Hearst: Netanyahu pledged to close the island to erase the record of horrific scenes (agencies)

Loyal allies who call themselves friends of Israel are beginning to realize that they are also friends of the murderers of Western aid workers, of the fascist and apartheid genocides and of the settlers who set fire to Arab villages.

This is how David Hirst, editor-in-chief of the British website Middle East Eye, began an article in which he strongly criticized the support of Western politicians, writers, and journalists for Israel in its war on the Gaza Strip.

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Hirst said that after 6 months, the edifice that allowed Israeli forces to kill more than 33,000 Palestinians and wound 75,000 others, displace and then starve more than 2.3 million people, demolish northern Gaza, dismantle health services, and indicate that they would do the same in Rafah during The next six months, this edifice began to crumble.

They seek cover

He added that the political leaders who considered this massacre Israel's right to defend itself, the journalists who promoted fictional horror stories about beheaded children and a mass rape last October 7, and the editors who day after day ignored stories about relief convoys targeted by Israeli forces, They are now seeking to retreat.

And all the arguments they used to maintain this carnage collapse in their hands: that this is a just war, that Israel should be allowed to finish the job, that the action taken is proportionate, that the legal process at the International Court of Justice is obstructing peace talks and can be ignored, and that Britain and America can blame the president. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while at the same time continuing to arm him.

Cameron could no longer dodge

The writer criticized British Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron, saying: The dam has burst, and he can no longer continue the cat-and-mouse game with the chair of Parliament's selected Foreign Affairs Committee, Alicia Cairns, who revealed a few days ago that government lawyers know that Israel has violated international humanitarian law.

He noted that more than 600 lawyers, academics and former judges, including former Chief Justice Lady Hale and two other former judges on the court, signed a letter warning the UK government that it is violating international law by continuing to arm Israel.

He also referred to the question of former Foreign Minister Sir Alan Duncan (from the Conservative Party) about the legitimacy of considering Israel an ally of the United Kingdom, calling for (i.e. Duncan) to hold its main supporters and backers accountable.

It was also attributed to Duncan that he said that anything that supports what has become a complete disaster in the Gaza Strip is morally unacceptable, and that what we must not accept is not Israel's current mistake, but rather what it has been doing for years, because the Israeli army does not follow international law.

The annexation of Palestine is the root of the problem

Duncan said that this army supports the illegal settlers in the West Bank who steal Palestinian lands, explaining that the theft of lands and the annexation of Palestine are the root of the problem, which led to what the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) did and the battles that we are currently witnessing.

Hirst continued to say that the mood has indeed changed, adding that a YouGov poll showed that 56% of British voters now support a ban on the export of weapons and spare parts, while 59% said that Israel is violating human rights in Gaza.

He said that Cameron, stripped bare, had to choose: admit that his government was indeed violating international law and could be prosecuted as such - including himself - or stop the arms trade.

Hirst reported many horrific violations by the Israeli army in the recent period, such as re-storming Al-Shifa Hospital, killing aid workers, and destroying the Iranian consulate in Damascus.

Close the island to erase the terror

Regarding Netanyahu’s pledge to close Al Jazeera’s regional office in Israel, Hirst said that it seemed as if the Israeli Prime Minister wanted to erase the record of such horrific scenes.

Regarding the bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus, he said that this attack represents another red line that was crossed, adding that Israel, on the same line that claimed that Al-Shifa Hospital is not a hospital but a command center for Hamas, the Israeli military spokesman said, “This is not a consulate and not an embassy, ​​this is a building.” A Quds Force soldier disguised as a civilian building in Damascus.

Hirst explained this by saying that Israel knew exactly what it had done, and knew the line it was crossing. It wanted to provoke Iran to enter the war, and it knew that it would not use the same logic when an Iranian agent struck a Jewish synagogue or center in retaliation, and it would not declare any responsibility for endangering... The lives of Jews around the world are at risk, “but that is certainly what it is doing.”

He also noted the reaction of the Western press, saying that the front pages in Britain, Canada, Poland and Australia (the dead aid workers' home countries) were outraged, and "even the staunchly pro-Israel Times, owned by the Murdoch family, was outraged."

He said that the repeated attack on the relief convoy was no different from all other attacks on UNRWA convoys, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds, and on Al-Shifa Hospital, except that the seven dead were British, Polish, Australians and Canadians, and that the founder was a famous chef.

Biden's fake indignation

The writer described the reaction of US President Joe Biden, who expressed his indignation at Israel's killing of aid workers, as "fake indignation." He called on Hurst to ignore the statements of concern coming from the White House and the State Department, and to focus only on Biden's actions.

He recalled that Biden had the ability to stop all weapons, including the supply of 2,000-pound bombs, or indeed the ability to place severe restrictions on their use, but he did neither.

He warned that if Biden believes that, in the midst of the chaos created by Israel's war, signing a piece of paper will be enough to stop the anger simmering in the hearts of Arabs from Amman to Morocco, then he is more delusional than his professional observers on Capitol Hill believe.

Hirst concluded his article by stressing that it takes a lot to acknowledge that the lifelong dream of a Jewish homeland in the Middle East is now turning into a nightmare.

Source: Middle East Eye