@GeriatricGardener@kolektiva.social cover
@GeriatricGardener@kolektiva.social avatar

GeriatricGardener

@[email protected]

Former university academic & tech transfer middle manager. Now retired ex-#Labour #Corbyn-supporting member (expelled in 2016 purge) & recent exile from Twitter/ X. Ageing obscure lefty rebel, He/ him, Socialist, Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist, Anti-Zionist, Feminist, proud granddad & passionate gardener.

My hashtags:

#Israel #ApartheidIsrael #Zionism #Racism #Pogrom #Nakba #Genocide #SettlerColonialism #EthnicCleansing #StopArmingIsrael #CollectivePunishment #WarCrimes #FreePalestine #nobridge

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. View on remote instance

faab64 , to palestine group

This is the new on a global level.

Fascism is spreading and their victims are Palestinians.

@palestine @israel

GeriatricGardener ,
@GeriatricGardener@kolektiva.social avatar

@faab64 @palestine @israel

An indicator, if any is needed, of the toxic influence that the is able to exert over not just governments but grassroots and civil society organisations internationally!

Money talks and these organisations justifiably fear that, if they show any support for Palestinians, their funding will be cut off! It’s incredibly pernicious and, when (hopefully) the future equivalent of the Nuremberg trials are held, imo the influence of the Lobby in enabling the genocide must be investigated and its leaders brought to trial!

GeriatricGardener , to palestine group
@GeriatricGardener@kolektiva.social avatar

“GAZA LIVE BLOG: Conflict in Israel over ‘Tactical Pause’ | Arrest Warrants Decision in Ten Days | Hits Destroyer – Day 254”

by Palestine Chronicle Staff @palestinechron

@palestine @israel

“The Israeli army announced the killing of two officers from the 8th Brigade in battles in the northern Gaza Strip while the announced an ambush in .

The Israeli occupation forces stormed the courtyards of Mosque as the Palestinians prepared to perform al-Adha prayers.

Retired Israeli General Yitzhaq Brik said that any decision by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to attack would bring disaster to Israel.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 37,337 Palestinians have been killed, and 85,299 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.”

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/gaza-live-blog-more-israeli-soldiers-killed-al-aqsa-stormed-retired-general-warns-against-war-with-hezbollah-day-254/

GeriatricGardener OP ,
@GeriatricGardener@kolektiva.social avatar

@InternetDev @palestine @israel

Merci pour votre conseil ! J'essaierai d'être plus ciblé dans mon utilisation des hashtags à l'avenir!

oatmeal , to palestine group
@oatmeal@kolektiva.social avatar

/ Labour pledges to recognise Palestinian state as part of peace process

[…] "Palestinian statehood is the inalienable right of the Palestinian people," said Labour's election manifesto - the collection of policies it gott by would enact if it forms the next government.
[…] "We are committed to recognising a Palestinian state as a contribution to a renewed peace process which results in a two-state solution with a safe and secure Israel alongside a viable and sovereign Palestinian state."

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-labour-pledges-recognise-palestinian-state-part-peace-process-2024-06-13/

@palestine
@israel

GeriatricGardener ,
@GeriatricGardener@kolektiva.social avatar

@oatmeal @palestine @israel

This is total bollocks @UKLabour

Only the imperial hegemony and its neo-liberal colonialist lackey states like are still yammering on about a “two-state solution”

has constructed 00s of illegal settlements across the West Bank which are populated by ~800k rabid settlers!

Even if Netanyahu agreed (which he won’t - ever!) who’s gonna force those heavily-armed fanatical religious settlers out of their homes and back into Israel proper so that Palestinians can have their Israel-dominated mini-state?

One thing’s for sure - it isn’t gonna be Israel! So who: Britain? The US? NATO?

Fuck off ! This is just more of your lies; more lip-service paid to Palestinian freedom driven more by concern for your own legal position as a genocide enabler than anything else!

GeriatricGardener , to palestine group
@GeriatricGardener@kolektiva.social avatar

“Do you condemn Hamas?: The question we have to ask ourselves is not whether we condemn Hamas, but whether we condemn a settler colonial regime that makes armed struggle necessary for survival.”

by James Ray in Mondoweiss @mondoweiss

@palestine @israel

“Like them [Hamas] or not, the efforts they have waged and continue to wage have made more of a material impact toward the liberation of Palestine than anything any of us in the West will ever make. They are taking on the brutal violence of colonial power and waging a campaign of armed struggle that has, at the current moment, with coordination with other resistance factions, made the Zionist colony more of a pariah than it has ever been on a global stage and shattered the image of military invincibility and overall stability it has spent decades cultivating. Countless years of struggle have culminated in this flashpoint.”

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/06/do-you-condemn-hamas/?ml_recipient=123391519249926016&ml_link=123391510330738497&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2024-06-06&utm_campaign=Daily+Headlines+RSS+Automation

GeriatricGardener OP ,
@GeriatricGardener@kolektiva.social avatar

@zephry @mondoweiss @palestine @israel

Are those who use violence to resist/ defeat colonial oppression terrorists?

Is there no justification for the actions of these ⤵️ people?

ANC/ Mandela in S Africa
Toussaint in Haiti
IRA in Northern Ireland
PLO/ Arafat
Mugabe in Zimbabwe

GeriatricGardener , to palestine group
@GeriatricGardener@kolektiva.social avatar

“Joe Biden’s Terrible Israel Policy Is Really About Getting in Bed With Saudi Arabia: Biden's plan to cozy up to Arab dictators is right out of Donald Trump's playbook — but even worse.”

by Aida Chavez in The Intercept @theintercept

@palestine @israel

“Biden wants to tie the U.S. to one of the most abhorrent regimes in the world for decades to come, striking a far-reaching security deal with Saudi Arabia — an agreement that would put American lives on the line to protect the and lock us into a new cold war.

And Biden’s big plan for peace in the Middle East is straight out of Donald ’s playbook.”

https://theintercept.com/2024/05/30/biden-israel-saudi-trump/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter

GeriatricGardener OP ,
@GeriatricGardener@kolektiva.social avatar

@HarbingerOfSalem @Lassielmr @theintercept @palestine @israel

Imo there’s no sanity anywhere in Israel’s governing class! Only hunger for power, blood-lust and hubris!

’s removal would change nothing! His political rivals will continue their genocidal assault on ! cannot be defeated, either politically or militarily! The odds of Israel existing as a Zionist, apartheid project in 10 years time, imo, are slim to none!

GeriatricGardener OP ,
@GeriatricGardener@kolektiva.social avatar

@InternetDev @RodneyPetersonTalent @theintercept @palestine @israel

Trump et Biden sont deux côtés gériatriques du même cul ! Le peuple américain a permis que cette situation se produise. Je ne me soucie vraiment plus de savoir si Trump gagne les élections américaines - ils obtiendront le gouvernement qu'ils méritent et devront vivre avec les conséquences ! L'humanité est baisée de toute façon - avec ou sans Biden !

GeriatricGardener , to palestine group
@GeriatricGardener@kolektiva.social avatar

This is a horrifying must read article describing Israel’s secret ‘black’ site torture facilities where Palestinian men and boys, often after being snatched off the streets, are routinely subjected to brutal, degrading conditions!

Don’t look away! Please read and boost!

“The message of Israel’s torture chambers is directed at all of us, not just Palestinians”

by Jonathan Cook in Middle East Eye @middleeasteye

@palestine @israel

“The complicity of western establishments in Israel’s current genocide is not an anomaly. It does not derive from a misunderstanding or confusion. The western political and media class see the genocide in Gaza as clearly as the rest of us. But for them, it is justified, required even. The colonised and oppressed must be taught that resistance is futile.

Sde Teiman [‘black’ site], like the Gaza death camp, is serving its purpose. It is there to break the human spirit. It is there to turn the Palestinians into willing collaborators in their own destruction as a people, in their own ethnic cleansing.

And a subliminal message is being directed at the western public at the same time: this could also be your fate if you do not join in cheerleading Israel’s atrocities in Gaza.”

https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/israel-torture-chambers-message-directed-us-palestinians

GeriatricGardener OP ,
@GeriatricGardener@kolektiva.social avatar

@thisisskaly @palestine @israel

Nice if you to feel sorry (not!) for the 15,000 or more Palestinian children who have been murdered by the IDF in the past 8 months Emmanuelle - not to mention all those 000s in the West Bank who have either been murdered or kidnapped, imprisoned and tortured in Israeli prisons and secret death camps!

Have you heard of Facility 1391 ‘black’ site where inmates were kept in a state of sensory deprivation, made to wear blacked-out goggles, except for when being tortured?

Or more recently, the Sde Teiman ‘black’ site in the Negev which was set up months ago to process thousands of Palestinian men and boys, victims of Israel’s occupation, seized from the streets of Gaza and the West Bank since 7 October?

No? It’s where doctors amputate prisoners’ limbs due to injuries sustained from constant handcuffing; of medical procedures sometimes performed by underqualified medics earning it a reputation for being ‘a paradise for interns’; and where the air is filled with the smell of neglected wounds left to rot?

I challenge you to read the following articles from CNN and Middle East Eye … but I won’t hold my breath that you will because like most of your fellow Israelis, I’m sure you prefer to think of yourself as a victim rather than as a perpetrator of a 75+ year-long incremental genocide against the Palestinian people!

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/10/middleeast/israel-sde-teiman-detention-whistleblowers-intl-cmd/index.html

https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/israel-torture-chambers-message-directed-us-palestinians

GeriatricGardener , to palestine group
@GeriatricGardener@kolektiva.social avatar

“ICC MUST INVESTIGATE BRITISH MINISTERS FOR COMPLICITY IN GAZA WAR CRIMES: Now the International Criminal Court is seeking to issue an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu, it must investigate his accomplices in the British government.”

by Mark Curtis in @Declassified_UK

@palestine @israel

“Seven British ministers – including Rishi , David , Grant and Kemi – must be investigated for aiding Israel”

[..]

“British ministers have consistently defended Israel’s attacks on Palestinians as the death toll has mounted to the tens of thousands. They explicitly reject South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice.

Evidence suggests UK ministers just don’t care about international law or how many people – Palestinians or Britons – are killed in Gaza.

At the same time, the British government is refusing to publish the legal advice it has received on whether Israel is violating international law in Gaza.”

https://www.declassifieduk.org/icc-must-investigate-british-ministers-for-complicity-in-gaza-war-crimes/

GeriatricGardener OP ,
@GeriatricGardener@kolektiva.social avatar

@InternetDev @Declassified_UK @palestine @israel

Absolument ! Si vous vous souvenez de l'épisode de Jeffrey , on croit largement qu'Epstein travaillait pour l'organisation de renseignement alors qu'il trafiquait des jeunes femmes ! Si c'est vrai, il recueillait sans aucun doute des preuves incriminantes sur beaucoup de personnes puissantes !

GeriatricGardener , to palestine group
@GeriatricGardener@kolektiva.social avatar

“ANDREW : WHY I AM STANDING AGAINST KEIR : Labour’s leader thinks he can get away with supporting genocide in Gaza. It’s time to teach him a lesson in his own backyard.”

by Andrew Feinstein in Declassified UK @Declassified_UK

@palestine @israel

“Our democracy is in crisis. The two main parties are virtually indistinguishable in their offers of permanent austerity, forever wars and environmental degradation.

Keir Starmer, the MP for Holborn and St. Pancras where my family and I have lived for around 22 years, is emblematic of this crisis. His politics are mendacious, unprincipled and in the interests of his billionaire donors rather than the constituents he was elected to serve.

I have seen real leadership in action: I was privileged to serve under Nelson as an MP in South Africa. His leadership was selfless, principled, accountable, transparent and honest. Everything that Keir Starmer is not.”

https://www.declassifieduk.org/andrew-feinstein-why-i-am-standing-against-keir-starmer/

GeriatricGardener OP ,
@GeriatricGardener@kolektiva.social avatar

@InternetDev @Declassified_UK @palestine @israel

Starmer est pire qu'un manipulateur ! C'est un autoritaire raciste et menteur qui ne s'intéresse au pouvoir que pour le pouvoir !

GeriatricGardener , to israel group
@GeriatricGardener@kolektiva.social avatar

“All-Out War – Resistance Roundup – Day 221”

by Palestine Chronicle Staff @palestinechron @palestine @israel

“Several videos were published by Palestinian Resistance groups in Gaza, showing fighters targeting and blowing up Israeli tanks and other military vehicles.

In the one video, described by Brigades as a complex operation, several Palestinian fighters were seen detonating an Israeli tank from zero distance, and another targeting a tank using Yassin-105.

When the fighters retreated safely back into a tunnel, a loud explosion was heard above ground, to which the fighters responded by chanting God is Great.

Al-Qassam said that in one operation, it killed seven Israeli soldiers from zero distance in , which has been one of the main theaters of fighting in recent days.”

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/all-out-war-resistance-roundup-day-221/

GeriatricGardener OP ,
@GeriatricGardener@kolektiva.social avatar

@faab64 @palestine @israel @palestinechron

Sabra arrogance combined with white supremacist ideology leads to hubris imo

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • kbinchat
  • All magazines
    •