Charlie Herbert
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If you support this, you’ve lost your moral compass, and any sense of right and wrong.
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I spent 34 years in the Army - front line service in Gulf War, Iraq, Afghanistan etc. Not once would I have thought it acceptable to be filmed with detainees in this sort of scene. It’s unconscionable. Maybe not a huge deal but symptomatic of an IDF that has lost any morality.
Tulkarm, West Bank |
Israeli occupation forces displaying Palestinian hostages in the city.
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What total performative BS this is.
With one hand US airdrops 38,000 meal packs…while the other hand continues to provide Israel with the arms, munitions and funds required to sustain this conflict.
Performative BS. It fools no one.
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The brazen hypocrisy of Israeli security forces, accusing Hamas of hiding behind protected medical facilities & misusing ambulances in Gaza, while themselves use the cover of medical professionals to carry out covert killings shouldn’t be lost on anyone.
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In the words of my 17 year old daughter:
“How on earth can anyone feel comfortable doing this?”
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Not entirely sure that killing the sons and grandsons of your enemy’s leadership is the smartest way to negotiate a ceasefire.
Unless you really don’t want that ceasefire. 🤔
'The killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s sons could have been designed to reassert military pressure on Hamas to agree to a ceasefire.'
Sky's
@AliBunkallSKY
adds that in Haniyeh's words if that was the tactic, it was "delusional"
📺 Sky 501 and YT
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One can only assume there’s a total collapse of leadership and discipline here. A hugely dangerous state of affairs for any military, especially one at war.
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Two types of people in this world: those who find these images entirely justified and acceptable; and those who find them really quite uncomfortable. If you’re in the former, unfollow me now. A short thread why.
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I don’t accept that the strikes were the result of a ‘lack of discipline’. They were the result of systemic flaws in IDF rules of engagement whereby everyone in Gaza is viewed as a legitimate target to be killed. It’s as plain and simple as that.
“The strike that killed seven WCK aid workers in Gaza was a result of lack of discipline on the part of commanders on the ground, and not due to coordination problems between the army and the humanitarian organization, sources in the IDF told Haaretz.”
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Is there any point even talking about when Palestinians will be allowed to return to their homes in north Gaza? As far as one can tell, there’s little to return to. Just a post-apocalyptic wasteland. How can any decent human actually support this? 💔
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Posting on behalf of a journalist friend. Excerpt of a poignant message she received this week from a female UNRWA teacher colleague, aged 57, who is currently in Rafah at the southern end of the Gaza Strip: 1/7
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Finally. An editor and a newspaper with the moral courage to say what all decent members of the public think. Thank you
@Independent
🙏
Our front page tomorrow
@Independent
‘The moment has come to do whatever it takes to force Israel to end its war. It has to stop.’
#TomorrowsPapersToday
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Yes, yes, I know it’s divisive. Hate me.
But stripping Shamima Begun of her citizenship, leaving her in Syria, effectively stateless, says as much about us as a nation as it does about her.
She was a 15 year old child when she went to Syria.
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My 2007 🇦🇫 interpreter. Rejected for relocation by the UK. On his way to a new life with another NATO country. As chuffed as I am, I’m fuming that he and hundreds of others have been denied relocation to the UK. It’s a stain on us as a nation
@DefenceHQ
@ukhomeoffice
@FCDOGovUK
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October 7 will be remembered as one of the worst terrorist crimes this century.
What followed will be remembered as one of the worst State sponsored crimes this century. That it was undertaken by an alleged democracy with US/UK support is shocking.
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1/ Asked today why I’m fighting so hard for the Afghan interpreters. 👇 Here’s why. ‘Z’ with Dave. They worked shoulder to shoulder in Sangin until the day ‘Z’stepped on an IED. Lost both legs. And an arm. That, folks, is why we have an obligation to them.
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Feels a bit grubby receiving thanks for our military support from the ambassador of a country that’s being accused of genocide.
Thanks to the brave servicemen and women of the
@RoyalAirForce
and to the British people for your friendship & support in upholding Israel’s security.
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RIP Private Stu Collins, B Company 1 SCOTS. Wounded in action in Sangin, Afghanistan 11 years ago. Died yesterday of complications arising from his injuries. Think today of him and all our young veterans and what they endure.
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Yep. Great precision. Great accuracy. Great intelligence. Great weapon selection. Not hearing of any civilian casualties. 👍 Why on Earth can’t the campaign in Gaza be fought in the same way? We all know why - because Israel are punishing all 2.3m civilians for 7 October.
Picture is alleged to be scene of drone killing of Hamas leader Saleh Arouri in Beirut. Impressive precision
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#Gazawashing
Definition: The systematic attempt to smear those who speak out against the IDF’s conduct in Gaza or who question Israel’s military strategy, in order to silence them.
Is this really what we want from mainstream media?
🔴 Exclusive: One of the UK’s most senior military figures in Afghanistan was sent home in disgrace after drinking champagne with colleagues, The Telegraph can reveal
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The utterly callous disregard with which she writes off the unlawful killing of three British citizens (‘a terrible mistake’) says pretty much everything about the majority of our political leaders today. Abhorrent.
Today I met with senior military & political figures in Israel to discuss the war in Gaza & the tragic strike on the aid convoy.
My thoughts & prayers go out to the family & friends of those killed. This was a terrible mistake for which Israel has rightly apologised.
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24hrs on I’m still staggered at the cruelty of suspending UNRWA’s budget. Israel’s sharing of the evidence concurrent with the ICJ imposing special measures on them was just cynical and pre-planned. Appalled that the UK has played a part in supporting this. It’s amoral.
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Another weekend without
@SangitaMyska
on
@LBC
I reckon.
Another victim. Guilty only of having the integrity, courage and principles to question the conduct of Israel’s war in Gaza.
We must not allow mainstream media to smother freedom of speech on this topic, or any other.
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Folks, protesting the killing of thousands of women and children and seeking an end to the violence really does NOT equate to supporting Hamas. Do please stop suggesting that it does.
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But holding all 2.3m people in the Gaza Strip responsible for 7 October, making them accountable for what happened, and collectively punishing them strips Israeli politicians of any moral superiority, and effectively reduces them to the level of Hamas.
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Don’t know about you Twitterati, but I’ll remember Marcus Rashford’s campaign for free school meals for considerably longer than I’ll remember his unfortunate penalty. A fine footballer, and an even finer human.
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When you have the capability to do this sort of time sensitive targeting, it does rather beg the question why you’ve had to kill thousands upon thousands of women and children in Gaza in a warfighting campaign so lacking in distinction, proportion and at times legality.
🔴IDF aircraft struck a vehicle in southern Lebanon containing terrorists who launched rockets into Israeli territory. The terrorists operated under the Imam Hossein Division, which is affiliated with Iran and operates for the Hezbollah terrorist organization.
IDF fighter jets…
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“Israel has been defeated - a total defeat. The war's aims won't be achieved, the hostages won't be returned through military pressure, security won't be restored and Israel's international ostracism won't end.” (Haaretz)
Eviscerating Israeli assessment
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If you describe this as an ‘accident’ you’re mistaken.
Every IDF officer in the kill chain yesterday knew exactly what they were doing when they authorised and executed three separate strikes against these three vehicles.
Massive error, maybe, but certainly not an accident.
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A campaign to eliminate Hamas?
Or a war against the entire people of Gaza?
I’ll leave you to decide what this conflict is.
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Surely set to be among the most enduring and iconic photos of this conflict.
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Chance of this little fella planning the 7 October attacks, or holding any of the hostages are pretty slim, I reckon. But many people on this platform will go on justifying his injuries on that basis. Deranged.
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Something rather dark, and wrong, when a pro-Israel group (who usually do great work at preventing antisemitism in the UK) try to close down my voice as a media military analyst because my views on the war differ to theirs. Aren’t these the rights we should all seek to protect?
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Goodbye to all that. Final day in uniform after >33 years. It’s been a blast! Huge thanks to all those legends with whom I’ve had the pleasure of soldiering alongside. Still think there’s no finer profession than the profession of arms.
@BritishArmy
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Criticising Israel’s conduct of this war is not antisemitic.
Supporting South Africa’s IJC case is not antisemitic.
Denouncing civilian casualties is not antisemitic.
Simple, really. But a few people are struggling to understand this.
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No one in their right mind thinks 7 October was anything but abhorrent.
But the IDF’s response over the past six months has been the most inappropriate and strategically flawed use of military force since we invaded Iraq in 2003.
And that is some bar to reach.
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Deep breath. The account of the IDF strikes on the three vehicles of
@WCKitchen
is even worse than I had imagined. 👇
This is the top of the iceberg though.
One can only imagine what is being done to Palestinian civilians if the IDF strike humanitarian aid workers like this.
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An Israeli drone fired three missiles one after the other at a World Central Kitchen convoy escorting an aid truck to a food warehouse in Deir al-Balah, according to defense sources familiar with the details
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Remembering this month Private Sean McDonald, killed in action in Sangin, Helmand in early 2010. Hard as nails - cage fighter, lead scout, all round Scottish warrior. Taken from us far too early, but not forgotten.
#RemembranceDay
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I don’t question the need for visual checks for suicide vests. That’s standard SOP when dealing with a suspected bomber. But in 34 years of quite challenging infantry soldiering I’ve never once seen scenes like those in the IDF photos. Not once.
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Hmmm. Nothing like starting a second fight when you’ve just realised that the first one is largely unwinnable. Especially when you’re desperate to get your best, much bigger and only friend involved.
“Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon follows the same extremist and dangerous ideology as Hamas, firing from holy sites in Lebanon and Gaza, and firing at holy sites across Israel.”
Watch RAdm. Daniel Hagari addressing Hezbollah’s continued aggression:
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I could have told you. But this you knew.
Powerful, moving poetry by the talented
@vean_ima
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@JohnSimpsonNews
I’m sorry? Even if there was an ‘armed man’ it wouldn’t legitimise the striking of three separate vehicles known to be carrying aid workers. This is insane. Call it out for what it is. An unlawful killing of civilians.
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What Hamas did on 7 October was barbaric, murderous, abhorrent. Utterly sickening. All involved deserve a special place in hell, and a fast track route there. I think every rational person feels much the same. Hamas must go.
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Any suggestion that ‘anything goes in war’ and that the IDF has a right to do this after the awful events of 7 October is just plain wrong. If IDF wishes to retain moral superiority over Hamas, it needs to operate with morality. Which I don’t see in those photos.
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Just do a cursory online search, and try to find equivalence. ISIS maybe? Abu Ghraib? But you won’t find many photos of soldiers in a democratically elected nation treating suspects like that. So please don’t suggest it’s standard practice.
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I saw what went wrong when the West lost its moral compass after 9/11. Renditions, waterboarding, detention without trial, Abu Ghraib, detainee abuse in Basra etc. So please don’t think I’m claiming the moral high ground. I’m definitely not.
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Her name is Hind Rajab. She was 6 years old when killed in Gaza, alongside her family and those who came to rescue her.
If your response is to simply to say ‘unverified’ or ‘information warfare’ you seriously need to address your values and standards.
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Born today in the UK. Two weeks ago his heavily pregnant Mum was in Afghanistan 🇦🇫. Thank you to all who made her rapid route to the UK possible. You know who you are - military, civilian, official, unofficial - you’re all totally awesome!! ❤️
@DefenceHQ
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What most horrifies about this video is that the bulk of this destruction was done using precision weapons. Deliberately. Not as collateral damage. But deliberately. Think about that for a moment, and tell me this campaign is legitimate. Video
@SkyNews
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Meanwhile, in the West Bank.
‘As a father and his two small sons drove
home after doing errands in their village, Israeli soldiers fired at their pickup, killing the 10-year-old. The traumatized 7-year-old blames himself for his brother's death’.
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I despair.
At what point will Israel realise that it can no more kill its way to peace in Gaza than the US led coalition could do so in Afghanistan?
Utter folly. Tragically so.
Live update: US agreed to Israel’s plan for Rafah in return for not carrying out large Iran strike – report
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The strategic incoherence of the IDF’s approach in Gaza is really quite extraordinary.
It’s not a serious campaign to genuinely destroy Hamas. It’s a medieval raid, on an enormous scale, whose only purpose is to punish the population.
Staggeringly incompetent strategy.
Unit rotation: 7th Brigade, Givati Brigade (84) and Commando Brigade (89) have withdrawn from Hamad Town. Given that Bislamach Brigade (828) withdrew on the same day, it's possible that the IDF will fully withdraw from the entire rest of the Khan Yunis suburbs in the coming days.
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Sickening photograph, irrespective of context. Palestinian detainees in north Gaza, stripped to their underwear, placed in uncomfortable positions, waiting to be loaded on trucks. Even if some are Hamas members, this is abhorrent conduct by
@IDF
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Remembering this month Corporal Jon Moore. Superb young leader, brave as a lion, respected by all. Killed in action in Sangin, Southern Afghanistan in early 2010. Gone but not forgotten.
#RemembranceDay
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7 October was murderous, barbaric and abhorrent, and no one seeks to deny Israel the right to defend itself. But those of you on this platform using 7 October to continually justify the killing of Palestinian children makes you no better than Hamas in my eyes.
The body of six-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab has been found decomposing in the car where her family were killed by Israeli gunfire in Gaza City.
A few metres away, the ambulance sent to rescue Hind was burnt out with the remains of two medics inside ⤵️
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Something utterly screwed up when the only evidence of very low yield, super precise targeting in Gaza over the last six months is against international aid workers.
Seriously? 🤔
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I’m simply cautioning about what happens when nations and their militaries do lose the moral high ground. When a blind determination for retribution causes their moral compass to waver. Because that’s what I see when I look at those photos.
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So the IDF will soon attack Rafah.
Innocent women and children will be killed.
Some Hamas forces will fight & die. Most will move to safety or merge into the population.
The hostages won’t be recovered and Hamas won’t be eliminated.
Pointless. Utterly pointless.
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It looks to me far more like a determined and deliberate effort to humiliate, degrade and dehumanise. Sure, it’s not one millionth as bad as what Hamas did on 7 Oct. But that’s not the point, is it?
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The very definition of satire? 🤔 Being lectured about suicide vests by keyboard warriors with zero military experience, despite having done six tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and three years in Mogadishu. Thanks for the advice. Now get back to your PlayStations🤦🏻♂️
Sickening photograph, irrespective of context. Palestinian detainees in north Gaza, stripped to their underwear, placed in uncomfortable positions, waiting to be loaded on trucks. Even if some are Hamas members, this is abhorrent conduct by
@IDF
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“The army also decided during the first weeks of the war that, for every junior Hamas operative that Lavender marked, it was permissible to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians.”
And some people still think the conduct of this campaign is legitimate? Insane.
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Every time I’m unfairly accused of being a ‘Hamas shill’, a ‘Sinn Fein shill’ or of being antisemitic…it just makes me more determined to say, with honesty, experience and objectivity, why I think Israel’s campaign in Gaza will not bring them better security. Simple.
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When the IDF are clearing the very same area they cleared - at huge cost to civilian life - only a few months ago, then they can no longer pretend they’ve got an effective operational plan, let alone a winning strategy.
Such a waste of life. For no discernible gain. Tragic
⚠️ | According to Palestinian reports the IDF have begun advancing North and East of Al-Shifa Hospital.
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And when this doctrine of collective punishment is allowed to penetrate into the ranks of the IDF the outcome can only be disastrous for a campaign where the human terrain is the vital ground. Think about that.
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Uncomfortable to think that the UK government tacitly support this destruction, in abstaining from the last UN Security Council vote for a ceasefire. Not in my name.
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At no time in my career did I or any soldier under my command ever strip a detainee. Not once. Never. I simply can’t think why it would ever be necessary, except perhaps on entry to a formal detention centre or POW holding facility. Not on the street.
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Heartbreaking footage. These kids don’t deserve this irrespective of the sins of Hamas. Yet certain people today rejoice on this platform in describing yesterday’s ICJ decisions as a ‘non-event’. What a staggering lack of humanity.
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Closing thoughts on the disastrous handling of our 🇦🇫 interpreters over the years. No words left anymore.
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Remembering this month Captain Walter Barrie, killed in action on Remembrance Day ten years ago in Helmand, Afghanistan. A soldier’s soldier. Thoughts as always with his widow Sonia and son Callum. Gone but not forgotten.
#remembranceday2022
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Once considered the most capable military in the region, how did the IDF come to be associated with accusations of genocide, disproportionate violence, a lack of distinction between combatants & non-combatants, & a lack of discipline among its soldiers?
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If you disagree with me, by all means comment and put forward your counter view, but please do so with decency and respect, and then unfollow or block me. Thank you.
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So, the IDF “regrets the harm caused” to civilians on Christmas Eve, when ‘the wrong weaponry’ was used in an attack on a refugee camp. 86 killed. I’m speechless. What about the other many thousands of civilians killed without justification?
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Twenty year old
@guardian
article about Gaza.Fascinating read from 2003. This was before Hamas control, before the Israeli blockade. But even then the visceral descriptions of the inequality and repression facing the Palestinians could not be more telling
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Wonderful Christmas photo ❤️. Former 🇦🇫 interpreters with the
@BritishArmy
🇬🇧 meeting today at Edinburgh Castle esplanade 🏴. Good people, universally grateful for the support of the British public after a traumatic year in their homeland.
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As yet another provincial capital falls to the Taliban tonight, my anger with this withdrawal decision has never been higher. Why? Everything we fought so insanely hard for is now under threat. Totally predictable that this would happen. Totally avoidable. Why. Just why? 🇦🇫
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I say that a former soldier. 34 years in the Army. Gulf War, NI, Bosnia, Sierra Leone etc. Six tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Three years in Mogadishu. Not an expert, but some experience. Left in 2019 as a Major General.
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Don’t be seduced by this 🇺🇸 BS about a floating port. It’ll never happen. It’s just a play on US domestic politics.
If the US cared one jot about the Palestinian people this war would be over. But it doesn’t. So they suffer. Endlessly.
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‘Not in our name is the message’.
Searing, heartfelt, credible and remarkably powerful commentary by Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos, calling out the killing of children in Gaza and his continued presence on the peace marches. Beautiful soul.
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Now just imagine if this was reversed.
Ofer Rosenbaum, a controversial Israeli PR figure and founder of the “The Civilian Front” organisation, gave a speech to a large crowd in Jerusalem where he said: “The new Jew looks at his enemy with the whites of his eyes, then takes his head off”
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Welcome to the UK! Their dad is a former 🇦🇫 interpreter. Granted eligibility for relocation to UK 13 months ago. Yes, 13 months ago. Left behind in August. Just one example of how flawed the Afghan relocation system has been for years. But lovely to see them arrive in the UK now
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In the final hours of her life, trapped in a car surrounded by the bodies of her murdered family, Hind Rajab could only pray for salvation.
Collateral damage, apparently.
She wasn’t even seven years old.
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Hmmmm. If Israel is able to target Hezbollah combatants with such accuracy, distinction and proportionality in south Lebanon, then why hasn’t it been able to do so against Hamas combatants in Gaza? Thoughts?
Since Hezbollah launched war on
#Israel
on October 8, Israel has killed 123 Hezbollah fighters. Only five civilians (3 journalists in war zone) have been killed by mistake. This is the best ratio of combatant to non-combatant casualties of any army in any war. And still, some US…
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One of the features of 21st C conflict - pretty much every tactical activity is caught on camera / downlink / helmet cam
So, why won’t IDF release any footage of the drone strikes on
@WCKitchen
aid workers and Al Shifa hospital operation? To prove their case + disprove doubters
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Remembering this month L/Cpl Joe Pool. Killed in action while serving with the Brigade Recce Force in Helmand, Southern Afghanistan in 2010. Husband, father, son, soldier. Gone but not forgotten, Joe.
#RemembranceDay
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Remembering this month Captain John McDerrmid, killed in action in an IED strike in 2007 while embedded with the Afghan National Army. A brilliant soldier who taught my young self a great deal about leadership and being a good human. Gone but not forgotten.
#RemembranceDay
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‘God, I hate these worthless words that I’ve been hearing for most of my life!!!’ 7/7
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Could someone in the pro-war lobby please explain to me why they think the creation of these conditions in Gaza will bring about a better peace and greater long term security for Israel.
Because I don’t see it myself.
Quite the opposite to be candid.
“The current situation in Gaza is catastrophic and words can’t describe it.”
In rare contact with one of our staff members in northern
#Gaza
, MSF nurse Loay Harb describes the situation there, including the lack of food and the medical support he provides where he can.
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Leaving Afghanistan without a political settlement is ill judged. Leaving without our former interpreters and local staff is immoral. Totally disillusioned with UK MOD half hearted approach to this. An institution I once held dear I now hold in slight contempt.
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Odd, rather macabre and slightly unsavoury celebration of the destruction of Gaza. This man - believe it or not - is the editor of the Jewish Chronicle
@JewishChron
- once the world’s most influential Jewish newspaper. Now a dim shadow of its former self.
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Avoid speculation about ex-military nature of the three British aid workers killed in Gaza.
Entirely normal for NGOs to use ex-military private security companies in very high risk areas. Don’t read much into it.
2019, Mogadishu, with my South African former Special Forces CPO
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Even if there was an ‘armed man’ in an accompanying truck, it would not justify or legitimise three separate strikes against three vehicles known to be carrying aid workers.
Call this out for what it is - the unlawful killing of civilians by the IDF.
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An Israeli drone fired three missiles one after the other at a World Central Kitchen convoy escorting an aid truck to a food warehouse in Deir al-Balah, according to defense sources familiar with the details
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If you think the killing of a reported 10,000+ children in a 21st Century conflict is ‘commendable’ then I think it’s fair to say you have a very, very different view of the world than most people.
@aroberts_andrew
Lord Roberts of Belgravia importantly stresses that the 2:1 civilian to combatant casualty ratio in an urban conflict such as in Gaza is a difficult accomplishment for any army, and commends the IDF the efforts it takes to limit civilian casualty.
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Surely the Prime Minister must respond - on the record - about this allegation. That our government could be deliberately withholding information that it is operating in breach of its own legal advice is not something to be ignored.
"The British government has received advice from its own lawyers...that Israel has breached international humanitarian law in Gaza but has failed to make it public" because "any such legal advice would mean the UK had to cease all arms sales to Israel."
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