'Who can turn skies back and begin again?' - #PeterGrimes. Hardline Centrist, woky retired GP. #rejoinEU. My words = personal view.
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Balstrode in #PeterGrimes by #BenjaminBritten is a fair-minded, if imperfect person.
I like to hope that's me too.
If you haven't seen the opera, please do.
Grimes is an ambitious fisherman driven to madness and suicide by a baying mob who are incited by malicious gossip.
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Israel is the only country in the world that can bomb 9 countries and invade 3 neighboring countries in one year; kill 100,000 people—including 25,000 children—in 1,000 days; displace nearly 6 million people in 3 countries; starve 2 million people in Gaza; violate Geneva and Vienna Conventions, international law, human rights, and state sovereignty; kidnap, rape and torture children and women; shoot, imprison and murdering; and still be perceived as the victim.
@mhdksafa
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Putin joins the First Lady in celebrating the Oleshky truce by slaughtering 14 unsuspecting civilians who were just waiting for their train in Dnipro today. rferl.org/a/oleshky-ukraine-…
THE CEASEFIRE HAS COMMENCED
The ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia took effect at 4:00am Moscow time on October 27, 2026.
Timing was accelerated two days ahead of schedule to protect the safety of civilians and to facilitate the delivery of critical humanitarian aid. The ceasefire’s geographic area has expanded beyond Oleshky, within the Kherson Region, to provide safe passage for the humanitarian convoys.
General Valery Gerasimov, Joint Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces has confirmed.
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So Twitter please do your stuff.
I’m desperate to find a GP successor for my great wee rural practice in Shetland. I’m retiring in April. We have advertised with no success so far. Please share widely
Bumping this up, as poo screening is important, and saves the #NHS a shitload (sorry) of money
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10 school children and one teacher were killed by Israel in Gaza last week.
NOT MADE IT INTO WESTERN MEDIA.
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Heartbreaking. Heartbreaking. Heartbreaking.
Eight-year-old Fatima Hisham al-Bayook has succumbed to her injuries after being struck by an Israeli bullet a few days ago east of Deir al-Balah, Gaza.
There had been desperate pleas for her urgent medical evacuation in the hope of saving her life.
After contacting her family, I can also confirm that Fatima’s mother and two younger siblings were killed in an Israeli strike on December 13, 2023.
Her siblings were Leen, a baby less than a year old, and Asaad, just three years old.
Israel’s terror and the systematic destruction of Palestinian families continue to unfold before the eyes of the world.
Remember their names.
So, two @IDF soldiers get killed and it's headline news.
#Palestinians of all ages being killed daily, often by random automatic gunfire or massive bombs, and it doesn't get covered @BBCNews
And...
BREAKING: Palestinian woman killed in Israeli drone strike on Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/gquxko?update=50788…
Bloody hell #IsraelTerroristState
Frankly I don't think #pokemon is appropriate for young children. It's based on violenceㅤㅤ
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Within the next 48 hours, if flour is not allowed into Gaza, all bakeries in the city will stop producing bread.
We are facing an enormous catastrophe. Famine is knocking on our doors once again, and this time, it could be worse than anything we have experienced before.
Please, do not remain silent! Talk about Gaza, make our voices heard around the world, and do everything you can before thousands of people lose access to something as basic as a loaf of bread.
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Zionists are evil land grabbing thieves. Those trucks should be sent in with military escort amd anybody standing in the way gets a friendly nudge to clear a way for human necessities and nourishment. This is not negotiable israel. The world is watching your wretched Zionist souls torment, collectively punish and starve the Palestinians, and we're sick of it. Free Palestine from the genocidal maniacs, aka israeli IDF, illegally patrolling and occupying Gaza. 🤬✊️🍉🇵🇸♥️🇭🇲
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“It was like this biblical battle where the Palestinian men … went in front of me to protect … me and my rescuers from being attacked again,” Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine told Jake Tapper.
Levine was kicked, beaten with clubs and robbed by Israeli settlers while covering Friday’s olive harvest in the occupied West Bank, leaving her with multiple broken bones. Speaking after leaving the hospital, she said Israeli soldiers charged Palestinian farmers as settlers advanced alongside them. She said that unlike her, Palestinian victims endure these attacks daily, with absolutely nowhere safe to go.
“Let me die,” American photojournalist Heidi Levine repeats to journalists Jasper Nathaniel as they try to outrun masked Israeli settlers who attacked her on Friday while she covered the olive harvest in the West Bank village of Abu Falah, near Ramallah.
Around 80 settlers attacked Palestinian olive harvesters in the village, AP reported. The Palestinian Red Crescent said it treated six people injured in two attacks in Abu Falah.
Levine, a freelancer for the Washington Post, told the Committee to Protect Journalists that the settlers knocked her down and kicked her for at least 10 minutes, even after she identified herself as an American journalist. They stole her camera, phone and bag. She was eventually taken to a hospital in Ramallah.
"The IDF provided cover, with tear gas and machine guns, while the settlers beat" Levine "nearly to death," Nathaniel wrote, adding that soldiers then shot a Palestinian bystander and aimed their guns at and shoved paramedics trying to treat him. AP photos and circulating videos show Israeli soldiers standing over a wounded Palestinian man after they shot him.
Andrey X, an activist also at the scene, said a Palestinian man "saved our lives from the settler-terrorists who attacked the olive harvesters and journalists” armed only with a slingshot.
And so should the #UK
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Israeli forces and settlers carried out 409 attacks on Palestinian olive farmers and their land in the occupied West Bank over three weeks, including 317 by settlers and 92 by the military, the Palestinian PM’s office says.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/bdti5j
