Once again, UK lets Netanyahu get away with it

British authorities continue supporting unjust narratives that misinterpret historical realities and cause suffering.

Netanyahu has not yet been indicted by an international court, writes Cadman [Reuters]

Palestinians evacuate a survivor of an Israeli air strike that hit a building in southern Gaza Strip in August 2014 [AP]

Toby Cadman-26 Aug 2015

Toby Cadman is an international criminal law specialist. He is a barrister member at Nine Bedford Row International Chambers in London and a member of the International Criminal Bureau in The Hague.

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The British government used the "civilising" narrative to deny sovereignty, justify the colonisation process and build an empire. It argued that there was a "majority of German-speaking" population to allow the surrender of the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany in 1938, and it defended the fallacy of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to support an illegal war.

These civilising or "national security" justifications were wrongful foreign policy narratives that have brought extensive suffering and had disastrous and long-term implications.

Once Again, UK Lets Netanyahu Get Away With It by Thavam Ratna