Middle East Eye editor-in-chief David Hirst criticised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who arrived in Britain on Friday, for not controlling the country, pointing to civilian demonstrations and demonstrations of military disobedience in the streets for weeks to protest moves to neutralize Israel's highest court.
Netanyahu does not even control his government, Hearst added, noting that his finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, who has declared himself a Jewish fanatic, gave a speech in Paris in which he claimed that the Palestinians do not exist. He even said more, when he cited a map suggesting that Jordan, along with parts of Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and other neighboring countries, also does not exist and should be under Jewish control.
Smotrich's map is taken from the symbol of the Jewish terrorist organization Irgun, which was implicated in several pogroms in 1948, including Deir Yassin.
Another catastrophe
Whatever the fate of Netanyahu's government, the remaining legal restrictions on annexation of occupied West Bank land have been removed, giving Smotrich and the settlers carte blanche to carry out further massacres and attacks on Palestinian homes, villages and towns.
He said that this was the context of a visit to London by a prime minister whose ministers were publicly calling for another Nakba and the collective expulsion of Palestinians trying to live on their land.
Britain's response, as it is not a passing bystander to Israel's war crimes in public without a shred of shame or caution.
Britain is responsible for the establishment of a Jewish-majority state and the fruit of the Zionist project, and no other country bears more responsibility for the expulsions and demolitions of illegal homes and settlements that have continued since the establishment of Israel.
It was responsible for the establishment of a Jewish-majority State and the fruit of the Zionist project, and no other State bore more responsibility for the expulsions and demolitions of illegal homes and settlements that had continued since the establishment of Israel.
Third Intifada
Britain's response to Putin's alleged war crimes by referring Russia to the International Criminal Court, while its response to repeated Israeli war crimes in its illegal occupation of Palestinian territories was to oppose the ICC investigation into war crimes and vote against the UN investigation into the root causes of the conflict.
He added that its Prime Minister Richie Sunak this week went further than his predecessor Boris Johnson, who voted against the ICC investigation. Instead of suggesting that Britain should boycott Netanyahu's visit if it had any credibility in upholding international law, it signed an agreement with Israel enshrining its impunity in the Human Rights Council and other international bodies, and rejecting the use of the term "apartheid."
The only response to this will come from the Palestinian street, and when it comes, everyone will know that Britain will be to blame when a third intifada erupts.