When it was Qatar 2022 BBC, Sky News and ITV News were doing segments for 40 days and 40 nights about human rights abuse and campaigning for alcohol to be allowed during the World Cup. But USA is refusing to allow a referee and Iran’s team in and they’ve gone quiet. Cowards
Qatar said it doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from, you can come to the World Cup, just don’t drink alcohol at the stadium.
USA said you can’t come. Who you are or where you come from matters. We’ll decide who can and can’t participate. This isn’t a sport for everyone.
Zack Polanski, "What's your view on Gaza?"
Gary Lineker, "We've got a ceasefire but it's not a ceasefire, they're just carrying on with people being killed every day. And not just in Gaza but in the West Bank as well"
"I look at my phone every day and I cry most days when I see innocent kids being killed by snipers and bombs"
"It's just immeasurably wrong"
Zack Polanski, "The response you gave seems totally obvious. It seems ridiculous that we have have to say children dying, or anyone dying is totally wrong"
"Yet we do have politicians who seem to be turning away from it"
Gary Lineker, "I find it extraordinary really. Most of the world sees it for what it is"
"It's so difficult to understand how this is happening and how we're letting it be allowed to happen"
"Obviously Oct 7th is horrendous, we all know that"
"But we also know that it didn't start on Oct 7th. It started a long long time ago"
"And these poor people have been basically been living in an outdoor prison in Gaza"
"They can't go in, can't go out, water is controlled, electricity is controlled, life is very difficult"
"Of course Israel has the right to defend itself, but why doesn't Palestine have the right?"
"If you genuinely think this is all fabricated, let journalists in"
Breaking News: Israeli military officials say they have no proof Hamas routinely steals UN aid, undercutting a claim Israel has used to limit food for Gaza. https://t.co/5ujWZYvfBD
Hamas want a permanent ceasefire, to be able to transition to new Gaza leadership on their own terms. Israel want to be able to go back to destroying Hamas after getting the hostages back. The same impasse as ever, so the killing and starvation goes on because the Americans refuse to force Israel to stop. The threat of other ways to get hostages back will alarm some hostage families who believe military rescues can raise the risk to their lives. Stabilisation of Gaza could mean prelude to Trump’s plan - and why Palestinians are being forced into ever smaller zones of Gaza.
The real divide isn’t between people who support Israel and people who support Iran or the Palestinians. The real divide is between those who casually encourage violence, and those who seek to prevent it — between warmongers and peacemakers. Who are the warmongers? They would include anyone who’s calling Donald Trump today to demand air strikes and other direct US military involvement in a war with Iran. On that list: Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Rupert Murdoch, Ike Perlmutter and Miriam Adelson. At some point they will all have to answer for this, but you should know their names now.
Pep Guardiola is an absolute legend 👏👏
He had the courage to speak out against a genocide while others stayed silent, lacking the backbone to say anything.
And spare me the lectures on human rights every country has skeletons in the closet. At least Guardiola used his platform to speak up while a humanitarian catastrophe was unfolding right in front of us.
The final moments of this clip are extraordinary. What humanity and courage. "You don't ask the perpetrator of genocide their opinion on whether they are committing a genocide".
This is the most excoriating sentence in a blistering column ‘We would not be here if western reporters and Joe Biden hadn’t manufactured consent for the genocide by repeating the incendiary lie that Hamas had beheaded babies’ https://t.co/jjXFlhZxob
What the world said ‘wasn’t happening, couldn’t happen’ is happening.
Israeli Minister Smotrich: "The population will reach south of the Strip & from there, with God's help, move to 3rd countries under President Trump's plan. This is a change in course of history. Nothing less."
At least 250 people have been killed in the past 36 hours say Gaza health officials. UNICEF sd at least 45 children are believed killed over the past two days : ‘yet another devastating reminder that children in Gaza are suffering first and foremost’
Powerful article based on interviews with a string of renowned genocide scientists who all conclude, Israel is committing genocide in Gaza - NRC https://t.co/JN1df4GiA1