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🗓️ 8 May 2025
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0:00.0 | This feels like a big moment. Western complicity in Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people |
0:05.3 | is being denounced by writing newspaper and Conservative MPs in the UK. What does that tell us? |
0:12.7 | Tells us that it's increasingly clear what the judgment of history will be on this grotesque crime, |
0:18.6 | as well as the judgment of the courts. Let's begin with the Financial Times, |
0:23.7 | a pro-business newspaper, which is mostly about the Conservative Party in the last few general |
0:28.2 | elections in the UK, backed Labour last time, reflecting how it believed that Kyrsama had |
0:35.5 | shifted to a position of defending the status quo, but before |
0:38.3 | that, the Conservative Party over and over again repeatedly, the editorial, which reflects the |
0:42.1 | official position of the newspaper, is headline, The West's shameful silence on Gaza. |
0:48.4 | It begins with, after 19 months of conflicts that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians |
0:52.8 | and drawn accusations of war crimes |
0:55.5 | against Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu is once more preparing to escalate Israel's offensive |
1:00.8 | in Gaza. Well, yes, look, technically they are accusations because nobody has been tried |
1:06.1 | and convicted in a court of law yet, despite the International Criminal Court issuing public arrest warrants |
1:11.9 | against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister Yov Gallen |
1:16.9 | for both war crimes and crimes against humanity. It's understood that the ICC will issue |
1:22.8 | further charges and arrest warrants that has been ordered to keep those secret. |
1:29.5 | But it is as obvious that war crimes have been committed by Israel against the Palestinians |
1:34.4 | as it is that the earth revolves around the sun and that autumn follows summer. |
1:41.4 | Every war crime possible has been committed. |
1:43.7 | They have been publicly confessed to |
1:45.0 | and boasted about by Israeli leaders, officials and soldiers. They've been recorded on film, |
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