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And the ends of the earth for Your possession."
Psalm 2:8

Why Starmer must REJECT corrupt ICC’s antisemitic order to arrest Netanyahu
The International Criminal Court’s issuing of an arrest warrant against Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant is an outrageous antisemitic-fuelled ruling made by a court that has lost all credibility. Regrettably, the decision that accuses Israel of deliberately targeting civilians will likely amplify hatred towards the Jewish state, and give energy to antisemites globally.

A spokesperson for the UK Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, stated, “The UK will always comply with its legal obligations as set out by domestic law and indeed international law.”

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Why Starmer should NOT honour ICC’s antisemitic order to arrest Netanyahu
Nov 22, 2024 | News
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UK prime minister Sir Keir Starmer making nice with Chinese president Xi Jinping
The amoral Starmer government
While Starmer trashes Israel for defending civilisation, he's cosying up to the Chinese Communist Party
Melanie Phillips
Nov 21
∙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...
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What Trump's victory means for the UK and the world
Wed 6 Nov 7.10pm • There are concerns over the government's ability to maintain the 'special relationship', and President Trump's stance towards Ukraine, Israel and China.
https://www.itv.com/watch/news/what-trumps-victory-means-for-the-uk-and-the-world/wcjd57n

UK: Jihad preacher appeals life sentence, potentially costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands in legal fees
Choudary is a clever man. He continues to wage jihad against shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain, this time via soaking it and weakening its financial and legal systems with this frivolous appeal. He sees weakness and he exploits it. “Taxpayers face huge legal bill as hate preacher Anjem Choudary lodges High Court appeal after being jailed […]

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Robert Spencer

Why is Al-Jazeera still on air in Britain?
It is a well-known fact that Al-Jazeera is a propaganda machine against Israel. The Qatari funded broadcaster has long been accused of institutional bias against Israel. But Al-Jazeera’s anti-Israel reputation appears to run even deeper with evidence released by the IDF that shows direct links between Hamas and Al-Jazeera.

Earlier this week Israel revealed that six of Al-Jazeera’s Gaza-based journalists were members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad groups, one of whom has been exposed as Hamas’s head of rocket launching. Why then is Al-Jazeera still on the air in the UK?

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Elaine,



Change.



It was Labour's slogan during the election.



It was what Keir Starmer promised when he became Prime Minister on July 5th.



So, 100 days later, what has been achieved?



He has made our streets less secure by releasing thousands of criminals early.



He has made our borders less secure by scrapping the Rwanda plan with no deterrent. 12,000 migrants have illegally crossed the channel on his watch.



He has made our status on the world stage less secure by scrapping our commitment to spend 2.5% of GDP on defence by 2030.



He has undermined consumer confidence by constantly talking down the British economy.



His government has undermined trust in politics by accepting hundreds of thousands in donor freebies.



Chronic infighting has forced Keir Starmer to sack his Chief of Staff only a few months into the job.



Finally, but most egregiously, he's stripped Winter Fuel Payments from ten million pensioners. Forcing many into a cruel choice between heating and eating.



Doing so at the same time he's given inflation-busting pay increases to his trade union paymasters.



Labour have delivered change. But change for the worse, and we are only 100 days in.



Help us hold them to account by sharing this graphic below.

LONDON BRING THEM HOME


CUFI has produced highlights of the October 7th memorial event in London’s Hyde Park, attended by around 30,000 people. Organised by the UK’s Jewish community, CUFI was honoured to have a stall at the event, which gave us the opportunity to meet many from the Jewish community, reaffirming the message that they are not alone. We were also encouraged to be joined by many Christians standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the Jewish people. We wanted to share our filming of the event with you and invite you to share with others.
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Christians United for Israel - UK

A reminder of ideas to commemorate 7th October one year on
This weekend, Christians throughout the United Kingdom will commemorate the October 7th terror attacks against Israel. We are so grateful to all the churches and individuals who have responded to CUFI's call to set time aside to remember the victims, pray for Israel and the Jewish people, and show that Israel is not alone at this time. If you haven't yet planned how you will commemorate, please don't worry. There is still time to participate in the October 7th remembrance.

Here are some suggestions for what you can do:

1. Use our special Reading for Prayer and Reflection either as part of your church service, prayer group, or together as a family. Download here.

2. Join us in Hyde Park, London, this Sunday as part of the national memorial event (14:30, by the Reformer's Tree). Please stop by the CUFI table. More info here.

3. Listen to our special podcast episode, joining us in remembering the October 7th atrocities.

For more resources, please go to www.cufi.org.uk/October7

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More than 30 prisoners released by mistake in UK, 5 still on the run
By News Room on September 26, 2024

More than 30 prisoners have been mistakenly released from prisons in the UK as part of the government's prison decongestion plan. "Almost 40 people were let out of prison by mistake under Labour's controversial early release scheme, the Ministry of Justice has admitted," writes GBNews.com. A source said that 37 criminals were released erroneously on […
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September 26, 2024
More than 30 prisoners have been mistakenly released from prisons in the UK as part of the government’s prison decongestion plan.
“Almost 40 people were let out of prison by mistake under Labour’s controversial early release scheme, the Ministry of Justice has admitted,” writes GBNews.com.

A source said that 37 criminals were released erroneously on September 10 because their offenses had been recorded incorrectly under now-repealed legislation.

Five prisoners have not yet been returned to prison, but the majority have been returned or re-arrested and brought into custody.

Around 1,700 prisoners were released from prisons across England and Wales on September 10 in a bid to ease prison overcrowding, with almost as many also due to be released in October.

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An explosive moment of clarification
Israel is leading the fight of good against evil while the "civilised" world doesn't know what side it’s on
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Hundreds of Hezbollah rocket launchers destroyed in Lebanon by Israel following pager and radio attacks
The Iranian war of extermination against Israel continues to be a clarifying moment for the supposedly civilised world. As this crisis continues, it is remorselessly spotlighting those who stand against such evil and those who are shamefully siding with it.

Israel’s astounding feat this week in killing or disabling thousands of senior Hezbollah operatives by causing their pagers and walkie-talkie radios to explode has sent its western enemies into a frenzy. Anti-Israel activists and the media have been falling over each other to claim that the attack indiscriminately endangered and killed innocent civilians and amounted to a reckless escalation of the war.

In fact, never in the history of warfare has there been a more precisely targeted attack against enemy combatants. The explosive devices had only been distributed to senior Hezbollah operatives. The small amount of explosive inside was designed to hurt only the carriers.

The number of civilian casualties was accordingly extremely small. All such casualties are regrettable. But those accusing Israel of recklessly endangering civilians and escalating the war fail to acknowledge the difference between deliberately aiming to kill civilians and inadvertently causing civilian casualties in a just war of defence.

They fail to register the dozens of Hezbollah missiles and rockets that Hezbollah is firing every day to kill Israelis. They fail to refer to the 12 Druze children and young people killed by such an attack in July on Majdal Shams. They fail to note that Hezbollah has been increasingly widening its target range ever more deeply into Israel.

Escalation, it seems, is a one-way street. It never applies to attacks on Israel, only to Israel when it defends itself.

The Biden administration continues to play a double game. Ever since the October 7 pogrom, it has pressured Israel not to take the steps needed to defeat Hamas, stop Hezbollah and neutralise Iran. That pressure has become frenzied in recent days as Israel has signalled it may have no alternative but to clear Hezbollah out of southern Lebanon altogether.

But at least the United States voted against the appalling resolution passed by the UN General Assembly on Wednesday — by 124-14 with 43 abstentions — demanding that Israel should end “its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” within 12 months.

The text of the resolution was based on the advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice in July that Israel’s “occupation of Palestinian territory” was illegal. But the ICJ is a kangaroo court, relying for its “evidence” entirely on falsehoods propagated by those who want to see the Jewish state destroyed.

That includes the United Nations itself, which is institutionally programmed for Israel’s destruction by singling it out for a campaign of lies, bullying, harassment, discrimination and demonisation that it deploys against no other country in the world.

This world body is morally bankrupt. So, too, is the British government, which couldn’t bring itself to vote against a resolution demanding Israel’s withdrawal to the 1948 ceasefire lines — dubbed by Israeli statesman Abba Eban “Auschwitz borders” because their indefensibility would guarantee Israel’s extermination — but instead abstained.

The British government has long misrepresented international law by falsely declaring Israel to be in “illegal occupation” of the “Palestinian territories,” which have never existed in law or history.

The new Labour Party government under Sir Keir Starmer, now prime minister of the United Kingdom, has ramped up hostility towards Israel by repeating the falsehoods and blood libels being promoted by the international “humanitarian” establishment led by the Hamas-supporting United Nations; endorsed the request by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court for warrants to arrest Israel’s prime minister and defence minister, despite the prosecutor’s arguments resting entirely on malicious falsehoods; restored funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) despite overwhelming evidence that it is an adjunct of Hamas; and introduced a partial arms embargo against Israel when it is fighting for its life against an eight-front war of extermination led by Iran.

So the fact that Britain didn’t oppose this vicious UN resolution is hardly surprising. What’s even more despicable is that it didn’t have the spine to vote in favour of it, and thus openly reveal this so-called ally of Israel to have become in practice its enemy.

This hostility is now so bad that Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, issued a rare public rebuke this week in an interview with Britain’s Daily Mail. He accused Starmer of being “misguided,” sending a “horrible message” to Hamas by partially suspending arms supplies to Israel and undermining its ability to defend itself.

But Britain no longer seems interested in fighting just wars at all. In a speech this week, Foreign Secretary David Lammy said climate change was the “most profound and universal source of global disorder” and more “fundamental” than either terrorism or an “imperialist autocrat” — an apparent reference to Russian president Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine.

Many people in Britain are nauseatingly voicing sympathy for the Hezbollah operatives killed or maimed in the exploding pager and radio attacks. This is hardly surprising since the all-important BBC has been framing these attacks as indiscriminate, illegal and a lurch towards a regional war that the media behemoth appears not to have noticed has been underway for the past 11 months.

On the BBC World Service, reporter Orla Guerin misleadingly described “nightmarish” explosions in Lebanon’s “food markets, homes and restaurants” with casualties streaming to hospitals, as if those hurt were all innocent civilians rather than the vast majority being Hezbollah men.

Daniel Levy, the far-left son of the prominent British Jewish philanthropist and Labour Party fundraiser Lord Levy, told the BBC: “This is a new type of warfare. We see mass maimings. This has clearly hit civilians. It feels like a textbook definition of terrorising people.”

This felt like a textbook definition of an anti-Israel Jew who was maiming his own people with lies framed to destroy their homeland.

On the BBC’s flagship radio programme Today, Brig. Gen. Amir Avivi, head of the Israel Defence and Security Forum of senior Israeli military and intelligence experts, was a rare voice defending Israel.

Avivi said that if Hezbollah retreated according to UN resolution 1701 and stopped firing at Israel, that would be the end of it; otherwise, if the 60,000 families displaced from their homes in northern Israel were ever to be able to return, Israel would have no choice but to invade Lebanon and destroy Hezbollah.

After he left the show, both the presenter Nick Robinson and the UK’s former ambassador to Lebanon, Tom Fletcher, agreed that Avivi was a “hardliner” who made them nervous.

To the BBC and much of the progressive world, the unequivocal determination to defend Israel by defeating its enemies who threaten genocide against it is to be “hard-line”. This is because the left-wing BBC and the rest of the progressive world believe themselves to embody centrist values.

For similar reasons, last week’s monumental report by the Tel Aviv-based British lawyer Trevor Asserson, which identified 1,553 breaches of the BBC’s own guidelines on impartiality and accuracy in four months of Israel war reporting, was dismissed by the BBC as “biased” and methodologically unsound. The BBC’s international editor Jeremy Bowen, whose egregious hostility to Israel merited an entire section to himself in the Asserson report, dismissed it all as “a smear”.

However, as the Jewish Chronicle reported this week, Bowen proceeded to prove the truth of Asserson’s central complaint by saying, during a closed-doors BBC “masterclass” on reporting war impartially, that Hamas was a “good” source of information on Gaza casualty figures.

Yet statisticians and others have shown that the Hamas figures are grossly exaggerated, ludicrously failing to acknowledge a single terrorist among the total of Gazans who have been killed — all of whom it claims were civilians.

This is a seismic battle of civilisation against barbarism, victim against oppressor, truth against lies. Lonely Israel is leading the great fight of good against evil, while the so-called civilised world no longer knows what side it’s on.

Jewish News Syndicate

20th September 2024
"No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn."
Isaiah 54:17a


Netanyahu slams Starmer’s ‘misguided’ decision to ban arms to Israel
Keir Starmer received stern words from his Israeli counterpart over the UK’s “absurd” decision to introduce a partial arms embargo. In an interview with the Daily Mail, Israel’s Prime Minister said: “They say that Israel has the right to defend itself, but they undermine our ability to exercise that right both by reversing Britain’s position on the absurd allegations made by the ICC [International Criminal Court] prosecutor against Israel and by blocking weapons sales to Israel as we fight against the genocidal terrorist organisation that carried out the October 7 massacre.”

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"And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works."
2 Corinthians 11:14-15

First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people
The traumatic incident at a church in Islington exposed the dark spiritual nature behind antisemitism. A Muslim woman entered the Angel Church, in the Angel area of London, when the Pastor and his young family were preparing for the Sunday morning service. The woman used the sound system to shout “Allahu Akbar” and “I am here to kill the God of the Jews.”

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Alex and Alastair look at the shocking incident of a Muslim woman storming a London church and shouting that she wanted to "kill the God of the Jews." They discuss the ideology behind this antisemitic behaviour and why Christians and Jews must stand together against the demonic threats against both the Church and Israel. They also discuss the landmark report highlighting the BBC's anti-Israel bias, showing that Britain's national broadcaster breached its own rules more than 1,500 times in the first four months after October 7th when reporting on Israel and Hamas. And we read your comments and invite you to let us know your thoughts about this podcast's topics.

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EP71 For Zion's Sake Podcast - London Church Stormed and BBC Anti-Israel Bias Exposed

UK Home Office refuses to reveal the cost of furnishing a block of flats for 346 asylum seekers
While the UK Labour government was busy throwing frustrated protesters in jail, it’s taking taxpayer money to provide and furnish “posh” flats for asylum seekers, while keeping the public in the dark about the cost. The government clearly fears more protests and a possible uprising. “Watchdog refuses to release ‘sensitive’ costs of furnishing asylum seeker […]

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Christine Douglass-Williams

UK: Muslima enters London church screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ and ‘I am here to kill the God of the Jews’
She “kicked, punched and pushed the officers.” She was released on bail. Meanwhile, there are English people in prison for saying rude words. 'I have come to kill the God of the Jews.' The Metropolitan Police were urgently called to The Angel Church in Islington, London, after a Muslim woman stormed the building screaming ‘Allahu […]

Read more https://jihadwatch.org/2024/09/uk-muslima-enters-london-church-screaming-allahu-akbar-and-i-am-here-to-kill-the-god-of-the-jews
Robert Spencer

UK: Man gets six months in prison for chanting ‘Who the f**k is Allah’
“Mr Wood said his client did not throw missiles, fight police, cover his face or threaten violence.” All he did was chant “Who the f*** is Allah.” Meanwhile, “a Muslim woman screamed ‘Allahu Akbar’ inside a church and said she was ‘here to kill the God of the Jews’ shortly before a Sunday morning service.” […]

Read more https://jihadwatch.org/2024/09/uk-man-gets-six-months-in-prison-for-chanting-who-the-fk-is-allah
Robert Spencer

https://www.cufi.org.uk/news/this-is-not-how-britain-should-treat-an-ally/
The abhorrent partial ban of UK arms exports to Israel by the current Labour government has placed the UK at odds with a Jewish state fighting terrorists for its survival, and has placed Britain’s future in unchartered territory.

The suspension of 30 licenses preventing British companies from supplying arms to Israel is a distressing sign for Britain’s relationship with Israel. This is not how you treat an ally. Israel’s enemies are Britain’s enemies and the UK should be standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the Jewish state’s defense against terror. The ban does nothing to advance peace; rather it sends the wrong message to Iran and its proxies, including Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and the Houthis.

The Foreign Secretary David Lammy might be attempting to appease Israel’s opponents, even though protesters are demanding a full embargo. Or is this new government trying to test the water in how far it can penalise Israel in addition to its recent actions with UNRWA and the ICC. If so, this might only be the beginning of further alienation of Israel.

Not only is Starmer’s government jeopardising the UK-Israel relationship and Britain’s national security, but the basis for the ban is flawed. Israel is not breaking international humanitarian law. The reason for imposing the restriction in case Israel “might” do so, is a very weak argument and follows the false premise, propagated by Israel’s enemies, that claims Israel is committing war crimes.

David Lammy’s Monday statement was made at the same time as Israel was burying six hostages, whose bodies were recovered by the IDF on Saturday, having been shot by Hamas shortly before rescue. This insensitive timing is very disturbing and raises questions about the government’s moral judgment. Britain should be giving its full support in Israel’s fight against terror. This compromise sadly weakens this position and gives oxygen to those expressing hatred towards Israel, something that does nothing to help the safety of the Jewish community in Britain.

Many key figures have voiced their objection, including the UK’s Chief Rabbi:
“It beggars belief that the British government, a close strategic ally of Israel, has announced a partial suspension of arms licences, at a time when Israel is fighting a war for its very survival on seven fronts forced upon it on the 7th October, and at the very moment when six hostages murdered in cold blood by cruel terrorists were being buried by their families,” he said.

He added: “As Israel faces down the threat of Iran and its proxies, not just to its own people, but to all of us in the democratic west; this announcement feeds the falsehood that Israel is in breach of International Humanitarian Law, when in fact it is going to extraordinary lengths to uphold it.

“Sadly, this announcement will serve to encourage our shared enemies. It will not help to secure the release of the remaining 101 hostages, nor contribute to the peaceful future we wish and pray for, for all people in the region and beyond.

“Britain and Israel have so much to gain by standing together against our common enemies for the sake of a safer world. Surely that must be the way forward.”

Israel’s foreign minister, Israel Katz, said he was “disappointed” by the British decision, adding it sent “a very problematic message to the terrorist organisation Hamas and its sponsors in Iran”.

In a series of tweets, former trade secretary under the previous Conservative government, Kemi Badenoch, stated: “It is not true that the removal of Israel arms licenses was a legal decision. Keir Starmer should not hide behind this fig leaf. It was very much a political decision.”

“I know this because I oversaw arms licenses and reviewed the legal advice. So why has the decision been made? It’s because Labour are scared…”

She says that the UK has “one of the most robust export control systems in the world” and what many don’t realise is that “imported Israeli arms have protected UK service personnel in conflicts like Afghanistan and Iraq. Along with intelligence, our defence trade with Israel is of mutual benefit, and when this war ends, Israel’s view of our trade relationship will be changed.”

Former Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly, stated: “The Foreign Secretary has damaged two of our most important relationships at a crucial time – and it won’t have the impact he wants.”

Labour Friends of Israel said in a statement: ”Since 7 October, Israel has come under repeated, unprovoked and indiscriminate attack by Iran and its proxies Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis.

“We do not believe that restrictions on UK arms sales will help bring the tragic conflict in Gaza to a close or help ensure the release of the hostages, six of whom Hamas brutally murdered just days ago.

“Moreover, we are deeply concerned by the signal this sends to Iran, the world’s leading sponsor of state terrorism and Vladimir Putin’s closest ally in Ukraine.

“We fear therefore that these restrictions risk encouraging Israel’s enemies, leading to greater escalation rather than deescalation.”

https://www.cufi.org.uk/news/this-is-not-how-britain-should-treat-an-ally/
The abhorrent partial ban of UK arms exports to Israel by the current Labour government has placed the UK at odds with a Jewish state fighting terrorists for its survival, and has placed Britain’s future in unchartered territory.

The suspension of 30 licenses preventing British companies from supplying arms to Israel is a distressing sign for Britain’s relationship with Israel. This is not how you treat an ally. Israel’s enemies are Britain’s enemies and the UK should be standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the Jewish state’s defense against terror. The ban does nothing to advance peace; rather it sends the wrong message to Iran and its proxies, including Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and the Houthis.

The Foreign Secretary David Lammy might be attempting to appease Israel’s opponents, even though protesters are demanding a full embargo. Or is this new government trying to test the water in how far it can penalise Israel in addition to its recent actions with UNRWA and the ICC. If so, this might only be the beginning of further alienation of Israel.

Not only is Starmer’s government jeopardising the UK-Israel relationship and Britain’s national security, but the basis for the ban is flawed. Israel is not breaking international humanitarian law. The reason for imposing the restriction in case Israel “might” do so, is a very weak argument and follows the false premise, propagated by Israel’s enemies, that claims Israel is committing war crimes.

David Lammy’s Monday statement was made at the same time as Israel was burying six hostages, whose bodies were recovered by the IDF on Saturday, having been shot by Hamas shortly before rescue. This insensitive timing is very disturbing and raises questions about the government’s moral judgment. Britain should be giving its full support in Israel’s fight against terror. This compromise sadly weakens this position and gives oxygen to those expressing hatred towards Israel, something that does nothing to help the safety of the Jewish community in Britain.

Many key figures have voiced their objection, including the UK’s Chief Rabbi:
“It beggars belief that the British government, a close strategic ally of Israel, has announced a partial suspension of arms licences, at a time when Israel is fighting a war for its very survival on seven fronts forced upon it on the 7th October, and at the very moment when six hostages murdered in cold blood by cruel terrorists were being buried by their families,” he said.

He added: “As Israel faces down the threat of Iran and its proxies, not just to its own people, but to all of us in the democratic west; this announcement feeds the falsehood that Israel is in breach of International Humanitarian Law, when in fact it is going to extraordinary lengths to uphold it.

“Sadly, this announcement will serve to encourage our shared enemies. It will not help to secure the release of the remaining 101 hostages, nor contribute to the peaceful future we wish and pray for, for all people in the region and beyond.

“Britain and Israel have so much to gain by standing together against our common enemies for the sake of a safer world. Surely that must be the way forward.”

Israel’s foreign minister, Israel Katz, said he was “disappointed” by the British decision, adding it sent “a very problematic message to the terrorist organisation Hamas and its sponsors in Iran”.

In a series of tweets, former trade secretary under the previous Conservative government, Kemi Badenoch, stated: “It is not true that the removal of Israel arms licenses was a legal decision. Keir Starmer should not hide behind this fig leaf. It was very much a political decision.”

“I know this because I oversaw arms licenses and reviewed the legal advice. So why has the decision been made? It’s because Labour are scared…”

She says that the UK has “one of the most robust export control systems in the world” and what many don’t realise is that “imported Israeli arms have protected UK service personnel in conflicts like Afghanistan and Iraq. Along with intelligence, our defence trade with Israel is of mutual benefit, and when this war ends, Israel’s view of our trade relationship will be changed.”

Former Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly, stated: “The Foreign Secretary has damaged two of our most important relationships at a crucial time – and it won’t have the impact he wants.”

Labour Friends of Israel said in a statement: ”Since 7 October, Israel has come under repeated, unprovoked and indiscriminate attack by Iran and its proxies Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis.

“We do not believe that restrictions on UK arms sales will help bring the tragic conflict in Gaza to a close or help ensure the release of the hostages, six of whom Hamas brutally murdered just days ago.

“Moreover, we are deeply concerned by the signal this sends to Iran, the world’s leading sponsor of state terrorism and Vladimir Putin’s closest ally in Ukraine.

“We fear therefore that these restrictions risk encouraging Israel’s enemies, leading to greater escalation rather than deescalation.”

 
Alex and Alastair discuss the partial ban of arms to Israel, announced this week by UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy. They explain why this is bad news for Britain and why the premise for the decision is completely flawed. Announced on the day that Israel was burying six Israeli hostages, they take aim at the UK government's lack of moral judgment in its relationship with Israel and why it is certainly not how Britain should treat an ally. Plus, they read your comments and invite you to let CUFI know your thoughts about today's topic.

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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/for-zions-sake/id1674652650
https://open.spotify.com/show/2LKj4qtMEa6tXzchNg0fcJ
https://rumble.com/v5dqz91-ep70-for-zions-sake-podcast-why-the-uk-is-wrong-to-ban-arms-to-israel.html

UK: Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn forms ‘pro-Gaza’ parliamentary alliance
Corbyn’s pro-Gaza parliamentary alliance includes four independent Muslim MPs who were elected on pro-Gaza platforms: Shockat Adam, Ayoub Khan, Adnan Hussain and Iqbal Mohamed. Adnan Hussain, elected Independent member for Blackburn, told a public rally in July: “let’s make Israel burn.” Another, Shockat Adam, shouted “This is for the people of Gaza” as he held […]

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Christine Douglass-Williams

UK: 10-Man Gang of Cocaine Smugglers Sentenced
I’ll let you figure out why I think this story about these particular criminals ought to be up at Jihad Watch. Scroll down for their names and faces. Their criminal enterprise is described here: “Jailed: 10-man gang who smuggled drugs around the country in raw chicken and stashed tyres with cash,” by Isabelle Parkin, Express […]
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Hugh Fitzgerald

https://www.theblaze.com/align/the-death-of-ireland?utm_source=theblaze-align
The death of Ireland
JOHN MAC GHLIONN
Close your eyes and picture Ireland. You’re probably imagining lush green fields, charming villages, and thatched cottages. Now, open your eyes and acknowledge reality.
Nearly one in five people living in Ireland wasn’t born there. In Galway, a city that’s a stone’s throw from where I grew up, Muhammad recently surpassed Michael and Martin as the most popular name for newborn boys. That’s right — Muhammad, a name synonymous with Islamic tradition. This is not the Ireland you know or thought you knew. It’s a country in the midst of a radical transformation.
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UK: Politician held without bail for calling on Northern Ireland to ‘stop the spread of evil Islam’
“Stitt, 53, from Bangor, was arrested at Belfast City Airport after arriving on a flight on Thursday evening.” He didn’t realize that the UK had become a totalitarian police state in his absence. This is, of course, the direction in which Western nations have been tending for years. The UK is just the first to […]

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Robert Spencer

UK: Sky News worries that jihad massacre at German ‘Festival of Diversity’ could empower ‘far right’
ISIS claims responsibility of the mass stabbing in #Solingen, Germany which killed three.Sky News, however, is worried sick how the ‘far-Right’ would use this incident.This is called intellectual and cultural suicide. pic.twitter.com/7k9ik9fSB1 — Abhijit Majumder (@abhijitmajumder) August 25, 2024 They don’t care that people were murdered. They only care about the possibility that their globalist, […]

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Robert Spencer

UK: BBC features ‘misogynistic, racist and homophobic’ imam who prayed for ‘victory’ over Israel on Oct. 7
What do you expect? The BBC is nothing if not consistent. “Radical Islamic preacher invited on BBC to discuss riots,” by Camilla Turner and Henry Bodkin, Telegraph, August 17, 2024: ‘Misogynistic, racist and homophobic’ imam prayed for ‘victory’ over Israel on Oct 7 and linked rioters to Zionism The BBC interviewed a radical Islamic preacher […]

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Robert Spencer



UK: ‘Keyboard warrior’ gets three years in prison for X posts, including one with false info about Southport attack
“Among his posts on July 29 was a reference to the death of three children in Southport alleging it was a terrorist attack carried out by a Muslim.” It wasn’t. And this false impression came from a bogus report on a fake news site that circulated widely. British authorities seem completely uninterested in tracing the […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/08/uk-keyboard-warrior-gets-three-years-in-prison-for-x-posts
Robert Spencer