Did Keir #Starmer's Government Just Accidentally Admit Its Complicity in #Israel’s #WarCrimes?

This week, it emerged that the Health Secretary Wes Streeting had privately told Peter Mandelson that it would be #morally impossible to vote against the recognition of a #Palestinian state “because Israel is committing war crimes before our eyes”.

The texts entered the public sphere through Streeting leaking some of his own exchanges with Mandelson to the Guardian. They suggest that, privately at least, some Government ministers believed Israel to be violating international law, even while the Government’s public position was that it was uncertain.

Streeting has not been disciplined either for the leaking of the messages, nor their contents.

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#KeirStalin #genocide #ToxicLabour #UK

Did Keir Starmer's Government Just Accidentally Admit Its Complicity in Israel’s War Crimes? – Byline Times

Two statements by Government ministers, one private and one public, appear to acknowledge for the first time that Israel's actions have broken international law

^{Olly Haynes (Byline Times)}