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The Owen Jones Podcast

Israeli War Crimes Accidentally Exposed By David Cameron

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Lord Cameron has moved from his old role of 'destroying Britain's social fabric' to Foreign Secretary, and this week he was interrogated about Israel's onslaught on Gaza.


His responses were completely damning.

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0:00.0

Before we watch David Cameron Squirm, sorry Lord Cameron, who's moved on from his previous

0:04.5

vocation of wrecking Britain to making a comeback as Foreign Secretary, let's just be very clear here.

0:09.7

The British government knows that Israel is in violation, serious violation of international

0:14.7

humanitarian law and the legal norms that govern the conduct of warfare.

0:20.3

How do we know this?

0:21.3

Because for a start, the violations are so rampant and egregious and frankly

0:24.7

boasted about publicly repeatedly in fact by Israeli leaders, army officers, you name it.

0:29.2

Indeed, the British government, more to the point, has top lawyers who clearly can tell politicians

0:35.1

what the legal position is.

0:36.8

So what we're going to watch here is a lot of squirming, obfuscation, muddying of waters, pretend

0:41.0

stupidity and hand- up forgetfulness.

0:44.6

There shouldn't be treated as an endearing Hugh Grant style carnival of posh Britishness.

0:48.5

Oh golly gosh, I haven't the faintest of these constitute war crimes silly on me.

0:52.2

I feel overly sorry about that really I do

0:54.2

it should be treated as a confession because Britain is facilitating what it must know to be

0:59.4

war crimes and from which David Cameron's performance we can clearly tell it knows to be the case.

1:05.0

Now Lord Cameron had to attend a session of the House of Commons from an Affairs Select Committee that's chaired by the Conservative

1:11.8

MP Alicia Kearns who's done a pretty good job, I would say,

1:14.8

it's scrutinising the onslaught against Gaza. Not often, you hear me praising a Tory,

1:19.9

let's be honest, it is all relative, but needs must and she's certainly done a lot better

1:23.6

than the leader of the opposition who initially backed the war crimes of cutting off

1:27.6

water and energy to a civilian population speaking water, let's just begin with Brendan O'Hara. He's the

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