The UK is doing something extraordinary while not many are watching.
Parliament had its second reading today of the Overseas Operations Bill which decriminalizes war crimes and torture carried out by UK soldiers abroad, by introducing a statute of limitation of 5 years.
This legislation is not just iniquitous but openly criminal, calling upon the UK to derogate from the European Convention on Human Rights and place its own law above the UN convention against torture and international Hague and Geneva conventions.
Synchronous to the prosecution of journalist Julian #Assange, MPs who object to torture are also silenced in the UK.
How does this law square up for someone like Saifullah Ghareb Yar whose family was brutally murdered by the SAS in 2011? He has sought justice from the Ministry of Defence for a decade and was ignored like countless other victims in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Even when a leaked cache of military emails published by the Sunday Times corroborated the victim's allegations– charges were dropped and not a single person in the entire chain of command is held accountable to this day.
Another unforgettable act of brutality: Baha Mousa who was beaten to death by British forces in Iraq while in custody.
The officer was court-martialed, jailed for 1 year then released.
The UK doesn't seek to implement justice. It covers up imperialist war crimes and wickedness.
The bill passed second reading today in the House of Commons by 332 to 77. A shocking indicator of the wide consensus in Parliament to pursue an open violation of international law, human rights and any semblance of a fair legal system.
Corporal* Donald Payne, not an officer.
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Under Oslo, Israel had to free Palestinians like Waleed Daqqa. That was In 1993. He died last week. Killed through deliberate medical negligence.
Thousands of Palestinian hostages are in Israeli dungeons, without charge or trial. The world didn't care.
Waleed Daqqa wasn't held under administrative detention, but the fact Israel kept him in violation of Oslo, and then even after completing the 35 years of his life sentence! And on top of all this, denied him conjugal & family visits, or proper medical care.
He was supposed to be top of the list for any prisoner deal, because they are done based on seniority. He could have been freed in at least 4.
Denied. Over and over.
The Resistance fought for him and the thousands like him that the world ignored
BREAKING: Julian Assange has been granted limited leave to appeal by the High Court.
I have just been given the ruling and will provide more information below
Before I include more points of order (the ruling is around 66 pages) this means that Assange has not exhausted his legal options in the United Kingdom, and may yet convince a court to stay and bar the extradition to the United States
This is a full explanation of the Assange case, please watch it if unfamiliar (and even if you are) as it encapsulates the entire issue in one video.
There's no such thing as a "debate" about Israel. You don't debate theft. Theft is wrong.
Israelis are thieves. That's what colonialism is. This is not their land, and as long as they are there, there will be resistance. They will leave one day whether they like it or not.
What Israel have done is ruin the Jewish communities in Arab countries. The Israelis, on purpose, created hostile environments toward Jews in Arab countries, specifically to make them leave to Israel. How do we return these communities now? This is the only question that matters.
But the majority of Israelis, the Israelis who make political decisions, the ones who created the terrorist groups Haganah, Irgun, Lehi-- which then became the IDF-- they're all Europeans, and they can simply go back to Europe where they belong like all European colonizers.
Alas, Victoria Nuland resigns, her 10-year war against Russia a giant, pathetic flop.
My favorite moment was her trip to Niger last summer after the coup, expecting the red carpet treatment, and instead Tchiani refuses to meet and sends his adjutants.😂
Speaking of which, Putin ground Nuland and NATO's war against Russia to a total halt using well-placed, insurmountable fortifications. This is why the famed "spring counteroffensive" never came.
Russia's stockpiling and mass-production of shells, which the West couldn't catch to even in 50 years, is another major factor:
BRICS, and outmaneuvering sanctions also contributed to Russia's victory:
🧵THREAD: It's forbidden to say anything good about Yemen. If you do, the frauds calling themselves "fact-checkers" will descend on you to reinforce Western propaganda.
Take these two people, "Charlotte Green" and "Alex Demas" and their funny emails to me.
Yemen ensured the crew of a UK ship (RUBYMAR) got to safety after they had attacked it for violating the blockade. Crew were taken by a passing vessel to Djibouti, but that doesn't mean Yemen didn't help ensure their rescue. As I said, Yemen confirmed this in English & Arabic.
(People like Alex Demas and Charlotte Green, would know this if they weren't lazy. But they don't want you to hear the other side).
Yemen have never lied or given incorrect information in a press briefing. And neither Djibouti, nor the crew dispute that Yemen helped.
Palestinians get Palestine, and israelis return to their original countries.
It is a very selfish thing to be a Zionist: you leave your country to go take another person's country and then kick them while they're down
Many Israelis have dual citizenship. Those who don't can easily obtain nationality of their parents'/grandparents' countries & end the war
BTW, a story that comes to mind: when the Israelis wanted to kill a resistance leader in Dubai, one of them pretended his parents were Holocaust survivors to get German citizenship. Germany caught him, then sent him to israel. They also forged UK/US/Oz passports. Zero backlash.