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Sir Charles Trevelyan, Sir Ronald Storrs, Rishi Sunak, Sir Keir Starmer, David Lammy and the Continuity of British Colonial Asset Management

2025 "The Palestinians, being drowned in a sea of violently hostile Zionism."


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In Palestine in 1915 Palestinian Arab Jews, Palestinian Arab, Palestinian Arab Christians, Palestinian Arab Muslims, Palestinian Arab Sufi, Palestinian Arab Orthodox, Palestinian Arab Christians and Palestinian Arab Secular people lived side by side, at ease with each other for centuries, they intermingled, intermarried, they lived and worked together. The British Empire intent on breaking the Ottoman Empire  during WWI and assuming the rule over those areas,  seeking to encourage internal warfare against the Ottomans, had promised Arab Warlords and Zionists land that was not theirs to promise.


The Palestine Mandate and the Sykes-Picot Agreement carved up the region into compliant monarchies and dictatorships, to prevent the emergence of independent pan-Arab political and economic solidarity assuming its right to control the resources and assets of their own lands. The British armed the monarchies, trained their leaders in English Universities, their military commanders at Sandhurst. 


The Black and Tans were sent to Palestine after the Irish War of Independence. There was 'work to be done' in suppressing the Arab peoples, and in arming and training the Zionist colonists. Long before the atrocity of the Nazi Holocaust.


1920s Colonial Office files CO/733/12 and /58 contain detailed discussions by British officials as to the purpose of these policies, a long term strategic plan.


In 1937 Sir Ronald Storrs, a Governor of The Palestine Mandate describes the Zionist enclave as a 'loyal little Jewish Ulster in a sea of potentially hostile Arabism', hostile to being ruled over by another European Colonial Power. Arabism meant Arab political and economic independence, and did not refer to Islam.


Ulster was a 400 year old plantation at this time, and had recently been partitioned from the rest of Ireland, an act that caused a civil war and later one gave rise the 'The Troubles'. Peace as achieved in 1999.


Continuity


The continuity of British Wealth as Power Empire Asset Management is the subject of Adam Curtis' documentary 'The Mayfair Set'.


The Mayfair Set Episode 1



'The Mayfair Set' which how British Oligarchs deployed private warfare (to mask British State sponsorship) to undermine African and Eastern Mediterranean  countries seeking to gain independent democratic political control of the resources of their own lands which had been under the control of the British Colonial Office and it's oligarchy sponsors.


That continuity remains intact, and is why Sir Keir Starmer is a committed Zionist.


Israel is a weapon of the British Wealth-as-Power grouping, the anglophone oligarchy formerly known as The British Empire - America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand et al, and of course the European powers of France and Germany and their vassal states


Their participation in the genocide underway is well beyond complicity, they are the driving energy behind it, hiding behind Israel and various anti-Semitic tropes so that they own peoples believe Israel is the driver.


Tell me it is not a famine again?


In the 1840s, whilst food was being exported from Ireland to England to fill its markets, British troops guarded the shipments of livestock, cheese, butter, grains and other food stuff, as Irish Catholics were starving to death, their 'famine' induced by potato blight, also known as late blight, which was caused by the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans. This organism thrived in the damp, cool conditions of Irelands climate and it spread through the air and water, infecting potato plants and causing decay in both foliage and tubers.  Potatoes were the staple food crop of Catholic Irish peasants, most of whom were impoverished tenants of Protestant English landlords, tenants whose work was providing the labour for the English Landlords farms and industries.


In 2025 hundreds of thousands of tons of food, medicine and other goods deemed necessary for the basic needs of the people of Gaza are blockaded, by Israeli civilians and by Israeli Occupation Forces.


This is not famine, this is the deliberate intentional starvation of a population by withholding readily available food guarded by a well organised, well armed, motivated military machine operating a colonial strategy.


The continuity of the willingness of British Wealth-as-Power to inflict mass harm upon targeted populations is largely obscured to British students in British schools, purposefully.


That must end in order to build the peoples political solidarity which is necessary to bring about accountability and justice. Education is always political.



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continuity





this particular continuity must be broken, and at pace.



Kindest regards

Corneilius

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Eurovision : "Non-political, strictly neutral, doesn't matter if you're good or brutal."

Eurovision Theme Song 2025 : 
"Non-political, strictly neutral, doesn't matter if you're good or brutal."

Right. In this line, the indeed acknowledge that some of the States being represented in the contest are indeed brutal. And that that does not matter. 

The writers outed the competition, thinking they were protecting the conception. 

We all know who they are referring to as brutal, States represented in the completion, and certain States banned from the competition. The whiff of hypocrisy is pungent. Every state engaged in warfare ought to be excluded from such a peace bringing song contest. 

War does not bring peace.

War does not bring peace, we know this : not in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Congo, Sudan, Kashmir or Palestine. The end of World War II did not bring peace to Congo, Vietnam, Korea, it did not bring peace to South Africa, Cuba, South America. War never brings peace. Peace is so much more than mere ceasefires. Peace is the dismantling of militarism, the redirection of our efforts towards healthy relationships at all levels of society, the adoption of the duty of care to avoid all known avoidable harms as the core of a healthy society.

Supporting one side in a war, arming one side or both in a war does not bring peace. Paying for those arms trades through Swiss bank accounts does not bring peace. 

I do not know who wrote the lyrics or the music. Their video does not list any credits.

If I was either, the lyricist or the music writer/arranger I would not want anyone to know I had any part in it. And I would not want a single cent of the royalties. Blood money. I am a song writer and producer. Largely unknown and unremarkable. I do know my craft, and its purpose as a folk roots musician.

Here is the song, 'Made in Switzerland', written with a Latin American beat.. (cultural appropriation?)
The majority of comments on the video are familiar to those who know the bot farm linguistic turn of phrase.

Hazel Brugger and Sandra Studer sung this song, and presented the competition.


Youtube video of the song 'Made in Switzerland'



the Lyrics:

Made in Switzerland
on television every year
in Switzerland
And now you finally understand 

that like the Swiss, Eurovision 

is unpolitical - 

strictly neutral!

Doesn't matter if you're
good or brutal!
Welcome but with decency! 
and so sparks of fire
and crazy lightning make
the staging far more frightening!


The song goes on to claim Switzerland invented Democracy and other wildly self aggrandising claims.


How frightening is the crazy bombing of Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank?


It doesn't matter, because good or brutal, Eurovision welcomes you! Here's a tiktok I made on this, juxtaposing the song and a recent Palestine Solidarity March in Cork, Ireland.

@egalitarianlovesongs ‘It doesn’t matter if you’re good or brutal?’ It does. It really matters. It matters when they refuse to stand up to brutality to take a fat wage… that makes them mercenaries. This may be the most abysmal cultural appropriation ever, to take a global south riddem and abuse it to give cover for Israeli Genocide and claim their are peace makers. complicit #enabling #eurovision #cork #fyp #irishtiktok #foryoupage❤️❤️ ♬ original sound - ❤️Corneilius Crowley Musician


Lead Commercial Sponsor of Eurovision


Lead commercial sponsorship for the Eurovision is an Israeli luxury hair and beauty product manufacturer, by the name of Moroccan Oil


Moroccan Oil is made from the nut of the Argan Tree, which previously was only grown in Morocco, where for centuries it has been tended, harvested and processed by women's collectives. 


There is a mythical story which tells us that the nut was traditionally fed to goats, and the post goat nut was then processed, using a complex process, to create the Argan Oil. It is a myth, a fabrication.


One manifestation of the world’s increased interest in argan oil is the development of a kind of mythology surrounding goats climbing into argan trees to harvest the fruit.


You’ve probably seen photos of this elsewhere, and there is some truth to the matter.


Goats are fans of argan fruit—and the leaves and any other food they can find. Left to their own devices, they’ll eat whatever is on the ground. When that’s gone, they’ll happily climb into the trees to find more, bounding out onto branches that bend under their weight.


The popular myth has it that oil producers rely on the goats to “process” the fruit through their digestive tracts and that nuts collected from goat manure are easier to open.


While it’s true that gathered nuts are indeed used in production, most argan oil is produced from fruit that matures and falls from the tree on its own.


In fact, goat herders and orchard guards work hard at keeping the goats away from trees with unripened fruit to ensure they don’t consume future harvests before they’re ready.


Unfortunately, this myth has led to the practice of forcing goats into trees along major roads for the benefit of passing tourists, with the worst offenders even chaining goats to branches for days. (If you visit, steer clear.) source : Curious Story


Morocco, long proud of this unique Beauty Oil, had a ban on exporting the tree, to protect their indigenous production. An understandable precaution. 


Some years ago, in 2003 we are told, some clever Israeli's took cuttings, tress and nuts from Morocco, breaking Moroccan Law, and they created hybrids which are now grown on stolen Palestinian land, processed there and sold as Moroccan Oil. Colonial beauty. 


I made a short TikTok about this.


@egalitarianlovesongs https://innerbeautymag.com/en/2018/11/23/carmen-tal-happiness-is-a-choice/ Moroccanoil has been the Official Sponsor of Eurovision for the past 3 years, cementing both the brand's reputation as an authority in hair trends, as well as bringing a real link between fashion, music and hairdressing Mortocan Oil is an Israeli haircare brand owned by Israeli, Carmen Tal. Moroccan Oil obscures its manufacturing and origins. It poses as a moroccan brand, however its products are all manufactured in Isreal. #relatable #humanity #share ♬ original sound - Trader Barry fx

I have to admit I have long disliked the Eurovision Song Contest, on artistic grounds, as a folk musician also rooted in electronic dance music and underground arts over a 35 year 'career'. I am wholly opposed to music being used and weaponised as a political propaganda tool and a wealth extraction practice. 


Music, folk music in particular, must serve the needs of the people, must tell our stories, our trails and tribulations, our struggles, our loves, our kindnesses and our shared humanity. 


Music can and is used for many purposes: weddings, funerals, community celebrations, for joy and for grief, and importantly, folk music  has a rile to play in building humane solidarity so as to inspire and fire up the natural urge to make peace through challenging oppression, confronting the violent, dismantling their status. 


It cannot do so when harnessed to political warfaring states and their objectives.

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'Get off your Land' (see below) is a song of mine, about the Palestinian struggle, citing the long history of Zionism as a weapon of the British Empire that replicates the Plantation of Northern Ireland by the British in the 1600s, with the same patterns emerging of a population which holds an internalised religious identity that also includes a sense of entitlement to colonised lands, an identity passed from one generation to the next, exploited by the colonial overlords, weaponising people, parents and children, with rabid justifications for extremes of violence, for centuries.  In the song I note the deployment of British Government irregular combat units, known as The Black and Tans, tasked with the oppression of civilians in reprisal for resistance to the colonial domination, from Ireland to Palestine, in 1922.


Geopolitical long term strategy.


Being Irish, and well read, I have a different understanding of this aspect of history than most British people I have met, in my 45v years of living in London, the majority of whom appear to be timidly yet proudly unwilling to admit the horrors of their own ruling class, let alone be energised to hold the English Ruling Class accountable. 


Tony Blair walks free, a very wealthy man, one who ought to be in a cell at The Hague, for his War Crimes. We have the evidence.


I wrote this song 'Get Off Your Land' in 2020, produced this version in 2021, and am appalled to see its predictions so horrendously fulfilled. I am disgusted at the British and American and German State Governments enabling of a genocide, standing as staunch duplicitous allies in the international domain, arming Israel for commercial gain. I am similarly nauseated by their deliberate fuelling of war in Ukraine. Russia's invasion is odious, illegal and amoral, that is clear. And yet the slaughter on the fields of South Eastern Ukraine is not entirely the responsibility of the Russians. World War One demonstrated the odious practice of throwing fresh troops to a well defended frontline, to murder and ben murdered in their hundreds of thousands. I fail to see the benefits to Ukrainian civil society in such wholesale slaughter. 


Here is Mitch McConnell extolling the many virtues of exacerbating the Ukraine-Russian war, in less than two minutes.

 


Mitch McConnell's honesty regards the benefits of the Ukraine War is instructive.


The Civil War that plagued the Donbas for 8 years prior was egged on by outsiders, as a means of 'weakening Russia'. Some spoke of making this 'Russia's second Afghnaistan'. Rather than de-escalate, the USUK have exacerbated that shituation, leading to today, where estimates suggest a million have murdered each other, most gruesomely, egged on by US, UK and Germany, whose arms industry dividends are bloated with tax payers cash.


So here's my song about Palestine. 'Get Off Your Lands'


All in all, the competing warring states dynamic and its patriarchy, who curate racism, misogyny, xenophobia and many other forms of bigotry in order to weaponise ordinary people against each other, is a pox upon humanity. It does matter of you are good or brutal. It matters very much.


Our children's futures are on the line.  It does matter of you're good or brutal. Genuine neutrality is a stance of non-violent resistance to violence, a direct confrontation with the bullies, with the intent to hold the bullies accountable, as part of the process of making a genuine long term peace that leads to entire populations being nurtured rather than exploited.


We must build solidarity strong enough to hold the war makers accountable, all of them, no matter which state they represent.



Kindest regards

Corneilius

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Gaza, The ICJ : All is born of Woman, no Harm shall be done to the Children

Make Peace, Spread Love
All is born of Woman, no Harm shall be done to the Children

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Blinne Nessa Áine Ní Ghrálaigh KC is an Irish barrister who has worked in England and Ireland. She specialises in human rights and international law.

Wealth-as-Power is a Cult of Entitlement to Violence.


She represents the United Nations here, at the International Courts of Justice, on the case of Israel and its legal obligations regarding Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories.

Israel faces accusations of breaking international law by refusing to let aid into the Gaza Strip

Everyone ion the world who has a mobile phone sees the evidence every day.



The Western Powers who are allies of Israel, who have been supplying weapons and other supports to Israel since 1948 (and before to the Zionist Colonial Enclave) are now finally revealed for what they really are. Wealth-as-Power has removed the velvet glove of concessions to the working peoples, and is stamping down with the steel fist, incrementally.

For millions of Palestinians it is already too late. For millions of Congolese it is already too late. And so on.

This calls for solidarity and for a general strike, aimed at all supports and all the supporters and defenders of Israel, within the USUK and EU.

Kindest regards

Corneilius

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