Bkk Brian

Lots of unsubstantiated maybes there along with etc & etc No surprise you'd sign up though

I have family in London to. From the leftie Guardian, it appears it was not so much about what he did in London. “Sadiq is bucking the trend and there’s a reason for that. He was very early in calling for a ceasefire. He is now supporting a suspension of arms sales, as long as it’s clear that international law has been breached. So he did what we should have done and reaped the electoral rewards for that. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/04/sadiq-khans-win-bucks-trend-of-muslim-voters-rejecting-labour-over-gaza-say-party-figures

The article contradicts itself completely, you are deliberatly ignoring that fact along with if any of it is credible then it just proves Hamas are recruiting children to fight for them. Now there's another can of worms to open up. "A source told the Post on Wednesday night that the total numbers remain unclear, but that the quality of new Hamas fighters receiving weapons is far inferior to the state it was in earlier in the war, given that many of them are untrained minors." Your disregard for a poll carried out by Palestinians directly in Gaza is noted. "In the Gaza Strip, support for Hamas stands at 35%"

No there is not actually, try as you might the ICJ has not even suggested it (have they lost all credibility?), we have Amnesty and Ireland attempting to change the definition of Genocide to try and make something stick because the claims are lacking evidence.

Which provides other alternatives and why are you ignoring the polls direct from Gaza?

and again from the same link: "Another alternative is that despite the initial IDF estimates of 25,000, estimates from before the war stood at 30,000, even up to 40,000." The same article is giving other options and alternatives, no wonder you don't want to argue the point. From the latest poll: Latest poll figures and it shows the sharp decline in support for Hamas. Only 39% from 71% six months ago in Gaza. we asked respondents from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip what they thought of Hamas' decision to launch the October 7 attack, whether it was correct or incorrect: 54%, compared to 67% three months ago, in June 2024, and 71% six months ago, in March 2024, said it was the right decision. The decrease in this percentage came from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, where it stands today at 64% in the West Bank, a decrease of nine percentage points, and 39% in the Gaza Strip, compared to 57% three months ago, a decrease of 18 percentage points. Six months ago, 71% of Gazans said that Hamas’ decision was “correct.” As we found in the previous poll, the decrease in this percentage this time also came mostly from the Gaza Strip where it stands today at 39% compared to 57% three months ago and 71% six months ago. https://www.pcpsr.org/en/node/991

30,000 was always an estimate for how many fighters Hamas had. We now know that the number was too low. https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-794045

From the link so I am afraid that does not support your claim, especially when polls carried out in Gaza tell a vastly different picture "Another alternative is that despite the initial IDF estimates of 25,000, estimates from before the war stood at 30,000, even up to 40,000."

Well you said So lets start with that claim shall we. Where did you get that data from?

Really? How's that then, if around half are dead, then a good portion of the other half is taken out with injuries, where is this recruitment coming from and how are they getting the arms?

Well yes of course but hardly appropriate after 15 deaths.

No, better for you to come to terms with reality Hundreds of anti-Israel pro-Hamas protestors gathered in Times Square on New Year’s Day, waving Palestinian flags and calling for “intifada revolution” https://x.com/DavidSaranga/status/1874711522636632378

Your understanding has not proved to be very informed so far and its still lacking. Hamas broke the November ceasefire and hostage swap deals and has not agreed to any others for over a year. The fate of the hostages has always been in their hands, where it still remains. Fact.

Just hours later the pro Hamas mobs take over Times Square. Disgusting NYC anti-Israel protesters call for ‘intifada revolution’ hours after ISIS-flag-wielding terrorist killed at least 15 in New Orleans The protest — organized by the Palestinian Youth Movement, the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the People’s Forum — was led in a chant of “There is only one solution: Intifada revolution.” “We’re sending you back to Europe you white b–ches,” one female demonstrator wearing a keffiyeh shouted at counter-protestors outside the event, video posted to social media shows. “Go back to Europe! Go back to Europe,” she repeated. https://nypost.com/2025/01/01/us-news/anti-israel-protestors-take-over-times-square-call-for-intifada-revolution/

More on this unverified hit piece OP from the NYT "Without going into too much detail and enumerating all the paper’s errors, we can point to the Times’ false report blaming the bombing of the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Israel, which it refused to immediately correct. The paper’s biased reporting on Israel cannot be ignored. All of this must be taken into consideration when reading a report by The New York Times, no matter how many reporters they have researching a story, especially when many of those reporting are from Gaza, where, if they report anything other than the official line of Hamas or anti-Israel propaganda, they and their family will suffer dire consequences. This, too, must be taken into consideration." "It is important to keep in mind that despite their denials, reporters, hospital employees, teachers and staffers from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) turned out to be Hamas operatives and that even a “doctor” and his family and along with other “innocent Gazans” who held Israeli hostages as captives in their homes." https://www.jns.org/unlike-a-famous-slogan-some-news-isnt-fit-to-print/

This was not a personal attack, it was a fact. Something you are finding very difficult to deal with here. All hostages should be released with zero pre conditions. Hamas does not want to save its own civilians lives, correct, its too scared about losing their own lives, it prefers to use the Gazans as human shields and have the benefit of holding innocent hostages while they rape and abuse them including children. Barbarians and pure cowards that need eliminating and never allowed to exist as a force capable of killing or taking hostages ever again. Period You ask why should they release them..............jeez, at least try to get out of that hole you dug and stop blaming Netanyahu all the time rather than the terrorists themselves, its vile.. Again there is NO moral equivilaence here. You need to re read posts already made.

Indeed, your very quick to make and spread false claims until your pulled up on it. As for this comment. A disgusting response. Not worthy of a serious reply. Hamas said willing to free only 22 of 34 living hostages demanded by Israel in deal https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-said-willing-to-free-only-22-of-34-living-hostages-demanded-by-israel-in-deal/

I didn't ask whether it was correct or not, I posted it knowing that already. I also know that he celebrated the Oct 7th Massacres by the terrorists on his facebook page and was called "Colonel" by many. "Multiple Palestinian media outlets refer to Abu Safiya as a Colonel in the Gaza Strip's Military Medical Services." Kamal Adwan isn't just a regular hospital—it's a military hospital. However I see your still at it................. Please provide a link to this claim of yours, "no functioning hospitals on the Gaza strip" That's a pretty specific claim to make and really does need a very specific link to back it up from a "credible source." Wouldn't it be great if the terrorists released the hostages and lay down arms so all this can stop. In the meantime Hamas does its best to carry on sacrificing the civilians of Gaza. Even the PA are fighting them now in the West Bank , often with Israels help.

"The crux of the issue would be if he is engaged in terrorist related activity." You don't say 😔 😴 Still in the Hamas propaganda hole. The good doctor is arrested and accused of being a high ranking Hamas terrorist operative, along with dozens of other scum terrorists arrested at the hospital that took part in the Oct 7 massacres. • 240+ Hamas, Islamic Jihad terrorists and other operatives suspected of terrorist activities were apprehended, some of whom attempted to pose as patients or flee using ambulances. • Approx. 15 terrorists who infiltrated Israel during the Oct. 7 massacre as well as Hamas engineering and anti-tank missile operatives were taken in for questioning. • The director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, who is suspected of being a Hamas terrorist operative, was also taken in for questioning. • IDF special forces conducted precise activities inside the hospital locating and confiscating weapons in the area, including grenades, guns, munitions, and military equipment. https://x.com/IDF/status/1873046464840032469

An investigation from the NYT..... While Israel admits it changed its rules of war in the immediate aftermath of the unprecedented attack by Hamas, Israel's 700-word statement that its forces have “consistently been employing means and methods that adhere to the rules of law.” The changes were made in the context of a conflict that is “unprecedented and hardly comparable to other theaters of hostilities worldwide,” the statement added, citing the scale of Hamas’s attack; efforts by militants to hide among civilians in Gaza; and Hamas’s extensive tunnel network. In addition there are no named sources to this so called investigation although they do name as a witness to the event with a claimed toll of 20 civilians as: "the brother" of an assignated terrorist..........lol Shaldan al-Najjar, a senior commander in a militia allied with Hamas that joined the Oct. 7 attacks, were among the first casualties of Israel’s loosened standards. When it targeted him in this war, it killed not just him but also 20 members of his extended family, including a 2-month-old baby, according to his brother Suleiman, who lived in the home that was hit and witnessed the immediate aftermath. Some relatives were blown from the building. His niece’s severed hand was found in the rubble. “Blood was splattered all over the neighbor’s wall — as though some sheep had just been slaughtered,” the brother recalled. Really not surprised you believe him though. Some more great propaganda pieces from the NYT The Hospital Director now known as a Hamas commander and arrested last week along with dozens of Hamas terrorist's was a regular contributor. https://x.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1873098153618227263 Israel arrests Gaza hospital director who wrote for New York Times, accuses him of being a Hamas terrorist https://nypost.com/2024/12/29/world-news/israel-accuses-gaza-doctor-hussam-abu-safiya-of-being-hamas-terrorist/ Dozens of other bias and propaganda examples from the NYT in the links below: https://honestreporting.com/new-york-times/

I am not interested in your opinions, I am interested in facts. Israel has not created a gold standard in civilian harm mitigation in war. That implies there is a standard in civilian casualties in war that is acceptable or not acceptable; that zero civilian deaths in war is remotely possible and should be the goal; that there is a set civilian-to-combatant ratio in war no matter the context or tactics of the enemy. But all available evidence shows that Israel has followed the laws of war, legal obligations, best practices in civilian harm mitigation and still found a way to reduce civilian casualties to historically low levels. https://www.newsweek.com/israel-has-created-new-standard-urban-warfare-why-will-no-one-admit-it-opinion-1883286

There's evidence 2 posts up from this........lol Mountain of indisputable evidence of Hamas using hospitals as their protection and for holding hostages including by the hostages themselves! Hamas Used Gaza Hospital as a Command Center, U.S. Intelligence Says U.S. spy agencies believe that Hamas and another Palestinian group fighting Israel used Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza to command forces and hold some hostages, according to new American intelligence declassified on Tuesday. The hospital was the focus of a large Israel Defense Forces effort in November to take control of the facility, an operation that came under intense international scrutiny and criticism. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/02/us/politics/gaza-hospital-hamas.html https://archive.ph/XHj2C Click on the separate links on this site for more. From inpatient wards to the hospital basements: This is how Hamas turned Gaza hospitals into terror centers https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/hamas-operations-in-hospitals/ Then again the UN had Hamas bases under their own H/Q in Gaza (UNRWA) and they denied knowing about it. Figure that out.

VAT on schools is not a tax, but an act of class warfare And it’s far from clear that it’s legal, too According to Chancellor Rachel Reeves, the extra levy will raise £1.7 billion annually, allowing more to be spent on state schools, and improving education for the majority of children in the state sector. And yet, Reeves’s logic and her mathematics are both in error. No proper account has been made for the parents who will have no choice but to move their children – increasing the burden on the state sector – or for the schools that will inevitably close, with the loss of jobs that will entail. In reality, the Chancellor has no idea how much money will be raised, and has made no detailed assessment. As with her extra levies on farmers, this may raise nothing at all. The claim that the school system will be “improved” by imposing a tax on a significant part of it, and one that may not in fact collect any extra money for the Exchequer, is implausible at best. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/29/vat-on-schools-not-tax-but-class-warfare/ https://archive.ph/wRKW0

When will all this be in place for the SEND children? If not immediate then what happens those that have no suitable place now because of Labours new policy?

There is a statutory duty for local authorities to provide education for the children within their catchment area. So perhaps they should do that first before forcing other school closures because of the VAT policy they brought in. Forcing a SEND child to now not have the adequate support they desperately need.