Scot Bradley

Got my views, you might like them or not but that's your choice.

[Scot Bradley @edibrad1]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[CCN TV6 @tv6tnt]

FULL SPEECH: "1.5°C is what we need to survive, 2°C, is a death sentence... We do not want that dreaded death sentence, and we've come here today to say, try harder, try harder."

Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley Q.C. addresses #COP26 Climate Conference

[Marjolein Robertson @MarjoleinR]

Come play on Saturday 8th at @fringebythesea2 to see O my favourite peerie bloody show 🌊🩸🌊🩸✨🩷

Tickets: https://t.co/i7ShJI6ah6

[𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐦 @Malcolm_Pal9]

Why?

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING!

Armed Israelis are escalating DEADLY assaults against defenseless Palestinians in the West Bank!

They have reportedly just shot in cold blood five men in Tal village and Far'ata/Qalqilya.

Their leaders openly talk of #Gazification

THESE CRIMINALS MUST BE STOPPED!

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

In Ed Miliband's first remarks overseas as foreign secretary, he condemns Iran but not the US or Israel and mentions "our Gulf partners". He talks of Russia's "aggression" but not Israel's, and speaks vaguely of the "suffering" of Palestinians. No change.
https://t.co/4ggkNwluFS

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

What a contrast Spain 🇪🇸 is to the UK 🇬🇧:

Lamine Yamal waves the 🇵🇸 flag

To then be attacked by Netanyahu 🇮🇱

For Pedro Sánchez,🇪🇸 PM, to spring to his defence:

‘We support free speech’
‘Solidarity with Yamal’
‘For speaking against genocide’
‘And for Palestinians 🇵🇸’

🇪🇸 💚 🇵🇸

[Jimac @jimac1111]

£10 billion gone. No one was blamed. No one was charged. No tents outside houses, just 10 billion gone, just a system rigged to help people with the right friends.
Jail for the baby milk thief, though.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"[Lord Hermer] has said.. 'I've been so lucky to be part of Keirs team.. rebuilding the UK's reputation abroad, in particular in the rule of law'"

Defending the deliberate starvation of 2m people. Refusing to confirm the enforcement of ICC arrest warrants. Arming a genocide.

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

Shabana Mahmood has been reappointed as Home Secretary despite presiding over the worst attack on UK freedoms in some time.

More than 3,500 “terrorism” arrests have taken place in the past year, with nearly 1,500 peaceful protestors, mostly pensioners, charged.

Lift The Ban.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Warning on content: another 4 Palestinians killed by the israelis in the bombing of an apartment in Gaza City —children blown into pieces

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

We had all these Police Tents outside Nicola Sturgeon's house for £400,000.

But they won't even investigate £10,000,000,000.

Blatant corruption.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

BBC News report that a 14 year old boy motivated by extreme right wing terrorism accused of targeting mosques

"Planning to attack and kill worshippers in two mosques in Sutton"

"Met police data shows that anti-Muslim hate crime in Sutton has doubled in the last 12 months"

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Zionist forces have bombed a funeral procession in Gaza. There is no ceasefire; the genocide is ongoing.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Gaza’s population has declined by approximately 9.5% compared with 2023 says @RamAbdu —it means the israelis have killed 224,000 ppl

[PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 @OnlinePalEng]

📍Spotted in Paris, France

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

If you start 0 wars, operate 0 apartheid states & perpetrate 0 genocides, you are a terrorist org. in the UK

If you launch wars of aggression every few yrs for decades, operate an apartheid state for decades & perpetrate 2 genocides in 3yrs, you receive weapons & spy tech to kill forever.

Sincerely, -the UK

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

I’ve reported at least ten traceable and credible death threats (plus a few detailed gang rape threats) over the past few years, including a hand delivered note to my house. No arrests. No investigation.

Farage caused this increase in violence.

He can FUCK OFF.

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

David Hearst, editor in chief of Middle East Eye, says that Andy Burnham’s apology for Labour’s policy on Gaza should be taken seriously, but that it carries consequences far beyond words.

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

Yvette Cooper

Looks at notes to remind herself how Labour ‘got it wrong’ over Gaza 🇵🇸:

‘Should have called earlier for a ceasefire’
‘Should have been stronger on International Law’

21,000 murdered 🇵🇸 children

Her ‘principles’ are blowing in the wind

She could not care less.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

The International Court of Justice, the world’s highest court, ruled back in 2004 – nearly a quarter of a century ago – that Israel’s Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem violated international law and needed to be dismantled.

It reiterated that demand in a decision two years ago in which it identified Israel as an apartheid state ruling over Palestinians. It warned states to “take steps to prevent trade or investment relations that assists in the maintenance of the illegal situation created by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territory”.

And yet the West has done nothing tangible year after year as the settlements have stolen more land from Palestinians, made their lives there ever more miserable, and trashed any chance of the West’s supposed ambition of two states living alongside each other.

Remember this when Israel’s apologists tell you to wait for the same court’s definitive ruling – in a year or two, or maybe three – on what it deemed in early 2024 to be a “plausible” genocide in Gaza, just three months into Israel’s mass slaughter there.

Not only will any such ruling be far too late to make any difference to the victims of the genocide, but the US, Britain and Europe will do precisely no more to punish Israel for this crime of crimes – one we can see for ourselves without an ICJ ruling – than they have done in punishing Israel for the settlements.

Why? Because most western states no more wish to impose a penalty on Israel for its crimes than you would want to amputate a healthy arm.

If they refuse to lift a finger to stop a live-streamed genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, why on earth would anyone imagine they are ready to do anything to stop Israel’s violent settlers ethnically cleansing the West Bank?

The settlements are as deeply integrated into Israel as your arm is attached to your shoulder. And in turn, Israel is as much the punching fist of the imperial West’s war machine as the City of London – and its former tax-haven colonies – are the beating heart of the imperial West’s financial machine.

Western elites cannot imagine a world without Israel as their military thug in the oil-rich Middle East any more than you can imagine life without your arm.

That explains why no one really believed that EU foreign ministers, meeting once again this week to discuss banning settlement products – the bare minimum they have long been obligated to do under international law – would reach an agreement.

More than 100 legal scholars had earlier written to the European Commission’s top trade and foreign policy officials stressing the EU’s “international legal obligation”.

But as everyone predicted, EU ministers kicked the can down the road – until at least October, when they agreed to more talks about talks.

This is an extract from my latest article The West won't punish the settlements. Its two-state solution was always a sham. Find a link to the rest in the reply post ⬇️