Comment on Journalist Richard Medhurst arrested under Britain’s Terrorism Act

• Mrkawfee@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes that’s my point. They were a terror group and then weren’t when the US decided. In the same way that Sudan was a state sponsor of terror until the US decided otherwise.

  www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-55300252

  In both cases it was recognising the occupation of Palestine.

  Also if committing massacres made the PLO a terror group then surely the IDF should be a terror group many times over since October 7th but instead it receives billions in funding and weapons from the US and UK

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour_massacre

  …wikipedia.org/…/Nuseirat_refugee_camp_massacre

  As I said it is a form of political repression.

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  • Streamwave@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also if committing massacres made the PLO a terror group

    No, it’s when you commit terrorist acts that you become a terrorist group. Like the PLO did, repeatedly, over many many years, and bragged about.

    Terrorists are by definition non-state actors.

    And yes I’ve seen the Pallywood stuff coming out of Gaza just like everyone else has. It’s the same bullshit they pull every time they cross a line and find their shit getting pushed in by Israel like in Lebanon in 1982.

    receives billions in funding and weapons from the US and UK

    In 2023 total UK arms exports to Israel totalled £18.2 million. We do not provide them with foreign financial assistance.

    So you were only off by a little bit.

    In 2023 Israel received approx. £3.3 bn in foreign assistance from the USA, the large majority loaned to purchase US supplies of both defensive and offensive munitions. That same year, Egypt also received about £1.5 bn in foreign assistance from the USA, Jordan £1.7 bn, etc.

    As I said it is a form of political repression.

    Yes, that’s why it’s good

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    • Mrkawfee@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And yes I’ve seen the Pallywood stuff coming out of Gaza just like everyone else has.>

      You’re a genocide denier. I’m done with you

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      • Streamwave@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes, in the same sense that I deny the existence of unicorns. I’m also a unicorn-denier.

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