The White House issued a briefing on 8 February regarding a National Security memorandum that conditions US military aid to its allies. Or rather, pretends to condition aid. One of the listed objectives, for example, reads, “prevent arms transfers that risk facilitating or otherwise contributing to violations of human rights or international humanitarian law.” The following is equally abominable and reads in part: “strengthen ally and partner capacity to respect their obligations under international law and reduce the risk of civilian harm.” None of this, of course, is applied to Israel, which clearly has impunity at very high levels. This impunity is what normalises such diplomatic gibberish and encourages the ensuing massacres of civilians. Pretending to close a loophole, the … Continue reading Arms sales and diplomacy encourage Israeli genocide