Like millions of other people around the world, I can’t get my head around the enormity of the devastation that Israel has been inflicting on human life in Gaza, week in, week out, since the awful attack its own citizens suffered twenty months ago.
Neither can I get my head around the fact that the rest of the world allows the atrocities to continue. The most powerful country in the world even continues to supply Israel with the weapons which wreak death and destruction on civilians in Gaza. Even my own country still allows UK-produced parts to find their way into F35 fighter jets used by the Israeli air force. Collectively, the world wrings its hands while tens of thousands are killed by bombs, bullets and shortage of medicines, and two million people face starvation.
Never has the term “international community” sounded so hollow.
The BBC’s International Editor, Jeremy Bowen, has published an in-depth analysis chronicling how what is going on is not only horrific, but how it also fundamentally undermines the entire legal framework that the world put in place after the horrors of World War Two.
Please read it.
