Defence trade with Israel has risen by an incredible 10000% between 2023 and 2025 largely under Labour. This ranges from drones and drone technology to the Trophy defence system for our Challenger 3 tanks to primary steel for new destroyers and equipment for the infantry to improve their survival chances in conflict. In return we sell parts for their fleet of F35s. If we refuse to sell those, the US will see us as a very unreliable partner and that will be that for our air defence industry. I can’t believe that Miliband doesn’t understand this.
Anyone would think that history is not littered with endless examples of nations defending their borders or even conquering and occupying the land of hostile neighbours so why just because this is 2026 is Israel considered differently.
One reason our governments, but mainly Labour, condemn Israeli actions as and when they feel necessary is to shore up the Muslim vote in their constituencies.
Such politicians are despicable, weak and ignorant and put their own self interests above the interests of our country.
I recently learnt there were two Christian settlements in the area (I didn’t know there were any) and they had been attacked by people from Israeli settlements.
I don’t know why the Israelis have done this but ive also heard that Christians visiting places of faith in Israel are also being targeted.
The claim of Israel to be a nation state in good standing derives from United Nations resolution 181 (29 November 1947) for which Zionists within and outside Mandate Palestine lobbied, claiming that it was what they positively wanted and that it was the sum total of their ambitions.
It calls for the partition of the mandated territory then called Palestine into two completely independent nation states of equal areas separated by a boundary defined in exact detail: "From here the boundary runs southwestwards, including the built-up area and some of the land of the village of Kh. Lid in the Arab State to cross the Haifa-Jenin road at a point on the district boundary between Haifa and Samaria west of El- Mansi." Etc.
It does not refer to a state of Israel because that name was only adopted in 1948, nor to a Palestinian state because the whole country was then called Palestine (a name first recorded in Herodotus).
The so called two state solution is in fact the two state obligation. Let the state of Israel be held to its word, or else be derecognised and expelled from the United Nations. It stands accused of breathtaking insincerity. As for the state of Palestine, where's the insincerity? It never said it wanted partition and gave no undertakings it should be held to.
Defence trade with Israel has risen by an incredible 10000% between 2023 and 2025 largely under Labour. This ranges from drones and drone technology to the Trophy defence system for our Challenger 3 tanks to primary steel for new destroyers and equipment for the infantry to improve their survival chances in conflict. In return we sell parts for their fleet of F35s. If we refuse to sell those, the US will see us as a very unreliable partner and that will be that for our air defence industry. I can’t believe that Miliband doesn’t understand this.
Milliband has proved time and time again that he is not the brightest spanner in the box.
He does believe in Net Stupid.
Spot on Pete. My views exactly.
Agreed.
Anyone would think that history is not littered with endless examples of nations defending their borders or even conquering and occupying the land of hostile neighbours so why just because this is 2026 is Israel considered differently.
One reason our governments, but mainly Labour, condemn Israeli actions as and when they feel necessary is to shore up the Muslim vote in their constituencies.
Such politicians are despicable, weak and ignorant and put their own self interests above the interests of our country.
I see no-one is mentioning the arab terrorist violence endured by the Jews living in Judea and Samaria.
Arson, murder, theft, destruction. But of course, no-one wants to bring that up. Doesn’t fit the narrative.
That’s the kind of crap they face, and they face almost constantly.
Also strange, that when arabs are ‘attacked’, there seem to be plenty of ‘unconnected’ people around to film it, and shove it out into the world.
‘Settler violence’ the old new lie against Israel, now the ‘genocide’ lie has fallen apart.
I recently learnt there were two Christian settlements in the area (I didn’t know there were any) and they had been attacked by people from Israeli settlements.
I don’t know why the Israelis have done this but ive also heard that Christians visiting places of faith in Israel are also being targeted.
That is surprising considering the number of Holy Land tours carried out by churches.
Yes. It was on Alliance Alert Daily, (ADF / Alliance Defending Freedom) news items for Christians.
The claim of Israel to be a nation state in good standing derives from United Nations resolution 181 (29 November 1947) for which Zionists within and outside Mandate Palestine lobbied, claiming that it was what they positively wanted and that it was the sum total of their ambitions.
It calls for the partition of the mandated territory then called Palestine into two completely independent nation states of equal areas separated by a boundary defined in exact detail: "From here the boundary runs southwestwards, including the built-up area and some of the land of the village of Kh. Lid in the Arab State to cross the Haifa-Jenin road at a point on the district boundary between Haifa and Samaria west of El- Mansi." Etc.
It does not refer to a state of Israel because that name was only adopted in 1948, nor to a Palestinian state because the whole country was then called Palestine (a name first recorded in Herodotus).
The so called two state solution is in fact the two state obligation. Let the state of Israel be held to its word, or else be derecognised and expelled from the United Nations. It stands accused of breathtaking insincerity. As for the state of Palestine, where's the insincerity? It never said it wanted partition and gave no undertakings it should be held to.