Finally some good news!
So far it’s only talkie-talkie and it’s just “suspending” something and using a similar gambit as the Biden administration did to do nothing - “we will sanction settlers” - that in the US turned out to be something like forbidding 5 people from entering the US or having bank accounts on the US.
Even in the “talk about it stage” they’re sticking to pretty much mild finger wagging in a form that can easily be walked back once public opinion has been calmed by this “actions”. This is the most common strategy that New Labour types employ to manipulate public opinion without actually doing anything.
Keir Starmer is such a slimy, deceitful, untrustworthy sociopath that if he says “The sky is blue” one should do a proper “what’s in it for him to convince me of this” mental analysis and come out and check that it is indeed still so.
In this specific subject, it’s pretty obvious that this “mere talk of doing a mix of easily reversible and meaningless things” is a reaction to the 600k people coming out to demonstrate on something which isn’t a subject that directly affects them.
You can start trusting that he’s genuine when he actually stops weapons shipments to Israel and sanction the actual country. Until then it’s just the usual “announce some meaningless bollocks to calm the restless plebes”.
The people of Palestine have a right to armed resistance against those who would exterminate them.
Go UK! 👍 😀
Little late guys
But what the fuck, I’ll take it. Now see if you can snatch Netanyahu and put him in The Hague where he belongs. That would be a solid start.
But what the fuck, I’ll take it.
Israeli diplomacy on this issue has been virtually non-existent. It really cannot be reiterated how badly the Israeli state department has bungled international relations, given that they had an open hand at genocide as recently as a month ago.
I’m not willing to take Starmer’s response at face value, because I haven’t seen exactly what caused the heel-turn. The New Labour government loves to give passionate speeches and then reneg on their pledges weeks later. But I can see the UK caving to pressure from other Middle Eastern and European allied states, particularly if the ongoing genocide - and the Yemeni reprisal around the Suez - is seen as an economic issue rather than a humanitarian one.
Now see if you can snatch Netanyahu and put him in The Hague where he belongs.
Consider the fate of Fulgencio Batista, Fransisco Franco, and Augusto Pinochet. Consider the fate of Idi Amin and Mohammad Reza Shah and Oliver Tambo and Robert Mugabe. Even when your country disintegrates under your feet, the elites never seem to suffer any serious undo consequences.
The absolute best thing we can hope for with regard to Netanyahu is that a more zealous member of his coalition decides to do an officer’s coup and paint the PM’s office with Bibi’s brain matter. But no civil justice system will ever touch the man. If he leaves office, he’ll spend the rest of his life in high luxury, floating through the western Zionist cocktail circuit in the Commemorative Henry Kissinger Seat Of Honor.
Duterte is only in the Hague because he pissed off the equally insufferable fascist Bong Bong Marcos.
Israeli diplomacy on this issue has been virtually non-existent. It really cannot be reiterated how badly the Israeli state department has bungled international relations, given that they had an open hand at genocide as recently as a month ago.
It’s genuinely incredible to see how openly evil the Likud/Khanist extremists in charge have acted, and how reflexive and hollow the counter-messaging has become from Netanyahu
Yair Golan, the leader of the opposition Democrats who served as deputy chief of staff for Israel’s military before entering politics, said that after an unjustifiably brutal campaign, much of the damage [to Israel’s reputation] had already been done. “A sane country doesn’t engage in fighting against civilians, doesn’t kill babies as a hobby and doesn’t set the expulsion of a population as a goal,” he said.
Netanyahu attacked Golan’s comments as “contemptible antisemitic blood libels against IDF soldiers and the state of Israel”, but Golan later doubled down on his position in a press conference.
I hope the west will continue with action against Israel over gaza AND the west bank. The genocide of Palestinians goes beyond the gaza strip area.
