Tag: gaza
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Settler violence is State violence “Can we do anything to help”?
The genocide has slowed down from a pace that saw 75,000 people killed by the IDF in 30 months, which included 20,000 children and turned an internment camp into something more like a cross between the Warsaw Ghetto and a lunar landscape, except this lunar landscape was not created by the Big Bang but by…
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The Chair of the Board of Pricks Delivers: A Fairy Tale, Hi Ho Hi Ho Hi Ho!!!
The announcement that Hamas, in agreement with the Dark House, have said that it will start a process of decommissioning if the IDF retreats to the pre-October 7th border. Israel, in response, as expected, said nothing, even though Trump implied that his mate and fellow narcissist Netanyahu was delighted with the deal. What we do…
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For one day only at the MAC: The Yawn.
On the 25th of June 2026, I attended The Future of These Islands: Preparing for Change, a shindig organised by the SDLP. Let me start by saying I went in with low expectations, and they were fully met. The crowd were largely old Humeite SDLP members who, as expected, waxed lyrical about the opening two…
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Where are you, Keir? I’m Behind David’s Shield
The stabbing of two British Jews is clearly a hate crime, and the perpetrator, Essa Suleiman, must be held to account under the law and condemned by any right-thinking citizen. The BBC has covered this tragedy extensively and today reported on the Prime Minister’s speech and lecture on anti-Semitism to a broad spectrum of organisations…
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Is this the new symbol for oppression and ethnic cleansing?
We as a species recognise the horrors of the Holocaust and the unjustifiable and brutal attack which resulted in the killing of 1200 Israeli people on October 7th, 2023. I grew up in a family where my father agreed with the setup of the Jewish state of Israel but questioned Israel’s ethnic cleansing in what…
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Gaza: Where’s that?
The first phase of the so-called Trump peace plan came into effect on October 10, 2025. This ceasefire included the return of all hostages by Hamas, dead or alive, and the withdrawal of the IDF to within a yellow buffer line. Hamas have delivered on their part of the ceasefire agreement, the IDF have retreated…
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It’s clear, Keir: Back to the day job
If the current cohort of Labour MPs have not realised that the current leader of their party is leading them to political oblivion, you have less foresight than an ostrich with its head in the sand. Starmer’s close advisors, such as McSweeney, Ingham, and Driver, are politically inept but seem to have the ability to…
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Board of Pricks
In Davos, Donald Trump announced the setting up of the Board of Peace, of which he will be the Chair. The announcement was equivalent to Darth Vader replacing António Guterres as Secretary General of the UN. The board is set up fulfill the second phase of Trump’s Middle East peace plan, but has morphed into…
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The French used Madame Guillotine; you have got the 25th Amendment.
Let’s start with something depressing: he, being Donald J Trump, has 3 more years of his presidency unless an act of God intervenes. I do not believe in an interventionist God or, for that matter, in a God; however, 90% of deluded white evangelical Christians will be praying hard for him. Here are some reasons,…
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HANUKKAH VIOLATED
Apologies, I promised I wouldn’t write another blog until the start of 2026 On Sunday, the 14th of December, two gunmen, father and son, killed 15 Jews who were at a festival on Bondi Beach celebrating Hanukkah. Is this antisemitism? Of course, it is, so this terror attack must be unreservedly condemned. A 43-year-old man…
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Apologies, My End-of-Year Rant 2025
Once again, another embarrassing and tragic year for our species has passed. Firstly, let us start off with the genocide in Gaza, where the death toll passed 70,000, which includes 20,000 children and not yet counted the many thousands who remain under 50,000 tonnes of rubble. We have a ceasefire where all the October 7…
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A War of Words: Playing Identity Politics as Rome Burns.
We, by which I mean ordinary citizens of this dysfunctional political system, have just appointed 3 people into three non-jobs, the Commissioner of the Irish Language, Pol Deed, Lee Reynolds, Commissioner for Gibberish, and Ulster British Tradition, whatever that is and finally Katy Radford as the Director of the Office of Identity and Cultural Expression,…
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A Tail of Two Peace Plans
TRUMP’S PEACE PLAN SEPTEMBER 2025 1. Gaza will be a deradicalised, terror-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbours. 2. Gaza will be redeveloped for the benefit of the people of Gaza, who have suffered more than enough. 3. If both sides agree to this proposal, the war will immediately end. Israeli…
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Yes,this is antisemitic. Yes,this is anti-democratic.
On the 2nd of October, a man stabbed and killed one person and injured others at a synagogue where members of the Jewish community were celebrating Yom Kippur. This attack on the Jewish community is unjustifiable on any level, and I, as someone with no faith, unequivocally condemn it. A recent report commissioned by the…
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A week at the Féile.
A piece published in 27/02/2025 Belfast News Letter This is the third year I have attended the debate and discussion element of the festival, and I am only speaking to this part. However, anecdotally, people I have spoken to found the community events to have been successful. The first event I attended was Nick Hayward’s…
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A week at the Féile.
This is the third year I have attended the debate and discussion element of the festival, and I am only speaking to this part, though anecdotally, people to whom I have spoken overall have found the community events to have been successful. Last year, I attended an event discussing the timing and rationale for a border…
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Gaza: It’s not a fucking War; It’s a Slaughter!!!!
Firstly, I would like all media to stop calling Gaza a war because it’s not. What it is, as described by Jonathan Sumption in his piece in the New Statesman, “Revenge visited on an entire population. It is, in short, a war crime.” A war crime which has seen any moral capital or empathy because…
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It’s not our fault; they started it,
Danny Danon Israel’s UN Ambassador, Benjamin Netanyahu, a war criminal, Gideon Saar, Israel’s Foreign Minister, Ben Gvir, Minister of National Security, Bezalel Smotrich, Finance Minister and Israel Katz, Minister of Defence are all blaming the murder of two Israeli embassy members on the rise of antisemitism, which they say has been exacerbated by comments condemning…
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Infanticide, Filicide, Democide and Genocide,
SHALOM , TO THE ELECTED GOVERNMENT OF THE CHOSEN PEOPLE The world’s democracies stand by as the Israeli government, devoid of any moral core, continues the mass murder of Palestinians in Gaza, under the pretence of caring for the remaining hostages. When Jehovah made Jews his chosen people, what he forgot to do when Netanyahu,…
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The Genocide in Gaza Ends, the War on Palestinians Continues.
The peace forged between Netanyahu’s far-right Messianic militia and Hamas is the first bit of respite from killing and destruction that Palestinian civilians have seen in over 400 days. The peace agreement will be in three phases: The first phase will last 42 days in which 33 hostages will be released in exchange for 2000…
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Hanukkah: Ironically, A Festival of Light
Israelis and Jews worldwide celebrated Hanukkah a festival to remember the liberation of the Temple in Jerusalem. This festival is celebrated by lighting candles in homes and synagogues right across Israel. A Jewish homeland was created when the world saw the horrors of the Holocaust, a Jewish homeland that my father often spoke about and…
