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Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola Profile picture
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Aug 6 • 13 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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I read their amicus brief and can summarise it thus:

"We talked to our friends in the IDF and they told us the charges were unfounded".
The same group produced a report on the 2014 Gaza war. embassies.gov.il/MFA/FOREIGNPOL…
The report concluded:
"Israel’s efforts were entirely necessary and justified in the defence of that country’s national security. Israel’s conduct in the 2014 Gaza Conflict met and in some respects exceeded the highest standards we set for our own nations’ militaries."
Compare the membership of the group in 2014 (LH image) with the membership now. (RH image). Notice anything?
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The High Level Military Group has produced as assessment of every war in Gaza since 2014, plus the 2018 protests and Israel's unprovoked attack in August 2022. Every assessment is favourable to Israel. high-level-military-group.org
This is the group's assessment of Israel's unprovoked attack on Gaza in August 2022. It is difficult to imagine how it could possibly be more one-sided.
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In 2014, two members of the group were from the Friends of Israel Initiative. One is still a member of the group.
Here is the website of the Friends of Israel Initiative. friendsofisraelinitiative.org
Here's what the Friends of Israel Initiative says about itself.
Why is an organisation that exists to promote Israel's right to exist represented on a High Level Military Group that says its purpose is to critique Israel's conduct in wars?
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This is what the High Level Military Group's stated purpose is. There's no mention of promoting Israel's right to exist. Image
However, the Friends of Israel Initiative's website shows that in addition to Bardaji, several members of the High Level Military Group are founder members of the Friends of Israel Initiative. friendsofisraelinitiative.org/about/founder-…


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The Friends of Israel Initiative is a hardcore racist and Islamophobic organisation. friendsofisraelinitiative.org/about/stand-fo…

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Despite the way it describes itself, the High Level Military Group actually appears to be an offshoot or subgroup of this hardcore racist and Islamophobic organisation.
Here's a list of the reports the HLMG has produced since its foundation in 2014. There's a theme here, isn't there?
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Jul 22
Distressing to see a leading legal commentator make statements about the ICJ's advisory opinion that are simply untrue. The ICJ did not ignore Israel's security needs, as @JoshuaRozenberg claims. It said they did not override the Palestinian's right to self-determination. 1/
In paragraph 233, the Court said:

"The Court considers that, in cases of foreign occupation such as the present case, the right of self-determination constitutes a peremptory norm of international law." 2/
A lawyer of @joshuarozenberg's stature must surely know that a peremptory norm can't be overridden, suspended or ignored. legal.un.org/ilc/reports/20…
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Jul 20
Israel has been told many times by legal authorities that it doesn't have a right of self-defence in the occupied Palestinian territories, and yet it still persists in claiming this right, and Western leaders - some of whom should know better - tamely agree.
Israel's belligerent actions in the West Bank and East Jerusalem are not self-defence, they are violations of its legal obligations as an occupying power. The solution to its perceived need for security is to end the occupation, not to brutalise the occupied population.
This is straightforward and there really should be no argument about this. Israel's policies and practices in the West Bank and East Jerusalem are illegal. The West should take action to force Israel to end its occupation.
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This "dividend" is not a payment to external shareholders, it is a cash transfer to Thames Water's private equity parent, Kemble Finance. In private equity such transfers are usually structured as debt service. I'm not sure why the Kemble-TW relationship relies on equity.
Kemble Finance is wholly reliant on the cash transfers from TW to service its debts. Without them it would collapse into insolvency, forcing at the very least a distressed sale of TW. I suspect the regulator thinks this is not in the best interests of TW's customers.
I think the new government should step in to place TW into special administration and force Kemble into insolvency.
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@richardathome @Opinion_Lassie @JohnWest_JAWS @BBCNews @Channel4News @BylineTimes The vetting company is real. is its trading name, hence the dormant company (it protects the brand name). The company itself is Sphinx Technology Ltd.
Website:
Companies House: Vetting.com
sphinxtechnology.co.uk
…te.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/132048…
@richardathome @Opinion_Lassie @JohnWest_JAWS @BBCNews @Channel4News @BylineTimes Companies House records show that Sphinx Technology Ltd was incorporated in February 2021 and Colin Bloom was appointed as director in March 2021. Image
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Jun 18
Dear @reformparty_Uk, you say you want to get "up to 2 million" economically inactive people "back to work", and you think this will save £15 billion in benefit payments. Here's a reality check... 1/
As of December 2023, 5.44 million women aged 16-64 were economically inactive. That's about a quarter of all women in this age group.
3.84 million men were economically active, about 18% of that age group.

2/researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06…
As of December 2023, 1.38 women were economically inactive because they were "looking after family and home". The vast majority of these are stay-at-home mums and family carers, though some might simply be the idle wives of very rich men. 3/
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Jun 16
They don't mean Bank of England debt, they mean the UK Gilts purchased by the BoE in return for new bank reserves during the various rounds of QE. The Bank of England has been selling these gilts off to drain excess reserves - what is known as "QT". Reform proposes to end QT. 1/
As far as I can tell, Reform proposes to refinance gilts held by the Bank of England as zero-coupon 75-year bonds, which the Bank would have to hold to maturity. This would prevent the Bank draining any more of the excess bank reserves from the system. 2/
There will therefore continue to be excess reserves in the system indefinitely. Banks are collectively obliged to hold all of these reserves, but they can lend them to each other. 3/
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