âI oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.â
Says retired British Army officer Col. Chris Romberg, who is the son of a Holocaust survivor and 1 of the 522 people arrested in London for protesting UK complicity in Israelâs war on Gaza.
Starmer has made the Labour party unelectable - I doubt they will recover from this anytime soon.
This is quite possibly a new low. A girl is getting water for her family. Thatâs all sheâs doing - you can see the water carrier. Sheâs no threat to anyone. The sniper whoâs filming her pulls the trigger, and she just DISAPPEARS.
In April, thousands of reservists signed letters demanding that the government stop the fighting and instead focus on reaching a deal to bring back the hostages being held in Gaza.
Last June, 41 officers and reservists sent a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz accusing the government of waging an âunnecessary, eternal warâ in Gaza and announcing they would no longer take part in it.
According to Israelâs national broadcaster Kan, only 60 per cent of soldiers are now showing up for reserve duty â roughly half of the 120 per cent recorded in the early days of the war.
Of course they are not concerned for the Palestinians just the hostages and themselves.
The back and forth might serve to reaffirm the widely held assessment that Trump is the only world leader who has sway over Netanyahu.
But itâs also telling that off the cuff comments from the US president may have had more of an influence on the Israeli prime ministerâs response than the severity of the incident itself.
Once again, a hospital treating civilians has been struck by Israeli forces.
And once again Palestinian journalists, bearing a heavy burden as the only media operating in the strip, have paid the ultimate price for their vital work.
The difference this time is it was caught on camera.
But if recent conduct is anything to go by, itâs unlikely to prompt a different response in Israelâs behaviour without sufficient pressure from someone like Donald Trump.