Mike Huckabee’s Short History Lesson for Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer has forgotten his own country’s recent history. Mike Huckabee, however, is ready to remind him.
‘Ever heard of Dresden?’: US Ambassador Huckabee slams UK PM Starmer
over Gaza stance
Jerusalem Post, August 8, 2025:
US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee bashed UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Friday statement condemning Israel’s new Gaza occupation plan.
Starmer said that the expanded operations “will do nothing to bring an end to this conflict”, adding that it would result in more bloodshed on both sides.
He continued to say that what the war needed was “a ceasefire, a surge in humanitarian aid, the release of all hostages held by Hamas and a negotiated solution.”
There has been a surge in humanitarian aid. Has Starmer not noticed that the Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has already delivered 100 million meals to Gazans? Does he know about the hundreds of trucks, loaded with aid, that are now inside Gaza, but are still waiting to be delivered? As for Starmer’s calling for a “negotiated solution,” what does he think Israel has been trying to achieve these last few months, and just as it seems that a ceasefire is within reach, Hamas makes new demands? It is because of that bad-faith conduct that the Americans joined the Israelis in walking away from the negotiations that, thanks entirely to Hamas, were going nowhere.
Does Starmer not know that since May 19, when Israel renewed its aid into Gaza, and August 5, more than 2,600 trucks carrying humanitarian aid crossed from Israel into Gaza? However, only 300 of these trucks reached their intended destinations in Gaza during that period, with some 2,309 trucks were seized and looted along their delivery routes. It is Hamas, not Israel, that has prevented so much aid from reaching their intended recipients.
Huckabee responded: “So Israel is expected to surrender to Hamas & feed them even though Israeli hostages are being starved? Did UK surrender to Nazis and drop food to them? Ever heard of Dresden, PM Starmer? That wasn’t food you dropped. If you had been PM then, the UK would be speaking German!”
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| Dresdan post WWII |
No country at war is expected to make sure its enemy is suitably fed — except for Israel. In World War II, Churchill and FDR would have laughed to scorn anyone who suggested dropping aid packages to “innocent German civilians.” No Americans thought their country should be feeding the civilians, as fanatical in their faith as kamikaze pilots, of Imperial Japan.
The American ambassador was referencing the US and UK’s bombing of Dresden, during which nearly 7 km of the city was destroyed and at least 25,000 people were killed. Nazi propagandists at the time called it a mass murder.
Of course, Huckabee might also have mentioned the firebombing of many other German cities, in a relentless air campaign conducted by Air Marshal Arthur “Bomber” Harris, chief of Bomber Command. The British cabinet had ordered “area bombing” rather than “precision bombing,” and among the cities that suffered great damage were, in addition to Dresden, Cologne and Hamburg. Has Keir Starmer forgotten about “Bomber” Harris, who helped shorten the war in Europe?
Did it really shorten the war? Or did it just use up a large surplus of bombs in the war machine industry before the war ended?
Huckabee then challenged Starmer on how much food his government had sent to Gaza.
“How much food has Starmer and the UK sent to Gaza? @IsraeliPM has already sent 2 MILLION TONS into Gaza & none of it even getting to hostages. Maybe UK PM ought to sit this one out & follow Arab League who said Hamas should disarm & release ALL hostages immediately.”…
The UK has so far sent 2,000 tons of food to Gaza; Israel has sent two million tons — that is, one thousand times as much. Under the circumstances, one might have thought Starmer would hold his tongue. But like so many others, at the UN, in France, Canada, Spain, Norway, Australia, and many other countries, he has chosen to join the anti-Israel juggernaut.
Mike Huckabee is “undiplomatic.” That’s what makes him America’s best diplomat.
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