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Christy Cooney
BBC News


18.5.2024

[size=78%]Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz has threatened to resign unless Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sets out a post-war plan for the Gaza Strip.[/size][/size]

Mr Gantz set an 8 June deadline for a plan to achieve six "strategic goals", including the end of Hamas rule in Gaza and the establishment of a multinational civilian administration for the territory.
"If you put the national over personal, you will find in us partners in the struggle," he said. "But if you choose the path of fanatics and lead the entire nation to the abyss, we will be forced to quit the government."
Mr Netanyahu dismissed the comments as "washed-up words" that would mean "defeat for Israel".


The growing rift comes as fighting rages at both ends of the Gaza Strip, with Israeli forces operating in the southern city of Rafah and the northern town of Jabalia, one of Gaza’s historic refugee camps and an area the Israeli military previously said it had clear of Hamas fighters.
Mr Gantz was speaking just days after another war cabinet member, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, [size=inherit]urged Mr Netanyahu[/size] to state publicly that Israel had no plans to take over civilian and military rule in Gaza.
Mr Gallant said he had raised the issue repeatedly for months but had received no response.
He and Mr Gantz say that maintaining military control in Gaza would increase Israel's security risks, while others, including far-right members of Mr Netanyahu's ruling coalition in the government, believe continued control is necessary in order to defeat Hamas.
In a televised address on Saturday, Mr Gantz told Mr Netanyahu that the "people of Israel are watching you".
"You must choose between Zionism and cynicism, between unity and factions, between responsibility and lawlessness, between victory and disaster," he said.
Also among the six strategic goals he set out were the return of all Israeli and foreign hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza and the return of displaced Palestinian civilians to northern Gaza by 1 September.
He also said Israel should continue to seek the normalisation of relations with Saudi Arabia as part of a "comprehensive process to create an alliance with the free world and the West against Iran and its allies".
Responding to the speech, Mr Netanyahu said that to meet Mr Gantz's demands would lead to "the end of the war and a defeat for Israel, the abandoning of most of the hostages, leaving Hamas intact and the establishment of a Palestinian state".
Israel's war cabinet was established after Hamas attacked Israeli communities near Gaza on 7 October, killing around 1,200 people and taking hostages.
Israel's military campaign against Hamas in Gaza has killed 35,386 people, the Hamas-run health ministry says.

[ExileSteve]

Gosh, Benny really is an excitable sort of chap, isn’t he?


Nevertheless, Hamas are toast. Their Nancy boy “fighters” are being despatched to the Realm of Hades on a relentless daily basis. This process is not going to be obstructed by any number of useful idiot bleeding hearts.


Perhaps they can meet up and shake hands with those smelly Iranian mass murderers who (supposedly) met their end in a helicopter accident this week? If it is true, of course. Let us hope and pray that it is.

[celeste]

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw4490z75v3o

Benjamin Netanyahu responded with fury to the news that he might face an arrest warrant for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

It was "a moral outrage of historic proportions", he said. Israel was "waging a just war against Hamas, a genocidal terrorist organisation that perpetrated the worst attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust."

In a bitter personal attack, Mr Netanyahu said Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was one of the "great antisemites in modern times."
Mr Khan, he said, was like judges in Nazi Germany who denied Jews basic rights and enabled the Holocaust. His decision to seek arrest warrants against Israel’s prime minister and defence minister was "callously pouring gasoline on the fires of antisemitism that are raging around the world.’









Mr Netanyahu spoke English on the video that was released by his office. He does that when he wants his message to reach the foreign audience that matters most to him, in the US.

[St Chads Lad]

Klaus Schwab to Step Down as World Economic Forum Executive Chairman


https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/05/21/klaus-schwab-to-step-down-as-world-economic-forum-executive-chairman-report/


Names of possible successors include War criminal and all round scumbag Tony Bliar.

[celeste]

I wonder if there is a power grabbing gene at times,  an urge for notabiity,  importance - those who never give up their need to be on the world 'stage'.

[ExileSteve]

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw4490z75v3o

Benjamin Netanyahu responded with fury to the news that he might face an arrest warrant for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

It was "a moral outrage of historic proportions", he said. Israel was "waging a just war against Hamas, a genocidal terrorist organisation that perpetrated the worst attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust."

In a bitter personal attack, Mr Netanyahu said Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was one of the "great antisemites in modern times."
Mr Khan, he said, was like judges in Nazi Germany who denied Jews basic rights and enabled the Holocaust. His decision to seek arrest warrants against Israel’s prime minister and defence minister was "callously pouring gasoline on the fires of antisemitism that are raging around the world.’









Mr Netanyahu spoke English on the video that was released by his office. He does that when he wants his message to reach the foreign audience that matters most to him, in the US.

The surrender monkeys are all in favour of it. Apparently, Hamas is the latest lucky recipient of France’s instinctive reflex to surrender.


Why did we even bother back in 1940 when Hitler, Speer and their entourage were performing their victory lap in Paris? They were rounding up Jews for the Nazis even before the Nazis asked them to do it.


Seriously, why did we bother?

[celeste]

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[St Chads Lad]

Biden's daughter has admitted her diary about 'showers with dad' as well as fears of abuse is real. MAUREEN CALLAHAN demands: What IS the truth, Joe?


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13448411/joe-biden-daughter-ashley-showers-dad-molested-truth.htm

[St Chads Lad]

Families to be urged to stockpile three days' worth of food and water https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13444625/oliver-dowden-stockpile-national-resilience-power-cuts-cyber-attacks-floods.html?ito=native_share_article-top


  I  wonder if there is any truth in the rumour that Sanook called this election because he doesn't want to be a 'wartime prime minister', which makes the above article very ominous. 

[celeste]

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Long-serving Conservative cabinet minister Michael Gove has announced he will not stand at the general election, as the second full day of campaigning was marked by an exodus of MPs.
Mr Gove, first elected MP for Surrey Heath in 2005, is understood to have made the decision in the last couple of days.
He is the most high-profile of the nearly 80 Conservative MPs who have stepped down ahead of the 4 July vote - [size=inherit]alongside public health minister[ Dame Andrea Leadsom.
Mr Gove has been a close ally of Rishi Sunak, who he said "has the plan our country needs".

As Parliament was prorogued and a handful of government bills rushed through before the cut-off:
Plans to reform homeowners' rights in England and Wales passed in time, but without the Conservative manifesto commitment to restrict ground rents paid by leaseholders to next to nothing

A Conservative promise to abolish no-fault evictions for renters [size=inherit]failed to get over the line[/size], but a bill which paves the way to establish an independent Infected Blood Compensation Authority passed

Rishi Sunak admitted he was disappointed his plan to phase out smoking did not have enough time to become law, but he said it would be back if the Conservatives are returned to government

Labour leader Keir Starmer said he can't commit to scrapping university tuition fees - which he backed when running to be Labour leader - or repealing the two-child benefit cap, blaming a lack of resources

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Long-serving Conservative cabinet minister Michael Gove has announced he will not stand at the general election, as the second full day of campaigning was marked by an exodus of MPs.
Mr Gove, first elected MP for Surrey Heath in 2005, is understood to have made the decision in the last couple of days.
He is the most high-profile of the nearly 80 Conservative MPs who have stepped down ahead of the 4 July vote - [size=inherit]alongside public health minister[ Dame Andrea Leadsom.
Mr Gove has been a close ally of Rishi Sunak, who he said "has the plan our country needs".

As Parliament was prorogued and a handful of government bills rushed through before the cut-off:
Plans to reform homeowners' rights in England and Wales passed in time, but without the Conservative manifesto commitment to restrict ground rents paid by leaseholders to next to nothing

A Conservative promise to abolish no-fault evictions for renters [size=inherit]failed to get over the line[/size], but a bill which paves the way to establish an independent Infected Blood Compensation Authority passed

Rishi Sunak admitted he was disappointed his plan to phase out smoking did not have enough time to become law, but he said it would be back if the Conservatives are returned to government

Labour leader Keir Starmer said he can't commit to scrapping university tuition fees - which he backed when running to be Labour leader - or repealing the two-child benefit cap, blaming a lack of resources

If Labour don’t win this coming election they may as well close the party down ,

[celeste]

The state of the world today i.e.  the conflicts,  if they do win the election they might wish they hadn't.

[celeste]

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The Conservatives and Labour have gone into election battle over the economy on the first weekend of election campaigning.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has said he wants to cut National Insurance, while his opposite number Rachel Reeves has promised not to "play fast and loose" with public finances.

The IFS think tank has warned[/size] that the "parlous" state of the UK's finances will "hang over the campaign like a dark cloud".
Elsewhere, Sir Keir Starmer has been defending his workers' rights offer, after a trade union leader accused him of watering it down.
The Labour leader told the BBC that his New Deal for Working People would be “the biggest levelling up of working peoples’ rights for a generation”.




Sunak and Starmer have more in common than you might think.

Scots leaders pitch for votes on campaign trail.

[St Chads Lad]

It's not an Election, they are merely 'passing the baton' one [censored] cheek to the other [censored] cheek.


  If we don't like the outcome of this circus, do you think that Ķneelalot will give us a second vote like he wanted in the referendum, look at the pathetic pair of creeps, what a choice.


Whoever wins ì fear we're gonna get a government nobody wants. 

[celeste]

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France brings back national service

The Conservatives said the move would help ensure young people who are unemployed or not in education or training, and those disproportionately represented in the criminal justice system, are diverted away from "lives of unemployment and crime".
The party said national service would provide "valuable work experience" and "ignite a passion for a future career in healthcare, public service, charity or the armed forces".
A Labour Party spokesperson called the announcement "another desperate £2.5 billion unfunded commitment from a Tory Party which already crashed the economy, sending mortgages rocketing, and now they’re spoiling for more.
“This is not a plan – it’s a review which could cost billions and is only needed because the Tories hollowed out the armed forces to their smallest size since Napoleon," the spokesperson said.
Liberal Democrat defence spokesperson Richard Foord MP accused the Tories of cutting troop numbers.
Mr Foord said: "If the Conservatives were serious about defence, they would reverse their damaging cuts to our world class professional armed forces, instead of decimating them, with swingeing cuts to the number of our regular service personnel."
"Our armed forces were once the envy of the world. This Conservative government has cut troop numbers and is planning more cuts to the size of the Army."

National service was introduced in 1947 after World War Two under Clement Attlee’s Labour government.
It meant men between the ages of 17 and 21 had to serve in the armed forces for 18 months.
The mandatory national service scheme came to an end in 1960.
In May 2015, [size=inherit]Prince Harry advocated his support for the return of national service saying the Army had been important for him[/size].

A number of European countries, including Sweden, Norway and Denmark, already have a form of conscription for their armed forces.
Conscription requires young men and women to serve for a limited time in uniform. It means that some of the population will have had some military training - and can then be assigned to reserve units should war break out.
Cuts in the British Army have seen its size fall from more than 100,000 in 2010 to around 73,000 as of January 2024.