Israel / Palestine
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Veteran
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Pharaoh
The Gaza war pales into insignificance against the Syrian civil war in which around 500,000 people died prior to the ousting of Assad. Corbyn did not march against that. Indeed, he was roundly criticised whilst leader of the Labour party for refusing to condemn Assad at the time of the chemical attacks by Assad on his own population, much as he refused to point the finger at Putin after the Salisbury Novichok poisonings, despite there being several precedents of dangerous poisonings on UK soil (Polonium trail in London) and deliberately blatant assassinations of dissidents.
It could be argued that the Gaza war is different in that the belligerent, Israel, is a nominal UK ally to whom the UK supplies weapons, whereas no weapons are supplied to Syria and the Syrian regime was regarded as hostile. In which case one has to wonder why Corbyn, and his gaggle of bearded moral puritans who have the insouciant air of knowing they are always absolutely unassailably right about everything, have not agitated and frequently marched against Saudi Arabia which has been prosecuting a war against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels for a decade using plenty of equipment supplied by the UK.
Corbyn is selective about who he opposes because deep down he still has a small hard on for the Soviet Union and still views the world with the infantile understanding of a first year university student, possibly because the first year was his only experience of student politics. Corbyn has the luxury of this view because he has never been in the position of having to exist and work with actual world leaders who have to take a more nuanced balanced view because realpolitik is a thing.
It is often said by those closest to Corbyn that he never really wanted to be in power, and in the light of the previous paragraph you can see why. He would have had to leave the comfortable sanctity of the easily occupied moral high ground and would have been expected to achieve actual tangible results rather than self-indulgent virtue signalling.
Ghastly though they most definitely are, the Israeli right (which is most of them) has a point about the Corbyns of this world.