New Foreign Secretary indicates tougher approach to new settlements
September 2026
Ed Miliband, the Foreign Secretary has stated in the Commons that the government is prepared to adopt a tougher approach to the proposed new E1 settlement on the West Bank. This highly contentious development is particularly important because it splits the area into two parts thus making any prospect of a viable Palestinian state near impossible.
Israel has just issued tenders for the development of part of the project consisting of around 1,200 homes covering some 4.5 sq miles. Miliband joins a number of other states criticising Israel including Germany which has up to now, been a firm supporter. The UK has joined around 20 other countries and the European Union claiming the development to be unacceptable.
Government ministers have been under increasing pressure to take a firmer stance in relation to Israel. Andy Burnham has apologised for the previous stance of the Labour government. The ever increasing settler violence as well as the destruction of great swathes of Gaza is becoming harder to ignore politically. The encroachment is increasing all the time with over 60% of the land under Israeli control. There are now 2 million Palestinians living in an area of 150 sq km. This is approximately the same area as Havant in Hampshire which has a population of 127,000.
The Israeli embassy has referred to previous comments by the Ambassador saying ‘If Britain acts against the state of Israel, the state of Israel will act against Britain. We have the tools.” The Jewish Chronicle repeated this warning.
Erasure
Amira Hass, writing in the Ha’aretz newspaper (September 1st) quoting the opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot says:
“Erasure is the nightmare solution being written into reality every day. Knesset laws, politicians’ declarations, military orders, school textbooks and the holy real estate battalions operating in Gaza, the West Bank and the Negev all work, together and separately, to advance this “solution” diligently and without fear of international condemnation.”
Some argue that genocide, and the elimination of all Palestinians from Israel, has always been the policy of the government. As the Jewish writer Omar Bartov writes:
” […] for the past two years Israel has engaged in a genocidal operation in Gaza and all the indications are this was part of an intentional policy consistent with political and military rhetoric meant to “encourage” Palestinians to leave the Strip altogether (p 190)” [1]
The theme of the elimination of all Palestinians is amply described in the Jewish academic Ilan Pappe’s book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine [2]. He notes that right from the start, Ben-Gurion led the Zionist movement to achieve ‘absolute Jewish domination’ of Palestine (p23 ff).
The grim toll of death continues in Gaza with the death toll now put at over 73,000, including 12,500 women, over 20,000 children and 174,500 injured.
The change in stance by the UK government is welcome. As the Ha’aretz article notes, the overwhelming military power possessed by Israel courtesy of the USA, has led it to pursue violent and military solutions. We are rapidly approaching the horrific October 7th massacre with no end of hostilities in sight.
Vigil
Vigils will continue in Salisbury and the next is this Saturday 5th September at 5pm for half an hour. The local MP Mr John Glen has never attended or acknowledged the vigils and is a proud member of the Conservative Friends of Israel group.
[1] Israel: What Went Wrong, Omar Bartov, 2026, Fern Press
[2] The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Ilan Pappe, 2006 (first published), One World
Sources: Guardian, Middle East Eye, Ha’aretz, Jewish Chronicle. Image created by AI.
Paper Hanging UN SOB – STFU
The United Nations did not formally recognize Jordanian sovereignty, but strangely enough that Women’s quilting gossip society did embrace the propaganda term “West Bank”. Post ’67 the UN emphatically embraced “West Bank” and totally erased “Samaria”. During the period of the British Mandate, for example the Peel Commission, not a single reference to the “West Bank”.
The lame excuse that “West Bank” had yet become the standard English term – as phony as a $3 bill! Post the Israeli victory over Nakba Allah, Israel determines the name Samaria not Jordan nor Arab refugee populations who rejected UN 181. The UN cease-fire armistice lines, Israel did not control the E. Jerusalem nor Samaria, Jordan’s illegal annexation of the slander name “West Bank” the UN itself condemned. Therefore the UN lacks the authority to determine or prioritize the Jordanian name over the Capital of the 10 Tribes of the First Israel kingdom!
The UN does not exist as a police and how much more so not a detective department to investigate crimes. That the name “West Bank” served the voting block anti-Israel Arab and Muslim states as well as the 5 Security Council permanent members does not validate the name switch from Biblical Samaria to post ’48 Jordanian “West Bank”.
UN terminology does not confer sovereignty. The UN cannot turn an armistice line into an internationally recognized border merely by repeatedly using “West Bank,” and the 1949 armistice agreements expressly left territorial claims unresolved; yet the great power interest driven UN SC 2334 Resolution declares “the West Bank, including E. Jerusalem as territory occupied since 1967! It declares Israeli settlements “there” having “no legal validity”. Based upon what basis precisely/exactly – other than Great Power interests?
Both Britain and France instrumental in the post War UN Resolution 242. Israel forced Britain out after its disgraceful 1939 White Paper; the language of limiting the number of Jews and where they can settle within the League “Balfour Declaration” mandate strongly resembles the language of UN 2334! Article 49(6) of the Fourth Geneva Convention directly refers to the Nazi war-crime of deporting Jews to Poland and other lands with death camps! The jump to Samaria as “occupying power” amounts to a church blood libel! Jordan deported Jews from E. Jerusalem! Jordan employed Jewish grave-stones and building materials! Article 49(6) aimed at forcible population transfers – no GA nor SC Resolution ever once applied it to Jordan after the initial condemnation.
The Hague occupation regulations exist outside of the UN. UN 2334 stands upon the gossip of UN 446 – neither of which acknowledge that the legal basis – contested; anymore than does any UN GA or SC Resolution validate “Samaria”. The International Committee of the Red Cross on the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, aimed at promoting better understanding and respect for international humanitarian law, especially after the failure of the Red Cross to visit Israeli captives post Oct7th invalidates the ICJ ruling; the ICJ only interprets what UN Resolutions mean as a over reach bureaucracy!
Israel simply not a UN protectorate territory. Just as the US won its Independence from the British Israel too expelled the British and defeated the Nakba Allah dead god. Jordan illegally occupied Samaria. Yet no GA or SC Resolution, nor the PLO Charter ever referred to it as the occupying state which effectively “controls” land through a foreign army. Wars, treaties determine borders. Israel signed treaties with both Egypt and Jordan! The silly notion that the UN determines borders through gossip Resolutions – simply brain dead stupid.
Israel a party to the Fourth Geneva Convention, based upon the language of Nazi death camps in occupied lands, it categorically rejects the perversion, the de jure applicability to the West Bank because Jordanian sovereignty never formally recognized by the UN. The PLO Charter supports this de jure applicability because the PLO in 1964 only referred to ’48 Israel as “occupied territory”. Furthermore, the Olso Accords, (which Hamas rejected), stand upon the Arafat open and repeated declarations that the PLO – the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people – at the 1974 Arab League summit in Rabat. The United Nations granted the PLO observer status that same year, and Arafat addressed the UN General Assembly. Cannot have your cake and eat it too. UN institutions use terminology and legal interpretations selectively, fail to address the forced population transfer by Nazi loving Arab countries during WWII and also after ’48 – starting with Jordan’s war-crimes! Israel’s effective military control after 1967 triggered occupation law, even though the final sovereignty and borders remain unsettled.
Never Again – a post Shoah oath – never to permit Goyim courts to determine the racist “Jewish Problem”. Palestine a dead name with the Roman empire. Attempts by the UN to impose or validate this name as invalid as the Hague Regulations. Arab States pro-Nazi expulsions of Jews began in 1941! Actions have consequences, Jews forced to surrender 5 times the property/lands that post ’67 acquired. Justice requires fair compensation of damages inflicted by the guilty.
Dhimmi Arab refugees did not “warm up” to the name Palestine until coward Chamberlain’s White Paper. Not till the PLO Charter in 1964 did Arafat opportunistically embrace this term (Arabs cannot naturally pronounce the P as in Balestine). What galls Arabs – the dhimmi status now stick to them post the Nakba defeat of Allah.
Eugene Rostow (a Yale law professor and former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs), interpretation that the original intent of the Article 49(6) of the Fourth Geneva Convention – that the Convention was designed to protect people in territory under belligerent occupation by a foreign power, and that voluntary movement of Israeli citizens into territory not previously under legitimate sovereign control doesn’t constitute “deportation” or “transfer” in the Convention’s sense. UN dogmatism as dead as Poop Pius XII ratlines and Polish post war pogroms! Political declarations made by the ICJ, the ICRC, the SC and the host of block voting “experts” invalidates the 1949 Armistice Agreements which explicitly validate the lines as military – not political boundaries. Furthermore, the PA under the Oslo Accords accepted the division of Samaria into Areas A, B, and C! Therein the PA accepted Israeli security control over Area C and shared control over Area B!
Arafat initiated the Second Intifada (2000–2005) invalidated Oslo Accords. The argument that Oslo explicitly an “interim agreement” only serves as proof that post Oct7th – its as dead as a doornail. If ICJ jurisdiction – plainly limited as merely an advisory opinion that non-binding, how much more so the gross attempt by the ICC when Israel never agreed to the Rome Treaty! Post Oct 7th the ICRC = to UNWRA or UN 1701 in Lebanon.
Legal reasoning by many non-Western, non-European states who share no common border with the Jewish state – amounts to tits on a boar hog interference into the internal affairs of the Jewish state. On par with the failure/cowardice of Arab national leaders to repatriate dhimmi Arab refugee populations post ’48, ’67, and 2023! Attempts to morally denounce Israel – no different than priests coming into synagogues on shabbat to preach conversion.
The limp-dick arguments touching applicability of the Geneva Conventions to territories with disputed sovereignty coupled with the lame-vain excuses that “Great Power” balance of power interests do not dominate the permanent veto holding conflicts in the UN SC – utter clap-trap revisionist history. From China’s ‘Century of Shame’, Bismarck’s 3 little wars, British introduction of Concentration Camp war-crimes during the Boar War, and let us not forget the 1956 attempt to illegally seize the Suez canal – nation states (including 8 year old Israel) fight wars to dominate the balance of power in a disputed region! All nation states great and small struggle to improve the balance of power in a given region which best serves their strategic national interests. Reactionary news paper experts who ignore this fact – directly compare to Blood libel Xtians who supported the mobs who murdered the Jewish money lenders to which they owed money!
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