Constablary, depending on which side of the political divide you come from, see were seen as a protectors of a community or an oppressive force against another, but before we speak to our next guest, lets get a quick overview on this weeks topic. Of as always we are joined by our resident coal presenter. Michelle gildernew, michelle is a current np for fermana south toron. She has served in the Northern Ireland assembly as a former minister for agriculture and Rural Development and chairperson of the health committee, amongst other things. Michelle has been a shinfian activist since her teens and has been elected almost continuously since 1998. And todays guest is sam thompson. Sam is a former member of the royal oster constablary. He experienced the loss of number of colleagues and friends and saw numerous killings and bombings during the. Conflict, sam retired in 2008 and has expanded on his love of history and his lielecture. Sam, thank you, so sam, you grew up not far from where we
Assalamualaikum, peace be upon you and welcome to eye on islam, the show where we look at Current Affairs through an islamic lens. Each week we consider a trending new story and we break it down from an islamic perspective. This week were bringing you very special show in the wake of the declaration of the alaxa flood operation waged by numerous palestinian groups in gazza. The attack was a multiprongued effort that saw attacks launched. Via a combination of vectors including land, sea and air, lets have look through the events of that historical first day of operations. At about 6 30 am local time on saturday, the 7th of october, hamas fired a huge barrage of rockets into southern israel with sirens heard as far away as tel aviv and bershiba. Hamas said it launched 5,00 rockets in its initial round of strikes. While israels military said half that number of rockets were fired. About an hour later, multitudes of palestinian fighters crossed into the occupied interior of palestine or is
Zgoboim, who was a polish government and exile official who witnessed the crushing of the warsaw ghetto uprising, the historical antecedent to this, obviously, a lesson obviously that the israeli jews have forgotten, apparently, and what he did witnessing the inaction of the world, on on allowing the 400,0 jews in warso to essentially be murder. In that crushing of that uprising, he committed suicide, he couldnt live with the shame of being longing to the species that would allow that to happen, and now we are all in his position, yes indeed, we have breaking news in the bottom of your screen, actually the activists in front of the white house right now or jewish groups actually carrying uh plards that reading stop the genocide, the besiege gaza strip and no to. What tied and no to massacres and we have been seeing a growing number of people around the world of all faiths actually coming out and protesting against what is happening in the the gaza strip and as i mentioned earlier there
The Palestinian People against the zionist entity, which has repeatedly and flagrantly spurned every single peaceful attempt to secure justice for palestine. First up is latifa abochakra with the special report about this audacious military offensive by palestinian Freedom Fighters that began in of the early hours of saturday morning on october the 7th. As fragile as the spiders were. The zionist entity is shaking with fear. In Early Morning shock, Palestinian Resistance factions from gazza launched an unprecedented three point attack on the entity. First, armed fighters sailed over the israeli fence to ghazza using hand gliders. Simultaneously 500 rockets were launched into the zionist entity from the open air prison of razza, disabling that much vaunched irondome system. At the same time, palestinians broke down the fence, which fighters had sailed over using bulldozers. What insued was the homecoming of at least 1,000 palestinians from the resistance factions into the fragile zionis
Against the zionist entity, which has repeatedly and flagrantly spurned every single peaceful attempt to secure justice for palestine. First up is latifa abochakra with a special report about this audacious military offensive by palestinian Freedom Fighters that began in the early hours of saturday morning on october the 7th. As fragile as a spiders worm. The zionist entity is shaking with fear and Early Morning shock. Palestinian resistance factions from gazza launched an unprecedented threeproged attack on the entity. First, armed fighters sailed over the israeli fence to gazza using hand gliders. Simultaneously 500 rockets were launched into the zionist entity from the open air prison of gazza, disabling that much vaunched iron dome system. At the same time, palestinians broke down the fence, which fighters had sailed over using bulldozers. What ensued was the homecoming of at least 1,000 palestinians from the resistance factions into the fragile zionist entity. Military bases were