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Israel’s illegal control over the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza has for decades prevented the Palestinian people from exercising their right of self-determination and full and effective self-governance. UN Resolution 3246 calls for all States to recognise that that right applies to all peoples subjected to colonial and foreign domination, including the Palestinians. The warning signs of genocide in Gaza had been there for all to see. But the lack of will on the part of UN members to implement 3246 not only let it happen but then failed to stop it even when its ferocity passed all […] #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/06/the-shameful-journey-from-prelude-to-genocide-to-slow-motion-genocide-to-rampant-genocide/?feed_id=12231

Nobody seems to challenge Israel and its Western allies on their determination to hunt down and wipe out Hamas. That’s Israel’s stated objective and reason for the genocide it has been committing relentlessly for nearly 8 months while the US, UK and most of the EU provide a chorus of approval not to mention the weaponry to do it. But is eliminating Hamas permissible in international law? Indeed, is imposing coercive regime-change lawful when the party forcing the change is itself a terror regime with a long history of war crimes and crimes against humanity inflicted on its victim? Hamas […] #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/05/is-it-lawful-to-target-hamas-for-extermination/?feed_id=12163

UK foreign secretery Lord David Cameron has told peers: “I don’t believe for one moment that seeking these warrants is going to help get the hostages out, it’s not going to help get aid in and it’s not going to help deliver a sustainable ceasefire. To draw moral equivalence between the Hamas leadership and the democratically-elected leader of Israel I think is just plain wrong.” He misses the point as usual. The warrants have nothing to do with that. They are about bringing those wanted for the most grievous war crimes to justice. Prime minister Rishi Sunak then said that […] #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/05/could-these-arrest-warrants-signal-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-the-axis-of-evil/?feed_id=11579

Lord Cameron, UK Foreign Secretary, wrote an article in the Sunday Times on April 7 to mark what he called “another grim milestone: 6 months since the brutal attacks by Hamas on October 7. We must not forget how this conflict started – with the Jewish people suffering the worst and most murderous pogrom since the Holocaust”. Cameron says that, alongside US and other allies, “we are clear that unless you deal with the cause of the conflict – the rule of Hamas over Gaza and the presence of those responsible for October 7 – no ceasefire would last. Israel […] #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/04/cameron-hopelessly-confused-over-the-cause-of-the-conflict-in-gaza/?feed_id=11043

You’d think Western leaders dealing with foreign affairs would make sure they had a working knowledge of international law and respect its importance. It’s based on common sense and is easy enough for politicians of average intelligence to understand. But they don’t seem to. So it was refreshing to hear Vasily Nebenzya, Russia’s representative at the United Nations, ticking off the US and Israel for trying to duck their legal responsibilities after the Security Council adopted Resolution 2728. This deals with Israel’s attempt to destroy Gaza and its people and “demands an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan respected […] #Featured #Government #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/04/are-our-political-leaders-really-so-ignorant-about-international-law/?feed_id=10759

Are we seeing, at last, the beginnings of a revolution in the Anglican Church against its leaders’ cowardice over Israel’s genocide of Muslims and Christians in the Holy Land? On 31 October the Church of England House of Bishops issued a statement on Israel’s genocide against Palestinians which two clergymen in Cambridge found “profoundly inadequate as a response to the indiscriminate devastation already being inflicted upon the defenceless civilian population of Gaza”. On 13 December and again on 13 February the bishops had delivered stronger statements, but “these still fall far short of what is needed. Four months on from […] #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/03/bishops-rapped-over-feeble-response-to-holy-land-genocide/?feed_id=10415

Michael Gove is the UK’s Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, and he’s been tinkering with the meaning of ‘extremism’ to see if he can squeeze political advantage out of it for his doomed party and his own misguided ideology. He saw an opportunity in all the noisy pushing and shoving between Muslims and Jews as a result of the human misery and despair generated by Israel’s insane genocide in Gaza. Gove has just introduced a New Extremism Definition to Parliament. His ministerial statement mentions the “October 7 terror attacks in Israel” 3 times in as many […] #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/03/israels-desperate-fan-club-attempt-to-redefine-extremism/?feed_id=10019

Mass marches, chanting and banner waving are essential to the campaign to save Palestine but it’s also important to challenge UK Government policy and actions through all channels, democratic and non-democratic, especially now that Lord Walney, the Government’s independent adviser on political violence and disruption, recommends that political leaders ban their MPs from engaging with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) and other solidarity groups. Milord Walney, aka John Zak Woodcock, is a former chairman of Labour Friends of Israel, so not independent after all. Knowing Israel’s overriding, stop-at-nothing ambition to control all of Palestine “from the river to the sea” […] #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/03/questions-for-the-palestine-solidarity-campaign-and-its-partner-groups/?feed_id=9815

The Royals are not supposed to air their political opinions and seldom do. But a YouGov poll finds that a majority of adults (47%) think it was right for Prince William to comment on the situation in Gaza, 24% didn’t. I wonder if it would have made any difference if they’d been told that the Prince asked a certain Sir Ephraim Mirvis for guidance before making his statement. This gentleman happens to be the Chief Rabbi. And such a person is hardly expected to be non-partisan. In fact, writing in the Sunday Telegraph only last month, Mirvis denied that Israel […] #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/02/is-this-politically-motivated-rabbi-a-suitable-advisor-to-our-crown-prince/?feed_id=9407

Spreading propaganda through government ministers and MPs to claim that Israel has superior rights to the Palestinians’ and is therefore entitled to more advantageous treatment is tantamount to misleading Parliament and the public, and is a serious offence.     Andrew Mitchell, UK Minister of State for Development and Africa, issued a statement yesterday on Israel/Gaza which shouldn’t be allowed to escape criticism. Here are extracts.   “The Government supports Israel’s right to self-defence, in compliance with International Humanitarian Law, against the horrific terror attacks perpetrated by Hamas on 7 October 2023.”     The suggestion that Israel is “in […] #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/02/uk-government-is-still-lying-to-protect-israels-genocidal-maniacs/?feed_id=9355

Israel’s horrendous genocide continues unabated while our new foreign secretary Lord Cameron, brought back from the dead as it were (he’s no longer an elected Member of Parliament) and hurriedly created a peer of the realm to give some semblance of legitimacy, struts the international stage and criss-crosses the world’s trouble-spots. So I thought I’d offer a reminder that this guy has form. And I mean bad form. Back in December 2012 I wrote a piece titled Why they call him ‘Agent’ Cameron. It went like this. In a speech to Conservative Friends of Israel at a recent lunch [in […] #Europe #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/02/all-aboard-for-israel-apartheid-and-genocide/?feed_id=8915

100 Years of Balfour Declaration and Continuing Zahir Ebrahim Summary The focus on the ongoing genocide in Gaza by the indomitable power of Zionistan (see http://tinyurl.com/Secret-of-Israeli-Barbarianism ) is missing the real prime-movers of this genocide of Palestinians. Of course the Western World that obligatorily moans the Jews’ Shoah TM in World War II has not just turned a blind eye to the Jewish Shoah visited upon the Palestinians, but is openly aiding and abetting it, squelching even the verbal opposition to Israel’s premeditated Barbarianism in its mainstream presses and officially sanctioned narratives. Full text of The Balfour Declaration: November 2nd, […] #Featured #History #Investigations #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/01/100-years-of-balfour-declaration-and-continuing/?feed_id=8551

On 24 January Parliament produced a rare treat where an MP held a Government minister to account over support for Israel’s appalling behaviour in Gaza and the Government’s attempts to cover up their own collusion. David Rutley MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) was being quizzed by Zarah Sultana (Coventry South) (Lab). The verbatim report in Hansard speaks for itself so I’ll simply let it run. Zarah Sultana: I would like to talk about the Government’s response to Israel’s violations of international law in Gaza and about revelations that I believe should be a major news story…. They […] #Featured #History #Investigations #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/01/does-any-sane-person-believe-israel-complies-with-international-law/?feed_id=8503

By Dr. Elias Akleh The psychological concept of “projection” indicates the process when a person attributes (projects) one of his own personal psychotic characteristics onto another person or onto a group of people in order to justify his own psychotic behaviors towards others. For example, a sadistic person would project his sadistic characteristics onto others in order to justify his own aggression against others. Or he would project his own inferiority complex onto others in order to promote his own self-aggrandizement. This “projection” is a very prominent Israeli characteristic exhibited dominantly by all Israeli officials in their statements and behaviors. […] #Featured #Investigations #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/01/the-ugly-bestiality-of-israel/?feed_id=8487

Let’s straighten out some of the nonsense that’s spread by Israel’s network of stooges to make the apartheid regime’s crimes against humanity seem justified. Chief amongst them is the insistence that Israel has a right of self-defence against Hamas in Gaza. This is designed to bolster the Israeli narrative and give the regime diplomatic ‘cover’ to commit any crime it wishes in Gaza. But UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese warns that “Israel cannot claim self-defence against a threat that emanates from the territory it occupies”. Common sense should tell us that, nevertheless the lie is repeated ad nauseam by Israel’s […] #Featured #Government #History #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/01/propaganda-lies-that-protect-israels-genocidal-maniacs/?feed_id=8427

Let’s straighten out some of the nonsense that’s spread by Israel’s network of stooges to make the apartheid regime’s crimes against humanity seem justified. Chief amongst them is the insistence that Israel has a right of self-defence against Hamas in Gaza. This is designed to bolster the Israeli narrative and give the regime diplomatic ‘cover’ to commit any crime it wishes in Gaza. But UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese warns that “Israel cannot claim self-defence against a threat that emanates from the territory it occupies”. Common sense should tell us that, nevertheless the lie is repeated ad nauseam by Israel’s […] #Featured #Government #History #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/01/propaganda-lies-that-protect-israels-genocidal-maniacs/?feed_id=8424

  By Dr. Elias Akleh   President Biden keeps repeating throughout his long political career his famous mantra “Israel is the best investment we ever made … Were there not an Israel, the USA would have to invent an Israel to protect her interest in the region.” He stressed to a gathering of Zionist Jewish leaders in 2013 in Washington, DC. “The truth is that Jewish heritage, Jewish culture, Jewish values are such an essential part of who we are, that it’s fair to say that Jewish heritage is American heritage.” He also keeps regurgitating that “you don’t have to […] #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/01/is-israel-really-the-best-american-investment/?feed_id=8228

  By Dr. Elias Akleh   In violation of Article 1 of the American constitution, which vests Congress approval powers for making war, the War Powers Act, passed by Congress in November 1973, President Joe Biden started a war against Yemen by ordering 73 military strikes against Yemeni capital and other targets during Friday dawn hours Yemeni local time. It is noticed that at least one of the explosions was produced by a mini-nuke exhibiting similar effects to that of the 2015 Saudi/Israeli nuclear attack on Yemen.   President Biden announced that an American British joint force had successfully bombed […] #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/01/american-presidents-warmongers-for-israels-sake/?feed_id=8220

Happy New Year everyone! I think it will be a happy year, except for Hamas of course. I’m predicting victory for the Israelis and a score draw in the Russo-Ukrainian War. I don’t think that Volodymyr Zalensky will still be president of the Ukraine at the end of the year. The British general election is likely to come in the fall, possibly on November 14th. The outcome is difficult to predict, given the uncertainty over whether or not Nigel Farage, fresh from his triumph in the Queensland jungle, returns to the fray. The US general election on November 5th is […] #CounterPoint #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/01/happy-new-year/?feed_id=8232

I recently watched the Netflix presentation of The Red Sea Diving Resort, or Operation Brothers. The movie tells the story of Israeli Mossad agents, rescuing Sudanese Jews against a backdrop of Sudanese government crackdown on such rescues. The action is intense and exciting. But I am anti-Semitic myself, virulently so. How could I possibly enjoy this movie of Israel, once again, flouting national policy of a foreign country and carrying out their own designs? Easy. The other side of the divide are my own people, the Goyim, the cattle, and boy are they cattle! I say “they,” because I am […] #Featured #History #Investigations #IsraelWaronPalestine #Life #WarZone #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/01/my-love-hate-relationship-with-the-jews/?feed_id=8224