Released Israeli captive refuses to meet Israeli PM
Israel has been accused of attempting to kill US-born Israeli soldier Edan Alexander, who was captured on 7 October 2023, to prevent him being released as part of a potential US-brokered Gaza ceasefire. Alexander was released this week and promptly refused Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s request for a propaganda meeting.
Egyptian news site Al Manassa, reporting comments by Hamas sources, has claimed that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu tried to gather intelligence to ‘eliminate’ Alexander to kill the release deal made by the Trump administration without the Israeli regime’s involvement.
An official, who spoke to Al Manassa on condition of anonymity, said Israeli forces had attempted to find and kill Alexander to sabotage ceasefire talks involving Egypt, Qatar and the US. Mediators involved in the talks have said that Netanyahu furious about US envoy Steve Witkoff speaking directly to Hamas in Doha.
Last month saw an Israeli airstrike on a tunnel where Alexander was held, with officials suggesting the attack was deliberate. Alexander’s mother, Yael, told Ynet her son had experienced:
Deafening explosions, the whistling of missiles, and the sounds of collapse, destruction, and the ground shaking. Every moment could have been the last.
His account mirrors that of other released Israeli captives, who have said that by far the greatest danger they faced in captivity was from Israeli bombs and missiles.
Israel’s far-right government ministers now admit that the government intends to fully and permanently annex Gaza and either kill or drive out its Palestinian owners – and that rescuing Israeli captives is not a priority, which its actions during the genocide so far suggest it has never been.
This is in line with the fact that Israel killed an ‘immense’ number – the Israeli military’s word – of its own citizens on 7 October 2023 through the application of the ‘Hannibal directive’, which states that it is better to kill Israelis than allow them to be taken as captives to Gaza. Israeli tanks shelled kibbutz houses knowing it would kill Israeli citizens, while helicopter gunships used chain-guns and missiles on vehicles at the Nova music festival, incinerating hundreds of occupants. UK media and politicians continue to ignore this despite it being well known and freely discussed in Israel for more than a year.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza, which it used spurious claims of atrocities to justify, has slaughtered more than 200,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and maimed far more. The occupation is now starving the surviving population through a complete blockade of food and other essentials.
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Seen a YouTube video (jummy dore) about this yesterday evening.
Can’t find it now.
Also (off topic but just as interesting) there was this….
https://youtu.be/i99iKeS0KHQ?si=j5K-6FWmuwMzfK_o
Found the link for the video relevant to the OP.
https://youtu.be/5T5vt_Fb-dQ?si=N0Ddk27fzHqkRBbo
Just seen a snippet on the news re: keefs commons speech on the fires at his former addresses.
Apparently, they’re “an attack on all of us”
OR…
‘an attack on democracy’
No keef. It’s one of the many, many people who dislike YOU, intently.
Nowt to do with the rest of us.
This BBC report of 13th May……..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78798vnwxeo
……raises more questions than answers:
The fourth paragraph states that he “is understood to have lived in [the property] during the 1990s”. Implying the possibility of a coincidence?
Whilst two paragraphs further on we get:
“The prime minister is understood to still own the home in Kentish Town but lives in Downing Street. He lived there before the 2024 general election and it has been rented out since then.”
The first question from that quote is the use of the word “understood”. An alleged news outlet with the BBC’s resources should be able to do better than that. Either he still owns the property or he does not. If they are not sure, what is the purpose of speculating in this way?
The second question from that paragraph six quote is what exactly does “He lived there before the 2024 general election” mean?
Does it mean he lived there immediately before moving into Downing Street in July last year?
Or does it mean he lived there at some point in the dim and distent past? Which would be congruent with what was written in paragraph four.
Then there’s paragraph five:
“Police are also looking at a car fire which took place on Thursday on the same street as the Kentish Town property. It is understood that the car used to belong to Sir Keir.”
We are back to conjecture again with that word “understood”. Either the car used to belong to him or it did not. It should not be that hard for a well resourced alleged news outlet like the BBC to provide a definitive conclusion one way or the other, rather than hinting that he might have owned it and leaving people to fill in the blanks that they have been pointed to by themselves as a result of this shoddy piece of suggestive join the dots we have provided for you excuse for journalism.
Moving on to paragraph eight:
“”A key line of enquiry is whether the fires are linked due to the two premises and the vehicle all having previous links to the same high-profile public figure,” the head of the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command, Cdr Dominic Murphy, said.”
Which suggests that there could be other lines of enquiry being pursued. But we don’t know what those possible other lines of enquiry are or might be because in the rush to paint a specific picture and push a particular narrative about these incidents and what everyone should conclude from them (which may or may not be accurate), the BBC does not bother to even ask what they might be.
Never mind, deem to tell us.
Then we come to this guff at the end in a quote from the Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch
“”It’s an attack on our democracy and must never be tolerated.”
A definitive public conclusion coming so early in the process of police enquiries into these three incidents that one can only conclude that the leader of the present Loyal Opposition is trying to save public money by doing the police’s job for them.
Forget due process. Forget evidence based enquiry. Forget the scientific method. Let’s just cut out the middle man and go straight from hypothesis to conclusion based on assuming what we want to deduce. Let’s jettison centuries of tried and tested methodology, let’s forget about gathering and testing evidence, and go with how our gut is feeling at any particular time or to suit a politically driven narrative.
What’s worse is that it is not as though this piece represents an outlier. You could pick at random any of dozens or more of articles produced daily across the Western media and find the same questionable shoddiness being spoon-fed and amplified to the populace, who mostly don’t have the time to see how we are being manipulated into thinking what we are expected to think.
Spot on. Our policing involves a police car coming into the village about once a week, turning round and going back. We saw one go into the village today, and counted the seconds before it returned … 60 seconds! This is what passes for policing in many areas these days. When walking the dog, I was stopped by a police car. “Where is **** Lane?” “You’re parked in it mate!” What hope is there, when with all the tech stuff police cars are fitted with a pair of local coppers get lost in their own area?
Keef was living in kentish town when he was dpp (did you know he was dpp, once? That’s when he used to prosecute terrorists, y’know?).
Whether he was living there immediately prior to moving into #10 I’m not sure, but from memory it doesn’t look like the street where he was living as mp for Holborn & St Pancras.
That road had a slight curve to it, the kentish town road looks dead straight from what I’ve seen on news reports.
Also, if I’m not mistaken, wasn’t there another mp (toerag I think, mightve been javid) lived a few doors down from keef in that (curved) street? Sure I seen or read that, somewhere. If its not or wasnt keef, then it’s deffo a prominent smarmerite
As for the old bill getting lost…the vast majority of them couldn’t find their own arses with both hands and a map…They certainly know the way to the local takeaway outlet, though.
Twas ever thus. 😕
Having just remembered the public anger over keef’s lad and the penthouse suite (or whatever it was – another freebie, anyway) I decided to do an interweb search…
It appears keef WAS living in kentish town house prior to moving into #10.
Although when he was living there as dpp there was no need for keef to own a car, seeing as he charged the taxpayer around £200k for a chauffeured vehicle and other travel expenses.
https://www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-keir-starmer-billed-taxpayer-nearly-250000-for-travel-expenses-at-cps/
Hes always been a parasite…
One fire was directed at his own house that he has let to someone else. Not nice but Starmer and his family were not attacked. They were safely under the care of the Met in Downing Street. The other fire was at apartments where the Starmers are landlords. Well, that’s news to us … he is a landlord for at least SOME apartments. Not nice but this kind of thing is not exactly unusual in Starmer’s Britain. It happened to some friends of ours. Another case of “Oh how dreadful, we’re being treated like other folk!”
Some further information now tricking out on this curious incident:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdedkr9439wo
“The BBC understands the property is rented to the prime minister’s sister-in-law.”
And clarifying its previous confusing article by giving us the dates of when the present temporary occupant of 10 Downing Street lived in each property.
“In the early hours of Monday 12 May, emergency services responded to a fire at the Kentish Town home where Sir Keir Starmer lived before becoming prime minister and moving into 10 Downing Street.”
“Just after 03:00 on Sunday 11 May, firefighters dealt with a small fire at the front door of a house converted into flats in nearby Islington……
……It is understood that the prime minister lived there in the 1990s.”
We further learn that :
“A car that Sir Keir had sold to a neighbour last year was set alight four days earlier on 8 May, on the same street.”
Oh! Nearly forgot.
“A 21-year-old man has been charged after fires at two properties and a car linked to Sir Keir Starmer, the Metropolitan Police has said.
Roman Lavrynovych, a Ukrainian national, was charged with three counts of arson with intent to endanger life on Thursday.”
However, at this stage of the investigation, there is no specific information provided about whether this individual was a recent guest to our shores or just happens to be a second third or fourth generation Ukrainian from an ex-pat family?
Nor, whether, like Hashem Abedi and his brother (2017 Manchester bombing), this individual was already known to counter-terrorist police?
“Last month saw an Israeli airstrike on a tunnel where Alexander was held”
First question: Were these airstrikes close to the location of this prisoner simply coincidence, or is there evidence that the Israeli military knew his approximate location?
Second question: If evidence exists that the latter was the case, how and from what sources did the Israeli military obtain all the necessary information to enable the alleged attempt to be made?
Third question: Was any of that data, in whole or in part, supplied by a third party State – USA, UK, EU?
Fourth question: If a third party State was involved in providing any data, was consideration given to the possibility that the said data would be used to eliminate one or more of the prisoners?
– Supplemental: Did anyone in such a decision-making chain care?
We’re told that OUR RAF has been spying for Israel specifically looking for those Israelis detained in Oct 2023. Perhaps they actually achieved what Starmer agreed to their use to achieve, and the Israelis promptly bomb the place.
The RAF would be better employed trying to spot all the soon-to-be ex-pat Azov/Right Sektor neo-Nazi Banderite knuckle draggers and their Western counterparts who thought they were going on safari who will be re-locating and seeking sanctuary for their war crimes in the countries of their financial sponsors in the not too distent future.
It might prevent, at the very least, possible future arson attacks? Perhaps they could find useful employment as a Pretorian Guard for CoL stooges like Nigel?
A short while ago, I wrote to my MP to ask why there had been no Parliamentary discussion/vote on our bombing of Houthis. We had had that discussion about bombing in Syria where Hilary Benn was the “hero” of the hour for his speech which was designed to embarrass Corbyn (so great as far as UK media was concerned) and indeed I was under the impression that should the UK go to war again, then a debate would be held in Parliament.
I suppose any answer (not yet received) from my MP has been superseded by Trump deciding that the Houthis were now NOT to be bombed. So Starmer once again having the rug pulled from under him. If one bloke could make a wrong decision time after time, it’s him.
If one bloke could make a wrong decision time after time, it’s him
Yep. He’s a jonah, alright.
On another note, I’m just watching this speech from keef about a ‘strategic partnership/ joint of intent/defence deal’ deal with Albania over migration.
Keef and the Albanian premiere are stood at their podia….Either keef’s tiny, or the Albanian’s a giant!!!
Keef’s tiny – in every respect.