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    Posted by Keith-264 on April 15, 2024, 4:28 pm

    https://anotherangryvoice.substack.com/p/david-cameron-exposes-uk-hypocrisy-iran-israel
    Under light questioning David Cameron collapsed and revealed that Britain would have reacted in a similar manner to Iran had a hostile state targeted and destroyed a British consulate.
    Another Angry Voice
    Apr 15, 2024

    The UK’s unelected Foreign Secretary David Cameron capitulated under light questioning from Kay Burley to reveal Britain’s absurd hypocrisy.

    After fulminating about the seriousness of Iran’s retaliatory strikes against Israel Cameron was left floundering by a simple question.

    "What would Britain do if a hostile nation flattened one of our consulates?"

    "Well, we would take very strong action"

    "And that’s what Iran would say they did"

    When Israel carried out their unprecedented attack on Iran’s consulate in Syria David Cameron and his Tory government colleagues neither condemned this grave breach of international law, nor criticised the violation of the literally ancient precedent that consulates, embassies, and envoys are not legitimate military targets.

    However, despite admitting that Britain would have reacted similarly under similar circumstances, Cameron attempted to condemn Iran’s retaliation on the grounds that it could potentially have caused civilian casualties.

    It’s beyond absurd for Cameron and his ilk to cite hypothetical civilian casualties as their principal objection to Iran’s retaliatory strikes, when they’ve been actively supporting Israel’s genocidal mass slaughter of civilians in Gaza for the last six months.

    The only way it’s possible to make sense of Cameron’s inconsistencies is if he believes in different standards for different countries.

    If a hostile state destroyed a British consulate, then Britain would be right to take "very strong action" but when Israel actually destroys an Iranian consulate, the Iranians are wrong to react.

    And Iran are beyond the pale for potentially putting hypothetical Israeli civilian lives at risk by attacking military targets, but Israel still have the UK’s full backing despite killing tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians and destroying thousands of civilian targets like hospitals, schools, apartment blocks, universities, cemeteries, markets, mosques, churches, and important historical sites.

    The simple concept that all countries should abide by international law seems utterly beyond him.

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