At least twenty murdered in airstrike overnight as refugees and children again targeted
Another night-time Israeli air strike on refugees sheltering in the UNRWA Ahmad bin Abdul Aziz School near Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, has murdered at least twenty civilians, mainly women and children, leaving some of the bodies charred in scenes chillingly reminiscent of the firestorm Israeli bombs created at the Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in October and at Al Mawasi in September. One man’s anguish, lit by flames, over the headless body of his father is likely to remain in the memory as strongly as the sight of nineteen year old Shaban al-Dalou in the Al Aqsa blaze.
Footage of the terrible aftermath of the strike was captured by local journalists and civilians:
As usual, neither UK PM Keir Starmer nor Foreign Secretary David Lammy have mentioned Israel yet again burning and killing civilians as they slept, let alone condemned it. How many times will Israel be allowed to burn civilians without the UK government speaking and acting?
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Just listened to the BBC World. Service at 13.00. Predictably no mention of Gaza, let alone this savage slaughter. Now if the Russians had done the same in Ukraine….
But the jews are afraid…
ALL those responsible are afraid. At least those capable of joining the dots:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/12/tom-neuburger-the-medias-bizarre-treatment-of-the-mangione-case.html
CEOs come and go and one just went
The ingredients you got bake the cake you get
—Jesse Welles
As one below the line commentator on this piece about the interesting public reaction of the Luigi Mangione case observes:
“Israeli snipers are shooting kids in the head from 500 meters away every day in Gaza and the Minnesota Star Tribune is pretending it’s invisible to us. I cancelled my 50-year subscription three months ago in protest and told them so. No response.
The carnage has extended to Lebanon and Syria; again no notice paid. I can barely process a hundred thousand civilians indiscriminately murdered. One criminal CEO? I welcome the onslaught of memes, the blacker the humor, the better.”
Whilst another grabs the bull not so much by the horns as by the balls…….
“I think this is why the thinking CEO’s are worried. The rule of law has been publicly abrogated in the Ukraine, in Gaza, in Romania and now in Syria. The assassination attempt on Trump was belittled, it wasn’t held up as a crime against America.
It is open season on the proles all around the year, all around the world. Well, that appears to have consequences. It is an irony that there are editorials bleating about how the public reaction to this shooting is the thin end of the wedge; they are holding the wrong end of the wedge! They undercut their own power structure when they abandoned the rule of law.
As ever, once more with feeling:
“William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!”
Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”
William Roper: “Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that!”
Sir Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man’s laws, not God’s! And if you cut them down, and you’re just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!””
No wonder the lower echelons of the Oligarch Class are removing board member details from the public record. The public reaction to the Brian Thompson murder suggests the potential of that event being a harbinger of chickens coming home to roost and worms turning.
As ye sow, so shall ye reap.
The Western Leaders don’t care as these Lightweight careerist politicians bow to capital & profits.
“The frontier has been a constant of capitalist world history from Siberia to the Amazon. It has always an ugly, bloody process of imperial conquest.” Nic Johnson, Interest’s Long Duree, New Left Review, Sept/Oct, 2023 p 132.
According to the FT the Occupation Force which calls itself Israel had a £40b hit to its economy by 2023 so perhaps £80b+ now?
BDS is working and for example some claim Starbucks alone in the Middle East has lost £12b of its profits.
The Occupation Force won’t release its losses and injuries which perhaps tells us a lot.
The USA, Israel & European leaders including the UK are now vilified around the world over Palestine and though they are in a bubble supported by capitalist apologists & a compliant media, they have LOST their moral & intellectual leadership of the world as we see daily how they dehumanise themselves.
Time for those who are truly human eg left wing democratic socialists & parties to step forward.
As former UK diplomat Alistair Crooke observes….
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/12/16/new-geo-political-map-unfolding-the-end-syria-and-palestine-for-now/
……”Well, western countries are deep in debt; their fiscal room for manoeuvre is shrinking fast, and bond-holders are beginning to mutiny. There is a race to find a new collateral for fiat currencies. It used to be gold; since the 1970s it was oil, but the petrodollar has faltered. The Anglo-Americans would love to have Iran’s oil again – as they did until the 1970s – to collateralise and build a new money system tied to the real value inherent in commodities.”
These vultures have been stealing Syrian oil for the best part of a decade or so. Even if they somehow manage to steal Iran’s oil the Ponzi scheme that is the Western Oligarchy’s “economic” system has more or less run out of road. Particularly given that the trillions of dollars in resources in Ukraine are more than likely already lost.
The only thing that would keep the shit show of an unworkable Western system – that even its prime economic and trade disciples admit is being outcompeted by the Chinese system, which puts people rather than bankers and the finance sector first – on the road for a bit longer is the strategic defeat of Russia and China to whip the rest of the planets States and peoples into line with the programme of corralling the worlds resources for the sole benefit of a bunch of sociopaths.
These people don’t give a flying fuck what anyone else thinks or how they are regarded. They think they are superior beings and cannot countenance that the majority of plebs and proles in either their own populations or anywhere else in the world would, could or should stand in the way of them getting unfettered access to , ownership, and control of the entire resources of the planet up to and including fresh air.
Events across the globe demonstrate clearly that both the Western Oligarchy and those they have bought and paid for with our money and resources have no problem slaughtering whole populations and destroying entire countries and societies in order to have their way.
If the only alternative to not having their own way in this regard is to destroy the entire planet – including themselves – their continuing actions suggest they have no problem with that should push come to shove.