Judge Hands Down The Terror Sentence; One Juror Bites Back

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.

Netanyahu Bombed Lebanon; Now His Army Is Stuck!

Right, so Benjamin Netanyahu has apparently built himself another master plan. A clever plan. A hard plan. A very serious security plan, obviously. The sort of plan that gets sold to the Israeli public as, deterrence, freedom of action, deepening the grip, securing the north, all the usual blood-soaked management-consultant language they wheel out whenever they have decided that somebody else’s country needs to be rearranged by airstrike. And Lebanon was supposed to be the trap. At least that was the idea. Hezbollah would make the mistake. Hezbollah would get squeezed. Hezbollah would be forced back. Israel would deepen its grip in the south, take the strategic ground, parade around the castle they captured the other day, redraw the buffer zone, and Netanyahu would stand there looking like the great wartime genius who had finally made northern Israel safe by doing what he always does: more bombing, more occupation, more displacement, more speeches about security while other people bury the consequences. Except it’s all come back and punched him in the face you’ll be broken hearted to hear, because of course both sides in this conflict have teeth.

Trump’s Iran Deal Has One Huge Name Missing

Right, so the Cheeto-dusted Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump has declared there is a deal with Iran. A peace deal. A great deal. The best deal there ever was, obviously. All while, supposedly, he was about to attack Kharg Island, because nothing says calm diplomatic breakthrough quite like threatening to seize the other country’s oil hub before teatime. Pistol Pete Hegseth must be sobbing in a corner over it. But is this really a deal, or did he just TACO again? And does it even matter, because we have been here before, haven’t we? Trump says the deal is close. Trump says the documents are nearly ready. Trump says everyone is happy. Trump says the markets are cheering. Trump says the Strait will open once the paper is signed. Trump says a lot of things. But this time, we are meant to believe it was done enough to stave off another bombing run. Done enough to send oil and markets moving. Done enough for him to sit in the Oval Office and pontificate like the war had just been wrapped up by the sheer force of his own orange magnificence. The trouble is, there is a gaping great black hole at the centre of Trump’s Iran deal. And it is not a small technicality either. It is not some minor diplomatic omission, it is actually kind of big. It is the one thing he rather needs if he is going to claim you have an Iran deal. Though you would not know there was a problem from the way Trump was talking.

Trump’s Iran Stunt For Israel Just Blew Up In His Face

Right, so the bloviating orange oaf Donald Trump’s sales pitch in recent days was that Iran was going to pay, but the trouble with warfare is that they guy who signs off on it, doesn’t necessarily get to choose where everything ends up landing and this one did not stay where Little Donnie wanted it. It has now moved from Washington’s war room to a tanker off Oman, It has moved onto Indian sailors, It has moved from sea to drinking war infrastructure, it has moved across the entire US regional base map and most awkwardly for Trump straight back into his own politics. So let’s start with Trump, because he’s the idiot trying to convince us all that this mess is a sign of control Iran will have to make a deal, they’re taking too long to get there, so now they have to pay a price? Getting impatient isn’t an excuse to get your bombs out again Donnie, but his other justification is in regards to the Apache helicopter crash which the US is claiming Iran did, claiming Iran has admitted to, yet even a pro Israel outlet like Axios has carried the crucial caveat that the incident is under investigation.

Belfast Homes Burned. Britain Could Be Next

Right, so this is Belfast, this is where the far right is attacking homes, looking for black and brown people, homes getting torched, cars getting burned out, families looking at the remains of homes they had nothing to do with losing. A pogrom triggered off the back of a serious attack, a knife attack, with the suspect having been charged and remanded in custody, all now being weaponised by this bunch of absolute lunatics as an excuse to go after anyone who looks the same in their fevered minds. They don’t care about the facts being settled, they don’t care if kids are scared by bricks going through windows, they don’t give a stuff about evidence, or courts, or charges or due process, they don’t care about a conviction, all these rancid creatures care about is using a horrific incident as licence to commit atrocity in the name of keeping their area safe. A burning building, a burning bus, safe is it? At least that is what these knuckle-dragging racists will claim. They don’t care about facts, they don’t care about the family affected, they just want another suspect, just coming from the same background will do. In point of fact, they don’t even actually care if they get it right.