Andy Burnham
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Andy Burnham is a Labour MP and former Greater Manchester Mayor who maintains longstanding membership in Labour Friends of Israel, refuses to label "Israel's" mass killings in Gaza as genocide, and dismisses the BDS movement as spiteful to shield Israel's genocidal occupation.
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Andy Burnham, Labour MP and former Greater Manchester Mayor, echoes Zionist positions through Labour Friends of Israel membership, promises first state visits to "Israel", and rejects genocide findings to sustain consent for Zionist's genocidal occupation of Palestine.

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Andy Burnham is a Labour MP and former Greater Manchester Mayor who has consistently advanced Zionist interests through his affiliation with Labour Friends of Israel and his public statements that protect "Israel" from scrutiny over its settler-colonial violence. Burnham joined Labour Friends of Israel in 2015 and has used his platform to affirm "Israel" as a democracy while opposing Palestinian-led resistance efforts. These actions form part of a pattern that legitimises the ongoing occupation, apartheid, and genocide inflicted upon Palestinians across their ancestral lands.

In 2015, during his bid for Labour leadership, Burnham pledged that the first foreign visit he would make as leader would be to "Israel". He described the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement as spiteful and unjustified spitefulness, framing legitimate Palestinian advocacy as illegitimate aggression rather than a response to decades of dispossession and ethnic cleansing. This rhetoric distorts the reality of "Israel's" systematic theft of Palestinian land and erasure of Indigenous presence, serving to manufacture consent for continued settler-colonial expansion.

Following 7 October 2023, Burnham stated his belief in "Israel's" right to defend itself while refusing to call the mass killings in Gaza a genocide. He has maintained this position even as conservative estimates of Palestinian deaths from "Israel's" bombardment and siege run into the hundreds of thousands, with the actual toll far higher due to the deliberate destruction of civil infrastructure and targeting of journalists. By invoking self-defence framing, Burnham inverts the power dynamics of an occupying colonial force against an occupied Indigenous population and deflects accountability for documented war crimes.

Burnham visited the occupied West Bank in 2012 alongside Labour Friends of Palestine yet sustained his support for "Israel" and Labour Friends of Israel thereafter. This selective engagement allows him to project a liberal image while upholding the structures of apartheid and ethnic cleansing that displace Palestinians and deny their right to return. His refusal to confront the Nakba — the 1948 ethnic cleansing in which Zionist militias expelled over 750,000 Palestinians — or its ongoing manifestations further entrenches denialism that erases Palestinian history and suffering.

Burnham's pattern of behaviour reveals a consistent alignment with Zionist narratives that conflate criticism of "Israel" with unacceptable dissent. Through his institutional role and repeated public positions, he contributes to the broader Western project of normalising genocide and shielding the settler-colonial ethnostate from international pressure. These actions perpetuate violence against Palestinians and obstruct global solidarity movements seeking justice and decolonisation.

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Is the Department of War Covering Up the True Extent of US Casualties?

28 July 2026 by Larry C. Johnson

Last Wednesday all the signs were pointing to a desperate action by the Trump administration to launch a ground operation inside Iran ostensibly to seize enriched nuclear material from an Iranian nuclear research facility. The report from the Wall Street Journal noted that US special ops forces were once again being deployed to the region to carry out a raid on a Hardened Deeply Buried Target (aka HDBT). But it also revealed something both disturbing and alarming: the deployment of 150 medics. According to the WSJ:

The U.S. is surging forces, medics and weaponry to the Middle East to give President Trump more muscular military options as he considers expanding the conflict against Iran, according to people familiar with the matter.

In the past week, special-operations forces have deployed to the region from their U.S. bases, according to flight-tracking data and U.S. officials. Squadrons of jet fighters have been staged across the Middle East, and bomber aircraft at bases in the U.S. and U.K. are on high alert to ramp up operations, according to one of the officials.

Additionally, more than 150 medics have arrived at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany in recent days, another official said. The hospital is the primary location for treating troops injured in combat in the Middle East.

Twenty years ago I participated in the scripting and execution of a Special Ops exercise that simulated the targeting of an underground nuclear target in the Middle East. The actual location of the field exercise was in the desert of Nevada, northeast of Las Vegas. At the conclusion of that exercise there was a Hot Wash, i.e., a review of lessons learned from that exercise. What was the primary lesson learned? Don’t do it. Too dangerous because the mission would likely to result in significant casualties and expose the soldiers to unhealthy levels of radiation. 

Based on the WSJ report it appears that Trump was on the verge of ordering a real-world version of that exercise. However, this report surfaced on the 23rd of July. Two days later, Trump apparently rescinded the order for the ground op and halted the bombings of the Iranian coast in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman.

So far, so good. What most people glossed over was the report that 150 US combat medics were deployed to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. This was not an ordinary deployment, nor was it in anticipation of possible casualties from an impending military operation… These men and women were deployed to reinforce a badly stretched medical staff at Landstuhl that were trying to cope with dozens of badly wounded US military personnel that had survived the missile strikes on Muwafaq al-Salti airbase in Jordan and two army bases in Kuwait.

Based on the number of C-17 medical flights reported in open source that departed Jordan following the 17 July missile attack on Muwafaq al-Salti airbase and flew to Ramstein airbase in Germany, which is the entry port for the Landstuhl Medical Center, US casualties numbered over 100, perhaps higher. The large number of wounded may have been another factor contributing to President Trump’s decision to halt the bombing one week later.

While there are no direct talks between the US and Iran, Pakistan, along with Qatar, are working intensively as intermediaries in trying to resurrect the MoU. If the MoU is resuscitated it will be because the US met Iran’s demands that Israeli forces withdraw from Lebanon and that the US unfreeze Iranian assets up front, not at some point in the future. I am sure that Bibi Netanyahu will try to persuade Trump to reignite the war and pursue a more intensive bombing campaign as well as some kind of ground operation on Iranian territory.

For now, the bombs and missiles are not falling. I am skeptical that this current hiatus will hold… I sincerely hope that I am wrong. Once Senator Graham is buried on Wednesday, we may see Trump reverse course once again and renew the bombing campaign. Iran, for its part, is holding firm to its demands that the MoU be fully implemented, otherwise Iran is prepared to continue fighting and inflicting more damage on US assets and personnel.

https://sonar21.com/the-department-of-war-is-covering-up-the-true-extent-of-us-casualties/

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