1) Force out palestinians again.
2) To kill 2 birds with one stone, hamas/hezbollah
3) To kill 3 birds with one stone, hamas/hezbollah/iran
4) 2 & 3 with with USA and KSA
5) Then to wrap up 'peace plan with KSA' once israel/MBS enemies in hamas/hezbollah have been removed.
The ethnic cleansing of Palestinians into the Sinai Desert, and into Jordan has been openly discussed by Israeli Generals and Politicians for a number of years.
The Israeli army says it conducted an overnight ground raid inside Gaza targeting Hamas positions using tanks.
Al Jazeera condemns Israel’s “indiscriminate assault” on Gaza after family members of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh are killed in an air raid.
President Biden faces backlash for questioning the Gaza death toll and describing the deaths of innocent Palestinians in the besieged enclave as “the price of waging war”.
Russia-led UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip fails shortly after Moscow and Beijing vetoed a resolution put forward by Washington.
At least 6,546 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, while more than 1,400 people have been killed in Israel since October 7.
Why the UK Labour Party is no longer a safe home for Muslims Ismail Patel
Starmer's pro-Israel rhetoric in recent days comes against a backdrop of Islamophobia within the party
The 16-year Israeli siege of Gaza has escalated to relentless bombing with thousands of casualties. The images of humanitarian catastrophe coming out of Gaza are harrowing and raise deep concerns.
Israeli violations have been made possible, in part, through the diplomatic and vocal support of the British establishment and Labour leader Keir Starmer.
Starmer has unequivocally condemned the killing of Israelis on 7 October, while justifying Israel’s mass targeting of civilians and collective punishment in Gaza. This is a betrayal not only of international law and the historical rights of Palestinians, but also of humanity.
Starmer has failed to apologise for the comments he recently made on LBC, effectively endorsing Israel’s collective punishment and potential war crimes. Coming from a human rights lawyer, this was a slap in the face to every person of justice, regardless of their religion or ethnic identity. Starmer later said his comments were misinterpreted.
His disregard for humanitarian law was echoed on Newsnight by Emily Thornberry, Labour’s shadow attorney general, while David Lammy, the shadow foreign secretary, said Labour “stands with the people of Israel” - without mentioning the need to protect the people of Gaza.
The backing of Israeli collective punishment by Labour leadership has left millions of Muslims asking themselves a very troubling question: does Starmer have a problem with Muslims?
The question comes after a 2020 report on Islamophobia by the Labour Muslim Network found 29 percent of Muslim Labour members had suffered Islamophobia within the party, and 37 percent had witnessed it. In addition, 44 percent said Labour did not take Islamophobia seriously.
Different standards
Within weeks of that report, it was revealed that Starmer had received funding for the Labour Party from David Abrahams, whose social media posts have been condemned as Islamophobic.
In 2021, Starmer cancelled an iftar, the breaking of fast in Ramadan, because the organisers supported the boycott of Israeli dates. More than 2,000 people signed a petition, started by Friends of Al-Aqsa, criticising Starmer for holding Muslims to different “standards”.
A 2022 follow-up report on Islamophobia by the Labour Muslim Network found that 68 percent of Muslim Labour supporters did not trust the Labour leadership to tackle Islamophobia effectively.
After the LBC interview, Starmer’s office issued a “strong” warning against MPs speaking at rallies and protests demanding justice for Palestinians.
Why would the Labour leader call for the release of all hostages to Muslims at an Islamic centre in South Wales?
His stance has raised tensions within the Labour Party, leading to the resignations of councillors, while MPs have ignored the directive of not attending rallies.
Labour has lost Oxford City Council, with eight councillors resigning. And the entire Leicester City Council Labour group, with 31 councillors, has asked all party leaders to call for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the Gaza blockade. The call for a ceasefire is further supported by 250 Muslim councillors.
The sentiments against Labour were highlighted last week by one councillor who warned that the party had “a day or two” left to alter course before the internal situation became “unmanageable”.
Deliberate reductionism
This comment relates to Starmer’s selective application of freedom of speech and rights for those seeking justice for Palestine and British Muslims. His prejudice was highlighted after he visited a mosque in Wales and then posted on social media: “I repeated our calls for all hostages to be released.”
I approached Labour Party for a response but did not hear back by the time of publication.
Why would the Labour leader call for the release of all hostages to Muslims at an Islamic centre in South Wales? Does he hold British Muslims collectively responsible for the actions of those thousands of kilometres away?
This is deliberate reductionism, by which all Palestinians are lumped in with Hamas, a group that is now equated with terrorism - and in turn, all British Muslims and supporters of Palestine are viewed as terrorist sympathisers. Such reductionism discriminates against Muslims and breaches the Labour code of conduct on Islamophobia.
The impact of this kind of reductionism was in action last week, when a Labour MP, Mohammad Yasin, was prevented from boarding a flight to Canada “because his name was Mohammad”.
Islamophobia within Labour has become so rampant that Apsana Begum, the country’s first hijab-wearing Muslim MP, was forced to leave her own party’s conference due to threats against her.
The disquiet around Starmer’s policies is revealed in a large survey conducted by Muslim Census of 30,000 Muslims spread across 575 Parliamentary constituencies. This showed 66 percent drop in support for Labour, meaning if elections were to be held now, only 4.9 of Muslims would vote for the party.
This is a collapse from the 2019 election when 71 percent of Muslim voters supported Labour.
Under Starmer, every aspect of Muslim rights, both nationally and internationally, has been denuded. This failure to treat Muslims on par with other communities has led many to ask whether Starmer has a problem with Muslims - and to conclude that under his leadership, the Labour Party can no longer be the political home of Muslims.
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We Indians request the muslims in UK not to create a Modi in UK.
Palestinians interest is important. More important is local Muslims' interest. It should not happen that our actions polarize the local majority population. That is a double blow.
Even if we face all the bad things in this country, we will still love it.
I'm Ahmed Hijazi, a Palestinian from Gaza. Tonight, the Israeli occupation targeted my home.
As I mentioned earlier, and I repeat now, we will rebuild our houses and we will rebuild all of Gaza. May Allah help us.
بنرجع نعمرها ان شاءالله
www.instagram.com/ahmedhijazee/
🚨BREAKING🚨#Palestinian journalist Yasser Abu Namous is the latest journalist to be killed by “#israeli” occupation forces since the beginning of the ‘israeli’ genocide campaign on #Gaza.
He and his mother were killed in an airstrike on their home in #KhanYounis, southern #Gaza.
The family of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh have been killed in an Israeli air strike that targeted their home in al-Nuseirat camp in the Gaza Strip. Al-Dahdouh was live on air covering Israel's attacks on the Gaza strip when the attack occurred.
The assault comes a day after US Secretary of State Tony Blinken demanded that Qatar suppress Al Jazeera’s coverage of Gaza.
The Palestinian death toll from Israel’s ongoing air strikes on the Gaza Strip has passed 6,546 including 2,704 children, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
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And its deliberate targetting according to their own sources
Now that the world has shown "israel" that it can get away with ANYTHING, they aren’t even claiming to just being “killing Hamas.” We always knew that was a lie, but they have even moved on from it.
He says,
“Generally we know the target. For example, today there was a target: the family of an Al Jazeera reporter. In general, we know.”
Is it a coincidence that the US warned Qatar to change its tone on Al Jazeera… and then an hour later the entire family of a prominent Al Jazeera anchor was killed with a targeted strike on their home?
During the Iraq War, Al Jazeera journalists were targeted and killed on multiple occasions.
In #Gaza and the Occupied West Bank, the same is true.
Shireen Abu Akleh and the journalists killed by Israeli forces At least 45 journalists have been killed by Israeli forces since 2000 according to the Palestinian Ministry of Information.
🚨BREAKING🚨 Jawwal Palestine announces that ‘#israeli’ airstrikes have destroyed #Gaza's last international cable, which had been connecting the enclave with the world, resulting in a full telecommunications outage‼️
This cannot be undone and I am sure it will be greatly appreciated.
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