Labour's wrecking ball delivers major victory - to the terrorists of Hamas
Rumours had been circulating all summer that Labour was preparing an arms embargo on the Jewish State and the Foreign Secretary made it his first order of business to suspend certain arms to Israel when Parliament returned on Monday. Labour’s latest effort to abandon a democratic ally engaged in an existential war against terrorist barbarians.
It is hard to think of a more lamentable and tone-deaf decision. The announcement was made on the same traumatic day that Israel buried six young hostages who had just been executed by their evil Hamas captors. They had already endured hell for almost a year following their kidnapping at a music festival.
It is an act of strategic self-harm. As the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism - and now a key military backer of Putin - Iran is seeking to wipe Israel off the map. They will not stop there. The threat to the wider West cannot be overstated. At least 15 Iranian plots to assassinate or kidnap UK citizens and Iranian activists in Britain have been foiled since 2022 and the country is now on the threshold of a nuclear weapon - the ultimate umbrella for its malign global ambitions. Make no mistake, the Islamist fundamentalists in Tehran will be revelling in this.
This regressive move will only embolden Hamas’s resistance to a ceasefire - a fading lifeline to those remaining hostages subjected to unspeakable abuses in Gaza’s enormous network of tunnels.
Israel is a crucially important security partner to the UK and gesture politics of this kind stand to harm our own safety and well-being. Israel’s intelligence services have helped thwart unknown numbers of terror attacks against British citizens. The UK is dependent upon Israel for state-of-the-art defence equipment which protects our Armed Forces - from drones for reconnaissance to technology countering the deadly IEDs deployed by terrorists.
The Falklands are even protected by an Israeli based anti-missile defence system. It beggars belief that this would be voluntarily jeopardised.
There is no upside. The U.S. is enraged. Defence partners - including those in the important F-35 programme - will be questioning the UK’s reliability. Anti-Israel campaigners unsurprisingly started demanding Starmer go even further and end all arms sales.
It begs the question: why did Labour do this? Well, it appears to be little more than a cynical political move to placate Labour’s vocal anti-Israel caucus. Labour’s wrecking ball is working overtime.
