Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s repeated calls for Israel and Iran to “de-escalate” reflect a wider ignorance across Britain, not helped by an openly partisan BBC, of who started it, what is happening and what is at stake in the Middle East.
Summary: Starmer doesn’t get it. Meanwhile, love him or hate him, US President Donald Trump does get it – and thank God he does.
Today Trump left the G7 Summit in Ottawa a day early posting on Truth Social: “IRAN CANNOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON … Everyone should evacuate Tehran!”
Who started it?
The BBC reports on a conflict “which Israel started” following its move to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities last Thursday. That is not true.
What happened last week was simply Israel acting to end a decades-long offensive started by Iran and its proxies aimed at eradicating all Jews and the state of Israel.
Iran, despite solemn promises it wouldn’t, was about to complete its mission to get nuclear weapons. Independent intelligence confirmed it. No-one sane wants a nuclear Iran. So Israel acted. And we should thank them for that.
What is happening?
This is not just some exchanges of missiles between Tel Aviv and Tehran. This is Israel fighting for its existence.
For decades Iran has promised the US and others that it will not progress its nuclear programme to the point where it has deployable atomic weapons. Throughout that time it has lied.
And throughout that time Iran has used the proxies it bankrolls – Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, as well as other groups in the West Bank, Syria and Iraq – to maintain constant attacks on Israel (Note: The reason Israel has its Iron Dome defence system is because rockets from Gaza or Lebanon were commonplace long before recent conflicts triggered by the October 7 2023 atrocities.)
And while those low-level attacks have continued, Iran’s odious religious leaders have never stopped preaching their hate-filled rhetoric to eradicate all Jews and bulldoze the state of Israel into the sea.
So, when intelligence reached Benjamin Netanyahu that Iran was a hair’s breadth from completing its aim of nuclear warheads, he acted decisively, activating a plan years in the making to disable Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
What’s at stake?
Despite stunning levels of ignorance from so-called peace activists calling Israel the bad guy and, stunningly, chanting solidarity with Iran, a regime which treats women as cattle and murders gays, the reality is: Israel deserves our thanks, not our opprobrium.
On October 7 2023 Iran showed its intent through its proxy Hamas carrying out the single biggest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust. Should Israel sit patiently while Iran creates a nuclear weapon? No sane person would say yes to that.
Israel stands between us in the West and a failed state led by an openly antisemitic Ayatollah who appears mad enough not only to pursue building a nuclear warhead but also to use it. Israel, thankfully, is putting a stop to that.
Non-one calls for an end to Pakistan – so why Israel?
Israel was established as a national state in 1948 when the UN agreed “never again” after Hitler’s defeat by Allied Forces in 1945. This came a year after Pakistan was established. Anyone today who called for Pakistan to be deleted would be branded an insane racist. And yet so many call to eradicate Israel – “from the river to the sea …” – on the daily. A gross double standard born of ignorance and antisemitism.
Consider, too, Britain’s proud history of opposing anti-Jewish hatred. Churchill will always be remembered for being on the right side of history. That, sadly, cannot be said of Starmer or Lammy, or the countless left-wing so-called peace activists shrieking for Israel’s demise. They will bear that shame.
Thankfully, some sanity remains where it matters, notably in the Oval Office, whose chief occupant is clear: “IRAN CANNOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON.”
Love him or hate him, Trump gets it.
