• Mrkawfee@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      It shows how low the bar is with pro Israeli regimes in the West.

      “we won’t object to the application of an arrest warrant for a war criminal who is orchestrating a genocide”

      That should be the standard for every country

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      i’m so glad to see this from starmer and labour; this plus macron’s initiative to invalidate the french elections by working the far right was giving me a pessimistic view of our future.

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      Not that unexpected - from the article:

      David Lammy, the foreign secretary, told the Commons in May: “Labour’s position is that the ICC chief prosecutor’s decision to apply for arrest warrants is an independent matter for the court and the prosecutor.”

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        Labour have kept changing policies all over the place so have been difficult to predict.