gabster99

OTD in 1983 - FA Cup Semi-Final MANCHESTER UNITED 2 Bryan Robson 49' @NormanWhiteside 70' ARSENAL 1 Tony Woodcock 36' Villa Park 46,535

@richardpbacon “They brought it on themselves”

@ClaudiaWebbe @BumperGraham Half a million 😂😂😂😂😂

Half a million in London today. The largest anti-far right march in British history. 56 billionaires own more than 27 million of us. They built the crisis, bankrolled the hate, and bought Reform UK. The streets belong to us - not to Farage, not to Musk, not to their money. x.com/PSCupdates/sta…

I will never fail to be astonished by the rapid transformation of the Green Party from mad old hippies who care about badgers & organic vegetables like to do naked yoga at Stonehenge with the moon crystals into the Taliban/Oat Milk Oswald Mosley without the patriotism.

@AndyMitten Was with mates just to the right of that (in the home end). A mean-looking Frenchman turned round & said something to us that sounded threatening to @gabster99’s untrained ear. He nervously turned to me & whispered, “What did he say, son?” “Can you guys see ok if I stand up?”

The verifiable data shows that during the war Hamas launched on Israel— and prolonged by holding hundreds of Israeli hostages— approximately 35,000 civilians were killed in Gaza. In Iran, over two days, more civilians were killed by their own regime for daring to dissent. No protests. No encampments. No social media campaigns. No celebrity open letters. You know exactly why.

Imagine being so ignorant, racist and historically illiterate that you can’t accept that Iranians want to overthrow their decades-long oppressors without being “manipulated” by the US or Israel.

I met a Palestinian economist from Gaza today who was the head of a technical team tasked with preparing the coastal enclave for the “day after” the Israeli disengagement or withdrawal of settlements in 2005. Despite his harsh stance on Israel, he reached out to me and expressed his gratitude for the work I’ve been doing, urging me to keep going and not to give up on Gaza. Most intriguing was the fact that he was commissioned by the controversial Palestinian political figure whose name is regularly floated as part of Gaza’s post-Hamas governance, Mohammed Dahlan. The economist oversaw a large and sprawling team and interacted with Israeli, Arab, and international teams and figures from the World Bank, especially the then-President James Wolfensohn, to prepare the Strip for a new era. Dahlan accurately and prophetically told the economist that “if we don’t get Gaza right following the Israeli withdrawal [in 2005], there will never be a future for the territory and it will be a complete disaster.” Motivated to serve his people and country, the economist shared with me that the World Bank's James Wolfensohn spent his own money to preserve Gaza’s greenhouses and to implement extensive plans to protect what remained of the infrastructure left behind in the vacated Jewish settlements. He mentioned meeting with Hamas to inform them about what the plans and intentions were, but the terror group was ultimately determined to pursue its own course of action. After years of violent attacks during the Second Intifada, Hamas was determined to promote the armed resistance narrative as the reason why Israel was withdrawing from Gaza. The economist, who again is not exactly a dove on Israel, said repeatedly during our conversations that in his talks with Israelis, he sensed “a sincerity” to see Gaza progress and develop, and that Israelis’ attitude was “we don’t want anything from you Palestinians except for you to succeed.” He spoke of incredible plans to spend billions on reviving Gaza’s economy, connecting the territory with the outside world and Israel, and of endless possibilities that would have “transformed Gaza into something truly remarkable,” as he and Dahlan said and believed. Instead, the very day of the withdrawal, he said numerous militias belonging to Hamas were deployed in a disciplined, pre-determined, and militaristic fashion across all vacated Israeli settlements. Worse, he said that Palestinian Authority security personnel tasked with protecting remnants of Israeli settlements participated in the mass looting and destruction of what remained, ending any hope that these spaces would ever serve as springboards for Gaza’s rejuvenation and renaissance. It was then that he called Mohammed Dahlan and told him: “It’s all over – Gaza’s finished.” The 2005 disengagement experiment was a horrific abdication of Palestinian agency and responsibility and a missed opportunity that cannot be solely blamed on Israel. That’s the painful and uncomfortable lesson.

@NigelAppleton An absolute gent, really sad

Apologies that it’s taken me a few days to post these, but RIP to a proper, old school, Red…. Martin Day #blackpoolred 🇾🇪

@wallacemick 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Francesca Albanese would have been a worthy winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. What an amazing woman...

@R_o_M @willg1989 “Globalise the intifada” “From the river to the sea” Not to mention the placards regarding nazi inversion, do you understand how offensive these things are to the Jewish community in Britain? At least you got your wish, the intifada was globalised to your city this week

@willg1989 No chants at the protests are about Jews. I didn’t say I met millions of Jews every week so I’m not sure what you mean.

This is outrageous. There are British Jews at Palestine protests every single week up and down the country. Opposing genocide has fuck all to do with religion you weirdo.

@Keir_Starmer Stop the marches NOW

This was a vile terrorist attack that attacked Jews, because they are Jews. Antisemitism is a hatred that is rising, once again. Britain must defeat it, once again. To every Jewish person in this country: I promise that I will do everything in my power to guarantee you the security you deserve.

Nothing could possibly some up the Palestine lot better than this.

According to Paul Weller, the question or whether or not Israel is guilty of genocide is not a matter of fact or evidence, but one of philosophical belief. An astonishing and revealing claim.

@SkyNews I was held by a journalist in captivity and his father was a Doctor!!!!!!!!

Numerous videos of airdrops show how women, children, and even the elderly can rapidly and quickly grab bags of flour, canned foods, and shelf-stable items that are calorie-dense and provide some sort of temporary relief. Airdrops are randomized, spread and dispersed geographically, and do not face the same kind of systematized and organized looting that aid trucks currently endure as they trickle in via land corridors without security. Ironically, what you describe is what ultimately happens with the aid trucks that are being looted by fit capable men, or by those who are able to go to the GHF collection sites, which require walking for miles and facing dangerous conditions that can frequently turn deadly. No one ever claimed that airdrops are a permanent solution or adequate. Yet, it's astonishing how journalists and supposed humanitarians vehemently oppose this method, which is part of a broader strategy that employs multiple approaches. Why oppose a mechanism that introduces some food for some people, even if it’s inadequate, when there is a horrendous crisis? If we can’t stop the war and create conditions for large-scale delivery and distribution via land crossings, why the incessant opposition by Hamas, the UN, and “pro-Palestine” online personalities to this method of aid delivery that has been used time and again in multiple conflict zones? Here, you see clear gratitude and appreciation by civilians for airdropped food, which in this instance, happens to be delivered by Emirati C-130s as part of operation @alfaresalshahm3.

Jewish teens were kicked off a plane for saying one Hebrew word and for being visibly Jewish. Vueling claimed they “engaged in highly disruptive behavior.” In Amsterdam, nearly a hundred Israelis were chased through the streets, hunted like prey, beaten, and thrown into a river. The media justified the ״Jew hunt״ by calling them racist hooligans. In London, a group of 40 young Jews celebrating on a party bus was violently attacked. The BBC claimed to have audio of the group shouting anti-Muslim slurs. It turned out to be a misinterpretation. The apology came quietly, eight weeks later. In Davos, Switzerland, Jewish tourists were insulted and spat on. One shop even put up a sign: “No skis for Jews.” The media explained it by blaming “bad behavior” by Jewish visitors. Do you see the pattern?

The @IsraelMFA led by @gidonsaar Foreign Min says it perfectly--when Hamas thinks you do good work, you are doing evil. How embarrassing for a nation to side w/ a terror group like Hamas & blame a nation whose civilians were massacred for fighting to get hostages released.

God has cursed the Palestinian people with the stupidest, most unimaginably dumb "allies" and "pro-Palestine" fools that humanity could have ever produced. What was poor Hamas supposed to do on October 7, 2023, when 240 Palestinians were killed that year? I'll tell you how your favorite “resistance” group could have spared tens of thousands of Palestinian lives and avoided Gaza’s complete annihilation: 1- Don't carry out the worst single attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust, don't take women, children, and the elderly as hostages, and don't hold Super Bowl-styled parties/ceremonies when returning them. 2- Don't hand Palestinians in Gaza on a golden platter to the most far-right extremist government in Israel's history. 3- Consider unity with the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and stop being a tool of division for Benjamin Netanyahu. 4- Don't act at the behest of the Islamic Republic of Iran and other terror groups and militias. 5- Consider announcing formally that you're for the Two-State solution on the 1967 borders and that you accept Israel's existence. 6- Develop an actual political program that has a vision for how to create a compelling Palestinian political scene, which will invite international interest and intrigue from moderates in Israel. 7- Don't start a war for which you have no strategy to win except hoping that mass casualties generate pressure and outrage against Israel on social and traditional media. 8- Turn Gaza into the most compelling example/model of effective Palestinian self-governance and economic success and stability to show what an occupation-free West Bank would look like. 9- Declare that you no longer want to be in the governance business and wish to relinquish control of Gaza to allow you to focus on pursuing Palestinian freedom, dignity, safety, and statehood. 10- Announce that you will work with the Palestinian Authority to engage in legal, political, and diplomatic forms of resistance and that you're evolving and moving away from violence. Just imagine if Hamas had done any of those – we’d be talking about less than 300 dead Palestinians, not 60,000 killed, 2 million displaced, 200,000 wounded or maimed, and $50 billion’s worth of damage. @piersmorgan has never once invited me on his show even though he knows who I am; but he'll invite every lunatic there is out there to speak about my people and my homeland - truly pathetic.