Unlike Jeremy Corbyn, Keir Starmer has never described Hezbollah as his friends. But other than that, when it comes to Israel there is now little of consequence to differentiate them, says Stephen Pollard in the Telegraph. Here’s an excerpt.
On Saturday 12 people, including children, were killed when a rocket hit a village in the Golan Heights. Some Hezbollah operatives immediately celebrated the attack as a triumph – until it emerged that the victims were Druze rather than Jewish, at which point the terrorist group did a swift backtrack and said it had nothing to do with them.
The timing could hardly have been more poignant. Israel has been fighting Hamas and Hezbollah since the October 7th massacre, most obviously against Hamas in Gaza but also in response to Hezbollah’s bombardment of northern Israel. Over 80,000 Israelis have had to be evacuated as the Iranian proxy fires up to 200 missiles a day on Israel.
Yet who is regarded by our Government as the villain in this? Israel. On Friday, the deadline passed for legal objections to be raised to the application by the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court for an arrest warrant against Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.
The previous Conservative Government was working alongside Germany on arguments against the application – that the ICC has no jurisdiction in Israel and that this was a matter for the world-renowned Israeli courts. But the Government dropped this, allowing Friday’s deadline to pass. In effect, the U.K. now supports the issuing of arrest warrants against the leader and Defence Minister of one of our closest allies because they are defending their country against terror.
Worse, the Government is set to halt arms sales to Israel on “humanitarian” grounds following much-trailed new legal advice.
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