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Keir Starmer LIES about Gaza war crimes he backed

Published by Richard Kuper
Owen Jones podcast

JVL Introduction

Owen Jones takes Keir Starmer to the cleaners….

It would be superfluous to add anything to Jones’s comments on what is on record in this video.

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Keir Starmer LIES About Gaza War Crimes HE Backed

This behaviour is so shameless, it’s hard to even know where to begin.

  • I’m tempted to say that Jeremy Corbyn has more integrity in the toenail of his big toe that Starmer has in his whole body, but it would just be for effect, because the reality is that KS is completely and utterly devoid of integrity.

    And deludes himself that he’s so clever and superior.

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  • Isn’t it about time to raise this: after the recent shooting of 2 children in the West Bank, confirmed by BBC Verify, that the issue of the 9,000 Palestinians in detention in the West Bank, including several hundred children – with no or very limited access to legal process — are hostages too, Israeli hostages?

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  • Starmer is certainly nowhere near as good a liar as Tony Blair in his pomp. Blair certainly did sincerity very well once, before his acting skills deserted him. To be a good liar, it’s said, one really needs the knack of being able to — in the moment — truly believe one’s own lies because it’s the best way of cheating an audience’s built-in lie-detection kit (an evolved trait).

    It’s been said that Starmer’s whole shtick consists in an endless variety of ways of saying, ‘I am not Jeremy Corbyn’ and ways of showing the Labour Party isn’t what everyone said (wrongly) that it was when Corbyn led it.

    It’s not even as if Starmer was practising lessons he’d learned from his beloved Israel in that unlike Israel he does seem (somewhere deep down) to care when his lies are found out, if only to cover his embarrassment. Israel has always told lies to, as someone once said, simply fill in space in media interviews, or maybe more accurately not to make truth statements at all but simply help create chaos and confusion to hide behind.

    Starmer seems to have confected (or his minders have) an instrumental persona to inhabit and despite his best efforts, he simply doesn’t look comfortable in it.

    There still are some who say, well once he gets into Downing St he’ll drop all the false poses, as he’s dropped others, that to use Schopenhauer’s image (borrowed by Wittgenstein) he’ll throw away the ladder he used to climb to the top and emerge as a true social democrat. The problem with that, as George Monbiot pointed out, is that he wont have a mandate for it.

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  • For 70 years the Palestinians have been illegally murdered, villages razed, lands stolen, dispossessed, ethnic-cleansed and occupied by a repressive invading armed settler government in defiance of dozens of UN Resolutions condemning these illegal acts. Only Palestinians have any right to defend themselves. As the occupying offensive power it is absurd for Israel to claim to have right to defend itself from its defenseless, subjugated indigenous population when they show any form of resistance.

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  • I know in the current crisis – and when isn’t there ones for Palestinians – it is supposed to be all shoulders to the wheel, but really Owen Jones? Does it not matter how many people he’s hurt?
    How many articles did he contribute to the post 2014 Gaza bombing, pro-Israel moral panic? What about the things he has publicly said about the likes of Ken Loach and Chris Williamson?
    5mins ago he was doing photo ops with Jeremy Newmark & Ella Rose
    https://labourheartlands.com/ken-loach-and-other-victims-of-owen-jones-guardian-pro-israel-smears/

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  • What amazes me in all these interviews with the likes of Starmer is that when such people place the blame, justification for everything the Genocidal state has been involved with since they commenced their well planned attack on Gaza, absolutely no interviewer refers to the seventy five years of sustained implementation of the Dalet Plan.
    No one questions the right of the Palestinians to have the same right of self defence which they are in fact accorded by the Geneva Convention.
    When will that question be asked?

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  • He’s a practised liar, but he’s also a coward hoist on his own petard. He made a Faustian pact with a powerful mafia to support them ‘without reservation’, and to organise the elimination of their chosen victims. In return he’d be a leader without fear of becoming a victim himself. He was not at all prepared for the current scenario. He must have known that condemning Israel’s war crimes, regardless of his actual opinion, would be a popular political position. But his Faustian pact made that impossible. His cowardice meant he had no choice but to make a shifty dishonest fool of himself.

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  • “There still are some who say, well once he gets into Downing St he’ll drop all the false poses, as he’s dropped others, that to use Schopenhauer’s image (borrowed by Wittgenstein) he’ll throw away the ladder he used to climb to the top and emerge as a true social democrat.”
    Many do say that, and it is not impossible that this particular ugly chrysalis will transform into its attractive stage, but highly unlikely. Or to be more honest I should say impossible. Even though the ladder he used to gain the hights of tha LP was discarded in the blink of an eye, I think we now see the real man.

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  • You are absolutely correct Owen and I appreciate your continued efforts in highlighting the dishonesty of Starmer and his cabinet.

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  • The comments here quoting the false ethos of Starmerroids thst he’ll miraculously change when he wins are ignoring his CPS career which was a litany of Establishment cover ups for which he was knighted & invited to go into politics.. He is & always has been a corrupt self serving climber.. He IS showing his TRUE self..

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