The desire to cater to Israel in its Gaza operation led UK Labour leader Keir Starmer to consult with the Israeli President, perpetrator of genocidal incitement, and cotrive with the Speaker of the House of Commons to subvert UK parliamentary procedures to the degree that the Speaker has lost the confidence of the House and may have to resign.
Tel Aviv, February 26 – the hard to watch and deeply disturbing images of the carnage and destruction inflicted by Israel in the Gaza Strip are now joined by a unique spectacle of subversion of the UK parliamentary process.
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The UK is not an uninvolved party. Like the US, the UK is complicit in the plausible genocide being perpetrated by the State of Israel – a Crime against Humanity. And the goal of the UK parliamentary maneuvers by Labour leader Keir Starmer and Speaker of the House of Commons Lindsay Hoyle was to produce a UK public position that better suits the interests of the State of Israel in carrying out its acts to completion. The joint conduct of Starmer and Hoyle was also aimed at suberting the clear desire of the vast majority of the UK public - an immediate ceasefire, return of the hostages and end of the hostilities in Palestine and Israel.
Such maneuvering is taking place when ~1.4 million displaced Palestinians are trapped at the southern tip of the Gaza Strip under the threat of imminent Israeli air strikes and ground assault. They have nowhere to go. It appears that Israel is trying to accomplish their final forced displacement to Egypt, since genocide/forced displacement/ethnic cleansing were the true goals of the Israeli operation all along. As Israeli War Cabinet member, former Shin Bet head Avi Dichter commented on November 11, 2023: "We are rolling out the Gaza Nakba... The 2023 Gaza Nakba, that’s how it will end up."
February 21-22, 2024 – recent events in the UK House of Commons
February 21 was an "Opposition Day" in the House of Commons, on which the SNP was entitled to pick the topic to be debated. The SNP chose the topic of the Israel-Hamas war and a motion calling for an "immediate ceasefire." The motion “condemns any military assault on what is now the largest refugee camp in the world” and “further calls for the immediate release of all hostages taken by Hamas and an end to the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.” Both Labour and the Conservatives found the SNP motion too pro-Palestinian for their taste and proposed amendments to the SNP motion.
Speaker Hoyle took an unusual action by calling the Labour amendment for consideration by the House before consideration of the SNP motion itself, or the Conservatives amendment.
Hoyle’s maneuver was believed to be designed to help Labour leader Starmer, who consistently pressed a pro-Israeli position. Starmer, like the Conservatives, preferred in the past calling for a "pause" and not for a "ceasefire" as in the SNP motion. However, in a previous debate and vote on the subject, Starmer was unsuccessful in keeping all Labour MPs towing the line. Hoyle’s maneuver was intended to help Starmer keep Labour MPs voting for the Labour amendment.
Hoyle’s maneuver was described as "hijacking a debate on Gaza by tearing up a Commons procedure to favour Labour." By the end of the day both SNP and Tory MPs walked out on the debate. One of the Conservative MPs tabled a motion of no confidence in Speaker Lindsay Hoyle.
February 22, 2024 was summed up by Sky News – "a taxing day that left Sir Lindsay fighting for his political life." More than 50 MPs joined the motion of no confidence in Speaker Hoyle.
Starmer made unusual efforts to explain his part in Hoyle’s maneuver: "I can categorically tell you that I did not threaten the Speaker in any way whatsoever... I simply urged to ensure that we have the broadest possible debate." Starmer furtherf admitted that he consulted with Israeli President Isaac Herzog in drafting his amendment to the SNP motion regarding ceasefire. As Starmer put it, he wanted to consult with a person who was actually "involved in the conflict."
In this last excuse Starmer, a human rights expert and former UK Director of Public Prosecution, is exposed. Starmer lacks integrity, basic decency and respect for human lives. It is not a "conflict." The International Court of Justice had already ruled that there was prima facie evidence that Israel was perpetrating a genocide on the Palestinians. And Isaac Herzog was far beyond "involved." Herzog was cited in the International Court of Justice for his genocidal incitement, a separate crime pursuant to the Genocide Convention. The Court ordered Israel to prevent genocidal incitement and punish the perpetrators.
Otherwise put: UK Labour leader was shaping the UK position regarding the Israeli operation in Gaza, now pending review as genocide, through consultation with a key Israeli offender and by suverting the UK parliamentary process.
The latest series of horrors hasn’t occurred in a vacuum. At least their most recent history needs to be considered.
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