Nearly 60k sign petition to send Royal Navy hospital ship to Gaza
Tens of thousands of people have signed a petition demanding the British government send hospital ship RFA Argus to Gaza to help treat the escalating number of causalities. Downing Street has so far committed a small team of NHS medics.
Currently moored in Falmouth, Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) Argus is a 100-bed nautical hospital, which has a “four-bay operating theater with a 10-bed Critical Care Unit, a 20-bed High Dependency Unit and a CT Scanner,” according to the Ministry of Defence website.
Campaigners are pushing the UK government to increase its humanitarian aid to the region as the death toll in Gaza broaches 2,000. Their goal is 75,000 signatures. Israel launched operation Protective Edge on July 8. While the international community works toward a ceasefire, protesters have marched worldwide against the Israeli military operation. Continue reading . . .
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Really, 60,000 petition?
Are the Brits not the “ground-zero” of Balfourdom?
I simply don’t see the source of misery for the middle-east as being the Brits. Don’t worry, it is not the idiot Yanks either. After all, the Yanks allow no serious uproar to Israel killing our soldiers in 1967, and then lying about it for 40 years.
Remember, you need to FORGET everything you learned in Skool. The Brits needed WW1 because of British Zionism, and the fact that the Austro-Hungarian empire controlled Palestine.
Awake yet?