NABLUS.

A group of Israeli settlers on Tuesday afternoon burned vast tracts of Palestinian-owned farmland in al-Sawiya village in the West Bank district of Nablus.

Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian activist who documents settler violations in the northern West Bank, said that Jewish settlers from Rahalim Settlement set fire to large areas of Palestinian farmland in al-Sawiya, destroying various crops as well as a large number of olive trees.

Settler attacks on Palestinians and their property are witnessed on almost a daily basis across the occupied West Bank, yet they are rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.

Strange Weather

 Over the years on this blog I have played the same song by different singers . The aim has been to illustrate how, in the hands of different artists and producers, the songs can be almost unrecognisable, one from the other,  and in this instance I leave it for you to judge.

Keren Ann

  Anna Calvi and David Byrne

VE Delay?

What news from the second front? (14th July, 1942)

Fiddling the figures.

The Full Pence…

JONATHAN KARL: So when you promised 4 million tests 7 weeks ago, you were just talking about tests being sent out, not completed?

PENCE: “Precisely correct”

 Meanwhile over in Europe:-

Matt Hancock the U.K.  health secretary, was accused of artificially inflating the number of coronavirus tests, as he hailed the rapid expansion that allowed him to reach a self-imposed 100,000-a-day target as a “national achievement”.

It emerged that a third of the 122,347 tests included in the final 24-hour period before the deadline were counted before they had been carried out.

Around 39,000 had been sent out to households and satellite testing locations, with no guarantee of the timescale for their completion, but were still included in the count.

However, Hancock was criticised by his Labour shadow, Jon Ashworth. “Many would have expected the 100,000 promise to have been met by actually carrying out testing, not simply because 39,000 kits had been mailed out,” Ashworth said.

“This headline figure shouldn’t count tests that hadn’t been used or indeed might never be used. Ministers promised us transparency, the public and NHS deserve clarity.”