Sir Keir Starmer is to carry talks with Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Downing Avenue on Wednesday.
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It comes after Israel carried out a strike on senior Hamas leaders in Qatar’s capital Doha, and warned all residents of Gaza Metropolis to depart instantly in anticipation of an enormous floor offensive.
Keir Starmer is, apparently, going to be speaking about, in keeping with the BBC, the “insupportable state of affairs in Gaza” and the “motion Israel should take to finish the horrific struggling we’re witnessing” with the Israeli president.
This makes, fairly actually, no sense in any respect.
What Israel proved with its actions yesterday, for which there might be no ethical, authorized or defence justification, is that it has completely no respect for the rule of worldwide legislation, or the rights of sovereign jurisdictions, and even of those that are pursuing pathways to peace in Gaza, which Qatar has been doing when nearly no one else has made any profitable initiative.
Talks with President Herzog will, in that case, be totally meaningless. The person is the president of a rustic with a authorities, of which he’s titular head, that’s committing battle crimes, and Keir Starmer is inviting him round for tea.
By doing so, Starmer is not going to be taking motion to sort out abuse by Israel.
Nor will he be serving to the reason for peace in Gaza,
And he is not going to be appearing within the curiosity of the survival of anybody who lives there, or within the West Financial institution.
As a substitute, he will likely be offering a platform for Herzog to advance his personal pernicious reason behind genocide.
In impact, Starmer isn’t opposing what Israel is doing: he’s supporting it by lending Herzog credibility for which there might be no justification in any respect, as a result of his nation’s authorities is intentionally ethnically cleaning the individuals of Gaza, and is doing so with an nearly unprecedented ruthlessness.
We have now at all times recognized that, above all else, Starmer is a Zionist when he has no different obvious convictions in any respect. Now we will see how prepared he’s to shame himself, his workplace, and this nation to assist the fear that Israel has unleashed in an totally unlawful and inhumane trend.
In the meantime, hundreds of people that have opposed the actions of Israel are dealing with prison costs, while Herzog is handled with all due civility. That, too, is Starmer’s work.
Proper now, there’s a rigged election occurring within the Labour Occasion for a brand new deputy chief. They’re losing their time. They want a brand new chief as a substitute. The one they’ve ought to be heading for the Hague.
