Double Standards: why no calls for a no-fly zone over Gaza?

2012-11-19 · first published in marxsite · 127 words

This was not a Socialist Resistance publication. marxsite was Phil Hearse’s own long-form site, run alongside the paper he helped edit. It is kept here with his agreement, recovered from the Internet Archive after the domain lapsed and was taken over by someone else; nothing here links to the address it now points at.

Only a fragment of this survives. It may have been a short link-and-comment post, which marxsite ran many of, or the opening of a longer piece cut off by the capture — from what remains there is no way to tell which.

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The Israeli government cynically launches military attacks as elections approach, safe in the knowledge that it always gets away with just a caution, at worst, from the 'international community'

Stop the War Coalition

There is little doubt where the sympathies of the British government lie.

Foreign Secretary William Hague said today that "Hamas bears principal responsibility for the current crisis", even as he urged all sides to 'avoid any action which risks civilian casualties or escalates the crisis'.

The capture this was recovered from