Jamie McKenzie

Crime and Courts Reporter @thecourieruk. Views my own. If you’ve got a tip or story email [email protected]

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Three unconnected developments:

1. After two years of supporting Israel to the hilt in its Gaza genocide, Starmer, Macron and other western leaders suddenly decide to recognise Palestinian statehood – but only if Hamas, Gaza's elected government, plays no role.

2. A temper tantrum-prone Trump seems remarkably relaxed at this act of defiance from Washington's underlings.

3. Trump immediately announces the "deal of the millennium" in which Tony Blair presides over the ruins of Gaza in an act of colonial hubris that's certain to make the Coalition Provisional Authority, set up by the US in Iraq after the 2003 invasion, look like a major success story. Oh, and if Hamas refuses Governor Blair's benevolence, Netanyahu gets a formal green light from Washington to finish the genocide.

As I say, entirely unconnected developments.

[The Courier @thecourieruk]

A Fife Labour councillor has been found guilty of engaging in sexual activity with a 15-year-old schoolgirl in his home, office and car over a period of more than six months.
https://t.co/0nymLegXut

[The Courier @thecourieruk]

A Fife Labour councillor engaged in sex acts with a 15-year-old schoolgirl at his home while his fiancée was at work, it has been claimed at a trial.

https://t.co/bjJUj17AwY

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Rupert Murdoch's Times newspapers published 15 stories last week on Bob Vylan chanting "Death to the IDF".

It published not a single article on the testimonies of Israeli soldiers that they were ordered to shoot into crowds of unarmed Palestinians waiting for aid.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

For once, the BBC aired a documentary showing Israeli society's dark underbelly. The backlash is not because Louis Theroux got it wrong. It's because his film tells us far too much about ourselves.

Read my latest article: https://t.co/RwkzZobQsm

[Jamie McKenzie @mckenzie_jamie]

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[The Courier @thecourieruk]

Predatory priest jailed for 16 months at Kirkcaldy after train assault https://t.co/VR66qJsuqm

[The Courier @thecourieruk]

Fife man relives terror of being taken hostage in his home and throttled by attacker he met on Grindr https://t.co/lhEEDwWyKQ

[The Courier @thecourieruk]

Police called as Fife Grindr sextortionist re-surfaces in fresh scam probe https://t.co/FSSu3AIEYW

[The Courier @thecourieruk]

BREAKING: Perth man found guilty of murdering Cameron Rae https://t.co/Oiv43ydWrK

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Hard to read this shocking account by two US surgeons volunteering in Gaza and not conclude Israel is carrying out genocide.

In what remains of Gaza's hospitals, the pair meet staff waiting to be killed – to be put out of their misery.

More:
https://t.co/uPRHXnlBTR

[Jamie McKenzie @mckenzie_jamie]

A teenager was transported from Romania to a Kirkcaldy flat and forced into prostitution by an abuser who later attacked her in an apparent rape attempt.
https://t.co/3uekzX8yQx

[Jamie McKenzie @mckenzie_jamie]

@MylesBonnar @BBCiPlayer Excellent documentary.

[Louis Theroux @louistheroux]

Important and powerful piece about the west’s complicity with atrocities in Gaza and our “moral collapse” in the face of unimaginable horror. “We find ourselves in an unprecedented situation. Never before have so many witnessed an industrial-scale slaughter in real time.” https://t.co/B3v7XGxxyk

[Jamie McKenzie @mckenzie_jamie]

@AndyGoode10 Is it, aye?

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Israel is now planning the mass ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

It is not remotely practical, even if it was ethical, for Gaza’s population to flee their homes en masse.

This is collective punishment, a massacre, all with the direct approval of Western governments.

[alex thomson @alextomo]

So 5 years after the Saudis strangled and dismembered the courageous journalist Jamal Khashoggi (and tape recorded it), NUFC have a great European night at SJP. All it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to look the other way.

[Jamie McKenzie @mckenzie_jamie]

“The level of evil required to act as you did was almost beyond comprehension.”

https://t.co/xrx2tzHJyq

[The Courier @thecourieruk]

Donald Booth forged his ex-wife’s signature and illicitly sold their marital home to Dr Babar Akbar. https://t.co/Ixp4hvOH4Z

[Jamie McKenzie @mckenzie_jamie]

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[Jamie McKenzie @mckenzie_jamie]

A mix of the very bad and bizarre at Dunfermline SC in recent days…

https://t.co/eGSnVbRFKp

[Jamie McKenzie @mckenzie_jamie]

https://t.co/otqRtLT79X