Perhaps he didn't have time to read the briefing notes, or perhaps there were no briefing notes, or perhaps he is reflecting the lack of knowledge of Sir Keir Himself. Whatever it is, it looks like and smells like antisemitism.
What an abject, idiotic and malignant spectacle has been provided by Britain’s new Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, on his visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. At the very moment that the IDF is clearly closing in on Hamas and getting them on the run, at the very moment that victory in Gaza against the forces of genocide seem finally be be at least visible on the horizon, at the very moment that the IDF has made stupendous gains in killing key Hamas operatives through gaining priceless intelligence through its operation in Rafah — which the US instructed it not to conduct— Lammy calls for an immediate ceasefire and the return of the hostages. Since the hostages will only be returned as a result of even more intense pressure, and since that pressure can only be increased if the IDF carry on in Gaza, a ceasefire now would mean Israel turns potential victory into surrender, Hamas is handed survival out of defeat and the hostages are abandoned to a never-ending process of blackmail and manipulation. Briliant, eh. Lammy also declared that Israel must allow aid into Gaza “without restrictions”. Hmmm — including cement with which to rebuild the tunnels, perhaps? He also required Israel to stop “expanding illegal Israeli settlements and rising settler violence in the West Bank,” where “in what should be a crucial part of a Palestinian state, alongside Gaza and east Jerusalem, we need to see a reformed and empowered Palestinian Authority.” Oh — and “unilateral recognition of Palestinian statehood should take place at a critical point in a two-state peace process, rather than at its conclusion”. The settlements are not illegal; this is the Foreign Office’s customary misrepresentation of international law. There’s rising violence against Israeli residents in the “West Bank” against which most of those residents (other than a few out-of-control youths) are merely defending themselves. And imposing upon Israel a Palestinian state would go against the Oslo agreement, make the “peace process” totally pointless and impose upon Israel a deadly base from which its heartlands could be attacked with impunity. Otherwise, genius. And then Lammy claimed with a straight face:
Oh dear. Of course, the hapless Lammy was merely representing the position of Britain’s new Labour government under the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer. Unfortunately, the signature motif of his government’s attitude to Israel is likely now to be altogether abject, idiotic and malignant. In recent days, a jaw-dropping attitude to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has been expressed by the UK’s ambassador to the UN, Dame Barbara Woodward. At the very moment that UNRWA has been outed as a Hamas tool, the ambassador delivered a gushing declaration of support for it... ========================================================== |
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