@aral Thank you for this - you've managed to express the frustration and rage that we all feel.....we, the ordinary people of the uk, whose voices are ignored by the very people we put in power.

The government in this fucking country are NOT our representatives, and do not see themselves as such.....career politicians, one and all - what's in it for them, basically.

Fuck starmer
Fuck labour
Fuck israel
Fuck the idf
Fuck all zionists....

@aral And why do we keep electing the worst of humanity to rule over us in the first place? It feels very much like a stitch-up.

@aral

There is one step we can take.

An accelerated fossil fuel phase out will hurt the moneyed interests bolstering Netanyahu's public corruption & cruelty

BP is one of those companies seeking to steal Palestinians natural resources
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/israel-awards-natural-gas-exploration-licences-bp-socar-newmed-2025-03-17/

The UAE is another
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/13/business/bp-abu-dhabi-newmed-energy

Palestinians are dying because the fossil fuel industry cannot abide the concept of indigenous peoples owning their own natural resources.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-gaza-natural-gas-reserves-expert-2028339

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/20/recognised-palestinian-state-could-develop-disputed-gas-resources-expert-says

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@aral

You could say just because the goverment of a country does not take a very dim view of the IDF actions, does not mean the people in that country lack any moral, or ethical compass.

The people of Gaza and west bank have far more friends in the west than they realise.

@aral I have friends neither in Palestine nor in Israel, so locking from the outside I saw a hateful Hamas, openly saying they want all Jews to die, brutally attacking Israel, taking people hostage and killing many innocent people. I also saw Israel brutally striking back with the claimed target of freeing their people, a lot of people in Gaza dying in the process. But no matter how hard Israel is attacking, Hamas is not willing to let all kidnapped Israeli go home. What can we do?

@aral Hope dies, action begins my friend - this kind of shit only stops when people leave their desks, knock their neighbours doors, go to the streets together and stay there. Start here, your help is needed for organising: https://www.ipsc.ie/protest/emergency-protests-for-palestine-around-ireland
Not as glamorous though

@aral

Hello Aral,

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Even the smallest action can create a ripple of hope.

Mohammed Nasser

@aral thank you for writing, nonetheless

@aral Agreed. Aren't you describing the long history of European>Now U.S. settler colonialism? It continues, now with Israel as the tip of the spear. But it's the same, long thread of genocide.

Globally, it's the European North dominating and extracting from the South. A process of violence, extraction, enslavement and, when necessary, genocide.

Most in the US couldn't be bothered to care because they benefited from that process. Now it's turned in on us so we'll suffer. Chickens roosting.