Airline becomes third to abandon the racist occupation – UK media ignore
Virgin Atlantic has permanently cancelled its flights to Israel’s Tel Aviv amid the risks associated with retaliation from Israel’s neighbours for the Zionist regime’s bombing attacks and its genocide in Gaza.
The airline had initially planned to resume flights to Tel Aviv in October this year but has now permanently ended operations to Israel, following the path taken by Turkish Airlines and Pegasus Airlines, which have also announced the end of their flights to Israel.
A statement from Virgin Atlantic reads:
After careful consideration, we have taken the difficult decision to cancel our services between London Heathrow and Tel Aviv.
The decision appears to have been entirely ignored by ‘mainstream’ UK news media.
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I’m sure it’s everything to do with ethics** and sod-all to do with the fact the houthis can reach ben gurion with it’s missiles.
**after 19 months of deliberation.
And who the hell wants to fly there anyway.
Labour Friends of Israel?
Off topic from Late Night with Seth Meyers. From c.2mins is Starmer’s creepy response to the so-called ‘Trade Deal’ (if you can stand the whiney voice):
New Pope Criticized JD Vance; Conclave Upstages Trump’s Underwhelming U.K. Trade Deal: A Closer Look
Virgin, Pegasus and Turkish Airlines, well done.
Meanwhile, here’s a partial* analysis of the state of the hypocrisy of the Western Establishment and Establishment Media (with a hat tip to their equally morally bankrupt fellow travellers – incapable and unwilling in equal measure as they are of joining the dots) who daily attempt to push a very obvious disingenuous propaganda narrative:
https://steelcityscribblings.uk/wp/2025/05/09/those-houthi-missiles-part-2/
– “Israel commits brazen genocide on a captive civilian population inhabiting what many sources, some of them Israeli, have called a giant concentration camp. Ignoring the clearest signals, from the outset and from the highest levels of Israel’s government and military, that the intent is ethnic cleansing and land grab, the “international community” depicted here …
… not only stands idly by but actively supports the genocide as a proportionate response to the Hamas breakout of October 7, 2023. Politicians from Britain’s Labour Party PM to Germany’s Green Party foreign minister speak in Orwellian terms of “Israel’s right to self defence”……
….Instead of applauding this principled and courageous stand against war crimes, Western media portray Ansar Allah, aka the Houthis, as the villains, while the states at the forefront unconditionally backing Israel, USA and UK, “go after” Yemen, having learned nothing from that country having fought – and after more than a decade seen off – Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, supplied by American, British and Israeli materiel, intelligence and logistics.”
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* Partial in the sense that what is described in reference to a Zionist Israel which is opposed by many from within the Jewish Community itself represents merely one example of that process. Particularly in regard to the media’s collective parroting of a single sided Political Narrative in line with the diktats of the six or so oligarchic corporate owners of that media and their bought and paid for politicians.
A process which demonises anyone and everyone as a New “Hitler” who does not cry uncle and toe the Oligarchy’s line.
Which smears lifelong anti-racists as guilty of a racism designated by that same oligarchy as the highest form of racism in an artificially manufactured hierarchy of racism.
Which, to paraphrase a former CIA Director of recent times, lies, cheats and steals to get its own way in a manner which would draw envy from Goebbels, by smearing anyone who questions The Officially Sanctioned and Sacred Narrative.
Whether it is…..
– presenting anyone who mentions Genocide by a fascist Zionist Israel as “Hamas Supporters” to be smeared, libelled, harassed, arrested, deported and worse;
– the infantile whataboutory (often based on fake news fed into that media by self-interested Western Governments with an agenda) – designed to smear and excuse at the same time – of any criticism of that oligarchies hired head choppers in Syria currently attempting to emulate their Zionist co-proxies by raping, torturing and slaughtering Christian, Alawite, Druze and other minorities with one hand whilst pocketing Western taxpayers money by the boat load with the other (courtesy of Western politicians);
– or caricaturing anyone as a “puppet” who attempts to apply the same generic principles which these charlatans and their cheerleaders claim to be a set of uniquely superior to the West values to the same complicit double standards in the name of the Collective West that we see operating in relation to Israel/Gaza and “Moderate Head Chopping Jihadist proxies/Syria, in other places, such as neo-Nazi dominated Western Ukraine/Slavic Eastern Ukraine (where those making the decisions in the West have essentially armed, trained and supported one side in a civil war with the intention to plunder resources for collateral to keep the Ponzi scheme running).
….the play book; the process; and the intended objectives are the same.
In terms of the oft trumpeted but seldom explicitly articulated generic values espoused as unique to the West by our self-appointed betters, it is not logically, rationally, or ethically consistent to apply those values in one example but not in another.
In that lies the deepest hole of Orwellian cognitive dissonance. A hypocrisy so pronounced as to be unreformable.