Tony Greenstein | 25 December 2024 | Post Views:

Starmer’s Xmas Message goes from the mundane ‘This Christmas, people will be travelling up and down the country.’ to the boring opposite of what his government has been doing, ‘to care for one another’ . What Starmer excells at though is lying, for example:

‘This Christmas, I will be hoping for peace, particularly in the Middle East as the birthplace of the Christmas story.’

This is the man who is sending Israel more weapons in order that it can complete the extermination and ethnic cleaning of Palestinians in Gaza. Was there ever such a combination in public life? A man without a personality or principles, combined with compulsive lying and an overdose dose of hypocrisy?  True Boris Johnson was a man to whom the truth was a stranger but at least he had a personality.

Starmer tells us that

I’ll be looking towards a better, brighter future for every person and celebrating the joy and wonder that Christmas brings.

You wouldn’t think that Starmer has stripped pensioners of the winter fuel allowance, kept the two-child benefit cap and has now betrayed the Waspi women. Is it any wonder that Starmer Labour has plumbed unprecedented depths of unpopularity?

Since October 7th we have seen a collapse in the international legal architecture that was put in place after the Nazi holocaust. The United States has made it plain that the International Court of Justice is there solely to be used against the West’s perceived enemies. It ignores anything that does not go along with its support for Israel, Hitler’s Bastard Offspring.

Starmer on Srebrenica an ‘Inhumane Genocide’

The United States and Britain have tried to justify genocide in Gaza by denying it is genocide. Israel’s atrocities are simply invisible even though every doctor coming back from Gaza says they have never seen anything like Israel’s attack on hospitals and the health sector. Torture and rape of prisoners, even though admitted, is simply ignored. Israel’s deliberate sniping of children hasn’t happened. Western imperialism justifies itself only through the naked use of force and making its atrocities invisible.

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Lammy says that not enough Palestinians have been killed but hasn’t told us how many would satisfy the definition of genocide even though his boss was more than happy to call the massacre of 8,000 people in Srebrenica a genocide when he was a young barrister.

Despite the attempts of the BBC and Britain’s prostitute media to hide the reality of the genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, what has been happening has been obvious to all those with eyes to see, despite the attempt of Facebook and the BBC to outlaw the word ‘genocide’.  No one can proclaim ignorance as they did during the Nazi holocaust.

Our own Church of England, led by child abuse defender Justin Welby, has said and done absolutely nothing to oppose Israel’s Gaza holocaust. It is to the credit of Pope Francis that he has repeatedly spoken out about Israel’s atrocities, not least against Christians in Gaza.

To the CoE’s Evangelicals, Palestinian Christians are invisible. These ‘Christians’ are more interested in Rapture and the Second Coming, all on the back of the Jews who will be slaughtered in the battles of Armageddon.

Perhaps we should remember that in Germany it was the Protestant Church that was the most ardently pro-Nazi with a Reich Church being established that barred Christian Jews from its portals.

In Israel those who use the Holocaust as their pretext for Apartheid and massacre openly call for the extermination of the Palestinians. Israeli President, Labour Zionist Isaac Herzog declared that

It’s an entire nation out there that is responsible. This rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved, it’s absolutely not true. They could’ve risen up, they could have fought against that evil regime.

Netanyahu declared that

“We are the people of the light, they are the people of darkness… we shall realize the prophecy of Isaiah.”

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Defence Minister Yoav Gallant initiated the genocide by calling Palestinians ‘human animals’ the very phrase Himmler used when justifying the extermination of the Jews. “We are fighting human animals, and we are acting accordingly,” Gallant, said as he promised to starve the Palestinians into submission.

“We’re fighting Nazis,” declared Naftali Bennett, a former prime minister, even though he had included them in his government.

“You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible — we do remember,” said Benjamin Netanyahu, referring to the ancient enemy of the Israelites, who were wiped out to every man, woman, child and infant.

The parallels between the Nazis and the Zionists are obvious but that didn’t stop the institutionally Metropolitan Police arresting me on October 4th this year for making such a comparison at the demonstration against Israel’s racist Ambassador Tzipi Hotoveli.

Let us renew our strength and vigour this Xmas to oppose Israel’s genocide and the West’s enablement of that genocide. Hopefully we can get rid of the red Tory Starmer regime this coming year

Tony Greenstein

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John J. Mearsheimer

Dec 24, 2024

On 19 December 2024, Human Rights Watch issued a 179-page report detailing Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

On 5 December 2024, Amnesty International issued a 296-page report detailing Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

On 21 November 2024, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for crimes against humanity and war crimes.

On 26 January 2024, the International Court of Justice found that a plausible case can be made that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

Given the West’s presumed commitment to human rights and especially to preventing genocide, one would have expected countries like the United States, Britain, and Germany, to have stopped the Israeli genocide in its tracks.

Instead, the governments in those three countries, especially the United States, have supported Israel’s unimaginable behavior in Gaza at every turn. Indeed, those three countries are complicit in this genocide.

Moreover, almost all of the many human rights advocates in those countries, and in the West more generally, have stayed silent while Israel executed its genocide. The mainstream media has made hardly any effort to expose and challenge what Israel is doing to the Palestinians. Indeed some key outlets have staunchly supported Israel’s actions.

One wonders what people in the West who have either supported Israel’s genocide or remained silent tell themselves to justify their behavior and sleep at night.

History will not treat them kindly.

Below is an article from Ha’aretz about the war crimes and other deeds of Israel’s ‘most moral army in the world’.

Ha’aretz 23.12.24  Prof. (Emeritus) Yoel Elizur

I have no problem with women. One threw a slipper at me, so I gave her a kick here (pointing to the groin), broke all this here. She can’t have children today.”

“X shot an Arab four times in the back and got away with a self-defense claim. Four bullets in the back from a distance of ten meters … cold-blooded murder. We did things like that every day.”

“An Arab just walked down the street, about 25 years old, didn’t throw a stone, nothing. Bang, a bullet in the stomach. Shot him in the stomach, and he was dying on the sidewalk, and we drove away indifferently.”

“A new commander came to us. We went out with him on the first patrol at six in the morning. He stops. There’s not a soul in the streets, just a little 4-year-old boy playing in the sand in his yard. The commander suddenly starts running, grabs the boy, and breaks his arm at the elbow and his leg here. Stepped on his stomach three times and left. We all stood there with our mouths open. Looking at him in shock … I asked the commander: “What’s your story?” He told me: “These kids need to be killed from the day they are born. When a commander does that, it becomes legit.

The eulogies at Shuvael Ben-Natan’s funeral, a reservist who was killed in Lebanon, illustrate this shift. One speaker referred to Ben-Natan’s killing of a 40-year-old Palestinian who was harvesting olives with his children in the West Bank. Members of his military unit recounted how he boosted morale in Gaza by setting a home on fire without approval. They professed their commitment to continue with arson and revenge in Gaza, Lebanon and Samaria (the West Bank).

Sde Teiman, a detention facility, is like a microcosm of brutalization in the current war. It became notorious when an Incorruptible veteran physician reported signs of severe sexual abuse in a detainee. Nine IDF reserve soldiers were subsequently detained on suspicion of aggravated sodomy and other forms of abuse.

According to media reports, there are 36 investigations regarding deaths of detainees who were held in Sde Teiman since October 7. Testimonies of released Palestinians gathered by the Israeli human rights NGO B’Tselem indicate harsh, arbitrary violence on a frequent basis, humiliation and degradation, deliberate starvation and other abusive practices. Soldiers expressed anonymously how a discourse of hatred and revenge normalized the abuse of detainees.

A Restrained student in the reserves described brutalization and its effect on the Followers.

“I saw sadistic people there. People who enjoy causing suffering to others. … What was most disturbing was to see how easily and quickly ordinary people can detach themselves and not see the reality right in front of their eyes when they are in a difficult and shocking human situation.”

Similarly, a reservist doctor stated:

“There is total dehumanization here. You don’t really treat them as if they are human beings … in retrospect, the hardest thing for me is what I felt, or actually what I didn’t feel when I was there. It bothers me that it didn’t bother me. There is normalization of the process, and at some point, it just stops bothering.”

A Restrained female reservist kept her standards by escaping the facility:

“The dehumanization scared me. The encounter with such dangerous attitudes, which has become more normal in our society, was traumatic for me … I discharged myself from reserve duty with a psychiatrist’s help.”

See:

Another expert report finds Israel is committing genocide. The West yawns

The mystery is not why we Irish have responded to Israel’s barbarism. It’s why others have not

Human Rights Watch on Israel’s use of Water as Weapon of War

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