Attorney general warns UK joining war on Iran may be illegal
Attorney general warns UK joining war on Iran may be illegal
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Ministers urged to publish legal advice on UK involvement in Israel-Iran war
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“Legal advice is for the prime minister, and I think that’s where it will stay – and you can understand why I won’t comment on that. But what I will say is that we have a prime minister who is a lawyer and a human rights lawyer, he will obviously do everything that is in accord with international law,” she told Times Radio.
Hahaha, obviously the Palestinians aren't human other wise the human rights lawyer wouldn't be supporting their genocide.
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Starmer will do whatever is expected of him by the Labour friends of Israel.
He is a puppet. Nothing more.
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Traditionally we’re supposed to manufacture a pretext so the yanks can start bombing. Guess we’re skipping the boring legalese bit now.
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Midway through a bank robbery when one of the gang pulls off his balaclava and says "guys, I think this might be illegal!".
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I'm here by accident, never been to Britain, and I just have a question: what ties you with Israel at all? Why not ignore the situation? Do you have some legal obligations? Trying to kiss Trump's ass? Something more subtle and inobvious?
Britain was involved in the creation of Israel, as described in the wiki article.
Quite why we’re still involved with it to the degree we are I don’t know.
Yes, I know that, but I don't remember any serious interactions since then. And it was a very long time ago...
Our leaders just do whatever the US says. The last leader who said no to the US was Harold Wilson, who refused to follow them into the Vietnam war. We need a proper Labour party again.
Israel controlls almost all of UK politics. They overthrew Jeremy Corbyn because he was anti-Israel and replaced him with Keir Starmer.
Kiss trumps ass.
More to the point, the US as a whole has an obsession with Israel. While all NATO nations have genuine reason not to anger them.
Not only does the US spend more on its military than everyone else combined.
But a huge % of what the western nations do spend. Depends on US infer structure and cooperation to work. And as dumb as it sounds. NATO nations are only now realising that is dangerous.
Citizens in NATO nations may express questions about backing Israel. But the governments know, and disagreement with the US is always a risk. Way way more so now Trump has embedded so much support in the US military ranks.
At the minute they are NATO allies, so we are around for defence.
The issue going forward is if we join in on the offensive which there isn't a lot of appetite for in the UK and is as per the AG legally muddy.
Israel isn't part of NATO.
Because, at the end of the day, they support the project of a white, European power dominating the middle east.
The prime minister's family is israeli and live in israel.
Guilt from World War Two, like pretty much all other European countries, is my guess
Nah, if that were true they'd also feel compelled to give unconditional support to Romani and Slavs, which they very, very much do not.
Holocaust guilt is an excuse.
Stop that then. It was a century ago and it wasn't Britain who started it.