FACTIONS

Zbig Brzezinski has recently been in the real news...TWICE!

The first was a speech in Poland in which he warned that the human race is politically awake and resisting.

The second was a different speech in which he has warned Israel that the USA should not, like a mule, blindly follow Israel into a war on Iran.

Last weekend in Press TV Gordon Duff reported that Obama had released a memo warning of infiltration of and violent threats to the US government. Strangely this warning was not reported in any NATO media that I read.

Duff now writes

Moreover, there has been a total press blackout on this press release, which is prominently displayed on the White House website. Those we have spoken with at the highest levels of the military and key intelligence and law enforcement agencies indicate they have never seen a statement of this kind and find it shocking.

...When all major media and political groups chose to suppress reporting of this threat, a press release that, normally, would have been turned against President Obama in order to label him a “wild conspiracy theorist,” this became more than real, it became genuinely terrifying.

[source : Nuclear Christmas, false flag in America to blame on Iran, Press TV, http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/11/28/274939/nuclear-christmas-false-flag-in-us/, 29th November 2012]

The memo referred to is still on The White House website at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/11/21/presidential-memorandum-national-insider-threat-policy-and-minimum-stand .

Duff correctly states that

Thus, when a threat of an attack on the “government and nation” is revealed, two things become obvious:

1. Only a nuclear attack, likely more than one location, could push America to the new war Israel wants and bully the American people into even more “police state” legislation and the total abandonment of what is left of democratic government.

2. News and entertainment have been systematically pre-staging such a move through highly fictionalized and propagandized “brainwashing” that is intended to make Iran the scapegoat for what President Obama has now revealed is actually an “insider threat” within the American government.

Duff then reminds us of the disappearance and/or theft of nuclear devices during the last 20 years or so.

For Duff to be writing that his highest level level military, intel and law enforcement sources find the unreported memo "shocking" and "terrifying" is a cause for great concern, particularly if the NATO media does not report it.

We know that Israel (but with some help) did 9/11. If Obama's adviser Brzezinski is now warning that the USA will not blindly follow Israel into war on Iran, when Obama is apparently threatening to go public on 9/11, and it appears that there has been a changing of the guard with the mass sackings around Petraeus and Stavridis, then there is a war of the factions going on in public.

Would the pro-War for Israel faction nuke the USA?

Well, they did 9/11. So to save their necks I think they would.

It's whether the insider threat memo really does refer to Israel.

And I think that it could.

IS BRZEZINSKI ONE OF THE OTHERS?

Here is what I think are the most astonishing and revealing sentences I have read regarding international affairs this year:

Some of the same high-level sources who point to Richard Clarke as the US boss of the Israeli-instigated 9/11 false flag operation also claim that President Obama, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dempsey, and other powerful Americans are considering exposing the truth about 9/11 during a second Obama term. In other words, Obama's re-election could put Israel out of business, and get Netanyahu hanged from the nearest lamp-post.

[source : Israel seeks war on Iran to keep lid on 9/11, PressTV, http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/09/20/262683/israel-seeks-iran-war-to-keep-lid-on-911/, 21/09/2012]

This is supported by the revelation of Francesco Cossiga in 2007 that most if not all of the world's intelligence agencies know that Israel did 9/11.

Is Brzezinski one the "other powerful Americans"?

Or is this just more old bollocks to shovel onto the ever increasing load of old bollocks they've given us already?

THE AMERICAN HOLOCAUST BEGAN CENTURIES AGO

This typifies current American thinking, and parallels the same thinking of the Zionist entity. Both seem to have forgotten that there were people who had been living on their lands for centuries, and in the case of America for millenia, before the first colonies were established at Rishon LeZion or Jamestown.

Yes, before the first settlers landed at what became known as Jamestown the native American Indians had been living in what would later become known as the USA for millenia. But over the following centuries the many peoples of the many tribes were slowly herded into smaller and smaller reservations, their equivalent of the ghetto, by a Christian nation so that eventually the USA would be the only nation to have used weapons of mass destruction (on Japan in WW2 when there was no need) and would interfere with the government of every nation on Earth, except perhaps the UK. The USA now has troops stationed all around the globe, and will not be happy until every nation on Earth is occupied and subservient to a world government based in the USA.

Let us not forget that one of the secret societies that runs the USA for the NWO, Skull and Bones, dug up Geronimo's grave and stole the skull.

The American Holocaust commenced last year with the Obama ordered murder upon American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki. Obama simply ignored the 5th Amendment of the Constitution which states in part:”no person shall… be deprived of life, liberty or property without Due Process of law.” It is likely that history will judge this act as the trigger event which will ultimately set into motion the American Holocaust.

[source : The American Holocaust Is Beginning, The Common Sense Show, http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2012/11/25/the-american-holocaust-is-beginning/, 25th November 2012]

ANOTHER BILDERBERGER TAKES CONTROL OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND

George Osborne is reported to have "stunned" our wretched Paedo Parliament today with the announcement that the next Governor of The Bank of England will be Mark Carney.

So what are Carney's credentials for this position? Carney is Bilderberg (2011 and 2012).

The two front runners for the position, Paul Tucker and Lord Adair Turner, have not attended Bilderberg.

I have however written to Turner about Bilderberg and its role in the current financial crisis, so perhaps writing to him again about Carney might just get Turner a bit more focused on Bilderberg.

George Osborne sprang a surprise on the City on Monday when he put Canada's central bank chief in charge of the Bank of England.

...In appointing a foreign national to the top job at the Bank of England, Osborne rejected several high profile British candidates, including the current deputy governor and frontrunner for the job, Paul Tucker, and the chairman of the Financial Services Authority, Adair Turner.

[source : Mark Carney the surprise choice as Bank of England governor, The Guardian, http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/nov/26/mark-carney-bank-of-england-governor, 26th November 2012]

PERHAPS MORE ASTONISHING REVELATIONS

Further to the claim that President Obama and CJCS Dempsey and others are considering going public on 9/11 and the recent sacking of several high ranking military and intelligence personnel comes this report, again in Press TV, that a few days ago, which would make it on or about the same day of the ceasefire between Israel and Gaza, Obama released a memo which warned of infiltration of and violent threats to the US government and the need for counter intelligence moves.

The author of the Press TV report, Gordon Duff, believes that this memo implicitly means the threat is coming from Israel. But the reason that he has to 'believe' that this memo refers to Israel is because the memo does NOT explicitly state that the perceived threat comes from a foreign state.

Seventy hours ago, at this writing, while on Air Force One, President Barack Obama issued a press release that has been utterly ignored by the Western Press.

The president has openly announced a move against violent plotters inside the US government and espionage agents. He does not use the terms “AIPAC” or “the Israel lobby” but it is highly unlikely he could be referring to anything else.

In fact, we can think of no other group.

I was privately briefed on some of the reasons behind this document. On what is known, not “surmised,” I will explain:

[source : AIPAC, decapitators inside US government: Intelligence analyst, Press TV, http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/11/24/274332/aipac-decapitators-inside-us-govt/, 25th November 2012]

The text of the memo is as follows:

The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
November 21, 2012

Presidential Memorandum -- National Insider Threat Policy and Minimum Standards for Executive Branch Insider Threat Programs

Memorandum for the heads of executive departments and agencies

Subject: National Insider Threat Policy and Minimum Standards for Executive Branch Insider Threat Programs

This Presidential Memorandum transmits the National Insider Threat Policy and Minimum Standards for Executive Branch Insider Threat Programs (Minimum Standards) to provide direction and guidance to promote the development of effective insider threat programs within departments and agencies to deter, detect, and mitigate actions by employees who may represent a threat to national security. These threats encompass potential espionage, violent acts against the Government or the Nation, and unauthorized disclosure of classified information, including the vast amounts of classified data available on interconnected United States Government computer networks and systems.

The Minimum Standards provide departments and agencies with the minimum elements necessary to establish effective insider threat programs. These elements include the capability to gather, integrate, and centrally analyze and respond to key threat-related information; monitor employee use of classified networks; provide the workforce with insider threat awareness training; and protect the civil liberties and privacy of all personnel.

The resulting insider threat capabilities will strengthen the protection of classified information across the executive branch and reinforce our defenses against both adversaries and insiders who misuse their access and endanger our national security.

Barack Obama

As you can see there is no explicit mention of a foreign state. You can read into the memo that a foreign state is a threat. But what about a domestic threat? The use of the word 'espionage' implies a foreign state. But it could also come from a domestic organisation.

Duff writes for Press TV, which is anti Israel. You can see where he is coming from that the memo can refer to nobody else but Israel. If the threat was coming from Iran or Russia then the memo would undoubtedly be front page news. And as I suggested, the time of the release of the memo is about the same time that the war on Gaza was stopped. So did Obama release this memo believing that having stopped the war on Gaza would mean a retaliation from the Israeli spy network in the USA? Remember that there was an overt threat to assassinate Obama published earlier this year in a newspaper owned by a rabid Zionist.

But is Obama really so anti Israel?

Professor Michel Chossudovsky at CRG exposed one possible reason for the war on Gaza, which was a joint US-Israel military exercise/war game to test the Israeli missile defence systems before an attack on Iran. In order to do that would require a real war of some kind. Chossudovsky goes through the timeline of provocations of Hamas by Israel. But he also exposes that the Emir of Qatar played a key role in the war.

The Insidious Role of Qatar

October 18, the joint US-Israeli war games are launched

On October 23, the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani visits the Gaza Strip for meetings with the Hamas government and promises of financial aid.

October 24, Israel’s President Shimon Peres insinuates that Qatar, a staunch ally of the US, is not only providing military aid to Hamas but is encouraging Hamas to increase the rocket attacks on Israel:

No sooner had he [The Emir of Qatar] departed, than the Islamist group ruling Gaza let loose with salvoes of rockets against Israel...

Peres commented Wednesday [October 24] said that it is intolerable for the rulers of Gaza to receive millions of dollars from the Emir of Qatar and shoot rockets. Nowhere in the world, whether London or New York, would it be acceptable for money awarded for building materials to be spent on rockets. Israel cannot put up with any more of this, said the president. "It is up to Gaza to choose between development and terror and murder."

October 24, Israel launches a bombing raid on Gaza killing four civilians in retribution for rocket attacks out of Gaza, which resulted in the wounding of four foreign workers. The press reports acknowledge that the Israeli air raids coincided with the onslaught of the joint US-Israeli war games:

The mock military maneuvers and computer war simulations...coincided with actual Israeli air raids 70 kilometers (44 miles) to the south on the Gaza Strip in response to Palestinian rocket attacks. Four Gaza residents were killed by the Israeli strikes as Palestinian militia groups launched at least 75 missiles into Israel, wounding three foreign workers, two seriously, and damaging property, according to police. (Bloomberg, October 25, 2012, emphasis added)

What the above suggests is that the October 24 air raids on Gaza were already ongoing in the course of the joint US-Israel war games. Everything indicates that the attack on Gaza officially launched on November 14 was a sequel to the joint US-Israeli war games which had in fact already "gone live" in late October.


[source : The US-Israeli Attack on Gaza, CRG, http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-us-israeli-attack-on-gaza/5312383, 20th November 2012]

Chussodovsky states that the whole US-Israel military exercise/war game was controlled by Admiral James G. Stavridis.

But what has happened to Stavridis?

Dr Webster Tarpley names Stavridis as one those high ranking military and intelligence personnel who along with Petraeus have been sacked.

Admiral James G. Stavridis, the outgoing NATO Supreme Commander, has been officially reprimanded by Navy Secretary Ray Mabus for lavish spending on his personal lifestyle, including a junket to a wine dinner in France. He will soon leave his post.

[source : Coup and counter-coup in Washington, Press TV, http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/11/19/273240/coup-and-countercoup-in-washington/, 19th November 2012]

One possible explanation for this is that the war on Gaza was not sanctioned by Obama. Perhaps a simulation was agreed, but that was all it was supposed to be; a simulation. Perhaps the simulation went live, as they say, as it did on 9/11. The war proper started on 14th November. Where was Obama then? Getting ready to visit South East Asia. When the war really got going the Israeli Interior Minister stated that the purpose of the war was to send Gaza "back to the Middle Ages".

But here is a question : If Romney had won the Presidential election, and using Professor Chussodovsky's timeline in which the missile defence simulation had started weeks before the election, would Romney have stopped the simulation/war? Would Romney have allowed it to play out longer, to draw in Hezbollah and Iran?

And would Romney have sacked Petraeus and all the other high ranking military and intelligence personnel?

9/11 SHOULD BE THE NEW 1776

Dr Webster Tarpley, in his unique erudite, witty and emotional style, has blasted the new secession movement that has risen (how?) in the USA since the Presidential election earlier this month. Writing for Press TV Dr Tarpley reminds us of the recent political adventures of Ron Paul and his son Rand.

Whether the secessionists know it or not, they are acting as useful idiots and dupes for an extreme right-wing tactic concocted by the California-based TeaParty.org, also known as the 1776 Tea Party. Tea Party organizations generally represent astroturfing, creating the illusion that they come up from the grass roots when in reality the key organizers are on payrolls funded by fascist billionaires.
[source : Secessionism and the New World Order, Press TV, http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/11/22/273876/secessionism-new-world-order/, 22nd November 2012]

Tarpley correctly states that breaking up nation states into smaller more manageable micro and mini states means they do not have the power to resist globalisation and become easy prey for globalist corporations. And again Tarpley reminds us of Ron Paul's support for globalisation.

Ron Paul is totally on board for this kind of New World Order. He notoriously told the House of Representatives on March 13, 2001 that “there is nothing to fear from globalism, free trade and a single worldwide currency.” These three elements are in fact the guaranteed destruction of existing nations.

But I must remind readers of what was written in the same media outlet shortly after the incident in Benghazi, since when President Obama has apparently sacked several high ranking intelligence and military personnel.

Here is what I think are the most astonishing and revealing sentences I have read regarding international affairs this year:

Some of the same high-level sources who point to Richard Clarke as the US boss of the Israeli-instigated 9/11 false flag operation also claim that President Obama, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dempsey, and other powerful Americans are considering exposing the truth about 9/11 during a second Obama term. In other words, Obama's re-election could put Israel out of business, and get Netanyahu hanged from the nearest lamp-post.

[source : Israel seeks war on Iran to keep lid on 9/11, PressTV, http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/09/20/262683/israel-seeks-iran-war-to-keep-lid-on-911/, 21/09/2012]

This is supported by the revelation of Francesco Cossiga in 2007 that most if not all of the world's intelligence agencies know that Israel did 9/11.

If the secessionists really want to start a new American revolution then they can simply demand, through We The People, that President Obama, along with Dempsey and the others, go public on 9/11 with a new investigation into 9/11.

A VERY CREDIBLE EXPLANATION OF THE LATEST WAR ON GAZA

The war on Syria had stalled. The warmongers were being rumbled; Turkey, Qatar, Egypt.

Have you noticed how these three stole the media space with their support for Palestinians?

Hamas too was supporting the Syrian opposition.

But now all have come out of this latest war on Gaza smelling of roses. Syria and Iran lost the media war, in the West at least.

The Palestinian cause has been hijacked by allies of Israel in its war against Syria and Iran.

This proposal was made at Land Destroyer blogspot http://landdestroyer.blogspot.co.uk/ and Land Destroyer twitter https://twitter.com/LandDestroyer .

For those who still don't know, 9/11 was done by Israel and Saudi Arabia to drag the USA into a war on Israel's neighbours. These neighbours had been named in documents A Clean Break and Rebuilding America's Defenses. Shortly after 9/11 General Wesley Clark was told that this list of targets had been increased so that seven nations, all of whom had sweet FA to do with 9/11, were going to see war and/or regime change in five years. That list consisted of

Iraq(2003)
Lebanon(2006)
Libya(2011)
Syria(ongoing but stalling)
Somalia
Sudan
Iran.

By 2007 this plan for war on seven nations in five years had seriously stalled. Only two of the nations had seen war and only one (Iraq) had seen regime change. Hezbollah was still strong in Lebanon. So, as revealed by Seymour Hersh in The Redirection, in 2007 an agreement was reached between the USA, Israel and Saudi Arabia that Saudi Arabia would supply extremist Jihadis to overthrow the governments of those nations that had not seen war.

In Libya 2011 the NFZ authorised by UNSCR 1973 was very quickly twisted into a quest for the assassination of Gaddafi. To this end Jihadis were supplied and trained by nations like Qatar, while NATO bombed and bombed and bombed and bombed and bombed and bombed and bombed and bombed and bombed and bombed and bombed and bombed a clear unobstructed path for the Jihadis all the way into Tripoli. Gaddafi was eventually assassinated. BSF assisted them from the front and the start all the bloody way.

The Jihadis used in Libya are now in Syria trying to work their Jihadi magic with NATO assistance again, by for example slaughtering pro-Assad families and blaming the Shabiha, but the plan is not going well at all. Despite Syria being covertly invaded, and threats of war from Turkey, Assad is still in power, with lots of support from Syrians themselves because they know that the so called 'civil' war in Syria is really an invasion by foreign Jihadis backed and financed by NATO and the Gulf states and Egypt. Hamas, which was created by Israel as a counter to the PLO, deserted Syria.

And it is these who have come out of the latest war on Gaza smelling of roses. Egypt brokered the ceasefire. The Emir of Qatar visited Gaza. Turkey made many anti-Israel statements. And more importantly this received lots of space in the NATO media.

On the other hand the apparent silence of Iran and Syria in NATO media has been deafening.

Whether beastman Netanyahu agreed to this, never intending to invade Gaza at all because he didn't want to destroy Hamas (Israel needs a threat for the aid from the USA) or look the bloodthirsty monster?

I could believe this.

THE GAZA WAR : WHO WON?

Not the many Palestinian dead and injured children, that's for sure.

Accounts of the ratio of the dead vary, but very roughly 10 Palestinians to every 1 dead Israeli.

And what seemed to escalate the violence was the classic typical shooting dead of a mentally ill Palestinian man by the IDF, followed by the IDF murdering a 13 year old Palestinian boy a few days later after Israel invaded Palestine.

On this question of is Gaza occupied?

No Israeli troops are permanently posted in Gaza. They withdrew in 2005. This is why Israel says Gaza is not occupied. But Gaza is under a blockade. The Israeli air force patrols the skies of Gaza. Israeli tanks and troops enter Gaza at will. Finance for Gaza comes through Israel, and Israel has threatened to withhold this finance several times. And there is much much more which means that Gaza is virtually under occupation. The UN believes this is the case. You would think that Israel would gladly give Gaza its independence. But for weirdo reasons Israel still wants total control over Gaza.

But let us reflect on what the Israeli Interior Minister said as the war got underway:

"The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages," Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai, a member of the ultra-orthodox Shas party, said, according to the leading Israeli daily Haaretz. "Only then will Israel be calm for 40 years."

[source : Israel interior minister vows to send Gaza back to Middle Ages, Digital Journal, http://digitaljournal.com/article/337132#ixzz2CvzbLmRu, 18th November 2012]

But Gaza still stands. Yes, some buildings have been destroyed, the civilian infrastructure has been illegally attacked. But Gaza still stands.

And under the terms of the ceasefire Hamas has got Israel to resume talks about the illegal blockade of Gaza.

If the war was designed to draw in Iran, as some speculated, then it has failed.

If the war was designed to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages, then it has failed.

If the war was designed to save the beastman Netanyahu's political skin, then it may have failed. There were actually protests to continue the war in Israel yesterday! Netanyahu now looks the weak incompetent fool, reduced to negotiating with Hamas and easing the blockade. A lot of Israelis are realising that the irrational slippery slope to never ending war will never bring peace. But a lot of Israelis still believe that Palestinians are subhuman scum who should be chased into the Mediterranean Sea to leave Palestine for Eretz Israel. Netanyahu had already alienated the first set. But he has now alienated his core support.

I believe that Netanyahu could have continued the war. He may still do so.

But beastman Netanyahu has bowed to US pressure and will soon resume talks about easing the blockade of Gaza.

Meanwhile, there are several funerals of slaughtered Palestinian children to be held...

THE POPE DESTROYS CHRISTMAS

The current Pope Benedict XVI has destroyed Christmas by writing that the traditional nativity scene of little baby Jesus (aaaww) in a manger surrounded by a donkey and cattle is just a myth.

Thousands upon thousands of such scenes will be appearing around the world at this time of the year.

And the Pope now says, "Oi! That's bullshit!"

As churches and families around the world prepare to dust off their Nativity figures for the festive season, Benedict writes in a new book on Christ that contrary to popular belief, Jesus's birth was not presided over by oxen, asses, camels or indeed any other beasts.

"There is no mention of animals in the Gospels," he wrote in the third and last volume of his biography of Jesus Christ, which like the previous two books is expected to become an international best-seller, with an initial print run of a million copies.

The inclusion of domestic animals in the Nativity scene may have been inspired by pre-Christian traditions, for instance in the Book of Habakkuk, a part of the Hebrew Bible which was probably written by an early prophet in the seventh century BC, Benedict wrote.

But children around the world need not be too disappointed – the German pontiff said that the tradition of donkeys or oxen beside the manger was so deeply entrenched that it would doubtless survive his scepticism.

"No one will give up the oxen and the donkey in their Nativity scenes," he writes in the book, which goes on sale today/on Wednesday.

[source : Nativity donkeys and cattle are a myth, says Pope, The Daily Telegraph, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/the-pope/9691295/Nativity-donkeys-and-cattle-are-a-myth-says-Pope.html, 21st November 2012]

GAZA WAR 2012 : A TIMELINE

I had a search for reports of rockets from the Gaza Occupied Territory on the internet after reading William Hague's drivel about the Middle East yesterday to our wretched Paedo Parliament.

Hague's pathetic rant contained this bullshit.

On 14th November the Israeli Defence Forces began air strikes against the Gaza Strip in response to a sharp increase in rocket fire.

[source : Foreign Secretary statement on Gaza, the Middle East Peace Process and Syria, William Hague to our wretched Paedo Parliament, http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/news/latest-news/?view=PressS&id=836858882, 20th November 2012]

My search led me to the Qassam Count twitter, which apparently record the number of rockets fired from the Gaza Occupied Territory. And there was only a handful each day reported.

In a similar attempt to a four years ago during Cast Lead I found records from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs no less which showed that rockets from the Gaza Occupied Territory were virtually nil when Israel claimed to be under a deluge of rockets.

This disparity in the number of rockets claimed to have been fired and the number of rockets reported to have been fired from the Gaza Occupied Territory is crucial. Yes, there was a sharp increase in the number of rockets, but it was not in the hundreds or thousands but in the tens, and no Israeli died.

So what prompted this rise in rockets from a handful to the tens?

Yes, you guessed it. Israeli barbarity.

The timeline provided here of the latest slaughter of innocent children in the Gaza Occupied Territory basically shows this:
1) rockets were being fired from the Gaza Occupied Territory but only a handful a day and no Israeli died.
2) on 4th November the IDF shot dead an unarmed mentally ill man
3) on and around 8th November Israel however made several violent incursions into the Gaza Occupied Territory, laying waste to buildings and killing children. In response Qassam Count records two rockets.
4) in response an IDF jeep was attacked injuring 4 IDF soldiers
5) in response to this, over the next 3 days the IDF attacked the Gaza Occupied Territory, killing 3 children.

A ceasefire was then being negotiated, and was close to agreement when Israel assassinated al-Jabari. These ceasefire negotiations explain why there NO ROCKETS ON 11th NOVEMBER.

The full timeline can be found at http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/how-israel-shattered-gaza-truce-leading-escalating-death-and-tragedy-timeline

WHY OBAMA IS DEAD WRONG ON THE CURRENT WAR IN GAZA

President Obama is quoted as saying in a speech that he recently gave in Bangkok,

"...and there is no country on earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders."

[source : See video at Obama: 'Israel has right to defend itself', BBC, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20383893, 18th November]

But there is one big problem; the missiles are not raining down on Israeli citizens from outside its borders.

Because Gaza is still occupied territory.

Some commentators speculate that this war is all about Palestine requesting independence from Israel.

Under occupation certain rules exist.

One is you are allowed to fight it militarily.

Another is that the occupier, in this case the murdering Zionist entity Israel, must treat the occupied with respect, much more respect than Israel is doing.

Note also that in the BBC report referenced above the BBC has twisted what Obama said to omit this reference to an alleged external source of missiles.

So President Obama is dead wrong on this. Gaza is occupied territory. It has a right to fight. Israel does not have a right to kill innocent children to save the political career of a very evil and disturbed beastman.

I repeat : if he really does find Netanyahu repugnant then President Obama can be rid of the beastman once and for all by demanding a ceasefire and showing his displeasure. If Dr Tarpley is correct with his analysis then some kind of retribution against Israeli/NeoCon meddling in the Presidential election is occuring.

NETANYAHU IS POLITICALLY FINISHED

Israel is economically finished, with frequent large protests in Israel against Netanyahu and his disastrous failed economic policies.

Israel is morally finished. Operation Cast Lead showed Israel for what it truly is. This was reinforced by the attack on the good ship Mavi Marmara.

It has happened on Netanyahu's watch.

Therefore Netanyahu is politically finished.

This latest barbarous assault on Gaza, killing many innocent women and children as usual, is the last dying breath of a morally bankrupt quasi nation that was born from an engineered mass genocide.

The world has seen and had enough now.

Killing kids to save your political skin is the mark not of a man but of a beast.

President Obama can do us all a massive massive favour and end this beast/man's political career today by withdrawing any support he may have so far given to this latest murderous folly. Oh, and go public on Israel's role in 9/11.

WELL THAT'S A FEW LESS CHILDREN IN NEED

An Israeli missile flattened a two-story house in a residential neighborhood of Gaza City on Sunday, killing at least 11 civilians, mostly women and children, Palestinian medical officials said, as Israel expanded a military offensive to target homes of wanted militants.

[source : Medics: Israel strike kills 11 civilians in Gaza, CBS News, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57551558/medics-israel-strike-kills-11-civilians-in-gaza/, 18th November 2012]

THE ASSASSINATION OF TWO YOUNG CHILDREN

Just two days ago we all threw in our £5, £10, £50 or whatever for Children in Need. We had done so the year before, and the year before that, and the year before that, and the year before that,...

And we will continue do so next year, and the year after that, and the year after that, and the year after that,...

Why?

Because it doesn't solve the problem.

Take a look at Israel today. Bombing Gaza with surgical strikes and assassinations.

Do you think bombing Gaza will solve the problem when two young children like this are "assassinated"?
[source of image : http://rt.com/news/hamas-israel-attack-gaza-983/]

The ratio of deaths is already beginning to look like that from Operation Cast Lead.

STOP THE WORLD AND READ THIS ABOUT OUR PAEDO PARLIAMENT

David has found a new energy since the Wembley event which he is using to expose the paedophilia at the top, which is used for blackmail and control, for financial gain, or for satanism.

He needs ALL our support!

Get the paedo scum!

From the David Icke website:

We now have a rare opportunity to expose the staggering levels of paedophilia that exist throughout politics, the law and the 'system' in general and so bring justice to so many shockingly abused people while protecting through that exposure and awareness many more children currently going through experiences that defy the imagination.

[source : Paedophile Rings and 10 Downing Street, David Icke, http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/75560-paedophile-rings-and-10-downing-street, 18th November 2012]

Stop the world. Stop whatever you are doing and read this expose.

http://www.davidicke.com/articles/child-abuse-mainmenu-74/75544-paedophile-rings--and-10-downing-street

IDF TARGETS GAZA POWER STATION

Gaza is already suffering collective punishment, through economic warfare, blockades etc.

But to add to that, and not being reported in UK media I have read, is that the IDF have targeted a power station in Gaza.

Missiles also knocked out five electricity transformers, plunging more than 400,000 people into darkness, according to the Gaza electricity distribution company.

[source : Israel continues deadly Gaza air raids, Al Jazeera English, http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/11/2012111743731924984.html, 17th November 2012]

Meanwhile, Egypt is making a power play. This year Muslim Brother Morsi became Egyptian President. Morsi is today quoted as saying that Egypt

"would not leave Gaza on its own...Egypt today is not the Egypt of yesterday, and Arabs today are not the Arabs of yesterday."

[source : Israeli air strike hits Hamas PM's office, The Guardian, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/17/israeli-air-strike-hamas-pm-office, 17th November 2012]

You may recall that I warned that during the Egyptian election, the Muslim Brotherhood held rallies at which they promised to "kill all the Jews".

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, which expects to win at least a plurality in Monday’s legislative elections, held a “kill the Jews” rally in Cairo Friday.

Thousands of supporters attended the pre-election rally at a mosque on the Muslim Sabbath, promising to “one day kill all the Jews” and wage war against Jerusalem’s “Judaization.”

[source : Muslim Brotherhood Holds ‘Kill the Jews’ Rally on Election Eve, INN, http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/150126, 27/11/2011]

I KNOW WHAT YOU SAID LAST SUMMER

In July this year William Hague said this of Syria's President Bashar al Assad.

"This is typical of the complete illusion of this regime, that they are the victims of external aggression," Hague told reporters at a European Union foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels.

[source : William Hague: Syrian chemical weapons threat 'unacceptable', The Daily Telegraph, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9420295/William-Hague-Syrian-chemical-weapons-threat-unacceptable.html, 23/07/2012]

I had to chuckle when I now read that Hague is to ask our Paedo Parliament to step up support for the Syrian al Qaeda rebs by lifting an arms embargo.

Foreign secretary William Hague is to brief the Commons next week on plans to step up support for the newly united Syrian opposition, either by following France in recognising the new coalition, or by calling for a lifting of the EU arms embargo.

[source : UK to step up support for Syrian opposition, The Guardian, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/15/uk-syrian-opposition-william-hague, 15th November 2012]

WAR. THE GATES OF HELL. JUST ANOTHER DAY FOR THE MANIPULATED PEOPLE OF PALESTINE AND ISRAEL.

Following the assassination of the Hamas military leader (and two children), Hamas has warned that the gates of hell have been opened. Egypt has withdrawn its rep to Israel, and Israel will reciprocate.

But why?

Why has Israel decided to escalate this engineered and manipulated conflict now?

Israel, lest we forget, instigated this resumption of missile exchanges last week when two Palestinian civilians were shot and killed and Israeli tanks intruded into Gaza, prompting Gaza militants to respond by targeting Israeli soldiers, which then gave Israel an excuse to unleash successive airstrikes. And Israel had numerous chances to pacify the situation, considering Hamas publicly offered to establish a total ceasefire and Egypt appeared about to broker a truce between the two. Israel has intentionally inched towards escalation from the beginning. Are we to believe this isn’t strategic?

[source : Is Israel Escalating War on Gaza to Foil US-Iran Deal?, Anti War, http://antiwar.com/blog/2012/11/14/is-israel-escalating-war-on-gaza-to-foil-us-iran-deal/, 14th November]

Just last week Barak Obama was reelected as President of the USA. Obama, with CJCS Dempsey and a few others, have virtually threatened to go public on the inside job 9/11, which even the spider in my bathroom this morning knows was indeed an inside job by Israel, Saudi Arabia and factions within other intel agencies.

Jeff Steinberg details the warmongering in Israel, trying to trick Iran into starting a war that would drag in the USA and Russia.

Within the Israeli national security establishment, there is a growing worry that Netanyahu, the heir of the Jabotinsky policy of permanent war/permanent revolution, will take berserker actions leading to World War III.

Last month, the Institute for National Security Studies, a prestigious Tel Aviv think tank, conducted war games, based on a scenario of an Israeli unilateral attack on Iran, immediately following the U.S. Presidential elections. While a majority of participants in the war game thought that cooler heads in Iran, Israel, and the United States would prevail, a strong minority of participants insisted that the Israeli preventive strike could escalate rapidly into World War III, drawing in Russia and the United States.

The publication of the results of that war game in the Israeli press coincided with another frontal assault against madman Netanyahu and his partner in the war drive, Minister of Defense Ehud Barak. Israel Channel 2 television aired a documentary on Nov. 5, detailing a 2010 confrontation between Netanyahu and his then-IDF chief of staff, Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, and then-Mossad chief Meir Dagan. The two senior military and intelligence advisors blocked Netanyahu from launching an attack on Iran by declaring that the Prime Minister had no authority to order an attack without the approval of the cabinet. According to the Channel 2 account, Netanyahu was forced to back down.

Ha'aretz military correspondent Yossi Melman added an additional dimension to the exposé. He wrote, days after the TV exposé, that Netanyahu never intended to order a preventive strike on Iran. His intention was to convince the Iranian leadership that an Israeli attack was imminent, and draw them into preemptive strikes against targets in the region, including U.S. interests. According to Melman, Netanyahu's goal was, and remains, to force the United States and NATO to go to war against Iran, by luring Iran into throwing the first punch.

The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff have repeatedly warned Netanyahu and other top Israeli leaders that if Israel launches a unilateral preventive attack on Iran, particularly while diplomatic talks between Iran and the P5+1 (UN Security Council Permanent Five + Germany) are still going on, the U.S. will make it clear that this was done without U.S. support, and that the U.S. will not get involved—so long as there are no attacks against direct American interests or treaty partners in the Gulf.

In short, Netanyahu is playing with fire, betting that he can induce Iran to start a war, forcing the U.S into the fight—regardless of the fact that this could trigger a global conflagration.

[source : British Out To Detonate Middle East Explosion, EIR, http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2012/3945brit_me_explosion.html, 16th November 2012 Edition]

But note Steinberg's title; British Out To Detonate Middle East Explosion.

Yes, Nutternyahu is a nutter.

But he is merely a willing servant of the real evil that resides in Great Britain.

It would appear that Obama and Dempsey and the US military are generally against a war for Israel against Iran. It would also appear that there is a lot stress and tension at or near the top, so much so that Obama and Dempsey are threatening going public on 9/11.

This rapid escalation of violence in Gaza must be connected to the election of Obama, similar to Operation Cast Lead which occured a few months after the 2008 election. This time it is just a few days.

That is how desperate Netanyahu and the people who run him are now.

WAR WAR WAR

With the re-election of Obama and the firing of General Petraeus it appears that war on Iran is off the menu for now.

But to show just how desperate Israel, eager to fulfill its destiny, wants war, Netanyahu will meet with 50 foreign ambassadors to form a consensus on war on Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet with 50 foreign ambassadors to brief them on the recent violence in the Gaza Strip and rally international support for a possible ground operation in the coastal enclave.

[source : Netanyahu to brief 50 foreign ambassadors on possible Gaza operation, Press TV, http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/11/12/271784/israel-to-brief-envoys-on-gaza-operation/, 12th November 2012]

Israel recently threatened to withhold money from Palestine if it decided to go for full independence.

Netanyahu, the poor soul, has still not realised why Israel was created in the first place. Its destiny is to trigger WW3. Iran was given peaceful civilian nuclear technology in the Atoms for Peace program, which is now being, and always will be, used as a pretext for war. But Russia and China have stood firmly behind Iran, as they have Syria, which some analysts say needs to fall first before any war on Iran.

Here's to peace and love to everyone, and exposing 9/11 for the inside job that it was.

THIS DISUNITED FASCIST QUEENDOM ON REMEMBRANCE DAY

With most UK eyes on the USA, first due to Sandy quickly followed by the elections, Der Fuhrer David Cameron thought we wouldn't notice his trip to the Middle East flogging large scale military hardware to tyrants and despots, and arming terrorists in Syria.

To sum it up:
1. this DFQ is paedo central, with paedo rings at the highest levels of society which are protected through warnings to investigators to "back off" if they want to keep their jobs
2. this DFQ protected Islamic terrorists through a Covenant of Security, and now supports them, including al Qaeda, in Libya, Syria and soon Iran
3. this DFQ arms anti-freedom and anti-democratic absolute monarchies
4. this DFQ is killing its old and sick in a cruel Nazi T4-style program of euthanasia called The Liverpool Care Pathway
5. this DFQ bails out bankers with trillions and ignores tax dodgers but places all the financial responsibility on the lower and middle classes.

It is Remembrance Day this Sunday. Der Fuhrer should not take the limeade and attend to show his sham concern for The Fallen.

He should instead hang his head in shame.

And really, we all should.

How has it come to this?

NOW PRESIDENT OBAMA CAN GO PUBLIC ON 9/11

Though don't hold your breath.

Information on the Saudi link to 9/11 should have been released years ago.

But guess what?

THE BILDERBERG POST ENDORSES OBAMA

The Bilderberg Washington Post has officially endorsed Obama.

THE POLLS in the District and Maryland will be open Tuesday from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.; in Virginia, from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. The following are The Post’s endorsements of candidates as well as its positions on ballot issues.

President and Vice President

Barack Obama and Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D)

[source : Washington Post endorsements for 2012 ballot, The WP, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/washington-post-endorsements-for-2012-ballot/2012/11/05/df0367f2-2465-11e2-ba29-238a6ac36a08_story.html?hpid=z3, 5th November 2012]

BENGHAZI WAS AN INSIDE JOB

Last night on the Alex Jones Show Mormon Joel Skousen refuted Dr Webster Tarpley's allegation that a Mormon faction within the CIA did Benghazi as an October Surprise. Skousen suggested that events were similar to a scenario that I suggested just a few days ago. I suggested

I have noticed that nearly all articles I have read about that incident accusing Obama have not mentioned the film that caused outrage across the Arab world, as if it had never happened. Several have stated that Ambassador Stevens had written on the growth of al Qaeda and affiliates in Libya. Perhaps he was threatening to go public on this and was silenced but a smokescreen was required hence the film to provoke riots and an attack that killed Stevens.

[source : THAT COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF MOMENT, The Truth Serum, http://thetruthserumblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/that-commander-in-chief-moment.html, 31st October 2012]

Skousen suggested something slightly different in that the weapons that were stored in the Bengahzi compound that had been confiscated from the Libyan government were being shipped to Syria and Ambassador Stevens may, repeat may, have registered some protest over this. So Stevens was killed but a hastily put together anti-Islam film was required to create riots and protests that could be used to create violence. Skousen also stated that a protection team did go AWOL and left Stevens exposed.

So Mormon Skousen nearly agrees with Tarpley on everything except that it was an inside job by what Tarpley calls The CIA Mormon Mafia.

A CBS News timeline has revealed that Benghazi was possibly an inside job. Their timeline reveals that a gate that should have been locked may have been opened.

Around 9:00 p.m. (3 p.m. ET): ...At this time, there are five diplomatic security agents (DS) on site - three based in Benghazi and two traveling with Stevens. According to a U.S. State Department account given Oct. 9 there was "nothing unusual outside of the gates. "

9:40 p.m. (3:40 p.m. ET): Gunfire and an explosion are heard. A TOC agent sees dozens of armed people over security camera flowing through a pedestrian gate at the compound's main entrance. It is not clear how the gate was opened.

[source : Timeline: How Benghazi attack, probe unfolded, CBS News, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57544719/timeline-how-benghazi-attack-probe-unfolded/?tag=fdleft;fdmodule, 2nd November 2012]

From this we can take that in less than 40 minutes an armed gang had somehow opened a gate that allowed them to enter the compound.

Question : How did the armed gang get through that gate so quietly, quickly and easily? (I assume the gate is filmed every second and that this video is stored safely somewhere)

The CBS timeline states that Stevens was in Building C. All but one of the Diplomatic Security team left to get tactical gear from Building B. The one DS who stayed with Stevens, Strickland, led Stevens and Smith to a safe haven within Building C, but left them for no given reason, other than possibly because the building was on fire and filled with too much smoke. This was the last time Stevens was seen alive, according to this CBS timeline (read events at 10pm).

Question : Why did Strickland leave Stevens and Smith in Building C when the armed gang were in the building and it was on fire?

So from the CBS News timeline it would appear that Stevens was last seen alive at around 10pm when the DS team had abandoned him in Building C when it was known that that building the armed gang had entered that building and had set it on fire. The DS team returned in an armored vehicle, searched Building C and found Smith's body but not Stevens'. This all happened in about the space of 30 to 40 minutes, starting from the earliest 9 40 pm.

So far from there being a "stand down", this timeline looks like Stevens was abandoned in Building C for as yet unknown reasons when it was known that the armed gang, that had somehow got through the gate, were in the building and had set it on fire.

Hmm.

However, Obama is stalling on answering questions. And it is now 7 weeks since the incident, giving plenty of time to come with a cover story. And the incident was undeniably used by Romney supporters to smear Obama.

It is looking like it will be blamed on "shit happens".

But the anti-Islam film, Obama's current stalling, the stand down accusations...

It doesn't smell of being America's finest hour, does it?

BENGHAZI

Some American media are reporting on a new timeline for the attack on the Benghazi Consulate in which Ambassador Stevens was killed that has been released by the CIA itself.

And this timeline refutes the allegation that a stand down order was given.

Dr Webster Tarpley had earlier suggested that a secret CIA protection team (possibly with an allegiance to a faction within the CIA which he calls the CIA Mormon Mafia) that was located in what was initially called an "annex" was for some reason AWOL during the attack.

From subsequent references to an “other government agency” or “other government entity,” it became clear that the additional building shown on the photo was in fact a CIA base, the home of a CIA “rapid response force” with between seven and 12 members. This force was comparable to the Site Security Team which Lt. Col. Wood said he had requested in vain. It emerged from the hearings that these CIA personnel were not under State Department command. As Dana Milbank noted on October 11 in the Washington Post, “the victims may have been let down not by the State Department but by the CIA.” So where had this considerable CIA force been during the attack on the consulate? Why had the CIA failed to defend the American Ambassador’s life? Could the CIA Mormon Mafia somehow have been responsible for this failure? Was this why the Mormon loyalist Chaffetz was so anxious to hide the evidence?

[source : Romney campaign, CIA Mormon Mafia both responsible for Benghazi attack, Press TV, http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/10/14/266560/benghazi-attack-cia-mafia-in-action/, 14th October 2012]

But according to this timeline this CIA protection team tried to rally additional local support, but this failed. There were no stand down orders given.

The timeline provided by a senior U.S. intelligence official gives the first precise account of how CIA security teams provided the first response to the Sept. 11 attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, which killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.

...“There were no orders to anybody to stand down in providing support,” said the official. The official’s comments appeared to be a direct rebuttal of a Fox News report that CIA teams on the ground had been told by superior officers to “stand down” from providing security support to the consulate.

According to the official, upon learning of the attack at the consulate, the security team at the annex responded “as quickly and effectively as possible.” The official described how the security team tried to rally additional support from local Libyan forces and heavier weapons, but that when that could not be accomplished “within minutes” they moved out to the compound. The official called the security team “genuine heroes” who risked their lives to save those at the compound.

[source : New Detailed Account of Benghazi Attack Notes CIA’s Quick Response, ABC News, http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/11/new-detailed-account-of-benghazi-attack-notes-cias-quick-response/, 1st November 2012]

Whether Dr Tarpley got the precise details correct initially is up for debate (but he was not far off), but what is not up for debate is that the event at Benghazi cannot be isolated from the film that was released just days before which provoked protests and riots across the Muslim world, not just in Libya. The film itself has disappeared down the memory hole in some particular media.

BRITAIN MUST ATONE FOR ITS SINS IN PALESTINE

This is the title of a comment by Dr Nabeel Shaath today in The Daily Telegraph. Shaath states everything that I do about Palestine, but does not (at least in this comment) state why Zionism was given such power by the two accepted powers of the 20th Century, the British and American empires. That 9/11, which was used to start a series of wars planned decades before the event, was alleged to have been committed by al Qaeda, who cite Palestine as their raison d'etre, should tell you everything you need to know about why Israel was created and sustained.

Shaath demands that Palestine be given its independence, and that Britain's back-stabbing from a century ago should really mean that Britain support this claim for independence.

Shaath does not also mention the creation and purpose of Saudi Arabia. Both Palestine and Saudi Arabia are closely linked, in that British support switched from the Palestinians to the Ibn Saud tribe, who founded Saudi Arabia, who back...al Qaeda!

Yep! They created Israel and they created al Qaeda. It took decades of lies, manipulation, terror and mass genocide, but they did it, so that Saudi al Qaeda could eventually allegedly hijack planes and fly them into the Pentagon, all in the name of defeating Israel.

The whole situation in the Middle East is all a load of bollocks...and that's straight from the heart!

I would suggest that a diabolical plan for three world wars was being implemented. And I say was because the plan has seriously stalled if not died a miserable death.

Palestine wants, needs and deserves its independence.

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From http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/palestinianauthority/9645925/Britain-must-atone-for-its-sins-in-Palestine.html

Britain must atone for its sins in Palestine

Ever since the Balfour Declaration of 1917, Britain has denied our people their rights

By Nabeel Shaath

8:59PM GMT 31 Oct 2012

Over the past few weeks, British diplomats have stated that they are doing all they can to discourage Palestine’s bid for “observer state” status in the UN General Assembly. If this is an official British position, then it is reprehensible, yet not all that surprising.

Ninety-five years ago tomorrow, on November 2, 1917, British imperialism in Palestine began when Lord Balfour, the then British foreign secretary and former prime minister, sent a letter to Baron Rothschild, one of the leaders of the Zionist movement. This letter became known as the “Balfour Declaration”.

In that letter, Balfour promised British support for the Zionist programme of establishing a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine. This pledge of support was made without consulting the indigenous Christian and Muslim inhabitants of Palestine, the Palestinian people. And it was made before British troops had even conquered the land.

Balfour, on behalf of Britain, promised Palestine – over which Britain had no legal right – to a people who did not even live there (of the very small community of Palestinian Jews in Palestine in 1917, very few were Zionists). And he did so with the worst of intentions: to discourage Jewish immigration to Britain. No wonder Lord Montagu, the only Jewish member of the Cabinet, opposed the declaration.

And yet, just two years earlier, Britain had committed herself to assisting the Arab nations in achieving their independence from the Ottoman Empire. Arab fighters all over the region, including thousands of Palestinians, fought for their freedom, allowing Britain to establish her mandate in Palestine.

From that moment, Palestine became the victim of colonial conspiracies. The Balfour Declaration helped to encourage Zionist immigration into Palestine and away from America and Western Europe. Concomitantly, Britain repressed Palestinian nationalism, which was exemplified by its crushing of the Arab revolt of 1936-1939 and the denial of the right of the Palestinian people to express their will through their own representation. In fact, Britain suppressed Palestinian political representation through a policy of systematic denial of Palestinian political rights.

The dying days of Britain’s rule in Palestine were marked by destruction, blood, and the start of the Palestinian exile, meaning the expulsion of the majority of the Palestinian people against the backdrop of Zionist terrorism. It was not the Palestinians who blew up the King David Hotel, who blew up the British Embassy in Rome, who tried to assassinate Ernest Bevin, Britain’s foreign secretary, and who succeeded in assassinating Lord Moyne, British minister of state in the Middle East. That was the Irgun, an ideological Right-wing group – and the predecessor to Israel’s ruling Likud Party.

The British mandate was supposed to deliver independence to Palestine through the establishment of representative institutions. It was never meant permanently to thwart Palestinian national aspirations. Nor was it ever envisaged that the British mandate would end with a catastrophe in the form of the expulsion of the majority of the Palestinian people from their homeland.

When Britain decided to relinquish Palestine to the UN in 1947, she was well aware that the Zionist movement was well established and equipped, while Palestinians were still healing from the effects of British colonialism during the years of the revolt.

Since the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948, during which approximately two thirds of the Palestinian people, Christians and Muslims, were expelled to become refugees, Britain has not done anything substantially to repair the suffering it has caused to the Palestinians. Britain has not met its historic responsibility. Successive British administrations have avoided repairing this injustice by making statements of goodwill instead of taking actions to end the Israeli occupation and support the Palestinian right to self-determination.

It is unacceptable that today, 65 years after the partition of Palestine, the UK has recognised the state of Israel but not the state of Palestine. It is unacceptable that, having invested large human and economic resources in the development of Palestinian institutions, the UK has not taken the necessary political and diplomatic steps to realise the establishment of a free and independent state of Palestine. Rather than continuing down this path, the UK, more than any other state, should stand behind the Palestinian endeavour towards the fulfilment of their national rights and aspirations, through supporting its application for enhancement of status at the UN.

Some argue that Palestine’s recognition and enhanced status will not immediately end the occupation. None the less, it is a step in the right direction towards a peaceful solution, and it sends a strong message to Israel that the world will no longer tolerate its illegal and oppressive policies. For a country with the historic responsibility that the UK carries towards Palestine, a victim of British colonialism, this should be the least we can expect in order to repair decades of occupation and exile.

Dr Nabeel Shaath is a member of the PLO Political Committee and Fatah Central Committee, and is a former Palestinian foreign minister