Tim Walker

A point of view

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

The Israeli military is extending its already sweeping forced displacement orders in Lebanon by telling residents in the Christian enclave of Tyre for the first time that their area is earmarked for attacks after claiming Hezbollah activity. The enclave has been spared strikes up until now. The Leb army investigated area last week and ruled out Hez presence 🧵

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

For the BBC, history always begins at the moment Israel is attacked. Everything that happened beforehand is treated as irrelevant.

Providing that context would mean conveying reality, not preserving a narrative.

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

Why we have to keep wading through this excreta when we can now all see and smell that it is excreta will one day baffle the historians when they write their books about our decline and fall.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

A UK poll shows that a new Brexit referendum would reverse the vote that led to Britain’s departure from the European Union a decade ago

https://t.co/fYXs4AQrM3

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Israel responds to Iran's retaliatory strikes by cutting off all aid to Gaza.

This is a state which routinely collectively punishes civilians as a tactic of war.

This is monstrous, and it is also a grave war crime.

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

It is completely the wrong priority, for jobs, for security and for the planet to cut funding in the drive to net zero to pay for the drive to rearm.

Starmer plans to cut net-zero spending to fund defence boost
https://t.co/MHYW67BXzg

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

“We must stop the Genocide in Gaza. There are no excuses anymore”.
Slovenia’s address to the UN before banning Isreal’s Benjamin Netanyahu from their country.

[Husam Zomlot @hzomlot]

What is the UK government waiting for? Commit to the rule of law. Commit to international law. Commit to the ICJ ruling. Sanction the occupation, the apartheid, the genocide.

Recognition of the state of Palestine must be a foundation — not a symbol. A foundation for freedom, accountability, and just and lasting peace. Speaking at the @BritPalProject annual conference this week.

🔗 Full speech: https://t.co/7HHsOaECiW

[Ahmer Naqvi @karachikhatmal]

Please support if you can.

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

A powerful president in control and not at the mercy of events and not so obviously and pathetically at Netanyahu’s command wouldn’t have to keep insisting this.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Let's see...
"Trump says Netanyahu will have ‘no choice’ but to accept a deal with Iran."

“He won’t have any choice,” Trump told the FT in a telephone interview. “I call the shots. I call all the shots. He [Netanyahu] doesn’t call the shots.” https://t.co/l7H9L6VyV3 via @FT

[Meral Hussein-Ece @meralhece]

What other minor political party is allowed such a privileged platform to set out false information. @bbclaurak & other journalists should be testing facts to the public not on so called “2 tier policing” not perpetrating blatant propoganda.

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

We need to set aside all delusions of grandeur, Empire and our colonial past and ask ourselves if, as a stand-alone set of islands, we’d now actually make any difference at all in any future global conflict, and, if the answer is no, isn’t this all a colossal waste of money?

[Kevin Maguire @Kevin_Maguire]

And the clamour is to gift the Ministry of Defence tens of billions of more pounds to waste.

Surely it would be better to secure a bigger bang for existing bucks than throw good money after bad?

https://t.co/UN8n9jMrHm

[🇵🇸Om mohmed✌️🇵🇸 @NoraSalem193907]

My daughter Sila, my son Muhammad, and my son Abdullah love you very much. Please stand by them and donate as much as you can, as much as they love you. May God reward you all. 🤲🤲🥹❤️🫂
https://t.co/MOyU4GFXL8

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

Enriching himself and impoverishing others seems to be working out very well for Farage

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

Monday morning : Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis said they’d fired a salvo of missiles at Israel.
The Israeli military launched airstrikes against Tehran and several other Iranian cities after Iran’s missile attacks - which were prompted by Israel’s bombing of Leb capital Beirut - and despite Pres Trump urging Netanyahu to show restraint.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

"What's happening in Gaza is a Holocaust and what's being designed by the Israel government is the final solution to the Palestinian problem. As a Holocaust survivor my reaction is not in my name."

Holocaust Survivor Stephen Kapos

CC: LBC @Lewis_Goodall @hasanthehun

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

One immediate response to these strikes is another sharp jump in the price of oil.
This means ordinary people in this country and elsewhere will have to pay even more because of the Trump/Netanyahu war.

Israel strikes Iran despite Trump pleas
https://t.co/OER5RxLCNt

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

He lies like the rest of us breathe

[Mirror Politics @MirrorPolitics]

50 questions Nigel Farage 'must answer' over £5m 'gift' as he's urged to come clean
https://t.co/CWKM1UBzYo

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

How many millions of Zuckerberg’s cash did you take Sir Nick as you figured this one out? https://t.co/WmdqVRlujy

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

Netanyahu knows that a never ending war keeps him never endingingly out of prison.

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

Iran’s Foreign ministry spokesman says Israel has been undermining US-Iran diplomacy from Day One and insists any ceasefire has to include Lebanon. Meanwhile Trump tells media he calls ‘the shots’ not Netanyahu despite the attacks suggesting otherwise.