Israel has gone beyond self-defence in Gaza, Tory MP Alicia Kearns says

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• TheBiscuitLout@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In other news, water is slightly damp

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah but it’s a Tory admitting it.

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• mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sadly these words on their own won’t be enough. Israel isn’t interested in what the international community thinks as it has demonstrated time and time again, especially when the US will back them in any calls for cessation.

  But also, sadly, Hamas isn’t going to stop either. So the whole situation is rather fucked.

  This will end in only one way: Israel annihilating Gaza and killing the majority of the population before it can declare victory over Hamas. The question is whether the international community (read the US) will say “job done well done they’re gone let’s move on” or they say “ok we were wrong you’re monsters and have gone too far”. But I think you can guess which outcome will win.

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• Mrkawfee@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Israel is a rogue state. It is a disgrace for us to be supporting them.

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• NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Went beyond self-defense in the 30s.

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  • hellothere@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The 30s? 17 years before the state was even established?

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    • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yep. Israeli militias used terrorism against Palestinians and the British at least that early.

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  The intervention by Mr Wallace, who was defence secretary under three prime ministers until August, comes amid growing international pressure over the scale of civilian casualties.

  Asked for his response to Mr Wallace’s article, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stressed that Israel had the right to defend itself “against what was an appalling terrorist attack perpetrated by Hamas”.

  Mr Wallace said he was not calling for a ceasefire with Hamas, but warned Israel needed to stop its “crude and indiscriminate method of attack” in the Gaza Strip.

  In response to the former defence secretary’s remarks, Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme Mr Wallace’s choice of words were “unfortunate language”.

  “What will radicalise a new generation is if the terrorists who burned people alive, and tortured children in front of their parents, and raped Israeli women and girls, literally get away with murder,” Mr Levy said.

  In the article Mr Wallace described lessons learnt from the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and wrote that actions such as internment “taught us that a disproportionate response by the state can serve as a terrorist organisation’s best recruiting sergeant”.

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