For two weeks now, US president Biden and British Foreign Secretary Cameron have been politely asking Netanyahu to pospone his ground invasion of Rafah. The 1.5m people sheltering there - trapped between the locked Rafah gate and the Israeli army - are meant somehow to be sent "out of the way"...

    Of course, these latest discussions with Netanyahu are not because Biden and Cameron give a damn about 32,000 dead Gazans (so far) nor the 80,000 injured - nor the famine which threatens 1.9m. Biden (followed by a few cockapoo yaps in sync, from Cameron) just wants a brief "humanitarian pause". Is he cutting off military supplies to the Israeli army (or is Cameron?)? Of course not. Whoever imagines such a thing?

    If top world leaders were motivated by humanitarian sentiments, there'd have been be no bombing of Gaza, nor of anywhere else. And since they also pull the strings in Africa's civil wars, there wouldn't be deadly starvation in Sudan either.

    No, these leaders are simply doing their job: maintaining a brutal world order which allows profits to flow freely into the coffers of their respective capitalist classes at home and their partners abroad. And many of these profits originate in the Middle East...

    However, that also means that "reliable" politicians must get (re-)elected whenever "democracy" is played out. So both Biden and Sunak are trying to ensure that they please all (well, most...) sides... So Cameron suggested that Netanyahu might (perhaps) be breaking international humanitarian law, by not making enough aid accessible. And Sunak promptly remedied this: on Wednesday, he announced the "successful delivery" of a "huge" aid package to feed 275,000 people. UK-Med, is now running a "full" field hospital in Gaza. And children needing specialist care might even be flown to Britain...

    Dubious humanitarianism aside, however, Biden and Sunak supported Netanyahu's destruction of Gaza and the driving out of Palestinians from their homes under the pretext of "eradicating Hamas". When this war was clearly directed against Gaza's population. They must think the rest of us were born yesterday.