⬤ two years of war by a Ukrainian feminist;
⬤ more evidence of Russian torture and secret trials and theft of property.
News from the territories occupied by Russia
Russian FSB tortures three Ukrainians for ‘saboteur plot’ arrests in occupied Crimea (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 9th)
Russian propaganda turns the elimination of its officials in occupied Lysychansk into ‘a monstrous attack on a bakery’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 9th)
‘I live in a modular town and weave nets,’ — a resident of Borodianka (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 8th)
Huge mass ‘sentences’ after fake trial of Ukrainian POWs whom Russia accused of its own war crimes (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 8th)
Seven years of hell for supporting Ukraine in Russian-controlled ‘Donetsk republic’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 6th)
Russians plan to teach schoolchildren in temporarily occupied territories to assemble UAVs (Ukrainska Pravda, February 5th)
‘I realised that it's a kilometre to run through unexploded shells to get to the well...’ — Chronicles of occupied Izium (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 5th)
Russian invaders move to strip Ukrainians forced to flee occupied Berdiansk of their homes (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 6th)
Russia has turned Crimea into a huge prison for political prisoners and hostages from Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 5th)
News from Ukraine – general
To the President of Ukraine V.O. Zelenskyi, about the change of army command (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 9th)
Beyond Greener Grass: Strategies Towards Ukrainian Transnational Cultural Reconstruction (Cedos, February 9th)
Our people are at home: 207 Ukrainians were returned from captivity (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 6th)
The Housing Leadership Lab (Cedos, February 6th)
"Ukraine is a left-wing, anti-authoritarian project” (Ukraine Solidarity EU, February 4th)
"Tensions are building in Ukrainian society as a result of neoliberal policies imposed by the government” (Ukraine Solidarity EU, February 3rd)
2 years of war, a Ukrainian feminist point of view (Ukraine Solidarity EU, February 1st)
Analysis and comment
Suspicious secrecy over crash of military transport plane which Russia claims was carrying Ukrainian POWs (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 7th)
Ukrainian Parliament should become more open to the media and the public (Zmina, February 6th)
International Court of Justice rules that Russia must answer over Ukraine’s Genocide case (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 5th)
War, fascization, and resistance: Perspectives on Russian imperialism (Links, January 23rd)
Research of human rights abuses
Lisne from the air: damage and destruction (Tribunal for Putin, February 9th)
The Butchers of Vovchansk: Suspects named (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 8th)
“Before sharing your own story, it is crucial to hear first the story of those with whom you are talking” — Oleksandra Romantsova (Centre for Civil Liberties, February 8th)
Justice for War Crimes (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, February 7th)
War-related news from Russia
(Hopeless) Nadezhdin. The Kremlin did not allow a loyal "oppositional" and Ukrainophobic candidate to participate in the election (Opora, February 9th)
Russian election: “Nothing happens in social life without human effort” (Posle Media, 7 February)
Campaign for political prisoner Azat Miftakhov (January 29th)
Upcoming solidarity actions in the UK
The future of Ukraine. Thursday 15 February, 2024, 18:30 - 20:00 Location: Europe House, 32 Smith Square, London.
Saturday 24 February, 2pm. Two years resisting Russia's invasion. Assemble Marble Arch and march to Trafalgar Square. Called by Support Ukraine / London Euromaidan, supported by Ukraine Solidarity Campaign.
Saturday 24 February, 4.0pm UK time. An on-line “assembly against the war and its logic”. Organised by Permanent Assembly Against the War.
Thursday 7 March - Evening - Fundraiser Showing of 20 Days in Mariupol - for medical aid appeal for at Novovlynysnk Central Hospital at The Garden Cinema, London.
News from the territories occupied by Russia
Russian FSB tortures three Ukrainians for ‘saboteur plot’ arrests in occupied Crimea (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 9th)
Russian propaganda turns the elimination of its officials in occupied Lysychansk into ‘a monstrous attack on a bakery’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 9th)
‘I live in a modular town and weave nets,’ — a resident of Borodianka (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 8th)
Huge mass ‘sentences’ after fake trial of Ukrainian POWs whom Russia accused of its own war crimes (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 8th)
Seven years of hell for supporting Ukraine in Russian-controlled ‘Donetsk republic’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 6th)
Russians plan to teach schoolchildren in temporarily occupied territories to assemble UAVs (Ukrainska Pravda, February 5th)
‘I realised that it's a kilometre to run through unexploded shells to get to the well...’ — Chronicles of occupied Izium (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 5th)
Russian invaders move to strip Ukrainians forced to flee occupied Berdiansk of their homes (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 6th)
Russia has turned Crimea into a huge prison for political prisoners and hostages from Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 5th)
News from Ukraine – general
To the President of Ukraine V.O. Zelenskyi, about the change of army command (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 9th)
Beyond Greener Grass: Strategies Towards Ukrainian Transnational Cultural Reconstruction (Cedos, February 9th)
Our people are at home: 207 Ukrainians were returned from captivity (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 6th)
The Housing Leadership Lab (Cedos, February 6th)
"Ukraine is a left-wing, anti-authoritarian project” (Ukraine Solidarity EU, February 4th)
"Tensions are building in Ukrainian society as a result of neoliberal policies imposed by the government” (Ukraine Solidarity EU, February 3rd)
2 years of war, a Ukrainian feminist point of view (Ukraine Solidarity EU, February 1st)
Analysis and comment
Suspicious secrecy over crash of military transport plane which Russia claims was carrying Ukrainian POWs (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 7th)
Ukrainian Parliament should become more open to the media and the public (Zmina, February 6th)
International Court of Justice rules that Russia must answer over Ukraine’s Genocide case (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 5th)
War, fascization, and resistance: Perspectives on Russian imperialism (Links, January 23rd)
Research of human rights abuses
Lisne from the air: damage and destruction (Tribunal for Putin, February 9th)
The Butchers of Vovchansk: Suspects named (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 8th)
“Before sharing your own story, it is crucial to hear first the story of those with whom you are talking” — Oleksandra Romantsova (Centre for Civil Liberties, February 8th)
Justice for War Crimes (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, February 7th)
War-related news from Russia
(Hopeless) Nadezhdin. The Kremlin did not allow a loyal "oppositional" and Ukrainophobic candidate to participate in the election (Opora, February 9th)
Russian election: “Nothing happens in social life without human effort” (Posle Media, 7 February)
Campaign for political prisoner Azat Miftakhov (January 29th)
Upcoming solidarity actions in the UK
The future of Ukraine. Thursday 15 February, 2024, 18:30 - 20:00 Location: Europe House, 32 Smith Square, London.
Saturday 24 February, 2pm. Two years resisting Russia's invasion. Assemble Marble Arch and march to Trafalgar Square. Called by Support Ukraine / London Euromaidan, supported by Ukraine Solidarity Campaign.
Saturday 24 February, 4.0pm UK time. An on-line “assembly against the war and its logic”. Organised by Permanent Assembly Against the War.
Thursday 7 March - Evening - Fundraiser Showing of 20 Days in Mariupol - for medical aid appeal for at Novovlynysnk Central Hospital at The Garden Cinema, London.
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Usual western propaganda bullsh!t! Wake up! Zzzzzzz!
ReplyDeleteBTW, if you believe in freedom of expression, why did you ban me from commenting on your FB posts? It is so much more difficult to seek out this place to comment. Either you believe in free speech or you don't. Either way your pro Zelensky sh!t is juvenile, ill-informed and laughable. Shame on you for continuing Biden's war.
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ReplyDeleteДжон Патрик
DeleteWhy didn't you call yourself Seán Pádraig or the English translation John Patrick.......I doubt you are a Russian.....
Джон, my two bits....write an article for TPQ about the war in Ukraine/Russia and why you think the West isn't telling the complete truth, why Putin isn't as big a cunt as he is being made out to be....How the West is covering up war crimes in the Donbas...
I doubt it will be censored, stand up and over your claims...Pen a piece.
Frankie - he is free to write. I have no idea what he is talking about re Facebook. If he is not a religious whack job he will not have been banned. And even they for the most part are put up with. Sounds more like a ranter than a serious commentator so I doubt we will see an article.
DeleteA summary of the PQ view.
ReplyDeletePutin, bad man. Zelensky Saint.
Russian army, rapists and murderers. Ukrainians, boy scouts.
Meanwhile....'unprovoked, unprovoked, unproved, unprovoked....did I say 'unproved'?
Ye may be armed with quills, but ye ain't very pensive.
Джон,
DeleteA summary of the PQ view......Putin, bad man. Zelensky Saint, Russian army, rapists and murderers. Ukrainians, boy scouts.
Джон, this is my take, not the TPQ's. I think Vlad gets bad press in the West, Rambo is a stool pigeon for the West both Russian and Ukrainian troops have carried out war crimes in the Donbas region, and the way the war is going for Ukraine ATM, Rambo is probably thinking about training boy scouts for the front line while he is protected by US Navy Seals in a bunker and his wife shops in Paris...
Ye may be armed with quills, but ye ain't very pensive.
Same Q....instead of ranting, pen a piece.
Anthony,
ReplyDeleteI find it funny when anyone comes on TPQ and complains about you censoring them or when others complain and throw a hissy fit and complain they'll never comment again because they got offended ....
Sounds more like a ranter than a serious commentator so I doubt we will see an article.
You never know...it's not only Christmas when miracles happen.
Frankie, your white washing of Putin's unprovoked invasion of and attempted genocide in Ukraine makes your crocodile tears over the suffering of Palestinians even more hypocritical. Putin and his asset Trump are utter cunts and so are anybody who does their business.
ReplyDeleteWhat is your take on Zelensky's backing of 'Israel'? He likens Russia to Hamas! He calls them both terrorists that must be defeated.
DeleteДжон Патрик what is your take on the murder by use of Polonium-210 ( a radioactive isotope) of former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko on UK soil?
DeleteSteve R. He was a traitor and it appears that he was executed because of this.
ReplyDeleteWhat sort of moral compass do you have, one who defends the likely murder of some one for his opposition to a kleptocracy and for exercising his human right to freedom of expression?
DeleteДжон Патрик and that justifies using a radioactive isotope as a weapon on foreign soil does it?
DeleteBarry
ReplyDeletePutin and his asset Trump are utter cunts and so are anybody who does their business.
Let's stay with your school of thought and anyone who has dealt, deals, or other with 'Putins Russia' is a cunt. Several years ago I wrote a piece called 'Fuck you John Podesta'. I mentioned how...
Hillary Clinton had her own Ms Fix it: Huma Abedin who was directly involved with the cover up concerning the "Uranium One scandal "(New York Times)
The NYT article explains how The Clinton Crime Family got very rich buying and selling Uranium with 'Putins Russia'. Does that make The Clintons cunts?
What about the BRICS banking system are they all cunts because they deal with 'Putins Russia?' What about Western Central Banks who set up, funded, and sign off on BRICS. in Nov 2001. Are the people who control the same banking system that you, me, and a boy named Sue use, cunts because they make money building 'BRICS'?
According to Happy Hunters laptop, his family made millions laundering money in Ukraine, dealt with 'Putins Russia', and had more than a few dodgy deals with 'Xi's China'...Are the Biden Crime Family cunts?
Or is it just The Donald and Putin? Where did your blind hatred for The Donald spring from Barry? Write a piece and enlighten TPQ explaining why you resent a man who hasn't done a thing to you, so much.
Where does my blind hatred of Trump come from. A known sexual predator, his attempt to overthrow US democracy on 6 January, a convicted fraudster, his reference to migrants as poison in the bloodstream (there's real Nazism for you) amd that this sociopaths a lodestar for far right potential Quislings across the world. I have no desire to meet this piece of sewage.
DeleteOh and Frankie, what did Zionists or Zionism ever do to you?
DeleteBarry,
ReplyDeleteFrankie, yourwhite washing of Putin's unprovoked invasion of and attempted genocide in Ukraine
Ok so NATO didn't expand, the West upheld its end of the Minsk Agreements. There wasn't an American/Western-led and funded coup d'etat in Ukraine in 2014. And only Russia is guilty of ethnically cleansing along the Ukrainian/Russian border. And this 2014The Guardian piece, the Al-jazeera article about who said what at Minsk and Stop the war's piece THE US HAS REPEATEDLY BLOCKED PEACE IN UKRAINE — IS IT RETHINKING?' -----all Russian propaganda.
makes your crocodile tears over the suffering of Palestinians even more hypocritical.
The ethnic cleansing that has been going on by both Ukrainian and Russian Nazis all along the Donbas, is in no way comparable to the genocide carried out by Israeli Nazis on Palestinians.
Once the war between NATO and Russia ends in some sort of 'Minsk 3', Ukraine will be allowed to rebuild, and Ukrainians will be paid to return.....
Once the war is over in Gaza there won't be any Palestinians alive to rebuild 'the Strip',
Russia invaded Ukraine to re establish the ancient realm of Russian taking in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. Straight forward imperialist landgrab.The excuses trotted out by Putin apologists around NATO expansion just do not hold water. Oh and Ukraine did not massacre, rape and incinerate Russian civilians before Putin invaded. Slavi Ukraini
DeleteBarry Gilheany
ReplyDelete"What sort of moral compass do you have, one who defends the likely murder of some one for his opposition to a kleptocracy and for exercising his human right to freedom of expression?"
Where have I defended this?
My words were very carefully chosen neither to defend or oppose it.
I merely said what I believed to have been the case. I believe that he was a traitor and I believe that those who killed him thought this too.
Why do you think he was a traitor?
DeleteSteve R
ReplyDelete"Джон Патрик and that justifies using a radioactive isotope as a weapon on foreign soil does it?"
It seems to me that the question is one of do traitors deserve to die? I am not entirely sure of the relevance of radioactive isotopes and foreign soil. The IRA certainly didn't have any scruples about eliminating traitors wherever they might be found.
"It seems to me that the question is one of do traitors deserve to die?"
DeleteA traitor to who exactly? How have you arrived at this conclusion?
"I am not entirely sure of the relevance of radioactive isotopes and foreign soil."
If Russia had no issue using nuclear weapons on UK soil then where do you draw the line? This point isn't lost on the West and I'd argue feeds in to NATO consideration hence why Russia is facing their new Afghanistan- even if they obtain a military victory they will be faced with a hostile native population that absolutely does not want them there.
Europe has cut their reliance on cheap Russian gas down to about 8% and will continue to source from the US and Norway to further reduce their need. Putin talks a big game about the BRICs who invent nothing and who all try to emulate the West but the reality is they are 3rd world at best. China is in a very precarious position financially, Russian wealth belongs to a concentrated mob of Putin cronies while Russian cities disintegrate due to lack of public funds to maintain them, India has enormous numbers in abject poverty and Brazil is little better with its rampant corruption at all levels.
The Ukraine war will be the end of Russia as a regional power. They do not even look after their own people, they get their very worst prisoners' to fight as cannonfodder reminiscent of Stanlingrad and they are led by KGB bully boy who has read the room wrong- The West strength is it's democracy, it's democracy is not it's weakness. When outsiders push to much and politicians cave in then new elections are called and far stronger leaders emerge. The pendulum also swings back.
And who was Navalny a traitor to?
ReplyDeleteBarry Gilheany
ReplyDelete"Why do you think he was a traitor?"
If my memory serves me right, he was even denounced as a traitor by his own father. Having said that, I have not studied the case in detail. He seems rather a repulsive character to me. I didn't raise this subject and have no intention of looking further into this. I am more concerned with present events.
You are chickening out of a proper answer because you do not have a case to make.
ReplyDeleteSteve R
ReplyDelete"....even if they obtain a military victory they will be faced with a hostile native population that absolutely does not want them there."
Your mistake here is to consider that there is a single native population. The Ukraine has half a dozen native populations. These range from the Banderite Nazi Russian haters, to the Poles, the Hungarians the Rumanians and the despised Russians.
The only areas that Russia is interested in consist of ethnic Russians, most of whom back Russia. After all, their language is banned for public use and they are being treated in much the same way that the Irish were with the equivalence of Penal Laws, language restrictions, political parties and persecution of their religion. This was after a bloody CIA inspired coup which removed their President. These Russian areas will rally to a new extended Russia, regaining its lost ground. Their forefathers were born there when it was Russia. They were gifted to a fake Ukrainian State by Bolsheviks and they oppose with every fibre of their being the Kiev Nazi, Banderite regime that seeks to exterminate them.
"The Ukraine war will be the end of Russia as a regional power. They do not even look after their own people, they get their very worst prisoners' to fight as cannonfodder reminiscent of Stanlingrad and they are led by KGB bully boy who has read the room wrong- The West strength is it's democracy, it's democracy is not it's weakness. When outsiders push to much and politicians cave in then new elections are called and far stronger leaders emerge. The pendulum also swings back."
Your last paragraph is just pure western propaganda bullshit and is not worthy of a response.
Pure western propaganda bullshit. Not worth a response.
And your screed of untruths and distortions cut amd and pasted from Putin's propaganda manual is not worth a response either
DeleteMy last paragraph struck a nerve it seems.
DeleteBarry Gilheany
ReplyDelete"You are chickening out of a proper answer because you do not have a case to make."
I have answered, several times. Unlike you who dodged the one question that I asked you. I can repeat it.
What is your take on Zelensky's backing of 'Israel'? He likens Russia to Hamas! He calls them both terrorists that must be defeated.
Barry Gilheany
ReplyDelete"And who was Navalny a traitor to?"
Is that the scumbag Navalny who said that immigrants are worse that cockroaches and should be shot dead?
He sounds like a traitor to humanity!
Barry Gilheany
ReplyDelete"And your screed of untruths and distortions cut amd and pasted from Putin's propaganda manual is not worth a response either"
I am more than happy not to converse with you and I don't even know how to cut 'amd' paste.
It is good of you to admit that you cannot counter anything that I said though.
Shame on you for backing that racialist, scumbag, convict Navalny.
No wonder you also back the war-criminal and delusional Zelensky who is being used by the USA, who will drop him the moment that they have to do an Afghanistan retreat.
You warmongers are not only mentally insane but definitely lacking in a moral compass.
A Putin supporter calling anyone a war monger is the pot calling the kettle black. Remember Chechnya, Georgia and Syria.
DeleteBarry....
ReplyDeleteWhere does my blind hatred of Trump come from. A known sexual predator, his attempt to overthrow US democracy on 6 January, a convicted fraudster, his reference to migrants as poison in the bloodstream (there's real Nazism for you) amd that this sociopaths a lodestar for far right potential Quislings across the world. I have no desire to meet this piece of sewage.
Yes Barry 'Where does your blind hatred for The Donald come from?'...We all know 'Why' you don't like him....And to quote yourself..."You are chickening out of a proper answer because you do not have a case to make."....The reasons you gave as why don't like The Donald, both the Clinton and Biden crime families are guilty of similar crimes....Before 2016 you never mentioned The Donald. But once he ran for office, you seem to have it in for him. Have you always hated The Donald? Again not 'Why' but 'Where' did your blind hatred for The Donald spring from?'
Oh and Frankie, what did Zionists or Zionism ever do to you?
In a nutshell, ill-informed people who think they know what they are talking about at times piss off my oldest daughter and that pisses me off. She is Jewish but not a Zionist and some people think Zionists and Jews are the same and want the same things for Palestine. Why don't you listen to Rabbi Yisroel 'Davy' Weiss and "We Cry for the Palestinians" .......
Rabbi Weiss is from a tiny fundamentalist Judaic sect that opposes Zionism on the grounds that there should be no Jewish state until the Second Coming of the Messiah. These crackpots are known to promote Holocaust denial and support Hamas.
DeleteYes Zionism is distinct from Judaism but is still an aspect of Jewishness. It is basically a call for a Jewish nation in their ancient homeland and having achieved that, it had served it's purpose. It is logically possible to oppose the West Bank Occupation and the appalling loss of life in Gaza and still be a Zionist. I am neither pro or anti Zionist but I am opposed to it's Demonisation as a global canal of evil because a similar delusive ideology about Jewish canals powers traditional Antisemitism. I want a fully sovereign Palestinian state btw.
DeleteBarry, Zionism is basically a call for land theft whether it be in Africa or the Middle East. How an atheist like yourself buys into biblical myths about an ancient homeland invites explanation. It was a homeland to many people not just Jewish folk. Then Zionist mythmaking started in order to provide historical cover for land theft. Likewise, how you are not anti-Zionist also invites explanation when Zionism is now a genocidal project. This is why I continuously refer to Nazi-like atrocity. You have always spoken up against genocide, yet end up not addressing key concerns. At some point I hope you stop supporting the Labour Party led by the anti-human rights lawyer who like Blair before him openly supports war crimes.
DeleteThe premise of Israel is absurd. Stealing other people's land to build an exclusionary ethnostate to fulfil a millennia-old religious prophecy is totally offensive to 21st century sensibilities.
DeleteHowever there are now 7 million Jewish people living in there; a mixture of indigenous, European settlers, and refugees from Arab states post-1948. The Israeli state has unqualified Western support and if all else fails an undeclared arsenal of nuclear weapons.
The odds of Israel collapsing and a secular multi-ethnic democracy encompassing all of Palestine emerging are nil. In this reality a two-state solution is the only way forward.
The question isn't really whether Palestinians are going to be f*cked over or not but to what degree and two states is the least worst option.
Bleakley - absolutely absurd. It is appalling that secularists or humanists buy into it.
DeleteI do not agree with the two state solution because of the absurdity of what you point out. But it doesn't really matter what I agree with. I am not getting bombed into oblivion or having my children murdered by Israeli Einsatzgruppen because of it.
The Israeli historian Shlomo Sand - who rubbished the Zionist myth of an ancient homeland - feels that Israel should never have come into existence but now that it is here changes the facts on the ground and that to try to get rid of it would only exacerbate the problem. But rather than go for the ethnobabble of a Jewish state for Jewish citizens he thinks it has to be an Israeli state for Israeli citizens.
To refuse to countenance a two state solution in my view can only ensure more misery and destruction for Palestinians at the hands of Zionist Nazis. What we might wish for and what burden we can expect others to bear to satisfy our wishes is irreconcilable.
I feel given the balance of forces there is as much chance of getting a one state solution as there is of getting the same for India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Barry,
ReplyDeleteRussia invaded Ukraine to re establish the ancient realm of Russian taking in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. Straight forward imperialist landgrab.The excuses trotted out by Putin apologists around NATO expansion just do not hold water.
Actually reads like a bad BBC podcast.
Oh and Ukraine did not massacre, rape and incinerate Russian civilians before Putin invaded. i
So you are saying Ukrainian troops 'massacred, raped and incinerated Russian civilians' after Russia invaded?
No Ukrainian soldiers did not commit rapes and murders of Russian civilians before or after the invasion but Hamas committed them on Israeli civilians on 7 October (not that I agree with the totally OTT Israeli response and want an immediate ceasefire by both sides and release of hostages)
DeleteNavalny's past views were unacceptable but everyone had aspects of their past that they regret. Ad hominem attacks on Zelensky do not disguise your apparent support for Putin's imperialist mission and his silencing of opponents through poisoning.
ReplyDeleteReasons for hating Trump: the Muslim travel ban, his weaponising of racism, his lying, his fondness of dictators, his incitement of his far right followers to violence and his excitable Apprentice show. I have always despised grifters like Trump and Farage and Galloway and will continue to do so.
ReplyDeleteI meant excreable Apprentice show
ReplyDeleteBarry Gilheany
ReplyDelete"I meant excreable Apprentice show"
Or maybe execrable!
An excellent adjective to describe Zelensky's criminal regime.
At the end of the day, litigating the circumstances of Israel's creation takes us nowhere in terms of how to get to an immediate ceasefire by both Israel and Hamas, release of the hostages, resumption of humanitarian, recognition of a Palestinian state and the two state solution.
ReplyDeleteThere is encouraging movement internationally and domestically towards the goals I have outlined. Despite the shenanigans in the UK parliament this week there is a cross party consensus developing in that direction with Labour moving well away from Keir's totally wrong initial support for the deprivation of food, water and electricity to Gaza. Btw, I have no plans intention of leaving the Labour Party because of defamatory accusations that the Party supports genocide. Keir has a good track record in human rights advocacy , e.g his successful defence of the McLibel Two
ReplyDeleteBarry - the party has been complicit in genocide. It opposed a ceasefire that would have put an end to genocide. Starmer might at one time have had a good track record in human rights but that has evaporated like snow on a ditch once he supported the war crime you have referred to as being 'totally wrong.' He is an anti-human rights lawyer. It is disappointing that you continue to remain in a party whose leaders have consistently supported war crimes - is that not a good enough reason to leave any party?
DeleteI support two state solutiA on on the grounds that both Jews and Arabs are indigenous to the historic territory of Palestine, that there needs to be a place of refuge for Jews there and a fully functioning and sovereign state for Palestinian Arabs. Supporters of the State of Israel would argue that it is a state for Israeli citizens including the 20 per cent Arab minority. I do not agree with discriminatory ethno states anywhere
ReplyDeleteThe MENA region is full of them.
When discussing Zionism, it is important to appreciate the motives and forces behind it which was the rampant anti-Jewishness in Europe in the 19th century culminating in the Kishinev pogrom of 1903 and symbolised by the Dreyfuss affair and the Elders of Zion forgery. It was just another nationalist movement. Anyway, those are my views and I am not resiling from them at the behest of anyone.
ReplyDeleteAnti-Semitism was one factor fuelling it but there was a history of it even prior to Herzl. An even more prominent factor was land grabbing colonialism. Zionism also toyed with the idea of stealing African land. Palestinian land was easier to steal because of the mythology that permeated much Jewish thinking. Whatever its origins it is now Naziism because of its genocidal urges and actions.
Delete