Chris Doyle

🇺🇳 Fifty three countries sign on to a joint statement calling for more humanitarian access to Gaza. 🇬🇧 UK Ambassador to the UN, Sarah MacIntosh read a statement at the Security Council media stakeout. The effort is being led by the UK 🇬🇧, Jordan 🇯🇴 and Qatar 🇶🇦. "The Comprehensive Peace Plan endorsed by UN Security Council Resolution 2803 provides for the immediate entry of full humanitarian assistance at levels no lower than those agreed on 19 January 2025. This has not yet been realised," Ambassador MacIntosh said at the stakeout. 📜 The signatories to the joint statement called on the incoming Government of Israel to: ⚠️Allow and facilitate rapid and unimpeded humanitarian access throughout Gaza, and through all available crossings and land routes. ⚠️Facilitate the full and predictable operation of the Egyptian and Jordanian humanitarian corridors. ⚠️Approve additional critical items including the ones considered "dual use" items, in particular related to shelter, fuel, water, sanitation, health supplies to prevent further deterioration of public health. ⚠️Restore the medical referral pathway to hospitals in East Jerusalem and the West Bank for those with illnesses and injuries that cannot be adequately treated in Gaza. ⚠️Ensure the protection of healthcare workers, healthcare facilities and medical transport in accordance with international humanitarian law. ⚠️Protect all notified humanitarian sites and guarantee the protection afforded to humanitarian and civilian personnel and infrastructure. ⚠️Open and expedite transparent criminal investigations into attacks against healthcare and humanitarian workers. ⚠️Allow senior international delegations and journalists to access Gaza. ✍️ The 53 signatories of the statement: Australia🇦🇺 Austria🇦🇹 Bahrain🇧🇭 Belgium🇧🇪 Brazil🇧🇷 Canada🇨🇦 Croatia🇭🇷 Cyprus🇨🇾 Denmark🇩🇰 Egypt🇪🇬 Estonia🇪🇪 Finland🇫🇮 France🇫🇷 Greece🇬🇷 Iceland🇮🇸 India🇮🇳 Indonesia🇮🇩 Ireland🇮🇪 Italy🇮🇹 Japan🇯🇵 Jordan🇯🇴 Kuwait🇰🇼 Kyrgyzstan🇰🇬 Latvia🇱🇻 Lebanon🇱🇧 Liberia🇱🇷 Lithuania🇱🇹 Luxembourg🇱🇺 Malta🇲🇹 Mexico🇲🇽 Netherlands🇳🇱 New Zealand🇳🇿 Norway🇳🇴 Oman🇴🇲 Pakistan🇵🇰 Panama🇵🇦 Poland🇵🇱 Portugal🇵🇹 Qatar🇶🇦 ROK🇰🇷 Saudi Arabia🇸🇦 Senegal🇸🇳 Slovakia🇸🇰 Spain🇪🇸 Palestine🇵🇸 Sweden🇸🇪 Switzerland🇨🇭 Syria🇸🇾 Türkiye🇹🇷 United Kingdom🇬🇧 European Commission🇪🇺 League of Arab States🌐 OIC🌐

Tom Tugendhat: “I can see the lady shaking her head – if she wants to side with Hamas she is welcome to, but if she wishes to stand with Palestinian people she should recognise what Hamas has done” Labour MPs: “Shame!”

Pete Hegseth's entourage yelled at by Arlington Sentinel for laughing on Veterans Day. 🎥: CNN

Here's an extract from my @JewishChron column, 'Ed Miliband is so obsessed with condemning Israel that he cannot bring himself even to mention Hamas' thejc.com/opinion/ed-miliban… Ed Miliband seems to have developed something of an obsession with Israel. No opportunity to condemn the Jewish state is missed, no accusation too sweeping, no rhetoric too inflammatory. The foreign secretary's latest intervention, a video published on Monday following the devastating floods in Gaza, is a case in point. “Heavy rain and strong winds have resulted in 17,000 tents being affected by flooding, damaged buildings collapsing, and more people losing their lives…My message is that the UK government will not stand by. We are demanding the government of Israel ends arbitrary restrictions on humanitarian access, protects humanitarian workers, and provides humane treatment and basic welfare for the civilian population of Gaza.” It’s telling – and entirely to be expected of Miliband – that not once in his 234-word rant does the word Hamas appear. Not a single mention of the terrorist organisation responsible for the suffering of the people of Gaza. Not a single mention of Palestinian agency or responsibility. Only Israel – and a speech which in tone comes from the era of the British mandate, as if Miliband is empowered and entitled to demand that the Israelis bend to his sectarian-Muslim-afeared knee. This is not merely the broad point that Hamas is responsible for the state of Gaza, having launched a war on Israel by massacring 1,200 people on October 7, 2023. There is a more specific point about the flooding in Gaza which has prompted Miliband’s video. Just as Hamas’s refusal to allow a single civilian to shelter in its tunnel network during the war was effectively a death sentence for many of them, so now Hamas is prohibiting the erection of fibreglass tents for winter, prohibiting the distribution of tents and food. The Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Public Works, working with the UN Development Programme, began a project to establish camps with fibreglass tents. On the day before the rainstorm, Hamas arrested the engineers and building crews and demanded that they signed a pledge to work only under Hamas’ control. They then confiscated the tents. Hamas is now, as it has always done, demanding that all aid efforts go through it, so it can prolong and profit from Gazans’ suffering. Miliband throws around libels about Israel with all the care of the worst activist. He says “We are demanding the government of Israel ends arbitrary restrictions on humanitarian access, protects humanitarian workers, and provides humane treatment and basic welfare for the civilian population of Gaza.” In other words, Israel is guilty of a war crime – as if Israel is making Palestinians suffer for the sake of it. But the few restrictions Israel has put in place are targeted and with a clear purpose, such as the import into Gaza of wide tent poles, specifically because Hamas uses them to build tunnels. Despite Miliband’s libels, Israel has provided over 91,000 tents and 8,200 trucks with blankets, tarpaulins and winter clothes. Many of the delays are on the UN’s side, with over 400 approved requests in limbo... (You can read the rest of my piece at the JC link below)

Jonathan Ross: “The comedy awards is 15 years old… and like most 15-year-olds, it's drunk, it's unpredictable, and it's probably going home with David Walliams.” Everyone knew. Just like they did with Russell Brand.

Congressman: Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7th, 1941. How long did it take for the US to have its first major victory in World War II in the Pacific theater? Pete Hegseth: A number of years. Congressman: No, it was actually 6 months. It was the Battle of Midway. It was a turning point of World War II.

נפגשתי היום בכנסת עם עשרות שגרירים מרחבי העולם והעברתי מסר ברור: עם החלפת הממשלה, תשתנה גם מדיניות החוץ של ישראל. נחזיר את ישראל למקומה הראוי במשפחת העמים. ישראל תחזור להיות מדינה דמוקרטית וחזקה, שותפה אמינה ומוערכת, שמושיטה יד לשיתופי פעולה, בונה גשרים ומקדמת יציבות ושגשוג.