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William Bowles's avatar

I note that the 532, mostly senior citizens, arrested on Saturday in the protest demonstration over the proscription of Palestine Action, have been released without charge! I don't understand it, dangerous terrorists released without charge, to wreak havoc and mayhem, admittedly at a snail's pace and inbetween breaks for medical checkups, set free! It's outrageous! Or is the embarassment that would be caused by parading over 500 pensioners before the War on Terror judges that gave the state pause for thought! Next time, we need a 1000 and then 2000, then 4000... Let's call it the Grey Tide, or perhaps the Zimmer Revolution?

PS: I've signed up to Defend Our Juries, with or without a Zimmer frame.

https://defendourjuries.net/

Vin LoPresti's avatar

George Galloway just posted a succinct one-minute commentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxMf57H_mnc

William Bowles's avatar

Yes, it's excellent and reinforces my observation that the state doesn't have the cohones to actually put these 'terrorists' in front of a jury! That Starmer is the real terrorist who deserves to rot in jail for his crimes against humanity!

Elizabeth Chandler's avatar

Well said 👏🏻👏🏻

Tamsin Mc Cormick's avatar

That is indeed the hight of it !

Vin LoPresti's avatar

My gratitude to Meta and Google is just unbounded. After all, how would I know exactly where I am, much less what and who I really am were it not for a brilliant tech entrepreneur clever enough to craft algorithms to identify me to myself.

So a few shabby Arabs with smartphone cameras get whacked to sustain me that privilege in my cushy Western way of life. So? Sounds like a healthy tradeoff on my balance sheet!!

Rebel Nun's avatar

Since one of the four actual journalists left in the West is your sacred invaluable self, Laura, I’m praying to all the deities in all the worlds to protect you. Be careful; we need you. ❤️

Lenny Cavallaro's avatar

I am quite certain that Breitbart, Fox News, NewsMax, and other such purveyors of Right-wing filth will give us the narrative our leaders want us to hear. Truly "starvation and mass slaughter will have ended"! Meanwhile, I shall wait for the US Congress to make a formal resolution that "anyone who suggests otherwise is a terrorist" (even as anyone who criticizes Israel is "anti-semitic").

Mel's avatar

The truth is the Israel government and their US puppet thinks all Muslim are Hamas and the media that exposes the truth are Hamas supporters

Ken k's avatar

True to form," By deception wage war"

Michael Rawlins's avatar

The tent the journalists were staying in may as well have had a bullseye painted on it, in place of a sign saying Media. Everyone knows that Israel is exterminating journalists in Gaza.

Mike Fish's avatar

We need to flip that script.

Any sightings of stars of david need to be treated as targets to be eliminated with extreme prejudice, anytime and anyplace.

Tracy Harrison's avatar

Your comment explains exactly why Israel's actions - to create a safe haven for Jewish people - has the exact opposite effect.

Mike Fish's avatar

If they want to be safe maybe they should stop murdering their neighbors.

Israel is a crime masquerading as a country.

I have affinity/affection for some Jews.

Just not the kind that enjoy the holocaust of/in Palestine.

Are you really that blind???

Tracy Harrison's avatar

Yolks! Methinks you misunderstood me!!! Shows I should take more care when posting comments. I was trying to say that Israel thinks it is making a safe space for Jewish folks, but i don't think they realise the genocide and ethnic cleansing they are doing makes Israel and Jewish folk around the world LESS safe. I for one am working hard lobbying our local MP to support sanctions against Israel. I'm sick of the western-backed impunity with which Israel acts.

Mike Fish's avatar

Tracy, you and I are fine.

Fantastic.

Unlike our brothers and sisters in Palestine.

The Israeli Holocaust Force has amassed at the walls of the Gaza extermination camp, and are preparing to execute “the final solution” upon our freedom seeking friends.

Somehow we’ve gotta stop this shameful act from going down.

Otherwise, I fear that the Israeli, Zionist, Nazi, Jews are going to kill all of the Palestinians, and our collective humanity in the process.

How will we ever be able to look ourselves in the mirror again, if we just stand by and watch it happen???

We’re better than that, aren’t we???

Martin's avatar

Thank goodness AIPAC control truth. What a mess without a reality engineered by Zionism we'd all be in.

Elizabeth Chandler's avatar

“The truth poses an existential threat to Israel”. Spot on 👏🏻👏🏻

Adeel Mirza's avatar

The Devil IsRael States of America.

The Revolution Continues's avatar

"Israel wouldn't have to go to such lengths if you believed what you were told."

Yeah, that's the problem--we're all too skeptical and non-trusting of a wonderful country like Israel. For some reason, we believe journalists when they tell us that there's a genocide and intentional starvation going on in Gaza. We're not supposed to believe our own eyes and ears, just the hasbara... RIP Anas and the Al Jazeera journalists.

Remsomm's avatar

Israel needs more glue to make the truth stick. They obviously don't have the right glue, or the sand from all those exploded buildings doesn't make it stick properly or it must be Hamas sabotaging the glue by mixing flour into it. They need to stick it to the sticky truth. These journalists running into bullets and bombs to meet sticky ends just to make Israel look bad...

Boomer_michael's avatar

Anyone with a smartphone is a journalist. Israel is not only evil; they’re dumb!

Steve's avatar

Tis a bitter/sweet experience reading your work, Laura.