Pat O'Connor

This is what happens when an expansionist, apartheid regime is granted impunity by the UK, EU, and US.

Ever heard of Palantir? Here's why it matters: Palantir is a US software company. It specialises in data products, used widely by governments for surveillance, intelligence and military purposes. In January 2024, Palantir signed a contract with the Israeli military to use its technology in support of “war-related missions.” Palantir has a deep relationship with US law enforcement. It supplies ICE with tools that can be used to surveil and target migrants in the US. Now, that same company is working at the heart of our NHS. Palantir has already received £330 million of our money for its contract with our NHS England. Healthworkers and patients have been ringing the alarm for years: this is not right. What’s happening in Gaza is an ongoing genocide. We shouldn’t have a company linked to human rights abuses have anything to do with our precious NHS. Learn more: amnesty.org.uk/issues/interna…

By refusing to take action against clubs based in Israeli settlements, FIFA has failed to enforce its own rules and is blatantly flouting international law. FIFA had a clear opportunity to stand up for Palestinians’ rights and international law – with this decision it has shamefully chosen to abandon both. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson says we can't have "double standards" with the international rule of law. She compares the criticism of Putin invading Ukraine with the U.S. and Israel's strike on Iran, which she says very few countries have spoken explicitly about it.

Gaza: 96% of children say they feel death is imminent. After more than two years of war & relentless violence, young Palestinians face a deepening mental health emergency. Girls are at particular risk, including a rise in child marriage, @UNFPA reports. news.un.org/en/story/2026/…

The depravity of Israeli settlers seem to know no limits. The KKK of our time.

American Professor Jeffrey Sachs: “Every country that condemned Iran after an Israeli-U.S. aggression hosts an American military base on its soil. They are not sovereign countries. They dare not speak. They host the U.S. military. They host the CIA. They watch their backs.”

BOMBSHELL: Epstein's accountant testified that the estate settled with Jane Doe 4 for BOTH Epstein and Trump. Her files were completely hidden until Trump bombed Iran to change the subject. The coverup is unraveling on live TV.

Senator Wyden found JPMorgan Chase failed to report over $1 billion in suspicious transactions linked to Epstein. He asked Treasury Secretary Bessent for the records. Bessent refuses. DOJ is blocking the files. Treasury is blocking the money trail.

Netanyahu has not just bombed six countries in a year (Palestine/Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Yemen & Qatar) but he & Trump are now making a good job of screwing up the entire world economy Airlines draw up contingency plans over jet fuel shortage fears ft.com/content/1d65be…

Advertising Speechless on RTE player on RTE1. Great if the player would actually work… Pathetic ‘service’. If you have a half hour to watch a programme- forget it. It will take more time than that to get nowhere with the player @RTEplayer

Not good enough. It happens over and over. Improve the service. People who want to watch TV for 30mins do not want to spent it trying to solve your technical problems. Pathetic

This exchange just happened in Congress. Senator Cohen to FBI Director Kash Patel: “The people you fired were experts on Iran, were they not?” Patel: “I don’t believe so.” Cohen: “They worked in counterintelligence, did they not?” Patel: “I’m taking you at your word.” Cohen: “You’re the director. I’m not. You should know the answer.” The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation does not know who he fired. Does not know if they were Iran experts. Does not know if they worked in counterintelligence. Is taking a senator’s word for it. This is the man running America’s domestic intelligence agency during the most severe national security crisis since 9/11. Iran has activated sleeper cells. Encrypted communications intercepted as operational triggers. A war with no exit strategy. Joe Kent resigned because the investigation was stopped. Charlie Kirk’s last words to Kent: stop us from getting into a war with Iran. And the FBI Director doesn’t know who he fired. Or what they knew. Or what America lost when they left. Never stop connecting the dots.

Good programme on Welcome to Moore Street on RTE1. It makes you wonder what Dublin City council is at.. Moore street is gone to rack and ruin… Another example of a non- functioning structure?? @DublinCityHall

European leaders are to blame for this. For years they've ignored Israeli war crimes. Failed to sanction them. Armed them. Failed to uphold international law. Now their subservience to Israel (10m people) will destroy countless European lives and businesses. All for Israel.

Condemn Iran's attacks but conceal they came after US-Israeli escalatory strikes on Iran's gas infrastructure. Speak of safe transit through the Hormuz Strait, but erase the US-Israeli aggression that led to its closure. You do not stop a war by covering for the aggressors.

I don’t get it. If Hezbollah had flats in this block (unlikely in central Beirut but not impossible) why did the Israelis give everyone inside an hour to get out — including those they wanted to kill? And if there weren’t any Hezbollah people there, why destroy a building with dozens of civilians in it?

Where’s the joint statement on the reopening the crossings into Gaza, still being starved by Israel? Where are the naval ships coming to rescue the 2 million Palestinian people of Gaza, dying amongst rubble in flimsy tents, with no sanitary services? Humanity is a disgrace!

“There was no diplomatic attempt to obtain a UN resolution to give legality to the war,” the former Tory PM Sir John Major said in a speech on Wednesday night. “No nation – other than Israel – was even consulted."

You have colluded with the undermining of international law in Gaza. This is the inevitable outcome. @antonioguterres