Britain Offers Gaza Northern Ireland’s 'Disarmament' Model
Labour leader Keir Starmer, according to Al-Monitor, believes Britain can 'lead' in disarming Hamas in Gaza, drawing on its 'success' in Northern Ireland. A bold claim, considering the British state's primary role in escalating, maintaining, and often orchestrating the sectarian violence it later claimed to mediate. Let's not forget Margaret Thatcher's government declared IRA hunger strikers
criminals, not political prisoners, leading to ten deaths, and the British Army's infamous role in Bloody Sunday, murdering 13 unarmed civilians. This 'model' for peace seems to involve decades of military occupation, state-sponsored assassinations, and a deeply fractured society with paramilitaries still active (see: Continuity IRA, New IRA). To suggest this colonial template of 'pacification'
applies to an occupied people resisting an invasion is not just tone-deaf, it's a brutal joke. How many more decades of 'decommissioning' will Gaza endure before it achieves a 'peace' imposed by its oppressors?