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Anthony McIntyre  ☠ What a freezing morning, a good day for staying in but one where there are even more compelling reasons for going out. 

Drogheda Stands With Palestine will hold its weekly vigil in support of those who experience much worse more than a bit of October chill. It is important to attend that. Moreover, in recent days there have been rumblings in the sewers of Drogheda which might see a slurry overspill onto West Street around midday. I guess if we gather a bit earlier and get onto the steps we could avoid racist turds lapping at our feet.

For the past month some of us who stand here weekly have been on the canvass trail in support of Catherine Connolly who is seeking to become President of Ireland after the votes cast have been counted today. For me there were many reasons to weigh in behind the presidential bid of Catherine Connolly, but none more important than her unalloyed opposition to the genocide in Gaza and her uncompromising willingness to speak out against it when others refused to call it by its name while Heather Humphreys bobbed and weaved like a hunted fox in her bid to evade acknowledging that the USA was enabling genocide.

On that distressing topic, it was reassuring yesterday to read the following opening lines from a media report:

For decades, Israel defied international law with impunity. That era is ending. In a historic advisory opinion issued this week, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Israel’s systematic obstruction of humanitarian aid to Gaza has breached its obligations under the Geneva Conventions and the UN Charter, amounting to the use of starvation as a method of warfare. The judges found that Israel failed to justify its near-total blockade on food, fuel, and medicine, concluding that “security concerns cannot be invoked to impose collective deprivation. UNRWA, the UN’s principal relief agency for Palestinians, had been vilified by Israel as infiltrated by Hamas. The ICJ found those claims unsubstantiated. Instead, it described UNRWA as “the backbone of humanitarian assistance in Gaza,” ordering Israel to restore full cooperation and permit unhindered aid access.
The opinion — adopted by 10 votes to 1 — confirmed that Israel violated UN immunities, bombed protected facilities, and ignored its duties as an occupying power. In diplomatic terms, it is a condemnation of historic proportions — one that shreds decades of Israeli denials and Western political cover.

The one dissenting voice was that of Kenyan judge Julia Sebutinde, her reasoning outlined in August when she told a church congregation “the Lord is counting on me to stand on the side of Israel” . This has led to a critic claiming: “The Hague itself is now on trial — undone by a judge who mistakes prophecy for jurisprudence.” In behaving as she does, Sebutinde reminds me so much of the theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg who observed:

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Unfortunately, in the case of Weinberg who died in 2021, being atheist didn't do much for his moral critique of religion. He too was a trenchant supporter of the evil that is Israel.

It was also uplifting to read from the same article quoted above that Benjamin Nazi yahoo, wanted by the ICC for war crimes,  has taken to avoiding the airspace of some EU member states, fearing arrest. This has prompted a senior EU diplomat to comment that “for the first time, an Israeli leader flies not as a statesman but as a fugitive from justice.”

Nor is he likely to be the only fugitive from justice. The Belgian Hind Rajab foundation has submitted a forensically compiled 120 page dossier to the ICC identifying 24 Israeli commanders and soldiers responsible for the January 2024 murder of the six year old along with her family and the medics who went to rescue her. One of those the Foundation has exposed as being  responsible for the savage murder of Hind Rajab is Sean Glass, a former US Navy seal. 

Quite the badge for a Navy Seal to wear - from US Special Forces to the Israeli SS. The unit responsible for taking out Osama Bin Laden has now one of its own murdering Palestinian children. In a genocide that has seen over one thousand infants below the age of one, and five not yet six years old, slaughtered, a searing image has been branded onto public consciousness, one of seals murdering cubs. 

⏩Follow on Twitter @AnthonyMcIntyre.

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Anthony McIntyre  ☠ What a freezing morning, a good day for staying in but one where there are even more compelling reasons for going out. 

Drogheda Stands With Palestine will hold its weekly vigil in support of those who experience much worse more than a bit of October chill. It is important to attend that. Moreover, in recent days there have been rumblings in the sewers of Drogheda which might see a slurry overspill onto West Street around midday. I guess if we gather a bit earlier and get onto the steps we could avoid racist turds lapping at our feet.

For the past month some of us who stand here weekly have been on the canvass trail in support of Catherine Connolly who is seeking to become President of Ireland after the votes cast have been counted today. For me there were many reasons to weigh in behind the presidential bid of Catherine Connolly, but none more important than her unalloyed opposition to the genocide in Gaza and her uncompromising willingness to speak out against it when others refused to call it by its name while Heather Humphreys bobbed and weaved like a hunted fox in her bid to evade acknowledging that the USA was enabling genocide.

On that distressing topic, it was reassuring yesterday to read the following opening lines from a media report:

For decades, Israel defied international law with impunity. That era is ending. In a historic advisory opinion issued this week, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Israel’s systematic obstruction of humanitarian aid to Gaza has breached its obligations under the Geneva Conventions and the UN Charter, amounting to the use of starvation as a method of warfare. The judges found that Israel failed to justify its near-total blockade on food, fuel, and medicine, concluding that “security concerns cannot be invoked to impose collective deprivation. UNRWA, the UN’s principal relief agency for Palestinians, had been vilified by Israel as infiltrated by Hamas. The ICJ found those claims unsubstantiated. Instead, it described UNRWA as “the backbone of humanitarian assistance in Gaza,” ordering Israel to restore full cooperation and permit unhindered aid access.
The opinion — adopted by 10 votes to 1 — confirmed that Israel violated UN immunities, bombed protected facilities, and ignored its duties as an occupying power. In diplomatic terms, it is a condemnation of historic proportions — one that shreds decades of Israeli denials and Western political cover.

The one dissenting voice was that of Kenyan judge Julia Sebutinde, her reasoning outlined in August when she told a church congregation “the Lord is counting on me to stand on the side of Israel” . This has led to a critic claiming: “The Hague itself is now on trial — undone by a judge who mistakes prophecy for jurisprudence.” In behaving as she does, Sebutinde reminds me so much of the theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg who observed:

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Unfortunately, in the case of Weinberg who died in 2021, being atheist didn't do much for his moral critique of religion. He too was a trenchant supporter of the evil that is Israel.

It was also uplifting to read from the same article quoted above that Benjamin Nazi yahoo, wanted by the ICC for war crimes,  has taken to avoiding the airspace of some EU member states, fearing arrest. This has prompted a senior EU diplomat to comment that “for the first time, an Israeli leader flies not as a statesman but as a fugitive from justice.”

Nor is he likely to be the only fugitive from justice. The Belgian Hind Rajab foundation has submitted a forensically compiled 120 page dossier to the ICC identifying 24 Israeli commanders and soldiers responsible for the January 2024 murder of the six year old along with her family and the medics who went to rescue her. One of those the Foundation has exposed as being  responsible for the savage murder of Hind Rajab is Sean Glass, a former US Navy seal. 

Quite the badge for a Navy Seal to wear - from US Special Forces to the Israeli SS. The unit responsible for taking out Osama Bin Laden has now one of its own murdering Palestinian children. In a genocide that has seen over one thousand infants below the age of one, and five not yet six years old, slaughtered, a searing image has been branded onto public consciousness, one of seals murdering cubs. 

⏩Follow on Twitter @AnthonyMcIntyre.
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