by dizzy deep, blogger at https://onaquietday.org. I’ve started doing the article I promised but only done so much so far. May be changed, reworked.
Documented by al Jazeera, the events of 7 Oct, 2023 were atrocious and horrific but there were many lies. There were no rapes or mass-killings of babies.
It became clear soon that it was and is genocide and that it was and is Fascism.
Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.
Hospitals systematically bombed and destroyed, medical professional – doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers – intentionally targeted, imprisoned and tortured. Journalists murdered. Intentional starvation of the population. Later there were regular mass-murders of starving people queuing for food. This is genocide.
Forced marches were employed by the Nazi Fascists of World War Two. The current plan promoted by US President Donald Trump is about keeping Gazans in concentration camps. It is clear that the intention is to murder and decimate the population of Gaza just as the Nazi Fascists of World War Two intended of Jews. Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich has repeatedly boasted of being a Fascist.
The UK Labour government under Prime Minister Keir Starmer – together with President Donald Trump’s US administration, Germany and Italy – have repeatedly supported, facilitated and participated in Israel’s Gaza genocide. Absolute support of Israel’s genocide is the one thing that defines Keir Starmer, there in nothing else that compares. [10/12/25 1.20 am Uncertain that it is accurate to say that Germany and Italy participated in Israel’s Gaza genocide. UK certainly did, very likely able to say that of US.]
[Don’t know why that speech is formatted so badly, I’m sure that it was originally in blue text. It’s another one of the weird things that happen on this blog … ]
So Keir Starmer and the UK government has staunchly supported Israels Fascist government in it’s genocide. The UK electorate and population should not tolerate this, we need to insist that Keir Starmer and his ministers are tried for war crimes and complicity in genocide.
JJ, from Austria, stands on the stage with his trophy after winning the Grand Final of the 69th Eurovision Song Contest in Basel, Switzerland, May 18, 2025
THE BBC was called on yesterday to follow a host of national broadcasters and boycott the Eurovision Song Contest, after organisers voted to include Israel despite its ongoing slaughter in Gaza.
The European Broadcasting Union’s (EBU) initiative has already led to Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands withdrawing, with Ireland’s national broadcaster RTE the latest to join the boycott.
Ireland premier Micheal Martin said he “fully understands” RTE’s boycott as “an act of solidarity with those journalists who were killed in breach of international humanitarian law during the war in Gaza.”
Noting RTE’s editorial independence, Tanaiste Simon Harris said: “By way of context, we’ve seen hundreds of journalists killed throughout this horrific conflict.
“We still today see a situation where there’s not free access by Israel for the media to get in to actually see the atrocities that have happened in Gaza and you can’t just forget or ignore the fact that a genocide has taken place in relation to Palestine.”
The decision split Northern Ireland’s leaders as they joined the British-Irish Council in Wales yesterday, with First Minister Michelle O’Neill making clear she “absolutely agrees with the decision.”
“I think it’s a right and appropriate decision to take,” she said.
“This is the biggest humanitarian crisis of our time, when genocide prevails — and I think countries need to take action that actually sends a very strong message, and I think this is another one of those messages.”
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Adding his voice to the chorus calling for the BBC to withdraw from the contest, Scottish Greens culture spokesman Patrick Harvie, said: “This is a shameful decision and a dark day for the European Broadcasting Union.
“Once a symbol of unity and hope across Europe, they have turned the Eurovision Song Contest into a pink-washing front for war criminals in Israel.
“There can be no place for genocide enablers on the Eurovision stage, which is supposed to celebrate love and diversity.
“The atrocities inflicted against Palestinians in Gaza are among the worst crimes of this century and cannot be ignored and discarded in the name of entertainment.
Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.UK Foreign Minister David Lammy confirms that UK government and military are active participants in Israel’s genocides and that the F-35 parts that they suspended from supplying to Israel are instead simply diverted via the United States. He says see https://youtu.be/QILgUHrdWREOrcas discuss Genocide-supporting and complicit Zionists. Donald Trump, Keith Starmer, David Lammy, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting are acknowledged as evil genocide-complicit and supporting cnuts.
Tens of thousands of high school students in Germany went on strike against compulsory military service, pushing back against the government’s militarization agenda.
Around 55,000 high school students skipped school on Friday, December 5, and went on strike in 90 cities across Germany, after a broad alliance of organizations, including local student councils, called for a school strike against compulsory military service.
The strike had been organized for weeks: students founded strike committees at their schools, painted posters, wrote speeches, mobilized their friends and resisted the repression by school administrations across the country. The strike was called for December 5 to coincide with the time when the federal cabinet passed the so-called Military Service Modernization Act.
Germany’s new modern armed forces
As part of the general armament campaign Germany is currently undergoing, Boris Pistorius, Federal Minister of Defense, set ambitious goals for the German army, the Bundeswehr: to meet NATO requirements, it will need to grow to 460,000 soldiers. But lately, the armed forces have not attracted many people to join their ranks on a voluntary basis; there are currently only about 180,000 men and women in active service – and they are aging.
Apparently, Germany’s new army will be built through a carrot and stick approach. As late as Thursday, Pistorius took to Instagram to convince German high schoolers that a strike was unnecessary because no one would be forced to join the Bundeswehr. But, even if they were forced to sign up, the argument seems to go, protesting would be unpatriotic at best – and surely undemocratic.
Source: Laurențiu Dragota/DKP Berlin
As Germany’s economic prospects remain stagnant and the costs of living are rising unabated, a young voluntary soldier with no professional experience will earn a monthly salary of €2,400 from the first day of service. Minimum service will be 6 months, but an extension past one year will see an increase. For comparison, an apprentice earns a monthly salary of less than €1,000 in their first year of work, and the average income for young people between 20 to 25 years old is about €2,000 per month for a full time position. In addition to that, the Bundeswehr offers other “perks,” such as a subsidy for drivers’ licenses (which currently cost 18-year-old applicants a prohibiting €4,000 fee per person), free public transportation, and child benefits.
This would make Germany’s new soldiers the best paid in all of Europe. Will young people be poor enough to join, or, as the mainstream press puts it: is this offer attractive enough for young people to join the army in numbers the government needs?
The new law will leave nothing to chance. All children born from 2008 onwards will receive a mandatory questionnaire on their 18th birthday. For the moment, women can choose to participate. In case these invitations are not followed by enough voluntary sign-ups for Bundeswehr service, the same dataset will be used to conscript young people, first by lottery, and later by other means.
Fit for service is fit for war
The striking high school students have no illusions about the purpose of this military service. It is neither for defense purposes, nor is it improving the livelihood of the majority of the population. They identified this ruse of a mandatory temporary military service as a direct pipeline into the trenches built by a warmongering government that cannot be trusted.
“We are impressed by how many students went on strike today. This shows that students are not only speaking out against conscription in surveys, but are also willing to take action against it. They have shown courage today, because they don’t want to spend six months learning how to kill. They don’t want to die in war,” explained Hannes Kramer, press spokesman for the initiative.
Why students chose to strike rather than attend school was evident in the anger expressed in many of the speeches, interventions, and flyers. Young people in Germany haven’t felt heard for a long time: schools are decrepit, housing is not affordable, their activism for Palestine or in the defense of democracy is repressed or instrumentalized, they inherit a broken planet. To add insult to injury, they are now asked to make new sacrifices, deferring their dreams and ultimately their lives for this state.
“If the government loves us so much, why do they tell us when we will be drafted but never ask us what we want to do with our lives,” shouted 16-year-old Clemens to the 3,000 people who attended the strike rally in Berlin.
The overall number of striking students may still have room to grow, but the participants already showed their creativity in their posters and bands, their determination by resisting pressures from opposing institutions, and their clarity of thought in speeches. They see themselves in the tradition of Fridays for Future, without any illusion of appealing to this government or the state. The students are now mobilizing for another strike on March 5, 2026. They are our biggest hope for peace.
JJ, from Austria, stands on the stage with his trophy after winning the Grand Final of the 69th Eurovision Song Contest in Basel, Switzerland, May 18, 2025
