UK Diplomat Resigns Over Israel Arms Sales

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Комментарии • 233

  • @GeteMachine
    @GeteMachine 22 дня назад +146

    Working on a ceasefire while giving them more weapons. Makes sense... if you're a profiteer.

    • @joan-mariacbrooks
      @joan-mariacbrooks 22 дня назад

      US just gave them another $20B... make it make sense, please. This is beyond genocide...

    • @sarahpengelly8439
      @sarahpengelly8439 22 дня назад +8

      Exactly. Working very hard to get agreements for a ceasefire, just cease the weapons train!
      Our governments must think we are really dumb.

    • @noegojimmy
      @noegojimmy 21 день назад +2

      Good old pouring fuel on the fire...
      The level of demanding public to be delusional and not recognise simple facts is astounding.

  • @TPSforlife
    @TPSforlife 22 дня назад +43

    I stopped believing in the BBC once the ICJ judgement came out and no one reported how critical that judgement is...After 25 years I can officially say I am embarrassed of the BBC...good thing they do more than news else they would be a complete writeoff

    • @NoWindNoSunNoPower
      @NoWindNoSunNoPower 22 дня назад

      What judgement?

    • @jake751
      @jake751 22 дня назад +3

      I stopped believing the bbc when they protected jimmy savile.

    • @TheMediaMachine
      @TheMediaMachine 21 день назад +2

      @@NoWindNoSunNoPower playing dumb doesn't work here.

  • @katheryn7258
    @katheryn7258 22 дня назад +90

    They are complicit! Thank you to Mr. Smith for his humanity and honesty! The foreign secretary should be held accountable for war crimes.

  • @user-te1hi9rx7b
    @user-te1hi9rx7b 22 дня назад +107

    Kid Starver remains complicit. Serving his pay-masters in the Friends of Israel.

    • @GriefTourist
      @GriefTourist 22 дня назад +12

      He is a self righteous psychopath

    • @warp5p1d3r6
      @warp5p1d3r6 21 день назад +2

      i like that name, will add it to his others 😝

  • @sarwarbaloch7735
    @sarwarbaloch7735 22 дня назад +98

    Starmer is no different than sunak.

    • @GaryTaylor-gp2qc
      @GaryTaylor-gp2qc 22 дня назад

      nope they both want britain destroyed you are correct

    • @conorbarry2593
      @conorbarry2593 22 дня назад +15

      they are all controlled

    • @JT-si6bl
      @JT-si6bl 22 дня назад +4

      @@conorbarry2593…by the privy, and the benefactors within the 5eyes.

    • @sarwarbaloch7735
      @sarwarbaloch7735 22 дня назад +4

      @@conorbarry2593 by Is"not"real.

    • @sarahpengelly8439
      @sarahpengelly8439 22 дня назад +2

      ​@@conorbarry2593 and by Israel!!

  • @TheTwosliceToaster
    @TheTwosliceToaster 22 дня назад +197

    It doesn't need a whistleblower to point out what everyone already knows.

  • @shakeels6982
    @shakeels6982 22 дня назад +132

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Free the world 🌎

    • @sarahrobbins1784
      @sarahrobbins1784 21 день назад

      Free only from hamas

    • @enamulhaquejoy6962
      @enamulhaquejoy6962 21 день назад

      ​@@sarahrobbins1784Not happening. If you are gonna kill someone's family, you will get hamas.

  • @andyk6681
    @andyk6681 22 дня назад +22

    Michael spitting facts.. great journalism guys.. free Palestine

  • @TheTwoDavies
    @TheTwoDavies 22 дня назад +32

    This was also discussed on the two Davies channel on Monday here in Scotland. Mark Smith is correct to resign.

  • @achmatmahomedhajji2768
    @achmatmahomedhajji2768 22 дня назад +17

    Truth will always prevail, Thank you Mark Smith

    • @timvella1817
      @timvella1817 22 дня назад

      Well read the quran and haduths. See what Muslims believe

    • @enamulhaquejoy6962
      @enamulhaquejoy6962 21 день назад

      ​@@timvella1817Tell me?Don't humiliate yourself now.

  • @richardhart3911
    @richardhart3911 22 дня назад +35

    The government had been getting legal advise from day one. There was no need for Lammy to start a new review process. The legal advise is provided on UK compliance with international law, it does not matter which political party is in power. It was leaked that Israel were not complying with international law when the Conservatives were in power, so what's new, different or not immediately obviously to anyone following events?

    • @Ghengiskhansmum
      @Ghengiskhansmum 22 дня назад +11

      When politicians use the review excuse, they know it's wrong, it means we'll stall as long as possible until they don't need to do anything.

    • @sheilaroddick5853
      @sheilaroddick5853 22 дня назад +5

      Lammy is a complete and utter waste of space.

  • @terencerowberry2444
    @terencerowberry2444 22 дня назад +58

    Please do not permit and encourage genocide in my name.

  • @pannekoek020
    @pannekoek020 22 дня назад +15

    Thankyou Mark for being on the right side of humanity

  • @myrtillesm3532
    @myrtillesm3532 22 дня назад +6

    Better to lose a job than to lose one's soul. Thank you for your humanity

  • @connerhughes1435
    @connerhughes1435 22 дня назад +28

    How is an attack on a civilian population even a war?

    • @nafdikyaaqsa
      @nafdikyaaqsa 22 дня назад +9

      Agree, still calling this a war is so frustrating.

    • @roscojenkins7451
      @roscojenkins7451 22 дня назад

      The argument that sets me off is people saying "how is it a genocide if the population has grown since 1948???"
      Jesus Christ... It's very simple... People have babies. Some babies grow and have babies. And so on and so on... Killing scores of people you see as inferior in a systematic way is a genocide. I prefer to call it what it is... Holocaust 2: the Victim becomes the Villain

  • @Sundancer09
    @Sundancer09 22 дня назад +34

    Play ignorant while war crimes are openly being committed. Labour did the same thing over the Iraq war.

    • @b62boom1
      @b62boom1 22 дня назад

      A load of Labour MPs voted against the illegal Iraq war, all the Tories voted for it.

    • @vaska1999
      @vaska1999 22 дня назад

      Labour made the UK take part in that atrocity.

  • @josephinemonahan915
    @josephinemonahan915 22 дня назад +7

    Mark Smith….said it out loud…Hero!👏🏻

  • @zoo-xibbitjayne2081
    @zoo-xibbitjayne2081 22 дня назад +38

    A political structure that wants control of the Arabian Peninsula and it's ports, position, and resources.

  • @AD-dk3bv
    @AD-dk3bv 22 дня назад +21

    Thank you as always for calling it out.

  • @obiwanjabroniX
    @obiwanjabroniX 22 дня назад +50

    Lets not forget he raised this to the tories before as well!
    So both labour and the tories are complicit. An absolute disgrace

  • @KateEinars-b2v2v
    @KateEinars-b2v2v 22 дня назад +20

    Your videos are always so helpful and inspiring! Thank you for your diligence and passion for creating great content!🧿🐯😗

  • @user-yq6xi3uo3s
    @user-yq6xi3uo3s 22 дня назад +44

    Well done for explaining it so clearly. shame on Uk

    • @iteerrex8166
      @iteerrex8166 22 дня назад +11

      Not just UK but the whole of the West. We just gave them 20 Billion dollars.

  • @SaadonAksah
    @SaadonAksah 22 дня назад +13

    Cant believe this is still going on 🤦

  • @sidenbigh8832
    @sidenbigh8832 22 дня назад +10

    Labour are complicit. Never forget.

  • @naymatunc-rc6vs
    @naymatunc-rc6vs 22 дня назад +7

    Seeking the thruth
    act for the truth is something that only courageous people can do

  • @ashmahmood851
    @ashmahmood851 22 дня назад +11

    Arrest Cameron, his deputy, Rishi Sunak and his deputy.

  • @simonrangeley
    @simonrangeley 22 дня назад +10

    The UK government has been doing this for a long time. From long before Labour got in. I'd like to know why this guy didn't resign when the Tories were in charge. It doesn't condone what Labour is doing. Free Palastine.

    • @roscojenkins7451
      @roscojenkins7451 22 дня назад +1

      Maybe he held out hope that the "left leaning" party would actually do something

    • @knuckles543
      @knuckles543 22 дня назад

      @@roscojenkins7451 then he missed starmer purging labour of the left and installing corporate centre-right slaves

  • @badabingbadaboomboom
    @badabingbadaboomboom 22 дня назад +21

    Violence, racial hatred and terrorism - we know how to handle that Kier now don't we???

  • @trevorstanding6462
    @trevorstanding6462 22 дня назад +10

    As each day passes it must be obvious to the even casual observer that a clear warcrime is being committed in Gaza by the State of Israel.

    • @timvella1817
      @timvella1817 22 дня назад

      No it's called war. You can't start a war and cry when you are losing.

    • @enamulhaquejoy6962
      @enamulhaquejoy6962 21 день назад +1

      ​@@timvella1817It’s not called war. It’s an army versus civilians.

  • @harimauindia5775
    @harimauindia5775 22 дня назад +121

    I mean, Britain's been complicit since 1917. You started this problem in the first place

    • @dhdowlad
      @dhdowlad 22 дня назад

      Arabs in that part of the world supported the British Empire against the Turks. You should blame them too...

    • @wizzyno1566
      @wizzyno1566 22 дня назад +2

      Yeah, every other empire was perfect...

    • @tangyonions
      @tangyonions 22 дня назад +28

      ​@@wizzyno1566every other empire wasn't the cause of the Israeli apartheid

    • @harimauindia5775
      @harimauindia5775 22 дня назад +28

      @@wizzyno1566 many empires ruled India,but none...
      Caused 25 famines in 90 years, killing 60 million people in the process
      Looted 45 trillion dollars in today's money from what was effectively a cash cow
      Had signs on train cars that said "dogs and Indians not allowed"
      ... And more

    • @Sam.o.29
      @Sam.o.29 22 дня назад +1

      To believe that the UK is the cause of apartheid in that region, you'd have to believe that the Jews living in the Ottoman empire before 1917 were doing so on equal footing, do you really believe that?
      The simple answer is there has been a repeated pattern of tribal apartheid in 'palestine' under Ottoman Rule & now under Isreali rule aswell. The UK did not cause apartheid in that region.

  • @iteerrex8166
    @iteerrex8166 22 дня назад +13

    We just gave them another 20 Billion dollars, to defend themselves.

    • @katheryn7258
      @katheryn7258 22 дня назад +6

      Defend themselves against unarmed babies?

    • @Lee_303
      @Lee_303 22 дня назад

      An interesting piece on Richard V channel about council tax, not actually going on our public services. It all goes to the government for "other uses" & councils get drip fed just enough to keep the scam going. Hence most councils are going bust, but we somehow can afford genocide.

  • @user-iw1ly1mz3y
    @user-iw1ly1mz3y 22 дня назад +17

    Free Palestine ❤

    • @timvella1817
      @timvella1817 22 дня назад

      How does Palestine become free?

  • @user-er3nm5qg1m
    @user-er3nm5qg1m 22 дня назад +5

    Thank you sir for your valor

  • @robharris35
    @robharris35 22 дня назад +5

    Had hoped Labour might do slightly more than the Tories but they are still determining their position based on the general Islamophobia in the population

  • @screwsloose8631
    @screwsloose8631 22 дня назад +5

    One must question why Britain and the US are SO heavily invested and interested in Israel.
    It has nothing to do having a bastion in the M.E.there are enough bases.
    Though it was touched on here, "greater isrl" .... Leave yall to think about it.

  • @azrakhan558
    @azrakhan558 22 дня назад +29

    Excellent journalism!

  • @nathanaelsmith3553
    @nathanaelsmith3553 22 дня назад +17

    When a diplomat says 'potentially complicit' they are likely being diplomatic and mean 'complicit'.
    When the Foreign Office say 'serious violations of international humanitarian law' they mean that they don't treat all violations of international humanitarian law seriously.

    • @electricAB
      @electricAB 22 дня назад +3

      Absolutely spot on…
      It’s like they’re saying crimes against the Palestinians aren’t “serious breaches of international law”
      It’s sick. Truly sick!
      🤢🤢🤮

  • @huwdavies561
    @huwdavies561 22 дня назад +34

    Labour sadly is putting process in front of obvious evidence.

    • @bestbehave
      @bestbehave 22 дня назад +7

      Process would ensure that evidence was taken into account. They've abandoned the proces for, y'know, reasons

    • @knuckles543
      @knuckles543 22 дня назад +1

      @@bestbehave i mean, tories as well
      but we all knew labour wasa bought and paid for by lobbyists after stamer purged wrongthink from the party

    • @bestbehave
      @bestbehave 22 дня назад

      @@knuckles543 oh yes, this is completely cross party

  • @davidhamilton6363
    @davidhamilton6363 22 дня назад +8

    Good ol' Scottish National newspaper paper, good ol' journalists tell the good ol' truth

  • @lewa3910
    @lewa3910 22 дня назад +5

    Mark Smith is 100% right!

  • @AnalyseThat
    @AnalyseThat 22 дня назад +4

    David Lammy is looking into it, if only he had eyes 👀

  • @crossroads485
    @crossroads485 22 дня назад +6

    Thanks

  • @Cuthbo
    @Cuthbo 22 дня назад +9

    I feel sick when i think about what we, as British citizens, are complicit in. History will not be kind to us.

  • @scallamander4899
    @scallamander4899 22 дня назад +4

    Britain does this out of a desire to appease the US Empire.

    • @timvella1817
      @timvella1817 22 дня назад

      Got any evidence?

    • @scallamander4899
      @scallamander4899 22 дня назад

      @@timvella1817 British elites are enthralled to American foreign policy interests, have been ever since the end of the war. For evidence you can see work by people like Mark Curtis, Matt Kennard, and a host of others.

  • @homan2329
    @homan2329 22 дня назад +3

    There is still honor in our civil service none in our government .

  • @jamesverner9132
    @jamesverner9132 22 дня назад +5

    Once a colonizers always a colonizer

  • @loveStellalovebritain
    @loveStellalovebritain 21 день назад +2

    One of the best journalism channel in uk

  • @Relax0kay
    @Relax0kay 22 дня назад +4

    We had a lot of these in the Dutch government too for good reasons!!

  • @sylviewalker7560
    @sylviewalker7560 22 дня назад +16

    Richard medhurst needs your support and coverage.

  • @comeonthegreens
    @comeonthegreens 22 дня назад +2

    There are still people within the establishment that maintain a moral integrity, sadly they are having to leave. Says a lot about the direction of the establishment.

  • @TheDoysh
    @TheDoysh 22 дня назад +2

    Why if they are being investigated are sales continuing? Surely they should be paused pending the outcome of the investigation. Continuing to do so is a conflict of interests to say the least and at worst makes the UK complicit in ongoing war crimes.

  • @user-ks2zg9rf2v
    @user-ks2zg9rf2v 22 дня назад +4

    Of course, UK is 100% complicit in this genocide.

  • @waluigi3807
    @waluigi3807 22 дня назад +5

    In other news the sky is blue.

  • @SA-km3oh
    @SA-km3oh 22 дня назад +2

    Check this. “Pre-Oct 7 Gaza was a concentration camp. Post-Oct 7 Gaza has become an extermination camp”. Former US ambassador Chas Freeman.

  • @himurahaibara1459
    @himurahaibara1459 22 дня назад +2

    After all evidence our decision makers are still happy to choose their privileges over human lives they're suppose to uphold.

  • @biffa1234100
    @biffa1234100 22 дня назад +29

    every day Israel becomes less and less likely to be welcomed in decent society ever again and we are walking alongside them on this journey, absolutely shameful

  • @SA-km3oh
    @SA-km3oh 22 дня назад +2

    Kid Starver has been complicit since October!

  • @webleydevelopment
    @webleydevelopment 22 дня назад +1

    This is crazy now. Why are our government doing this? What can we do?

  • @RoeRogan231
    @RoeRogan231 21 день назад +1

    Isn’t the problem that the good guys end up resigning because of their ethics,…BUT the bad guys never resign because they have no ethics and are psychopaths/sociopaths?
    How do we the people resolve this dynamic in politics?

  • @InshasChoice
    @InshasChoice 22 дня назад +2

    Free the world from their POOR choices

  • @fcb9950
    @fcb9950 22 дня назад +4

    Not covered in a single media outlet

  • @johnnypatterson7512
    @johnnypatterson7512 22 дня назад +2

    Ignorance does not protect you from the law.

  • @XTRAIT-em4rx
    @XTRAIT-em4rx 22 дня назад +1

    Guarantee everything he raised either wont be found or the government will deny that they ever received any notifications from him.

  • @What-Did-You-Call-Me
    @What-Did-You-Call-Me 22 дня назад +2

    Labour Friends of Isn'treal. Brothers gotta help each other out.

  • @bashirabdi3799
    @bashirabdi3799 20 дней назад +1

    Are the British public complicit too?????

  • @JohanMcBean
    @JohanMcBean 22 дня назад +3

    I mean about time for resigning

  • @bellicose76
    @bellicose76 20 дней назад +2

    Nothing "potential" about it. It IS complicit..

  • @tonette6592
    @tonette6592 22 дня назад +1

    OF COURSE the U.K is complicit, as is the U.S. This has been coming for a long time. Look deeply at Shanghai.

  • @heyboss15
    @heyboss15 22 дня назад +3

    David vs Goliath

  • @dawnsalois
    @dawnsalois 22 дня назад +1

    PARTITION SHOULD HAVE DONT THAT BACK IN 1948 ALMOST 80 YEARS OF BS

  • @andrewrose7800
    @andrewrose7800 22 дня назад +2

    Didn't your channel announce the ending of the sale of arms to Israel?

  • @JT-si6bl
    @JT-si6bl 22 дня назад +1

    International law, it seems, is about as dumb as it gets. What good is it when it’s blind?

  • @warp5p1d3r6
    @warp5p1d3r6 21 день назад +1

    people should be more concerned that we are becoming a third world country.

  • @greendragonspirit1646
    @greendragonspirit1646 22 дня назад +1

    UK is committed to uphold the law 😂 , Britain's list of sins are so long, it stretches all the way to hell!

    • @timvella1817
      @timvella1817 22 дня назад

      Why don't you leave to your communist utopia?

  • @spawnnpwn4166
    @spawnnpwn4166 22 дня назад +3

    😢

  • @RobinaOmar-cm6xp
    @RobinaOmar-cm6xp 22 дня назад +1

    Disgraceful conduct by UK govt, totally complicit in the genocide it would appear.

  • @JN-om6rw
    @JN-om6rw 22 дня назад +1

    Yes but not enough diplomats resigning -

  • @barbaraday9806
    @barbaraday9806 17 дней назад

    The whole cabinetshould resign for not pressuri

  • @NickG-p1h
    @NickG-p1h 22 дня назад

    UK complicit, where does that leave the Americans? There in over there heads!

  • @roryoneill9444
    @roryoneill9444 22 дня назад

    A diploma that is living in one of the first countries in the World to condemn the bombing of Gaza and the Taoiseach resigned after complaining about Israel in an official visit to the USA in March (he should have complained about the Uk Government weaponising refugees by ferrying them to the Irish Border), really doubt that was the main reason.

  • @notadoctora7956
    @notadoctora7956 22 дня назад

    Thank

  • @afterpromise11
    @afterpromise11 22 дня назад +1

    come on labour im a labour voter so please talk to the un

    • @timvella1817
      @timvella1817 22 дня назад

      Oh you one of them destroying our freedoms.

  • @pannekoek020
    @pannekoek020 22 дня назад +1

    Nothing potentially. We seee it so they see it too

  • @NoWindNoSunNoPower
    @NoWindNoSunNoPower 22 дня назад +2

    How many didn’t resign?

    • @jameschoice3983
      @jameschoice3983 17 дней назад

      @@NoWindNoSunNoPower Sadly few show character...

  • @massford2767
    @massford2767 22 дня назад

    A bit late, Mr Smith. Why not resign earlier during the Conservative Government? How many months of Sunak lies?

  • @user-qf1zg4zz8j
    @user-qf1zg4zz8j 22 дня назад

    Two different governments - same complicity?
    Somebody remind how long it took to indict Russia in the Ukraine conflict.

  • @moldymush
    @moldymush 22 дня назад +2

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸

  • @KA-vr4uu
    @KA-vr4uu 21 день назад +1

    Is Ra El is cancer

  • @user-dv1tp3ry4s
    @user-dv1tp3ry4s 22 дня назад +1

    War or genocide?

  • @stavxplz
    @stavxplz 22 дня назад +1

    Comment to confuse the algo❤

  • @barbaraday9806
    @barbaraday9806 17 дней назад

    Potentially

  • @qaisabuqamar747
    @qaisabuqamar747 18 дней назад

    ❤❤❤

  • @RobinaOmar-cm6xp
    @RobinaOmar-cm6xp 22 дня назад

    Disgraceful conduct.

  • @adriennebraxton-oq9iu
    @adriennebraxton-oq9iu 22 дня назад

    POTENTIALLY?

  • @KRISTINAGMLS
    @KRISTINAGMLS 22 дня назад

    How come the “King” aka so called monarchy is not talking about this ? I mean what the hell are they for anyways ?

    • @timvella1817
      @timvella1817 22 дня назад

      The monarch isn't political. Thought you lot thought you was more intelligent then everyone.

    • @KRISTINAGMLS
      @KRISTINAGMLS 22 дня назад +1

      @@timvella1817
      And the fact that you think that they’re not part of politics, perhaps you should rethink that , but I guess such a genius like yourself may already know that🤔

  • @ProfoundThinker-c5z
    @ProfoundThinker-c5z 22 дня назад

    Well, why were you working for the British government in the first place? I don't know how old you are but I'm guessing you started working for the FCO after the UK government illegally sold weapons to actual genocidal regimes, most notably Saddam Hussein's Iraq and Indonesia?
    You will remember that when Robin Cook became foreign secretary, he committed to establish an ethical foreign policy. This commitment was dropped as soon as New Labour came to power. I very much doubt that the government has become any more 'ethical' in subsequent years.
    If you are that concerned, you would better off speaking to Hamas, and telling them to stop hiding behind Gazan civilians and using them as pawns in their political 'struggle'.

  • @traviscutler9912
    @traviscutler9912 22 дня назад +1

    The system works

  • @wago9817
    @wago9817 20 дней назад

    From the Euphrates,
    To the Nile,
    The Land of Israel,
    Is every mile.
    From the River to the Sea,
    Palestine will never be.

  • @oneallah5281
    @oneallah5281 22 дня назад +1

    🆓🇵🇸

  • @carlabroderick5508
    @carlabroderick5508 22 дня назад

    Iran provided weapons and tunnels to Gaza, will you oppose that?

    • @Scot_Tz
      @Scot_Tz 21 день назад

      Not sure how Iran sent tunnels but ok, whatever you say.