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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Stephen Pollard is an infamous promoter of Zionist and Israeli propaganda and you wouldn’t expect him to say anything different.
It was more informative to listen to & watch the Foreign Secretary’s question time in the HoC a couple of hours ago (along with the other FO ministers), than to read dross like that.
Halting arms sales doesn’t appear to be the plan.
“A decision will apparently take longer because ministers want to suspend licenses for specific weapons that are linked to suspected alleged war crimes”
“Questioned by a Green Party lawmaker on whether he would act to stop ‘all UK arms exports to Israel,’ Lammy answered in the negative, stressing the need for Israel to have access to defensive weapons.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/uk-decision-on-limiting-arms-exports-to-israel-to-be-delayed-amid-review-report
See my comment below (which appears to be unpopular); that was more or less one of the questions broadcast this afternoon from the HoC.
And the school Israel destroyed in Gaza a few hours earlier ?
Internal instability in Israel is increasing and the (alleged, of course) genocidal war criminal is going to get his comeuppance very soon.
KS simply knows what’s happening and isn’t going to go down with the ship.
Some Hezbollah operatives immediately celebrated the attack as a triumph …
I heard they admitted firing several missiles at military targets and assumed an Israeli Iron Dome missile was the cause of the deaths. I doubt anyone would celebrate killing children.
Israel has been fighting Hamas and Hezbollah since the October 7th massacre …
That is not true. The Israelis were only fighting Hamas but now wish to extend the fighting to Hezbollah to provoke a war with Iran, resulting in US intervention.
It is interesting that also the Haaretz website recently published a report criticizing the IDF for causing a large percentage (more than half?) of the deaths on October 7th by adhering to the Hannibal doctrine. With The Lancet assuming there are now 186,000 dead in Gaza it is really time to stop pretending the continuing actions are any form of defence as opposed to the intent to wipe out all Palestinians in the area.
Worse, the Government is set to halt arms sales to Israel on “humanitarian” grounds …
How disgraceful but do not worry, USA is supplying sufficient arms so that Israel can continue to bomb the Palestinian refugee camps.
Some of the messianics want Lebanon as they say it is part of the promised land.
“[settlement of South Lebanon] could become a central part of Israel’s public discourse very quickly if a ground war does start with Hezbollah”
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-06-18/ty-article/.premium/lebanon-part-of-the-promised-land-israels-messianic-right-wing-targets-new-territory/00000190-2b9d-d340-a1f8-2b9d18220000
But Britain continues to do its bit by way of regular reconnissaince flights over the area from RAF Akrotiri Cyprus. Might just be tourist flights…
Best be careful though, anything else may amount to complicity in a War Crime.
Maybe that’s to monitor “illegal fishing” like they do in the Black Sea.
Plenty of people celebrated the 7 October attacks, so if the children killed were Jewish yes some sickos, possibly including a few people who comment here judging from some of their comments from months ago, definitely would celebrate.
I was just listening to Karen Kwiatkowski on Judging Freedom (https://www.youtube.com/@judgingfreedom) who said there was a story carried on Yahoo News and CNN this week of medical doctors in Gaza reporting on assassinations of children in Gaza: two and three year old kids with gunshot wounds through the heart and through the head, clearly Israeli sniper shots. On the same channel, Scott Ritter was devastated some months ago by the story of an Israeli tank crew which machine-gunned a car carrying a Palestinian family. A young girl survived in the car, surrounded by her dead family members, and phoned the emergency services for help. She was in shock and terrified that the tank would shoot again. An ambulance crew arrived, the tank crew signalled the ambulance could approach the car and then machine-gunned the ambulance crew as they got out. Finally the tank machine-gunned the girl. The terror the girl experienced was recorded by the emergency services who broadcasted the recording.
The people of Gaza are being deprived of medical assistance, deprived of drinking water and food. Depriving a population of the essentials for life is genocide. Sadly, it is Israeli citizens who actively prevent lorries carrying humanitarian aid from entering Gaza. Of course, the IDF makes no attempt to prevent them from doing so.
I really do not understand how anyone can support the Israeli government’s actions under these conditions.
Diversity is where Nations go to die, Mark Steyn:https://www.steynonline.com/14495/the-management-of-murder
All the lies and Nazi like vilification of the Israelis/Jews wherever a platform has a decent audience is simply a tool in the kit of Jihad, coming to you in a place close to home sometime soon.