Gaza Erased From UK Election
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🗓️ 26 June 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Come on though, seriously, what travesty of a democracy is this? |
| 0:03.7 | Now the UK general election is devoid of any substance about anything meaningful. |
| 0:07.9 | It's basically an imploding Tory campaign set to their Betty Hill theme tune. |
| 0:12.4 | All very amusing, or they droll. But we're not |
| 0:14.9 | debating what a government about to receive an epic landslide, thanks to the |
| 0:18.8 | total self-destructories, is going to do with the half decade it's set to have in power at least with domestic |
| 0:25.3 | policy or but erased mere trivialities like spending tax the NHS |
| 0:29.5 | education just not |
| 0:35.0 | getting a look in, what hope was there ever for Gaza? |
| 0:39.0 | That's right, a genocide, one of the great crimes of our age, |
| 0:42.0 | which this country, is deeply complicit in. |
| 0:45.6 | Deeply complicit in not least firstly because of our own imperial history within |
| 0:50.1 | living memory it was of course the British mandate for Palestine and the British |
| 0:54.6 | Empire which promised what was described as a national homeland for the Jewish people but which |
| 0:59.1 | in practice was at the expense of the indigenous Palestinian population. |
| 1:03.6 | And deeply complicit because Britain backed Israel's |
| 1:06.2 | genocide-lons-law from the start, refused to use its diplomatic position |
| 1:10.4 | to take on that genocide-long slot. |
| 1:12.3 | Bear in mind that, for example, |
| 1:14.4 | Britain still has a seat at the Security Council |
| 1:16.4 | of the United Nations |
| 1:17.2 | and is at least nominally the closest Allah of the US |
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