Cat

[Arsenal Women @ArsenalWFC]

Onwards to the final – together 👊

[Amanda @Pandamoanimum]

#GeneralElection2024

[Arsenal Women @ArsenalWFC]

North London is RED ❤️

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Protesting against the mass slaughter of civilians is not a threat to democracy.

The real threat to democracy is a government that crushes our rights and silences our solidarity.

Our movement is made up of all faiths and backgrounds, united by a belief in a more peaceful world.

[nazir afzal @nazirafzal]

We have a cost of living crisis, NHS crisis, Mental Health crisis, homelessness crisis, education crisis, impoverished communities, climate change and international conflicts AND this lot are just acting out a soap opera

The worst of times

We need that #GeneralElectionNow

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Appointing reckless #Brexit referendum instigator Cameron as Foreign Sec is a democratic embarrassment. If Sunak can’t even find one of his 350 MPs to take on one of the most important jobs in Govt, why on earth should this party be governing at all? We need a #GeneralElectionNow

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

I observed the 2 min silence as usual. I felt sick knowing far right scumbags had hijacked Whitehall, climbing on fencing and bollards just before 11am, the police struggling to contain them.

Braverman and Sunak did this.

Give us our fucking election.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Fascists storming the Cenotaph on Armistice Day.

Braverman should resign.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

The missing context for what's happening in Gaza is that Israel has been working night and day to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people from their homeland since even before Israel become a state – when it was known as the Zionist movement.

Israel didn't just cleanse Palestinians in 1948, when it was founded as a Western colonial project, and again under cover of a regional war in 1967.

It also worked to ethnically cleanse Palestinians every day between those dates and afterwards. The aim was to move them off their historic lands, and either expel them beyond Israel’s new, expanded borders or concentrate them into small ghettoes inside those borders – as a holding measure until they could be expelled outside the borders.

The 'settler' project, as we call it, is a misnomer. It's really Israel's ethnic cleansing programme. Israel even has a special word for it in Hebrew: 'Judaisation', or making the land Jewish. It is official government policy.

Gaza was the largest of the Palestinian reservations created by Israel's ethnic cleansing programme, and the most overcrowded. To stop the inhabitants spilling out, Israel built a fence-barrier in the early 1990s to pen them in. Then when policing became too hard from within the prison, Israel pulled back in 2005 to the outer perimeter barrier.

New technology allowed Israel to besiege Gaza remotely by land, sea and air in 2007, limiting the entry of food and vital items like medicine and cement for construction. Automated gun towers shot anyone who came near the fence. The navy patrolled the sea, stopping boats straying more than a kilometre or two off shore. And drones watched 24 hours a day from the sky.

The people of Gaza were sealed in and largely forgotten, except when they lobbed a few rockets over the fence – to international indignation. If they fired too many rockets, Israel bombed them mercilessly and occasionally launched a ground invasion. The rocket threat was increasingly neutralised by a rocket interception system, paid for by the US, called Iron Dome.

Palestinians tried to be more inventive in finding ways to break out of their prison. They built tunnels. But Israel found ways to identify those that ran close to the fence and destroyed them.

Palestinians tried to get attention by protesting en masse at the fence. Israeli snipers were ordered to shoot them in the legs, leading to thousands of amputees. The 'deterrence' seemed to work.

Israel could once again sit back and let the Palestinians rot in Gaza. 'Quiet' had been restored.

Until, that is, last weekend when Hamas broke out briefly and ran amok, killing civilians and soldiers alike.

So Israel now needs a new policy.

It looks like the ethnic cleansing programme is being applied to Gaza anew. The half of the population in the enclave's north is being herded south, where there are not the resources to cope with them. And even if there were, Israel has cut off food, water and power to everyone in Gaza.

The enclave is quickly becoming a pressure cooker. The pressure is meant to build on Egypt to allow the Palestinians entry into Sinai on 'humanitarian' grounds.

Whatever the media are telling you, the 'conflict' – that is, Israel's cleansing programme – started long before Hamas appeared on the scene. In fact, Hamas emerged very late, as the predictable response to Israel's violent colonisation project.

And no turning point was reached a week ago. This has all been playing out in slow motion for more than 100 years.

Ignore the fake news. Israel isn't defending itself. It's enforcing its right to continue ethnically cleansing Palestinians.

[Ian Wright @IanWright0]

Good. But still silence from UEFA. No solidarity. No comment on the behaviour of their Vice President. Same UEFA who's President did not attend the Women's World Cup Final where both teams represented the region. These are the same people in charge of leading the future of women's football. They don't give a shit!

[Emma Clarke @Emma042198]

The Spanish players throwing Jorge Vilda up in the air in celebration… lost a lot of respect there.

What a kick in the teeth for their team mates who sat out of this World Cup because of his abuse

[Beth Mead MBE @bmeado9]

WORLD CUP FINAL BABBYY, GET IN @Lionesses 🥳🥳🥳

[Lionesses @Lionesses]

IT'S ALL OVER! 💪

The #Lionesses are through to their very FIRST #FIFAWWC final! 🤩

[Emma Sanders @em_sandy]

🚨 Back-to-back world champions the United States are OUT of the Women's World Cup in the last 16 after a penalty shootout defeat by Sweden.

Wow. USA, Germany, Brazil and Canada all out now. Surreal tournament!

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

One man can’t use a Coutts bank

Millions now using food banks

Which gets the most coverage?

Which gets most Govt intervention?

Which gets the speediest action?

This country is broken.

[Arsenal Women @ArsenalWFC]

What kind of goals does only @Katie_McCabe11 score again? 🗣

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

A new chapter begins.

[Cat @cat51294]

@alessiarusso7 ♥️

[Arsenal Women @ArsenalWFC]

Welcome to the Arsenal family.

Alessia Russo is our new No.23 ❤️