This is deeply distressing. Cemetery was immaculately kept by the Palestinian Jaradah family for decades, & I visited to pay my respects on each occasion I was in Gaza. It would be good to know what if due care was taken in the destruction, & where the disturbed remains now lie.
No umbrella needed for these April showers ☄️
Take in the sights from passing planets, the Lyrid meteor shower, and a vast collection of stars called a globular cluster. Find out when to look up in April: https://t.co/8YAHscvflO
The Met has stepped up work to prevent and tackle mobile phone theft, backed by funding from City Hall.
The new operation led to over 1000 phones being recovered in the space of one week, and 230 criminals arrested.
https://t.co/PjI7Rr7vwW
Silence is complicity.
One day your children or your grandchildren may well ask what you did to try to stop this. Will you be able to look them in the eye, or will you mutter ashamedly that old lie, I didn’t know?
I told a hearing at the U.K. Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Select Committee that Britain can’t be half committed to international law. An arms embargo means a full embargo. Sanctions on certain settlers can’t be selective but must be levelled on the entire colonial settlement project and the government/state that sponsors it. Link to the full hearing session https://t.co/ebLsHNIdb0
Funny how Israel spent years attacking Arafat for saying one thing in English and another in Arabic and yet Netanyahui has perfected the art of doing exactly that, in terms of his English statements versus his Hewbrew ones.
This guy is technically wanted by the US and has a bounty on his head (see below) but we all know that doesn’t count anymore. Such is the ‘great game’ of politics/geopolitics in the Middle East. 🤷🏽♂️ Let’s hope the Syrian people don’t suffer under him, as they suffered under Assad.
We disagreed about many things, but there is no doubt that Alex Salmond was a giant of Scottish and British politics. Hugely passionate about the causes he championed, he was one of those rare politicians with both enormous charisma and genuine conviction, who always held the room. No matter your own point of view, you couldn’t help but stop and listen to his every word. He might have had his faults, but he was as sharp as a button with a strategic mind - I once said you had to count your fingers on the way out of a meeting with Alex! He has been taken far too young; my thoughts and prayers are with Alex’s family.
‘They had to respond, surely?’
‘I don’t think anything that you just said is true…’
@rachshabi and @IainDale disagree over whether Israel’s motivations ‘justify the epic loss of life’ across the Middle East.
'The Israel so many of us have admired for so long is being pounded into smoke and gunfire...'
'Israel has killed so many people in Gaza, and now in Lebanon, that it has created a circle of hatred around itself', says @AndrewMarr9, as the IDF prepares for war in Lebanon.
"We stand with Israel, and recognise her right to self defence in the face of this aggression."
UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is addressing the British public after Iran launched missiles towards Israel.
https://t.co/dbbaci2jmM
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