and added the government had “rigorously applied international law” in relation to the war in Gaza.
I’m no lawyer, but if the law allows for the continued sale of weapons to a government when there is an active arrest warrant for the leader of said government, for misuse of those weapons - then the law is broken.
And it’s not just any arrest warrant - the warrant is issued by the ICC, and the UK is a state party to the Rome Accord, which is the treaty that gives the ICC authority.
I didn’t know all that, I went and looked it up for this comment. The Wikipedia page was interesting reading.
The UKs complicity goes much deeper. The UK has run thousands of surveillance flights from an airbase in Cyprus to help the Zios bomb Gaza to rubble.
The UK is militarily involved in this genocide and that aspect is far greater than the comparatively small weapons shipments. They also have a much clearer understanding of when and where Israel committed war crimes, so the UK has even less excuses when this genocide gets prosecuted.
The law has been broken for a very long time. It’s been well past the time for a restructuring.
Alright, I’m not crazy; I swore there was, in fact, a warrant issued for Bibi by the ICC, which is the correct way to handle this. (Honestly, with that and the warrant for Duterte both out, this is gonna show if the ICC still has any teeth. We need to know if they can still be relied on.)
this is gonna show if the ICC still has any teeth.
The ICC never had any teeth and I see no reason to think it will start now.
The reply to the letter was sent by the permanent under-secretary, Oliver Robbins, and Nick Dyer, the second most senior civil servant in the Foreign Office. They told the signatories: “[I]f your disagreement with any aspect of government policy or action is profound, your ultimate recourse is to resign from the civil service. This is an honourable course.”
You fucking joking, right? It is the people who break law or international obligations who should resign.
