British journalist Dr Myriam Francois cannot hide her disgust when asked by Sky News if the Houthis should have been “bombed sooner.” (1)

She says: “Sorry, so let me get this straight. We are bombing one of the poorest countries in the world, that has been under a humanitarian blockade, that has been famined. These people have been decimated. And we are bombing them…in support for the Palestinian people who are having a genocide committed against them? They are objecting to that, and we are bombing them?”

Dr. Francis (3) is calling the slaughter of civilians in Gaza a genocide, but you cannot call this a genocide. You cannot say that the people in Israel whose ancestors have had a genocide committed against them in the holocaust are committing a genocide themselves, now, can you? Let’s hear the woman below use this argument, in a rather clumsy way (2):

Sergey Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia has spoken about this tendency of the Israelis to feel free to kill anyone they like because they have suffered the holocaust genocide. Here is how he recently expressed himself:

“Lavrov: Israelis must not be given the impression that because they suffered in the Second World War, they are allowed everything today. Yes, there was a Holocaust, a terrible crime. But there was also the genocide of all the peoples of the Soviet Union. They suffered no less. How they were exterminated in all sorts of concentration camps, and in the same Leningrad [during the blockade] along with the Jews. According to this logic, then everything should be allowed to us now, everything should be allowed. This is probably systemically unsuitable in principle, if we want to preserve international law.” (2, Jan 16, 2024)

FOOTNOTES
(1) Yemen en Houthis
(2) Israel and Gaza
(3) Myriam Francois: Presenter, Writer and Documentary Maker