Chris Doyle
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Middle East, international politics & Director @Caabu Council for Arab-British Understanding. Views mine alone https://t.co/re36Ty0I3z
Joined March 2009
Macron is utterly desperate for a reaction from Mbappe but in three major efforts, the striker gives him no eye contact, and no photo opportunity.
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The very idea that Israel, a state on trial for genocide, one that has a record of war crimes and not properly investigating them, can carry out an independent investigation is a disgrace and an insult to the victims. Israel treats international law with open contempt.
We have called on Israel to immediately investigate and provide a full, transparent explanation of what happened.
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In the same way that Israel must pay for the damage it has done in Gaza and West Bank. .
Russia must pay for the damage it has caused Ukraine. The UK and G7 partners have taken an important step to that end, committing to provide $50bn in additional support to Ukraine, repaid using the profits from frozen Russian assets.
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To be clear: No Palestinian evacuation from Gaza will be voluntary. It will have been brought about by the terror of Israeli bombardment and siege, leading to spread of disease. It would be ethnic cleansing.
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This disgraceful article should never have been published in a major outlet. This atrocity denial is frightening.
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Administrative detention means detention without trial. In other words, Layan is a hostage.
I am really sorry and upset to have to report that Israel has extended the administrative detention of Layan Nasir for a further four months. Devastating news for Layan, her family and everyone close to her #freelayan
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A busy airbase that for a year has been helping Israel commit a genocide in Gaza. A disgrace.
'The whole world and everyone back at home is relying on you.'. Prime Minister Keir Starmer tells British troops at an RAF base in Cyprus that he is 'grateful' for their work after a 'busy, busy year'. . 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Cameron says Israel has not shown intent to commit genocide. False. Israeli leaders have made genocidal comments ever since 7 October. The UK has not called them out. They are terrifying, even more so given what Israel has and is doing to Palestinians in Gaza. A small selection.
"I think the South African action is wrong, I think it is unhelpful and I think it shouldn't be happening.". Foreign Secretary @David_Cameron adds that "to say that (Israel) have the intent to commit genocide is nonsense". #TrevorPhillips 📺 Sky 501
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Simons is no expert as he states - but does not take an expert to know the term Palestine was not introduced by the Romans. Palestine was even mentioned in writing by Herodotus in the 5th century BC ( Before Christ). The non-existence historically and actually of Palestine and.
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If there was a march with chants of "Death to Jews" and "A good Jew is a dead Jew, who thinks the BBC would ignore. Yet in this article there is not one mention of the Death to Arab chants. This is not journalism it is propaganda.
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Incredible. US SoS Blinken admits US has not investigated the allegations against 12 UNRWA staff but has decided nonetheless that they are 'highly credible'. “We haven’t had the ability to investigate [the allegations] ourselves. But they are highly, highly credible,” says.
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Sadly @BBCNews is increasingly looking complicit in Israel war crimes and erasure of Palestinians. Those of us who call out genocide against Palestinians, who value all life, no longer invited on BBC, whilst those who support it like Melanie Phillips get airtime.
Shameful BBC erasure of Jasleen’s Kaur’s speech winning the Turner Prize. Solidarity with Palestinians removed. A call for an end to arms sales to removed. Mention of Israel’s genocide removed. Her Palestinian scarf removed.
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UNRWA have 13,000 staff working at 350 installations in Gaza serving 1.7 million Palestinian refugees. Currently it is sheltering 1 million IDPs. It sacked 12 staff members based on allegations. How can such a large agency operating in a war zone, in an area under .Isrseli.
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@veritasalways1 Many openly identifiable Jewish women were on the march, and went there by tube where they were welcomed.
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Just cannot believe this day has come. All my life the Assads have ruled Syria & bled it dry. It's prisons overflowed. I think of those in Hama who whispered to me their recollections of the 1982 massacre. I remember in my first visit in 1991 when a Syrian in Aleppo handed me.
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If Braverman had said extremsit Jews ran Britain she would be fired. Islamophobia is encouraged. Dowden should now resign too.
Deputy PM Oliver Dowden asked by @SkyNews if Suella Braverman's comments that Britain is being taken over by an "islamist mob” were acceptable. "I don't believe the language used by Suella Braverman has crossed the line, where she should apologise for it, no I don't."
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60 Afghans killed or don't they count. The racism is appalling.
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A question Palestinians have also been asking about Israeli occupation for the last five decades.
after the war crimes committed by putin, how could anyone suggest ukraine should negotiate away any of its territory? . how could any ukrainians live in russian occupied land?.
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The head of UNRWA has stated, this man is very much alive, so was never with Sinwar. Anti-palestinian racists are circulating this as fact.
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The BBC has serious issues relating to its coverage and above all its editorial decisions. Robbie Gibb should have no role in overseeing Middle East news coverage as a BBC director and he should step aside.
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Of all the politicians I have met in 25 years, this man is one of the lowest. I am reminded of the little things like the way he treated his staff . with undisguised contempt.
Mind-boggling: Bassil told BBC News: "the question is not why it was there, but how it was ignited". Having 2,750 freaking tons of ammonium nitrate in a civilian port for seven years is completely normal.
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Those who backed Johnson have serious Qs to answer - a stunning lack of judgement. They backed a known liar, a lawbreaker, a serial adulterer, a man with a record of racist and Islamophobic statements, and someone who may well have misled Parliament. This should not be forgotten.
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Raising the question why the UK has not suspended all trade in arms with Israel given plausible grounds for genocide.
The court in The Hague just ordered the state of the Netherlands to halt all exports of F-35 parts to Israel. The state has 7 days to comply. /1.
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Jaw droppingly embarrassing that such a morally bankrupt, intellectually vacuous piece of atrocity propaganda could be published. Truth is more that Israel has been given a green light to commit massive violations of international law at will.
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Fair point.
"We've never been allowed to speak about politics in sports,but all of a sudden now it's allowed. So now that we're allowed. Palestinians have been going through that for the past 74 years". - Egypt World No.1 Squash Player .@AliFarag. Salute from your African brothers & sisters
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Would French authorities force these women to remove their outfits for not "respecting good morals and secularism"?
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For over 35 years, I have witnessed UNRWA operations in all 5 areas of operations – Gaza, West Bank, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. I have met with every single UNRWA CG since the early 1990s. My first boss was head of UNRWA operations in Gaza when the first Intifada broke out.
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When you see this, when you see this all across Gaza, you realise how nauseous the lie of Israel as a moral army is, how disgraceful that the US and UK reaction is just to drop aid but not force Israel to stop. Decent people, who see both Arabs and Jews as human, know how massive.
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Now we know who paid for Suella Braverman's April visit to Israel. Firstly it was for her and her husband. It cost a massive £27,801.27 for just 4 nights, of which the flights were about £1000. Quite the bill. But who paid? 1/
Yet to know who paid and organised Suella Braverman's visit to Israel. Was this declared in any correspondence to Ministers? @patrickwintour.
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But @RachelRileyRR did not apologise for the tweet. She claimed it was a misunderstanding. It was not. She attributed without evidence the hideous Sydney attack to an Islamist.
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Well done Spain. Aid to the most vulnerable.
Spain has sent another 10 million euros to UNRWA in Gaza today, and it has tripled its funding to Palestine in recent months to around 50 million euros.
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Disgraceful colonial mindset parroting zionist propaganda about making the desert bloom. Palestinians were making it bloom well before Israel existed & the Nabateans were doing it 1000s of years ago. To call Israel a vibrant democracy as it maintains a system of aparthied. .
Today we celebrate 75 years of Israel's independence and friendship with Europe. A special message from President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen:
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For over 3 months, we have heard international leaders including British call on Israel not to invade Rafah, that it would be unacceptable. Biden said it was a "red line" in March. Hamas accepted a deal - Netanyahu's response was to invade. 1/
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Chilling. An ambassador calls for the destruction of Gaza, but will she be kicked out? Making a genocidal call should be more than enough!.
Israeli ambassador to the UK Tzipi Hotovely says every school, mosque and second house is a target for Israel. Asked if that’s effectively a call for the destruction of all of Gaza, she asks “do you have another solution?” . A clear call for genocide.
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Fascinating that the Israeli air force thinks showing decimated urban rubble of entire neighbourhoods having been reduced to rubble is something to be proud of.
Dozens of fighter jets and helicopters attacked a series of terrorist targets of the Hamas terrorist organization throughout the Gaza Strip. So far, the IAF has dropped about 6,000 bombs against Hamas targets.
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For the record the US government did not need a court to make a determination of genocide.
BREAKING: The U.S. determines Sudan rebel force has committed genocide in the country's ongoing conflict and imposes sanctions on its leader.
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Will @David_Cameron be hauling the Israeli Ambassador into the Foreign Office for this?.
this is simply OUTRAGEOUS:. Reporter:."Should the Palestinians have a state of their own?". Israeli Ambassador: ."The answer is absolutely no". Just who on earth do these people think they are?
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Where should Palestinians in Gaza flee too? This is a sick joke. This is telling the prisoners to flee a locked prison because you will be bombing it.
BREAKING: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Palestinian civilians in Gaza to “leave now” because the Israeli military is going to “turn all Hamas hiding places into rubble”.
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The overwhelming evidence of what we are seeing in Gaza is that this is Israel committing genocide. The issue we have is gencocide enablers and genocide deniers.
“Nothing compared to this… the numbers of children who were severely injured.”. Irish trauma surgeon Dr Morgan McMonagle tells @vicderbyshire the number of casualties at Nasser Hospital were “by far the worst” in his medical career. #Newsnight
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Racist article that smears anyone who supports rights for Palestinians. It is not just Phillips who should be condemned but @JewishChron @JakeWSimons for publishing. Robbie Gibb, on the BBC board has major conflict of interest.
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Excellent journalism from @scribblercat Video has emerged of the moment a 16-year-old unarmed Palestinian boy was shot dead outside a hospital by a sniper during the #Jenin military operation exploding Israel’s claims that only combatants were killed.
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Fine but are you making the same point to Israel that just bombed a diplomatic premises, belonging to Iran?.
Today I made clear to Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian that Iran must not draw the Middle East into a wider conflict. I am deeply concerned about the potential for miscalculation leading to further violence. Iran should instead work to de-escalate and prevent further attacks.
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Wonder if any of the Gaza genocide apologists can explain in what universe this could be acceptable? Barbarism on steroids
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Statement from @SirAlanDuncan: "Although I have heard nothing myself I have been told by many in the media that the Conservative Party has issued a statement to say that I am to be investigated by them with a view to expulsion. They did not lay out any substantive grounds for.
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So not the state, Israel, that made 70% of the Palestinian population refugees, that has annexed East Jerusalem, that has occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip for 56 years, put Gaza under a 16 year blockade, taken their land and water, that is now carpet bombing Gaza.
Hamas is the greatest threat to the Palestinian people. They hide in hospitals and schools, using woman and children as human shields. The death of any civilian is a tragedy. Palestinian or Israeli - Hamas is the cause of this loss.
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Feeling of failure is total, failure to help the 2.3 million Palestinian civilians in Gaza, trying to find humanity amongst Britain's leaders, to locate an ounce of moral responsibility and leadership. Half of those in Gaza are children, many feted to die alone in the dark.
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Dear @Keir_Starmer Do you think it is in any acceptable for one of your candidates to support war crimes? Settlements in Occupied Territory are war crimes, a violation of the Rome Statute (incl West Bank & Golan, both of which are occupied territory)
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Netanyahu has arrived in London and will meet Rishi Sunak. Time for the UK gov to make clear Israel must end its war crimes, inc end of settlements, collective punishment, home demolitions. Sunak must also condemn the appalling anti-Arab racism of the Israeli coalition incl .
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Wonder how world would react if armed Dubai police forced these women to wear a burka and fined them? #BurkiniBan
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The anti-Palestinian racism is extraordinary. Only Jews have the right to settle in Palestine. This should never be published anywhere. Complete denial of Palestinian rights as a people. This is the language &ideology that is used to justify ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
"The world decided that the Jews alone had the right to resettle their land". Melanie Phillips discusses her view that Jews are the only "extant indigenous" group in Israel in this week's JC podcast.
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Israel still not vaccinating Palestinians. It has an absolute legal responsibility to do so as the occupying power. Saddening to see people fall for the lie that Olso Accords means Israel has divested itself of this responsibility. International law is crystal clear.
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Israel says it has struck over 22,000 targets in Gaza. The @IntlCrimCourt will look forward to a legal justification as to how Israel could identify 22,000 legitimate targets in Gaza. Let's have a list of these 22,000+ targets.
Since Hamas launched this war, the Israeli Air Force has struck 22,000+ targets in the Gaza Strip. Even based on Hamas numbers passing off terrorists as civilians, that's less than 0.8 civilian deaths per airstrike. That's what world-leading precision looks like.
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This atrocious from a man who is in the Lords, as with too many there, not based on merit. He incites violence. It is Islamophobic. He should be kicked out of the Lords for this. This sort of vile extremism should have no place in this country.
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Dear @BBCBreaking, the West Bank is under Israeli military occupation, yet this word does not appear in this article. Settlers are not legally present in the occupied West Bank as settlements are a violation of international law and the Rome Statute. Failure to state this.
Biden sanctions four Israeli settlers accused of attacking Palestinians in the West Bank, saying violence is at "intolerable levels"
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This should factored into the international response. This was no accident. 3 strikes on aid workers. Most states would face immediate sanctions.
It is misleading to describe the @WCKitchen killing as an airstrike (singular). In actual fact 3 vehicles were targeted, with the first & last being over 2.4km apart. The IDF decided to make 3 targeted strikes, not one. Geolocation from @m_osint and @ChrisOsieck #Gaza
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If Palestinian officials were to reject a two state solution, fury of UK Ministers. When Israeli PM and officials reject it, business as usual. The double standards are acute.
BREAKING: Israeli ambassador @TzipiHotovely rejects the idea of a two-state solution. "The answer is absolutely no", she says. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Denying rape and lying about it should see @realzoestrimpel fired from the Telegraph. Odious.
It's actually wild that @realzoestrimpel from the Telegraph denied on national TV that Israeli soldiers raped Palestinian prisoners. There was a whole protest in Isreal about it and it was debated in thier parliament. It's not "fake news."
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Israel makes allegations against UNRWA but provides zero evidence. What happens? UK supends funding pending investigation.Israel carries out three strikes against known aid worker vehicles. What happens? UK says - Israel please investigate yourself, and we'll still sell you arms
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If you want to see a people struggling for survival, check out 2.3 million Palestinians facing famine, destruction and eradication in Gaza. To argue that Israel is adhering to international law is an earth is flat argument that disgraces you and the office you hold.
It beggars belief that the British government, a close strategic ally of Israel, has announced a partial suspension of arms licences, at a time when Israel is fighting a war for its very survival on seven fronts forced upon it on the 7th October, and at the very moment when six.
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Israel is stealing more Palestinian land in occupied territory. It has just announced the theft of 8000 dunums of land in the Jordan Valley, in addition to the 2,640 dunums stolen in February. We are not even a quarter of the way through 2024 but this year has seen more land
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Just disgraceful. state policy.
This morning the IDF demolished a Palestinian school in the village of Al-Sfai, Masafer Yatta (Firing Zone 918). Look at the children retrieving their textbooks which were scattered on the ground. 1/4.THREAD
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The ruling of the ICJ today is far more serious than deeming settlements are illegal, which it had already done. It went way further including determining the occupation to be illegal, that Israel is conducting apartheid and must pay reparations.
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Completely false. Israel occupies & controls 5.5 million Palestinians. They cannot enter or exit occupied territory without Israel's permission. In the West Bank they cannot move from one city to another without Israeli permission. Israel determines how much water they get.
It's always easy to repeat talking points. In reality, Israel governs 600k of 4 million Palestinians. There are 3.4 million Palestinians governed by PA and Hamas. Chris is confusing absence of Palestinian sovereignty with human rights issues.
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What is happening now to Palestinians in Gaza is one of the greatest failures of the international community.
I cannot reach anyone in Gaza right now - nothing is getting going through, I understand network is out across the strip. Reports of very heavy bombardment particularly in the north. Comes amid continued talk of a possible ground incursion.
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Every day. appalling comments like this. Nothing ever happens to those that state them.
"Therefore, if the children of Gaza are forced to starve, to live in sewage pipes, and to eat moldy bread, I don't care, let this happen.". An Israeli journalist says it is okay for Israel to starve Gaza's children to death so long as there are Israeli prisoners in the enclave.
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This is utter nonsense. If you cannot distinguish between a military and a civilian target, then international law is clear you must not bomb. Israel uses huge numbers of drones, at much lower altitudes.
Sky News military analyst tells us that Israel killing several aid workers "looks like a dreadful mistake", before going on to explain how hard it would have been for the Israeli jet to identify the aid workers vehicles from 10,000 feet up.
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And if the US was under foreign military occupation, blockade, was having its land and water stolen, homes demolished and had 70% of its population forced into exile as refugees, what would US citizens be doing? Asking for 14 million friends.
Israel is defending itself the same way America would defend ourselves if someone was shooting missiles at us. We will always have the backs of our friends.🇺🇸🇮🇱.
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Whoever was in charge of running the Home Office Twitter account.
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Well done @Channel4News for having covered the issue of what has been happening in the West Bank. This must not be ignored.
The UN says as many as 120 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since Hamas' attack in Israel. @mattfrei speaks to Palestinian families choosing to ignore the threats and intimidation of Israeli settlers, and those being forced from their homes.
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Over 200 Palestinians were killed. Or do they not count.
It is a huge relief to see hostages returned after their unimaginable ordeal and heartwarming to see the pictures of them reunited with their families. We will continue to strive towards an end to the fighting as well as safety and security for all.
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Israel should leave all Syrian territory. That is the clear position in international law. That means leaving the Golan Heights.
Israel has just occupied a chunk of Syria. Am yet to hear our government speak out against this new invasion of sovereign territory. Israel takes more Syrian territory and hits chemical weapons sites - via @FT.
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Having already demonstrated his hatred of Muslims + Arabs today (again), the Editor of Jewish Chronicle dangerously and recklessly condemns pro-Palestinian demonstrators as a mob supporting Hamas. Reckless and irresponsible language has to be called out - no matter who.
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One of the most shameful decisions ever taken by donor states in a humanitarian crisis.
UNRWA lifesaving assistance is about to end following countries decisions to cut their funding to the Agency. Our humanitarian operation, on which 2 million people depend as a lifeline in Gaza, is collapsing. I am shocked such decisions are taken based on alleged behavior of a.
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An Israeli newspaper asks the question that most British politicians would never dare? What about the Palestinian HOSTAGES.
A man dies in prison, yet the Israel Prison Service doesn't think it should report the circumstances of his death to the public because he wasn't Israeli. Do the lives of those who aren't citizens have no value in Israeli prisons? / Gideon Levy.
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Back in October, I was mocked for stating that the mass expulsion of Palestinians in Gaza was a key war aim of Israel. It was as clear as it is brutal. It is an act of ethnic cleansing. It must not be permitted.
Israel is now asking Egypt to open the border to a mass expulsion from Rafah.
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BBC's woeful coverage of Palestine continues. This article on the ICC misses key features. Here there is no reference to the victims or details of the war crimes and crimes against humanity Netanyahu is accused of. What were these war crimes? 1/.
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So much respect for @GaryLineker for speaking out. He gives a very human honest reaction to the horrors in Gaza and the killings of children. It is those who stay silent who are an issue.
"It's not antisemitic to say what Israel is doing is wrong" - Gary Lineker to me.
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Reminder Israel systematically discriminates against non-Jews. These are Israeli ctiizens inside Israel, just they happen to be Arab so they have fewer rights. It is why the human rights community calls it apartheid.
Now in the unrecognized Bedouin of Wadi Halil in the Negev: large force of Israeli police arrived to demolish dozens of houses
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An extraordinary article again from the BBC about Gaza babies dying. Babies freeze to death and somehow the cause is just absent including how Israel restricts fuel and electricity.
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A Palestinian could make almost exactly the same speech as Zelensky is making right now at the Arab League summit in Jeddah - Instead of Russia, substitute Israel. Occupation. Illegal annexation. Bombs. Aggression. Prisons.
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Israeli leaders laughing . .
The United Nations will not tolerate attempts at illegal annexation. We will never recognize it. The United Nations will not tolerate seizing a neighbor's land by force. We will stand up to it. The United Nations will not tolerate attacks on the UN Charter. We will defend it.
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Amazing how this line gets repeated in so many conflicts. It is a genocidal threat. Another genocidal threat.
Israeli govt minister says its time to return Lebanon to the stone age.
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A grotesque lie. When interviewed on the Israeli decision to impose a siege cutting off water, food and power to Gaza, you endorsed the decision. To claim only now civilians lives must come first after relentless Israeli bombing of civilian targets for ten days is a disgrace 1/.
The destruction of Al Ahli hospital is a devastating loss of human life. The UK has been clear. The protection of civilian life must come first. The UK will work with our allies to find out what has happened and protect innocent civilians in Gaza.
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In interviewing @grantshapps today on @BBCr4today @MishalHusain became the first ever interviewer I have heard to confront a serving British Minister, Grant Shapps, about genocidal quotes from Israeli Ministers. "I had not heard those sort of comments from Ministers." Husain.
Cameron says Israel has not shown intent to commit genocide. False. Israeli leaders have made genocidal comments ever since 7 October. The UK has not called them out. They are terrifying, even more so given what Israel has and is doing to Palestinians in Gaza. A small selection.
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The issue is why does the BBC invite an extremist and merchant of hate on to its programme.
Predictably vile from Melanie Phillips who says there’s no evidence of children in Gaza dying of malnutrition. Palestinians aren’t seen as human, deserving of life or dignity by those who deny, diminish but also encourage such atrocities & genocide.
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Karim Khan is a British citizen. What has the UK government said in response to this appalling political interference in the workings of the International Criminal Court and intimidation of the prosecutor?.
Read the letter from 12 Republican senators threatening ICC chief prosecutor @KarimKhanQC with "severe" consequences for him, his family & staff if he goes ahead with an arrest warrant for Netanyahu. "You have been warned.". Oh and subscribe to Zeteo too:.
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Israel is invading Syria. It is committing the crime of aggression. Not one word from the UK government?.
Israel expands its illegal occupation of the Golan and carries out air strikes on #Syria. Where is the international condemnation? Israel continues to terrorise the peoples of the region and occupy their lands. It is an expansionist bully that is given free rein by the West.
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What an utter disgrace. Embarrassed to be British.
#BREAKING United States vetoes Security Council draft resolution that would have demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, and immediate and unconditional release of all hostages. VOTE.In Favour: 13.Against: 1 (US).Abstain: 1 (UK)
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The naked, brazen Islamophobia on display here is a direct result here of the country's leadership not to tackle this extremism. Having Ramadan lights is perfectly fine and yes Menorahs, have been lit up on our streets. Diwali celebrations too.
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