Sometimes
It’s Those Who You Love Most Who You Hurt the Most– But in Bella’s Case I’ll
Make An Exception and Try To Kill Her With Kindness
Bellay and friends (AI Generated)
A few people have misinterpreted my
last blog to Brighton’s Bella Sankey. It wasn’t written out of hatred but
love. So I thought I’d make amends with a short letter to Bella.
Andrei Czolak didn't like my letter to Bella
It was favourably received by everyone I sent it to
with one exception, the hitherto unknown Cllr. Andrei Czolak, who gives brown nosing
a bad name. He let me know that he found my letter to Sankey ‘exceptionally boring and I’ve better things
to do with my time’ yet despite this he found time to read it. I guess one
can’t please all of the people all of the time.
And just to make sure he got in Bella’s good books
he copied her into his email. I just hope he gets his just rewards.
I thought it would only be fair if I shared it with readers
of my blog, strictly on the condition they no one shares my sweet words of
nothing to Bella!
Tony Greenstein
Monday,
19 October 2026
A Personal Letter to Bella Sankey
My dear Bella,
Below is a link
to an Open Letter to yourself and those of your colleagues who agreed to your abysmal
statement.
It is said
of George Washington that he never told a lie, whereas it could be said of you that
you’ve never knowingly told the truth.
Although you are not
Jewish you felt entitled to call the Green Party anti-Semitic because it passed
the Zionism is Racism motion. I am
not aware that you have any expertise on the subject of anti-Semitism, Zionism
or racism.
You wrote about ‘the dereliction of duty (which) has allowed
the Green Party of England and Wales to sit side by side with the British Union
of Fascists and the National Front.’
Anyone who knows anything
about British fascism would be aware that Oswald Moseley’s British Union of
Fascists ceased operations in July 1940, a mere 86 years ago. It might
therefore be a tad difficult to sit side by side with them now!
It’s not as if there is
any excuse for your ignorance. If you go to the Dome website there is a section
on Lewis Cohen and Fighting the Fascists at Brighton Dome which describes how,
when Oswald Moseley came to speak at the Dome, electricians had fixed the
wiring so that when Moseley spoke the only sounds coming out were the Marseilles.
You are not only an
ignoramus but a charlatan. You pick up bits of information which are then scattered
in your brain like scrambled eggs. These are the thought patterns of an
opportunist. That you are Leader of Brighton and Hove Labour Group speaks volumes
for the calibre of your colleagues.
As the author of the only book
about the history of the fight against fascism in Brighton and one of the
leaders of the anti-fascist struggle in this city, I am not aware of any contribution
you have made to that fight. [See Politics
of the far-right never welcome in city] Not least because the Labour Party is
the party of the Police who have always done their best to defend fascist
marches in this city.
Police protect fascist march in Brighton
I note that you worked for Liberty, Detention Action and Reprieve. You are the kind of person who
works for progressive organisations without possessing an ounce of commitment
to anything they stand for. Your support for the late unlamented Starmer says
everything.
Ambalavaner Sivanandan
Your empty headed
statement makes it clear that you are a racist, a Zionist and above all a
supporter of the imperialism which is responsible for refugees arriving in this
country. As the great anti-racist Ambalavaner Sivanandan said,
refugees are here because we were there in their countries.
Your statement defends
the Zionism that was responsible for the creation of a ‘Jewish’ racial state in
Palestine. A state that was born
in ethnic cleansing and terrorism and is now committing genocide.
I wonder how many more
Palestinian children have to be burnt
alive in their tent encampments by Israeli bombs for you to question
Zionism. Or how many more Palestinians have to die for the ‘right to exist’ of
a genocidal state?6 million?
Zionism was a creature
of European anti-Semitism and took on its colours. That is why, when Zionism
first arose, most Jews saw it as a form of Jewish anti-Semitism. As Theodor
Herzl, the founder of Political Zionism, wrote:
‘The anti-Semites will be our most dependable
friends, The anti-Semitic countries our allies.’
You have an uncanny
ability to write about things you know nothing about. You talk about ‘Jewish self-determination’. A completely
meaningless phrase. Jews are not a nation. Only nations have the right to
self-determination. Jews are members of many nations.
If you think Jews in
Britain are a separate nation from the British that is confirmation that it is
you who are anti-Semitic. Perhaps you might tell us what Christian or Muslim
self-determination is?
I prefer the opinion
of Boris Vladeck, the great American Jewish Labour leader, who called the
Zionist movement the ‘scab agent’ of Hitler’s
Germany, to your vacuous and empty headed rhetoric.
You talk of the ‘two
state solution’. There is no such solution. There is just apartheid in what is
now a Greater Israel. The so-called two state solution was a cover for the
theft and settlement of Palestinian land. That ship has passed.
The two state solution is
Partition. That turned out well in India/Pakistan and Ireland, to name but two
examples of this imperialist ‘solution’.As James Connolly said
of partition, it would create a carnival of reaction on both sides of the
border.
It is not Zack Polanski
or the Green Party which is anti-Semitic but you Bella. Of course you will
understand none of this because you trade in vacuous soundbites, which saves
you the trouble of thinking too deeply.
Zionism is racist
because it excludes and others the indigenous people of Palestine. That is why
Israel has just passed a death penalty law for Palestinians only. In the words
of Netanyahu Israel is not a state of all of its citizens, just its Jewish
citizens.
The Zionist Memorial to Israelis Who Died on October 7 - Most of them killed because of the Hannibal Directive
I note that you attended
on October 7, the memorial to Israelis who died when the Palestinians broke out
of their concentration camp in Gaza. You described them as innocent, despite
the occupation of Gaza for over half a century.
Yet you didn’t manage
to attend the march in
memory of the70,000+ Palestinians who have been murdered in Israel’s genocide. Presumably
the 38 Israeli Jewish children who died outweigh the 50,000 or more Palestinian
children who were deliberately murdered by Israel’s army. And then you have the
audacity to call others racist.
Hundreds march in Brighton
to mark three years of genocide in Gaza
You stand in a long
tradition Bella of British imperialism which singled out Jews and Zionism for a
role in the British Empire. I suggest you read Churchill’s Zionism v Bolshevismof February 1920. Churchill was nothing
if not an imperialist.
I have been active in
Brighton politics for over half a century. I have known many Labour councillors
who were people of principle. Joe Townsend, a Jewish councillor and
anti-Zionist who was on the Anti-Nazi League Steering Committee with me in the
70s. Francis Tonks who together with Jack Hazelgrove campaigned
to stop the Council from transferring Council Housing to an ALMO. The same type
of organisation responsible for the Grenfell fire.
Cllr. Francis Tonks
These people were
socialists who believed in and stood for a different kind of society to the
neo-liberal warmongering society that Labour presides over today. You are
merely a piece of detritus which will soon be forgotten. You stand for nothing
apart from yourself. You aren’t fit to shine their shoes.
I confess to what might
be called a conflict of interest. It seems as if the
only achievement of Brighton
Council is the closing
of Wellington House, the last Day Centre in Brighton for Adults with Learning
Difficulties. My son, Daniel, currently attends the Centre. You cynically held
a consultation having made the decision to close it regardless of the outcome.
I guess this is what is
meant by ‘self-determination’ but it would appear that it only applies to
racists, not the disabled. I guess this is the feminism of imperialism.
The Zionists
have Reported My Speech to the Demonstration to the Police – There’s Nothing
They Would Like Than For Britain to Become Another Israel
Heidi Bachram is a 'journalist' on the Jewish Chronicle & an informer who monitors what we are saying in the hope that the Police will shut us down and criminalise us - she can be contacted on @heidibachram if you want to let her know what you think of her. Informing on people used to be a sin (lashon hara) because informers led to the deaths of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust and in Spain - Zionism however encourages what is called 'evil talk'
Tony
Greenstein Speaks to Demonstration Outside Brighton & Hove Council
Last Wednesday at short notice, Brighton
& Hove Trades Council held a picket of Hove Town Hall. The purpose was to
get Labour’s silent Councillors to emulate their colleagues in other towns and
cities and make a clear statement in support of an immediate ceasefire.
For a month Labour councillors had
kept silent, saying nothing about the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing in
Gaza. I had written previously to all 38 Labour Councillors asking why they
didn’t have the honesty or courage to speak out like over 600 of their
colleagues nationally. I received no response.
Israeli children sing: "We will annihilate everyone" in Gaza
Hove Town Hall picket
In response to the forthcoming
demonstration these cowards, led by Bella
Sankey, finally issued a statement. They
would have done well to save their breath. No mention of genocide, no mention
of ethnic cleansing, no mention of the bombing of hospitals, instead these
political vermin talked about Israel having ‘the
right to take targeted action’ against the Palestinians, oblivious to the
already 10,000 dead.
🚨🇮🇱 CNN is TURNING ON NETANYAHU AND ISRAEL.
UN Human Rights Rapporteur Albanese destroys Kirsty Wark
Bella Sankey, Leader of Brighton & Hove Council, is one in a long line of Labour racists who prefer to avert their eyes when genocide is taking place
Not one councillor attended the
demonstration. This is a far cry from the days when councillors were selected
by members of the Labour Party. Today what we have is handpicked Starmer clones
who hide behind empty phrases. They called for a ‘humanitarian ceasefire’ which is a meaningless phrase. Either there
is an unconditional ceasefire or not.
Must Watch Video First Shown on Andrew Marr Show - Shot from Khan Younis
There was no recognition of the
starvation siege of Gaza for 17 years, the stifling suffocation of the world’s largest
open air prison camp (David Cameron) or indeed the international law right
of a people under occupation to resist their occupiers. No doubt these councillor
clones would queue up to support the right of Ukrainian people to resist the
Russians but of course in that case it’s a NATO proxy war.
ITV - schools bombed in Gaza City
Israeli forces strike Al-Fakhoora School in
northern Gaza
Also last week Killer Keir and his
genocidal friend Peter Kyle, the Hove MP, abstained in parliament on an SNP
amendment calling for an immediate ceasefire. But Palestine and genocide in
Gaza produced the largest
rebellion of Labour MPs to date, some 56, against Starmer’s support for
genocide.
Sen. @ChrisCoons sat across from me on the train. With Israel using US weapons to kill thousands of Palestinian civilians, including 4600+ children, I asked him why he refuses to call for a ceasefire: pic.twitter.com/uW7oBBX0Il
Israeli TV host threatens to kill all Muslims and Arabs, and says 'we are prepared to fight the United States and the whole world too.' Israeli hate and bloodlust is next level. pic.twitter.com/qoIOxlE2Vy
Labour's War Criminal Leader Doesn't Seem Eager to Engage with Critics
Starmer himself is incapable of
defending a position that say that the way to peace is to continue to bomb
hospitals, homes, journalists etc. Instead he resorted to a meaningless
soundbite:
I wanted
to be clear about where I stood, and where I will stand. Leadership is about
doing the right thing. That is the least the public deserves.
If leadership is about doing the
right thing then Killer Keir would resign.
Israel's fake evidence for its attach on Gaza's Main Hospital Al Shifa
Soldiers surround Al Shifa Hospital
Since last week Israel has invaded
Gaza’s largest hospital Al Shifa claiming
that it was a Hamas command and control centre. They found nothing other than
what they had brought with them. That didn’t stop the news organisations
treating Israel’s claims seriously.
BBC Ros Atkins questions Al Shifa as a control centre
But that didn’t stop the IDF forcing
people to strip naked, beating and firing at people inside a hospital. To call
Israeli soldiers animals would be an insult to a rabid dog.
The demonstration was well
attended. Over 300 demonstrators and members of RMT, Unite, UCU and other
unions attended. There were a range of speakers and I spoke as a representative
of Jewish Network for Palestine.
It would appear that amongst the
crowd was the Jewish Chronicle’s racist correspondent Heidi Bachram who has reported me to the
Police! Free speech and Zionism don’t go together as we can see from the
persecution of those in Israel who oppose its genocidal war.
The Zionists know that
most British people don’t support genocide or the murder of school children.
Hence the desperation of groups like the misnamed ‘charity’, the Campaign Against Anti-Semitismcrying‘Enough is
enough. The police must act.’ The Zionists
know that they would be lucky to get 1% of our numbers on a demonstration.
🚨WATCH: Israeli children sing, "We will annihilate everyone" in Gaza, against a background of destruction.
Disturbing video was posted, then deleted by Israeli national broadcaster @kann_news.
Starmer's Double Standards - Some War Crimes Can Be Called Out - But Not Israeli Ones That's Antisemitic
The CAA is an Israel government front organisation. It was set up at the instigation of the Ministry of Strategic Affairs in July 2014 during the last major Israeli Blitzkrieg on Gaza as a way of undermining solidarity action through accusations of 'antisemitism'.
Its anguished crying now is a demonstration that the effect of solidarity action in the West is being felt in Tel Aviv. Because let's face it, if the eyes of the world were not on Israel they wouldn't even be attempting to pretend that Al Shifa is a Hamas base. The Zionist savages would have gone in and slaughtered everyone.
Sky News Interview with Palestinian Journalist
The Zionist Belief in Free Speech! Bull and Bachram forget that Britain isn't (yet) quite in the same league as Israel when it comes to free speech
If we think 10,000 or 12,000 dead is bad just imagine what the situation would be if we weren't monitoring their every move? That is why the Zionist army has targeted journalists, in particular those of Al Mayden and Al Jazeera. It's no accident that BBC and Western journalists haven't been targeted in the same way because the Israelis no they can rely on the BBC to lie for them. Not so with Al Jazeera and Al Mayden. Even the families of their journalists have been targeted whilst the yellow journalists in the West say, see and hear nothing.
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That is why the Israelis are so keen to get rid of Al Jazeera having already banned Al Mayden. They know they can rely on the BBC, CBS and Sky but not on the more independent Arab broadcasting stations. This is ironic given that the West is fond of lecturing Arabs and third world peoples about democracy!
As for
Jews being scared of entering London well 1,000 Jews not only made up the
Jewish block on the demonstration but were also made very welcome!! There were
thousands of Jews, albeit anti-racist Jews, on the march. The CAA became so
hysterical that they wrote to Suella Braverman saying she should bring in the army. Clearly the CAA forgot that
this is England not Israel! Mad and Bad as Braverman was she was not that mad.
The attack on Palestinian medical
facilities and hospitals in Gaza is in flagrant breach of the Geneva Convention
but when it suits them Western powers simply ignore international law. The
leadership of the American Medical Association, which called for an immediate
ceasefire in Ukraine refused to
take a similar resolution on Gaza. Such is the complicity of
Western doctors.
Israel has been running a
propaganda war to back its genocidal war but occasionally things go wrong. One
such instance was when 85 year old hostage Yocheved Lifschitz was released by
Hamas. She shook their hands as she left and later said how humanely she had
been treated by them. A marked contrast to how Israel has stripped people of
their clothes and beaten them.
What was the government’s response? Fury that their message
that Hamas are monsters had been undermined. According to Ha’aretz:
"They were very
friendly to us," Lifshitz said, "they
treated us gently and looked after us."
These statements sparked furty, with some accusing her
of damaging
the Israeli war effort by portraying Hamas in a generous light. An Israeli government
source said that “Lifshitz’s statements
about the humane treatment of the hostages at the hands of the Hamas terrorists
harmed Israeli hasbara."
Heidi Bachram is one of those Jews who prostitute for Israel - no babies were killed by Israel's own statistics but telling the truth is 'hate'
And there you have it. Israel’s genocidal war is also accompanied by
systematic lying. Ha’aretz reported that
While many criticized Lifshitz and her family for
her statements, the lions share of the criticism was directed at the
spokesperson of Ilichov Hospital, Avi Shoshan, for facilitating the press
conference in the first place.
The hapless Shoshan is being made
to pay the price for not realising that the truth was the last thing the
Zionist leaders wanted to hear.
Senator Chris Coons Didn't Like Being Questioned on Why He Is a War Criminal - It was Bad Manners
A Wave of Repression Inside
Israel Against Dissidents
But it’s not only in the Occupied Territories that there is a
wave of terror. It is also taking place in what Zionists like to describe as
‘the only democracy in the Middle East’.
Israelis with a conscience like Dr Meir Baruchin are being locked up and persecuted under Israel's 'democratic' regime
Dr. Meir Baruchin, a civics and history teacher, in a Petah
Tikva high school was not only fired by the local authority but spent 5 days in prison for “indicating a decision to
commit treason.” And what was his treasonous behaviour? Spying for Hamas?
Nothing so glamorous.
posts
in which he objected to Israel’s military operation in the Gaza Strip and
discussed the deaths of Gazan civilians. ... The posts included photographs of dead
Palestinians, including young children, frequently accompanied by the statement
“this doesn’t interest the Jews.” And
with a few exceptions, he’s right. Even during peacetime, Israeli public
opinion has almost no interest in innocent Palestinian victims. During wartime,
the prevailing view is that there is no such thing.
In
another post, on October 8, Baruchin listed the names and ages of six Palestinians killed in the
West Bank,
aged 14 to 24. “They were born under
occupation and lived under it all their lives,” he wrote. “They never knew a
single day of true freedom ... They were executed by our wonderful boys.” Judge
Oren Silverman justified keeping him in detention for another four days due to
such statements. According to Silverman, they sufficed “to establish a reasonable suspicion.”…
Baruchin
isn’t alone. Over the last month, dozens of Arab Israelis have been arrested
over alleged incitement. Both the police and the prosecution are party to this
move, which significantly curtails freedom of expression in Israel. Even if
some of these statements are uncomfortable for Israelis to hear, they should be
permitted as long as they don’t constitute genuine incitement.
Just as in South Africa the attack
on the rights of Black people led to restrictions on the rights of Whites too. The
neo-Nazis who have taken over the ‘Jewish’ state are also attacking left-wing Jews.
We are seeing a second Nakba in the making and the Zionist lobbyists are working overtime to justify it and explain it away
What is happening in Gaza is the
fufilment of far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s Decisive Plan. As Orly Noy explains
Palestinians have a choice – emigration or annihilation.
Official Israeli Statistics Give the Lie to the Allegation of Decapitated Babies No Babies Died
Tales of Hamas Barbarities on October 7th
Most of us will be familiar with
the tales of Hamas barbarities in Al Aqsa Flood. Decapitated babies, raped
women and so on. This is atrocity propaganda. Joe Biden, the corrupt and senile
liar who is nominally President of the United States, first alleged that he had
seen photographs of beheaded babies. This was a lie and later the White House
was forced to ‘walk back’this allegation.
From The Times to the tabloids they screamed about murdered Israeli babies - yet this was a lie - NO baby was murdered - at least by Palestinians. Thousands of Palestinian children including babies have been murdered by Israel yet THERE ARE NO HEADLINES CONDEMNING THIS - This is the Colonial Racism that the British Press Used to Justify Barbarities in previous centuries
Likewise there is no credible
evidence of rape or naked Israeli women being paraded in Gaza City. There is a
long history of the uprisings of colonial people being portrayed as the work of
savages. Britain portrayed the Mau Mau rising in Kenya in this fashion. This is
how racism operates in justifying colonialism.
But now Israel has released partial
figures there is a different story. No
babies were killed. 7 children between 4 and 9 and 10 between 10 and 17
were killed. These were 17 too many but they pale in comparison with Israel’s barbarism
in Gaza. More than twice as many Palestinian children have been killed in the
West Bank alone this year compared to last year.
NAZI statements such as those of Rabbi Maroz above are common in Israel yet the IHRA definition of antisemitism has been forced on us to prevent comparisons between yesterdays and todays murderers
Of course to racists like Haidi
Bachram no amount of Palestinian blood is enough. As Netanyahu explained
a few weeks ago, the Palestinians are Amalek and the good Lord has commanded
the Israelites to wipe them out to every last child. This is the genocidal
mentality that is in play today even though Starmer, Sunak and the media
pretend that Israel is just another western democracy.
Gradually a picture is being built
up of what really happened on October 7. It was a daring and well planned raid
aimed at destroying Israel’s Gaza Division. Its second objective was capturing
hostages in order to exchange them for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli gaols.
Both are quite legitimate war time objectives.
But when Hamas fighters went into
Kibbutz Be’eri to capture hostages, the Israeli army took the decision that
instead of allowing a future prisoner exchange they would kill all the
potential hostages along with their captives.
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Ha’aretz reporter Nir Hasson interviewed Tuval, a
resident of Kibbutz Be’eri, who happened to be away that day and this is his
description
“His voice trembles when his partner, who was
besieged in her home shelter at the time, comes to mind. According to him, only
on Monday night and only after the commanders in the field made difficult
decisions — including shelling houses with all their occupants inside in order
to eliminate the terrorists along with the hostages — did the IDF complete the
takeover of the kibbutz. The price was
terrible: at least 112 Be’eri people were killed. Others were kidnapped. Yesterday,
11 days after the massacre, the bodies of a mother and her son were discovered
in one of the destroyed houses. It is believed that more bodies are still lying
in the rubble.”
Israeli forces shot their own civilians, kibbutz survivor says
Contrast this Israeli cowardice with
the Iranian
Embassy siege in London in 1980 where the SAS stormed the building and
rescued all but one of the 23 hostages. Israel simply resorts to overwhelming
firepower even if it kills its own citizens in the process.
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As Israel targets hospitals,
schools, mosques and churches, Labour leaders like Starmer and Nandy refuse to
call for an immediate ceasefire. They are accomplices to genocide and should be
treated as such.
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On Saturday Israeli air raids killed
and injured hundreds of Palestinians at two UNRWA schools, Al Fakhoura and Tall
az-Zaatar in the Jabalia
refugee camp. At least 50 people were killed in the attack on Al Fakhoura,
the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.
How anyone can claim that Israel is
not embarked on genocide and ethnic cleansing after these atrocities defies
explanation. After having told Palestinians to move south they are now being
told to move to the West of Gaza. It is crystal clear what Israel’s plan is.
The forcible eviction of Palestinians from Gaza. Ethnic cleansing is the
strategy and western leaders are complicit in this including that execrable
dummy Keir Starmer.
ØIsraeli forces ordered the
immediate evacuation of Al-Shifa’ hospital on Saturday morning — leaving only
120 patients in critical state and five doctors on the premises.
ØCivilians flee Al-Shifa’
carrying people in wheelchairs and gurneys, amid reports that Israeli forces
barred men from entering southern Gaza.
ØIsraeli forces reportedly took
the bodies of 18 Palestinians from Al-Shifa’, with no information on their
whereabouts.
ØAn Israeli airstrike on
al-Fakhura school in Jabalia refugee camp on Saturday has killed at least 50
people.
ØScores of deadly Israeli
airstrikes pummel Gaza schools, mosques, and homes, killing at least 26 in the
southern town of Khan Younis.
ØThe WHO says Gaza’s health
system is “on its knees”.
ØFighting continues between
Palestinian resistance groups and Israeli ground forces in northern Gaza and
Gaza City.
ØIn the West Bank, Israeli forces
bombed the Fatah party headquarters in Balata refugee camp, killing five.
ØAt least two other Palestinians
die in the West Bank after being shot by Israeli forces, while armed
confrontations continue in several areas of the occupied territory.
ØPalestinians raise the alarm
about growing Israeli settler threat of takeover of Palestinian homes in the
Old City’s Armenian Quarter in occupied East Jerusalem.
ØThe International Criminal Court
said
on Friday that five countries had sent referrals
requesting it investigate whether Israel’s actions in the wake of October 7
constituted crimes.
ØIn hospital raid, Israeli forces
took captive dozens of displaced people, relatives of patients and the injured
inside Al-Shifa, after stripping them of their clothes, blindfolding them, and
taking them to “unknown” locations.
ØThe buildings of the nephrology
and the internal medicine departments at Al-Shifa Hospital were the first to be
stormed by Israeli forces. Israeli forces also detonated a medicine storehouse
at the hospital.
ØGenocide Joe Biden backs Israeli
accusations of a Hamas command underneath Al-Shifa Hospital, which Hamas
denied. Hospital staff have called on independent, third-party investigators to
come to the hospital and investigate the claim, which they also say is false.
ØHamas: White House adoption of
false claims of command center under Al-Shifa is a “green light to the
[Israeli] occupation force to commit
more massacres against civilians.”
ØHealth official: Israeli forces
shot at Palestinians who left the Al-Shifa complex through the “safe corridor”
which they set up.
Palestinian Voices in
European Parliament
Every Cloud
Has a Silver Lining
However as the saying goes, every
cloud has a silver lining. It is an ill-wind that blows no good. So it would appear
is the case in Israel’s ground war.
After having pummelled Gaza from
the air for 3 weeks Israel’s ground troops went in. We must bear in mind that
these troops are more used to fighting women and children in the West Bank than
armed guerillas. Shooting an unarmed civilian is not the same as confronting a
well armed guerilla.
The Israeli military has been
unable to establish permanent and defensible military bases inside Gaza. Countless
Israeli tanks have been blown up or damaged in direct hits, especially using
Yassin 105 anti-artillery missiles, along with other improvised RPGs.
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It is noticeable that there has
been very little coverage of how the ground war is going from the Zionist side.
According to satellite images analyzed by Al-Jazeera, 383 military vehicles
entered Gaza at the start of the ground operation on October 27.
According to the Al-Jazeera analysis unit, 88 of these
military vehicles had ‘disappeared’ between November 1 to 10. On November 8,
Abu Obeida had announced that 136 military vehicles had been destroyed fully or
partially. But the spokesman of the Resistance was referring to the entirety of
the Gaza Strip, not just the northern parts. Since then, dozens more armored
vehicles were also destroyed. See Military
analysis unraveling the mystery of disappearance 88 Israeli vehicles in Gaza
On November 12, Abu Obeida declared that the number of
vehicles destroyed fully or partially by the Palestinian Resistance since the
beginning of the ground operation amounted to more than 160. In addition to the
62, declared on November 17, Al-Qassam said that it had destroyed 17 additional
military vehicles on Saturday, November 18, alone.
Indonesia Hospital is the latest hospital to come under attack from Tel Aviv's war criminals
If true this would mean that 239 of the original 383 military
vehicles which entered Gaza according to satellite images remain. It is
impossible to verify these figures but it is clear that there has been no easy
or quick progress by Israel’s troops and equally true that they are taking
heavy casualties.
Even Israel admits to over 60 soldiers killed which means
that about 200 have been injured.
It has also been announced that there will be 4 day ceasefire
whilst hostages are exchanged. The question is whether or not this will be
extended.
Tony Greenstein
Israel tortures its victims in the open now - this is from soldier's social media accounts
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