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  • Dozens killed in Gaza as Israel targets tents and aid-seekers

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    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/dozens-killed-gaza-israel-targets-tents-and-aid-seekers

    A Palestinian girl stands at the entrance of her family tent at a makeshift tent camp for those displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip in Khan Younis, Gaza, June 18, 2024

    DOZENS of people were killed in Gaza today, including some sheltering in tents and waiting for aid, as Israeli forces push deeper into Rafah’s western neighbourhoods..

    Rafah and the central regions of Deir al-Balah and Nuseirat are the current focus of attacks as Israel claims to target Hamas.

    In Rafah, at least three people were killed and dozens of others wounded in air and land strikes at historic refugee camps.

    A house in the al-Nurseirat camp was targeted by planes, killing two women, while tanks shelled areas in the al-Maghazi and al-Bureij camps.

    Shelling was also reported in most areas of Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city which was previously declared a safe zone, as well as heavy machine-gun fire.

    The bombing of a road south of Gaza City killed one person.

    About 37,400 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched its assault after the October 7 events.

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    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/dozens-killed-gaza-israel-targets-tents-and-aid-seekers

  • Morning Star: All power to Andrew Feinstein in his fight to unseat Starmer

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    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/editorial-vote-feinstein-reject-starmer

    CONFRONTING SIR KEIR: Andrew Feinstein is standing to unseat the Labour leader Photo: Marija Carter

    THE latest opinion polls are showing that it is possible Rishi Sunak will lose his own parliamentary seat come July 4. The voters in Richmond, Yorkshire, may be as tired of the Tory Premier as the rest of the country.

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    The voters in Holborn and St Pancras also have the chance to speak for the nation by rejecting a bankrupt and duplicitous leader.

    Did Starmer represent the people of Camden, the borough his seat sits within, when he endorsed Israel’s genocidal actions in Gaza, refused to call for a ceasefire until given permission to do so by Washington, and backs continued arms sales to the aggressor? Not likely.

    Do they endorse his Islamophobic political positioning, his authoritarian indifference to civil liberties, his culling of any remotely progressive Labour candidate? We doubt it.

    Now they have a unique opportunity to clip Starmer’s wings. The country may want, as much through weary resignation and anti-Tory sentiment as anything else, a Labour government. There is absolutely no indication that it wants a specifically Starmer-led one.

    And Holborn and St Pancras has an outstanding alternative. It is Andrew Feinstein, an independent left candidate who has parliamentary experience from his service as an African National Congress MP in his native South Africa.

    Feinstein, the son of a Holocaust survivor, is well-placed to call out Starmer’s cynical abuse of anti-semitism as a political weapon against the left. He is one of many progressive Jewish men and women sanctioned by the Starmer apparatus.

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    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/editorial-vote-feinstein-reject-starmer

    Zionist Keir Starmes is quoted "I support Zionism without qualification." He's asked whether that means that he supports Zionism under all circumstances, whatever Zionists do.
    Zionist Keir Starmes is quoted “I support Zionism without qualification.” He’s asked whether that means that he supports Zionism under all circumstances, whatever Zionists do.

  • Tories rocked by sleaze as campaign director leaves over gambling scandal

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    Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a visit to Cambridge Rugby Club in Cambridge, while on the General Election campaign trail, June 17, 2024

    COLLAPSING Conservatives lost their campaign director today as the party was rocked by a fresh row over insider betting on the election date.

    Tony Lee was forced to take leave of absence from the campaign as the suspension of his wife, Tory candidate Laura Saunders, was called for by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer.

    The Gambling Commission is reported to be looking into bets placed on the timing of the election. Another Tory candidate who worked in Downing Street, Craig Williams, has already apologised for wagering on a July election in the days before PM Rishi Sunak called the snap poll.

    Ms Saunders is the Conservative standard-bearer in Bristol North-West and previously worked at Tory headquarters.

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    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/tories-rocked-by-sleaze-as-campaign-director-leaves-over-gambling-scandal

  • Starmer swerves questions on Gaza, Corbyn and public ownership

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    Zionist Keir Starmes is quoted "I support Zionism without qualification." He's asked whether that means that he supports Zionism under all circumstances, whatever Zionists do.
    Zionist Keir Starmes is quoted “I support Zionism without qualification.” He’s asked whether that means that he supports Zionism under all circumstances, whatever Zionists do.

    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/starmer-swerves-questions-on-gaza-corbyn-and-public-ownership

    SHIFTY Sir Keir Starmer was left squirming today as he dodged election questions about his past conduct and present and future plans.

    The lacklustre Labour leader failed to come clean on Gaza, Jeremy Corbyn or his volte-face on public ownership.

    Speaking in a radio phone-in, Sir Keir also repeated shadow health secretary Wes Streeting’s controversial call for junior doctors to call off their strike action.

    “Don’t strike during the election campaign because we’re very close now to the opportunity for a different approach with a Labour government if we get over the line,” he said.

    “So don’t strike because that causes all sorts of issues.”

    On the Gaza crisis Sir Keir waffled when asked whether a Labour government would stop arms sales to Israel.

    The lawyer said that he would have to “look at the legal advice” and hold “a review.”

    He also refused to agree that what is happening in Gaza is a genocide.

    “You need the evidence in front of you to make a decision,” he slithered, as if the whole world has not seen an amplitude of such evidence over the last nine months.

    The Labour leader was also uncomfortable when he was put on the spot as to whether he would have served in a Corbyn-led cabinet had Labour won the 2017 or 2019 general elections.

    He repeated his argument that he “did not think Labour would win” and insisted that the question was “hypothetical,” a silly answer because it was evident to everyone at the time that he would have done.

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    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/starmer-swerves-questions-on-gaza-corbyn-and-public-ownership

  • Just Stop Oil actions at Stonehenge and Stanstead airport

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    Just Stop Oil spray Stonehenge with custard powder yesterday (the day before the Solstice observance there).
    Just Stop Oil spray private jets at Stanstead airport today.