LastBoyScout

Going to War armed with a Rose.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Ah… @LloydsBank again

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

The situation in #Gaza has revealed so much. The incredible steadfastness of the Palestinian people. The venality of the Israeli state. The pitiful banal impotence of the leaders of 1.5 billion Muslims in the world. The evil of the Western political class. The absolute disconnect between we the people who access alternative media and the majority still hooked on "mainstream" narratives. The treachery of social democracy - Labour, the Democrats, Macron, Scholz, the "Greens" etc. The state-purchase by Israel of western "democracies". The extent to which international law and the "rules-based order" are mainly fictional. The inadequacy of the "anti-war" movements in the west - trapped in a Trotskyite hamster-wheel and self-disabled by sectarian sickness.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

@Lowkey0nline If we don't make this guy protest viewed by billions shame on us
https://t.co/O0KbXAmKEO

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Just imagine we had the recording of a 6 year old Israeli girl, desperately ringing the emergency services after Hamas militants slaughtered her relatives in a car, including 3 other kids.

Imagine we also had a prior recording of her 15 year old cousin, desperately pleading for help, before you hear her being violently murdered by Hamas gunfire.

Imagine then an Israeli ambulance sent to rescue this little girl was then blown up by Hamas militants, killing both paramedics.

What would be the response?

You know what the response would be.

It would be offered up as evidence of the supreme evil and barbarism of Hamas.

We would be told it showed they’re worse than the Nazis.

It would also be offered up as justification for the need to wipe Hamas off the face of the earth.

Every politician in the West would issue statements dripping with grief and righteous fury.

None of that has happened here.

Instead, the West continue to arm and back Israel’s mass slaughter, with occasional handwringing which its politicians know has zero impact on the behaviour of Israel.

Even as Israel commits some of the worst atrocities of the 21st century - live streamed for the world to see - these Western powers refuse to describe a single act of Israel as a war crime.

Two things.

Firstly, none of this is to downgrade the value of Israeli civilian life. The value attacked to Israel innocent civilians’ lives is correct.

It is just transparently not applied to Palestinian life.

Indeed, secondly, it is nauseating that I even have to indulge in these
“imagine if!” scenarios.

It becomes necessary because Palestinian life has been stripped of nearly all value.

In South Africa’s submission to the ICJ, this horror was described as the world’s first live streamed genocide.

I think even more than that, it’s the live streaming of the suicide of the West.

Much of the world already regarded the West’s claims of moral superiority with contempt.

Well, contempt doesn’t even begin to describe those sentiments now.

I don’t think it’s remotely appreciated how much fury at Western power - which has shrunk with every major conflict involving Muslim nations in the 21st century - is being whipped up.

Finally, this nauseating episode has answered a question I’ve always been haunted by when studying the atrocities of the past.

How did so many people who regarded themselves as humane, moderate, “normal” become so willingly complicit in self evident evil, either by not speaking out or actively cheering it on?

Well, think of the badly decomposing remains of Hind and her family, and the incinerated remains of the paramedics sent to save her, and there’s your answer.

There’s your answer!

[Ben & Jerry's @benandjerrys]

Ben & Jerry’s will end sales of our ice cream in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Read our full statement: https://t.co/2mGWYGN4GA

[Ouney @Ouney86]

If any leader in any country in the Middle East did this, it'd be unacceptable but because Israel do it, it seems perfectly fine and other leaders don't bat an eyelid.

The oppression the Palestinian's receive is absolutely crazy.

[Ibs @IbrahimSincere]

You mean like Don Cheadle in Ocean's 11? https://t.co/SkXx2oym37

[LastBoyScout @lastboyscout14]

A 5 minute snapshot on Pfizer and its recent (legal) track record.

https://t.co/nXqk2tgo6h

[LastBoyScout @lastboyscout14]

How poor is this world, it has nothing to offer us which we would exchange for our love for Ali (as).

Eid e Ghadeer Mubarak

[LastBoyScout @lastboyscout14]

Uk Gov giving with one hand but gonna take back with three.

[Zaheer Abbas Jaffri @ZAJaffri]

#FlyTheFlag

[Javad Zarif @JZarif]

US has taken several Iranian scientists hostage—without charge or on spurious sanctions charges—& not releasing them; even when its OWN courts reject the absurd charges

US even refuses medical furlough—amid #covid19—for innocent men jailed in horrific facilities

Release our men

[Zaheer Abbas Jaffri @ZAJaffri]

Hypocrisy at its peak by the #USA and the other western powers who are slaves smd boot lickers of #usa

[LastBoyScout @lastboyscout14]

Oh land of Kerman! How proud you must be today, to have one of your soldiers returned back in this way.

Shaheed General Qasem Suleimani

[LastBoyScout @lastboyscout14]

'When the battle is over, the warrior claps his hand sorrowfully for he has lost and the Martyr has won'

[Javad Zarif @JZarif]

Have you EVER seen such a sea of humanity in your life, @realdonaldtrump?

Do you still want to listen to the clowns advising you on our region?

And do you still imagine you can break the will of this great nation & its people?

End of malign US presence in West Asia has begun.

[Michelle Obama MD @omgeze]

Something is wrong with the British public. Their actual prime minister is hiding away on a Caribbean island, while Corbyn is doing damage control and trying to stop us from getting involved in a war that doesn’t involve us and people in the comments are still attacking him 🤦🏾‍♀️

[Arooj Fatima @AroojMalik6]

Wow

[LastBoyScout @lastboyscout14]

Dear God, make them pay for the Rahbars tears.

[LastBoyScout @lastboyscout14]

feels like a keep your bags packed kind of time