Partners In War Crimes: 33,000 Palestinians And 3 Britons Killed, And The UK Still Supports This Brazen Genocide?

How on earth did we get to a point where British Armed Services Veterans - working for noble humanitarian causes - are being killed by British-made weapons? 

The families of John Chapman, James Kirby, and James Henderson deserve answers, and arms sales to the genocidal state of Israel must be suspended immediately.  

If the world hadn’t turned on Israel before the execution of the World Central Kitchen humanitarian aid workers, it has now. 

What we didn’t know at the start of this genocide was how the place of birth on your passport would determine whether the killing of innocent people actually mattered to the international community. 

Just look at the numbers for a moment. 

33,000 innocent Palestinian people have been killed. At least 13,000 of them are children. 350 medics have been murdered and 36 hospitals have been bombed by Israel. 120 journalists have been mercilessly slaughtered and 196 humanitarian aid workers have been killed by the Israeli war machine. 

And it’s only now that the British government think Israel has progressed from its right to “self-defence” to violators of international law? 

The British default position has always been Muslims bad, Israel good, but the senseless killing of 3 British citizens now makes it impossible to defend the actions of the state of Israel for another moment longer. 

You would be hard pushed to find some Israeli success stories from the past 6 genocidal months. But credit where credit is due, Israel has successfully launched a conveyor belt of some of the most detestable and inadequate propagandists since the Second World War. 

Eylon Levy? A sacked detestable pantomime villain that lies and lies and lies. Even Netanyahu couldn’t stand the British bullshiter, that’s how awful he is. Arrest him when he next returns to British soil. 

Mark Regev? A detestable teller of mistruths and as likable as chlamydia. Where the hell did they find this uncharismatic, malignant parcel of puss?

Tzipi Hotovely? A detestable peddler of unbridled hatred and dishonesty. The hardline member of Netanyahu’s Likud Party has demonstrated a complete disregard for international law throughout her political career.

And what of the latest official Israeli government spokesperson for the Tel Aviv terror network, and former director of Labour Friends of Israel, David Mencer? 

It would seem the only notable difference between Mercer’s previous position at LFI and his new propagandist position with the Israel government is the addition of the word “official” to his job title.

Israel’s killing of seven World Central Kitchen earlier this week has led many humanitarian organisations to express reluctance to continue operating inside the Gaza Strip for fear of repeat incidents. Was this Israel’s intention? 

The “accident” theory would make some sort of sense if it was one misguided missile, rather than Israeli policy.

But this was a repeated targeting that has led to the cold-blooded murder of 7 humanitarian aid workers in Deir el-Balah, Gaza.

As of 20 March, at least 196 humanitarian workers had been killed in the Occupied Palestinian Territory since October 2023. This is nearly three times the death toll recorded in any single conflict in a year. 

Israel has a history of killing aid workers. Back in May 2010, hundreds of humanitarians from 50 different countries were working to deliver a flotilla of 10,000 tonnes of aid into the besieged Gaza Strip.

On that devastating night, 10 humanitarian aid workers were killed and hundreds were injured by Israeli forces who attacked by land, air and sea, shooting innocent people on sight. 

Astonishingly, Israel has killed more humanitarian aid workers in the Gaza Strip since October than the rest of the world's cumulative total in any other individual year. And this is happening in an area that is slightly smaller than the Isle of Wight.

This intimidation of aid workers is an Israeli ploy to stop desperately needed humanitarian aid from reaching the people that need it the most. 

While Israel goes about trying to repair their reputation following the murder of the 7 humanitarian workers, the WCK itself has halted operations in Gaza. This is exactly what Israel wanted to happen, because Israel uses starvation as a weapon of war. 

Earlier this week, more than 600 prominent lawyers, academics and former judges, including former Supreme Court President Lady Hale and 2 other former justices in the court have signed a letter telling the British government that it is breaching international law by continuing to arm the Israeli genocide of Gaza.

The open letter described the present situation in Gaza as “catastrophic” and castigated the Tories for “falling significantly short” of its obligations under international law regarding arms sales to the murderous Israeli regime.

It went on to say that the UK has so far failed “to comply with its own obligations under the Genocide Convention,” potentially incurring “UK state responsibility for the commission of an international wrong.”

In plain English, Britain is demonstrably and undoubtedly complicit in genocide. Our weapons, our personnel, our expertise and our unequivocal support for a terrorist organisation acting as a government leaves us with the dark stain of mass murder on our national conscience. 

The UK has licensed more than £700 million worth of arms to Israel since 2008, according to an analysis by the Campaign Against Arms Trade.

Much of the global community is now asking why Netanyahu is continuing this course of ultimate carnage in Gaza. Even Britain and the US are beginning to view Israel as the embarrassing cousin that has thrown one-too-many left hooks at a wedding reception. 

Netanyahu is only interested in one thing, and that is his political survival. Even when his tenure ends and he finds himself in an Israeli court on charges of corruption he will insist that his legacy is one of being the Israeli Prime Minister that began the creation of Greater Israel. 

Netanyahu has never believed in a two-state solution. He’s a far-right white supremacist that believes Muslims are an inferior nuisance.

Before the current six-month long assault on Gaza, Israeli intelligence operatives planning air strikes would need a lawyer to sign off on a strike once an assessment had been made that the target was valid and that minimising civilian harm was considered.

But this changed with the introduction of Lavender - a death-by-algorithm artificial intelligence system that has automated war crimes on an unimaginable scale. 

Essentially, a computer decides if you are a militant based on which WhatsApp groups you are in, your age, sex, contacts and phone usage. This is to put together a rating from 1 to 100 determining the likelihood of the target being a militant. 

And this is mostly why so many innocent Palestinian men, women and children have been indiscriminately slaughtered by the Israeli occupation air strikes. 

Israel cannot blame AI for the cruelty of its administration, and AI certainly cannot be blamed for the callous disregard for human life that is posed by the terrorist IDF animals that pull the trigger on white-flag-waving children.

Israel is ultimately responsible for its own criminal actions. No amount of algorithmic data will change the fact that Israel must be held accountable for the deaths of not just 7 humanitarian aid workers, but the genocide of at least 33,000 human beings before them. 

Then, and only then, can the Palestinian people begin to realise that they are not alone, and we will not stop until Israel has faced justice for the genocide of Gaza.

Until next time, 

Rachael 

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