Saudi Arabia and Israel are killing civilians – and Britain is complicit

Watchman
Does even the massacre of children in Yemen prevent silence on the criminal complicity of the British government? They were young children on a bus on their way back from a picnic, laughing and laughing without a doubt, with large groups of children leaning, then burning to death. At least 29 children were among 43 children, an atrocity committed by Saudi Arabian aircraft and its Gulf allies
Consider the role of Britain. According to the campaign against the arms trade, our government has provided the despicable Saudi dictatorship with arms worth 4.7 billion pounds since the start of the war in Yemen. Aircraft, helicopters, drones, bombs and rockets: All the British oil company has probably dropped on the heads of children laughing at the way back from a picnic. Just a few months ago, the British government sent the Saudi dictator Mohammed bin Salman to unveil a £ 100m bailout that gave this exceptional public relations representation, while BAE Systems announced the sale of 48 other typhoons. And it gets worse: the British military are directly involved in helping the Saudi war effort – to what extent they remain unintentionally vague
Thousands died, mostly by Saudi-led forces we arming. Millions have been displaced and the country left on the verge of famine. But where is the national anger? Where is the news coverage from the wall to the wall about these horrors committed in our name? The inexcusable failure of the media in the accountability of the British government has made most of the population unaware that this war is taking place. If the nation is to blame for a Western enemy – like Iran – there would be calls for US-led military intervention to stop the massacre long ago. But our friends and good allies are a radical Saudi dictatorship and a source of extremism, and so silence and murder continue.
Think of another horror unfolding with direct Western participation. On Wednesday night, a pregnant woman and her 18-month-old daughter were killed in Gaza by an Israeli air strike. It is framed as a conflict between Hamas and Israel, as if there was a parity between an open-air detention camp and a regional superpower. Every death – Palestinian or Israeli – is a tragedy, every attack on a civilian by Hamas or Israel can not be defended. However, according to the B’Tselem human rights NGO, 9456 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli security forces – with Western complicity – in the past 18 years, compared to 1,237 members of the Israeli security forces and civilians killed by Palestinians. Of the Palestinian dead, 2,025 were children. Other estimates indicate that the number of Palestinians killed during the same period is 9730. It is anomaly to say that this “conflict” is anything else unambiguous unilaterally. As the carnage continued, British arms sales to Israel reached a record high
Both Saudi Arabia and Israel believe that they can escape the killing of innocents, including children, for a very simple reason: they can never do so. Enjoy military and diplomatic support from the West. From time to time there may be pronunciation of remorse, which is quickly forgotten. But as long as Britain and its allies are complicit – and as long as our media fail to tell people what is happening in their name – these horrors will only continue