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Nobody seems to challenge Israel and its Western allies on their determination to hunt down and wipe out Hamas. That’s Israel’s stated objective and reason for the genocide it has been committing relentlessly for nearly 8 months while the US, UK and most of the EU provide a chorus of approval not to mention the weaponry to do it. But is eliminating Hamas permissible in international law? Indeed, is imposing coercive regime-change lawful when the party forcing the change is itself a terror regime with a long history of war crimes and crimes against humanity inflicted on its victim? Hamas […] #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/05/is-it-lawful-to-target-hamas-for-extermination/?feed_id=12163

UK foreign secretery Lord David Cameron has told peers: “I don’t believe for one moment that seeking these warrants is going to help get the hostages out, it’s not going to help get aid in and it’s not going to help deliver a sustainable ceasefire. To draw moral equivalence between the Hamas leadership and the democratically-elected leader of Israel I think is just plain wrong.” He misses the point as usual. The warrants have nothing to do with that. They are about bringing those wanted for the most grievous war crimes to justice. Prime minister Rishi Sunak then said that […] #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/05/could-these-arrest-warrants-signal-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-the-axis-of-evil/?feed_id=11579

Lord Cameron, UK Foreign Secretary, wrote an article in the Sunday Times on April 7 to mark what he called “another grim milestone: 6 months since the brutal attacks by Hamas on October 7. We must not forget how this conflict started – with the Jewish people suffering the worst and most murderous pogrom since the Holocaust”. Cameron says that, alongside US and other allies, “we are clear that unless you deal with the cause of the conflict – the rule of Hamas over Gaza and the presence of those responsible for October 7 – no ceasefire would last. Israel […] #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/04/cameron-hopelessly-confused-over-the-cause-of-the-conflict-in-gaza/?feed_id=11043

You’d think Western leaders dealing with foreign affairs would make sure they had a working knowledge of international law and respect its importance. It’s based on common sense and is easy enough for politicians of average intelligence to understand. But they don’t seem to. So it was refreshing to hear Vasily Nebenzya, Russia’s representative at the United Nations, ticking off the US and Israel for trying to duck their legal responsibilities after the Security Council adopted Resolution 2728. This deals with Israel’s attempt to destroy Gaza and its people and “demands an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan respected […] #Featured #Government #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/04/are-our-political-leaders-really-so-ignorant-about-international-law/?feed_id=10759

Are we seeing, at last, the beginnings of a revolution in the Anglican Church against its leaders’ cowardice over Israel’s genocide of Muslims and Christians in the Holy Land? On 31 October the Church of England House of Bishops issued a statement on Israel’s genocide against Palestinians which two clergymen in Cambridge found “profoundly inadequate as a response to the indiscriminate devastation already being inflicted upon the defenceless civilian population of Gaza”. On 13 December and again on 13 February the bishops had delivered stronger statements, but “these still fall far short of what is needed. Four months on from […] #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/03/bishops-rapped-over-feeble-response-to-holy-land-genocide/?feed_id=10415

Israel’s horrendous genocide continues unabated while our new foreign secretary Lord Cameron, brought back from the dead as it were (he’s no longer an elected Member of Parliament) and hurriedly created a peer of the realm to give some semblance of legitimacy, struts the international stage and criss-crosses the world’s trouble-spots. So I thought I’d offer a reminder that this guy has form. And I mean bad form. Back in December 2012 I wrote a piece titled Why they call him ‘Agent’ Cameron. It went like this. In a speech to Conservative Friends of Israel at a recent lunch [in […] #Europe #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/02/all-aboard-for-israel-apartheid-and-genocide/?feed_id=8915

On 24 January Parliament produced a rare treat where an MP held a Government minister to account over support for Israel’s appalling behaviour in Gaza and the Government’s attempts to cover up their own collusion. David Rutley MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) was being quizzed by Zarah Sultana (Coventry South) (Lab). The verbatim report in Hansard speaks for itself so I’ll simply let it run. Zarah Sultana: I would like to talk about the Government’s response to Israel’s violations of international law in Gaza and about revelations that I believe should be a major news story…. They […] #Featured #History #Investigations #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/01/does-any-sane-person-believe-israel-complies-with-international-law/?feed_id=8503

But all the whitewash in the world won’t hide the truth #Featured #Investigations #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/12/westminster-cavalry-ride-to-rescue-genocidal-israel/?feed_id=7220

More than 300 misguided UK parliamentarians recently signed an open letter to Israel’s President condemning Hamas’s “terrorist attacks” and “standing in solidarity with Israel and its right to self defence at this time of great need”. OPEN LETTER: PAGE 1 – PDF NeilHudsonMP letter redactedp1 PAGE 2 – PDF NeilHudsonMP letter redactedp2 Notice that the newspaper report is dated 8 October, the very next day after Hamas’s breakout, indicating remarkably slick reflexes on the part of those who, within the space of a few hours, managed to digest the shock news, check the facts, draft and agree text, gather 300+ […] #Featured #Investigations #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/12/westminster-cavalry-ride-to-rescue-genocidal-israel/?feed_id=7132

As I write, 14,500 murdered 7,000 buried under the rubble 35,000 wounded 1.5 million displaced …their homeland devastated, livelihoods destroyed, heritage erased… And our politicians talk only of a 4-day pause to the genocide!!! At PMQs (Prime Minister’s Questions) in Parliament yesterday Stephen Flynn (the SNP leader) asked what will happen after the temporary pause in hostilities between Israel and Hamas: “At the end of four days, will we simply see a return to the killing of children in Gaza every 10 minutes, or will we in this House choose instead to back a permanent ceasefire?” Rishi Sunak replied: “We […] #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/11/leaders-of-the-civilised-world-fail-the-simple-humanity-test-big-time/?feed_id=6896

Europe's leaders obediently takes the apartheid state's side #Featured #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/10/gaza-israeli-war-did-hamas-just-give-israelis-a-dose-of-their-own-medicine/?feed_id=4442

Europe's leaders obediently takes the apartheid state's side #Featured #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/10/gaza-israeli-war-did-hamas-just-give-israelis-a-dose-of-their-own-medicine/?feed_id=4417

The Guardian reports an increase in the number of young Palestinian demonstrators in hospital with gunshot wounds. Their protests are in response to the Jewish invasions of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in East Jerusalem and raids by the Israeli Occupation Forces into Gaza, as well as the continuing misery and hopelessness caused by Israel’s illegal and brutal blockade of Gaza since 2006. Several have been admitted with bullet wounds to the ankle which is a notoriously difficult part of the leg to treat successfully, especially when Palestinian doctors lack the microscopic equipment to carry out such intricate operations. One young […] #Featured #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/10/israel-continues-its-shoot-to-cripple-policy-targeting-palestinian-youngsters-with-impunity/?feed_id=4317

The Guardian reports an increase in the number of young Palestinian demonstrators in hospital with gunshot wounds. Their protests are in response to the Jewish invasions of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in East Jerusalem and raids by the Israeli Occupation Forces into Gaza, as well as the continuing misery and hopelessness caused by Israel’s illegal and brutal blockade of Gaza since 2006. Several have been admitted with bullet wounds to the ankle which is a notoriously difficult part of the leg to treat successfully, especially when Palestinian doctors lack the microscopic equipment to carry out such intricate operations. One young […] #Featured #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/10/israel-continues-its-shoot-to-cripple-policy-targeting-palestinian-youngsters-with-impunity/?feed_id=4302

VT's Stuart Littlewood goes off on the UK for selling out to Zionist Apartheid #Featured #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/07/uk-government-votes-to-become-stooge-for-israel/?feed_id=1958