Anti genocide protest slated for this afternoon at the British airbase at Akrotiri, Republic of Cyprus (South). This is British sovereign base territory so decisions are made by the UK and not by the government of Cyprus. Throughout the current attack on Palestine British planes have provided support to Israel including identifying targets in Gaza - not that there can be many left to identify. Conservative estimates of Palestinian deaths are running at over 50,000 with about 70% of them being women and children. The Geneva Convention forbids the targeting of civilians.
Meanwhile in neighbouring Syria Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) is the theoretical government in charge in Syria, welcomed by Western countries that seemed content to forget its ISIS origins and its leader’s awkward presence on international terrorist lists. Latest news is that hundreds of Alawites and Christians are being killed by the regime. Not that the regime is in sole charge as Turkish troops move south and Israelis have moved in to occupy the area south of Damascus, where Netanyahu says they have no plans to leave. All of which has been massively funded by the US.
These countries are our neighbours, and even if they weren’t it’s a small world. Too small, one would have thought, to ignore genocide.
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