Haaretz Editorial: The Shame and the Shambles of Israel's Policy on Gaza Aid
It explains who are attacking the aid trucks and why the Israeli law enforcement officials did nothing to stop them. #gaza@palestine
The Western leaders are allying themselves with these extremists. Far-right religious and ethnonationalist extremism is fundamentally incompatible with any liberal democratic regime. We are going back to the 1920s.
Even if #BenjaminNetanyahu may not be an extremist himself - the jury is out on that one! - his political survival depends on people like #ItamarBen_Gvir - who is the minister to whom those police report - and #BezalelSmotrich - who is doing his best - or worst if you prefer - to keep any humanitarian aid from going through the port of #ashdod . He cannot overrule them and stay in office - unlike #RishiSunak who was able to sack #SuellaBraverman and remain in office.
When Rishi Sunak's strategy for trying to retain votes is explicitly to confirm its 'better the devil you know', you can but wonder who advised him that self-identifying as a devil was good optics.
(Yes, I know it a common enough saying but....)
I'm sure at the very least the political cartoonists will have a field day with this...
so I think we can now truthfully state:
Rishi Sunak = the Devil
Can't wait to see the Tory election leaflets with that as their strap line!
It seems like it's taken me a very long time to think of this, and maybe no one in the UK has ever heard of the former Louisiana governor whose run for the US presidency in 2015 lasted 3.2 Liz Trusses but still ended before a single primary vote was cast, but.... Has anyone ever called #RishiSunak "Dobby Jindal"?
#RishiSunak apparently unfamiliar with the saying "To get out of a hole, first, stop digging"
After 15 years in power and another round of local section losses, more "work to do" is the LAST thing needed. #Tories should stop and call a #GeneralElectionNow
89,000 words into a 100,000 word manuscript and I've just hit the climax.
(Signs there's a climax happening: the Queen is glowing violet and shrivelling, Nyarlathotep has gone to the mattresses, and Bob has just stumbled across a mass human sacrifice in progress in Buckingham Palace …)
"The British parliament passed a law late Monday that will mean asylum seekers arriving on British shores without prior permission can be sent to Rwanda and forbidden from ever returning to the U.K. The British government says the law will act as deterrent to anyone trying to enter the U.K. 'illegally.'"
Just remember, while Rishi Sunak is pulling out all the stops to be cruel to some refugees with this Rwanda plan, absolutely nothing is being done about the Cost Of Living Crisis, the shit in our water, the state of the NHS, etc, etc....