Staunch allies calling themselves friends of Israel are beginning to realise they are also friends of the murderers of western aid workers, friends of genocide and friends of fascism
By David Hearst
ix months on, the entire edifice that allowed Israeli forces to kill more than 33,000 Palestinians and wound another 75,000, displace a population of over 2.3 million and then starve them, demolish the north of Gaza, dismantle the health service and signal that it would do the same in Rafah for the next six months, is tumbling down.
Political leaders who framed this carnage as Israel’s right to defend itself, journalists who peddled fictional horror stories about beheaded babies and mass rape on 7 October, and editors who day in, day out ignored stories about aid convoys being targeted by Israeli forces are rushing for cover.
All the arguments they used to maintain this slaughter are crumbling in their hands – that this is a just war, that Israel must be allowed to finish the job, that the action taken is proportionate, that the legal process in the International Court of Justice hinders peace talks and can be ignored, that the UK and US can simultaneously admonish Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and continue to arm him.
The dam has burst. The Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron can no longer play cat and mouse with Foreign Affairs Select Committee chair Alicia Kearns, who revealed a few days ago that government lawyers knew that Israel had breached international humanitarian law.
More than 600 prominent lawyers, academics and former judges, including former Supreme Court president Lady Hale and two other former justices in the court, signed a letter warning the UK government that it was breaching international law by continuing to arm Israel.
Former Foreign Office minister Sir Alan Duncan asked how could Israel still be considered an ally of the UK, and called for its chief supporters Lord Polak, Lord Pickles and Tom Tugendhat, to be held to account for their support for Israel.
“I think that anything in support of what is becoming a total catastrophe in Gaza is morally unacceptable and what we have to accept is it’s not just what they’re doing now is wrong – it’s what Israel has been doing for years has been wrong because the Israeli Defence Force does not follow international law,” he told LBC.
“It has been backing and supporting illegal settlers in the West Bank who steal Palestinian land and it is that land theft, that annexation of Palestine, which is the origin of the problem, which has given rise to the Hamas atrocity and the battles we’re seeing.”
Tipped over the edge
The mood is indeed changing. A poll conducted by YouGov found that 56 percent of UK voters are now in favour of a ban on the export of arms and spare parts, with 59 percent saying Israel was violating human rights in Gaza.
The poll found strong support for an arms export ban among voters intending to vote Labour at the next election. An overwhelming 71 percent to nine percent of those intending to vote Labour backed an arms export ban, while Lib Dem voters supported a ban by 70 percent to 14 percent and Conservative voters by 38 percent to 36 percent.
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Asked if Israel was violating human rights, Tory voters by two to one said Israel was doing so. Duncan was voicing the mood of his party.
Cameron has been flushed out into the open. He has to choose: admit that the government is indeed in breach of international law, and could be prosecuted as such – including him personally – or stop the arms trade.
The letter is not the work of pro-Palestinian activists. It’s the cream of the legal establishment speaking, figures such as the former Supreme Court justices Lord Sumption and Lord Wilson, the former lord justices of appeal Sir Richard Aikens, Sir Anthony Hooper, Sir Alan Moses and Sir Stephen Sedley.
Founders and partners of top law firms in the UK as well as professors from the University of Oxford, London School of Economics and King’s College London are included.
And what exactly tipped everyone over the edge this week? What tipped the Israel-supporting tabloids to turn on it?
A lot had happened on Monday 1 April before that attack on the World Central Kitchen (WCK) convoy. And little of it ruffled any feathers.
The morning broke with the withdrawal of Israeli forces besieging al-Shifa hospital, leaving the hospital in ruins and a large pile of bodies behind. The Israeli army congratulated themselves on a textbook operation.
“Amazing battlefield achievement,” proclaimed former prime minister and special forces commander, Naftali Bennett, on X (formerly Twitter). “The results are remarkable: 6,000 civilians were evacuated by the IDF to keep them safe. 200 Hamas terrorists were killed. 500 Hamas terrorists have been captured. *No civilian was killed*. Not one.”
This was not the experience of Dr Amina al-Safadi, who was given hours to move patients out of her department. Of them, 16 patients in intensive care died.
“On the second day they forced us to move all patients from where we were, the orthopedic department in building four to the reception area and they gave us a set time,” she said. “A lot of them died. They were in intensive care and we couldn’t do anything for them.
“Three days ago they gave us these wristbands. They said they’re for the snipers and anyone leaving the building without them will be targeted.”
Nor was it the experience of Rafik, an emaciated, skeletal youth who could barely lift his head.
“They tortured us there. There was no food or water,” he said. “We stayed without food or water for five days. We were dying. We lived in agony. There were no dressings for our wounds. There was no food. I can’t take it anymore.”
Patients, doctors, and even the dead, whose corpses were dug up by bulldozers, were all the same to the besiegers, who left a wasteland behind them.
Two of Gaza’s most respected doctors, mother and son, were among the dead. Ahmad al-Maqadmeh, a Palestinian plastic surgeon in his early 30s, and his mother, Yusra al-Maqadmeh, a general practitioner, were found alongside the corpse of their cousin Bassem al-Maqadmeh at the roundabout next to the Carrefour Mall in Gaza City, a short walk from al-Shifa.
Had they been shot by snipers? A Palestinian mother was overwhelmed by the devastation. All she wanted was to find the body of her son.
“Please find out where he is,” she addressed everyone around her. “Where, dear God? Please help me find him. I want to gather his bones. I don’t want to leave him here. Please find him, I beg you.”
Al-Shifa was once the largest hospital in the occupied territories. It catered for 30 percent of the needs of Gaza. It is no more. If the plan all along was to make Gaza uninhabitable, the destruction of al-Shifa was indispensable to that project.
That was just the morning news on Monday. Much more was to follow.
Another red line crossed
As if to rub out the record of such horrifying scenes, Netanyahu pledged to shut down the regional office of Al Jazeera.
This was another nail in the coffin of a negotiated peace. Israeli officials have until now stopped short of taking action against the jewel in Qatar’s crown, mindful of Qatar’s role in funding construction projects in Gaza and its part in the negotiations with the political wing of Hamas, whose leadership it houses.
Al Jazeera, several of whose journalists have been deliberately killed by the Israeli army in Gaza, rejected the accusation that it was a threat to Israel’s national security as a “dangerous and ridiculous lie”.
But just reporting the truth of what is taking place in Gaza hurts Israel.
Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi accused Al Jazeera of encouraging hostilities against Israel. “It is impossible to tolerate a media outlet, with press credentials from the government press office and with offices in Israel, acting from within against us, certainly in wartime,” he said.
This is how a state that we are constantly told shares our values behaves when push comes to shove. Freedom of expression? Tell that to Shireen Abu Akleh, Samer Abu Daqqa, Hamza al-Dahdouh and countless others who have paid for their reporting with their lives.
Then came the Israeli air strike that destroyed an Iranian consulate building in Damascus, killing Mohammad Reza Zahedi, the second most senior commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards to die since then-US President Donald Trump ordered the assassination of Qassem Soleimani.
This time, the US hurriedly told Iran they played no part in Israel’s strike, but the attack marked another red line crossed in hitting an embassy or consulate.
Following the same line that claimed al-Shifa was not a hospital but a command centre for Hamas, an Israeli military spokesperson, Daniel Hagari, told CNN: “I repeat, this is no consulate and this is no embassy. This is a military building of Quds forces disguised as a civilian building in Damascus.”
But Israel knew exactly what it had done. And what line it was crossing. It wants to provoke Iran into a war. According to the US State Department, an attack on an embassy is considered an attack on the country it represents.
But Israel also knows it will not use the same logic when a synagogue or Jewish centre is hit by an Iranian proxy in revenge. It will claim no responsibility for putting the lives of Jews around the world in danger. But that is surely what it is doing.
‘Indefensible… horrific’
And then, and only then, came the triple drone strike which killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers, three of them British.
The front pages in Britain, Canada, Poland and Australia (the home countries of the dead aid workers) reacted in outrage. Even the staunchly pro-Israel the Sun, owned by the Murdoch family’s News UK group, went ballistic.
“SBS hero John Chapman and former marine James Henderson were travelling in a clearly marked car, operated by charity World Central Kitchen, when the convoy was struck with three missiles fired by an IDF [Israeli army] drone,” it wrote.
Al Jazeera’s Sanad verification agency said the killings were intentional. Three WCK vehicles were targeted after the group had delivered 100 tonnes of food aid to a warehouse in Deir al-Balah.
“The second vehicle was targeted approximately 800 metres away from where the first was hit,” its report read.
“The third car was targeted about 1.6km away from the second car, based on its location after being bombed.” The WCK said that their convoy was hit “despite coordinating movements” with the Israeli army.
So how was this repeated attack on the convoy different from all the other attacks on Unwra convoys which resulted in hundreds dead and which sparked the siege of al-Shifa?
The only difference is that seven dead aid workers were British, Polish, Australian and Canadian, and that the founder was a celebrity chef.
Nick Ferrari, a presenter on LBC, said: “This is indefensible… Every single fact is horrific… from one friend to another, this has to stop.”
But so surely have all the other strikes on aid convoys been indefensible. The only thing that was different this time was the nationality of the people in the cars – all from nations that support the continued war.
Ferrari could have come to the conclusion that Israel’s actions in targeting aid convoys were indefensible from day one of this war and said it on air every day since. What stopped him? Because he describes himself as a friend of Israel. A friend of what, he may well be asking himself?
A friend of apartheid? A friend of genocide? A friend of mass starvation? A friend of settlers setting fire to Arab villages? A friend of religious fanaticism? A friend of fascism?
Biden’s fake indignation
But no reaction can be more inadequate than the fake indignation mouthed by a geriatric incumbent US president seeking re-election.
Joe Biden has said a bombing campaign on Rafah, where 1.5 million refugees have been corralled, “would cross a red line”. He said the attack on the World Central Kitchen convoy, showed that Israel “has not done enough to protect” aid convoys, as if it has ever done anything more than bottle up the aid at the borders and bomb its distribution consistently.
Turn down the volume, ignore the statements of concern coming from the White House and State Department, and focus solely on Biden’s actions.
Biden has the power to halt all armaments, including the supply of 2,000lb bombs, or indeed the power to set strict limitations on their use. He has done neither.
He has shown no hesitation in doing this with Ukraine, which is not permitted to fire US-made weapons into Russia. Biden has set no such conditions on Israel.
The opposite is happening. As he publicly speculates on replacing Netanyahu, he is considering selling Israel up to 50 new F15 fighters, 30 Aim-120 advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles, as well as Joint Direct Attack Munition kits, equipment that can change “dumb bombs” into precision-guided weapons, as Politico first reported.
The new F-15s aren’t for bombing Gaza. They are for aerial jousts with Iran and its many drones.
What else has Biden done this week? Send Jake Sullivan, his national security adviser, to pressure Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to sign up to the Abraham Accords.
Contagious mood of revolt
If Biden seriously thinks that amid the mayhem created by Israel’s sixth-month war, a signature on a piece of paper is going to be enough to staunch the revolt that is taking place in Arab hearts from Amman to Morocco, he is even more delusional than the professional president watchers on Capitol Hill think.
The kingdom of Jordan is staring down both barrels of a shotgun, its government unable to decide what to do: face down the rallies that have been rocking Amman for over a week by arresting its organisers and speakers; or praise the protests as an expression of the national mood.
Former Jordanian minister of information, Samih al-Maaytah, speaking to the Saudi channel Al Hadath, has tried to point the finger of blame at Khaled Meshaal, the former head of Hamas’s political wing, who survived an assassination attempt by Mossad in Jordan.
But as Maaytah knows only too well, the protests have become much larger than a mere expression of solidarity with Gaza. They are displays of strength by the clans, in which East Bankers outdo Palestinians in their challenge to the king’s authority.
The mood of revolt is contagious, just as it was at the start of the Arab Spring. The rallies in Amman are echoed by mass demonstrations in Morocco and the syndicates in Cairo. The dictators who suppressed the Arab Spring are worried and have begun giving each other support.
It’s clear what is happening, and what will happen if Israel is allowed to continue this war for another six months.
It takes a lot to admit that a lifelong dream of a homeland for Jews in the Middle East is turning into a nightmare. But for all those who support this venture, that is what is happening.
David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He is a commentator and speaker on the region and analyst on Saudi Arabia. He was the Guardian’s foreign leader writer, and was correspondent in Russia, Europe, and Belfast. He joined the Guardian from The Scotsman, where he was education correspondent.
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32 responses to “For the defenders of Israel’s war on Gaza, the game is up”
Israel is Hebrew for murder.
Documentary filmmaker John Hankey makes a powerful case for October 7 being an inside job – in his aptly named 55-minute documentary: “October 7 Was An Inside Job”. It shall be very interesting indeed to see how now-cornered Benjamin Netanyahu refutes the absolutely overwhelming evidence:
https://onenessofhumanity.wordpress.com/2024/04/06/john-hankey-documentary-ignites-october-7-debate/
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While this entire website is extremely biased in a certain direction, I only wish to acknowledge the uncomfortable truth, that this entire event was caused by: Hamas attacking Israel on October seventh, continuing to hold Israeli hostages to this day, and the use of helpless civilians as fodder for propaganda purposes. The first victim in war is the truth.
Why does an ignorant, shameless imbecile like you offer his historically illiterate, factually discredited, shallow, uninformed blather openly in a public forum devoted to intelligent opinion?
Please inform yourself before commenting on this zionist genocide that has been occuring for over 100 years. October 7 was preplanned by the Netanyahu regime.
Bookoodinkydow: Unlike many of my fellow-posters … who are impatient with your insight, I would go along with your little pantomime, viz. … “caused by: Hamas attacking Israel on October seventh, continuing to hold Israeli hostages to this day, and the use of helpless civilians as fodder for propaganda purposes. Although it would help to justify your point if you could perhaps name all the ‘hostages’. Perhaps you might have even under-estimated the number, are you sure there weren’t 6 million? But mind, it would be better at this point o leave the rape-victims and the burnt babies out of your little fairy-tale as those fibs have already been proven to be as real as Bibi’s piety.
BIDEN’S BIG ULTIMATUM TO NETANYAHOO
There may be cracks in the western media’s support for Israel, but the same cannot be said for Joe Biden who, despite the rhetoric, maintains rock solid support for Israel.
Yesterday, the USA released a transcript of a telephone conversation between Joe Biden and Bibi Netanyahoo. It had a strong tone designed for domestic consumption, but on careful analysis one can see that it is like Obama’s statements that mean the exact opposite of what it appears to mean at first. Biden’s “ultimatum” demands exactly nothing. Here is part of the transcript:-
“He (Biden) made clear need for Israel to announce and implement a series of specific, concrete and measurable steps to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering and the safety of aid workers. He made clear that US policy with respect to Gaza will determined by our assessment of Israel’s immediate actions on these steps. He underscored that an immediate ceasefire is essential to stabilize and improve the humanitarian situation and protect innocent civilians and he urged the prime minister to empower his negotiators to conclude a deal without delay to bring the hostages home.”
A careful analysis of the ultimatum reveals that:-
* It does not say that Netanyahoo must announce a ceasefire.
* He is not saying the USA will impose a ceasefire.
Instead it tells Netanyahoo to empower his negotiators about bringing the hostages home, and while it does not require a ceasefire, passes the responsibility for the lack of a ceasefire to Hamas by making such a ceasefire conditional on a Hamas agreement to release the hostages.
The “Friends of Israel” are vile Zionist scum, but with few exceptions, they are not Jews. Joe Biden and Lindsey Graham, to name a few are Zionist scum, but they are not Jews. Evangelical Christians are Zionists, but they are not Jews. Most Zionists are not Jews. Most Israelis are atheists, i.e. only Jewish in name, but most are Zionists.
Norman Finkelstien, Katie Halper, Gideon Levy, Due Dissonance, Jews for Peace are Jews, but they are not Zionists and they do not support Israel. Tens of thousands of Jewish people have protested against Israel and against this genocide around the world, including in places like Israel, the UK, and the USA.
Your condemnation of non-Zionist Jews is wrong.
Your failure to condemn Zionist non-Jews is wrong.
The above is meant to be a reply to Gene.
The Zionist “Friends of Israel” have taken over the British Labour Party and expelled everybody decent from the Labour Party. They falsely applied the label of “Anti-semite” to anyone who spoke out against Israel, and expelled them from the Labour party, leaving behind a party dominated by non-Jewish Zionists.
The next election should be this year, and the Workers Party of Great Britain led by George Galloway will contest each and every seat where the Labour MP is a Labour “Friend of Israel”.
This U.S. citizen has been totally disgusted with and repulsed by, U.S. foreign policy for over 60 of my 80 years on Earth. The level of my disgust and repulsion grew to what I thought was maximum strength when the U.S. launched its fraudulent “war on terror” following the 9/11 attacks, every one of the claims for the justification of the multiple wars having been based on blatant falsehoods. I have always objected to all U.S. aid to Israel because, contrary to the claims of the elites who make policy in the U.S. Israel is NOT an ally or an asset of the U.S. Israel is a liability to the U.S. It is for the benefit of Israel, not the benefit of the U.S., that the multiple wars of aggression in the Middle East have been waged by the U.S. Why? The answer is very simple – money and corruption. The Israel lobby bribes U.S. politicians to commit to 100% blind support for Israel, regardless of how adverse to U.S. interests Israel acts. This is possible because the 1% have managed to turn our electoral/political system into a legalized bribery system. Now we find that the commitment for 100% support of Israel extends to active participation in the commission of genocide of the Palestinians. In fact, it is the U.S. which is PRIMARILY responsible for this genocide because Israel could not carry out this genocide without U.S. military, logistical, financial and political support for the genocide. Therefore, the level of my disgust with and repulsion by U.S. foreign policy has reached what I now believe to be the real maximum level. It has clearly revealed that the U.S., like Israel, has no decency whatsoever. I have known for many years that Israel had no decency and, contrary to the oft repeated slogan to the contrary, has no right to exist. If I were a young man, I would leave the U.S. I no longer have any hope for its evolution into a democratic republic. It is totally corrupt. It is totally ruled by thieves and liars. Pay no attention to the duplicitous statements by the U.S. about the “war” in Gaza. It is not a war. It is a genocide being conducted by the U.S. and the racist criminal state of Israel.
Well said, Jim! I agree with everything you said, especially what you had to say about the relationship between the U.S. and Israel. I feel the exact same way about it, and I resent it every bit as much as you do! As far as who benefits, it is a one-way street, and all the benefits flow to Israel, and the U.S. is left with nothing but a multitude of problems on many levels. I find it infuriating to be dominated, through corruption, by a country that is so numerically inferior, and one that the U.S. could crush like a bug! The U.S. should be the one calling the shots, and Israel should be trembling in fear, lest the U.S. might put its very large foot down as payback for all the past and present transgressions against the U.S., including the disgraceful attack on the Liberty for which they were never properly punished!
No US citizens should be required to pay taxes to the genocidal thieves and murderers of Israel or any others of that category. Why aren’t the US taxpayers rioting in the streets? Really strange that many taxpayers trashed the capital for their dearest Donald but won’t do the same for human rights. US citizens are totally dumbed down and don’t have a clue that they are paying taxes to the white supremacy of Israel. Only mass brain transplants can save the US.
Jim, why do you describe it as the “Israel Lobby” and not the “Jewish Lobby?”
Is there a Jewish Lobby? If so, what does is lobby for?
Israel is dominated by Zionist ideology, which may be crudely summarized as a belief that Jews are entitled to carry out the settlor/colonial project of stealing all of the Palestinians’ land and resources and driving them out of their homes and out of Palestine by any means possible, including genocide. Not all Jews are Zionists. You may be aware that one prominent Jewish organization, Jewish Voice for Peace, have organized and carried out some of the largest protests against the genocide of the Palestinians. That organization is anti-Zionist. The fact that you asked this question is a good example of one of the biggest problems we face with attempting to put a stop to how U.S. foreign policy is dominated by the racist, criminal stare of Israel, the problem of ignorance of Americans of pretty much everything, including the decades long history of the slow genocide of the Palestinians which the Zionists have been carrying out against the Palestinians while stealing their land and resources. By the way, many (and, if I am not mistaken, most, Zionists are not Jews – they are radical Christian Zionists who believe that the second coming of Christ cannot happen until all of Biblical Israel (from the river to the sea) is occupied by Jews. I recommend reading Noam Chomsky, Norm Finkelstein and Ilan Pappe on the history of Israel. Those scholars have done excellent research and writing on the subject and are truthful and honest.
Why don’t you answer the questions? I think your intentions are to avoid honest, candid, and direct answers to these simple questions. You’re more interested in obfuscation and maintaining misinformation and disinformation.
Prove me wrong and answer the questions.
First you asked “Jim, why do you describe it as the “Israel Lobby” and not the “Jewish Lobby?” ” – My answer is that AIPAC, The Anti-Defamation League and other such lobbying groups are not Jewish lobbies. They lobby for the Zionists and the racist, criminal state of Israel.
You also asked “Is there a Jewish Lobby? If so, what does is lobby for?” My answer is that I am not aware of the existence of a Jewish lobby.
To Jim Thomas,
Thanks for answering my questions, after I had to pull it out of you. I don’t appreciate the implications you make that I have a problem with this. No, it’s you, and you refused to answer my questions because they were too revealing, and you thought I’d let you obfucate me. I’m wise to you.
“My answer is that AIPAC, The Anti-Defamation League and other such lobbying groups are not Jewish lobbies.” This answer is absurd, revealing your intentions to obfuscate and confuse. Why don’t you just say that black is white? There are over 250 US Jewish political organizations in addition to those you mention, and they are all headquartered in the USA and run by US Jews. They are supported by billions of dollars from US Jews to fulfill their political goals. They are probably also supported by Israeli Jews and government. Those goals include Israel, but like many of the 250 other US Jewish political organizations, they also include Jewish concerns broader than just Israel, proving the Jewish nature of the Lobby.
For instance, take the example of the unconstitutional, absurd definition of “antisemitism” orginated by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, another group totally made up by Jews. The Biden Administration incorporates this assault on our First Amendment rights, thanks to the Jewish Lobby. It’s a prime strategy by Judaism to keep the Goyim obedient. Its vague meaning and interpretation help maintain the dominance of US Jews in many key areas of our society and government. It’s not easy to keep 2% of the population in such wealth and power. It takes a lot of political collateral, and Jews have it.
“My answer is that I am not aware of the existence of a Jewish lobby.” Again, thank you for your answer, finally. And again, you reveal a fatal lack of understanding and awareness of this issue, but I really don’t think your as ignorant as your answer indicates. I question your sincerity and believe you are an apologist for Judaism, which is increasingly proving itself to be a scourge on humanity. I know many other political analysts have come to that conclusion for many decades now, and I resisted it for many years. But facts are facts.
I’m sure that during WWII there were many Jews who hated Germany and Germans and Nazis, and I’m sure increasing numbers of people now are learning to hate Judaism and Jews. I decry this outcome. I’m against hatred of individuals, though I despise the political arm of Judaism and the politics of the USA. I treat everyone individually. And you, I told you what I think: you and others like you encourage such hatred and hopefully you will be shamed out of the public arena with dwindling numbers of murders conducted by Judaism, the political monster it has become.
Eat this, a list of the US Jewish political organizations that make up the Jewish Lobby. Learn from it.
https://articlebiz.com/article/1052218096-the-jewish-lobby
Well said Jim and thanks for saying it. The more truth we disseminate the better.
“More than 600 prominent lawyers, academics and former judges, including former Supreme Court president Lady Hale and two other former justices in the court, signed a letter warning the UK government that it was breaching international law by continuing to arm Israel.”
This morning’s Bibi $ee Radio 4 reports 1000 pro Israel lawyers back the genocide.
Googling turned up zi£ch.
Busy little Bibi $ee.
What the world needs now is a good old fashioned Arab oil Embargo. Jack the price of oil to 150 a barrel then see support for Israel and Biden sink like the Titanic.
Why is Israel still allowed in the Eurovision etc, when it isn’t even part of Europe. Why aren’t they banned from soccer? Russia was banned immediately in 2022. Why are they welcome at the Olympics? What this shows is that banning from sporting/cultural events is something they dont do on any moral grounds, but it is something they do to play imperial politics.
Yes, trying to defend the unjustifiable makes the defender of the unjustifiable complicit in the unjustifiable
Thank you for sharing