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Steve Paxton

@Steve__Paxton

Author of 'How Capitalism Ends' (2022) & 'Unlearning Marx' (2020). Live music, LUFC, FCSP, motorbikes, cricket... Happy to block the tiresome & the inane.

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All these years, apparently, commentators across the Western world have thought the Geneva Convention unreasonably restrictive with its insistence that murdering innocent civilians is a war crime, and yet none had mentioned that until the last couple of weeks…

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Aren't the important details missing from all this that:

(1) it's almost certain that the hospital was bombed by Israel - the correction is that it's not certain, not that it wasn't Israel
(2) regardless of (1) Israel is still committing war crimes against a civilian population.

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All these years, apparently, commentators across the Western world have thought the Geneva Convention unreasonably restrictive with its insistence that murdering innocent civilians is a war crime, and yet none had mentioned that until the last couple of weeks…

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Is the implication here that Israel is justified in its current course of action, which is killing and maiming tens of thousands of people who were not responsible for these atrocities?
Is the Geneva Convention wrong to make the murderous punishment of non-combatants a war crime?

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Isn't the point that we should take from this that verification is important because propaganda can have terrible consequences?
Baddiel does though offer up a fictional conversation from one of his novels as some kind of supporting evidence, so there's that.

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MAKHACHEV.ETH(@abdussalaamMMA) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Well I’m a dentist and university lecturer
My brother is a surgeon and creates medical devices screening for bowel cancer
My other brother is a GP and is specialising in improving access to care for patients with disabilities…

…we’re all Muslims alhamdulilah and live in…

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Just as Hamas solved nothing with its atrocities against Israelis, the Israeli government solves nothing with its horrific mass punishment of Palestinians. There is never a justification for crimes against civilians.

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Sorry, this is not true.
Rachel Reeves has explicitly said that the Labour Party is not the party for people on benefits - the sick and disabled, the unemployed and pensioners are all specifically excluded from the set of people Labour intends to represent.

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If you're picking a side between Israel & Hamas, why not instead pick a side between warmongers and civilian populations?
A lesson that Starmer & his pals would have done well to learn before today...

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One of the few remaining joys of Twitter is reading all the Tweets slagging off Southgate's team selections, then watching the side he's picked win anyway.
England might not have the worst fans in the world, but I'm pretty sure they have the worst fans in the country...

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Starmer calls on all parties to abide by international law, and stands by Israel while they set fire to the Geneva Convention…
Weak, duplicitous, bought & paid for.

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Imagine having a grasp of history that equates Gaza's location in the geopolitical world with that of Nazi Germany in 1944, and still thinking you're the right person to be on TV discussing a tragic international crisis...

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Killed “after” Israeli strikes.
Why are the media unable to bring themselves to say people are being killed *by* Israeli strikes?

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Starmer calls on all parties to abide by international law, and stands by Israel while they set fire to the Geneva Convention…
Weak, duplicitous, bought & paid for.

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Evacuation orders by Israel to hospitals in northern Gaza are a death sentence for the sick and injured

As the United Nations's agency responsible for public health, the World Health Organization (WHO) strongly condemns Israel's repeated orders for the evacuation of 22 hospitals treating…

Evacuation orders by Israel to hospitals in northern Gaza are a death sentence for the sick and injured As the @UN's agency responsible for public health, the World Health Organization (WHO) strongly condemns Israel's repeated orders for the evacuation of 22 hospitals treating…
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If you want to try to justify Israel breaking the Geneva Convention, literally all you have is “they started it”, and you’re on *very* shaky ground if you think you can insist that the historical record started no sooner or later than last Saturday evening.

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