[News] Starmer lied in saying Israel isn't carrying out genocide in Gaza. Here's the proof

Mon Nov 18 19:17:21 EST 2024

We may be exhausted by 13 months of lies, disinformation and smears. But 
we're not voiceless, or powerless. Our leaders seek to bully us into 
silence because they fear what we have to say
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  Starmer lied in saying Israel isn't carrying out genocide in Gaza.
  Here's the proof
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      We may be exhausted by 13 months of lies, disinformation and
      smears. But we're not voiceless, or powerless. Our leaders seek to
      bully us into silence because they fear what we have to say

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/Below is the text of a speech I delivered in Bath on Saturday 17 
November 2024, organised by the Bath Campaigns Network. A section of the 
talk – on Keir Starmer’s lies about Gaza – can be watched in this video, 
kindly filmed by Nicola James 
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For 13 months, western governments and the establishment media have 
shown us who they are.

They are indifferent to the mass murder of children in Gaza. In fact, 
the West supplies the weapons and intelligence to help Israel slaughter 
/more/Palestinian children.

Western leaders seem fine too with an aid blockade denying water, food 
and power to more than 2 million people – starving them. Our politicians 
and media call it “self-defence”.

Similarly, the West has quietly consented to Israel’s war on the United 
Nations and its banning of UNRWA, the only refugee agency able to feed 
and care for Gaza’s families.

Western leaders have gradually resigned themselves to Israel’s 
systematic destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and medical centres, as well 
as the documented killing, kidnapping and torture of medical workers.

Western politicians and media have shrugged their shoulders as Israel 
has picked off more than 150 journalists in Gaza – the largest massacre 
of media workers in history. Israel prefers to carry out its crimes 
unobserved.

Israel has carved up tiny Gaza into a northern and a southern zone, and 
is terrorising 400,000 Palestinians out of the ruins of north Gaza into 
the ruins of south Gaza.

They are being herded into a south Gaza of so-called “safe zones” 
bombarded and starved nearly as intensely as north Gaza.

The West has watched mutely as Israeli leaders declare the Palestinians 
of north Gaza will never be allowed back – that is, that they are being 
ethnically cleansed, as they were earlier by Israel, in 1948, during the 
Nakba.

Day by day, Israel shrinks the space for Palestinians in what was – even 
before Israel’s genocide in Gaza – one of the most overcrowded, 
besieged, attacked and surveilled places on the planet.

Israel is making a hell on earth for Palestinians ever more hellish.

And yet the West’s leaders have barely bothered to call for restraint. 
Even after 13 months of a genocide, we are told this is a necessary “war 
against Hamas”.

Even Israel’s aid blockade and starvation of Gaza’s population – an 
indisputable crime against humanity – is framed as an author-less 
“humanitarian crisis”.

Industrial-scale murder in Gaza – carried out with the supply of British 
weapons and intelligence – has become so routine the BBC hardly bothers 
to report it any more.

And our protests are smeared as antisemitism.

Like Israel, the West has stood on its head the very international legal 
order it developed after the Second World War to stop a repeat of the 
Holocaust.

David Lammy, Britain’s foreign secretary, says 
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enough people in Gaza have died yet for us to call it a genocide – as 
though accountants and mathematicians are the ones to decide when crimes 
against humanity are committed.

As though the goal is simply to identify a genocide for the historical 
record, after it is completed, rather than stop it in its tracks.

In any case, Lammy knows that Gaza has been so utterly devastated that 
it now has no capacity to count its dead 
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He knows that, according to experts, Gaza’s death toll is more likely in 
the 100,000s than the 10,000s.

Sir Keir Starmer, the British prime minister, spoke this past week in 
the House of Commons to tell us two things.

First, that any questioning of Israel’s conduct is improper – unless it 
is preceded and overshadowed by condemnation of Hamas’ actions more than 
a year ago.

And second, that, as an expert in human rights law, he can categorically 
say no genocide is taking place in Gaza.

Today, Starmer excels as one thing: a grubby, cynical, craven politician 
– one utterly subservient to the American empire and its interests in 
the oil-rich Middle East.

But Starmer is right. Indeed, he does know the definition of genocide.

In 2014, he defined genocide to the International Court of Justice, the 
highest court in the world, in a war crimes hearing into Serbia’s 
three-month siege in 1991 of the Croatian city of Vukovar.

He would prefer we forget his words. So let me recall them now.

Starmer said, and I quote:

    Serbian forces carried out a sustained campaign of shelling,
    systematic expulsion, denial of food, water, electricity, sanitation
    and medical treatment – bombing, burning, brutal killings and
    torture, which reduced the city [of Vukovar] to rubble and destroyed
    its Croat population.

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Starmer defined 
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actions as genocidal because they were a “radically disproportionate 
attack deliberately intended to devastate the town and its civilian 
population”.

Israel’s crimes in Gaza are immeasurably worse – on a far larger scale 
and far more sustained – than anything suffered by Vukovar.

And unlike the case of Serbia, there can be no doubt about intent. 
Israel’s leaders have endlessly repeated that the goal is to lay waste 
to Gaza, to make it uninhabitable, to starve the population.

This week, an eminent British doctor who has volunteered in Gaza 
explained how Israel dealt with Palestinian children it failed to kill 
with its bombs.

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Dr Nizam Mamode broke down as he told a parliamentary committee that, 
after refugee shelters were struck, Israel would send in small, armed 
drones to identify and shoot survivors.

Children he operated on would tell how the drones hovered over them as 
they lay on the ground and then shot.

He called it a deliberate and persistent targeting of children.

UN figures show 
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70% of verified violent deaths in Gaza are women and children, with the 
highest proportion from the age group five to nine-year-olds.

Is this not genocide, Sir Keir, as you defined it in 2014? Is it not 
genocide, as the Genocide Convention defines it.

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And if it is not, Sir Keir, you urgently need to explain why.

>From their own mouths, Lammy and Starmer have told us who they are. They 
are genocide deniers. They are enablers of genocide. They are 
conspirators in genocide – just like those who preceded them in the 
British government.

We may be exhausted by 13 months of lies, disinformation, smears and 
gaslighting. But we are not voiceless – or powerless. Our leaders seek 
to exhaust us, to smear and bully us into submission and silence, 
because they fear what we have to say.

Because every time we raise our voices, we shame them. We expose them. 
We remind ourselves and others that this is not normal. That we are led 
by moral monsters.

  2024 Jonathan Cook
548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104

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