The United Kingdom will not halt arms sales to Israel by British companies after reviewing the latest legal advice on the matter, Foreign Minister David Cameron has said.
Some opposition political parties in Britain have called for the government to recall Parliament from its current holiday and revoke the export licences, and also to publish the legal advice the government has used to reach its position.
“This was yet another missed opportunity from David Cameron to move himself and other UK officials away from their current complicity in Israeli war crimes, apartheid and possible genocide,” said Amnesty International UK’s crisis response manager, Kristyan Benedict.
Israel denies it has committed war crimes or genocide in its assault on Gaza, and has rejected the use of the term “apartheid” to describe its treatment of Palestinians.
Whilst I don’t disagree about your point for most cases, Racism would be a far simpler explanation for this specific instance.
They’re quite open about it too - just listen to how the German Power Elites are all about their “unwavering support” for “the Jewish Nation”, pretty much a dictionary-definition racial descrimination (if a different etnicity was the majority or in government there, they would treat them differently)
Also notice the sudden criticism of Israel from their unwavering supporters only when Israel killed Westerners. Apparently wounding and killing 1 in 50 Palestinian children was absolutelly fine, it’s the killing of Westerners that’s a problem.
You’ll also notice that pretty much all “unwavering supporters” of Israel are nations with a history of heavy racism, most of which having commited genocide along racial lines themselves, such as Germany, the UK, the US and Australia.
If you consider the possibility that following WWII Jews became “another kind of white” and consider how racists would see those situations, a lot of things make sense, such as how there was massive outrage for the Russian invasion of Ukraine (since it’s whites attacking other whites) but none at all for mass murder being perpetrated in Gaza by Israel (as that’s whites killing muslims) and with even military support being provided to the aggressor “whites”, even though in the latter more civilians were killed in 1 months that in 2 years of the former.
Whilst I’m sure greed is also a powerful motivator, IMHO it’s racism that explains all manner of double standards being applied both to different events in the Israeli Genocide and between it and other situations of states mass murder civilians.