Netanyahu's Lebanon Speech Implodes; His Excuses Are Still Smoking On Camera

UK Lets Israel’s Palestinian Land Sale Go Ahead; Protesters Get Arrested

Right, so property for sale in illegally occupied Palestinian territory, but this isn’t the West Bank, this isn’t a settler with a map declaring this property is his because God promised it to him 3,000 years, because apparently God does conveyancing now ago. This was London. This is the Great Israeli Real Estate Event, taking place inside Edgware Road synagogue. Protesters outside saying Palestinian land was being sold. Police in the middle, because of course they were. Counter-protesters waving Israeli flags. Palestine supporters shoved, grabbed, dragged and arrested. The British state stands there in high-vis and body armour pretending it is just managing “tensions” instead of making excuses for the inexcusable. And then, because one serving of pro-Israel state-backed rancidiness was not enough, the Court of Appeal turned up this morning with pudding. The Starmer regime got its Palestine Action ban finally backed by a Court of Law. The terror-law designation stays in place, at least for now because the fight is not over yet. But the message from the British state could hardly be clearer if they printed it on a Union Jack and stapled it to Itamar Ben-Gvir’s forehead: Israel gets protection. Palestine protest gets the police.

Netanyahu's Drone Problems Soar; Hezbollah Cost Him $10M In One Hit

Right, so Benjamin Netanyahu’s Lebanon invasion story has come a cropper once again, as the IDF’s drone problems there just ratcheted up another notch. A Hezbollah drone has now struck an Israeli base, another of their cheap little off the shelf FPV’s has just taken down for the very first time an Israeli Heron 1 surveillance drone worth in the region of $10M and in fact so numerous have these successful drone strikes been, that they have now released a whole montage of successful strikes on Israeli vehicles, positions, machinery and movement, all being watched from above like the IDF has accidentally wandered into somebody else’s nature documentary, except the narrator is armed and the birds have bombs. This ongoing, increasing drone problem for Netanyahu has crossed from military issue to outright embarrassment and screaming at more towns to evacuate before he commands the world’s most amoral army to level them won’t cut it either. And the mainstream media call this situation “tense.” Spare me. A guitar string is tense. Lebanon is being bombed, threatened, carved into warning zones and yet the pushback, the constant stream of video footage getting released keeps coming back on supposed Israeli advancement and control and then looks like anything but. It does not look like deterrence; it’s certainly not look like the wanton destruction of Lebanese livelihoods and evacuation orders are achieving anything except turning the worlds stomach as we see Gaza play out all over again. It does not look like the IDF imposing the control on the northern front they want all.

Germany Wanted Palestine Action Trial 2.0; Then Their Lawyer Did This

Right, so Britain has just jailed Palestine Action activists after Judge Jeremy Johnson slapped on terror sentencing to essentially double the jail time, all seen as the British state doing Israel favours since the target of these young people was a weapons factory because said weapons are genociding people across Gaza, invading Southern Lebanon and Syria and more besides. God forbid somebody stop that, God forbid an example doesn’t get made by tacking on a sentence that was never proven or charged in court. This was not just a punishment. This was a label. A warning. A great big legal cattle prod aimed at everyone else watching. But the trouble with getting away with something like that, assuming they do that is, I don’t imagine this is the end of the Filton story yet, is that it inspires others and Germany has taken a look at what the Starmer regime has presided over here in the apparent name of justice and thought, wow, we’d quite like a slice of that in the name of the Israeli state too. Germany has looked across the Channel, apparently learned absolutely nothing decent, and decided its contribution to European justice should be to put its own anti-Elbit defendants in the dock, behind glass, parade them in handcuffs, stick them in a high-security courtroom, really lay on the aren’t these protesters dangerous imagery on thick. A few activists behind glass like the court is hosting a particularly dangerous zoo exhibit, when all it really is, is defendants being deliberately being separated from their lawyers. So what we have now is two countries. Two cases. One pattern of repression.

Netanyahu's Lebanon Speech Implodes; His Excuses Are Still Smoking On Camera

Right, so Israel has managed to create another big fat problem for itself in Lebanon you will be broken hearted I’m sure to hear. Not because they’ve stopped bombing, because of course they haven’t, ceasefires are for mere mortals and not for them. Not because the displacement is subtle either, people are being driven from their homes and entire villages detonated because all of it is Hezbollah, it’s that old chestnut again. And it’s not because anyone needs a GCSE explainer on what a bloody buffer zone is, because we all know what Israel means by that by now I should hope. Their state security depends on the security and safety and daily lives of all others to be flattened, though to listen to them it sounds much more like “we are only targeting Hezbollah, please ignore the civilians packing their lives into cars and fleeing for their lives.” But they just went that bit overzealous with it all, a bit too blatant, a bit too obvious, they do have that chronic tendency to punch themselves in the face by saying the truth a bit too loudly. Twenty Lebanese towns and villages ordered out all in one go. Explain away that one. You told us all you’d virtually pagered Hezbollah out of existence not so long ago and now we’re supposed to believe some 20 villages are all Hezbollah, on top of everything else you’ve razed? We’ve seen this play too many times before. And that is the problem for the likes of Benjamin Netanyahu and his deranged Defence Minister Israel Katz. That is the bit their spokespeople now have to drag around like a corpse in a suitcase while still insisting this is all terribly precise and defensive, the Lebanese will thank us later and nothing at all to do with Lebanese civilians. But then why are Lebanese towns the ones being emptied?

Judge Hands Down The Terror Sentence; One Juror Bites Back

Right, so these four young people were not convicted of terrorism. But that is the bit the state would quite like you to overlook, along with pliant state media. Just hop past it. Don’t linger. Don’t ask awkward little questions like, “Hang on, if they were not convicted of terrorism, why the hell are they being sentenced as such then?” Because when you ask yourself that, you realise just how much this stinks don’t you? Four Palestine Action activists were convicted over action at an Elbit Systems site, an Israeli weapons factory. Serious convictions, yes. Criminal damage, yes. In one case, GBH without intent, yes. Nobody needs to pretend those are not real charges. But terrorism? That was not the jury’s verdict. They didn’t even know such a sentence in connection with their verdict was even on the table, they weren’t told that, so how can this possibly be regarded as justice? It’s a very British way of doing authoritarianism, isn’t it? No jackboots needed. No roaring dictator on a balcony. Just a man in robes, adding on a terror element at sentencing in a first of its kind slide into fascism, and for what? To protect Israel. A state committing genocide, an apartheid state, a state which clearly has far too much influence in ours.