Starmer Labour Has an Obsession With Attacking the Disabled – The First Thing They Did in Government Was to Attack Their Benefits
Save Wellington House campaign protests outside budget council - Brighton & Hove Local Democracy Reporting Service
In the last 20
years Brighton and Hove Council has
closed the Beaconsfield Villas Day Centre (2005), Cromwell Road Day Centre
(2008), the Connaught Centre (2013/14), Buckingham Road Centre (2015) and the
Belgrave Day Centre (2016).
My son, Daniel,
used to go to the Belgrave Centre in Portslade before that was closed. At the
time we were reassured that there was space in the Wellingon House Centre. Now
they are closing that too and hope to farm it out to the voluntary sector, a
mishmash of different facilities, all of which are overstretched. This is
privatisation by another name.
All the
Labour councillors were handpicked and vetted, according
to Greg Hadfield by Ivor Caplin, the former Hove MP and Chair of the Jewish
Labour Movement who was caught
in a sting by paedophile busters. Because of who he is he still has not
been charged nor is he even on bail. Starmer, with his turning of a blind eye
to Peter Mandelson and his ennoblement
of Lord Doyle, despite having canvassed for a paedophile Sean Morton, who was
facing charges at the time.
The ideology
that says that disabled people are surplus to requirements and dispensable did
not begin with Brighton and Hove Council.
From 1909
until 1979, California forcibly sterilised more than 20,000 women, third of the
total in the United States. In Mein Kampf
Hitler wrote
that
What I wrote in my Argus Opinion in 2016 when the Belgrave Centre was closed is still relevant. We had a Tory Govt. then & a Labour one now - but in essence there's no difference
There
is today one state, in which at least weak beginnings toward a better
conception [of citizenship] are noticeable. Of course, it is not our model
German Republic, but the United States.
Hitler Attacked
What He Called ‘Useless Eaters’ and ‘Life Unworthy of Life’ and thus began the
policies that ended with the so-called Euthanasia program, which many consider
the beginning of the holocaust.
I’m not
saying that Brighton and Hove Council or even Starmer’s Labour are going down
that road but the singling out of disability benefits and services for the
disabled reflects the same mindset. That is why mental health has always been
the cindarella of the NHS.
Councillor Mitchie is driving through the closure of Wellington House under the guise of improving the service - she hasn't yet bothered to actually visit it
Cllr. Mitchie
Alexander is the cabinet member responsible for Adult Social Care. She is quoted
in the local Argus as saying that
It
is not just about making a saving. It is an opportunity to assess what
provision people with learning disabilities and their families would like to
see offered in the future.”
Which is the
kind of mindless word salad that you expect from Starmer Labour. It’s like saying,
as Jonathan Turner of UK Lawyers for Israel did, that Israel’s starvation of
people in Gaza that was an opportunity to tackle their obesity!
There is
though no pretending that the intended closure of Wellington House is driven by
anything other than financial considerations, austerity and the cuts agenda. Jacob
Taylor, the Deputy Leader of the Council was quoted
as saying that if the day centre remained open, the council would have to find
the savings elsewhere in the adult social care budget.
10 years ago we were fighting the same fight - to save another centre - now Brighton's 'Labour' Council is intent on further 'savings'
At a committee meeting on Thursday, February
19, the Brighton and Hove Parent Carers’ Council’s (PaCC) Fiona England said
the day centre had capacity for at least 24 people and that the proposed
closure would affect 21 adults, mostly in their forties, fifties and sixties.
According to
Ms England 17 eligible young people are due to leave full-time education in the
summer and their transition from children’s services to adult social care was
already a source of concern. Closure of the day centre would add to that
concern.
Ms England
also raised concerns that other service providers lacked the capacity to absorb
and meet the need of those currently cared for at Wellington House.
However the
Labour Group is, at the moment, determined to plough ahead with their plans
unless they are stopped.
There is a statutory
consultation due to take place with carers and those affected from April
onwards for 12 months but these ‘consultations’ are more a case of going
through the motions than a genuine exercise in seeing whether the closure of
Wellington House should go ahead.
We know this
because Steve Hook
spoke to staff at Wellington House informing them of the closure last week and
got by all accounts a frosty reception. Likewise Cameron Brown, Head of the
Specialist Disability Service wrote a letter on 27 January informing carers of
the outcome of the Council meeting that took the decision to close Wellington
House on 26 February (!)
Although he
announced the formal consultation process and statutory review of the needs of
those using the Wellington Centre it is clear that these processes are merely going
through the motions before implementing the closure.
Why the Council is Lying Over the Consultation Process
The Council has issued 3
documents before making the budget proposals which make their position crystal clear.
The purpose of the proposals
is not, as Cllr. Alexander said an ‘opportunity to assess what provision people with learning disabilities want
in the future’ but solely with financial savings in mind. The consultations are
merely to pay lip service to peoples’ needs and to provide a justification for
the cuts.
The alternative
provides do not exist or do not have the capacity to absorb the present, let
alone new people.
The document entitled Reprovision
of Council provided Adult Learning Disability has under Objectives just one
objective and that is at 4.1 – Financial. There are no other objectives.
The document entitled ‘Day
Options Briefing Document - Dec 25’ lists at Section 5 – Market Costs &
Benchmarking 6 Providers and this is what it concludes under ‘Summary of benchmarking’:
That just 2 out of the 6
providers ‘have the skills and experience
to meet the needs of the 9 people with complex needs. These are Ambito and
Aspirations.’
Neither of these providers have the capacity required.
Of the other 14 people their needs could potentially be met.
This is back of the fag
packet stuff dressed up in the appropriate jargon. It is clear that the Council
doesn’t have a clue as to the alternative provision and that any closure of
Wellington House will be a leap in the dark.
The main objective, as the Council
makes clear, is financial. A saving of
£400,000. This is pathetic even by Brighton and Hove Council’s own lamentable
standards.
However we
don’t accept the whole concept of the consultation process.Firstly and most obviously because the
decision will be taken by the Council Cabinet who can simply proceed to ignore
the outcome of the consultation.
Secondly the
Consultation will not be run by those who are neutral or disinterested.
Thirdly
consulting present users and their representatives ignores all those potential
users in the years ahead who will have no input. Even if the Council were to
ensure that no one presently using the Centre was disadvantaged, the effect of any
closure would be to remove the possibility of anyone in the future gaining
access to Wellington House’s facilities or those provide in the alternative.
At
Wellington House users can access a whole range of facilities and expertise
which would be lost in a private sector provider. The privater/charitable sector
has no legal obligations unlike the Council.
What is
clear though is that this ‘Labour’ Government under Starmer is determined to
cut back local authority financing as it expands the ‘defence’ i.e. war
budget.Bombs and missiles to Israel and
Ukraine are a higher priority than basic local services.
However
parents and carers aren’t taking this lying down and a campaign is being
launched to prevent the closure of Brighton and Hove’s last day Centre. We
lobbied the Council Budget meeting on 26 February and the first meeting of
parents and carers was held earlier this week and a Petition has also been
launched.
If you are
living in Brighton and Hove then please sign it here.
In the coming
weeks then there will be further activity.
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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