Finally it looked as though the pressure was paying off. In opposition Kiastama's Labour Party

had of course legitimised Israel's genocidal rampage in Gaza including the now Prime Minister

Kiastama backing Israel's right to get off water and energy to civilians.

It refused to back a ceasefire for months and as Gaza was whites from the face of the earth

its people violently displaced, its hospitals destroyed and tens of thousands of people

exterminated, Labour stood behind what was termed Israel's right to self-defense.

The party opposed ending arms sales, it legitimised the decision to pull the plug on funding to UNRRA, the main humanitarian organization during a humanitarian catastrophe based on a pack of lies, and it cast doubt on South Africa's case of genocide at the International Court of Justice.

The now Health Secretary West Treating described that as a distraction.

It suspended Labour MPs who stood against the depravity while shallow ministers who back to

ceasefire were sacked or resigned and when predominantly Muslim councillors quit and

discussed a Labour source boasted the party was shaking off the fleas and And when after many, many months it finally back to

ceasefire it did only because the Scottish National Party had cornered it on the issue

by introducing a motion and then Labour proceeded to go out that motion stripping away mentions of

collective punishment which Israel is guilty of because that would mean

taking action rather than relying on words.

Well, what a difference getting a slap from the electorate can make.

You see, Labour won its landslide, albeit on a paltry third of the vote,

amidst the lowest turnout in the history of British democracy, but it lost seats to the Greens

and five independents standing on anti-genocide tickets with two shadow cabinet ministers facing

humiliating losses.

So finally, we were making progress. Labor restored funding to UNRWA,

that's the UN's main, well it's the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees, as I say, the main

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