Sir Keir Starmer has finally found some admirers. Britain’s Labour prime minister is plumbing record depths of unpopularity. With every move, he is helping ensure that his party will be wiped out at the next general election. Not to worry! Hamas loves him.
Yes, the Islamist terrorist organisation that’s sworn to destroy the west after it’s exterminated Israel and murdered all the Jews is utterly thrilled by the UK, France and Canada over their condemnation of Israel’s war of defence against Hamas’s attempt to wipe out the Jewish state.
In a statement, these three moral bankrupts have demanded that Israel immediately halt its military action in Gaza and allow in more aid than it is currently doing, having partially lifted the siege it imposed after the last ceasefire ended in April.
The statement said Israel’s failure to assist the Gazan civilian population “is unacceptable and risks breaching international humanitarian law.”
This is a double lie. Israel has not failed to assist Gaza’s civilians.
As Honest Reporting points out, the World Food Programme says 94,000 tons of food can feed one million people for four months. During the January-March ceasefire, some 380,000 tons of food aid entered Gaza — enough to feed its 2.1 million people for eight months.
Yet the media misreports this this by citing the UN, which counts only its own aid trucks and ignores the aid supplies provided by private donations, individual countries and international organisations. Ah yes — the UN whose Emergency Coordinator Tom Fletcher told the BBC two days ago that “14,000 babies will die in 48 hours” from malnutrition.
This wild and ludicrous lie went round the world even though, as the BBC later clarified, it had misrepresented a claim on May 12 by the UN’s IPC food classification system — a claim that was itself highly dubious — that an estimated 14,100 severe cases of acute malnutrition were expected to occur among children aged six to 59 months between April 2025 and March 2026.
The Starmer Macron Carney statement also ignored the fact that the problem was never inadequate supplies of food into Gaza but that these were systematically hijacked by Hamas. They used the aid for themselves, or to sell it on the black market at vastly inflated prices to finance the weapons that they used to continue the war of extermination they had started on October 7 2023.
The claim by Starmer, Macron and Carney that Israel risks breaching international humanitarian law is another lie. The obligation under the 4th Geneva Convention to allow aid to an enemy civilian population is explicitly exempted if there is a risk that the aid will be diverted to enemy fighting forces — exactly as Hamas has been doing since the war began.
Hamas, which has committed thousands of war crimes, gloated over this statement, saying it “considers this stance an important step in the right direction toward restoring the principles of international law, which the government of the terrorist Netanyahu has sought to undermine and overturn”.
Doubtless Starmer, the human rights lawyer, will be gratified that the war criminals of Hamas share his own interpretation of international law.
“The level of human suffering in Gaza is intolerable” says the statement by Starmer and co. The Gazans agree; but they aren’t blaming Israel. In the past few days, thousands of them have taken to the streets demanding that Hamas surrender. If that were to happen, the war would immediately end. So why don’t Starmer and co demand that Hamas surrender, as the people of Gaza are saying, but are demanding instead that Israel surrender, which would enable Hamas to survive?
Israel is stepping up the war in order to force Hamas finally to release the remaining hostages. Starmer, Macron and Carney complain this is “disproportionate”. What’s disproportionate about this when Hamas is refusing to release the hostages unless Israel totally capitulates? What’s disproportionate about continuously moving the Gazan civilians to relative safety — and food aid — in order to trap and target the remaining Hamas battalions? What’s disproportionate about controlling territory to prevent any more thousands of rockets and depraved attacks against Israeli civilians? What’s disproportionate about an overwhelmingly just war against genocide?
The statement threatens “further concrete actions in response” if Israel doesn’t halt “settlements which are illegal and undermine the viability of a Palestinian state”. The much-repeated claim of illegality is a lie. The Jews alone are legally entitled to live in the disputed “West Bank” territories of Judea and Samaria. And why are these residents said to undermine the “viability of a Palestinian state”? Israel’s population is 20 per cent Arab. Yet Britain France and Canada are in effect demanding the ethnic cleansing of Jews from a future state of Palestine.
And since the vast majority of Arabs living within Gaza and these disputed territories say repeatedly they support the October 7 attacks and want to destroy Israel and murder Jews; and since the Palestinian Authority declares its intention to wipe out Israel, pays terrorists and their families for the murder of Israelis and teaches the children in its schools to murder Jews and steal their land, the insistence by Britain, France and Canada on a Palestinian state means they have become the allies of genocidal fanatics against innocent victims. That’s quite an achievement.
The statement threatens to suspend trade negotiations with Israel. Really? Britain depends upon Israeli intelligence and its military know-how to fight its own battles against the same kind of fanatics that Israel is fighting. Is the Starmer government’s hatred of Israel so unhinged that it’s really intending to damage Britain by denying a trade deal — which Israel says wasn’t even on the agenda anyway?
At the same time as it issued this statement, Britain imposed sanctions on two illegal Israeli settlement outposts and three Israeli “settlers”. The UK Foreign Office accused the three of being involved in “threatening and perpetuating acts of aggression and violence against Palestinian individuals.” Where’s the evidence of unprovoked attacks? Why is Britain arrogantly interfering in the internal affairs of another sovereign country?
Britain has sanctioned no Palestinian Arabs for the murderous daily attacks against Jewish residents of these areas. A few days ago one such resident, Tzeela Gez, was murdered as she was being driven to hospital for the birth of her fourth child.
The Starmer government ignored this latest atrocity against one of the “settlers” it has thus dehumanised and singled out for vilification. Instead it condemns the Israelis for trying to end such slaughter. “History will judge them,” said the Foreign Secretary David Lammy in a sickening Commons debate yesterday. “Blocking aid, expanding the war and dismissing the concerns of their friends and partners is indefensible and it must stop.”
Who on earth does he think he is? How dare he say Israel must stop defending its people. And this from a country that has so much Jewish blood on its own hands, going back to when British officials were the land’s colonial overlords — whose imperial disdain can be so clearly heard in Lammy’s tone — and who created the whole Middle East mess in the 1930s, when they tore up the UK’s treaty obligation to settle the Jews throughout what is now Israel, the “West Bank” and Gaza and offered instead to reward genocidal aggression by giving away part of the Jews’ entitlement to their aggressors, a murderous betrayal that Britain attempts to repeat to this very day.
As Richard Kemp has written:
The statement concludes with the dark threat of recognising a Palestinian state. As Prime Minister Netanyahu pointed out in his response, the leaders in London, Ottawa and Paris are offering a huge prize for the genocidal attack on Israel on October 7th while inviting more such atrocities.
If Starmer, Macron and Carney actually wanted to make a real contribution to peace in the region they would have told Hamas to release the hostages and lay down their arms. That above all is needed to save lives in Gaza and begin the process of rebuilding a decent life for the civilian population. But that would be too much to expect from bewildered leaders who cannot even defend their own borders or protect their own population from ever-increasing threats against them.
In the Commons, Starmer said Britain “cannot allow the people of Gaza to starve” and that levels of suffering in the strip were “utterly intolerable”. There is no starvation in Gaza and never has been. The level of suffering in Israel, where trauma and grief are off the scale, is utterly intolerable. But of that Starmer makes no mention.
History will judge Starmer and Lammy for perpetrating wicked falsehoods that have demonised and delegitimised Israel, dehumanised its victimised inhabitants and helped incite murderous hysteria against Jewish people in Britain.
Britain is taking the side of depravity against civilisation. It is evil, and it is deranged.
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