gabster99

London-based Mancunian with a passion for Family, Business and United (not necessarily in that order)

[gabster99 @gabster99]

@RyanR2021 @idlewildgirl I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley

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@piersmorgan Consequences

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@adamdnathan John O Shea for VDS in 2007 too

[John Aziz @aziz0nomics]

There are more Muslims living in Israel as full-citizens than there are Jews living (as citizens or not) in the 49 Muslim majority countries put together.

This should be the only argument you need to debunk the false claim that Israel is an ethnostate.

[One Norman Whiteside @WhitesideOne]

OTD in 1983 - FA Cup Semi-Final

MANCHESTER UNITED 2
Bryan Robson 49'
@NormanWhiteside 70'
ARSENAL 1
Tony Woodcock 36'

Villa Park 46,535

[gabster99 @gabster99]

@richardpbacon “They brought it on themselves”

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@ClaudiaWebbe @BumperGraham Half a million 😂😂😂😂😂

[Mark Mantis @TheGhostSleepi1]

I will never fail to be astonished by the rapid transformation of the Green Party from mad old hippies who care about badgers & organic vegetables like to do naked yoga at Stonehenge with the moon crystals into the Taliban/Oat Milk Oswald Mosley without the patriotism.

[ChazzyJeff @BrighterCharlie]

@AndyMitten Was with mates just to the right of that (in the home end). A mean-looking Frenchman turned round & said something to us that sounded threatening to @gabster99’s untrained ear.

He nervously turned to me & whispered, “What did he say, son?”

“Can you guys see ok if I stand up?”

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

The verifiable data shows that during the war Hamas launched on Israel— and prolonged by holding hundreds of Israeli hostages— approximately 35,000 civilians were killed in Gaza.

In Iran, over two days, more civilians were killed by their own regime for daring to dissent.

No protests. No encampments. No social media campaigns. No celebrity open letters.

You know exactly why.

[David Patrikarakos @dpatrikarakos]

Imagine being so ignorant, racist and historically illiterate that you can’t accept that Iranians want to overthrow their decades-long oppressors without being “manipulated” by the US or Israel.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

I met a Palestinian economist from Gaza today who was the head of a technical team tasked with preparing the coastal enclave for the “day after” the Israeli disengagement or withdrawal of settlements in 2005. Despite his harsh stance on Israel, he reached out to me and expressed his gratitude for the work I’ve been doing, urging me to keep going and not to give up on Gaza. Most intriguing was the fact that he was commissioned by the controversial Palestinian political figure whose name is regularly floated as part of Gaza’s post-Hamas governance, Mohammed Dahlan. The economist oversaw a large and sprawling team and interacted with Israeli, Arab, and international teams and figures from the World Bank, especially the then-President James Wolfensohn, to prepare the Strip for a new era.

Dahlan accurately and prophetically told the economist that “if we don’t get Gaza right following the Israeli withdrawal [in 2005], there will never be a future for the territory and it will be a complete disaster.” Motivated to serve his people and country, the economist shared with me that the World Bank's James Wolfensohn spent his own money to preserve Gaza’s greenhouses and to implement extensive plans to protect what remained of the infrastructure left behind in the vacated Jewish settlements. He mentioned meeting with Hamas to inform them about what the plans and intentions were, but the terror group was ultimately determined to pursue its own course of action. After years of violent attacks during the Second Intifada, Hamas was determined to promote the armed resistance narrative as the reason why Israel was withdrawing from Gaza.

The economist, who again is not exactly a dove on Israel, said repeatedly during our conversations that in his talks with Israelis, he sensed “a sincerity” to see Gaza progress and develop, and that Israelis’ attitude was “we don’t want anything from you Palestinians except for you to succeed.” He spoke of incredible plans to spend billions on reviving Gaza’s economy, connecting the territory with the outside world and Israel, and of endless possibilities that would have “transformed Gaza into something truly remarkable,” as he and Dahlan said and believed.

Instead, the very day of the withdrawal, he said numerous militias belonging to Hamas were deployed in a disciplined, pre-determined, and militaristic fashion across all vacated Israeli settlements. Worse, he said that Palestinian Authority security personnel tasked with protecting remnants of Israeli settlements participated in the mass looting and destruction of what remained, ending any hope that these spaces would ever serve as springboards for Gaza’s rejuvenation and renaissance. It was then that he called Mohammed Dahlan and told him: “It’s all over – Gaza’s finished.”

The 2005 disengagement experiment was a horrific abdication of Palestinian agency and responsibility and a missed opportunity that cannot be solely blamed on Israel. That’s the painful and uncomfortable lesson.

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@NigelAppleton An absolute gent, really sad

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@wallacemick 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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@R_o_M @willg1989 “Globalise the intifada”
“From the river to the sea”
Not to mention the placards regarding nazi inversion, do you understand how offensive these things are to the Jewish community in Britain? At least you got your wish, the intifada was globalised to your city this week

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@Keir_Starmer Stop the marches NOW

[Adam Sellers @YisraelChaiAdam]

Nothing could possibly some up the Palestine lot better than this.

[Dave Rich @daverich1]

According to Paul Weller, the question or whether or not Israel is guilty of genocide is not a matter of fact or evidence, but one of philosophical belief. An astonishing and revealing claim.

[shlomi ziv @shlomiziv86]

@SkyNews I was held by a journalist in captivity and his father was a Doctor!!!!!!!!

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Numerous videos of airdrops show how women, children, and even the elderly can rapidly and quickly grab bags of flour, canned foods, and shelf-stable items that are calorie-dense and provide some sort of temporary relief. Airdrops are randomized, spread and dispersed geographically, and do not face the same kind of systematized and organized looting that aid trucks currently endure as they trickle in via land corridors without security. Ironically, what you describe is what ultimately happens with the aid trucks that are being looted by fit capable men, or by those who are able to go to the GHF collection sites, which require walking for miles and facing dangerous conditions that can frequently turn deadly. No one ever claimed that airdrops are a permanent solution or adequate.

Yet, it's astonishing how journalists and supposed humanitarians vehemently oppose this method, which is part of a broader strategy that employs multiple approaches. Why oppose a mechanism that introduces some food for some people, even if it’s inadequate, when there is a horrendous crisis? If we can’t stop the war and create conditions for large-scale delivery and distribution via land crossings, why the incessant opposition by Hamas, the UN, and “pro-Palestine” online personalities to this method of aid delivery that has been used time and again in multiple conflict zones?

Here, you see clear gratitude and appreciation by civilians for airdropped food, which in this instance, happens to be delivered by Emirati C-130s as part of operation @alfaresalshahm3.