Sunday, 14 June 2026

War and terror

In November 1941 Sir Richard Peirse, then C-in_c of Comber Command, told The Thirty Club 'For a long time the Govt for excellent reasons has preferred the world to think that we still held some scruples and attacked only what the humanitarians are pleased to call military targets...I can assure you, gentlemen, that we tolerate no scruples'. Arthur Harris wrote in April 1942:'We have got to kill a lot of Boche before we win this war'. Attacks were especially directed against crowded working class areas, where they did most damage, so hitting those Germans who had voted against Hitler for as long as it was possible to do so.

Peter Hitchens today


Israel has been gradually expanding its "kill zone" in Gaza. Its army has now officially seized 70% of the territory. In a few months, 2 million Palestinians will be crushed into 20% of Gaza. Then 10%.

Jonathan Cook, May 29

In Gaza, in Lebanon, in Iran, we see peoples refusing – however imperfectly, however violently – to submit to their enslavement. In the West, with our colonial arrogance undimmed, we call it “terrorism”. We call any solidarity with it “hate”. We send our own truth-tellers to prison as criminals.

Jonathan Cook, 9 June

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