remove all Palestinians and to create "Greater Israel From the Nile to the Euphrates,’

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                                                                  ‘From the Nile to the Euphrates,’

That is the objective that the world must resist and we must stop the ruthless killing of Palestinians by a barbarous and evil regime.

And how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, and how many deaths will it take 'til he knows
That too many people have died?

20 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza

 Funerals held in Gaza as Israel renews air raids: Live news | Al-Aqsa Mosque News | Al Jazeera

The world must now put an end to these atrocious acts

Hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza gather to mourn some of those who were killed in overnight Israeli raids

The time has long passed that the world should stop ignoring the atrocities and the barbarism of Israel against the Palestinians. The latest obscenities triggered in part by the unlawful forced eviction of Palestinians from their homes in Jerusalem to "make way for Israeli settlers" is but the the most recent act of ethnic cleansing stretching back to 1947. The Israelis have perused policies of persecution and intimidation for decades and wars of aggression against their neighbours which the world would not tolerate if carried out by any other nation. The reasons that Israel is allowed to continue this outrageous behaviour is the collective guilty conscience of the west the in respect of the Holocaust and of course coupled with the unquestioning support of the United Sates who maintain that Israel can do no wrong and will use its Veto at the UN to stop any questioning of Israeli actions.

Ironically, it has recently been reported that JONATHAN POLLARD has said that Israel should expel US diplomats and should leave the UN.

Like any bully, the more that they are allowed to continue with their barbarous behavior, the more that they will demand.

The world must now put an end to these atrocious acts and demand the immediate withdrawal of Israel to the pre 1967 borders or face the consequences. (The Americans would not of course join any coalition of opposition to Israel, but that would hardly be surprising).

This ultimatum will not of course ever be submitted, because the guilty conscience would prevail and the atrocities against the Palestinian people will continue. The shame will live forever on the heads of the west.

The headline that you will NOT see on the front page of the Express.

 Scottish election results MAPPED: Full regional results and TWO seats which swung | Politics | News | Express.co.uk

Sorry, we got it wrong !

This is the headline that you will NOT see on the front page of the Express.  

After months of vilifying and demonising the Scottish National Party, (SNP) generally and Nicola Sturgeon in particular, the Express now has a large helping of sour grapes in its pages with lamentable offering of  "Sturgeon blasted - 'hasn't moved the needle one bit!" or "Andrew Marr wrecks Nicola Sturgeon's independence plans" and many other snide sideswipes at the newly re-elected  Scottish government. 

The Express has been full of headlines saying how the SNP vote has collapsed, how ALBA the new Alex Salmond party will gain seats and thwart Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP ambitions in respect of another Independence referendum and how another SNP government in Holyrood would be a disaster for Scotland.

The Express was wrong on all counts and yet their vitriol continues.

Perhaps this rag of a "newspaper" should do what is best at and publish the "Adventures of Captain Albion" with picture of course, where it could vent its own version of news as they do now.

Labour has become irrelevant

 Hartlepool by election result May 6th 2021.

Conservative win with 15529 votes 51.9%.

Labour second with 8589 votes 28.7%

At the 2019 General election, the Labour party won with 37.7% with the Conservative candidate taking 28.9% of the vote.

Which ever way you look at it, this result was nothing short of a catastrophe for the Labour party, and yet only 2 days after the election which Labour lost for the first time in the Constituency's history, Keir Starmer is trotting out the usual clichés repeated by numerous Labour MP's since then and again with Alex Norris MP adding his cliché ridden response on television this morning. "We must reconnect with our traditional base", "We are not getting the message across", "we have a mountain to climb", etc etc The cant and hypocrisy rolls out thick and fast as Labour try to find some justification for the electoral humiliation of May 6th with scant success. They cannot now blame Jeremy Corbyn for this rout (though some are trying to do so even now) nor can they blame the Brexit fiasco which even now some are deeply regretting.

The real cause of this Labour meltdown in its traditional heartland is the performance of Keir Starmer and his obsequious followers, the Stalinist regime now installed within the Labour party hierarchy and machinery and not least of all, by the drive to return to the "good old days" of trying to be all things to all men. The defeat was brought about by the conspiracy within the PLP with their supporters in the media and certain members within the Labour party management structure at Party headquarters determined  to prevent Jeremy Corbyn from becoming Prime Minister at any cost in the 2019 general election. Assisted in this was the unrelenting smear campaign instigated by the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Friends of Israel Lobbies, the Labour First clique and the IHRA definition of antisemitism and other Jewish lobbies, to ensure that Corbyn was removed from the position of Labour leader and a more acceptable person was installed in the post. This appeasement has resulted in the Lobbies and the PLP installing the leader that they wanted and the resultant drift towards "centralist" labour policies more associated with Blair, Brown, Campbell and Mandelson, which did not then nor do they now, bear any relationship to the desires and aspirations of working people and their families. The Brexit diversion has now gone, and Labour should look towards their true values rather that the values dictated by others.

Starmer and those who blindly follow him have only themselves to blame. Labour has been haemorrhaging members by the thousand each day since Starmer was elected. The Labour voter base in the so called "Red Wall" has collapsed as it has all over this country. The traditional Labour voters as well as those new voters entering the political arena desire new radical policies which address todays problems and issues. They do not want nor do they deserve a Labour party offering "Tory lite" policies addressing yesterdays values and outlook.

In this the Labour party is failing miserably in this task and are failing the people of this country. It has become in a very short time an irrelevant and obsolete faction, important only to a few people who speak to or for themselves, while the country cries out for leadership and opposition the Johnson and his gangsters in number 10.  

The Labour party as I knew it and for which I worked for many year has finally succumbed to self interest and insignificance. 

R I P