The amoral Starmer government

While Starmer trashes Israel for defending civilisation, he's cosying up to the Chinese Communist Party

UK prime minister Sir Keir Starmer making nice with Chinese president Xi Jinping

People have been expressing shock that the UK voted in the UN Security Council this week for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

The resolution was vetoed by the United States, one of the five permanent Security Council members with that power.  Despite fears that the Biden administration would use this twilight end-of-office period to dump Israel at the UN, it stood firm against the 14 other Security Council members including the UK, which also has veto power but shamefully voted for this resolution.

It was yet another libel based on the usual pernicious garbage. It rejected “any effort to starve Palestinians” and demanded immediate access to basic services and humanitarian assistance for civilians in Gaza. It also called for aid to enter the Strip “at scale” and be delivered, including to “civilians in besieged north Gaza”. It demanded an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire, as well linking to a previous resolution calling for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages remaining in Gaza — but it failed to condition any ceasefire on the return of the hostages, 101 of whom remain in Gaza either alive or dead.

“We could not support an unconditional ceasefire that failed to release the hostages,” said Robert Wood, the deputy US ambassador to the UN. The British government, however, did precisely that — abandoning the hostages even though one of them is British. And even though hundreds of trucks of aid are lined up at the border uncollected by aid agencies within Gaza; and  even though the people denying aid to Gaza civilians are not the Israelis but Hamas who are stealing  it. 

A few days ago, no fewer than 98 out of  109 truckloads of aid were stolen. 

The UN, however, just batted this away. Mulishly, it said it had no idea who had stolen it and had no interest in finding out.  Of course not; it knows it’s being stolen by Hamas — to which so many of the UN’s own workers are affiliated or are willing accomplices. The UN that has just tried to demand a ceasefire is the same UN that’s in bed with with Hamas and has been been trying to enable it to survive while Israel is forced to surrender.

The UK’s support for this pro-Hamas resolution was shocking but surely not remotely surprising to anyone who has been paying attention to the five month-old Labour government under prime minister Sir Keir Starmer. For in a series of hostile gestures, it has sent  British relations with Israel into the chiller.

It has repeatedly parroted the lies and distortions about Israel’s behaviour in the war. It has cut off some weapons supplies. It has also said that if the International Criminal Court should grant its chief prosecutor’s request for the court to issue warrants to arrest Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, the British will arrest them if they come to Britain. 

Well, today the ICC did indeed issue those arrest warrants that seek to criminalise a just war of defence against war crimes and crimes against humanity. This declaration of lawfare against Israel lines up the Starmer government with the ICC’s unconscionable perversion of truth, reason and international law, and with the obsessional and deranged attempt to destroy Israel through the abuse of justice by some of the most evil and amoral people in the world. 

But Starmer appears to be positively falling over himself  to line up with evil people. While turning against Israel, which is fighting for civilisation against a barbarism that threatens not just Israel but also Britain and the west, Starmer has unbelievably thrown himself into the arms of the Chinese Communist Party that poses a threat to the free world.