The leaders of the United Kingdom, France, and Canada issue a joint statement condemning Israel’s handling of the humanitarian situation in Gaza and calling on the Israeli government to immediately halt military action in the enclave and allow in aid, threatening “further concrete actions in response” if Israel refuses.
The three leaders call Israel’s announcement yesterday to allow a limited amount of aid into Gaza “wholly inadequate” and say the country’s failure to assist the Gazan civilian population “is unacceptable and risks breaching International Humanitarian Law.”
The countries also reject the prospect of “permanent forced displacement” of Gazan civilians, and rebuke members of the Israeli government for using “abhorrent language… threatening that, in their despair at the destruction of Gaza, civilians will start to relocate.”
I too loathe that these hypocrites are pretending to finally notice something which has been going on for two years. But pushing them away is not a solution. Sadly we need to embrace these hypocrites and praise them for finally changing their stance in the hopes that more will follow.
We can still call them out on being very late. And hopefully in the future when “everyone has always been against this” push the government to proscecute all those who were accomplices for war crimes. But at least for now while the overton window is shifting there is no real point in fighting against it. Make it easy for more hypocrites to switch sides against genocide.