Yossi Schwartz, ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 19.09.2024
Netanyahu criticizes the UK government for alleged mixed signals and ‘misguided’ actions. He blamed the UK government and condemned its decision to suspend arms exports to Israel in an interview with the Daily Mail, published on Wednesday. In this interview, he did not forget to tell many lies.
Following the Labor Party’s in-power decision to suspend 30 arms export licenses to Israel, including for fighter jets, helicopters, and drones, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy described the suspension as “partial,” adding that Israel has the right to self-defense under international law.
British arms sellers, even after the suspension of 30 export licenses, still have more than 300 licenses to export weapons to the Zionist monster committing genocide of the Palestinians and terrorizing Lebanon. By International law, an occupier state does not have the right to “defend” itself against the occupied people. Thus, the labor government in the real world is a partner to Israel’s war crimes.
Netanyahu said, “They say that Israel has the right to defend itself, but they undermine our ability to exercise that right by reversing Britain’s position on the unfounded allegations made by the ICC prosecutor against Israel and by blocking weapons sales as we fight against the genocidal terrorist organization responsible for the October 7 massacre[i].”
The ICC prosecutor is correct to ask for a warrant order against Netanyahu and Gallant chiefs war criminals, and the duty of the Labor’s government is to end all export of weapons to the Zionist army. It removed less than 10% of the licenses.
“Israel is waging a just war using just means, taking unprecedented measures to protect civilians and fully complying with international law,” Netanyahu added [ii].
The Zionist state is waging a reactionary war against the oppressed fighting for national liberation, using huge bombs against the people of Gaza in violation of international law.
Netanyahu also said that these “misguided actions” send a troubling message to Hamas but asserted that the decisions “will not change Israel’s determination to defeat Hamas, a genocidal terrorist organization that brutally murdered 1,200 people on October 7, including 14 British citizens, and took 255 people hostages, five of whom are British[iii].”
Israel is the real terrorist, as we see in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon. Israel is the one that takes Palestinians from the West Bank every day as hostages. Israel is the one who killed more than 41,000 people in Gaza, most of them women and children.
“Netanyahu also said that Just as Britain’s heroic stand against the Nazis is viewed as vital in defeating barbarism, so too will history judge Israel’s stand against Hamas and Iran’s axis of terror. Israel will win this war and secure our shared future.” [iv]
“He also said: The International Criminal Court (ICC) has been considering issuing arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes in the Israel-Hamas war. The UK’s previous government, under Rishi Sunak, had reportedly agreed to challenge this decision in exchange for the right to monitor the conditions of Hamas terrorists in Israeli prisons. Upon taking office, Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz urged Prime Minister Keir Starmer to uphold the previous government’s position. However, Starmer’s administration has indicated it will not contest the ICC’s decision” [v]
“Netanyahu commented on Starmer’s decision: “The Labor Government decided to drop its challenge to the preposterous ICC arrest warrants sought by the prosecutor against the prime minister and defense minister of Israel.”If these arrest warrants are issued against the leaders of the only democracy in the Middle East, it will undermine the ability of all democracies to combat terrorism, including Britain” [vi]
Israel has never been a liberal democracy. Before the war of 1967, the Palestinians who remained in Israel after the ethnic cleansing lived under military rule, similar to the conditions of the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza before the last war.
“Britain is witnessing shameless antisemitism on its campuses, in city centers, and across many parts of the country. It is concerning. I trust and expect UK leadership to take the necessary steps to eradicate this scourge,” Netanyahu concluded.”[vii]
The Zionist propaganda confuses Anti-Zionism with Anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism is racism; anti-Zionism is Anti-Racism and anti-colonialism. What most people around the world think about the Zionist lies was clear in the vote in the UNGA yesterday. The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday voted 124-14 to strip Israel of the lie of self-defense against the Palestinian resistance in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and east Jerusalem.
The text of the resolution was based on the International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion in July that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory was illegal. Before the vote, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he supported the ICJ option and would abide by the vote, which calls on the Zionists to withdraw to the pre-1967 lines within 12 months.
Israel relying on the USA will not obey and the solution is the destruction of Israel and replace it by a Palestine, red and free from the river to the sea.
The Zionist narrative is based on lies!
Israel out of Gaza!
Exchange all for all!
For a weapons boycott of Israel!
For Palestine, red and free from the river to the sea!
Endnotes:
[i] https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/benjamin-netanyahu/article-820789
[ii] Ibid
[iii] Ibid
[iv] Ibid
[v] Ibid
[vi] Ibid