The signs of a more robust stance are promising
September 2026
But as ever with government, words are not always matched by deeds. The Foreign Secretary’s statement and his subsequent remarks in a video expressing shock at being told medicines are being withheld from Gaza has drawn a series of rebukes and threats from a variety of sources.
In parliament he said that the proposal to build settlement E1 as it’s known “crosses a red line and cuts through the heart of the West Bank and risks making a Palestinian state unviable”. This is indeed the stated intention of some Israeli politicians. During the debate some MPs referred to ‘settler terrorism’.
His additional remarks made in a video have inflamed the situation further. “Frankly, it was horrific, what is unfolding,” Mr Miliband said. “The stories that people were telling me of medicines being blocked [and] children dying while waiting for vital life-saving treatment.” The Israelis have denied that there are any restrictions despite considerable evidence they have from charities like Physicians for Human Rights and Global Human Rights Clinic as well as a host of other NGOs and charities.
The US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has accused the Labour government of ‘Jew hate’ and that “they know no boundaries and and know no facts”. Strong stuff. A difficult claim to make as the Foreign Secretary is Jewish. The Times of Israel called his remarks ‘political positioning’ among other criticisms.
These are the familiar responses to any kind of criticism of Israel despite the mass of evidence of violence in the West Bank and Gaza.
Vigil
The 144th vigil took place yesterday (5th September) with around 25 in attendance. Filming has started of our video ‘Because …’ where we ask some participants why are they here. We will be continuing over the next few weeks running up to our 150th vigil.
The local MP, Mr John Glen has still not put in an appearance. We learned that one participant has written over 40 times to him yet has never received a reply. Mr Glen is a member the Conservative Friends of Israel lobby organisation. He has never mentioned the vigils in his weekly column courtesy of the Salisbury Journal. An MP is elected to represent all his or her constituents not just those who agree with them.
Double standards?
An enormous fuss was made last week over a Channel 4 film showing Reform party aids soliciting foreign donations which are illegal under electoral law. The undercover filming appeared to show the two of them seeking to conceal the source of foreign donations to make them appear as though they were from the UK. Two have been relieved of their posts. Yet there is no equivalent fuss of the huge amount of money the Israeli government has poured into its lobbying and the effect it has had on the attitudes of MPs towards the conflict. Background to James Orr can be seen here.
Around £1.5 million has been spent by the Israeli government on its parliamentary lobbying and it is thought that 180 MPs are members of the various party’s friends groups. This raises the obvious question ‘who are they representing?’ How can a member of parliament be such a friend and claim to be an impartial judge of both British interests and what is right in the Middle East and for Israel? Where do their loyalties lie?
Picture: courtesy of Peter Gloyns.
The next vigil is on 12th September at 5pm.
Sources: Times of Israel, Independent, MSN, Ha’aretz.
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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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