Keir Starmer’s government has suspended trade talks with Israel and summoned the Israeli ambassador over the ‘intolerable’ offensive in Gaza. To be honest, I’m surprised it’s taken ten months for any doubt to be cleared up. But now it is entirely clear where the government stands vis-à-vis our supposed great ally in the Middle East, Israel, and the Islamist death cult which seeks to wipe Jews – yes, Jews, not Israel – off the face of the earth: it stands with Hamas.
Don’t rely on my take, but on the words of Hamas
Don’t rely on my take, but on the words of Hamas, who last night issued a statement in response to the latest attempt by the UK government, along with France and Canada, to force a win for Hamas in the Gaza war: “The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) welcomes the joint statement issued by the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, and Canada…Hamas 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.”
You read that right. We now have a government whose stance towards Israel is praised by Hamas; a government which is taking praise for sharing Hamas’s stance towards international law.
That’s the same Hamas which spent a decade stealing and diverting aid money to build a network of tunnels under Gaza, specifically so that any military action taken against it had, by necessity, to mean Palestinian citizens dying. The same Hamas which sought to have as many Palestinians killed as possible because their deaths would, as its former leader Yahya Sinwar wrote to his fellow terrorist Ismail Haniyeh on 11 April last year, “infuse life into the veins of this nation, prompting it to rise to its glory and honour.”
And the likes of Keir Starmer, Emanuel Macron and now Mark Carney do just what Hamas wants. Yesterday, it was a joint statement. Today, the UK government has suspended talks on a trade deal with Israel. Earlier, it was restoring funding to UNRWA, the UN body which admits that some of its staff may have been involved in the 7 October attack; and supporting the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, the former Israeli defence minister.
It’s difficult for those of us who aren’t motivated by jihadism to comprehend the sheer bestiality of Hamas’s strategy. But Hamas’s aim on October 7 2023 was not just to slaughter as many Israelis as possible, it was to use the response to that slaughter to turn the tables on Israel.
Hamas seeks to maximise casualties on both sides. It aims to see more dead Palestinians, precisely so that Israel can be portrayed as the real villain. Every time Israel is condemned, Hamas wins – and it further incentivises Hamas to get more Palestinians killed.
Remember: this war could stop today if Hamas released the remaining hostages and left Gaza. But it won’t, because the West is now precisely where Hamas wants it.
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