Richard Edinger

@lakismith @PhillipCoorey There is no genocide. Rwanda, Cambodia- they were genocides. Either the Israelis, with one of the most advanced military’s in the world aren’t trying or they are incompetent. Which is it?

@reportingLibya @DrChrisParry Iran had stated that they want to destroy both Israel and the US almost every day for the last 40 years.

@DrChrisParry 3/ A nuclear weapon does not, by itself, trigger an Art 51 from a state that thinks it may be attacked. However, Art 51 allows a state that is attacked (ie US) to destroy all weapons of the state that has attacked it.

I will summarise advice obtained from a legally eminent friend: The use of armed force by US/Israeli against Iran is lawful under the terms of UN Security Council Resolution 2817, and was lawful before that Resolution was passed under UN Charter Article 51 (self defence). It is arguably lawful for a state to declare that: · a terrorist attack comprises and armed attack which triggers Article 51, · another state is developing a nuclear weapon, there is a real risk that it would use it and negotiation has not been able to stop development. In the context of modern weaponry that would be sufficient to trigger Article 51even if the development of nuclear weapons is not complete. · a state sponsoring terrorism on a large scale around the world is a party to an armed attack and that is sufficient to trigger Article 51 so that the victim states may use force in self defence against that sponsor. Iran is a rogue state which has exported terrorism around the world. In particular it has sponsored Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis in their aim to destroy Israel. It preaches hatred against Israel, the USA and western liberal democracies and is a constant threat to peace and security. If it were to obtain a nuclear weapon there is no doubt that it would use it, or threaten to use it, for its own malign purposes, or export terror and extrem violence under the umbrella afforded by its nuclear weapons. The US and Israel’s action to destroy Iran’s ability to continue their policy against the west was and is lawful initially in self defence under UN Article 51 and now under UNSCR 2817.

@PhillH17 @DrChrisParry Iran has been attacking Israel and the US for the last 40 years.

@DrChrisParry Advice? Or opinion? Quoting you; "It is arguably lawful for a state to declare that: · a terrorist attack comprises and armed attack which triggers Article 51 July 24, Ismail Haniyeh, was assassinated in Terhan. So under Article 51 Iran would be justified to respond you agree?

@ryanyyc @DrChrisParry Why start now? How many times has the US declared war through Congress prior to commencement of military operations since WWII?

@DrChrisParry Notwithstanding this, a prima facie case was not made to either the American Congress or the United Nations. We don’t allow people to be arbitrarily attacked without warrant, an attack against a threat from a nation state that is not imminent should be the same.

Good morning all & OTD in 1807, the Slave Trade Act received royal assent & abolished the slave trade throughout the British Empire. The law's passage came 20 years after William Wilberforce first commenced a campaign to end slavery. The Wedgwood china family supported the cause

We must be mad, literally mad. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.

This is the version of the Haggadah that contains the codes to the space laser. Every Jew has used it at least once.

Just to be clear as I’ve been on a plane all day: I am well-known for being a lifelong, committed, energetic ally of Jewish people. The issue was caused by a malign reading of my attempt to respond to a tweet criticising Jewish people. I am not prepared to accept any criticism from anti-Zionists and people who wish the Jewish people and Israel ill.

It took Hamas years & billions of dollars to build their terror tunnel network. Imagine what Gaza could have been had that effort and money been spent on infrastructure, agriculture, services, education for the population. Israel continues (and must continue) to destroy the tunnels, one by one.

@DamianTrow87502 @KirstieMAllsopp You idiot.

@KirstieMAllsopp Bollocks, and bolllocks. Insurance claim. False flag. Take your pick. Golfers Green covered every inch with CCTV and miraculously they can't find culprits? It really is about Location, Location, Location isn't it. And who you know.

It takes a special kind of moron to believe that setting fire to ambulances might be a good idea. The people who did this are violent criminals, and antisemites to boot, they are also scarily stupid, as is anyone who cheers them on or questions the idea of charitable ambulances.

@SocialistVoice @KirstieMAllsopp If Hamas are using them then they aren’t ambulances.

@KirstieMAllsopp This also applies to Israelis who have attacked ambulances in Gaza and the occupied West Bank

This is like when Ricky Gervais said the Golden Globes could not have an "In Memoriam" segment because the actresses & actors who had died were insufficiently 'diverse'

"Fear and hatred have no place on our streets" Apart from Saturdays when the protesters have a free for all.

My initial view of the feeding frenzy that has happened while I’ve been in the air is that I have been on the receiving end of a concerted anti-Zionist campaign to delegitimise genuine friends of Israel and the Jewish people, initiated and sustained by the vilest elements in our media.

@1MrFantasy @ConvoswColeman You’re an anonymous coward and an idiot.

@RichardEdinger @ConvoswColeman LOL sure. Lying about mass murder is def a choice.

Sam Harris on the misinformation, disinformation, and lies that have fueled public skepticism of U.S. support for Israel. “We have people walking around with facts in their heads that are not facts…There are people who think that Israel has perpetrated a genocide in Gaza…They think there was a famine in Gaza…They believe they’ve seen pictures of this. I’m not saying there hasn’t been tremendous suffering and death in Gaza. But if, in fact, it is true that the IDF faced an urban warfare challenge of a sort that no society has ever faced…If it is, in fact, true that the IDF has been better behaved, or at least as well-behaved as Americans or Brits or any other Western power has been in anything like an analogous situation…If all of that’s true, then what are we talking about here? What is this double standard that’s being applied to Israel?”

@PJ11986386 @ConvoswColeman You’re either an idiot or don’t know any history.

@RichardEdinger @ConvoswColeman Those groups weren’t fighting for their land or sovereignty. The Palestinians are. They’re fighting for freedom, an idea that cannot be crushed.

@TweeterReynolds @ConvoswColeman You’re an idiot.

@RichardEdinger @ConvoswColeman Israel is an authoritarian, theocratic, apartheid state. I have absolute proof. Its Nation State law enshrines this in statute: "The right to exercise national self-determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish people."

I agree, Israel is going after the Iranian regime leaders, Basij, police, security forces, checkpoints and methods the regime used to kill protesters..they are calling IRGC officers to tell them they are dead men walking…

@N_K_R51 @GBNEWS The Supreme Court settled this last April.

@GBNEWS The High Court case is very simple! It will be beyond imagination if it is ruled for Brighton School! If these boys have penises and can have an erection...it is an open & shut case! Unless the judges or jury are " woke " & pro transgender! Possibility is it can be a lost case!!!

School in landmark High Court fight over boys using girls’ changing rooms. gbnews.com/news/trans-sch…