Sick at heart

I am sick at heart. Starmer does nothing whatsoever in the face of crimes against humanity. Actually, he doesn’t do nothing. He continues to supply arms to Israel, despite the fact that the majority of the British people want an arms embargo.

Protesters formed a red line around Parliament yesterday,  though I haven’t seen this reported in the papers, have you?

There will be other domestic posts on here in the future, and I am going on holiday tomorrow with Liz, so I’ll be posting from Pembrokeshire, but this morning all Dave and I can think about is the genocide and the UKs complicity, and the fact that children in Gaza are saying they want to die. 

Here is this morning’s letter (from Dave)  to our ‘Labour’ MP, in response to what did not happen yesterday in Parliament..

In response to Claire Hanna MP in parliament yesterday, Keir Starmer once again mentioned the possibility of further action. His answer was striking in that he did not mention further action by Israel, the sole perpetrators of the unrestrained and murderous campaign we see daily.

 

It is clear that Keir Starmer is gas-lighting the nation with his position on Israel, and his words are empty and simply cannot be trusted.

 

While telling parliament that we are indeed in ‘dark days’, and that Israel’s actions are ‘appalling’ and ‘intolerable’, he takes no effective action to stop Isarel’s extirpation of the Palestinians. The actions he claimed yesterday have self-evidently been wholly ineffective in stopping this genocide.

 

At this late stage of an asymmetrical war of staggering inhumanity, we daily see the atrocities committed by the IDF. Most recent among these is the murder of Palestinians seeking aid, at least some of whom had suffered shrapnel injuries from shells, which only Israel has the capacity to deliver. In spite of the escalating ferocity and the 60 000 Palestinian deaths, Starmer’s ‘further action’ is always due to come later. He appears to have a very high tolerance for state terrorism, and it is hard to even imagine what line the Israelis could cross which would prompt him into any sort of decisive and effective action.

 

At the same time, Starmer is colluding and collaborating with the Israelis, effectively facilitating the unspeakable horrors and war crimes being committed against the Palestinians. Supplying armaments, spares for armaments, military intelligence, over-flights, and tacit encouragement makes the UK fully complicit in the inhumanity and illegality of Israel’s feral blood-lust – it can only be described in that way – and puts us firmly on the side of lawlessness.

 

Sadly, we have a Prime Minister who is untrustworthy, on Gaza as on everything else. He is covertly supporting Israel’s campaign, while telling us another tale altogether. He is continuing to supply Israel with the means to pursue their genocide, and thereby to give the Israeli government moral support.

 

This is Starmer’s Iraq moment, and history will not forgive his mendacity in putting us on the wrong side of this conflict by supporting the aggressor.

 

Starmer’s approach makes us all complicit. It is simply wrong, immoral, criminal. It is, to repeat words he used yesterday, appalling and intolerable. None of us voted for this.