♊️ GemiNews 🗞️

Title

Summary

The indiscriminate killing, the manmade starvation and the bombing of aid workers must bring the west to a moment of decision<ul><li>Chris McGreal writes for Guardian US and is a former correspondent in Washington, Johannesburg and Jerusalem</li></ul>There has been no stronger defender than Olaf Scholz’s German government of Israel’s contention that the assault on the Palestinians was a necessary evil. But as evidence grew that the Israeli military was less than discriminating in the killing of thousands of civilians, and with a manufactured famine looming and Israel threatening an attack on Rafah, Chancellor Scholz <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/germanys-scholz-say-rafah-assault-would-make-regional-peace-very-difficult-2024-03-17/">went to Jerusalem</a> last month to ask Benjamin Netanyahu whether the pursuit of Hamas could “justify such terribly high costs”. The Israeli prime minister surprised no one by saying that it could.What Scholz will do in response, if anything, remains to be seen. But the Germans, like the Americans and the British, have been forced by mounting evidence of the horror being perpetrated on ordinary Palestinians in Gaza, where women and children account for a majority of the 33,000 dead, to at least consider that there might be more to this war than Israel’s claim that it wants only to break Hamas. In Britain, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/former-supreme-court-judges-say-uk-arming-israel-breaches-international-law">a letter</a> signed by more than 600 prominent lawyers, including former supreme court justices, warning that the UK government is breaching international law by continuing to arm Israel, has added to the pressure on politicians to confront this reality. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/04/slaughter-famine-israel-allies-killing-bombing-aid-workers-west">Continue reading...</a>

Content

Author

Link

Published date

Image url

Feed url

Guid

Hidden blurb

--- !ruby/object:Feedjira::Parser::RSSEntry
carlessian_info:
 news_filer_version: 2
 newspaper: US general21
 macro_region: USA
entry_id: !ruby/object:Feedjira::Parser::GloballyUniqueIdentifier
 guid: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/04/slaughter-famine-israel-allies-killing-bombing-aid-workers-west
title: Amid the slaughter and with famine looming, Israel’s allies must say enough
 is enough. If not now, when? | Chris McGreal
categories:
- Israel-Gaza war
- Gaza
- Israel
- Palestinian territories
- Middle East and north Africa
- World news
- United Nations
summary: The indiscriminate killing, the manmade starvation and the bombing of
 aid workers must bring the west to a moment of decision<ul><li>Chris McGreal
 writes for Guardian US and is a former correspondent in Washington, Johannesburg
 and Jerusalem</li></ul>There has been no stronger defender than Olaf Scholz’s
 German government of Israel’s contention that the assault on the Palestinians was
 a necessary evil. But as evidence grew that the Israeli military was less than discriminating
 in the killing of thousands of civilians, and with a manufactured famine looming
 and Israel threatening an attack on Rafah, Chancellor Scholz <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/germanys-scholz-say-rafah-assault-would-make-regional-peace-very-difficult-2024-03-17/">went
 to Jerusalem</a> last month to ask Benjamin Netanyahu whether the pursuit of Hamas
 could “justify such terribly high costs”. The Israeli prime minister surprised no
 one by saying that it could.What Scholz will do in response, if anything,
 remains to be seen. But the Germans, like the Americans and the British, have been
 forced by mounting evidence of the horror being perpetrated on ordinary Palestinians
 in Gaza, where women and children account for a majority of the 33,000 dead, to
 at least consider that there might be more to this war than Israel’s claim that
 it wants only to break Hamas. In Britain, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/former-supreme-court-judges-say-uk-arming-israel-breaches-international-law">a
 letter</a> signed by more than 600 prominent lawyers, including former supreme court
 justices, warning that the UK government is breaching international law by continuing
 to arm Israel, has added to the pressure on politicians to confront this reality.
 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/04/slaughter-famine-israel-allies-killing-bombing-aid-workers-west">Continue
 reading...</a>
rss_fields:
- author
- title
- summary
- categories
- published
- entry_id
- url
- image
url: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/04/slaughter-famine-israel-allies-killing-bombing-aid-workers-west
image: https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f95e1d1e2a0e4658d415d6ade8294733a713a75f/0_69_5472_3283/master/5472.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=123de291ac952932b7f1aa32b9d509b4
author: Chris McGreal
published: 2024-04-04 15:14:50.000000000 Z

Language

Active

Ricc internal notes

Ricc source

Editing article