by 1DarkStarryNight

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  2. I wonder why they’re attacking an opposition leader with almost no power instead of the PM?

  3. So I assume you are calling on Hamas to release all the hostages, right?

    Or are you one of the people saying that they need to keep them all…

  4. Labour is backup copy of the Tories. Right wing and against Scotland.

  5. Reading the public mood? Outside of London and a couple of the major cities, people couldn’t really give a shit to be honest.

    A war half the world away when you’re struggling to buy gifts for your kids for Christmas isn’t really high on your priority list. Always telling when the left chooses to focus on certain wars and not others…it’s almost like there is an agenda.

  6. Because if he doesn’t unequivocally support isreal the press has 12 months to call him an antisemite and give the tories another 5 years…

  7. Ah yes a ceasefire to provide a nice break to the terrorists to prepare more heinous attacks. We all know we should give the enemy all the time it needs to plan its extermination of other religions carefully.

    Could you tell me why there are no Christians left in the region? Coincidence?

  9. I think you’re misreading the public quite badly if you think they’re overwhelmingly pro-Palestinian. Vast majority won’t view the issue as any kind of a priority when it comes to voting, and according to YouGov sympathies are pretty evenly split between both sides.

    Edit: misread that OP was quoting a tweet from an MP rather than expressing their own opinion.

  10. The war in Gaza will influence my vote as much as issues in the UK influenced the Palestinians decision to vote Hamas into power way back when

  11. What circles you run in and what media sources you consume will reflect the public mood as you perceive it.

  12. Can’t help noticing that only the first four words are in parentheses

  13. Note the dodgy way they have had to mix a quote and non quote to misrepresent his meaning. For all those who are going to say otherwise because they are running scared of a Labour victory or hate centralists – he very clearly repeated the right / *that* right **three** times in **three** sentences referring each time to the same subject – the right to ‘self defense’ and then clarified they had to obey international law in regard to food and water etc. But looks like from polling that the increasingly desperate attacks from right and left and nationalists aren’t harming Labour’s chances.

  14. There’s more than enough Islamophobes who would’ve supported him

  15. The ‘public mood’ is fairly split with no clear support for either side. In fact, the most popular opinion seems to be that both sides carry some blame.

    It’s also a bit naive for an SNP politician to think their personal/party stance = the public mood. If we’ve learned anything over the past decade, it’s that public opinion varies wildly between different parts of the UK.

    https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/explore/issue/Israel_Palestine_Conflict

    https://yougov.co.uk/international/articles/47784-most-britons-have-sympathy-for-both-sides-in-israel-palestine-conflict

    https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/our-work/research/more-than-choosing-sides/

  17. Because so rabid, prolonged and damaging were the accusations against Corben and Labour of antisemitism by the right wing press a few years
    ago, no Labour leadership dares stir up that wasps’ nest ever again. It’s as simple as that.

  18. A party of government attacking the Leader of the Opposition over something he didn’t say on a matter of foreign policy isit?

    Lads do you have any idea how tragic and desperate this looks?

  19. Hey look, more shitty propaganda that isn’t even trying to hide the deception “Israel has the right”… and who said the rest of the quote?

    Public mood on this issue is as follows: while neither side is actually interested in peace, there is no reason that the UK or any other country should force it upon them, or waste their time trying. But more to the point: **stop using this issue to try to sew division in our country**. It looks rather suspicious.

  20. They haven’t misread the public mood at all.

    Remember back when independence polls showed an overwhelming support for independence but the polls didn’t match up in the end?

    Conservative voters just keep their mouths shut because they aren’t as interested in gladiatorial twitter warfare as the other side seems to be. So they let their opinions be heard in the voting booths.

    Not to say Israel Palestine is a direct conservative/liberal issue, but the point still stands.

    Until the tide of public discourse returns to healthy levels of discussion then the silent majority will continue to let their voice be heard in the anonymity of a voting booth.

  21. Israel has the right to stop supplying the people trying to wipe them from the planet.
    Gaza has other sources for food, water & electricity.

  22. Does your ceasefire calls for Hamas to surrender and bring back all the hostages, including bodies of the dead or are you expecting to allow them to re-arm and prepare another attack?

  23. It is you that is misreading the public mood. Terror and evil needs to be eradicated, it is what good people do.

  24. This is every bit as valid as if it read

    > “Israel” should slap Palestinians silly

    Only 4 words of this are a (partial) quote, yet the entire thing is attributed as if it were all a quote.

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