Politicians are failing us; they also fail to recognise genodice
JVL Introduction
As we watch the horrors being perpetrated by Israel on our phones we learn that “Gaza has been deported to another dimension in which no rules apply”. But we have seen too much and we will not accept this as normal.
Most of us are outraged, losing sleep, desperately trying to maintain contact with those we know in Gaza but somehow the politicians keep trying to smooth things over, to send arms and back complaints against pro Palestinian activists, dispensing more time and resources trying to silence those opposing genocide rather than trying to stop the genocide/war crimes/violence/ethnic cleansing.
Nesrine Malik’s furious article also provides some glimmers of hope because far too many people in this world are not buying the politicians version of events. They knock us down but we get up again – stronger and better connnected.
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This article was originally published by The Guardian on Mon 7 Apr 2025. Read the original here.
Politicians want to normalise what’s happening in Gaza. Our moral outrage won’t let that happen
The more shocking the carnage becomes, the more people are punished for speaking out. This just makes it clear how much is really at stake
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Thank you Nesrine, good to know that the Guardian still has some humans in its employ and allows them into print. Do we ever get anything of this from the Editor herself?
Israel’s intent is clear and the result will be not only the undoing of Israel but the scepticism of any claim of morality from within Western politicians. The rot began with Blair and Iraq and must end without further delay.
The UK Labour government is in hoc to the Israeli lobby –especially BICOM — so expect no decent leadership from Starmer and co. 30% of the cabinet are members of Labour Friends of Israel. Nothing more need be said
A strange thing happened when it became true that “…politicians are not allowed in.” Suddenly, the Labour Government noticed that something was awry. Two British MPs had been “humiliated”; not only were they refused entry, but they were interrogated and held for several hours before being put on a plane and sent back to whence they had come – like some common immigrant whose paperwork was not acceptable.
The chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Emily Thornberry, expressed “our fury at this insult to our Parliament.”
50,000+ dead; 18,000 children; 500 schools bombed to destruction; 11 universities razed to the ground; next to no hospitals functioning as such; 15 Health Care workers gunned down and buried under their crushed ambulances in a mass, shallow grave; Hind Rajab – a child to symbolize the particular inhumanity of Israel’s onslaught; five weeks of no food, fuel, water or medicine; etc.etc…
No comment.
Ms Thornberry should have the last word; talking to Sky, she wished to express “our fury at this insult to our Parliament.”
We get the picture.