• AutoTL;DRB
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    41 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    All 18 Labour councillors in Slough have called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza - a position at odds with party leader Sir Keir Starmer.

    Slough group leader Pavitar Kaur Mann told the BBC they had “watched with absolute horror what’s been happening”.

    Labour leader Sir Keir argued on Tuesday that a ceasefire would leave Hamas’s infrastructure intact.

    Slough’s Labour group leader Ms Mann said constituents were raising “very significant concerns” about the “humanitarian impact on the Palestinian population”.

    “There must be unimpeded, unconditional humanitarian access to Gaza, to enable vital food, water, fuel and medical supplies to meet the urgent needs of innocent civilians.”

    Human rights group Amnesty International has accused the Labour leader of failing to show “the clear and principled leadership that this decades-old crisis needs”.


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  • @Jackthelad
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    -41 year ago

    So what?

    Seriously, why is so much political energy spent on something that’s happening thousands of miles away, in a region that’s always been at war, and that we have no control over?

    Do they think the Prime Minister, whoever it may be at the time, can just ring up Netanyahu and say “oh hey, Ben. Do you mind stopping that bombing for a bit? Cheers.” We can’t do anything about it, so whatever position you take, be it pro-Israel, pro-Palestine, pro-neither is all just virtue-signalling.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      61 year ago

      We can’t do anything about it

      The UK, France, Germany, and the US can do a lot more than veto and abstain UN resolutions calling for a ceasefire and peace negotiations in the area. A lot more.

      Nobody pretends this will be easy or quick but if the UK wants to be seen as a relevant player on the international stage it needs to tackle difficult world geopolitical issues like this.

      And the same goes for domestic party politics, Labour and the Conservatives can do a lot more than the weasel words they’ve released in press statements so far. A lot more.