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@izzythepush,

Since writing this there have been arrest of pro Palestinian supporters, about 150 arrests after fireworks were set off and people wore saki masks.

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@izzythepush,

Winners get freedom fighters, losers get terrorists. A lot of the irgun became leaders, Menachem Begin was a hitman for the Stern Gang. He was part of the bombing of the King David Hotel.

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Stern Gang
Zionist extremist organization
Also known as: Fighters for the Freedom of Israel, IFF, LEHI, Lohame Herat Yisraʾel, Stern Group
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Last Updated: Oct 17, 2023 • Article History

Stern Gang, Zionist extremist organization in Palestine, founded in 1940 by Avraham Stern (1907–42) after a split in the right-wing underground movement Irgun Zvai Leumi.

Extremely anti-British, the group repeatedly attacked British personnel in Palestine and even invited aid from the Axis powers. The British police retaliated by killing Stern in his apartment in February 1942; many of the gang’s leaders were subsequently arrested. The group’s terrorist activities extended beyond Palestine: two members assassinated Lord Moyne, British minister of state in the Middle East, at Cairo (November 1944). Later the Stern Gang attacked airfields, railway yards, and other strategic installations in Palestine, usually with success, though at heavy loss in members killed or captured. After the creation of the state of Israel (1948), the group, which had always been condemned by moderate leaders of the Jewish community in Palestine, was suppressed, some of its units being incorporated in the Israeli defense forces. Unlike the Irgun Zvai Leumi, a precursor of the Ḥerut (“Freedom”) Party, the Stern Gang left no political party to carry on its political programs.

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@blatham,

He wears the sweaters Mr Rogers rejected.

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@izzythepush,

That was super under covered by the US press. Thank-you for posting that.

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Braverman has been sacked, but it won't make Sunak look any better, he should have sacked her when she said homelessness was a lifestyle choice.

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@izzythepush,

Sunak is a WEF whore. He should be sacked on those grounds alone.

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@Builder,

The prime minister can't be sacked.

He has to face a leadership challenge.

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@izzythepush,

What Braverman did was like a cheap knock off of what Trump did on January 6th.

Trump's supporters attacked the Capitol and tried to stop the democratic process.

Now take America's power, wealth, influence etc. and shrink that down to the UK's power, wealth etc.

The power of the treasonable act is similarly diminished. Braverman's supporters went to protect the Cenotaph from pro Palestian supporters. None came, so they attacked the police instead, failed to make it to the Cenotaph so instead tried to attack the marchers where they attacked more police and got kettled into two pubs and arrested.

It's a real tawdry downmarket knock off alright.

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@Frank Apisa,

And the truth taken to it's simplest terms is: we each are somebodies 'have' to somebody else's 'have nots'.

We have met the enemy and sometimes, he is us.

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@Builder,

Builder wrote:

Sunak is a WEF whore. He should be sacked on those grounds alone.

Whatever you think of Sunak and his policies, who should sack him?

The UK's head of state (King/Queen) appoints a prime minister who has the confidence of a majority of the House of Commons.
The head of state's prerogative powers are usually exercised on the advice of the prime minister. And that means that In effect, if not form, the sovereign’s powers are those of the government.

However, there is a constitutional theory that the sovereign could possibly sack her/his government's prime minister (in 1834 William IV dismissed Lord Melbourne).

The constitutional requirement is that the prime minister has the confidence of the house. If that confidence is lost, and it is clear that another politician is better placed to have that confidence, then there is nothing stopping that politician being asked by the monarch to take over.

This would not be an exercise of arbitrary power by the crown: the scope and exercise of the power to appoint and dismiss prime ministers is determined entirely by what would be acceptable to the elected representatives in parliament.

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@Walter Hinteler,

The Tory Party does have provisions for leadership challenges while in power.

Michael Heseltine constantly challenged Thatcher in the last years of her premiership.

He was even successful in ousting her and having John Major installed.

The leadership challenger themselves rarely becomes leader themselves, they're seen as a stalking horse tomshow the leader'slack of confidence and open the field.

John Major called his own contest in the last years of his premiership, and Boris Johnson lost the confidence of his own MPs when the 1922 committee reached enough letters to prompt a challenge.

Sunak won't be challenged this side of an election though, even the Tories aren't that stupid.

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@Walter Hinteler,

Under David Cameron, the Conservatives returned to power in the UK in 2010, and with him as Foreign Secretary they will relinquish power at least in 2024 after 14 uninterrupted years in government.

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Yes. This is real, not satire.

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Peter Baker@peterbakernyt
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Spokesman denies that Trump rhetoric echoes that of dictators like Hitler and Mussolini and declares that those who say it does will find "their entire existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House." ⁦@marianne_levine⁩ https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/12/trump-rally-vermin-political-opponents/

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@blatham,

Actually the henchman who delivered that warning, Steven Cheung, toned it down a bit :

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Cheung later clarified that he meant to say their “sad, miserable existence" instead of their “entire existence.”

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@bobsal u1553115,

bobsal u1553115 wrote:

Winners get freedom fighters, losers get terrorists.
Last Updated: Oct 17, 2023 • Article History

Fer sure. I recently saw an article about the Mau Mau insurrection in Kenya. They were referred to as 'freedom fighters'. Not even close to what they were called when they were active.

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A New York civil liberties group is suing Joe Biden for allegedly failing in his duty under international and US laws to prevent Israel committing genocide in Gaza.

The Center for Constitutional Rights’ (CCR) complaint on behalf of several Palestinian groups and individuals alleges that Israel’s actions, including “mass killings”, the targeting of civilian infrastructure and forced expulsions, amount to genocide. The CCR said that the 1948 international convention against genocide requires the US and other countries to use their power and influence to stop the killing.

“As Israel’s closest ally and strongest supporter, being its biggest provider of military assistance by a large margin and with Israel being the largest cumulative recipient of US foreign assistance since World War II, the United States has the means available to have a deterrent effect on Israeli officials now pursuing genocidal acts against the Palestinian people in Gaza,” the complaint argued.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in California, asks the court to bar the US from providing weapons, money and diplomatic support to Israel. It also seeks a declaration that the president, the secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and the defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, are required “to take all measures within their power to prevent Israel’s commission of genocidal acts against the Palestinian people of Gaza”. These include pressing Israel to end the bombing of Gaza, to lift its siege of the territory and to prevent the forcible expulsion of Palestinians.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/13/biden-lawsuit-alleged-failure-prevent-genocide-israel-palestine

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