Classy. Real classy, IDF. Not.

Interesting that those supporting violent St George’s Day March in London today appear to be many of the same people complaining about the Stop The War Marches.

I guess it’s just a total disregard for domestic and international law that they champion.

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Beit Lahiya, North Gaza.

You know the saddest thing about this war? It’s the futility, the utter pointlessness of it. Never more evident than the IDF fighting again and again over the same ground.

Because armed force alone won’t eliminate Hamas.

Sense prevails.

Heartening to see the Metropolitan Police Commissioner back up his officers, while also conceding where any mistakes may have occurred and apologising accordingly.

Met Police doing their best in extraordinarily difficult circumstances with these peace marches.

A guy did the London Marathon and had a different wine at each mile! That’s something I can get onboard with

Great reporting by Lindsey Hilsum. Objective, principled and dispassionate, but also morally courageous at a time when speaking out against the political state of Israel’s policies and strategy so often leads to personal attack. This is too important a story to dismiss.

Important, well informed post about UNRWA. Well worth a read. Cuts through all the vicious attacks made against it since 7 October, which have not to date been supported by evidence.

#GazaWashing

Given increasing probability that the intrepid, morally courageous and principled Sangita Myska has been taken off air by LBC to silence her robust questioning of Israel’s Gaza strategy, do please consider signing this petition 👇 to have her reinstated.

Multiple choice question. What are the chances of the IDF providing large scale international media access to Gaza to investigate and report on these alleged mass graves?

A. Nil?
B. None?
C. Why are you even asking?

Looking increasingly possible that the fearless Sangita Myska has been taken off air by LBC. More #GazaWashing I wonder? She’s been one of very few media presenters who has questioned critically the conduct of Israel’s campaign in Gaza. If correct, this is disgraceful.

When the US are reportedly on the brink of sanctioning an IDF unit for human rights violations in the West Bank, you know it’s got be bad.

I don’t remember them doing this even to some of the allegedly rogue militia units in Afghanistan. Am I wrong?

axios.com/2024/04/20/us-…

“From Gaza to Iran, the Netanyahu government Is endangering Israel's survival.” Yuval Noah Harari

Must read article - excoriating analysis of the Netanyahu government’s failings since 7 October. Every sentence, every paragraph depressingly true.

haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Meanwhile, over in the West Bank…

Arguably not our finest moment at UK at the UN 🇬🇧🇺🇳. We almost seem to have lost our ability to stand apart from the US on any Israel-Palestine policy issue, unless I’m mistaken.

Whatever your thoughts - personally I welcome the sight of Palestinians enjoying a relative lull in the fighting - what I deduce most from this video is that Hamas must surely still have near complete freedom of movement across much of Gaza. Dangerous.

haaretz.com/israel-news/ha…

I despair.

At what point will Israel realise that it can no more kill its way to peace in Gaza than the US led coalition could do so in Afghanistan?

Utter folly. Tragically so.