Philip Jones

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'This House believes the International Community has failed Palestine' overwhelmingly passes at Cambridge University student union debate middleeasteye.pulse.ly/w9n4ybwga9

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One of the roles of local media in a free country is the right to hold publicly funded politicians to account - unless you are in Nottinghamshire with a Reform Council it would appear…. societyofeditors.org/soe_news/socie…

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Israel Does Not want the World to see aerial footage of Gaza, but Al Araby TV journalist Dalal Mawad got it The world must see this destruction and the tent cities

“We were being trained to be soldiers from kindergarten. Literally from kindergarten...” “One of the main successes of Israeli propaganda is to convince the world that the situation is complicated. But it's far from being complicated..” —Israeli activist Ronnie Barkan

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Powerful words from historian @DalrympleWill on Gaza, exposing how Britain’s colonial legacy played a key role in creating this injustice. The suffering in Gaza didn’t start yesterday, it was engineered long ago. #Gaza #Palestin🇵🇸

@MikeTappTweets Dover deserves so much better 😔

Read the full article here ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/1…

Greek doctor Christos Georgalas on his stint in Gaza: "I can’t say I went to war. War is a very different thing. There was no war in Treblinka, there was no war in Auschwitz. War has two armies. Here you have a population that is mainly civilians and women and children, who have no way of escaping. And bombs are systematically raining down from the sky. They hit hospitals, they hit journalists."

@BorisJohnson Oh, do be quiet, you irrelevant, bloviated cockwomble

Two-tier Keir is once again going back on his promises to the people of this country - by making us non-voting members of a two-tier European Union. Under this appalling sell out of a deal the UK will have to accept EU law on a host of measures from food standards to emissions trading. We will have to accept whatever changes the EU decides to make to those laws. We will have to accept the rulings of the European Court of Justice in the definition and enforcement of those laws. We will therefore lose our freedom to innovate in areas such as gene editing and much more besides. We will lose much of our freedom to do proper free trade deals. Worst of all we will have no say whatsoever in making those rules and those laws and no ability to change them. Two-tier Keir is the orange ball-chewing manacled gimp of Brussels. He has sacrificed UK fishing interests, handing over our seas to be plundered again - when under the current Brexit agreement we are on the point of taking back full legal control, next year, of every fish in our waters. He is clearly bent on signing up to a deal on free movement which could give 80 million younger EU nationals the right to come to this country. He appears from this document to be preparing to allow the EU to regain control of UK policy on state aids and competition. Most bizarrely of all he has agreed that Britain will once again be paying countless millions of pounds into EU coffers - for the privilege of becoming the non-voting punk of the EU Commission! What have we got in return? Wishy washy EU promises to get rid of some of the vexatious and unnecessary bureaucracy that they have been using against British travellers and business - but no real guarantees that this will be enforced and above all no real guarantee on frictionless trade between GB and Northern Ireland, which should be entirely a matter for the UK and not the EU. This deal is hopelessly one sided. It combines the vassalage of Chequers with the surrenderism of Chagos. Starmer promised at the election that he would not go back on Brexit. He has broken that promise as he broke his promise on tax. This deal should not be signed, should not be ratified and should never come into force and if it is the next Conservative government should kick it out forthwith.

@AndyGJBurge @Keir_Starmer Probably not, but still a massive fail of leadership

The @nytimes says Israel is deliberately flattening Rafah. They are also starving people. This is the beginning of a plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza….. When we say Never Again, we should mean Never Again! In years to come we must all look in the mirror and ask if we did enough

@GerryMoore101 Come back soon, then 🇪🇸

@PhilRJ65 Hi Philip good to hear from you Sadly a memory from afar

Sitting outside at a cafe and watching immaculately dressed Seville couples and families arrive in the centre is best people watching in the world

Avi Shlaim is probably Israel's foremost living historian. He lives in the UK The BBC has not invited him on once as a pundit since Oct 7.

The Israeli army attacked a convoy of Red Crescent ambulances. They handcuffed the paramedics. They executed them by shooting them in the head and chest. Then they threw their bodies into a mass grave. What. Does. It. Take. theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…