“Ottieni la tua casa in ordine”: Wes Streeting condanna Israele per le critiche di Bob Vylan
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/get-your-own-house-in-order-wes-streeting-condemns-israel-over-bob-vylan-criticism_uk_6860f2dae4b08e0b4a73e1f9
di kwentongskyblue
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Why the fuck are they commenting on this stuff?
Labour have bigger problems to be dealing with, surely.
I’m with Wes, it would be nice if Israel stopped murdering children.
Good almighty, I can’t believe I’m agreeing with Wes Streeting!
Last week Tucker Carlson, and now this…!?!
He’s so awful that the only way I can honestly think he can say something vaguely good like this is if he’s on manoeuvres for the leadership.
Oh piss off Wes. The government is commited to being a friend of Israel; criticism of Israel without criticism of the people enabling it’s behaviour is just more of the mealy mouthed bullshit we’ve had to suffer from ministers for almost two years.
Wake me up when someone in the cabinet calls what they’re doing illegal (not just at *risk* of being illegal) under international law. He’s just trying to cop a positive media angle with those against genocide without actually saying anything that threatens the government line of commitment to never ruling Israel to be a serial breacher of international law.
As we’ve seen with the settler sanctions, they are just using rhetoric to deflect from the fact that it’s the legal argument they are refusing to move on, you know, the thing that actually matters for government policy— not just rhetoric.
They can criticise the west bank stuff because the legal argument is impossible, it’s blatantly illegal and Israel doesn’t rely on pretending. The same goes for the siege on aid; they let it go on for 3 months and now they let Israel get away with turning aid into a shooting gallery because the fact they’re providing *any aid at all* is enough for them to skirt international law sufficiently with most of the west.
The same goes with the genocide in Gaza in general, they simply claim they are fighting Hamas and that’s enough as far as legality is concerned in sympathetic western states…The entire thing is about the legal argument, don’t be fooled by the rhetoric, it’s only there to be meaningless by design.
It’s also why the dial moved a little after 3 months of starvation, it was simply no longer legally justifiable, even with wiggle room.
The tacit agreement between the west and Israel is that if Israel simply never openly declares its illegal intentions as knowingly illegal, they will never press for answers. It’s disgusting and his cabinet is entirely complicit in being part of that diplomatic shield— we literally won’t judge Israel to be breaking international law purely because their commanders won’t share their intentions with us, it’s a joke.
Hard to have any sympathy for the military that’s singlehandedly created the largest cohort of child amputees on record.
Israel can criticise Bob Vylan. Bob Vylan can call out Israel’s genocide and war crimes against the Palestinian people. If Israel wants to avoid being associated with genocide then maybe they should not have spent decades trying to do just that.
Fuck me, first time I’ve thought “Go on Wes Streeting”
I don’t like the guy generally but he could not be more right
That’s nice. He’s still a slug who inflicts state violence upon trans people, and will never be prime minister.
This is just him attempting to establish his own personal brand as someone who talks sternly against Israel in preparation for his leadership bid. Don’t fall for it, he’s one of the slimiest pieces of shit in the cabinet and that’s really saying something
I see snivelling Wes is preparing for his leadership bid now it seems to be the beginning of the end for Starmer. Probably terrified of losing his seat too, he won it by a mere 500 votes against the independent British-Palestinian Leanne Mohamed last year.
As much as I think it’s unfair to have done that to Glastonbury, chanting for death to anyone isn’t what they are about, it’s amazing to see the bizarre reaction.
The one thing I’ve learnt from the entire experience is that many people just don’t put the same value on the lives of the parties involved. Rightly we were outraged at the hamas attacks and normal people are rightly outraged at the response against kids and families.
Yet the media really doesn’t put the same value on both. Pretty darn obvious.
im sure all these pro hamas anti IDF folks are more than willing to head over sign up to Hamas and fight for the right side of history!, No? oh alright just keep posting on social media then guys that will show them!!
I mean, for once wes streeting is right, but thats not going to make me forget how he’s totally fine killing disabled and trans people right here in the uk