Grotesque hypocrisy as UK govt brings Syrian HTS-ISIS-al Qaeda head for a chat
The Starmer government has issued an invite to Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the leader of the terrorist coalition that ousted, with US, Israeli and UK assistance, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to visit the UK for talks.
Since he took power, UK establishment and media figures have claimed that Al-Jolani’s positions with terror groups ISIS and al-Qaeda are now ‘former’ roles and that he is a rehabilitated ex-terrorist. However, Jolani’s forces are largely current ISIS fighters who have been beheading and shooting large numbers of Syria’s Druze, Alawite and Christian minorities since al-Jolani took power, groups they consider ‘apostate’ – and recently issued a video warning that they were coming to drink the blood of Druze and Alawites. These atrocities have been whitewashed by UK ‘mainstream’ media.
Al-Jolani’s ‘HTS’ group remains, at the time of writing, on the UK government’s list of proscribed terror groups:
Starmer’s invite exposes the fundamental and cynical hypocrisy of his regime. He and his agents are engaged in a ‘lawfare’ war on journalists and others who expose and oppose Israel’s genocide in Gaza, misusing the Terrorism Act against them and prosecuting them – many of them Jewish – for supposedly supporting Hamas, which they claim is a crime because they are on the proscribed list.
Yet he is inviting and certainly granting immunity to the leader of a group that is torturing and beheading minority groups it doesn’t like, all while saying it wants relations with a genocidal Israeli regime that has bombed its facilities and troops and has invaded a large part of Syria – no doubt the reason that Starmer is interested in meeting and rehabilitating the al-Qaeda sub-group.
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If you’re expecting Starmer to be rational or competent, then you think of Starmer in a different way to what I do.
It’s far beyond being a matter of being irrational or incompetent though. It’s grotesque and appalling – quite honestly I don’t have strong enough words…. I thought I was beyond being any more disgusted with Starmer than I already was, and that was long before the GE, but he certainly still manages to surprise me with the depths he is prepared to sink to.
The only pertinent questions now are when and where this event is going to take place?
Grotesque Right Wing Labour is as Grotesque Right Wing Labour does.
You could weep for Labour’s half decent roots but some suggest the Left were always kept down as Lumpen Right Wing Labour then and more so now suppressed diverse working class militancy.
Heard Jeremy Corbyn speak today & he was excellent and talked to one of the excellent other Independent MPs.
He said forming a new party is difficult which is true but that was true too when Labour was set up in the 1900’s.
But the reality is we Must do this to offer the masses a desperately needed alternative Or Else we’ll have a Grotesque extreme Reform/Tory Govt in 2029.
We need strategic thinkers & diverse working class fighters, with a bottom up approach, taking up OUR IDEAS to then lead.
You only have one life, Time to to Make History!