Within weeks of taking over as the new Government, the Labour Party restored funding of UNRWA and dropping the previous governments’ plans to challenge the right of the International Criminal Court to seek an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over war crimes in a welcome move but they have yet to suspended arms sales to Israel.
Today, Foreign Office diplomat Mark Smith resigned in protest, warning that the country may be complicit in war crimes saying: 'There is no justification for the U.K.’s continued arms sales to Israel yet somehow it continues', and with 58% of the country support ending arms sales to Israel and the British government receiving advice from its own lawyers that Israel was in breach of international humanitarian law in Gaza, the Government is on the wrong side of the argument.
The new Foreign Secretary will only commit to 'a comprehensive review to assess whether Israeli war crimes might have been committed in Gaza' but in a stark reminder of how long Israel have been pounding Palestine, the UK had suspended arms exports previously in 1982, 2009 and 2014 over concerns of war crimes although that the scale of the death and destruction in Gaza today where more than 40,000 people have been killed, dwarfs that of the circumstances that led to previous arms embargoes.
In the US at least a dozen officials have quit their posts in the last several months in protest of Washington’s policies on the war and the Democratic Presidential nominee Kamala Harris has faced growing calls for the U.S. to impose an arms embargo on Israel which would have a greater effect as the U.S. provides considerably more arms to Israel than the U.K. with just last week the Americans agreeing to send $20 billion of arms to Israel.
Why Israel has such a hold over nations when the International Court of Justice and International Criminal Court are talking of an Israeli Genocide in Palestine and after over 6 decades of military oppression and it's leaders facing arrest for War Crimes but after Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and now backing a genocide, it will be quite some time before either country can have the nerve to say they are the good guys.
Thursday, 22 August 2024
UK and US No Longer The Good Guys
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yes, thousands of people of Arab descent (out of 330 million Americans) are demanding that the US abandon Israel... thousands
you say the uk is no longer a good guy. if the uk starts supporting hamas, will that make the uk a good guy?
i ask because one cannot support the so called "palestinians" without supporting hamas.
life is full of tough decisions, as if siding against hamas is a tough decision for anyone in touch with reality.
the so called "palestinians" supply hamas with personnel, information, and support while iran supplies hamas with weapons and munitions. the beating the so called "palestinians" have taken is a direct consequence of their hamas enablement.
It’s nice to see that your enforced absence and name change hasn’t improved your English grammar skills or your weird ability to write absolute uninformed tosh.
"my enforced absence" is an example of how poorly you are able to interpret reality. google had way too much of my personal data (where i have traveled, eaten, shopped, hotels, etc.). in the process of deleting all that personal data they do not need, it seems i also deleted my last blog and to my surprise, my comments... nothing was enforced. just you imparting your imagination onto reality again.
you little terrorist supporter
Just an amazing coincidence that just after blogger removed your latest comment that broke their hate speech rules I guess. Just a coincidence and perfect timing for ‘you’ doing it…or so you believe which is actually very funny.
oh yeah, the absence was my choice, i went backpacking in Wyoming, and there is no internet access 20 miles into the mountains...
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