Palestinian rights organisation Al-Haq has launched high court action over carve-out of F-35 fighter jet programme

No evidence has been seen that a genocide is occurring in Gaza or that women and children were targeted by the IDF, UK government lawyers have claimed, as a high court case opened into the handling of arms exports controls to Israel.

They also suggested there was no obligation placed on the UK to make other states comply with international humanitarian law but only to ensure that no breach occured within its jurisdiction.

The government is seeking to defend itself in a judicial review brought over allegations that it acted unlawfully in continuing to sell F-35 parts and components to a global pool, even though some of those components might be used by Israel in Gaza in a way that the government regards as a breach of international law.

Much of the case will turn on the extent to which international law places obligations in domestic law.

  • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    Iraq was never a good place to live after the Iraq-Iran war, but it wasn’t in a fucking civil war either. Nothing Saddam’s government did comes even close to this.

      • shitmenot@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        2·
        10 hours ago

        We have different view of international laws I assume. Or morality.

        But hey one day you’ll find them weapons of mass destruction. You liar.

      • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
        41·
        1 day ago

        I know he literally committed genocide against Iraqi Kurds that one time, but that still doesn’t come close to the sheer amount of death and destruction the West caused by violently overthrowing him. Just read the link in my reply and compare the numbers.

        • Tja@programming.devEnglish
          22·
          1 day ago

          I know the numbers. If you take the deaths from the Iraq Iran war, the gassing of kurds and the direct deaths during the general repression, they are comparable. From 300k to 1M on each side, depending on the source.

          Let alone the Kuwait war and the excess deaths caused by the corruption and mismanagement leading to lower quality of life and lack of services.

          • hark@lemmy.worldEnglish
            41·
            17 hours ago

            Saddam was backed by the US. In fact, during the Iraq-Iran war, the US was supporting Iraq while Israel was supporting Iran. The goal of the west (and Israel) has been to play Middle Eastern countries against each other in a prime example of divide and conquer.

          • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
            3·
            1 day ago

            Wow, he really managed to outdo the war on terror. That’s fair, but I don’t know of any indication that he had the capability or willingness to do anything that flashy again, so America overthrew him after he’d been mostly pacified.

            • Tja@programming.devEnglish
              22·
              1 day ago

              He was staying quiet, but you never know what he (or his sons) could have done if they stayed in power. Not that the shitshow the Americans did was right, but it’s complicated… Poor Iraqis don’t have an easy life.