Foreign Secretary David Lammy has suspended 30 arms export licences with Israel, after establishing a risk of serious violations of international law. Thankfully, those violations would not be serious enough to suspend the other 320 arms export licences because doing so would land us in trouble with the US. Plus, Lammy didn't want to be called “Hamas” by his friends.
Lammy noticed the risk of Israel committing serious violations of international law after spending ten months watching Israel commit serious violations of international law. Once he saw pieces of the 40,000th dead civilian being scooped into a plastic bag, he decided he’d finally reached his limit.
Brutal dictators around the world have taken note and will be careful not to exceed the acceptable civilian death toll in future genocides. The new rule is 40,000 innocent lives and not one more. It’s gonna be so awkward when the real death toll in Gaza is announced at 200,000, isn’t it?
Following Lammy’s decision to pretend we’re making a principled stance against genocide, it’s unclear if Israel will respond with sanctions of its own. I understand numerous MPs are concerned they could lose their contributions from the Israeli lobby because they have mistresses to buy gifts for.
Lammy stressed his decision does not amount to an arms embargo, explaining he has only blocked weapons that can be used against Palestinians. As everyone knows, 90% of weapons can’t be used against Palestinians. This is why the other 320 arms export licences remain in place. Palestinians are relieved to hear all the other weapons can’t be used against them.
Lammy emphasised Israel has a right to defend itself and Palestine does not, so it’s important we send some weapons to Israel. This is a clever strategy because it keeps the International Criminal Court off our backs, assuming the world’s most senior judges are idiots.
Lammy said: “We are deeply worried by the methods that Israel's employed, and by reports of civilian casualties and the destruction of civilian infrastructure particularly.” Thankfully, he has not suggested the IDF are terrorists because that label is reserved for Arabs.
Both Israeli and Palestinian leaders are under investigation for war crimes, but we are much gentler on the side with the higher body count. This is because the US has made it clear they will choose Israel over the UK every time. This means we could lose our lucrative F-35 contracts, and those contracts matter much more than civilian lives.
To be fair, we only have ourselves to blame for this mess because we never bothered setting up a UK lobby across the pond. If we were clever enough to buy congress before AIPAC made Israel “America’s greatest ally”, our military would be the one getting funded by the US, but we weren’t clever enough, were we?The last working-class hero in England.
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and now the fraudian says there's "a growing backlash"...
so it must be really serious and not at all some weal performative gesture aimed at placating all those who aren't quite onside with arming a genocide yet..
"Benjamin Netanyahu says UK decision to suspend some arms sales to Israel ‘shameful’ amid growing backlash"
I wonder where the "backlash" is coming from? The apertheid state, the US and the Tories you say? Ahhh....no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
Re: and now the fraudian says there's "a growing backlash"...
A parcel of rogues for the rogue state...disgusting woman who had her secret meetings with very rich, lunatic zionazis when she was in office. Yes, they've always got to be rich! How the feck is this hateful creature a Dame? Silly question.
quote: Former Conservative home secretary Dame Priti Patel called the decision "appalling" and accused Labour of playing politics "with Israel's security on a day they bury their dead".
"This shocking betrayal of a key UK ally is a terrible indication of the UK's approach to national security under this weak prime minister," she added.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews said the timing "risks sending a dangerous message to Hamas and other adversaries of the UK that they can commit appalling atrocities - condemned by the UK government - and yet still see Israel castigated".
I wonder if anyone at the repulsive BOD ever considers "what message it sends" to arm a state that slaughters women and children day in day out? You know, like normal humans would consider.
Astonishing wrongness......no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
Re: and now the fraudian says there's "a growing backlash"...
'Former Conservative home secretary Dame Priti Patel called the decision "appalling" and accused Labour of playing politics "with Israel's security on a day they bury their dead". '
The outrage! Much better to do it on a day when they're burying 100x the number of Palestinian dead - into a mass grave with a f*ing bulldozer. They really don't see Palestinians as human beings, do they.
on September 3, 2024, 10:10 am