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| Volume 55 Number 12, May 31, 2025 | ARCHIVE | HOME | JBCENTRE | SUBSCRIBE |
Palestinian Nakba Demonstration, London, May 17 2025 -
Photo: Workers' Weekly
Holding no one to account for the US/Zionist genocide in Gaza, least of all themselves, on May 19, Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, France's President Emmanuel Macron, and Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney, all in Rome for the inaugural mass of the new Pope Leo XIV, issued a joint statement expressing their dismay over the starvation of the people of Gaza.
Since October 2023, these three countries have been leading apologists and supporters of the US/Israeli Zionist Genocide so what has changed to make them express their dismay at the suffering the entire world has been witnessing helplessly since that time?
"We strongly oppose the expansion of Israel's military operations in Gaza," the joint statement read. "The level of human suffering in Gaza is intolerable," they say. An obvious question is that if they found it tolerable before, what has happened that they are finding it intolerable today? Is it because Israel is "expanding its military operations" and providing inadequate aid?
They write, "Yesterday's announcement that Israel will allow a basic quantity of food into Gaza is wholly inadequate. We call on the Israeli Government to stop its military operations in Gaza and immediately allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza. This must include engaging with the UN to ensure a return to delivery of aid in line with humanitarian principles."
Could it be that the Resistance forces through their steadfast defiance have brought Israel to its knees and brought to the world's attention what the apartheid Israeli regime is all about and the leaders of Britain, France and Canada think that now opposition to genocide is a "good tactic"?
They will soon find out that support for the Palestinian people is neither a tactic nor a strategic choice. It is a profound matter of principle which demands that the governments of the countries which issued the joint statement should stop financial aid, implement an arms embargo now, stop the investments from their countries into Israel and any business dealings with that pariah state, including the sale of Palestinian lands to settlers and the slanders issued against the Resistance forces and all their nonsense about Israel's alleged right to self-defence which does not exist in international law.
Ever sticking to their untenable position of blaming the Resistance forces for what is taking place in Palestine, ever attempting to shift the onus on them, the joint statement reads: "We call on Hamas to release immediately the remaining hostages they have so cruelly held since 7 October 2023."
The entire world has seen that there is nothing cruel about the treatment the captives have experienced while in the hands of the Resistance forces while the plight of the Palestinian prisoners at the hands of the Zionists makes the Abu Ghraib torture camp of the United States in Iraq look mild.
As if the US/Israeli Zionists are doing something new, the joint statement perpetuates the fraud that these three countries uphold international humanitarian law. It reads:
"The Israeli Government's denial of essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population is unacceptable and risks breaching International Humanitarian Law. We condemn the abhorrent language used recently by members of the Israeli Government, threatening that, in their despair at the destruction of Gaza, civilians will start to relocate."
"Permanent forced displacement is a breach of international humanitarian law," the joint statement reads. These shameless leaders seem to have just discovered this? All one can say is better late than never but their motivation in discovering this now is too suspect to be taken as a sincere gesture of support for the Palestinian people.
The joint statement remains as silent as the grave about the horrendous attacks the Palestinian people have suffered since the founding of the state of Israel but hastens to say, "Israel suffered a heinous attack on October 7," adding: "We have always supported Israel's right to defend Israelis against terrorism. But this escalation is wholly disproportionate. We will not stand by while the Netanyahu Government pursues these egregious actions. If Israel does not cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid, we will take further concrete actions in response."
Palestinian Nakba Demonstration, Dublin, May 17
2025
The actions of the people of Britain, as well as France and Canada, are demanding that the arms trade and financial support for Israel be stopped now.
If the leaders of these three countries were sincere, which is highly improbable, let their actions be effective in ending the Israeli occupation of all occupied Palestinian lands. Let them demand the enforcement of the Palestinians' right of return and the restoration of every building, school, mosque, cultural institution and punishment for incalculable damages in the losses of human lives.
If the aim of this statement is to give legitimacy to the US attempts to deprive the Palestinian people of their leadership by the Resistance movements, if the aim is to declare that just Netanyahu, not the apartheid state of Israel, is the problem, then they will fail. They are not "good faith participants in peace negotiations" and "arrangements for Gaza's future". The dismay expressed by those who are apologists for Israel's relentless crimes against the Palestinian people merely shows that the US/Zionist forces and their backers in the Genocide 7, the G7, have not managed to achieve their goal of eliminating the Palestinian "problem".
Stop the Genocide Now!
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