Israel-Gaza war

[MyLifeIsYours]

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/17/more-than-70-percent-of-brits-call-for-immediate-ceasefire-in-gaza-report

London, United Kingdom – More than 70 percent of British people support an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, a new survey indicates as pressure rises on the government to adopt a firmer stance against Israel.

Among those who voted for the governing Conservative Party in 2019, 67 percent backed an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, according to the poll released on Friday and commissioned by Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) and the Council for Arab-British Understanding (CAABU).

ers backed the call, while only 8 percent of respondents said there should not be a ceasefire.

The United Kingdom has refused to call for an immediate ceasefire.

In December, UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron and his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock wrote in The Times, “We do not believe that calling right now for a general and immediate ceasefire, hoping it somehow becomes permanent, is the way forward.”

Such a call “ignores why Israel is forced to defend itself”, they wrote. “Hamas barbarically attacked Israel and still fires rockets to kill Israeli citizens every day. Hamas must lay down its arms.”

But as the war rages on and bodies pile up across Gaza, a large section of society finds the government’s stance untenable.

The survey has come more than seven months into Israel’s latest and deadliest war on Gaza, which has killed, to date, more than 35,000 people, mostly women and children.

Israeli forces launched a ground invasion of the Strip after Hamas, which governs the enclave, attacked southern Israel on October 7. During that assault, which sharply escalated the longstanding Israel-Palestine conflict, 1,139 people were killed and hundreds were taken captive.

“These polls clearly show that both the government and Labour leadership are out of touch with British public opinion. What’s particularly disappointing is the Labour Party’s failure to challenge the government,” Heather, a pro-Palestine activist, told Al Jazeera.

“We’ve started to see Labour frontbenchers back-pedalling on their position on Gaza, and while the term ‘lasting ceasefire’ is now being used by the party, they still refuse to call for an ‘immediate’ ceasefire.”
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“The government and the Labour leadership continue to lag sluggishly behind British public opinion by failing to take the decisive actions needed to help bring the horrors we see in Gaza to a swift end – a trend also highlighted in polls across Europe,” said Caabu director Chris Doyle.

“There is little confidence in the leadership of both the main parties in the handling of this major international crisis.”

With Israel expanding its military incursion into Rafah, a densely populated area in southern Gaza, calls for the UK to halt its military ties to Israel have grown louder.

[Horus]

The "Joe Biden is Hamas" lady now blaming us for the dead hostages. We are so hostile that just the other day the House passed a bill making military funding contingent on Israel spending, placing Israel's security above our own, yet still most of Israeli society thinks we're horrible. Why is this? How much more of a sugar daddy must we be before this country is finally thankful?

https://twitter.com/CarolineGlick/status/1791491736121843847?t=PBBUi0pDc0frnP6Et...

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Netanyahu's hands get redder every time more of the hostages turn up dead. Not as red as Hamas's, at least not in this particular way, but redder.

He can't leave soon enough, but I'm not convinced that Hamas didn't just kill the remaining hostages after the first cease-fire broke down.

Agreed, I think that’s pretty likely

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

The "Joe Biden is Hamas" lady now blaming us for the dead hostages. We are so hostile that just the other day the House passed a bill making military funding contingent on Israel spending, placing Israel's security above our own, yet still most of Israeli society thinks we're horrible. Why is this? How much more of a sugar daddy must we be before this country is finally thankful?

https://twitter.com/CarolineGlick/status/1791491736121843847?t=PBBUi0pDc0frnP6Et...

How many times are you going to pretend this joke of a failed politician turned pundit is worthy of a diplomatic incident with a nuclear ally?

For those who don't get it, Caroline Glick is a far-right columnist and social media figure, not an Israeli official. This would be like France expelling the US ambassador over Rush Limbaugh insulting them during the Iraq War.

[Horus]

The "Joe Biden is Hamas" lady now blaming us for the dead hostages. We are so hostile that just the other day the House passed a bill making military funding contingent on Israel spending, placing Israel's security above our own, yet still most of Israeli society thinks we're horrible. Why is this? How much more of a sugar daddy must we be before this country is finally thankful?

https://twitter.com/CarolineGlick/status/1791491736121843847?t=PBBUi0pDc0frnP6Et...

How many times are you going to pretend this joke of a failed politician turned pundit is worthy of a diplomatic incident with a nuclear ally?

For those who don't get it, Caroline Glick is a far-right columnist and social media figure, not an Israeli official. This would be like France expelling the US ambassador over Rush Limbaugh insulting them during the Iraq War.

Rush had serious reach for his time. And many of his views were and are still reflected across the American right today, from high level politicians on down. Now imagine that but in a country where the right's base is made up of young religious radicals and not old boomers. Future isn't looking too great huh?

[AtorBoltox]

The "Joe Biden is Hamas" lady now blaming us for the dead hostages. We are so hostile that just the other day the House passed a bill making military funding contingent on Israel spending, placing Israel's security above our own, yet still most of Israeli society thinks we're horrible. Why is this? How much more of a sugar daddy must we be before this country is finally thankful?

https://twitter.com/CarolineGlick/status/1791491736121843847?t=PBBUi0pDc0frnP6Et...

How many times are you going to pretend this joke of a failed politician turned pundit is worthy of a diplomatic incident with a nuclear ally?

For those who don't get it, Caroline Glick is a far-right columnist and social media figure, not an Israeli official. This would be like France expelling the US ambassador over Rush Limbaugh insulting them during the Iraq War.

Horus believes all Israelis are ontologically evil, it doesn't really matter to him who they are. If they're from Israel they're taken as representative of of the Israeli hivemind

[GoTfan]

The "Joe Biden is Hamas" lady now blaming us for the dead hostages. We are so hostile that just the other day the House passed a bill making military funding contingent on Israel spending, placing Israel's security above our own, yet still most of Israeli society thinks we're horrible. Why is this? How much more of a sugar daddy must we be before this country is finally thankful?

https://twitter.com/CarolineGlick/status/1791491736121843847?t=PBBUi0pDc0frnP6Et...

How many times are you going to pretend this joke of a failed politician turned pundit is worthy of a diplomatic incident with a nuclear ally?

For those who don't get it, Caroline Glick is a far-right columnist and social media figure, not an Israeli official. This would be like France expelling the US ambassador over Rush Limbaugh insulting them during the Iraq War.

Horus believes all Israelis are ontologically evil, it doesn't really matter to him who they are. If they're from Israel they're taken as representative of of the Israeli hivemind

No, he does not. To even reach that conclusion requires deliberately mischaracterising him.

[Silent Hunter]

Also, Israel says those three people were murdered on October 7 and Hamas took the bodies with them. Remember they have swapped human remains for live prisoners before.