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I am Israel

Posted in around the UK, Historical, news from around the world, tagged #dictators #trump, #freepalestinefromzionistoccupation #FreePalestineFromTheRiverToTheSea, #Israel #genocide #ethniccleansing #waronGaza, #Palestine #genocide #poems #savethechildren #protestgenocide on October 16, 2025| Leave a Comment »

I am Israel. I never miss a chance to claim victimhood while inflicting violence.

In 1947, the United Nations handed me more than half of someone else’s land. A gift I didn’t earn, from colonial powers who didn’t own it. I accepted. My neighbors objected. I called it war —and in the chaos, I began my cleansing. Over 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes—some fled, yes—but many were forced out at gunpoint, their villages razed, their names erased.

Then I planted pine trees over the ruins—to hide the memory. Forests where homes once stood. Parks over cemeteries. I made it green so the world wouldn’t see the black underneath. I called it “reforestation.” They called it erasure.

I am Israel. I have never chosen peace—only dominance.

In 1967, I launched a pre-emptive war and seized Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, and Sinai. I claimed it was for security. I held onto it for power. I built settlements, one by one, choking Palestinian towns. International law said it was illegal. I ignored it. My map grew. Their freedom shrank.

I am Israel. I could have ended the occupation. Many times. But I always said no.

In 2000, at Camp David, I offered a patchwork of disconnected enclaves surrounded by walls, checkpoints, and soldiers. I called it peace. Palestinians walked away. I called them extremists. Then I built a wall, not on my border—but deep in theirs. I called it security. They called it theft.

I am Israel. I glorify militarism. I raise children to believe they are chosen.

My textbooks erase Palestine. My soldiers patrol streets with rifles pointed at teenagers. My media justifies bombings. My politicians joke about flattening Gaza. I send airstrikes to refugee camps, schools, and hospitals. Then I say they were human shields.

I am Israel. I elected Netanyahu. Again and again.

Not once, by mistake. But knowingly. I voted for leaders who vowed to crush the Palestinians, to expand settlements, to never allow a Palestinian state. My ministers speak of “the Arabs” as a demographic threat. My settlers burn olive trees. My mobs chant “Death to Arabs.” I call it patriotism.

I am Israel. I speak of democracy—but deny it to millions under my control.

I rule over millions who cannot vote in the country that controls their lives. I build roads they cannot drive on. I issue permits for them to breathe, to move, to live. I bomb Gaza, then seal it off and say it’s their fault. I say I left Gaza— but I control its air, sea, and borders. I say they are free — then I starve them.

I am Israel. I demand recognition — but give none in return.

I demand that Palestinians accept me as a Jewish state — while refusing to even say the word “Nakba.” I ignore the homes, lands, and history of those I displaced. I hold their keys in museums, not their hands. I deny the refugees their right to return. I make laws that call them “absentees,” even when they’re just over the hill.

I am Israel. I cry antisemitism — when what I fear is accountability.

I call any critic a hater. I blur the line between Judaism and Zionism, using one to shield the crimes of the other. I weaponize history to excuse apartheid. I manipulate trauma to justify conquest. I say “Never again” — but let it happen to others, by my own hand.

I am Israel. I will never stop killing and bombing and stealing land…you are next!

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Civilised we are not

Posted in around the UK, Historical, news from around the world, tagged #racist #bigots #genocide #Palestine on October 15, 2025| Leave a Comment »

I know we’re not meant to refer to the FACT that the Israelis are Jews, because it might hurt their feelings, but that is the reality…the Zionist Israeli Jews are… Jews. Apparently it’s also antisemitic!? Except that the Palestinians are Semetic, their history is Semetic, their DNA is Semetic. Whereas the majority of Jews in occupied Palestine are not, at all. It’s not in their DNA, it’s not in their history. Yes there are Jews living in Occupied Palestine who have a history there; Semetic Jews, like the Semetic Christians, the Semetic atheists, the Semetic Muslims, all with hundreds of years of history in Palestine.
Yes there are many Jews living in Israel; Occupied Palestine, who abhor what their government is committing in Gaza, but realistically they are still Zionists, (they support the state of Israel)…they have lived there quite comfortably for X number of years while just a few miles away, a whole population has been kept virtually prisoner in a tiny strip of land, that has been repeatedly targeted, abused, killed, deprived of human rights, by the Israeli jews and occasionally the IGF has ‘mown the lawn ‘. It’s abhorrent. And much as I appreciate them speaking out now against the genocide, why have they been so silent for the previous X number of years? Living in luxury, free medical aid, plentiful food, freedom of return if they go away for a while. Palestinians don’t have that luxury. As for the Jews of the US, and the UK and Europe and wherever else they have settled, what gives you the right to say the land is yours? It’s not. But that’s what Europeans have been doing for centuries; invading, occupying, subjugating, enslaving, killing, and even genociding millions of people in other lands. Hitler wasn’t the first…although he at least restrained his depraved ideology to Europe and Russia, and it’s apparent he’s not the last. The Israeli, Zionist Jews are upping the ante. Hitler exterminated babies to grandparents regardless of age, and Netanyahu is doing exactly the same. It’s abhorrent. You’d think that history would have taught us something. Civilised we are not. It’s clear that there are millions of people in the world who are more than comfortable with the genocide of other humans…Even in the so-called civilised world. Because of course we can’t possibly consider the Africans to be civilised, so Congo, Sudan, Darfur – all uncivilised countries, ergo it’s ok for them to commit genocide and ethnic cleansing, it’s what Europeans in their white supremacist arrogance expect. Civilised we are not. Racists? Definitely.

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Kidnap in international waters

Posted in around the UK, Historical, news from around the world, tagged ##globalsumudflotilla, #FreePalestine #SaveGaza, #freepalestinefromzionistoccupation #FreePalestineFromTheRiverToTheSea, #gazagenocide #standupandbecounted #protest #genocide on October 4, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Somebody fixed the incorrectly worded BBC headline to reflect the truth.

Israeli pirates illegally board Gaza flotilla and kidnap activists including Greta Thunberg – far more accurate than “Israel intercepts Gaza flotilla and detains activists including Greta Thunberg”.

But I guess the BBC News wouldn’t let a little breaking of international law and piracy get in the way. They’re not here to present the truth, the reality of Netanyahu’s war crimes. Their journalists, editors et al are paid to suppress the truth, twist the reality to suit the Zionist Israeli terrorist agenda, and to ably assist with the #genocide of the Palestinians, and now the abuse of #globalsumudflotilla activists and volunteers trying to #BreakTheSiege and deliver #humanitarianaid to the people of #Gaza who are currently, deliberately, being starved by the #IGF and the devil’s spawn Netanyahu…another war crime, but they won’t let that get in the way of their hasbara. (Hasbara, a Hebrew word for “explanation” or “public diplomacy,” is a strategic communicative effort by the Israeli state and its supporters to explain and justify its actions and narratives to an international audience. While intended to provide information and a specific perspective, critics often describe it as a form of propaganda used to shape public opinion, promote a positive image of Israel, and counter negative narratives about its policies and the conflict with Palestinians.)
We simply can’t have the truth being reported…that would not fit the agenda of Keir Starmer or David Lammy and the rest of the government’s narratives. No. No. No. Can’t have that. 726 days of lies, untruths and dishonesty, plus 75 years of occupation. The British Broadcasting Corporation needs to keep up the pretence.

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The denial

Posted in around the UK, Historical, news from around the world, tagged #freepalestinefromzionistoccupation #FreePalestineFromTheRiverToTheSea, #gazagenocide #standupandbecounted #protestZionism #stopthegenocideingaza on October 4, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Unfortunately the UK government The Labour Party and Keir Starmer and David Lammy are also complicit in the crimes being committed by Israel; now and for the past two years.
Israel has broken so many international laws and committed so many war crimes its difficult to keep up..the latest being piracy and abduction of humanitarian aid activists.
The government’s consistent denial of genocide muddies the water and deceives the electorate, especially those too uneducated or lazy to investigate for themselves.
We have to wonder why exactly, when it’s painfully, and horrendously clear that Israel is committing genocide, its been confirmed by various bodies of experts, our politicians continue to deny the reality, deny international law, ignore breaches of international law, ignore war crimes, ignore the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of human beings; Palestinians – babies, children, teenagers, pregnant mothers, fathers, grandparents and whole families!! Bombs (2,000lb US bombs on tents), snipers, drones, innumerable weapons of war aka killing machines, starvation, denial of basic medical equipment, denial of basic human rights (remember that Keir), and the basic tenets of human decency, all denied. Why?? What does Netanyahu have on you all? Because there is definitely something very dark and nefarious about this denial.
As normal citizens of the UK we are being harassed, arrested and incarcerated for lawful protest and free speech – against tenets of democracy. Even the International Criminal Court – ICC is dragging its heels. It’s gone beyond any reasonable conclusions, beyond any reasonable doubt. The evidence of a whole state gone rogue isn’t just mounting up, it’s already conclusive, undeniably conclusive; Israel is committing genocide and ethnic cleansing. Why are the majority of the world’s ‘leaders’ denying this? What exactly does Israel have on these individuals.

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The slaughter of babies

Posted in around the UK, Historical, news from around the world, tagged ##globalsumudflotilla, #FreePalestine #SaveGaza, #Palestine #genocide #poems #savethechildren, #recognisePalestine, #stopthegenocide on September 25, 2025| Leave a Comment »

While our attention is focus on the #globalsumudflotilla the terrorist state of Israel is intensifying the slaughter of the Palestinians!!!! How are we not stopping this Keir Starmer David Lammy Yvette Cooper You’ve apparently recognised Palestine, mealy mouthed words, but what do you actually mean by this recognition. Because you’ve done absolutely nothing to stop the genocidal maniacs of Israel’s #IGF Is that vile monster Netanyahu keeping you on a short leash? Are you compromised? Are you actually working for the Zionist entity? We know you get paid by the LFoI, that’s already clear, but gas the illegal state of Israel upped the ante? Do you get paid extra per child beheaded or shredded? Do they give you a bonus for limbs ripped off? For the elderly obliterated? How do they keep count when so many people are buried under the rubble? When so many Palestinians are eviscerated and the pieces of body parts need to be collected by survivors and packed into plastic bags! How does it work then? A 💰 per bag of flesh, or is it weighed for payment per kg? How are the Israelis keeping you from being human and halting these atrocities? SANCTION. BOYCOTT. DIVEST. stop providing parts from your pot Starmer!!! Stop providing the RAF intel from those hired planes out of Akrotiri!!! There are independent journalists who ARE doing their jobs! They DO uncover your complicity !! Unlike the saps at BBC and ITV and Channel 5 and The Guardian The Telegraph CNN and so many others.
When are The Labour Party MPs going to dig their morals out the sewer and clean off the stench of Israeli money. But you know retirement…lush islands, swimming pools, fancy homes, free flights, good food, young girls…I guess that’s all way more attractive than stopping a genocide.

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Leading the charge for a genocide

Posted in around the UK, news from around the world, tagged #FreePalestine #SaveGaza, #gazagenocide #standupandbecounted #protestZionism #stopthegenocideingaza, #Palestine #genocide #savethechildren on September 10, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Starmer is a self declared Zionist. He’s said it out loud. Occasionally he blathers in the House he shames with his presence and drips poisoned lies from his mouth. He is fully supportive of the genocide of the Palestinian people. He supplies weapons and RAF intel. He gets paid by Labour Friends of Israel. He has no morals. He has blood on his hands and the deaths of 19,000++++ slaughtered babies and children on his hands. 🩸🤲🏻🩸🤲🏻🩸🤲🏻🩸🤲🏻
The UK government has no backbone and are complicit in genocide.
The Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR UK) said today that the British government’s reception of the President of the State of Israel, Isaac Herzog, reflects the blatant political hypocrisy of the Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government. “Starmer has been vocally calling for an end to the war in Gaza, while at the same time his government continues to export weapons to Israel and cooperate with it on all levels. Today he welcomes the president of a state whose government is overseeing the crime of genocide against the Palestinian people.”

In a press statement issued today, the AOHR UK stressed that Herzog, despite his “ceremonial” position, is one of the pillars of the fascist regime that engineered the genocide and continues to implement it in full view of the world. The organization noted on 12 October 2023, Herzog declared: “All Palestinians in Gaza are responsible, and there are no innocents.”

This statement, widely reported in Hebrew and Western media, was deemed a direct authorisation for the targeting of civilians and a clear endorsement of genocide.

The AOHR UK added that receiving Herzog in London can only be read as a green light for the Israeli government to continue its war of extermination. The message Starmer is sending to Israel is clear: “Continue the killing, destruction, and starvation. Keep demolishing residential towers in Gaza. Do not worry about condemnatory statements; they are merely public relations exercises to contain growing popular pressure in Britain.”

The AOHR UK pointed out that this visit comes as part of Herzog’s and his government’s efforts to break their growing international isolation, especially after European countries such as Spain, Norway, and Belgium took steps towards recognising the State of Palestine or imposing restrictions on cooperation with Israel. Meanwhile, the Israeli Prime Minister can no longer visit most European countries due to the arrest warrants issued against him by the International Criminal Court.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250909-rights-group-herzogs-reception-in-britain-a-green-light-for-the-genocide/

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Why have you remained on the side of evil

Posted in around the UK, news from around the world, tagged #dictators #trump, #gazagenocide #standupandbecounted #protest #genocide, #Palestine #genocide #poems #savethechildren, #Palestine #genocide #poems #savethechildren #protestgenocide on August 28, 2025| 2 Comments »

Why when Russia invaded Ukraine and Ukraine fought back did (most) people support them.
But when the Palestinians fought back against the occupying state of Israel on October 7th did (most) people support Israel.
For what is now 77 years the Zionist entity that is Israel has displaced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians; from 1948 with the displacement and killing of 750,000 Palestinians and dozens of times since then with more and more Palestinians being forced from their homes with many killed, till now with the genocide being perpetuated, it’s astounding that there are still so many people that support what Israel is doing.
We can all read. We can all Google the history. We can all watch the hundreds of videos of footage from historians, Rabbis, genocide survivors and journalists – even ex Ambassadors who all speak out AGAINST atrocities committed by the IDF killers…there’s even footage of interviews with the original army personnel who brag about the number of people they killed and laugh while relating their ‘exploits’. No remorse, just coldblooded celebration of their ‘kills’. All of that information is there, and yet they still say “but October 7th ” as if that was the beginning. And still support the genocidal maniacs. Wtf is the matter with these people. There is no excuse.
I know that the fuckheads in government are paid by Israel to support their heinous crimes, and may they face justice in The Hague in the near future…but what about the people who are not paid by Israel? Do you not care? Do you not realise how this affects us/you? How have you remained unmoved?

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Stop killing insects

Posted in around the UK, gratitude, Health, lifestyle, other peoples blog, tagged buttercups, chemicals to kill insects, chemicals to kill weeds, clover, dandelions, destruction of natural world, destruction of nature, in the garden, insecticide, insects, pristine lawns, save our bees, save our birds, wildlife on July 24, 2024| 1 Comment »

Copied and pasted from a wildlife expert on another page.

Hello everyone, I was on a zoom with a local wildlife expert yesterday and found what she said so alarming that I asked her to put some words together so I could post them. Here they are, please share widely;
‘The thing that’s happening this year is unlike other years. Everything is in deep trouble. The cold wet, April, May and dry but cold June has meant that birds that would normally be done with both and first and second broods have had to start all over again as their babies in some cases starved as insects didn’t hatch or caterpillars (vital food for most baby birds) got washed off the vegetation.
Normally it is okay to cut hedges in mid/late July and to cut meadows in higher level stewardship agreements at a similar time.
Last week I watched a spotted flycatcher feeding new fledged babies. Today I saw a yellowhammer that was clearly feeding nestlings. I keep seeing many species of birds defending nests and carrying food for young (some fledged, some not). As for bats, everyone I speak to who is aware of bats is not seeing them. It is a catastrophe. Insect numbers have fallen off a cliff this year. We need to respond by protecting as much cover and quiet space as possible. All birds need to sit quiet and have plenty of cover through August when they are moulting – which is why this is the silent month. They need as little disturbance as possible’.

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The corruption of the West

Posted in around the UK, news from around the world, other peoples blog, tagged ethnic cleansing, free Palestine, genocide, Hannibal Directive, Israeli bulldozers, the war on Gaza, Zionists on July 10, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Talk of humanitarianism was there to obscure a deeper, more savage truth: might still makes right. And no one is stronger than the US and those it favours.

Via @Jonathan_K_Cook on X

Sir Keir Starmer’s own political trajectory suggests an uncomfortable truth about international power politics. The closer western leaders move to power, the more pressure they feel to do Washington’s bidding – and that invariably means casting aside principle.

Devotion to Israel – and a willingness to abandon the Palestinians to the death camp Gaza has become – has been one of the major conditions of entry into the West’s power club.

During the election campaign, Starmer passed that test with flying colours. Which is why he – unlike his predecessor – received an easy ride from the British establishment, including its public relations arm, the corporate media.

Ultra-rich donors, including those with close ties to Israel, have been lining up to throw money at Starmer’s Labour party, at the same time as membership numbers have plummeted.

The reality is that we live in a world where the powerful pay lip service to human rights and international law, a world where they profess to aid the weak even as they assist in their slaughter.

Oppression flourishes, obscured by their empty promises and endless dithering.

For three decades, the West has advertised its benevolence and humanitarianism. It has launched invasions and waged wars supposedly to protect the weak and vulnerable – from Kosovo to Ukraine, from Afghanistan and Iraq to Libya. Democracy and women’s rights have supposedly been the West’s watchwords.

But in truth, as Gaza demonstrates only too clearly, those claims were a tissue of lies. It was always about treating the world as a giant chessboard, and one where Washington’s right to achieve “full-spectrum dominance” was the driving principle, not protection of the weak.

Talk of humanitarianism was there to obscure a deeper, more savage truth: might still makes right. And no one is stronger than the US and those it favours.

The Palestinians, unlike Israel, have no weight in the international system. They are denied an army, and have no warplanes. They are denied control over their borders and their airspace. They have no real economy or currency – they are entirely reliant on the goodwill of Israeli financial institutions. They have no freedom to move from their slivers of territory, their ghettoes, unless Israel first agrees.

They cannot even stop Israel from bulldozing their homes, or arresting their children in the middle of the night.

No one on the international stage, least of all governments in Washington and London, really needs to take account of Palestinian interests.

Abusing Palestinians comes at minimal political cost. Protecting them would offer few tangible political gains. Which is precisely why their abuse continues day after day, month after month, year after year, decade after decade.

We live in a world of deceit, hypocrisy and bad faith. Britain’s new prime minister has shown he is already an arch-exponent of those dark political arts. Listen not to what he says, but watch closely what he actually does.

More from my latest article Starmer learnt the price of power was support for genocide here: middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-ele…

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Never trust a Tory government

Posted in around the UK, Historical, idiot category, tagged boris johnson, criminal behaviour, general election United Kingdom 2024, lettuce, michael gove, PPE, rishi sunak, UK general election, UK tory government on June 4, 2024| Leave a Comment »

14 years and what do we have to show for it? Another year older and deeper in debt.
A wealthier ex-Chancellor. An ex-PM that covered the walls of Number 10 in ‘gold’ wallpaper. A crop of tory pals who dished out millions to their pals for faulty or nonexistent #PPE A lettuce and Chancellor who trashed the economy in 40days.
Meanwhile there are 4.3million children living in poverty and 1.2million pensioners living in poverty. Schools are crumbling. Roads are reminiscent of a 3rd world country, Councils are either bankrupt or perilously close to. And then there’s Gove; millions given to a shipping company that didn’t exist, and the ubiquitous Freeports sold for £1. And #lestweforget HS2 – wholesale destruction of ancient forests, villages laid waste and suicide of people who lost everything, only for the project to be trashed short of completion. AND WHO BOUGHT THE LAND?? And THEN of course 💩 in our streams, rivers and seas. 14 years of tory criminality. #NeverTrustATory