Gary Stanton - Loop Frogs is out! @SleepyAdaStudio

2/2 “Today, Starmer excels at one thing: he’s a grubby, cynical, craven politician, utterly subservient to the American empire and its interests in the oil-rich Middle East. But Starmer is right about one thing: he knows the definition of genocide. In 2014, he defined genocide to the International Court of Justice, the highest court in the world, during a war crimes hearing into Serbia’s three-month siege of Vukovar, the Croatian city, in 1991. He would prefer that we forget his words, so let’s remember them. Starmer said, and I quote: “Serbian forces carried out a sustained campaign of shelling, systematic expulsion, denial of food, water, electricity, sanitation, and medical treatment, bombing, burning, brutal killings, and torture, which reduced the city of Vukovar to rubble and destroyed its Croat population.” Starmer defined Serbia’s actions as genocidal because they were a “radically disproportionate attack deliberately intended to devastate the town and its civilian population.” Israel’s crimes in Gaza are immeasurably worse, on a far larger scale, and far more sustained than anything suffered by Vukovar. And unlike the case of Serbia, there can be no doubt about the intent. Israeli leaders have endlessly repeated that the goal is to lay waste to Gaza, to make it uninhabitable, to starve its population. This week, an eminent doctor who has volunteered in Gaza explained how Israel dealt with Palestinian children it failed to kill with its bombs. Dr Nizam Mamode broke down as he told a parliamentary committee that, after refugee shelters were struck, Israel would send in small armed drones to identify and shoot survivors. Children he operated on would tell him how the drone hovered over them as they lay on the ground, and then shot them. He called it a deliberate and persistent targeting of children. UN figures show that 70% of verified violent deaths in Gaza are women and children, with the highest proportion in the age group of 5 to 9 years. Is this not genocide, Sir Keir, as you defined it in 2014? Is this not genocide as the Genocide Convention defines it? And if it is not, Sir Keir, you urgently need to explain why. From their own mouths, Lammy and Starmer have told us who they are. They are genocide deniers. They are enablers of genocide. They are conspirators in genocide, just like those who preceded them in the British government. We may be exhausted by 13 months of lies, disinformation, smears, and gaslighting, but we are not voiceless or powerless. Our leaders seek to exhaust us, to smear us, to bully us into submission, and to silence us because they fear us. Every time we raise our voices, we shame them. We expose them. We remind ourselves and others that this is not normal—that we’re being led by immoral monsters. Solidarity with Gaza.” #Gaza_Genocide‌ #StopArmingIsrael