Jeff the Chef

All the bad people on both sides are excuses for human beings, but the fact still remains 7/10 happened, answer me this Brian how many years has Israel managed to fool the world that they are totally innocent of any provocation? As for the so called conspiracy theories, the propaganda machine of Israel is slowly but surely being exposed and the rest of the human race are seeing them for what they are.

And lets not all forget the Gaza strip was all sweetness and light before Hamas attacked Israel before 7/10. Can anybody tell me what you call a shoe mender?

Crying out loud, is there a case before the ICJ? Are there pending charges for the leaders of both sides of this war at the ICC? Yes, the hostages may/have been horrible abused and killed. How many innocent Palestinians are dead, mutilated, buried under the wanton destruction of Gaza, will we ever know the full figure? You may be proud, I'm sick to the teeth of the lot of it.

Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs ordered the operation, which used fake social media accounts urging U.S. lawmakers to fund Israel’s military, according to officials and documents about the effort. Israel organized and paid for an influence campaign last year targeting U.S. lawmakers and the American public with pro-Israel messaging, as it aimed to foster support for its actions in the war with Gaza, according to officials involved in the effort and documents related to the operation. The covert campaign was commissioned by Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, a government body that connects Jews around the world with the State of Israel, four Israeli officials said. The ministry allocated about $2 million to the operation and hired Stoic, a political marketing firm in Tel Aviv, to carry it out, according to the officials and the documents. The campaign began in October and remains active on the platform X. At its peak, it used hundreds of fake accounts that posed as real Americans on X, Facebook and Instagram to post pro-Israel comments. The accounts focused on U.S. lawmakers, particularly ones who are Black and Democrats, such as Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader from New York, and Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia, with posts urging them to continue funding Israel’s military. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/technology/israel-campaign-gaza-social-media.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xU0.K-9d.nc6wnV7jy8jG&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&u2g=i&sgrp=c-cb

Because that is the accusation/charge: Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel) Palestine files an application for permission to intervene and a declaration of intervention in the proceedings, invoking Articles 62 and 63 of the Statute of the Court https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240603-pre-02-00-en.pdf

There is no Genocide till the ICJ ends their deliberations, then there is the ICC to punish the preparators, hope I live long enough to see it. The wheels of justice are turning, slowly but surely.

2.5 hours away, 5k baht rtn, be great if it gets to 25% of Macau, to get my poker fix.

I thought he was a small guy, 5' 7" and 10 stone wet? Opps, beg pardon, you said cult, my dyslexia playing up again 😉

The United States of Israel/America? The House voted Tuesday to pass a bill to sanction International Criminal Court officials – House Republicans’ response to the court seeking an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The ICC’s targeting of Netanyahu has sparked widespread backlash from Republicans and Democrats in Congress. President Joe Biden has also forcefully denounced the ICC move, saying “there is no equivalence” between Israel and Hamas, but the administration has said it does not support the GOP-led effort to sanction the court. It is unlikely that the Senate will take up the sanctions bill. The House passed the bill in a 247 to 155 vote, with 42 Democrats joining Republicans in support. Two GOP members voted present. ICC prosecutor Karim Khan told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview last month that the court is seeking arrest warrants for the Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, and Netanyahu on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity over the October 7 attacks on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza. According to the legislative text, the bill would impose sanctions on individuals “engaged in any effort to investigate, arrest, detain or prosecute any protected person of the United States and its allies.” The sanctions include prohibiting US property transactions and blocking and revoking visas. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/04/politics/house-vote-icc-sanctions/index.html?Date=20240604&Profile=CNN

Biden: People have 'every reason' to believe Netanyahu is prolonging Gaza war The US president said the Israeli prime minister seems to want the war in Gaza to continue for his political survival. US President Joe Biden said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has given people "every reason" to believe he is prolonging the war on Gaza to save his political career. Biden's remarks, published on Tuesday in an interview with Time Magazine, echoed sentiments regularly voiced by analysts and western officials, suggesting that Netanyahu believes his political fortunes are best served by continuing the war. "There is every reason for people to draw that conclusion," Biden said, although his administration had just a day earlier laid the blame for a delay in a ceasefire squarely on Hamas. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-war-biden-every-reason-believe-netanyahu-prolonging-conflict

Good arm, sign her up for the cricket team.

Bit of bad news for the people of Clacton, the waters nearly reached France and being used to bring their next lot of carers in. Nige is just there for the beer.

100 meters away, lol, seen bigger fireworks go off, was there in 71/72 and 73, nail bombed twice, had to pick up limbs and pieces of flesh and bone at Belfast bus station after "Bloody Friday", witnessed a comrade top himself with an SLR and numerous other incidents, you never forget. Probably why I'm such a peacenik now

I'll admit to being a shout it from the rooftops Remainer, but TBH it made me get off my behind and get out of the Parish, where incidentally Rishi was my MP. Now happy as a pig in clover in darkest Thailand, so now I couldn't give a stuff what's happening in the old Country, which to me has gone so far downhill whoever gets elected is going to have trouble pushing it back up again.

On the money, Bob 😂

There are some wonderful Israeli's, the good: Interfaith ‘march for peace’ held in capital, in counter to Jerusalem Day Flag March Decrying use of religious rhetoric to promote war, liberal Jewish, Muslim, Christian and Druze religious leaders say event sends message of ‘peace, justice and equality’ Some two hundred people led by rabbis, sheikhs and priests marched through the center of Jerusalem on Monday evening in a display of cross-religious solidarity against the ongoing war in Gaza and the upcoming Jerusalem Day Flag March planned for Wednesday. In the eyes of the organizers of the interfaith march, the Flag March — which annually sees thousands of religious nationalist Israelis parade through Jerusalem, including through the Muslim Quarter of the Old City — has become a “symbol of violence and occupation” over the years, often marred by hate speech and violence towards Palestinians. “We decided to create a joint march that sends the opposite message, one of peace, justice and equality,” said Rabbis for Human Rights director Avi Dabush, an evacuee from Kibbutz Nirim who survived Hamas’s October 7 terror onslaught. https://www.timesofisrael.com/interfaith-march-for-peace-held-in-capital-in-counter-to-jerusalem-day-flag-march/

Exclusive: Israel reopens Gaza food sales as Rafah raid chokes aid VETTED BY ISRAELI MILITARY Israel launched its assault on Rafah on May 7, defying warnings from its closest ally the United States that the offensive would cause more civilian casualties and from aid agencies who said it could upend efforts to deliver food to Gazans. A week later, said Abu Ramadan of the Chamber of Commerce, the Israeli military began contacting traders in Gaza saying they could resume taking deliveries of food from Israel and the West Bank. Under the arrangement, all suppliers and goods have to be vetted by the Israeli military, according to Wassim Al-Jaabari, head of the West Bank food and industry union. The Gaza distributors meet the trucks sent by suppliers at the Kerem Shalom crossing on Gaza's southern border where the military examines the goods before allowing the distributors to take them into the enclave, the two Palestinian officials said. A copy of a COGAT list seen by Reuters showed that on May 22, 127 trucks carrying watermelons, lemons, eggs and milk as well as spices, rice, pasta, sugar and other items had been ordered by Gazan distributors. The list showed that most of the supplies came from the West Bank, though Reuters couldn't determine if that was representative of deliveries more broadly. Jaabari and Abu Ramadan said no free goods or charitable donations were allowed in from the West Bank or Israel, only products for sale. None of the five interviewed businessmen involved in the trade would disclose exactly what they charge for a full shipment, but said their prices were what it normally cost to sell in the West Bank. Transport prices, however, push the cost up as trucks often have to spend a long time on the road near Kerem Shalom waiting for inspection and are sometimes ransacked by Israelis protesting the entry of goods to Gaza, they said. Two distributors inside Gaza declined to say how much they bought and sold goods for. They pay the West Bank suppliers by bank transfer and take cash from sellers in local markets. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-reopens-gaza-food-sales-rafah-raid-chokes-aid-2024-05-30/

Hope this makes everyone proud you're a human being. A food survey by aid agencies in May found that 85 per cent of children did not eat for a whole day at least once in the three days before the survey was conducted, with dietary diversity worsening. Living conditions are so appalling that in Al-Mawasi, there are just 121 latrines for over 500,000 people – or 4,130 people having to share each toilet. Just 19 per cent of the 400,000 litres of fuel a day needed to run the humanitarian operation in Gaza – including transportation, the provision of clean water and sewage removal – is being allowed in and is not delivered every day. According to the UN, aid deliveries have dropped by two-thirds since Israel’s invasion of Rafah. Since 6 May, just 216 trucks of humanitarian aid entered via Kerem Shalom and were able to be collected – an average of eight a day It’s estimated that hundreds of commercial food trucks are entering daily via the Kerem Shalom crossing. Although important for increasing food availability in Gaza, the consignments include items like non-nutritious energy drinks, chocolate and cookies, and food is often sold at inflated prices that people cannot afford. Lack of dietary diversity is one of the key drivers of acute malnutrition and has been assessed as ‘extremely critical’ in Gaza People are paying nearly $700 for the most basic tents and there is so little space left, that some have been forced to set up tents in the cemetery at Deir al-Balah https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/famine-risk-increases-israel-makes-gaza-aid-response-virtually-impossible

6pm Thai time = 12 noon UK time, ordered the popcorn, already have plenty of Chang in fridge, spliffs rolled looking forward to watching Richard Head walk off Clacton pier.

Israeli's are not all the same, well worth a watch. The Bottom Line Gideon Levy: Israel has achieved nothing with war on Gaza Israeli journalist Gideon Levy on the implications of Israel’s strategy for long-term war in Gaza. Given a choice between war and getting all its captives back, Israel has opted for more war, argues Israeli journalist Gideon Levy. Levy tells host Steve Clemons that Israeli politicians may abandon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but even if he was replaced, Israel would continue its war on Gaza and occupation of the Palestinian people as a whole. “Radical change” in Israeli attitude and US support is needed for any improvement in the situation, says Levy. After October 7, even those on the Israeli left believe that Israel has the right to do whatever it wants, the Haaretz columnist argues. https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-bottom-line/2024/6/2/gideon-levy-israel-has-achieved-nothing-with-war-on-gaza

To me it's all because Biden is a Zionist through and through, all his political career he has supported Israel, he doesn't get that not everyone agrees with what Israel has become, all the US support they have had for decades has worsened the Middle East situation due without doubt to the AIPAC lobby. For what it's worth the same problem is getting into UK politics through the Friends of Israel, Conservative or Labour Parties, needs stopping.

Hamas was legitimately elected by the Palestinian people back in 2006/7, unfortunately the powers that be US/Israel and their Allies then decides they are Terrorists, which I don't have a problem with, US/Israel and their Allies have then carried on until this current crisis with no thought to elections to oust them, now could there have been fresh elections in Gaza? Would that have been possible during the times when there was less fighting, but no because Israel has always managed the propaganda war by playing the PLO and Hamas factions to keep everything to Israel's benefit, there was never a thought to the situation, we are seeing now, imho. The fact you only see one point of view is your problem, I think I have moved admittedly not much but more to the plight of ordinary Palestinians caught up in all this, and towards the Israeli's who want their families back together. Sadly to me the powers that be on both sides couldn't give a fig for ordinary people as long as they keep their powers.

Yes, one of the posts I'll stand by forever. Does Israel ever comply with the UN? Are Palestinians considered equal to Israeli citizens? If not why not? Israeli Public Opinion Polls: Regarding Peace with the Palestinians and a Palestinian State (1978 - Present) https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/israeli-polls-regarding-peace-with-the-palestinians

what the hell are we as Human Beings supposed to do when we see all this day in day out? Both sides claiming their sides propaganda is gospel truth when clearly all there is is arguments from both sides. Politics and Religion, Humanities forever crisis.