This is H×mas elite forces commander Ahmad Wadya. On October 7 he was filmed as he killed an Israeli father in front of his two little children, and then opened their fridge and calmy drank coke in front of the children.
Today he was eliminated 🎯
Just back from @IainDale’s All Talk at the Edinburgh Fringe and a brilliant session with @KemiBadenoch.
Huge crowds packed into the massive conference centre (upgraded to the big Pentland Theatre because it was the top-selling show of the run). She was excellent: eloquent, candid and on top form throughout.
Kemi spoke sense as usual on the economy, the environment, what it means to be British, why an alliance with Reform simply won’t work and her approach to taking on the awkward Starmer at PMQs. Her clear, direct answers cut through the noise and the audience responded with lots of strong applause.
Refreshing to hear a politician who actually talks straight and refuses to compromise on principles.
Well done Kemi and thanks to Iain Dale for another engaging interview.
While our Prime Minister was making videos about which pork scratchings he likes best, Sir Jim Ratcliffe was rescuing Runcorn from the effects of the government’s own energy policy.
This plant helps keep our drinking water safe and supplies the chemicals used in medicines, power cables, pipes and homes.
Lose that capacity and Britain becomes dependent on foreign suppliers for the essentials of our daily lives.
Britain cannot make everything. But no serious country allows energy costs and carbon taxes to destroy its last domestic source of critical materials.
Labour are not serious…but we are. Watch @clairecoutinho tell you more about how Conservatives will get cheaper cleaner energy in the thread below 👇
We need to wake up to the movement behind this: who it serves.
The British military depends far more on Israeli arms than vice-versa.
The only way Britain can totally end sales to Israel is to withdraw from the F-35 fighter jet programme.
Again, that will stymie our capability, not Israel’s.
Just as the ‘Palestine Action’ terror group started to attack British arms, this is about a movement which is trying to attack the U.K. from within.
The amazing @lalshareef explains how Israel removed Jews from Gaza in 2005 to get peace, leaving behind greenhouses worth millions of dollars.
The Palestinians looted the greenhouses, and Gaza was turned into a terror fortress.
This must go viral.
First, @amnesty attacked rape crisis centers and women's rights groups that refused to embrace the patriarchal nonsense that the class of women includes males. Now, they promote media censorship. Amnesty is an embarrassment to what it once was. #DefundAmesty
About 40,000 people die of sepsis in Britain.
Palantir's tech cut sepsis deaths by 70% in one Florida hospital.
Andy Burnham is being urged to join the new wave of anti-tech populism. It would be the biggest mistake of his premiership.
My Times column: https://t.co/XLG1d52Zjx
Amnesty International has truly lost the plot. It is promoting a so-called “Arday's law” which would to impose state-mandated limits on press coverage of one person. No doubt thru an Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth.’ Truly totalitarian.
Defund @AmnestyUK.
Marcia Langton, a prominent scholar and advocate for Indigenous Australians, testified at the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion on the abuse she has faced for defending Australian Jews.
Langton is Aboriginal Australian, a descendant of the Yiman and Bidjara Aboriginal groups. She’s been an activist all her life.
"Labelling me as a zio … I'm therefore made voiceless in the debate," said Langton. "The foul treatment of Jewish Australians cannot be justified by saying that Israel is doing this in Gaza."
Not only has she been subjected to verbal abuse, but the windows in her car were broken.
All for saying Australian Jews don't deserve abuse.
Free Palestine says it cares about indigenous rights. So why are they attacking an indigenous activist for her views?
Never ask someone if they "accept Israel’s right to exist.”
Ask them if they "accept Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people."
The first question is easily dodged by ideologues:
a) "No country has a right to exist," or;
b) "Yes, as a democratic country that doesn't show a preference for any one people or religion."
The second question gets to the heart of the dispute.
For Western anti-Zionists and communists, the objection is to the Jews as a people entitled to self-determination. And the idea of a Jewish State that favors Jews.
So when they say they object to any "ethno-state," ask them whether they similarly reject countries constituted as the national homes of particular peoples, such as Croatia, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Greece, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania & Albania.
And when they say they object to any country that shows a "preference for a religion," ask whether they object to the more than 80 countries that either have an official religion or give preferential treatment to one, including the UK, Denmark, Greece, Spain and Argentina. Or the 27 countries that have Islam as their official religion.
When they backtrack a little and say they object to Israel privileging Jewish immigration ask them whether they similarly object to Germany privileging ethnic German immigration, Armenia privileging ethnic Armenian immigration, or Greece privileging ethnic Greek immigration?
When they narrow it down further to objecting to not allowing the descendants of Palestinian refugees to immigrate, ask them whether a similar hereditary right should be granted to the descendants of war refugees from all 20th century wars?
When they change course and say “Israel is an apartheid state,” ask them what rights are denied to Israel’s 2m Arab citizens, who are prominent in medicine, academia, sport and business?
When they shift focus to the West Bank and say Israel shouldn’t rule over West Bank Palestinians without making them citizens, ask them when was the last time Palestinians demanded Israeli citizenship?
Ask them whether they know that more than half of the West Bank Palestinians (1.5 million) live under the non-democratic Palestinian Authority.
Ask them whether they know another 400k Palestinian residents live in East Jerusalem, where they are entitled to Israeli health insurance, National Insurance benefits, education, employment rights, access to Israeli courts, freedom of movement within Israel, and to vote and run in municipal elections.
Yes, Israel and the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) present complicated historical, legal and security questions.
One can criticize and oppose government policies without opposing Jewish self-determination, which since 1948 has been realized in the State of Israel.
Most likely the person you are speaking to really doesn’t like the idea of a Jewish State, but hasn’t yet settled on the reason. When the objection comes first, the rationale is flexible.
It’s just hit me - nothing in this leaflet says rape or paedophilia are wrong. Unacceptable. Never to be tolerated. Just that UK laws mean a migrant COULD face a prison sentence. Basically, the most horrendous acts are treated as mere cultural divergences. Truly, truly vile.
Foreign policy should be based on facts, law and the national interest: not slogans.
Relentlessly condemning Israel while saying too little about Hamas distorts the legal and factual picture, achieves nothing, and increasingly looks designed for domestic political consumption rather than any serious foreign policy objective.
@pritipatel is right to call it out. ⬇️
I am both British and Israeli.
I love both Britain and Israel with a passion.
And that's why it drives me bananas to see Labour pick a pointless fight with Israel, using a housing project on the outskirts of Jerusalem as the prelude for a diplomatic war to placate its woke/Islamist base.
Open a map, Ed. E1 is a tiny sliver of land connecting Jerusalem - Israel's capital city, which we are not going to divide - from Ma'ale Adumim, a town of 40,000 people. In no universe is that bridge ever becoming part of a Palestinian state, and in any case, it obviously does not bisect the West Bank (if you insist on using the colonial name for the territory).
And read the room. The October 7 taught Israelis it would be suicidal to create a Palestinian state in the mountains surrounding Jerusalem and overlooking Tel Aviv. 20 years of Hamas rocket fire from Gaza killed the two-state delusion. The massacre buried it. You can't just pretend that never happened, as if Israel wasn't invaded by a barbarian army from territory it gave the Palestinians in the hope of peace.
Britain stood back and watched the destruction of the two-state delusion when Hamas fired rockets at Israel for nearly twenty years from the Gaza Strip, and it failed to give Israelis a single good reason why that wouldn't happen from Judea and Samaria too. It stood back and watched when it pressured Israel to leave Hamas standing, teaching Israelis that if they ever came under fire from Judea and Samaria too, the international community would not stand by its right to self-defence. It would continue to sanctimoniously lecture us as we fight for our lives, alone.
You want a global influence? Help us end the Palestinians' century-long war against any Jewish state. Stop your terror financing for UNRWA, which took part in the October 7 Massacre. Because steps like this only encourage and embolden the extremists.
But it's clear the die is cast. After recognizing a non-existent Palestinian state in response to the October 7 Massacre, a step Hamas praised as a "fruit" of the massacre, Labour has decided to take an axe to relations with its second-biggest defence supplier.
Why would you jeopardize that?
Ah yes, the mobs on your street baying, "From the River to the Sea!" Grow a spine and stand up to them.