Digest #18 - Zionists attack Deir al-Balah, Druze Syria chaos, 16 / 17 year in the UK to get the vote & more
From Deir al-Balah to Damascus global inaction allows the Zionists to act with impunity.
It has been an ‘interesting’ and testing week, that combined with having to earn a living means it is not always easy to keep up with writing about the world.
What did this week teach me?
When something is wrong, it is wrong. No matter how small it is, if you let it go you might as well let everything slide. Speaking out is a state of mind and not something that can simply be switched on and off at will. When the chips are down and you are staring down the barrel, help often comes from places where you would not expect. All it takes is someone to rally people around.
Looking at the world today we can all play our part in calling out what is wrong, looking to rally people for support and not losing hope when all seems lost.
Zionists attack Deir al-Balah
the story: Today the Zionists once again went beyond the pale and attacked the area of Dier al-Balah in central Gaza. A place which was a humanitarian food hub, Palestinians were asked to leave before the attack. The violation includes both air and ground offensive on Dier al-Balah which according to reports was relatively unscathed up until now by the 20 month old genocide.
why is this important: The Zionists have no limits and these attacks are just another line of actions to test the resolve of the world and to wipe out the Palestinians from Gaza.
Political Alchemy view: On the one hand the Zionists speak about wanting to agree a ceasefire on other other hand as soon as some agreement is close they begin another wave of attacks. The number of people being killed and the horror of Gaza are now just everyday statistics like sports results, do they even affect people the same as they did two years ago. There is very little left to say about the atrocities of the Zionists.
The only thing that can be said in the inaction of the Muslim rulers, their armies and those that support them.
Druze Syria chaos
the story: Last week Bedouin tribes clashed with Druze militias in the majority Druze Southern Syrian town of Suweyda, after a spate of kidnappings and robberies in the area.Syrian government forces were sent in to end the fighting.
Despite the Syrians informing Israel before entering Suwayda and assuring the Israelis that the Syrian operation was not against Israeli interests, the Israelis attacked Damascus. They bombed the Ministry of Defense and the Army General Command buildings all located in the heart of Damascus.
The US for their part asked for de-escalation US Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack then held several calls with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s senior adviser.
Al-Sharaa said the nation faced two options: either ‘open war’ with “Israel” ‘at the expense of our Druze citizens’ or allowing Druze clerics to ‘return to reason and put the national interest first.’
why is this important: The clashes, we can’t really call them wars, seem to keep escalating in the region. Israel has put it self front and centre of everything going on despite having its hands full with Gaza. Israeli officials justified their actions by citing a commitment to protect the Druze minority in Syria - linked to the Druze community within Israel.
Political Alchemy view: The Israeli ‘excuse’ for attacking Syrian targets does not really hold up to scrutiny, with US officials making it clear that American intelligence does not indicate Syrian government involvement in any atrocities in Suwayda.
The Israeli Defense Minister Katz declared that the army:
“will continue to attack regime forces until they withdraw from the area—and will soon raise the bar of responses if the message is not understood.”
An Israeli army brigade - typically numbering thousands of soldiers -is being withdrawn from Gaza and redeployed to the Golan Heights.
The Zionist motivation is to reshape the region to its advantage. The world turning a blind eye to its atrocities has given it a political and military green light to act with impunity. Syria is just one piece in the jigsaw of controlling the region. Despite what the Syrian government assures Tel Aviv of, none of this matters, this is simply an opportunity too good to miss for the Zionists.
16 / 17 year in the UK to get the vote
the story: Sixteen year olds will be given the right to vote in all UK elections as part of ‘seismic’ changes to modernise UK democracy, delivering a key manifesto commitment and helping to restore trust in politics through the UK governments Plan for Change.
why is this important: Significant changes to the political process don’t happen everyday. They are generally a sign of the system not working.
Political Alchemy view: Democracy across the world, and especially across the Western world, is under scrutiny. With populist politicians gaining traction in the US (Trump), UK (Farage) and across Europe, there has been a shift away from traditional politics. Add to this talk of new political parties in the UK and the US, there is a clear disenfranchisement with the political process.
There is a need to engage younger people in the political process. The Gaza genocide has shown that younger people are willing to take a stance against injustice and be ‘political’, but how many of those young people actually trust the system if the system is now supporting genocide.
An interesting question to ask would be:
Do younger people support more direct action for Palestine as opposed to writing to their MP, who needs to follow the party line?
There have been accusations that the Labour government's decision is based more on knowing they have a bigger share of the younger voting population, so changing the rules means they will benefit more in the next general election. Even this in itself shows the inherent problem with democracy, someone will always have a vested interest.
Democratic politics is a strange business. On the one hand, there are attempts to encourage younger people into politics. On the other hand, those even taking semi-principled stances are brought back into line via the party whip.
Those disenfranchised with their role in politics are then setting up their own parties, but in doing so are falling out even before they start. Principled advocates of progressive politics, such as AOC, are now selling out by supporting bills in the US to continue to fund Israeli defence.
All in all democracy is a dirty business, the Gaza issue is showing that if you want to be principled and make real change its not going to happen within a system that is there to support the elite.
The small print
After last summers Southport riots and increasing political speak around the issue of immigration something similar happening again was almost inevitable. So it was no surprise when there were riots outside an Essex hotel housing asylum seekers. Bottles were thrown, fires were set and the police were attacked all normal practice for the far right. The trigger being a sexual assault case against one of the asylum seekers housed there. Years of radicalisation of the British public with an anti-immigration / anti-Muslim racist mantre is now resulting in regular disorder on British streets. You reap what you sow.
Everyone likes a little gossip even though we shouldn’t engage, there is something about the human condition that finding out a ‘secret’ just seems valuable. When the gossip is about the President of the United States and its in the public domain it is little wonder the Epstein saga holds the public interest. On a purely political level as I mentioned last week it says much when the leader of a country and his entourage are regularly interring in due process, changing their stories and lying about a case that affects him.
It also says much when the President of the United States sues a news publication which accuses him of sending a salacious birthday card to Epstein.
The latest is that apparently Trump was named twice to the FBI by one of the accusers of Epstein. The only problem is that the new head of the FBI, Kash Patel, is in the pocket of Trump.
The Pakistan Air Force dominated the World’s biggest airshow , winning several awards. The Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) even held in the United Kingdom saw Pakistan show off its JF-17 Thunder Block-III fighter jets which were used in the recent conflict against India.
The aircraft flew from Pakistan to Royal Air Force Base Fairford in southern England successfully conducting air-to-air refueling mid-flight - a maneuver the military described as evidence of the Pakistan Air Force’s growing long-range operational capabilities. This means they should have no problem getting to Gaza to defends the Muslims there.
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