PETER HITCHENS: ‘Keir Starmer’s Labour wishes you and I were dead’
‘We learned during Covid of the many methods by which unwanted persons or opinions can be suppressed or made invisible’
“[If] you fail to vote against Labour in sufficient numbers … you will have 20 hard, dispiriting years in which to regret your mistake, in putting into government people who think they are so good that they wish you and I were dead.”
“Now, this does not mean that Keir Starmer, if he wins on Thursday, will begin building Stalin-style Gulag camps in which his opponents can be worked and starved to death …
“[There] is no need at all to actually shoot people you wish did not exist.
“You cancel them instead, denying them access to broadcasting, publishing, and of course to anti-social media — where we learned during Covid of the many methods by which unwanted persons or opinions can be suppressed or made invisible …”
SEYMOUR HERSH: ‘The death toll in Gaza is much higher than we're being told’
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“In days of telephone and email exchanges with public health and statistical experts in America I found a general belief that the civilian death toll in Gaza … had to be significantly higher than reported …
“Save the Children … [estimates] that as many as 21,000 children in Gaza are ‘trapped beneath rubble, detained, buried in unmarked graves, or lost from their families’.
“Other children, the agency said, ‘have been forcibly disappeared …’ … ‘amidst reports of ill-treatment and torture’ …
“[According to] Devi Sridhar, the chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh … as many as 160 children [in Gaza are] being killed daily …
“… [In February,] Al Jazeera ran an interview with a 64-year-old Gazan undertaker named Saadi Hassan Sulieman Baraka …
“‘I've buried about ten times more people during this war than I did across my entire 27 years as an undertaker,’ he said.
“‘… Since October 7, I've buried more than 17,000 people’ …
“He especially remembered the day he buried … 800 dead.
“‘We collected them in pieces; their bodies so riddled with holes it was like Israeli snipers used them for target practice.
“‘Others were crushed like … like a boiled potato, and many had huge facial burns …’”
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL: ‘We will celebrate if this election batters the SNP and elects a Labour majority among Scottish MPs’ …
“… [The SNP] has a long track record of criticising Israel …
“[Nicola Sturgeon held] anti-Israel positions [and] regularly riled Scottish Jews, 90 per cent of whom consider themselves Zionists.
“In August 2021, the SNP invited the Scottish Greens party to join their government.
“At that time, the Greens’ platform included a boycott of Israel, labelling it an ‘apartheid state’ …
“[And Humza Yousaf’s] support for the Palestinians and criticism of Israel since October 7 only served to cause Scottish Jews to question whether we have a future in Scotland …
“At the last general election, Scottish voters overwhelmingly chose the SNP …”
‘Labour and Zionism have collaborated for over a century’
“… Keir Starmer is betting on the Israel lobby to deliver him to power … in the midst of Zionist genocide in Gaza …
“When Tony Blair was Shadow Home Secretary … he was introduced to Israel lobbyist Michael Levy by Israeli embassy officer Gideon Meir …
“Levy then proceeded to raise money for Blair, securing contributions from influential pro-Israel lobbyists such as Westfield Chariman Frank Lowy … a former Haganah fighter, Emmanuel Kaye of Labour Friends of Israel, and Trevor Shin.”
“[At] the exact same time he was fundraising for Blair, Levy was fundraising for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
“Levy's son, Daniel, was also an Israeli employee working for the Israeli justice minister, Yossi Beilin …”
“After exiting Downing Street, Blair was selected to be a Patron of the largest settlement body in occupied Palestine, the JNF, alongside Israel's president and prime minister.
“His wife, Cherie Blair … became an ethical adviser to the Israeli intelligence company, the NSO group, responsible for the infamous Pegasus spyware.
“… [Perhaps] Starmer envisions a similar trajectory for himself.”
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https://www.newarab.com/news/saudi-cracks-down-online-posts-against-israels-gaza-war
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PETER HITCHENS: ‘Keir Starmer’s Labour wishes you and I were dead’
ReplyDelete‘We learned during Covid of the many methods by which unwanted persons or opinions can be suppressed or made invisible’
“[If] you fail to vote against Labour in sufficient numbers … you will have 20 hard, dispiriting years in which to regret your mistake, in putting into government people who think they are so good that they wish you and I were dead.”
“Now, this does not mean that Keir Starmer, if he wins on Thursday, will begin building Stalin-style Gulag camps in which his opponents can be worked and starved to death …
“[There] is no need at all to actually shoot people you wish did not exist.
“You cancel them instead, denying them access to broadcasting, publishing, and of course to anti-social media — where we learned during Covid of the many methods by which unwanted persons or opinions can be suppressed or made invisible …”
https://archive.is/dQW6j
SEYMOUR HERSH: ‘The death toll in Gaza is much higher than we're being told’
ReplyDelete…
“In days of telephone and email exchanges with public health and statistical experts in America I found a general belief that the civilian death toll in Gaza … had to be significantly higher than reported …
“Save the Children … [estimates] that as many as 21,000 children in Gaza are ‘trapped beneath rubble, detained, buried in unmarked graves, or lost from their families’.
“Other children, the agency said, ‘have been forcibly disappeared …’ … ‘amidst reports of ill-treatment and torture’ …
“[According to] Devi Sridhar, the chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh … as many as 160 children [in Gaza are] being killed daily …
“… [In February,] Al Jazeera ran an interview with a 64-year-old Gazan undertaker named Saadi Hassan Sulieman Baraka …
“‘I've buried about ten times more people during this war than I did across my entire 27 years as an undertaker,’ he said.
“‘… Since October 7, I've buried more than 17,000 people’ …
“He especially remembered the day he buried … 800 dead.
“‘We collected them in pieces; their bodies so riddled with holes it was like Israeli snipers used them for target practice.
“‘Others were crushed like … like a boiled potato, and many had huge facial burns …’”
https://www.sott.net/article/492600-The-Suspect-Body-Count-The-Death-Toll-in-Gaza-is-Much-Higher-Than-We-re-Being-Told
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL: ‘We will celebrate if this election batters the SNP and elects a Labour majority among Scottish MPs’
ReplyDelete…
“… [The SNP] has a long track record of criticising Israel …
“[Nicola Sturgeon held] anti-Israel positions [and] regularly riled Scottish Jews, 90 per cent of whom consider themselves Zionists.
“In August 2021, the SNP invited the Scottish Greens party to join their government.
“At that time, the Greens’ platform included a boycott of Israel, labelling it an ‘apartheid state’ …
“[And Humza Yousaf’s] support for the Palestinians and criticism of Israel since October 7 only served to cause Scottish Jews to question whether we have a future in Scotland …
“At the last general election, Scottish voters overwhelmingly chose the SNP …”
https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/analysis/this-election-is-likely-to-batter-the-snp-and-scotlands-jews-will-be-celebrating-gob884vr
‘Labour and Zionism have collaborated for over a century’
ReplyDelete“… Keir Starmer is betting on the Israel lobby to deliver him to power … in the midst of Zionist genocide in Gaza …
“When Tony Blair was Shadow Home Secretary … he was introduced to Israel lobbyist Michael Levy by Israeli embassy officer Gideon Meir …
“Levy then proceeded to raise money for Blair, securing contributions from influential pro-Israel lobbyists such as Westfield Chariman Frank Lowy … a former Haganah fighter, Emmanuel Kaye of Labour Friends of Israel, and Trevor Shin.”
“[At] the exact same time he was fundraising for Blair, Levy was fundraising for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
“Levy's son, Daniel, was also an Israeli employee working for the Israeli justice minister, Yossi Beilin …”
“After exiting Downing Street, Blair was selected to be a Patron of the largest settlement body in occupied Palestine, the JNF, alongside Israel's president and prime minister.
“His wife, Cherie Blair … became an ethical adviser to the Israeli intelligence company, the NSO group, responsible for the infamous Pegasus spyware.
“… [Perhaps] Starmer envisions a similar trajectory for himself.”
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/06/18/727695/The-Labour-Party-and-Zionism-have-collaborated-for-over-a-century-