Dianne🕷

When political leaders like @AndyBurnham pick and choose when to defend international law, when to turn a blind eye to its violation, and when to excuse breaking it themselves, they undermine the very principles they claim to uphold. Gaza has become ground zero for the collapse of international accountability. The entire world is watching heinous war crimes commited day after day, international courts coming under attack, while powerful governments, aided by a complicit media, continue to arm and enable those responsible, shield them from accountability, and silence anyone who dares speak out. And then we wonder how Trump, Netanyahu and Putin can act with such extraordinary impunity. Quite simply... WE HANDED IT TO THEM ON A PLATE! Every double standard. Every atrocity excused. Every violation ignored. Every voice silenced. Each one chips away at the foundations of international law, until those foundations mean nothing at all. International law cannot be something we invoke against our enemies and abandon for our allies. The moment we accept that distinction, we abandon the rule of law in favour of the rule of power. And when power becomes the only law that matters, no nation, no people, and no one is safe. Because what we allow to happen in Gaza doesn't end in Gaza. Every time we excuse the inexcusable, we don't just give the powerful permission to act with impunity. We teach them that there are no limits to what they can get away with.