I heard a woman from the Red Crescent the other day mentioning the Hamas offer to international delegations to visit hospitals to check there are no military bases.
It's not a simple question: it's a question that's based on fallacious reasoning and is commonly known as the complex question. It's also known as the "do you still beat your wife" question. In other words, it doesn't matter how the person being questioned responds; any answer that they give will be wrong in the eyes of the questioner. Morgan's 'questioning' is intended to make him and his monstrous ego the story rather than the Gazans who are dying in their thousands. He's not interested in answers or explanations. Morgan's underlying discourse is that anyone who advocates for justice for the Palestinian people is a 'terror sympathiser'.
More bullshit:
They can and they will hide.
Very well expressed!
theres not going to be any fig leaves left to cover their modesty
thats today....they are going to increasingly say out loud what it is already clear they are doing - mass ethnic cleansing... its about to become undeniable even to the willfully blinkered
If anything they're doubling down right now at the BBC. Again from World Service this morning, there was a piece about burying dead babies and doctors risking their lives to do so in range of Israeli snipers (this being part of the 'operation against Hamas'). This piece was immediately followed by something of roughly equal length about the 19-year-old Israeli hostage who was killed in one of the bombings. This is the pattern across the BBC. Israeli dead are people while Palestinian dead are numbers.
Smotrich, the self-described fascist homophobe. Top guy.
Voluntary emigration sounds eerily reminiscent of the Monday Club's policy of "voluntary repatriation".Not that I doubt ska invita at all but here's a link to a Reuters piece in which Smotrich is quoted:
Israeli minister calls for voluntary emigration of Gazans
A senior far-right member of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government said on Tuesday Gaza could not survive as an independent entity and it would be better for Palestinians there to leave for other countries.www.reuters.com
yes although there's nowhere to leave to either, other than a smaller area of the prison to go and die in
this doesnt make him exceptional
Hah yeah what happened to their Reality Check team?
Funnily enough BBC Four TV have just started re-showing this
www.bbc.co.uk
More likely there will be a long period of quibbling, that it was just one minister who said it and that its not government policy, etc etc.
Do you know when that will be? My mp is Bridget Phillipson. I know she's in Starmers gang but I'm sure she is or was quite vocal about Palestine rights in the past. I might not be remembering correctly but I'm sure I recall that being one of the few good things about her.
Afternoon I expect ?
I don't think it true to say that the PLO devastated Beirut.Funnily enough BBC Four TV have just started re-showing this
The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs
The inside story of the Arab-Israel conflict.
I suspect this is largely put together by PBS (WGBH) and was clearly an event to try to document "both sides" in 1998 - 50 years from the foundation of Israel as a state.
Interesting from episode 1 - General Marshal (of Marshal Plan fame) was totally opposed to declaring Israel as a separate state - but was bounced into accepting it by President Truman
other things I noted (as depicted) David Ben Gurion - founding Prime Minister was violently obsessive - and when he "retired" persistently undermined his successor as being too soft - eventually dispatching him and coming back out of retirement to run things because he didn't trust anyone else. Also Begin when he came to power was totally impossible to deal with.
It was stated that the six day war (1967) was the result of machinations by Soviet Prime Minister Kosygin trying to manipulate both Egypt and Syria into effective client states.
There was a lot of stuff about the Munich Olypics, Black September, and the PLO who seemed originally to have been much more violent than one remembers from Arafat's dotage.
The Palestinians tired a coup against King Hussein of Jordan, and when he chucked them out they completely devastated Beirut.
I've only seen the first 4 episodes - the only positive thing I saw was that nice President Carter, and his semi-hippy negotiating style in Camp David.
