Fake aid described as ‘mousetraps’ to draw out civilians for murder
Israeli occupation forces have delivered bags of ‘food’ into Gaza that in fact contain nothing more than sand. The ruse has been likened to ‘mouse traps’ designed to draw desperate Palestinian civilians out into the open where they can be targeted by drones and bombs:
University professor Omar Suleiman, who published the video on his social media, said of the scenes:
Everyday, the depravity of Israel’s war crimes somehow gets worse. Labeling sand bags as bags of sugar is a microcosm of the evil of the Israeli occupation. It’s more than dehumanization, it’s animalization. The sand bags are mouse traps.
Israel is currently engaged in the starvation of at least 400,000 Palestinian civilians in blockaded northern Gaza and has killed around 200,000 so far while maiming many others and preventing, with the help of Israeli-funded armed gangs, anything more than a fraction of the needed food and medicines into the rest of Gaza. The vast majority of the victims are women and children. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is the subject of an International Criminal Court warrant for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Despite Netanyahu’s war crimes, UK PM Keir Starmer, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and Foreign Secretary David Lammy continue to refuse to say explicitly that Netanyahu would be arrested and extradited to the ICC if he entered UK jurisdiction, instead hinting that legal loopholes would be sought to find a way to help him escape international law.
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Off topic:
Government Petition
End the Badger cull and adopt other approaches to bovine TB control
The Government’s TB Eradication Strategy allows the continued killing of badgers, a protected species, until the end of this Parliament, despite the Labour manifesto calling the cull “ineffective.”
We believe the badger cull is unjustified and must end.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700317?mc_cid=24d6e07918&mc_eid=5f03924117
Well well…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxy1kp73y9o
Louise Haigh has resigned as transport secretary after pleading guilty to a criminal offence related to incorrectly telling police that a work mobile phone was stolen in 2013.
Nah. That ain’t the reason. That shower’s laden with criminals – guilty of far more serious offences than haigh.
I reckon it’s cos she put it as it is over P&O.
Note the BBC makes it seem like it is a current thing “pleading guilty” instead of “to which she pleaded guilty in 2013”. I think you are probably spot on, as the conviction is spent and I understand Starmer knew about it a long time ago…
As for israel sending sand labelled as sugar.
Scum of the earth.
Either we should sack MI6, or our governments – probably both.
In respect of those monstrous entities that humuliate, murder and torture as well as openly act out their depravety, including those condoning it and defending the perpetrators, it is my view that they are all beyond redemption.
We need to start thinking about relocating the UN to, say, Geneva, cos, as Jeffrey Sachs says in this excellent discussion, it ain’t going to keep any kind of credibility while it’s located in hostile territory in New York.
https://youtu.be/97aaGmVNoE8?si=gBPKPaxsyNhGn_kL
I hope they realise that too and move. And I also hope that they abolish the US right to veto, ie sabotage everything that they do not like.
Agreed, Tim. I’ve thought that for many a year.
Relocated to a country that’s signed up to everything. Or an historically neutral country i.e. Switzerland Sweden, RoI etc.
Off topic from Richard J Murphy:
The Single Transferable Party is trying to retain power in Ireland, whatever its people want
As the Guardian notes this morning, there is a general election in Ireland today.
As it also notes, Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin are all on about 20% in opinion polls after a short, sharp campaign.
There is a claim in that Guardian article that almost nothing separates the parties, none of whom could form a government with that level of support without a coalition being required. But that is not true. There is a massive gulf between them.
The gulf is that the two parties of the Irish establishment – Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil – who have been in coalition with each other for the sole reason of keeping Sinn Fein out of power – have said they will do all that they can again to ensure Sinn Fein is blocked again this time.
In other words, the Single Transferable Party of the Irish Political and Management Caste (PMC) is, once more, trying to undermine any democratic choice that the people of Ireland might make.
Are there reservations to be had about what Sinn Fien plans? Of course, there are. No party has a solution to all ills. It will also require a potentially quite unstable colation for Sinn Feing to secure power, but what is most noticeable is the willingness of the Irish elite – which is very powerful – to seek to undermine democratic freedom.
The idea that democracy is now only being tolerated if it delivers what the PMC (hat tip for that term to Aurelian) wants is becoming very obvious, and nowhere more so than in Ireland.
There is a class war going on in Western democracies right now, and it is one between the PMC and their Single Transferable Party against the rest of us.
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/11/29/the-single-transferable-party-is-trying-to-retain-power-in-ireland-whatever-its-people-want/
On the ADB
Religious fanatics who euphemistically believe in the sanctity of life have no say in this debate
You believe its God’s will that you are suffering a horrific death
REALLY