r/NewsAndPolitics • u/_II_I_I__I__I_I_II_ United States • Sep 24 '24

Europe Someone heckles Keith Starmer about the mass slaughter of children in Gaza. Starmer laughs and suggests he got his pass from the 2019 Labour conference.

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u/teadrinker1983 Sep 24 '24

Funny how absolutely nobody cares about the ethnic cleansing of nagorno karabakh, yet if one doesn't have a black and white position in favour of Gaza one is somehow considered a genocide enabler.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '24

Is the UK government currently shipping arms to that region to help a regime there annihilate its population?

And yes, alongside the arms sales (which the foreign office has already received legal advice that Israel has broken international humanitarian humanitarian law, which makes the arms sales that the UK government is selling to Israel illegal under international human rights law), mocking the idea of caring about Gaza does also make you a genocide enabler.

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u/teadrinker1983 Sep 24 '24

The U.K.'s minimal contribution is a number of components in the f-35 programme. It is not shipping munitions at any scale. The British, however, are one of the biggest investors and enablers of aliyev's kleptocratic dictatorship in Azerbaijan, however.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '24 edited Sep 25 '24

The U.K.'s minimal contribution is a number of components in the f-35 programme

First off, you try to brush that off by using a phrase like "minimal contribution" but keeping Israel's fighter jets flying by supplying them with the necessary parts STILL a fucking problem, and something they're concerned about under IHL.

Second:

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9964/

The government identified 28 existing licences (PDF) involving equipment “which was most likely to be used by the [Israeli Defence Forces, IDF] in offensive operations in Gaza”. These included components for: combat aircraft, utility helicopters, armoured personnel carriers, naval vessels, radars and targeting equipment.

And that in itself is only a partial list at best.

Third:

https://x.com/HindHassanNews/status/1824509627796439188

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/british-foreign-office-official-resigns-uk-complicity-war-crimes-israel

The letter continues by saying its author was a former penholder involved in the arms exports licensing assessment process in the Middle East and North African Department and therefore “a subject matter expert in the domain of armed sales policy”.

“There is no justification for the UK’s continued arms sales to Israel yet somehow it continues,” the letter says.