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“History Will Judge Them”: U.K. Suspends Trade Talks with Israel Amid Starvation Campaign

a year ago by return2ozma to c/world

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The United Kingdom has suspended trade talks with Israel and will impose sanctions on West Bank illegal settlers. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Keir Starmer called Israel’s announcement that it would allow a small quantity of food into Gaza for its starving population of over 2 million “totally and utterly inadequate.” This is British Foreign Secretary David Lammy. David Lammy: “The world is judging. History will judge them. Blocking aid, expanding the war, dismissing the concerns of your friends and partners, this is indefensible, and it must stop.”
magnetosphere 87 points a year ago

History will judge the politicians who did nothing, too.

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WhatAmLemmy 17 points a year ago

"Never again... For realzies this time"

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jonne 68 points a year ago

So they're stopping trade talks, but continue supplying them with arms?

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gobbles_turkey 39 points a year ago

They are drawing very stern looking frowney faces on the weapon shipping crates. VERY stern.

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eldavi 12 points a year ago

i was going to say this, so this must be nothing more than performative.

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Aceticon 4 points a year ago

They're punishing Israel with a "stern finger wagging" and spoiling even that by giving them "winks and nods".

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toy_boat_toy_boat 57 points a year ago

history doesn't save lives. history doesn't remember individuals. history doesn't care if money paved over graves.

history isn't consequence.

i have no place in this fight, other than to say that no Good God would ever want this.

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bnrnrtbgd -21 points a year ago

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toy_boat_toy_boat 11 points a year ago

no worries, i think you just misunderstood what i was trying to say. not your fault - i probably shouldn't have been so vague.

i'm a white non-religious dude from canada. i don't have a place in this fight. i still have opinions, though, and what's happening in gaza right now is a fucking holocaust. i think we're both on the same side, and i admire your conviction.

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middlemouse 1 point a year ago

What have you done that's actual made a difference?

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Yermaw 14 points a year ago

Or what would he expect someone to do? The best you can do is share information, information that you've been simply told yourself. Every time I've tried to express the opinion that "yeah that's not OK" I end up bombarded with whataboutism and do you even begin to comprehend the previous 3000 years of history and how dare you have an opinion when you didn't even consider why they're doing it etc etc etc.

By the end I just give up. I can't even be sure Israel actually exists. It's on maps. People talk about it. I haven't actually been there and verified it's real, never mind what goes on over that way.

Turns out all you can actually do is keep your own little world clean.

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raod_guitar 45 points a year ago

Would be cooler if the present judged them.

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gobbles_turkey 34 points a year ago

We have to wait for 'history' to handle this for us, huh.

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dragonfucker 22 points a year ago

Amazing how the entire world turned into anti-Semites overnight just because of a little ethnic cleansing

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NoneOfUrBusiness 21 points a year ago

It'll judge you too, but if you stop supporting them now you get a participation prize.

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driving_crooner 20 points a year ago

The same way history remembers all the multiples famines caused by the British on India?

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HK65 22 points a year ago

History indeed remembers. No coincidence half the world has an "independence from the English" day.

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driving_crooner 6 points a year ago

Never on one of those days the 45M people of famines deads in India by the English empire are talk about.

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HK65 2 points a year ago

My dude, I grew up in bumfuck Eastern Europe. Our textbooks and history classes that were so shitty that we spent like 4 lessons in total on WWII and the Cold War in total (with a cutoff date of like 1980), had a whole chapter on the incredible cruelty the British Empire had towards the people of India. Pictures of people blown from guns, descriptions of the famines, Gandhi and all that stuff.

There was practically more time spent on it than the Holocaust.

I understand why you're saying what you're saying though, and I'd just like you to know, many people didn't forget.

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MTK 15 points a year ago

Seems like it since apparently the international court is a joke.

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LiamClicks 14 points a year ago

If you look at pictures from Warsaw in 1943 and Gaza in 2025 the eyes looking back are the same.

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tostos 1 point a year ago

but how about they rewrite history with trained ai and edited digital books?

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FlashMobOfOne 1 point a year ago

No, it won't.

History is written by the victors.

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