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What is the controversial Hannibal Directive that allows Israeli soldiers to fire on their own troops – and civilians, too?

In this 22-minute monologue, Mehdi takes you through the day of October 7th, through reporting in Israeli media and footage of high-ranking military members themselves admitting that the Hannibal Directive was activated that day. But, there is one key question still remaining: how many people were killed not by Hamas, but by Israeli forces acting on the Hannibal Directive?

And why the cover-up in legacy western media outlets, when Israeli media showed the former Israeli defense minister saying himself, that Hannibal WAS used on that day.

They may not report on it, but we here at Zeteo, will. This video was published on October 6, 2026 on zeteo.com

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Chapters:

0:00 The Unanswered Question

3:30 Origins of the Hannibal Directive

5:47 Mass Hannibal on October 7

19:00 The Media Cover-Up

The most significant reform to trade union law in a generation is being introduced by the Employment Rights Act 2025.

These changes will impact most businesses in the UK, regardless of whether they currently recognise a union or have union membership in their workforce.

For employers with little experience of unions, this could bring a considerable change in workplace dynamics.

At present, unions have no general right of access to a workplace. However, from October 2026 trade unions will gain a new statutory right to access workplaces, physically and digitally, to meet, support, represent, recruit and organise workers, and to facilitate collective bargaining, though not to organise industrial action.

This will apply to employers with 21 or more workers (including employees, workers and agency workers) as a whole, and not per site.

Unions will not need to be recognised or have to show a minimum level of support from workers before making an access request.

The process for seeking access will move quickly from when the union sends an access request, likely by email. The employer then has up to 15 working days from when the application is given to respond. If the request is not accepted in full, the parties have 25 working days to negotiate in good faith. If agreement is still not reached, either party may refer the matter to the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC).

Even if an employer already recognises a trade union, other unions can request access to the workforce, although the CAC may refuse access where recognition or an access agreement is already in place.

From an employer’s perspective, the starting-point should not be how to refuse. The right is built around a presumption in favour of access where it does not unreasonably interfere with the employer’s business.

There will be circumstances where refusal may be justified, including very small employers, national security concerns, criminal investigations, limited health and safety risks, overlapping union requests, or situations where access would require significant structural changes to premises or IT systems. But blanket objections are not going to be a sensible strategy.

Digital access may be one of the most impactful reforms. Unions may seek online meetings, intranet posts, messaging-system access or employer-circulated emails.

I'm a Scottish trade unionist and while I've never been a Labour member, I obviously have a lot of friends who are, and on a sentimental level I've always hoped the party might return to its working-class roots someday, somehow. I'm admittedly very unimpressed with my local Labour Party, which seems to consist mainly of small business owners, middle managers and Orangemen.

I was today years old when I saw a reel of Labour conference singing "Jerusalem", then discovered they've been doing that since practically forever, and...I'm sorry comrades, but wtaf?

Don't get me wrong. I get that "Jerusalem" is actually quite a decent, social-critical song, and I think English people should feel free to sing it with gusto and revolutionary zeal amongst themselves. I like William Blake. I'm not some rabid separatist who hates the sassenachs, proletarian internationalism obviously includes you too and there's many figures of the English labour movement I admire greatly (Sylvia Pankhurst ❤️). If a referendum was held tomorrow I'd vote for independence for a chance to leave the unceasing shitshow behind (and weaken a very imperialist jingoistic UK), but if a republican socialist federal UK were on the table I'd obviously support that over an independent neoliberal Scotland.

But how in the name of all that is holy can Labour pontificate about a "union of equals", an exercise in pluralist solidarity that isn't about English hegemony, and then expect attendees of a UK-wide conference to belt out (or at the very least stand there listening to) a song entirely and exclusively about ENGLAND? Do they genuinely have no concept of how that's at best bizarre and at worst demeaning for delegates from Scotland and Wales?

Imagine if you had to sing Robert Burns' "A Man's A Man (For A' That)" at a UK conference - which, unlike "Jerusalem", doesn't even make specific reference to Scotland and is just a nice generic progressive song ("the honest man, tho e'er sae poor / is king o' men for a' that"). But it's in Scots, and written by Scotland's national poet, so it would be patently absurd to make English and Welsh people sing it once a year at a UK-wide political event, right?

Am I the only one who finds this hypocritical, to put it mildly?