As someone recently pointed out, Israel both accuses Hamas of having siphoned "billions" of dollars to build a massive underground tunnel complex to protect its forces, and of deploying these same forces in every civilian structure above ground. The phrase "you can't have it both

Ah bless. Looks like the only word containing more than one syllable that JJ knows is ‘antisemite’. There’s a surprise. Dude, criticising Netanyahu is not antisemitic. 🤦🏻‍♂️

If every single person who drowned at sea this year while crossing dangerous routes was humanised in the same way a tech billionaire and his family has been, you would know the names of more than 800 people. You would know because their stories would be told with empathy & care.

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I travelled around the West Bank last week for the first time since the second intifada and what I saw was very disturbing - while all focus is on terrible situation in Gaza, many feel Israel has opened an undeclared second front thetimes.com/article/c47df6…

Wildflowers. Middle aged coke. 😬

‘Every war entails a certain level of dehumanization of the enemy. But it seems that in the current war in Gaza, the dehumanization of Palestinians is close to absolute.’ I’ve experienced many wars in my professional life, but none like this. 💔 972mag.com/dehumanization…

Under Ben Gvir and Netanyahu, Israel has removed from all the basic provisions of the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of POWs. As he says here, Ben Gvir regards Palestinians as "human scum" and wants them to face subhuman conditions and torture- in other words, war crimes.

Civilians are not a target. 19 years after US forces unlawfully killed 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, it’s heartbreaking to think that this simple law of war is still so grievously ignored.

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‘In the first three weeks of August…128 Palestinians, including 26 children, were killed by airstrikes in the West Bank’. Read that again. 128 Palestinians including 26 kids killed in the West Bank. Not Gaza. The West Bank. Netanyahu is out of control. theguardian.com/world/article/…

The Magnificent Seven. L-R. Shaggy, Number One, Moonface, Zulu, Marble, Lucky, Tegan. Loitering, and waiting to be photographed for an album cover.

“…a cold examination of the numbers killed in the Gaza Strip reveals this is one of the bloodiest wars since the beginning of the century, especially if you examine the rate of mortality out of the total population.” Haaretz Yet the UK remains complicit haaretz.com/middle-east-ne…

I’m a former head of human rights at the UK Foreign Office. I understand this man’s anger. We are guilty of double standards. We are disgraced by our failure to denounce sufficiently robustly, let alone try to prevent, Israeli brutality and violations of international law.

Everything about Gaza feels unjust, heartbreaking, pointless and often unlawful. So it particularly saddens to see the level of UK government complicity in this conflict, irrespective of the views of the great majority of the population.

How Israeli doctors became accomplices to torture of Palestinian detainees in Sde Teiman. I thought I was becoming normalised to the level of institutional abuse & unlawful conduct by Israeli security forces in this conflict. But this still horrifies. haaretz.com/opinion/2024-0…

School suspensions and exclusions up by a fifth.🤷🏻‍♂️ Should we be surprised or alarmed? Mainstream education just isn’t for every child. I speak from experience. The response must be to provide the right, tailored alternative provision for these youngsters theguardian.com/education/arti…

Joe Pool. Terrific young soldier. Fiancé to Linz. Father to Lee and Jamie. Son to Stella and Roddy. Brother to Ryan. Killed in action this day fourteen years ago. Gone but never forgotten.