Thursday, 4 April 2024

Rishi Under Pressure Supplying Israeli Arms

What will it take for Israel’s allies to say no more and stop supplying the weapons to them? Obviously not the ICJ calling it a genocide or the growing list of war crimes, the destruction of Gaza hospitals, Security Council Resolution 27/28, restricting medical and food supplies into Gaza, not the 33,000 dead civilians or the 103 journalists or the previous murder of 200 aide workers but the killing of 3 British workers may have tipped the balance in the UK because the pressure is now ramping up on the Prime Minister to stop supplying Israel with weapons.    
Conservative MPs, the former representative of the UK to the United Nations, 600 lawyers and three former High Court Judges have spoken out to warn the Prime Minister that that the UK is breaching international law by continuing to arm Israel.
A 17-page letter from lawyers and members of the Bar explained that 'serious action is needed to avoid UK complicity in grave breaches of international law, including potential violations of the Genocide Convention' and even the former head of MI6 said this morning that the sheer amount of killing by Israel means: 'It is hard not to conclude that insufficient care is being paid to the collateral risks of these operations'.
The UK government has refused to publish its own legal advice on the matter but a leaked recording suggests its own lawyers have advised that Israel has breached international humanitarian law in Gaza which leaves the UK vulnerable to claims of being complicit although Rishi Sunak has only said that
that arms licences were kept under careful review according to regulations and procedures that we’ll always follow which obviously doesn't include Israel deliberately causing a famine, killing tens of thousands of people but does include the profits of UK arms dealers.