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The Owen Jones Podcast

Tory MP Slams Government For Gaza War Crimes

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Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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How tragic that it's taken a Tory MP to talk sense.

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0:00.0

What does it come to when it takes a conservative MP to speak more sense on issues of

0:04.8

war and peace, of saving human life, on injustice, then not just the conservative leadership,

0:11.8

but the labor leadership as well.

0:14.2

Now this I'm afraid is currently the timeline we're living in,

0:17.4

the most hellish of all the timelines.

0:20.2

Let's just listen now to the conservative MP Crispin Blunt speak, huge amounts of good sense.

0:25.5

He is the former chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.

0:28.4

The United Kingdom Government has given unequivocal support to the state of Israel a statements repeated by the Prime Minister yesterday

0:37.6

and I'm uncertain that they fully understand the implications of the development of

0:42.4

international law whereby if you the war crime, you become complicit in that crime itself.

0:55.0

And it's absolutely clear now that what is happening in Gaza does amount to a war crime because it is disproportionate and it does not distinguish the

1:08.8

targets it is taking out. Hence a terrible number of children that have been killed and what we just heard from the

1:16.6

World Health Organization and the concerns about the effect of the transfer on the hospitals.

1:22.4

But you will know you will know that a force transfer of 1.2 million people is an absolute crime under the laws of war.

1:31.0

You are simply not allowed to do it. As indeed is the collective

1:36.3

punishment of the people of Gaza with a siege and the imposition of no food

1:40.1

and no water and no electors. Now this is the moral clarity, which is missing from a labor leadership, which justified cutting

1:47.1

off water and energy to a civilian population, and refused to condemn other war crimes such

1:51.2

as the forcible expulsion of a civilian population.

1:54.8

And what does it come to when this is like coming up for air?

1:58.4

When all he's actually doing is stating a basic legal position,

2:03.0

is not simply a humanitarian position, a legal,

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