Lucy Hough

A Proud British Born European🇪🇺🇫🇷🇯🇪🇬🇧

[Clean Up Britain @cleanupbritain]

Virtually all the exits to Britain's motorway service stations look this. What's wrong with us in this country? No other west European countries are as run-down, filthy and littered as Britain... we need to turn the tide of decline. Pride and respect should never go out of fashion.

[Jack Nassar | جاك نصار @jacknassar33]

What’s happening and why it matters

Jerusalem Palestinians, including Christians, live under a system where Israel controls who gets to officially exist in the city.

Being born in Jerusalem does not automatically make you a resident. Israel must register your birth, and it can refuse. Between 2020 and 2026, one in four Christian births in Jerusalem was denied registration. That child has no legal status in the city they were born in.

If a Palestinian Jerusalemite marries someone from the West Bank or abroad, their spouse cannot simply move in. They must apply for family reunification, and Israel rejects roughly half of those applications. Families are legally separated, sometimes for years, sometimes permanently.

On top of that, over 340 Jerusalem ID cards were revoked in this period. Losing your Jerusalem ID means losing the right to live in your own home. People are deported from the city of their birth, quietly, through paperwork.

And this is before we even talk about the obstacles placed in front of priests, nuns, and clergy trying to get work permits and visas to serve their own churches in Jerusalem.

One more thing that must be said clearly: none of this applies to Jewish residents. A Jewish person coming to Israel from anywhere in the world receives automatic citizenship under the Law of Return. A Christian child born in Jerusalem to a family that has been there for generations can be denied the right to legally exist there. This is not bureaucracy. This is a policy of replacement and apartheid.

This is the oldest Christian community on earth, being slowly removed from the city where Christianity was born, one rejected application at a time.

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

“Entire families have been wiped out.” Lebanese President Joseph Aoun recounts the devastating toll of Israel’s war in his country against Hezbollah. “This is a 3-month-old baby,” he says, holding up a heartbreaking picture. “Is this an imminent threat?”

@LBpresidency

[Gianluca Martino @gianlucamart1]

🧵"Desidero che la Papamobile venga trasformata in una clinica mobile e donata ai bambini di Gaza"
Questa è una delle ultime volontà di Papa Francesco prima di morire.
Ad eseguire la disposizione di Papa Francesco, il Vaticano incarica il cardinale svedese Anders Arborelius che a sua volta incarica la Caritas svedese per la trasformazione del veicolo.

Quando la stampa dà la notizia dell'incarico alla Caritas svedese di trasformare la Papamobile in clinica mobile per i bambini di Gaza, scatta la solidarietà dei cittadini svedesi che in pochi giorni inviano alla Caritas cospicue donazioni.

Grazie alle somme raccolte, la Caritas, non solo riesce a trasformare la Papamobile in una clinica mobile fornita di attrezzature mediche di ultima generazione, ma acquista altre 12 ambulanze da inviare a Gaza.

A novembre dello scorso anno, quando i lavori sulla Papamobile sono ultimati, per celebrare l'evento e assolvere all'ultima volontà di Papa Francesco, il Vaticano sceglie Betlemme, la città simbolo per eccellenza della cristianità, la città dove nacque Cristo.
In Piazza della Mangiatoia, il cardinale Anders Arborelius benedice la Papamobile e le ambulanze in partenza verso Gaza.
La Papamobile viene rinominata "Veicolo della Speranza".

Passano giorni, settimane e poi mesi ma gli occupanti israeliani non consentono alla Caritas di fare entrare il Veicolo della Speranza a Gaza.
I rappresentanti del Vaticano e della Caritas chiedono più volte spiegazioni ma Israele si prende gioco di loro inventando storie assurde.
"Non è pervenuta alcuna richiesta di autorizzazione"
E poi ancora: "I materiali sanitari all'interno della Papamobile potrebbero finire nelle mani di Hamas ed essere usati come armi".

E intanto la Papamobile, trasformata in un gioiello della tecnologia medica, in grado di curare 200 bambini al giorno, è ancora lì, dopo sette mesi, sotto una teca in un parcheggio a pochi metri da Piazza della Mangiatoia in attesa di raggiungere i bambini di Gaza.

In uno stupendo articolo scritto dal cardinale Arborelius su ICN, Independent Catholic News (*link nel primo commento) il cardinale si rivolge alle autorità israeliane, chiede, quasi supplica, di lasciare entrare il Veicolo della Speranza ma non rinuncia a scrivere: "Negare le cure mediche ai bambini significa oltrepassare un limite morale che dovrebbe turbare tutti".

Limite morale che non turba i leader politici occidentali che ostentano senza ritegno la loro fede cristiana ma restano in un vile silenzio mentre la colonia di plastica denominata Israele umilia il Vaticano prendendosi gioco delle ultime volontà di un Papa.
Che schifo!

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

We all need to resist attempts like this to politicise Henry Nowak’s death and divide our country - whether they come from MAGA politicians like Vance or their cronies here in the UK.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Since the @WhiteHouse and @POTUS is mad about this, please don’t retweet or share

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Here you go, @michaelgove:
Gove’s book is a confused epic of simplistic incomprehension, riddled with more factual errors and misconceptions than any other text I have come across in two decades of reviewing books on this subject. Thus we are solemnly told, for example, that during the Jordanian occupation of the West Bank from 1948 to 1967, the Palestinian population from Jenin to Hebron was “herded into, and kept penned up inside, refugee camps”, an idea as novel as it is comically ridiculous and ahistorical. During this period, towns such as Ramallah became sleepy backwaters, quite free from the land seizures and apartheid policies of Arab-free Israeli settlements and Arab-free road networks that followed the Israeli occupation — realities entirely at odds with what Gove calls Israel’s “culture of equality”.

Gove also rewrites history when he alleges it was the “appeasement” of the Palestinians represented by the Oslo peace process that encouraged al-Qa'eda to launch the 9/11 attacks. In fact it was not any offer to make peace, so much as the violent repression that followed Israel’s unilateral ending of peace talks that actually formed the backdrop to the attacks. In his Knights Under the Prophet's Banner, Bin Laden's deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri has written that it was the the repressive campaign waged against the second intifada by Sharon in the Autumn of 2000 that provided al-Qa’eda’s opportunity : as the corpses of dead children piled up, al-Zawahiri realized that here was the rallying cry that could unify the Muslim world. All that was needed was a massive strike, and the US system in the Middle East would begin to unravel. And so - thanks partly to Gove's friends in Washington- it has indeed proved, to the peril of us all.

Gove is also quite wrong that few Muslims or Islamists really mind what Israel does to the Palestinians and the Lebanese, and that “it is what Israel is, rather than what Israel does” that really provokes resistance. Instead Israeli violence is the principle cause of anti-American anger- Bin Laden himself has written that it was the sight of US support for the Israeli bombing Beirut in 1982 that initially radicalised him: “they started bombing… I still remember the blood-torn limbs, the women and children massacred. Houses were being destroyed and tower blocks were collapsing… As I looked on those destroyed towers in Lebanon, it occurred to me to punish the oppressor in kind by destroying towers in America…”

Throughout Gove's book, the old NeoCon myths are reheated and served up, despite being long discredited, most recently by the 2005 CIA report released last week by the Senate Intelligence Committee. Saddam, believes Gove, “invited Islamists into Iraq” (p130); he was “determined to pursue his WMD programme” and “dreamt of emulating” 9/11, strongly suggesting the central lie of Saddam's non-existent links with 9/11. Gove also repeats the tired old canard that the spread of democracy will exclude the Islamists from power in the Middle East, (p135) despite the evidence from Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Egypt and Algeria that given the option, the newly radicalized Muslim peoples of the region are much more likely to choose fundamentalist candidates over secularists.

At the heart of Celsius 7/7 lies the long-discredited idea that the Islamists are motivated by a deep hatred of freedom: as Bin Laden noted in his 2004 broadcast, if that was so “why we did not attack Sweden?” Instead, it is specifically to fight for freedom from US interference in the Islamic world that al-Qa'eda was formed: “We have been fighting you because we are free men,” said Bin Laden in the same speech. “Just as you violate our security, so we violate yours.”

All terrorist violence , Islamic or otherwise, is contemptible. But just because we condemn does not mean we should not strive to analyse accurately. It is exactly the sort of woolly elisions that Gove indulges in that has got us into the trouble we are now in.

[Humane World for Animals @humaneworldorg]

🚨BREAKING: A slaughterhouse has been identified on the outskirts of Yulin, China that slaughters dogs for the Yulin dog meat “festival.” We’re supporting the permanent closure of this slaughterhouse, but time is running out!

With the festival fast approaching, time is of the essence to save the surviving dogs and shut the operation down for good. Please donate NOW to help these and all animals: https://t.co/XrTNbJwkhY

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

On 12th June -10am–5pm.

After never having been charged with - & never having been found guilty of terrorism - Pro-Palestine activists will be sentenced for terrorism.

A first in UK history.

Please RT this until this travesty of justice is ended.
Thank you.

[Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

I asked Senate Republicans who among them thought Trump’s slush fund was a good idea. None replied and silence filled the chamber.

I then offered Republicans a chance to shut it down by voting for my amendment.

They chose not to. They are simply too scared of crossing this corrupt president.

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: World Food Programme says Middle East conflict is pushing millions to the brink of hunger

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/0VGHpYMBCh

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

“I walked over 10 kilometers, and they killed a young man in front of me.”

A Palestinian recounts receiving a small amount of aid from the American company in Rafah, after walking a long distance under dire humanitarian conditions.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Edinburgh MP slams SNP sewage 'failure' after beach downgraded to 'poor' rating."

Meanwhile north of the border Fisherrow Sands has had its water quality rating downgraded to poor because of sewage dumping. Stay out of the water everyone.

https://t.co/UtdVp2PBpa

[German Shepherd Dad 🇺🇸 & 🔥 @FlagAndFire]

Ruby doesn’t know she was surrendered.

She doesn’t know a decision was made.

She only knows her family disappeared.

A volunteer took her out expecting to comfort a scared dog and ended up sitting on the floor with her while she pressed in close, buried her face, and quietly asked not to be left again.

Ruby is a 1-year-old Shepherd / Belgian Malinois mix. Housebroken. Good with kids. Good with other dogs.

She’s at Cobb County Animal Services in Marietta, GA.

One share can be the difference between another night in a kennel and somebody saying come on girl, let’s go home.

H/T Sharing.Lov Instagram

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨While Gaza is buried under millions of tons of rubble and waste, two Palestinian sisters turned destruction into innovation, winning the Earth Prize for the Middle East against thousands of competitors worldwide.

Meanwhile, the UN estimates it would take 180 days and 50 trucks per day just to clear Gaza’s mounting garbage crisis, as disease, rodents, and insects continue to spread among a besieged population.

[Dogs 4 Rescue @Dogs4Rescue]

Bit of a long shot but are there any vendors or manufacturers who could help us out? 🙏 We only need a small model and a refurb would be fine. Or perhaps you can offer a discount…
[email protected]

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The genocide seems unstoppable,
Necrocapitalism seems invincible- but they are not!

All we need is UNITY. COORDINATION. PERSEVERANCE.

Keep Protesting. Striking. Boycotting. Litigating.

Not just once.
All the times needed till the Apartheid ends and the system which fed it too.

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨HORRIBLE: An Israeli attack on four residential apartments in Gaza City killed nine Palestinians, including an entire family, and injured dozens.

Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary reports from the scene, where residents say one child survived

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Council vote of no confidence in South West Water following sewage spills."

Yet another water company that should loose its operating licence. Ofwat?

https://t.co/wPrFfJGwi5

[sarah @sahouraxo]

This is Sarafand in South Lebanon today.

Israel is wiping out entire civilian neighborhoods in a town that has stood for over 3,000 years.

This is what the complicit international community calls a “ceasefire.”