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D’en's avatar

Thanks Ahmed 💯

I had just watched the Al Jazeera interview when I saw your article

I was still raging 😡 at Barak 🤮🤬 and my blood was boiling

You broke it all down in exquisite pieces

For those who may not have seen it

Prepare to yell

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/inside-story/2026/9/9/how-significant-are-new-european-sanctions-on-illegal-israeli-settlements

Albert Fisher's avatar

The fact that you so calmly and respectfully describe the insanity coming out of Barak's mouth is absurd in its own right. Just like Palestinians mourning their own genocide is "ideological" and might hurt the feelings of Zionists, we report on these evil clowns making the most ridiculous arguments as if they are even "arguments". I really hope this bare-minimum, empty UK ruling steadily leads towards decolonization. I suppose we are still a ways out from that... devastating.

DEREK HANDS's avatar

Impossible gig defending GENOCIDE

Tawfiq Al-Ghussein's avatar

A devastating demonstration of what happens when propaganda collides with sustained questioning. The talking points unravel because they can no longer conceal the reality they were designed to defend.

Shadiya's avatar

What is this seventy thousand dead nonsense? Are you working for the Israelis? We went past seventy thousand years ago.

Clifton Eldridge's avatar

Let's hope Great Britain keeps it's word concerning the ethnic cleansing in the West Bank…. terrorism in the West Bank but not GENOCIDE in Gaza

Liza Cobb's avatar

Thank you for this cogent, truth-telling piece.

Bob H's avatar

Hmmm? So, it seems Britain's little brat has turned on mother. "SEEMS" is the key word here because a few things have happened that make this appear to be related to the rift with Britain's elder offspring which has developed a special fondness for its younger sibling.

Washington has different priorities but neither it nor London indicate any real repulsion against genocide. It's just that Britain is currently focused on the liquidation of Slavs while the US condones Israel's ethnic cleansing as a pragmatic elimination of a problem.

But Israel demands unmitigated loyalty that even the feckless Trump has difficulty appeasing its aspirations.

Enter Javier Milei, zionism's new best friend. Israel can now show Mother England its resentment by backing Argentina's claim to "the Malvinas". Trump can follow suit and make amends for any wayward thoughts about America's temperamental sibling.

Poor Mother England! She has such ungrateful children!

An7's avatar

Thank you Ahmed, great article, and thank you for the links and sources.

A question, do you know what "appropriate religious exemptions" refers to in Ed Milliband's speech in the House of Commons - quote: "...we will introduce a new comprehensive sanctions regime ... with appropriate religious exemptions." I have neither heard nor seen any discussion about what this exemption refers to, nor why it's exempt, I am curious why not.

Cw Boogaart's avatar

israel never was a state or country and still isn't, Balfour Declaration already said : it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."

and also

https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-177231/ 5. Paragraphs 1 and 2 of General Assembly resolution 3236 (XXIX) read as follows:

"The General Assembly,

"…

"1. Reaffirms the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people in Palestine including:

(a) The right to self-determination without external interference;

(b) The right to national independence and sovereignty;

"2. Reaffirms also the inalienable right of the Palestinians to return to their homes and property from which they have been displaced and uprooted, and calls for their return."

https://opiniojuris.org/2024/03/11/a-forgotten-detail-the-right-of-return-was-a-condition-of-the-establishment-of-the-state-of-israel/

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/palestinian-right-return-legal-key-undoing-zionist-conquest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyc_hak0ASQ

UN Lawyer: Israel Has "NO RIGHT TO EXIST” (18th August 2026) Katie Halper

UN human rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber explains why states have no inherent right to exist and argues that Germany is transferring its Holocaust guilt to Palestinians.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=990554793824344

Israel doesn't exist

https://www.facebook.com/reel/2624834594642785

as member state UN since not all conditions are met..

UN do your homework!

Rhombus Ticks's avatar

Sure makes you wonder about the Zionist wing of labour and the filth that ran it until recently

Gregory May's avatar

We grew up. israel didn't.

Raoul Christensen's avatar

Who's “we?" Grew up from what?